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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEW, .

OXFORD, DECEMBER 17.—1 n a congregation holden
to-day, the following degrees were conferred :—Bache-
lors in Divinity.—The Rev. William Thompson, Princi-
pal of St. Edmund Hall; Rev. John Hill, Vice Principal
of St. Edmund Hall ; Rev. James Alexander Emerton,
of Magdalene Hall ; Rev. John Fisher, Fellow of Mag-
dalene College.—Masters of Arts.—Edward Warner,
Wadham, Grand Compounder ; Rev. Charles John Smith,
Christ Church ; Rev. Anthony Hart Smith, St. Edmund
Hall.—Bachelors of Arts.—Clement Moody, Magda-
lene Hall; James Gordon, St. Mary Hall; William
Grassett Clarke, Oriel College ; Robert Ogle, Brasenose
College ; George Scaife, Lincoln College.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rey. T. Pros-
ser M.A., to the perpetual curacy of Upton Sr. Leo-
nard's,i Gloucester, vacant by the resignation of the Rev.
11. Parsons.—Rev. W. W. Walsh, 8.A., late curate of
Winterbourne Stoke and Berwick St. James, Wilts, to
the rectory of Triborough, Somerset, with the perpetual
curacy of Withiell Horey annexed, diocese of Bath and
Wells.—Rev. T. Dean, curate of Berrow and Little Mal-
vern, to the vicarage of Warton, Chester.—Rev. Preben-
dary Woollcombe, M.A., vicar of Kingsteinton, with the
chapel of Highweek, Devon, to be a Surrogate for grant-
ing marriage licenses.—Rev. A. B. Hill, 8.A., to the
vicarage of Morebath, Devon, void by the death of the
Bev. W. B. Bere.—Rev. J. S. Townsend to the perpe-
tual curacy of Brushford, Devon, void by the cession of
the Rev. J. W. John.—Rev. D. A. Browne, 8.A.. to be
minister to the newly-erected Church of the Holy Trinity
at Salterton, in the parish of Woodbury, Devon.—Rev.
T. Chamberlain, [11.A., incumbent of St. Thomas's, Ox-
ford, to be a rural dean of the deanery of Oxford.—Rev.
W. Airey. M.A., to the vicarage of Bramley.—Rev. H.
Milne, M.A., to the rectory of Holm Hale, Norfolk.—
Rev. G. Dowell to the donative of Werrington. Devon.
—Rev. W. H. Dyott, 8.A., vicar of Austrev, Warwick-
shire, to be domestic chaplain to Viscount Combermere.
—Rev. R. C. Trench, M.A., to the rectory of Abbotson,
with the vicarage of Itchen Stoke, vacant by the resigna-
tion of the Hon. and Rev. F. Baring.—Rev. D. Gillert,
8.A., curate of Brighton, to the curacy of Wickhamp-
ton, Norfolk.—Rev. G. W. Manning, perpetual curate
of St. Julio*_, to the curacy of Lesnewth, Cornwall.—Rev.
F. G. Rawlins. M.A., to the rectory of Leaden Roding,
Essex.—Rev. It. M. Frost, B.A. to the curacy of St.
Michael, Lewes, Sussex.—Rev. J. Bradshaw, 8.A., to
the Incumbency of St. George's Church, Darlaston, Staf-
fordshire.--Rev. A. Packe to the rectory of Caythorpe,
Lincolnshire.—Rrv. J. Davies, 8.A., to the lectureship
of St. Phillips, Birmingham.—Rev. H. G. N. Bishop,
8.A., to the vicarage of Great Clacton, with Little Hol-
land, Essex.—Rev. T. Atkinson to the perpetual curacy
of Copmanthorpe with Upper Poppleton, Yorkshire.—
Rev. F. T. Attree to the curacy of Lastingham, York-
shire.—Rev. S. Creyke to the rectory of Beefo tl, York-
shire.—Rev. H. Owen, curate of Llanllechid, Carnarvon-
shire, to the vicarage of Llanynys, Denbighshire.—Rev.
M. Williams, curate of Bangor, to the curacy of Llan-
llechid.—liev. S. C. Poole to the perpetual curacy of
Gludwick, near Oldham.—Rev. T. S. Mills to the perpe-
tual curacy of Littleborough.—Rev. A. Peyton, jun., to
the rectory of Lackford, Suffolk.—Rev. H. Goodwin,
B.A. to the vicarage of Twyning, Gloucestershire.—Rev.
H. Grey, M.A., late curate of Jarrow, to the living of
Trent Vale, Staffordshire.—Rev. F. Gould to the perpe-
tuil curacy of New Hall, Burton-on-Trent.—Rev. J.
Adeney to the rectory of Flowton, Suffolk.—Hon. and
Rev. T. Pelham, 8.A., to an honorary canonry in Nor-
wich cathedral.—Rev. J. Trollope, M.A., to the rectory
of Crowmarsh, Gifford, Oxon.—Rev. C. D'Ovley Applin
to the perpetual curacy of Stanley, near Wakefield.—Rev.
H. F. Beckett to the curacy of Dodworth, near Barnsley,
Yorkshire.—Rev. E. W. Wright to the vicarage of Great
Malvern.—Rev. T. Williams, late curate of Merthyr
Tydfil, to the perpetual curacy of Llanllwch, near Car-
marthen.

