The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-18 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Rev. H. Abud, M.A., to the Vicarage of Uttoxeter, Stafford-
shire.
Rev. G. Alker, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Peter's Church.
Weston.
'"Rev. C. J. Armitatead, 8.A., to the Curacy of Westwell,
near Maidstone.
Rev. R. Bickersteth, M.A., Rector of St. Giles's-in.the•
Fields, to the Canonry Residentiary in Salisbury Cathedral,
rendered vacant by the preferment of the Rev. W. K. Hamil-
ton to the Bishopric of the diocese.
Rev. S. W. Bourne, M.A., to the Curacy of Winfarthing,
Norfolk.
Rev. H. De Burgh, M.A., to the Curacy of Mallow, Ireland.
Rev. G. Dobree, 13. A., to be Curate of St. Barnabas Church,
Liverpool.
Rev. S. Edwardes, M.A., Fellow and Mathematical Lec-
turer of Merton College, to the Vicarage of Woolvercott.
Oxford.
Rev. W. Elliott, M.A., to the Rectory of All Saints, Wor-
cester.
Rev. F. W. Farrar, 8.A., to a Mastership at Marlborough
College, Wilts.
Rev. T. Gardner, M.A., to be the Chaplain to the Garrison
at Cork.
Rev. J. Gilmore, 8.A.,•t0 a Curacy at St. Barnabas, Church,
Liverpool. _ . .

A. Greenwell, M.A., Rector of Golforne, to be Chap,
the Durham County Gaol.
H. J. Hare, M.A.. to the Curacy of Docking, Norfolk.
-. G. A. Hayward, 8.A.,. to the Curacy of Nettlestead.

Rei.
lain to
Rev.
Rev,
Kent.

Rev.. R. Henderson, M.A.,. to the Rectory of Brompton-
Ralph, near Wiveliscombe, Somerset.
Rev. Dr. Higgs, to the Rectory of Handborough, Oxon.
Rev.. G. Lawless, M.A., lately Preacher at the Cathedral,
Cashel, to be one of the Chaplains to that portion of the
British Army destined for the East.
Rev. A. H. Leech, M.A., Curate of Thurles, to the Vim age
of Em y..
Rev. J. H. Noyes, M.A., to the Curacy of Ketton, Rutland.
Rev. L. F. Page, M.A., Rector of Woolpit, near Bury St.
Edmund's, to be Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Suffolk.
Rev. T. Richardson, M.A., to be a Priest Vicar of St. Da-
vid's Cathedral.
Rev. E.. H. Rogers, M.A., to the Curacy of St. Mary's
Church, Kilkenny.
Rev. H. T. Salmon, M.A., to the Curacy of Streetford, near
Banbury.
Rev. F. A. Savile, M.A., to the Rectory of North Huisb,
near Ivy-bridge, Devonshire.
Rev. G. A. Todd, to the Curacy of St. Peter's Everton, near
Liverpool.
Rev. L. Tuttiett,. to the Incumbency of Lea Marston,
Warwickshire.

ltev. H. G. Williams, M.A., Fellow of Emanuel College,
Cambridge, to the Rectory of Preston, near Sudbury, Suffolk.
Rev. J. Wilson, M.A., to be Sub-Dean of St. David's Ca-
thedral.
Rev. H. Wright,M.A., to the Rectory of Hambledon, near
Godalming.
Rev. P. Wynter, D.D., to the Rectory of South Warnbo-
rough, Hampshire.
DIOCESE OF CHESTER.
VACANCIES.—The Perpetual Curacy of Hugill, or Ings,
in the parish of Kendal, in the county of Westmoreland,
by resignation of the Rev. Matthew Isaac Finch : patron,
the Vicar of Kendal. Value, £BO with a house.—The
Perpetual Curacy of Burnside, in the parish of Kendal,
by death of the Rev.. W. Robinson : patron, the Vicar of
Kendal. Value, £llO.
DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER.—Preferments.—Theßishop
of Manchester has licensed the Rev. J. Ridgway to the
stipendiary curacy of the parish church of Kirkham near
Preston. His Lordship has instituted the Rev. John
Sparling, M.A., to the rectory of Eccleston, near Chorley,
vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Yates, the last incum-
bent, on the presentation of Mr. Wm. Sparling, of Petton
Park, Shropshire, the patron and father of the present
rector ; and his Lordship issued his mandate for his induc-
tion thereto. The Bishop has also licensed the Rev. Wm.
Wilbraham Johnson, M.A., to the minor canonry in the
Cathedral Church of Manchester, vacant by the promotion
of the Rev. Wm. Wilson• to a canonry, on the election and
nomination of the dean and canons, the patrons ; and the
Rev. John Marshall, (late curate of St. John's, Longsight,)
to the stipendiary curacy of St. Philip's, Salford, on the
nomination of the Rev. P. C. Nicholson, the incumbent.
