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

THURSDAY.

The polling was resumed at-ten o'clock, and was again
carried on with great vigour. This day, at the close, the
majority for the tories was increased in persons to 1,281,
and in votes to 4,452.

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. Snainson, 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 5,639 14,112

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 ,tbe Right Hon. Fox
Maule, Dr. Smith, of Glasgow. the Rev. AV. 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. 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 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'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
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 catechisis,acopy
e"rg Scotch
of certain
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD and the Scottish Guar-
dian, and
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
(Cahnudrcahs:isitteodd
nbeyy.sthtreeie,
rtfrwiehnod,s)inocfonSste.qAuenndcr
proceedings instituted in the Court of Chancery, were
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
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
their desire to have appointed to that charge, and to be
placed under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Lanca-
shire, and Synod of the Presbyterian Church in England,
and solemnly dedicated, through the Presbytery, to the
m. p., laid the foundation stone on the 11th day of
A
service and glory of Almighty God.—The Right Hon. Fox
Maule,lBl4, in the presence of the members of Presbytery,
the elders, committee, subscribers, and others. George

Ferguson, architect. And may the Great Head of the
Church bless and prosper the undertaking."
Dr. M'Cum.oca then addressed the right lion. gentle-
man. He made a few appropriate observations as to the
occasion, and to the condescension of the hon. gentleman
in coming so great a distance to lay the'foundation stone
of a church in which they hoped they and their children's
children would worship for ages to come. He then alluded
to the great exertions of the hon. gentleman in the cause
of the Free Church, and concluded by handing him the
silver trowel, on which the following inscription was en-
graved :