The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

CLER,CeiI,

OXFORD, MAY 2.—ln a congregation holden this
morning, the following degrees were conferred:—
Bachelor in Divinity.—Rev. Peter Peace, Worcester
College.
Masters of Arts.—Rev. Samuel Minton, scholar of
Worcester ; Rev. Edward William Tannar (lave, Rev.
John William Mence, Rev. John Henry Nurse, Wor-
cester; George Bust, Pembroke; Rev. William Cobb,
Christchurch.

Bachelors of Arts.—Thomas Patridge Nunn, St. Mary
Hall, George Ridley, Christchurch, Grand Compounders;
John Buller Yarde Buller, Henry Ochterlony Middle-
ton, St. Mary Hall ; William Balfour, Lincoln; Richard
Bright, Fa‘rfax William Cartwright, Burrington Stopford
Thomas Mills, Christchurch ; John Charles Bagshaw,
Henry Brooks, Samuel Plant, scholar of Brazenose ; John
Lowder Ray, Magdalen-hall; Louis Balfour Clutterbuckt
Wadham ; Aneurin Lloyd Lodge, Je-us; Charles William
Lawrence, Fellow of New College ; Edmund Du Buisson,
Oriel ; John Balguy, Morton ; Henry Clarence Pigott,
scholar of University; Charles Ingleby, James Thomas
Boles, Richard Seymour Conway Chermside, Exeter;
George Poingdestre, scholar of Pembroke.

The Bishop of Chester has nominated Richard Wall,
B.A. (twenty-fourth Wrangler, 1844,) to theVice-Princi—
palship of the Training College, Chester.

Rev. James Garbett, Professor of Poetry at Oxford,
has been collated by the Bishop of Chichester to the pre--
bendall stall in Chichester Cathedral, vacant by the death-
of the Rev. Thomas Heberden.

The Rev. Richard Waldo Sibtliorpe, the recent convert
to the }Cornish faith, who is on a visit to the Rev. Thos.
Dikes, at the Charter House, in Hull, partook of the
sacrament in St. John's Church, in that town, on Sunday
week.

The Rev. Edward Field, D.D., was consecrated Bishop
of Newfoundland. in the chapel of Lambeth Palace, on.
Sunday week. He was presented to the Archbishop of
Canterbury by the Bishops of Bangor and Worcester,.
the Bishop of London being the other consecrating bishop..
Several clergymen were present, and among them the Rev.
D. Jarvis, of tLe diocese of Connecticut, United States.
ETON COLLEGE, MAY I.—lt has just been notified to
the authorities of the College that his loyal Highness
Prince Albert will lay the foundation-stone of the exten-
sive new buildings which are to he erected forthwith, at
an expense of £26,000, immediately contiguous to the
ancient edifice, in that portion of the premises known as.
Weston's-yard. It having been considered for some time
past that the manner in which the boys on the foundation
of the College were lodged was not in accordance with the
present habits and feelings of society, and being also in
many respects objectionable and injurious to the best in-
terests of the institution, the authorities of the College
determined upon making, great additions to the fabric, in
order that extensive and commodious apartments might
be provided for sleeping and for study, and likewise for
those meals which the boys do not take at present in the
College hall.

COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
of the Colonial Church Society was held on Wednesday
evening, in Exeter Hall. Captain Sir E. Parry, R.N.,
presided. The Hon. W. Cowper, M.P.. Mr. J. P.
Plumptre, M.P., Mr. G. Finch, Mr. J. Labouchere, the
Rev. A. Thelwall, and a great number of the lay and cle-
rical friends of the society were on the platform. The
secretary read the report, which gave a detailed account
of the society's operations in Nova Scotia. Western Aus-
tralia, the Cape of Good Hope, the Bahama Islands, and
various other parts of the world. The subscriptions and
donations received during the past year amounted to
£3.775 exclusive of collections in the colonies. The last
accounts received from Syria announced that 200 inhabi-
tants of Hasbeya, a village situate at the foot of Mount
Lebanon. had abjured the Greek orthodox religion to em-
brace Protestantism.

