The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS,

Rev. G. Armitage, M.A., to the Incumbency of the new
Church of Silverdale, Staffordshire.
Rev. \V. E. Buckler, Fellow and ►ate Tutor of Brase-
nose College, and Pr4fessor of C►assical Literature at the
H.E.I.C.'s College at Haileybury, to the Rectory of Middle-
ton Cheney, Northamptonshire.
Rev. S. J. Butler, M.A., to the Vicarage of Penrith, Cum-
berland. _

Rev. E. F. Coke, M.A., to be Principal of the Victoria-
park Collegiate Institution, London.
Rev. J. Deans, Chaplain of Crediton, to be a Surrogate.
Rev. J. Drummond, M.A., Rector of Thorpe Achurch, near
Oundle, to an Honorary Canonry in Peterborough Cathedral.
Rev. R. Dudding, M.A., to the Curacy of Ludford, near
Market Kasen.
Rev. W. H. Edwards, 8.D., Fellow of Queen's College
Cambridge, to the Rectory and Parish Church of St. Botolph,
Cambridge.
Rev. T. Fell, jun., M.A., Incumbent of Trinity Church,
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to an Honorary Canonry in Peterborough
Cathedral.
Rev. 'F. Garrett, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, to
the Rectory of Vere, in the diocese of Jamaica.
Rev. C. Gilbert. M.A., of Sidney Sussex College, Cam-
bridge, to the Vicarage of Hemsby, near Great Yarmouth.
Rev. F. H. Gray, M.A., to the Curacy of St. Andrew's,
Halstead, Essex.
R-v. D. J. Jones, to the united Vicarages of Llanarth and
Llanina, near Lampeter.
Rev. W. L. Lawson, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. John's,
Bradford, York.
Rev. J. Mackenson, to the living of Tomintoul, Scotland.
Rev. H. Meeres, M.A., late Head-master of the Cathedral
Grammar School, to the Incumbency of St. Bartholomew's
Church, Colchester.
Rev. J. Milner, M.A., to the Rectory of Elton, near
Stockton-upon-Tees.
Rev. W. Munro, to the living of Creich, Scotland.
Rev. J. N. Peill, 8.D., to the Rectory of Newton Toney,
Cholderton, Wilts.
Rev. James t'owning, Curate of Buckfastleigh, Devon, to
the Head-mastership of theTotness Endowed Grammar School.

Rev. F. 'l'. Rowe M.A., to the Incumbency of the new
Church and District of 'St. Stephen, Leeds.
Rev. M. Spincke, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Ives,
Cornwall.

Rev. G. Williams, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Llowes, with
the Chapelry of Llandewifach, Radnorshire.
Rev. R. Wilde, to the Vicarage of Kilsallagan, diocese of
Dublin.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

ORDINATION.—The Bishop of Chester intends to hold
his next Ordination at Chester, on the second Sunday in
Lent. Candidates must send all their necessary papers
to Charles T. W. Parry, Esq., Chester, his lordship's secre-
tary, on or before the let February next, after which day
none can be received except under special circumstances.
CONSECEATIONS.—The Bishop has recently consecrated
a new church at Grange, in the parish of Cartmel, and
county of Lancaster. One-half of the sittings are free, and
the remainder are let for the benefit of the minister, in addi-
tion to the endowment provided for his maintenance. A
repair fund has also been provided. The patronage has
been vested in the bishop of the diocese for the time
being. Also the new church at Preston-Patrick, in the
parish of Burton-in-Kendall, and county of Westmoreland.
The old church having become ruinous and dilapidated,
the present new and enlarged structure was erected on
its site, and a piece of land adjoining the old church-yard
having been Fiven by Lord Lonsdale for the purpose, was,
at the same time, consecrated by the Bishop as an addi-
tional cemetery.

---ifiipes.—The new church-yard for the parish is to be
consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Chester, on Friday
next, the 11th instant.
Lo %yrs WHITLEY.— The yard or cemetery recently
attached to this church is to be consecrated on Tuesday
next, the 15th instant.

THE CLERICAL PRuvEnTs.----The Guardian states that
a clergyman who was amongst those who seceded to Rome
has lately returned to the English Church.
ELECTORAL PREPERAIENT.—The Exeter papers an-
nounce that there are more than a hundred candidates for
the vicarage of Crediton, including " many clergymen of
high standing, and of various shades of theological opinion,
from various parts of the country." The electors are the
twelve governors of the Church of Ctediton.
DIOCESE OP MANCRESTER.—On Tuesday, at the
Diocesan Registry, St. James's-square, the Bishop of
Manchester licensed the Rev. Abraham Sedgwick (late
stipendiary curate of St. George's Church, Chorley) to
the stipendiary curacy of St. Thomas's Church, Preston,
on the nomination of the Rev. Wm. Pitman Jones, the
incumbent.

