The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

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The sides are flanked by buttresses, between which are
five two-light windows at each side. There are three
windows on the west side of each transept, and two on
the east side. From the outer part of each transept is an
entrance door to a vestibule leading to the lower seats,
and also to the gallery above. Over each door there is a
large three-light window, and above the last, in the Babel,
a wheel, or circular opening, with a quatrefoil double
cusped shield in the centre. These doors correspond in
style with the main entrance door on the west. The an-
gles of the transepts, and the angles of the chancel are
of octagonal turrets, surmounted by buttresses, and with
a pinnacle on each as a finial.
At the east end there is a five-light window, blank below
to form the altar screen, but so contrived that, with the
open part and tracery above, the architectural keeping of
the whole is preserved. Round the whole building there
is an embrazured battlement, which is in accordance with
the style, and has a pleasing effect.
The interior will be fitted up in a manner to combine
comfort and elegance. The pews will have sloping backs.
and (as indicated in our rough diagram) will be so divided
as to accommodate fours, fives, sixes, and sevens. The
ground floor, from the transept westward, will rise in a
gentle slope, which will afford the congregation in that
part full advantage of not only hearing but seeing their
minister with ease and convenience. This is a decided
improvement in interior arrangements of our modern
churches. These seats, and the others on the lower floo
will accommodate 1100 persons.
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There will be three galleries—one at the west-end, and
one in each transept; all of them so slightly protruding
as to leave a large central and airy open space in the
middle of the building, there being no galleries at the
sides. The galleries will accommodate 460, making seat
room, in all, for 1,560 individuals. The western gallery
LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE.

their confidence, to engage their affections, to induce them,
or some of them, to break off their heathenish habits of
Sabbath desecration, and to come to the service of our
church. We agree intensely with the demand which is
now made for lay assistance to the clergy for the
multiplication a hundred fold of scripture readers.
Without compromising, in the slightest degree, our
high ministerial mission, or the peculiarity of our cle-
rical office, we deprecate with all our zeal the disastrous
fiction that only crdained clergymen should teach Chris-
tian truths to their neighbours (applause.) There is no-
thing we more ardently desire than a wise, comprehensive
measure of Christian instruction, adequate—boldly ade-
quate—to the real necessities of the church, and guided—
prudently guided—and governed by the right rev. rulers of
the church. But their lordships are slow to move while
everything is moving around them (hear, hear.) If wis-
dom were invariably connected with slowness, we would
rejoice in their slowness ; but there are times and circum-
stances when it is wise to be quick ; and I am deeply con-
vinced that the time is at hand when move they must
(hear, hear.) All things conspire to cry aloud, something
must be done. And not only must this demand be com-
plied with from a desire to reclaim what has hitherto
been neglected, but it is required for the preservation
of what is already possessed. Safety for what is, is in-
separable from an honest an timely aim at what ought
to be. Christian instruction, universally adminis-
tered, is what ought to be. Nothing less will meet the
necessity. God is jealous, so jealous that He will not give
His glory to another : He will never yield to the schools
of human learning what is due exclusively to the temple
of Divine revelation. God must be honoured, or the na-
tion must be ruined (bear.) In vain shall commercial en-
terprise multiply her ports, in vain shall manufacturing
industry increase her mills, in vain shall practical science
annihilate the distance between the dwellings of mankind,
in vain shall sanitary regulations improve the bodily com-
forts of the poor. if God be forgotten. If the rising streams
of our population be not in their incipient infancy guided
with a gentle hand into the channels of righteousness, they
will burst the bounds of subordination, and, in the over-
flow, they will endanger, if not destroy, all the rights both
of person and property (hear.) But, while we freely ad-
mit that the building of additional churches is only a part
of what is required, we as strenuously maintain that it is a
veryimportant part. We are thrown now, and have been
for a long time past, upon the voluntary principle. We
are repudiated by the government ; they either can or will
do nothing, and we must do all. Sittings, therefore, to
be paid for, and the rents of which to go to the support of
the minister, the support of the fabric, and all the inci-
dental expenses inseparable from the due performance of
Divine service ; and sittings for the accommodation of the
poor, some of them at such rents as will come within the
range of the poor man's finances, at the same time that
they will give him the security, the comfort, and the feeling
of independence that he has appropriated his own seat all
the year round, and sittings entirely free, where the poor

