The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-25 00:00:00

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OxFortn.—ln a convocation holden on Friday, the fol-
10.wing degrees were conferred :—Bachelors and Doctors
of Divinity by Accumulation,—Rev. Edward Law,
Christ Church, Chaplain to the Factory at St. Peteisburgli,
Gravel Compounder; Rev. Hugh Jones, Jesus College;
Rev. Charles Kevern Williams, Pembroke College.
Doctor of illedicine.—Rol2ert Smith, Christ Church.
Masters sf Arts.—Rev. William Taylor, Trinity College,
Grand Compounder ; Rev. John Newton Hinaman, Tri-
nity College; Rev, Vaughan Campbell-Day, New Inn

..4 i Rae, George Ferris Whidborn, Queen's College;
1107. Francis Sotham, Magdalen Hall; Rev. G orge
Woolcombe, Christ Church; Rev. Lewis Henry Palmer,
Christ Church ; The Hight Hon. Lord Stavordale,
Christ Church ; Walter llaliburton, Brasenose College ;
Rev. Charles Brierlee Garside, Brasenose College; Rev.
Thomas Chessher Martelli, Brasenose College ; Rev.
Carteret Priaulx rarey, Wadham College; Rev. Thomas
Williams, Jesus College ; John Lovell Sealey, Merton
College ; Rev. Archibald Neil Campbell Maclachlan,
Exeter College ' • Rev. Miley Smith, Oriel College; Rev.
Thomas Nowel Twopenny, Oriel College ; Rev. Ilibbert
Binney, Scholar of Worcester College.
The following appointments have taken place :—The
Rev. W. J. Parkes, M.A., of Trinity College, to the
rectory of Hilgay, Nortolk—value, £1,291 ; the Rev. W.
Duncombe, 8.A., of Queen's College, to the vicarage of
Crowle, Lincolnshire—value, £777; the Rev. F. Shelley,
of Trinity College, to the rectory of Beerferris, Devon—
value, £700; the Rev. E. G. Jarvis, M.A. of Trinity
College, to the vicarage of Buckthorn, Lincolnshire,
with the rectory of Cold Hanworth annexed—value, £260;
the Rev. J. E. Bradford, M.A., Corpus Christi College,
to 'he vicarage of Wigford St. Mary, Lincoln—value,
£115; the Rev. D. C. Delafosse, M.A., of Queen's Col-
lege, to the rectory of Shere, Surrey ; the Rev. J. S.
Hiley, 8.A., of St. John's College, to the curacy of
Quorndon, Leicestershire; the Rev. H. Lovell, M.A.,
of St. John's College, to the curacy of All Saints, North-
ampton •, the Hon. and Rev. T. Edwardes, M.A., of
Trinity College, to the curacy of Edmondthorpe, Leices-
tershire ; the Rev. T. C. Childs, 8.A., of Sidney College,
to the curacy of Isham, Northamptonshire ; the Rev. E.
Tarr, 8.A., of Sidney College, to the curacy of Earl
Shilton, Leicestershire.
CHURCH REFORM.—The Bishop of Tuam, Dr. Plun-
kett, has deprived one of the absentee rectors of that dio-
cese, of his benefice, and appointed thereto the working
curate. There are law proceedings instituted by the pre-
late against four absentee beneficed clergymen from the
same diocese.
The House of Lords have confirmed the Lord Chan-
cellor's judgment in the case of Betton's Charity ; and the
whole sum of, it is said, £200.000 is to be appropriated to
the support of Church of England schools.
CHURCH EXTENSION.—The meeting of the incor-
porated society for promoting the enlargement, building
and repairing of churches and chapels, for the present
was held at St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square,
on Monday last ; tits urace, tne ‘,r
terbury in the chair. The committee voted new grants of
money towards building eight additional churches or
chapels, rebuilding one, and enlarging or otherwise in-
creasing the accommodation in fourteen existing churches
or chapels ; making 23 grants in all. The new places of
worship are to be erected for districts in the parishes of
St. Michael, Lichfield; St. Clement, Truro; Kingsclet e,
near Newsbury, Berks ; Barnstaple ; Wookey, near
Wells, Godalming, Surrey; Windsor, Berks ; and St.
Lawrence, Kent. The churches to be enlarged, &c. are
situated in the parishes of Castle Church, Staffordshire ;
Bromsgrove, Worcester; Wormley, near Waltham Cross,
Herts ; Beoley, Worcester ; Coombe Bisset, Wilts ;
Ilkeston, Derby; Uppington, near Shrewsbury; Buck-
fastleigh, Devon; Cheetham Chapelry, in the parish of
Manchester; All Saints, Hereford; Penn, near Wolver-
hampton; Llannwydden, Montgomeryshire; Jevington,
Sussex ; Duke's Place, London; and Worcester (Block..
house Church.) Four of the districts in which new
churches are to be erected, are situated about 2 miles from
the nearest church ; and in all the districts assisted
the bulk of the population consists of the poorer classes
of society, for whom no provision of church accommo-
dation now exists. By the erection of the eight additional
churches, and the enlargement, &c. of the existing build-
ings, 6,679 seats will be added to the present insufficient
provision of church room, 5,604 of which will be free; and
in several instances the whole of the church will be thrown
open without reserve.