The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

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CONSECRATION.—INCE CIIIIRCH.—The pari

of Ince, which has recently been rebuilt with the addition
of an entirely new north aisle, at the sole cost of Mrs.
Park, of Ince, was consecrated, by the Bishop of Chester,
on Tuesday last. The restoration has been effected with
great good taste, from the designs of Mr. Hodkinson, the
architect. The church, as rebuilt, contains 259 sittings,
of which 106 are entirely free. At the conclusion of the

morning service, an eloquent and appropriate sermon was
preached by the bishop to a numerous congregation, in
eluding the neighbouring clergy and many others from a

distance. The addition to the churchyard-was consecrated
at the same • time, and additional accommodation has
thereby been provided for the interment of the dead,
while, at the same time, a great improvement has been
effected in the approach, to the church.
PnErEnmrsx.—The Rev. William Quckett has been
presented to the Rectory of Warrington, in the county of
Lancaster, by Her Majesty the Queen, in right of her
royal prerogative, the living having become void by the
promotion of the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys to the
bishopric of Sodor and Man.

THE BISHOP OF RazsToL has offered to rebuild Staple-
ton Church entirely at his own expense, provided the
sittings be free and unappropriated. The cost will be up-
wards of £5,000.

-Thocrsr or MANcirrsrEr. Appointritents : The
Bishop of Manchester has licensed the Rev. J. M'Cubbin,
M.A., curate of St. Mark's Church, Cheetham, to the in-
cumbency of Bacup, near Whalley, Lancashire, vice the
Rev. B. Tweedle, M.A., on the nomination of Hulme's
trustees. His lordship has also licensed the Rev. Charles
Edward Partington, 8.A., to the stipendiary curacy of the
parish church, Stand, near Bury.

MUNIFICENCE or A LADY.—A very beautiful, church
was consecrated, last week, by the Archbishop of York, at
Coatham, Redcar, the entire cost of which, together with
the site, has been provided by Mrs. Newcomen, of Kirk-
leatham Hall, near Redcar. This lady has also.granted a
yearly rent-charge of £5O on her estate for an endowment,
and a further sum of £IO per annum for the maintenance
of the fabric.

CHAPLAIN TO THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal
Highness Prince Albert- has been pleased to appoint the
Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Canon of Canterbury, to
be Chaplain in Ordinary to his royal highness, vice the
Rev. Dr. Richards, deceased.
COLONIAL BISITOPS SELECTED FROM Liv-EnrooL.,--At
a meeting of the clergy of this town and neighbourhood,
held on Tuesday, congratulatory addresses were• resolved
upon to the Rev. F. Barker, recently incumbent of St.
Mary's, Edge-hill, on- his appointment to the bishopric of
Sydney, and to the Rev. V. W. Ryan, formerly vice-
principal of the Collegiate Institution, and curate of St.
Mary's, Edge-hill, on his appointment to the•bishopric of
the Mauritius.

