The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

CONSECRATION OF NEW CHURCHES

Our beloved and persevering diocesan has this week been
busily occupied in the performance of incessant but !cry
gratifying duties in this town. We have elsewhere noticed
his administration of the rite of confirmation, and now we
have the pleasure to record his consecration of no less than
three new churches in our own immediate locality.
The first consecration was that of the church dedicated to
St. Clement, recently erected at Windsor, and of which. the
Rev. Frederick Parry, late of Chester, has been appointed
the officiating minister. The service was well attended by
the surrounding population, among whom the zeal and piety
of the respected minister will doubtless effect much good.
Yesterday the Bishop consecrated the new church erected
on a plot of land between Greenland-street and Parliament-
street, at the expense of the Liverpool Church Building So-
ciety. It is dedicated to St. Barnabas. A tolerably full
congregation attended on the occasion, amongst whom was a -
large body of clergy. Prayers were read by the Rev. James
Nolan, after which the Bishop preached an excellent and im-
proving sermon adapted to the occasion. Mr. Nolan, as we
stated some time ago, has been appointed to the incumbency
of this church. The rev. gentleman is a staunch advocate of
Protestantism. Previous to his arrival among us he was
curate of St. Peter's Church, in Stockport : and to spew the
estimation he was held in there, we quote the following para-
graph from the Stockport Advertiser:—
" Since Mr. Nolan announced his intention of resigning
the curacy of St. Peter's, a most strenuous effort has been
made by his congregation to retain him as their pastor. A
memorial has been presented to him, signed by almost every
pewholder in his church, and by a very large proportion of
the congregation, generally expressing their entire satisfac-
tion with him as their minister, and praying him to remain
amongst them. W bile this document was in course of sig-
nature, several very pleasing incidents came to light, of the
estimation in which Mr. Nolan is held by the humbler mem-
bers of his congregation. We believe Mr. Nolan would have
gladly complied with the flattering request made to him, but
the delichte health of Mrs. Nolan, to the complete restora-
tion of which sea air seems indispensable, finally determined
him to accept the situation, painful as it might be for him to
leave a town where he has experienced so many acts of per-
sonal kindness, and where his ministerial labours were so
useful and so generally appreciated. We again congratulate
the congregation of St. Barnabas, Liverpool, on the choice
which has been made for them of a pastor ; and we devoutly
pray that the Lord of the Harvest nay send many more
such labourers into his vineyard.' Beset as the church at
this moment is, by traitors from within, and fierce foes
without, there never was a period in her history when her
usefulness, and even her very existence, depended more on
the character and conduct of her ministers."
This morning (Friday) the Bishop will proceed to Waterloo,
to consecrate Christ Church, when the Rev. Mr. Bates, late
curate at St. Bride's, officiates with zeal and success.
We are glad to say, that in a very short time one or more
additional churches in the neighbourhood will be ready for
consecration. Our venerable diocesan cannot be too fre-
quently. occupied with discharging this portion of his episco-
pal duties ; and we are satisfied that there is none in which he
takes greater delight.

PIITHISIS, OR CONSUMPTION.—This dreadful disease
with much truth, been called the scourge of Greatßritabians;
nor can this be wondered at when it is recollected it
are generally the young and beautiful, and those whosesvictims
every
feeling endear them to their home and friends. We perceive
that Mr. Cronin has taken a view of this affection different
from the generality of medical practitioners : d
arise from diseased heart, he treats primarytheee esent'ing it to
state
as dis-
ease of this important organ, which, in almost every instance,
will be found seriously affected, and to cause that languor
and lassitude that invariably precedes confirmed phthisis.—
See Cronin on Diseases of the Nervous Sysent
MILNER'S PATENT FIRE-PROOF BOXES. We have be-
fore us a curious old document, drawn in
u the reign of Henry
VIII., and ratified by five individuals.
course
itnhetiwieriting
is on parchment, but there is nothing so curious
con-
tents of the deed as in the style of its ratification,lly skill
e which is
not a little indicative of the spirit of the age, c
was not then so general as at the present day, and but few
individuals were capable of subscribing their names to a docu-
ment. Signing, therefore, was less common than sealin
and many a doughty baron was fain to adopt the latter mode
'
of attestation. Many of our readers may have met with a
copy of an old title deed, whereby William the Conqueror
conveyed certain estates to. we believe, the family of How-
ard for the feudal service of
A crossbow and arrow
When he should go and hunt at Yarrow.
It will be remembered that the ryhming clerk who drew the
deed caused the monarch to say,
And in token that the thing is sooth,
I have bit the white wax with my toth.
It was very commoe, for even the greatest dignitaries to use
the tooth, or the nail,' or the impress of the finger even. in lieu
of a seal. The deed before us bears no signatures, but ap-
pended to it are five seals, four of which are impressed with
the devices of exceedingly rude workmanship. The fifth is
merely marked with the finger, and the grain or surface of
the skin of the individual who has been for centuries laid in
. the dust, is distinctly visible on the wax. This document
was, with a number of books and papers, placed, on Monday
last, in one of Nliluer's patent fire-proof boxes, which was in
the presence of the mayor, Sir Thomas Branckcr, and several
gentlemen of high respectability, put into the centre of a
large fire, made with a quantity of wood, and about 6 cwt
of coal. The box was kept in the fire for two hours, when
• it was taken out, suffered to cool, and then opened. The
whole of the documents were found to be as perfect as when
they were first placed in the box. The deed of which we
have spoken, had been purposely placed near the surface, and
it now lies before us almost as fresh as when it was first en-
grossed. A notification of the ordeal to which it has been
subjected has been written on the back of the document, and
;subscribed by the mayor and the other gentlemen present.
Our readers will find a copy of it in an advertisement in
another part of odr paper. The box and its contents, with
Use ancient deed, are in the master's room, Exchange.