The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-14 00:00:00

D/OCESE OF CHESTKEZ.

PnsFanatEm.—The Rev. Robert Collins King has
been licensed to, the stipendiary curacy of Saint George's
Munk. Evertan,. in the county of Lancaster, on the
nomination. of He Rev. W. W. Ewbanki...the incumbent.

Ntw• BISITOYSIC FOR WESTERN AnsTEALIA.—The
Bishop /of Adelaide has issued an appeal for assistance
towards the endbwment of a. Bishopric eD 'Perth, Western
Australia.

THE ARCM: WILCOX or TAIINTON--We are geld to
hear that tho- rase of Archdeacon Denison, recently
brought before: the public by Bishop Spencer, is to be
submitted to, the proper authorities for adjudication. We
understand that in order to effect thii-a representation
has been mat*. agreeably to the requisitiensof the Church
Discipline Act, in the proper quarter,. by a highly-re-
spected incumbent of the diocese of Bath and Wells, and
,that the case will either be sent at once; hy the Bishop of
'Bath and Wells, to the Court of Arches or a commission
be issued by & higher authority.—Recorat
ST. DAvirw's..—Her Majesty in Council has been pleased
to ratify a scheme proposed by the Eceietiastical Commis-
sioners, by which the annual average income of the future
Deans of St. David's is fixed at £700; _and of each canon
in the same cathedral at £350. The income of the dean
and canons having been very fluctuating, it will be made
up by the- Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the case of a
deficiency. In the event, however, of its exceeding the
above meant, the surplus will be raid over to the com-
missioners.

PROPA.6-1.0210N SOCIETY.—We muierstand that, not-
withstanding the large sums which have been raised for
particular colonial dioceses, especial], Capetown, and the
new dioceses of South Africa, the general income of the
Society for the Propagation of therGespel for the past
year will show a considerable increase. This is doubtless
owing, in a great measure, to an improved organisation,
and the. more general diffusion oi/ information as to the
societv's- operations. Its recent grants to Natal, Mel-
bournel New Zealand, and Borneo, entitle it to the
warmest support of the Church attitome.

Tue Rev. G. C. GOKUAM seems to have a salutary
horror of imitating George Herbert's " Priest in his
parish." A parishioner of Braeopford Speke gives the
following sample of his parochial' administration :—" The
tidies were due on the Ist of January. On the second he
sent printed circulars, directing attention to the fact, and
requesting payment on or before the 11th. Those who
did- not comply were, on the aist, served with a notice of
distress, unless payment was.-made within a few days."
REBUILDING OF DoNcAmit Cannel:E.—The commit-
tee for rebuilding Doncaster' Church have accepted the.
tender of Mr. Janson, of Northampton, for the stone work:
of the new edifice, according to the plan of Mr. Gilbert
Scott, the architect, for £21,000. The remainder of the
work, exclusive of organi.helb3, &c., is estimated at about
£lO,OOO more. Mr. W.. H'. Foreman, of Pippbrok Houses
Dorking, has given directions for the construction, at his
own cost, of a chapel onsthe south side of the charnel] in
commemoration of his- ancestors. He is, besides, aoon-
tribrutor to the amount of £l,OOO to the restoratiantfundi
The subscriptions received and promised amount to nearly
£30,000. The foundation stone is to be laid on the .28th
inst., the anniversary of the day on which the late.church
was destroyed.

Mucu MERRIAISNT was excited at the meeting of the
board of guardians of Tewkesbury, last week, by the read-
ing of a petition, praying for relief on account of the peti-
tioners being brought to great distress through betting
too much upon Mr. Holland, the Liberal candidate, at the
late county election!
PROGRESS IR IRON MANUFACTURR..-1.1, 1847, when
Sir Robert Stephenson designed the Britannia-bridge, he
wished to, procure for the bottom of that structure the
largest plates of iron which the skill of this country
could produce. He employed all the leading makers of
plates in th 6 Staffordshire district, where that particular
branch of the iron trade was then most successfully con-
ducted, and they put forth their best efforts to meet the
views of an engineer whose undertaking promised to
open out a new and wide field for the consumption of
plate iron. The largest plates required were 12 feet long,
30 inches wide, 1 an inch thick,_ having a superficial area
of 30 feet, and weighing 51 cwt. After the orders had
been some months on hand, Sir Robert's agent wrote a
note, saying, that, with one, exception, the makers were
not prepared to supply such plates, and so difficult was the
rolling and shearing fonisil, to be, with the machinery then
in use, that he entertained great fears of, at least, con-
siderable delay. Five. years have not been idly spent
by the iron trade. The Derwent company sent
from their Consett works to the Great Exhibition of 1851,
a plate measuring 17 feet long, 41 inches wide, 1 an inch
thick, for which the juxy recommended the Council medal,
as a proof of their opinion of its value to engineers en-
gaged in the construction of large works. Last week the
indefatigable manager of Consett works, Mr. George
Forster, produced a dozen of the largest plates ever yet
rolled in any establishment—being no less than 17 feet 6
inches long, 60 inches wide, 11 inch thick, having a su-
perficial area of 871 feet, nearly three times larger than
the largest plates produced in 1847, and weighing 36 cwt.
These plates were rolled without the slightest mishap or
accident, and, to an observer, as though the massive ma•
chinery was but doing its ordinary work. The plates
weighed over 2 tons when they left the rolls, and were
then taken to the shears, where they were reduced to pro-
per form and size with equal May, though it may well
excite wonder that any power could be so applied as to
shear cold iron 11 inch thick. The commercial value of
the discovery of iron-stone in Cleveland is now so clearly
developed, that this district cannot fail to take a leading
part in the iron trade. It is most important, however,
that parties of capital and spirit are found who are resolved
to prosecute this important branch of industry in all its
higher branches. Scotland has for years produced a
very large proportion of raw pig-iron, which has been
sent to other districts for conversion, but she has not
taken any important stand in the market as a producer of
bar or plate iron. The vast works on the Clyde are chiefly
supplied from Staffordshire or this district. The iron-
stone of Yorkshire and Durham, in combination with our
invaluable coal, is capable, in the hands of powerful and
skilful parties, of competing with any other part of the
world in the very highest branches of manufactures, It
is something to say that the county of Durham has pro-
duced the largest plates and the longest rails that ever
Iwere made. We hope we are yet only beginning, and that
another seven years may usher is still s'rcater triumphs.
—Sunderland Herald,