The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-14 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE

There is a rumour that his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, on the resignation of the present Chancellor, his
Grace the Duke of Northumberland, is to be Chancellor
of the University. It isnot generally known to what cir-
cumstance the rumour owes its origin, but it gains cre-
dence throughout the University.
The Rev. William Hodgson, D.D., and master of St.
Peter's College, has been elected Vice-Chancellor for the
ensuing year. On the occasion of resigning his office, the
late Vice-Chancellor (the Rev. W. Whewell, 8.D.,) de-
livered a Latin oration in the Senate-house, congratula-
tory of the auspicious event which had just taken place,
and eulogising the general conduct of the entire academic
body on the occasion'of the Royal visit.
At the congregation just held. the following degrees
were conferred :
DOCTOR OF DIVINITY.—Jacob Henry Brooke, Trinity
College.
MASTERS Or ARTS.—Charles John Bayley, Trinity
College. Frederick Edward Long, King's College. Saml.
Longhurst, Queen's College. Alfred Hudson Shadwell,
St. John's College. Charles Griffith Smith, Clare Hall.
Joseph Spence, Christ's College.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.—James Gawen, Trinity College.
BACHELOR IN MEDICINE.—Henry William Fuller,
Caius College.

THE NEW BISHOP.—The Rev. John Lonsdale, arch-
deacon of Middlesex, and preacher of Lincoln's Inn, is
appointed Bishop of Lichfield.
Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., has been unanimously
re-elected Lord Rector of Aberdeen University by the
Senatus Academicus of that seat of learning.

Dr. Robertson of Ellon has been appointed by the
Crown to the Chair of Church History, in the University
of Edinburgh. The Rev. Dr. has also been appointed to
the office of Secretary to her Majesty's sole printers in
Scotland. The emoluments of both offices are about

£BOO a-year.
The Rev. John Sinclair, Vicar of Kensington, Trea-
surer, and late Secretary to the National Society, and
Cqaulain to the Bishop of London, is to succeed Arch-
deacon Lonsdale in the Archdeaconry of Middlesex. It
is understood that Archdeacon Lonsdale will not resign
the Preachership of Lincoln's-inn immediately on his
promotion to the Episcopal Bench.

MR. NEWMAN'S SUCCESSOR.—The Provost and Fel-
lows of Oriel College, Oxford, have presented the Rev.
Mr. Eden to the vicarage of St. Mary-the-Virgin, Ox-
ford, with the chapelry of Littlemore annexed, vacant by
the resignation of the Rev. J. H. Newman, B.D. This
result (says the Oxford Chronicle) has not been obtained
without hesitation, if not opposition, on the part of the
Provost of Oriel, on the ground of Mr. Eden's adherence
to the new doctrines, and not until Mr. Eden had pro-
fessed his willingness to discontinue the advocacy of
Tractarian opinions.

RECTORSHIP OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—We have
reason to believe that it is the intention of the conserva-
tive students in the University of Glasgow, who are now
a very decided majority, to relieve Mr. Fox Maule from
his duties as Lord Rector, and to replace him by that
accomplished and popular nobleman, Lord Eglinton.
We have no personal ill-feeling towards Mr. Maule, but
we are certainly not called upo❑ to sympathise with that
gentleman in his present erratic and extravagant course;
and we, therefore, rejoice to hear that our young friends
have resolved to read him a short practical lesson previ-
ously to the meeting of parliament.—Glasgow Courier.

OPPOSITION TO TRACTARIANISM.—The lay address
to the authorities of the University of Oxford, cn the
state of that university, has recently received the follow-
ing signatures (among thousands of others), and will, we
believe, shortly be presented to the Vice-Chancellor :
His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Man-
chester, the Marquis Cholmondeley, Earls Grosvenor,
Denbigh, Morton, and Cowper; Lords Hill, Kenyon,
Combermere, Lifford, Feversham, Farnham, Chetwynd,
Bernard, M.P., Bective, Sandon, M.P., Acheson, M.P.,
Ashley, M.P., Howard of Effingham, Henry Cholmonde-
ley, Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Baron Dimsdale ; Right
Honourables F. Frankland Lewis, Sir Geo. Rose, M.P. ;
Honourables Wm. Ashley, R. Maxwell, F. G. Calthorpe,
Captain J. P. Maxwell, W. Cowper, M.P., Captain W.
Waldegrave, S. R. Curzon, S. Maxwell, M.P., G. Ryder,
M.P., and L. Kenyon ; Sirs T. Baring, J. R. Reid, G.
Cowper, W. R. Farquhar, J. Chetwode, J. Gibbons, T.
F. Buxton, D. Mackworth, S. 0. Gibbes, E. Beaumont,
B. W. Bridges, add . Blomefield, Barts. ; Alderman
Thompson, M.P.; Alderman Copeland, M.P. Messrs.
3. Masterman, A. Smith, W. Beckett, J. P. Plumptre,
S. L. Fox, J. Hardy, W. Bagge, A. t.efrov, H. Sturt,
W. Evans, J. C. Colquhoun, E. Shirley, J. Barneby, of
Christ Church, and E. B. Farnham, M.P.'s, &c.

REV. Mr. SIBTHORP.—On his return to our pure and
apostolical communion, Mr. Sibthorp, according to my
own judgement, ought to receive all kindness at the bands
of his brethren. For my part, I honour him not a little
on the moral fortitude and strength of mind which he
has exhibited. In an evil hour, and under the evident
beguilement of mere jesuitical sophistry, he rashly, be-
cause without sufficient inquiry, leagued himself with
that mystery of iniquity, the great demonolatrous apos-
tacy. Many a man, when he fbund his error, would have
been deterred, by a fear of personal ridicule, from ac-
knowledging his error : and thus an act, originally
rashness, but persevered in against the voice of conscience,
purely to preserve a miserable semblance of reallydishon-
est consistency, would have operated as a fearful snare to
the inwardly convinced and enlightened soul But, to his
credit and his own great gain, which is far better, so acted
not our once erring brother. With a noble triumph over
one of the strongest feelings of our proud though fallen
nature, and with an honest disregard of consequences
in whatsoever shape, he promptly retraced his steps, as
soon as he practically found that Romish terms of com-
munion are idolatrous. Hence, for his conscientious
fortitude, I honour our returning brother : and I verily
believe, that his fall and resurgence will, through God's
mercy, have produced greater benefit to the cause of
Christian truth, than if he had never fallen. To the sore
discomposure of the Romanists, as plainly revealed by
their not quite prudent organ the Tablet, he has pro-
claimed aloud what he has really found the Church of
Rome to be. " Thus has become extinguished," says
the Tablet, " the brightest light that Puseyism has yet
brought us." But, to proceed with what 1 deem the
moral of this said extinction: henceforth, after the
solemn practical warning given by Mr. Sibthorp, any per-
son, under whatever training, who shall apostatise to the
Church of Rome, will have no excuse on the score of de-
lusion. He will rush into idolatry with his eyes wide open ;
he will know, from the case of Mr. Sibthorp, that a de-
mand will be made upon him, as an indispensible term of
communion, to fall down and worship a creature : he can
no longer plead that he has been beguiled and misled by
the eloquent plausibilities of Dr. Wiseman. Thus, by
God's blessing, may good come out of evii ; and thus
may the experimental testimony of Mr, Sibthorp act as
a check to that strange and senseless monomania, which
leads so many in the present day, by a marvellous hallu-
cination, to discover beauty in deformity,—Rev. J. S.
Faber's Letter.