The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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which now threatens it within your own people, but also
to answer the earnest appeal of those who have a two-fold
reason to deplore the evil—that it is a qrandal to religion,

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE,

The personal estate of the late Archbishop of York is
sworn under £BO,OOO.

The address of the clergy and laity to Dr. Hampden
has now upwards of 1500 signatures.

The English Church at Jerusalem is expected to be
consecrated at Easter. A new house is building for the

bishop.
By the death of Dr. Crotch, the Professorship of Music
at Oxford is vacant. The appointment belongs to the two

proctors

Congratulatory addresses from the clergy are now pour-
ing in from every direction, upon the bishop elect of

Hereford !
The Dean of Carlisle has written to Dr. Hampden, to
say that he will ever consider the vote he gave against
him (Dr. H.), in 1836, as the most unsatisfactory vote he
ever recorded as a member of tthe Hebdomadal Board.
The consecration of Dr. Prince Lee to the Bishopric of
Manchester is only delayed in consequence of the appoint-
ment of the Archbishopric of York not having been quite
complete.
Thirty-three clergymen of the Archdeaconry of Ely met
on Wednesday, to thank their bishop for remonstrating
against the appointment of Dr. Hampden ; they also
agreed on a petition against removing the disabilities of
the Jews.

The Bishop has issued a circular to the clergy of the
Diocese, requesting them to invite their congregations to
contribute to the funds of the Chester Diocesan Board of
Education, which are chiefly devoted to the maintenance
of the Training College at Chester, and of another for fe-,
males at Warrington. . _ _

THE SEE OF HEREFORD. —The confirmation of the
Rev. Dr. Hampden, as Bishop of Hereford, will take
place at Bow Church, Cheapside, this day (Tuesday).
The annual value of the see is £4,200 per annum, with
the patronage of the archdeaconries, treasurerships, non-
resident canonries, and thirty benefices.

The Cambridge Advertiser, which has hitherto strongly
opposed the appointment of Dr. Hampden, says,—" We
axe not ashamed to own, that in common with a large
number of her Majesty's subjects—in common with the
Bishops of Oxford and Salisbury—we have very consider.
ably modified our opinion on the subject of Dr. Hamp-
den's orthodoxy."
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THE DEAN OF HEREFORD.—Thete is one act in Dr.
Merewether's very amusing farce of "a Dean begging for
a Bishopric," which has not yet come before the public.
Before the Bishopric was vacant, the Dean's own curate
went round his parish to procure signatures to an address
to Lord John Russell, humbly imploring his Lordship to
appoint the Dean.—Morning Chronicle.

ST. JAMES'S CHAPEL, LEEDS.—OH the last day of the
year Dr. Hook preached a sermon. The service began at
twelve o'clocck at night. The 100th Psalm was then sung,
after which the communion was administered to more
than 200 persons. A sermon was then preached by the
Incumbent, the Rev. E. Jackson, on the duties of the
new year. The service was not over till two o'clock in
classes, many of them had been Methodists. The per-
mission of the ordinary for this new exhibition had been
obtained.
Thirty-two of the clergy of Rochdale have signed an
address to the Bishop of Chester, on being withdrawn
from his lordship's pastoral care to the see of Manchester;
to which his lordship has feelingly replied, thanking them
for their cordiality, and advising them that—" The times
on which we have fallen make it more than ever necessary
for each and all of us, in our separate departments, to
take heed to ourselves and to the doctrine ;' to watch in
all things ;' to do the work of Evangelists ;' to ` make
full proof of our ministry.' Nothing short of the most
determined zeal and the most abundant labours can over-
take the spiritual destitution of the population with which
you are chiefly conversant; and, if my attempts to bring
their increasing numbers within reach of the institutions
of the church have been in any degree successful, it must
be greatly ascribed to the co-operation of the clergy them
selves, by whom the burthen and heat of the day is borne.'

