The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

PREffEItMEXTS.—The Rev. William Henry Hopkins has
been licensed by the bishop to the perpetual curacy of St.
Paul's Chore% Werneth, in the county of Chester, void by
the resignation of the Bev. John Rodgers. Patrons, 6. and C.
Andrew, Esqrs. —The Rev. Edmund Hampson has been licensed
to officiate in the Licensed School-room in connexion with
Price's Patent Candle Manufactory, Bromborough Pool, Mrk-
enhead, in the county of Chester, on the nomination of the
Rev. Charles Barton, incumbent of Bromborough.

Da. TRAVERS Twies; Vicear-General of the province of
Canterbury, has been appointed by the Bishop• of Hereford to'
the chancellorship of that diocese, vacant by the death of
Chancellor Corbet.
A SUPPLEMENT to the _London Gazette contains the
regulations and ordinance for the amendment of the statutes of
Exeter, Lincoln, and Corpus Christi Colleges, in the Univer-
sity of Oxford.
Tits REV. ALEXANDER NYMON has been appointed
secretary (pro tem.), by the Committee of the National
Society for Education, during the fit* canonical residence of
the Rev. J. G. Lonsdale, Canon of Lithfield, Secretary to the
National Society, Reader at the Teraplteand Chaplain to the
Bishop of Lichfield.
CONT3IVPIATED ATTACK ON THE CAT/RCM—Early
in March, Mr. E. Miall, M.P., will move that the House of
Commons resolve itself into a committee; to "consider the
temporal provisiene made by the law for religiOus teaching and
worship iu Ireland."
QUEEN A/1,14114 BOUNTY.—The receipts and: payments on
Queen Anne's bounty in the year 1854 arnoanted; to £206,060.
Of the nceipte' £14,224 arose from first baits- and tenths,
£14,355 from benefactions, £21,872 from the' sale of stock,
£74,637 from capita income, and £25,685 from' the sales of
bounty lands anal el& buildings. On the other hatav Z 74,820
was paid to the clergy, £12,096 paid for purchase of houses
and lands, £26,7311 paid for erection of residence' houses,
£48,796 lent on mortgage to build, &c., glebe houses, and
£36,817 paid for purchase of stock.
THE INCUMEENV IC LI NGTON. —The commission is-
sued by the Bishop of Durham, to inquire into charges of
drunkenness against the Rev. A. J. Howell, perpetaalttrate
of the parish of Darlington, concluded its investigations on
Monday. The Ven. Archdeacon Thorpe said that the charges
of drunkenness and something like habitual drunkenness
had been so far proved' as to present prima facie evidence
against Mr. Howell, and it was their intention to make
that report to the biehep, who would be morally and
legally required to proceed against him. The case had divided:
the town into parties, and-a-subscription was made for paying:
the legal expenses of the defendant.
EPISCOPAL AND CAPITUVAIIi ESTATES BILL.—The Mars--
guts of Blandford, M.P., and Mr. G. Butt have renewed a billS
to make a better provision for the management of episcopal
andrcapitular estates. They propose,. after January 1, 184
that all the profits of such estates shall be received and!
managed by the Ecclesiastical'Oemmiseioners. The latter wilt
enter into an agreement with bishops as soon as their (episco-
pal) real estates become subject to- the management of the
commission for the payment of incomes. A committee )f the
Ecclesiastical Commission, to be called the " Episcopal Estates
Committee," will have the charge and management of all the
vestedestates. This committee-wilt consist of a triad of mem-
bers, the First Church Commissioner, a lay member, to
be appointed by the Queen, and third, be named by the
bishops.. The second and thirds members of the committee
will receive salaries of £l,OOO. Vai; iting bishops may make
arrangements affecting future cues. Bishops may take and
farm lands not exceeding 100 acres:- The-commissioners may,
in certain vases, place tithes under the bishops' control. Deans
and chapters of cathedrals are reciaired,to furnish the Ecclesi-
astical Commissioners with statements of their entire charges
and outgaings, to be certified by tho-visitor of the cathedral,
and, whenthe correctness of such statements has been estab-
lished to the satisfaction of the commissioners, provision will
be made forthe payment of such charges, &e. The deans and
chapters wilt also supply a return of. moneys received by them,
and the deficiency will be made good:by the commissioners.
After three. years the management of reali estates may, if the
dean and chapter require, be transferred to corporations aggre-
gate.
DEATH or ' Tree BISHOP or Casstsnm—The Hon. and
Right Rev Hugh Percy, D.D., the-55th- Bishop of Carlisle,
died suddenLY, at Rose Castle, near Carlisle, on Tuesday. The
deceased prelate was third son of the first Mrl of Beverley, by
the second daughter of Peter Burrell; E3q., of Beckenham,
Kent, sistcr-of the first Lord Gwyder; and was brother to the
second Earlbf Beverley. Dr. Percy was born in the parish of
St. Georgeallanover-square, on the 2%.h .of January, 1784, so.
that he lend just completed his 72.hdyear: He was twice
married—fist, in May, 1806, to Mary;, eldest daughter of the
Most Rev. Charles Manners Sutton, Archbishop-of Canterbury;
she died in: September, 1831; secondly, in.Febrtaery, 1840, to
Mary, second daughter of the late V:ke.Admiral Sir William
Johnstone 11-6pe ; she died in 1851. Tile late-prelate was edu-
cated at Trinity College, Cambridge,wherebe graduated M.A.
iu 1805. He-was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in June,
1827, and was translated to the see of Carliele in the following
September,.-so that he has presided- ever -the latter diocese
more than: 28 years. He was also • Chancellor of Salis-
bury, and, prebendary of St. PaulTs--(appointed in 1816),
and was patron of 45 livings. By-,his first marriage lie
has eleven:- children. His sixth: child and eldest son,
Algernon Charles, married in 1889'; Emily, eldest
daughter of the late Right Rev. Reginald-Heber, Lord Bishop
of Calcutta.- His sixth daughter was married in July, 1834,
to Viscount Holmesdale, eldest surviiing son of Earl Amherst.
Among the bishop's surviving brothere and. sisters may be
mentioned.. the Earl of Beverley; the-COuntess Dowager of
Ashburn i-,anr; the Hon. Rear-Admiral. .loseelin.e Percy, C. 8.,
(twin wittatho bishop,) who married a sister. of Lord Hather-
ton ; the Horn Rear-Admiral William,Henry Percy, a commis-
sioner of excise; and the Hon. Charles Bertie Percy, of Guy's
Cliff, Warwick, who married the granddaughter and heir of
the late Bettie Bertie Greatheed, of. Guy's Cliff. The late
Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Percy, who wae,aido-de-eamp to Sir John
Moore, at Oferunna, and to the Duke of Wellington, at Water-
loo, was also-a younger brother of the. Bishop of Carlisle. The
deceased-prelate had been ailing for a day or two, but no
serious results had been apprehended by his medical attend-
ant or his family. It was only last week that, at a public-
meeting. at Carlisle, conducted by-churchmen, the bishop was.:
strongly condemned for obstimtWy persisting in refusing:-
to consecrate the cemetery there; unless a wall was erected&
betereeek the two portions.