The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL. STANDARD.

UNIVERSITY 13- CLERICAL NEWS.

There is an average of no less than six hundred mem-
bers of the Protestant Church to each benefice in Ireland.

The Archbishop of Dublin bas warned his clergy against
baptism in private houses, which makes a domestic cere-
mony of what ought to be a Church sacrament.
The Rev. Dr. Jackson, of Penrith, has been appointed
Chancellor of the Diocese of Carlisle, vacant by the de-
cea,e of the Rev. W. Fletcher.

It is intended to establish scholarships in the Univer-
sity Of Oxford for the benefit of sdholars from Winchester
College, as a tribute to the memory of the late Dr. God-
dard. Upwards of 1:12l10 have already been subscribed.

SIVGULAR. CIRCUMSTANCE.—After a sermon I reached
in St. Mary's, Stafford, by the Lord Bishop of Calcutta,
on Wednesday week, for the Calcutta inissi.m, the singu-
lar sum of £99 19s. 11d. was collected. Earl Talbot was
one of the collectors.

The Bishop of Llandaff has addressed his clergy on
the subject of irregular marriages celebrated by balms in
parishes where the parties did not reside. The evil of
late years seems, his lordship says, to hive increased, and
some flagitious instances have occurred of bigamy. Awl
of incestuous marriage, obtained by these means, which
have caused great scandal to the Church.
PRACTICAL GR.ATITUDF: —The minister and church
wardens of Rothwell, near Leeds, have transmitted to the
Gospel •Propagation Society £5, collected in the church,
as an earnest of gratitude to Almigh►y God, on the day of
public thanksgiving, for victories achieved in India. The
amount is to be applied to church purposes. as near the
seat of war as possible.
131smottate OF J ERUSALEM.—Various reports in refe-
rence to th;s appointment have found th, is way into the
papers. All doubts on the subject, however, are now set
at rest by the appointment of the Rev. Samuel Gohat,
vice-principal of the Protestant College at Mal'a, formerly
missionary in Abyssinia. The new bishop is a Swiss, and
of t 'hristi an descent.—Jetcili Chronicle. _

SCRIPTURAL. EDUCATION.—A great meeting' on behalf
of the Irish Church and the cause of Protestant Eduratien
in Ireland, will be held in the Laree Room, Exeter Hall,
on Friday, v! ay 1. The chair will be taken by the Most
Hon. the Marquis Ch.dmondeley. Viscount Sandon,
Lord Teicninouth, the Lord Bishop of Cashel, the Rev.
Hugh M`Neile. the Rev. Mortitner O'Sullivan, D D.,
and other noblemen and gentlemen, will address the
meeting.

EMOLUMENTS OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIPS.—
It appears from a Parliamentary return, that the professor
of chemistry at Cambridge, receives for an average of
twenty lectures anrually a grant of £lOO per annum,
with fees amounting to ~bout forty guineas. The pro-
fessor of botany receives £l6l, with one guinea from each
pupil. The professor of divinity receives £4O a year.
The professor of Hebrew receives £4O from Trinity Col-
lege, a set of roott.s in the college, and £lOO from Go-
vernment. The professor of physi.; has about £l5O
from fees. and a house let for £l5O. The Regius pro-
fessor of Greek has £5O, with about seventy-tire guineas
for fees. Of course, the professors have incumbencies,
some of them very valuable; but no one can say that
their profession4l labours are too highly remunerated at
the amounts we have stated.