The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-13 00:00:00

DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

PREFERMENTS.—The Rev. G. A. Perryn, M.A., has
been duly licenced by the Bishop of Chester to the perpe-
tual curacy of Guilden Sutton, in the county of Chester,
void by death of the Rev. Peploe William Hamilton, on
the nomination of the patron, Lord Stanley of Alderley.
The Rev. Charles Thomas Quirk has been instituted to
the rectory of St. Thomas Church, Golborne, in the county
of Lancaster, void by resignation of the Rev. Alan Green-
well, on the presentation of the Earl of Derby, the patron.
The Rev. E. G. Longueville has been presented by the
Marquis of 'Westminster to the rectory of Eccleston, in the
county of Chester, void by death of the Rev. Richard
Massie.
The Rev. Robert Curteis Hubbersty has been nominated
to the perpetual curacy of Cartmel, in the county of Lan-
caster, void by resignation of Rev. Thomas Remington, by
the Earl of Burlington, the patron.
CONSECRA.TIONS.—TIIe new Westmoreland, erged church at
Ambleside, in the county of which has
been erected with the intention of being substituted for
the present church, is to be carnal%) 14' the Bishop

Chester on Wednesday next, (to-morrow,) the 14th inst. ;
and the new church at Cockermout'n, in the county of
Cumberland, erected in place of the old church destroyed
by fire, in 1850, is also to be consecrated by the Bishop on
Thursday, the 15th inst.; and on Friday, the 16th inst.,
the new church at Thwaites, in the parish of Millon
Cumberland, is to be consecrated by him.
ORDINATION.—The Lord Bishop of Chester held an
Ordination in the Cathedral Church, in that city, on Sun-
day last, when the following gentlemen were admitted into
holy orders :—Deacons : William Henry Pearson, 8.A.,
Queen's, Oxford, for Audlem ; Thomas Talbot Day, St'
John's, Cambridge, for Nantwich ; Thomas Neville Hut-
chinson, 8.A., St. John's, Cambridge, for the Training Col-
lege, Chester ; Richard John Livingston, 8.A., Trinity
College, Cambridge, for Weaverham ; Edward Chatterton
Orpen, 8.A., Trinity Hall, Cambridge, for Marton ; Samuel
Robertson, 8.A., Christ's College, Cambridge, for Ulver-
ston ; Richard Thursfield, Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge, for Christ Church, Everton ; John Bleasdell,
8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, for St. George's, Sutton ;
William James Pollock, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, for
Bootle ; Henry Brook, St. Bees', for All Saints, Liverpool ;
James Ellison, St.Bees', for St. Bartholomew's, Liverpool ;
James Alexander Carrick, for St. Nicholas, Halewood;
Robert Griffith Jones, St. Bees', by letters dimissory from
the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.—Priests : John Richard
Armitstead, 8.A., Christ Church, Oxford ; Henry Hurst
Burrow, 8.A., Magdalen Hall, Oxford ; John Herdman
Carlisle, 8.A., Wadham College, Oxford',; RichardGreenall,
8.A., Brazenose College, Oxford; Roger Rowson Lingard'
M.A., Brazenose College, Oxford; Frederick Teeling Cusins,
31. A , Sidney Sussex, Cambridge ; Wakefield Suft Meade,
8.A., Clare Hall, Cambridge ; Hobert Temple, 8.A., Tri-
nity College, Cambridge ; Richard Dandy, and Henry
Horatio Pace, St. Bees' ; George London, Charles Hutchi-
son Newbold, William Anderson O'Connor, and Henry
George Vernon, St. Aidan's, Birkenhead ; Joseph Kidger
Tucker,. literate.

