The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY et CLERICAL NEW..

CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 18.—At a congregation just held.
the following degrees were conferred :—Bachelors of Me-
dicine. Christopher Thomas Richardson, Emmanuel
College ; Allen Williams, Trinity College.—Bachelor of
Laws.—John Dee Denman, St. John's College.—Mas-
(era Arty.—Charles William Blunt, Trinity College;
Thomas Henry Noel Hill, St. John's College; William
Laing, St. John's College ; John Colpitts Dean, Christ's
College,—Bachelors of Arts.—Chas. Philip Wilbraham,
St. Peter's College ; William Henry Wright, Jesus Col-
lege.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. S. Addy,
M.A. to the vicarage of Corpusty, Norfolk.—Rev. A.
Christopherson, M.A. to the curacy of the parish church,
Lancaster.—Rev. W. Moore, D.D. to the archdeaconry
of Lincoln.—Rev. J. A. Burrough, to be chaplain and
naval instructor to H.M. ship, .Amazon.—Rev. W. Simp-
son, 8.A., to the perpetual curacy of Dobeross, in Sad-
dleworth.—Rev. W. Johnson, M.A. to the rectory of
Grainsby, Lincolnshire.—Rev. E. W. Foley, to the
vicarage of Great Malvern, Worcestershire.—Rev. W.
J. Butler, R.D., to the rectory of Aopletcn-cum-Tuhney,
Berks.—Rev. F. A. Faber, to the rectory of Saunderton,
Bucks.—Rev. J. 13. Hushes, M.A., assistant master to
the School for sons of Clergymen and others, Marlbo-
rough, to the second mastership of Blundell's School,
Tiverton.—Rev. C. H. Hutton, D.D., to the rectory of
Houghton Magna, Northamptonshire.—Rev. E. Kitson,
from Malta, to be chaplain to Pembroke Dockyard, vice
R. Bloxham, retired.—Rev. J. Austin, to be chaplain to
H.M. ship Eagle.-13ev. J. Cartwright, M.A., to be pre-
centor of the Cathedral Church, Durham.—Rev. J. Ed-
wards, M.A., to the curacy of the parish church, Roch—
dale.—Rev. W. Laing, to be junior assistant curate at
Oldbury, near Birmingham.—Rev. A. Paton, M.A., to
the curacies of Donnington-on-Baine, and Market Slain-
ton, Lincolnshire.—Rev. R. Robinson, 8.D., to the liv-
ing of Mallerstang, near Kirkby--Stephen. Rev. W.
Harrison, morn'ng preacher at the Magdalen, to the office
of afternoon preacher in the chapel of the Foundling Hos-
pital.

il f
The University of Edinburgh has conferred degree
of Doctor in Divinity on the Rev. John Ce ALA.
The number of members in the Universi . Cam-
bridge, have increased considerably during the lust year.
They now amount to 1926, being 103 more than at the
corresponding period of 1843.
A handsome subscription has been raised in Somerset-
shire for the purpose of preserving the tomb of Bishop Ken,
(author of the Morning and Evening Hymns,) in the
churchyard of Frome, in that county, and for restoring
the chancel of that chwch as a memorial to the bishop's
memory.

There are no fewer than ten ordinations to be holden
on Sunday the 22d instant. The following are the din.
ceses in which this important ceremony will occur, viz.:—
London, Salisbury, Chichester, Oxford, St. David's„
Gloucester and Bristol, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, and
Worcester.

The Times of Friday states that the Archbishop of
Canterbury has announced his intention to summon a
meeting of the bench of bishops, in consequence of the
unhappy schism which at present agitates the church, in
order to deliberate on the rubrical observances to be en-
fore d. It is expected the meeting will take place early
in Jihuary. It is confidently said that the Archbishop,
in which his Grace of York concurs, will propose a con-
ciliatory course to be pursued relative to the observance
of the rubric, so that a due regard may be paid to the
scruples of the laity relative to innovations in the Church
service which may give offence to the congregation.
THE OFFERTORY.—On Sunday week, the Bishop of
London preached a sermon at St. George's Church, Ha-
nover-square, London, on behalf of the Visiting Asso-
ciation of that parish, and advocated the claims of the
charity with his usual earnestness and eloquence, when,
to the surprise of the congregation, it was found, on leav-
ing the church, that no collection was made. It appears
that the Bishop's intimation that the collection should be
made from pew to pew while the Offertory service was
read from the communion-table was in opposition to the
practice which had invariably been followed in that
church; and, as the churchwardens did not feel justified
in departing from the custom sanctioned by the congre-
gation, the consequence was, that no collection was made,
and the charity did not receive the slightest pecuniary
advantage from his lordship's advocacy.
OBSERVANCE OF THE Minnie, EXETER.—On Sunday
morning week, considerable sensation was created in
Exeter by certain official alterations in the performance
of divine worship at all the parish churches, according to
the instructions issued by the Bishop of Exeter. The
first infringement on the popular feeling took place in St.
Sidwell's Church, where the ceremony of christening
was performed in the midst of the church service. In
every one of the parish churches the sermon was preached
by the clergyman in a surplice instead of a gown, and
several of the congregation were so offended at this inno-
vation, that they quitted the church the moment they
saw the minister, so attired, enter the pulpit. It is said
that the churching of women will be in future performed
at those•churches in the midst of the Sunday morning's
service, and a very strong feeling exists as to the indeli-
cacy and impropriety of such a custom. The inhabitants
of Exeter entertain a very general dislike to these innova-
tions.
THE OFFERTORY A CENTURY SINCE.—The Timos of
Wednesday, contains a curious report of a trial which
took place upwards of a century since, at which a clergy-
man and the churchwardens were indited for collecting
money for a char ty school during the reading of the offer-
tory sentences, during which a number of the children
were present in the church. The parties were taken into
custody, and bound over to appear at the Maidstone
Quarter Sessions, as rioters and vagrants. At the Quar-
ter Sessions no bill was found against them, but being
compelled to attend at the ensuing assizes, they were in-
dicted of being "evilly and seditiously disposed" to the
existing government,—" wickedly desirous of gain ;
horridly and unjustly intending to procure for themselves
unlawful gains under pretence of collecting charities,"
&c. ;—that they did " conspire and confederate " with
others to " wander up and down England " for this pur-
pose; and that, in the time of divine service in the said
parish church, " the said William Hendley (to prosecute
his conspiracy without any license from the King or any
legal authority) did incite and ask of the parishioners
charities, alms, and gifts," by means of persons filling no
parish office, " yet they did there" " unlawfully extort
these,charities," to the " defrauding and cheating " of the
parishioners. Pretty stringent these several counts of the
indictment !—The accused were found guilty of the alleged
charges, and fined in a mitigated penalty. The limes in a
subsequent article states that " the true point was pre-
cisely that in which the church of Hurst and elsewhere
has disturbed our parishes at the present day ; and resolved
itself into the simple question—can the collection in the
Communion service be solicited for other purposes than
for the poor of the parish ? And if not, then, are the
persons who make and solicit such collections without
authority liable to be indicted and punished?"