The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-15 00:00:00

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make a declaration or to take an oath on mat.
The University is henceforth to be subject to the
common law, and not of civil law. Stamp duties
on matriculation and degrees are to be abolished t.
as provision has been made by the University to
satisfaction of the Treasury, in lieu of moneys heretofore
voted annually by Parliament.
ALTEHATIONS IN THE PATER BOWL—There has been
laid before the House of Commons a copy of the altera-
tions proposed in the Book of Common Prayer by the
bishops and others appointed by the Crown to revise the
book in 1689. The alterations suggested by the commis-
sioners were no less than 598 in number. Many, thoueit

decidedly improvements and quite unobjectionable, we

merely Of a verbal nature. One of the most notahl

the clianges proposed was to add (on the great festivals)
after the Ten Commandments a recital of the eight beati-
tudes, with a suitable response from the people. So far as
the alterations suggested affected doctrine the key to them
will be found in a desire to conciliate objectors, and pre-
vent the spread of dissent. The word " priest" was to be
altered to " minister ;" the apocrypha was to be disused _-
those who scrupled kneeling at the sacrament were to be
allowed to receive it in a pew in some posture of reverence;
in baptism the sign of the cross was not to be made if the
parties thought it sinful, the parents might upon occasion
be the sponsors, and the words "by baptism regenerate"'
were displaced by the single word " regenerated." The
most curious part of the publication is the diary kept.by
Dr. Williams, afterwards Bishop of Chichester, one of the
commissioners, who every night, after he went home from'
their several meetings, wrote an account of the day's pro-
ceedings in a familiar, chatty style. The discussions seem*
to have been conducted in an orderly way, though, per-
haps, not without vehemence, for on the 24th of October-
we have an entry in the diary—" Here Dr. Tenison re-
proving Dr. Beveridge, he took so ill that he was leaving,
but Dr. T. asked his pardon." The office of baptism
seems to have been much debated. At one meeting-it
was asserted " that it was hard to find an instance °Car
child baptised before St. Cyprian's time." The followibg
conclusion may be thought a little vague :—" About dip-
ping, said it was the custom to dip in England
Bishop of St. Asaph said it was so still in some parts! of
Wales—putting in the head and letting it run over thft
body. Ordered that both be inserted." The examina-
tion of the Prayer Book version of the Psalms was com-
mitted to the Rev. Mr. Kidder, one of the London clergy;
" he showed that the first half was faulty, the latter muds_
better, and from thence he collected that the translator
by the time he had gone through the first half grew weary
of his work, and rather chose to translate it anew than
patch it up as before." . 4 subject at this moment under
consideration was discussed by the commissioners,. but
they came to no deeirlion upon it :—" There was a debate
about shortening the service. Bishop of Sarum moved'
that on Sundays the Epistle and Gospel should go for the.
lessons ; but it was answer'd that that wou'd be offensive,
and, besides, it wou'd not be so proper and beneficial to
the people as to read the Scriptures in course. It was
answer'd this might be in the afternoon. It was propose&
by others that rather they would abridge it, by ending
the Litany at the Lord's Prayer (the latter part seeming
now but a botch, and chiefly respecting times of persee‘P
tion), and after that read the Commandments, and SO Con-
elude." This last proposition deserves considgralion.soTild_
following distinction seems a little subtle : . Made il
alterations and amendments in the Athanasian Creed;
was suggested that they
were the mtiperleess;
terms in which those articles were expressed
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assented to." The commissioners w
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book, and then reviewed
theue v eedings, and Bishop
ded to review the rest of
Williams's diary ends"" proceeded
of subscription (which t
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A WEI.LTITY Tenon.—Mr. Brunskill, a tailor, abrae,
leavingt
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threea children shilling,,hbasoydied.s,
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tender years. For the first seven years of his life as
tradesman, he worked seventeen hours a day, Sunday itti
eluded. He boasted that he " was the only man in Exetev
who could ride forty miles a day, and cut out for fortis
men." In addition to his large tailoring business, which.
returned above £25,000 a year, he was a money-broker,,
and made speculative ventures occasionally with " your
men of expectations." realizing large interest thereby,