The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

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XVV.—CHURCH ACCOILMODATIOS7 FOR THE POOR;
`)..) Foremost among the spiritual wants of this large
and rapidly extending town Bishop of Liverpool.
It is no reflection on the character or ability of our pre-
sent excellent and zealous Diocesan to make this assertion,
for the extent and populousness of the diocese of Chester
is such as to demand that a division of its labours should
take place, and Liverpool, with its suburbs and adjacent
villages, are quite sufficient of themselves to engage the
unceasing exertions of a bishop. A suitable church for a
cathedral we are already possessed of ; nor need we travel
beyond that church to find a suitable occupant for the
episcopal throne. The whole matter could be arranged
without exciting the slightest envy, jealousy, or strife, of
any description. But whether this can be effected or no,
the necessity for more churches and more clergymen is
imperative. The official report of Horace Mann shows
that there are 63,541 persons in Liverpool, capable of at-
tending public worship, for whom no accommodation has
been provided by any religious body. Will the church-
men of • Liverpool permit the same deplorable state of
things to be recorded in the nest census returns ? Street •
after street, and court. after court,-is rapidly built up at
the north end, and tenanted as rapidly, bat scarcely a
religious edifice of any description is to be seen erected or
in course of erection, though every street contains a popu-
lation exceeding that of hundreds of country parishes..
Certain " town improvements," consisting chiefly of
widening streets and forming new thoroughfares, have
lately been much discussed, and, by some, have been
strongly advocated on sanitary grounds. There seemed
to be no doubt as to the possibility of raising the tens of,
thousands of pounds which it was estimated such im-
provements would cost. ' Well, now the north end pre-
seats an opportunity of effecting, at a very moderate cost,
an " improvement " far more necessary, more important,
and more immediately pressing, than any new thorough-
fare can possioly be; and more conducive to the sanitary,
because promoting the moral, reform of the people. Let
our "merchant princes" look to this; and before the whole
area is covered with warehouses, and manufactories, and
stoles, and dwelling-houses—not forgetting the "vaults"
at three out of every four corners—set apart, here and
there, a space for a church, for a school-house, for a read-
ing-room. Some may say the people do not want churches,
and will not go to them, nor send their children to the
schools. Perhaps not : but at all events our duty to offer
them the privilege remains the same. Now the responsi-
bility is ours—then it would be theirs—and should we
be roused from our beds some morning to find our streets
in possession of a mob, our shipping destroyed, and our
warehouses in flames, we shall not be doomed a prey to
• the dismal reflection that so horrible a calamity might
have been averted by the timely labours of the school-
master, and the elective ministrations of the clergy.
XXV.—TnE PRESTON STRIKE.—It appears that on the
morning of the 30th March, 1851, (census Sunday,) there
were present at church but 2,479 persons, out, of 69,542,
the population of the town of Preston. If this be a fact,
the strike, with all its calamitous consequences, is easily
accounted for. How can men, who pay no respect or
homage to a Heavenly King and Master, be expected to.
do their duty to an earthly one ? It is not possible. •If -
these men had been in the constant habit of attending'
the services of the church, it is a moral impossibility that
there should have been a strike for wages. There may
have been remonstrances -and appeals—there may have
been a change of masters—but there could not have been
a concerted turn-out, and plotted intimidation and
threatening of those who remained in. Other large towns,
and especially manufacturing towns, may take warning by
this. It is the fashion in moat of them to treat the church
clergy with contempt—to ridicule their teaching—to dis-
pute their authority—and to oppose and thwart them, if
for no other reason, because they are legally appointed !
Behold the result. A state of society in which servant is
arrayed as master—workman against his fellow—
lawless 'combination against unjustifiable association—
poverty struggling with avarice—helpless want with mis-
used power. Where will it end ? Loss of wealth—loss of
health—loss of respect—loss of character—loss of strength
—perhaps even loss of life from bitter starvation, are
among the evils already produced by this unhappy strife!
God grant we may not have to add to the catalogue
calamities still more dire.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCR.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. J. Armstrong, ALA., Prebendary of Wells Cathedral,
and Rector of Hinder, near Bristol, to be Chaplain to the
High Sheriff of Somerset.

Rev. C. Bailey, 'M.A., to the Rectory of Elsdon, near New-
castle. upon-Tune.

Rev. H. A. Barratt, ALA., to the Perpetual Curacy of Lang-
ley, Norfolk.
Rev. .1. Deedes, AI.A., Vicar of :garden, to the Rural
Deanery of Sutton.
Rev. C. Escker:•ail, ➢I.A., to the Incumbency of Lower
'deeding. near ilorsharn, Sussex.
Rev. W. [3. Findlay, [S. A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of
Atherton, near Manchesier. _ .

Rey. GI Freenia,,, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Emmanuel
Church, Bolton-le-Moors.
hey. J. Ge:(lart, M A., to the Rectory of Podington, or Pod-
d•nngt'n, Bedfordshire.

Graves, to the Vicarage of Kilmocar, Kilkenny.
Rev. J. G. Harries, M.A., to be Chaplain to the High Sheriff
of Brecknockshire.

Rev. H..(. Hawke, NI.A., to the Rectory ot Willingham-by-
Stow. Lin-olnaliire.

Rev. J. W. Hill, M.A., Incumbent of Waverton, near
Chester, to be Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Flintshire.
Ite,;,. R. Hughes, 8.A., to the Curacy of \Vest Bagborough,
near Taunton.

Rev. S. J. Jerram, M.A., to the Vicarage of Chobbam,
Surrey.

Ret;.. G. A. Langdale, M.A., late Curate of Bexley, to the
Curacy of Compton with Upper Martien, Sussex.
Rev. 11. M. Lower. M.A. Senior Curate of St. Nicholas'
C'mrcli. Sidi/iota to be Archdeacon of the'diocese :Montreal,
Lower Canada.

Rev. W. S. AV/toilet!, 111. A., to the Rectory of Ousden, near
Newnts rk et.

Rev. Dr. J. B. Mountain, Rector of Blunharn, near Biggles-
wade, to he Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Bedfordshire.
Rev. J, D. Paltnonr, M.A. Rector of Lutichnrch, and In-
cutnhe•it of reynoldston, to the Vicarage of Jeffreyston, near
Narbertb.

Rev. G. Pilkingtln, M.A., to the Sunday evening lecture-
ship at St . An irevr's Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Rev. J. Pilling, to the Perpetual Curacy of G7tinsargh.
Rev. F. J. Poole, 8.A., to the Cnracy of the Parish Church
of St. John the Bvanzeliit, Leeds.
Rev. G. V. Reed, M.A., to the Rectory of Hayes, Kent.
Rev. W. Richardson, M.A., Incnlnhent of St. David's, and
Vicar of Jeffreyston, to a Canon Reiidentiary in the Cathedral
Church of the diocese.

Rev. T. Smith, M.A., Curate of Trinity Church, Upper
Chels?a, to the Curacy of Cheltenham.
Rev. W. P. S. Stanhope, M.A., to the Curacy of Stutton.
near Ipswich.
Re•'. G. Swift, M.A., Curate of Christ Church, Bradford, to
the Ministry of St. John's Chapel, Beverley.
Rev. F. K Tower, to the Rectory of Elmsthorpe, and to the
Peroetna I Curacy of Earl Shifter) Leicestershire.
.Rev. H. M. Turton, M.A., to 'the Curacy of Kirtiington,
Oxfordshire.
Rev. W. Verdon, 51. A., to the Incumbency of St. John'S
Pendlebury.
Rov. A. Watson, 8.A., Fellow of B:asenose College, Oxford,
to a Mastership in Marlborough College.