The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY cl' CLERICAL NEWS.

The Bishop of Worcester, the week before last, conse%
crated in his diocese three new churches, and laid the'
first stone for another. .

The Rev. Mr. Black, rector of Wolsoken, Norfolk,
has been condemned by the Consistory Court of Norwia,
to forfeit one-third part of the annual value of his belie,-
fine, and costs, by reason of non-residence, without leave,
for three months.
MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD.—The following 18 a
correct list of the names of the actual fellows admitted on
the 25th ult. :—The Rev. William Francis Pickin, M.A.;
the Rev. John Leigh Hoskeyns, M.A. ; Mr. Henry
Cadwallader Adams, M.A. ; the Rev. James Timothy B.
Landon, M.A. ; Mr. Robert Chomley, M.A. ; Mr. Harriet
Smith, M.A.

ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTIONS.—A bill bas passed
the House of Commons for continuing till the 31st of
December, 1847, an act for suspending the operation of
the new arrangement of dioceses, so far as it affects the
existing ecclesiastical jurisdictions. The registrar of
every ecclesiastical court is to make a return to the privy
council of all fees for each of the years ending January
sth, 1845, and is to continue to do so annually. TheT
are also to report on the state of the offices to the Secre-
tary of State, who may direct surveys.

THE ROUND CHURCH OF CAMBRIDGE.—The question
respecting the restoration of this edifice was decided on
Thursday week in the Consistory Court of Ely, which sat
in the hall of Trinity College, the Rev. Chancellor Sparke
presiding, assisted by Dr. Daubeny, of Doctor's Com-
mons. We may briefly remind our readers that the Rev.
Mr. Faulkner, the incumbent, resisted the confirmation
of the Faculty granted for the restoration of the church,
on the ground that a stone altar and credence table, such
as are used for idolatrous purposes in Popish Chapels, had
been erected without the sanction of a Faculty, and with-
out the vicar's previous knowledge. The case was verf
fully argued by Dr. Bayford on behalf of Mr. Faulkner,
and by Dr. Phillirnore on behalf of the Churchwardens ;
and the Court directed the Faculty to issue, thus confirm-
ing the erection of the stone altar and credence table.
The Vicar immediately appealed to the Court of the Arch-
bishop.

IMPORTANT PROCEEDING.—On Tuesday, the Bishop
of Exeter suspended for fourteen days, and condemned
in the costs of the proceedings, (taken under the Church
Discipline Act,) the Rev. J. Todd, vicar of Liskeard, for
having purposely omitted, in burying a deceased gentle-
man, the following words in one of the prayers in the
Burial Service—" as our hope is this our brother cloth."
It appeared that the reverend gentleman had been cre-
dibly informed that the deceased had died in a state of
intoxication, but that he had discovered since the funeral
that he had been misinformed. The Bishop, in the
course of his judgment, gave utterance to the following.--
to our minds—most erroneous doctrine :—" God, when
he vouchsafes to regenerate by baptism, vouchsafes also
to give forgiveness of all sins to those who con-
tinue in the state in which they have been placed by bap-
tism. Presumptuous and unrepented sin does indeed
forfeit that state, but, thanks be to God, not sins of in-
firmity ; and whether in the case of a death under intox-
ication the sin was presumptuous and unrepented, or a
sin of infirmity, consistent with a lively, though it may e°
languid faith, it is not for man to pronounce."