The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-29 00:00:00

CHURCH PATRONAGE

We (the Observer) had the pleasure of announcing last week.
that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of St. Asa ph
had expressed their determination not to fill up two sinecure
rectories, now vacant in the diocese of St. Asaph, until the
ecclesiastical commissioners had reported upon that important
branch of their inquiry. We are now enabled to publish the•
official letters of r. Murray, informing the commissioners of
this determination of the right reverend prelates:—

COMMISSION

" 13, Great George-street, September 18, 1835.
" 1 have this day received a letter from the Bishop of St.
Asaph, intimating that the sinecure rectory of Llanbryninaur,
in that diocese, and in his lordship's patronage, has become va-
cant, and that it is not his intention to collate a successor un-
til the commissioners shall have made their next report.
" 1 have the honour to be your obedient faithful servant,
C. H. MUlillAY, Secretary.

" CHURCH COMMISSION.

" Great George-street,September 19, 1835.
" I have this day received a communication from his Grace the
Arehbishopof Canterbury, that the sinecure rectory of Kelhen,
in the diocese of St. Asa ph, belonging to his grace's Option for
this turn is vacant ; and that it is his grace's intention not to
collate to this preferment till the determination of the com-
missioners shall he known.
" 1 have the honour to be your obedient faithful servant,
- - c. H. Mtn Itkt, Secretary.'''

Paci,ANlNt Rr.nrvivus.—A great writer, who handled his pen
* Paganini handled his bow, and who has recently gone where
Paganini has not followed him, declared his belief, that if
Beelzebub himself were to die, the newspapers would express
their "regret." Would they riot also express regret at contra-
dicting the report? We all remember the paragraph commen-
dug " It is with extreme regret that we have to contradict the
statement of a murder at Barnett," &c. Now, perhaps, %ye
ought to express regret at having helped to plunge the world
i
in sorrow for Pagimini's loss, when Paganini s yet living. On
the contrary, we feel the deepest joy at having afflicted the
people for nothing. - We have nu room for affected regrets in
our real rejoicing. The Great Bowman has escaped the Grim
Archer, who has slain a relative instead. The " Neck-roman-
cer" himself, as he has been plensantiv designated, still survives
—the first of fiddlers yet flourishes. Well, his elegy in our last
wither must he classed among the permaturc poetry of the age.
Meanwhile, until it is wanted, Paganini must comtert himself
in the companionship of the numerous men of genius, who, like
him, have been put to death before their time. Nlr. Braham's
biograpbv, introduced by a suitable lamentation for his loss,
was published a year or two ago. The vocalist may now sing
in harmony with the violiuist, The (lead may delight us to-
gether—the late Mr: Braham accompanied by the deputed
Paganitii. Long life to the unburied heroes ti.f the obituary !
—Court Journal.
THE BALANCE OP THE, CONSTITUTION.—An irresponsible
Second Chamber is indispensable to good government,- and we
think when we can quote Sydney and Locke, and Montesquieu,
in support of that proposition, we quote authorities as high -as
Mr., fume or Mr. O'Connell, or any other whig or radical of
the present day. "As for democracv" says Sydney, "it can
suit only with the convenieuce of a small town, accompanied
with such circumstances as are seldom found. But this no way
obliges men to run into the other extreme; inasmuch -as the
variety.of forms between mere democracy and absolute mon-
archy, is almost infinite, and if I should undertake to say that
there never was a good government in the world, that did not
consist of thee simple species of monarchy, aristocracy, and
democracy; I think 1 might make it good."—Eoays on Govern-
ment, sect. 16.

MR. GRANT, 01, CotturmoNy.—This venerable gentleman,
the father of the Scottish bar, died at Laketieid, Glen Urquhart,
in this county, on Sunday last, and was interred this day. He
was in his 031 year. Mr. Grant was an accomplished scholar
and antiquary, and, what is not often united to these qualities,
a first-rate musician, both vocal and instrumental. He was au-
thor of a work on The Origin of the Gael, and also wrote treatises
on the origin of language and society. He was early distinguish-
ed for his Liberal political principles, and associated with Henry
Erskine and other eminent men of that day, and subsequently
with Sir James Macintosh, Mr. Horner, &c. Ile retained his
faculties to the last, anti, from this extent and variety of his at-
tainments, was a delightful companion. --hii.erners Courier,