PEWS ry LIMERICK CATHEDRAL.—By direction of
the Primate to the Dean of Limerick, all the pews in the
cathedral of that city are now open to the public.
ILLNESS Olt BISHOP WAINWRIGHT.—We learn from
the New York Churchman that the Provisional Bishop
of New York has been obliged by illness to discontinue
his visitations,- and that it is feared that some time may
elapse before hie health will be so far re-established as to
warrant a resumption of his labours.
CIERVA-LIER DINSEN'S son (the Rev. H. G. Bunsen,
M.A., vicar of Lilleshall, Shropshire, and domestic chap-
lain to his Grace the Duke of Sutherland) has been ap-
pointed "Lecture- Secretary" for the Church Missionary
Society in the diocese of Lichfield.
THE NEW Braror—The Hon. and Rey.- Horatio
Powys, rector of Warrington, has been appointed Bishop
of Sodor and Man. Heis a younger brother of Lerd Lil-
ford. In 1831 he ivus presented by his father, the late
lbrd, to the Rectory of Warrington, and he has continued
to-hold it up to the present time. He is also a rural dean
ofthe diocese of Chester,- an appointment which was con-
ferred upon him by the present Archbishop of Canterbury,
while bishop of that see. The archbishopric, whioh is
situate within the province of York, is worth £2040 a
year,,but does not entitlk its possessor to a vote in• the
House of Lords.

CONWAY PARISIE Carltcm.—A handsome stained gss
window has just been erected by Holland, of Warwick, in
the eaht side of the north transept of this church, at the
cost of "the Dowager Lady Erskine, and dedicated to the '
memory-of her husband, Sir Larid Erskine, and two daugl-...,.•
ters, Jule Holland, and Mary. The three lower lights
contain the following subjects :—" Christ blessing little
children." " Christ the mane of sorrow." " Christ ap-
pearing
to Mary after the resurrection"—under rich ands
appropriate canopies, and on• pedestals, with the iambi-.
pelican, and cross, and the emblems of the four Evangelists
occasionallkintroduced. The larger compartments of the
tracery are -filled up with tuvels praising God, and the
others with the lily and vine, r.serablems of the purity and
blood of Christ.

Cnuxcir RATE AT CIEORLEM—A meeting of the pa-
rishioners was held at Chorley, on Thursday, for the pur-
pose of laying-a rate for the current expenses of the year.
The meeting.was held in the parish church, the body of
which was densely crowded in consequence of an oppo-
sition having: been threatened by the dissenters. The
Rev. Canon Master, the rector, occupied the chair. Mr.
Pollard moved • a rate of Id., which was duly seconded.
Mr. W. Lawrence, a manufacturer, proposed an amend-
ment, that no rate at all be laid. After speeches on both
sides, the question was put to the ratepayers assembled,
when the rate was carried by at least two to one. No de-
mand for a poll was made; and-the proceedings, which
were conducted in a most orderly manner, were brought
to a close by a. vote of thanks to the rev. chairman, which
was unanimously carried.—Manzitester Courier.

" HOLY WATHE" IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—The
Western Times alleges that the. Hon. and Rev. Mr.
Courtenay has been making a niehe in the porch wall of
the church of Bovey Tracey for a holy water basin.—" C.
A. Bentinck," writing from the above parish, to the Editor
of the London Standard, says :—" The Standard news-
paper is always ,a fair one, and as you have risked, on the
very unsafe authority of the Western Times, to insert a
statement that the vicar of this parish had made a niche
for holy water in the church porch, I hope that you will
notice a true statement of the case from a resident in the
place, than wheal no one can have- less leaning to Tree-
tarianism. In, removing some plaster in the porch, an old
niche, apparently- too small to have-been intended for holy
water, was discovered, and Mr. Courtenay preferred leav-
ing it to havingit plastered over again ; hence the malevo-
lent fiction of the Western Times.. lam no Tractarian,
as my vicar well knows, but, likasyou, I am for truth and
fair play."

