The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 11.—At a congregation held this
day the following degrees were conferred :—Hon. Master
of Arts—Hon. J. H. Nelson, Trinity College.—Bache-
lors of Arts.—C. W. Cavendish, Trinity College; and B.
J. Wood, St. John's College.
The Archbishop of Canterbury completed his 80th year
on Thursday.
The Rev. F. Wickham, late Fellow of New College,
Oxford, has been elected second master of Winchester
College.
The Lord Bishop of Landaff has contributed the muni-
ficent sum of five hundred pounds towards the restoration
of his cathedral.

The Rev. J. M. Chanter, A.M., formerly of Oriel
College, Oxford, Vicar of Ilfracombe, Devonshire, whose
pulpit, it will be remembered, Dr. Pusey occupied, with
the license of the Bishop of Exeter, during his suspen-
sion, has conformed to the Romish communion.

- Miss Burdett Coutts has given the large sum of thirty
thousand pounds for building and endowing a new church
in the city of Westminster, together with a parsonage-
house, schools, &c. The donation was given in the shape
of a blank cheque sent to the Bishop of Landon, which
was filled up by his lordship, and honoured for the amount
stated. The endowment is to be £3OO per annum.
EPISCOPAL Whatelev, Archbishop of
Dublin, has published a pamphlet of " Thoughts," &c.,
in which he lays it down that in an indifferent matter the
episcopal opinion is the criterion of clerical liberty. It
has been published apparently with special reference to
the Evangelical Alliance, and his grace says, that because
no one is " hound in conscience" to belong to the alli-
ance, every minister of the Church of Ireland " who has
a conscientious regard for the solemn vows taken at ordi.
nation, will at once see the necessity of complying " with
the archbishop's admonition not to join.
The late Dr. Wordsworth, brother to the poet Words-
worth, was tenth Wrangler in 1796: in 1798 the second
member's prize for Senior Bachdors ; he was about this
time elected to a fellowship at Trinity College: in 1799
he proceeded to his M.A. degree, and in 1810 he was
created D.D. by royal mandate : in 1820 he succeeded
the late Dr. Mansel, (Bishop of Bristol) in the Mas-
tership of Trinity College, which high office he resigned
in 1141 ; and in the same year he was collated by the
Archbishop of Canterbury in the above-named benefices.
The late Dr. Wordsworth was author of Ecclesiastical
Biooraphy, Christian Institutes, tic.
THE "ALLIANCE" IN SCOTLAND.—The subject of the
Evangelical Alliance is exciting much discussion in the
Free Church of Scotland. In the presbytery of Glasgow
a Mr. King and a Mr. Gibson have moved and carried an
" overture" to the General Assembly condemnatory of the
Alliance. In Scottish phrase, an " overture" of this kind
appears to be a sort of bill of indictment to be preferred
before the assembly. The majority in the presbytery is
12 to 10 ; but in that majority there are only seven minis•
ters, while there are nine in the minority. The majority
is therefore made up of elders, who are five to one. In
the Edinburgh presbytery, also, a discussion has been
raised, and Dr. Candlish has made a long speech. It
appears'tbat a conference of the Free Church is contem-
plated on the subject. The idea of Dr. Candlish seems
to be, that the Evangelical Alliance should be left an open
question with ministers of the Free Church. Pending the
conference, which is to be held early in March, we see
that the ministers of the Free Church have resolved
to abstain from taking part at present with the Glas-
gow committee of the proposed Evangelical Alli-
ance. A letter, addressed to John Henderson, Esq.,
the chairman, appears in the Scottish Guardian,
signed by Dr. Smith, Dr. Buchanan, Dr. Candlish,
Dr. Cunningham, and three other ministers, making
this announcement. It seems to be hoped that the decision
of the Free Church Conference will be to leave the ques-
tion an open one, so that individual ministers may act as
they please. Should this not occur, it would seem that
the Free Church must secede from the Alliance. The
Free Church were the first promoters of this Alliance, and
seem amongst the first to break it. The Dissenters give
up nothing, but expect the Church to yield ad infinitum.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN AND THE REY' . T. D.
GREGG.—The Rev. T. D. Gregg has, under date the 6th
instant. addressed a long communication to his parishion-
ers of St. Nicholas'-within, Dublin, setting forth "an
outrage', attempted upon him that day, which he says,
" while it affects me, involves a distinct invasion of your
(the parishioners') rights." After alludingto the difficulties
he has bad to contend with while without an appointment,
and his being elected by them as chaplain of the Chapel
of St. Mary's within tte parish church, he reminds them
that the church being in ruins, he made efforts in con-
junction with them to have it rebuilt, but has been frus-
trated by sonic sinister influence; and that he had per-
formed divine service in the parish school-room, which
represents the parish church, as also the chapel of St.
Mary, for the last six years without let or molestation.
Shortly after his induction he informed the archbishop of
Dublin that having ascertained that the chapel of St.
Maryconstituted "an exempt jurisdiction," the incumbent
of which was not under his grace's control, that he
should perform his functions without an order from his
grace, for as much as he was subject to, and consequently
licensed by another ordinary. He had accordingly done
so ever since. On the 4th instant, he was told that Mr.
Cradock, the perpetual curate of the parish, had been
sent for to the palace in great haste, and was informed
that as I was not licensed by the archbishop, he had no
right to perform divine service in the parish school-room,
because that school-house represented the parish church,
over which the archbishop exercised control, and that
therefore be should be impeded—an extraordinary dis-
covery after six years' deliberation! He prepared himself
to encounter the threatened difficulties. Arrived at the
school-house he found the congregation gathered, and
upon entering the building, a dialogue took place between
him and the parish clerk, commencing by the latter asking
him if he had a license to perform divine service there,
from the archbishop, the reply to which was that he had
a license, not from his grace, but from the ordinary of the
chapel of St. Mary. The clerk said he was desired to say
he could not do so without the archbishop's license and
produced a letter from Mr. Cradock, the incumbent,
strictly enjoining him not to permit any one to officiate
without such license. Against the pretensions put forth
in that letter the reverend chaplain immediately read a
spirited protest, to the effect that the attempt of the arch-
bishop was unwarranted and illegal, as well as tyrannical,
wrongful, and injurious, as the benefice and chapel were
an exempt jurisdiction, of which the incumbent thereof
had no control, and that he should enter his chapel as of
right, and perform divine service therein as to him did
belong to do, &c. When he had finished reading the pro •
test, he advanced to the door of his and his parishioners'
chapel, when .he found that some daring invader of their
conjoit.t rights had presumed to fix a padlock upon it.
This he wrenched off, and entering with his congregation
performed the usual service. The psalms of the day
seemed to him as if selected for the occasion, and gave
him great consolation. The reverend gentleman concludes
his address, which 'expresses strong indignation at the out-
rage, by stating that he will take the earliest opportunity
of summoning his friends, the friends of libeety and
order, and the enemies of malignity and oppresaion, to go
into details of the circumstances—adding that the arch-
bishop is now flagrantly in the wrong; and that in such
case to submit to him were to injure himself, his successors,
the parish, the archbishop, and the church—a thing which,
by God's help, he will not do.