The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-28 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD.—On Thursday the following degrees were
conferred :—Masters of Arts—Rev. C. F. S. Weidemann,
Rev. S. B. Windsor, Rev. E. B. Heawood, Christ Church;
Rev. R. H. Taylor, Trinity College; C. Browne, Wor-
cester. Bachelors of Arts—F. Newington, Ee.q., St.
John's College; G. J. Banner, Brazer.ose. College; H.
Hougton, Scholar, Pembroke College; H. B. Milner, H. S.
Dyson' Merton College ; H. V. Gu;se, B. L. S. Stanhope,
Baliol College ; C. J. Newdigate, Christ Church.

CAMBRIDGE.—On Thursday the following degrees were
conferred :—Masters of Arta—Z Nash, Catharine Hall;
W. L. Pownall, St. John's College ; M. A. Smelt, Caius
College ; H. Jones, Catharine Hail ; G. Phillips, Queen's
College—Bachelors gfArts—J. G. Child, Magdalene Col-
lege ; W. Johnson, King's College—Bachelor' of Medicine
—E. L. Ormerod, Caius ('ollege.

Dr. Wilberforce has been appointed Bishop of Oxford
The foundation stone of a new church was laid in Pres

ton-street, Whitehaven, on Thursday se'nnight.
The sum of £5OO has been present,d anonymously to
the Incorpora'ed Society for Building Churches.
Her Majesty has granted a pension of £2OO a year,
from the civil list, to Mr. Forbes, professor of natural
philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.
One of the gentlemen who received ordination, Mr.
Walsh, who was ordained by the Bishop of Derry on Sun-
day week, was formerly a military officer, and lost a leg

