The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OP LONDOE'S FUND.

A public meeting, convened by the committee of
the St. George's, Hanover-meant, branch of the associatioo
farmed in ooneequenco of the asthma takes by the Bishop of
Landau to reise funds for the sitensioa of church soma-
"iodation and the relief of spiritual destitution in the a-
tropolia, wee held last 'realm at the Parochial School-
room, South-street, Grosvenor-square ; the Duke of Divoir-
SEMI in the their. supported by Lord &airy, the Earl of
Harrowhy, the Earl of Shaftesbury the Earl of Devon,
Lord Bandon, R, Hasbury, /LP., Loftus Wigram, the Elev.
H. Howarth, the rector, &o.
•

The premedinge bevies been opened with prayer,
The Cd•iILMAX said the object of the meting was to
obtain not only the meet of the great and Important
parish of St. George, bat its sordid and well oastairsed
operatiou in the attempt to remove that which most be con-
sidered a diegrece and • stigma oa this peat metropolia.
The work which under the general name of church emu-
Oka embalmed a great variety of agencies, exMailee.
showed to be attended with peculiar difficulties in
se compared with other pima. Burybody was aware ei
the great exertions made b the late Bishop of Landon, bet
although Bishop BM meseerated a very Luse
number of churches every year, yet at the sod
of his epieoopate the metropolis was, it was un-
derstood, worse off, relatively to its population.
than at the Ushuaia; by at least 100 churches. Amoopt
the special difficulties they had to encounter in Loodoe was
the great extent el the =strop:ilia, which ppreveuted that
concentration of respoesibikty sad asaosrted effort which
was memary to meet the evil. The vast amber of the
pgrulatiee aloe operated spirt meta action The distribu-
tes. of the population is pant of Motion and wealth was
another Ws iment. There were some parishes where
there were scarcely sal but wealthy inhabitants, mad atlases
again where there were sou but passoes of the poorest
sad lowest station. After lashing doe &Bement* for all
that had been does there wire fully 200 parishes is whisk
there was a peat deficiency of both churches sad alma-
tem, and in speaking of churches, he lackeded sot oily eon-
serrated and parish churches, but schoolrooms sad all
other places available far Divine worship. The result w
that in three 200 parishes they required 500 sdditioasl
elargyme sad 000 additimal lay agents, far wham
there was more than mink work. There were,
he understood, at least 250,000 ppseoople is tandem for whom
there wno chuck seesmmodatioa. It was important
that in every district there should be • reddest iseambest,
and for this perms at lead 100 preeags buses must be
provided. Aiwa, the edissafies d the pm was also most
Inadequately supplied, and school room for 100.000 children
was smeary Derma that which they sow had. These were
whole district, is whisks, is cuesquenes at the sailed el
moral sod religioes training, the satire mulattos almost
was Mud to the lowest sated TM and antes, sad the
religious evil was greatly aggravated by the peat somas of
physical and social evil, partly arbour from the same 1111011116
The probability was that the removal of the religious evil
would have • berseheial effect is amellaratleg the moral,
physical, sad social es& The unlike of messy which
the Bishop of Loader& proposed to rake was evi-
dently sot too large a sum when they aseekheed the
utast of the work to be done. No doubt the sem was
largo, bet as compared with the vast macros e! the metro-
It was trilling. They had made • good 'aeposing. bar-
Ehloollected about 130.0001.. ; bat the somber sebearibers
as
not yet exceed some 800. If they would messed
they most mallet the sympathies of the multitude; sot
merely the few wealthy, who pet doers their muses for
mounts, bet the may. Unlem Instead of 500 they
meld have • eabseription list of 60,000 or 80.000 names, they
eould hardly bops to carry oat the sad Important ob-
ject for which the fund was • sad he Muted Bt.
George'', Haeovuoqure, would set • good example, and
that it would be followed by every pariah in this pest capi-
ta!, (cheers) . . . . .

Lard Mimi motels resolatios, declaring that the pope-
With had lose overgrew. the applianom "emissary for the
amecuat of religious Johan( of the people, and that more
rigorous exeitiaes were eividal to meet the ell. He re-
membered that whereas during the
.14 or 15 years
followie 1836 the exertions of Bishop Ithaillebi
presidedchurch thcommodatioe ler 200,000 par-
ser, the population during that period "mussed by 600,000.
Them were perishes is Lamina with 30,000 persons sad only
one chum*, sad there wore about 200 perishes with 5,000 or
9,000 persons with may one thumb is each. This wee
proof as leisat of the theamity of the effort new making.
The metal of the metropolis was seedy 17,000,0301., sad
sorely it ought not to he diacritic te raise 100,0001. s year for
toe rime for au °West of such vital nithesat.
The Hew. H. HOWARTH seconded the neelatioe,
epos tae value of the parothial system, which he e=
wee is so way rethoe for the present state of spiritual
&Matto., the pepalatisa haring altogether outgrown the
spasm.
The reitoMou wee anted.

The Earl of Sitarrnamoly, la an eloquent address—ls
which he referred to the Matimeke if spiritual want, the
imelactesoy of the parochial epee= with Hs pram" L-
ames in many districts to prowl& for M.
Iti:=6eial offsets of the efforts which had skied, been
made is come of the more &dilute parishes fa
phew of worship and religiose atavism the mrinamvidi3
the people to avail themselves of them. and metrested the
awn fice made by the wmaparatively pew hibeldlesin et
corm of the eastern dictriois with the want el illimality In
come of the more weelthy lecalities—numed a amend cam
Intim, approving st the bichop's feed sad ha peepanad
mode el apptiostios. This was swede& by
Lori Bannon, .Ch
i. solioated the( /benumbs' unmerited
with Christian Mammies and Its awns .1 tvaltietene ye".
ship in London 'run at tort one mullion.

Yr. HASIKILY, IL P., sad others, @pelts to the subsequent
resolution; sod s Tots ol thanks to his moo the obeismea
ansinteet ihs proseedisp.