The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A very serious accident occurred
on Friday afternoon, on the East Lancashire Railway, near
the Burscough station, which is a short distance from
Ormskirk, and by which one man was killed, and several
others were dangerously injured. The accident took
place about half-past one o'clock. It is believed the axle
of a contractor's waggon broke, and that the injuries have
been confined to the servants of the company and con-
tractors. The deceased was literally cut to pieces.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.
—A dreadful accident happened on Friday, on the line of
railway between Brighton and Lewes, by which the lives
of four persons were sacrificed, and a fifth is not expected
to survive. The names of the deceased are Mrs. Chat-
field, about 60 years of age; her daughter, 30 years of
age (persons in the middle rank of life—Mrs. Chatfield
has a son, who carries on the business of a baker in Bond-
street, Brighton); George Chase, the stoker ; and a young
man, name unknown, whose linen is marked "Lawrence."
It appears that the train which met with the accident was
a short train from Brighton to Lewes, leaving Brighton
at five minutes past twelve, and consisted of the engine
and tender, a first-class carriage, a second-class carriage,
and a third-class carriage ; that two persons were booked
for the first-class, three for the second, and four for the
third. Three out of the four in the third-class
carriage were killed, and the other persons in the train
comprised the engile-driver, the stoker, and the guard,
whose name is Earle. The distance between Brighton
and Lewes is eight miles, and half-way between the two
towns is a tunnel, called Falmer Tunnel, which is about
one hundred yards in length. On either side this tunnel
the railroad is on the declivity for at least two miles. The
spot where the accident took place is within a couple of
miles of Lewes, over an embankment of thirty feet deep.
The engine appears to have been off the line about fifty
yards from where the catastrophe happened. It did not
tear up the rails to any very great extent, but it carried
away the brickwork over the bridge, and fell to the road
below, carrying with it the tender, a second-class carriage
and a third-class carriage. Three of the third-class pas-
sengers (Mrs. Chatfield and her daughter, and the young
man Lawrence), were thrown out and killed on the spot,
but what became of the fourth third-class passenger we
have not been able to learn. The unfortunate stoker was
jammed between the engine and a brick wall below, and
was completely smashed. Upwards of an hour elapsed
before the parties in attendance could extricate the poor
fellow, whose fsce presented a shocking sight. He was
the son of a servant of the Brighton Railway Company,
who was killed some sixteen or eighteen months ago at
New Cross, and his widowed mother is now holding a
situation at the Brighton terminus. The engineer, Jack-
son, is so much injured that his life is despaired of. He
was removed to the Sussex county hospital, and consented
to have both his legs taken off.

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

DR. CULLEN AN IMAGE-MONGER.—The sham Arch-
bishop of Armagh delivered an harangue at a meeting of
the clergy of " his lordship's" archdiocese, in which he
said—" We have opened this meeting by assisting at the
most holy sacrifice of the mass—we have invoked the aid
of the Holy Ghost—we are assembled in God's temple,
in the presence of the IMAGE of our crucified Saviour."
" In the presence of the image," said Priest Cullen, they
who make such are like unto them, [i. e., are deaf, and
dumb, and blind,] and so are all they that put their trust
in them. Hear the sham primate again :—" Who will
believe that, in a Christian country, the image of the most
holy Mother of God was paraded through the streets, and
ignominiously committed to the flames ?" If Paul Cul-
len knew anything of the Bible, he would find that such
images were ordered by God himself to be utterly des-
troyed.
POPISH SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND SUPPORTED BY THE
STATE.—An advertisement, of which the following is an
extract, appeared in the Tablet of the 17th of May, and
illustrates in a remarkable manner the iniquity of that go-
vernment support of Popery, which is the disgrace of the
British nation :—" Schoolmaster wanted.—Wanted a
competent master for a large school in Lancashire, who
is prepared to undergo examination by H. M. Inspector.
He will be required to act as Sacristan, and none need
apply who are not handy at the altar, and have some ear
for music. Salary £5O per annum, with ADDITION OF
GOVERNMENT GRANT and pupil teachers. Apply (stating
qualifications) to, &c." Here we find that •• a govern-
ment grant" is to be part payment to a " schoolmaster"
having " some ear for music," for acting as " Sacristan"
in a Mass-house, and making himself " handy at the
altar"—that is to say, the money of the people of Eng-
land is to hesquandered by the State, on the propagation of
Popery in Popish schools, and on paying musical-eared
" Sacristans" for making themselves handy" to their
masters. the priests, when they are offering
up the blas-
phemous sacrifice of the Mass, at the altars of those semi-
Pagan temples where the rites of the Pope's church are
celebrated. Will the Protestants of Englaod endure this

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

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LONDON AND DURHAM UNIVERSITIES.—The Masters
of the Bench of Gray's-inn have recently passed an order
that members of the London and Durham Universities
shall have the same privileges with respect to call to the
bar at Gray's-inn as are enjoyed by members of the Uni-
versities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin.
The Bishop of Exeter holds, with the bishopric, in
commendam, the treasurership of the cathedral, with a
canonry, and the rectory of Shobrooke. The value of the
former is £1,198, and of the latter £2BO. Besides which
be has a stall in Durham Cathedral, which averages about
£2,600 a-year. There are 43 preferments in the diocese,
ranging from £2O to £l,OOO a-year.

