The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Rev. Ernest Hawkins has been nominated by Earl
Howe to succeed the Rev. Dr. Fultord, as minister of
Curzon Chapel, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-

square.
The Rev. U. W. Beckwith, 8.A., of University College,
Oxford, has been presented, by the Archbishop of York,
to the incumbency of the parish of Thornely-in-Cleveland,
Yorkshire.

The first stone of the new church at Gwersyllt, in the
parish of Gresford, was laid, on Saturday week, by Mrs.
Williams, of Gwersyllt-park, in the presence of the
Bishop of St. Asaph and a very numerous assemblage of
all classes.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred the degree
of Master of Arts upon the Rev. Charles Marshall,
chaplain to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London,
and the newly-appointed rector of St. James, Duke's-
place, London.
The Rev. W. Knight, of St. James's, Hull, has pub-
lished a letter in the local papers complaining of the
recent charge delivered by Archdeacon Wilberforce ; and
that it may be desirable before another visitation, for the
clergy agreeing with him to learn how far it is obligatory
upon them to subject themselves " to the pain of having
the archidiaconal brand applied afresh."
The Rev. St. Vincent Beechy, formerly of Fleetwood,
has been nominated by the Earl of Ellesmere to the per-
petual curacy of Worsley, vacant by the resignation of
Rev. Charles Cameron, late the incumbent. The Rev.
Richard John Shields has been nominated to the perpe-
tual curacy of Hornby, near Lancaster, by Pudsey Daw-
son, Esq., of Hornby Castle. The Rev. James Geoffrey
Hornby, rector of Bury, has been nominated by Dr.
Haggard, the chancellor of the diocese of Manchester,
to be one of his surrogates.
A correspondence is published in the Berkshire Chro-
nicle between the Bishop of Oxford, and certain laymen
of Reading, 420 of whom forwarded an address to his
lordship, as a counter protest to, the address presented to
the Bishop from the clergy of the archdeaconry of Berks.
These laymen declare their " entire approval" of the judg-
ment of the Privy Council, that the present agitation, " so
actively promoted by the leaders of the Tractarian party,"
tends to nothing less than the unprotestantising of the
church and country," and "to plurge us again intoPopish
darkness and superstition." The Bishop replies, deeply
lamenting the tone of the protest.
MEETING ON THE GORHAM CASE.—This meeting is
now definitely fixed to take place this day, at St. Martin's
Hall, Long-acre, at twelve o'clock, when the resolutions
submitted to the meeting will consist of the adoption--
Ist, Of a protest against the judgment in the Gorham
case. 2d, Of a petition to Queen. 3d, Of an ad-
dress to the Archbishops and Bishops. 4th, Of an ad-
dress to the Scotch Bishops. sth, An appeal to the
Clergy and Laity of England. The protest, first reciting
the opinions of Mr. Gorham, as expressed in his book,
and than the doctrine of the Church as contained in the
Nicene Creed, Baptismal Service, the Order of Confir-
mation, the Catechism, and the 25th and 27th Articles,
sums up :—" Now, we, the undersigned, members, of
the Church of England, accepting without reserve these
distinct declarations of her doctrine (denying also that
her deliberate and unambigious expressions in the actual
ministration of the Sacrament of Baptism are to be taken
in a qualified or uncertain sense), and holding THAT
ORIGINAL SIN IS REMITTED TO ALL INFANTS BY SPIRI-
TUAL REGENERATION THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF
THE MERITS OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST
IN AND BY THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM, which doc-
trine we, together with the whole church, individually
affirm whenever in the recital of the Nicene Creed we
' ACKNOWLEDGE ONE BAPTISM FOR THE REMISSION OF
SINS,' do hereby solemnly repudiate and protest against
the said judgment of the judicial Committee of her
Majesty's Privy Council ; and do appeal therefrom unto
a free and lawful Synod of the Church of England, when
such Synod may be had."
TREATMENT OF THE WELSH CHURCH.—During the
debate on the ecclesiastical commission bill, on Tuesday,
Sir B. Hall said he would move that the incomes of the
English deans be reduced from £lOOO to £7OO a-year,
the sum received by the Welsh deans. To show the
effect of appointing deans for Wales who were imper-
fectly acquainted with the Welsh language. he might
mention that in a case which had come under his notice
the clean's sermons were written by a person who had
been a member of the Independent body of dissenters,
but who had been expelled by them. This man was on
one occasion brought before the magistrates, among
whom was the dean, for neglecting to maintain his family,
when he said--" If you would pay me more than half-a-
crown for seventeen sermons I should be able to main-
tain my wife and family, but I can't do so now."
(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) Mr. J. Williams could bear
out the statements of the hon. baronet as to the incon-
venience experienced from the imperfect acquaintance
of the clergy appointed to preferments in Wales with the
Welsh language. On one .occasion a clergyman transla-
ting into Welsh the passage " The righteous shall in- i
'writ eternal life," used a Welsh phrase which signified
" The goslings shall devour the food of the geese."
(Laughter.) It was not to be wondered at that the whole
kvirregatien laughed at him. He found on every hand
En,,qlsl,o3an appointed as bishops, deans, and to other
inferi.Of ,9tfigef ii 3 the church in Welt)s? Pr) grAs?"4

munificent incomes as teachers of the people while they
were totally ignorant of their language. There were
two brothers, sons of a late Bishop of St. Asapb, who did
not understand a word of the Welsh language, but whose
incomes exceeded those of eighty-seven curates—(hear,
hear)—and the house would scarcely believe, perhaps,
that there were two curates in St. Asaph who did duty
every day in the year, and whose annual income was only
£3O each.

