The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY er CLERICAL NEWS.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—The Senate of the Uni-
versity of London have recently come to the ret,o!ution
of adopting academical costume for the under-graduates
and graduates of every degree conferred by that body.
No collegiate dress has been hitherto worn by the mem-
bers of this university.

BISHOPRIC OF NEWFOUNDLAND.—Letters were re-
ceived from Halifax, by the last North American mail,
announcing the arrival of the Bishop of Newfoundland,
and his intention of continuing his voyage to St. John's,
the capital of his own diccese, by the next steamer. He
was to leave Halifax on the evening of the Ist of July.
Tile vessel, which was presented to the bishop previous
to his departure, is now undergoing repairs, to fit it for
the special purposes of visitation, and other uses, alluded
to in his late letter, in his diocese, and will sail in about
a fortnight. We desire to make this fact known, as pro-
bably there are many friends, and others interested in this
mission, who may be anxious to send out presents of
books, church-plate, or furniture, which may be useful.

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.—The report of
the ecclesiastical commission gives a statement of all
churches and benefices augmented by the commissioners
up to May, 1844. Since the passing of the first cathedral
act in 1840, it appears that 496 livings have been aug-
mented, as follows :—With a population of 2,000 and
upwards, the stipend of tle minister has been raised to
£l5O, in 261 cases; population of 1,000 and upwards, to
£l2O, in 96 cases ; population of 500 and upwards, to
£lOO, in 80 cases; population below 500, to £BO, in 59
cases. The annual augmentation of these livings amounts
to £26,779, which, with grants to meet benefactions when
the income is below £2OO, compensation to incumbents
for loss of fees surrendered to new churches, &c., gives
an annual augmentation of £29,809, wholly exclusive of
considerable gross sums of money expended and pro-
mised to meet benefactions for building and purchasing
houses of residence for incumbents whose annual incomes
are below £2OO. This statement is also independent of
all that is in progress under Sir R. Peel's endowment act.
APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev. William Philip Haslewood,
M.A., Trinity College, to the Rectory of Ardingly, Sussex;
value, £498. The Rev. Edward James Moor, 8.A., of
Trinity College, to the Rectory of Great Bealings,
Suffolk ; value £250. The Rev. Nicholas Kendall, 8.A.,
Pembroke College, to the Vicarage of Talland, Cornwall;
value £llO. The Rev. Robert Marler Cremer, 8.A.,
Corpus Christi College, to the Rectory of North Barning-
ham, Norfolk ; value £156. The Rev. John Oliver,
8.A., Queen's College, to the Vicarage of Warnington,
Northamptonshire ; value £lO7. The Rev. William
Medcalf, M.A., Clare Hall, to the Incumbency of the
new church of St. John, Yeadon, in the parish of Guiseley.
The Rev. William Reade, 8.A., of St. Catherine's Hall,
to the Curacy of Welby, Lincolnshire. The Rev. Sa.
rnuel Lewthwaite, M.A., Magdalene College, to the
Curacy of Elsworth, Cambridgeshire. The Rev. William
Wellington Wellock, M.A., Magdalene College, to the
Curacy of St. Philip, Stepney, Middlesex. The
Rev. Alfred N. Bull, 8.A., Sidney College, to the Cu.:
racy of Rendlesham, Suffolk. The Rev. Joseph Gattey,
8.A., Sidney College, to the Curacy of the Parish of
Bath. The Rev. John Patteson, M.A., of Corpus
Christi College, to be incumbent of the New District
Church of St. Jude, in the parish of Upper Chelsea.
ORDINATION AT DURHAM.—The Bishop of Chester
held an Ordination in the Cathedral Church of Durham
on Sunday week, when the following gentlemen Ty,er.Tsaodn,-
mitted to holy orders :—Priests : Wm. Fountain
Oxford
B.A. and John Groom, B.A. Waduarn Coll.
.
CErdoww.dPeerd, dike, r. ,AB.A.
Mertonr a s ecnoni ol Coll. Oxford
lshaw
Dean, B.A. Queen's Coll. Oxford ;
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Cambridge;jc'soellil
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St.Emß Cambridge.JmAoah.nnuc,es,l3rcpCouolsill.Ci,raimstbi rcidoglei.
Hollingworth, B.A. Catherine Hall, Cambridge; John
Lingham, B.A. Trinity Coll. Cambridge ; John Royds,

