The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

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A subscription has been entered into to raise funds for
the endowment of a Chinese professorship and scholar-
King's Coll,ge, London, as well as for the pur-
inese library. The amount already sub-

clu;se of a C

UNIVERSITY HONOUaS.—Our young townsman, R.
G. Williams, son of Mr. Williams, Basnett-street, has
this year again distinguished himself at the University
College. London. having obtained prizes and certificates
of honour in the higher senior Mathematical Class, senior
Greek. iunior Mathematical. Natural Philosophy, and

History

PRIN cr.LN
bury, !ately I

MUNIFICENC

—Trinity Church, Tewkes-

'he endowme

pose ; to this will also be added a previous su'
of £l,OOO by a lady.

Tiption

SECEssio-N.—Tlie Rev. John George Wenham,
demy of Magdalen College, is announced as having apos-
tatised to the Church of Rome. Mr. Wenham was re-
cently sent out to Colombo as chaplain ; his Romanistic
opinions were well known previous to his departure from
England. Amongst the topics of congratulation con-

nested with the resignation of the Peel administration,
will he the removal, we trust, of the on-Protestant staff
accumulated at ti e Colonial-office, which we know has
operAted mnzt 111.16.1 r ur al, 1 y cat tr-tcr-ttrc
Colonial C burcli.—Church end State Gazette.
PkusENTaTioss.—The Rev. T. C. Cowan, curate of
Christ Church, took leave of the congregation on Sunday
week, and entered upon the duties of the incumbency of St.
Thomas's Toxteth-park, last Sunday. The Rev. Gentle-
man was presented, last week, by the Sunday school
tpanhera_ with a handsome silver 'inkstand. nericil and

gold ren, in testimony of their gratitude for his faithful
and aff ctionate labours among them ; and on Tuesday he
was waited on by a deputation from the congregation at
large, who conveyed to him a purse containing £B4, to-
gether with a costly silver salver of beautiful workman-
ship, which was executed by Mr. Wordley, of Lord-street.

INDELIBLE ORDERS.—:The case of the Rev. Mr.
Shore has brought up again the curious question of the
indelibility of orders ; but there seems some difficulty to
know what orders are indelible, and by what virtue they
are so. Mr. Shore is " a priest in holy orders" of the
Church of England, and, therefore, by the canon law, he
is subject to the bishop, and he cannot secede. Mr.
Shore was the minister for some ten years of an unconse-
crated and unendowed chapel, built by the Duke of
Somerset, in the Parish of Berry Pomeroy. The duke
was willing to endow the chapel, provided he retained the
patronage. Two successive incumbents agreed to Mr.
Shore's ministry, but the third refused to permit him, un-
less the chapel were endowed, and the patronage vested in
the incumbent. hereupon the duke turned the chapel
into a dissenting meeting house, and licensed it under the
Toleration Acts; and hereupon Mr. Shore took the oaths
as a dissenting minister. The bishop prosecutes him in
the Arches Court ; and, because orders are indelible, he
is prevented from becoming a dissenter. But now the
question arises as to Mr. Newman, Mr. Ward, and all
the other seceders to Rome. Were not their orders in-
delible ? Could not they be prohibited by the Arches
Court ? We can fancy the enormous hubbub about
" liberty of conscience," which the whole corps of Popery

in the House of Lords, the House of Comnions, at the
press and elsewhere, as they swarm through the land,
would raise, if the "seceders to Rome" were assailed in

the Arches Court. and imprisoned for contempt, because
they exercised their liberty of going to Rome.—Slalesman.
COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.—The committee appointed to
arrange measures in concert with government for the
erection and end,wment of additional bishoprics in the
colonies and dependencies of Great Britain, have just
issued their third annual report. It appears that the

