The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF YORK.

The Times of yesterday says :—" We believe we may
set at rest the speculations which have been raised by the
vacancy in the See of York, by announcing that Dr.
Musgrave, the Bishop of Hereford, is to be the new
Archbishop, and that he is to be replaced in his present
See by Dr. Hampden, Regius Professor of Divinity at
Oxford." The Times of course condemns both appoint-
ments, the latter especially, but we think that our readers
will not regret to see Dr. Hampden's elevation to the
episcopal bench. In addition to his professorship, he is
a Canon of Christ Church, and Principal of St. Mary
Hall, Oxford. He has also been one of the celebrated
Bampton Lecturers. Several years since great bitterness
was excited in the University against him for alleged
heresy, but his appointment to the Regius Professorship
could not be disturbed, though the University enacted an
irregular sort of censure which has been removed in a
recent professional statute.

The water colour painting of the Rev. Dr. M'Neile will
we understand remain on view another week at Mr. Bur-
land's rooms. We strongly recommend the friends of the
reverend gentleman to see it.
We understand that Mr. J. Bramley-Moore left town
yesterday on a visit for a few days to the Earl of Elles-
mere, at Worsley Hall, in compliance with a•polite invi-
tation received from his lordship.
Yesterday men were employed taking down some build-
ings near the Salthouse Dock, at the bottom of Charlotte-
place; being the commencement of the demolition of
buildings necessary for the completion of the new Wap-
ping Docks.
The annual sermon on behalf of the funds of the Blue
Coat School was preached on Sunday, at St. Peter's
Church, by Rector Cam pbell, when the collection amounted
to £B4 6s. The newly-elected Mayor (T. B. Horsfall,
Esq.) attended, in compliance with the usual custom.
On Friday last, Mr. George Stansfield Deane, Park-
road, operated upon a respectable maiden lady, for the
removal of a scirrhous tumour of the breast. The opera-
tion was skilfully performed, whilst the patient was under
the influence of the ether vapour.
We understand that three clergymen, in connection
with the Church Missionary Association, sailed from this
port last week for India. On Monday morning the Sac-
rament was administered, at St. Luke's Church, to these
self-denying missionaries, and to nearly twenty of our
local clergy, and a considerable number of laymen.
MANCHESTER.—Messrs. Swainson and Birchwood's
bankruptcy was superseded at the first meeting of credi-
tors, on Friday last. Their estate shewed nearly one
hundred shillings for every pound of their debts, and it
was understood that *the legal proceedings had been
allowed to arrive at a fiat purely through neglect.
CAUTION TO FARMERS.—AS a respectable farmer, Mr.
John Rimmer, of The Bronk, Formby, was returning
from this town, on Saturday last, he was attacked by two
men, near the new Catholic Chapel, Little Crosby, and
robbed of £5. A number of carts were not many yards
before him on the road, but owing to the noise they made
his cries for assistance were not heard. He received no
personal injury.
LIVERPOOL SUNDAY-SCHOOL INSTITUTE.-011r read-
ers will perceive by our advertising columns, that a class
for the study of psalmody has been established by the
above institute, and meets in Pembroke Chapel, on Tu-
esday evenings. We understand that nearly three hun-
dred Sunday-school teachers and others have joined this
class; and we doubt not that success will attend this
laudable attempt to improve an important part of public
worship.
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE COBDEN FUND ?—The
Manchester Courier, very properly, we think, persists in
asking for a reply to this question. The great apostle of
free trade has now been in his own country and in the
chief seat of his agitating labours for several weeks. He
has visited not only the Exchange, "where merchants most
do congregate," but the rooms of the Anti-Corn-Law
League as well. Yet we hear of no public meeting of his
quondam admirers to present him with the weed of recom-
pense awarded to him—no statement, even, of the amount
which he may expect to reap. It is hinted broadly that
repudiation on a large scale may be expected, if it has not
already taken place ; that many liberal promises to pay
remain promises only still ; that, in short, too many of
the subscribers to the Cobden Testimonial Fund may be
included amongst the suspended firms ; yet no denial of
the imputation is ventured upon. We trust, for the
honour of the free-traders, bat the insinuations with
respect to their want of honour, in slighting their former
leader, are not deserved. It would not be wonderful,
however, if a movement, conceived in folly, should termi-
nate with a display of shabbiness.