The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

MISCELLANROUS

Thit Duke of Bedford has presented £lOOO to the Metropo-
lis Churches Fund. The Marquis of Exeter has also given
£5OO, Lord Calthorpe £5OO, and this Marquis of Northampton
£2OO.

Contrary to all human anticipation, Mr. Simeon has again
revived, so that we learn there is now some expectation of his
life being spared for some time longer to the Church.—Re-
CO? d.

The collection at the doors of Winchester Cathedral, last week,
after a sermon by the Arehhtshop of Canterbury, on behalf of
the County Hosp►tal, amounted to the almost unexampled sum,
on such an occasion, of £714.

The Dean and Chapter of Worcester have given one hundred
pounds towards the rebuilding of St. Peter's Church in that
city.

We understand that the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and
Bristol intends to hold his next general ordination at Gloucester
cathedral, on Sunday, the 18th December.
On Sunday se'nnight the Lord Bishop of. Gloucester and
Bristol preached an eloquent sermon at Bristol cathedral, on
that great leading doctrine of christianity, which pervades the
whole liturgy of the Church of England, the atonement.—
Gloucester Chronicle.

HUDDERSFIELD PARISH CHURCH.—This beautiful and com-
modious structure, which has been entirely rebuilt and restored,
at an expense of about £B,OOO, was opened for public worship
on Thursday week. The first sermon was preached by the
Rev. John Lowe. A.M., of Wentworth, who was inducted vicar
of Huddersfield fifty-two years ago. The collection amounted
to the handsome slim of 1.155 19s. Bd. The sermon in the
evening was preached by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, M.A., of
Manchester, to an immense congregation, there being at least
3,000 persons present. The collection amounted t0.£124. At
the closing of the service the vicar read a letter from the Bishop
of Ripon, much regretting his inability to attend, and inclosing
an order for f.,5c), as his subscription to the building. Sermons
were preached on Friday and Sunday, when collections were
made, amounting altoesther to a considerable sum:
BATH AND WRI_LSDIOCESAN CHURCH-BUILDING ASSOCIA-
TioN.----Foar district meetings were held last week—at Bridge-
water, Taunton, Ilminster, and Langport—in aid of the above
Association, and it affords us sincere pleasure to be able to state
that they were all well attended, and that an anxious desire
prevails throughout the diocese to provide increased church ac-
commodation fir the wants of a rapidly growing population,
which has for centuries gone on greatly increasing, while in the
cumber and size of our churches there has been little or no
alteration.—Bath Chronicle. . .

••••, • 44, ,•• • VI. •
NEW CHURCH AT BRA ovoßD.—The interesting ceremony
of laying the first stone of Saint James's church, Bradford, on
the Halifax new road, took place on Monday last, in the pre-
sence of an immense concourse of people, variously estimated
at from 15,000 to '20,000, who seemed in general to take an inte-
rest in the institutions to which it referred. Mr. Woad, as the
public are already aware, is proceeding to erect this church and
to endow it at his own expense. He has also undertaken to
provide a school-room and a minister's house—all of which are
now iw progress—on the same estate of his late father, which he
inherited. At the appointed time, and indeed long before it,
an immense living mass was seen pouring in from both the
town and the country to the. place of a.rtion. A convenient plat-
form had been provided for the ladies, and 'for those who went
to take pail in the proceedings. A number of gentlemen had
arranged - te' 'nest at the Exchange, and a very considerable
body of the most respectable in station proceeded at the ap-
pointed time to the h,use of the • late Mr. Wood, in Horton-I
road, where they were joined by a considerable :body of the
clergy, who had met at the house of Mr. Rand. • With some
difficulty the clergy and a part of the gentry reached the plat-
form, and, the proceedings having been opened by a hymn,.
John Wood; Esq., proceeded to address the assembly. The
address•was received with the utmost satisfaction, and be laid
the stone with the usual formalities. The vast concourse of
persons then separated, after having sung the national anthem.
It appears that the cost of the building will be £19,200. May
the pious munificence of Mr. Wood find mans, imitators, al-
ways supposing that the appropriation principle be not carried !