The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

ASTBURY, CHESHIRE.—This rectory is now vacant by
the death of the Rev. Willoughby Crewe; value £1,485 ;
patron, Lord Crewe.

- The Rev. Patrick Malone, M.A., has been licensed by
the Lord Bishop of Chester to the Stipendiary Curacy of
Clifton, in the county of Cumberland, on the nomination
of the Rev. Joseph Hetherington, M.A., the incumbent.
The vendors of blasphemy and obscenity are taking
advantage of the angry tone of the Bishop of Exeter's
letter to sell penny extracts of its most violent paragraphs,
to show what bishops say and think of each other.
The Rev. Edward Bennett Williams has resigned the
perpetual curacy of Bispham, near Blackpool, on account
of the ill health of his wife. The Vying is valued at £275
per annum, and is in the gift of the Rev. Charles Hes-
keth, rector of North Meols, near Southport.
At the Arches Court on Tuesday, the court, on appli-
cation from Mr. Bowlder, proctor for the Rev. C. Gor-
ham, granted a certificate in extension of a monition
which had been issued calling on the Bishop of Exeter to
induct Mr. Gorham to the vicarage of Bramford Speke.
OXFORD UNION SOClETY.—Several copies of the Morn-
ing Chronicle have been substituted for a corresponding
number of the Times heretofore taken in by this society,
in consequence of the high tone on church matters adopted
by the former, until lately a radical paper.
The Bishop of Gloucester states in a letter, that "all
the members of the English episcopate are at this time
in anxious deliberation on the subject of the constitution
of the present Court of Appeal in matters ecclesiastical."
It is said that only two of the episcopal bench are in favor
of a meeting of convocation being summoned.
In the Court of Arches, on Tuesday, the Rev. Edward
Dodd, Vicar of St. Peter's, Cambridge, for refusing to
bury, on the 31st of December, 1848, a parishioner, due
notice having been given, was suspended for two months ;
notice of appeal was given. The monition to the Bishop
of Exeter was allowed to stand over till next term.

In Glasgow, from the recent church divisions, with
many churches open and many laborious and able men
teaching, there are also many shut from want of congre-
gations, and the population, adding " drunkenness to
thirst," amidst all their spiritual advantages, is more
degraded by intemperance than perhaps any other in the
kingdom.

The Weekly Chronicle states that a dispute is likely to
arise between the Bishop of Oxford and her majesty's
government regarding the appointment of the Rev, S. M.
Barkworth, M.A., to the rectory of St. Clements, in the
city of Oxford, by the Lord Chancellor. For soliciting
this post, the Bishop of Oxford formerly declared that he
would not allow Mr. Barkworth to officiate in his diocese.
An addl.( as to the Bishop of Chester, signed by Lord
de Tabley, Mr. Mainwaring, and several others, both of
the laity and clergy of the diocese, is now in course of
signature, praying his lordship " To take counsel with his
right reverend brethren, concerning the adoption of means
which may enable the hurch to declare, in such terms as
shall appear most effectual, its doctrine touching the
Sacrament of Baptism."
Oxford, April 24.—1 n a convocation holden this day,
the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts.
—Christopher Cookson, fellow of St. John's ; Rev. H.
Jeremiah Dyson, fellow of All Souls; Rev. T. Bowles,
Queen's; Rev. Frederick Henry Hotham, Christchurch.
Bachelors of .Arts.—Edward James Bolling, University ;
Reginald William Cleave, Exeter; Ferdinand William
Becker, Exeter; James Allgood, Brazenose ; Thomas
Stedman Polehampton, scholar of Pembroke; A. Knox,
St. Mary Hall ; Frederick J. Coleridge, St. Mary Hall ;
George Philipps, New Inn Hall.
The scheme proposed for the foundation of the school of
modern history at Oxford was carried on Tuesday by a
majority of 163 to 74. The plan requires from the candi-
date for a common degree a knowledge of one of two pe-
riods of English history, viz., from A.D. 1066 to 1509, or
from A.D. 1509 to 1702, no books being specified ; to-
gether with half of Blackstane's Commentaries (in the
most approved edition) ; but for the latter the Institutiones
Imperiales may be substituted. For the candidate for
honours, the history, Recentiorum Temporum, np to A.D.
1789, Jurisprudence, and especially the Laws of England,
Civil Law, or the Jus Belli et Pacis, are indispensible ;
to which may be added Smith's Wealth of Nations.
THE GORHAM CASE AGAIN.—In spite of the inge-
nuity of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, the Bishop of Exeter's cause
stands precisely where it did. Sir Fitzroy Kelly's argu-
ment in the Queen's Bench amounted to this—that non
obstante the repeal of the 25th Henry VIII. (which
established appeals from the Ecclesiastical Courts to the
King in Chancery), by the substitution of the present
appeal from the Ecclesiastical Courts to the Sovereign
in Council, and although the Judicial Committee had
superseded the High Court of Delegates, yet that by a
statute, still ,anrepealed, of the preceding year (the 24th
Henry VIII.), appeals in certain ecclesiastical causes lay
to the Archbishop, and in matters tauching.the King, to
the Upper House of Convocation. It was submitted that
Mr. Gorham's duplex querela was a matte? " touching
the King," since the presentation to the living of Ramp-,
ford Speke is in the Crown, and that, therefore, the appeal
properly was to the Upper House of Convocation. Lord
Chief Justice Campbell, is a luminous and rather laboured
judi;rnent, has decided that an old and obselete statute
ought not to overrule the cotwee of the law and the prac-
tice of Area renturies, Therefore, Mr, Gorham is again
victorious.