The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

The Times states that a circular has been signed by a
majority of the resident clergy of the united bishoprics of
Gloucester and Bristol, alleging that the union has been
disadvantageous to the church.
The Bishop of Exeter, in his recent charge delivered to
the candidates for the sacred ministry, made the follow.
log obsery .Lion on extempore preaching : " Avoid," said
his "extempore preaching, for it is a mark of
either a conceited or idle disposition."

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF LLANDAFF.—This venerable
dignitary of the church (the Very Rev. John Probyn) died
on Thursday last, at Manor-house, Longhope, Glocester-
shire, in his 82t1 year. The deanery is one of the least lu-
crative in the church—the emoluments, we believe, not
exceeding £5OO per annum.

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND CHURCH EXTENSION.—SiT
Robert Peel, has, within these feyv days, forwarded a che-
que for £4,000 to the eccle4iastical commissioners, with
the view of raistng a fund to meet the demand for the
building of churches, which will ensue from the act that
was passed in the last session.—English Churchman.

The important Ecclesiastical office of the Archdeacon
of Manchester has at len'2,th been formally created ; the
necessary instrument having passed the Great Seal and
been confirmed by the. Queen in Council. The rev. John
Rushton is the newly-appointed Archdeacon. The juris-
diction of the Manchester Archceaconry will extend over
the whole of the county of Lancaster south of the Rib-
ble; and the office is constituted as a precursor to the
intended Bishopric to be seated at Manchester.—Globe.

THE PREMIER AND THE ECCLESIASTICAL COM-
MISSIONERS.—In reference to the letter from Sir Robert
Peel to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, announcing a
donation of £4,001, which appeared in our last
impression, the Standard has the following remark :
" The writer of the foregoing letter is, as all know, the
Prime Minister, and First Lord of the Treasury. His
official salary is £5,000 per annum, and this whole amount
he. has within thee months given back to the people, in
two sums—£l,ooo to the education fund, and here £4,000
to the fund for supplying the means of religious worship.
These are the terms upon which the right hon. baronet
serves. He devotes his talents and his toil to the service
of his country, accepts the legal equivalent, and then gives
that equivalent back, in a manner contrived with the in-
genuity of true benevolence, to do the utmost amount of
good. We admire and respect Sir Robert Peel in all rela-
tions ; but in this instance we have a pride in presenting
the Prime Minister of England to the nations of Europe.
We should, we know, give offence, if we were to recapitu-
late all the acts of munificence which even the right hon.
baronet's jealous care cannot keep entirely concealed, as
even the two we have mentioned would be, were they not
necessary for example. We trust that in these, at
least, Sir Robert Peel will be imitated by all who, like
him, have derived wealth from the labour of the people.
In any case, it cannot be denied that the Premier
" Serves his England for herself,"
like his great model Pitt.

CHARGE OF PUSF.YISM AMONGST OUR MISSION-
ARIES IN INDIA REFUTED.—The friends of Foreign
Missionaries will, we have no doubt, be gratified by the
following extract from a recent charge delivered by the
Bishop of Madras, in which the freedom of the reverend
labourers in the cause of the gospel, in India, from a par-
ticipation in the practice of the followers of Dr. Pusey is
eloquently maintained. "So much misrepresentation has
been circulated lately against the reverend missionaries of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, located in the different colonial dioceses, of which
those resident in my own have not, I fear, been without
their portion, that I feel it my duty to this vast mission.
ary diocese, over which it has pleased providence to call
me to preside, and which I fully believe to be the rich-
est, and, perhaps, the whitest, field of missionary labour
to be found in the whole world, to endeavour to repel it.
We read frorri time to time, as the monthly mails arrive
from England, dark hints of strange doings in the East ;
of a lingering after customs, if not of their open assump-
tion, which savour of the worst follies of Romanism, and
of a leaning towards some of its most pernicious doc-
trines; in a ,cord, of a taint of semi-popery plainly to
be detected here, as elsewhere, among the missionaries of
the venerable society. It is due, then, from me to my
brethren, who are labouring for Christ in my diocese,
publicly to declare my firm persuasion, that there is not
one missionary supported here, either by the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel, in Foreign Parts, or by the
Church Missionary Society, who is not simply and sober-
ly a faithful, uncompromising clergyman of the Church
of England, and that I
,could not wish for better men.
The missionary church of this diocese is equally pure
from extravagance and latitudinarianism."

TESTIMONIAL TO THE WORSHIPFUL WILLIAM BRUCE
KNIGHT. M.A., CHANCELLOR OF THE DIOCESE OF
LLANDAFF.—The Lord Bishop of Landaff presided on
Tuesday, the 3rd inst., at the Chapter hou,,e, and, after a
dinner, which was attended by nearly 100 of the clergy
and gently of the neighbourhood, presented to the ltfrv.
gentleman a chaste and elegant service of plate, consist-
ing altogether of nearly 800 ozs., manufactured by
Messrs. Payne, of Bath, and a gold chronometer, by Ar-
nold.—ne plate bears the family arms, and the following
inscription

" Presented

to the Rev. and Worshipful WILLIAM BRUCE KNIGHT,
~ M. A Chancellor of the Diocese of Landaff,
_ _

and T►easurer to the Glarnorganshire Clergy Charity

Fund,'
by the whole body of the clergy,
and a great portion of the laity of the diocese ;
as a means of recording their unanimous sense of his
ability and zeal in ;he discharge of his official duties, and
of his unceasing and eminently successful exertons in the
cause of the widows and orphans of necessitous clergymen
of the county of Glamorgan :
Also,

in token of affectionate attachment to him, as their
companion, their guide, and ft lend ;

of gratitude for advice and instruction always promptly
and kindly given, both in public and in private ;
and of deep respect for his learning, his talents, his labours
in the ministry ; more especially for his unwearied efforts
in promoting, within his jurisdiction, all the interests,
spiritual and temporal, of our Holy Apostolical Church.

1843."