The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Rev. D. Ace, to the Curacy of 13randsby, Yorkshire.
Rev F. W. Becker, to the sole Cure of Overbury, Worcester-
shire.
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• Rev. A. F. Bellman, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Moulton, Norfolk.
Rev. J.
W. Brown, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Thomas's
unurch,Toxteth-park, Liverpool.
Rev. R. Bird, to the Vicarage of Uffington, Berks.
R. W. Cory, M.A., to the Vicarage of Horsey, Norfolk.
Rev. W. C. Fenton, of Alattersea, to be Chaplain to the High
Sheriff of Yorkshire.
Rev. E. W. uilbert, to the Curacy of Stow-with-Quy, Cam-
bridgeshire.
Rev. P. P. Gilbert, M.A. Incumbent of St. Mary's, Hagger-
stone, to the Rectory of St. Augustine, Watling-street,
Norfolk.

Rev. J. A. James, to the Curacy of St. Andrew, Manchester.
Rev. J. Mackie, to be a Surrogate for the Diocese of Peter-
borough.
Rev. J. Maskell, to the Curacy of Allington, Dorset.
Rev. A. S. Ormerod, M.A., to the Vicarage of Halvergate,
Norfolk.

Rev. G. Pardue, to the Perpetual Curacy of East and West
'Challow, near \Vantage, Berks.
Rev. W. R. Parker, M.A., to the Rectory of Willi ngale Spain,
Essex.
Rev. E. W. Relton, M.A., Incumbent of St. Bartholomew's
' Bethnal-r,reen, to the Vicarage of Ealing. ,
Rev. J.O. Ryder, M.A., Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford,
to the Rectory of the Isle of Elmley, near Queenborough.
Rev. It. Shutte, M.A. to the Rectory of High Halden, Kent.
Rev. J. Simpson, to the Curacy of Shelton-with-Hardwick,
Norfolk.
Rev. S. Soper, M.A., Curate of Clapham, to the Incumbency
of South Lambeth Chapel.
Rev. H. Spencer, to the Curacy of Bagthorpe, Norfolk.
Rev. G. Tufnell, to the Rectory of Thornton, Watlass,
Yorkshire.
Rev. William Valentine B.A. Curate of South Ormsby,
Lincolnshire, to the Perpetual Curacy of Whixley, Yorkshire.
Rev. G. W. Winter, to the Curacy of Litcham with East
Lexham, Norfolk.
Rev. W. Brady, Rev. W. Caulfield, Ven. H. Cotton (Arch-
Reacv.
deon of Cashel), Rev. Dr. De Courcy, Rev. C. Dickenson,
Dr. Gregory, Rev. H. Griffin, Rev. T. Knox, Rev. Dr.
Lloyd, Rev. "R. O'Callaghan, Rev. S. Townshend, Rev. C.
Wolseley, and the Rev. T. Woodward, to be Chaplains to the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

Tag WORSHIPFUL DR. HAGGARD, Chancellor of the
Diocese, has, on the nomination of the Lord Bishop of
Manchester, appointed the Rev. Thomas Fforster, Cham.
berlain, Rector of Rufford, near Ormskirk, to be one of
his surrogates.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF SYDNEY.—On Sunday
week, the Bishop of Sydney died at the residence of Lady
Gipps, in Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, London. His
lordship was the Right Reverend Win. Grant Broughton,
Lord Bishop of Sydney, and Metropolitan of Australasia.
He was in the sixty-fifth year of his age.
CHURCH AUGMENTATION.—The Bishop of London,
immediately after the vacancy of the rectory of St. Andrew
Zndersbaft, took measures for carrying into effect a
Scheme for augmenting several poor benefices in the pa-
tronage of the see, by the appropriation of £5OO per
annum out of the revenues of that rectory, a measure
which he had long contemplated.
THE BISHOP OF LLANDAPT.—In consequence of the
Bishop of Lincoln's death, the Bishop of Llandaff will
succeed to a seat in the House of Lords, but the new
Bishop of Lincoln will not be entitled to a seat in Parlia-
ment until a vacancy shall occur in the episcopal bench,
other than the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the
Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester.
THE NEW BISHOP.—.It is reported that Lord Auck-
land, the present Bishop of Sodor and Man, will be
translated to the vacant see of Lincoln, and that Dr.
Porhittot, the master of St. Catharine's-hall, Cambridge,
Henry Birch, the late tutor to the Prince of
Wales, will succeed Lord Auckland in the diocese of
Sodor and Man.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.- ONE OF THE
DIRECTORS KILLED.

A lamentable accident, resulting in the death of one of
the directors of the Great Western Railway, and the
serious injury of several other persons, took place on
Thursday, to the express train, leaving Bristol at 8.10
a.m., and due in London at 11.30 a.m.
The train left Bristol punctually, and kept correct time
to Ealing, about five miles west of Paddington. It con-
sisted of an engine and tender, a luggage van, two
second-class, and three first-class carriages, the latter
being in the rear. A travelling porter accompanies the
express trains on the Great Western Railway, occupy-
ing a small iron box on one end of the tender, from
Which he commands a view of the train. In this case it
had just passed under the bridge, a short distance on the
,had
side of the Ealing station, and was traver-
sing that portion of the line known as the Ealing cut-
tenetswehaernhe observed that the first of the three first-
in a ver ri:lges.vgas off the rails, and swaying to and fro
y aiarming manner He instantly got up, and
turned round to call manner.
the driver, who. observing that
something was wron instant
off his steam and reversed
the engine. Atfitthsitsellen'ss
enetrrt.he coupling chains between
the second and
egeelsbutili
gave way, and the two
first of the latter ran up the la
kemtent with fearful
velocity. The first, or. reaching
about fifteen feet, toppled over and fell°bPa'c height of
that which followed, crushing three out of
fwards upon
compartments, and forcing it back on to the en
euiro of its
where it fell over on its side. The third carriage diclinne,
leave the rails. The driver brought up his train al quickly as possible, and returned to the spot, A fearful
scene here presented itself. The first of the three first.
class carriages was turned completely over, and lying
neon its roof—the several compartments being more
or
less crushed, and the passengers imprisoned therein. The
second carriage had suffered most. In the centre cote_
nartment of this had been seated four of the directors of
the railway on their way to the usual weekly board
Meeting. Their names were Richard Potter, Esq.
Gloucester; Henry Simond
,s Esq., of Reading; 'Dr.
Richard Richard Pritchard Smith, of Reading • and James Gibbs,
Esq.. of Clifton, near Bristol. The latter gentleman was
killed on the spot, Dr. Pritchard Smith, who was seated
by his side, sustained a dislocation of the shoulder and a
fractured rib. Mr. Potter and Mr. Simonds, who were
seated in the same compartment, and opposite to Mr.
Gibbs and Dr. Pritchard, were not at all seriously hurt.
There were several other officers of the company and
general passengers in this carriage, but none of them sus-
tiried any severe injury. The passengers in the third car-
?!,ge escaped with nothing more serious than the shock.
The best aid that could be given to thesufferers was afforded
on the instant by the second-class passengers, none of
whom had suffered the smallest inconvenience. Intelli-
gence of the catastrophe was
instantly communicated to
Mr. Saunders, the secretary, and Mr. Gooch the loco-
motive superintendent. The former
'
summoned some
Medical gentlemen in the neighbourhood
and dispatched
them to Ealing to render assistance. The latter soon
to
tether a party of artificers, and accompanied them
ogp thespot for the purpose of clearin e debris
g away th .
On their arrival it was found necessary
two ca • to break up the
rrxageo moot injured, in order to extricate some of