The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

At Trinity College, Cambridge, the prize for the best
English essay has been adjudged to G. M. Gorham, son
of the Rev. C. Gorham.

The Syrian Bishop of Nabk, on Mount Lebanon, has
arrived in Dublin on a mission connected with the late
troubles of the people in his diocese.
Mr. Wilson, vicar of Islington, has received from the
Bishop of London " a godly admonition" for " not
having daily public prayer in his parish."
The Rev. Wesley Farrer, who has just been ordained
by the Archbishop of York, has been Eppointed to the
curacy of Lanchester.

Mr; Allies has been recreating himself at Salisbury.
He is about to enter, as private tutor, into the family of
Mr. Maskell.

The commissioners to the two universities will, it is
said, meet in the metropolis early next week, for the pur-
pose of appointing secretaries and other preliminary busi-
ness.

In the course of the present month the Bishop of Man-
chester will consecrate no fewer than three new churches
within his diocese ; one at Barton, near Preston ; another
at Healey, near Rochdale ; and a third at Ramsbottom.

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A split has taken place in the tractarian camp. The••
Revs.
W. Palmer and G. A. Denison have retired from the
Bristol Church Union, because that association " will
not put forth a formal and explicit statement of prin-
ciples."

*The Bishop of Exeter's movements at Durham have
been minutely chronicled, but the Gateshead Observer
states that his lordship's visit to the Roman Catholic In-
stitute of Ushaw has not been mentioned. Why so marked
a silence on so grave a step.
The number of missionaries despatched from England
are :—By the Church Missionary Society, one hundred
and thirty-seven ; Society for Converting Jews, seventy-
eight ; for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, three hundred and thirty-four; Wesleyan Society,
three hundred and sixty-eight ; Baptist Society, one hun-
dred ; London Missionary Society, one hundred and
seventy-one ; Scotch Churches, one hundred and fifty ;
various other religious bodies, one hundred ; total, 1,438.
A DISHONEST TRICK.—We perceive that several of our
contemporaries have been taken in by the trick played off
by the Romanizers, and their organ the Guardian, in
publishing a prior document in the place of the " resolu-
tions" and " statement of principles" actually moved by
the Rev. W. Palmer, at the meeting of the Bristol Church
Union. As the wrong document has gone the rounds of
the papers, we feel it our duty to call special attention to
it, for the information of our contemporaries and of the
public at large.—John Bull.

THE TRACTARIANS AND THE PRESS.—The Tracta-
rians have just completed a new church at Plymouth, to
which the Rev. G. Prynne, a gentleman who recently
brought an action against the proprietor of the Plymouth
Journal for libel, but failed in obtaining a verdict, has
been appointed. The reverend gentleman determined on
making the admission to the consecration by tickets only,
for one of which the proprietor of the Journal applied,
but was refused, " as his avowed intention was to report
the proceedings, a feeling essentially alien to the spiritual
worship of Almighty God." It appears, however, that
tickets have been given to other reporters who wished to
attend as reporters. _

The first meeting of the Society for Promoting Chris-
tian Knowledge, since the long vacation, was held on
Tuesday. The standing committee recommended that
the sum of £3,000 should be granted and placed at the
disposal of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, towards the en-
dowment of a college of a permanent character, in con-
nexion with the Church in his diocese. A let ter wag read
frog, Lord Lyttelton, requesting, in behalf of the New
Canterbury Association, a grant in aid of the endowment
of the Bishopric about to be established in that settle-
ment. His lordship stated that the association was
pledged to the appointment of a Bishop (the Rev. Thos.
Jackson), who would take the spiritual charge of the
settlement, and to provide for him an adequate endow-
ment out of the produce of the land sales. It was stated
that a considerable portion of the new diocese would
extend beyond the Canterbury Settlement. The stand-
ing committee proposed, and it was unanimously agreed
to, that a grant of £l,OOO should be made in aid of the
objects mentioned in Lord Lyttelton's letter.

DR. WOLFF AND ISIS PUPIL.—Dr. Wolff is still at Isle
Brewers, a little village inhabited by 250 souls, all of them
poor labourers, who chiefly receive support from Lady
Wolff and the good Doctor, who provide them in winter
with coals ; support entirely the school, containing 75
poor children ; and have also established a clothing club
for the poor women. The income of Dr. Wolff's living
amounts to but £l5O per annum—and yet, with God's
grace, he has been enabled by means of the profits derived
from his lectures, to contribute £7OO towards the erection
of a parsonage, and, as soon as the patron of the living
—Au... from the Cape of Good Hope, he intend. to erect
a school house. It is thought that the Doctor would
have been ruined long ago if he had not increased his
come by having taken into his house a pupil of extraordi-
nary talents to whom he teaches the following languages
—Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Rabbinical, Italian, German,
Ethiopic. The name of his pupil is Mr. John Rose But-
lin, 20 years of age, late student of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, the son of the rich country gentleman, John
Butlin, Esq., of Ealing. The talents of this gentleman
for learning languages are most extraordinary.—Exeter
Flying Post.

THE QUEEN'S SUPREMACY.—The lawfully recognised
doctrine of the Queen's supremacy in the Church of
England has been attacked'by the Bishop of Exeter, in a
subtle explication of the various canons and articles relat-
ing to her Majesty's authority, by which he endeavours to
show, that although " the King's Majesty, under God, is
the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other
his highness's dominions and countries, as well in spiri-
tual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal;" yet
that this, in spiritual causes, only means to exclude the
power of the Pope, because by one of our articles The
Church hath authority in matters of faith. It is implied,
therefore, that the Queen did wrong in remitting a matter
of heresy to the Committee of Privy Council which ought
to have been adjudged by the Church itself. According
to this view, the power exercised by the Queen is simply
an usurpation ! There is one small difficulty from which
the bishop has not yet attempted to relieve us, namely--
where the Church is to be found to which the cause might
have been remitted by the Queen. If we look about
among the Tractarians for a solution, it will be as bad to
find as Popish infallibility. Sometimes it is in the people,
sometimes in the clergy, and again in both clergy and
people.