The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-21 00:00:00

TRACTARIANISM,

The following reply from the Lord Bishop of this
Diocese has been transmitted to an address forwarded to
his Lordship from the laity of Bolton, on the subject that
is now causing so much excitement in the church :
" Chester, Nov. 15th, 1843.
" GENTLEMEN,—I desire to express my thanks for the
address which you have been deputed to present to me,
signed by nearly nine hundred of the inhabitants of
Bolton and its neighbourhood. I have received it with
great satisfaction.

" It is always gratifying to learn that our actions are
approved, and our sentiments responded to, by those
whose opinion is justly deserving of estee,m. But I de-
rive a higher comfort from your address. I consider it as
a proof of your earnest interest in the cause of evangelical
truth. You would scarcely have thought it worth your
while to encourage me in the course which I have pur-
sued, unless personal experience had taught you to value
the doctrines which you believe to be endangered by those
writings, against which I have felt myself bound to warn
my clergy.

" Though there is much to justify anxiety in the favour
which for a while, and in some quarters, those writings
have obtained, there is also matter of consolation,
in the opportunity which has been afforded of manifesting
the soundness of the public mind, and the determined ad-
herence of the country at large to the doctrines of the re.
formation. May I not farther assume, that the same
circumstance proves the general faithfulness of the mi-
nistry of our church, by which these doctrines have been
established and maintained ; and which has fixed the opi-
nions of the people on a foundation too firm and solid to
be shaken by the occasional stornis which only affect what
is light and weak and wavering.
" Sincerely thanking you for the kind feeling which
prompted your address, and praying that God may' grant
you by His Holy Spirit to have a right judgment in all
things.'

" I remain, Gentlemen,
" Your faithful servant,
J. 8., CHESTER.'

The Rev. E. D. Jackson, 8.C.L., has been appointed
by the dean and chapter of Manchester, to the incum-
bency of Heaton Norris.

The Earls of Winchelsea and Roden have signed the
address to the authorities of Oxford agairig Tractarian-
ism.

We are glad to hear that there is an early probability of
creating a Bishopric for the Channel Islands ; and that
Dr. Jeune, the Dean of Jersey, is most likely to succeed.
—Morning Herald.

An Order in Council, dated on Friday last, directs that
the Archdeaconry and Deanery of Llandaff shall forth-
with be disunited, and become from hencforth two separate
and distinct dignities and offices.

—REV. R. W. SIBTHORP.—We are authorised to con-
tradict the statement that the President of Magdalen
College had received a letter from Mr. Sibthorp, soliciting
restitution to his fellowship to that college, as no such
application in any stage was ever made to the president.—
Oxford Herald.

TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN:--On
Monday afternoon a splendid silver tea-kettle, with lamp,
&c., complete, was presented to the Venerable Archdeacon
Wilkins, D.D., vicar of St. Mary's, Nottingham, on the
termination of his professional connexion with the town,
as a mark of the regard felt towards him by his parishion-
ers, amongst whom he had laboured 26 years.

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM.—On Tuesday se'nnight
an election of Fellows was holden in the University of
Durham, when John Robertson Sumner, 8.A., son of
the Bishop of Chester, the Rev. John Edmunds, 8.A..
curate of Bishop Middlebam, and Walker Featherston-
haugh, 8.A., of the Hermitage, near Chester-le-Street,
were elected to the valuable and honourable dignity of
Fellows of that University.
NEW CHURCHES AT HUDDERSFIELD.—The trustees
of Sir John Wm. Ramsden, Bart., have most liberally
consented, in answer to a memorial presented to them
by the Vicar of Huddersfield, to afford facilities for the
erection of four additional churches in that large parish.
They have not only allotted sites, but have also promised
£2,000 towards the erection of each church. Sites have
also been granted in various places for schools. The pa-
tronage of the new churches is, we understand, to be
vested in the young Baronet.

The Bishoprics of England and Wales were instituted
according to the following order of time, viz., London,
an Archbishopric and Metropolitan of England, founded
by Lucius, the first Christian King of Britain, A.D. 185 ;
Llandaff, 185 ; Bangor, 516 ; St. David's, 519. The
Archbishopric of Wales from 550 till 1100, when the
Bishop submitted to the Archbishop of Canterbury as
his Metropolitan ; St. Asaph, 547 ; St Augustine (or
St. Austin) made Canterbury the Metropolitan Arch-
bishopric, by order of Pope Gregory, A.D. 596; Wells,
604 ; Rochester, 634 ; Winchester, 650 ; Lichfield and
Coventry, 656; Worcester, 679; Hereford. 680: Dur-
ham, 691 ; Sodor and Man, 898 ; Exeter, 1050 ; Sher-
bare (changed to Salisbury)los6 ; York (Archbishoprick)
1067; Dorchester, (changed to Lincoln), 1070; Chiches-
ter, 1071 ; Thetford (changed to Norwich), 1088 ; Bath
and Wells, 1088 ; Ely, 1109 ; Carlisle, 1123. The fol-
lowing six were founded upon the suppression of monas-
teries by Henry VIII. Chester Peterborough, Glou-
cester, Oxford, Bristol, and Westminster, 1538. West-
in' lister was united to London in 1550.

THE SCOTCH CHURCH

MUNIFICENT GIFT TO THE FREE CHURCH.—The Rev.
Dr. Chalmers has received from a member of the Church
of England £lOOO for the Free Church, being £5OO for
the Building Fund, and £5OO for the Sustentation.
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—The election of Lord Rector
took place on Wednesday. The public is aware that, al-
though an election to the Rectorial Chair takes place an-
nually, the Lord Rector is generally allowed to remain in
office for two years—his re-election the second year being
almost regarded a matter of course. On the present
occasion, however, a large and influential portion of
hav-
ing students resolved, in consequence of Mr. Fox Maule
ceased to be a member of the Church of Scotland, to