The Chancellorship of the Diocese of Norwich has
been conferred on Charles Evans, Esq., M.A., barrister.
Dr. Henry K. Bonney, Archdeacon of Bedford, has
been appointed to the Archdeaconry of Lincoln.

Dr. Scoresby hen resigned the Vicarage of the pariah of
Bradford. The advowson of the vicarage is vested in the
trustees of the late Rev. C. Simeon.

The Rev. Mr. Higgin, Rector of Roscrea, an advocate
of the National System of Education, has been appointed
Dean of Limerick.

EXETER.—Parochial meetings have been held in the
parishes of St. Martin, St. Paul, and at Heavitree, ad-
joining the city, containing a population of 3000 persons,
where resolutions were unanimously adopted reprobating
the proposed innovations in the church service.
HARROW ScHooe.—The Rev. C. T. Vaughan, rector
of St. Martin's, Leicester, was elected on Wednesday
to the office of Head Master of Harrow School. This
gentleman was a distinguished and favourite scholar of
the late Dr. Arnold.
PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL SOCIETY.—In answer
to the appeal that is now making in the country for this
society, some very handsome contributions have been
announced ; amongst others, Lady Arden, £lOO per an-
num; F. H. Dickinson, Esq., M.P., 30 guineas yearly;
a beneficed clergyman, £5OO don. ; Mr. Long, £1000;
a contribution by a family, £2000; Rev. C. J. Plumer,
£500; Mrs. Mary Gee, 13000 ; Miss Fanshaw, £2OO ;
fifteen individuals have increased their subscriptions to
ten guineas a year, and thirty-one to five guineas.
A new Metropolitan Church Building Association has
been formed in London, for the purpose of supplying
certain wants in the present incorporated society. The
Reverends Dr. Tattersall, Hugh M'Neile, and J. H.
Stewart, are the corresponding members for Liverpool.
Hitherto scarcely anything has been done to meet the
public provision made by Sir Robert Peel, who brought
forward £600,000 for the endowment of new parishes,
stating that the people would soon build churches in the
districts so endowed. We hope the new society will be
soon able liberally to meet Sir Robert's judicious proposal.
POPERY V. SCRIPTURE.—In the protest against the
" Charitable Bequest Act," signed by one archbishop,
thirteen bishops, and above one thousand priests, is the
following sentence :—" Instead of a concession, it is a new
penal law of the old cannon, forbidding the dying sinner
in his most sincere moments—the time or his last sick -
ness—to redeem his sins by the bequest of a single acre of
landed property for any religious or charitable purpose in
our communion." Thus speaks Popery ; now hear what
St. Paul saith—" Christ hath redeemed as from the curse
of the law being made a curse for us." Hear, also, what
St. Peter saith—" Ye know that ye were not rdremed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the
precious blood of Christ."
CHURCH EXTENSION.—The second meeting of the In-
corporated Society for promoting the Enlargement, &c.,
of churches and chapels for the season was held on Mon-
day last, at which the Lord Bishop of London presided.
Grants were voted towards the erection of six new
churches, and the enlargement of four existing churches.
Four of the new churches are for districts endowed under
the act of last session—at King Cross, in the parish of
Halifax • Little Drayton in the parish of Market Drayton ;
Rhos-yCae, near Holywell ; and South Milfor t, in the
parish of Sherburn, Yorkshire ; the other two new
churches are for Armitage-bridge, in the parish of Hud-
dersfield, and North Moor-green, in the parish of North
Petherton. The churches which are to be enlarged are at
Coniscliffe, near Darlington; Marcos, near Langharne;
Areley Kings, near Stourport ; and Great Wilbra' am,
near Cambridge. The treasurer reported that the grants
voted at this meeting had almost exhausted the funds at
the disposal of the society. The total population aided
by the grants made at this meeting amounts to 183,824
souls, and the number of existing churches is 41 ; the ac-
commodation they contain is for 30,150 persons, about
5700 of which are free ; to this provision of church room
3950 sittings are to be added, of which 2600, or nearly the
whole number, will be free and unappropriated.
DIOCESES OF CHESTER AND EXETER.—In what a state
of excitement and confusion are the city and diocese of
Exeter, from the Tractarian innovations of the Bishop!
But the present effect is of little comparative moment,
but as surely portending, if the innovations be persevered
in, extensive secessions from the church, and a vast
weakening of its legitimate influence and power. It is a
merci ul thing that the dioceses of England in general
are not in such a state as this. And if passing over the
generality of them, we reach that of Chester, one of the
largest, and we rather think, the most populous of the
whole. and perceive not only new churches rising
in all directions, but Dissenters in multitudes joining the
church, not a few Dissenting ministers waiting for ad-
mission into her service, and one pastor with his entire
congregation passing into the bosom of our communion
at once,—we see the legitimate effect of the true catholic
spirit and labours of one Bishop ; while looking back to
the other end of the kingdom, we perceive the legitimate
effect, also, of the true Tractarian and lordly rule of
another. The one is cherishing and building up the
church ; raising it to higher honour in the eyes of all
men ; and increasing its intelligent members and effective
power with prodigious rapidity. The other is scattering
and wasting the pastors and the flocks, first with Tracta-
rian doctrine, and now with Tractarian innovations; he
has become the " monster" promoter of Dissent through-
out the kingdom ; and is doing the work of an unhealthy
dissent, and of a vigilant Popery, to the heart's content
of these two distinct classes of the enemies cf our church.

