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. Muncas-
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 wa; 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. M`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.
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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'Culloch and the
Hon. Fox Maule descended to the stone.
A box hermetically sealed was placed in the centre of
the stone, containing the following documents :—Deed of
aoenneofthe brass
demission and claim of eighty, address of the congrega-
tion of the 27th December last, coins of the present
reign, namely, 4d., 6d., Is., 2s. 6d., and a sovereign, the
confession of faith, the large and small catechisms, a copy
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD and the Scottish Guar-
dian, and
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voluntart contributions of a large body of the congregation
(and assisted by their friends) of St. Andrew's Scotch
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choice, on the 12th October, 1843; and feeling deeply
impressed with the responsibility attaching to them under
such circumstances, determined on retiring from that
church, and erecting for them and their children a house
in which to worship the God of their fathers, under the-
ministration of the Rev. Donald Ferguson, whom it was
shire, placed
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and solemnly dedicated, through the Presbytery, to the
service and glory of Almighty God.—The Right Hon. Fox
Maule, M.P., laid the foundation stone on the llth day of
April,
in the presence of the members of Presbytery,
elders,theBll,
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