The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-18 00:00:00

CLERICAL OBITUARY.

Aug. 29, in his 62nd year, the Rev. Henry Elliot Graham, for
21 years Rector of the parish of Ludgran, Cornwall, and a Magis-
trate for the county.
Aug. 31, aged 50. the Rev. J. M. Williams, for 17 years Curate
of Berrum, Montgomeryshire.
Sept. 1, the Rev. John Stewart, Incumbent of Fenny Stratford,
Bucks.

Sept. 1, at Arrad-cottage, the Rev. W. Morgan, Incumbent of
Penny Bridge Chapel, Cumberland, aged 31.
Sept. 2. the Rev. W. Kendall, Rector of Marske, Yorkshire, and
Incumbent of Downholme, aged 72.
Sept. 3, very suddenly, at the Rectory, Charlton-on.Otmoor,
Oxfordshire, the Rev. G. Riggs, M.A., Rector of that parish.
Sept. 5, at Dover, the Rev. Thomas Pearce, M.A., formerly
Scholar of Corpus College, Oxford, Rector of hlareston, and late
P.C. of Folkestone, Rector of Hawkgage, and Vicar of Hartlip,
Kent, in his 74th year.
Sept. 6, at St. Clement's Hill, New Catton, Norwich, the Rev. S.
W. Day, M.A., Fellow and late Tutor of Wadham College, Oxford,
aged 25. _ _

—Sept. 8, the Rev. Edward Ward Wakeman, of Coon Hall,
Salop.
Sept. 9, at Halifax, aged 39, the Rev. William Smith, 51. A.,
lecturer of Halifax.
Sept. 10, at the Vicarage, Norbam, aged 66, the Rev. William
Stephen Gilley, D.D., Canon of Durham, and Vicar of Norham.
Sept. 10, in Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, the Rev. Richard
Pierce Butler, second son of the late Sir Richard Butler, of
Garryhundon, county of Carlow, Ireland, in his 71st year.

DIOCESE OP CHESTER.
PREFERMENTS.—The Rev. John Richardson has been
licensed to the Perpetual Curacy of Old Hutton, in the parish
of Kendal, in the county of Westmoreland, upon the nomina-
tiom of the Rev. J. W. Barnes, vicar of Kendal, patron in right
of his vicarage.—The Rev. Robert Gordon Calthrop has been
nominated to the Perpetual Curacy of Irton, in the county of
Cumberland, by Samuel Irton, Esq., of Irton, the patron.
DIOCESAN ORDINATION.—the examination of the candi-
dates for the ensuing ordinaticn will take place on Thursday
morning next, September 206, at the palace, at 10 o'clock.
There are about thirty candidates.

THE Bishop OF RocrixsTEß has intimated a desire to retire
from the episcopate; on account of his age and increasing infir-
mities. It is stated that he is likely to be succeeded in his
bishopric by the Ven. Archdeacon Robinson, D.D., Master of
the Temple, and Canon Residentiary of Rochester Cathedral.
THE IVigan Examiner mentions a memorial window,
newly erected in the parish church by Mr. H. Woodcock, to
the memory of his wife. It consists of three compartments.
In the centre the Ascension, with the Nativity on the left,
and the Resurrection on the right. At the foot is a female
figure in the attitude of resignation and penitence, with an
emblazoned scroll, " Jesu, mercy." At the bottom, and run-
ni,pg across the window, is the inscription, "Sacred to the
memory of Jane, the beloved wife of Henry Woodcock."
TIXE Aucumrsiror OF CANTERBURY will hold his next
Ordination at Michaelmas ; the Archbishop of York on St.
Thomas's Day, Friday, the 21st of December. Ordinations
will be holden on Sunday, the 23rd instant, by the Bishops of
Exeter, Ripon, St. David's (at the parish church of Abergwili),
Worcester, Oxford, Chester, Llandatl; and Lincoln ; on St.
Matthew's Day, by the Bishop of Lichfield, at Eccleshall ; on
Sunday, the 30th instant, by the Bishop of Manchester ; on
Sunday, the 11th of November, by the Bishop of Ely ; on the
following Sunday by the Bishop of Norwich ; on Advent
Sunday by the Bishop of Peterborough; and on Sunday the
23rd of December, by the Bishops of Chichester, Salisbury,
and Bath and Wells.

LORD PALMERSTON AT MELBOURNE.

