The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-16 00:00:00

HORTICULTURE.

STOVE, CONSERVATORY, AND GREENHOUSE. The
weather, though bright, still continues cold for this
advanced season, and much scotching has taken place in
many houses, owing to the occasional and sudden change
of temperature ; the only way to prevent this evil is to
commence shading. It is true that we have not had any
other necessity for so doing, but it will do no harm, and
may prevent the disfigurement of valuable plants.

FLOWER GARDEN.—Prepare the beds for the bedding
plants, such as verbenas, scarlet pelargoniums, &c., by
digging in thoroughly rotted manure : the remains of
spent hotbeds will be valuable for this purpose. The
plants must not, however, be put out until the weather
entirely changes, and we should say this operation had
better be deferred at least until the beginning of June.
In the meantime, however, every encouragement should
be given to the plants by liquid manure and judicious
protection, to make as much growth as possible, previous
to their being turned out; indeed, as some time must
elapse before this can be done, another shift to larger
pots would be very desirable, and would much increase
their growth and strength.

KITCHEN GARDEN.—Prepare the trenches for celery
plants, the early crop of which should be got out as soon
as the weather becomes a little warmer. Continue to sow
lettuce, raddishes, and other useful kinds of sallading,

IMPROVEMENT IN NAVAL GUNNERY.—The following
extract from a letter received at Hull will be read with
interest.—" We have letters here from some of the pilots
every week. Hull has the honour of piloting both Sir
Charles's flag-ship and that of the French :admiral. I
know the meu well, and we have important news from
them all along. The Duke of Wellington's guns are
splendid. One of the pilots has returned from ill health,
and he gave me a glowing description of her firing all her
guns broadside. They can be brought to bear so as to
strike a space no larger than a good door or window, and
they can direct the shots 'with so much precision that a
very small boat, placed a mile distant, was shattered to
pieces by the first shot. It is considered by nautical men
that a broadside from the flag-ship was equal to, and would
do as much damage as A Nelson's fleets"

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCR.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. C. Allen, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Paul's
Church, Belfast.

Rev. E. J. Bell, 51. A., Rector of Crostwick, Norfolk, and
Chaplain of the Norwich Infirmary, to be Organising Secretary
of the Society fcr the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, for the Archdeaconries of Norwich and Norfolk.

Re%;. M. Brock, M.A., to the Curacy of St. Matthew's
Church, Widcombe, Bath.
Rev. R. Cage, M.A., to the Rectory of Rathconnell, West-
meath. _ _

Rev. J. Carter, of St. Augustine's Missionary College, Can-
terbury, to the Curacy of St. John's Church, Paramatta, New
South Wales._

Rev. J. IL Charlesworth, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of
Elstead. near Godalming, Surrey.
Rev. R. S. Daniell, M.A., late Curate of Ashby Folville and
Gaddesby. Leicestershire, to the Curacy of St. Paul's, Shad-
well, Middlesex.

Rev. W. V. Dawson, 8.A., to the Curacy and Sub•Rector-
ship of Cooling, Kent.

Rev. M. de. Burgh, ➢I.A., to the Chap'aincy of Limerick
Gaol.

Rev. G. de Cruchy, 8.A., to the Rectory of Little Beatings,
near Woodbridge, Suffolk.

Ret. A. W. Erl Wards, of Limerick; to be Chaplain to
the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe.
Rev. R. A. Gordon, Rector of Barley, to be Rural Dean of
the Rural Deanery of Buntingford.
Rev. J. M. Hobson, M.A., to the Rectory of Templescobiu,
Ireland.

J. M`C. Hussey, M.A., Minister of St. James's Chapel,
Kennington, to be afternoon preacher at the Foundling
Hospital.
Rev. W. Kendall, M.A., Curate of St. Jude's Church; Man-
chester, to the Secretaryship of the Church Pastoral Aid
Society._ _

Rev... J. Lees, M.A., Association Secretary of the Church
Pastoral Aid Society, to the Incumbency of St. Mark's,
Islington.
Rev. W. Locock, 8.A., to the Vicarage of East Haddon,
near Northampton.

Rev. J. G. LOngueville, 8.A., Perpetual Curate of Hoy}ake,
near Birkenhead, to the Rectory of Eccleston, near Chester.
Rev. J. Martin, M.A.date Curate of Cuckfie/d, Sussex, to
the Curacy of Dawlish, Dvon.
. _

Rev. W. E. Martin, M.h., to the Curacy or East Woodhay,
with the Chapelry of Aslimensworth, near Newbury.
Rev. C. A. Molony, M.A., to the Vicarage of Hougham,
near Dover.

Rev, W. P. Musgrave, M.& Canon Residentiary of Here-
ford Cathedral, to the Rectory of Etton, near Beverley,
Yorkshire.

