The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

Rev. W. J. Ar

gh, to the Livings of Rossniire and Fewes,

Ball, to be Domestic Chaplain to tl:e Earl of

Rev. T. H
Crawford and
Rev. G. Clark, M. A., to the Living of Tenby, Pembrokeshi re
Rev. E. A. Darby, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Christ
Church, Salford.

Mr. J. G. Doman, 8.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
the Head Mastership of the Free Grammar School, Low•

ther, Westmoreland.
Rev. W. Hornby, M.A., Rector of St. Michael's-on-Wyre,
to the Rural Deanery of Amounderness, in the Archdeaconry
of Lancaster.
ReV. %V. Hughes, 8.D., to the Vicarage of Llanwddyn, near
Oswestry.
Rev. C. C. Lowndes, to the Head Mastership of Kirton
Grammar School, Lincolnshire.
Rev. W. H. Lyon, Curate of Milborne Port, Somerset, to
the Vicarage of °borne, Dorsetahire.
Rev. R. J. Lyon, to the Curacy of Milborne Port, Somerset.
Rev. J. Lyster, Rector of the Union of Tashinny, county of
Longford, to the Deanery of Leighlin.
Rev. C. Moore. LL.B., Rector of; Poole-Keynes, Wilts, to
the Vicarage of Romsey, Hants.
Rev. J. B. Owen, to the Ministrylof St. John's, Bedford-row. Rev. C. A. Perring, to the Incumbency of St. John's in the
Vale, Keswick, Cumberland.
Rev. J. N. Pocklington, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Tri-
nity Church, Salford.
Rev. J. Poslethwaite, to the Incumbency of Christ Church,
Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire.
Rev. T. A. Purdy, to the Incumbency of St. Peter's, Gala-
Wells, in the diocese of Glasgow, N.B.
Rev. J. M. Rice, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford,
to the Vicarage of Wye, near Ashford, Kent.
Rev. R. H. Witherby, M.A., to the Subwardenship of Tri-
nity College, Glenalmond.

OITURCII RESTORATION.—The fine old church of Ilkes-
ton, Derbyshire, is to be restored, at an expense of £3,000,
towards which the working men of the district, chiefly
colliers, have subscribed £5OO.
OPEN AIR PREACIIING.—The Rev. E. Palmer, minis-
ter of the Waterman's Church in this city, now preaches
on Pitchcroft on Sunday evening. He has had a tolerably
numerous company of quiet and attentive listeners on each
occasion hitherto. The Rev. W. Wardley, of Lowesmoor
Chapel, preached on Sunday afternoon in the Corn-market.
—Worcestershire Chronicle.

THE CONVOCATION of the prelates and clergy of the
province of Canterbury was on Thursday prorogued at the
Jerusalem Chamber by the Vicar-General, Dr. Twiss,
under a commission from his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan, to Friday, Oc-
tober 20.

DIOCESE or MANCHESTER.—The Rev. Samuel Curtis
Sharp has resigned the perpetual curacy of St. Peter's,
Halliwell. The living is in the gift of the Rev. Chancellor
Raikes, of Chester, and Messrs. John Horrocks, Ainsworth,
and Robert Gardner.—The Rev. Thomas Hanley Hall,
8.A., has been appointed domestic chaplain to the Earl of
Brawfurd and Balcarres.—The Rev. Francis Gartside Tip-
ping has resigned the perpetual curacy of All Saints,
Bolton-le-Moors. The living is in the gift of the late
William Tipping, Esq., of Davenport Hall, Cheshire.—The
Lord Bishop of Manchester has collated the Rev. Thomas
Mackreth, 8.D., to the office of honorary canon of the
Cathedral Church, Manchester, in the place of Rev. Dr.
Whittaker, deceased, and his lordship has issued his man-
date for his induction and installation thereto.
TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. G. DAIIBENEY.—OH Sa-
turday, a handsome testimonial was presented to the Rev.
Giles Daubeney, rector of Lidiard Trejoz, near Swindon,
by the guardians and ratepayers of the Cricklade and
Wootton Bassett Union. It took place at the board-room,
Parton, in the presence of a large number of the subscri-
bers and gentry of the neighbourhood. The plate, which
is of the value of £l2O, consists of a magnificently-wrought
silver centre-piece upon a tripod stand, in the Louis Qua-
torze style, supporting an elegantly-pierced basket for
flowers, the base engraved with the family arms, &c., of
the rev. gentleman, and also hearing an appropriate in-
scription.—Bath Chronicle.

PROTESTANTISM IN GERMANY.—The Seventh Annual
Session of the German Kirchentay (Church League) is to
be held at Frankfort-on-Maine, on the 22nd September,
and four following days :

"All Evangelial Christians who, by their belief, occupy
the ground of the Confessions of Faith of the Reformation,
and who cordially desire the success of the efforts made to
bring about a confederacy of the German Churches,
Lutheran, Reformed, and United, are invited to take part
in this seventh session. The ecclesiastical bodies which
approve of the object and efforts of the Diet are also fra-
ternally entreated to lend their aid in sending to it delegates.
"On the first two days (September 22 and 23,) the topics
to be brought forward, under direction of the general and
select committee of the Diet, are— _ .

"1. The right use of the Bible, in the Church, in the
school, and in the family : Dr. Hoffman: of Berlin, to in-
troduce the subject. 2. The position of the Church as
regards the civil right in relation to the question of divine :
Dr. Julius Muller, of Halle. 3. Justification of the
baptism of infants : Dr. Steinmeier, of Bonn. The Sun-
day is to be devoted to divine worship and free assemblies.
On the Monday and Tuesday, under the direction of the
Central Committee for the Interior (or Home Mission) the
following topics are to be discussed :--1. Of the care of
the poor in the Church. 2. Principle of the interior
mission. 3, The Evangelical German Church of the
United States in its relations to the Mother Church of
Germany. Besides these six points, special conferences
are to be held on the following topics :—" 1. On the in-
terior mission in the universities : Reporter, Dr. Hundes-
hagen, of Heidelberg. 2. On religious art : Dr. Beth-
mann, Hollweg. 3. On the question of prisons : Dr. D.
Muhler, of Berlin. 4. On asylums (des refuges) : Dr.
Stiehl, of Berlin. 5. On the sanctification of the Sabbath :
Counsellor De Krockor, of Gerdelengen. 6. On the rela-
tions of the association with the Interior Mission : Profes-
sor V. H. Huber, of Vernigerode. 7. On working mess'societies : Professor Krafft, of Bonn."
NE w Cuunc HE s.—Several new churches are about being
commenced in the metropolitan districts, and some arc so
far advanced as to be nearly ready for consecration. In
Paddington three new churches are to be at once com-
menced, the Bishop of London having subscribed £l,OOO
towards that object. In Coventry-street, Haymarket,
between Rupert-street and Princes-street, a church is to
be erected, Her Majesty the Queenhaving
£500; the Bishop of London, £1,0003 Viscount Sydney,
£25 ; and Mr. W. T. Egerton, M.P., £25, for that purpose..
subscribed
Three churches are to be erected in Clerkeuwell, au maul