TRACTARIANISM v. POPERY.—The Rev. A. Percival,
one of the Queen's chaplains, has published a letter to the
prelates of the Church of England, calling their attention
to the arrival of Mr. Newman with a mission from the
Pope. He then says—" It has seemed good to me, a
Presbyter of the Catholic Church in Britain, of the pro-
vince of Canterbury, of twenty-four years standing in the
Presbytery ; and also one of the chaplains in Ordinary of
three successive Sovereigns of Britain, since the year 1826,
to declare my readiness, before any tribunal of Britain, of
Europe, of Christendom, or of the world, to prove beyond
denial the unscriptural and uncanonical position occupied
by all persons exercising the functions of the Episcopate,
Presbytery, or Diaconate, under obedience to the Bishop
of Rome, or any other foreign Bishop whatsoever, within
the British provinces, except under license first had and
obtained of the Canonical Bishops of the Catholic Church
in Britain."
CONFIRMATION OF THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.
The ceremony of confirming the Rev. James Prince Lee,
as Bishop of Manchester, took place on Saturday, at St.
James', London. The proceedings excited great interest,
in consequence of the charges brought against Mr. Lee,
by Mr. Gutteridge. The ceremony was conducted by
Sir John Dobson, Queen's Advocate in the Ecclesiastical
Court. The Dean of Manchester was, present, and after
the citatory letter had been read, the bishop elect took
the usual oaths. On the opposers being called, Mr.
Gutteridge rose and said, I am an opposer, and object to
these proceedings, on the ground that it is unlawful to
confirm the bishop anywhere but in the province of York.
Sir John Dobson.—We cannot entertain that. Mr.
Gutteridge.—And on account of his immoral conduct.
Sir John Dobson.—Any one so opposing, risks the
penalty of prcemunire. We therefore refuse to hear you
in this case. Mr. Gutteridge solemnly protested against
the appointment, and handed in certain papers, but they
were refused. The confirmation was therefore allowed.
TRACTARIAN INTOLERANCE.—The Warden of the
Puseyite Trinity College near Perth, the Rev. C. Words-
worth, who left Winchester College, where he was second
master, some time since, under an imputation of having
enforced confession and absolution on some of the boys
there, has recently excommunicated a gentleman of for-
tune resident in his neighbourhood, and a member of the
English Episcopal Church, because he had attended an
P-glish chapel in Perth, served by a clergyman in Eng-
hsh orders ! This act of priestly tyranny was accom-
panied by an intimation, that the gentleman in question
was an evil liver, in the eyes of the Church, openly and
notoriously so. It should be mentioned that the Lord
Lieutenant of the county of Perth, and many of the most
distinguished families, are members of the Church which
is thus unceremoniously progcribed, by a person whose
conscience enables him thus to harmonise his subscription
to the Thirty-nine Articles with the duty of a teacher in
the Scotch Episcopal Church. The excommunicated
gentleman is a person of unblemished character, and a
brother of a distinguished dignitary of our Church, the
head of an important collegiate institution:—Standard.
DR. HAMPDEN'S ORTHODOXY.—The Bishop (elect) of
Hereford has published a reply to an address from his late
parishioners at Ewelme, which breathes throughout a
truly Christian spirit. He says :—" I bless God, my dear
friends, that you join with this memorial of your affection
a remembrance of the lessons of Gospel truth, which I have
sedulously endeavoyed, through God's grace, to inculcate
on you. Unspeakable, indeed, will be the blessings both
to you and to me, if I shall have left fully and deeply im-
pressed on your hearts the saving doctrines of the Gospel
—if this alone sllll be chiefly recollected by each of you,
that I ' determined,' with the Apostle Paul, ' not to know
anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified.'
I led you to him, your great God and Saviour--the Lord
your Righteousness—for pardon and justification, and for
the sanctifying grace of his holy Spirit, to enable you to
walk worthily in your holy calling, and to bring you finally
to everlasting life. The Lord, the divine head of the
church, is about to send me, my dear brethren, from you
to labour elsewhere in a wider field of ministerial duty.—
But, never can I expect happier days than those I have
spent among you. Greatly, indeed, have I been indebted
for any success that may have attended my ministry in the
parish, to yourselves, and to that kindness and respect—
that support and encouragement,, which I have received
from you all—and in particular from the good example of
those possessing influence among you. You have rendered
my ministry truly a labour of love by your kindness and
confidence. But, though absent in person, I shall not
cease to be with you in spirit. Often shall Ibe thinking
of you, especially at the stated times of public prayer,
when you will be assembled in your beautiful church.
Then shall I be lifting up my heart with you often in your
prayers and hymns of praise, though I hear them not, as
I have ever delighted to do when present in times past.
Often, too, shall Ibe praying for you. Nor can I doubt