The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

THE BISHOPS ANI THE CHURCH.-If the Bishops do
t secure to the laity, by the legitimate authority reposed

in them in t

,hat behalf, a r

Dnformity- to

wishes at any rate in ritual practices and outward obser-
vances, the laity have shown at the recent meetings a strong
inclination to take the matter into their own hands, and

believe that reforr

precate this step, for we
permanent and acceptable

s ever more

`rom withir

hat the

hurch has

within herself sufficent vigour to throw off the peccant
humours which infect her, but we are perfectly convinced
that she has no alternative except between a reformation
worked by her o:vn Bishops or by the laity.—Times.
NOVEL PROCEEDING.—On Sunday last, the Rev. Mr.
Harper, the recently appointed vicar of Selby, after the
usual morning service, took his place in the pulpit, and
informed the congregation that he should that day com-
mence a practice which he had long intended to pursue,
that of preaching a sermon, not of his own composition,
but written by another person. His reasons for pursuing

were, first t

e were many sermons by

Lest divines, which, in consequence

of not being generally read, were rendered comparatively
useless; and secondly, that the time which was occupied
by the writing of so many sermons every week, might be
employed by him in other useful matters connected with
the ministry. The reverend gentleman then read from a
printed book a sermon, which be said he had heard
preached with great effect in the Cambridge University.
The sermon was on the subject of sin, and was evidently
a production of no common order in regard to merit.—
Doncaster Gazette.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CHASE

The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet to-morrow (Wed-
nesday), the Bth instant, at Kinderton ; on Thursday,
he 9th, at Tilstone ; and on Saturday, the 11th, at Va
Royal,—each day at half-past ten o'clock.
Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS
Wednesday), the Bth iris

will meet to-

morrow

tyn ; cn Friday,
t? 10th, at Newbridge ; and on Saturday, the 11th, at
Cilantry Bank,—each day at half-past ten o'clock.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

A etal bridge, now in course of erection at the Chet

wyndviaduet, the Cork and Bandon railway, will,
when ompleted, be within ten feet of the height of the
Britania tubular bridge.

The oroner's jury have returned a verdict of man-
slaughte against the guard of the luggage-train on the
York amNorth-Midland Railway, for the death of a pas-
senger thpugh a collision caused by his negligence.
James infield, engine-driver, who was recently com-
mitted to rison on the charge of occasioning one of the
recent acci6nts on the Eastern Counties Railway, has
been set at hefty, it being the opinion of the magistrates
that the Comany's rules were in fault.
Tha Times sys that only a short time since an immense
quantity of haywas carried by railway from the midland
and southern ctir.ties of England to London, where it
was shipped anc.conveyed to Oran, and thence many
miles into the intc ior, for the use of the French cavalry.
CALEDONIAN lAILWAY.—The three London and
North-Western dirctors have left the hoard, and Mr.
Duncan, solicitor, d' Edinburgh, has been appyjnted
chairman. We dont whoher t"- —"'

Ans will meet with the
approbation of the Engish shareholders, who, we believe,
hold nine-tenths cf thecapital of the company.
The prompt and devasi., measures of the London and
North-Western Railway Coopany appear likely to break
the threatened strike of engin-- - A, consi-

_..semen.
derable number of the men have ,cceded to the terms of
the company. Those who continue-o refuse will be im-
harged.