The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-22 00:00:00

PUBLIC WORSHIP

The Bishop has licensed a room in Kirkdalo for divine
service, under the pastoral superintendence of the Rev.

D. James

Lord Stamford is about to erect a new church at
Bowdon.

An exercise for the degree of bachelor of music, com-
posed by Charles Danvers Hackett, of Magdalen Hall,
Oxford, organist of the parish church of Liverpool, will
be performed in the Music School, Oxford, on Wednes-
day, (to - morrow.)
The Rev. J. M. Jephson, formerly a curate in Leeds,

who caused some excitement a year or two ago, by se-
ceding from our Church and formally attaching himself
to the Church of Rome, has, together with Mrs. Jephson,
recently received the communion in Gorleston church,
having regularly attended that church for some months
past. We are also informed that he has resumed the title
of Reverend, which after his secession from the Church
of England he had laid aside.
The Bristol Times has announced that proceedings
have been commenced, in the Arches Court, against the
Rev. J. Seton Kerr, a " fox-hunting parson," at the
instigation of the rural dean, for hrbitual cursing and
swearing, lewd behaviour, and other charges of a like
and worse character. The reverend gentleman is vicar of
Berkeley, a parish containing 4,000 inhabitants; and
Earl Fitzhardinge has taken up his case, and made an
appeal to the bishop to suspend proceedings, who has re-
plied in a letter, which contains a dignified rebuke to the
earl for his uncalled-for interference.
ARCHDEACON THORPE AND THE BISHOP OF GLOU-
CESTER AND BRlSTOL.—Exaggerated reports of an al-
leged " rebuke," given by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester
and Bristol to Archdeacon Thorpe, after the ordination
at Stapleton on Sunday fortnight, being in circulation,
we have inquired into the matter, and find there is no
further ground for it than this. The archdeacon, who
preached, went direct from the communion table to the
pulpit, and commenced the sermon without the collect,
as it is now done in some churches, and of which it ap-
pears his lordship did not approve, as he afterwards said
in the vestry to those who had just been ordained, and in
the presence of the archdeacon, " Gentlemen, I do not
wish you to take example by what you have seen to day,"
alluding to the circumstance we have jult stated.—Chel-
tenham Journal.

TIIF POPE'S ENCYCLICAL LETTER.—The language
in which he assails these societies and the sacred volume
which, under God, they have been the means of dissemi-
nating, is itself such an exposure, that we shall simply
reprint it without criticism :—" With unheard-of audacity
(writes Pius IX.) and under a false pretext of religion,
they recommend the reading of them to the faithful.
You, in your wisdom, perfectly understand, venerable
brothers, with what vigilance and solicitude you ought to
labour, that the faithful may fly with horror from this
poisonous reading, and that they may remember that no
man, supported by his own prudence, can arrogate to
himself the right, and have the presumption, to interpret
the Scriptures otherwise than as our holy mother the
church interprets them, to whom alone our Lord has con-
fided the guardianship of faith, judgment upon the true
sense, and interpretation of the divine books."

A correspondent of the Record states that at a meeting
of the British Reformation Society held at Brighton, a
pupil of St. Marks' rose in the body of the meeting, and
demanded " whether the Society held that the Pope was
the Man of Sin, and Popery the apostacy"— (both of
which propositions he denied, as was understood) ; and
he proceeded to reprobate the practice of the Society in
seeking to draw away members from the Church of Rome
on the Continent (whilst he admitted the propriety of
doing so in Ireland, because she was there a schism) ;
but that they ought rather to recommend them to remain
at their posts in the Church of Rome and to endeavour to
reform her, and to save their consciences in joining her
worship by withholding an amen to what was erroneous in
it ; that the contrary system—vie., that pursued by the
Society, was in violation of the apostolic precept, Rom.
xvi. 17, " Mark them which cause divisions," &c., and to
wind up all (though he said much more than I have room
to relafe,) he stated his belief that Christ's promise to his
apostles " to be with them," &c." was independent of
their teaching all things, &c. ; and that Christ was as
n, lilt with the Church of Rome as with the Church of
EriOrvid.