The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

_ A
PROPER REPLY.—An
calling itself the " Mane}

ssociation in Manchester
ster Church Reform Associa

tion,'Y has been recently writing through its president
(Mr. Richard Birley) to the Dean and Canons of the
Collegiate Church, asking for their " co-operation " with
the society in effecting its objects. All the reverend

of your association to provide tni
want 3 of the parish, own personal c,
and co-operation. Permit me to direct you and your
society's energies into this safer channel. You will surely
place the character of the town of Manchester in a better
position with the world without, if, instead of squabbling
over the spoils of Lord De la Warr's liberal benefaction,
you would follow his generous example. For this pur
pose I would gladly subscribe the sum of £lOOO,
understanding that you do the same. In thus
you would be free from all suspicion of unwort'
and have the approval and support of r"
the church. The poor, too, are
you for this, as the result of! the prom,
you have thought proper to assume."
thing manly and truly noble about this proposition ;—to
be very classical, it is a regular " choker off," that will
not soon be forgotten by the Associationists, much less by

.nd at you

on tne

by motives

1 realfriends of

,nxiously looking up to

aosition which

There i

the poor of Manchester

THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND THE BISHOP OF LONDON.
—The Bishops of Peterborough, Lichfield, and Ripon,
held ordinations in and for their respective dioceses on
Sunday last, and admitted into priest's or deacon's orders
above seventy candidates for the ministry. Amongst
those gentlemen were several of the class known in Eng-

land (but unknown in. Ireland) as Literates-

who have not received a university education ; some who
had studied in colleges not qualified to confer degrees ;
and no less than seventeen graduates of the Dublin Uni-
versity—about one-fourth of the whole number, The re-
mainder were gentlemen who had taken their degrees at
either Oxford or Cambridge. On the same day, the
Bishop of Salisbury conferred orders upon about twenty
gentlemen more, making, on the whole, very nearly a
hundred ordinations. The latter were chiefly students of
one or other of the English universities. There thus ap-
pears to be a very great demand for labourers in the Eng-
lish vineyard—a demand which her own universities are

unable to supply. But, whilst this is the case—and while
the Church in England is thus fain- to recruit her clergy
out of a class which has not had the advantage of the
training of a university—the Lord Bishop of London,
acting upon a caprice, or influenced by a prejudice
has not the slightest reasonable foundation, refs

merely to ordiln, but

—even when ordained by his

he sacre

)y a most

,nd extensive

education in a university second to none in the empire for
the excellence of its general curriculum of studies, and, in
particular, for the course of divinity learning required of the
students seeking to be qualified for the church. We allude,
of course, to the University of Dublin.—Dublin Mail.

ITALIAN REFORMED CHURCH.—A general meeting of
the local clergy (summoned by the Rectors and the Rev.
A. Knox) was held at the Savings' Bank on Wednesday.
to meet the Rev. Dr. Achilli, and to consider the propriety
of forming an Italian Reformed Church. There were
present the. Reverends A. Campbell; (rector,) chairman,
J. Jones, one of the rural deans, T. G. Leigh, Dr.
M`Neile, A. Knox, J. Baylee, C. . Lawrence, R. Da-
vies, W. Pollock, D. D. Stewart, H. Hampton, H. Car-
penter, G. Cuthbert, A. P. Irwine, T. Clarke, 1 f . P. Lin-
ton, J. H. Gabbett, Dr. Pozzi, D. J. Hirsch, S. Byers.

called on the Re

J. Bailee to introduce ti

The meeting was afterwards addres
Byers, the secretary to the London committee, who gave
an account of the Protestant College at ',Nlalta, and of Dr.
Achilli. After which Dr. Achilli cddressed them in
French, narrating what had been done, also what they
hoped to do, to wit,—l. To receive reformed priests into
the Malta College. 2. To improve the translation of the
Bible in the Italian language. 3. To place reformed
)erly accredited, in places external to Italy ;

he Rev. S

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and, finally, if opportunity should occur, in Italy itself.
4. To form a Reformed Italian Church, episcopal in its
discipline, reformed in its doctrines, and primitive in its
ritual. It was then unanimously resolved that that meet-
ing having heard the statement of Dr. Achilli and others,

9 of the First Xunual Report of th(
their desire to co-operate with the_same

Malta Coßep

as -further

nanimously resoled, that the foil

ng clergymen 1

W. Pollocl

A. Knox, and J. Bayle

as secretar)

COURT AND FASHION.

4.3 QUEEN'S RETURN

c were able to give last week exclusively full particu-
lars of the arrival of the Royal squadron at Fleetwood on
the previous (Monday) evening. As the hour approached
for the Royal departure from Fleetwood on Tuesday
(morning; expectation was raised to the highest pitch, and
tens of thousands evidenced a most laudable anxiety to
give a becoming reception to their honoured Queen.
Le. lEvery point from which a view of the proceedings could be
obtained was densely crowded, and as far as the eye could

countless heads presented tl

calculated that little short

,ssembled in Fleetwoo

nd the

:e of ti

man the

eing as hue a set

ten o'(

hand of the youn

nce, while Prince Albert led that of the in

yacht into the
crowds, the bz

he cheer

Anthem. Her Majesty, who WE
;ilk dress, yellow shawl, and wl-

han usual
be Prints'

a red plaid dre

attired in full keeping

approved to:
loon, and al

,ndwas loudly and repeate

1 carriage she

ing entered the / _
acknowledged the hearty manife

tv wliicl

le train moved slowly past the ti

3 thror

the line on either hanil and in -a few minutes pa

Aly on its way

•e and costly bouquet comp
tutiful flowers, had been fo

carriages; that in the royal carriage being printed on
white satin, bound with white velvet, and stamped with