The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev. C.
Anson, &[.A., to the rectory of Potter Hanworth, Lin-
colnshire.—The Rey. Eardley Wilmot Mitchell, 8.C.L.,
has been appointed to the'vicarage of Shirley with Yeave-
ley, in the county of Derby.—The Rev. John Longueville.
to the rectory of St. Mary-on-the-Hill; Chester.—The
Rev. Richard Rawle, M.A., to be principal of Codrington
College, Barbadoes:—Tne Rev. J. Wilkinson, to the per-
petual curacy of Martindale, Westmoreland.—The Rev.
C. Blackwell, to be chaplain to the Manchester Workhouse
union.—The Rev. John Alexander Blackett, vicar of
Heddon-on-the-Wall, and chaplain to the Duke of North-
umberland, to the rectory of Wolsingham, Durham.—The
Hon. and Rev. L. W. Denman, M. A., sub-curate of
Bishop Auckland, to the- vicarage of Heddon-on-the-
Wall, Northumberland.—The Rev. J. H. Gooch, M.A.,
to the head mastership of the Diocesan, Commercial, and
Agricultural School, East Dereham, Norfidk.—The Rev.
William Henry Elliot, M.A., to the vicarage of Sockburn,
near Darlington,—The Rev. John S. B. Mansell, to the
chancellorship of Connor, and rectory of Rarnoan, vacant
by the translation of theitev. J. R. Phillott, to the rectory
of Ballymoney.—The Rev. Dr. Oliver, incumbent or the
Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, to the incumbency of
St. Benedict, Lincoln.—The Rev. Henry Davenay to be
domestic chaplain to the Earl of Bantry.
The Rev. W. B. Hornby, A.M., of University College,
Durham, has been appointed curate of all Saints, North-
street, York.

A bill is now in the House of Commons to divide the
large rectory of Doddington, in the Isle of Ely, worth
£9900.

The vicarage of Stockton-on-Tees is placed at the dis-
posal of the Bishop of Durham by the appointment of the
Rev. Robert Gray, M.A., to the Bishopric of the Cape of
Good Hope.

The death of the Rev. Dr. Blomberg, which took place
on Tuesday week, causes a vacancy in the number of
canons residentiary in St. Paul's, as well as in the vicarage
of St. Giles's Cripplegate. The rev. doctor was nearly
90 years of age. _

APPROPRIATION OF PEWS BY CLERGYMEN.—A ques-
tion of some importance in reference to the appropriation
of I ew, by clergymen has lately arisen in the Conistors'
Court in this city (Carlisle), The Rev. G. Bell. incum-
te it of Kirklinton, was cited by the churchwardens of
that pta-'sli, " for having taken upon himself, of his own
mere authority, capriciously and improperly to allot and
appropriate the pews in the church. The Court decreed
on Wednesday last, that the appropriation was null'and
void, and imposed upon the defendant the costs of the
suit.—Carlisle Journal.

The Rev: William Seaton, junior, on quitting the cu-
racrif SK Thomas, Bristol, which for many years past he
has filled with much credit to himself and benefit to his
flock, has been presented with two memorials, strongly
marking the estimation in which his character and ser-
vices as a minister of Christ were held. The one' a
gold watch of high value, together with a purse contain-
ing a considerable overplus of contributions from parish-
ioners arid members of his congregation; the other a
bible and prayer-book, with an inscription in gold, beau-
tHully lettered, from the Sunday-school children under
his superintendence.

CHURCH EDUCATlON.—Arrangements have been made
for materially increasing the number of young men to be
received into the Church Training School at Battersea,
under the superintendence of the Rev. Thomas Jackson,
the principal. The young men so trained will be entitled,
after one year's residence, to receive the certificates of the
Privy Council, and will be then employed by the govern-
nient in organising and instructing schools in different
parts of the country. The number of applications for
teachers received weekly, both at the Training School,
Battersea, and St. Mark's College, Chelsea, rapidly in-
creases, and it has been found utterly impossible to comply
with the requests of the numerous applicants. This diffi-
culty will, however, be remedied by the more favourable
terms on which young men will henceforth be received
into the respective institutions.—Globe. _ _

DISCOVERIES IN DURHAM CATHEDRAL.—
course of some alterations in progress in Durham cathe
dral, a discovery has been made which is of interest,
namely, Bishop Skirlaw's body. He was an individual of
some importance. He became Bishop of Lichfield in
1385—0 f Bath and Wells in 1386—and of Durham in
1388. His benefactions in this see were munificent and
numerous—too numerous indeed to be specified in this
place. He built the greater part of the magnificent
central tower of York minster ; and he began the erection
of the dormitory and cloisters of Durham cathedral—but
dying before the completion of these works, he left a liberal
sum for that purpose. He died in 1406. The coffin was
of lead. Its construction wa- - Thilike
coffins, it was fitted closely
body inclosed within it.

In the

peculiar,

COURT AND FASHION.

The Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal children re-
moved from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle on
Wednesday last.
Lord Stanley attained his 48th year on Monday.
Lord and Lady John Russell, it is understood, will re-
main in town during the holidays. Her Ladyship, though
considerably improved, is not yet completely restored to

FASHIONS FOR APRIL.
(From the " London and Paris Ladies'
Fashion."

Magazine of

The new raffetos and silks intended for redingotes are
very elegant, foulards; yekins, and silks of every variety,
striped, checked, jaspees ?noires, or in Arabic designs,
with bareges toiles de Chide tarlatanes, nankin de soie,
and organdy, with coloured patterns on a black ground,
are all fashionable. Black continues as much in favour
as ever, but at this season the material is of course of
slighter texture. In the make of dresses there will be
but little change; many redingotes will be worn, and
many dresses with tight bodies and sleeves; also veio-

white muslin, richly embroidered. Brack lace still forms
the richest trimming, either for redingotes or pelerines,

also for flounces for three or four rows, or narrow lace put
on spirally, or en echellle gimps, fringes, and soutache
will be used on the spring dresses, particularly a
new kind, with pearl edge. Some dresses of poult de
sole are made with revers, embroidered in shaded colours.
Fancy straw bonnets, intermixed with lace, are very
fashionable ; and crape, mixed with straw, form pretty
capotes ; some crape bonnets are covered with lace, which
sometimes form a demi-voilette ; on the edge roses or
jardenieres wreaths are placed under these laces, and
give much elegence to the bonnet. Bonnets made -of
baptiste de Chine of its natural colour, lined with pink,
blue, or lilac crape, or gauze, form a pretty novelty ; the
material is very fine and light. Flo ivers will be very
much worn to ornament the interior as well as well as the
exterior of bonnets this spring. Foliage of light colour,
as the acacia, or dark, as the chesnut, will be used on
straw bonnets ; exotics, with large petals, will ornament
crape bonnets; whilst the more simple flowers of our gar-
dens will be required for pailles de riz. The Noemie
bonnets are of crape, covered with tulle a la niege and
filet; and the flowers that ornament them are of the
most delicate description, or marabouts. The pompa-
dour is of paille de riz, with wreath of pompadour rib-
.

bon. For the public dejeuners a new stile will be intro-
duced, the petit bord bonzais, made of white straw, or-
namented with field flowers, or a wreath of roses or single

feather.. Very small manteaux have been worn of green
or violet velvet, trimmed with two rows of broad black
lace, one at the edge, and the other above it, and a third
row at the throat ; this style will be adopted in taffetas of
every colour. Mantelines are a mixture of the visite and
mantelet, made of Bros de Naples, trimmed with lace or
fringe to match, with open heading, and surmounted by a
roseaux of application.