The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-05-10 00:00:00

THE MAY 11/XIING&

A meeting of the friends and stipperters of the
Malta Protestant College and br.nola schools in the
Turkish empire, for the free education of the natives
eve held on Thursday. the sth ins.., at Willis's Rooms
The Right "on the Earl of :ahaftesbury prod 'ed. The
report rated that the operetious of the institution were
eonfie d exclusively to the free 'digestion of the
natives tha reception of paging pupils bring be n
discontinued. The college would opeo with the names
of 20 students on the roll, but it the income of dr
society continued, as it bad hitherto, to amount to
11.1."Ol per annum, it was intended to increase that
number to 4t Ile coll. ge could be carried on with
100 pupils at a oust if between I:4000 and 115000 per
11111111111.

7th annual meeting of the Protesfant Reforma-
tion Society took p on Monday, the 2nl imt., at
the Ilan int.-square Rooms The hair .111 taken by
Admiral Vernon Hisreourt.—Tia report stated that
many coneer ions bad been made from the Church of
Rome. In 1829 there were in this °wintry but 449
Roman Catholic char.li. than 447 prints, and no mon.s
tens., convent. or co In 186 t t were 1,02
• herds 1140 priests, rnouseteries. 188 connate,
and 12 nIl pa This showed the necessity of active
exertions being ma'. to check Rotimmisain as it existed
at the present day. The financial stet meat slowed •
balance of I:1 114 17e Id from last year, and receipt
from all other sources £3,505, making • total of
13,819175. 9& • hilat the total expense. had amounted
to £3,832 12. Ild., ia a Winos to be carried
forward to next account of t 787 4. 10d.. _ .