The Bishop of Exeter has refused to accept the nomina-
tion of the. Rev. Hibbert Newton to the curacy of St.
Thomas, because the rev. gentleman, when questioned on
the subject of baptism, refuses to acknowledge that the
mere instrument of baptism makes a child " born anew of
water and of the spirit, and an inheritor of the kingdom
of heaven." It is the fashion of the bishop's admirers to
deny that he is near to Rome, but what difference, we
would ask, is there between a bishop who refuses to
accept the nomination of a curate, because he does not
" hold that all infants duly baptized according to the
offices of baptism in the Book of Common Prayer, are
therein born anew of water and of the Holy Ghost," and
that Pope who condemned the thesis of Luther, that " to
deny that sin remains in an infant after baptism is to
trample St. Paul and our Lord Jesus Christ under foot ?"
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND THE BISHOP
OF EXETER'S PROPOSED SYNOD.—The following letter
has been received by Mr. W. Kitson, the chairman of
the vestries of Tormoham and Upton, Torquay, at which
resolutions were adopted disapproving of the intended
synod :—" Lambeth, May 21st.—Sir,--I have the honor
of acknowledging an address which you have forwarded
to me as chairman of the vestry of the united parishes of
Tortnoharn and Upton, in which you express your objec-
tions against the measure proposed by your diocesan, of
holding a diocesan synod, and desire my interference to
prevent the evils which you anticipate as likely to result
from such a measure. lam by no means blind to the
probability Of such evils, and I greatly regret that such a
measure should have been devised ; but if it is not a
transgression of the law of the land it cannot be success.
fully resisted; and if it does violate the law, I have no
doubt that the officers of the crown will interfere, by
means more effectual than I have authority to employ.--
I have the honour, &c., J. B. CANTUAR."
CHURCH LEASEHOLDS.—It may be assumed as a mat-
ter of great: probability that the bill for the management
of " episcopal and capitular estates," which threatens to
make very serious inroads on all descriptions of Church
Leasehold Property, will not be prosecuted with vigour
this session. The measure is now before a select com-
mittee of the House of Lords, and such is the opposition
prepared for it both by lessors and lessees that it has no
chance of success in :the hands of the present feeble, in-
competent Government. The proposed measure is nothing
more nor less than one of confiscation, and has necessarily
created great alarm amongst the thousands of individuals
and families whose fortunes are bound up with that de-
scription of property, upon which settlements have been
made, mortgages effected, and other binding arrange-
ments entered into. The lessees of Church Property
claim the right to renew the lives and terms in their leases
on payment of the usual and customary fines, without
which they feel that they would be unjustly deprived of
their beneficial interest in leases, or to enfranchise them
upon equitable terms. The magnitude of the interests at
stake may be estimated when it is stated that the value of
Church Leasehold Property in Yorkshire amounts to no
less than Eighteen Millions, whilst in the Diocese of Dur-
ham it is immeasurably larger.—Newcastle Journal.
THE NATIONAL SCHOOL SOCIETY.—The annual general
meeting of this society was held on Wednesday, at the
Ceatral School, Westminster, under the presidency of
the Archbishop of . Canterbury. The platform was
crowded, and among those present were the Earl Nelson,
Sir John Pakington. Bart., M.P. ; B. Hope, Esq., M.P. ;
Messrs. Childers, M.P. ' • Mangles, M.P. ; Evans, M.P. ;
Slaney, M.P. ; Rev. G. A. Denison, Rev. Edward Girdle-
stone, Rev. J. G. Lonsdale, A.M., Rev. the Dean of
Bristol (Dr. Eliot), Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. ; the
Dean of Carlisle, the Bishop of London, Lord Redesdale,
Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Harrowby, the Archbishop
of York, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Ban-
gor, the Bishop of St. Asaph, the Right. Hon. Henry
Goulburn, M.P. ; the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop
of Winchester, &c., &c. After the transaction of the
routine business, the Rev. G. A. Denison, vicar of East
Brent, brought forward, according to notice, the following
motion :—" That this meeting deeply regrets that her
Majesty's Government continue to disallow the equitable
claim of members of the Church of England, as set forth
in the resolution of the annual meeting of this society,
June 6, 1849—that founders of Church schools, who see
fit to place the management of their schools solely in
the clergyman of the parish and the bishop of the diocese,'
should not on that account be excluded from state assist-
ance towards the building of their schools." The resolu-
tion was seconded by Mr. A. J. B. Hope, M.P. ; Sir J.
Pakington, M.P., and Mr. Childers, M.P., seconded an
amendment to the following effect :—" That the cause of
sound religious instruction and the interests of the Church
demand, at the present juncture, the friendly cooperation
of the National Society and the committee of council ;
and this meeting, satisfied that such cooperation must be
for the advantage of the National Society as well as of the
Church at large, desires to deprecate any renewal of the
agitation which has characterised the recent meetings of
this society, and to express an earnest hope that the two
bodies may act cordially together." A warm discussion
ensued, in which Lord Robert Grosvenor, the Earl of
Harrowby, the Bishop of London, and several reverend
gentlemen took part. Sir John Pakington at length
withdrew his amendment, but as Mr. Denison insisted on
dividing the meeting, a vote was taken, and his motion
was negatived by a large majority. The most reverend
Chairman expressed an earnest hope that this might
be the last meeting of the kind. The Church and State
Gazette says, two-thirds of the meeting declared them-
selves against Mr. Samson's motion, even in its amended
form ! Thus concluded the great day. It terminated to
the entire confusion of the Tractarian party, over whose
humiliation we are, however, by no means disposed to
raise a shout 'of triumph. We are satisfied ; and we
would add nothing to this simple expression of our satis-
faction, were it not for the ruffianly onslaught made by
the organ of the Tractarians upon the Venerable Lord
Primate for his conduct in the chair. That conduct was
dignified and impartial. The man was equal to his mis-
sion, and the rcission was honestly and efficiently carried
out.