The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-10 00:00:00

DIOCESE OF CHESTER

PREPERMBNTS.—The Rev. Neasou Wm. Adams Wallace
has been licensed to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Michael's
Church, Macclesfield, in the county of Chester, on the nomi-
nation of the Rev. C. A. J. Smith, the incumbent. —The
Rev. Thomas St. Hill has been licensed to the Stipendiary
Curacy of -Barthomley, in the County of Chester, on the
nomination of the Rev. Edward Duncombe, the incumbent,
with the consent of the Archbishop of York, under 59
Geo. 3, cap. 60.
TAXALL.—The Rev. J. G. Slight has been instituted to
the Rectory of Taxa', Cheshire, void by the resignation
of the Rev. J. L. Whiteford. Value, £250, with a house
CONSECRATION—BIDSTOX.—The piece of land added to
the church-yard of Bidston, in the county of Chester, was
consecrated by the Bishop on Wednesday last, the. 4th
instant.

AMBLESIDE NEW Cffuncn.—This church, consecrated
in June last, has been licensed by the Bishop for the pub-
lication of banns and solemnization of marriages, under
the Act of 6 and 7 William IV, in the same manner as
they may be published and solemnised in the Old Church,
for which it is shortly to be substituted.

THE EARL OF ABERDEEN has constituted himself a
Life Governor of the Church Missionary Society, by for-
warding a donation of £5O.
CirrrnmarAm.—The Rev. F. Close, in consequence of
ill-health, has been compelled to cease his ministrations
here for the present.

INSTALLATION OF THE ARCHDEACON OF MANCHESTER.
—The Ven. Robert Mosley Master, the newly appointed
Archdeacon of Manchester, was, on Thursday last, formally
installed in the Cathedral by the Very Rev. the Dean of
Manchester, in obedience to the Bishop's mandate.
THE LORD PRIMATE OF IRELAND (the Archbishop
of Armagh) on Sunday week consecrated the newly ap-
pointed Bishop of the united sees of Kilmore, Elphin, and
Ardagh, the Rev. Marcus Beresford, in the cathedral of
Armagh, assisted by the Bishops of Tuam and Down.
VENERADLES.—The Rev. EJward Tyson, incumbent at
Seathwaite, died last month, aged.eiglity-three. Hist in-
cumbency has been of fifty-two years' duration; and his
predecessor, the* Rev. Robert Walker, well-known as
" Wonderful Walker"—(who died in 1802, aged ninety-
two)---was incumbent sixty-eight years. Here, then, were
two paftors whose ministrations over one flock covered a
period of one hundred and twenty years.

EVEETON AWD KIREDALE WARD.—We understand
that a large and :influential party have invited Daniel
Crosthwaite, Esq., of Whitefield House, Everton, to ttand
as a candidate on the first of November, to repreieht the
interests of the above ward in the Town Council'.

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday evening, Joseph Gilmour,
aged 48, Melville-street, Toxteth-park, on leaving Mr.
Smith's Temperance Hotel, Hill-street, with his daughter,
fell when he got outside the door, and instantly expired.
SHIP LAuNcitzs.—On Saturday was launched, from
the building-yard of Mr. John Laird, at the Dingle, a
finely-modalled iron screw-steamer, the Imperatriz, built
for the South American and General Steam Navigation
Company, to ply, as one of their new class of ocean
steamers, between this port and the Brazils. The cere-
mony of naming was performed by the wife of Admiral
Grenfel, of the Brazilian navy. The dimensions of the-
vessel are :—Length, 265 feet ;- beam, 36 feet ; depth of
hold, 26' feet ; tonnage, 1800. She will be fitted by
Messrs: Fawcett, Preston and Co., with direct-acting en-
gines of nominally 200 horse-power, and is advertised to
sail, on her first voyage, on'the 24th November next.—
This week Mr. Laird will lannch,' from his Birkenhead
yard, a'paddle-steamer, intended for the branch service of
the same company between Rio Janeiro and, the River
Plate, of the following dimensions :—Length, 200 feet ;
beam, 25 feet ; depth, 10 feet. Her engines are being
made by Messrs. Humphrey, Tennant and Dyke, of
Woolwich.—lmmediately after the Imperatriz was sent
off the stocks, the Sappho, a beautifully-modelled iron yes
sel, of 400 tons, was launched from the adjoining yard of
Messrs. Rennie, Johnson and Co. This was the first
craft launched from the new premises of these enterprising
builders, and she is the forerunner of five already on the
stock S.. She is the property of Messrs. Gardner, and is
intended to trade between Brazil and Newfoundland.—
About the same time a handsome iron ship was launched
by Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son, Brunswick Pier,
having been named the Istria, by Miss Cninntins daugh-
ter of one of the gentlemen interested in the vessel. The,
Istria is intended for the Mediterranean trade,' and is of
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the following dimensions :—Length, 135 feet ; beam, 23
feet; depth, 14 feet ; measurement, about 350 tons. The
Istria is the fifth vessel launched at this yard since Dec.
last, and it is only four months since a vessel was sent off
from the bIQ ks on which phe had been conCz'ucted.