The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR,—A few of the subscribers to the Lyceum News-
room are annoyed that the committee have placed brass
guards round the fire-place, which, by extending the circle,
enable a greater number of gentlemen to enjoy the luxury
of the fires. The objectors, however, are a few old gentle-
men who for some years have monopolized the whole fires,
one of them spending many hours a day there, and with a
newspaper on his knee, goes quietly to sleep, with his legs
sprawling across the grate ; and few, indeed, of the subscri-
bers venture to approach the fire or encounter his eructa-
tions. Nine-tenths of the subscribers are favourable to these
guards, which will now permit twenty or thirty gentlemen to
enjoy the fires foamerly monopolised by six fixtures ; and I
for one shall feel grievously disappointed if the committee
make any alteration in the guards, which are most admira-
ble, and generally approved ot.
I am, Sir, yours obediently,
FAIR PLAY.
Rodney-street.

THE CHU

The Rev. William Kemble, M.A., formerly of Lincoln
College, Perpetual Curate of Billington, Beds, and Curate
of Slapton, Bucks, has been presented to the Consolidated
Rectories of South and West Hanningtield, Essex, vacant
by the death of the Rev. T. Brooksby ; patron, E. B. Kem-
ble, Esq.
The Rev. Granville Sykes Howard Vyse, 8.A., of Christ
Church, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Peter-
borough to the Rectory of Boughton, Northamptonshire ;
patron, R. W. H. Vyse, Esq.

. . .
The Rev. Arthur Rainey Ludlow, M.A., formerly. of Oriel
College, Perpetual Curate of Aust, has been instituted by
the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the Rectory of
Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire, vacant by the death
of the Rev. J. Ward ; patron, R. C. Lippincott, Esq.

The Rev. Arthur Hyde Hutton, formerly of Wasetiose
College, has been presented to the Curacy of St. Peter,
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.
The Rev. John Carr, M.A., of Balliol College, Rector of
Brattlehy, in the county of Lincoln, has been collated by the
Lord Bishop of Linesln, to the unendowed Prebend or Ca-
nonry of Carlton-cum-Thurlby, in Lincoln Cathedral, va-
cant by the death of the Rev. James Cullum.

The Rev. E. J. Burrow, D.D., formerly of Magdalene
Colleee, has been appointed Archdeacon of Gibraltar.—
Morning- Herald.

The Am John Knight Field, 8.A., formerly of St. Ed-
mund Hall, has been appointed Perpetual Curate of St.
Stephen's, Manchester.
The Rev. Edward Greene, M.A., Fellow of Magdalene
College, has been appointed officiating Minister of Tusclith
Chapel, Liphook, Hants.
The Rev. W. H. Stokes, 8.A., of Wadham College, has
been appointed Chaplain to Sherburn Hospital, Durham, in
the room of the late Rev. William Richardson ; patron, the
Rev. G. S. Faber, Master of the Hospital.
Rev. Charles Day. 8.C.L., formerly of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, Curate of Odiham, Hants, to the Vicarage
of Mucking, Essex, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. J.
W. Vivian; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's.
Rev. George Chas. Hoste, M.A., of Caius College, Cam-
bridge, to the Vicarage of Barwick, Norfolk, vacant by the
death of the Rev. J. Hoste ; patron, D. Hoste, Esq.
Rev. Henry Samuel Livius, M,A., formerly of Trinity
College, Cambridge, Rector of Yaxham, Norfolk, to the
Chaplaincy of the Orphan Asylum, Bristol, vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. Dr. Swete.
Rev. John Lonsdale, 8.D., of King's College, Cambridge,
Principal of King's College, London, and Preacher at Lin-
coln's Inn, to the Archdeaconry of Middlesex.
Rev. William Adey, Curate of Little Baddow, Essex, to
that Vicarage, vacant by the death of the Rev. A. Johnson ;
patron, Colonel Strutt.
Rev. Henry Cottingham, 8.A., of Magdalene College,
Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Weston-on-Trent, Stafford.
Rev. Howell Wooster Powell, Rector of Heapham, Lin-
colnshire, and for upwards of forty-six years the Curate, has
been appointed Rector of Ripley, Yorkshire, vacant by the
death of the Rev. J. Cracrott ; and the Rev. Henry Wm.
Powell, Curate of Ashby-cum-Fenby and Newton-le-Wold,
to the Rectory of Heapham, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. H. W. Powell ; patron, Sir W. A. Ingilby, Bart.
Rev. James Akroyd Beaumont, 8.A., F.C.P.S., of Tri-
nity College, Cambridge, Curate of Hunslet, Leeds, to be
Domestic Chaplain to Earl Fitzwilliam.
Rev. Thomas Holme, Master of the Grammar School,
Kirkby Ravensworth, to the Vicarage of East Cowton, York-
shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Jackson ; patrons,
the Wardens and Brethren of St. John's Hospital, Kirkby
Ravensworth.
Hon. and Rev. Thomas Unwin Cavendish, Vicar of
Doveridge, Derbyshire, to the Honorary Prebend of Hans-
acre and reeford, in the Cathedral of Lichfield.
Rev. Thomas Hill, Vicar of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, to
the Honorary Prebend of Gaia Minor, in the Cathedral of
Lichfield.

