The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS,

The Venerable Archdeacon Lear has been appointed the
successor of Dr. Pearson, in the Deanery of Salisbury.
The Bishop of Calcutta will sail sail for his diocese on
the 25th August.

The Hon. and Rev. George Neville Grenville, Master
of Magdalen College, Cambridge, and brother of Lord
Braybrooke, has been gazetted Dean of Windsor.
The prizes annually awarded by the Bishop of Durham,
for Latin composition in Durham University, were
awarded on Wednesday week as follows :—Latin verse,
Bolland ; ditto, additional prize, R. R. Bradley.
Latin prose, F. B Dickson.
INTERESTING SERVICE. -On Wednesday, a new
chapel in John-street, Edgeware-road, London, erected
for the Rev. R. H. Herscbell, a Christian Israelite, well
known as the author of " A Brief Sketch of the Jews,"
and " A Visit to My Fatherland," was set apart for the
worship of God by an interesting series of services. Mr.
Herschell is a Nonconformist, but he has never identified
himself with any denomination of dissenters. In the
afternoon two of Mr. Herachell's brothers, who also em-
braced Christianity, took part in the services, addresses
being delivered by the Rev. Douglas, of the Established
Church of Scotland, and the Rev. A. Edersheim, minis-
ter of the Free Church, on his way to Moldavia as a
missionary, both he and Mr. Douglas being converted
Jews. The entire service was conducted by Christian
Israelites. From the financial statement made on each
occasion it appeared that the chapel was erected at a cost
of upwards of J.:4,000, of which nearly £2,000 are yet re-
quired. The contributions have been received from
Christians of every denomination, and seldom, if ever,
has a place of worship been erected under similar circum-
stances. Sir C. E. Smitb, Bart., the Rev. Dr. Dibdin,
of the Church of England, the Rev. J. Bunting, and
other ministers, expressed their sympathy in the object.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—The General Assembly of
the Established Church was opened on Thursday week, the
21st instant, in the New Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, the
Marquis of Bute presiding as Lord High Commissioner,
Dr. James Paull, of Tullyneste, was appointed Moder-
ator. Grants from her Majesty of £2OOO, for education
in the Highlands and Islands, and a similar sum towards
the instruction of students for the ministry in the Gaelic
language, were announced. There was nothing of parti-
cular interest in the proceedings of Thursday and Friday.
The General Assembly of the Free Church met also on
Thursday, in the Assembly Hall, Cannon Mills, Dr. Ro-
bert James Brown, Professor of Greek, at Aberdeen,
presiding as Moderator. On Friday, the following finan-
cial statement was presented :

Borne Missions... £6,081 12 0
Education
Building
Foreign Missions .
Colonies
J ems
Supplementary Contributions 14,210 4 94

Total .. ........ £76,279 11 54
A letter was read from the Presbyterian Church of Ame-
rica, acknowledging the receipt of the letters of this As-
sembly, enclosing their deliverence on American slavery,
which was, at the suggestion of Dr. Candlish, referred to
the standing committee, to prepare an answer if they saw
fit, and to report. At the meeting on Monday, an over-
ture on the better observance of the Sabbath, protesting
against the running of trains on the Edinburgh and Glas-
gow Railway, and the carrying on of such work in the
Post-office,--was adopted.
ADDITIONAL CURATES SOCIETY.—Tbe annual meeting
of this society was held last week. The sum received from
particular districts had decreased nearly one-half from
the sum received during the previous year, though the
aggregate amount received was greater. The total sum
received during the year amounts to £15,510. The report
specified an annual subscription from the Queen
Dowager of £lOO. Three annual subscriptions of £2OO
each from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and
the Bishop of London ; two of £lOO and upwards, and
thirteen of £5O, with others from the bishops ; four sub-
scriptions of £lOO each ; one of £7O; and eight of £5O
and upwards are still contributed by those noblemen and
gentlemen who have enrolled their names as annual con-
tributors. In addition to which the committee acknow-
ledge the receipt of the following donations :
Anonymous, Capt.W.J £6O I AFriend,perMrßurrellz€so
Lord Eldon 100 Miss Champion
The Misses Champion .. 220000 Jw. .. ..........
Anonymous, E. 5....... 50 P. Cazenove, Esq lOO
G. Daubeny, Esq. 5O E. C. F. 200
E. L ...

.......
Anonymous
Foster,R.Esq. (legacy) 1000

for Bethnal-green) .. 100

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Grants were then voted to the following places, viz.:—
Population. Grants.
Glossop, parish 0f...... 61)00 £BO to meet £lO
Thurgoland, district of.. 1333 .. £BO for one year.
Dursley, parish of .. 3000 .. £3O to meet £3O
Chippenham, Wilts.... 5354 .. £5O to meet £5O
Leicester, St. Mary . 9000 .. £BO to meet £BO
Birtley, P.Chester-le-st. 10,500 .. £5O to meet £4O
Shadwell, St. Paul's.... 10,000 .. £5O to meet £5O
High Wycombe, Bucks.. 7000 .. XBO for a2d curate
Nottingham, St. Anne's 7695 .. £BO to meet £2O
CHURCH OF ENGLAND SELF-SUPPORTING VILLAGE
SOCIETY.—On Wednesday the first meeting of the mem-
bers and friends of this society, established, as its title
indicates, for the purpose of founding a self-supporting
village, in connexion with_ the Church of England, was

held-in. Exeter Hall. The Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., pre-
eided, and was supported by the Lord Bishop of Norwich,
Lord John Manners. M.P., the Rev. H. Hughes, the
Rev. D. Kelly, the Rev. W. W. Ellis, the Rev. E.
Monro, with other clergymen and gentlemen. The Chair-
man having offered some remarks on the constitution of
the society, the firmsterepsrolovuitsiioonn, wfohrictlirleaffilarbmoued rilte
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