The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-21 00:00:00

UNIVERSI7Y 6- CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD.—In a congregation holden on Wednesday the
following degrees were conferred:—
Bachelor in Divinity.—Rev. Thomas Nicholl, Worces-
ter College.
Masters of Arts. —Rev. Henry Mitchell, Lincoln
College; James Carden, Merton College; Rev. Matthew
Hale Estcourt, Exeter College; Rev. George Henry
M`Gill, Brasenose College.
Bachelors of Arts.—Thomas C. Garth, Christ Church,
Grand Compounder ; Frederic Bagot, Christ Church ;
James Thomas Barlow, Christ Church ; Robert Vaughton,
New Inn Hail; John Slatter Eaton, Worcester College;
John Wadham, Wadham College ; George Augustus Al-
ston, Wadham College; George Frederic Butler, Exeter
College ; Edward France Perceval, Brasenose College ;
Monier Williams, University College; George Ferguson
Bo wen, Scholar of Trinity College.

A lady, under the initials of A. 8., has this week left
at the chambers of the Incorporated Society for Promoting
the Enlargement and Building of Churches and Chapels a
Bank of England note for £lOOO.
Mr. M`MuLLEN.—On Wednesday, at Oxford. Mr.
M'Mullen's grace was refused for the third time. When
grace is again asked, the statutes require that the objector
should submit his reasons to congregation, and leave that
body to judge of their validity. The Vice-Chancellor has
thus again set the weight of his authority in motion for
the right interpretation of the doctrines of the Church of
England, and for their rescue from the imputation of
Popery. He has supported the Protestant a--• •
Dr. Hampden, in refusing to M.• """ ~ciston of
nib C5l-I - • lye Mullen his degree.
.u,egrity and firmness, which is at all
times so important in the authorities of Oxford, is more
itsh eighth annual me.etino:
particularly valuable in our present times .
CHURCH PASTORAL AID SoctETY.--This Society held
lel , ,!9 Tuesday- 4.;:i the Great Room, tx.eter-
7;elt. Lord Ashley was announced as
tb cl'airrLan of the day, but his lordship being unable to
atteint, the Hon. Captain Waldegrave was moved into the
chair. The secretary read the report, from which it ap-
peared that forty-four new grants had been voted during
the past year, amounting to £3,940. These grants had
been made to Incumbents who had under their charge an
aggregate population of 424,410 souls, being an average
of 9,837 each. During the past year sixteen grants have
been made in augmentation of the incomes of Incumbents
of district Churches, or to districts in which new Churches
are being erected. The amount required to pay the grants
now in operation is £16,384, £4,602 being still required to
enable those Incumbents whose grants have not yet been
filled up to obtain Curates. These sums with £3,449
raised from local sources form a total of £24,399. The
total amount of income received on the 31st of March,
18-13, being £17,562, 19s. 11d., whereas the receipts to
the corresponding period of the present year have been
£21,288 ss. 6d., showing an increase of £1,266.
Extract from a speech delivered by the Hon. and Rev.
Baptist Noel at a meeting held in Exeter Hall, on Thurs-
day se'nnight, in behalf of the London City Mission :
" I find it noticed in one of the Anglo-Catholic journals of
this country, which I hold in my hand, and I have seen it
repeated in several other publications of similar princi-
ples, that a letter has been written to the students of a
particular college, intreating them to leave the established
church and to join a new society ; that new society being
stated to be a project for forming another Episcopal
Church, not connected with the State, and over which
newly-elected bishops should be set. This letter, it is
said, upon authority on which the writer places implicit
confidence, was written by myself. Now the answer that
I have to make to this is, that respecting the society
itself I had no intelligence whatsoever, and I did not know
of its existence ; that the letter itself I suppose to be an
invention,—certainly, at least, I know not its author, and
was not the author myself; and that if I had known of
the proposal to which it alludes it certainly would never
have received any countenance from me. (Cheers.) I
love the Evangelical clergy, and the Evangelical mem-
bers of the Church of England, more dearly than I love
any other body of men in the world. (Renewed cheers.)
I love them so, because I have had frequent opportunities
of knowing their worth and kindness. It is the regiment
of Christ's army in which he has assigned my lot ; and
both the Evangelical officers who lead it, and the Evan-
gelical fellow-soldiers with whom I am called to combat
Christ's foes, are dear to my heart. Nor do I mean to
leave that Church of England, which has been, and I
trust will be, an important bulwark to Protestantism
throughout the world. (Cheers.)

BRITISH REFORMATION SOCIETY.—The seventeenth
annual meeting of the members and friends of this society
was held on Tuesday last, at the Hanover-square rooms,
London. The report of the committee related chiefly to
the progress and effects of the Tractarian movement. It
was stated that the religious world might now be consi-
dered as divided into three classes—Romanists, Tracta-
rians, and Protestants. Whilst the doctrines of the
Church of Rome remained unchanged and unchangeable
in hostility to the diffusion of scriptural truth, another
party had unhappily sprung up in the Reformed Church,
which, by adopting some of the worst errors of Popery,
had produced results most unfavourable to the cause of
true religion. To that painful question the committee
had given serious consideration, and, by the circulation
of tracts, active efforts had been made with a view to
counteract the pernicious effects which the writings of
the Tractarians were calculated to have upon the public
mind. Those insidious writings, the productions of able
and gifted men, were being spread amongst the aristo-
cracy, the younger clergy, and the undergraduates of the
universities ; and it was suggested, as regards the two
latter classes, that the course of education in use at the
universities contributed very materially to the adoption of
Tractarian principles, because the exaction of great at-
tainments in the classics and mathematics left the student
little time for examination of the Scriptures. It was re-
marked, that while the aristocracy had in too many
instances adopted Tractarian tenets, the gentry, mer-
chants, and the lower classes generally, were untainted.
The society's receipts during the past year amounted to
£lOB4 ; the expenditure to £1076. He was not surprised
that it should have been opposed by Roman Catholics,
but the indifference manifested by members of the Re-
formed Church had in a still greater degree a tendency to
retard its operations, in Ireland more especially ; and the
sanction to Popery in another place, by a grant to pay the
priests of the Romish Church to teach idolatry, was one
of those anomalies for which he could not account. The
report, together with some resolutions in furtherance
of the society's views, having been agreed to, the meeting
separated.