The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4, CLERICAL NEWS.

No appointment has yet been made to the vacant
Bishopric of Jerusalem.
The degree of Doctor of Laws has been conferred by
the senate of the University of Glasgow on Charles Mac-
kay, Esq., author of " The Salamandrine," " The Legend
of the Isles," and other poems.
The Bishop of Calcutta had an audience of the Queen
on Wednesday, to submit to her Majesty the ground plan
and the perspective view of the Cathedral of St. Paul's,
Calcutta, erecting by Colonel Forbes, of the Engineers.
The Rev. Mr. Carter, one of the assistant masters of
Eton, has just presented to the college a splendid stained
glass window, representing the resurrection and ascension,
the cost of which has amounted to £7OO.
CHESTER CATHEDRAL.—Mr. George Haswell, marble
and stone mason, of Chester, has received the order to
execute the new pulpit for the cathedral, from a beautiful
design by R. C. Hussey, Esq., architect, of Birmingham.
The pulpit is to be constructed of the Painswick stone.
The Greek Patriarch of Constantinople has issued a
pastoral letter, in which he enjoins Greek parents to with-
draw their children from Catholic and Protestant schools,
and intimates that their education should be exclusively
confided to the clergy of their own religious persuasion.
The Bishop of Chester had an address presented to him,
last week, from the clergy of his diocese, conveying their
most heartfelt and sincere congratulations on his lordship's
happy and providential recovery from his recent severe
and alarming illness."
A meeting was held on Tuesday, in the Mansion-house,
London, with the view of devising means to encourage
the spread of public worship and religious instruction in
the Colonies, with especial reference to the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel. The Bishops of London
and Jamaica, and Lord John Russell, were amongst the
speakers. It was determined to commence a subscription
in connection with the society.

Another very important decision has been given by
the Court of Session against the Free Secession, and in
favour of the Established Church. The action was raised
on the point—whether the Society for Propagating Chris-
tian Knowledge, instituted about the beginning of the
last century, must necessarily be in connexion with the
Church of Scotland, and the Court has decided unani-
mously in the affirmative.—Edinburgh paper.

THE EXPECTANT BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—The Rev.
Moses Belson, the expectant Bishop of Jerusalem was a
German Jew, formerly well-known in Exeter, where he
worked as a journeyman saddler. He had arrived in that
city, travell►ng—as is the custom with young German me-
chanics—in search of improvement and experience, and,
having a desire to enquire into the authenticity of Chris-
tianity, received the cordial assistance of the late Mr.
Sloman, and Mr. Grove, the dentist. He was baptized,
and subsequently returning to his own country became a
distinguished divine, and will probably be selected by the
King of Prussia to succeed Bishop Alexander.
ST. CATHERINE'S CHURCH, BLACKROD.-With plea-
sure we record the appointment of the Rev. Peter Brown,
M.A formerly curate, to the incumbency of the above
church, by the Rev. the Vicar of Bolton, which appoint-
ment was confirmed this week, by our venerable diocesan.
Never did we more strongly accord in the propriety of an
appointment than we do in this. The rev, gentleman has
for some time during the illness of the late respected incum-
bent performed the whole of the duties; and it falls to the
lot of very few to obtain so good a name as the rev. gen-
tleman enjoys from the whole of the neighbourhood—which
it gives us pleasure to say has been obtained by his assi-
duous attention to the discharge of the duties of his office.
His zeal in the cause of his Master is great—his desire for
the temporal and spiritual welfare of the neighbourhood
burns with intensity; and we have no doubt the Rev. the
Vicar, who has in such a disinterested and praiseworthy
manner made the appointment, will, in after years, have
much cause for congratulation.—Bolton Chronicle. [Mr.
Brown was formerly curate of Christ Church, in this
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