The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

PREFERMENTS.—The Rev. William Alfred Tattersall has
been licensed by the Lord Bishop of Chesterto the stipendiary
curacy of Walton-on-the-Hill, in the county of Lancaster, upon
the nomination of the Rev T. G. Leigh, the rector.—The Rev.
Thomas Mijor Lester has also been licensed by the Lord
Bishop to the perpetual curacy of St. Mary's Kirkdale, Liver:
pool, in the county of Lancaster, upon the nomination of the
Trustees Patrons.
SALE Moon.—The license for divine service in this church
has been renewed, and it is expected that all the necessary.
preliminaries to consecration will be shortly completed.

TRE Chancellorship of the Diocese of Carlisle, rendererk
vacant by the appointment of the Worshipful and Rev. Wm.
Jackson, D.D., to the Archdeaconry, has been conferred by
the Bishop of Carlisle upon the Rev. C. J. Burton, M.A., one
of his lordship's chaplains.
THE Rev. R. A. GENT, curate of the projected ecclesiastical
-district of Shevingtou, Wigan, was, on Monday, presented
with an elegant silver tea service, as a mark of the esteem and
affection of the inhabitants of the district. The rev. gentle-
man, it is said, is about to accept a curacy under the Rev. Dr.
M`Neile, of Liverpool.
OPEN-AIR PREACHING IN MANCIIESTER.— On- Tuesday
evening, the Rev. Berkeley Addison, the rector of St. Os-
wald's Church, Collyhurst, commenced a series of open-air
services in his district, which are to be continued twice a week
during the summer months. Shortly before half-past seven
o'clock, the rev. gentleman, accompanied by a few friends,
took up his position on a piece of vacant ground at the end of
Gorton-street, Rochdale-road. From that time the little
assembly began gradually to increase until eventually some
four or five hundred persons had congregated together. The
evening was exceedingly fine, the purple rays of the setting
sun gilding the horizon. The assembly consisted mainly of
that class of persons it was desired to reach, and amongst
them we noticed the labourer in his shirt sleeves, just left
off work to all appearances ; the factory girl, aged women,
respectable shopkeepers, and several members of the rev.
gentleman's own family. After a hymn had been sung,
a suitable prayer was offered up, and Mr. Addison then dis-
coursed for half an hour upon the third and following verses
of the 6th chapter of the Gospel of St. John. The sermon
was forcible, argumentative, scriptural, and beautifully simple
—one of that description calculated to win men rather than
to coerce them to become religious, by painting in vivid
colours the terrors _of the law. At the conclusion of the
sermon another hymn was sung ; after which, the proceed-
ings were terminated by the benediction being pronounced.
The discourse delivered was listened to with marked attention,
and those assembled conducted themselves with the greatest
decorum. The result must have been gratifying and en-
couraging to the rev. preacher, and it was a sight most
pleasing to the spectator.—Manchester Courier.
PROPOSED NEW BlSHOPRlCS.—Arrangements have been
submitted to Her Majesty's government, and it is said have
been agreed to, for the erection of four out of the twelve new
bishoprics proposed by the commissioners. The seat of the
first will be at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and will comprise the whole
of the archdeaconry of Northumberland, including amongst
others, the towns of Tynemouth, North and South Shields,
Wark, Hexbam, Knaresdale, and Bedlington, at present form-
ing part of the see of Durham. The second new bishopric
will be formed out of the diocese of Rochester, and will com-
prise the archdeaconries of St. Albans and Essex, including,
amongst other towns, St. Albans, Hertford, Berkhamstead,
Rickmausworth, Tring, Hemel Hempstead, Welwyn, Hitchin,
Bishop's Stortford, Chelmsford, and Maldon ; the seat of the
bishopric will be St. Albans. The third will be formed out of
the present diocese of Lincoln, the seat of the bishopric being
at Southwell. It will comprise, amongst others, the towns of
Nottingham, Retford, Worksop, Tuxford, Clareborough, New-
ark, Farndon,Normanton,Mansfield, and Grimsby. The fourth
new see will be formed out of the diocese of Exeter, and will
comprise the whole of the county of Cornwall. The seat of the
see will be at St. Columb, near Truro, the proceeds of which
valuable benefice will be made over in perpetuity by the present
rector and patron towards the endowment of the bishopric.—
Morning Herald.
CONVOCATION.—On Thursday, the prelates and clergy of the
province of Canterbury assembled at Westminster, in pursu-
ance of adjournment from last session. In the Upper House
the Archbishop of Canterbury presided, and there were' pre-
sent the Bishops of London, Winchester, Oxford. ig="c'r,
(WU YY CIIS, Incoln
and St. Asaph. The Bishop of London brought up a report
from a committee appointed last session, pointing out a mode
which, with the sanction of the Crown, would be both safe
and easy for removing the anomalies at present existing in
the Lower House of Convocation ; and declping that it would
at this time be expedient to limit to thks_point the address
to be presented to Her Majesty, and thathey had prepared
accordingly the heads of such an addreSl.—The Bishop of
London moved, and the Bishop of Oxford seconded, the
adoption of this report.—The Bishop of St. Asaph objected
to it, and after considerable discussion the motion was put
and carried, the Bishops of Lincoln, Winchester and St. Asaph
voting against it. A motion was then also -carried, adopting
an address to be presented to Her Majesty, embodying the
sentiments contained in the report alluded to above. The
Lower House assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber, at eleven
o'clock. The prolocutor laid before the house the report of
the committee on church-rates. It recommended that church-
rates be henceforth limited to charges strictly necessary for
maintaining the fabric of the church and churchyard in decent
order and repair, and that, in order to enforce the making of
rates so limited, it should be imperative on the churchwardens,
within a certain period after their appointment, to submit to
the vestry an estimate of the expenses to be incurred in the
ensuing year, together with a detailed statement of the items ;
that if the vestry refuses to make a rate, or make one for less
than the churchwardens require, it shall be competent for the
churchwardens, or either of them, to appeal to the next quar-
ter sessions, who shall have power to make a rate, or to con-
firm the rate, or to increase the amount thereof to any sum not
exceeding the churchwardens' estimate. The prolocutor
having been summoned to the upper house, on his return read
documents reporting the proceedings of that house in the
matter of the address to the Queen.—The Rev. Chancellor
Martin moved the adoption of the address, but, after some
discussion, the house adjourned without coming to a vote.
On Friday the bishops assembled at the Bounty-office, Dean's-
yard, Westminster; the Archbishop of Canterbury in the
chair. The proceedings were for a time conducted with
closed doors, and eventually their lordships adjourned until
two o'clock, when the prolocutor of the Lower House brought
up the address as amended, which was, after much discussion,
accepted, and.the house adjourned. The Lower House did
little but debate on the address to the Crown, which it
abridged by omitting the reference to the province of York,
and to the opinions of the counsel who had been consulted.

