The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

DIOCESE OF CHESTER

ORDINATION.—The Lord Bishop of Chester held an
ordination in the Cathedral Church of Chester, on Sun-
day last, when the following gentlemen were admitted
into holy orders :

DEACONS.—SamueI Bawtree Baird, Ruttledge Ball,
Edward Bennett, William Bowlan, Richard Dowson,
Joshua Jones, Gerrard Lewis, Constantine Adolphus
Lusignan, Richard Ravencroft Moore, Samuel Sampson,
James Skinner, Henry Wescoe.
PRIESTS. Gustavus Matthews Burton, Frederick
Townshend Chamberlain, Charles Fenton, John Henry
Ashley Gibson, William Gurney, William Harbin, William
De Courcy Ireland, Nathan Jackson, Octavius Frederick
Pigot, James Schofield, Alexander Taylor, George Frede-
rick Winstanley Wallis, Benjamin Hall Williams.

Dn. ROUTH, president of Magdalen College, Oxford,
entered his hundredth year on Tuesday. The rev. gentle-
man has presided aver that society since 1791.
ST. MART'S COLLEGE, Windermere, has again reopened
with increased numbers ; and we understand that upwards
of sixty of the sons of poor clergymen, besides the sons of
laymen, are receiving their education there.
3fARLBOROUGK COLLEGE.—The venerable Archdeacon
Berens has just given £5OO to found a scholarship to be
held in Marlborough College, open alike to sons of clergy-
men and laymen. The first election is fixed for September
29th, and the examination will be held a few days before.
Candidates must not have completed their 14th year on
or before January Ist, 1854.

THE RECTOR^O7 GATESHEAD and his,clergylaave deter-
mined to adopt the practice of open-air preaching in the
iring the continuance of fine weather. The
lace last Friday ; and for the month of

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COURT AND FASHIOIV.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the royal
children, have taken their usual daily riding and walking
exercise•at Balmoral, and on Wednesday his Royal High-
ness went out deer stalking. _ _

BEA ITMONT=LODGE, formerly the residence ,of Lord
Ashbrook, has been taken for the Dowager Queen
Christina, of Spain, as the future residence of herself and
family, by her second husband, the Dtike de Rianzares.
Lieut. General the Right Hon. Sir George Arthur
Bart., K.C.H.D.C.L., died on the 19th inst., at his resi-
dence in Gloucester-square, Hyde-park, London, after a
long and painful illness.

A marriage is on the tapis, and is expected to be so-
lemnised on the 28th inst., between the Hon. and Rev.
William Lyttleton (brother to Lord Lyttleton and nephew
to Lord Spencerl and Miss Pepys, daughter of the Bishop
of Worcester, aMI cousin to Lord Cottenham. . •

LORD EGLVN AND THE VACANT GARTER.—It IS said
that one of the garters now vacant is to be bestowed on
the Earl of Eglya. •
EXPECTED VISIT OF LOUIS NAPOLEON.-- A Windsor
correspondent of the London papers writes that, for some
time past, workmen have been employed in decorating
and fitting up the apartments at Windsor Castle, occupied
ten years ago by•the Emperor of all the Russias, for the
reception of Napolean 111, Emperor of the French, who,
it is said, will ariive in this country, on a visit to her
Majesty, shortly before Christmas, on the return of the
Court from Osborne.