man may invite 11;s poor neighbour to come and join him
in public worship. This is the description of church
which it is intended to erect on this site ; and we shall
presently invoke God's blessing on the work. Respecting
the patronage of the church, five Christian gentlemen be-
came trustees for the discharge of that responsible duty ;
and I would thus publicly recommend that their first act
should be a legal appointment of a sixth, who, upon a de-
mise, would, ipso facto, form a fifth, and who would, with
the other four, legally appoint a sixth again—so that there
shall be always five. Take as much security as you can
for the continuance of a Christian ministry (applause) ;
and this is the real gist of the whole question. (Hear,
hear.) For what can a house do ? What can a beautiful
house do ? It cannot tell the sinner that Jesus Christ died
for him. And what if there be a man put in who cannot
do this ? Then its like the dog in the manger, which
keeps a place that a better beast should occupy, and snarls

THE LATE MR. JOHN WOOLLRIOHT.—The sudden
death of this gentleman, so well known as the head of the
old-established house of Woollright and Chidson, of
Bold-street, and one of the councillors first elected under
the Reform Act:for St. Peter's Ward, has cast a mournful
gloom over the town. He retired within the last twelve
months from business, and removed to an estate he had
purchased in the neighbourhood of London. Few men
appeared more likely to live long and enjoy that retire.
ment from the cares and anxieties of business which he so
much desired. Ten days only have elapsed since the late
Mr. Woollright paid a visit to his many friends and ac-
quaintances in Liverpool, and to-day his funeral takes
place. We understand that a letter of condolence has
been sent to his widow from a number of the tradesmen
of Liverpool, by whom he was universally respected, and
that to-day. being the day of his funeral, a great many of
the shops will be shut until one o'clock. He has left a
wife and five children to mourn their melancholy bereave.
ment. Mr. Radley, of the Adelphi, and Mr. Pierce, of
London, are his executors.—Albion.

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will, in part, be appropriated for the children of the
school to be attached to the church.

There will be a few seats, at very low rents, for the
humbler classes. These will be on the east side of the
transepts, and at the west end. The whole of the congre-
gation, with the exception of those. seated in the low-priced
pews on the east aides of the transepts, will have a full view
of the clergyman.

The pulp-it will be of octagonal form, of grained oak ;
and with a reading-desk to accommodate two officiating
ministers. _

The communion, which will be raised four steps from
the ground-floor, will accommodate forty communicants
at a time, there being a space of four feet wide round the
raiiings for that purpose.
There will be an open-timbered roof, consisting of
principals, terminating in corbels, all stained in imitation
of dark English " heart of oak."
On each side of the communion there will be entrances
leading to the vestries, from which will spring a large and
richly-panelled and moulded arch, spanning the whole
breadth of the communion, which will have a beautiful
appearance from the west end of the church. In the
body of the church there are two aisles, four feet wide,
and in the transepts, also, two of nearly the same width.
The church was designed by Mr. Arthur Holme, and
is highly creditable to his taste in ecclesiastical structures.
It will form a fine object, as seen from various points, but
especially from Aigburth. The entire cost will not, we
learn, exceed £B,ooo,—a small sum when its size and ex-
ternal and internal elegance are taken into consideration.
It is to be built by Messrs. Samuel and James Holme,
who, we need scarcely add, will do justice to the work in
all that is substantial in material and workmanship.
The trustees are Robert Bickersteth, Edward Cropper,
Wm. Jones, Thos. F. Bennett, and John Campbell, Esqrs.

