The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-26 00:00:00

THE -CHURCH

The following appointments have taken place :
The Rev. Lawry Gutrie, M.A., of Trinity College,
to the rectory of Crawley, Surrey.—Value, £1,195.
The Rev. G. W. Straton, 8.A., of Corpus Christi
College, to the rectory of Ayleston, Leicestershire.—
Value £845.

The Rev. W. Parkinson, M.A., of St. John's College;
to the rectory of Langenhoe, Essex.—Value £446.
The Rev. W. Grigson, M.A., of Corpus Christi Col-
lege, to the rectories of Whiroburgh and Westfield, Nor-
folk.—Value, £283.

The Rev. S. J. Lett, of Downing College, to the per-
petual curacy of Bradmucb, Devon.—Value .£lO2.
The Rev. Benjamin Guest, M.A., of Trinity College,
to the perpetual curacy of St. Catherine's, Northamp-
ton.

The Lord Bishop of London preaches the sermon at the
approaching Annual Meeting of the Church Missionary
Society.

APPOINTMENT.—The Rev. C. Richson, M.A., curate
of Preston, has been appointed Clerk in Orders in the
Collegiate Church, Manchester, in the room of the Rev.
R. C. Clifton, lately elected Canon of Manchester.
OXFORD, DEC. 18.—This being the last day of Mi-
chael►nas term, the following degrees were conferred :
Master of Arts—The Rev. George Lewthwaite, Univer-
sity College; Bachelor of Arts—John Morison Myers,
New Inn-hall.

INDIA NEWS.—On Tuesday a Court of Directors was
held at the East India-Muse, when the Rev. Henry 141.'
vill, 8.D., late fellow and tutor of St. Peter's Co"
Cambridge, was appointed Principal of--da lie made
College at Haileybury.
The Rev. Charles Kemble, assistant minister of Stock-
well, is spoken of as the probable successor of the Rev.
Henry Melvin, at Camden Chapel, Camberwell, appointed
to the Principalship of the East India Company's Col-
lege, at Haileybury. Mr. Kemble is a nephew of the
hon. member for East Surrey, who married a sister of
Mr. NI elvill.— Globe.

THE LAY ADDRESS TO TRACTARIANISM.—The Lay
Address to the authorities of the University of Oxford,
praying for measures to arrest the spread of Tractarian
errors in that University, was transmitted to the Vice-
Chancellor on Thursday last. Among the parties who
bad affixed their names, were five dukes, three marquises,
thirteen earls, ten viscounts, five barons, two right hon.
commoners, twenty-seven honourable ditto, twenty-nine
baronets, forty-nine members of Parliament; and, as far
as could be computed, between four and five hundred
county magistrates. The aggregate of signatures is be-
lieved to have exceeded ten thousand. In this transaction
there has been a complete absence of excitement or of ef-
fort to procure signatures. There have been no public
meetings, nor other usual methods to excite public atten-
tion. By such means the number of signatures might
have been increased many fold.

ORATIONS AT THE FUNERALS OF ODD FELLOWS.—
It appears that so long ago as August, 1842, the Lord
Bishop of Durham declared to the clergy of litaliamshire,
that any address delivered by an unauthorized person
over the grave of a member of this Society, is inconsist-
ent with the very principle of an Established Church.
His Lordship adds, the place of interment, when duly
consecrated, is as much within the charge of the clergy-
man in the open air as the church itself is under its roof;
and any attempt to interfere with the duty or to intrude
upon the functions of a clergyman in the one case is as
reprehensible as in the other, and that if any harangue is
to be delivered, the parties may return to their lodge-
room from which they set out, and make their address in
that place after the funeral, as it is their custom to deliver
a short exhortation in the lodge before the procession
begins.

A meeting of the Incorporated Society for Promoting
the Enlargement, &c. of Churches was held on Monday
week, the Lord Bishop of London in the chair. The
board voted grants of money towards building additional
churches or chapels at New Swindon, Wilts, the principal
station of the Great Western Railway ; at Norland, in the
parish of Kensington, Middlesex; at West Hide, in the
parish of Rickmansworth, Herts ; and at Yeovil, Somer-
set ; also towards enlarging and rebuilding existing
churches at Bovingdon, Herts, and St. Alkmund's,
Derby ; and towards increasing the accommodation in
the churches at Burlescombe, Devon, and Stoke Golding,
Leicestershire. The population of these parishes is
43,231 persons, and the accommodation now provided in
nine churches is 7,167 seats (being for less than one-sixth
of the whole number), including 1,955 free sittings, or one
free seat for twenty-two persons. The additional church
room to be obtained by the execution of the works in aid
of which grants are now voted by the society is 3,916 sit-
tings, 2,716 of which will be free. One of the parishes
assisted has, at present, church accommodation for less
than one-sixth of its population, which is 17,000 souls;
another, with 9,000 inhabitants, possesses church room
for about one-twentieth of that number; and a third,
with a population of 7,000 persons, can accommodate
barely one-sixth. The requisite certificates of the com-
pletion of five additional churches, of the rebuilding, with
enlargement, of five existing churches, and of the enlarge-
ment, reseating, &c., of three other churches, were exa-
mined and approved, and orders were issued for the trus-
tees to pay over to the treasurer the sum granted by the
society in each case, in order that he may remit the same
to the respective applicants. The population of these
thirteen places is 26,875 persons, and, before it was de-
termined that the works now completed should be exe-
cuted, the church accommodation provided in these pa-
rishes was 5,854 sittings, including 1,367 free seats. One
of the parishes, with a population of upwards of 6,000
persons, had accommodation for about one-ninth of the
number, and five others, each with a population of about
2,500 persons, possessed church room for from one-fourth
to one-eighth. With the aid of the society's grants 3,051
additional seats are now provided at these places, 2,523
of which are free. Since the last meeting, the committee
have received intimation that applications will be made
for their assistance towards the erection of churches in
six populous parishes, and towards rebulding, enlarging,
and otherwise increasing the accommodation in the
churches of seven other places.