The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS, &c.
The Rev. Frederick Burton, B.D. to be Officiating Mi-
nister of the new Church, in the Old Kent-road, Loudon.
Patron, the Trustees. _

The Rev. John Henry Pratt, M.A., Fellow of Caius Col-
lege, Cambridge, has been appointed Chaplain to the Hon.
East India Company, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of
Calcutta.
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The de.v. Richard Kempthorne, M.A.' of St. John's Col-
lege Cambridge, has been appointed by Lord Glenelg to the
Civil Chaplaincy of St. Helena.
The Rev. Edward Holmes, of Farrington. to the Rectory
of Thornbury, Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. John
Edgcombe, on the presentation of Mrs. Jane Edgcombe, of
'rhornhury, widow, the true Patron for this turn.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has appointed
the Rev. Archdeacon Thorp, Chancellor of the old Diocese
of Bristol, in place of the Rev. J. W. Baugh, deceased.
The Rev. Thomas George James, M.A., of Brasenose
College. Oxford, Perpetual Curate of Trinity Church, Burn-
ley, to the Incumbency of Openshaw, within the parish of
Manchester.

Tim Rev. W. F. Bayley, one of the Prebendaries of Can-
terbury Cathedral, and Vicar of St. John's, Margate, is ap-
pointed Domestic Chaplain to the Queen Dowager. The
Rev. Gentleman, we understand, will accompany her Ma-
jesty on her projected trip to Malta.
The Rev. Elwin Biron, A.M., Curate of Hythe, to the
Living of Stodinarsh, Kent, vacant by the cession of the
Rev. Charles Fielding. Patron, the Archdeacon of Canter-
bury.

The Lord Bishop of Ripon has appointed the Rey. Wm.
Clere Burges, M.A., late Curate of Northallerton. but now
of Hinckley, Leicestershire, to the Vicarage of Osmotherley,
in the Peculiar of Northallerton and Ahertonshire, vacant
by the death of the Rev. James Brown.
The Rev. E. B. Bagshawe, Rector of Eyam, Derbyshire,
and of. Banner Cross, near Sheffield, is appointed a:Rural
Dean for the former district.
The Rev. Thomas Harvey, M.A. has been appointed Her
Majesty's Resident Chaplain at Frankfort, in the room of
the Rev. Samuel Lindsey, appointed to the Chaplaincy of
Genoa. . _

The Rev. 3. Beavor Webb, to the Rectory of Ternpletrine,
vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Meade, Patron, J. C.
Kearney, Esq.
On Saturday last the Rev. John Little, Curate of St. Se-
pulchre's, Northampton, was, on the motion of Lord South-
ampton, seconded by the Earl of Euston, elected Chaplain to
the Lunatic'lnstitution.
OBITUARY.

At Amsterdam, where be had been for3l years the Minister
of the Scottish Church, the Rev. Alexander Macintosh. D.D.
in the 55th year of his age.
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The Rev..llobert Hallifax, Vicar of Standish, Gloucester-
shire.

At the Vicarage, Alysham, Norfolk, the Rev. Philip Hunt,
D.C.L., Prebendary of Canterbury, and Vicar of Atyshain.
At the Rectory House, Deal, in his 73d year, the Rey. J.
B. Backhouse, M.A., Rector of that parish, and of Little
Chart, Kent, and one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for Kent and the Cinque Ports.
At Frickley Hall, Yorkshire, aged 76, the Rev. T. C. Bud-
stun Redd, Rector of Full Sutton, Yorkshire.
At Eton College, Chas. Wilder, Esq. M.A„ a Lay Fellow
of King's College, Cambridge, aged 30.
ORDINATION.

At a general ordination held on Sunday, the 9th inst. in
the Chapel of St. David's •College, by the Lord Bishop of
St. David's, the following gentlemen were admitted to holy
orders :—Deacons: J. Cumberlege, E. D. Evans, D. F. G.
Mytton, J. Lewis, T. Jones, L. H. St. George, NV. Meredith,
and I. Bickerstaff, all of St. David's coll. Priests : C. D.
Rees, 8.A., Jesus coll., Oxford ; W. Meyler, 8.A., Pem-
broke coll., Oxford; J. P Jones, W. M. D. Berrington, E.
Itees, M. R. Morgan, and T. Parry, of St. David's cull.