The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

On Wednesday morning, the branch railway from the
Bricklayers' Arms station to Folkestone and Dover was
opened, in due ceremony, to the public.
The entire line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway was
opened on Wednesday in the usual manner by the direc-
tors.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.—A special
meeting of this company was held on Tuesday, when it
was agreed to raise a further sum of £300,000 by the
issue of 7,500 new shares of £4O each.
RAILWAY BILLS.—In the House of Commons, on
Friday night, the Leeds and Selby Purchase, the Poutop
and South Shields, and the Newcastle and Darlington
Junction, and the Tyne Bridge Railway Bills were read a
third time and passed.

MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY COMPANY.
—The junction of this railway with the Leeds and Man.
chester, which took place on Saturday, will form an im-
portant epoch in railway annals. It is notorious that
hitherto on this railway there have been no ►hird class
carriages, and even those known as the second class have
been the shabbiest and the least calculated for the public
comfort of any in the kingdom ; both these matters of just
complaint are about being redressed, thanks to the la-
bours of the House of Commons Railway Committee.
There are to be third class carriages, and the fare will, it
is reported, be moderate, and the present second class car-
riages will be converted into the low fared ones, whilst the
second will be constructed with some regard to the com-
fort of the passengers, a thing hitherto unknown on this
line.

RAILWAY STATISTICS.—The extent of railways already
constructed and in operation in the united kingdom is
2,000 miles; the sum which has already been actually ex-
pended in their formation is no less than £79,000,000
sterling ; the projects now before parliament will, if sanc-
tioned, add nearly another 1,000 miles to the existing
length of our railways, and were the cost of their construc-
tion to be equal to the rate of executing the existing lines,
almost £40,000,000 sterling would be added to railway in-
vestments ; but, as the cost will not reach that rate, to
add another £30,000,000 sterling to railway stock will be
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D RAILWAY.—This bill
was brought under a committee of the House of Commons
on Monday last, Mr. Marshall in the chair. The bill was
opposed by the Bishop of Bangor, Sir Charles Smith, and
Mr. James Bateman. On Tuesday evening, Sir G. Clerk
was added to the committee, and a considerable amount
of traffic at present existing on the line was proved by se-
veral witnesses—as much as would show a clear income to
the proprietors of the line of at least six per cent. On
Thursday the committee came to the unanimous determi-
nation that the preamble of the bill was proved. Sir G.
Clerk then proposed to examine Mr. Giles, the engineer,
as to the utility of adopting his line at Chester, which
would have the effect of leaving out the city. This was
opposed by the committee generally, and it was understood
that the sanction of the government would undoubtedly
be given to the bill. The clauses were considered on Fri-
day, when at the suggestion of the government, a clause
was introduced suspending the works from the river be-
tween Ogwyn and the Menai Bridge, until next session,
when a bill will be introduced giving power to the com-
pany to make an iron bridge over the Menai Straits at the
Britannia Rocks, and fixing the line which the railway
shall traverse between these two points. This arrange-
ment puts an end to the opposition, and there appears to
be no doubt of the bill now passing, and Mr. Stephenson's
line being finally adopted, according to his plans.
SHREWSBURY AND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.--
In another part of our paper we insert an extract from the
Railway Chronicle, of Saturday last, mentioning, as a
rumour, the proposed formation of the Trent valley line
from Stafford to Rugby, by the united influence and funds
of the three powerful companies most interested in the
project. We now have authority to state that the arrange-
ment there alluded to is decided upon, and that the Lon-
don and Birmingham, the Grand Junction, and the Man-
chester and Birmingham Companies, have agreed to unite
in going to parliament next session for this line, which, it
is understood, has also the decided sanction of govern-
ment. The carrying of the Shrewsbury line into the Trent
valley line. at its junction, at or near Stafford, will render
that the quickest and best route to London, and thus de-
prive the Wolverhampton project of the one solitary ar-
gument in its favour, namely, that it would save half-an-
hour's time in a London journey. From the union of the
London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Companies
in the formation of it, the prospect of Shrewsbury remain-
ing permanently the terminus of the branch in this direc-
tion, has assumed a much more certain and definite as-
pect than was previously the case, notwithstandim, the
obvious interest and declared intention of the Grand-
Junction Company to make it such. The surveyors of
the Grand Junction Company have been in the neighbour-
hood of Shrewsbury during several days last week, care-
fully surveying and taking the levels of lines in every di-
rection.—Shreta skry Journal.

