The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIVENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Rev. H. De Foe Baker, M.A., to theCuvacy of Glooaton, near
Market Harborough.
Rev. H. B. Browning, 8.A., to the •Curacy of'Tinwell, near
Stamford.

Rev. C. H. Burnham, 8.A., to the Curacy oft Bozeat-with-
Strexton, near Wellingborough.
Rev. W. Carter, to the Rectory of Slingsby, Yorkehite.
Rev. N. Challis, 8.A., to the Assistant; Curacy, of; Christ
Church, Leicester.

Rev. W. L. Clay, 8.A., to the Curaayof ,Brixworth., near North-
ampton, _ _ _

Rev. G. P. Cordeux, M.A., Fellow,of Worcester• College, Ox-
ford, to the Incumbency of St. Leonard, New Malton..
Rev. G. Crabbe, jun., Rector of Merton,. Norfollatlo be Domes-
tic Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Walslnglianu
Rev. H. B. Foster, M.A., Rector ,ot• Coln Rog,ers; Gloucester-
shire, to be Rural Dean of the Deanery of Cirencester.
Rev. R. J. Haynes, 8.A., to the Curacy of Scalfork near Mel-
ton Mowbray.
Rev. F. G. Hopwood, M.A., to Lite Rectory af, WinvFick, Lan-
cashire.

Rev. C. A. Manby, 8.A., to the curacy of Bisbreoke, near Up-
pingharp._ _

Rev. K. Matson, M.A., Curate in the Cathedral: pariah of
John, Antigua, to the Pastoral Charge of Tortola-and the Virgin
Islands.

Rev. J. Parr, 8.A., to the Curacy of sßadby.•with Newnhara.
near Daventry.
Rev. W. Rayson, 8.A., to the. Curacy aff St. Margaret's,
Leicester.

Rev. J. W. Richards, M.A., to.,the Perpetual, Chracy of the
District Church of AU Saints', East Harnham,. in the pariah of
&Word, near Salisbury.
Rev..). S. Sitlebottom. M.A., to the Curse,- of. Canoes* Ashby,
near Towcaster.

Rev. W. Standen, M.A., to the Vicarage of Tarrant Moncktan,
near Blandford, Dorset.
Rev. J. H. Stephenson, Rectcr, of• Lyrnpshani, to. the vacant
Stall at the Cathedral Church at. Wells.

Rev. W. S. Trot man, 8.A., to.tbe Curacy afßast Haddon> sear
Northampton.

CLE MICA LADBITUA RY..
Dec. 15, at the Vicarage, Fillougley, in the-83rd.year of his age,
the Rev. John Thickins, Vicar of Exhall and ,Fillongley,iss the
county of Warwick.

Dec. 5, at Sealyham, the RevAloa Edwards, Vicar et ,Roenatrket
anti Hasguard, South Wales, aged 44.
Dec. 6, at Harwich, the Rev. Samuel Nevin, Roll, for, many
years Vicar of Ramsey and Dovercourt-sum-Harwich,. aged so
years.

Dec. 11, at the Vicarage, Limb ir, Mcntgomeryahive, the Rev.
T. G. Mouladale.

Dec. 13, at the Vicarage, Church Town.„theMen,lantesPedder.
M.A., Vicar of Garstang, aged 59..

DIOCESE OF CHESTER...-.
PARPERMENTIL—The. . IV. L. Feilden,:has been nomi-
nated to the perpetuaLcuracy of Knowsleh.i2x. the county of
Lancaster, void by the cession of the. Rev...F. a Hopwood :
patron, the Earl of Derby. Value £3OO, with a house.—The
Rev. L. F. Thomas has been licensed by the Bishop to the
perpetual curacy of St. James's Church, Toiteth-park, void by
resignation of the RTA Henry Hampton, upon the nomination
of the Rev. T. G. Leigh, rector of. Walton.-on-the-Hill, near
Liverpool, patron in right of his rectory.

THE Bishop of Darharn, who, on account of his great age
and increasing imilrnaities, is unable,. to perform his episcopal
duties, has appoiated the Bishop of Manchester his commis,
sary, and he wilh.for the future, adtaiuister the affairs of the•
diocese of Durham.

THE Bratorutc OF DIIRHAM.---It is understood that the
Bishop of Durham has now actually made an assignment/ of
the revenues of his see to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,.in
consideration, of an annual stipend of £B,OOO. The Newcastle
Journal, in making this statement,, earnestly hopes that such
vast surplus wealth may be Appropriated to "objects that cry
aloud for help, and whose appalling condition reflects shame
on our ecclesiastical institutions."' .

A new church building effort in relation to the metropolis
is in progress, Lord Robert Grosvenor being the moving spirit.
The list of subscriptions commences with the Crown, £10,000;
the Duke of Bedford,.Zlo,ooo; and the Marquis of, Westmin-
ster, £lO,OOO. The entire list, when the value of tb.e sites and
promised churches, are reckoned up, reaches a total of more
than, £60,000. The object is to collect £500,000, and to build
100 ahurches.

RIGIETS TO PEWS IN PABISU CIIIIRCIM.-Dr. Philli-
more has given the following opinion as to the rights of pews
in parish churches. Claims are made generally upon the fol-
lowing grounds, viz. : 1 Faculty, 2 Prescription, 3 Purchase.
He says, " deal with the last first. Purchase conveys no
title at all. No point of law is more clearly established than
that the sale of seats in a parish church, unless under the pro.
visions of a specific Act of Parliament, is absolutely illegal
and nun, As to the title by prescription. A few may be
prescribed for as appurtenants to a naessuage, but only to in-
habitants of a messuage ; therefore, the claims of one person
to seats appurtenants to several messuages cannot be sus-
tained. The seat, if appurtenant at all, belongs to the inhabi.
tants of the messuage. A title by prescription implies a
faculty granted and lost ; therefore, there must be proof of
repairing time out of mind—that is, beyond memory. Eighty
years have been held insufficient to exclude the authority of
the ordinary. It is, moreover, fatal to such a claim that the
parish or other persons should have repaired the seat within
memory. A prescriptive right requires the clearest proof by
immemorial occupation and repair. As to the title by faculty.
A faculty is a legal title to seats, if properly granted. It has,
however, often happened that, on examination, the faculty has
turned out to be bad—that is, to be granted to a man and his
heirs. The correct form of faculty is to a man and his family
so long as they continue members of a particular dwelling-
house in a parish. Parties claiming under these various titles
must be prepared to substantiate, by legal rroof, within a
reasonable time ; and, if such proof canno', be produced,
verbal assertion is to be disregarded. And it must be re-
membered, by parties claiming exemptions from the general
law, that the presumption of the law is against them."