The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

CLERICAL NE WN.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. —Rev. J. --S.
Brod.rip, M.A., to the rectory of Cossington.—Nev. J.
M. Echalaz, M.A., rector of Appleby, Leicestershire, to
an honorary canonry in Peterborough cathedral.—Rev. J.
Adams, M.A.; head master of the Davenport classical
and ma henittical proprietary school, end chaplain of the
convict establishment in the Dock-yard, to the curacy of
Saltash, Bornwall.—Rev. \V. Matlock, to the rectory of
Cheriton Bishop.—Rev. E. Sleed, 8.A., to the curacy of
Syresharn, Northamptonshire.—lieu. W. P. Barrett, to
the rectory of Syston, Gloucestershire, vacant by the
death of the Rev. F. Pelly.—Rev. H. Woolcombe to the
vicarage of Kingsteignton, with Highweek.—Rev. J. C.
Harris, M.A., to the curacy of Minehead.—Rev. J.
Gattey, M.A., to the curacy of Chard.—Rev. G. Wil-
liams, 8.A., to the curacy of Butcombe.—Rev. G. N.
Barrow, M.A., to an honorary canonry founded in the
cathedral church of Bristol.—Rev. L. E. Brown, per-
petual curate of Winterborne Dantsey, to the vicarage of
Dormington, with the perpetual curacy of Bartestree
annexed, Herefordshire.—Rev. J. Lister, M.A.. to the
vicarage of Thorpe.—Rev. R. C. Patterson, 8.C.L., to
the rectory of Melmerby, Cumberland, vacant by the
death of the Rev. J. Bardgett.—Rev. J. D. Watherstone,
M.A., to the head mastership of the Monmouth Grammar
School.—Rev. G. Thornton, M. A. to the vicarage of
Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire.—Rev. N. P. E. Lathbury,
8.A., to the curacy of Stowmarket and Stow-upland,
Suffolk.—Rev. J. Fleming, 8.A., to the curacy of St.
Margaret and St. Nicholas, King's Lynn, Norfolk.—
Rev. H. G. Maul,-4,A.. to the curacy of Great Yar-
mouth, Norfolk.---iley, F. E. Tower, 8.A., to the curacy
of •Gorleston
Salter, to the stipendiary curacy,
of Starston, Nerfolk.—Rev. H. G.
8.A., to the puracy
SAITOIk.

Three prebendal stalls in the Abbey Church of West-
minster having now become vacant, the crown becomes
entitled, under the ecclesiastical commission act, to the
appointment of pup pew prebendary.
The nisiltYp of Salisbury purposes consecraliLg the tlt)v
'ura at Ditton Marsh, near Westbury, Wilts, 0".1 the
30th instant, and the parish church Of Codford Mary,
m
In the sae county, on the 2d of October. Some other
consecrations are fixed to take plate eart' in October, in-
cluding the new churches at Newton Toney, Wilts, and
Broad Town, near Swindon.
DURHAM CATHEDRAL—The prebandaries of this
cathedral have, in the course of the last twelve 'years,
given no less a sum than £lOO,OOO towards the foundation
of the Durham University, and £120,000 towards .aug-
meriting the poorer livings in the diocese.—l This fact
ought to be universally known and remembered.; but we
wonder how much the prebends of this establishment will
be able to give when their salaries are reduced to the scale
fixed by our church reformers. They will then have suffi-
cient for a respectable maintenance, but universities will
I Es main in statu quo, and poor livings continue poor ]

PUBLIC ADMISSION OF A ROMISH CONVERT INTO THE
CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—An interesting service took
place in the new chaptl, at Ellerker, parish of Branting-
ham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Thursday, the
sth instant, in the admission of a person professing al-
legiance to the Bishop of Rome, into communion with
the Church of England. The convert was a young man
—Mr. Bohann:who was attached to a party conducting
the government ordnance survey of the county of York.
Be had been for some time in a course of discipline and
instruction, under the care of the Rev. G. F. Townsend,
Vicar of Brantingham ; and on the above named day was
admitted, in the presence of the Venerable Archdeacon
Wilberforce and other clergymen, into the holy com-
munion of the National Church.
DIFFICULTY OF RAISING AN ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL
AT JERUSALEM.—The ground was purc,-,ased in 1838,
but the preparations for the building were not commenced
till February, 1840, and Mr. Johns, the architect ap-
pointed to design and superintend the progress of the
structure, did not arrive in Jerusalem till July, 1841.
The first difficulty was to form a foundation, owing to
" the honeycomb nature of the debris accumulated on
the rock of this portion of Mount Zion, arising from the
numberless sieves and earthquakes Jerusalem has been
subjected to, from the time when David wrested his
' stronghold ' from the Jebusites, till the wars of Mehe-
met. Such uncertainty of soil and rubbish existed (Mr.
Johns adds,) that you could not form any cot,jecture as
to what the next bh;w of pickaxe would alight upon,
whether a portion of the ruined chamber, loose tubbish,
some part of a destroyed arch, perhaps in an inverted po-
sition, a portion of a broken floor, or of tolerably solid
masonry, and this would probably rest uponloose rubbish."
He was accordingly compelled to proceed down to the
rock itself, upon which on the 28th of January, 1842, the
first stone was laid by Bishop Alexander; at the depth of
3a feet from the surface. On tie 2d November, the first
stone above ground was laid by Mrs. Alexander. The
work advanced till the middle of January, 1843, when it
was stopped through the interference of the Turkish au-
thor:tirs, at which time it had reached five feet from the
ground. Some idea may be formed of the loborious na-
ture of the operations, when it is known that the greatest
depth of the foundations is 42 feet, the least upwards of
30, and that the cubical contents amount to more than
forty thousand cubic feet of masonry.