The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 4. CLERICAL NEWS,

The Rev. M. A. Gathercole has commenced another
action against the proprietor of the Nonconformist. It
is said that the action is founded on some passages in a
speech delivered by the defendant at a dinner given to him.
On Saturday week the Bishop of Chester consecrated
St. Stephen's Church, Andenshaw, and on Wednesday his
Lordship consecrated St. James's Church at Birch, near
Manchester.

A subscription has been entered into to raise funds for
the endowment of a Chinese professorship and scholar-
ships at King's College, London, as well as for the pur-
chase of a Chinese library. The amount already sub-
scribed exceeds £l,OOO.

UNIVERSITY HONOURS.—Our young townsman, R.
G. Williams, son of Mr. Williams, Basnett-street, has
this year again distinguished himself at the University
College, London, having obtained prizes and certificates
of honour in the higher senior Mathematical Class, senior
Greek, junior Mathematical, Natural Philosophy, and
tH istory.
PRINCELY MuNtricENcE.—Trinity Church, Tewkes-
bury, lately built by subscription, is about being erected
into a district church, with the consent of the Rev. Da-
vies, the rector of the parish. The endowment is fur-
nished by a gentleman named Terrett, who has subscribed
the handsome sum of £4,000 to be applied to that pur-
pose ; to this will also be added a previous subscription
of £l,OOO by a lady. . .

SECESSION.—The Rev. John George Wenham, 8.A.,'
demy of Magdalen College, is announced as having apos-
tatised to the Church of Rome. Mr. Wenham was re-
cently sent out to Colombo as chaplain ; his Romanistie
opinions were well known previous to his departure from
England. Amongst the topics of congratulation con-
neuted with the resignation of the Peel administration,
will be the removal, we trust, of the nn-Protestant staff
accumulated at the Colonial-office, which we know has
operated most unfavourably in the appointments to the
Colonial t hurch.—Church and Slate Gazelle.

PRESENTATIONS.—The Rev. T. C. Cowan, curate of
Christ Church, took leave of the congregation on Sunday
week, and entered upon the duties of the incumbency of St.
Thomas's Toxteth-park, last Sunday. The Rev. Gentle-
man was presented, last week, by the Sunday school
teachers, with a handsome silver :inkstand, pencil and
gold pen, in testimony of their gratitude for his faithful
and aff ctionate labours among them ; and on Tuesday he
was waited on by a deputation from the congregation at
large, who conveyed to him a purse containing £Bl, to-
gether with a costly silver salver of bFautiful workman-
ship, which was executed by Mr. Wordley, of Lord-street.

INDELIBLE ORDERS.—The case of the Rev. Mr.
Shore has brought up again the curious question of the
indelibility of orders ; but there seems some difficulty to
know what orders are indelible, and by what virtue they
are so. Mr. Shore is " a priest in holy orders" of the
Church of England, and, therefore, by the canon law, he
is subject to the bishop, and he cannot secede. Mr.
Shore Ras the minister for some ten years of an unconse-
crated and unendowed chapel, built by the Duke of
Somerset, in the Parish of Berry Pomeroy. The duke
was willing to endow the chapel, provided he retained the
patronage. Two successive incumbents agreed to Mr.
Shore's ministry, but the third refused to permit him, un-
less the chapel were endowed, and the patronage vested in
the incumbent. Hereupon the duke turned the chapel
into a dissenting meeting house, and licensed it under the
Toleration Acts; and hereupon Mr. Shore took the oaths
as a dissenting minister. The bishop prosecutes him in
the Arches Court ; and, because orders are indelible, he
is prevented from becoming a dissenter. But now the
question arises as to Mr. Newman, Mr. Ward, and all
the other seceders to Rome. Were not their orders in-
delible ? Could not they be prohibited by the Arches
Court ? We can fancy the enormous hubbub about
" liberty of conscience," which the whole corps of Popery
in the House of Lords, the House of Commons, at the
press and elsewhere. as they swarm through the land,
would raise, if the " seceders to Rome" were assailed in
the Arches Court. and imprisoned for contempt, because
they exercised their liberty of going to Rome.—Statesman.
COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.—The committee appointed to
arrange measures in concert with government for the
erection and endowment of additional bishoprics in the
colonies and dependencies of Great Britain, have just
issued their third annual report. It appears that the
diocese of Australia is to be subdivided into three distinct
bishoprics, by the establishment of one see at Morpeth,
for the northern division of New South Wales, and of
another at Melbourne, for the district of Port Philip.
During the five years which have elapsed since the com-
mittee was formed, nine new sees have been created. Of
these, two, namely, Gibraltar and Fredricton, derive
their endowments almost exclusively from the fund placed
at the disposal of the episcopal trustees; and four others,
namely, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melbourne, and Mor-
peth, receive assistance from the same source. The re-
maining three, namely, Antigua, Guiana, and Colombo,
have been endowed by means of a different distribution of
the funds at the disposal of the imperial or colonial
government for ecclesiastical purposes. It is intended to
sub-divide the diocese of Calcutta, by the erection of a
bishopric at Agra, for the north-western provinces. The
committee recommend the immediate formation of
bishoprics in the following possessions of the crown :
Sierra Leone, Western Australia, the Mauritius, and
Prince Rupert's Land. Appended to the report is an
abstract of receipts and payments from the commence-
ment of the fund in January, 1841, to May. 1846. The
receipts, it appears, have been £81,890 lls. 4d.; the ex-
penditure less than that sum by £6 19s. id. ; which
balance remained to the credit of the fund, at the Bank of
England, on the Ist of May last.