THE FOLLOWING PRESENTA.TIONEfhaVebeCOMO vacant
by the death of the Incumbents :—A Canon Residentiary
in the Cathedral Church of St. David's ; patron, the
Bishop of St. David's. The Vicarage of St.. Mary, Pem-
broke, with the Vicarage of St. Michael, and the Vicarage
of St. Nicholas ; value, £5OO a-year ; patron, Sir J. Owen,
Bart., M.P. The Vicarage of St. Twinnel's, near Pem-
broke; value, £2OO a-year ; patrons, the Bishop and
Canons of St. David's. The Incumbency of Llanginning,
near St. Clears, Carmarthenshire ; value, £OO a-year ;
patron, Mr. J. L. Phillip. The Rectory of Sunningwell,
Berkshire; value, <E3SO a-year; patron, Sir Geo. Bowyer,
Bart. The Incumbency of South Littleton, with Middle
Littleton, Worcestershire; value, £260 a-year; patrons,
Christ Church, Oxford.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.—On Wednesday, the 19th
of October, the passengers embarking to leave New York
by the Arabia were not a little surprised to see a steamer
come alongside with 17 bishops on board,. a proportionate
number of clergymen of the American Protestant Episcopal
j
Church, and several judges, lawyers, and principal inhabi-
tants of the " Empire City." Upon inquiry, it appeared
that the two senior members of the deputation from the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
to the American board of missions, the Right Rev. Bishop
Spencer, late of Madras, and Archdeacon Sinclair, of Mid-
dlesex, were about to proceed to England by the Arabia ;
and one of the merchant princes of New York, Mr. Min-
turn, had chartered a steamer to convey them across the
Hudson to Messrs. Cunard's dock, in New Jersey. He
had made this arrangement in consequence of a desire
expressed by many members of the General Convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, after the example of the
primitive Christians, to take a solemn leave of their depart-
ing friends, "and accompany them to the ship." Accord-
ingly, divine service, including a special prayer for those
who were about to encounter the perils of the deep, was
celebrated in St. John's Church, before both Houses of the
Convention, at 9 a.m. The House of Bishops adjourned
for three hours, and the House of Clerical and Lay Depu-
ties appointed special delegations to be in attendance.
Among the prelates who occupied the deck of the steamer
were—the Bishops of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
New Jersey ; the Missionary Bishops of Wisconsin and
lowa, and of China ; the Bishops of Connecticut, Western
New York, Illinois, Michigan, New Hampshire, Kentucky,
Maine, Massachusetts, Indiana, and Missouri.
NATIONAL HuhtILIATION.—The cholera does not spread.
Its force is spent at Newcastle, and it has appeared no-
where else in a really formidable shape. For the present,
we may entertain a hope that the approach of winter will
suspend at least its further progress. Experience warns
us, however, that the air may be. all the while charged with
the latent poison, latent only till its virulenceis brought
out by the heats of another summer. The cessation, if it
lasts, ought to be considered as a respite rather than as a
release ; the terrible guest is not gone, but waiting at the
door; and the time granted us should be turned to the
best account in making preparations for his visit. This is
the moral not very happily conveyed in Lord Palmerston's
reply to the Presbytery of Edinburgh. The Presbytery,
in an address to the Home Secretary, propose that Govern-
ment should appoint a day for a national fast and supplica-
tion to God. Lord Palmerston replies in effect that, in his
opinion, it is rather a case for chloride of limo and soap-
and-water. " The Maker of the Universe has established
certain laws of nature," &c. A needful exhortation pro-
bably, but an irreligious answer, because it implies that
Providence does not interfere in the ordinary government
of the universe, in which we can trace up to a certain point
the chain of secondary causes. The practice of prayer is
founded on a directly contrary assumption, and more than
half the prayers we use would be irrational upon any other.
If to pray and not work is the part of indolence and super-
stition, it is a false and puerile philosophy that bids us to
work and not pray. The Christian does both orat et
laborat—and finds no difficulty in the belief that God an-
swers his prayers through those very " general laws"
which are, after all, but the visible modes of operation of
the Divine. hand.—London Guardian.