The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD, FEB. s.—ln a congregation the following
degrees were conferred ;—.Doctors in Civil Law.—The
Champneys, St. Alban Hall.—Masters of Arts,
—Rev. J. Godley, Exeter College ; Rev. W. D. Astley,
Pembroke College.—Bachelors of Arts.—T. Whitehead,
scholar of Exeter College; H. W. Thrupp, Exeter Col-
lege ; W. F. Hood, Exeter College ; T. Harvey, Balliol
College ; G. P. .Bevan, Oriel College ; C. J. Soanes, St.
John's College.
DURHAM, FEB. 3.—At a convocation the following de-
grees were conferred :—Masters of Arts.—H. P. Dwarris, .
B.A. ;' Rev. J. Robertson, B.A. ; A. Bearilarids, B.A. ;
fellow of the University.—Honorary Master of Arts.—
Rev. T. W. Johnes, Licentiate in Theology.—Ad eundem
Bachelor of Arts.—W. Douglas, St. John's College,
Cambridge.—Bachelor of Arts.—A. Grenwell, J. D.
Anderson, C. Thornton, J. F. C. Johnson, P. Smith.
The gentleman chosen by the trustees as the successor
to the late Dr. Tattershall, at .St. Augustine's, is the Rev.
Herbert Jones, one of the sons of the Rev. Incumbent of
St. Andrew's, and at present curate at the latter church.
A London paper, on the subject of the new bishoprics,
says, that probably a plarivill be devised for severing
Northumberland from Durham, Surrey from Winchester,
Nottingham from Lincoln, and for forming new sees in
Yorkshire, and near the Metropolis.
Robert Suffield, Esq., late pensioner of St. Peter's Col-
lege, Cambridge, has joined the Roman Catholic Church,
aird has entered, or, at all events, is at present staying, at
tshaw College, St. Cuthbert's, near Durham.
The Rev. E. Bickersteth has/written to the Church
and State Gazette, urging the importance of obtaining a
day of national fasting and humiliation. The reverend
gentleman says that the clergy around him are joining in
a petition to the Archdeacon to bring the desirableness of
this before the Bishop. The example should be followed
by the 'clergy in all other districts. - The Rev. Hugh
M,Neile has, we are glad to see, already taken the mat-
ter up.
DIOCESE OF HEREFORD.—The Rev. Josiah Bartlett,
a prisoner in the Queen's Bench, on account of a series of
libels on his sister-in-law, has received a Monition from
the Bishop Of Hereford, requiring him to reside on his
benefice, the rectory of Ivington. Mr. Bartlett, in reply, •
claims exemption from residence, by reason of his forci-
ble detention by order of the Judges, who, acting on evi-
dence falsely given, and from divers other causes, have been
misled in their intention impartially to administer the law.
Mr. Bartlett expresses his .determination to attempt to
set aside the decisidn of the Judges, and in the event 'of
the Bishop of Hereford determining to persist in his mo-
nition, to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a pro- .
hibition to stay the right rev. prelate's order.
THE CLERGYMEN OF LEEDS AND THE BISHOP OF
RIPON.-The clergymen of Leeds have recently memori-
alized the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ripon on the
subject of the forms and services used at. the consecration
of St. Saviour's Church, in that town, by one of his lord-
ship's clergymen and a few laymen. The memorialists,
after expressing their regret at being reluctantly, though
conscientiously, obliged to absent themselves from the
consecration, proceed to state that they were so fully per-
suaded that efforts were made on that occasion to procure
a large assembly of clergy, in order to honour and pro-
mote both principles and practices utterly opposed to the
Reformation, and subversive of the Protestant faith, that
they considered it their duty not to attend. And further on
they state, " While, however, we deplore, we are not sur-
prised at this apostacy ; we view it as the legitimate fruit
of the principles industriously and insidiously inculcated
by the teachers of a school which,. speciously professing to
the opposite extremes •of Rornanism and ultra Pro-
testantism, has artfully endeavoured to conceal from the
young, unwary; and partially informed members. of our
communion, their longing for a closer approximation to the
Roman Church, both in doctrine and practice. Main-
taining, as we do, ( in the plain sense of the sixth article,)
the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for salvation, we can
scarcely fail to trace those evilg to the fundamental error
of those teachers who proclaim that Scripture and tra-
dition are our joint rule of faith, and, under the plea of
development, embrace and teach doctrines and traditions
at variance with the revealed and written Word of God."
The memorial concluded by directing his lordship's atten-
tion to the subject, with the view of having the evil stop-
ped. It was signed by James Fawcett, M. A., Incumbent
of Woodhouse; Wm. Williamson, M. A., Incumbent of
Headingley.; Joseph Holmes, D. D., head master of the
grammar school, Leeds • John Holroyd, M. A., Incum-
bent of Christ Church ; William Sinclair, M. A„ Incum-
bent of St. -Geerge's ; JosePh Wardle, A. M., Incumbent
of Beeston ; Thos. Boys Ferris, M. A. 111inister of St.
Luke's ; Benjamin Crosthwaite, M. A. Incumbent of St.
Andrew's ; Thos. Sturgeon, A. M., Curate of St. George's ;
Richd. R. Wolfe, A. 8., Incumbent of St. Matthew's,
Little London ; Joseph Ware, A. M., Incumbent of Kirk-
stall. We, the undersigned, who 'were not resident in
Leeds at the opening.of. St. Saviour's Church, concur in
the address —Foster Rogers, Incumbent of St. Philip's ;
Edward Wilson, B. A., Curate of Christ Church. To the
memorial his lordship has returned a most gracious reply,
from which we select the following passage as showing the
tenor of the whole document , With regard to ,the
events which have elicited these welcome expressions of
kindness and goodwill, although there is undoubtedly
much to grieve, it is nevertheless satisfactory to remem-
ber, that no clergyman of the diocese has ever quitted the
church of his fathers to embrace the Boorish communion.
The ordained person who took this rash step entered the
diocese but a short time since, having been sent to Leeds
by the leading trustee of St, Saviour's Church, to act
there as officiating minister on trial, not only without any
license from me, but even without my knowledge or con-
sent. His services were speedily dispensed with when I
discovered his presence there, and ascertained the tone of
his mind and the tenor of his proceedings. Yet short as
was his stay, he seems so successfully to have tampered
with the faith and allegiance of some few members of the
congregation, that they were on the very point of joining
him in his act of desertion •, and since his departure he has
assiduous]; persevered in his attempts to complete his tin-
finished work, but happily without effect. Such pro-
ceedings, however, cannot but excite feelings of just indig-
nation against the authors of them ; while the ignorance
thus displayed of the real character and disposition of
mind of the individual sent,. when consequences so serious
were hazarded, must necessarily awaken feelings of dis-
trust. as regards any future appointment from the same
quarter."