The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

081 I'UARY.

Dec. 9, the Rev. W. J. Woodcock, curate of St. Agnes)
Nassau, formerly of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, in his,
31st year.

Jan. 24. at Woolverstone Park. the Rev. Henry D. Berners,
lair Archdeacon of Suffolk, in his 83d year.
Jan. 23, at St. Ives. C. ritwall, the Rev. John t)unkyne
Adams. 8.A., curate of Towednack, in the same county, in. his.
381 t, year.

.inn. 9, the Rev. J. Power, perpetual curate of Crosser's, Lan.
cashire.

Jan. 12, at Tenby, aged 76, the Rev. J. H. H. Humphreys,
rector of Lawrenny, and rector and vicar of.Tenby,
Pembrokeshire.

Jan. 20, at Cambridge, aged 71, the Rev. R. Walker, M.A
vicar of Dunton, Beds.

At Melbourne, New South Wales, the Rev. D. Newham*
M.A., the senior minister 'of the Church of England in that
city, and late incumbent of the Church of St. Peter's,. Coning,
wood.

On Saturday the Rev: Mr. Bennett was inducted to the
living' of Frome Se'wood. On Sunday be read himself in,
but did not preach.

The amount given by the King of Prussia to the sup-
port of the Proterrant bishopric in Jerusalem is upwards
of 125.000 dollars (about £18,000), out of which !he ac-
tual bishop receives his annual salary of 4,200 dollars
(about £650).

MR. GLADSTONE—Mx ARCHES COURT.—We learn
from a clerical correspondent, that the Rev. J. E.lGlad-
stone has been formally cited into the Arches Court,
at the instance of the Bishop of London. The citation,
we understand, was put into the hands of the rev: gen-
tleman on Wednesday afternoon.—Advertiser.
Arrangements have been made for erectine another
new bishopric at the Cape of Good Hope, and Drs. Gray,
the Bishop of Cape Town, is on his way to England for
the purpose of inducing members of the Church here to
raise the necessary funds. It has also been determined tO
erect a college at or near Cape Town, for which purpose it
is estimated 1'20.000.wi1l be required.
The Stamford Mercury states that on Sunday, the
18th instant, when, the officiating minister went to Us-
sleby, near Market Rasen, to perform the morning ser-
vice, there was not a soul at the church except himself
and the clerk, and asks, is it much to be wondered at that
the people of that parish do not attend the church, when
the incumbent is an absentee ; the curate, who resides its
Yorkshire, has only .been once to the church during the
last two years and nine months, and the present officiating
minister lives seven miles off.

CHURCH PREFERMENT.—Among the hills which con-
stitute so considerable a portion of the boundary between
Shropshire and the county of Denbigh, there is a most
romantically situated village, with the pretty, name of
Selattyn. The tourist who would obtain the best view of
the former counts which is anywhere obtainable at one
prospect, and at' the same time would enjoy one o 4 the
finest landscapes• that the eye can rest upon within the
island, should make a pilgrimage to this secluded village;
he would, at this particular time, find the usually quiet
spot a scene of unwonted excitement. A change of pas-
tor is about to take place. The reverend gentleman who
is now in charge of the spiritual interests of the parish
has 'won " golden, opinions from all sorts of men ': to
him the village, which aforetime, owing to its high situa-
ebnyiewnhciecdh faonr
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supplyfor an nobleof
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necessary element is poured into a central receiver from a
perennial spring, many hundred feet, distant. • The ex-
pense of this. princely benefaction was, more than £3OO.
In the exercise of thd same munificent liberality, the same
gentleman has, to a great extent at• his own expense,
erected a commodious and substantial chapel of ease, for
the accommodation of his parishioners living too distant
for ccnvenient attendance at the mother church. Nor
have these large outlays been spread over a great number
of years made by a permanent incumbent. The Rev. A-
R. Lloyd; formerly curate of St. John's Church, in this
town, has held the living of Selattyn less than six years',
and only as the curate of his father. At the death of the
last-mentioned gentleman a deputation of the parishion•
ers waited on the patroness of the benefice, Mrs. Lloyd,
of Aston, testifying their high estimation for their pastor',
and requesting that he might be appointed to the incum-•
bencv. The patroness being the near relative (aunt) Of
the•gentleman in whose behalf the solicitation founded'
on services such as those indicated in the preceding sett,-
tences was made, the success of the application was cer-
tainly not an unreasonable event to hope. The lady has,
however, after waiting about five months, made another
choice, and her election has fallen upon a stranger. The
new rector is, by a sufficiently note-worthy coincidence,
also a Mr. Lloyd. but no relation whatever to the Aston
family ! The parishioners cannot quite understand how
one, who has fulfilled bis duties to their high satisfaction;
who has so completely expended the whole income of the
rectory among them, that he will retire from the pariah

impoverished rather than enriched thereby ; and who is,
moreover, the near relation of the house in whose posses-
sion the living has been from the time of Henry VIII.,
and of whom the presentation is the property, should be
so coolly dismissed, and themselves the while handed over

to the government of a pastor of whom nobody among
them knows bad or good. There are not those wanting
who infer from all this, that of the modes of obtaining
Church preferment, that which consists iu deserving it is
certainly not the most effectual. Some control over
Church appointments still remains with the bishops ; it