Rev. S.. Robins, M.A., to the Rectory of St. James's, Dover.
Rev. A.D. Shafto, M.A., to the'Rectory of Brancepeth, near
Durham,.

Hon. and Rev. H. W. V. Stuart, 8,A., Curate of King's
Bromley, Otaffordshire, to the Vicarage of Bulkington, War-
wickshire.

Rev. J. Tulloch, of Kittins, to be- Principal of St. Mary's
College, St. Andrew's.

Roi'. A. Upcher, Rector of Kirby Cane, Norfolk, to the Rural
Deanery of Brooke.
Rev. D. Walsh, M.A., to the Chaplaincy of Chichester Union
Workhouse.

Rev. W. C. Welaford, M.A., to the Rectory of Sal tfortl, near
Bath.

Rev. D. Williams, 8.A., to the Rectory of Lylswen, near
Hay, Brecknockshire.
Rev. T. P. Wilson, M.A., to the Incumbency of Bardsley,
Lancashire.

Rev. W. W. Wookrombe, M.A., Sub-Rector of Exeter Col-
lege, Oxford, to the-Rectory of Wootton, near Northampton.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER;

CONSECRATION OVST. CHRYSOSTON'S C/IVRCR, EVER-
TON, LANCASIIIRE.—The new church of St. Chrysostom,
Everton, in the parish,- of Walton-on-the-Hilt Liverpool,
which has been for some time past opened by license for
divine service, was consecrated by the Bishop,of Chester,
on Tuesday last. It has been erected, by subscription,
upon a piece of land generously given by two gentlemen
for the purpose, and from the beauty of its structure is as
great an ornament as convenience to the neighbourhood.
The number of sittings is-1200, of which nearly one-third
is free and unappropriated, and every one of the- remain-
ing sittings has already been let. There is a fundifor the
endowment and repair of'the church, provided also by
voluntary subscription ; and the patronage has- been
vested in five trustees, by agreement, under 8 and 9 Tic.,
cap. 70. Application will: immediately be made to, the
Church Building Commissioners to assign an ecclesiastical
district to the church. After the consecration, a sermon
was• preached by the bishop-in aid of the fund for pro-
viding schools in connexion with the church, aneLvery
liberally responded to by a crowded congregation.
PREFERMENT.—The Rev. John Macnaught has been
licensed to the perpetual curacy of the newly consecrated
church of St. Chrysostom, Everton. Patrons, the trustees.
NON•RESIDENCE.—The lyishop of Chester has renewed
the license of non-residence -of the Rev. William Waller;
incumbent of St. John's Church, Dunkinfield, on ac2ount
of continued ill health.

DrocEsE OF KinenEsTEn--Preferment : The BiShop
of Manchester has licensed the Rev. Wm. Robt. Stephens,
B.A'., to the stipendiary curacy of St. John's Church,
Long►sight; on the nomination of the Rev. James Pelham
Pitcairn, the incumbent.

BISHOP OF LONDON' presided over a meeting of
the Metropolitan Churches Fund Subscribers, on Tuesday,
at which the following subscriptions were announced; for
new churches :—Mr. W. Cotton, £5,000, and a site for a
new church at Limehouse ;. the Bishop of London, £3,000 ;
Archdeacon Sinclair, £100;- P. Cazenove, £lOO.
ADDITIONAL CURATES.—The committee of the Society
for Promoting the Employment of Additional Curates in
populous places have apppinted the Rev. J. B. Sweet,
M.A., Incumbent of Wcadville, as their travelling and
organising secretary, at a.salary of £3OO per annum. Mr.
Sweet's entire time will. be devoted to the promotion of
the society's increased support in England and Wales.
TIIE HOSPITAL OF Sr. CROSS.—The churchwarden of
St. Faith's Church, attached to St. Cross Hospital, pro-
hibited the clergyman appointed to the church by the
Earl of Guildford, from preaching in it last Sunday, on
account of the defective-title of his lordship to the master-
ship of the Hospital of 'St. Cross.
CONVERSION.—At the late ordination at Wells, Mr.
Henry Freud, who has‘ been for upwards of twenty years
minister:of a Baptist congregation at Bridgwater, was
ordained deacon in the Church of England._ The Sher-
borne Journal states,.. that on Sunday evening the rev.
gentleman preachechat St. Mary's, Bridgwater, the town
in which he had been a Baptist minister fbr twenty-five
years, from 2 Cor. 18 —" And bath given to us a minis-
try of reconciliation"—a most eloquent discourse, which
was listened to with intense interest.