Rev. William Edward Coldwell, Rector of Stafford, to
the Honorary Prebend of Pipa Parva, in the Cathedral of
Lichfield. _ .

Rev. A. Townsend, to be Assistant Curate of St. John's,
Weston, near Bath.
Rev. Alfred Hanbury, to be Curate of Hawkedown,
Suffolk.

Rev. Henry Stambury, S.C.L., formerly of Trinity Hall,
late Curate of Phillach and Gwithian, Cornwall, to the
Curacy of the District Church of the Holy Trinity, in St
Philip and Jacob, Bristol.
Rev. John Glencrose, 8.A., formerly of Queen's College,
Cambridge, Curate of Helland, Cornwall, to that Rectory,
vacant by the death of the Rev. F. J. Hext ; patron. W.
Morshead, Esq.
Rev. Thos. Bull, 8.A., formerly of Catharine Hall, Cam-
bridge, to the Curacy of Cosby, Northamptonshire.
Rev. Edward K. Maddock, M.A., of Catharine Hall,
Cambridge, Curate of Streatham, Surrey, to be one of the
Chaplains of the H. E. I. C. at Bengal.

THK WELSH BISHOPRICS.—The net value of the diocese
of St. Asaph is £6,301 ; the net value of the diocese of
Bangor is £4,464. In the former diocese are 143 parishes ;
in the latter 131 parishes—making together 274 parishes,
which is far below the average number of parishes in any
English diocese, while in respect of population, the inferi-
ority is yet more striking. In the diocese of St. Asaph there
are 52 livings under £2OO ; in the diocese of Bangor there
are 61 livings under £2OO ;—of the former, 38, and in the
latter, 26 are in the gift of the respective bishops, who are
in many cases the impropriators of the great tithes. In the
diocese of St. Asaph the bishop is the impropriator of 13
livings, the total revenue of which is £1,668; and in the
diocese of Bangor the bishop is the impropriator of seven
livings, the total revenue of which is £1,120. From the
former see, therefore, is required £932, and from the latter
£2BO, to raise the value of these livings to £2OO each.
CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—We extract the fol-
lowing from an "Occasional Paper" just issued by the above
society :—The Society's grants are now in aid of 243 incum-
bents, having under their care an aggregate population of
1,832,552, or each, on an average, the charge of 7,500 souls,
while the average amount of their incomes is only £l6l ; and
129 of these incumbents are without parsonage-house. These
grants are to provide stipends for 242 clergymen and 32 lay
assistants, at a charge to the Society, when all the appoint-
ments shall be made by the incumbents, of £21,110. At the
present time, 194 clergymen, and 31 lay assistants, are sup-
ported in their labours by the Society, at a charge of £17,705
per annum. After the ordinations to beheld during the pre-
sent and ensuing months, it is expected that, at least, fifteen
more curates will be appointed to occupy grants now vacant,
requiring a further sum of not less than £1,300 per annum.
The Society will then be paying at the rate of above £19,000
per annum for its grants only, an amount which exceeds their
present income; and which it will, therefore, be impossible
for them to continue, except the liberality of the Christian
public shall immediately place larger mens at their disposal.

WESLEYAN STATISTICS.—The following account of the
number of members in the Wesleyan Societies in Great
Britain is extracted from the Monthly Magazine for Decem-
ber _ .

