The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTALLIGEACE.

The Porthcawl and Dvffryn Llynfi Company have de-
clared a dividend of 34 per cent., and the progress of
affairs is said to be highly satisfactory.
On Wednesday another fatal accident took pl;ice on the
Midland Counties Railway. A guard, named Woodford,
was killed by his head c.,tning in contact with a bridge
whilst he was engaged with some luggage on the top of
the carriage.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—At a special
general meeting in London on Wedesday last, a resolu-
tion was propose.i in favour of forming a railway from
Maxworth, Bucks, to Woressrcr, with lines to Rugby
and Oxford, and alto from Worcester to Dudley and
Wolverhampton. The Chairman (Mr. R. C. Glyn) esti-
mated the expense at £2,500,000, and the nett revenue at
£147,250. Several sharchold-rs opposed the project as
an infraction of the agreement with ihe Grand Junction,
but their objections were over-ruled, and the resolution
carried.
NEWCASTLE AND EDINBURGH LI NE.—A special
meeting of the proprietors of the Newcastle-upon Tyne
and North Shields Railway was held in Newcastle, en
Tuesday last, to assent to or dissent from the following
proposalA, namely—the extension of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne and North Shields hallway from North Shields to
the village of Tynemouth ; the making of a railway, or a
communication by tunnel, or othetwi,e, frow the Conduit
Head-lane Bridge, near the t,rminus of the railway at
Newcastle to and with the Q arty, at or near the FAly
Wharf; the union and consolidation of the Newcastle
and North Shields Railway Company with the Newcastle
and Berwick Railway Company, about to he ineffporated
by an act, to he applied tor in the ilex, sesit.n of parlia-
ment. The (+jeer of the prop, s d union being to take in
a portion of the Newcastle and Shields line, in the route
from Newcastle to Berwick-upon-Tweed. and thence to
Edinburgh. The iesolutitms were carried unanimously.
The Leeds and Selby Company have wound tip their
affairs by declaring a dividend of £2 Is. 3d. per share for
the period from the 30th of June last to the present time.
The company hereafter will be inc ,rporatecrwith the York
and North Midland Railway.—'l`h- last-named company
is to pay £210,000 for the 2,100 original shares of £lOO
each ; and, with this sum, the Leeds anti Selby Company
have at their disposal; from bonus arising from sale of
moveable stock, for mortgages, for rent due, by savings
effected in interest on mortgage, &c., the sum of
£232,799 14s. 4d. The disposable funds of the com-
pany are to be appropriated as fllows :—From the
principal money, amounting to £225,000, the sum of
£lO5 18s. 9d. per sharewill be paid to the shareholders,
being equal to £222,468 15s. from the 2100 shares, of
which the original capital stock of the cotnpany consists ;
leaving in the hands of the directors £5,661 16s. 9d. for
the discharge of the existing ascertained chbts of the com-
pany, and the balance of £332 3s. 7d. to cover any re-
maining nnascertained liabilities which may hereafter ap-
pear, and subject to such liabilities to be disposed of by
the directors at their own discretion.

DURHAM AND SUNDERLAND RAILWAY.—On Mon-
day a special general meeting of the shareholders was held
in Sunderland, for the purpose of authorising the direc-
tors to make application to parliament in the next ses-
sion. for power to mike an extension to the main line of
their railway from the present terminus near the river
Wear, in the township of Elect Barony, to the town of
Bishop Auckland ; to construct a new branch line of rail-
way from a point in the main line at Shincliffe to the head
o Old Elvet, in the city of thulium ; to construct ano-
ther new branch line.of railway from a point iii the main
dine near to Brooniside Colliery. in the t,,w nship of Pat-
tington Hallgarth, to join the Newcastle and Darlington
Junction Railway at tile Sherbern station ; ano to con-
struct a new branch line of railway to Seaham harbour;
to make a more eligible junction of their Haswell branch
railway ; to construct and make certain deviations in the
main line, in order that these branches and the main line
may be worked by locomotive power, instead of as at pre-
sent. by siationary engines ; to mike acidic on,il quays,
wharfs, &c., at Sunderland harbour; and lastly, to ob-
tain compulsory powers to purchase the fee simple of all
tho lands over which the railway passed. The resolutions
were passed unanimously.

