The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 21.—At a Congregation just held
the following degrees were conferred :—/Masters of Arts:
William Whitehead Blackwell, Trinity College ; Charles
Braddy, St. John's College ; Richard Woosnam, Caius
College.—Bachelors of Arts: William John Whiteway
Bastard, Magdalene College ; George Nesse Clark, Corpus
Christi College.
CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Robert James Phil.
li more, LL.D., to the Chancellorship of the diocese of
Sarum, vacant by the resignation of Mr. J. R. Ilope ;
Rev. John Anthony Cramer, D.E., Principal of New Inn
Hall, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the
University of Oxford, to the Deanery of Carlisle ; Rev.
John Charles Earle, to Christ Church, Bradford, Wilts ;
Rev. John Phelps, to the Rectory of Langford Parva,
Wilts; Rev. James Ralph, to the Rectory of St. John's,
Horselydown, Southwark ; Rev. Charles Walters, to the
Rectory of Weeke, Hants; Rev. H ellier Touzel, to the
Rectory of Bran:Wean, Hants ; Rev. John Julius Est ridge,
to the Rectory of Princeknowle, Dorset; Rev. W. D.
Lamb, to the district of Sneyd, in the parish of Birstal ;
Rev. Daniel Campbell, to the Perpetual Curacy of Barow,
Worcestershire ; Rey. Wyndham Madden, to the Per-
petual Curacy of Holy Trinity, Fareham, Hants; Rev.
Reginald P. H. to the Curacy of St. Lawrence, Evesham ;
Rev. John Joseph Ebsworth, to the Curacy of St. Thomas,
Stourbridge.
The Earl of Powis has given notice of a motion relative
to the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph for after Easter
recess.

Mr. Ward has addressed a letter to the Vice-Chancel-
lor of Oxford, in which he declares that be considers
himself morally unaffected by what had passed at the
University. Mr. Oakley has, in another letter to the
Vice-Chancellor, avowed the same sentiments as Mr.
Ward, and challenged the University to proceed against
him in the same manner.
THE RUBRIC.—The following communication has been
received from the bishop of this diocese in reply to an
application made to his lordship, by the vicar of Leigh,
on the subject of the Rubric preceding the prayer for the
Church Militant :—" Chester, Feb. 12. Dear sir,—l
think that all the objects of the Rubric will be attained, if
the bread and the wine are made ready in the vestry, and,
at the proper time, transferreed by you to the table.-1
am, dear sir, faithfully yours, J. B. Chester.
TRACT NINETY PRINCIPLES EXEMPLIFIED. —We
have heard from good authority that a college tutor, lately
lecturing his class on the articles of the Church of En-
gland, declaring that purgatory, invocation of saints, &c.,
were so far from being grounded on Scripture as to be
" rather" repugnant to the word of God, observed on the
extreme moderation of the Church in qualifying the ex-
pression " repugnant" by the word " rather." This is
" separating the dry wording for the natural spirit" with
a vengeance.—Oxford paper.
GOSPEL PROPAGATION SOCIETY.—A correspondent,
giving us his name, informs us that a vicar of a parish
with which he is acquainted has returned the Queen's
Letter, issued in furtherance of the objects of this society,
a blank, " assigning as the reason, the fact, that all his
parishioners have refused to contribute to the funds of the
society so long as it numbers among its servants one who
has offered so gross an insult to the feelings of the vast
majority of English churchmen." Our correspondent
also informs us, that " two other clergymen are about to
write to the society, inquiring whether this alleged fact be
correct, and, if so, to decline for the present to advocate
the society's clairns."—Record.

EXTENT OF THE ROMANIST PERVERSION.—A pam-
phlet is in circulation by the Rev. Frederick Ockely, of
Balliol, containing a most unequivocal confirmation of
statements that have been made from time to time in this
paper as to the progress of Romanistic opinions among
the tutors and fellows of the university. In contradic-
tion of Mr. Keble's flimsy falsehood, that o e or two per-
sons only concur with Mr. Ward, Al r.Oaleley says—" To
my certain knowledge there are not merely one or two,
but, at the very le,ist, fifteen or twenty of my own ioize-
diatefriends and acquaintances, members of the university,
who, to the best of my belief, in subscribing the Articles,
renounce no one Roman doctrine." The rev. author adds
in a note—" I do not include the rev. author of Tract
90, whose precise and matured view upon this question I
do not know. He has certainly not stated or implied in
the Tract, that he considers the Articles capable of this
extreme interpretation, though neither (if my memory
serves me), has he there stated or inferred the reverse.
This is exquisite—Mr. Newman, then, is only a finger-post
to Rome!—Oxford Chronicle.