The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

UNTI/EiiSiTY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

The Rev. T. H. Davies, incumbent of the Church of
the Holy Trinity, Nottingham, has been appointed to
the vacant office of Archdeacon of Melbourne, South
Australia.

The Rev. Arthur Baker has, at the desire of the Bishop
of London, published a recantation of " certain things
liable to serious misconstruction," in his letter to his
lordship. .

The Ven. Archdeacon Spooner has resigned the Arch-
deaconry of Coventry on account of increasing infirmities.
He is succeeded by the Rev. John Sandford, Vicar of
Dunchurch, and Honorary Canon of Worcester.
A splendid piece of plate, with the sum of £l,OOO, to
which a balance of £3B 9a. has since been added, has been
presented to the Rev. J. S. M. Anderson by the Vicar of
Brighton, on the part of a committee of the congregation
of St. George's Chapel, on his resignation of the perpe-
tual curacy.
Within the last few days a stained glass window has
been placed in Canterbury Cathedral, to the memory of
the late Archbishop of Canterbury, by the subscription of
some friends of his grace. The window is Norman, with
circular head, about 18 feet in height and 8 feet in width.
The glass is in the style of the thirteenth century.

The Hampshire Chronicle gives an account of a dinner
held lately, at the George Hotel, Winchester,—the Hon.
and Rev. Samuel Best in the chair,—when a testimonial,
consisting of an epergne, value two hundred and seventy
guineas, was presented to the Very Rev. R. Dawes, Dean
of Hereford, on his removal from the vicarage of King's
Somborne.
THE REV. H. F. BECK..TT.—The Leeds Infelligencer
states that. an appeal has been pending before the Arch-
bishop of York, by the Rev. H. F. Beckett, against the
revocation of his license as curate of St. Saviour's by the
Bishop of Ripon, and the decision of his grace was shortly
expected. The archbishop, however, has been advised by
counsel that the revocation is or. the face of it defective.
His grace, therefore, has quashed the revocation, not on
the merits, but on a technical point of form, and the
bishop is now at liberty, if he thinks fit, to issue another
revocation.

The consecration of Dr. Binney, of Worcester College,
Oxford, to the Bishopric of Nova Scotia and its depen-
dencies, took place on Tuesday morning in the chapel of
Lambeth Palace. The service was performed by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London. Chi-
chester, and Oxford ; the Rev. Dr. Binney, (father of the
new bishop), the Rev. Dr. Goulburn, and the Rev. Mr.
Thomas, chaplain to the Archbishop. The whole of it
was conducted in the most simple manner, no chanting or
singing, but every part read—very different from the
°' histrionics manner, as it has been called, of performing
the services of the Church in other places.
A long correspondence appears in the morning papers,
originating with Sir Benjamin Hall, who calls the atten-
tion of the Bishop of London to certain " Puseyite forms
and practices" carried on in Wells-street Chapel, and
ending in a personal squabble between Sir Benjamin and
the Bishop of London. As the substance of the corre-
spondence was given some time back in our Parliamentary
report—Sir Benjamin Hall having brought it under the
notice of Parliament—we do not think it necessary to en-
cumber our columns with it a second time. In the course
of the correspondence the Bishop declines to have any
further communication with Sir Benjamin, because—
" Sir B. Hall, having thought proper, in the last session
of Parliament, publicly to call in question the Bishop of
London's veracity, will not be surprised if the Bishop de-
clines making any communication to him on the subject of
his letter."

EXTENSION OF THE COLONIAL CHURCH.—We copy
the following table from the annual report of the Gospel
Propagation Society, just issued :

BiShOpric ~
No. of clergy when No. in
founded. see was founded. 1850.
1825 .. Jamaica 57 116
1825 .. Barhadoes 5O 129
1839 .. Toronto 7l 139
1839 .. Newfoundland
1841 .- New Zealand
1842 .. Tasmania
1845 .. Fredericton
1847 .. Melbourne..
1847 .. Adelaide ll 22
1847 .. Newcastle l7 27
1847 .. Capetown

290 665
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—The Rev. George A.
Denison, vicar of East Brent, has given notice, through
the Guardian newspaper, of an intention to muster under
the Tractarian banner all the forces which secession and
the feud between him and Dr. Pusey have left him, with
a view to render impossible any combined action of the
Church and State in the matter of public education. We
hope that every sound member of the Church, connected
with the National Society, will be at his post at the en-
suing annual meeting in May, to support the episcopal
bench, and the cause of the Established Church, against
the disaffected portion of the clergy. It will now be seen
whether a clergyman who, some years ago, publicly
acknowledged his obligations to the author of " The
Ideal Church," now a proselyte of Rome, is to be per-
mitted, year after year, to involve this great Church
Society in difficulties, and place its committee in a normal
position of hostility to the State. Is all this agitation
preparatory to the establishment of the Free Episcopal
Church eluglowed forth in the recent parliamentary exhi.
bitiini of Ur, Ite.updell Pitlmer,—Church and Stale
Gazette.