The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

An anonymous " friend'.' has contributed £l,OOO to-
wards rebuilding St. Peter's church, Cheltenham.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has presented £2OO to
the National Society, and has promised to become an an-
nual subscriber of £lO.
The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Musgrave arrived,
on a visit to the Dean of Durham, at Durham, on Wed-
nesday last, from Bishopthorpe, near York.
The Bible Society have made an appeal to the public,
in order to turn to good account the recent occurrences
on the Continent. Lord Bexley heads the subscription-
list with a donation of £2OO.
The Rev. J. P. Eden, son-in-law of Lord Brougham, is
to have the vacant rectory of Bishopwearmouth, the gross
value of which is £4,200 ;'but a great effort is making to
have the living divided into five district rectories, and we
hope it will succeed.
The important case, Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter, is
to come on in both the Ecclesiastical and a temporal
Court immediately. In the Court of Arches a monition
was granted on the 15th of June, calling on the Bishop to
show •cause, within fifteen days, why he had refused to
institute the Rev. G. C. Gorham, B.D. (on the presenta-
tion of the Queen, on the 2nd of November, 1847) to the
vicarage of Bampford Speke, Devonshire.
On Monday week, a commission, issued by the Bishop
of Winchester under the Church Discipline Act, to inquire
into the conduct of the Rev. Mr. Proby, was opened in
the Cathedral. The charge against the rev. gentleman
was, that he had submitted to receive baptism by immer-
sion, having been previously baptised ; and that he had
received the sacrament in a Dissenting chapel, and accord-
ing to forms not recognised by the church, to which he
pleaded guilty, and the commission adjourned.
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty Queen Ade-
laide has, within the last few days, forwarded to the Rev.
Thomas Dale, the vicar of St. Pancras, the munificent
sum of £2OO in aid of the fund now raising by the rev.
gentleman for the erection of ten new churches in that
immense district. This truly royal contribution is en-
hanced in value by the fact that her Majesty had pre-
viously sent contributions for the separate funds of two
or more of the churches now in course of erection.
RANK OF THE COLONIAL BISHOPS.—A correspondent
of the Colonial Church Chronicle observes that. Earl
Grey's circular, giving rank to the Roman Catholic. Pre-
lates, analogous to, and next after, that of the Prelates of
' the Established Church, has the effect of giving prece-
' deuce to the Roman Catholic Archbishop before the Pro-
testant Bishop ; that is to say, in Australia, in Hindostan,
and in Canada, as also in Malta, the " Most Rev."
Archbishops Polding, Carew, Signay, and Caruana (Arch-
bishops of Sydney, Edessa, Vicar-Apostolic of Bengal,
Quebec, and Rhodes, Bishop of Malta), take rank before
the acknowledged Bishops of Sydney, Calcutta, Montreal,
and Gibraltar.

THE CHOLERA AND THE ARCHBISHOP OF

CANTERBURY.

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has issued the
following letter to the clergy of his province :
" Lambeth Palace, Nov. 3, 1848.
" REVEREND SlR,—The appearance of the cholera in
several parts of the kingdom, has excited a general appre-
hension lest this country, which has been mercifully
excepted from the political and social evils prevailing
elsewhere, should still suffer the Divine judgments in the
form of pestilence. I write, therefore, to direct the use of
the prayer appointed for such cases in the Liturgy, espe-*
cially if the disease should appear in your own neighbour-
hood. It will also be proper in the way which may appear
most suited to the circumstances of your parish, to exhort
your people to repentance and humiliation, duties neces-
sary at all times, and for which there is too much reason
both nationally and individually, and to which we are
especially called by visitations such as famine and pesti-
lence, which baffle human skill and power, and can only be
averted by the merciful providence of an Almighty Father.
—I am, reverend sir, your faithful friend and brother,
" J. B. CANTUAR."

`• P.S. Since writing the above I have received a com-
munication from the Board of Health, desiring me to
remind the parochial clergy of the important benefits
which they may render to their people, by a regular visi-
tation of their respective districts, for the purpose of
enforcing cleanliness, ventilation, and strict temperance.
Public measures can only be applied externally, and will
be of little avail if unwholesome or insufficient diet (which
the wealthierclasses should be exhorted to provide against),
or of close and over-crowded apartments, expose the inha-
bitants to the first attacks of epidemic disease."
The following is the prayer alluded to by the Archbishop,
and the use of which, by the clergy, his grace orders :

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" 0, Almighty God, who in thy wrath didst send a
plague upon thine own people, in the wilderness, for their
obstinate rebellion against Moses and Aaron ; and also, in
the time of King David, didst slay with the plague of
pestilence three score and ten thousand, and yet, remem-
bering thy mercy, didst save the rest, have pity upon us
miserable sinners, who are now visited with great sickness
and mortality, that like as thou didst then accept of an
atonement, and didst command-the Destroying Angel to
cease from punishing, so it may now please thee to with-
draw from us this plague and grieyous sickness, through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."