The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-03 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD, OCT. 29.—1 n a congregation held this day
the following degrees were conferred :—Bachelor in Civil
Law—C. C. Clifford, fellow of All .Souls.—Masters of
Arts—E. V. Richards, and C. W. F. Glyn, students of
Christ Church ; N. F. Senior, Christ Church ; Rev. W.
P. Wood, St. John's; Rev. J. Lloyd, Worcester.—
Bachelors of Arts—R. T. H. Griffith, Queen's; T. B.
Macnamara, Magdalene Hall; J. E. Kirkpatrick, Lincoln;
T. Stainton, Wadham ; M. W. Gregory, Wadham ; C.
Warner, Worcester.
The Bishop of Chester has arrived at the episcopal re-
sidence in Chester. _ _ _

Dr. Scoresby has broken up his establishment at Brad-
ford, and is about to repair to the Isle of Wight.
The parishioners of Bradford are about to present their
late pastor, Dr. Scoresby, with a splendid service of silver
plate, valued at 150 guineas.
The Bishop of Newfoundland will preach at Leeds on
Monday next, for the Gospel Propagation Society.
The Rev. Wray R. Hunt, late of St. Saviour's, was
presented, on the occasion•of his leaving Liverpool, with
a copy of Scott's Commentary on the Bible, and a
pocket Communion service, by a few friends, members of
the congregation.
Sir J. Gladstone, of Fasque, has munificently contribu-
ted to Trinity College, Perthshire, the sum of £2OOO, in
addition to his former most liberal subscriptions. The
Duke of Buccleuch has also augmented his former muni-
ficent contribution by an additional £lOOO
On Monday the Bishop of Ripon consecrated a new
church at Woodside, Horsforth, near Leeds ; and on
Wednesday Dr. Hook laid the foundation stone of a new
church in ork-road, near Leeds, for which the munifi-
cent sum of £lO,OOO has been given by an unknown indi-
vidual. _ _ _

Dr. Short's promotion to the see of St. Asaph appeared
in Tuesday's Gazette. A Cambridge paper, which pro-
fesses to be well-informed, states that it is intended that
Dr. Short shall hold St. Asaph and Sodor and Man ; at
least until Bangor also has become vacant. If this be the
arrangement, it seems to indicate the immediate erection
of the see of Manchester.
INTRIGUES AT LITTLEMORE, NEAR OXFOED.—The
Oxford Herald of Saturday last states, in confirmation
of the rumour we noticed a fortnight since, that the lease
of the monastery at Littlemore, which it describes as but
an humble description of lodging, bas been transferred by
the Rev. J. H. Newman, " to a friend of-'his, to provide
for his own personal convenience." Our own more pre-
cise information, which we derive from authority, and in
which we place the fullest confidence, is, that the mona-
stery is actually in the hands of the chiefs of the
Romanising party, to make what use of it may be found
convenient hereafter. We should be but too happy to he
able to place full confidence in our contemporary's implied
assurance, that the Church Commissioners had either de-
clined or been unable to effect the contemplated separation
of the chapel of Littlemore from the Mother Church of
St. Mary the Virgin ; but our information leaves no doubt
of an off, r having been made by parties in connection with
the Anglo-Catholic Library to endow the chapel on
condition of having the first presentation ; and our con-
temporary may rely on it that such a consummation will,
if at all, be prevented ohly by the watchfulness of those
friends of the Protestant Church whom it charges with
" seeing Romanism in everything." Romanism is just
now in everything, and we will not imitate the Oxford
Herald by shutting our eyes to the fact.—Church and
State Gazette.

THE WORD " PROTESTANT."—It has been attempted
within the last ten years or so to bring the word Protest-
ant, as applied to the Church of England, into disrepute,
and some individuals have declared their determination to
un-P, otestantise her. 'They found their objections osten-
sibly on the well-known fact, that the word Protestant
does not occur in the Liturgy, nor in any of the authorised
formularies of our Church. But in the Litany of our first
reformed Liturgy there was a petition to be delivered from
the tyranny of the Pope, and from all his detestable enor-
mities, which, in fact, amounts to a protest. The first
German Reformers were called Protestants from the cir-
cumstance of their having protested, at a second Diet at
Spires, in the year 1529, against the revocation of a de-
cree of a former Diet at the same place, in the year 1526.
In consequence of the dangers with which the German
empire was threatened by the Turks and other enemies,
the Diet of 1526 resolved, that all the German principali-
ties should allow ecclesiastical affairs to remain as they
then were, until a general Council should decide on the
subjects in dispute betwixt the Church of Rome and the
Reformers. The immediate danger having ceased, the
Emperor Charles V. convened, another Diet, or Parlia-
ment, at Spires, three years afterwards, in which he
revoked the toleration which had been granted to the Re-
formers and laid them open to the tender mercies of the
mother and MISTRESS of all Churches. The minority at
this diet, consisting of six princes and the representatives
of fourteen imperial cities, solemnly PROTESTED a_oainst
this, their practical carrying out of the doctrine of keep-
ing no faith with heretics. All the faithful Christians
everywhere who obeyed the Divine call to come out of
the corrupt and idolatrous Church of Rome, have been
called Protestants ever since. Protestant became after
that a generic name for all churches and sects that with-
drew from communion with Rome,and also for all the sects
that have separated from the Protestant, or Reformed
Catholic Church of England. In the Popish catechisms,
the words Protestant and heretic are synonymous. The
Reformers did not protest against the religion or the faith
of Rome, but only against the corruptions and the idola-
tries which Rome had engrafted on the Christian faith ;
in the fundamental articles of which. as they are con-
tained in the Apostles' Creed, the Churches of England
and of Rome are agreed. The Protestantism of the Church
of England sternly rejects the idolatry and apostacy of the
Church of Rome, which consists in image-worship, the
warship of the Blessed Virgin and other saints, in the ex-
altation of her into a tried atrix betwixt God and man,
instead of the Man Christ Jesus, who is the only mediator
of the New Covenant, and in several other heretical tenets.
Our Church, therefore, considered it absolutely necessary
to come out from among them—to separate and not to
touch the unclean thing, Popery.—The Church Warder
and Domestic Economy.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

