The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

CLERICAL NEWS.

SUDDEN DEATH.—O❑ Sunday morning last, during
Divine service at Emanuel Church, Camberwell, and
whilst earnestly joining with the congregation in singing,
the Rev. J. T. P. Wyche, M.A., Curate of Granfield,
Beds, was seized with a fit of apoplexy.' He was imme-
diately taken to the porch of the church, and there bled,
and subsequently conveyed to the residence of his father,
where soon afterwards he expired in the 37th year of his
age.

SALE OF CHURCH PATRONAGE.—At a meeting of the
Edinburgh Town Council, one day last week, a proposi-
tion was brought forward for selling the ecclesiastical pa-
tronage vested in the magistrates and the council. It was
proposed that the council should, in the first place, be
bound to give the congregation of each church the offer
of their own patronage at a certain estimated value ; and,
in the next place, to make this offer to government.
Should these offers not be accepted, the patronage then to
be sold by public auction. It was further proposed that
the whole proceeds arising from the sale of the church pa-
tronage shall be formed into a fund towards the payment
of the stipends of the eighteen ministers of the city, and
that these stipends shall be fixed at £5OO per annum.
PREFERMENTS.—Rev. Mr. Birch, the Government
Chaplain to the British residents at Monte Video in
South America, to the vicarage of All Saints with St.
John annexed, Ilertford ; Rev. Thomas Murray Brown,
M.A., vicar of Standish, Gloucestershire, to an honorary
Canonry in Gloucester Cathedral ; Rev. John Collinson,
8.A., formerly of Queen's College, Cambridge, rector of
Boldon, to an honorary Canonry in Durham Cathedral ;
Rev. John Edmunds, fellow of the University of Dur-
ham, to the perpetual curacy of Castle Eden, Durham ;
Rev. E. Evans, to the perpetual curacy of Voclas Chapel,
Denbighshire, vice Rev. Howell W. Lloyd resigned;
Rev. W. W. Hanway, M.A., fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, to the rectory of Rockland, in the county of
Hertford; Rev. Oswald John Howell, to the curacy of
Thurmaston, Leicestershire; Rev. J. D. Lane, M.A.,
fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the united
rectoriesof Forncett-St.- Peter's and Forncett-St.-Mary's,
Norfolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Jack ;
Rev. Edward Marsden, to the perpetual curacy of Aston ;
Rev. George Newby, vicar of Stockton, to the rectory of
Whickham, in the diocese of Durham ; Rev. H. Raikes,
chancellor of the diocese, to an honorary Canonry in
Chester Cathedral ; Rev. George Ray, M.A., fellow of
St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to the rectory of Strat-
herne, Leicestershire ; Rev. Henry Sewell, of St. Peter's
College, Cambridge, to be chaplain to the Chorley Work-
house,
in the room of the Rev. W. Davenport, resigned ;
Rev. Joseph Taylor, 8.A., of Muncaster, to the vicarage
of Castle Sowerby ; Rev. John Thomson, formerly minis-
ter and missionary at Tanjore, Southern India, has been
licensed by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury to the respective
curacies of Woodsford and Tincleton, Dorset ; Rev. J.
K. Tucker, 8.A., St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to the
rectory of Pettaugb, Suffolk; Rev. J. B. Turner, 8.A.,
to the curacy of St. George's Church, New Mills; Rev.
Elisha White, to the perpetual curacy of Quernmore,
Lancashire; Rev. Marmaduke Vavasour, M.A., vicar of
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to be a rural dean, in room of the
Rev. M. D. Babington, M.A., resigned • Rev.J.Winter,
M.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge, and assistant curate
of Wednesbury, Staffordshire, to the incumbency of St.
John, Wednesbury.