The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-26 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS.

The following have taken place :
The Rev. Henry Freeland, 8.A., of Emmanuel College,
to the rectory of Hasketon, Suffolk ; value £290.
The Rev. Francis Duncan Gilby. 8.A., of Clare-hall,
to the incumbenzy of St. James's Church, Cheltenham ;
value £250.

The Rev. Thomas Thorogood Upwood, M.A., of Clare-
hall, to the vicarage of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk.
The Rev. Thos. Martin Symonds, M.A., of St. John's
College, to the living of Adwick-le-street, Doncaster;
value £364.

The Rev. Charles Edward Kennaway, M.A., of St.
John's College, to the perpetuel curacy of Trinity Chapel,
Brighton.

The Rev. Samuel Wilkes Wand, M.A., of Magdalene
College, to the vicarage of Rettenden, Essex ; value £765.
The Rev. John Morton. 8.D., of Trinity College, to
the curacy of Inkberrow, Worcestershire.
The Rev. Augustus Frederick Pettigrew, B. A., of
Trinity College, to be one of the curates of Bishopwear-
mouth.

The Rev. T. White Boyce, 8.A., of Sydney College, to
the curacy of Saxsted, Suffolk.

The Rev. Charles Kingsley, 8.A., of Magdalene Col-
lege. to be domestic chaplain to Viscount Sydney.
The Rev. George Albert Rogers, 8.A., of Trinity Col-
lege, to be one of the domestic chaplains to the Bight
Hon. Viscount Lifford.

THE BISHOP OF CHESTER AND THE LAITY
OF BLACKBURN v. TRACTARIANISNI.

We have much gratification in laying before our readers
the subjoined address lately presented to the Lord Bishop
of this diocese, from Blackburn, on the subject of Tracts-
rianism in the Church, and also his Lordship's reply
thereto, which was received a few days since, by James
Neville, Esq., of Bearwood, near Blackburn, through whom
the address was forwarded to his Lordship. This docu-
ment (measuring upwards of twenty-five feet in length
including the signatures) originated entirely with the
Laity, and was supported by the signatures of all classes,
including those of the highest respectability and influence
in the town and neighbourhood.

ADDRESS.
" To the Riaht Reverend John Bird, Lord Bishop of

Chester,

We, the undersigned inhabitants of Blackburn and
its immediate neighbourhood, beg leave to express our
deep respect for your Lordship's character and office, and
our warm attachment to that church, over a portion of
which your Lordship has been called to preside.
" Though members of the Laity exclusively, we cannot
have seen, without the highest satisfaction and admiration,
your Lordship's indefatigable and truly apostolical de-
votion to the arduous duties of your sacred office, and to
the advancement of the spiritual welfare of all classes in
your extensive and populous diocese.
" It is, however, as members of that reformed church,
—which, having been originally built upon the foundation
of the Apostles and Prophets, Christ himself being the
chief corner stone, and which, after having been cleared
of the accumulated rubbish of ages, has, in later days,
been cemented afresh with the blood of Cranmer and
Hooper, Ridley and Latimer,—that we now consider our-
selves more especially called upon to come forward.
" As members of that communion, we feel ourselves
bound by the ties of duty and of gratitude to acknowledge
our lasting obligations to your Lordship for your firm,
consistent and uncompromising resistance to the system
of those Tractarian Divines, who, true to their self-
assumed title of 'Ecclesiastical agitators,' declare their
determination to intrude upon the peace of the con-
tented, and raise doubts in the minds of the uncomplaining ;
vex the church with controversy, alarm serious men, and
interrupt the established order of things; set the father
against the son, and the mother against the daughter,'
with the avowed object of ' unprolestantizing the national
church.' by receding ' more and more from the principles
of the English reformation.'
" Adhering, as we hope we ever shall do, to the princi-
ples which led to that great event, we can feel neither
sympathy nor respect for any of those pioneers of Popery,
who are industriously labouring to undermine the walls
which they have been appointed to defend, and who seem
resolved to reduce our country again to that yoke of
bondage which our forefathers were unable to endure.
We rejoice, therefore, and are thankful that we have
amongst us a faithful watchman, on one of the chief
towers of our citadel, vigilant to detect, fearless to de-
nounce, and equally zealous to counteract the insidious
devices of traitors within our gates, or the open and more
honest assaults of the enemy without.
" Deeply impressed with the momentous importance of
the approaching crisis, and fully convinced that on the
issue of the present struggle hangs the destiny of our
church,' no less than the permanence of our civil and
Christian freedom, we fervently hope and pray that that
church may be permitted by Providence to enjoy, for
many years to come, the benefit of your Lordship's pa-
ternal counsels apd example.
" We remain with great respect,
" Your Lordship's most obedient servants.
" Blackburn, August, 1843."

HIS LORDSHIP'S REPLY.
" Durham, September 12, 1843

" Sir,—Having received through your hands the grati-
fying memorial addressed to me by the inhabitants of
Blackburn and its vicinity, I take leave to offer you, in
return, my sincere thanks for this unexpected token of
favour.

" Holding, as in the Providence of God I have been
called to, a prominent station in the church to which vou
are attached, I rejoice to find, that in the judgment of so
many impartial persons 1 have been faithful to the prin-
ciples which it was my duty to maintain. I should be
ungrateful if I did not feel myself encouraged and re-
warded by this testimony of their approbation. But allow
me to say, I derive a satisfaction from this address which
is far beyond any personal gratification.

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" I rejoice the proof it affords that the principles
established by our Reformers are dear to so many hearts ;
that so many in whose spiritual welfare I am concerned
regard with just horror any departure from ' the truth as
it is in Jesus ;' whether it be in the way of return to ex-
ploded errors, or under the insidious pretence of deve/ope-
ment of undiscovered mystery. You, who have sub-
scribed this address, desire no addition to ' the doctrine
once delivered to the saints ;' you have found in the
Holy Scriptures sufficiently and exclusively all things re-
quired to make wise unto salvation :' and these truths,
embodied in the Articles and Liturgy of our Church,
having received for yourselves, you resolve to hand down
to your descendants without mutilation, add tion, or adul-
teration. 1 therein rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.'
" Sincerely praying, that they, who have expressed
themselves thus kindly towards their Bishop, may adorn
by their lives and conversation the principles which they
approve, and find them in their own experience to be in-
deed the power of God unto salvation,'
" I remain, Sir,
" With much respect,
" "Y our faithful and obedient servant,
" J. B. CHESTER.
" James Neville, Esq."

PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH MILITANT.

(From the Belfast Chronicle.)

To the following letter we think it right to direct the
particular attention of the Clergy and Laity of the Esta-
blished Church, as being a clear, temperate, and forcible
expression of opinion on a subject which is now attracting
considerable attention in the United Diocese. We are
not at liberty to make public the name of the writer, nor
would its mention add anything to the intrinsic weight or
power of the letter, replete as it is with valuable argu-
ment, affectionate remonstrance, and earnest anxiety for
the church's prosperity; but this we may be permitted to
say, that were it known it might perhaps have the happy
effect of inducing those to pause, who are, not intention-
ally, but at the same time most certainly, weakening the
hold of the church upon the attachment of her people,
and obstructing her advance in that noble path which lies
so straight and clear before her :

TO THE LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR AND