The tractarians are issuing an address to the Archbishop
of Canterbury, " solemnly imploring h.s grace not to
suffer any step to be taken for the institution of Mr.
Gorham."

The Bishop of Manchester, in the debate on the Factory
Bill in the House of Lords, on Monday, stated that he
had consecrated as many as twenty-four churches in the
short time that he had exercised episcopal functicns, and
confirmed twenty-two thousand young persons.
THE CHURCH QUESTION IN YORKSHIRE.—The Eccle-
siastical Court of the Archdiocese of York is about to be
moved to ascertain the soundness of the doctrines held by
the Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce. In the course of
his archdeacons' visitation just concluded, the archdeacon
broached opinions. while delivering his charge, which the
majority of the clergy of the diocese believe to be unscrip-
tural and opposed to the teaching of the Church. The
archdeacon has expressed his willingness to resign his
" office of teaching" in the event of its being established
that his views are heretical.
THE BISHOP OF EXETER'S PROTEST.—It will be
seen from our report of the proceedings in the Arches
Court, on Saturday last, that the Bishop of Exeter, in
making his return in the Gorham case, accompanied it
with a protest, which the judge refused to receive. That
document is published in the London papers of yesterday.
After reciting the doctrine held by Mr. Gorham, and the
proceedings taken before the Privy Council, the protest is
concluded as follows :—" Now we, the said Henry,
Bishop of Exeter, taking the premises into our serious and
anxious consideration, and furthermore, considering that
the judgment of Her Most Gracious Majesty in Council on
the said appeal was pronounced solely in reliance on the
statement made in the report and recommendation of the
said Judicial Committee, as being a just, true, and suffi-
cient statement, do, by virtue of the authority given to us
by God, as a bishop in the church of Christ, and in the
apostolic branch of it planted by God's'providence within
this land, and established therein by the laws and consti-
tution of this realm, hereby solemnly repudiate the said
judgment, and declare it to be null and utterly without
effect in foro coascientice, and do appeal therefrom in all
Lanicerns Luc cuLL..114.. haiLL au cLc oa,actl Oyuud ut
this nation when it shall be in the name of Christ as-
sembled as the true church of England by representation.'
And further, we do solemnly protest and declare that
whereas the said George Cornelius Gorham did manifestly
and notoriously hold the aforesaid heretical doctrines, and
bath not since .retracted and disclaimed the same, any
archbishop of bishop, or any official of any archbishop or
l.ishop, who shall institute the said George Cornelius Gor-
ham to the cure and government of the souls of the pa-
rishioners of the said parish of Bampford Speke, within
our diocese aforesaid, will thereby incur the sin of sup-
porting and favouring the said heretical doctrinei, and we
do hereby renounce and repudiate all communion with
any one, be he whom he may, who shall so institute the
said George Cornelius Gorham as aforesaid. Given under
our hand and episcopal seal this 20th day of July, in the
year of our Lord, 1850.—" H. EXETER."

POPERY IN THE CHURCH.—A paper with this heading
has just been published. It is as follows, and so clearly
speaks for itself as to require no addition from us :
"The Rev. William Dodsworth, incumbent of Christ
Church, Regent's Park, has published a letter addressed
by him to Dr. Pusey, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford,
the main design of which is to censure (mildly, however)
a certain ' ambiguousness,' on the part of the latter, in
his method of upholding and promoting the doctrine of
spiritual regeneration in baptism. In this letter the writer
addresses his correspondent as his dear friend ;' speaks
of the long friendship which has subsisted between
them,' and states that hitherto they have been fighting
side by side for the same holy truths.' At pages 16 and
and 17, Mr. Dodsworth pronounces the following eulogy
on his friend,' with whose principles and conduct he
must be presumed to be intimately acquainted :—` You
have been one of the foremost to lead us on to a higher
appreciation of that Church System," of which sacra-
mental grace is the very life and soul. Both by precept
and-example you have been amongst the most earnest to
maintain Catholic principles. By your constant and
common practice of administering the sacrament of pe-
nance; by encouraging everywhere, if not enjoining, au-
ricular confession, and giving special priestly absolution ;
by teaching the propitiatory sacrifice of the Holy Eucha-
rist, as applicatory of the one sacrifice on the cross, and
by adoration of Christ really present on the altar under
the form of bread and wine; by your introduction of
Roman Catholic books ` adapted to the use of our
Church ;' by encouraging the use of rosaries and cru-
cifixes, and special devotions to our Lord :' as e. g. to
His five wounds ; by adopting language most powerfully
expressive of our incorporation into Christ, as e. g. " our
being inebriated by the blood of our Lord ;' by advocating
counsels of perfection, and seeking to restore, with more
or less fulness, the conventual or monastic life ;—I say,
by the teaching and practice, of which this enumeration
is a sufficient type and indication, you have done much to
revive amongst us the system which may be pre-eminently
called ` Sacramental.' In relation to the foregoing ex-
tract, public attention is invited to the following facts :
First. That both Dr. Pusey and Mr. Dodsworth are, to
this day, beneficed clergymen, and the former a digni-
tary, of the Church of England,—Dr. Pusey in the
diocese of Oxford, and Mr. Dodsworth in that of London."