The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

This morning only ,one vote was tendered for the
amended list within half an hour, and the polling was
therefore declared to be at an end. Mr. Wilkinson was
declared to be duly elected churchwarden ; Mr. Muneas-
ter and Mr. Kilshaw overseers ; Mr. Swainson, Mr. Ford,
Mr. Bremner, Mr. Hand, Mr. Groom, and Mr. Bennett,
select vestry-men.

FINAL AGGREGATE STATE OF THE POLL.

Persons. Votes.
Conservative list
Opposition list

LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE OF
THE NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

On Thursday the foundation stone was laid of the new
Presbyterian church, Myrtle-street. The sacred edifice
is intended for the use of the congregation which seceded
from the Scotch Church at St. Andrew's, Rodney-street.
The ceremony took place at half-past four o'clock, when
the committee accompanied by the Right Hon. Fox
Maule, Dr. Smith, of Glasgow, the Rev. W. 1111 Gill, of
Belfast, the Rev. D. Ferguson, the Rev. J. R. Welsh,
D. Macauley, Esq., Kenneth Macauley, Esq., John
Gordon, Esq., A. Neilson, Esq., Dr. M'Culloch, &c.,
reached the ground. The Rev. D. Ferguson opened the
proceedings bygiving out a portion of the 122 d psalm, which
was sung from the 6th verse. The Rev. Gentleman hav-
ing then offered up a suitable prayer, Dr. M`Culloch and
the Hon. Fox Maule descended to the stone. A box,
hermetically sealed, was placed in the centre of the stone,
and an inscription on a brass plate was placed over the
bottle in the stone, which described the secession.
The Rev. D. FERGUSON opened the proceedings by
giving out a portion of the 122 d Psalm, which was sung
from the 6th verse. The rev. gentleman having then
offered up a suitable prayer, Dr. M'Cfilloch and the
Hon. Fox Maule descended to the stone.
sov
A box hermetically sealed was placed in the centre of
the stone, containing the following documents :—Deed of
demission and claim of eighty, address of the congrega-
tion of
namely,th the 2t Decemberhd., i
s ~2
s. 6
last,d
~ and a
coins of the
ereipgnre,se the
reign,
4d.,
6d.,
confession of faith, the large and small catechisms, a copy
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD and the Scottish Guar.
dian, and ti
were
of certain
The following inscription was engraved on the brass
plate placed over the bottle in the stone :—" St. George's
Presbyterian Church.—This church was erected by the
voluntary contributions of
.a large body of the congregation
from that
children a house
(and assisted by their friends) of St. Andrew's Scotch
, under the
pCrhoucrecehd,inglisodinnsetyit-usttreedetinwthhoe, In consequence
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cu
prevented from electing a pastor agreeable to their own
choice, on the 12th October, 1843; and feeling deeply
impressed with the responsibility attaching to them under
Lanca-
shire, church,is
in
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which
iccihr
actnuodms
erectingt a n
worshipc es,
tfhner determined
them
onfn dt
their
re
iretiringfrat hers
ministration of the Rev. Donald Ferguson, whom it was
their desire to have appointed to that charge, and to be
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Synoder t the jurisdiction
the
tres
Presbyterian
et
rhien
n Presbyter
Church
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and solemnly dedicated, through the Presbytery, to the
service and glory of Almighty God.—The Right Hon. Fox
Maule, AMP., laid the foundation stone on the 11th day of
April, 1814, in the presence of the members of Presbytery,
placeds
h i r e ,
the elders, committee, subscribers, and others. George