THE CHITECIIES OF TILE CITYkOF LONDON.-A nume-
rous meeting was - held on Wednesday, at the London
Tavern, at which Mr. Hubbard,-the governor of the Bank
of England, presided, to consider• the provisions of the pro-
posed bill to amend the church building acts, and the law
respecting the union of benefices. The chairman, in
introducing the proceedings of the meeting, said that the
bill in question was introduced under false colours, and it '
would hardly be imagined thatthe object of it was to inter-
fere between , the parishioners-. and their churches, and..
carry off the, latter whether the former would or not.
Mr. Henry Sykes Thornton moved the first resolution—
" That this meeting has learnt with deep regret that a
bill has passed the House of Lords empowering the Bishop
of London, with the consent of the patrons and the Church-
Commissioners,. to unite benifices irrespective of their popu- -
lation or value, and desecrate and pull down, on obtain-
ing an order in council. a large and indefinite number of,
churches in the city of London, and to sell the sites of the
burial-grounds, without asking the consent or consulting
the wishes of the parishioners. " This resolution was
secondelby the Rev. J. TOogood (rector of St. Andrew's.
Holborn), who gave his opinion that there was no church
in the city without a congregation sufficient to occupy a
clergyman, and was carried. Another resolution was also
passed by a large majority as follows—" That the destruc-
tion of:edifices, not only venerable for their sacred pur-
poses and their monumental records, but interesting as
memorialsof architectural skill,would be a seriousdetriment
to the appearance of the city of London, while its healthi-
ness. would be impared by the substitution of lofty ware-
houses .excluding light and air from the chruchyards and
burial-grounds, which, would be then subjected to a pain-
ful' desecration." A petition to the House of Commons,
founded on these resolutions, was also agreed. to.

THE REV. W. J. E. BENNETT AND, THE DIS-
SENTERS OF FROME.

There has been considerable excitement- amongst the
dissenters of Frome, occasioned by the remarriage at the
parish church of a couple named Dimmock, who had been
previously united at an independent chapel in that town.
It appears the couple were persuaded to Abe step by "Mrs.
Green, a Sister of Mercy," and the ceremony was per-
formed by one of Mr. Bennett's curates, circumstances
which aroused the indignant nonconformists, who have
met, and, in resolutions proposed by their leading minis-
ters, declared the remarriage " a violation, or at least, an
evasion of the law of the land?' The following corres-
pondence on this subject has taken place between Mr.
Bennett and the Honourable Colonel Boyle, M.P.:—
" Vicarage, Frome Selwood, May 21, 1854.
" Dear Sir,—Your name is placed upon the walls of the
town as intending to preside at a public meeting to con-
sider ' the conduct of the Vicar of Frame,' on Tuesday
next; 'the conduct' referring- to my having married in
the church certain persona previously united before the
registrar.
"In case you should not be well advised as to the state
of the ecclesiastical law on this subject, I venture to send,
for your information, a copy of a passage from Burn's
Ecclesiastical Law, in which you will see that the church
has openly provided for the case of unions or marriages
before the registrar. It is not my fault that lam obliged
to put forth this extract ; being so openly attacked by
bills set on the walls of the town, I am compelled to do it
as an act of self-defence.

" I have no desire to offend the consciences of the weak
brethren, and would do all in my power to conciliate them
to love and peace; but when persons—dissenters or other-
wise—come to me with scruples about their union before
the registrar, I am compelled by this provision of the
church to marry them. I thought you might wish to see
the extract, that you might know the exact ground upon
which the 'conduct of the Vicar of Frome' has been based.
I am, dear sir, faithfully yours, "W. J. E. BsN-swrr.
" The Hon. Colonel Boyle, M.P."

