The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-24 00:00:00

IVESDAY OCTOBER, 24, 1854

S• MARTIN'S CHURCH.

'at: EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
tit, However well meaning in his strictures on S. Mar-
let your correspondent "Victor" may have been,
some Passages in his last letter, where he seems to
Asate that the system of "house to house" visitation is
cted in this district, I think he has gone beyond the
", of fair criticism.

411e',1ne With the
of house to house visitation Is held by the clergy of
lb argil's to be a Very Special part of their mission, and is
ored Incuit arduous, or, as I believe they think, the only
u'lla bran h
churchc of their labours. The daily services of the
are recreations, and do not interfere with the per-
eit'llace of this duty, but assist it. In fact, the second
orate is maintained mainly for this object, while each of the
Vends a considerable portion of each day in the dis•
I may acid that they are also engaged pers,—
,
kb i n the religior
n am, your a
-4'23,1854,

utmost brevity, to observe, that the

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ent servant,
ONE OF THE CHURCHWARDENS

'M. 'VERSUS AMERICAN CLIPPERS

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EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Stag report having gained considerable ground in the
.440: to the effect that the United States-built ship Red
the'vet Sch heat en the colonial-built clipper Guiding Star, on
the memo from Melbourne to Liverpool, allow me, through
otts' Medium of your valuable paper, to show that, though the
tiimal"e of the former was seven or eight days shorter than
l'°f the latter, the Britisher proved herself the fastest ship.
14. aoa this, I need only refer to the " Bills of Entry," of the
Jackea tci 17th instant, from which it is evident that 'e Red
taw was in almost ballast trim, while the Guit
ka a
very large ears',
•h is can be
saw
Nft as the cot'
t copDbilay er
etng Visible above the water, whilst the G ling Star
deer..

a ho saw th

n the Mers,

bout tw

many outward bound ships

rite (~,._
utitt 'Oiling Star also labour&

;nder the diiadvantage of

tatcd almost entirely.by runners, (a. class of men

;i_ll remarkable for doingtheir duty,) her original crew

!gkinfortun ately de

ted ut Melbourne, to try their for-

lat "
,„Biggins

etliit'Prence in the passage of the respective clippers; there

circumstances far more than suffi

chanting or inton

:e MaY consider the Guiding Star to be victorious

4ltteue- usual in our yacht races to allow a stated time for dif-
-Bt4r,: in tonnage ; if we do so in the case of the Guiding
form another argument4n her favour.
ktmln_g Your acceptance of the importance of the matter as
'tent excuse for thus intruding on your space, I remain,

84.. yours most obediently,

CICZESIASTICAL INT_E'LLIGI7iYOR.

Term (the 24th of October) the powers of the Hebdoma-
dal Council is to be elected in the manner subscribed, and
it is to possess all the powers of the board. The Council
is to hold the first sitting on the day of election. Of the
six persons elected out of each of the heads of colleges, or
halls, the three juniors in each class are to vacate their
seats in the third year, and may be re-elected. The com-
position of the Congregation is defined, and the Congrega-
tion is empowered "to frame regulations for its own pro-
ceedings. 'Statutes may be made and altered, and the
Congregation may speak in English. Certain oaths not to
disclose any matter relating to the University, to resist, or
not concur in, any change, &c., are declared to be illegal
from the passing of the act. The College of St. Mary of
Winchester is to be subject to the act. All ordinances,
regulations, and statutes are to be laid before the Queen
in Council, and the several colleges may petition the
Queen against approving of the same; and such ordi-
nances, &c., are to be laid before Parliament. The stamp
duties on matriculations and degrees are to be abolished,
and, except in so far as they are expressly altered or taken
away by the provisions of this act, the powers and privi-
leges are to continue in full force. There are 48 clauses
in the new act, and the commissioners appointed to carry
it into execution are, the Earl of Hafrowby, the Earl of
Ellesmere, the Bishop of Ripon, Mr. Justice Coleridge,
the Dean of Wells, Sir John Wither Awdry, and Mr.
George Cornewall Lewis. The powers conferred are to
remain in force until the Ist: of January, 1867, and
Her Majesty may extend them for another year, " and no
longer."

SCENE AT ST. PAUL'S KNIGHTSBRIDGE

(FRO3I TICE GLOBE.)

SOME months since, the re-election of Mr. Westerton as
Churchwarden having expressed, in the most unqualified
manner, the disapproval of the great majority of the parish-
ioners of the practices recently introduced at the above
church, the Bishop of London advised the Hon. and Rev.
R. Liddell, the incumbent, to discontinue, among other
practices, that of intoning or chanting the prayers, and to
read them instead. Mr. Liddell determined to follow this
advice, and gave notice, some three months since, that such
was his intention. It will be remembered that, on the fol-
lowing day, two of the curates, Messrs-. Nugee and Parry,
resigned. From this period St. Paul's has been beset by a
number of person's, principally youths and girls from the
purlieus of St. Barnabas', and members of that and other
Tractarian congregations, who under the leadership
of a youth named Fitzroy (said to be a member
e to account for , of the Coib

at Durham), have persisted in
the Litany in defiance of the ex-
_
2ressed wish of the incumbent, the orders and advice of the
bishop, and the rubrics and practices of the church of

England. Their mode of action is as follows: They assemble
before the church doors are open and rush into the church,
occupy the most prominent places of the free seats, which,
from their proximity to the choir, afford them the best
chances of most effectually impeding the latter in the dis-
charge of their duty. When the curate commences reading
the Litany, which he does in a monotone, and the choir
attempts to respond, these self-styled choralists burst in by
chanting, and thus overwhelm the choir, causing confusion,
dismay, and disorder. To prevent this, Mr. Liddell ordered
the choir, when so interrupted, to discontinue the responses

and thus.the perpetrators of these discreditable acts have
had it all their own way. Not content with this, the fol-
lowing advertisements have appeared in various news-
papers
" St. Paul's

Knightsbridge.—Full Cathedral Service on
.—On Wednesday (Feast of St. Luke) the