TIM arrival of Lord and Lady Palmerston at Melbourne
Hall, on Thursday afternoon, was the occasion of demon•
ttrative proceedings on the part of great numbers of the
inhabitants, who lined the road along which his Lordship
passed to the mansion.

On Friday Lord Palmerston received a deputation charged

with an address, congratulating his Lordship on the happy
coincidence that the visit of himself and Lady Palmerston to
the dwelling place of her Ladyship's ancestors should be
marked by an event which shed so much lustre on the admi-
nistration of which he was the head. After dwelling on the
glory and success which had crowned the efforts of Lord Pal-
merston and his colleagues, the address concluded with the
expression of wishes for the personal happiness and health of
his Lordship and Lady Palmerston.
In reply, his lordship said that having come there upon pri.
vate business, and for only one day's inter ,Tal from business of
a public and therefore more important nature, he was not pre-
pared for such a reception as that now given him. Having
uttered a few sentences in acknowledgment of the compliment
paid him, his lordship proceeded to speak on the subject of the
war.

We have (said his lordship) struck a heavy blow at an enemy
whose aggressive policy threatened the whole world, and par-
ticularly the interests of this country. We have sustained
great losses ; but it is a consolation to those who have lost
relatives and friends in this contest in support of liberty against
despotism, that their names will be enrolled in the annals
of fame, and will be associated with the imperishable glories
of their country. And great as our losses are, lamentable as
all feel them to be, we know that the losses of the enemy are
infinitely greater; and though the war has been undoubtedly
attended with losses and privations on our part, if we give cre-
dit to the information derived from various sources we have the
satisfaction of knowing that those losses and those privationsare
surpassed in magnitude by those against whom we are patrioti-
cally contending. Final success must attend our arms. Our se-
curity for that arises in the undaunted valour of our troops and
those of our allies. We have a security also in the good faith of
the Emperor of the French, who is with us heart and soul in
this contest. We have an additional security in the alliance of
the kingdom of Sardinia, and history reminds us that small
states have played an important stake in the world. We re-
member the part played by Holland, by Venice, by Genoa—
smaller states, territorially, than the kingdom of Sardinia.
Well, then, with this prospect before us—with the valour of
our troops in unison with the troops of the Emperor of France
—nations that have laid aside ancient antagonisms, and who
are now actuated by no other feelings but an honourable
rivalry as brothers in arms, fighting for a common cause,
bound together by the indissoluble ties of Friendship, and act-
ing in the truest spirit of good faith—and above and before
all, relying upon the justice of our cause, it is impossible to
believe that the war can be brought to any other conclusion than that which will secure to Europe safety against the fu-
ture aggressions of Russia—a peace that shall' not only be
honourable and satisfactory to the allies, but which shall re-
dound to the honour and interests of the country, and justify
the great sacrifices by which such a peace shall have
ve been at-
tained.

The speech was received very warmly by those to whom it
was addressed, and, on the conclusion of the proceedings, three
times three cheers were given for Lady Palmerston, who
bowed her acknowledgments.

BRITISH ASSOCIITION.—The twenty-fifth annual meeting
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science com-
menced on Wednesday, in Glasgow, being the second time the
association has met in that city, the former being in 1840.
The general meeting met in the Merchants'-hall, and amongst
those present were Prince Lucien Bonaparte, the Earl of
Harrowby, (who presided,) Count Firolich, (from Sweden) and
Sir R. J. Murchison. The report of the council was read; it
noticed the probability of various scientific societies being
located in London at the public expense, in Burlington-house,
Piccadilly. The report was received, and the various officers
appointed to the different sections. The treasurer's report
s
howed a balance of revenue on hand of £Bl7, and that the
property of the association was estimated at £t,002, and__ "-
augural liabilities at £647. At 5 o'clock the Lord Provost gag*"
augural banquet in the M`Lellan-rooms ;
reception-room, the centre a dining-hall,
and the
named, were
room. Among the guests, besides those
already
; the Earls of
the Duke of Argyll, president of the associationrsd Tngestre, Belhasen,
Elgin, Eglington, and Harrowby; „
The first general meeting of
and Talbot ; Baron Liebeg,4gvie- _
city-hall at 8 o'clock, and was
the association was held in tiari
of Harrowby,
the retiring
brilliantly attended. Theintroduced his successor in the chair, the
president, briefly
dlivered a long and able inaugural ad-
Duke of Argyll,
who
comprehensive survey of the progress made in
dress, taking
a iscience during the last few years. The
the various fields of
shortly after 10 o'clock. a
noffnee_e a
threheasterod
proceedings terminated

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