The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

1854

ECCLESIASTICAL INT_ELLIG.ENCR,

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS,

Rev. H. S. Anders, M.A., to the Rectory of Kirkby-la-
Thorpe with Astarby annexed, Lincolnshire.
Rev. J . Barclay, to the Curacy of Dunleckney.
Rev. N. a Batt, M.A., to the Vicarages of Norton and
Lenchurch, near Evesham.
Rev. G. Bradshaw, M.A., to be Chaplain to the County
Gaol, Southampton.
Rev. G. Butterworth, 8.A., to the Ministry of the Chapel
of Ease, Henbury, near Bristol.

Rev. J. M. Daley, to the Rectory of Newtown, Fertullagh,
county Westmeath.
Rev. A. Delap, to the curacy of Urker, county of Donegal.
Rev. R. Dawkins, M.A., to the Vicarage of Weston Zoy-
land, Somerset.

1 Rev. F. A. Dawson, 8.A., to the Rectory of Buscot, Berks.
Rev. W. Drought, the Vicarage of Gallan, King's County.
Rev. B. C. Fawcett, to the Perpetual Curacy of Cappognin,
County Waterford.

Rev: R. Gibbings, M.A.. to the Incumbency of Radley,
Berkshire. _ _ _

YG:ii.3. Graham, Chaplain of the Sheffield General In-
firmary, to the Incumbency of Pudsey, Calverley, Yorkshire.
Rev. C. Haggard, M.A., to the (joint) Curacy of St. Anne's,
Wandsworth.

Rev. B. Hurd, to the Incumbency of Collierly, near Lan-
chester, Durham.
Rev. J. M. Hobson, to the Rectory of Rilnemanagh,
county Wexford. _

Rev. J. Jackson, M.A., to the Curacy of Great Bowden,
near Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
Rev. W. Jackson, Curate of Westport, to the Parish of
Icommon-Eris.

Rev. J. Lees, to the Living of Newport, diocese of Cashel.
Rev. H. Lowry, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Peter and St
Paul, Aston, Warwickshire. _

Re.v. C. L. Maltby, M.A., to the Rectory of Newton Wold,
near Great Grimsby.

Rev. C. E. Maya, M.A., to be Assistant Minister of St.
Philip's, Haggerstone. _

Rei..l. F. -Morton, to the Preachership of Cashel Cathedral,
and Curacy of St. Patrick's Rock and Hoar Abbey.
Rev. A. G. Moore, M.A., to the Vicarage of Romsey,
Hampshire.
Rev. P. H. Percy, to the Curacy of Deal, Kent.
Rev. A. Potter, B.A:, to the Curacy of Skirbeck, nearlioston.
Rev. L. F. Potter, 8.A., to the Assistant Curacy of Lambeth.
Rev. W. Prince, M.A., to the Incumbency of Peshili, near
Henley-on-Thames.

Rev. H. F.
A stley, Leices

RadfOrd, M.A., to the Rectory of Broughton

Rev. T. W. Roe, 8.A., late Chaplain of Portsmouth Gaol,
to be Chaplain to tie Convict Department at Bermuda.

Rev. H
Warwick!

Salmon, 8.A., to the Curacy of Long Compton,

Rev. W. F. Sanders, M.A., to the Vicarage of Watford,
,ar Daventrv.

Rev. W. Mason, 8.A., to the Curacy of Burgh, with Win-
thorpe, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire.
Rev. S. N. Smith, to the Incumbency of Thurstonland,
near Huddersfield. _ _

Rer. H. Thomas, to the Curacy of St. John's, Lytham,
Lancashire.

Rev. M. Thompson, M.A., to the Incumbency of Lucker,
Northumberland.

y Rev. Dean Tighe, to the Deanery and Rectory of Ar-

dagh,-Longford

fte;r. C. 'Waiters, M.A.. Rector of Wyke (or Weeke), Hamp.
shire, to be Chaplain of the Winchester Union.
Rev. T. J. Welland, to the Curacy of Carlow, CountyCarlow.
Rev. H. G. White, 8.A., to the curacy of Bullaugh, Isle of
Man. _ . •

Rev. W. Wilson, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of St. An-
drew's, Manchester.
Rev. L. W. Wood, 8.A., to the Curac

I of Bulkington,

Warwickshire

Rev. C. B. Yeoman, M.A., to the Rectory of Marholme,
near Peterborough.

