The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE,

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Dr. Mill has been elected to the vacant Professorship
of Hebrew at Cambridge.
The Queen Dowager has forwarded to the Rev. Robert
Joynes, rector of Gravesend, the sum of £2O towards the
erection of a new church in the parish of Gravesend.
We have again to record the munificen7e of the Rev.
Dr. Warneford towards the Queen's College, Birming-
ham. He has signified, through the Dean of the Faculty,
his intention to present the noble sum of £2,000 for the
foundation of a professorship in " Pastoral Theology" in
the newly-created Department of Arts.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury is labouring
with his usual energy in his new diocese. On Sunday
week he preached twice (both morning and evening) at
the parish church of Ashford, for the national schools,
when £74 was collected.. On Tuesday last his Grace
took the chair at the Canterbury Diocesan Education
Society, having first preached in the cathedral the annual
sermon. And on Wednesday he presided at the annual
meeting of the East Kent Church Missionary Association.
The Shrewsbury Journal, in speaking of the death of
the Rev. Richard Scott, 8.D., of that town, announced
in our obituary of last week, says, that during the last
fifteen years of his life he expended upwards of £13,000
in public improvements alone. Of this sum, at least
£lO,OOO was bestowed in adorning seven of the churches
in Shrewsbury, by the introduction of many costly and
beautiful windows of stained glass, by a timely repair,
and securing from the ravages of time to restoration such
decayed portions of edifices as were required.

DR. WNEILE AND THE MAIL

(From the Lancaster Gazette.)

A paragraph appeared in the Liverpool Mail a short
time since, which was a specimen of " the lie circumstan-
tial ;" for it not only Stated that Dr. M`Neile had " had
the candour" to admit a change in his opinions relative to
the proposed state provision for the Roman Catholic clergy
of Ireland, but also stated that he had been in correspon-
dence with Sir R. 11. Inglis on the subject, and that the
worthy baronet was also disposed to modify his opinions.
Now, if there is any one man in the country, who is
unlikely to " modify" his opinions, it is Sir Robert Inglis.
No man more despises the cant of expediency than he.
So the Mail, with a candour worthy of a Benjamin Back-
bite, added, " We should not give it unless we had received
it from a trustworthy quarter, not likely to communicate

it to us unless it hadsome foundation."- This paragraph
of the Mail's we have no doubt has been copied into
every paper in the kingdom, for so high is the standing of
both the rev. gentleman, and the sturdy baronet, that
their " modification" of opinion, it was well known, would
influence many others ; that it did so influence many
estimable persons we happen to know, and we only hope
that the Rev. Dr. M`Neile's indignant disclaimers may
obtain as universal a circulation. Those will read the
letter in our columns will experience no little astonish-
ment at learning that the Mail chose to accept it as a
confirmation of its statement ! [Our contemporary here
quotes the paragraph we gave last week.] Let the reader
compare this paragraph with the rev, gentleman's letter,
and say whether any man, of even the most moderate
capacity, could really have so misunderstood its language.
But no one accuses the editor of that journal of want of
intellect, we must therefore suppose that his misrepresen-
tation arose from a less excusable cause, and that having
set out with calumniating two of the most straightforward
men of the age, he backs up one falsehood by another, in
the trust that, though the poison is widely disseminated,
the antidote may not be as generally supplied. What. let
us ask our readers, can be the real merits of a cause that
requires such bolstering, that accepts such scandalous
advocacy. But Dr. M`Neile was not to be treated in this
off-hand style with impunity, and on Monday night he
took the opportunity afforded by being present at a meet-
ing of a religious society, to repudiate the construction
put upon his words. He has also since addressed a letter
to the Mail on the subject, but we will conclude by quo-
ting a passage or two from his speech, for which we are
indebted to our staunch cotemporary the Liverpool Stan-
dard.