" House of Commons, May 22, 1854.
" Dear Sir,—l am much obliged to you for sending me
the handbill containing the extract from Barn's Eccle-
siastical Law, relating to the remarrying of parties, pre-
viously united, according to the act passed in the seventh
year of King William IV. I beg to assure you that the
affidavit and license referred to had not escaped my notice.
I beg to add that I do not question your right of remarry.
ing parties according to the act of parliament. What I do
object to is the validity of the previous ceremony being in
an way questioned. IBremain,, dear sir, yours faithfully,
"The .1 W. J. Bennett." "ROBE 11 RT

" Marston, May 25, 1854.
" Dear Sir,—When I replied to your letter of the 21st
inst., I was under the impression that the marriage which
originated the late meeting at Frome had been performed
merely before the registrar, this being stated (as I read
your letter) as a fact. According to the law of the land,
marriages are equally valid, whether celebrated by a cler-
gyman of the Church of England, by a dissenting minister,
or before the registrar.
"I
can imagine that, where the parties bad presented
themselves merely before the registrar, the scruples of
weak brethren might be removed by a religious sanction
most acceptable to them being superadded.
" I can well understand that the dissenter is pained,
and I deeply sympathise with him, inasmuch as he ac-
counts the remarrying in the Established Church of
persons already united in matrimony in his own chapel
(as was the case in this instance), and the encouragement
too often given by certain persons to regard such mar-
riages as nothing worth, stamp his rites as a mere mockery
In God's sight. I am, my dear sir, faithfully yours,
"Tile Rev. W. J. E, Bennett," "Bcizzuz Bala,

DR. JACKSON, Chancellor of the diocese of Carlisle,
tends holding a visitation at Carlisle on Tuesday, hue 13'
at Wigton on Wednesday, June 14 ' at Penrith orl
Thursday, June 15 ; and at Appleby on Friday, Ju11.e.1,6:
ARCHDEACON WILBERFORCE intends holding a vo.
tion of the clergy of the East Riding of York, at SW:
borough, on Tuesday, June 13 ; at Beverley, on We4l3est
day, June 14 ; at Pocklington, on Thursday, J une 10 ;
Iledon, on Saturday, June 17 ; and at Howden, on 'Di-

day June, 20.
THE BISHOP OP GIBRALTAR has been at ConstantlOrdiPle
for the last ten weeks, holding a confirmation. UPw3
of 300 persons were confirmed last week, and among thicio
a considerable number of the troops. His .
submitted a project to the British ambassador for the eona
struction of an English church at Constantinople, be
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has promised to propose