ST. BABNAJ3.4IIII7I3[LIco.—In consequence of the pro-
ceedings which have recently taken place in the above,
parochial district, the Bishop of London has paid a visit
to St. Barnabas College. The Rev. Mr. Lowder, whose
name appeared. in the Westminster police report, was.
admonished, by his Lordship, and it is generally believed
that the rev. gentleman will be suspended for a short
period. The Bishop expressed himself with considerable
warmth, and regretted that so much scandal had been
brought on the Church. It is said that the Rev. Mr, Lid.
dell, the incumbent, is very much annoyed at the conduct
o f his eurate.—Globe.

PRINCE ALBERT AND THE CLERGY:.
The festival of the sons of the clergy took place. in St.
Paul's. Cathedral, London, on Wednesday. Prince• Albert
attended, and, after a sermon by the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, a collection was made amounting to £t)6o.
In. the evening a dinner took place, according to cus-
tom, in the fine hall of the Merchant Tailors Company.
Upwards of 450 noblemen, prelates, divines, and laymen
sat down to table. The Lord Mayor presided, and the
Prince Consort honoured the company with. his presence.
In acknowledging the. toast—" His Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the royal steward of the year, Albert, Prince
of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family"—Prince
Albert said—My Lord Mayor, allow me to return you, on
my own behalf and on that of the royal family, my best
thanks for the manner in which you have proposed our
healths, and to you, gentlemen, for the cordial response
which you have made to the toast. I am, indeed, highly
gratified to have been a witness to. the 200th anniversary
of the festival, testifying, as it does, that the people of
this country do not relax in, efforts which they have once,
undertaken, and do not forsake the spirit which animated
their forefathers.. When our ancesters purified the Chris-
tain faith and shook off the yoke of a domineering priest-
hood, they felt that the keystone of that wonderful fabric
which had grown up in the dark times of the middle ages
was the celibacy of the clergy, and shrewdly foresaw that
their reformed faith and newly-won religious liberty
would, on the contrary, only be secure in the hands of a
clergy united with the people by every sympathy— national,
personal, and domestic. Gentlemen, this nation had en-
joyed for 300 years the blessing of a church establishment
which rests upon this basis, and cannot be too grateful for
the advantages afforded by the fact that the. Christian
ministers not only preach the doctrines of Christianity,
but live among their congregations, an example for the
discharge of every Christian duty as husbands, fathers,
and masters of families—themselves capable of fathoming
the whole depth of human feelings, desires, and difficulties.
While we must gratefully acknowledge that they have, as
a body, worthily fulfilled this high and difficult task. we
must bear in mind that we deny them an equal participa-
tion in one of the actuating motives of life—the one which
among the " children of this generation" exercises, per-
haps of necessity, the strongest influence—l mean the
desire for the acquisition and accumulation of the goods of
this world. Gentlemen, the appellation of " a money-
making parson" is not ady a reproach, but a condemna-
tion for a clergyman, depriving him at once of all influence
,over his congregation. Yet this man, who has to shun
opportunities for acquiring wealth, open to most of us,
and who has himself only an often scanty life-income
allotted to him for his services, has a wife and children
like ourselves, and we wish him to have the same solici-

tude for their welfare which we feel for our own. Are we
not bound, then, to do what we can to relieve his mind
from anxiety, and to preserve his children from destitution
when it shall have pleased the Almighty to remove him
from the scene of his labours ? You have given an answer
in the affirmative by your presence here to-day, and,
although this institution can do materially but little,
morally it gives a public recognition of the claims which
the sons of the clergy have upon the sympathy and libe-
rality of the community at large, and, as such, is of the
greatest value. May it continue for further hundreds of
years as a bond of union between clergy and laity, and on
each recurring centenary may it find the nation ever ad-
vancing in prosperity, civilisation, and piety. I have
received permission from the Lord Mayor to propose the
healths of his Grace the Archbishop of CanterbUry and
the Right Hon. Lord Denman, the president and vice-
president of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy.
Lord Denman is unfortunately obliged to be absent on
this occasion, but the Archbishop of Canterbury we have
the pleasure of seeing at this table. I beg to propose his
good health, and, if you will allow me to be your spokes-
man, I beg to return his grace our warmest thanks for
the very eloquent and feeling sermon which he preached
this day in St. Paul's Cathedral.--The Archbishop acknow-
ledged the toast.

thetreasurel7read the financial report, which announced
that his royal highness bad contributed 100 guineas, that
the 113 stewards of the festival had handed in the lists
amounting to £3,500, that the collection at the cathedral
doors was aso, that the subscriptions at the dinner gave
a sum of £3,145, that an estimated sum of £3,600 might be
added as the proceeds of sermons preached in aid of the
funds, that the Dowager Lady Willoughby de Broke had
given a donation of £5OO, and that the receipts for the
year would amount to £12,050. •

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1854.