The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-16 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL.

The new corporation of Hull have advertised the sale of the
advowson of the vicarage of the parish of Holy Vrinity, in that•
town; in the advertisement they say that "the value of the living
might be nearly doubled if the dues, &c., were rigidly collected."
—Hull Packet.

Miss Abraham, the lady who has offered the sum of £1.500
towards the erection and endowment of " Bishop Ryder's
Church," in this town, has also given £lOO to the fund f&'r the
intended monument of his lordship in Lichfield Cathedral.—
Birmingham Advertiser.
The livings of St. Paul and St. Michael, in Bristol, have been' disposed of for £4920 the proceeds of which becomes the property
of the corporation.
AKing's letter has been addressed to the bishop of each diocese,-
for sermons in aid of the funds for promoting the enlargement,
building, and repairing of churches and chapels. This society
has, since its foundation in 1818, by voluntary contributions,
provided additional church-room for 313,500 persons, of which
233,925 are free sittings for the poor.
It was stated that at the Newton dinner, on Thursday, that
the bishopric of Manchester had heen offered to a relation of
Mr. Stanley, the Under-Secretary for Ireland, and refused.
The Rev. John Booth, 8.A., late curate of Dudley, to the
perpetual curacies of Stanford Bishop and Wackton, in the
county of Hereford—Patrol-1j the Vicar of Bromyard.
The Rev. Hugh Percy ltennett, M.A., to the perpetual
curacy of Norton,,in the county and diocese of Gloucester, va-
cant by the death. of the Rev. Richard Jones. -Patrons, the
Dean and Chapter of Bristol.
The Rev. Hugh Nanney to the living of Jarrow. Cuthbert
Ellison, Esq., of Hebburn-hall, patron.
The Rev. John Fendall has been presented to the rectory of
Gauthv, Lincolnshire.

...,...
The'llev. Edward Dykes Bolton, M.A., to the rectory of Tes-
terton, ut Norfolk, o❑ the presentation of Thomas \Vythe, Esq.,
of Middleton.

The Rev. Ellis Wade, M A., to the rectory of Blaxhall, Suf-
folk, on the {presentation of Eliz Wade, of Raydon Cottage.
The Lord Bishop of Ely will hold his first ordination on the
26th ctf November next at Ely.
Sir Theodore Broadhead, Bart., of Camps Mount, near Don-
caster, has, in the handsomest manlier, contributed 100 guineas
towards the erection of a new church at Monk Bretton, near
Barnsley; and his Grace the Archbishop of York has also con-
tributed £lOO for the same purpose, of erecting a church in a
portion of his diocese so destitute of spiritual superintendence
connected
with toe Church of England.
Naw Cttuttcu AT ACCRINGTON.—.dye hear that a subscrip
the thriving -
tion, rising the extraordinary sum of £BOOO, has been got up in
Accrington, for the purpose of building
andendowing
church,
i in which a considerable number
a villagene w
of
of sittings are to be free fur ever to the working population.

The locomotive engine, of the must superior workmanship,
which has just been constructed for the Petersburgh and Paw,
lowsky railway, at the manufactory of Messrs. lt. Stephenson
and Co., South-street, Newcastle, had its trial on Saturday last
at the abOve establiShment, and exceeds the extraordinary speed
of 651.ruiles per hour!, It will be shipped for St. Petersburgh
ru
TwOPENNY
the course or the week.:—Darham Adrertiser.
And pray, Sam, what is the twopenny
rope ?" enquired Mr. Pickwick. twopenny rope, sir?"
replied Mr. " It is just a cheap lodgin'-house, vere
the beds is twopence a night." " What do you call a bed a
rope for ?>' said Mr. Pickwick." " Bless your innocence, sir,
that an't it," replied Sam. '• Ven the lady and gen'ltnan as
keeps the. hot-el first began business, they used to make the beds
on the floor; but this wouldn't do at no price, 'cos, instead of
taking a moderate twopenn'orth o' sleep, the -Imit!ers used to
lie there half the day. So now they has two ropes, 'bout six
foot apart, and three from the their, which goes right down the
►'oom; and the beds are made of slips of coarse sacking stretch-
ed across 'enr." " Well," said Mr. Pickwick. " Well," said
Mr. Weller, " the advantage 0' the plan's hobvious. At Aix
o'clock every mornin' thee lets go the ropes at one end, end
down falls the lodgers. Consequence is, that, being thoroughly
waked, they get up very quietly and walk away."—Posihronous
papers t!f the Pickwick Club.

i A master silversmith in this city has recently green detected
carryMg on a system of fraud by which the revenue has suffered
to a considerable extent during the cpurse of five years in Which
it has been in operation. It appears that he had contrived to
form afac simile of the stamp which the law renders 'it impera-
tive on every tradesman to have struck on articles of silver
manufacture, and in this way evaded pay inent of the govern-
ment duty to the amount, it is said, of from 18 to .ClO weekly.
Suspicions were first excited in consequence of the delinquent
getting stamped by the proper.oflicials it much smaller quantity
of work than the dumber of men employed by him would war-
rant judges in thinking ought tel have been producebdu;t,aarflr,ietnhti
matter being taken up, led to the disclosure we have referred
o'l-,AilLlßAAdNat,'AinixwihaieChhgeeliilaed,.
been
perfoiminc, with
to, a person in his employment having; as, we' are informed,
divulged the secret. A
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hraisntdifsrtoi:lll:it,a,:a- Starr],-office, et er,ecEerilli,nea-
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thelyphriiienetioefdu,f.ohra
what
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favour last week, almost unptetedonted in the
he absconded,
and has not since been heard of.—GLisgo,zeArg„,,
after the close of the
iaiamel‘nrGiaanAl. German rlfisloLmf aoanfßE .ssiti°)riltiligsia:ten% s, by corninrind of the Kim,
duty at her departure presented arms ancrgathe st°hiedie'Lsluottet
(hitherto alone observed to Members 01 the Royal family), as a
mark of respect to her talented performances.
MARCH OF INTELLECT.—The following letter has been
handed to us as a curiosity in
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