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

CL.ER,CAL INLW:,.

OXFORD. MAY 2.—ln a congregation holden this:
morning, the following degrees were conferred:
Bachelor in Divinity.—Rev. Peter Peace, Worcester
College.
Rit Mence, Rev. John Henry Nurse, Wor-
w/foi,vet,rar
;of Arfsß
Rev.E.—dwaervd.
William Tirtnirnotorn ch
c,
hsaver;r:la 'of
Rev-
John
crater; George Bust, Pembroke; Rev. William Cobb,
Christchurch
Bachelors' of Arts.—Thomas Patridge Nunn, St. Mar!
Hall, George Ridley, Christchurch, Grand Compounders;
John Buller Yarde Buller, Hcniy Ochteilony
Middle-
ton, St Mary Hall; William Balfour. Lincoln; Richard
Bright. Fa r ax William Cartwright, Burrington Stopford
Thomas Mills, Christchurch; John Charles Bagshaicr
Henry Brooks, Samuel Plant, scholar of Brazenose ; .1"11
Lowder flay, Magdalen-hall; Louis Balfour Clutterbuck,
Wadham ; Aneurin Lloyd Lodge,
.le-us.; Crarl,s WilliatY
Lawrence, Fellow of New College • &hound Du Buissour
Oriel; John Batguv, Morton; Henry Clarence Pigour
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 Want
B.A. (twenty-fourth Wrangler, 1844,) to theVice-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'
bendall stall in Chichester Cathedral, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Thomas Heberden.
The Rev. Richard Waldo Sibthorpe, the recent convert
to tfic komish faith, who is on a visit to the Rev. Thos.
Dikes, at the Charter House, in Hull, partook of the
sacrament in St. Joha'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, OS,
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. there the Ref-
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 Higbnol
Prince Albert will lay the foundation-atone of the exten-
sive new buildings which are to he erected forthwith, at
an expense of £26.000, immediately corviguous 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 ball.

•
COLONIAL CITORCH SOCIETY.—The annual meeting
of the Colonial Church Society was held on Wednesday
eveninx. 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. Thelwall, and a great number of the lay and cle-
rical fiends of the society were on the p'atform. Tha
secretary read the report, which gave a detailed account
of the society's of crations in Nova Scotia, Western Au*,
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•-
tsnts of Hasbeya, a village situate at the foot of Mount
Leb.ition, had abjured the Greek orthodox religion to em-
brace Pi o'estantism.

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 nurr,bersOf
the clergy, all apparently on one errand, and of one mind,
as was proved by the re,,ult. At two o'clock the Cun.oca-
tion-house was filled to overflowing, and the Vice Chan-
cellor proposed the new statute, wh;ch had for its object
to settle the existing perplexities as to the con it and
exercises requisite for theological degrees, by creating and
granting to the Regius Prof-s-or of DivinitsqDr. ElantP-
den at present) an absolute doctrinal authority in the rya"
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 tin.
voters, committing them, however, to a certain mode of
exammation, in a matter in which they would probahlt,
feel indiffrrence. By anticipation it she
the fate etv
the rest of the statute, and was rejected by a large um"
jority. The second clause contained the proposed I°P:a
of exercises, and was the substratum of the two relmarp
ing. It was rtjected by a majority of 341 to 21 On
_.
the result being declared the two last clauses were
Con-
vocationmaereetlywithdrawn dissolved.by
statute, on the
and his friends voted against the proposed
questions of form to the
ground that .the reference oil
Vice-Chancellor was an invasion of his supposed absolute
Itthie:, Vicesaid thatC a Chancellor.
'and irresponsible power in granting degrees. Among the
nou-resident members were Dr. Honk, the Dean of Cbi:
chester. Archdeacon Manning, Mr. Edward Churton, and
ambidiorstisoefwhoetlrree.r_chrarmace,te.rs well known by name both here
loiira,
manprldetnnehilnsef

