The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 6• CLERICAL, NEWS.

R. Walker, Esq., M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford, bee
conformed to Popery.
The Archbishop of Armagh has subscribed £lOO to the
fund now raising for the family of the late Bishop Alex-
ander.
The Vice Chancellor of Oxford has published a notice'
calling the attention of junior members of the University
to the statute against horse-racing, and stating that ite
penalties will in future be strictly.enforced.
CHURCH FOR THE SEAMEN OF LONDON.'—Me se!'
Cubitt have commenced the building of this edifice. Itle
estimated to contain 800 free sittings, and to cost, inclllo'
ing the.site and endowment, £9,000.
A young gentleman, undergraduate of Oxford, Mr. Sin'
gleton, was unfortunately killed on Saturday week in con-
sequence of his horse throwing him by springing on 5
turnpike-gate whilst racing with a companion.
The treasurer of the London Scripture Readers' Soci'
ety has recently received, among other donations, the
sum of £7OO from Lady Olivia Sparrow, in furtherance
of the objects of the above-named society.
BISHOPRIC OF JERUSALEM.—The death of the beet
Dr. Alexander having left this see vacant, it has bee:
filled up by the appointment of M. Belson, a converse
Jew, by the King of Prussia, who holds the right of alter'
nate appointment with the Government of England. 9
ST. JAMES'S CHURCH', LA/ CHFORD.—A sermon Was
preached in this church, on Tuesday evening last. brtp.,
Rev. Hugh M`Neile, M.A., after which a collection Wet'
made, for the purpose of meeting a conditional gre4
made by the National Society, towards liquidating the
debt on the Sunday school in connection with the cburcb'
The amount collected was upwards of £2B.
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CASE: OF THE REV. C. H. HODGSON.—In the L/0--tof
Arches, on Tuesday, Sir 11. J. Fust gave judgment 1;
t!iis case, which was a proceeding by articles against th
Rev. C. H. Hodgson, chaplain of the county gaol of Se'
lisbury, charging him with serious offences against trolli
lity. The learned judge 11,1 d that the articles had De
been proved, and dismissed the suit.
On Sunday last, the Rev. Miles Barton, son of °ng
respected townsman, Miles Barton. Esq , preached ha
first sermon at St. John's Church, Liscard. He acquidea
himself in a most pleasing and satisfactory manner, gee
bids fair to be an ornament to his profession. His test
was taken from the 9th verse, 2nd chapter of the 1:
Epistle of St. Peter. We understand he is appointed ,5
a living at Bolton.
TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—On Monday, a folio cop,
of Bagster's Polyglot Bible, superbly bound, a family
bible, a silver teapot, with the accompaniments of cream
jug and spoons, were presented to the Rev. Alexancle
Read, A.M., curate of the Parish Church of Runcot,%
as a testimonial of the regard in which he was held bve.th,
congregation. A pocket communion service is bere-sit;
to be added, it not being completed at the time of Pl.l/
sentation. tee
The largest number of copies issued by the Manebeemo,
Bible Society in any year previous to the last. was 15,,,vrt
In October last the number sued was 9,618 ;in Nover°l3%
20,776 ; in December, 16,695; in January, 13,043; It
February, 12,814; and in the first week of the presls,
month, 2,749 : making a total, in five months, of 75,t)?,
copies of the Scriptures which have been circulated Id,
Manchester, Salford, and the immediate neighbourhoo_,,
DR. PUSEY'S NEW LITURGY AND REGISTRATIO.I4c,
OFFICE.—The real object (of this new liturgy and rub rYe
is betrayed in a single paragraph pasted into the first Pa:,
in lieu of a title page, running thus—" These prayers ,f) 0'
be had, and names registered, if desired, on appliotied;
by letter to the Rev. Dr. Piracy, Christ Church, Ox;riirerbat
or the Rev. C. Marriott, Orit f College, Oxford." "het
this registration is for, may by some be doubted ; sc",,
the prayers are for, is clear. To secure a registrati9es,
of the purpose of which all I van gather is from nsg,eed
where I learn that " those who wish may have their na7r,
registered, in order that they may be informed of °
Iti
ticular objects of general interest, or connected
themselves or their friends!"
'if the
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—From a report
Ecclesiastical Commissioners just printed, it appears Ty,.
up to the 25th June last, the unconditional granwhi ts ill ig
ings are 510, the annual augmentation of c,Pthe
£26,782. The total number of livings is 585, e°11..,.t0
total actual amount of permanent annual augmentaticwo.
the clergy is £31,354. The general result of the augaikes
tation list, with reference to dioceses is, that the cbure7A
number 585, and the annual sum is stated at £31,35410,
return is made of the districts under the Church Erriiev
ment Act. It hence appears, that 76 districts so; that
parishes have been constituted under that act, am' here
the aggregate population provided for is 266,988; tithe
are besides 120 districts under the consideration sof
Commissioners, and intimation has been given of I dig'
more intended to be made, and amongst them of 1
tries in the parish of Leeds. The Board of Commie' me
era now includes, ex officio, the two archbisbotliaria
members of the Government, all the bishops o 1 '1;37,14
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wtohgoemthearre
and Wales, three deans, and six common law, equ„,"olo,_w
appointer
Crown, and two in that of the Arch-bishop of
winiththeeigaht perro_.:4 of the'