at Waterloo.
The effects of the meeting of the Reformation Society
at Bridgewater are daily becoming more apparent. More
than one person who had joined the Roman Catholics
have returned to the Church, and another meeting is
loudly called for.
NEW UNIVERSITY MOVEMENT.—We hear that an in-
fluential body of noblemen and gentlemen, among whom
are Lords Ashley, Sandon, and R. Grosvenor; Sir T. D.
Acland, Bart. ; Messrs. Gladstone, Glynne, Vernon Smith,
M.P., and others, are about to memorialise the authorities
of Oxford and Cambridge, suggesting additional depart-
ments to the existing colleges, or the foundation of new
collegiate bodies, to provide increased facilities of Uni-
versity education on a more economical scale than has
hitherto prevailed.—Church and State Gazette.
OXFORD AND DR. PUSEY.—Dr. Posey will pro-
bably preach in Oxford University pulpit, in a fortnight,
if means are not taken to prevent him. We are assured
there never was a more critical time for Oxford Univer-
sity. At Trinity, Exeter, Lincoln, Magdalen Oriel,
Christ Church, Queen's, Balliol, and several other
colleges, there are strong partisan tutors who will remain,
unless steps are adopted to compel them to go. An
address of the laity now, to the Heads of Houses or
Bishops, would not be out of place.—lbid.
RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.—The thirty-first annual
meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary of this Society, wss
held on Wednesday. The committee lamented the low
state of the funds. A. number of the tracts had been
given to the agents of the Town Mission, for distribution
at races, &c., some to a pious lady at Tranmere, and
others for Lisvard, Parkgate, and various places in Che-
shire ' • a portion had been sent to Ash'on-in-Mackerfield,
Orrell, near Wigan, &c. ; and at no period was scripture
truth more needed than at the present time. The com-
mittee of the London Society had again cheerfully com-
bined for supplying emigrants to distant lands, and during
the past year thirty-five vessels, having on board 7,665
emigrants had been supplied with 15,520 tracts, and it
was hoped no vessel had sailed without them, according
to the number of passengers on board. The great body
of the emigrants bad gone to New York, Quebec, Boston,
Philadelphia, Port Phillip, &c. The treasurer's account
showed a balance in favour of the society to the amount
of £2B Bs. 3d. Mr. Griffiths read some interesting ex-
tracts, relative to the distribution of tracts, from the
records of the Town Mission, showing that out of 32,000
families in this town, only 14,000 had been supplied, thus
leaving 18,000 unprovided for.
PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—An eminent prelate, to
mark his sense of the benefits conferred by this society,
has increased his subscription from £lO to £25 per ann.
In their last occasional paper the committee state, as a
brief summary of the society's operations, that since its
formation in 1836, no fewer than 581 grants for the sup-
port of clergymen and lay assistants have been made for
populous and widely-extended parislses. Within this
period it has been instrumental in erecting, opening, or
keeping open, 100 churches and chapels, and 128 school-
rooms, now used under episcopal sanction as places of
divine worship. The society at present renders assistance
to 253 incumbents, having under their pa-toral charge
nearly two millions of souls, being one-eighth part of the
entire population of England and Wales, the averace in-
come of those incumbents being not more than £199 p. r
annum. Stipends are thus provided for 241 addi:ional
clergymen and 46 lay assistants, and the amount for which
the society is thereby pledged exceeds £22,200. To co-
operate with the Bishop of Winchester in alleviating the
spiritual destitution of Southwark, the committee have
pledged themselves to make grants to the amount of
£500; and they have now applications from 31 other in-
cumbents, who have under their care 136,739 souls. To
effect this object, with other exigencies, would require a
total income of more than £24,000, while that of last year
amounted only to £20,426; not to mention that fresh
cases of painful interest are, by almost every post, being
brought before their notice, to which, had they the means,
they would most gladly extend the aid implored.
ROME VIA OXFORD.—The Church and State Gazette
gives the following list of Oxford men who have already
apostatised, within the last few years, and many of them
within the last few weeks :
Exeter College: ..J. D: Dalgairns, Esq., M.A.
J. King, Esq.
Rev. F. S. Bowles, M.A.
W. Lockhart, Esq.
Rev. E. Estcourt, M.A.
Balliol C011ege........... Rev. G. Talbot, M.A.
Rev. J. M. Capes, M.A.
Rev. W. G. Ward, M.A.
G. Tickell, Esq M.A.
Christ Church College.... Scott Murray, Esq., M,F.
Rev. G. Penny, M.A.
J. Douglas, Esq.
Rev. A. St. John, M.A.
Oriel College..
Rev. B. Bridges, M.A.
Rev. J. H. Newman, B.D.
Albany Christie, M.A.
Magdalen College ....... Rev. It. W. Sibthorp, B:D.
Rev. B. Smith, M.A.
lirazenose College ....... Rev. W. H. Stanton, M.A.
Rev. J. Walker, M.A.
Worcester College
Pembroke College . P. Renouf, Esq.
St. John's College . Johnson Grant, Esq.
This list, it is added, "does not include some twenty
or thirty clerical and lay members of the church who
have apostatised elsewhere." Also, " two lay members
of Oriel college, and some reported names in other
colleges, are omitted as uncertain." As reports, the
names of a Mr. Woodman and family, at Littlernore, the
Rev. J. Reeves, Aston Keynes, Cirencester, of a Mr.
Sydenham, and of the Rev. Frederick Neave, M.A., of
Oriel college, have been given.
TUE REV. T. D. GREGG.—AS a very wrong impression
has been created in reference to the connection of this
reverend gentleman with the Established Church, it may
be well to describe his precise position, which we take
from the first number of a very excellent periodical writ-
ten by himself, and entitled " Free Thoughts on Pro-
testant Matters." Mr. Gregg, after detailing the circum-
stances which led to his resignation of the Free Church,
Swift's Alley, Dublin, in consequence of an inhibition
from the Archbishop declaring it irregular, says :—" I
subsequently was elected to the benefice which I now
bold, the chaplaincy of St. Nicholas Within. When
elected by the patrons of the living, " the churchwardens
and honest parishioners,' I immediately applied to the
archbishop for a license. Pending, however, the receipt
of his grace's answer, I instituted an investigation, as to
the character of the incumbency, and I ascertained that it
was a ' donative, with exempt jurisdiction and without cure
of souls,' the duties being simply, the performance of
divine service once a week. I ascertained that the in-
cumbent was warranted by law, free from archiepiscopal
control ; and that very serious detriment to the living
might be involved, if the chaplain accepted the license of
his grace. Acccordingly, when 1 had ascertained these
facts, I begged leave, respectfully, to withdraw the ap-
plication, which I bad in the first instsnce made. The
chaplains of Saint Nicholas Within are, through royal
charter, by the very fact of their election, licensed to
fulfil their duties without the intervention of any episco-
pal sanction. That charter makes their ordinary to he,
not the diocesan, but the churchwardens and parishioners.
Under existing circumstances, then, while altogether in-
dependent of the archbishop, I am a beneficed clergy-
man, duly licensed to perform the functions of my office.
My impression is, that every beneficed clergyman is en-
titled to preach in any pulpit into which he may be in-
vited. 1 believe that the archbishop thinks differently ;
that his grace supposes, that though a clergyman be bene-
fict d, still, that his, the archbishop's, sanction, is et ces-
sary to entitle him to preach as of right. 1 should have