The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

The consecration of the Bishop of Hereford is fixed for
Sunday. the 26th. at Lambeth Palace Chapel.
..The Rev. A. Tighe Gregory, T. C. D.. has been insti-
tuted to the vicarage of Bawdsey, In Nuffolk, by the Loral
Bishop of Norwich. Patron—the Lord Chancellor.
Lord John Russell said on Friday night that it is not
the intention of Government to fill up the vacant stall in
Durham Cathedral.

An address, signed by nearly all the tutors and lecturers
at Oxford, has been presented to the Hebdomadal Board,
in favour of some extensive alterations in the present
system of university examinations.

The Rev. Dr. Ellerton, senior fellow of Magdalen Col-
lege, Oxford, has founded in the University of Durham, a
scholarship of the value of £2l a year, to be held by a na-
tive of the north riding of Yorkshire.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been pleased to
appoint Felix Knyvett, Esq., of the city of Chester, his
secretary. Mr. Knyvett has filled the same office for
the diocese of Chester for the last ten years.

The stamp duty paid on the probate of the will of the
late Archbishop of Canterbury was 1,5001., the personal
estate of this venerable prelate having been valued for that
purpose at 120,0001., which is exclusive of freeholds. His
Grace has left the whole of his property absolutely to his
wife.

The Rev. W. F. Wilkinson, late Theological Tutor of
Cheltenham:College, has been presented to the living of St.
Werberg's, Derby, through the kind offices, we believe,
of Mr. Strutt, M.P. for that city. The living is in the
gift of the Lord Chancellor, and is worth, nett, £4OO a-
year.

- The Bishop of London consecrated the new church of
St. Mark's, Shoreditch, on Thursday, making the thir-
teenth church entirely built by the Metropolitan Churches
Fund—the whole of the seats are entirely free. On Satur-
day his lordship consecrated the new district church,
dedicated to tke Holy Trinity, at lloxton—it has two
thousand sittings, all free.
DunnAm.—Ralph Lindsay, Esq., has presented to the
University of Durham the advowsons of the Rectory of
Ickleford, and of the vicarage of Pirton, both in the
county of Herts. The annual value of the two livings is
understood to be about £6OO. Mr. Lindsay has already
founded in the University a scholarship of £4O a year, to
be held by a student educated at Durham grammar school.
A scholar will be elected to fill that scholarship in Octo-
ber next.

THE BIBLE SOCIETY.—On Monday a deputation from
the Bible Society waited on the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, to congratulate him on his elevation to the Primacy,
and present him with an Imperial Quarto Bible. His
Grace repli'd as follows :—Gentlemen, I beg to express
the satisfaction with which I receive your kind congratu-
lations on the high Ecclesiastical dignity to which in the
Providence of God I have been called ; and I especially
value youraddress, because it is accompanied by the present
of that Book, to which I owe everything. Whatsoever
I am as a man, or as a writer, or as a minister, that Book
has made me ; and the only hope which I now entertain
of realising the expectations of kind friends, and dis-
charging with any degree of faithfulness the duties which
lie before me, depends upon the Bible ; for there I am
assured, that He who dispenses to men their respective
stations on earth, will also give strength for the per-
formance of what those stations require. and together
with the trial, will furnish grace to meet the trial. It may
happen that the new circumstances in which 1 am placed
may render me less able than I have been hitherto to
attend the public meetings of your Society, to which I
have been attached for more than forty years ; but nothing
can change my opinion of the excellence of that Society,
which will always find me faithful to its interests and
anxious for its prosperity. And now, gentlemen, in bid-
ding you farewell, permit ine to express, together with
my thanks for your kind feelings towards me, an earnest
prayer for your welfare, both spiritual and temporal.
May you be guided through life by the principles of the
Volume which you have presented to me, and experience
their support when everything else has lost its value.
CONFIRMATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
—On Friday morning the confirmation of the Right Rev.
Dr. Sumner to the Archbishopric of Canterbury took
place in the parish church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside,
London. The Commissioners appointed were his Grace
the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of London, Win-
chester, Oxford, Rochester, St. Asaph, Peterborough,
Chichester, St. David's, 134011 and Wells, Ely, and
Lichfield. The Archbishop of York presided. The
Archbishop Elect and the Bishops having put on their
robes in the vestry, and the Advocates and Proctors, the
Vicar-General, the Registrar, with the other officers
having assembled, and the Archbishop Elect having con-
sented to the election, they were conducted into the
church, where morning prayers were read by the Venera-
ble Archdeacon Hamilton, the Rector. The Right Rev.
Commissioners then proceeded from their pews to a table
prepared for them near the chancel. The Proctor of the
Arches Court prayed that the letters patent might be read,
which was accordingly done by the Registrar. After
which the Lord Archbishop Elect took his seat at the
table, opposite to the President of the Commissions ; his
Grace being presented to their Lordships by the Rector,
who, at the same time, presented to their Lordships the
original mandate, whereupon the President directed the
Apparitor (J. T. Barber, Esq.) to make proclamation
calling upon all persons who should object to the confir-
mation to come forward and make their objections in due
form of law, and they would he heard. At this stage of
the proceedings,
a manifest sensation was produced
through the church, and the ceremony was proceeded
with. The Archbishop of York then read the several do-
cuments which were afterwards signed by the Commis-
sioners. The Archbishop of York. then rose, and an-
lionaeed the confirmation of the election. arid the sin -
tome of confirmation having been signed by tht Vogenas
eskaerE, the proceedings terminated.