The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY IN Tit LLIGEA CB.

The Porthcawl and Dyffryn Llynfi Company have de-
clared a dividend of 34 per cent., and the progress of
affairs is said to be highly satisfactory.
On Wednesday another fatal accident took place on the
Midland Counties Railway. A guard, named Woodford,
was killed by his head c,rning in contact with a bridge
whilst he was engaged with some luggage on the top of
the carriage.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.-At a special
general meeting in London on Wedesday last, a resolu-
tion was proposed in favour of forming a railway from
Maxworth, Bucks, to Worcester, with lines to Rugby
and Oxford, and also from Worcester to Dudley and
Wolverhampton. The Chairman (Mr. R. C. Glyn) esti-
mated the expense at £2,500,000, and the nett revenue at
£147,250. Several sharehold-rs opposed the project as
an infraction of the agreement with the Grand Junction,
but their objections were over-ruled, and the resolution
carried.

NEWCASTLE AND EDINBURGH LINE.—A special
meeting of the proprietors of the Newcastle-upon Tyne
and North Shields Railway was held in Newcastle, on
Tuesday last, to assent to or dissent from the following
proposals, namely—the extension of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne and North Shields Railway from North Shields to
the village of Tynemouth ; the making of a railway, or a
communication by tunnel, or otherwise, from the Conduit
Head-lane Bridge, near the terminus of the railway at
Newca-tle to and with the Q arty, at or near the Folly
Wharf ; the union and consolidation of the Newcastle
and North Shields Railway Company with the Newcastle
and Berwick Railway Company, about to be incorporated
by an act, to be applied for in the next sessicat of parlia-
ment. The object of the proposed union being to take in
a portion of the Newcastle and Shields line, in the route
from Newcastle to Berwick-upon-Tweed, and thence to
Edinburgh. The resolutions were carried unanimously.
The Leeds and Selby Company have wound up their
affairs by declaring a dividend of £2 Is. 3d. per share for
the period from the 30th of June last to the present time.
The company bere?fter will be incorporated with the York
and North Midland Railway.—The last-named company
is to pay £210,000 for the 2,]00 original shares of £lOO
each ; and, with this sum, the Leeds and Selby Company
have at their disposal, from bonus arising from sale of
moveable stock, for mortgages, for rent due, by savings
effected in interest on mortgage, &c., the sum of
£232,799 14s. 4d. The disposable funds of the com-
pany are to be appropriated as follows :—From the
principal money, amounting to £225,000, the sum of
£lO5 18s. 9d. per sharewill be paid to the shareholders,
being equal to £222,468 15s. from the 2100 shares, of
which the original capital stock of the company consists ;
leaving iMthe hands of the directors £5,661 16s. 9d. for
the discharge of the existing ascertained debts of the com-
pany, and the balance of £332 3s. 7d. to cover any re-
maining unascertained liabilities which may hereafter ap-
pear, and subject to such liabilities to be disposed of by
the directors at their own discretion.

DURHAM AND SUNDERLAND RAILWAY.---On Mon-
day a special general meeting of the shareholders was held
in Sunderland, for the purpose of authorising the direc-
tors to make application to parliament in the next ses-
sion. for power to make an extension to the main line of
their railway from the present terminus near the river
Wear, in the township of Elect Barony, to the town of
Bishop Auckland ; to construct a new branch line of rail-
way from a point in the main line at Shineliffeip the head
o Old Elver, in the city of Durham ; to construct ano-
ther new branch line of railway from a point in the main
line near to Brooinside Colliery, in the t.wnship of Pat-
tington Hallgarth, to join the Newcastle and Darlington
Junction Railway at the Sherbern station ; anu to con-
struct a new branch line of railway to Seaham harbour;
to make a more eligible junction of their Haswell branch
railway ; to construct and make certain deviations in the
main line, in order that these branches and the train line
.they be worked by locomotive power,instead of as at pre•
sent, by stationary engines ; to make addit.onal quays,
wharfs, &c., at Sunderland harbour; and lastly, to ob-
tain compulsory powers to purchase the fee bin ple of all
tho lands over which the railway passed. The resolutions
were passed unanimously.