May 7, 1841.

CLERICAL IVEW.

OXFORD,rnig MAY a
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Bachelor in Divinity.—Rey. Peter Peace, Worcester
College.
Masters of Arts.—Rev.-.Samuel Minton, scholar of
Worcester ; Rev. Edward William Tanner Chave, Rev'
John William Mence, Rev. John Henry Nurse, Wor-
cester; George Bust, Pembroke; Rev. William
Christchurch.
Bachelors of Arts.—Thomas Patridge Nunn, St. MarY
Hall, George Ridley, Christchurch, Grand CompounderS;
John Buller Yarde Buller, Henry Ochterlony Middle-
ton, St. Mary Hall; William Balfour, Lincoln; Richard
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Bright, Fairfax William Cartwright, Burrington Stopfo
Thomas Mills, Christchurch ; John Charles Bagshaffr
Henry Brooks, Samuel Plant. scholar of Brazenose; John
ferredh _
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morning, this
Lowder Ray, Magdalen-hall •, Louis Balfour Clutterbuckf
Wadham ; Aneurin Lloyd Lodge, Jesus; Charles William
Lawrence, Fellow of New College • Edmund Du Buissottr
Oriel ; John Balguy, Morton ; denry Clarence Pigon,
scholar of University ; Charles Ingleby, James Thomas
Boles, Richard Seymour Conway Chermside, Exeter;
George Poingdestre, scholar of Pembroke.
The Bishop of Chester has nominated Richard Wall,
B.A. (twenty-fourth Wrangler, 1844,) to the Vice-Princi-
palship of the Training College, Chester.
Rev. James Garbett, Professor of Poetry at Oxford,
has been collated by the Bishop of Chichester to the pre-
bendall stall in Chichester Cathedral, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Thomas Heberden, Cobb,
The Rev. Richard Waldo Sibthorpe, the recent convert
to the komish faith, who is on a visit to the Rev. Thos.
Dikes, at the Charter House, in Hull, partook of the
sacrament in St. John's Church, in that town, on Sunday
week.
The Rev. Edward Field, D.D., was consecrated Bishop
of Newfoundland. in the chapel of Lambeth Palace, on
Sunday week. He was presented to the Archbishop of
Canterbury by the Bishops of Bangor and Worcester,
the Bishop of London being the other consecrating bishop.
Several clergymen were present, and among them the Rev.
D. Jarvis, of the diocese of Connecticut, United States.
ETON COLLEGE, MAY I.—lt has just been notified to
the authorities of the College that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert will lay the foundation-stone of the exten-
sive new buildings which are.to be erected forthwith, at
an expense of £26,000, immediately contiguous to the
ancient edifice, in that portion of the premises known as
Weston's-yard. It having been considered for some rime
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present habits and feelings of society, and being also in
many respects objectionable and injurious to the best in-
terests of the institution, the authorities of the College
determined upon making great additions to the fabric, in
order that extensive and commodious apartments might
be provided for sleeping and for study, and likewise for
those meals which the boys do not take at present in the
College hall.
COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
of the Colonial Church Society was held on Wednesday
evening, in Exeter Hall. Captain Sir E. Parry, R.N.,
presided. The Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., Mr. J. P.
Plunaptre, M.P. Mr. G. Finch, Mr. J. Labouchere, the
Rev. A. Thelwall, and a great number of the lay and clef.
rival friends of the society were on the platform. The
secretary read the report, which gave a detailed account
of the society's operations in Nova Scotia, Western Aus-
tralia, the Cape of Good Hope, the Bahama Islands, and
various other parts of the world. The subscriptions and
donations received during the past year amounted to
£3,775 exclusive of collections in the colonies. The last
accounts received from Syria announced that 200 inhabi-
tants of Hasbeya, a village situate at the foot of Mount
Lebanon, had abjured the Greek orthodox religion to em-
brace Protestantism.

