The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

OBITUARY,

The Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan, D.D., Chaplain of the Royal
Military School in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.
July 30, aged 54, the Rev. Robert Charles William Wilkinson,
8.A., Curate of Middleton.
June 30, at Kingston, Jamaica, the Rev. James Dawson,
Rector of St. John's, in that island.
July 6, at Leguan, British Guiana, the Rev. William Hamilton,
M.A., the Rector of St. Peter's, Leguan, aged 34.

The Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan died in Dublin last week.
He was the brother of the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan,
and had been for the last thirty years chaplain of the
Royal Military School in the Phoenix-park. He was a
gentleman of high literary attainments, and contributed
to Blackwood and the Dublin University Magazine.
The Rev. John Harding, D.D, late rector of the united
parishes of St. Andrew's and St. Anne's, Blackfriars, has
been consecrated Bishop of Bombay, in the place of the
Right Rev. Dr. Carr resigned. The ceremony took place
in Lambeth Palace, the Bishop of London and Bishop
Carr assisting the Primate. The new bishop will leave
this country on the 20th of October, per overland route
for Bombay.

SEPARATE SEE OF GLOUCESTER.—The petition for this
object has been forwarded to the Home Secretary for pre.
sentation to her Majesty. Appended to it are the names
of no fewer than 169 of the parochial clergy of the dio-
cese of Gloucester, and 227 churchwardens ; besides
which there are the signatures of a large body of the no-
bility, magistrates, and resident gentry of the county,
making a total of more than 1300 names. This list might
have been increased to a very large extent had it been the
desire of the promoters to display mere numbers : they,
however, confined the signatures to those only who per-
fectly understood the object of the petition, and really
felt the necessity for its prayer being granted.—Gloucester
Journal.

REPORT OF THE CHURCH BUILDING COMMISSIONERS.
—The 31st annual report of her Majesty's Commissioners
for Building new Churches, presented to Parliament, has
just been printed. It seems that in the last report the
commissioners stated that 470 churches had been com-
pleted, in which accommodation had been provided for
498,066 persons, including 291,190 free seats for the use
of the poor. They state that 27 churches have, by the
aid of grants from the funds placed at their disposal, been
since completed. In the 27 churches accommodation has
been provided for 20,313 persons, including 14,442 free
seats for the use of the poor, as far as the same can at
present be ascertained. Thus, in the whole 497 churches
have now been completed, and provision has been made
therein for 518,379 persons, including 305,632 free seats
for the use of the poor. Further, the commissioners
report that 22 churches are now in course of erection,
towards which they have on certain conditions contributed
pecuniary aid from the funds placed at their disposal.
They also state that plans have been approved of for
building 17 other churches, and other plans for new
churches are under consideration. The commissioners
since their last report have afforded, or expressed their
willingness to afford, the facilities contained in the Church
Building Acts for obtaining the enlargement, or providing
new and additional burial grounds to several places set
forth in the present document.