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

CLERICAL. ALt)::,,

OXFORD, MAY 2.—ln a congregation holden this
morning, the following degrees were conferred :
Bachelor in Divinity.—Rev. Peter Peace, Worcester
College.
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John Wiliam Mence Rev. John Henry Nurse, Wor-
cester; George Bust, Pembroke ;. Rev. William Cobb,
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
Bright, Evens William Cartwright, Burrington Stopford
Thomas Mills, Christchurch ; John Charles Bagshavit,
Henry Brooks, Samuel Plant, scholar of Brazenose; John
Lowder Ray, Magdalen-hall; Louis Balfour Clutterbuck,
Wadham ; Aneurin Lloyd Lodge, Jesus; Cr arles William
Lawrence, Fellow of New College ; Edmund Du Buisson,
Oriel ; John Balguy, Morton ; Henry Clarence Pigou,
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-
bendal! stall in Chichester Cathedral, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Thomas Heberden.
The Rev. Richard Waldo Sibthorpe, the recent convert
to the Romish 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 eaten-
sive new buildings which are to he erected forthwith, at
an expense of £26,0e0, immediately contiguous to the
ancient edifice, in that portion of the premises known as
Weston's-yard. It having been considered for some time
past that the manner in which the boys on the foundation
of the College were lodged was not in accordance with the
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.
Plumptre, M.P. Mr. G. Finch, Mr. J. Labouchere, the
Rev. A. Thelma& and a great number of the lay and cle-
rical 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 coneitions and
exercises requisite fur 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 probably
feel feel indifference. By anticipation it showed the fee
m of
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the rest of the statute, and was rejected by h
joofrietxyei
.reTsehse,
andse conwdascltahe substratumusecoritainedotfhetpi oa
tp o two elae2rer:de,mfaooirnmn-
ing. It was rejected by a majority of 34
the re
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nb y
the declaredvtie
e the
Chancellor,
last clauses
thew dis-
creetly Co-
nvocation vocation dissolved. It is said that Dr. Hampden himself
and his friends voted against the proposed statute, on the
ground that the reference on questions of form to the
Vice-Chancellor was an invasion of his supposed absolute
and irresponsible power in granting degrees. Among the
non-resident members were Dr. Honk, the Dean of Chi-
chester, Archdeacon Manning, Mr. Edward Churton, and
a host of other characters well-known by name both here
and
and elsewhere.—Tunes.
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 Dean of
Salisbury, Viscount Sandon, M.P., Sir R. H. Inglis,
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 Waldegravet
Hon. Captain Maude, 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 meet-ng. With the exception of
Jamaica, there had been no contraction of missionary
labour. During the past year, nine additional missione-
ties had been sent out, 5-1 branch associations and 18
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 yeu.3 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, £1556 16s. Id.; capital fund,£264B Is. 6d.;
Fourth Bay Buildings Fund, £llBl 17s. ; Disabled Mis-
sionar es Fund, £1145 I9s. Total receipts, .£104,323 15s.
10d. The expenditure of the year, 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
lid 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.

Tag SOCINIAN FRAUD BILL.—We perceive that this
" conciliation" measure has passe 1 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 :

hope that your lordship will permit me, without any sus-
picion of a want of that respect which is due to your lordship's
exalted rank, and that profound learning which is at once the •
e ret
ewd
.o radrs,
d:
n"
foundation and the ornament of your elevation, to state what
in my humble judgment, ought to have been the preamble, and
enacting clause in the bill in question. It should have run,
dI
rtehdi
chapels,
ai
pn
etl hs.e following
C.
,r
endowed,
three
bn y-
Trinitarian Presbyterians, and the maintenance and spread:
W some e"
cases, nea
of Trinitarian doctrines. Ave, by the lap-e t time, and the un-
faithfulness of trustees and ministers, bean perverted to the
maintenance and spread of doctrines common:), 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 Cour s of Equity adopt la
the interpretation of all deeds of trust, whether for religions
purposes, or for purposes purely civil; and whereas some of the
chapels, &c., so erected have been restored to the purposes for
which they were originally intended, and used, under the deci-
sions of the Court of Chancery and the House of Lords; and
whereas it is expedient that the parties who have violated their
trust, and have perve ted property from its lawful use, as afore- •
said, shall not be called to acconnt for their malversations,
heretofore, but shall be confirmed and secured in possession 01
the property which they now do or shall hereafter unlawfully
possess, BE IT ENACTED, by, &c., &c., that, in all cases in which
the d ctrines to be taught in such chapels are not laid down
in the deeds declaring the trusts in 'express terms,' althoogo,
otherwise clearly ascertainable, according to the principleso:
law, 'fronded on common sense and common justice,' the co_:.
gfegation for twenty years in violation of the original trust:
shall be a perpetu el bar to all suits for the recovery of such
property to its rightful use. And as IT FURTHER. ENACTED
the usage of the congregation for the last twenty years
fre-
quenting such chapel shall be ' conclusive evidence' that
Tractarian founders intended the said chapels, &c., to be ,7_".
for the propagation of Urittarian, and not Trinitarian doctrines,
for the subversion of heir own faith, and not for its P rte,n;
or
tion, any presumption of law, or principle of conarnou
common jastice,' notwithstanding. " nci
is in P" 'll
We still hope that this bill, repugnant as it . wi
justice
pie both to "common sense and common
yet be at res'ed. The
es.
The area of Newfoundland is 57,000 square , along the
population—extremely poor and thinly scattereo
number of
numb east and south coasts—exceeds 80,000. •-•••e,., Yet ne-
clergy is but 26. Two stations are moccupieur
their the
vices are clergymen more gladly received2reebuilding the
vices more eminently blessed. The cost ot
church of St.
Calnedral, which be also the parish
h of Vie inhabit-
John's, was estimatat et. ,..,4-,vvin2 10
ants as had the means cons ributed .0"
ossibie t
a la
lace ileficiency in the funds, it will be ituP
con,pletc the work without further aid.

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