The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY er CLERICAL IVEWs.

BISHOPS OF NORWICH AND DURHAM.
On reviewing the speeches of these bishops on the
Socinian Endowment Bill, it strikes us that there is that
in them which does require from us some further remarks.
These remarks we make with all reverence due to the
station occupied by an ecclesiastical ruler, but, at the
same time, with the recollection that he is a fallible man,
subject to the usual infirmities of our nat. res, and liable
to mistake.

We consider, then, that the bishop of Norwich, in his
speech on the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, has betrayed the
trust reposed in him, and given up into the hands of its
enemies the great principle of Catholicism lodged in the
sacred citadel of our ecclesiastical polity. His lordship
is represented as saying, " Upon what title did he hold
his preferment? It had once belonged to men who held
doctrines widely different from those which Protestants
consider essential ;" and that he was satisfied with holding
his preferment by act of parliament ! Strange admission!
As if the hierarchy of the English church had ever
changed—as if it were not identical with the ancient
British church—as if it had not acted constitutionally as
a church possessing an inherent power, as an independent
branch of the Catholic church, to purge itself from error,
and to restore itself to a conformity with the primitive
church. •
Strange the mistake the bishop has made! The church
of England, at the Reformation, actually did what the
dissenters did in the case of Lady ilewley's charity—re-
covered the endowments by proving themselves in posses-
sion of the doctrine of the founders and the English
chu ; in restoring the doctrines of her founders—the
apostles—asserted her title to be the true branch of the
holy Catholic church planted in these kingdoms. But
hers was a stronger case; for she ejected no one—she
retained her bishops in the true successional line, and
being truly independent of any o,lier church on earth
which can have any jurisdiction in these realms, her en-
dowments naturally belong to her without any act of par-
liament. "Act y parliament!"
Then, again, the bishop says the Wesleyans need no act
of parliament. Indeed ! why they could nct exist but by
act of parliament. They are entirely an act of parliament
religion. What being have they without the license of
the magistrate ? 0, venerable mother ! who shall defend
thee when thy bishops betray thee?—Church and State
Gazette.

OXFORD, JULY 25.—The election of three Demies
took place at Magdalen College yesterday, being the
second day of examination, when the following gentlemen
were the successful candidates :—Messrs. Sedgeirick,
Christchurch; Wickham, Wadham ; and Hessey. There
were 32 competitors. The Revs. J. L. Hoskyns, M.A.,
G. W. Paul, 8.A., H. Smith, 8.A., I. T. Landon, M.A.,
and Messrs. H. C. Adams, M.A., F. H. Deane, 8.A.,
and R. Cholmeley, 8.A., Probationary Fellows, were
this day admitted Actual Fellows of Magdalen College.
Me. H. G. J. Parsons, 8.A., Demy, was also admitted,
and Mr. W. Balfour, 8.A., of Lincoln College, was
elected Probationary Fellow of the same college.
The foundation stone of a new church at Morpeth,
Northumberland, was laid by Lord Morpeth, the
brother-in-law of the Hon. and Rev. Francis Richard
Grey, the reeor of the parish.
THE ISLE OF MAN.—The Bishop of Sodor and Man
held an ordination at Bishop's Court on Sunday, the 21st
instant, when the following gentlemen were admitted into
holy orders :—?riests.—The Rev. John Fry Garde, the
Rev. John Congreve, 8.A., the Rev. Isaac Brittain,
Deacons.—Alexander Watt, A.M., Philip Dowe.
LAY MUNIFICENCE.—Mr. James Fussell, of Chantrey-
house, in the county of Somerset, is building a beautiful
church near his house, in the parish of Wh Utley, which
he intends furnishing and endowing at his own expense.
He is also building a parsonage-house, stable, &c., for
the future incumbents. This magnificent donation to the
Establishment will, it is believed, amount to nearly £B,OOO.