The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-04 00:00:00

T.. HE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

(HE COURT.

MARRIA:drE OF THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.

The. marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess
.e..:agusta, eldest daughter of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, with his Royal Highness Frederick, the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, was
solemnized on Wednesday evening, with great splendour
in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace.
The Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Cabinet Minis-
ters, and members of the Administration, began to arrive
at eight o'clock, and assembled in the library. Their
Excellencies appeared in their respective diplomatic cos-
tumes • the Lord Chancellor wore his gold State robe,
the Duke of Wellington his Field Marshal's uniform, with
the Riband and George of the most noble Order of the
Garter (the latter set in brilliants), and the ensigns of the
Golden Fleece; Sir R. Peel, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord
Stanley, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Gladstone, Earl of Aber-
deen, and Sir E. Knatchbull, wore the full dress official
costume ; the Earl of Haddington, a Lord Lieutenant's
uniform, with the ensigns of the most illustrious Order of
St. Patrick.

The Dukes of Beaufort and Devonshire, the supporters
of the Royal bridegroom, appeared—the former in a yeo-
manry uniform, and wearing the ensigns of the Garter;
and the latter in his Lord-Lieutenant's uniform, and
wearing the collar and star (the latter set in diamonds) of
the Order of the Garter, and the Collar of another order
of knighthood.

Their Serene Highnesses Prince Peter and the Princess
of Oldenburg, his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Crown Prince of
Wurtemberg, and his Majesty the King of Hanover, ar-
rived about eight o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta arrived at a
quarter before nine o'clock, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince
George and the Princess Mary. The Princess was at-
tended by the Baroness de Normann. The Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge were attended by Lady Augusta
Somerset, Baron Knesebeck, and Major Stephens.
The Royal Bride's dress was of very handsome Brussels
point lace over white satin, looped on each shoulder with
bouquets of orange blossoms, diamonds, and sapphires,
and very elegantly ornamented in front with a border of
orange blossoms and silver ; the train (of Spitalfields
manufacture) was of the richest white satin and silver
tissue, and was most tastefully trimmed down the sides
and at the bottom with festoons of orange flowers, finished
with a raised border of silver. It had an edging of deep
point of lace, having the orange flower in the pattern.
The Princess wore on her head a wreath composed of
orange flowers and myrtle, and a tiara of sapphires and
diamonds, and was covered with a very large and most
beautiful veil of point lace, remarkable alike for its size
and the elegance of its design. The lace handkerchief
carried by her Royal Highness was a present from her
august uncle, the King of Hanover. Of its kind it is
perfectly unique, from the great beauty and costliness of
the material. The initials of the Princess, surmounted
by a coronet, had been introduced in the design. Her
Royal Highness wore a necklace of brilliants. The sto-
macher was of sapphires and diamonds, and ear-rings en
suite.

Her Majesty wore a petticoat of white net over white
satin, trimmed with silver blonde and pearls.
The train was lilac and silver-shot tissue, trimmed with
silver blonde. The stomacher was trimmed with diamonds
and pearls.
The head-dress a tiara of diamonds.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert wore a Field-
Marshal's uniform, with the ensigns of the Orders of the
Garter and of the Golden Fleece, the latter splendidly set
in diamonds.

All the company having arrived at nine o'clock, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, followed by the Archbishop of
York, the Bishop of London, and the rest of the clergy,
entered the chapel, and took their places within the pre-
cincts of the altar. In about ten minutes the procession
entered the chapel, a voluntary being performed on the
organ. On her Majesty reaching the entrance to the
chapel, her Majesty's private band, stationed in the Royal
closet, under the direction of Mr. Anderson, performed
the chorus in Handel's Coronation Anthem, " God save
the Queen."

