The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-12 00:00:00

CLERICAL IVEWN.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.-1-1011. and Rev.
W. T. Law, chancellor of the diocese of Bath and Wells,
to the vicarage of Harborne, near Birmingham, vacant by
the cession of the Rev. J. T. Law, chancellor of Licbfleld,
and late special commissary.—Rev. J. A. Burrough, 8.A.,
to be chaplain of H.M.S. Hibernia.—liev. R. Shutte,
M.A., minor canon of St. Paul's, to the united rectories
of St. Augustin and St. Faith, London.—Rev. T. J.
Clark, M.A., vicar of Penrith, to the vicarage of Horn-
castle, Lincolnshire.—Rev. J. H. Sharpies, M.A., late
curate of Warrington, to the mastership of the endowed
grammar school, Heversham, Westmoreland.— Rev. R.
C. Coxe, vicar of Newcastle, to an honorary canonry in
Durham Cathedral.—Rev. W. W. F. Murray, to the
curacy of Church Brampton, Northamptonshire.—Rev.
A. Paris, M.A., to the rectory of Hawerby, Lincolnshire.
—Rev. C. A. Johns, to the temporary curacy of Helston,
vacant by the resignation of the Rev. W. Blunt.—Rev. A.
Salkeld, 8.A., to be chaplain of H.M.S. Amazon.—Rev.
G. S. Drew, to the incumbency of St. Pancras old church,
void by the resignation of the Rev. W. Fallowfield.

Dr. Wilson, Bishop a Calcutta, is now, we regret to
heay, at Cheltenham, extremely unwt ll—so much so that
his medical adviser is not allowed to leave him ; and the
Bishop's son, the rector of Islington, London, is always
with his father.

NEW CHURCHES.--An account of charges and ex-
penses paid by Her Majesty's Commissioners for building
new churches, from Lady-day, 1844, to Lady•day, 1845,
has been printed. The sum total amounts to £3,684, in-
cluding (amongst others) the following items, viz. :
£7OO for the secretary's salary ; £7OO for the surveyor's ;
£934 for office clerks'; £294 for rent and taxes, and
£‘lBs for advertisements.

At a meeting held at High Ongar last week, on behalf
of the Church Missionary Society, the Rev. J. Ridgway
gave an interesting account of an African, who, when
a boy, was snatched from the horrors of-Lavery, educated
in a missionary school, and has lately' been ordained by
the Bishop of London, and has returned to preach The
Gospel in his native country-.
The Bishop of Chichester has written another letter on
the subject. of church innovations. It is partly occupied
with answers to cei thin &legations made by a portion of
the congregation of Shoreham Church, against the vicar,
Mr) Wheeler; the chief of which was that he, on vari,)us
occasions, had propagated ductrines repugnant to the
nrineiples of the Reformed Church. Upon this point the
bishop calls for evidence, which the memorialists are not
enabled to furnish with that particularity which his lord.
ship requires.
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EPISCOPAL VISITATION.—The Bishop of Worcester
held a visitation at Worcester-cathedral ou Monday last.
His lordship's charge had reference almost exclusively to
those matters which have recently agitated the Church,
viz., the question of the revival of obsolete forms and
usages. His Lordship observed, that the first matter
which had presented itself to his mind-as most calling for
remark from him on this occasion of his triennial visita-
tion was important, not only on account of its effect, but
of the specious grounds on which it rested—he meant an
undue regard for antiquities, which bad latterly been
manifested, and dwelt upon by theologiCal writers, and
which extended not only to the forms and ceremonies of
the Church, but related also to architectural matters.
His Lordship entered very fully into this matter, and we
hope very speedily to be enabled to give an authorised
raport of this charge. On the question of Maynooth,
he said, that he was most anxious to prove to his brethren
that he had not given his vote in favour of the grant with-
out the mot mature deliberation and upon good grounds.
No consideration of expediency would ever induce him to
vote for a measure which he could consictx per: ac
-His lord:sl.lp Ltleu inouccded to combat the argument ad-
duced against this measure, viz., that it was a national
sin and would be injurious to the Established Chu-ch.
He denied both of these positions, and said, the question
was, whether they should contribute to teach Christianity,
as inculcated by. Roman Catholics, or whether their
fellow-countrymen in Ireland should not be educated at
all ? The extension of education, he considered, must.
in the. end, contribute to 'the extension of the Established
Church.

!AILWAY iNTELLIGBACE

RAILWAYTUNNELATBANGOR.—Th's tunnel, through
hard rock, has been commenced, and the principal en-
gineer of the line has taken up his residence at Bangor.
Mr. Charles Dean, civil engineer, of Exeter, who had
his leg crushed in the collision on the London and Bir-
mingham Railway on the 29th ult., died on Tuesday.
SHARE GAMBLING.—Such is the desperate eagerness
for gambling in shares in Leeds, that the magistrates are
compelled to employ the police to keep the footpath clear
in the street in which the Stock Exchange is situated.
The Leeds and Bradford Railway Company, at their
meeting on Wednesday last, voted £2OO for the payment