The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-05 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

Oxroßc.—The Venerable Walter Augustus Shirley,
M.A., of New College, Archdeacon of Derby, has been
elected to preach the Bampton Lecture in 1847.
Sir H. Douglas, last week, presented a petition to the
Commons, from a place in Essex, against the union of the
Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor.
Mr. George fomline, M.P. for Shrewsbury, has pre-
sented £lOOO to Eton College, as the foundation of an
annual mathematical prize.
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, the Jewish baronet, has given
a piece of land at Preston, near Brighton, as the site for a
new Protestant church which is to be erected in that parish.
On Monday last the members of the fourth term of St.
Bees' College presented to the Vice-Principal of that col.
lege, the Rev. D. Anderson, a magnificent Triglott Bible,
containing the Hebrew, Greek, and English versions, asa
mark of their sincere esteem and admiration of his untir-
ing zeal in teaching and explaining the grand scheme of
_Gospel aalvation contained. _therein it iR beautifully_
i bound n black morocco, with broad silver bands and
clasps. _ .

The Rev. C. W. Richards, on leaving his curacy in
Lichfield, was presented with a handsome case containing
a silver tea-pot, cream jug, and basin. A few days pre-
viously the men's Bible class presented him with a beau-
tiful pocket communion service, and others with various
marks of gratitude and esteem. The ten. gentleman,
who has resided at Lichfield upwards of, four years, has
lately been appointed to the curacy of Ashbourn, Derby-
shire. Many of our readers will remember that Mr. Ri-
chards was formerly connected with Liverpool.
THE LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.—A meeting of
the friends of this society was held on Friday, in the
large room at Exeter-hall. There was a very considera-
ble attendance on the occasion, and the speeches delivered
were numerous and effective. The scciety, which has
been formed in aid of the Church Education Society for
Ireland, and with the view of securing to that society, in
its struggles with the National Board, the assistance of
English Protestant contributions, appears by the report to
be in a flourishing condition. The subscriptions show an
increase on the previous year of no less than £l,OOO, and
it was stated that 100,000 Protestant and 50,000 Dissen-
ters' children, Roman Catholic and otherwise, were at
present receiving the benefits of a scriptural education in
the 2.000 schools of the society. The Marquis of Choi-
inondeley, who presided, expressed his warm attachment
to the Established Church in Ireland ; Lord Sandon and
the Bishop of Cashel followed in the same strain. The
former dwelt upon the necessity of individual sympathy
for the labours and trials of the Irish Church had been
violently taken from the Roman Catholics. At the time
of the Reformation all the bishops but two had con-
formed ; while in England a here a similar change of
church revenues had been made, and was not impeached,
only one of the existing bishops had abjured the errors
of Popery. The right rev, prelate contrasted the experi-
ence of the National Board and the Church Education
Society's Schools, maintaining that the one had not, and
that the other possessed, a system of united education.
The Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan and the Rev. Mr. M‘Neile also
addressed the meeting very eloquently and:at great length.
Dr. 0. Sullivan vindicated the Church of Ireland from the
charges of being an impolitic institution for that country,
and as administering a disproportionate revenue which
she had acquired by an unjust title. He showed that of
the 700 years of English control in Ireland, the 350
which had been passed under Papal influence were most
lawless and disturbed, and that the remaining period of
Protestant ascendancy had introduced to a very great ex-
tent the mild impulses of industry and peaceful subordi-
nation. He contended that the Catholic Church in the
sister country had suffered no diversion of property, as it
had suffered two reformations—one of faith, the other of
forms—one Arglican, the other Roman—one Protestant
and national, the other Popish and unscriptural. He fur-
ther stated that the revenues of the church allowed only
£60,000 per annum for the support of 12 bishops, and
£400,000 per annum for more than 2,000 clergymen, or
something under £2OO a year for eacb. The census
showed a Protestant population of 1,700,000 ; and surely,
apart from other considerations, that could not be consi-
dered a disproportionate revenue which imposed for the
sake of the immortal souls a tax of only 10s. upon each.
The speech of Mr. M`Neil was chiefly directed to the
question of scriptural education in its spiritual bearings,
the reverend gentleman declaring it as his opinion that if
the Court of Rome wished to contrive measures to Ro-
manise Ireland they could not have adopted better means
for doing so than the British government had done in ap-
pointing the Board of National Education.