THE BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND.—This right rev. pre-
late, though far away from the scene of his appointed
labour, seems nevertheless to be most laboriously engaged.
On Sunday week, he preached at Eccleshall ; on Mon-
day, at the Cathedral Church at Lichfield, speaking at a
meeting at the Guildhall there in the afternoon ; on Tues-
day morning he took part in the ceremony of opening
Oxon Church, Shrewsbury, in the evening lecturing before
the Young Men's Institute ; and on Wednesday morning
preached at Wells.
THE BISHOPRIC OF SYDNEY. —The Cambridge
Chronicle states that the bishopric of Sydney, which was
vacant upwards ofeighteenmonths, was offered in succession
to three Irish clergymen: first to Mr. Hamilton Verschoyle,
of Dublin, who declined it; then to Mr. C. M. Fleury,
chaplain to the Molineux Asylum, Dublin, who also refused
it; and then to Mr. Frederick Barker, who accepted the
appointment. Mr. Barker's consecration is expected to take
place next month, and he will shortly afterwards proceed
to Australia.
A Goon EXAMPLE.—The Cornwall Gazette, speaking
of the day of thanksgiving at St. Feock, says—" The vicar
(the Rev. T. Phillpotts, nephew to the Bishop of Exeter)
expressed his regret to a Wesleyan parishioner that, on the
day specially appointed for the nation to express its thanks,
the whole parish should notmeet under one roof,to bless God
for his goodness together. The parishioner talked the
subject over with his friends, and they consulted one of the
preachers of the circuit, who entirely approved the sugges-
tion, as that which Wesley in his day would have com-
mended and enjoined.. • The consequence was, that the
Wesleyan chapel was not opened on Sunday morning, and
the whole parish throngedtheir church, where the number
of communicants was greater than probably was ever
before known at St. Feock."
Sr. Joint's, DEPTPORD.—On Monday the first stone of
this church was laid by the Archdeacon of Middlesex. It
is to be of a handsome Gothic structure, of large dimen-
sions, beautifully situate on a hill adjoining the Lewisham-
road. A number of the clergy and gentry of the neigh-
bourhood were assembled on the occasion. Archdeacon
Sinclair stated that one individual had placed. £lO,OOO at
his disposal to build a church, parsonage, and schools in
the parish of Deptford ; and that to meet this contribution
another liberal friend of the church (James Lucas, Esq.,)
had presented him with an elegant villa and garden for a
parsonage, and also with commodious sites for the church
and for the schools
DIOCES