THE COURT (5- FASHIONABLE WORLD.

The Queen returned to Buckingham Palace from Os-
borne House on Thursday.

Sir Robert Peel left town for Drayton Manor on
Thursday.
A morning paper states that the Duke of Wellington, at
the express request of her Majesty, retains his office of
Commander-in-Chief.

The Earl of Egliotoun has purchased the spacious man-
sion of the Earl of Lovelace, in St. James's square. The
price was £14,000.
PROMOTIONS.—Lord Francis Egerton was on Tuesday
gazetted as a peer under the titles of Viscount Brackley,
and Earl of Ellesmere, and the following gentlemen were
Promoted to the dignity of beaonet :—The Right Hon.
Thomas Frankland Lewis, of Harpton-Court, in the
county of Radnor; John Somerset Pakington, of West-
wood Park, in the county of Worcester, Esq. ; John
Gladstone, of Fa,que and Balfour, in the county of Kin-
cardine, Esq.; James Weir Hogg, of Upper Grosvenor-
street, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. ; William Fielden,
of Feniscowles, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Esq.;
William Verner, of Verner's Bridge, in the county of Ar-
magh, and of Inismagh, in the county of Tyrone, Esq. ;
and Sir Moses Montefiore, of East Cliff Lodge, in the
Isle of Thanct, and_county of Kent, Knt.

,
LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.—In the Gazette of Tnesday
evening it will be seen that his lordship has been elevated
to the peerage by the title of the Earl of Ellesmere and
Viscount Brackley. Both those titles had belonged to the
)use of Bridgewat
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whom, in 1603, he was created Earl of Ellesmere, and,
subsequently, in 1616, he was further raised to the dignity
of Viscount Brackley. and the king further intended to
have conferred an earldom on him; but be died before the
patent wasmade out. The earldom was, however, imme-
diately conferred upon his son Viscount Brackley, the
munificent patron of Milton, who wrote his " Comus"
expressly for the earl, when Lord President of the Princi-
pality, who had it performed by his family at Ludlow
Castle, in Wales. The viscounty and barony became
thus merged in the superior title of the Earl of Bridge-
water, and were enjoyed in direct succession until the
death of Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and last earl, and
ninth Viscount Brackley and Baron Ellesmere, who died
in February, 1829, and whose titles became extinct. It
is generally known that Lord Francis Egerton, then Lord
Francis Leveson Gower, nephew of the Earl, inherited a
large portion of his extensive estates, as well as his valu-
able collection of paintings, familiar to all connoisseurs of
the fine arts as the Bridgwater collection. In 1833, he
assumed the name of Egerton, in lieu of his patronymic
Leveson Gower. In 1820 his lordship was returned to
the House of Commons, as member for Bletchingly, and
in 1826 was elected to represent the county of Sutherland,
which he continued to sit for until 1830. In 1835, he
was returned for the southern division of Lancashire, in
conjunction with the Hon. R. B. Wilbraham, in opposi-
tion to Viscount Molyneux (now Earl of Sefton) and Mr.
G. W. Ward. His lordship was chief Secretary for Ire-
land, from 1828 to July, 1830, when he was appointed
Secretary at War, and filled that office till the succeeding
November. The noble lord was offered a high appoint-
ment by Sir Robert Peel when he came into office in
1841. but declined the honour from his unsettled state of
health.