The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

PREFERMENT.—The Rev. Nicholas Bourne Milnes, to
the stipendiary curacy of Ulverston in the county of Lan-
caster, on the nomination of the Rev. Richard Gwillym,
the incumbent.

THE BISHOP HAS LICENSED THE NEWLY-ERECTED
SCHOOLS, situate within the district and township of
Tranmere, and called "St. Catherine's Schools, Tranmere,"
for the performance of divine services, on the representation
of the Rev. Benedict Arthure, incumbent of St. Cathe-
rine's, Tranmere, under whose pastoral superintendence
the schools are.

ORDINATION IN TIIECA.THEDRALCIIIIRCH ATCHESTRR,
on Sunday, the 25th September, 1853.—Deaeons: Wm.
Harbin, 8.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, licensed to
St. Catherine's Church, Liverpool ; Nathan Jackson, 8.A.,
King's Hall and College of Brasenose, Oxford, to Dela-
mere ; Robt. Fowler, 8.A., Christ's College, Cambridge, to
the Training College, Chester ; Henry Ashley Gibson,
B.A.,,Clare Hall, Cambridge, to St. Martin's Church, Liver-
pool; Benjamin Hall Williams, 8.A., St. John the Evan-
gelist, Cambridge, to Tintwistle ; Rev. William De Courcy
Ireland, BA., Trinity College, Dublin, to Barthomley ;
Robt. Barlay Macpherson Johnson, 8.A., Trinity College,
Dublin, to Rainhill ; Alexander Taylor, M.A., Trinity
College, Dublin, to Great Budworth ; James Schofield,
Saint Bees' College, to St. Paul's, Portwood ; Gustavus
Matthew Burton, Birkenhead College, to St. Helen's ;
Frederick Townshend Chamberlain, Birkenhead College,
to St. Philip's Church, Liverpool ; Charles Fenton, Birken-
head College, to Middlewich ; Octavius Frederick Pigot,
Licentiate in Theology of the University of Dublin, to St.
Thomas's Church, Ashton-in-Makerfield.
Priests : The Rev. Thos. Chambers, 8.A., of Magdalen
Hall, Oxford; the Rev. Harry Pulley, 8.A., St. Mary's Hall,
Oxford; the Rev. John Stedman, 8.A., Pembroke College,
Oxford ; the Rev. Thos. Redmayne Holme, 8.A., Emmanuel
College, Cambridge ; the Rev. Thomas Major Lester, 8.A.,
Christ's College, Cambridge • the Rev. Daniel Eccles
James Dickson, 8.A., Trinity' College, Dublin ; the Rev.
Thomas Henry Kersley, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin ;
the Rev. James Reece, Saint Bees' College; the Rev.
Frederic Addison, 8.A., the University, Durham.—The
gospel was read by the Rev. Charles Fenton, deacon ; the
first lesson (morning), by the Rev. T. R. Holme, one of
the candidates for priest's orders ; and the second lesson, by
the Rev. Jas. Reece, another candidate for priest's orders.
First lesson (afternoon), by the Rev. John Stedman, newly
ordained priest ; second lesson, by the Rev. Frederic
Addison, newly-ordained priest.
AMONG those ordained deacons by the Lord Bishop of
Chester, on Sunday, 25th instant, is the Rev. W. De
Courcy Ireland, 8.A., brother of the curate of St. John's,
in this town, and grand-nephew of the late Right Hon.
Sir E. J. Stanley, of Richmond, Surrey, M.P. • He has been
licensed to Barthomley, including Crewe Hall Chapel, the
seat of the Right Hon. Lord Crewe.

DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER.—RESIGNATION OF PRE-
FERMENT.—The Rev. Thos Bowdon Banner has resigned
the perpetual curacy of South Shore, near Blackpool. The
living is in the gift of private individuals, and we under-
stand that there is some dispute as to which of two gentle-
men is really entitled to bestow the patronage.
TUE BISHOPRIC OF SYDNEY.—The Duke of New-
castle has offered this valuable appointment, which hi.
lls
been vacant since last February, to the Rev. T.
Davies M.A., Archdeacon of Melbourne, who is at present
in England. The rev. gentleman has declined it.
NEW BISHOPRIC IN AIISTRALIA.—Dr. Short
of Adelaide, who is at present in England,
has
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