Oxford was on Thursday the scene of unusual. excite-
ment. The morning trains from town, and the coaches
from all parts of the country, brought up vast numbers of
the clergy, all apparently on one errand, and of one mind,
as was proved by the result. At two o'clock the Convoca-
tion-house was filled to overflowing, and the Vice Chan-
cellor proposed the new statute. which had for its object
to settle the existing perplexities as to the corr'it'ons and
exercises requisite for theological degrees, by creating and
granting to the Regius Profts,or of Divin'ty (Dr. Hamp-
den at present) an absolute doctrinal authority in the mat-
ter, with a reference, on questions of FORM, to the Vice
Chancellor. The statute was proposed in four clauses.
The subject of the first was totally irrelevant, relating to
degrees in law, and seemingly introduced to embarrass the
voters, committing them, however, to a certain mode of
exam nation, in a matter in which they would probably
feel indifference. By anticipation it showed the fate of
the rest of the statute, and was rejected by a large ma-
jority. The second clause cont4ined the proposed form
of exercises, and was the substratum of the two remain-
ing. It was rejected by a majority of 341 to 21! On
the result being declared the two last clauses were dis-
creetly withdrawn by the Vice Chancellor, and the
.
Con-
vocation dissolved. It is said that Dr. HamP
and his friends voted against the proposed statute, on the
around that the reference on questions of form to the
Vice-Chancellor was an invasion or his supposed absolute
and irresponsible power in granting degrees. Among the
von-resident members were Dr. Hook, the Dean of Chi-
chester, A rcbdeacon Manning, Mr. Edward Churton, and
a host of other characters well-known by name both here
and elsewhere.— Times. den himself

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The forty-fourth
anniversary meeting of this society was held on Tuesday,
at Exeter Hall. The Earl of Chichester, President of
the Society, took the chair. Amongst those on the plat-
form were the Bishops of Chester and Ripon, the Dean of
Salisbury, Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir R. H. Inglis,
Bart., M.P., Mr. J. P. Plumptre, M.P., Mr. J. hound,
M.P., Major-General Latter, Hon. E. Curzon, Right
Hon. Sir G. Rose, Bart., Hon. Capt Waldegrave, R.N.,
Hon. Captain Maude, It.N., Archdeacon Hoare, Rev. H.
Stowell, Drs. Marsh, H. Stewart, H. Green, J. Cunning-
ham, and several o'ber clergym, n. The
proceedings
having been opened by prayer, the noble Chair(' an very
briefly addressed the meeting. With the exception of
Jamaica, there had been no contraction of mis,i"arY
labour. During the past year, nine additional missinnia.
ve s
lies ha been sent out, 54 branch asociati and
juniled societies established, and 24 misssionariesons admitte`A
to holy orders. The Duke of Manchester, Viscount
Sandon, and Lord Lurgan had accepted the office or
vice-presidents. The report stated, that two ye: r 4 ago
the society was in a position of considerable erntarrass-
ment, arising from excess of expenditure over income ;
but last year, through the liberality of the chi istian pub-
lic, that difficulty had been overcome. Tile committee
had taken their stand upon those sound Eyang.el'cal and
otestaut principles which had from its very foundation
formed the chief character:stic of the society, and to which
its prosperity and usefulness were attributable. The fi-
nancial statement, which was next read, gave the following
results :—General fund, £97,791 2s. 3d. ; special fund for
China mission, X 1556 16s. Id.; capital fund, X 2618 Is. 6d.;
Fourah Bay Buildings Fund. £llBl 17s. ; Disrbled Mis-
sionar.es Fund, £1145 19s. Total receipts, £104,323 15s.
10d. The expenditure of the year, including contribu-
tions to local funds, amounted to £93,473 7s. 3d. The
expenditure of the year, including contributions to local
funds, amounted to £93,473 7s. 3d. The excess of income
had been applied in part to the erection of buildings at
Sierra Leone, with the view to the training of native
youths as local missionaries, to the discharge of a debt of
£lOOO, remaining due on the last account, and the residue
of £4318 15s. it had been deemed advisable to transter to
the amount of capital, in order that the society's opera-
tions might not hereafter be interrupted by temporary
fluctuations in its financial department. The committee
had raised the maximum of expenditure from £85,000 to
£87,000 a year, exclusive of local funds in the respective
missions.—On Monday evening, the Lord Bishop of
London preached the forty-fourth anniversary sermon at
St. Brides Church, Fleet-street.
THE SOCINIAN FRAUD BILL.—We perceive that this
" conciliation" measure has passel a second reading on
the motion of the Lord Chancellor without observation.
This case, which involves the property and rights of the
Presbyterian laity, as well as the principles of the law of
the land respeet'ng trusts, and the fundamental article§
of the faith of Jesus Christ, can scarcely, we hope, p4§6
the legislature as it were sub silenlio, notwithstanding the
"conciliation" spirit of a nothingarian or anythingarian
ministry. The following description of the bill is taken
from a letter by J. Cook Evans, Esq. to Lord Lynd-
hu
st

