The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

THE LTATERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, IVIARCH 15, 1853.

ECCLESIASTICAL.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

• -PREFEnmENTs.—The Rev. W. Coniterdine has been
licensed to the perpetual curacy of the new church of St.
Phiiip, Chorley, in the parish of Wilmslow, in the county
of Chester, on the nomination of the trustees—patrons
thereof.

The Rev. HENRY WALKER, to the perpetual curacy of
Rainford, in the parish of Prescot, in the county of Lan-
caster, void by cession of Rev. John Groom, on the nomina-
tion of the Vicar of Prescot, patron thereof. Value £135,
with a house.
The Rev. Thomas HENREY has been licensed to the
perpetual curacy of Macclesfield Forest Chapel, in the
parish of Prestbury, in the county of Chester, void by
death of Rev. George Mounsey, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, patron thereof.

The BISHOP OF CHESTER has licensed the School-
room connected with St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead,
situate in Argyle-street, Birkenhead, for the performance
of Divine Services, on the representation of the Rev.
Andrews Knox, incumbent.

The BISHOP OF CHESTEH has granted a license for the
performance of Divine Service in the School-room on
Crag Works, Wild Boar Clough, in the parish of Prest-
bury, Cheshire, under the pastoral superintendence of the
Rev. Thomas Henry, incumbent of Macclesfield Forest
Chapel.

ORDlNATlON.—Candidates for Ordination by the Bishop
of Chester, on Trinity Sunday next, are requested to send
all necessary papers to Charles T. W. Parry, Esq., Chester,
his lordship's secretary, on or before Monday, 11th April,
at the latest.

NEW PARISH.—St. Helen's, Prescot.—The chapelry
of St. Helen's, in the parish of Prescot, has been, by order
in council under 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 106, duly constituted
a separate and distinct parish and benefice for all eccle-
siastical purposes.

BISHOPRIC or LINCOLN.—The London Gazette of
Friday contains a notice that the Queen has been pleased
to order a congl d'afre to the dean and chapter of the
cathedral church of Lincoln, empowering them to elect a
bishop of that see, the same being void by the death of
Dr. John Kaye, late bishop thereof ; at.d her Majesty has
also been pleased to recommend to the said dean and
chapter the Rev. John Jackson, M.A., to be by them
elected bishop of the said see.
THE REV. G. A. HAY WARD, recently rejected by the
Bishop of Ripon, on the ground of unsound views, on
the baptismal question, having been presented by Mr. G.
C. Yarborough to the living of Campsall, near Doncaster,
in the diocese of York, will have to apply to the Arch-
bishop of York for Priest's orders.
BISHOP WITTINGHAM of Maryland, having been
ordered to Italy for his health, a suspicion has been ex-
cited of " intentions Romewards." The Bishop in a
letter, addressed to the Southern Churchman, repudiates
the insinuation, declaring that he rejects the decrees of
the Council of Trent, and the creed of Pius IV. ; that
he holds the Romish communion " to be defiled by dam-
nable idolatries, and most foul corruptions ;" that he
conceives the conditions of those who join it to be " pe-
rilous in the extreme ;" and the Church of Rome herself
to be in a state of " most sinful schism."

PERVERSIONS.—The Rev. Mr. Cawley and the Rev.
Mr. Rooke, both clergymen of Leeds, have joined the
Romish communion, and were ordained priests, a few
days ago, by the Rev. Dr. Hogarth, at Ushaw Culiege.—
Leeds Mercury.
THE ROMISH CONTROVERSY.—The Rev. D. James,
M.A., of Kirkdale, delivered the second of the course of
lectures, in St. Peter's Church, Preston, on Wednesday
evening, the subject being " The Church of Rome neither
Holy nor Catholic."