there and does no good (hear, and laughter.) But where
the Gospel of the grace of God, in all the calm solemnity,
all the chastened fervour, and all the true, sanctified ear-
nestness that belongs to the Church of England, is minis-
tered in the house, it becomes a blessing to the neigh-
bourhood ; it is associated with a man's best destinies ;
every time he comes from home and looks upon it he has a
remembrance of his God. Persevere, then, in this good
work, and let this be the signal for zealous co-operation to
raise other such buildings as this. I shall not delay you
by protracting an address now. I hope, if God spares us,
to be permitted, according to the kind wish of Mr. Bick-
ersteth, to preach the everlasting gospel under the roof
that shall be extended over this spot, in entire depen-
dance upon that Holy Spirit who can fill the house with
God's glory !
The rev. gentleman then offered up the following beau-
tiful prayer :-0 Lord God Almighty, Thou art the God,
even Thou alone, of all the nations of the earth : Thou
hast made heaven and earth : Thou hast commanded us
to worship Thee. not only apart, every man in his own
house, and every man in his own chamber, but also to
assemble ourselves together to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to Thee by Jesus Christ. Thou bast given us
houses of prayer in our land, many and beautiful houses,
for the which we render humble and hearty thanks to Thy
holy name. Thou hast given us also many faithful and
affectionate ambassadors for Christ, proclaiming glad
tidings of great joy. We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we
worship Thee, we glorify Thee, we give thee thanks for
Thy great glory, 0 Lord God, heavenly King, God the
Father Almighty. But, 0 Lord, Thou bast increased the
nation, Thou hast multiplied the families, Thou hast
mercifully granted us to see our children's children, and
peace upon our Israel. And now we beseech thee pro-
vide for Thy growing household, and while "the bread that
perisbeth" is multiplied in the land according to the ne-
cessities of the people, let there be a like zealous multi-
plication of the bread that endureth unto everlasting life.
Add, 0 Lord, to our houses of prayer ; add, 0 Lord,
to our ambassadors of peace; prosper, 0 Lord, the pre-
sent effort in which thy unworthy servants are earnestly
engaged. Bless the work on which we enter this day—
even the building of this house of praise. Let it be be-
gun, continued, and ended in humble dependence upon
Thy protection, and believing confidently in Thy approval.
Let all the arrangements of Thy servants who are engaged
in conducting this work be prudently and judicious'._
made; faithfully and perseveringly completed. Let all
the workmen employed in it be influenced from day to
day to such a wise and efficient use of means, as shall,
under Thy good Providence, protect them from accidents ;
so that no life may be endangered, no limb fractured, no
injury sustained. And when this building shall he finished
and dedicated to Thy service, may the glory of the God
of our Salvation so till the house as to render it a Bethes-
da and a Bethel ; a scene of spiritual healing to the sick
stranger; of spiritual communion to the healed child.
Bless, 0 Lord, this surrounding multitude, and, while
the building is in progress, incline their hearts to pray
that here another mercy-seat may be found, where sinful
dying men may draw near to the Living God, through the
one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ
Jesus, and in all the ordinances which he has appointed.
0 Lord God, to Thy servants of old, engaged in such a
work, Thou didst command, saying, " Build the house,"
and didst graciously promise, saving, " I will take plea-
sure in it, and I will be glorified." Be!'old, 0 Lord, we
obey thy commandment and proceed to build the house.
Hearken, 0 Lord, we plead Thy promise : take pleasure
in this house; Father, glorify Thy name !
Our Father, &c.

The congregation then sang the doxology.
The Rev. H. M'Neile pronounced the apostolical be-
nediction in a most impressive manner, and the vast con-
course separated.

NEW MODE OF GETTING RID OF A WIFE.—On Tues-
day, a man named Charles Quinn, was brought before the
magistrates, charged by Mr. Evaiis, one of:the overseers,
with refusing to maintain his wife. After the circum-
stances of the case had been stated, the prisoner made a
long statement to the effect that he was not bound to sup-
port his better half, on the ground that a separation had
taken place between them. Mr. Rushton inquired what
sort of separation he alluded to, when the prisoner said
it was a Catholic priest who had dissolved the marriage
tie. Mr. Rushton observed that no priest had such power,
when the prisoner, with an air of confidence,said he under-
stood the law very well, and if a Catholic priest bad the
power to bind, he had also power to put asunder. He
then told a long and rambling story about the misconduct
of his wife, which had led to the separation, and con-
tended that he was not
responsible. .for her maintenance.
Mr. Rushton not coinciding in opinion with the prisoner
as to the dissolution of the marriage bond, ordered the
prisoner to be committed for one month to the House of
Correction.

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