THE CANONRY RESIDENTIARY IN SALISBURY CATHE-
DRAL, rendered vacant by the preferment of the Rev.
Walter Kerr Hamilton to the bishopric of the dioeese, has
been conferred upon.the Rev. Robert Bickersteth, M.A.,
rector of St. Giles s.in-the-Fields, formerly incumbent of
St. John's Church, Clapham. The new canon is &nephew
of the late Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls..
THE REV. CANON JAmrs.—The Rev. Edward James,
M.A., canon of Winchester, vicar of Alton, and a canon of
Llandaff, died on. Thursday, in the sixty-fifth year of his
age. Mr. James was son of Dr. James, head. master of
Rugby, and canon. of Worcester, and brother of the Right
Rev. J. T. James, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta. Mr. Edward
James was educated at Eton school, and. while there
formed intimate friendships with Dean Milman, Sir John
Patteson, Judge Coleridge, Dr. Hawtree, and the Bishop
of Winchester : with the two latter especially he continued
in the most affectionate intercourse till his death. After
taking his degree at Christ Church, Oxford, about 1812,
he became tutor to the Hon. E. G. Stanley (now Earl of
Derby) at Eton School, and he was honoured by the
cordial friendship of this eminent nobleman, who ac.
knowledged his obligations to Mr. James' talents and
worth. When his most intimate friend, Mr. C. Sumner,
was made Bishop of Llandaff, Mr. James was appointed
by him a canon of his cathedral (an office honourable, but
of no value); and, when raised to the see of Winchester
in 1828, his lordship presented him to the first vacant
stall in his cathedral, shortly after which he became vicar
of Alton. Mr. James was eminently hospitable as a canon,
hardworking as the parish priest of a large and laborious
town, and much beloved by his friends.
ORDINATIONS for Trinity Sunday, June 11, are an-
nounced by the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Ro-
chester, Gloucester and Bristol, Ripon, Peterborough,
Chichester, Lichfield, Ely, Oxford, Hereford, Chester,
Norwich, and Lincoln. By the Archbishop of Canterbury,
at Michaelmas ; by the Bishop. of Bath and Wells, on
Sunday, the 23rd instant ; by the Bishop of Exeter, on
Sunday, the 18th of June • by. the Bishop of Winchester,
on Sunday, the 9th of July -. by the Bishops of Peter-
borough, Lichfield, and Lincoln, on Sunday, the 24th of
September ; and at Christmas by the Bishops of Peter-
borough, Lichfield, and Lincoln.
THE BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND is now daily expected
at Southampton by the Commodore, which was to sail
from Auckland, in New Zealand, about Christmas last.
The Bishop will be accompanied by Mrs. Selwyn, and his
second son, and will take up his residence for the present
with his father, W. Selwyn, Esq., Q.C., at Richmond. It
is understood that his lordship will remain in England
probably till the end of the year, and then return to his
distant diocese. During the bishop's absence, the affairs
of the diocese will be transacted by Archdeacon Abraham.
PRAYER IN TUE TIME OF WAR.—No pastoral or order
is required from the bishops. The clergy are hound and
expected to use the prayer on their own knowledge and
sense of the fact. This is "a time of war," and the clergy
do not want their bishops to announce it. Upon know-
ledge of the fact, the Prayer-book requires the clergy to
use the prayer ; and this, we are informed, is what the
bishops expect the clergy to understand.—Morning
Chronicle.