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD, Nov. 28.—1 n a congregation held this day,
I the following degrees were conferred :—Bachelor in Civil
Law.—Thomas Henry Haddan, M.A., late Fellow of
Exeter, senior scholar on the Vinerian Foundation.—
itiasters of Arts.—liev. Frederic Edwin Lott. St. Alban
Hall ; Rev. Fulwar Craven Fowle, Merton.—Bachelors
of Arts.—George Butterworth, Balliol, Grand Com-
pounder; William Frederick John Kaye, Balliol; John
William Sleeg, New Inn Hall; Rev. Cullen Forth Words-
worth, Magdalen Hall ; Thomas Harris, Magdalen Hall;
Richard Calthorpe Whitmore Ryder, Scholar of Wad-
ham ; John Goldsmith Orger, Wadham ; Thos. Balston,
13rassnose ; Arthur Hayne Hamilton, St. Jeliti's ; James
Banks, Scholar of Lincoln • William Barrett, Lord
Crew's Exhibitioner of Lincoln ; Edward.Tindal Turner,
Scholar of Trinity ; Frederick Lletcalfe, Fellow of Lin-
coln (incorporated from St. John's College, Cambridge.)
CAMBRIDGE.—The following degrees were conferred
last week :—B.A.—John Caddell Brereton, Trinity Col-
lege. M.A.—J. H. r!tcr mb. St. Peter's College; Leigh
Spencer, Christ's BoPege ; Charles Smart Catlin, Caius
College ; Bald wyn Wake, St. John's College. B.A.—
H. B. Greenwood, Catherine Hall G. M. Hawkins,
Magdalene College.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. F Black-
ley, late of All Saints. Birmingham, to the curacy of
North Harborne, Staffordshire.—Rev. C. T. Price, M.A.,
to be domestic chaplain to Lnrd Howden.—Rev. G.
Wylie, M. to the rectory of Newnham, with the chapel
of Mapeldurwell, Hants, vacant by the death of Rev. H.
Hunter.—Hon. and Rev. tl . W. Bertie, 8.C.L., to the
vicarage of Great Ilford, Essex.—Rev. J J. Prickett, to
the incumbency of Markington, Ripon.—Rev. F. Goold,
late curate of Bradfield. St. Clare, Suffolk, to the per-
petual curacy of Newhall, Derbyshirr.—Rev. J. B. Rey-
nardson, to the living of Carehy, with the chapelry of
Holywell-cum Aunby, vacated by the death of the late
J. R. Deverell.—Kev. H. T. C. Hine, M.A., reader of
St. Jam s's, Bury, St. Edmund's, to the rectory of Quar-
rington, Lincolnshire.
The Chester Courant states that Lord Powys will re-
new his app ication next session for the repeal of the St.
Asaph and Bangor Union Bill.
MR. OAKF.LEY'S APOLOGY FOR REMAINING IN THE
CHURCH.—Mr. Oakelev, of Balliol College, and of Mar-
garet-street Chapel, London, has been the most overt of
the Romanising faction. He has adopted both the doc-
trines and the modes of worship of Rome, so far as possi-
ble. He has just published an apology for remaining in
the Church of England, in the form of a letter " to a Ro-
man Catholic friend." He says the pope has not formally
pronounced upon the question at issue, and writes thus :
—" Let the Holy See apply itself with its wonted vigour
and profound spiritual saeacity to the wonderful and un-
precedented fact which Europe has exhibited since the
sixteenth century, of whole nations professing Christianity,
yet apart from the chair of St. Peter; let it investigate es-
pecially the case of the Church of England, and receive
and sift the evidence producible in favour of the Christian,
nay, even of the saintly graces which ha 7e thri,en, and are
actually thriving within it; and a decision which should he
founded on an inquiry so conducted, would undoubtedly
be entitled to the gravest consideration on the part of all
those who bear in mind with what breathless expectation
the formal acts of the Roman see have ever been awaited,
and with what dutiful attention received by the Church at
large."

THE OFFERTORY AT HURST.—On Friday an influen-
tial meeting of the inhabitants of Hurst, Berkshire, was
held at the church-house in that parish, to take into con-
sideration the innovations which have been recently intro-
duced into the church service by the perpetual curate, the
Rev. Mr. Cameron. A long discussion ensued, during
which several of the parishioners present condemned the
changes lately made, and intimated an earnest drsire that
they should not be persisted in ; and they trusted that Mr.
Cameron would yield to the wishes of the pari•hioners
upon this subject. Mr. Cameron, who was present, hav-
ing heard the var;ous statements made by the parishioners,
observed, that he felt bound to follow the injunctions of
the Rubric, by which he was ordered to read the sentences
in the Offertory, and the prayer for the Church Mill- ant.
With respect to the weekly collection, he intimated an in-
clination to yield upon that point; though he refused to
give a positive pledge that the discontinuance of the col-
lection should actually begin next Sunday. Another strong
appeal was then made to him to yield also upon the re-
maining points, as by insisting on them he would seriously
diminish the usefulness of his ministration, several farmers
present having declared their intention not to attend the
church while the innovations continued. Mr. Cameron
promised to confer with the Bishop, and to inform the
Chairman of his decision within a fortnight.

SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION-NATIONAL

BOARD.

