The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-01 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP OF OXFORD.—It is expected
that the board will meet at Oxford to elect Dr. Wynterr's
su ceesor on Tuesday next, the Bth inst. It is confidently
expected that, notwithstanding, the vigorous exertions of
the Tractarians, Dr. Symons will be successful. In every
town the business should be taken up in an energetic
way. One or two of the resident clergy m;glit canvass all
the rest, and might at once communicate the result to the
Oxford committee. Bnt whatever is done, should be done
at once. Our opponents are quite beforehand in all this
preparation. They are always aware of their strength,
and are anxiously looking for the hour of trial. They
calculate on having in Oxford, on the day of contest, more
than three hundred of their partisans. Of course, this
amount of votes can be out-numbered, twice told—if the
friends of the truth are equally energetic. But will they
be so ?

APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev. Penrice Borrett,
M.A., of Caius College, to the rectory of Siston, in the
county of Gloucester; value, £323. 'The Rev. Castell
Gerrard, 8.A., of Corpus Christi College, to the rectory
of Wickham Skeith, Suffolk ; value, £123. The Rev.
Henry Deck, M.A of Corpus Christi College, to the
rectory of St. Barnabas, Manchester. The Rev. Daniel
Moore, M.A., of St. Catherine's Hall, to the incumbency
of Camden Chapel, Camberwell. The Rev. Dudley So-
merville, 8.A., of Qu,eir's College, to the curacy of
Sutton Cheny and Shenton, Leicestershire. The Rev.
Arthur Sharples, 8.A., of Queen's College, to the curacy
of Snaseston, Leicestershire. The Rev. William Fleet-
wood, S.C.L., of St. Catherine's Hall, to the curacy of
St. Catherine's, Northampton. The Rev. Charles Lisle
Phillipps, M.A., Magdalene College, to the curacy of
Roshley, Leicestershire. The Rev. John Brolingfield
Collyer, M.A., of Clare Hall, to the Archdeaconry of
Norwich.

The Rev. T. R. Welch, Chancellor of the Diocese 0"
Chichester, expired suddenly at Brighton. 'the deceased
was brother-in-law of Dr. Shuttleworth, late Bishop of
Chichester.

Three new churches are about to be built in Scotland—
one at Melrose, one at Falkirk, and one at Dalkeith.
Gratifying evidences of the increase of the Church in
this part of the empire.
PEEL MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL.-011 Wednesday the
Bishop of Sodor and Man laid the foundation stone of
a new building to be erected at Peel, Isle of Man, for a
mathematical school, the previous building having become
irreparably delapidated.
CHURCH EXTENSION.—Last week a meeting of the
Ripon Society for Increasingo. Church Accommodation
was held at Leeds. During the five years which hate
elapsed since its formation it has been enabled to expend
upwards of £23,000 in grants towards the building of thirty
new churches,• and the rebuilding of six others; towards
increasing the endowments of thirty-seven poor benefices,
and towards the erection of seventeen parsonage houses.
CONSECRATION OF NEW CHURCHES.—The beautiful
little chapel, Horsley Chapel, in the remote district of
lieedwater, was consecrated as a chapel of ease to Elsdon,
by the Bishop of Durham, on Wednesday week. on
Tuesday the Lord Bishop of Exeter consecrated a new
church at Woodbury Salterton, Devon. The Lord
Bishop of Norwich consecrated a new church at Laken-
ham, Norwich, on Tuesday. It is dedicated to St. Mtrk.
The Bishop of Sodor and Man has lately been perform-
ing the rite of confirmation in the diocese of St. Asaph.
At one place he rejected several of the candidatrr. and at
the close of the ceremony, having summoned the clergy,
told them that he had never seen catechumens presented
for confirmation so b nlly prepared, and that had the con-
firmation been to take place in his own diocese he should
have put it off altogether.