REMOVAL or CHURCHES.—Lord Harrowby's Church
Building Acts Amendment Bill, now before the House of
Lords, proposes to enact that the provisions of 1 and 2
Victoria, c. 106, and 13 and 14 Victoria, c. 98, for the
union of small contiguous benefices, shall extend to the
union of benefices in cities or market towns without
regard to contiguity, population, or value, provided the
distance between the churches shall not exceed half a
mile. It is then provided that, on the union of benefices
in the city of London, or in any place having a municipal
corporation, the Bishop may, if he think fit, subject to
the consent of the Church Building Commissioners, cause
to be pulled down any church which, in consequence of
such union, he may consider unnecessary ; and the com-
missioners shall dispose of the site, materials, and burial-
ground (if the same has ceased under competent authority
to be used for interments), and apply the proceeds, with
the Bishop's consent, towards the erection of a parsonage
house or of additional churches in the diocese. The site
or ground, however, is not to be disposed of till after two
months' notice in the Gazette, with a view to give time
for a satisfactory offer for the purchase of such land for
public improvements or sanitary purposes. The repre-
sentatives or relatives of those who have been interred in
such burial-ground may cause the bodies to be removed
to other consecrated ground. A subsequent clause pro-
vides that, if it shall be found necessary to interfere with
any burial ground, the graves shall be as little disturbed
as possible, and that the representatives or relatives of
those who have within the last twenty years been buried
in a grave which shall be disturbed may cause the remains
to be removed, and the expense (to the extent of £10)
shall be defrayed by the commissioners out of moneys
which may come to them under this bill, and that the
bodies not so removed by the relatives shall (except in
such graves or vaults as shall finally be closed up) be
removed at the expense of the commissioners. Monu-
ments may also be removed ; and the commissioners, if
they think fit, may defray the expense. When it shall
appear to the Bishop that the revenues of -the benefices
proposed to be united are more than sufficient for the due
maintenance and support of an incumbent, the Bishop is
to represent the case to the Archbishop, who, after inquir-
ing into it, may, with the consent of the patron (six weeks'
notice being previously affixed to the church door), certify
to the Queen in Council that part of the revenues might
with advantage to the interests of religion be made over
to some other benefice in the diocese, and the Queen in
Council may make order accordingly. Compensation is
to be made out of moneys coming to the commissioners
under this bill to parish clerks displaced. Facilities are
given for the surrender or disposal of church patronage,
in order to obtain asva consideration an augmentatior, of
. income for iiirendowk benefices.

CHESHIRE AND ifrAIS.

ioe of 14,..1?U5E 0.
BODY FOUND.-On Thursday the men on boa ;11 4i.7 iho,a
the magazine boats found a dead body' floating.; . Tear of the
trihveerd,ebadethsevuseene the
hEedgrr
woasntreeanegdnizSeedacoasobe FerNclol4 1431 WI:lt•-
derV '''-‘4llaCiarendor
Gant, the captain of the flat Neversweat, that
°
fr°ul •tbaetbeij NI ted as to
which he fell into the river, off Hale-bank,durin, ,iet ilict the prt
on the 30th January last. wit Iza the Diu
alatea •,,i kfi,Tlest•
THE ROYAL CHESHIRE MILITIA term-- , hao, cme „ens,
annual period of training on Monday, last weeka,,rof, 7Rai,":ilect, a
received the unqualified approbation of Colonel .I/_' ~,a• zeiyei-.Y or aa
for their steadiness, cleanliness, and soldier-like ii.Pec,-50 :4Daellpathe 13
ance, and the rapidity and precision of their .no short 'Raw ice
the field. The conduct of the regiment deal its kli'aeae°llstai
„ .ion
stay in Chester has been most exempla*, joblv *st scA with
ST•JoHN'S, BIRRRNHE -The choir Of Pi" rfortir kIem"TITS
District Church, Gran e laAnDe. will give a choralye,o 'toy -ad tit
ance of sacred and secularg- music,l at the Seobe°'-blvioretiv'
111,1114111Pciiip,fil%
Oliver-street, on Friday nest. Admission
but a collection will be m adeon behalf of the Alois ltltlael ardwi
church schools. ife (ot irttlibefo:llmre.:,,'
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RIILWAY.-The tr 3 s'' I( _ ;it f '4'
the week ending 9th April, 1854, was_,,,,as ft°,sll:l/414.: 4411:1° °rw'
t o.rr,
Passengers, parcels, &c., per railway, £:"'7o g""_ . goeti.,, ‘44, „.11111ore 1
steam-boats, £361 Os. ld. ; total, £2631 15a. I"liiiic, r sa4suvernm'
£1516 7s. 9d.: total, including Carnarvon tragic, op, *II ement s e
rail, £3787 3s. 7d. ; steam-boat, £361 4:3-,1i;9 11.' N'lePte,,,liausll:
responding week last year, per rail, gvr.0,,..2,1 , 'lkti,"'ller b
per steam-boats, £242 3s. Bd. Increase, £94 -. 0. -t.n t
_, . 1 th
HOYLAKE. -Four fatal cases of cholera have 'tbe IV it
at Hoylake ; but as the disease confined itseli teoft ilie SE OF
mates of one house, which is situated in the cea,,,tr„e, obit!, ‘,,,f'llowir,o,
and the malady can be clearly traced to the toitabl Noptton c,44
of the occupants, no alarm is felt by the iiiy"oo3 14)Caterw
generally, especially as the present excitement besieoi keik:erilr, Let
the authorities to bestir themselves, and 3 C l'efJtrit:
10 'i
.11
a f(
of the village is now being proceeded with. If 04 ,baton,
VIOLATION OF THE GAME LA113.-011 Taesclal,.' oiril c, via,"c'at
Jeffries was brought before the magistrates 5'011) .V,to he
head, and fined £2 and costs, for trespassing iii Pnf Stostes: I'lliecl, holm
game on the lands of Joseph Brocklebank, Est-ate...4' , reldY I
ton, a short time ago. It appeared that he w'',,,. bisr,ii j.,N.,
by the keeper, who, after a struggle, took a,f poes,a- V ,10„
but failed in securing him. A warrant was atius".fog v '4, to :"1 II
issued for his apprehension. In default of Ps) , the Con
fine, he was to be imprisoned for one month. 00..,,.; ‘ tie, nets
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-- On Wedllegig ;,',,,, !'4l.adeallref.
