The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

MISCELIA

The Duke of Bedford has presented MOO to the Metropo-
lis Churches Fund. The Marquis of Exeter has also given
200
f f5OO, Lord Calthorpe £S(X), and the Marquis of Northampton

Contrary to all human anticipation, Mr. Simeon has again
revived, so that we learn there is now some expectation of his
life being spared fur suute time longer to the Church.— Re-
col d.

The collection at the doors of Wilicht.ster Cathedral, last
after a sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury, on behalf (')
the County Hospital. amounted to the almost uuexarnpled sum,
on such an occasion, or £714.

The Dean and Chapter of Worcester have given one hundred
pounds towards the rebuilding of St. Peter's Church in that
city.

We understand that the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and
Bristol intends to hold his next general ordination at G:oucester
cathedral, on Sunday, the 18J1 December.

On Sunday se'nuight the Loid Bishop of Glo.ucester and
Bristol preached an eloquent xertnon at Bristol cathedral, en
that great leading doctrine of Christianity, which pervades the
whole liturgy of the Church of England, the atonement.—
Gloucester Chronicle.

Huoneesvisin Pants!' CHURCIL—This beautiful and com-
modious structure, which has been entirely rebuilt and restored,
at an expense of about .EB,OOO, was opened for public worship
on Thursday week. The first sermon was preached by the
Rev. John Lowe, A.M., of Wentworth. who was inducted vicar
of Huddersfield fifty-two years ago. The collection amounted
to the handsome sum of £155 19s. Bd. The sermon• iu the
evening was preached by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, M.A., of
Manchester, to an immense congregation, there being at least
3,000 persons present. The collection amounted to 1.:19-1- At
the closing of the service the vicar read a letter from the Bishop
of Ripon, much regretting his inability to attend, and inclusing
an order for £sd, as his suoscription to the building. Sermons
were preached on Friday and Sunday, when collections were
made, amounting altogether to a considerable
BATII AND WELLS DIOCESAN Cii itCU.BUIt.DING ASSOCIA-
TioN.—Four district meetings were hell last week—at Bridge-
water. 'Taunton, llininster, and Langport —in aid of the iitiove
Association, and it A.m.& us sincere pleasure to be able to state
that they were all well attended, and that an anxious desire
prevails throughout the diocese to provide increased church ac-
commodation for the wants of a rapidly growing population,
which has fur centuries ;;one on greatly increasing, while in the
number and size of our churches there has been little or no
alteration.—Bath Chronicle.

Nssw Ctimscst AT BuAnroun.—The interesting. ceremony
of laying the first stone of Saint James's church, Bradrord, on
the rialifax new road, took place 00 Monday last, in the pre-
sence of an immense concourse of people, variously estimated
at horn 15,0(A) to 20,0(X), who seemed in general to take an inte•
rest in the institutions to which it referred. Mr. Wood, as the
public are already aware, is proceeding to erect this church and
to endow it at his own expense.• Ile has also undertaken to
provide a school-room and a minister's house—all of which are
now in progress—on the same estate of his late father, which he
inherited. At the appointed time, and indeed lung before it,
an immense living mass was seen pouring in from both the
town and the country to the place of at4ion. A convenient plat-
Vrin had been provided fur the ladies, and for those who went
to take part in the proceediovs. A
number of gentlemen had
arranged to meet at the Exchange, and a very considerable
body of the most respectable in station proceeded at the ap-
pointed time to the hottse of flee lets Mr. Wood, in Horton-
road,
where the J
. were oined b, a considerable body of the
who h d met at the house or Mr Rand. With some
difficulty the clergy and a p.tri of the gentry reached the plat-
form, and, the proceedings havmg beets opened by a hymn,
John Wood, Esq., proceeded to address the assembly. The
address was received with the utmost satisfaction, and he laid
the stone with the usual formalities. The vast concourse of
persons then s terated, ;suer having sung the national anthem.
I
It appears that the cost of the building will be 1:19 200. Mar
the pions munificence of Mr. Wood find many itnii,ctors, al-
ways supposing that the appropriation principle be out carried!