Charles Phillips, Esq., Insolvent Commissioner, will,
at the spring circuit, attend at Carlisle, Monday, March
1 ; at Appleby, Tuesday, March 2 ; at Kendal, Friday,
March 5 ; at Lancaster, Monday, March 8 ; at Liver-
pool, Tuesday, March 16; at the Castle of Chester,
Thursday, April 1.
COURT OF PASSAGE.—At the Court of Passage last
week, the following was the only case of public interest.—
Anthony v. Hind and another.—The plaintiff was a por-
ter, and sought to recover damages which he had;sustained
by a pile of flax, belonging to the defendants, falling upon
him and breaking his leg. As the plaintiff was mending
cotton-bags in a warehouse in Formby-street, the pile of.
flax, which had been insecurely stowed, fell, and injured
him in the way stated. A verdict was given for the plain-
tiff, damages £65.
SALARIES OF THE JUDGES.—There are twenty-two
judges of the superior courts in England, whose salaries
amount to £123,577 a-year. The five judges of the Court
of Chancery are paid £33,000. The Lord Chancellor has
£lO,OOO, Master of the Rolls £7OOO, Vice-Chancellor of
England £6OOO, and the two Vice-Chancellors, Knight
Bruce and Wigram, £5OOO. The s;x judges of the Court
of Queen's Bench are paid £32,000. The Lord Chief
Justice has £BOOO, and the Puisne Judges £5OOO each.
The six judges of the Court of Common Pleas have
similar sums, also the six judges of the Court of
Exchequer, with the exception of the Chief Baron, who
has a salary of £7OOO. The judge of the Court of Admi-
ralty has £4OOO, and the average emoluments of the judge
of the Prerogative Court amount to £3577 ; making the
number twenty-two, and the united salaries £123,577.

THE CLAIMS OF THE POOR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.

SlR,—Argument was useless. The mention of the
constitutional rights of the poor was subject for derision.
The people were too numerous—the "surplus population"
must be driven away. There was no connexion between
the poor and the land. They must be removed or perish !
Such was the award of our "enlightened and liberal phi-
losophers !" A pretty mess they have made of it ! People
won't die of want quietly. They become troublesome—
dangerous. They must be fed. We grumble that they
are impatient.

We are now receiving the just reward of cur cruelty.
We listened to the philosophers—we deserve our punish-
ment, because we have turned a deaf ear to our good and
wise ancestors. They assured us, that the pcor have a
right to live ; the philosophers exclaimed, " Nature has
made no provision for them—let them die !" We have
believed that lie, and our sin has found us out. This,
Sir, is our case. _ _

We o right, now, to feed the poor. Let us. however,
remember, that, in doing so, we are acting in direct con-
tradiction to the whole school of our "enlightened and
liberal philosophers." No provision for the poor, is still
their creed ; although fear compels them to relent, they
dare not enforce their exterminating principles? How
often have they been warned, that God was wiser and
stronger than they ; and assured, that, if they would per-
sist in altering our laws on their diabolical principles, He
would exert His power ! They answered in jeers and in-
vectives. They removed the landmark of the poor, and
are now at their wit's end. _

Why do I write thus ? It is once more to warn. It is
not enough to feed the poor now. They must be provided
for hereafter. Their right to maintenance must again be
fully recognised by our laws. They require, and must
have, Protection ! Yes, Sir that despised word will, after
all, triumph over all its foes. Protection from first to
last—from the monarch to the pauper—else England's sun
will set in gore. 1 have warned the landlords until I have
become hoarse. I told them their doom, should they rob
the poor by the new Poor Law. I appeal to the Duke of
Wellington—have not my predictirns been verified.
Let the landlords now resolve that the first act of the
next session of Parliament shall be one recognising the
right of the poor to liberty and life in England, Scotland,
and Ireland. Then the philosophers will be confounded,
and, having thus set our faces constitutionward, we may
expect prosperity and the blessing of our God.
I remsin, sir, your most obedient servant,
London, Oct. 21. RICHARD OASTLER.
P.S.—lt is no use to mince matters. If we persist in
refusing the constitutional right of the poor, they will
hang, like an incubus, on the state, and we shall become
the derision of the world. The philosophers may storm
and rage—God will laugh at their fury. Truly, sir, if we
will not bend to receive lessons from our. "greybearded
ancestors," starving millions will demand that the state
shall resume its right to the land and the property. In
the future distribution, their rights must be sanctioned.
It were wiser to grant graciously than to yield ignomi-
niously. R. 0.