The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
.;•ev. D. Ace, to the Curacy of 13randsby, Yorkshire.
soP. W. Becker, to the sole Cure of Overbury, Worcester.
ire.

itile;/. A. F. Bellman, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Moulton, Norfolk.
ev J. W. Brown, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Thomas's
Church,lrv.
Toxteth- park, Liverpool.
Irv. R. Bird, to the Vicarage of Uffington, Berks.
..ev• R. W. Cory, M.A., to the Vicarage of Horsey. Norfolk.
.ev. C. Fenton, of Mattersea, to be Chaplain to the High
Sheriff of Yorkshire.'
Rev E. NV. uilbert, to the Curacy of Stow-with-Quy, Cam-
bridgeshire.
Rey. P. P. Gilbert, M.A., Incumbent of St. Mary's, Hagger-
St4ne, to the Rectory of St. Augustine, Watling-street.
.Corfoik
Rev. R. Holmes, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Happisburgh,
.

Rev. J. A. James, to the Curacy of St. Andrew. Manchester.
Rev. J. Mackie, to be a Surrogate for the Diocese of Peter-
borough.
Rev. J. Maskell, to the Curacy of Allington. Dorset.
Rev. A. S. Ormerod, M.A., to the Vicarage of Halvergate,
Norfolk.
Rev. G. Pardue, to the Perpetual Curacy of East and West
Cliallow, near %Vantage, Berks.
Rev. W. R. Parker, NI.A., to the Rectory of Willingale Spain,
Essex.

Rev. E. W. Relton, M.A., Incumbent of St. Bartholomew's,
Bethnal-green, to the Vicarage of Ealing.
Rev. J. 0. Ryder, M.A., Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford,
to the Rectory of the Isle of Elmley, near Queenborough.
Rev. R. Shoup, to the Rectory of High Halden, Kent.
Rev. J. Simpson, to the Curacy of Shelton-with-Hardwick,
Norfolk.
Rev. J. Soper, M.A., Curate of Clapham, to the Incumbency
of South Lambeth Chapel.
Rev. H. Spencer, to the Curacy of Bagthorpe, Norfolk.
Rev. G. Tufnell, to the Rectory of Thornton, Watlass,
Yorkshire.
Rev. William Valentine, B.A. Curate of South Ormsby,
Lincolnshire, to the Perpetual Curacy of Whixley, Yorkshire.
Rev. G. W. Winter, to the Curacy of Ludlam with East
Lexham, Norfolk.
Rev. W. Brady,'Rev. W. Caulfield, Ven. H. Cotton (Arch-
deacon of Cashel), Rev. Dr. De Courcy, Rev. C. Dickenson,
Rev. Dr. Gregory, Rev. H. Griffin, Rey. T. Knox, Rev. Dr.
Lloyd, Rev. R. O'Callaghan, Rev. S. Townshend, Rev. C.
Wolseley, and the Rev. T. Woodward, to be Chaplains to the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

THE WORSHIPFUL DR. HAGGARD, Chancellor of the
Diocese, has, on the nomination of the Lord Bishop of
Manchester, appointed the Rev. Thomas Fforster, Chao-
berlain, Rector of Rufford, near Ormskirk, to be one cf
his surrogates.
DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF SYDNEY.—On Sunday
vvek, the Bishop of Sydney died at the residence of Lady
Gipps, in Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, London. His
lordship was the Right Reverend Win. Grant Broughton,
Lord Bishop of Sydney, and Metropolitan of Australasia.
He was in the sixty-fifth year of his age.
CHURCH AUGMENTATION.—The Bishop of London,
Immediately after the vacancy of the rectory of St. Andrew
Undershaft, took measures for carrying into effect a
Scheme for augmenting several poor benefices in the pa-
tronage of the see, by the appropriation of £5OO per
annum out of the revenues of that rectory, a measure
Which he had long contemplated.

THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF.—In consequence of the
Bishop of Lincoln's death, the Bishop of Llandaff will
succeed to a seat in the House of Lords, but the new
Bishop of Lincoln will not be entitled to a seat in Parlia-
Meta until a vacancy shall occur in the episcopal bench,
other than the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the
Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester.
THE NEW BISHOP.—It is reported that Lord Auck-
land, the present Bishop of Sodor and Man, will be
translated to the vacant see of Lincoln, and that Dr.
Pinlpot, the master of St. Catharine's-hall, Cambridge,
or the Rev. Henry Birch, the late tutor to the Prince of
Wales, witl succeed Lord Auckland in the diocese of
Sodor and Man.

READFUL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.- ONE OF THE
DIRECTORS KILLED.

A lamentable accident, resulting in the death of one of
the directors of the Great Western Railway, and the
serious injury of several other persons, took place on
Thursday, to the express train, leaving Bristol at 8.10
eon, and due in London at 11.30 a.m.
The train left Bristol punctually, and kept correct time
to Ealing, about five miles west of Paddington. It con.
elated of an engine and tender, a luggage van, two
seeend-class, and three first-class carriages, the latter
being in the rear. A travelling porter accompanies the
;e/Press trains on the Great Western Railway, occupy-
'lig a small iron box on one end of the tender, fro it
had he commands a view of the train. In this case it
itad just passed under the bridge, a short distance on the
!iondon side of the Ealing station, and was traver-
ng that portion of the line known as the Ealing cut-
B, when he observed that the first of the three first-
flea's:ercayrraillges was off the rails, and swaying to and fro
turned rounadtcteing manner. He instantly got up, and
something wasove7il to the driver, who, observing that
the engine. tflng, shut off his steam and reversed
the second and first classnstant the coupling chains between
up
e"yriages gave way, and the two
first of the latter ran tneuhembankment with fearful
velocity. The first, on re
andti fell backwards upon
about fifteen feet, toppled oevelirug the top, a height of
bacrkeouout of four of its
thirdtoc
that which followed, crushmg
the main line,
uartge did not
compartments, and forcing it
'where it fell over on its side. The
s zain as
leave the rails. The driver brought
quickly as possible, and returned to the sppot.
'classand I .
scene
carriages here presente
wasd
turned complete!3l over
itself. The first of the threerrat
11Pon its roof—the several compartments being morYing
less crushed, and the passengers imprisoned therein. The
second carriage had suffered most. In the centre corn_
Partment of this had been seated four of the directors of
the railway on their way to the usual weekly board
Meeting. Their names were Richard Potter, Esq., of
Gloucester ; Henry Simonds, Esq., of Reading ; Dr.
Richard Pritchard Smith, of Reading • and James Gibbs,
•E' s(l., of Clifton, near Bristol. The latter gentleman was
killed on the spot, Dr. Pritchard Smith, who was seated
by his side sustained a dislocation of the shoulder and a
fractered rib. Mr. Potter and Mr. Simonds, who were
seated in the same compartment, and opposite to Mr.
Gibbs and Dr. Pritchard, were not at all seriously hurt.
The re were several other officers of the company and
e.neral passengers in this carriage, but none of them sus-
p%fled any severe injury. The passengers in the third car-
er: gsi' escaped with nothing more serious than the shock.
anpes aid that could be given to thesufferers was afforded
';!•"%the instant by the second-class passengers, none of
m had suffered the smallest inconvenience. Intelli-
Ae t•
_a of the catastrophe was instantly communicated to
Irn c6aunders, the secretary, and Mr. Gooch, the loco-
motive superintendent. The former summoned some
:','eonoal gentlemen in the neighbourhood and dispatched
them to Ealing to render assistance. The latter soon
got together a party of artificers, and accompanied them
~,to the
.spot for the purpose of clearing away the debris.
tin their arrival it was found necesssry to break up the
two carriages most injured, in order to extricate some of