The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

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Amounting to .... 167,540 £5,994 £7lB £6,712
To this total the directors have the following items to add,
viz.:

Amount of former dividends declared upon 688
shares, which have been forfeited, and cannot
now be claimed
And amount of register fees received

226 5 0
51 15 0

Making in all
Deducting therefrom the amount with which
the " Traffic Account" is to be debited, as
per annexed statement

1,696 11 6

There appears a balance, applicable to the pay-
n- ent of a dividend, or £2,291 3 7
And out of this sum, the directors feel themselves at liberty
to recommend to the proprietors, the declaring of a dividend
of 4s. per share, as that will leave a balance of X 192 lls. 7d.
to be added to the reserved fund, which already amounts, as
appears by the statement of accounts, to .£764 17s. 11d.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

(From the'Oxford Herald:)

New PROFESSORSHIPS.—Whereas, her 14Iajesty has gra-
ciously intimated her royal will and intention to found two
new Theological Professorships in this University, and by an
act of parliament passed in the session holden in the 3d and
4th years of her Majesty's reign, it is provided that the said
professorships shall eventually be endowed with two ca► On-
ries of Christ Church ; and whereas it is earnestly desired
that letters patent shoUld be obtained as soon as possible
constituting the said professorships, and enabling the uni-
versity to make regulations for the due government thereof,
and that with a view thereto stipends should be provided ad
interim for the two professorships after their nomination by
the crown : in a convocation holden on Thursday last, at
twelve o'clock, it was agreed to grant to each of the said
professors the sum of £3OO per annum, as a stipend ad
interim, to be paid to each of them by half-yearly payments
from the time when he shall be appointed to his office, to the ,
time when he shall succeed to the canonry assigned to his
professorship by the above-mentioned act of parliament; the
sum to be provided out of the moneys transferred in the year
1836 to the general purposes of the university from the funds
of the university press.

The Rev. Frederic Pyndar Lowe, M.A. Fellow of Mag.
dalenc College, has been Presented by the President and
Fellows of that society to the Rectory of Saltfleetby, All
Saints, in the county of Lincoln, vacant by the death of the
Rev. Dr. Wheeler.

The Rev. Beresford Lowther, 8.A., formerly of Exeter
College, Rector of Vow Church, Hereford, has been ap-
pointed Chaplain to the Right lion. Lord Lowther.
The Rev. R. C. Windham, 8.A., of Brasenose College,
has been appointed by his brother, the High Sheriff of Nor-
folk, to he his Chaplain.
The Rev. Edmund Laken, M.A., of Trinity College, has
been appointed by Lord Monson one of his Lordship's Do-
mestic Chaplains.
The Rev. F. A. Marriott, M.A. of Oriel Cllege, to he
Rectory of Cottesbach, Leicestet shi re ; patron,o the Rev.t R.
Alarriott.

PROMOTIONS

Rev. George Carter, formerly Fellow Commoner of Queen's
Chapel,
Boulogne, Cambridge, Minister of the Upper Town
Boulogne, has been appointed by Viscount Canterbury to
be one of his Lordship's Chaplains.
Rev. H. W. Ray, formerly a Preacher among the Inde-
pendents, having been ordained Priest by the Bishop of
Chester, has been appointed to the Curacy of the Parish
Church of Kendal, and will commence his duties on Trinity
Sunday.
Archdeacon Wilberforce has been appointed Chaplain to
the High Sheriff of Yorkshire.
Rev. T. Whitworth, to the Rectory of Addlethorpe, Lin-
colnshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Bain-
bridge ; patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Rev. Charles Miller, Curate of Derrynoose, to the Perpe.
tual Curacy of Ball)imakenny ; patron, the Lord Primate.
Rev. W. Badharn, to the Curacy of Magherally; county of
Down, Ireland.