Her Majesty seated herself on the north side of the
altar, at the end of the haut pas. On the side of the
Queen were Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duchess of Cambridge.
Opposite to the Queen were the King and Queen of the
Belgians, the Prince and Princess of Oldenburg, the
Crown Prince of Wurtemburg, Prince Reuss Lobenstein
Eberedorff, and Prince George of Cambridge. The Prin-
cess Augusta of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, stood in front of the altar,
the Princess supported by the Duke of Cambridge, and
the Grand Duke by the King of Hanover. The Arch.
bishop of Canterbury, having the Archbishop of York and
the Bishop of Norwich on his left hand. and the Bishop
of London on his right, then commenced the ceremony.
The responses of the bridegroom were given in a clear
distinct voice, but those of the Princess were scarcely
audible. Sir George Smart presided at the organ.
At the conclusion of the ceremony the bride approached
the Queen, and was saluted by her Majesty, as also by the
Duchesses of Kent, Gloucester, and Cambridge. The
Grand Duke received the congratulations of all those
about the altar.

The Royal bride and bridegroom then left the chapel,
attended by their suite, and were soon followed by her
Majesty and the rest of her illustrious relatives and visi-
tors to the great dining-room, where the registration of
the marriage was made, and was attested by the august
and illustrious relatives, and by the Ministers and officers
of State.

The benchers of the Inner Temple will give a grand en-
tertainment to the King of Hanover on Wednesday the
sth of Jul.

Her Majesty the Queen contemplates a visit, in August
next, to Warwick Castle, which is undergoing the most
extensive embellishment that the taste of metropolitan
and local artists can accomplish.

At her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday last, three
queens were beheld in the same box, her Majesty the
Queen, the Queen Dowager, and the Queen of the
Belgians.
An elegantly-wrought counterpane, made by the in-
mates of the Royal Victoria Asylum for the blind, in
Newcastle• on-Tyne, having been forwarded to the Duchess
of Kent, her royal highness most kindly consented to pre-
sent it to her Majesty, and a letter has been received
from Sir Henry Wheatley, stating that her Majesty has
been most graciously pleased to accept the same. Her
Grace the Duchess of Northumberland has given a dona-
tion of five pounds to the funds of the institution, and has
been pleased to accept one of the beautiful shawls wrought
by the inmates.

THE CHURCH 6- THE UNIVERSITIES.

OXFORD, JUNE 30.
A congregation was this day holden for granting de-
grees, &c., when the following were conferred :
Doctor in Civil Law.—Rev. E. B. Dean, fellow of All
Souls College.
Bachelor in Civil Lath.—William Venables, of Exeter
College.
_ _

Masters of Art.—Rev. Henry W. 0. Polhili, of Uni-
versity College; Rev. Thomas Bacon, Merton College;
Rev. Charles R. Hay, Merton College ; Rev. Henry
Petley, Wadham College ; Rev. H. S. Cheshire, Wad-
ham College ; George Patterson, Wadham College ; Rev.
Robt. S. Hunt, Exeter College ; J. G. Faithful, Exeter
College ; Rev. 0. F. Owen, Christ Church ; Rev. W. G.
Rawlinson, Magdalen Hall; F. Dyson, New Inn Hall.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Charles Goring, of C;
Church (grand compounder) ; E. H. Willes, Christ
Church ; Talbot H. B. Bake., Christ Church ; Rev. Robt.
S. Sutton, fellow of Exeter College.
The Rev. R. P. Smith, of Pembroke College, has been
elected to the Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scholarship.
C. F. Secretan, of Wadham College, has been elected
to the Kennicott Hebrew Scholarship.

CABRIDGE, JUNE 3.
TRINITY COLLEGM
E.—The Porson Prize has been just
awarded to William George Clark, of this College :
Subject :—Shakspeare's " Midsummer Night's Dream
Act 1, Scene 1.
Beginning—,
And ending—

" Gon speed fair Helena! Whither away

-- " We must srve our sigt
From lovers' food, till morrow deep midnight."

The following appointments have take❑ place :
The Rev. Charles John Fisher, 8.A., of Jesus College,
to the rectory of Ovington, and chapelry of Alibrights an-
nexed, with Tilbury rectory, by Clare, Essex. Value, £167.
The Rev. George John Collinson, 8.A., of Trinity Col-
lege, to the vicarage of Swanbourne, Bucks. Value, £l5B.
The Rev. George Horatio Nutting, 8.A., of Trinity
Hall, to the curacy of Hatch, Beauchamp, Somerset.