or MANCHESTER.—Ordination : The Lord
Bishop of Manchester held an ordination in the parish
church of Poulton-le-Fylde on Sunday week, when the
following gentlemen were ordained, and afterwards li-
censed to the curacies set opposite to their respective
names :—Wm. Ford Thursby, S.C.L., Emanuel College,
Cambridge, to Worsthorne ; Ellis Fred. Thorold, MA.,
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to Poulton-le-Fylde ; Evan
Alfred Jenkin, 8.A., Caius College, Cambridge, to St.
Matthew's, Manchester; Alfred Pavey, B.A„ Queen's
College, Oxford, to St. James's, Heywood ; Wm. Henry
Fell, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, to St. John, Lan-
caster.—Appointments : His lordship, on Saturday week,
at Poulton-le-Fylde, licensed the Rev. Henry Thomas to the
stipendiary curacy of St. John's Church, Lytham, on the
nomination of the Rev. W. H. Self, the incumbent. On
Tuesday, at the Diocesan Registry, St. James's-square, his
lordship licensed the Rev. Wm. Wilson, M.A., to the per-
petual curacy of St. Andrew's, Manchester, vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. Henry Wray, the last incumbent,
on the nomination of the Dean and Canons of Manchester,
the patrons. Mr. Wilson's acceptance was not compulsory,
as owing to a defect in the details of this act it became
voluntary on his part.
TIIE Clluncn IN SCOTLAND.—The convocation of the
laity of the diocese of Moray and Ross was held at Inver-
ness on the 20th ult. The Litany was said by the Bishop's
chaplain, and the Holy Communion was administered.
Thereafter the Bishop constituted the convocation in the
name of the Holy Trinity, and then delivered to the
laity present all address from which we select the
following passages-- :—" I confess (said the Bishop) that
amongst the motives which have influenced me in sum-
moning. to council' the lay members of my diocese, that of
engagmg them in determining controversies has had no place.
I had rather thought of engaging them in such practical
work as would-leave little time or thought for controversy,
and whose valuable and benefi, i I results might go far to
blunt its edge, and tend to draw Churchmen together on
points on which they are agreed, rather than engage them
on those on which they differ. 'lf any man will do God's
will he shall know of the doctrine,' encourages me to be-
lieve that when all orders and degrees of men are severally
engaged in doing God's will by doing His Church's work
in the Church's sway, according to their several abilities
in their respective stations, our knowledge of truth will
become clearer, and unity of sentiment will be promoted
by unity of action." After alluding to the preralent evil
which arises from the want of united action and sympathy
among Scottish Churchmen, his Lordship said :—" It is no
slight advantage to me that the Church by her canons has
authorized me annually to seek the counsel and advice of
the Presbyters of the diocese. It is because lam sensible
of the advantages thus afforded, because I feel that I am
now losing the aid which I might also derive from the
counsel and advice of thq laity, and because I think it will
be for the furtherance of the great objects for which I have
been called to preside over this portion of the Lord's vine-
yard, that I have convened this Convocation, that I propose
its annual convention, and that I ask, as your bishop,
cordial and effective co-operation where our interests are
one, our objects one, and with, I trust, the superintending
influence of God's Holy Spirit, we may labour together to
promote the object for which the Incarnate Saviour con-
stituted His Church on earth—the salvation of the souls
for which He died." On the conclusion of the Bishop's
addresses, some resolutions were agreed to, expressing ap-
proval of the course pursued by the bishop in summoning
a convocation.
PLAIN PREACHING.—In the charge to his clergy, re-
cently
delivered, the Lord Bishop of Llandaff made the
following remarks with reference to preaching. He said:—
I am persuarded that in our sermons we do not descend
sufficiently to the level of the lower classes of our hearers.
The dissenting preacher, at least in this part of the king-
dom, has one great advantage over the clergyman—that
his congregation consists of persons of the same rank in
society; and, therefore, it may be presumed, of the same
measure of attainment. He is consequently under no
temptation to adopt a style of preaching which, though it
might be acceptable to some, would be incomprehensible
to others of his hearers. But our own congregations are
gathered from all classes of the community ; and we too
often forget that, although the educated portion of them
may grasp the meaning of involved and parenthetic sen-
tences, and may be familiar with a phraseology of foreign
extraction, to the poor and illiterate such words and sen-
tences are altogether unintelligible. That such is the
case we all readily admit ; but we do not so commonly act
in accordance with our convictions. Our habits of thought
and expression have been, cast in another mould : and too
often, in reference to this particular, we forget the apos-
tolic precept—Condescend to men of low estate. The
consequence of which is that oar sermons are often not
understood, and a temptation is put in the way of the
lower and middling classes to seek elsewhere the instruc-
tion which is within the reach of their capacity. It is to
our English rather than to our Welsh addresses that I
intend these observations to be applied. Au English sen-
tence can hardly be composed without introducing words
of foreign origin. With a few of these words, usage has
made our people familiar; but not understanding the sources
from which they are derived, they are utterly perplexed
by any new and unheard-of combindion. The complei
terms in the Welsh language are, on the other hand,
composed of familiar and well-known elements. The idea
they present is, therefore, immediately grasped, though
the word through which it is conveyed may never have
been heard of before. * * * How much, again, of the
sympathy that should unite the affections of the people
with our liturgical forms is lost in those parishes where
the sick are never invited by their pastor to desire the
prayers of the church, nor taught to utter the voice of
thanksgiving for the recovery of health, in the midst of
the congregation. It is the want of this individual ap-
probation of our services that renders them, to so many,
dull and uninteresting forms. The habit of making them
their own would give them an additional meaning, pro-
mote Christian charity, and cement the bond of fellowship
with the pastor himself, and between the several members
of his sock.