The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The number of members in the university of Oxford is
now 5930. This time last year it was 5878.
The Rev. Lonsdall Formby, B.A. (1844), of Catharine-
hall, has been appointed to the perpetual curacy of Formby,
Lancashire: vice : I. Bowman, resigned.
The Lord. Bishop of Chester has appointed the Rev.
Richard Parkinson, 8.D.. Principal of St. Bees College, to
be Rural Dean for the Deanery of Whitehaven.
The Rev. Thomas Dale has called the attention of the
parishioners to the spiritual destitution of St. Pancras, and
proposed a plan in which he suggests the division of the
parish into ecclesiastical districts, and that ten additional
churches be erected, so as_to afford church-room for at
least one-fourth of the population. The funds to be raised
by subscripth n.

'THE NEW BISHOPS.—It is said that the four bishoprics
will be conferred upon the Hon. and Rev. Montague
Villiers, M.A., Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury ; the
Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A., Vicar of St. Pancras, and
Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's ; the Rev. J. Slade,
M.A., Canon of Chester, and Vicar of Bolton-le-Moors;
and the Rev. B. P. Symonds, D.D., Warden of Wadham
College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of the University.
The Senior Esquire Bedell, of the University of Cam-
bridge, is the bearer of the news of his election to the
newly:elected chancellor of the university, who presents
him with a gold chain of the value of a hundred guineas.
Mr. Gunning, who has held the office for 58 years, now
possesses three of these costly perquisites of office, pre-
sented to him in succession by the Duke of Gloucester,
the Marquis Camden, and the Duke of Northumberland :
and he will soon receive a fourth from the next chancellor.
The Rev. Edward Hawkins, D.D., provost of Oriel
College, Oxford, has been elected to the new chair of
Exigetical Theology formed by the late Dr. Ireland, Dean
of Westminster. Dr. Hawkins is a sound and able the-
ologian, and filled the office of Bampton divinity lecturer
at Oxford in the year 1840: he is also the author of an
able work on tradition, and of other miscellaneous theolo-
gical works. He was selected by the late Vice-Chancellor
of Oxford, Dr. Wynter, as one of the board of six doc-
tors who condemned the sermon of Dr. Pusey on the
Eucharist.

MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—The SUM of £12,000 iS
vested in the under-mentioned religious institutions,
under the will of the late Mr. John Wilkinson, of High
Wycome, Bucks, who died on the 24th of December last,
and such bequests are payable on the decease of his widow,
in the following proportions, viz. :—To the British and
Foreign Bible Society, £3OOO ' • to the London Missionary
Society, £2OOO ; to the Church Missionary Society, £l5OO ;
to the Baptist Missionary Society, £l5OO ; to the Wes-
leyan Missionary Society, £lOOO ; to the Religious Tract
Society, £lOOO ; to the London Association in aid of the
Missions of the United Brethren, called Moravians, £l5OO ;
to the Pastoral Aid Society, £250 ; to the Irish Society of
London for Promoting the Education and Religious In-
struction of the native Irish through the medium of their
own language, £250.

The Cambridge Advertiser states, that, in case of the
refusal of Prince Albert to be put in nomination for the
Chancellorship of that University, the Trinity men will
bring forward Lord Burlington ; while the Times of Wed-
nesday states,. that the Marquis of Northampton will be
their candidate. The name of the Duke of Buccleuch has
also been mentioned. The Johnians to a man will support
Earl Powis. The Earl graduated at St. John's, M.A.,
1806 ; he is in the 62nd year of his age. The last con-
tested election for the Chancellorship was on the death of
the Duke of Grafton in 1811. The votes were, for H.R.H.
the Duke of Gloucester, 468 ; the Duke of Rutland, 391.
Lord Powis is the only candidate as .yet in the field for
the vacant office, though a requisition to Prince Albert
has been signed by, we believe, all the heads of colleges,
except the master of St. John's. The election is on the
25th.

THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.-A gentleman, resident
in the East, has communicated to one of the London pa-
pers the fact of the arrival in safety of Dr. Gobal, at the
Holy City, which he entered on the 30th December. The
Bishop, his family, and suite landed, though not without
danger, at Jaffa, from her Majesty's steam-sloop Hecla,
which conveyed them from Malta. The party was there
welcomed with much kindness, by the authorities and
others, and they remained until the 28th, when the
Bishop and attendants proceeded on their journey. On
the 30th they neared Jerusalem, and they were met by all
the English and other residents mounted, by whom they
were escorted into the city, and *seeded very soon to
the church, where, as the Bishop entered, a touching and
interesting hymn was sung. The Te Deum was read and
the Litany of our Church, when the Rev. Mr. Nicolayson
addressed the Bishop in a very interesting and feeling
manner, to which tile Bishop replied, and greeted the
congregation, blessing them in the name of the Lord.
Tranquillity reigns throughout Palestine.