Of the ten churches required for the parish of Bethnal-
green (London) nine have already been erected.
The annual meeting of the Manchester Ten Churches'
Association was held on Tuesday. £60,000 have been
collected since its establishment, and £21,000 more was
required to carry out the scheme as originally submitted
to the public.
REV. H. E. HEAD, OF HONITON.—ID consequence of
this clergyman's suspension in accordance with the sen-
tence lately pronounced in the cause prosecuted against
him by the Bishop of Exeter, he preached his farewell
sermon on Sunday, 18th of June, taking as his text the
words, " The first principles of the oracles of God."
We learn from authority on which we can rely, that the
appointment of an archdeacon to the proposed bishopric
of Manchester has been made, and that the choice has
fallen upon a most zealous and indefatigable clergyman,
who has devoted his energies unsparingly to the promo-
tion of the best interests of the establishment.—Maccles-
field Courier.

CONTRIBUTIONS BY CHURCHMEN.-At the annual
meeting of the Ten Churches' Association, Manchester,
on Tuesday, the Hugh Stowell, adverting to the voluntary
efforts of the members of the Established Church, said
that they had, in the last ten years, raised no less than
three millions sterling to circulate the truth at home and
abroad.

NEW CHURCHES.—On Wednesday last the Bishop of
Chester consecrated a new church on Stretford new road,
Manchester. It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and has
been erected through the munificent donation of £lO,OOO,
from Miss Atherton, of Kersall ; and on the following
day, the bishop consecrated two new churches in the
neighbourhood of Bury; All Saints, Elton, and St.
George's, Unsworth.
DR. PUSSY.—Notwithstanding all that has been said as
to the difference of opinion between the six doctors, it hs
a positive fact that they were unanimous in agreeing that
the parts of the sermon complained of were dissonant
and contrary to the doctrines of the Church of England ;
and it is no less true that communication after communi-
cation with Dr. Pusey took place through the medium of
a friend ; so that the tale of never having had a hearing
is extremely disingenuous.—Standard.
The University of Oxford has conferred the degree of
Doctor in Civil Law on Mr. Everett, the American
Minister, and Professor Daniell, of King's College, Lon-
don. Mr. Everett was formerly an Unitarian preacher
in the United States. At the time when his name was
proposed by the Vice Chancellor, the under graduates
began to hiss an unpopular proctor, which prevented the
non-placets, of which there were several, from being
heard. A protest against the legality of the deree so
conferred has since been signed by nearly forty megmbers
of the University.
DR. PUSEY'S SERMON.—We have not yet seen a copy
of this much canvassed production. The preface to the
sermon, however, appears in the Times of yesterday.
The doctor says that the " sacred subject of the Holy
Eucharist " came in the order of a course of sermons
which he was delivering on the comforts provided by the
gospel for the penitent, and that it was his object to point
out the " comforting character of the eucharist in two
ways; Ist, indirectly, because it is the body and blood of
his Lord, and is the channel of his blessed presence to
the soul : 2nd, because, in holy scripture, the remission
of sins is connected with it." The following paragraph
is all we can extract from the preface, which is only short.
" Once more to repeat my meaning, in order to relieve
any difficulties which might (if so be) be entertained by
pious minds, trained in an opposed and defective system
of teaching before whom the sermon may now be brought.
My own views were cast (so to speak) in the mould of the
minds of Bishop Andrews and Archbishop Brarnhall,
which I regarded as the type of the teaching of our
church. From them originally, and with them, I learned
to receive in their literal sense, our blessed Lord's solemn
words, " This is my body," and from them, while I be-
lieve the consecrated elements to become, by virtue of
His consecrating words, truly and really, yet spir
and in an ineffable way, His body and blood, I learnituallyed
also to withhold my thoughts as to the mode of this great
mystery, but, " as a mystery," to " adore it."
With
the fathers then, and our own great divines, (explaining,
as I believe, the true meaning of our church,) I could not
but speak of the consecrated elements as being what,
since he has so called them, I believe them to become his
body and blood ; and I feared not, that, using their lan-
gnage, I should, when speaking of Divine and " spiritual"
things, be thought to mean otherwise than " spiritually,"
or having disclaimed all thoughts as to the mode of their
being, that any should suppose I meant a mode which our
church disallows." It wonld appear that an appendix
accompanies the sermon, giving, as was anticipated, a
number of extracts from ancient divines.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—The following is given by the
Scotsman as an estimate of the emoluments surrendered
by the clergymen who seceded from the Church of Scot-
land :—" The stipend, in the lowest class of livings in our
Established Church, is £l5B 6s. Bd. ; and the manse and
glebe being valued on an average at £4l 13s. 4d., the
poorest benefice is worth £2OO per annum. Where the
teind (tithes) are exhausted, and do not yield £l5B 6s. Bd.,
the deficiency is supplied from the Exchequer. There
were 196 out-parishes where the teinds were exhausted,
but yielded £255, including manse and glebe; and 470
parishes, with free teinds, yielding about £282. The
average of 872 livings paid from teinds and Exchequer
grants was £257, including manse and glebe. The value
of the livings in towns, which are paid from taxes, seat-
rents, or burgh funds, may average about £350 per annum.
These data being premised, the incomes given up may be
estimated as follow :-
267 parochial ministers, at £370 each ...... £72,000
17 parliamentary ditto, whose stipend, we
believe, is £l2O
17 assistants, say £6O
164 quoad sacra ministers, say £125
4 professors, say £400..

