The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. C. M. Arnold, M.A., to a Minor Canonry in West-
minster Abbey.
Rev. W. .7. Bennett, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. An-
drew, Manchester.
Rev. R. Campbell, M.A., late Incumbent of Hawick, to a
Canonry in Perth Cathedral, and to be Principal of the Dio-
cesast Model School. _ _

E. Evans, to the Rectory of Eccles St. Mary, next the
sea, Norfolk.
__

Rev. I. Durrant, M.A., to the Incumbency of Thornton,
near Fleetwood.

Rev. E. J. Green, M.A., to the Vicarage of Leintwardine,
Herefordshire.

Rev. J. Healy to the Rectory of Redmile, Leicestershire.
Rev. J. Smithard, M.A., to the Curacy of Longbenton, near
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Rev. F. Taunton, Curate of Upwell, to be a Surrogate for
the diocese of Norwich.
Rev. R. Tomlins, M.A., to be Assistant Chaplain at Rome.
Rev. C. J. Waterhouse, Curate of King's Langley. Herta,
to the Curacy of Egham, Surrey.

THE LORD BISHOP OF ADELAIDE, the Right Rev.
Augustus Short, D.D., has arrived in this country with
Mrs. Short and three daughters, from Australia.

THE DEAN AND CHAPTER. OF WESTMINSTER have
arranged with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to have in
future their fixed salaries of £2,000 and £l,OOO each,
instead of the uncertain amounts dependent on fines, &c.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH AT GENEVA, dedicated to the
Holy Trinity, was, we are informed, to have been conse-
crated by the Bishop of Winchester, who had arrived at
Geneva for the purpose on the 30th tilt. The foundation-
stone was laid by his lordship about two years since.
ELECTIVE PATRONAGE.—The number of candidates
for the living at St. Nicholas' Church, Ipswich, vacant by
the death of the Rev. M. G. Edgar, is about 89. The
living is worth £l7O a year, and is in the gift of the
parishioners. "After the most eligible of the candidates
have preached before the parishioners, the day of election
will be fixed."—lpswich Express.
SIR ROBERT PEEL.—The Parish Church at Drayton,
Warwickshire, has been restored at an expense of £2,000.
The remains of the late Sir Robert Peel are buried there.
The present baronet, on being applied to for a subscription,
at once said—" Gentlemen, instead of putting my name
upon the list as a subscriber, if you will permit me to see
your plans carried out at my own cost, I shall be most
happy to do so."
DISTRICT CHURCHES.—It appears, from a parlia-
mentary paper just issued, that the number of districts
assigned to churches built and consecrated under the Ist
and 2nd William IV., c. 48, sec. 2, in the respective
dioceses, is as follows :—Chester, 74 ; Winchester, 37 ;
Lichfield,' 18 ; Worcester, 17; Ripon, 15 ; London, 9 ;
Gloucester and Bristol, 6 ; Lincoln and Carlisle, 5 each ;
Rochester, Oxford, and Ely, 4 each; Chichester, Hereford,
and Salisbury, 3 each ; Bath and Wells, 2 ; Canterbury,
St. Asaph, Bangor, Exeter, and Sodor and Man, 1 each ;
No returns have been received from the dioceses of York,
Manchester, and Peterborough ; and it would also appear
that no districts have been created in the dioceses of St.
David's, Llandaft; and Norwich.
BISHOPRIC OP NATAL.—A sum of £5,000 is still re-
quired to complete the endowment of the see of Natal, so
as to secure the bishop the moderate income (as recom-
mended by the Colonial Bishops' Council) of £BOO a year.
It has been thought that an immediate endeavour should
be made to raise as large a proportion of this amount as
possible in the diocese of Norwich, both as a tribute of
respect to Dr. Colenso, as a clergyman of the diocese, well
known to many by his connexion with Christian mis-
sions, and as a token of sympathy on behalf of the Zulu
Kafirs, in whose history there are many points of, special
interest, and who number upwards of 150,000.
THE Bisnop OF Sr. AsArix has recently consecrated
Pont Probert Church, beautifully situate on the margin
of the Meehan, at the extremity of the Vale of Meiford.
The building is described as a simple Gothic edifice, sixty
feet in length, with lancets, and a couplet on the south
side, and a three-light window, with circles in the head, at
the east end. The western gable is surmounted by a
double bell-gable, under which there is a two-light win-
dow. The dressings of the doorway, windows, plinths
st' Qnd buttresses are of Caen stone. The bell. p--•

aings,
is also constructed of the same material, the stone of the
neighbourhood being used for the walls. There is an
open roof. The floor is laid with black and red tiles, and
.11 the seats are low open benches. which. tocrether with

the roof timbers, are stained and varnished. The font is

Placed on the left of the south dc
to be filled with stained glass, the

The east window is
If the Earl of Powis.