The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The Rev. Charles Jones bas been unanimously elected
chaplain of Clatterbridge Workhouse, vacant by the re-
signation of the Rev. Charles Barton, who has been ap-
pointed to the living at Brombro'.
The Church and State Gazette says that the Rev. J.
H. Pollen, who has been suspended by the Bishops of
Ripon and Oxford, has been elected by his college to fill
the office of• University Proctor, in which position he will
appoint examiners to examine in divinity.
Two presentations of plate, amounting together to
£3OO in value, were made to the Rev. Mr. Hawes, in-
cumbent of Kingsomborne, on Tuesday last, at a public
dinner of the clergy and laity. About forty gentlemen
sat down, the Hon. and Rev. S. Best in the chair.
The Duke of Wellington, Chancellor of the University
of Oxford, has, it is stated, signified to the Board of
Heads of Houses at Oxford, that if tLey should, in pur-
suance of the legal opinions obtained from certain barris-
ters, petition the Crown against the Commission of In-
quiry to the Universities, they are to do so through the
Secretary of State, instead of through himself as Chan-
cellor.

THE Tansy or BURIAL.—The Morning Advertiser
states that a petition is in course of signature (it has
already received 5,000 names) by the clergy, to be pre-
sented to the archbishops and bishops, praying that the
burial service may be revised and amended, inasmuch as
its indiscriminate use " imposes a heavy burden upon the
conscience of the clergy, and is the occasion of a griev-
ous scandal to many Christian people." Ofie of the
clergy recommends to his brethren that each of them
should, before reading the form over a supposed unworthy
character, make a publie declaration that he reads it only
because " compelled by law to do so."

THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND THE INNOVATORS.—
A letter from Lord Robert Grosvenor, dated February 20,
appears in the Times, asking the Bishop of London what
further steps he had taken to repress the rubrical griev-
ances complained of in other places besides Mr. Bennett's
churches at Knightsbridge. Lord Robert acknowledges
the faithfulness with which the Bishop has carried out the
spirit of his late charge " against the new forms and ce-
remonies which have been introduced into our accustomed
mode of worship" in the latter instance ; but remarks are
made that there are " no outward signs of the same vigour
in other cases," and begs his lordship to make public the
obstacles that stand in the way. The Bishop replies,
March 10, that in some instances his expressed wishes
have been complied with ; in one a promise of compliance
had scarcely been made wen it was formally withdrawn ;
and in another his " earnest and affectionate entreaties"
have been met with " uuqualified refusal." The Bishop,
however, is still even now not without hope that the most
objectionable of those innovations will be laid aside ; but
if he is disappointed his lordship will he prepared to do his
duty to the Church at such time and in such manner as
may appear, " upon the most careful consideration and
consultation with those whose opinions I am bound to
respect, to be the most advisable."