2,040
1,020
20,500
1,500

97,250
The aggregate of the incomes surrendered may,£ therefore,
be estimated. in round numbers at £lOO,OOO, which is
two-fifths of the whole revenue of the church. The
average for each of the 469 individuals is £207. Many
of the seceding ministers are among the best paid in the
establishment."
The Duke of Sutherland resists all entreaties of the
free presbyterians to grant them sites for the erection of
meeting-houses on his estates in Scotland.

Machin being nominated, the vicar, without putting the
question to a show of hands, or waiting for any expression
of opinion from the meeting, announced that he would
appoint twelve persons to take a poll, and immediately
appointed six poll-clerks, all in the interest of Machin ;
and, subsequently, six others. He declined, when asked,
to say how long he would keep the poll open. The poll
commenced about half-past eleven on the following day,
and closed at half-past one o'clock (two hours), votes
being taken rapidly during that time, and almost without
intermission. About half-past twelve o'clock, Mr. Suck-
ling, an attorney, in the interest of the vicar, having as-
certained from a poll-clerk that Mr. Machin then stood

" very well" or `1 all right" on the poll, said he would
go to the vicar and get him to close the poll as soon as
possible. At this time nearly all the votes for Machin
had been given ; and, during the hour that the poll re-
mained open, the votes for Oliver continued to increase in
the proportion of four to one to those for Machin ; and
when the poll was closed a very great number of persons
had not voted who came subsequently to vote for Oliver.
The total number of voters in the parish is 11,000, but it
was said that 2,500 only had paid their rates. On the
poll there appeared 225 persons voting for Machin, and
479 for Oliver ; but, on the scrutiny, it appeared that
the votes were, for 'Machin, 450; Oliver, 300; majority
for Machin, 153. Mr. Hill, in support of the mandamus
for a new election, referred to Lord Denman, who, in giving
judgment in the Manchester case of the election of church-
wardens, the King v. Archdeacon of Chester, had much
relied on the time for closing the poll being part of the
original appointment ; so that nobody could be deceived.
The Vicar of Aston had kept the poll open two days in
1842, and he should have given notice if he meant to close
it in two hours in 1843. He argued from the affidavit
that the poll was not slack, and that the voting for Oliver
was increasing and that for Machin diminishing at that
time. At one o'clock only 350 had voted for Oliver, and
225 for Machin; and at half-past one the numbers were,
Oliver 479, Machin 225, so that Machin had only taken
30 votes while Oliver had taken more than 200, and that
moment the poll was stopped. Lord Denman, stopping
Mr. Hill, said that the last fact entitled him to have the
rule for a mandamus made absolute.—Rule absolute.