B.A. Christ's
Cambridge • James Cox, B.A. Wm.
Morris CP'
Bdt: and Abraham Hume, B.A. Trinity
TC,°ll. ; Prangs Busted Ashley, Russell Cope,
.aq'tblea Ellerthotp, ltaleh Kinder, and Joi•ri
SI. Bee.; John. Booth, B.A. Brasent ose Coll. Oxford ;
George Tatam, B A. Catherine Hall. Cambridge; Simon
Naughton Shepard, B.C.L. Christ's Coll. Cambiblge ;
Benjamin Hayward Browne, St. Bees —Deacons: Henry
Brooks, B.A. lohn Tayleur Piggot, B.A. and Francis
Gartside Tipping. BA. Brasennose 11. Oxford ; Edw.
Jackson Dixon, B.A. and John O'Br en, B.A. Queen's
Coll. Oxford ; John Thorns, B.C.L. rill: Coll. Ox ford ;
Arthur Thomas Whitmore Shadweil. M.A. Balliol Coll.
Oxford ; Win. Henry Arret, jun. B.A. Queen's Coll.
Cambridge; W. Chamberlain, B.A. Cot r us Christi Coll.
Can:bridge ; Lonsdale Formby, B.A. Catherine Hall,
Cambiialge; Edw. Henry Gregory, B A. and Charles
Philip Wilbraham, B.A. St. Peter's Coll. Cambridge;
John Atherton Kershaw, B.A. and Edw. Fawcett Ne-
ville Rolfe, B A. Trinity Coll. Cambridge; Joh r Robert
Parr, B.A. Wm. Spenre, B.A. Henry Plumer Stede an,
B.A. Chas. White Underwood, B.A. and Robert Whit-
taker, B.A. Sr. John's Coll. Cambridge; F. Thackeray,
B.A. Caius Coll. Cambridge; John Booker, B.A. Mag-
dalen Hall, t ambridge ; Geo. Marshall, B.A. and James
Pease, M.A. Trinity Coll. Dublin ; Tons. Alltart, Geo.
Crighton, John Crump, Wm. Ribeit Duncan, Thomas
Craven Humphrey, Geo. Leopold Longland, Henry John
Loddington, John Edmund. Lesson, John Lowthian,
Henry Nembhard, Henry homas Bees, and H. Sewell,
St. Bees; Joseph Telford M`Donough, B.A. and WOl.
Mears, B.A. Trinity Coll. Dublin, (by letters dim).
CHURCH EXTENSION.—SpeciaI meetings of the In-
corporated Society for promoting the enlargement, build-
ing, and repairing of elm ches and chapels, were held on
the Ist and 15th inst. The Committee having ordered
the payment of ten grants to the places where the works
undertaken with the aid of the Society have been corn-
pleted, (eight of these grants being voted towards building
additional churches,) proceeded to consider the applica-
tions for assistance recently received, and voted new
grants of money towards building twelve additional
churches or chapels, and towards reuuilding or enlarging
ten existing churches, making twenty-two grants in all.
The new buildings are to be erected for two districts in
the parish of Gainsborough, and for districts, in the
parishes of Middleton in Teesd-11,, Durham ; A shbourn,
Derby ; Sandbach, Cheshire ; Woolwich. Kent ; Cal-
verley, Yorkshire; Barnstaple, Devon; Bushbury, Staf-
fordshire; Lynn, Norfolk; Gosport, Hants; and Dids-
bury, a chapelry in the patish of Manchester. The
churches to be enlarged. &c., are situate at Ystradyfoding,
Glamorganshire; St. Frock, Cornwall; Great Bookham,
Surrey ; Lower Guiting, Gloucestershire; Yardley,
Herts; Ninebanks, Northumberland ; Stranton, Dur-
ham ; Kirkdale. near Liverpool ; Att!eborough, Norfolk ;
and Tarrant Gunville, Dorset. The population of the
twenty-two parishes now assisted is 462,000 souls, the
number of existing churches is 72; containing accommo-
dation for 69,034 persons, and including 18,994 free seats.
The free church room is theret ore only one seat for twenty-
four inhabitants. The additional accommodation to be
obtained by the execution of the works referred to in the
applications which have been now considered, is 6,199
sittings, 4,940 to be free and unappropi iated. It will be
observed that five-sixths of the new seats are to be free;
indeed two of the new churches, viz., those intended to
be built at Middleton and Gosport, will be wholly free; a
further evidence of the growing conviction that it is of the
utmost importance to provide the labouring classes with
the means of attending public worship. The aggregat2
amount of the population of the 22 places above referred
to, when compared with the total present provision of
church room therein, does not convey an accurate idea of
the wants of particular parishes; and without again calling
attention to the parish of Manchester, it should be noticed
that Middleton in Teesdale contains a population of 3,000
persons, and has one church with 284 sittings. Woolwich
contains nearly 28,000 inhabitants, with one church ac-
commodating 1,500 persons, and a proprietary chapel.
Kirkdale, a suburb of Liverpool, has a population of 5,000
persons, rapidly increasing, and 960 sittings in the chapel,
100 only of which are free. Lynn, with more than
12,000 inhabitants, has two churches accommodating
about one-sixth of the number, but affording free accom-
modation for only 450 persons. Gosport, containing a
population of nearly 8,000 persons, with only a proprie-
tary chapel containing 1,000 sittings, of which only about
300 are free. Sandbach, with 6,600 inhabitants, and
1,247 sittings in two churches, only 224 of which are
free. In these six parishes therefore there is a population
of 63,000 persons, 55,901 of whom have no seats provided
for them in the existing churches, in which the free ac-
commodation is only 1,822 seats, or one sitting for 35
persons.