The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

ecrissiaotical Intllligatts

RILIOIMIS TRACI' SOCRITT. —The 67th I meet
ing of this warty was braid en Friday evening at Exeter
Han. The total value of giants, money, paper and pub-
lications, amnestied to £14,57 I 7". Id. The total meipt.
of the to iety, including the balance of last
amounted to £107,255 Ba. 51., and the total rayntilits to
£108.884 10a. 5d.. leaving • balance of £1,370 18a. in the
treaintrier'• hand". Total circulation of the society,
radon* publication', including foreign issues, fur the
year, 48,000,000. and since it origin, 1,148,000,000.
CHURCH fillnllionlAT Bocirrr. —The lineal meeting
wta held on Tue-day morning. The Bishop of Ripon,
I. the absence of the E•rl of Chiebester, proddent,
wadded. Toe revenue of the year had amounted to
£148,11011 le. 91., and ti e expenditure to £14456817.44.
being • surplus id £16494. 5.1. The local fonds raised
I. the miesions,and expended there upon the operations of
the society. but independently of the general fund, were
not included in the foregoing statement. They amounted
to about 020.000. The total number of clergymen in
rntilfeeflop with the covet!, European and native, was
278. The number of European layman employed
(•clionlrouters, agents, he.) was 21: Ear poen female
t•aohrra (exclusive of missionaries' wive.) 91, native
and country-born eatechist., and workers of all dares
not sent (rein hnme 11,149. The number of communicants
in 1145 was 14,155. The returns of the New Zealand
hael not been received on account of the di.-
totbed state of the country. The society bad withdrawn
trona 77 stations oh 'Sr aided to parochial stations in
he We'd Indio., or tranclersd to the native church in
Sierra Leone, oontoOong 10 native clergy, 4,358 CCM I
raunioants, and 11,888 scholars.

Bernie MID Fuesms Bala Scorn. —On Wwiaes -
day, the anneal meeteng was held at liceter•hall, the
Bari of shah...bury in the chair. The receipt. exhibi.
an increase, in almost erery item, with the eteeVion of
legacies, in which there Is a diminution of £22,670
The stun applicable to the general purpowe of the
soceety has amounted to 410,15215, and the smount
received for Bibles sad nestaisente bee been £81,303,
being £2,913 more than in the preceding ye-er. The
total receipte front the ordinary sources of income have
amouneed to £161,828. To thie. must be added the sum
of MG reoeiemel for the China feed; Elll for the ?Kiel
fond for India • and £8,924 further contributions in mid
of the building fund; meting • grand total of £121,375
The ordinary payments have amounted to £179,157, nod
the payment. on socount of the special fend to E 6.941.1,
making the total exp. olitare of the year to mint to
£182,401, being £12.658 more then In the preceding
year. The weiety Is under engagement+ to the *extent
of £109,121. The trines of the moiety for the year are
as follows :—From the &Frit at horn., t,471,044 conics •
from ts depo *bowel, 825 086 cone.; total, 2,298,130.
a.pies. The total issues ...I the society now amount to
50,215,709 copies.

LueDOS CM( Mission.—The thhilifiest annual
meeting of the London City ifiseion was Is4d on Thurs-
day at Barter Hall. The Earl of shaftesbary presided.
The work of the minionariee of the society during the
past year had been productive nf full ',crags fruits
The reeeipia amounted to 05,460 18a. 101., which was
33,392 11P11 than the yeses expenditure. They had 3/1
missionaries. The disebled milsiossary fund receiata
were £578 16a., and the expenditure £643 18.. 7d.
276 830 visits had been paid to the sick and dying,
which was at the rate of 758 • day. The distribution of
religious tracts had been at the rate of 9,000 daily.
The readings of Scripture in visitation amounted to
598.573. which was a daily average of 1,640. The gross
total attendenew as the I. and out door services was
more than 2,000,000, not including children. Children
had been sent to school at. rate daily of 23; 1,102
drunkards had been reclaimed, or three daily ' • 173
shops had been closed on the Lord's Day through the
efforts of the society; 579 families induced to commence
family prayer ; the ge attendance at the outdoor
services had been ricareely lees than 100; nearly 300
unmarried maples had been induced to marry ; and 388
fallen females bad been admitted to whims, restored
to their homes or otherwise rescemd.
CHOSCII PASToIIiL AID 80011 ST.—The manna
meeting of this society was held on Thursday at St
J.m.Q. Hall, the Right Honourable the Rarl of '
Shaftesbury in the chair. The Rey. B. J. Speck
(seer. tary) read the report, which stated that • steady
progress had been made in the greet work of supplying
the silritual necessities of the country. In the year
1836 reventy-one grants had been made out of an income
of 37,363, and a population amounting to 542,865 Fad
been benefited. In 1866-6 the income had been £42,240,
and a population of at arly 4,000,000 had been benefited
by 635 crania. The uaals,lng d' to, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, ko, were also refernd to, the increase of
population being greatest in the manufacturing districts
The loss by death of G. Simpson, 16.1., Rev. T. R.
Ridwar, J. R. Ho:lnn-a, Eaq IL•v. Huth Stowell, and
Rev. J. Hambleton. The ma, of the Bishop of Metter
had been added to the list of viempatrona. Th. aotel
receipts bad been 342.340 113 e. 81., being £4.238 less
Shan those of the previous year, the diminution being
chiefly in legacies. The expenditure had been
£46,214 Ba. 34., or i 2,815 mare than that of the previous
year. Re4ides these amounts there had been rtaeiyed
£405 From the Hishttn .1 London'o fund for spool,'
'rms.. or I ondoa. The total expenditure was really
£7 000 in excea of the income of the past year, and thin
bad compelled the commit.. to Itrbesr considering any
new application unless a vigorous effort were made
immediately to augment the funds. A curtailment of
the society's operations would be necessary. The exist-
ing grants were for 470 clergy us n and 165 lay agenta,
and 99 of the former had the entire supervision of
portion, of large pariah.a in which there ma a shay&
of erne or • lioensed sahoolrootn, and the needful
machinery of large parishes was frequently kept in
motion by the agency of a curate or lay @gent. The
report concluded with a plea for means to diffuse the
gospel more widely.