The anneal =came of the Church Masionary Society
was held on Tuesday the 3r4 inst., is Faeter-ball. The
Earl a ehichester, the president of the society, took
the chair. The report naiad that the total income a '
the society for the past year had been £164,247 18a ld.,
including £1,745 18.. 74., which wan a aped.' fund for
India. The total ordinsrf exPflfdliaell bad been
£133,771 lls. 44., with £11,016 16s. 101. clamed to
India f end making the total expenditure £1467866.91.
The local feeds raised for the Miriam amounted to
about £20,000, making a grand total from all source, of
£164,247 rho number allelerypeen employed by the
nudely was 289, the number of European laymen,
schoolmaaters, L-ay agent., printers, go.. 22; European
female cambers (exclusive of miesiosarics' wives), 10 :
native and ministry born eatechiets and teachers of all
dames not mot from Louie, 1,983 ; number°, communi-
cants (1860) 19.828; (141) 21.064 ; (1862) 21,261;
(1863) 18,110. The society had 140 stations. It had
also withdrawn from 77 stations, eltielly added to
parochial establishments in the West Indies, or trans-
ferred to the native thumb in Siena Leone, conternine
ten native slew, 4.356 communicant., and 12,868
scholars. The disturbed state of New Zealand had pre-
cluded the °omelete returns of that mission, and the
latest nunibers were not yet received from India. The
report sketched the operations of the wenn in various
parts of the world.—The Archbishop of York moved
the adoption of the report. U. considered that the in-
come of the society was small, considering the waged
tude of its operations. When they sy mpathired, se he
supported they did, with the Confederate States of
America, they were twitted with a desire to maintain
slavery as an institution. So far from that, they were
endeavouring to preach the Word of Life, which was the
word of freedom, to every man in Africa, and • native
of Africa was shout to be consecrated to the highest
aloe in the Church. Let America do that (Tre-
mendous cheering.)—The Earl of Shaftesbury, in
mounding the resolution, heartily rejoiced in the eleva-
tion of Hr. Crowther to the highest office in the
Church, and augured the beet results from his epis-
copate.
The annual snorting of members and friends of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel was held on
Theredsy atilt. James's-hsll. The Archbishop of Oam
tertiary presided. The *bairn:tap having opened the
prairenliee., lb. Maim of Marlborough mom.) • remle-
tion declaring that the coetiabally enlarging sphere of
the society'. operations gave it a yearly increasing slam
on tl e members of the Church. This wan seconded by
Mr. Csrdwell, II P., who referred to the great imeeses
of emigration to our colonie., and dwelt upon the im-
portance of providing the emigrants with the means of
maintaining associations of home and their connexion
with the church in which they were baptized, and lion
the policy of providing the thetas to the native lair
Diana of our colonie. epos the system punned by the
emirll.—The Earl of Hsrrowby moved "that the ad
•bleh the society ha. given to the foundation and en-
dowment of the church to many Lands by promotiog the
appointment of coloni.l missionary bishop., and by non-
tributinr towards 100.1 endowments, demands our
acknowledgment as a permanent service in the muse of
Christianity throughout the world."—The Chancellor
of the Exchequer seconded the remlution.—The &whop
of Columbia, Mr. Hardy, II P., and other speakers,
addressed the meeting. The report stated that in its
last report the society had to lament a fa ling off of in-
come for the year 1862, resulting from the distress In
the manufacturing districts. it has, however, to be
thankful for a considerable inermite for 11163. The
receipts for the year ending Dee. 31, 1863, were as
follows General Pandi—Submintiona, donations, he,
£R4BOO 5.. 91. : legacies, £8240 18e. 9d.; dividends,
interest, Sc,, £4 516 Is.-173.357 3.. 6.1 • appropriated
funds. 1'8,900 7.. 44.; special feed., £575 Os. 51. ;
total, CST 832 us. 44. The society is shadily prow cl-
ing in the course upon which it entered several years
ago, of reducing it. graata in thine dioceses and colonies
which, through ineresang wealth sod population, are
yearly becoming WWII equal to the support of their own
Aura and clergy.
BIUTISH tan FOZZION BIBLII SOCUTT.—Thit usual
manual meeting of this sosiety was held at Exeter Hall,
the Earl of Sitafteablury presiding. There were pre-
sent the Bishops of Winchesterand Ripoo, the Am-
beimerlorit from Bedspring', the Hon. and Rem. &Om
W. Noel and L Noel; the Rem. C. D. Manton, B.
Begley, G. Oollinson, D. °Morns ; the Rev. Canoe
Canis, Lord Charles Itereell, R. Flaabury, Eel., M.P.,
do. The Imp hall was crowded to seems, principally
by ladies. The Rare. James Jackson, secretary, road the
report, which set forth at greet length the
of the moiety in different parts of Me world. Traellic" ted
that the reeeipts for the year ending the 31st of Mara,
1854, bad exceeded thew of any preceding year. The
sum applicable to the general parrimot of the mast,
amounted to £89,897 13s. ild., being an inereme of
£5,634 15s. Id. over the preceding year, while the
unmet reerived for Bibles and Teskieesta wee
£79,007 104. 64., or £5,280 fs. dd. more than in the
preceding year. The total receipts from the ordinary
sources of income antoonted to £168,906 45.. being
£122 2.. Bd. mom then in any former year. To this
would be added £l7O 194. Ild, for the Chimes New
Testament rued, and £27 13s. 84. for the medal laid
for Dais, making a greed total of £169,703 17.. 7d.
The image of Bibles for the pest year amounted to
2,495 118 copies, making the tot.' issues of the society
45,539,452 mates. The ordinary payments amoneted
to £144.316 13e. 84., and payments ea moounti.fzeoial
funds to 87,039 Us. 34., making the total ez item
of the year to amount to £151,355 13.. 1 d.. being
£Bl6 Ile. W. more time in the preceding rear. The en-
of the society anitiontod to £108,619 14c 11d.
rwertathes moved sad carried saanimoosly that the
report which had bees read be resolved and printed
guider the direcitioa of the easninittes. Resolittisse were
thee pat to the tagetiom sod carried without% • die.
sentient, to the edict that the meting reoogaised, in
the Lagely-inermeed rascal Is of the pea year, :=1
of the growing attachment to an oblate dam
ago that the thanks of the meeting be given to the
president end norpresideeta the tresinwer, ha., for
their untiring seal and enemy to promote the &Imes of
the emiety. A Gomm Moe fur the ensuing year was then
elected, and the meeting 001111111114 by. settee thanks
to lb. ellairesan.
WRIBLETAN 113111001111. MNSIONARY 80171111.—The
enun.l meeting of ti • friends of the Wesleyan
sty Society was had in the biro room at Exener-ball ; Kr.
?tarsier in the educe Tim Chairman, in the Gonne as
loam address, referred to the work of the society in ell
perts of the world, which was estielactory in every
degree_ The Secretary read the report, whish stated
that the receipts of the moiety for ths post year
amounted to £124,258 Ti. The general ezpsedltere, in-
cluding the goat of the Canton and Hsokow ml 4
sod of the Mir missions iu Italy, 8149,201 131°M,
rant towards the erection of a new e• apel in Park
11.11100, making a total of £150,201 13s , being £16,043 th.
more then the reeeipte. 'The son., presaged to the
Jubilee rued sow amounted to 8113.000• 38 missies
mime and seven wives of raindosianee have bees seat out
by tbeemiety 'Mee the lost amtiverwtry. The camber
miimiees ender the immediate demo,. of the soci.ty
was 534 • chapels and Flushing plmes in tommesties
with thi's inisentas. 4,648; Ministers and maseerit
misslooaries, seeledlog 46 supernumeraries. 910; other
psid spots, as esteobilds, interpreters, day school
leachers, he, 1,467 • unpaid agents, as Sabhathsehool
teachers, he., 17,805 Fall sad accredited (Insert.
..mbigs, 142 449; on total for 'harsh member
hip
13,929 asholan, deducting for them who Wooed both
the day awl Barbet\ seheofe. 64.329108616118•6•14,811-
sanuwaniil64 eBxpeed. Bffirreitel atherrasimmsamount"a tee reseirestrisliegpte wool;
he adopted. Ti.. stale of the ..heio.s sad the e.monst
cI4OOI by the nsl.slsserlre wee very .stici.e'ory.
were then delivered by the Its.. John B..tt,
Rev. Mr Roche, sod a nembe, el other gentlemen,
ins rzenweeadepasd, sad
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dce.reeeitoescarried
sbo mware a e ud sttunded
Itsiosa,y sperredeo• • vote of thalami to theolmer
me skied
the meeting. -

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