SUNDAY LEGISLATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sin,—Lord Robert Grosvenor's well-meant measure satisfies
no party. Those who feel deeply the divine obligation of the
fourth commandment never can admit it is either dutiful or
expedient to give national sanction to Sabbath work at certain
hours in order to render illegal Sabbath work at other hours.
If we cannot nationally hallow, we need not, by a national
act, desecrate. _

Lord Robert Grosveuor's proposal is sure to give offence to
the masses, because it renders illegal on Sunday that which in
existing circumstances is impossible or unattainable on Satur-
day. The poor feel what we must concede,—that works of
necessity and mercy are lawful on the Sunday. You pay
wages too late on Saturday night to render it possible to make
suitable purchases that night : the labourer's wife goes to
market on Sunday. But the proposal to make this last illegal
appears to her and her husband an interference with the very
possibilities of existence, or with works of necessity and mercy,
and accordingly you have a Sabbath emeute in Hyde-park.-
All this results from beginning at the wrong end. You
have to protect the labourer from the exactions of Mammon
in order to conciliate his mind to the Christian observance of
the Sabbath. Let him have the facilities of the market on a
week day, and he will gladly avail himself of the privileges of
his church on Sunday. Let Lord Robert Grosvenor bring in a
bill for rendering it compulsory to pay weekly wages before
two o'clock on Saturday, and limiting the week's labour to
that hour in shops, warehouses, and factories, except in special
emergencies, and the crowds that hooted in Hyde-yard last
Sunday will cheer him.
The most urgent legislation is required for week days, not
for Sundays. As long as man is made a beast of burden on
week days you will fail to make him a Christian on Sundays.
Protect man from excessive labour on Saturday, and you may
then proceed with irresistible success to protect the Sunday
from desecration.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
June 26. JOHN CUMMING.

ALL the editors and writers of the neiv Russian daily jour-
nal, Le Nord, just started at Brussels, have, with the excep-
tion of one, a Belgian by birth, had enforced against them the
law relating to aliens with respect to political writings, and
are to be subject to expulsion if not obeying the order to leave
the country forthwith.

NARROW ESCAPE.—The South Eastern Gazette gives a
case showing the danger of sending verbal messages to
chemists' shops. On Thursday, a servant in the establish-
ment of Mr. Matthews (the mayor), chemist and druggist, was
making the bread for the family, for which purpose she had
been in the habit of receiving a powder from the shop. The
girl accordingly sent a boy into the shop for the " stuff for the
bread," but the assistant thought the boy said " bed," and, re-
marking that the bedsteads had been cleaned the previous day,
he sent a mixture of corrosive sublimate, a deadly poison.
When the boy delivered the "stuff" to the servant, she saw at
once that it was different to what she had used on previous oc-
casions, and told him to go and tell the young
the foolish girl
that such was the case. While the boy was gone
would
have oaunldd
if had f
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man the. shop
tasted the "stuff," to see if it was right, a
that stomachh
ser servant been for the immediate application
believed
the
other surgical appliances, it is beliel
by the errand boy or the
effects. The mistake made either
in the poisoning of
have been poisoned; as it is she has suffered severely from its
might have resulted
assistant in the shop,
the whole family, and perhaps in the death of some of its
members.