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL 1NE147.

OXFORD, Nor. 28.—1 n .a congregation held this day,
the following degrees were conferred :—Bache'or in Civil
Law.—Thomas Henry Haodan, M.A., l.te Fellow of
Exeter, senior scholar on the Vinerian Foundation.—
Alasters of Arts.—Rev. Frederic Edwin Lott. St. Alban
Hall ; Rev. Fulwar Craven Fowle, Merton.—Bachelors
of -Arts.—George Butterworth, Balliol, Grand Com-
pounder; William Frederick John Kaye, Balliol; John
William Slegg, New Inn Hall; Rev. Cullen Forth Words-
worth, Magdalen Hall ' Thornas Harris, Magdalen Hall ;
' I ai
Richard Ca Thorpe Whitmore Ryder, SclIol;„ •
Dam; „7,-„;;*, f);g„e. WailharniTh-os.Balls‘tnn.
Brasnicse ; Arthur Hayne Hamilton, St. John's; Janies
Banks, Scholar of Lincoln • William Barrett, L,
Crew's Exhibitioner of Lincoln ; Edward Tindal Turner,
Scholar of Trinity ; Frederick Metcalfe, Fellow of Lin-
coln (incorporated from St. John's College, Cambridge.)
CAMBRIDGE.—The following degrees were conferred
last week :—B.A.--John eaddell Breretoti, Trinity Col-
lege. H. Dtcomb, St. Peter's College; Leigh
Spencer, Christ's Bollege; Charles Smart Caffin, Caius
College; Baldwyn Wake, St. John's College. B.A.—
El. B. Greenwood, Catherine Hall; G. M. Hawkins,
Magdalene College.
PREFERMENTS AND AFPOINTMENTS.—Rev. F Black-
ley, late of All Saints. Birmingham, to the curacy of
North Harhorne, Staffordshire.—Rey. C. T. Price, M.A.,
to be domestic chaplain to Lord Howden.—Rey. G.
Wylie, M. k., to the rectory of Newnham, with the chapfl
of Mapeldurwell, Hants, vacant by the death of Rev. U.
Hunter.—{-100. and Rev. H. W. Bettie. 8.C.L., to the
vicarage of Great Ilford, Essex.—Rev. J. J. Prickett, to
the incumbency of Markington. Ripon.—Rev. F. Goold,
late curate of Bradfield. St. Clare, Suffolk, to 'he per-
retina curacy of Newhall, DerbYshirr.—Rev. J B. Rey-
nardson, to the living of Carehy. with the chapelry of
Holywell-cum Autiby, vacated by the death of the let!.
J. R. Deverell.—Rev. H. T. C. Hine. M.A., reader of
St. Jam s's. Bury, St. Edmund's, to the rectory of Quar-
ringron, Lincolnshire.

The Chester Courant states that Lord Powys will re-
new his app ication next session for the repeal of the St.
Asaph and Bangor Union Bill.
Mat OAKELEY's APOLOGY FOR REMAINING IN THE
Cnu ttOH.—Mr. Oakelev, of Balliol College, and of Mar-
garet.street Chapel. London. has been the most overt of
the Romanising faction. He has adopted both the doe-
trines and the modes of worship of Rome, so far as possi-
ble. He has just published an apology for remaining in
the Church of England, in the form of a letter " to a Ro-
man Catholic friend." He says the pope has not formally
pronounced upon the question at issue, and writes thus :
—" Let the Holy See apply itself with its wonted vigour
and profound spiritual sagacity to the wonderful and.un-
precedented fact which Europe has exhibited since the '
sixteenth century, of whole nations professing Christianity,
yet apart from the chair of St. Peter: let it investigate es-
pecially the case t,f the Church of England, and receive
and sift the evidence producible in favour of the Christian,
nay, even of the saintly graces which ha 'e thri,en, and are
actually thriving within it; and a decision which should he
founded on an inquiry so conducted, a mild undoubtedly
be entitled to the gravest consideration on the part of all
those who bear in mind with what breathless expectation
the formal acts of the Roman see have ever been awaited,
and wi, h what dutitul attention received by the Church at
large."