DR. PUSEY.—This reverend gentleman has published
a letter in reference to the late proceedings instituted
against Mr. Ward, in which, after stating that he " signed
the articles it their literal grammatical sense,' deter-
mined where it is ambiguous by the faith of the whole
Church before East and West were divided." He says :
"The Articles I now sign in the way in which from
Archbishop Laud's time they have been proposed by the
Church; this test I should have to receive, not from the
Church, but from the University, in the sense in which
it is proposed to me by them. Could 1 then ever so much
satisfy myself that I could take the test according to any
general meaning of the words, I must know from past
experience that I should not take it in the sense in which it
was proposed to me. I could not then take it without a feel-
ing of dishonesty. You will imagine that I feel the responsi-
bility of making such a declaration, knowing, as I must,
that in case, in the present excitement, the statute should
pass, younger men, whom it might involve in various diffi-
culties might be influenced by my example, I know, too, of
course, that some will he the more anxious to press the test
in hopes that my refusal to take it may end in my removal
from this place. Whether it would or no I know not.
But, whatever be the resalt, it seems to me the straight-
forward course. It is best in cases of great moment that
people should know the effect of what they are doing. I
am ashamed to write so much about myself, but I cannot
explain myself in few words. What is my case would,
probably, be that of others. It has often been painful to
witness the apparent want of seriousness in people when
things far more serious than office, or home, or even one's
allotted duties in God's vineyard have been at stake. But
people now feel more readily what it is to lose office and
home, and the associations of the greater part of life."
Without stopping to inquire where "the faith of the whole
church" is to be found, we may ask whether if the above
letter means anything, it is not this—that if the proposed
statute be passed, Dr. Pusey goes to Rome.

THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with the infant royal family, remain at Windsor Castle,
in the enjoyment of excellent health, taking their usual
out-door exercise as the weather permits.
The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha,
and the Grand Duke Ernest, of Wirtemburgh, left Wind-
sor Castle on Tuesday, and embarked at Dover for Os-
tend.

It is now positively stated that the accouchement of the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz will take place
at Cambridge House.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

COMMON PLEAS.—ST. STEPHEN'S WALLBROOK.—
! Gibbs (Lord Mayor) and another v. Flight and another.
This action, brought on Thursday, to recover possession
of books claimed by the former as churchwardens, and
kept by the latter, who have been also returned as church-
wardens, ended in a nominal verdict for the plaintiffs.
which verdict is to be hereafter turned into a special case
for the opinion of the court above.
SEDUCTION.—An action was tried in the Court of Ex.
chequer, Dublin, on Saturday week, in which the defend-
ant was a Mr. B. A. Yates, a magistrate of the county of
KiLiare; and the plaintiff a very poor woman, named
Smith. It was an action for the seduction of the plain-
tiff's daughter, a girl of about eighteen. It appeared that
the defendant had first seen this girl when she appealed to
him as a magistrate to interfere on behalf of her mother,
who was then a prisoner in Naas gaol. The jury found
for the plaintiff; with £3OO damages.
THE ARCHIMEBEAN SCREW.—A very important deci-
sion was given in the Court of Queen's Bench, on the
10th inst., in the sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall,
'before Lord Denman. The plaintiff, Mr. Lowe, is a
smoke-jack maker, who in 1838, took out a patent for
propelling vessels, by means of a screw working under
water at the stern of the vessel, and the defendants are
Messrs. Penn, the celebrated steam-boat builders. The
action was brought for an infringement on the plaintiffs
patent, by applying the screw to the steam-boat Infant
Prince. It appeared that, after the plaintiff had taken
out his patent, he in 1839, made various alterations in his
screw; in consequence of a series of experiments, which
he mode on board of the Wizard, at which Mr. Smith,
proprietor of the Archimedes was present; that the Ar-
chimedes was originally built with a whole screw, which
occasioned a disagreeable vibration at the stern, but
which was afterwards got rid of by altering the screw to
an open one. For the defence it was contended that the
invention was not a new one—that it did not differ in
principle from Shorter's patent sculling machine, invented
in 1800; that it was identical in principle and near in de-
tail with Millington's propeller patented in 1816;
Brown's invention in 1825 ; Trevethick's in 1815, and
Crammerow's in 1829 were also referred to. Mr. Ron-
nie, the engineer, gave his opinion that Lowe's patent
differed in nothing from these; in cross-examination,
however, he stated that in every one of the above inven-
tions the vane was flat, excepting Cammerow's, which
was for a whole screw, and not for a section of a screw,
as is Mr. Lowe's. The jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages forty shillings.