We gave in our last a portion of a letter from the Rev.
R. J. M'Ghee to the Rev. Dr. Martin. The reply of the
latter reverend gentleman was chiefly occupied with sta-
tistical details and computations, to prove that the Pro-
testant people of Ireland have not contributed, and there-
fore are not likely to contribute, anything approximating
to the needful sums requisite to carry out the scriptural
system of education in competition with the National
Board. Prior to the receipt of this Mr. M`Ghee had ad-
dressed a second letter to the Dr., and from that we quote
the following heart-stirring and ardent appeal.
"I believe in my soul, it ever God put a test upon a na-
tion—if ever God put a test upon a church, to try if they
would be faithful to their trust, to their principles, to their
religion, and their God—or whether they were ripe to
rottenness for destruction—He puts the national Board
of Education as a test upon the Protestants and church
of Ireland. It is not whether they will be sound and
faithful in one principle, or one truth, or one doctrine ;
but whether they will be faithful to the standard of all
principle, all truth, all doctrine, all religion—the very
Word itself of the God whom they profess to. worship.
If they ate sound, and faithful, and true, then there is a
brighter day in store for the church of Ireland. Then
God is on our side ; and God and the weakest Church are
stronger than the Devil and ti,e Papacy, and all the_ poli-
ticians that can aid their cause. This is not a time, then,
my brother, for a standard-bearer to faint. If ever there
was a moment in our country's history when " ON-
WARD" was the word for the cause of truth, that mo-
ment is now. Our warfare is not a war of hatred, but of
love to our countrymen. " The weapons of our warfare
are not carnal, but mighty, through God, to the pulling
down of strongholds." The eyes of Europe are on Ire-
land at this moment—on the Church of Ireland, and on
the Church of Rome. The powers of darkness and of
light are arrayed against each other in the field of Ire-
land. Our Roman Catholic countrymen have their eyes
fixed or us ; the. are ignorant it is true, but they are
keen-sighted—they are clever—and above all, they are
sincerely devoted to what they believe to be the true re-
ligion. They will not be slow to see—yea, they are see-
ing daily more and more, and growing disgusted at the
sight—that their warm hearts, and generous hands—
generous even in their poverty—are only made the sport
and spoil of knaves, who live upon deceiving them. They
see the difference between zeal for politics and love for
souls, and they know as well as we do that Repeal is not
Salvation. Let them but see us firm and faithtul to God,
to truth, to the Bible, and to them, and even our firm
fidelity shall preach to them throughout the land. But
when we see and know the work that is going on, the
spirit of inquiry, the love of the Bible, of Scriptural edu-
cation and of truth, that is pervading and leavening the
hearts of our Roman Catholic countrymen in many dis-
tricts of Ireland—Oh, what a blot upon the cheek of fair
and true religion, if they should see the men who have
appropriated to themselves the name of ministers of
Christ, shrinking, and tailing, and truckling to the mean
and cowardly policy that bargains with their tyrants, not
only for the liberties. but for the souls of the people.
How must they thipk, that, after all, they made the Bible
but a too! .or politics, and never had a heart sincere and
upright before God ? _ _ _

I know not how you might feel, my rev. brother; but
for my part, I could not dare to meet the Homan Catho-
lics of Ireland, putting every other consideration out of
the question, if I were How to join the National Board of
Education. I can look them in the face this moment,
and when I bear my testimony against the cruel system
that blinds and enslaves them, I can lay my hand upon
my heart and call God to witness that I long for their
souls in love, and that " my heart's desire and prayer to
God for them is, that they might be saved." But, if I
were to join that ungodly anti-Christian system, which
supports the very foundation of all dick errors,--rejection
of the Bible- I should fear to show my face upon a public
platform to speak to them ; 1 should be afraid lest some
honest Roman Catholic would stand up and address me
thus :

" Aha ! a short time ago you taunted us with sravery to
our priests ! you upbraided us with the tyranny of our
church, and branded it as a mark of false hood on ber
forehead, th,t she would not allow her children to be edu-
cated in the Scriptures. You objected this not only
against us, but against the National Board of Education,
because it provided for the maintenance of this principle
of our church. You raised a mighty clamour in Lord
Grey's administration, and in Lord Melbourne's adminis-
tration. Then ' Scriptural education," the Bible,' and
conscience' were mighty weapons in your hands. But
were they, indeed, but levers to raise your party into
power ?--a trumpet for politics—a standard for statesmen
to rally knaves arid hypocrites around them. Where are
they now ? Has Sir Robert Peel locked them up securely
in his cabinet, and does he open these sacred treasures
with a golden key; to disi•ense them to those humble ex-
pectants, who will use them conveniently at his own dis-
cretion. Away from the face of honest men ! Prate to
us no more of your principles and your religion. For
twelve long years have you pretended to hold up the Bible
as the only standard of education, and now, at the beck
of a prime minister, you surrender what you have called
a fundamental principle of your own religion, and consent
to carry into effect what you have denounced as the fun-
damental error of the church of Rowel!"

If I were to join the National Board—if my motives
for joining it were as pure as those of an angel—l dare
not incur such an "appearance" of evil in the eyes of
my Roman Catholic countrymen—l dare not encounter
such, at the very best, apparently deserved reproach.
Were Ito be so addressed by one of them, I dare not
look him in the fice—l should feel I must shrink abashed
from his presence. And now, if after twelve years of
faithful opposition, the clergy were to join this system,
each man, of course, must take his motives to his. Goa ;
but they need never mention more their church, their
religion, nor their Bible to the Roman Catholics—nor,
indeed, to the honest Protestants of Ireland.
Mav I not now believe with confidence I have said
enough to lead one whom I have ever thought my uptight,
single-hearted friend, to feel that expediency as well as
principle—patriotism as well as truth—character as well
as virtue—c.nsistency as well as religion—the cause of
union, of efficiency, among our brethren—of fidelity to
our own church and our own flocks, as well as to the souls
of our Roman Catholic couutrymen, forbid such a fatal