The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

At the Newcastle District Bankruptcy Court onMtes-
day, ahankrupt, named Joseph Bridick, late a bookseller
at Durham, was committed by the commissionerto prison
for the:'unsatisfactory manner in which be answered re-
specting a,sum of £825. of which be alleged he was.rob-
bed in Covent Garden Theatre, on the 18th January.last.

AMERICAN WHEAT 4MPORTED INTO C kislisiDA -AND
GREAT listir,Arri.—L-We learn from a parliamentary paper
that the total quantity of wheat imported from the
United States, into Canada, from the llihOctober; 1043,
to the 31et.July, 1844,,anaounted to 31,265 loaners, the
amount of duty received thereon being £4,689. the
quantities of wheat imported into tke united kingdom
from the United States, (for home consumption), :from
the 11th of October, 11$48, to the sth of July, 1844,
amounted t0'2,421 quartere, paying a duty of £2,048;
and of wheat,flonr„ 30,950 cwts., paying a duty of £9,579..
The quantities of wheat and wheat-flour, the produce of
Canada, imported into Great Britain and Ireland, (for
home consumption), from the 11th of October, 1843, to
the 31st of December, 18t4, amounted as follows:

wheat, 50,139 kuarters, paving a duty of £2,627; awl
wheat-flour, 882.261 ewts., paying a duty of .054.23.

RUBRICAL praaoTroszs.—The controversy that has
been raised in the Church of England with regard to the
rubrical directions of the Boole of Common Prayer, has
grown with a rapidity, reached to an extent, and is now
carried on with a ,bitterness which is most deeply to be
lamented. One of its great evils is the time, the study,
the legal inquiries and antiquarian researches which it
.entails upon the whole body of the clergy. At a moment
lin which all their energy is required to maintain true re-
aigion, and promote religious education among the people.
,they are called upon, either at once to submit to the de-
,cress of their own bishop—opposed as they may be to the
practice and opinionsof many otheribishops and dioceses,
,onto examine at great length, andmith much difficulty,
a number of ceremonial questions in their own nature of
very little importance. Whether,.or,when the surplice or
the gown is to be used in preaching..; whether lights are
to be .placed, and if placed. when to be lighted, on
the communion-table ; whether the ,Offertory sentences
and the,arayer for the Chureh militant ought to follow
every sermon which is preached at the,rocgning service ;
in whate,ases the minister is to turn his Ace to the east,
and ifs back or his side to the congregation.; whether the
practice of bowing towards the communion-table when
approaching it, and the church on entering or quitting it,
is authorixei or repudiated by any canonical regulations ;
whether the bread and wine are to be placed on the sacra-
mental board before or after the service of the Lord's
Supper begins;'-these and many other Liturgical nice-
ties are forced upon the attention of the clergymen of our
Established Church, with a pertinacity in some, and a
tone of authority in others, which their comparative in-
significance, and the obscurity that attends them, are
quite unable to justify, The necessary consequence is,
that in order to become acquainted with these lesser du-
ties, men are compelled to sacrifice to them a great por-
tion of those thoughts and hours, which would otherwise
have been more usefully devoted to the weightier matters
of their sacred profession, or the active duties of their
bishopric of souls. The history of the Liturgy interferes
with the history of the Bible; the controversial confer-
ences at Hampton Court and the Savoy, disturb the re-
gularity cf ministerial conferences with parishioners • and
the First and Second Books of King Edward the Sixth,
in connexion with the alterations in the reign of Eliza-
beth, and the canoes and Act of Uniformity in those of
James I. and Charles the 11., are to be compared and
considered, instead of the historical books of Kings and
Chronicles in the Old Testament, and the harmony of
the Gospels in the New. Nothing can be imagined more
adverse to the building-up of her people in the faith and
bolipegi of Christianity, iii dfr pgAgr; well instructed