The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-08 00:00:00

CHURCH-RATE AT MACCLESFIELD.--The following was
the final close of the poll on Tuesday :—For the rate, 491:

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The Rev

Frederick Barker, late of
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Sidney

and Metropolitan of New SO-iith WalesTsge;

NOTTING-HILL Causcm—The church now building at
Notting-hill, and proposed to be dedicated to All Saints,
is at the charge of the same Dr. Walker, rector of St.

Columb, Cornwall, who made the munificent offer to Con-
vocation to found a Cornish bishopric. The Church of All
Saints is to be entirely free, endowed by the founder, con-
tinually open, and is a monument to the memory of the
parents of Dr. Walker.

- GREAT :11.1ARLOW CIIIIRCII-RATE.—There has been a
contest for a church-rate at Great Marlow. The proposal
to adjourn its consideration for a twelvemonth, on a show
of hands, was declared by the vicar to have been carried.
The churchwardens demanded a poll, which terminated in
a majority of nineteen for the rate. The utmost good

feeling prevailed, and at the close the vicar's opponents
proposed a vote of thanks to him for his impartial conduct
in the chair.

CHURCII-FATE TRIIIMPIL-At a vestry of the rate-
payers of Neath, on Tuesday last, a rate of fourpence in
the pound was proposed by Mr. R. Morgan, senior church-
warden, and seconded by Mr. Thomas, junior church-
warden. The rate was opposed, and a poll demanded by
H. Gwyn, Esq., M.P.; at the close of which the numbers
were—For the rate, seventy-four; against it, fifty-six—
majority for the rate, eighteen.
A CIIIIECII-BATE OPPOSED BY A CLERGYMAN.-A
poll last week was d -
in t

le pound granted by the vestry to the churchwardens
of Ingham, Norfolk. The amendment to the rate was
moved by the Rev. William Harnard, a clergyman of the
established church, and possessed of property in the
parish. He avowed he opposed the rate because he did
not think the party which he was proud to represent,"
and which he called the "Low Church party," had any
voice among the officers of the church. He was supported
by Lieut.-Colonel Gilman, Mr. Alexander, solicitor and
_

few Dissenters, though others voted for the rate. At the
close of the poll, the Hon. and Rev. W. Wodehouse, rector,
declared the numbers to be—for the rate, 99 ; against, 70,
—Church and State Gazette.

TIIE BISHOP OP BATH AHD WELLS.—The Bridgwater
Times, in announcing the opening of the "Bridgwater
Exhibition," with a collection of ancient masters and
modern paintings from the mansions of the Somerset
ty 1. that the

coal _amities, an ceremony of opening was to
be honoured by the presence of the Lord Bishop of the
diocese (Lord Auckland), says—" The presence of his lord-

ship on this occasion wi
those who have so diligently and spin
undertaking; and the object of this ex
aid the Parish Church Restoration ]

graceful compliment to
tedly promoted this

[on, namely, to

very important part of his diocese. Lord A
ready acquiescence in the wishes of the promoters is an
assurance that the present Bishop of Bath and Wells will
prove an active, energetic, and valued diocesan, anxious
and willing to promote every good work among us."
TIIE NEW BisnoP.—The announcement was made
public on Tuesday of the appointment to the see of Kil-
more of the Venerable M. G. Beresford, Archdeacon of
Ardagh since 1835, and Vicar• General of the diocess of
Kilmore. The elevation to the episcopal bench of Dr.
Beresford will no doubt afford unmixed satisfaction, not
only to the great bulk of the clergy, but to the laity resi-
dent in the district where he has been for
favourably known as a zealous clergyman

so. many years
nd a kind and

considerate landlord. The bishop elect is ial the prime of
life, and possesses the other qualifications requisite for the
due discharge of an office which now more than ever
demands the exercise of a dear and vigorous understand-

ing. Dr. Leslie's predecessor in the see was the father of
Archdeacon Beresford. _

DEATH OF THE DEAR OF AW)AGH.—TIIO Very Rev.
Richard Murray, D.D., Dean of Ard.ic.h. breathed his

south of

he had retired for some short tim

nd climate. He had exceeded the thrc
score years and ten allotted to our race, and his healt
(as is well known) had been for some years in a (leen'
and precarious state,, so that his d

a change of o

11 have talij

few Of his many friends by surprise. As tne
the late Mr. Matthias, in the Bethesda Chapel, Dublin, h
shared with that excellent mart at once the shame am
glory of preaching the Gospel in fulness and simplicity
when all was darkness around. Promnfm ho 41.,.

ence of private frienu...,_
Limerick, he was honoured in being the father, and first
promoter, of that remarkable work of co,—
the Romanist population of that ho
has since, 1—

living of AskeatoCc L • -

version am

yit
.aappily, spread to all parts of Ireland ; aud
as on this account that he was selected, without expec-
tation or solicitation, by the late Duke of Wellington,
when in political power, to fill the Deanery of Ardagh,
which luta henna . .

- • potn in im posi-
tion, and also as Vicar-General of the dithatocess, po
he for more
than a quarter of a century served his generation through
good report, as he had for an equal period th7ough evil.
There are few parts of England, as well as Ireland, where
this good and able old man was not known, as an eloquent,
because a simple and affectionate preacher of the Gospel,
and an advocate of almost all the institutions in existence
for the evangelization of his native country. Dean
Murray was an accomplished writer as well,—he has left
us several pi-oois of this, and among others a truly valuable
history olthe religion of Ulla land, entitled Ireland and
her kii.ll,rctkea-n—Beffeat CA ronicle.