The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

INDIA OVERLAND MAIL.

The Overland Mail has brought intelligence from Cal-
cutta to the sth, and from Bombay to the 14th of October.
From the summary of the Bombay Times we extract
the following :—" The expedition sent out for the destruc-
tion of the villages on the Peshawar frontier appear to
have finished their work successfully, and they have now
returned to camp. Overtures are being made, it is said,
by the Ameer of Cabal to regain our friendship—the fatal
error committed by him of invading the Panjaub in 1849,
has destroyed our confidence in his judgment as well as
in his influence amongst his own people, and half a
century will not be sufficient to restore us to the terms ozx
which we stood with Affghanistan up to 1837, if such
a thing should ever indeed be possible. A party of the
Russians are said to have taken Kokan, a petty and bar-
barous principality on the borders of Bokhara. Whether
they amount to ten, a hundred, or ten-thousand does not
appear, and the matter in no way concerns us. The re-
ports of Russian intrigue and agression obviously emanate
from the Russians themselves—they increase their im-
portance by alarming the timid and credulous—they gra.
tify the appetite for the marvellous and obtain employ-
ment for the native politicals and spies who disseminate
them. No one would have greater cause than the Czar to
deplore an advance of the Russians upon India, which
would dispel the delusion he wishes to maintain that we
are vulnerable and that he could harm us."

In the Nizam's country there have been considerable
disturbances, necessitating extreme measures against a
thousand Rohillah mercenaries in the employment of a
refractory chief. Every opportunity seems to have been
given these desperadoes to disperse, but they refused, and
brought signal punishment on their own heads.

It is reported that the Governor-General intends to
visit Madras and the Neilgherries in December or January,
and retire early in spring from an office he has adminis-
tered so greatly to his own honour and the public advan-
tage. It is said he will be succeeded by Lord Elgin, of
whom the highest hopes are entertained. . . . The
sittings of the Sarawak Commission have closed. Sir James
Brooke has been fully and honourably acquitted of all the
charges brought against him. His slanderers refused to
appear as witnesses, and some of those who subscribed the
petition confessed that they knew nothing as to the truth
or falsehood of the statements contained in it. This bottle
of smoke will cost the country some £lO,OOO or £15,000.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGIZNCR
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Rev. W. Andrews, 8.D., Fellow and sub-Rector of Exeter
College, Oxford, to the Rectory of Great, otherwise Broad.
Somerfortl, Wilts.

Rev. E. 'T. Austen, 8.A., Fellow of St. John's College
Oxford, to the Rectory of Barfreystone, near Wingbam, Kent'.
Rev. E. C. Alston, M.A., to the Rectory of Dennington,
near Framlingham, Suffolk.
Rev. A. Bibby, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Christ Church,
Rotherhithe.

Rev. J. D. Birt. 8.A., late Curate of the Chapel of Ease,
Rochester, to the Curacy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
Rev. W. Blount, MA., to the Curacy of St. Botolph's
Church, A Agate.

Rev. N. Bind, M.A., Rector of Steeple-with-Tyneham, near
Warehain, Dorset, to the Rural Deanery of a district in the
Deanery of Dorchester.

Rev. H. Boyd, 8.A., to the Curacy of Belleau, near Alford,
Lincolnshire.

Rev. W. R. Coxwell, MA., late Curate of Dowdeswell, near
Cheltenham, to the Rectory of that parish.

Rev. T. J. Davis, M.A., to the Vicarage of Fiaberton Dela-
mere, Kilts. _ _ _ _

Rei. W. C. Gibbs, to the Incumbency of the newly-erected
church and district of Tyler's-green, near High Wycombe,
Bucks.

G. A. Hayward, M.A., to the Curacy of Goudhursr,
near Cranbrook.

Rev. A. Hogg, M.A., late Curate of Cloone, to the Vicarage
of limey and Armaghcliffe.
Rev. J. Hunter, Incumbent of Christchurch, to be Arch-
deacon of Cumberland, in the Diocese of Rupert's Land.
Rev. F. Hussard, 8.A., late Curate of Drumcliffe, to the
Vicarage of Fuerty, in the diocese of Elphin.
Rev. W. H. Ibotson, M.A., late Minister of St. James's,
Norland, Notting-hill, to the Vicarage of Edwinstowe. Not-
tinghamshire._

key. A. H. W. Ingram, M.A., Rector of Harvington, near
Evesham, and Rural Dean, to an Honorary Canonry in Wor-
cester Cathedral.

Rev. W. E. James, 8.A., Vice-President of the Training
School, Carmarthen, to the Curacy of St. Peter's Church,
Carmarthen.

