The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 5 CLERICAL NEWS.

The Duke of Wellington has appointed Sir Charles
Wetherell to be deputy steward of Oxford University.
The place is held during life.
At his ordination, on Trinity Sunday, the Lord Bishop
of Chicester admitted iivn the holy order of deacons, Mr.
George Rees and Mr. Willian Edwards, the former of
whom had been a dissenting preacher at Worthing, and
the latter followed the same occupation at Brighton.
WESTLEIGH NEW CHURCH.—The ceremony of laying
the first stone of a church, to be dedicated to St. Paul, at
Rekley Green, in Westleigh, near Leigh, took place
on the 22nd instant; the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powis,
A.M., Rector of Warrington, acting for his brother, the
Right Hon. the Lord Lilford, patron.
The Rev. T. Moseley has unconditionally surrendered
the valuable rectory of St. Martin's, Worcester, from no
other motive than to have this most important parish
placed in the hands of one whose health and physical
powers would enable him to discharge the sacred and re-
sponsible duties more efficiently than himself. .

COLONIAL CHURCH.—An interesting church of wood,
which is destined for the diocese of Jamaica, has been
lately completed by Mr. Thompson, architect, of Lime-
house. It is capable of accommodating from three to four
hundred persons, and consists of a nave and chancel, the
latter being furnished with a window of stained glass,
which bears the figure of St. James, to whom the church
is to be dedicated. The nave is neatly fitted with open
sittings, a pulp:t and an eagle lectern. The windows at
the eastern extremity of the nave are also of stained glass;
that on the north bears the arms of his excellency the
Earl of Elgin, the governor; that on the south the family
arms of the bishop quartered with those of the see.
THE REV. T. D. GREGG AND HIS ASSAILANTS.—The
difference between the Rev. T. D. Gregg and the Dublin
Evening Packet has been settled by the insertion of the
following apology on the part of the Packet, satisfactory
to the friends of Mr. Gregg :—" It may be remembered
that some time since an article appeared in the Evening
Packet, commenting on the conduct of the Rev. T. D.
Gregg, at a meeting of the Protestant Operative Society.
That article was, we regret to say, couched in strong and
unjustifiable terms. A very few days after it appeared,
we expressed, on what we meant to be full and unequivo-
cal terms, our retractation of every offensive imputation
conveyed by that article, and the apology we felt we owed
fur its insertion. It has, however, been communicated to
us by mutual friends of both parties, that Mr. Gregg did
not consider our retractation what he intended it should
be, full and sufficient. We have read over the article
more carefully, and we feel ourselves called upon distinct-
ly to retract it, and to express our regret that the Evening
Packet should have been made the vehicle of such obser-
vations as that article contains. Our attention has been
particularly directed to two portions of the article, which
are at le .st susceptible of the construction which we are
told has been put upon them : the one appearing to con-
vey reflections upon the character of Mr. Gregg in his
clerical capacity, the other to imply that he had been the
subject of ecclesiastical censure. Both imputations, if
really conveyed, would be unjust and unfounded. How-
ever we may differ with him upon the prudence of the
course which in some instances he may have taken, we
have never failed to appreciate the purity of his motives,
and to applaud that spirit of independence which has on
all occasions characterised his public conduct. As to the
insinuation that Mr. Gregg has been the subject of eccle-
siastical censure, we do not believe that the writer of the
article meant to convey more than that differences existed
between Mr. Gregg and the Archbishop of Dublin. It is
a subject, however, upon which there should be no mis-
appiehension, and it is therefore right to say that no
ecclesiastical censure has ever been pronounced upon Mr.
Gregg. And we never intended to convey that he is ca-
pable of wilfully violating any rule of the Church of which
he is a member. In making this reparation for the effect
which such a publication might have upon Mr. Gregg's
feelings, admitting, is we do, that his character as a
Chri-tian clergyman stands unimpeached, we reserve to
ourselves at all times the full right to comment, as our
duty may require, upon any act of his, as a politician,
which may call for observation."