The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

OBITUARY,

July 27, at Flempton, in his 72d year, the Rev. Alexander
Browne, of Branton. Northumberland, and Rector of Flem pton-
with- e n grave, Suffolk.
July 30, at Sancreed Vicarage, Cornwall, the Rev. H. Comyn,
Vicar of that parish, aged 76.
August 4, the Rev. R. Ellicombe, Rector of Alphington and
Prebendary of Exeter, aged 73.

OXFORD, AUGUST 6.—The U❑iversity authorities have,
it is understood, received official information that the
Committee of Privy Council have signified to her Majesty
that it is not advisable to comply with the prayer of the
Petition recently submitted to the Queen on the subject
of the University Commission.

SCOTCH EPISCOPAL CHURCH.— The Scotch Episcopal
Church has lately revised its canons, and has deliberately
struck- out the prefix Protestant, which it once had in
compliment, or, as one of its organs say, in charity, to
other denominations. It has also struck out the prefix
" Episcopal," which, it is said, was adopted out of false
charity to " the Presbyterian schism."
It is said that the Bishop of Exeter has declined to
accept Mr. Hatchard's nomination of the Rev. T. G.
Postlethwaite, to the incumbency of Christ Church, Ply-
mouth, in the place of the Rev. Mr. Gray. who had been
rejected by reason of unsoundness. The reason assigned
is that " the power of varying the appointment of a clerk
belongs to laymen only, and not to ecclesiastical persons
of any kind ; because they are supposed, in law, to be
competent judges of the efficiency of the person, and do
therefore proceed by judgment and election ; and whoso-
ever elects an unfit person, is, ipso jure, deprived of the
power of electing."
The CommierreE of Couscrr, on Educat:_on have given
another proof of their unfeigned good-will towards the
Church, by withholding aid from the Parliamentary grant
in the case of a school, the founders of which desired to
make it a rule that the schoolmistress should be a commu-
nicant of the Church. We call special attention to this
case, as it illustrates the often denied tendencies of that
most insidious of departments. While on this subject,
we must not omit to congratulate the Committee on the
discovery, at length, of an appropriate situation for their
senior pupil at Kneller Hall, who by this time, we suppose,
is ready to enter upon his functions. In the Sheffield
Union Workhouse, out of 1,905 paupers, 1.407 have de-
clined to declare themselves of any religion, and 13 have
declared themselves positively of none. What a glorious
field'for the alumni of a school where the principle of de-
clining to be of any religion in particular is one of tile
fundamentals.—John Bull.
DECLARATION ON THE SUPREMACY.—The following
declaration has been extensively circulated for signatures :
—We the undersigned clergy of the Church of England,
viewing with surprise and concern the attempts made by
parties holding office in the church to invalidate and nul-
lify the judgment recently delivered by the sovereign, as
" supreme governor of this realm, as well in all spiritual
or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal," by the
advice of the Privy Council and the Primates of the
church, in the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter,
hereby testify our thankfulness for the judgment sodeli-
vered ; and feel ourselves called upon, under present cir-
cumstances (whether holding or not the view which called.
forth.the judgment), humbly to state our conviction that
it was a wise and just sentence, in accordance with the
principles of the Church of England. The document is
said to have received upwards of 2,000 signatures. Among
them are those of the Deans of Manchester, L!andaff,
Bristol, Ripon, Carlisle;, the Archdeacons of St. David's,
Ely, Norwich, Derby, Stafford, Worcester, Wells, Man,
and Coventry. Among the others who have signed, are
—Lord Saye and Sele, Canon and Treasurer of Hereford,
&c. ; L. Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor and Prebendary of
York ; Christr. Benson, Canon of Worcester ; V. S.
Gills, Canon of Durham ; W. Gray, Canon Residentiary
of Ripon ; M. Irving. Canon of Rochester ; S. Lee, Ca-
non of Bristol, &c. ; F. V. Lockwood, Canon of Canter-
bury, &e. ; C. Philips, Canon of St. David's, &c.; E. T.
M. Phillips, Chancellor of Gloucester, Sze. ; Henry
Raikes, Chancellor of Chester ; J. Scholefield, Canon of
Ely, and Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge; H. M.
Villiers, Canon of St. Paul's, &e. ; Hugh Williams,
Chancellor of Llandaff ; W. Wilson. Canon of Winches.
ter, &c. ; T. Woodroffe, Canon of Winchester, &c. ; B.
P. Symon, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford ; G. S.
Faber, Master of Sherburn Hospital, and Prebendary of
Salisbury ; C. J. Vaughan, Head Master of Harrow, &c.
&c. &c.