subject to his Majesty the Sultan.
CIIIIRCII PROPEBTY.—The Capitular Estates Manse
ment Bill (as amended by the select committee) con t
the act for facilitating the management and improvealell,
of capitular estates (14th and 15th Viet., c. 104.,) for tr,
years from the end of the present session. It provides 43111,
that on the sale or exchange of a part only of lands ee „
prised in any lease, the Church Estate Commissioners 037!
apportion the rent. Trustees under will or settleteea",
ra3Y
with powers to raise money for renewing the case, ,tv,
also raise money for the enfranchisement of the proPe''
under similar conditions.
NEW CHURCHES.—The annual meeting of the See..l,:te,/,,
for Promoting the Enlargement, Building and Repani
of Churches and Chapels in England and Wales, was }the
a few days since at the society's offices, 79 Pall-mall, "of
Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair, and the Bishellsd,
Oxford, Winchester, Gloucester, St. David's, Lielifieir
Bangor, St Asaph's, and Ripon, Mr. A.. B. Hope' ;„g
Robert Inglis, Bart., Mr. Mowbray, M.P., &c.,
present. The thir' y-sixth annual report stated that :-."" the
committee have to report a considerable increase :co
operations of the society during the last year. They o'to
granted 147 sums of money, amounting in the whole a
£10,197, showing a greater number of places assisted, 1,11. e
a larger amount of aid, than in any year since 1847. for
additional seats to be obtained by the execution of 'for
works are 36,814, of which 31,821 (including 9239
school children) are to be reserved for the use of thePoe'
inhabitants ; these numbers also show greater results
those of any year since 1947. The number of addition t
churches which will be erected under the grants of 1,8600
year is 49 ; in addition to which 27 parish churches; Lf
dilapidated to admit of repair, will be rebuilt, and 71 ota°'
churches will be enlarged'. or altered by a fresh arrange'
•
ment of the seats, and in most cases will be extensorel.9
repaired. The total population of the places to be benefits"
by the proposed increase of church-room above mentioae;
is 684,149 ; the number of previously existing churches j
180, containing 104,617 seats, of which 46,796 are reserti
for the use of the poorer inhabitants, so that the additiLietro
accommodation of this last kind will be nearly calln
two-thirds of the present provision, which is for only
one-fifteenth of the population, but which will now be ia.
creased to more than one-ninth. The committee 1100_1
report the completion, during the last year, of 34 addition
t;
; also that 21 parish churches have been retain':
and that the enlaagement or improvement of 64 tin=
churches has-been effected—making 109 grants, amonl4l/Ido7
to £13,893. The additional seats obtained with the al
this sum are 22,427 in number of which 23,670 are resew'
for the use of die poorer inhatants."
firdia
THE CHURCH OF LLADArr.—The Cardiff Liu-. yes
gives an account of several interesting events which 113.0
taken place in the diocese of Llandiff, feeling sure thaqo
readers will rejoiCe at the signs of life manifested bi cg
Church in that district, rewarding the persevering elle.c7;
of its active diocesan :—" In Easter week, the foundantow
stone of a new church for the hamlet of Canton, in ,he
parish of Llandaff, was laid by the Lord Bishop of the
diocese ; and the building is already rising above the
ground, giving promise of a speedy provision for .0
spiritual wants of a large population' which is so raPo,
gathering in that spot. Schools, too, are already projectile
towards which a grant of £4O has been made by ore
Diocesan Education Board, and private subscriptions 00
being industriously cellected by an active committee., the
Tuesday, the 2nd of May, the Bishop re-opened, with ia
Consecration service, the parish church of Lanishea!,4
Monmouthshire, which has been rebuilt on an enl3,r',;el
scale, at a cost of £620. The following Tuesday the ell:rto
of St. James, Pontypool, which has beenenlarged so a „o
afford 150 additional sittings, at an outlay of £6.2.0,2,' ,
,re-opened by the Bishop.. Large and attentive conglol.s.
tions contributed considerably. On the following Ticli,er-
day, the Bishop consecrated the parish church of Coe !ea.
new, rebuilt and enlarged at a cost of £595, was re-open
On Tuesday, the 16th of May, the new church of by
Rhondda, in the parish of Lanwonno, waseonsecrate,_ge
the Bishop, in the presence of forty clergymen and 1,1,%
semblage of the neighbouring gentry,. mingled "col
goodly number of the labouring classes,- for whose ePe --h
benefit the building has been reared. The old ,PToolc.
church is distant from their homes, situated on ° ugh
mountain, at all times difficult of' access, and in I:?thiS
weather almost unapproachable. The incumbent or ~et
miserably-endowed benefice; the Rev. William Davies; ,;4
himself vigorously to work to supply the- wants oaf,
`
ed
people ; and through his indefatigable exertions, u1.`,,4
especially by Mr. Morgan, of Hafod, who, besides a peg':
contribution, presented a sita- for a church, school
parsonage
read-house, tmheplisfohrmede,r
aaundd
stchh.eaailsatthtueereri,6;77.abihe,ecnatnisioolltylb'lelp..,r,
building. On the following Thursday, , _ b
Acobbnsryeei;truatiotnh.toolkt
ipslaplceeasialtig Ataii:ercotil:dertyh,ati,nintthhise pillar:0;1:1)c;
those who have brought the people together to pr?:beir
th2.ir industry and toil, have not been unmindful o;t;rce,
spiritual wants. Messrs. Brown, Conway, and Pf
have contributed largely towards the enaction deeply
church, and the same day which witnessed its final 01 11.
tion to God's service, beheld the foundatiOu,stouerlexiLP
Mr: Brown, the senior partner, of a schooli for the
and. secular education of the rising generation.