The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, during his episcopate
of Chester, consecrated 235 churches. The Bishop of
Lichfield, during seven years, has consecrated 69.
Miss Godwin, of Blackheath, has presented the muni-
ficent sum of £15,000 to the Church Missionary Society,
to he applied to missionary purposes.
The foundation-stone of the new church of St. George,
at Dar!aston, was laid by Lady Emily Foley on Wednes-
day last. The edifice will be in the early English style,
and will contain 673 sittings. The estimated cost is £3OOO.
The Rev. Thomas Sale, vicar of Sheffield, has declined
to give his consent to the licensing of the Rev. Mr.
Trevor "as minister of a proprietary chapel to be built
in Gill Car, or some other district of Sheffield."
The Rev. John Dalton, curate of Kelsall and Duddon
Churches, was last week, presented with a handsome tea
and coffee service, on the occasion of his marriage, as a
mark of respect for his faithful and disinterested discharge
of his sacred duty for the last seven years.

One of the principal prizes for G;eek, at a recent exa-
mination in the University of Edinburgh, was carried off
by a blind student, a native of Dunkeid. He had used
in his studies extracts from the books he was examined
in, printed in raised characters, which he traced with his
fingers.

A full convocation was held at Oxford on Tuesday last,
when, by a majority of 249 against 105, it was resolved
that a petition should be presented to her Majesty in
council, praying her Majesty to revoke and cancel the
commission to inquire into the state, discipline, studies,
and revenues of the University.

On Saturday week, at a meeting at Torquay, resolutions
were agreed to declaring that Diocesan Synod convened
by the Bishop of Exeter, "is wholly unprecedented in the
Church of England ;" will " contravene an acknowledged
principle of the constitution ;" and " transgress, in spirit
at least if not in letter, the provisions of an existing statute"
(25th Hen. VIII., cap. 19. s. 1).
ARCHDEACONAL VlSlTATlON.—Archdeacon Hale held
his annual visitation at St. Sepulchre's Church, Snowbill,
London, on Thursday. When about to deliver his charge,
he discovered that he bad not brought it to the commu-
nion table. Having asked some one to fetch it from the
pew, in which he had been seen by several gentlemen
holding it in his hand, it could not be found. It was re-
marked by some of the clergymen that, immediately upon
the archdeacon leaving the pew, two laymen entered, and
shortly after left the church, no doubt taking the docu-
ment with them. The Archdeacon was visibly agitated.
After collecting his thoughts, be addressed the clergy,
entreating their consideration for the painful situation in
which he was placed, and proceeded to give the substance
of his proposed address. He spoke in forcible terms of
the papal aggression, and believed that it would be suc-
cessful, in spite of the strong feeling manifested against
the Court of Rome. At the conclusion of this important
charge, the Rev. W. Short expressed the sympathy of the
clergy for the unexampled position of the Archdeacon},
and concluded with a complimentary address.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

An action will be shortly tried at Guildhall,that excites
great interest among military circles, as well as, in the'
sporting world. The plaintiff is a gentleman well known
on the turf, and the defendant an officer on full pay in an
infantry regiment. The action is brought upon a bill of
exchange for near £2,000, given in satisfaction of a bet,
lost on the Derby of £lB5O. The plea set up, we under-
stand is gamin.-

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At the sittings in error in the Exchequer Chamber on
Monday, Lord Campbell delivered the judgment of the
Court in the case of Cleave v. Jones, overruling the long-
standing precedent of Wilks v. Ewell, in which it had been
decided that the payment of interest on a promissory note
was not of itself sufficient evidence to go to the Jury to
take the case out of the statute of limitations., - The effect
of the decision will be the letting in of verbal evidence of
payment on account.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The Paris papers publish -a
decree by which the Wes-
tern Railway to Rennes is conceded to Messrs. Peto,
Betts, Brassey, Geach, Fox, Henderson, and Stokes.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—Tho returns for the last week
exhibit an increase on nearly all the lines—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, of £2,600 ; Great Northern, £5,730 ;
Great Western, £1,400; Sheffield, £1,200; East Lanca-
shire, £750; Cheshire Junction, £240; South Eastern,
£1,300; Southport, £400; London and North-Western,
£1,100; North Midland, £2,200.
A LOST RAILWAY TRAIN.—A strange mishap befel
the York excursion train of the Northwestern Railway
on Tuesday last, unequalled in the history of railway
casualties. At the time appointed for the return of the
passengers at the close of the day, the engine-driver pro-
ceeded to the station' to prepare for starting. His con-
sternation may be conceived when, after examining every
corner of the station, the only relic of the train that he
could discover was the engine—all the carriages being
non est inventus. Whether some ambitious driver had
become enamoured of the spacious and comfortable car-
riages of the Northwestern Railway, or they have acci-
dentally got mixed with other trains, remains yet to be
ascertained, as they have not.yet been recovered. The
parties in charge of the Northwestern train, however,
were enabled to borrow some carriages, and returned in
safety with their party of Lancastrians.—Lancaster Gdn.

ANOTHER DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On
Tuesday, the London express down train left Derby, at
nine o'clock in the evening, for Leeds, and was followed in
about five minutes by a goods train. The former pursued
its rapid course until it had passed the Clay-cross tunnel,
when, in consequence of the pump-rod breaking, and the
engine becoming disabled, it was brought to a stand.
Meanwhile, the goods train continued its course, and about
ten minutes after the express train had passed the Clay-
cross Station, it followed at a speed of about twenty miles
an hour. After the express train had stopped about five
minutes, the cry of " all right" was heard, and the train
then began to move at a very slow speed. The train
had not been in motion above a. minute or two when
aloud crash succeeded—the goods train had run into it,
by which the passengers were thrown with frightful vio-
lence from their seats, the carriages nearest the tail of
the train were shattered to pieces, and the cries of their
inmates were most terrific. There were between twenty
and thirty passengers in the train, scarcely one of whom
escaped without injury. The night was very dark, and at
the time of the accident a fierce storm raged impetuously.
The poor sufferers scrathbled off the line as best they
could, some supporting themselves in a dreadful condition
against the walls of a bridge which crosses the line, and
others lying quite helpless on the side of the rails. On
examination two passengers were found dead, Mr. J.
Meynell, of Tapton-grove, near Chesterfield, and Mr, J.
Blake, of the firm of Blake and Parkin, merchants, Shef-
field ; seven others were severely bruised. Mr. Meynell
was found quite dead, and on his back on the side of the
line. Mr. Blake was discovered leaning against the bridge,
with his back supported by a piece of wood ' • he com-
plained of a great pain in his back, the spine having been
severely injured; he died on his way to Chesterfield.