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

Bengal Silks are also 6d. to Is, and Italian Is. per lb. higher,
and little on the market. The Silk trade generally is not so
well employed as for some time past; the rise in prices, there-
fore, may be attribute". to the expected short supply (that
being inferior quality) and the very low rates previously cur-
rent. Silk Waste and Knubbs and Husks are in limited re-
quest, at low rates. SILK PIECE Goons.—Good Corahs are
in fair demand, with some improvement in price. China
Goods are still difficult of sale, and in limited demand.

THE SURPLICE QUESTION AGAIN.—The city of Exeter
was in a state of great excitement on Sunday evening
week, in consequence of the evening lecturer at St. Sid-
well's church (the Rev. Mr. Ingle, who has been very
lately ordained,) entering the pulpit in his surplice. The
congregation instantly expressed their indignation at
what they deemed an insult, after the scenes of 1844-5.
Many of the parishioners quitted the church, and amongst
those who remained cries arose of " Take his surplice
from him," " Turn him out," &c., &c. The rev. gentle-
man, amidst the utmost confusion, managed to get
through his sermon, but the church more resembled a
bear-garden than God's temple. The circumstances are
under investigation by the Bishop. It is deeply to be
regretted that a young man, who has just been ordained,
should have so grossly violated public feeling by an act
which even the Rubric does not sanction at the evening
service of the church. The uproar commenced with a
general " coughing down." Several persons then moved
towards the door, making a great noise in their progress ;
a young woman went -off in a fit of hysterics, uttering
loud shrieks, whilst a mob outside besieged the duors of
the building. A cry 'of " Fire !" was raised, followed by
an announcement that the church doors were closed, and
a rush was made to burst them open. Some persons
cried " Turn him oat !" " Put out his lights !" In the
galleries the uproar was at its height, whistling, the noise
of cat-calls, and such cries as are heardin theatres, hur-
rahing, &c., echoed throughout the edifice. Mr. Ingle
still 'persisted to read his text, but was quite inaudible,
and the row increased, some of the congregation waving
their hats, standing on the seats, jumping over the seats,
bawling, roaring, and gesticulating, like a mob at an
election. The reverend gentleman, 'in the midst of the
,confusion, despatched a message to the mayor requesting
his assistance, and whilst the messenger was gone on his
errand the churchwarden, Mr. Hayman, addressed the
people, and also requested Mr. -Ingle to remove the cause
of the ill=fecling expressed at his appearance. Mr. Ingle
treated the request with indifference, upon which a Mr.
B. Hill addressed him in no measured terms, and insisted
on his leaving the pulpit. The mayor at length arrived,
and shortly afterwards the superintendent of the police
and several constables. The Rev. Chancellor Harrington
and the Venerable Archdeacon Bartholomew also arrived.
The mayor enforced silence, and, after admonishing :die
people, requested the clergyman to leave the pulpit for a
few minutes, and to speak to him in the vestry. Mr.
Ingle treated the mayor's request with the same disrespect
he had the other remonstrances addressed to him. He
refused to comply, and took advantage of the temporary
lull to give out his text and proceed with his discourse,
the matter of which was supplied from the recentpolitical
events in Paris and Ireland. At its conclusion he de-
clined the advice of the mayor to retire to hislome by a
private way into Longbrook-street. Further evils were,
however, averted by his 'friends carrying him Off by the
way the mayor proposed. The damage dune to the
interior of the church is said to be very considerable.

THE JUBILEE OTTHE CHU;;CH MISSIONARY

ASSOCIATION.