I hope that your lordship will permit rne, without any au!'
picion of a want of that r spect which is due to yo: r lordshiP 11_
exalted rank, and that profound learning which is at once the.
foundation and the ornament of your elevation, to state what
in my humble judgment, ought to have been the preamble, and
enacting clause in the bill in question. It should have reD'
I think, in the following words :—" Whereas nearly three hut
dred chapels, &c., rrected, and in some cases, endowed, ad
Trinitarian Presbyterians, and the maintenance and spread
of Trinitarian doctrines, have, by the lap e f time, and the GO;
faithfulness of trustees amt ministers, he n perverted to Ow
maintenance and spread of doctrines common y called Uniti
Ilan, entirely opposed to ard subversive of those entertain_,
by the pious founders, and for the maintenance of which d,,°;
trines the said chapels, &c., were erected and endow d.
the sanction of the law; and whereas the intentions of tb
founders of the said chapels are clearly ascrrtainabl • by tbo
rules of interpretation which the Cour s of Equity adopt'
the interpretation of all deeds of trust, whether for religi'ce
purposes. or for purposes purely civil; and whereas some or .Tog
chapels, &c., so erected have been restored to the purposes I.
which they were originally intended, and used, under the d 7.1
sions of the Court of Chancery and the House of Lords;
whereas it is expedient that the parties who have violated t,„ j.e.•
trust, and have perve ted properly from its lawful use, as a"-'
said, shall not be called to account for their malversatiet!%, of
heretofore, but shall be confirmed and secured in possesslaW
the property which they now do or shall hereafter unlacLiije,
po,sess, BE IT ENAexen , by, &c., &c„ that, in all cases in ',jowl'
the d ctrines to he taught in such chapels are not laid otigN
in the deeds declaring the trusts in express terms.' althiee°(
otherwise clearly ascertainable, according to the princieP co-
law, 'founded on conitnym sense and common justice.' 0101'
gregation for twenty years in violation of the origida_f gich.
shall be a perpetu bar to all suits for the recovery u ths:
property to its rightful use. And BE IT FURTHER EN Ac.rs (re
the usage of the congregation for the last twenty /10 tbr,
quenting such chapel shall be conclusive evidence' Lbe used
Tractarian founders intended the said chapels, Sic.. t°,octrinet
for the propagation of Unitarian, and not Trinitarian" Netut,
for the subversion of 'heir own faith, and not for its Pseose,
Lion, any presumption of law, or principle of ' common
common justice,' notwithstanding. " • rinei.
We still hope that this bill. repugnant as it. is 111,,P0 will
.tte
pie both to "common sense and common jil-
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yet be arres'ed. ~ The
The area of Newfoundland is 57,000 s tore Innesivi the
east and south coasts—exceeds 80 COO rue Yetitib"eur o°-.1
clergy is but 26. Two s • ' • -.id.
stations are ui ocri-r their ser.
where are elvrgymen more gladly received, et' ... .he
f rebtill"'"g oft t.
viers more eminently bit s.e d. The co-' (!t. ih iof
bite
John's, drat. which will be al.the ariso ---rP.I- b.
o i venal,.
John's, was estiwated at £7,000. ~nd '''''h (3't
‘`"nit ce
ants as had the rneahs eon' ribuied 1 berallv ; but t' •
a 14ree 14efirittn,—
y in the fm.d.. It wil
con.plete the work without further aid. be iinpos3ibie 10

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