The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

THE CHURCH.

Very seldom has the announcement of the death of a private
individual possessed one-tenth part of the interest which will
be excited iu every part of England, among the friends of the
Church, by the intelligence that on Sunday, in the 77th year of
his age, at King's College, Cambridge, departed this life, and
entered upon his glorious rest, the Rev. Charles Simeon, Sen.
Fellow of that College.—Standard.
NEW Cll Relies, Bunr.—The subseriptions towards erecting
two new churches at the east and west extremities of the town
of Bury amount to £5,150 including £l,OOO front the Earl of
Derby; £5OO from Messrs. Walker and Lotnax : £2OO from
Mr. Hardman; £l4O from Mr. Norris, Redvales; £lOO each
from Sir R. Peel ; Dr. Wood, Dean of Ely • R. Walker, Esq.,
M.P. ; S. 11. Haslaus, Esq. ; Messrs. G. Walker ; J. Walker;
T. Openshaw; and James Openshaw. Nor must we omit to
mention the sum of £54 subscribed by the workmen employed
by Messrs. Walker and Co., iron-founders. The ready and
liberal zeal with which persons of all classes have come forward
to give their assistance to this good and necessary work affords
a gratifying testimony to the charitable and religious feeling of
the inhabitants of Bury.
Three new churches were consecrated last week by the new
Bishop of Chichester, in Sussex.
The Archbishop of Yeik has just consecrated a new church
at Upleathem.
A handsome church, built by subscription, was a few days
since open at Newhaven.
The Rev. It. C. Dillon, minister of Charlotte Chapel, Pim-
lico, and Sunday evening lecturer at St. James's Church,
Clerkenwell, has beets admitted by the University of Oxford
to the Degree of D.D.
The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol intends to hold his next
general ordination at Gloucester Cathedral, on Sunnay, the
1801 December.

The Rev. John Ellis has been appointed to the Vicarage of
Ebberston.

The Bishop of Oxford will hold a general ordination on De-
cember 18.

DEATH OF LORD FORBES, M.P.

We regret to announce the death of Lord Viscount Forbes,
eldest son of the 'Earl of Granard. His Lordship was Lord
Lieutenant and M.P. for the county of Longford, which he
represented since 180 G with a slight interruption, when Messrs.
Halpin and Roarke sat for the county, but were turned out on
petition. He was also Custos Rotuloruin and Colonel of the
Militia. He was in his 521 year, having been burn in May,
1785. He married about five years ago, Fiances, daughter of
the late Dr.Territ, formerly Judge of the Admiralty Court at
Bermuda, by whom he has left two sons, the eldest of whom,
George Arthur, now Viscount Forbes, is in his fourth year.
He died at Noel House, Kensington Gore, the residence of his
aunt, the Dowager Marchioness of Hastings. The late Lord
Forbes, our readers will remember, was found
,insane by an
inquisition, a few months since, the determining; cause of which
unhappy visitation of Providence was an unfortunate accident
that betel him about fifteen mouths ago, when the Noble Lord
had an apoplectic attack, which eventuated in aberration of in-
tellect. From the first attack to the moment of his death he
was assiduously attended night and day by his disconsolate
widow, on whom the finger of God has been heavily laid within
the last few weeks, her father having died in that time. The
death of the Noble Lord creates an immediate vacancy in
the representation of Longford, and in its Lieutenancy and
Colonelcv of Militia. Those who knew the deceased speak
highly of his many excellent qualities. He was an early and
intimate friend of the poet Moore, who addressed to him one of
his American epistles, from which we take the following pas-
sage, to show the friendship subsisting between them, and the
rare and high estimate formed of his character by one who knew
him well, and whose praise is beyond all imputation of motive:—
" Thou, gently lulled in dreams of classic thought,
By bards illumined and by sages taught,
Pant'st to be all upon this mortal scene,
That bard hath fancied or that sage hath been !
Why should I wake thee? why severely chase
The lovely forms of virtue and of grace
That dwell before thee like the pictures spread
By Spartan matrons round the genial bed,
Moulding thy fancy,—and, with gradual art,
Brightaing the young conceptions of thy heart ?"
ithiged itt-Apichalietiss,paving been examined, it was found water had
caused by's-iitie hand that the brain was also much dis-
coloured,seized with a fit of apoplexy,-La;i'l'Llies, Lordship met with, when
died on Sunday, and it is intended—to'-;eml,hee
~Noble Lord
mains fur interment in the family vault, in the county Or w"hircrli
this regretted Nobleman was so long the Representative. His
Lordship was a Major-General in the army. Ile entered the
service June 21st, 1791, as a Lieutenant in the 108th Foot, and
was appointed one of the Aide-de.Carup to George 111. in Fe-
bruary, 1811.—Sun.