The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS, &c.
The Rev. Frederick Burton, B.D. to be Officiating Mi-
nister of the new Church, in the Old Kent-road, London.
Patron, the Trustees.
The Rev. John Henry Pratt, 11. A., Fellow of Caius Col-
lege, Cambridge, has been appointed Chaplain to the Hon.
East India Company, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of
Calcutta.
The Rev. Richard Kemptborne, M.A.' of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, has been appointed by Lord Glenelg to the
Civil Chaplaincy of St. Helena.
The Rev. Edward Holmes, of Farrington. to the Rectory
of Thornbury, Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. John
Edgcombe, on the presentation of Mrs. Jane Edgcombe, of
Thornbury, widow; the true Patron for this turn.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Briitol has 'appointed
the Rev. Archdeacon Thorp, Chancellor of the old Diocese
of Bristol, in place of the Rev. J. W. Baugh, deceased. -
The Rev. Thomas George James, M.A., of Brasenose
College, Oxford, Perpetual Curate of Trinity Church, Burn-
ley, to the Incumbency of Openshaw, within the parish of
Manchester.
The Rev. W. F. Bayley,_one of the Prebendaries of Can-
terbury Cathedral, and Vicar of St. John's, Margate, is ap-
pointed Domestic Chaplain to the Queen Dowager. The
Rev. Gentleman, we understand, will accompany her Ma-
jesty on her projected trip to Malta.
The Rev. Elwin Biron, A.M., Curate of Hythe, to the
Living of Stodmarsh, Kent, vacant by the cession of the
Rev. Charles Fielding. Patron, the Archdeacon of Canter-
bury.
The Lord Bishop of Ripon has appointed the Rev. Wm.
Clere Burges, M.A., late Curate of Northallerton, but now
of Hinckley, Leicestershire, to the Vicarage of Osmotherley,
in the Peculiar of Northallerton and Allettonshire, vacant
by the death of the Rev. James Brown.
The Rev. E. B. Bagshawe, Rector of Eyam, Derbyshire,
and of Banner Cross, near Sheffield, is appointed a Rural
Dean for the former district.
The Rev. Thomas Harvey, M.A. has been appointed Her
Majesty's Resident Chaplain at Frankfort, in the room of
the Rev. Samuel Lindsey, appointed to the Chaplaincy of
Genoa.
The- Rev. J. Beavor Webb. to the Rectory of Templetrine,
vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Meade, Patron, J. C.
Kearney, Esq.
On Saturday last the Rev. John Little, Curate of St. Se-
pulchre's, Northampton, was, on the motion of Lord South-
ampton, seconded by the Earl of Euston, elected Chaplain to
the Lunatic Institution.
OBITUARY. .

At Amsterdam, where he had been for 31 years the Minister
of the Scottish Church, the Rev. Alexander Macintosh, D.D.
in the 55th year of his age.
The Rev. Robert Hallifax, Vicar of Standish, Gloucester-
shire.
At the Vicarage, Alysham, Norfolk, the Rev. Philip Hunt,
D.C.L., Prebendary of Canterbury, and Vicar of Alysham.
At the Rectory House, Deal, in his 73d year, the Rev. J.
B. Backhouse, Rector of that parish, and of Little
Chart, Kent, and one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for Kent and the Cinque Ports.
At Frickley Hall, Yorkshire, aged 76, the Rev. T. C. Rod-
ston Read, Rector of Full Sutton, Yorkshire.
At Eton College, Chas. Wilder, Esq. M.A„ a Lay Fellow
of King's College, Cambridge, aged 30.