The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4. CLERICAL NEWS.

CAMBRIDGE.—The following degrees were conferred on
Thursday :—Bachelors of Divinity—Rev. William Venry
Bateson, St. John's College ; Rev. Gilbert Beresford, St.
John's College ; Rev. Frederick William Collison, St.
John's College; Rev. James Cartmell, Christ's College;
liev. John Smith, Christ's College; Rev. Matthew
Gallye Lamotte, Sidney College. Masters of Arts—
Rev. James William Markwell, Christ's College ; John
Cartmell, Pembroke College. Bachelors in Medicine—
Henry Goode, Pembroke College; William Francis
Chorley, Caius College.
The Rev. E. Horne, M. A., of Peterhouse, Cambridge,
has resigned the living of St. Lawrence, Southampton,
valua £2OO per annum, into the hands of the Bishop of
Winchester, preparatory it is stated by the Cambridge
Advertiser, to conforming to the Roman Catholic
Church.
THE ROMANISTS AND THE CHURCH.--The founda-
tions of a new Roman Catholic college and church, to be
erected within two miles and a half of the cathedral of St.
Asaph, have been laid. The government are seeking to
abolish the bishopric which the Roman Catholics are thus
appropriating to themselves as it were.
LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.—This distinguished noble-
man, the learned rector of King's College and University,
has been at the ,xpense of printing, for the members of
the Spalding Club, a volume of " Selections from the
Ecclesiastical Records of Aberdeen," comprising the re-
cords of the kirk-session of Aberdeen, 1562-1659; the
records of the presbytery of Aberdeen, 1598.1610 ; and
those of the synod of Aberdeen, 1651-1681.--Scotch
paper.

DURHAM CATHEDRAL.—Considerable alterations have
been for some time going on in this venerable building,
under the auspices of the Dean, with the view of restoring
the interior to something like its original state. Last
week, workmen were employed to restore the chapter
room to its former appearance. The fine columnar work
and tracery had been covered over with stouthing and
plaster, and the room curtailed in its dimensions, to add
to the size of the deanery gardens.
PARISH OF ST. MARY, DONNYBROOK.—The petitions
of the Protestant parishioners, adopted at the late meeting
at Sandymount with reference to the proceeding of the
Archbishop of Dublin in the case of the Rev. R. W.
Kyle, were forwarded on Wednesday for presentation to
Parliament. The documents 'are very voluminous, each
petition extending the length of forty-five feet, and signed
by the churchwarden, the two ex-churchwardens, and
nearly eight hundred of the inhabitants, amongst whom
are many of the oldest and most iafluential parishioners.
KING WILLIAM'S COLLEGE, ISLE OF MAN.—The an-
nual meeting for the distribution of prizes took place yes-
terday week. The trustees were his Excellency the Go-
vernor (chairman), the Lord Bishop, and the Archdea-
con. The prizes consisted chiefly of handsomely-bound
books. The Principal said he was enabled to give most fa-
vourable report of the past year. The check sustained by
the fire was got over ; admissions had been greater than
in former years, and the number of boys was larger than
before. Much improvement had also been evinced by
the pupils, owing, in a great degree, to the successful
working of the quarterly t xaminations. A report of the
results had circulated amongst the friends of the boys,
with good effect upon both. Good accounts had also been
received of the latter from the Universities, especially
Cambridge, where some of them had taken honours in
January. Of those who had left them for various profes-
sions, the most gratifying accounts had also been re-
ceived. When the prizes had been distributed, the
Bishop expressed great satisfaction at the progress of the
pupils, and congratulated the respectable assemblage in
the room for the first time since it was repaired. The
Principal expressed his gratification to hear such a testi-
mony from the rev. prelate. He thanked the vice-princi-
pal and masters, for their kind co-operation, and con-
cluded by an affectionate and admonitory address to the
boys on their leaving the college for the holidays. The
pupils expressed their feelings by reiterate.: plaudits, and
the meeting separated with feelings of the utmost gratifi-
cation.

A TRACTARIAN EXPLANATION

(From the Record.)

Our readers no doubt remarked in our last the an-
nouncement of the establishment of an institution at
Harrow Weald, in the diocese of London, for training
boys " to receive deacons' orders, or to go out as school-
masters to the Church, in the colonies or at home."

The account was sent to us for publication (not of
course by Mr. Monro) in the shape of a lithographic
circular—to which was added the following important

and emphatic postscript :
"THE PLAN IS SANCTIONED BY THE BISHOP' and
is supported by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Keble, Mr. Mar-
riott, Mr. Hope, Mr. Acland, and many others whom
you may know."
" Harrow Weald, Stanmore, Middlesex, May 28."

Since our last we have received the following most
extraordinary letter from the Rev. Edward Monro, and
the Incumbent of Harrow Weald. He. says:—

TO THE EDITOR OF THE RECORD

" SIR,—As, ycu have published a letter of mine which was
strictly private, I will beg you to insert one or two statements
with reference to it, which the fact of your having thus made it
public requires.
"The statement at the end with reference 10 the Bishop's
sanction, was simply intended for the individuals to whom the
letter was sent, and to receive the kind of interpretation which

I knew they would put upon it. But since the public mop _not
attach the same meaning to the words, I must distinctly state,
that the Bishop is not to be considered as sanctioning the plan

(in my letter) in any other way than as having had it placed
before him by myself, with a request that he writ-take any
notice of it he may please. Beyond this, the school, in its

the Bishop's sanction.
" I did not expect that a private letter of any one would have
been thus made use of, or, of course, I should have felt it

needful to guard the expression more.
" I remain, your obedient servant,
" Harrow Weald, June 10, i 846." " ED. MONRO

It has never certainly been our lot to have presented to
us a more striking illustration of the •Tractarian spirit,
and the Tractarian practice, than this transaction affords.
A lithographic circular, intended to be "strictly pri-
vate," (but on which neither the words private nor confi-
dential appear,) is circulated, in which it is uncorupu-
lously stated that " the plan is sanctioned by the Bishop."
It is published, and then it appears that it has received no
sanction from the:Bishop whatever. It is "sanctioned by
the Bishop," " was simply intended," says Mr. Monro,
" for the individuals to whom the letters were sent, and
to receive that kind of interpretation which I knew they
would put upon it."
How the Bishop may regard this use of his name ; how
his Lordship may view this explanation of it, we may not
presume to decide : but how common sense,•and common
honesty will view it, every one of our readers will decide
for himself without any comment of ours.