THE OFFERTORY AT tl URST.—On Friday an influen-
tial meeting of the inhibitants of Hurst, Berkshire, was
held at the church-house in that parish, to take into con-
sideration the innovations which have been recently intro-
duced into the church service by the perpetual corite, the
Rev. Mr. Cameron. A long discussion ensued, during
which several of the parishioners present condemned the
changes lately made, and intimated an earnest desire that
they should not be persisted in ; and they trusted that Mr.
Cameron would yield to the wishes of the parishioners
upon this subject. Mr. Cameron, who was present, hav-
ing heard the var'ous statements made by the parishioners,
observed, that he felt bound to follow the injunctions of
the Rubric, by which be was ordered to read the sentences
in the Offertory, and the prayer for the Church Mili ant.
With respect to the weekly collection, he intimated an in-
clination to yield upon that point ; though he refused to
give a positive pledge that the discontinuance of the col-
-1 ction should actually begin nest Sunday. Another strong
appeal was then made to him to yield als, upon the re-
maining points, as by insisting on them he would seriously
diminish the usefulness of his ministration, several farmet s
present having declared their intention not to at tend the
church while the innovations continued. Mr. Cameron
promised to confer with the Bishop, and to inform the
Chairman of his decision within a fortnight.

SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION-NATIONAL

BOA RD.

We gave in our last a portion of a letter from the Rev.
11. J. M 'Ghee :o the Rev. Dr. Martin. The reply of the
latter reverend gentleman was chiefly occupied with sta-
tistical details and computations, to prove that the Pro-
testant people of Ireland have not contributed, and there-
fore are nor likely to contribute, anything approximating
to the needful sems requisite to carry out the scriptural
system of education in competition with the National
Board. Prior to the receipt of this Mr. M`Gbee bad ad-
dressed a second letter to the Dr., and from that we quote
the following heart-stirring and ardent appeal.
" I believe in my soul, it ever God put a test upon a na-
tion—if ever God put a test upon a church, to try if they
would be-faithful to their trust, to their principles, to their
religion, and their God—or whether they were ripe to
rottenness for destruction— Ile puts the national Board
of Education as a test upon the Prote,tatits and church
of It eland. It is not whether they will be sound and
faithful in one principle, or one truth. or one doctrine
but whether they will be faithful to the standard of all
principle, all truth, till d...ctritie' all religion—the very
Word itself of the God whom they profess to worship.
If they are sound, and faithful, and true, then there is
brighter day in store for the church of Ireland. Then
God is on our side ; and God and the weakest church are
stronger than the Devil and ti e Papacy, and all the poli-
ticians that can aid their cause. This is not a time, then,
my brother, for a standard-bearer to faint. If ever there
was a moment in our country's history when " ON-
WARD" was the word for the cause of truth, that mo-
merit is now. Our warfare is not a war of hatred, but of
love to our countrymen. "The weapons of our warfare
are not carnal, but mighty, through God, to the polling
down of trongholds." The eyes of Europe are on Ire-
land at this rocnneot—on the Church of Ireland, and on
the Church of Rome. The powers of darkness and of
light are arrayed against each other in the field of Ire-
land. Our Roman Catholic countrymen have their eyes
fixed or us ; the. are ignorant it is true, but they are
keen-sighted—they are clever—and above all, they are
sincerely denoted to what they believe to be the true re-
ligion. They will not be slow to see—yea, they are see-
ing daily more and more, and growing disgusted at the
sight—that their warm hearts, and generous hands—
generous even in th it poverty—are only made the sport
and spoil of knaves, who live upon deceiving them. They
see the difference between zeal for politics and love for
souls, and they know as well as we do that Repeal is not
Salvatiou. Let them but s:e us firm and faithful to God,
to truth, to the Bble, and to them, and even our firm
fidelity shall preach to them throughout the land. But
when we see and know the work that is going on, the
spirit of inquiry, the love of the Bible, of Scriptural edu-
cation and of truth, that is pervading rind leavening the
hearts of our Roman Catholic countrymen in many dis-
tricts of Ireland—Oh, what a blot upon the cheek of fair,
and true religion, if they should see the men who have
appropriated to themselves the name of ministers of
Christ shrinking, and tailing, and t tickling to the mean
and cowardly policy that bargains with their tyrants, not
only for the liberties, but for the souls of the people.
How must they think, that, after all, they made the Bible
but a too! or politics, and never had a heart sincere and
upr glit before God ?