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The forty-fourth
antliver.Nry fleeting t.f this society was held on Tuesday,
at Exeter Halt. The Earl of Chichester, President of
the Society, took the chair. Amongst those ou 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. Plutupire, M.P., Mr. J. hound,
M.P., Major-General Latter, Hon. E. Curzon, Right
Hon. Sir G. Rose, Bart., Hon. Capt Waldegrave, R.N.,
Hon. Captain Mande, R.N., Arc h•leacon Hoare, Rev. H.
Stowell, Drs. Marsh, H. Stewart, H. Green. J. Cunning-
Lam, and several o'ber clergymen. The proceedings
having been open.-d by prayer, the noble Chairn an yeti
briefly addressed the meeting. With the exception of
Jamaica, there had been no contraction of missionary
I,bour. During the past year, nine additional missiona-
a ies had been sent out, 54 branch associations and 18
juvenile societies estahlished, and 24 missionaries
admitted
to holy orders. The Duke of Manchester, Viscoun;
Sandon, and Lord Lurg an had accepted the office of
vice-presidents. The retort stated, that two yer= ago
the society was in a position of considerable enat.arrass-
nient, arising from excess of expenditure over income ;
_
but last ye.,r, through the liberality of the chaiscian b
lie, that difficulty pfl.
bad been overcome. Toe coma, tree
had taken their sand upon those sound Evangel cal and
Protestant principles which had from its very foundation the chief characteristic of the society, arid to which
its prosperity and us; fulness 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,£lss6 16s Id.; capital fund.£26lB is 6d.;
Foorah Bay Buildings Fund, £llBl 17s. ; Dis Mis-
sionar es Fund. £1145 19s. Total receipt=, £104.323 15s-
10d. The expenditure of the veer, ina lading contribu-
tions to 1,,cal funds, amounted to £93,473 7s. 3d. The
expenditure of th • year, including contributions to local'
funds, amounted to £93,473 is. 3d. Tlvy excess t:f 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, renti&ng due on the last account, and then sidue
of £4318 15s, it had been deemed rad% isable to trsns'er to
the amount of capital, in order that the socieiy's opera-
tions might not hereafter he interrupted by t. tcporerf
fluctuations in ins financial department. The committee
had 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 Bish,l3 of
London preached the forty-fourth anniversary sermon at
St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street.

THE SOCINIAN FRAUD BILL.—We perceive that this.
" conciliation" measure has pa-se I a second reading on
the motion of the Lard Chauc hor without observation.
This case, which involves the property and riglitb of the
Presbyterian laity, as well as the principles of the law of
aJseistttsw
were sub
s t,
sciainenstcioa :cleio;lyt
the land respeetng trusts, and the fundamen'al articles
"conciliation"t ?pint, of a Mt linigarian or anythin4arian
tohf e'eg ifsaliat thu ref
mini-try. The following deacriplion of the bill is taken.
i''tle-istha°oPcri:zPttlises
fr-on a letter by J. Cook Evans, Esq. to Lord Lynd-
bu- st

I hope that your lordship will permit me, without any sus-
picion of a want of that r spect winch is due to yo r lordship's
exalted rank. and that profound leaning which is at mice the
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 hate run.
I think, in the tollowaig words :—•• Whereas nearly three hun-
dred chapels. &c., rected, and in some cases, endowed, by
Trinitarian Presbyterians, and the maintenance and spread
of Trinitarian dr,ctrines, have, by the lap e t time. and the on'
faithfulness of trustees ant ministers, he n perver ed to Or
maintenance and spread of doctrine, common y caned Units;
rian, entirely opposed to arid subversive of those entertained
by the pious founders, and for the maintenance of which doC;
trines the sa'd chapels, &c., were erected aro endow d, tine'
the sanction of the law; and whereas the intentions of- lbe
founders of the said chapels are clearly ascr rtainahl by thos`
rules of interpretation which the Cour a of Equity adopt it%
the interp:etation ix all deeds of trust, whether for religion 6
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. end used, under the dc,;:i
sions of the Court of Chancery a= d the 'louse of Lords; a i
whereas it is expedient that the parties who have violated tbet
":.
trust, and have perve ted proper y from i s lawful use, as td°r:i
said, shall not be called to account for their ma:versations,
heretofore, but shall be confirmed and secured in possession 4
the pr perry which they now do or shall hereafter untqwflll4
po-sess, HE IT ENACTED. by. &c.,Xc. that. In all cases in wb!:ti
the d ctrines to be taught in such chapels are not laid d°74
in the deeds dechiring the trusts in ' express terms.' a.thou_bf
otherwise clearly ascertainable, ace, Wring to the I.rinciplec,...
law, 'banded on common sense and common justice ' the
_4l
eregation for twenty years in via ation of the original trfucco
shall be a perpau .1 bar to all suits for the re, over' of that'
property to its rightful use. And Hs IT FURTHER ENACTKP
re
the usage of the congrega ion for the last twenty )01 the
qttenting such chapel shall lie c,,uclusice evidence' Oa used
Tractarian founders intended the said chapels, &c.. to licu.ines.
for the propagation of Unitarian, rid not Trinitarian de,
,eos-
for the subversion of heir own faith, and not for its P rtse,
tion, any prestnnv ion of law, or principle of comma's se''
common justice,' notwithstana.t.g."
•.in p -.3
We still hOne -that this bill, repugnant as it ;1 r.-
WI
pie. Loth to "common sense and common justice,
yet be at res'ed.
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The area of Newfoundland is 57,000 snit lie nnes• th
population—extremely poor and th,ill,, t-t-atte, e" brr
(Iva and south coasts—exceeds 80 100. 1 hej." yet 130-
c'ergy is but 26. wo swim s are w ccerPielr t ,e.r fer-
where are 1:
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:boi 1,4111 g tile
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t'efiui. y in the tu,d,
con.pkte the aurk without twiner aid.

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