Members (or communicants) in Increase during

1772
1782 46,331..
1792 73,342
1802 119,654
1812. 155,124..
1822 211,392.
1832..
1842 326,747
From this statement it will appear that the aggregate increase
of the last ten years has been larger than that of any corres-
ponding period during the preceding seventy.

ten years

THE BLASPHEMOUS PUBLICATION WAREHOUSE.—An-
other gentleman, following the example of Mr. Lewis Knight
Bruce, has made an attack on Patterson's den of blasphemy
in Holywell-street, London. On Friday last, Mr. Phillip
James Green, a respectable merchant, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Jardine, the Bow-street magistrate, on a charge
of theft, the subject of his alleged robbery being a copy of
the identical piece of awful blasphemy which Mr. Bruce had
torn down from the same window the week before. Mr.
Green's exploit, though meritorious, wants the unpremidi-
tated and spontaneous character of Mr. Bruce's act; for he
had seen the placard on his way to his office, had consulted
with his son on the matter, and with him had returned to the
spot for the express purpose of forcibly taking down the
offensive bill, if the people in the shop refused to comply
with his demand for its removal. The complainant, Patter-
son, appeared on this occasion to have mustered up sufficient
confidence to demand from the magistrate the protection of
the police in his wicked course of businees, as also to claim
the Bs. paid by Mr. Bruce for the broken panes. lie even
applied for a warrant against that gentleman. In this, how-
ever, the fellow failed; as well as in his charge against Mr.
Green, it being quite plain that the alleged robbery was no
robbery at all.

DREADFUL AND MYSTERIOUS MURDER.—The pretty
and retired watering place of Ilkeley, about fourteen miles
from Bradford, has been, during the past week, the scene of
a murder, which, from the appearance of the body of the
murdered man, seems to have been perpetrated in a barba-
rous manner. The first discovery of the matter took place
in the following manner :—A person named Hardwick, a
house watcher, employed by Mr. Myddleton to watch his
house and that of his steward, Mr. Burgess, at a little past
twelve o'clock on Friday night, heard a noise which he could
not liken to any thing but a thumping, and a human voice
crying out, " Help me," or " Help me up," or words similar
to that. When the gamekeeper and his watchers joined him
at the lodge, some time after one o'clock, he informed them
of what he had heard : and the whole of them, six in num-
ber, went to the spot as nearly as Hardwick could direct.
After some search, they found the deceased laid on his side,
and not quite dead. His hat was slouched over his face in
such a manner as to conceal the fact that he was at all in-
jured, and at first they thought that be was merely intoxi-
cated ; but, on removing the hat to see who it was and assist
him up, one of the watchers put his hands upon the head of
the unfortunate man, and discovered what was his real state,
by the startling and horrible circumstance, that his fingers
were instantly covered with gore, and sunk into tha head !
It was discovered to be the body of a labourer named Wil-
liam Hustwick, who resided at Beamsley, and had been at
Ilkley the previous night, in company with a person named
Hey, a wheelwright, also of Beamsley, and with whom he
had gone home at a late period of the evening. The first
thought which struck those who found the body was, that
probably Hey also had been murdered ; and they sent off
some of their party to ascertain whether he had reached his
residence or not, who, on going to his house, found that he
was in bed. Some conversation passed between them, in
which he stated that he accompanied Hustwick on his way
home as far as the lime-kilns, where the latter became stupid,
or very drunk, and refusing to go any further, laid down
upon the ground. He then left him laid, and proceeded
home, which place he did not reach before two o'clock. In
consequence of this, suspicion fell upon him, and he was ap-
prehended on the charge of having murdered Hustwick. A
stout hazel stick, which the deceased had had with him
when last seen, was found beside his body, within reach of
his hand, and in such a position as that no blood from his
head could reach it without a change of position ; and still
this, on examination, proved to be covered with soft blood,
and had at the end some flesh and skin, and human hairs.
The hat had covered the wounds on the head, and had re-
ceived the blood which flowed from them ; and, when taken
off, was found to have a large quantity in it, which the
keepers poured out on the ground. There was no appear-
ance of struggling that could be discovered, though the na-
ture of the ground (springy pasture land) would tend to ob-
literate any effectually, in a very short time.