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

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

PRETERMENT.—The Rev.. Robert Coßilis. King has
been licensed to the stipendiary curacy of Saint George's
Church, Everton, in the county of Lancaster, on the
nomination of the Rev. W. W. Ewbank, the incumbent.

Nvw• BISHOPRIC von WESTERN AusvnAsvA.—The
Bishop lof Adelaide has issued an appeal for assistance
w.---I. the endowment of a Bishopric of Perth, Western
Austpalia. _

TRH ARCHDEACON OF T.Ai NTO'N.-..-W. ono. Bald to
hear that the case 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 this a representation
has Veen made, agreeably to the requisitions of 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, by the Bishpp of
Bath and Wells, to the Court of Arches, or, a, commission
be issued by a higher anthority.—Record.

ST. DAVID'S.—Her Majestiin Council has'been pleased
to ratify a scheme proposed by the Ecclesiastical Commis•
sioners, by which the annual _average income-of the future
Deans of St. David's is fixed lat £7OO, 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 amount, the surplus will be paid over to the com-
missioners.

PROPAGATION Sou-ET-Y.7—We understand that, not-
withstanding the large sums which have been raised for
particular colonial dioceses, especially Capetown, and the
new dioceses of South- Africa, the general income of the
Society for the Propagation of the - G'spel 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 of information as to the
society's operations, Its recent grants to Natal, Mel-
bourne, New Zealand, and Borneo, entitle it to the
warmest support of the Church at home.

THE Pay. G. C. GORHA.M seems: to have a salutary
horror of imitating George Herbert's " Priest in his
parish." A parishioner of Brampford Speke gives the
following sample-of his parochial administration :—" The
tithes 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 21st, served with a notice of
distress, unless payment was made within a few days."
REBUILDING. OF DO/WASTE'S CHITSCII.—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 organ, bells, &c., is estimated at-about
£lO,OOO more. Mr. W. H. Foreman, of Pippbrok House,
Dorking, has given directions for the construction, at his
own cost, of a chapel on- the south side of the chancel, in
commemoration of his. ancestors. He is, besides, a con-
tributor to the amount of £l,OOO to the restoration fun&
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 thedate church
was. destroyed.

MUCH MERRIMENT was excited at the 'sleeting of the
board of guardian.; of Tewkesbury, last week, by the read,
ing of a petition, praying for relief on account of the peti,
tioners being brought to great distreni through betting-
too much upon Mr. Holland, the Liberal candidate, at the
late county election !

PROGRESS IN IRON MA_NUFACTrRE. —ln 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 the 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, 4 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 found 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 Dement 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 jury 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
rolleFin 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 35 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 facility, 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 in 'tin greater triumphs,
.—Sunderland iferalds