1 know nut how you might feel, my rev. brother ; but
for my part, I could not dare to meet the Homan Catho-
lics of Ireland, putting every other consideration out of
the question, if I were now to juin the National Board of
Education. I can look them in the face this rumpent,
and when I bear my testimony against the crud system
that blinds and enslaves them, I can lay my hand upon
my heart and call God to witness that I long for their
souls in love, and that " my heart's desire and prayer to
God for them is, that they might be saved." But, if I
were to join that ungodly anti-Christian system, which
supports the very foundation of all their errors—rejection
of the Bible- I should fear to show my face upon a public
platform to speak to them ; 1 should be afraid lest some
honest human Catholic would stand up and add►ess me
thus :

" Alta ! a short time ago you taunted us with s avery to
our priests ! you upbraided us with the tyranny of our
church, and branded it as a mark of.false hood on her
forehead, t she would not allow her Children to be edu-
cate.: i,t the Scriptures. You objected this not only
against us, but against the National Board of Education,
because it provided for th,. maintenance of this principle
of our church. You raised a mighty clamour in Lord
Grey's administration, and in Lord Melbourne's adminis-
tration. . Then Scriptural education,' the Bible,' and
' conscience' were mighty weapons in your hands. But
were they, indeed, but levers to raise your party into
power ?--a trumpet for politics—a standard for'stateamen
to rally knaves and hypocrites around them. Where are
they now ? Has Sir Robert Peel locked them up securely
in his cabinet, and does he open these sacred treasures
with a golden key, to disFense them to thuse humble ex-
pectants, who will use them conveniently at his own dis-
cretion. Away from the face of honest men ! Prate to
us no more of your principles and your religion. For
twelve long years have you pretended to hold up tie Bible
as the only st-ndard of education, and now, at the beck
of a prime minister, you surrender what you have called
a fundamental principle of your own religion, and consent
to carry into effect what you have denounced as the fun-
damental error of the church of Rome ! !"

If 1 were to join the National Board—if my motives
for joining it were as pure as those of an angel-1 dare
not incur such an " appearance" of evil in the eyes of
my Roman Catholic countrymen-1 dare not encounter
such, at the eery best, apparently de,terved reproach.
Were I to 13,t so addressed by one of them, I dare not
look him in the face—l should feel I must shrink abashed
from his presence. And now, if after twelve years of
faithful opposition, the t letgy were to j,tin this system,
each wan, of course, must tAte his motives to his Goo ;
but they need never mention wore their church, their
religion, nor their Bible to the Roman Catholics—nor,
indeed, to the hone,t Protestints of Ireland.
May I not now believe with confidence I have said
enough to lead one whom I have ever thought my upright,
single-hearted friend, to feel that expediency as well as
urinciple—patriotism as well as truth—character as well
as virtu..!—c Itsistency as well as religien—the cause of
union, of efficiency, among our brethren—of fidelity to
our own church and nur ot, n flocks, as well us to the souls
of our Roman Catholic countrymen, forbid such a fatal