Oxford was on Thursday the scene of unusual excite-
ment. The morning trains from town, and the coaches
from all parts of the country, brought up vast numbers of
the clergy, all apparently on one errand, and of one mind,
as was proved by the result. At two o'clock the Convoca-
tion-house was filled to overflowing, and the Vice Chan-
cellor proposed the new statute, which had for its object
to settle the existing perplexities as to the cont'itions and
exercises requisite for theological degrees, by creating and
granting to the Regius Professor of Divinity (Dr. Hamp-
den at present) an absolute doctrinal authority in the mat-
ter, with a reference, on questions of FORM, to the Vice
Chancellor. The statute was proposed in four clauses.
The subject of the first was totally irrelevant, relating tO
degrees in law, and seemingly introduced to embarrass the
voters, committing them, however, to a certain mode of
examination, in a matter in which they would probablt
feel indifference. By anticipation it showed the fate 01
the rest of the statute, and was rejected by a large ma-
jority. The second clause contained the proposed form
of exercises, and was the substratum of the two remain-
ing. It was rejected by a majority of 341 to 21 ! On result being declared the two last clauses were dis-
creetly withdrawn by the Vice Chancellor, and the Con-
vocation dissolved. It is said that Dr. Hampden hiraaSl:
and his friends voted against the proposed statute, on !,,L.
ground that the reference on questions of form to
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Vice-Chancellor was an invasion of his supposed a
and irresponsible power in granting degrees. Among the
non-resident members were Dr. Hook, the Dean of Chi-
chester, Archdeacon Manning, Mr. Edward Churton, and
a host of other characters well-known by name both here
and elsewhere.—Times. bsol!it

CHURCH: MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The forty-fourth
anniversary meeting of this society was held on Tuesday,
at Exeter Hall. The Earl of Chichester, President of
the Society, took the chair. Amongst those on the plat-
form were the Bishops of Chester and Ripon, the Deans(
Salisbury, sancton, It. ti. Ingot,
Bart., M.P., Mr. J. P.-Plumptre, M.P., Mr. J. Round,
M.P., Major-General Latter, Hon. E. Curzon, Right
Hon. Sir G. Rose, Bart., Hon. Capt Waldegrave, R.N.,
Hon. Captain Maude, R.N., Archdeacon Hoare, Rev. H.
Stowell, Drs. Marsh, H. Stewart, H. Green, J. Cunning.
ham, and several other clergymen. The proceedings
having been opened by prayer, the noble Chairman very
briefly addressed the meeting. With the exception of
Jamaica, there had been no contraction of missionary
labour. During the past year, nine additional missions-
! ies had been sent out, 54 branch associations and 19
juvenile societies established, and 24 missionaries admitted
to holy orders. The Duke of Manchester, Viscount
Sandon, and Lord Lurgan had accepted the office of
vice-presidents. The report stated, that two years ago
the society was in a position of considerable embarrass"
ment, arising from excess of expenditure over income ;
but last year, through the liberality of the christian pub-
lic, that difficulty had been overcome. The committee
had taken their stand upon those sound Evangelical and
Protestant principles which had from its very foundation
formed the chief characteristic of the society, and to which
its prosperity and usefulness were attributable. The fi-
nancial statement, which was next read, gave the following
results :—General fund, £97,791 2s. 3d. ; special fund for
China mission, X 1556 16s. Id.; capital fund, £2648 Is. 6d.;
Fourah Bay Buildings Fund, £llBl 17s. ; Dis-ailed Mis-
sionaries Fund, £1145 19s. Total receipts, £104,323 15s.
10d. The expenditure of the veir, including contribu-
tions to local funds, amounted to £93,473 7s. 3d. The
expenditure of the year, including contributions to local
funds, amounted to £93,473 7s. 3d. The excess of income
had been applied in part to the erection of buildings at
Sierra Leone, with the view to the training of native
youths as local missionaries, to the discharge of a debt of
£lOOO, remaining due on the last account, and the residue
of £4318 15s. it had been deemed advisable to transfer to
the amount of capital, in order that the society's opera-
tions might not hereafter be interrupted by temporary
fluctuations in its financial department. The committee
had raised the maximum of expenditure from £85,000 to
£87,000 a year, exclusive of local funds in the respective
missions.—On Monday evening, the Lord Bishop of
London preached the forty-fourth anniversary sermon at
St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street.
THE SOCINIAN FRAUD BILL.—We perceive that this
" conciliation" measure has passel a second reading on
the motion of the Lord Chancellor without observation.
This case, which involves the property and rights of the
Presbyterian laity, as well as the principles of the law of
the land respecting trusts, and the fundamental articles
of the faith of Jesus Christ, can scarcely, we hope, pass
the legislature as it were sub silentio, notwithstanding the
"conciliation" spirit of a nothingarian or anythingarian
ministry. The following description of the bill is taken
from a letter by J. Cook Evans, Esq. to Lord Lynd-
hurst :