MORE OPEN-AIR PREACHING. The Rev. C. R.
Alford, incumbent of Christchurch, Doncaster, commenced
open-air preaching on Sunday. About 4 o'clock in the
afternoon the rev. gentleman took up his station at the
corner of Car-lane, at the junction of four streets in one
of the poorer quarters of the town, and having given out
a hymn and offered up prayer, preached an, energetic
doctrinal discourse from the Ist Corinthians x. 4, " For
they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and
that rock was. Christ." A very considerable number of
persons collected round Mr. Alford during the service,
which lasted about an hour, and they all. seemed to pay
marked and respectful attention to the proceedings. Mr.
Alford announced his intention of continuing his open-
air preachings.
DEFICIENT CHURCH ACCOMMODATION. IT THE DIO-
CESE OF LINCOLN.—In a circular letter, addressed to the
clergy of his diocese, the Bishop of Lincoln complains of
deficient Church accommodation. He says :—" In ex-
amining the returns made to me at the beginning of the
year, I have been painfully struck with the large number
of parishes still remaining in which provision is made for
attendance on public worship once only in each Sunday.
Without reckoning consolidated parishes having two
churches with' one service in each, there are 273 parishes
in which one service only is given, being very nearly one-
third of the parishes in the diocese—a proportion which
has, I believe, no parallel in any other diocese. Of these,
100 are cases where two parishes are held by the same
incumbent in plurality ; 79 where the incumbent of one
parish is also curate of another, or where one clergyman
holds two curacies ; the remaining 94 admit of no expla-
nation. In some instances, indeed, the churches are not
far distant ; parishioners of one parish might, and some-
times do, attend the second service at the church of ano-
ther ; but, in general, it is tobe feared (even in the case
of consolidated parishes), they do not go to any church
but their own. In addition to these, there are 30 parishes
in which, though prayers, are read twice, there is only one
sermon. It is difficult, I believe, to over-estimate the
evil resulting from this state of things. In every parish
there must be some who, at any one time, are prevented
from attending public worship ; and these, where. Divine
service is celebrated but once, are obliged either to lose
the privilege and benefit altogether, or to seek a substi-
tute in the meeting-house ; while, even those who have
been able to attend church once, feeling the need of fur-
ther opportunities of worship and instruction (which, if
good for ourselves, we must admit to be also good for
them), are often led to adopt the same resource. Nor do
I see how the Church can hope to regain the ground
which it has. lost, or even to retain the affection of its
members, while it leaves unsupplied a want which not
only is, bat ought to be felt."

THE COST of the riots at Wigan, which will have to be
defrayed, out of the borough treasury, has been ascertained
to amount to nearly £2,000. The greatest part of this
arose from the travelling expenses and maintenance of the
soldiers called to protect the town.
GARDI'S EXHIBITION.—Signor L. Gardi has opened
an exhibition of works of art, chiefly pictures, in the
Gallery of Art, Church-street. The collection is not nu-
merous, but it includes several works of much merit.
Conspicuous among them is an admirable picture by
Turner. It is a view of the Castle of Argues, a picture
in the artist's early and best style. The picture is a
splendid specimen of the powerful effect of light and
shadow, and the tolling results of those pearly greys
which he knew so well how to introduce. A " Death of
Abel," from the easel of Etty, is an early specimen of the
master, partaking to a considerable extent of the charac-
ter of an academy study. In the collection there are also
choice specimens of other favourite masters.

A PARADOX: TEMPERANCE THE CAIISE OP DRUN-
RENNESS.—There was a more than usually large number
of drunken cases at the Marlborough-street Police-office,
on Tuesday morning. Inspector Chadwick attributed the
circumstance to the great temperance meeting that took
place in the course of the day. The inquiries he made led
him to believe that most of the drunkards on the police-
sheet bad made a holiday to attend the meeting.

MR. SMITH O'BRIEN:—The Limerick Chronicle says
—The family of Mr. W. Smith O'Brien received a letter
this week from that gentleman, dated the last week in
May, from Van Dieman's Land, when he was preparing to
avail himself of her Majesty's gracious pardon, and to
leave the colony for Europe. Mr. Smith O'Brien and other
relatives will meet the liberated exile at Brussels, where
it is probable he will reside ; and we have ths pleasure to
inform his countrymen that Mr. O'Brien accepted with
the best feelings his Sovereign's spontaneous clemency in
remission of the penalty for a political offence.
SALT AS A PREVENTATIVE OF CuoLEßA.—During
inquiries held in London, on the bodies of several persons
who had died of cholera, the medical gentlemen under
examination concurred in saying that not a life would be
lost did people but apply for medical relief the moment
the first symptom of the disease appeared in the shape of
diarrhoea. It was generally believed by the faculty that
cholera was not the frightful disease represented if it was
attended to in its early stages. In fact there was no
disease so easily cured as cholera when treated in its first
stage. Mr. Wakley, the coroner, remarked upon the
treatment of the disease, and mentioned, among other
antidotes, common salt taken freely with every meal;
medical gentlemen had asserted that no person would by
attacked who took salt with their meals. At CroiwtOt
and in India, where the cholera raged frightful,
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