The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

OBITUARY,

Dec. 21, at Hazleden, near Cranbrook, Kent, the Rev. Ben-
jamin Stable, in his 37th year.
Dec. 10, at Wells, Norfolk, the Rev. Valentine Hill, Rector
of that place.
Dec. 7, aged 88, the Rev. Benjamin Clay, Rector of East
Worllington, Devon.

ORDINATION.—The Lord Bishop of Manchester held
an ordination in the parish-church of Bolton-le-Moors,
on Sunday week, when the following gentlemen were
ordained and afterwards licensed to the curacies annexed
to their names :
DEACONS.—John Richard Baldwin, St. Bee's College, to St.
James's, Manchester; Wm. Booker, 8.A., St. Peter's Corege,
Cambridge. to Radcliffe ; Walter Bradbury, 8.A., Queen's
College, Cambridge, to Lever Bridge; Francis Haden Cope,
8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge, to St. James's Birch ;
Philip Graham, St. "ee's College, to Holy Trinity Church,
Over Darwen ; Joseph Holden Johnson, 8.A., St. Catherine
Hall, Cambridge, to Ellenbrook ; Thomas Openshaw, 8.A.,
St. John's College, Cambridge, to St. John's. Blackburn ;
Richardson, St. Bee's College, to Farnworth ; Henry Sayers,
8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, to St. John's. Manchester;
George Soden, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin, to Deane ; Edwd.
PecW Stock, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge ; George
Wright Thornton, St. Bee's College, to Rawtenstall ; Wm. Owen
Williams, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambridge, to Blackburn.
PRIESTS.—James Hadfield, 8.A., St. John's College, Cam-
bridge ; James Martin Kennedy, King's College, London ;
Ernest Augustus Lang, 8.A., St. John's College, Oxford; John
Nicklin, St. Bee's College, to Tarleton ; David Ross, licentiate
of theology, University College, Durham; Wm. Henry Wool-
rich, 8.A., Pembroke College, Oxford ; Brooke Foss Westcott,
M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; Henry Burgess (a literate).
His lordship, on Tuesday, at the Diocesan Registry, St.
James's-square, Manchester, licensed the Rev. William
Kendall, 8.A., (late curate of St. James's, Manchester,)
to the stipendiary curacy of St. Jude's, Manchester; and
the Rev. Henry Williams, 8.A., (late curate of the
parish church of Kirkham,) to the stipendiary curacy of
the parish-church of Middleton, near Manchester.
The following questions are, it is stated, to be submitted
to the clergy of the diocese of Oxford, invited to meet
their Bishop at Cuddesden
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" 1. Can we ag•ee upon any rules touching the administra-
tion of baptism which may tend to promote uniformity of
practice, and to awaken our people's attention to the impor-
tance of the holy ordinance?

" 2. Can we agree upon any fixed times for baptism :—e. g.,
after the second lesson in all cases on one fixed Sunday in each
month; and with what adaptations, if any, to the needs of
populous places?
3. Can we agree on any rules—First, for requiring notice
of baptism according to the rubric? And secondly, for refu-
sing sponsors of openly immoral life ?
" 4. How can we best bring home to the sponsors a sense of
their duties connected with—First, the ordinance of baptism ;
secondly, the education of the children; and thirdly, their
confirmation ?

" 5. How can we best carry out the intention of the canoni-
cal prohibition of parents being sponsors?
" 6. What modes can be adopted for awakening and direct-
ing a sense of parental responsibility touching holy baptism ?"
The Earl of Ellesmere has become an annual subscriber
of £lOO to Manchester Diocesan Church Building Society.
The foundation stone of a new parish church has been
laid at Coalbrookdale, the seat of the celebrated iron
works, and the resident principal of the firm, Abraham
Darby, Esq., has presented altogether the munificent sum
of 413,000 for the object, namely, £6,000 for the erection,
and 47,000 as an endowment, Miss Adelaide Darby hav-
ing given the site.
Tux ADORNMENT OF CHURCHES.—The Bishop of
Exeter has issued an address to his clergy relative to the
adorning of churches. He asserts the right of ministers
to adorn the walls of the chancel at their own discretion,
and praises the clergyman of Shevioke in the diocese of
Exeter for " devoting whatever means he can command
to the somewhat sumptuous, it may be, yet sober and
reverential, adorning of the house of God." Referring
to their adornment, he says, " I find very little which
demands my interference in the partially executed designs
for ornamenting the chancel of the church of Shevioke,
or in what is further intended. The north wall only is,
as yet, at all dealt with. It is covered with a dispersed
ground of red and white, the white being intended to be
gilt. On this ground are five circular spaces, or medal-
lions,' each of about 2 feet three inches in diameter.
Within these circles are delineated, in water-colours :-
1. The Annunciation ;2. Our Lord in Majesty,' seated
on a rainbow ; 3. Our Lard being led to execution ; 4.
Our Lord with Martha, Mary, and Lazarus ; 5. The first
miracle in Cana of Galilee. These representations are
stated to be all taken from Overbeck. They are all scrip-
tural subjects, and in design seem to be unobjectionable,
with a single exception. In the Annunciation the angel
is kneeling to the Virgin Marv. This is open to censure,
as implying that the blessed Virgin is an object of adora-
tion is not removed by the fact (in itself satisfactory) of
the Virgin being also kneeling, with uplifted hands, as in
prayer to God. I direct that the scandal of representing
the angel as kneeling to the Virgin be removed ; and if
this be done there appears to be no part of the work
hitherto executed which I have any just authority to
forbid."