The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

PREPTEMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. J. T. Clarke. 8.A.. to Curacy of St. Mary's, Cardigan.
Rev. J. H. Harris, late Master of Hawarden Grammar
School, to the Head Mastership of King Henry VlH.'s
(Cathedral) Grammar School. Chester.

Rev. J. Incher, 8.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of Wyers-
dale, near Lancaster.
Rev. A. Irvine, 8.A.,t0 the Incumbency of St. Mary
Longfleet, near Poole. orset.
Rev. W. F. Kaye, M.A., Rector of Riseholme, to be Chap-
lain to the Bishop of Lincoln.
Rev. J. W. Lester, to the Incumbency of Ashton Hayes,
near Chester.
Rev. B. A. Marshall, BA., to the Incumbency of St.
Cuthbert's, Carlisle.
Rev. J. Moore. M.A., to the Rectory of Kelverstone, near
Thetford, Norfolk.
Rev. J. H. Noyes, MA., to the Curacy of All Saints'
Church, Stamford.
Rev. H. A. Plow, M.A., to the Incumbency of Wield, to
be held with the Rectory of Bradley, Hampshire.
Rev. H. M. Sorley, M.A., to the Chaplaincy of her Majesty's
store-ship Tortoise, at the Island of Ascension.
Rev. J. Taylor, M.A., to the Rectory of Croxton Keyrial,
near Grantham.
Rev. H. P. Thomas, 8.A., Perpetual Curate of Birch, near
Manchester' to Rectory of Nash-cum-Upton, near Pembroke.
Rev. Jonathan Tucker, 8.A., to the Curacy of Wyersdale,
near Lancaster. -

Rev. J.lNynne, M.A., to the Rectory of Warnford, near
Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire.

011ITUARY

July 30, at Elston Rectory, near Newark, the Rev. H. A.
Harrison, 8.D., aged 30, for 17 years rector of the-parish.
July 31, the Rev. R. Stockdale, Rector of Northamp-
tonshire, second son of the Rev. W. Stockdale, Vicar of Mears
Ashby, Northamptonshire, aged 36.
Aug. 1, after a short illness, the Rev. John Oliver Hopkins,
Incumbent of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, and Rural Dean, in
his 43rd year.
Aug. 1, the Rev. Frederic Berners Roberson, M.A.,aged 33.

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T STONE has been laid at Lowestoft of a new

'eh, in the decorated style, to cost £0,500.

DIOCESAN CEU1213,C31 SOCIETIES.—At the
quarterly meeting, last week, it was resolved to endeavour
to raise funds for a Female Training Institution for the

two dioceses of thn.liara anc
MIL SWINDELL, a Baptist minister at Newmarket, has
sent in his resignation, and has been confirmed by t-
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1000 have been spent providing free ac-
commodation for 650 persons in open stalls.
CONFIRMATION' AT ST. HELEN'S.—On Tuesday the
Bishop of Chester held a confirmation service in St. Mary's,
)arish church. There were nearly 600 candidates,

Ecclestoii, Parr, Sutton, Farnwoith, &c.
TESTIMONIAL.—A memorial of esteem has been pre-
sented to the Rev. John Ellison, from the congregation of
St. Bartholomew's Church, of this town,• on his appoint-
ment to the senior curacy of Wellingborough,Northampton-
shire. The testimonial consisted of a handsome gold
watch and appendages, with some valuable books. The
rev, gentleman is a native of Alpraham, Cheshire, and
took priest's orders at the last ordination at Chester.
ST. MA.hY'S CHURCH, GRASSENDALE, IN THE PARISII
or CRILDWALL.—The Bishop of Chester has granted a
license for performance of Divine services in this church,
which has just been completed, for two years, unless it
shall be ready for consecration before the expiration of
that time. The endowment and other needful prelimina-
ries to consecration are not yet completed, and are not
expected to be sooner, but additional church accommoda-
tion in that neighbourhood being much wanted,.the imme-
diate opening of the church for Divine service will be
productive of considerable benefit to the neighbourhood.
CLERGYMEN'S WIDOWS AND Onmuss.--On Thurs-
day the friends of the above charity met in this town to
celebrate its anniversary and transact the usual business
of the past year. The object of the institution, which was
established in the year 1697, is to support the widows and
orphans of those clergymen who have officiated in the
archdeaconries of Chester, Liverpool, and Manchester,
and the anniversary is always held on the first Thursday
in August, at Warrington, Liverpool, and Manchester
alternately. Ven. Archdeacon Brooks, with other cler-
gymen belonging to Liverpool and adjacent towns, at-
tended divine service in the morning at St. Peter's
Church, where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Chas.
Augustus Thurlow, rector of Malpas. A collection was
made in aid of the funds of the institution, the amount
realised being £24. In the afternoon, a number of gen-
tlemen, lay and clerical, dined together at the Adelphi
Hotel, after the report as to the state of the funds and
the other routine business had been transacted.

A WHIRLWIND.—About a quarter;ibefore three o'clock
on Wednesday afternoon, a hay-field:behind the residence
of Mr. Thwaites, bleacher, near the Meetings, Sharpies,
was visited by a whirlwind. A quantity of hay, covering
ground to the extent of some forty square yards, was lifted
into the air to the height of apparently 100 yards, and some
of it was carried out of the field in a southerly direction.
NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—This company
will pay a dividend of five per cent., taking £43,000 out of
the reserve, and carrying over about £30,000 to the next
account. The earnings are £lOO,OOO more than they were
this time twelve months, but the heavy expenses inflicted
by the unusual wet of last fall, and the increased expenses,
chiefly in the locomotive power, owing to a greater mile-
age run, the rise of wages, and the higher price of
materials, and taking a much less sum out of the reserve
than they did this time last year, have caused a diminu-
tion in the dividend of a quarter per omit, for the balf-year.