Rev. C. Lee, M.A., to the Vicarage of St. Mary's, Ililaton,
near Wolverhampton.

Rev. J. G. Mallinson, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St.
Jude's, Manchester.

Rev., G. H. 111‘Gill, to the Incumbency of Christ Church,
St. Gec'rge's. East.

Rev. H. Newland, M.A., to the Incumbency of Scissett,
High Hoyland, Yorkshire.
Rev. T. Nunn, to the Rectory of Stanstead, Kent.
Rev. W. Phelps, M.A., to the Rectory of Oxcombe, near
Horncastle, Lincolnshire.

Rev. D. W. Pickett, M.A., Assistant Minister at Kingston,
New Brunswick, to be Principal of King's College, Windsor,
in the diocese of Nova Scotia.

Rev. J. B. „Rogers, t; the Vicarage of Cornworthy, near
Totnes. Devon.

Rev. H. Shepherd. M.A., to the Stipendiary Curacy of
Whittington. Lancashire.

Rev. A. Stone, to the Incumbency of Prestwold, Leicester.
shire.

Rev. G. J. Wild, M.A., to the Vicarage of Dodderhill, with
Elmbridge annexed, near Droitwich.

Rev. E. F. Wilts, M.A., to the Rectory of Upper Slaughter,
near Stow-on-the-Wold.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER,

PREFERMENT.—The Rev. John Watson has been
licenced by the Bishop to the stipendiary curacy of Saint
Michael's, with Saint Olave's, in the city of Chester.

VACANCY.—The rectory of Lamplugh, in the county of
Cumberland, by resignation of the Rev. Arthur Francis
Sheppard. Patron : John Swann, Esq., of Askham, in the)
county of York ; value £256, with a house.
The bishop has granted a licence for the performance of
Divine Service in the Lindale and Marton National School,
in the parish of Dalton-in-Furness, in the county of Lan-
caster, on the representation of the Rev. James Morrison
Morgan, vicar of Dalton-in-Furness.

CONSECRATION. SANDBACH CHURCHYARD. -- The
Bishop of Chester consecrated the piece of land added to
the churchyard of the Parish Church of Sandbach, in the
county of Chester, on Friday last, the 17th instant. A
sermon was preached by his lordship on the occasion, after
which a collection was made in aid of the fund for paying
off the debt incurred by the restoration of the church, a
portion of which still remains undischarged, and the sunr.
of £57 and upwards was collected.

WE (Morning Chronicle) understand that it has been
determined to move for a prohibition in the case of the
proceedings instituted by the Archbishop of Canterbury
against Archdeacon Denison.

-THE CONVOCATION of the Prelates and Clergy of the
province of Canterbury was on Friday prorogued in the
Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, pursuant to the
Queen's writ, by the Vicar-General, under a commission
from his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate
and Metropolitan, to Friday, December 15.
THE BRAINTRER CIICTECII-IiATE U.A.SE.-Au apytuatO
the clergy and laity of the Established Church has just
been made by Archdeacons Hale, Sinclair, Jones, and
Grant, with the object of obtaining money to reimburse
Mr. Veley, who conducted the Braintree case on behalf of
the pro-rate party through eight suits to final failure.
" The cost of these proceedings," says the archdeacons„
" which were protracted from 1837 to 1853, a period of 16
years, amount to £2,378 lls. 4d. After deducting £7OOl
the amount of the subscription in 1841, before noticed, it
appears that there remains due to Mr. Veley, for money
actually advanced, or still to be paid by him, the sum of
£1,678 lls. 4d., independent of an outlay of more tharz
£2OO for travelling and personal expenses during 130 days
spent in the cause, for which sum, be it observed, he has
made no claim." The subscription is headed by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London with moo
each; other prelates following with sums ranging betweenc
£5O and £2O.

THE SOLITUDE OF THE DESEET.-1. foundan unspeak-
able fascination in the sublime solitude of the desert. I
often beheld the sun rise, when, within the wide ring of
the horizon, there was no other living creature to be seen.
He came up like a god, in awful glory, and it would libke
been a natural act had I cast myself upon the sand and
worshipped him. The sudden change in the colouring oE
the landscape on his appearance, the lighting up of the
dull sand into a warm golden hue, and the tintings of pur-
ple and violet on the distant porphyry hills, was a morning
miracle, which I never beheld without awe. The richness
of this colouring made the desert beautiful; it was toe
brilliant for desolation. The scenery, so far from depress-
ing, inspired and exhilarated me. I never felt the sensation
of physical health and strength in such perfection, and
was ready to shout from morning to night from the overfalonty
of happy spirits. The air is an elixir of life—as ebwreeeatthet
pure and refreshing as that which the first
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