On Wednesday, the. Archbishop of Canterbury preached
'the commemoration sermon to a crowded congregation in
St. Ann's Church, Elackfriars, from Prov. xxiv. 11, 12,
" If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto
death, and those that are ready to be slain ;if thou sayest,
Behold we know it not,—doth not he that pondereth the
heart consider it ? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not
he know it ? and shall not he render to every man accord-
ing to his works ?" His grace, in a mpst impressive ser-
mon, set forth the duty which God had devolved upon his
peeple to promote the spread of his word, and to advance
the glory. of his kingdom ; and showed, in forcible lan-
guage, the sin which men committed against Gad, by suf-
fering a spirit of indifference towards their fellow-men to
govern and control their actions. He warned his hearers
against such a course; and contrasted the apathy and in-
difference of men without God, with the zeal and love to
their fellow-men displayed by those who had received the
light of the gospel. He considered that England had
been especially singled out by God as the great source of
missionary labour, and therefore the greater would be the
offence against him, if they neglected to obey his com-
mand. _

The metropolitan jubilee meeting of the society was
held at Exeter-hall on Wednesday, and was very well at-
tended, the entire hall being filled with a most respectable
audience, a large proportion of whom were ladies. The
Earl of Chichester was in the.chair, and beside him on the
platform were the Bishop (,f Oxford, Lord Glenelg, Lord
Teignmouth, Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P., Archdeacon Dealtry,
of Calcutta, Admiral H. Hope, &c. The speeches gave
full expression of gratitude for the success which had
attended the efforts of the society.
In York Cathedral, the sermon was preached by the
Archbishop of York. The Bishop of London preached
in Bloomsbury Church—the Bishops of Winchester, Sa-
lisbury, Oxford, Norwich, St. Asaph, &c., in the cathe-
drals of their respective cities. In Manchester twenty-
one churches were open, and twenty-one sermons were
preached by as many different clergymen. The number
preached in London on Wednesday we cannot arrive at :
in the parish of Pancras alone there were nine. In Cam-
bridge, Oxford, Birmingham, and other towns, every pul-
pit was occupied with the subject. Mr. Dale preached on
the subject at St. Paul's Cathedral, on Sunday week, to
nearly three thousand people.
The receipts of the Hull auxiliary, at this jubilee, exceed
£5OO. In Doncaster about £3OO were received. At Bir-
mingham, the Rev. J. A. James, dissenting minister,
made the jubilee the subject of a very earnest prayer in
his congregation.
At Birkenhead, special services took place on Wednes-
day in the various churches in the morning, and in the
evening a meeting was held in the Craven-rooms, at
which the Rev. Andrew Knox presided, when the benefit
conferred on the heathen by the society, since its esta-
blishment, were vividly brought before the assembly.
On Wednesday morning the sacrament of the Lord's
Supper was administered in many of the churches of this
town, and in the evening prayer meetings were held to
supplicate the divine blessing on the labours of the
society. On Thursday evening sermons were preached in
nearly all our churches, the services being postponed
from the previous day, in aonsdquence of the municipal
elections then taking place.
The following amounts were collected at the various
churches in this town on the occasion :

£ s. d.
Collegiate Meeting (Juvenile) 8 n 9
St. Andrew's Church.
St. John's.
St. George's, Everton
St. Paul's, Prince's Park 5O 19 9
St. Augustine's
St. Bride's
St. Barnabas*
St. Clement's 7 3 0
Mariners'..
Seaforth
St. John the Baptist's
St. Jude's
St. Simon's
Wavertree
St. Luke's
St. Anne's, Stanley 8 0 0
St. John the Evangelist's .
St. James's
St. James's, West Derby
St. Mary's, Edge-bill
St. Michael's
St. Silas's .
St. Thomas's, Warwick-street
Collegiate Meeting .
The occasion was improved at several other churches
in the town, but no collections were made. Amongst
these were St. Mark's, St. Paul's, St. Bartholomew's,
St. David's, Christ Church, and St. Mary's, Kirkdale.
CHURCH MISSIONARY JUBILEE FUND.—We are gra-
tified to learn that the handsome sum of £l3 19s. was
collected in Prescot Church, on Sunday last, in aid of the
above fund, liter sermons preached on the occasion,
which, together with a sum of 9s. Old., the contents of a
missionary box kindly forwarded from Miss Lucas, of
Long-street, Prescot, makes the sum of £l4 Ss. Old. to
be added to, we trust, numerous other contributions from
different parts of the world, in aid of the same benevolent
object.