The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-04-14 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4' CLERICAL NEWS,

The Rev. Charles Bullen, M.A., late incumbent of St.
John's Church, Blackpool, has been instituted by the
Bishop of Chester to the rectory of Rainford, near Orm-
skirk.

On Sunday week, a schismatic congregation opened a
new place of worship at Exeter under the title of the
" Free Church of England !" They state themselves to
be totally independent of the Bishop of Exeter, or any
oth.r ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The Rev. Robert Cowie
and the Rev. James Shore, both ministers of the Church
of England, officiated.

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It is stated in the Friend of China, that a movement
has been commenced among the British residents at Can-
ton for raising a subscription to support a clergyman of
the Church of England. The merchants of Canton had,
as usual, come forward most liberally, the subscriptions
being from 100 to 200 dollars per annum for each firm,
guaranteed for five years certain. It was intended to
circulate the list in Hong Kong. and there seems every
prospect of the sum raised affording the gentleman who
may receive the appointment a handsome income.
THE STEP FROM ENGLAND TO ROME.—The Rev.
William Wells, curate to the Rev. Cecil Wray, of Liver-
pool, and of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is an-
nounced by the Morning Herald as having joined the
ranks of perverts. This announcement is stated to have
been made by one of the incumbents of St. Martin's-in-
the-Fields at Liverpool, from the pulpit, on Sunday last,
We would respectlully ask whether Mr. Wells's name was
not quoted by a Roman Catholic print, as among the list
of the perverted, more than three months since ? And if
so, what is the explanation of his having continued to mi-
nister in the Established Church ? Mr. Northcote, late
curate to the Rev. Mr. Caunter, of Ilfracombe, we be-
' lieve, officiated until he was on the very verge of avowing
his apostacy. What ?—is the line of demarcation between
England and Rome so reduced in breadth that it has be-
come an ordinary speculation which side of it a minister
of the Church of England ought to occupy, and but the
work of a moment—but a step—to pass trom the actual
ministry of one Church into full communion with its ri-
val?—Church and Slate Gazelle.

THE C. URT 4• FASHIONABLE WORLD.

The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Royal Family,
removed from Buckingham Palace to Winesor Castle,
on Wednesday.
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THE INDIAN HEROES.—Sir Henry Hardinge has been
created a peer by the title of Viscount Hardinge, of
King's Newton, in the county of Derby; and Sir Hugh
Gough by the title of Baron Gough, of Chinkeangfoo, in
China, and of Maharajpore and the Sutlej, in the East
Indies. Sir Henry Smith has been appointed a Knight
Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.
Her itlsjesty has created Major-General Sir Harry
Smith a baronet, in addition to tile military honour pre-
viously conferred upon him.
The suite of apartments in 'Windsor Castle to which
the Queen has been graciously pleased to permit the free
admission of the public, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
Fridays, include the Queen's Audience Chamber, the
Old Ball-room, the Queen's State Drawing-room, the
State Ante-room, the Grand Vestibule, the Waterloo
Chamber, the Presence Chamber, St. George's Hall, the
Grand Chamber, and the Queen's Presence Chamber.