I hope that your lordship will permit me, without any sue-
picion of a want of that rt spect which is due to your lordship's
exalted rack, and that profound learning which is at once the
foundation and the ornament of your elevation, to state winl
in my humble judgment, ought to have been the preamble, an
enacting clause in the bill in question. It should have run,
I think, in the following words :—" Whereas nearly three hun-
dred chapels, &c., erected, and in some cases, endowed, by
Trinitarian Presbyteliaus' and the maintenance and spread
of Trinitarian doctrines, have, by the lapse f time, and the un-
faithfulness of trustees and ministers, been perverted to the
maintenance and spread of doctrines commonly called Unita-
rian, entirely opposed to and subversive of those entertained
by the pious founders, and for the maintenance of which doc-
trines the said chapels, &c., were erected and endowed, under
the sanction of the law; and whereas the intentions of the
founders of the said chapels are clearly ascertainable by those
rules of interpretation which the Courts of Equity adopt in
the interpretation of all deeds of trust, whether for religions
purposes, or for purposes purely civil ; and whereas some of ths,e
chapels, &c., so erected have been restored to• the purposes ft':
which they were originally intended, and used, under the deci-
sions of the Court of Chancery and the House of Lords; aa:
whereas it is expedient that the parties who have violated the.
trust, and have perve ted property from its lawful use, as afore-
said, shall not be called to account for their malversations,
heretofore, but shall be confirmed and secured in possession
the property which they now do or shall hereafter unlawinti;
Possess, BE IT ENACTED, by, &c., &c., that, in all cases in will,.
the el: ctrines to be taught in such chapels are not laid d 07.;
in the deeds declaring the trusts in 'express terms,' altbonn
otherwise clearly ascertainable, according to the principle_.oo..
law, 'founded on common sense and common justice,' the
gregation for twenty years in violation of the original t
shall be a perpetual bar to all suits for the recovery of go
property to its rightful Use. And as IT FURTHER ENACTED fre.
the usage of the congregation for the last twenty years 01
questing such chapel shall be conclusive evidence' tba
used
Tractarian founders intended the said chapels, Ex., to be
ru',..es,
for the propagation of Unitarian, and not Trinitarian docr to.
for the subversion of their own faith, and not for its P; Teoe, or
tion, any presnmption of law, or principle of C0M711073
common justice,' notwithstanding. "
We still hope that this bill, repugnant as it is in
ple both to "common sense and common justice, "
yet be arres'ed.
The
The area of Newfoundland is 57,000 square mii, e,:ng
population—extremely- poor and thinly scattered
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cast and south coasts—exceeds 80,000. The number
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vices more eminently blestd. The cost of re:urch of
Cathedral, which will be also the parish
or( theiommto
Job n's, was estimated at £7,000, and such but owing
ailats as deft the means contributed liberallY ;. „„sEibie
irei ciency in the funcb-i, it will be
complete the work without further aid.

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