diocese of Australia is to be subdivided into three distinct
bishoprics, by the establishment of one see at Morpeth,
for the northern division of New South Wales, and of
another at Melbourne, for the district of Port Philip.
During the five years which have elapsed since the com-
mittee was formed, nine new sees have been created. Of
these, two, namely, Gibraltar and Fredricton, derive
their endowments almost exclusively from the fund placed
at the disposal of the episcopal trustees; and four others,
namely, NeW Zealand, Tasmania, Melbourne, and Mor-
peth, receive assistance from the same source. The re-
maining three, namely, Antigua. Guiana, and Colombo,
have been endowed by means of a different distribution of
the funds at the disposal of the imperial or colonial
government for ecclesiastical purposes. Itlis intended to
sub-divide the diocese of Calcutta, by the erection of a
bishopric at Agra, for the north-western provinces. The
committee recommend the immediate formation of
bishoprics in the following possessions of the crown :
Sierra Leone, Western Australia, the Mauritius, and
Prince Rupert's Land. Appended to the report is an
abstract of receipts and payments from the commence-
ment of the fund in January, 1841, to May. 1846. The
receipts, it appears, have been £81,890 lls. 4d. ; the ex-
penditure less than that sum by £6 19s. ld. ; which
balance remained to the credit of the fund, at the Bank of
England, on the Ist of May last.

THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD.

The Queen returned to Buckingham Palace from Os-
borne Honse on Thursday•

Sir Robert Peel left town for Drayton Manor on
Thursday.
A morning paper states that the Duke of Wellington, at
the express request of her Majesty, retains his office of
Commander•in-Chief.

The Earl of Eglintoun has purchased the spacious man-
sion of the Earl of Lovelace, in St. James's square. The
price was £14,000.
PROMOTIONS.—Lord Francis Egerton was on Tuesday
gazetted as a peer under the titles of Viscount Brackley,
and Earl of Ellesmere, and the following gentlemen were
promoted to the dignity of baionet :—The Right lion.
Thomas FranklAnd Lewis, of llarpton•Court, in the
county of Radnor; John Somerset Pakington, of West-
wood Park, in the c ,unty of Worcester, Esq ; John
Gladstone, of Fa-que and Balfour, in the county of Kin-
cardine, Esq.; Jaynes Weir Hogg, of Upuer Grosvenor-
street, in the couhtv of Middlesex, Esq. ; Wilbur,, Fielden,
of Feniscowles, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Esq.;
William Verner, of Verner's Bridge, in the county of Ar-
magh, and of Iniswagh, in the county of Tyrone, Esq. ;
and Sir Moses Monte fibre, of East Cliff Lodge, in the
Isle of Thanet, and county of Kent, liht.
LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.—In the Gaze/hot Tuesday
evening it will be seen that his lordship has been elei•a'ed
to the peerage.by the title of the Earl of Ellesmere and
Viscount Brackley. Both those titles had belonged to the
Egerton family, in the house of Bridgewater, for some
centuries descendants of rise celebrated and virtuous Sir
Thomas Egerton, whom. Queen Elizabeth made her Lord
Keeper, and conferred other honours on, for hi, distin-
guished abilities, particularly in the suppression of the
conspiracy of the Earl of Essex. On the accession of
James 1., he enjoyed the favour of that sovereign, by

passengers and goAs together, not respectively appor-
tioned; Leing an increase over the corresponding week of
last mil. of £1.1,021.

WEST LANCASHIRE RATLWAY.—The committee on
this railway decided on Monday that the preamble
was not proved. Amongst the witnesses were Mr. Thos.
Sands and Dr. Duncan, of this town. The latter stated

study for several years, and considered that as the rail-
way .vculd lead to the erection of villas about Croshy, the
air of which was most salubrious, it would be extremely
desirable fur the people of Liveilpool.
The GUAGKS.—The London and Birmingham haslost,
during the week, the Warwickshire bills, which it pro-
moted, whilst the broad gauge ihtPrests have obtained, in
the committee. their hill from Oxf rd to Birminghom.

ys the Railway Chronicle. practically re

hole question of the guages ;

Trade's reversal of the Guage Commissioners' Report.
The long-pending contest between the Shrewsbnry and
Birmingham and Stour Valley Railway Companies on the
one hand, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and
Dudley on the other, was terminated on Tuesday. An
arrangement has been made. in virtue of which the upper
line, by West Bromwich and Wednesbury, between Bir-

mingham and Wolverhampton, is apportioned to the
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley ; while the
lower, or canal line, i 4 Riven to the cttier two companies.
4.14.03,41,341 to allow two ritattons
in Birmingham.