The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

THE LIIERPOOI4 STANDARD.

tion prevail most among the parishioners. A new church,
far inferior in architectural beauty, has been erected much
nearer the clergyman's residence, half a mile from the old
church.

The Rectory of Bishopwearmouth has been conferred
the Rev. John Patrick Eden, M.A., perpetual curate of
St. Andrew Auckland, and son-in-law of Lord Brougham.
In connexion with this appointment a re-distribution of
the revenues has been made, but it has been confined to
the parish of Bishopwearmouth. The distribution may
be summoned up in a few words. £2OOO is to constitute
the income of the Rector. St. Thomas' Church, Bishop-
wearmouth, is to have £200; St. Andrew's, Depford,
£l5O ; St. Mary's, Hylton, £lOO ; Trinity Church, Ry-
hope, £lOO. The surplus (X 1,450) is to be funded, and
disposed of hereafter, according as the experience of the
working of the above arrangement during the next three
years may point out to be most necessary. _

EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.—DIOCESE OF
GLASGOW AND GALLOWAY.—CONFIRMATION.—On Sa-
turday, the 11th ult. the Bishop of the Diocese held his
first confirmation in Glasgow, within the temporary cha-
pel in Catherine-street, A.nderston. The Incumbent read
the usual prayers ; and the Bishop having delivered a most
impressive address, proceeded to administer the solemn
rite to fifteen candidates. After service a meeting of the
clergy and churchwardens was held in the vestry, the
Bishop in the chair, at which it was agreed that as the
subscription now amounted to nearly £l2OO, immediate
steps should be taken for the erection of the new church ;
and that in the meantime, till the completion of the struc-
ture, a resident curate should be engaged, whose whole
time should be devoted to the poor of the district, nearly
2,000 of whom are living estranged from the Church in
which they were baptised. His Lordship was pleased to
sanction these arrangements, subscribing £5O to the
building fund, and £lO to the curate's stipend for one
year, when, the church being built, it is believed there will
be ample resources from the increased congregation for
the due support of a clergyman, without extraneous aid.
HORFIELD CASE.—Tt has been known that there is
evidence that Lord Melbourne entered into an under-
standing with Bishop Allen, that the valuable leases
should be allowed to run out and go to augment the re.
venues of the Church ; that the estimated value of the
Horfield tithes and estates are £3,000 a-year ; but that
the incumbent has only £BO a year, besides £6O allowed
by Government for doing duty at the barracks near
Bristol; that, consequently, the incumbent and his curate
have, on the average, between them, about £l4O a year ;
and that the bishop has neither continued his prede-

thing for the schools of the parish; that his lordship has
an income Which aVerages £6,400 on the last septennial
calculation, and will, on an average, amount to at least
£5,700 a year in future, besides his palace and several
valuable commendams, the amount of which is not

stated, but which would probably be underrated at£2,ooo
a year besides. It is under these circumstances that the
bishop proposes to renew the lives, instead of allowing
the lease to depend on one, which is expected to drop
from month to month. To prevent this catastrophe, the
commissioners have agreed to pay the bishop £11,500,
which might otherwise have been employed for the
general good of the church.—Record.

ORIGIN OF THE GRIEVANCES IN THE TEMPORALITIES
OF THE IRISH CHURCH.—A century since, if a peer or a

bishop had a son or a nephew needing a " good living,"
and none offered at the moment, how obvious the tempta-
tion to make a rich benefice, by uniting several small
ones ! In such a state of things, and among such persons,
can it be doubted that arrangements of this sort were
often made ? The principal law authorizing such
" unions," and making them legal and permanent, was
passed in the 2d of George I. And Bishop Mant tells us,
that between 1721 and 1799, he finds mention of sixty-
one such unions having been formed, embracing, some
'me three, some
,four, and some even five and six
But either this is an imperfect statement, or
f f • have cont;..--