about eleven o'clock, a pretty little child, hal°_,,ii°' $ %,.._ illet s°
Jane Jones, aged four years, daughter of Mr. inn ett,f Ve of aee(
government tax collector, Birkenhead, was rari, „a,:i• volt
h.Parl
horse and cart, the property of William Hope .03-tia:l, r tl,e hick t
Chiltren, Thornton. The driver was loading 0, r tiete Press
with timber, in Crowe and Williams's yard, 13111 00 'ON elleil
when the horse took fright, and, running --....,02 0" i -61P
fdoog ttY tkrn liebae
street, threw down the child, who was PlaPer, s°-
si '.11t..11 chic4,-,n
time. The poor little innocent was rolled ° er) k.i_ oft;e it
an il 47 tl,:silt I
received such severe injuries about the chest - 'attfat 1
to cause immediate death. .eort, a, to t'as
WILFUL DAMAGE.-At the Birkenhead _F°,.lio.ceed iltil 'gii,.i t..r0er,2,1
Patrick Cheamers, au Irish youth, was cli'l4o 'tNe'to, mai
breaking the palisading of Claughton-park, ell - 00_, roh; kit ti
afternoon. The prisoner, with two others, 1111),.0.1.5 Aiethe c(, ,
break with his feet the stone in which the r°'"Jeded ii; ';Notiba, riii,,
fixed, and abstract the lead. The officer sin Ab°,o li,;sa:Naris i:
capturing the prisoner, but his companions esear-it tli, e he, .a
forty railings, together with the plinthing, weccial 1t.7411a4t- tlie's
destroyed ; and Mr. J. A. Byrne, surveyor to the nioa ~itki`sai.
sioners, stated that damage to the extent of telliac,A ~eft qt,t,,,e,
had been sustained. The magistrate, Mr. J. 'be or Zt4,t • '
t ~,71, of
ordered him to pay a fine of £5, or, in default, to
ffso '. bet tite,
soned for two months.
BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT CLUD.--,"; ;,10., 00 t444.titi ilk.l.
Aft. • cie '"lii 'dots 0
has been elected commodore, Mr. W. Laura, Jr-s. of 'i; ak. 'ea
commodore, and Mr. W. Scott honorary secrett"ihOot, V h,.. le 4
Birkenhead Model Yacht Club. At the last feesaeta '',lLttlte - eoti
was stated that the finances of the club Were ve teith k, I), pro n;
Two cups were voted, of the value of £2O eaell-°, tg if for yat ",hro,,,
sailed for by fixed keel boats, and the other by b°_;;lea 0 Sli)e-t1 they
centre boards. Two cups were also voted to be 'deo. a hk: btion4
by yachts of the second-class (two tons andsiioll,%.;4', \Ng! (Ili
the event of there being no yachts of this cl r4O be r',, \%of th
money is to be applied to the purchase of aOP `togetliref Itthiltlirribn
for by boats with fixed keels ad centre he
the
a Ikt the ;
In addition.to the foregoing, there will be the rwiliePo tt,elas, are
the challenge cup of £5O, the present owner 0' e It4l i, a lia,
building a new boat to sail the deciding e°lflirsirlieekvoi .' 1-the r
proposed to ran the second-class yachts in the not 60 ,iske,,,,' eaar,
Float, to be manned by members only' s° lter-' had
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amusing races may be expected. fe r st.lifro?l,
REFUSAL TO. PllOegED TO SEA.—NO -
seamen, belonging to the troop-ship Shootiui, ilyro°
lying in the river, under orders toproeeedt._t°ll„ut
to take on board troops for Malta, were LA'', e 4
Thursday before the magistrates at Birkeuislivf; 'sib
charge of refusing to proceed to sea, after a peo',ol
the ship's articles. Their objection was thaLZ earl)t-tbe
tain had been appointed. The prisoners `ve—ct, 1311' re'
advised by the magistrates to fulfil their contrruessea
whole of them, with the exception of one, el?,b. the
ference for goal and hard labour to sailiug w'ed to bw,
The refractory men were then each sen in telletbe
days' imprisonment, with hard labour,
correction.