The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-31 00:00:00

OF TIME

UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND,
AND OF THE
EPISCOPAL CH U RUH I.N
AND THE
UNITED STATES OF ANIERICA.
EDITED BY THE Rev. STEP HEN IB..A.ACS ON, M.A.
is intended that this great ;National Work shall comprise
a a series of Portraits, accompanied with brief Memoirs, of
the Archbishops, Bishops, and other living Dignitaries and
Clergymen of the United Charch of England and Ireland,
notn here and in our Colonies, the Episcopal Church of
Scotland, and' that interesting branch of the Protestant
:Episcopal Church now. tioucisuing in the United' States of
America ;,and the distingui.dled patronage with which this
undertaking has been 'already honoured, inspires the Pro-
prietors with confidence that it will be highly acceptable to
the nation at large, as well as to the members of our venera-
ble and Apostolic Church. •
The above Work is in the same size and style as the Con-
servative Portraits, now publishing by. Messrs. Dawe and
Gowar. 8, Regent-street, Loudon.
The Value of this Work will be obvious to all who desire
to see the sacred ties of Christian affection drawn more closely
between the respective orders and ranks of the Clergy and
their Congregations. To the Clergy who may wish to possess
Portrait;; of the Bishops. who ordained them, and are over
them in the Lord," and likewise of their College and Clerical
friends ; and of living authors whom they have read and
esteem, the present Work will be full "of interest and pleasure.
To Parochial CongregatiOnS also it Will afford high gratifica-
tion to be able individually to posSess themselves of a faithful
Pwtrait of the Pastor front whoM they receive the advantages
of religiouS instruction and spiritual consolation, and whom
they have been led to "esteem highly for his work's sake."
The numerous Lay friends and relatives of the Clergy will
alSo have an opportunity of obtaining accurate Portraitures
of those who are endeared to them by the ties of nature. In
all these, and many other respects, this Work cannot fail of
becoming of great utility and interest to the vast body of the
Nobility, Clergy,- and 'Gentry of the British Empire. . The
Portraits will be selected without the least regard to political
or other differences of opinion. Eminence in 'Ecclesiastical
rank, intellectual abilities, learning, virtue, or religious zeal,
being the great objects proposed to be recorded. -
The Memoirs will be confined to a review of the academical
course and public life of the Clergyman whose likeness is
given, together with a list of arty religious or literary works
which he may have published.' Facts will be stated, while
all critical and controversial observations likely to offend w ill
be excluded. It has been suggested by very high authority,
that it •would- add much to the interest and value of the work,
if each Clergyman would• furnish a short exposition of a
passage of Scripture. The • Proprietors cheerfully accede to
thiS suggestion, 'and respectfully solicit the favour' 'of such
communications. And as only about 'fonr page's on -an
average can be appropriated' to, each 'Memoir and 'Scriptural
illustration; brevity will be highly desirable. • •
The Portraits will be engraved in the'first style of the Art,
and neither trouble nor expense spared to'render this great
Work worthy of the noble cause to which it is dedicated, and
one of the most splendid that has ever appeared. •
A Part, containing. three Portraits, with their respective
Memoir, will be published on the first-day of every alternate
month, in a thick, handsome wrapper, for the protection 'of
the Plates. • The size of each•eng raving will be nine inches by
seven. • • - • ' s. .d.

Price of each Part, India Proofs 21 0
atm . ditto, , Imperial Quarto Proofs . 12 0
For the convenience of Subscribers and others, each Plate
may be had separately. • " • • '
. . _ .

Proofs of the Piates,berore Letters, ontarke Paper,lrtdia 21 0
Ditto , Lettered, `ditto' • liadia 10 6
DittO • - ditto ' dittO 7, 6
!...All Portraits wilt be 'given in full-canonical and those
Clergymen vho have approved likenesses will oblige the
Proprietors by lending them for the purposes of 'this Work.
They Will be carefully preserved, and i.ettirned free of expense ;
but where no. Portrait exists; the Proprietors Will have one
painted expressly for the Work at their own expense.
Part 1. is now ready, containing a Portrait and Memoir of
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY..
THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER.
THE REV. HENRY MELVILL.