ARMY AND NAVY.

WAR-OFFICE, August 8.-10th LightDragoons—CornetThos.
Manners Townley to be Lieut., by purchase, vice INl`Mahon,
who retires.

19th Foot—Capt. Samuel John Macluren, from the 46th Foot,
to be Capt., vice Margitson, who exchanges.
21st Foot—Capt. Henry Calvely Cotton, from the Royal Ca-
nadian Rifle Regt., to be Capt., vice Sinclair, who exchanges.
24th Foot—Major Charles Henry Ellice to be Lieut.-Col. by
purchase, vice Paynter, who retires ; Capt. Edmund Wodehouse
to be Major, by purchase, vice Ellice; Lieut. William Hartshorn
to he Capt., by purchase, vice Wodehouse; Ensign James Ten-
nent Tovey to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Hartshorn; Second
Lieut. Andrew David ays from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to
be Ensign, vice Tovey.
33d Foot—Lieut. Oliver Vaughan Jackson, from half-pay 85th
Foot, to be Lieut., vice Pechell, appointed paymaster 85th Foot;
Ensign Charles Edward Mansfield to be Lieut., by purchase,
vice Jackson, who retires • Ensign William Senhouse Worthing-
ton, from the 59th Foot, toi he Ensign, vice Mansfield ; Ensign
Thos. Davies, from the llth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Lennock,
who retires.

48th Foot—Capt. John Margitson, from the 19th Foot, to be
Capt., vice Maclurcan, who exchanges.
53d Foot—Ensign Frederick Richard Solly Flood to be Lieut.,
by purchase, vice Johnston, who retires.
55th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Fitz Henry Scovell, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Huskisson, appointed to the 83d Foot.
57th Foot—Ensign George Udney Hague to be Lieut., by pur-
chase, vice George Armstrong, who retires.
83d Foot—Brevet Major Henry Francis Ainslie to be Major,
without purchase, vice Townsend, deceased ; Lieut. and Adjt.
William Nott to be Capt., vice Ainslie; Ensign Richard Thos.
Sweeny to be Lieut., vice Hall, appointed Adjt. ; Ensign John
Wm. Huskisson, from the 55th Foot, to be Ensign, viceSweeny ;
Lieut. Win. Hall to be Adjt., vice Nott, promoted.
Rifle Brigade—Capt. Wilmot Henry Bradford to be Major,
by purchase, vice Esten, who retires ; Lieut. Hercules Walker
to be Capt., by purchase, vice Bradford; Second Lieut. George
Horsey Waddington to be First Lieut., by purchase, vice Wal-
ker ; Lieut. John Edwd. Large, from the 76th Foot, to be Pay-
master, vice Chas. J. Lindam, who has retired upon half-pay.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Capt. Robt. Bligh Sinclair,
from the 21st Foot, to be Capt., vice Cotton, who exchanges.

ADM,RALTY, Aug*. B.—With reference to the plan of naval
retiredient which appeared in the London Gazette of June 27,
1851, and to the promotion of officers which appeared in the
Lond ,n Gazette of the Ist inst., the under-mentioned Com-
mand .r in the Royal Navy has been promoted to the rank of
Captain, with seniority from 28th of July, 1851, and placed on
the reserv9(l hiof.pay list of the Royal Navy :—Christopher
Knight, Esq., K.H.