The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWs.

CAMBRIDGE.—The folloiging, degrees were confirmed
on Friday :—Master of Arts.—B. E. Metcalfe, Sidney
College. Bachelor of Civil Law.—W. Seymour, Trinity
Hall. Ad Eundem.—J. W. Warner, 8.D., Christ's
Church College, Oxford ; and J. Chapman, M.A. Tiinity
College, Dublin.
Dr. Pusey will preach the Oxford University sermon
(unless steps are taken to purge the university of the
scan dal) on Sunday, the 18th of January next.
The Earl of Eidon has presented the munificent don-
ation of 1,0001. to the Durham Diocesan Society for the
employment of additional curates. _ _ _ _

SECIISSIONS.—The following names must be added to
the list of Oxford perverts :—Rev. Robert Aston Coffin,
B.A. student of Christ Church, and vicar of St. Mary
Magdalene, Oxford. C. Cholmondeley, Esq , commoner
of Balliol College.

WITHDRAWAL FROM TRACTARIANISM.--We are
happy to announce that the Rev. W. Palmer, M.A., of
Worcester College, Oxford, the learned writer of the
" Origines Liturgicre," and author of " A Treatise on the
Church of Christ," has withdrawn from all connection
with the " Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology," pub-
lished under the superintendence of Dr. Pusey and
Messrs. Newman and Keble.— Church and Slate Gazelle.
Sir Lancelot Shadwell, the Vice-Chancellor, has just
given a significant opinion of Oxford education. In the
Vice-Chancellor's Court, on the 26th ult., in a case
" Johnson v. Tucker," Mr. J. Parker mentioned a peti-
tion which related to the maintenance of a ward, who ex-
pressed his desire to enter the Church of England as a
priest, and wished to matriculate at the University of
Oxford. His honour (smiling) said it was a doubtful
question whether matriculation at Oxford was likely to
make him a priest of the Church of England.

Is IT TRUE ?—The Cornwall Gazette says. " The Rev.
C. G. Davies, late vicar of Charles, Plymouth. on resign-
ing his living, received testimonials signed, amongst
others, by the Rev. Jonn Hatchard, M.A. [B.A. 1817],
Vicar of St. Andrew's Plymouth. On their being for-
warded to the Bishop of Exeter, his Lordship refused to
countersign them until the name of some other clergy-
man had been substituted for that of Mr. Hatchard. re-
marking that he was sorry he was under the necessity of
declining to countersign a testimonial with Mr. Hatch-
ard's signature, because, whilst he would readily attest
his belief that' he was worthy of credit' as to a matter of
fact, yet he could not say so in respect of his judgment of
what was 'contrary to the doctrine or discipline of the
Church of England.'"

THE COURT 6, FASHIO

IBLE WORLD,

Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Osborne House on
Saturtlay. and arrived at Windsor the same day.
The Duchess. of Kent arrived at Frog_
Friday, after a visit to the Queen Dowager.
Sir W. M. Stanley arrived at the Clarendon Hotel,
London, on Fr.iday, from Hooton Hall.

more House on

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster were to
leave Grosvenor-square for Eaton Hall yesterday.
Prince Albert has offered to pay all arrears of taxes for
his Flemish farm, and to contribute annually a certain
sum towards the send of the poor, but without admitting
that the parish has any claim on him. The palish officers
demur to this proposition.
Hampers of mutton are sent regularly from Windsor to
the King of Prussia, at Berlin, where it is considered the
lelicacy at the royal table, as it well may be,

ussian mu

:on is scarcely e

CHRISTENING OF LORD ELDON'S SON AND HEIR.—
The christening of the infant son and heir of the Earl of
Eldon took place at St. George's Church, Hanover-
square, London, on Wednesday morning, the King of
Hanover (who was represented by his minister Count
Kielmansegge), the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mrs.
Farrer, mother of the present Earl of Eldon, standing
sponsors to the young Viscount Encombe, who was bap-
tized by the namg of John, after his great-grandfather,
Lord Chancellor Eldon. _

when Sir Robert Peel retires from public life it will be
with a peerage. In the meantime he is forming an exten-
sive connexion with the aristocracy of the land. His eld-
est daughter (Viscountess Villiers) will be the Countess of
Jersey, should her husband and she survive the present
earl ; and it is now said that his second daughter is about
to be married to the Marquis of Hertford. The marquis
is on all hands highly spoken of, and is accounted to be a
man altogether different from his father, of no very esti-
mable memory.

RAILWAY INT.ELLIGENCE.

The Sheffield and Manchester railway is to be opened
through on the 22nd instant. . .

It is calculated that every mile of railway requires six
acres.

It is estimated that £5,000,000 would not pay the mere
outlay for the preparation of the railway plans, &c. that
have been lodged at the Board of Trade.
For the last five months of the present half year, 3,187,
7881. has been receivedfor railway traffic, being an increase
over the corresponding period of 565, 5621.
The last arch of the viaduct over the Borrowdale valley,
on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, to a junction with
the Lune, was successfully keyed last week amid great

cheering.
TAKING CARE OF NUMBER ONE.—Tile Railway Re-
cord recommends the postponement of any discussion in
parliament on the corn-law question until the railway
schemes are disposed of.
RAILWAY DEPOSITS.—The Speaker of the House of
Commons has, after consulting with the Attorney-
General, resolved to grant orders for the paymerit of the
uired from railway companies by the standing