The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY ef CLERICAL NEWS

, PREFERMENTS.—Rev. W. Benn, M.A, to the vicarage
of Kirdandrews and Beaumont, Cumberland ; Rev. John
Booker, 8.A., of Magdalen College, Cambridge, has hem
appointed tot he curacy of St. Thomas, Ardwick, M4n-
cheater ; Rev. John Cooke Cox, LL.B., of Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, to the rectory of Cheddington, Dorset;
Hon. and Rev. Henry Douglas, 8.A., third son of the
Earl of Wemysa, has been presented by the vicar of Kid-
deroaingter to al additional curacy in the pariah church;

Hanis; Rev. John

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Thomas's, Bramnton, Derbyshire; Rev. Joseph Leeson,
M.A , curate cif St. Gilesgate, Durham, to the vicarage
of Fishlathe, York • liev. William Mann, M.A.
vicarage of Billingborough. Lincolnst

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Hants; Rev. W. Middleton, to the incumbency of the
new church at Bembridge, Hants; Rev. William Reade,
8.A., of Cathsrine Hall, Cambridge, to the curacy of
Alpheton, Suffolk ; Rev. Joseph Thackeray, M.A., to the
rectory of Coltishall with Horstead, Norfolk ; Rev. Henry
Sotheby Wood, M.A., formerly of Catharine Hall, Cam-
bridge, curate of Fenton with Stragglesthorpe, Lincoln-
shire, has been elected to the Mathematical Mastership of
the Colleg:ate School, Leicester; Rev. Henry Press
Wright. B. A., formerly of St. Peter's College, Cambridge,
incumbent of St. Mary's, Quarry Hill. Leeds. has been
appointed chaplain to the Forces in the lonian Isles. The
Lord Bishop of Salisbury has recently instituted the Rev.
Edward Ramsay Prother, M.A., formely of Magdalen
College, Cambridge, to the rectory of Farnham, Dorset,
and more recently to the rectory of the aojoining parish of
Cbettle, in the same county, the rev, gentleman having
obtained a dispensation to hold both livings from his Grace
the ArchhishO of Canterbury. At the quarterly.chapter
of the collegiate church of Southwell, held on the 23rd
ult., the Rev. James Francis Dimock, M.A., formerly of
St. John's College, Cambridge, was appointed a minor
canon of that church.

Sr. ALBAN ALL.—The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
has beer, pleased to appoint the Rev. Samuel Hind..., D.D.
formerly Vice- principal of this Hall, and now Pr, bendary
of Castleknock, county of Dublin, his domestic and first
chaplain.
A church for seamen is about to be erected at Douglas,
Isle of man. Hitherto a vessel, lent by the Admiralty,
has been used for that purpose. She will be broken up,
and the materials employed in the construction of the
intended rhumb.

DURHAM SCHOOL.—Mr. J. A. L. Airey, B. A., of
Pear►,r<<ke College, Cambridge, has been appointed to the
mathematical mastership. and M r. J. E. T. Rogers, B. A.
of Magdalen-hall, Oxford, to the assistant classical and
maths- niatical mastership, Mr. Airey took hi, degree as
second
,wrangli r, and Mr. Rogers is a first-clays roan.
We are informed that an unhappy controversy is being
carried on between the incumbent of the parish r.f Wood-
bury, near this city, and some of the parishioners, relative
to the use of the Athanasi,rn Creed, which the Church
order- to be used in all her solemn celebt at ions. We are told
that a meeting aas recently held, at which resolutions
were passed expressive of hostility to any incumbent who
should use this confession of faith in the performance of
public worship. The living is said to be a peculiar of the
A rchnishop of Canterbury, and consequently exempt. from
the superintendence of the Bishop of the Diocese. The
circumstance of its being attached to so distant a jurisdic
'ion can alone explain the almost incredible report that the
Athan4sian Creed has riot been used in the parish for the
last thirty or forty years.—Woolmer's Exeter Gazelle.

In the month of September last, a soldier, named
Nl' Pherson of the 64th regiment, was found in the Grand
Canal. Dublin, with his hands tied btlind his back, with
a black silk handkerchief, and his pockets turned inside
out. A navigator has heen arreAed at Staley Bridge, on
suspicion of having murdered bim.
FIRE AT THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, DUBLIN.—About
one o'clock on Monday morning, the roof of this fine
structure was discovered to be on fire, caused, it is under-
stood, by the negligence of some plumbers who had been
.1 presented to the rectory of Moncton, I at work during the day. The alarm was promptly given,

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ment, from Ship-street barracks, the fire was got under
before four o'clock, not without doing considerable da-
mage to the roof and the lecture-room of the Mechanics'

igr a t ion extended to the spirits the consequences must
have been most disastrous, as the vaults run under the
houses in Parliament-street, Dame-street, and the Lower
Castle-yard. Thy inhabitants of the neighbourhood,
aware of their dangerous proximity to the inflammable
materials, were kept in a state of dreadful suspense while
the fire lasted. _ _

A PRECIOUS VILLAIN.—At a trial for murder, at the
recent Nenagh Assizes, the witness for the crown, James
Darmody, was cross-examined by Mr. Sausse, and the
following revelations. of precocious and confirmed crime
were elicited How old are you? Twenty-seven years
of age. Did jou not dog Shanahan from Rumsleigh to
the place where he was murdered ? I did not. You said
you were to put hack your hand to Maher to show if
Shanahan would know you that night. Were you not
sure he would know you ? Yes, but I thought by saying
so to "quash" Maher. Now, was not your signal to
bring him up ? It was not. You did not give the poor
man a blow ? Not a stroke. You are a noted murderer ?
No, Sir, I never killed a man. Were you never engaged
in killing a man ? I never did the like. Were you at the
murder of Rollin, Lord Hawarden's steward? I was
present. And at Hogan's, of Bawn ? Y: s, but no man
was shot there. Was there not a man murdered ? There was.
Did not an armed party enter his house ? Theredid. Did
you not go to sho. t a man you never saw ? No doubt I
did. Did you see the pistols loaded before your party
called to Hogan's ? I would not say. When was it you
went to Bolton's house ? About ten years ago. flow many
were of the party ? seven. Were you fifteen years of age
then? I believe I was:over sixteen. Who b.oke in the
door ? Michael Fitzgerald and Teddy Ryan. Was Butler
shot that night? They beat him with stones. Where
were you ? 1 was placed in the yard. Did not the party,
while the bleeding hotly of Bolton was in the yard, violate
the person of the daughter? I do not know. Did not
three of your party violate her ? Michael Ryan and I
carried het out on the road. For what purpose? I
not know. Was it for her good ? It was tot for her
good at ail events. Your party killed the man's father?
Yes. And you were sentry in the yard ? I was. And
vet you never went to murder a man ? I never did.
Where did you go after leaving Bolton's? To a still-
hous Was nothing done there ? No more than drink-
ing. Were you at James Ryan's murder ? He was only
beat, and I gave him three knocks for what he did to ate.
You went afterwards to fight et Hogan's. whose house
you formerly attacked ? I went to a challenge, and did
not know at the time it was for Hogan we were to fight.
How many miles did you go for that? Twelve. You
were arrested for a robbery at Toomavara ? Yes, and
then I offered to tell all I knew if I got my pardon."
Tiie jury refaced to convict upon the evidence of such a
villain, and the prisoner was acquitted.