The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-24 00:00:00

RRLIGIOUS WORSHIP IN POPULOUS DIS.

TRICTB.

The Bishop of EMlTilk(who was mry indistinody
heard) rose to move that a sling connerittes :of this boons
be appointed to inquire fats the hisleacy of con= of
spiritual instruction and places of hors worship in the me-
tropolis, end fn other populous &Mots in Buglend and
W4llB, especially in 'the mining and inenufacturing dis-
tricts ; and to wonky the Intent arms of aterasg the
hilleellise of the our He ail that led hi baswa, when
he ire hie non* ths witon of the inigiaty while war •
arrittes shadolagreglie arid hie *rah ken the
seresstbdity of for tt. He hal umbelehr the
dry wwwwlwi y it err hese dr.
armierm with the Munn of Ew
ellnd
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The shim el lls pima soar we., by inquiry, Is akirw
the
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ewe a Maitre, and to arrive at some m-
arks as whit Ms ship ought to be. This motion
divided itself tits two parts. The first rehrred to the nein-
pobs, Ne mbar be the populous mining and casentordal dis-
tricts of thog, -As to the fret peaks, It word
astarhy be *dor it word oar rise =tool
the Wisp ef Messes. Hs led t
Leadia bibs thrwerd the tram Bfsl lerehip, hen
err, led Ramie& Ma le presvars, preaddry, retetwer,
wiLsapC sad aeleirsi, a maims Irish h_thio
welsspells wee aeor the priest
et sea het the wield bed err sew. Wow
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emir laity= two ma three =Mar slibisit
He aged aet ley hew aresesey h wee
rellisile arid have
and
vengless Jerelpies
la rm. The mar rad rollers eswillea he
bre el the seserpolis moat be • rarer of serer
be he gernawat, although he yes sot gobs to ads
hos tor siwthhe et pear. The Let MOM balms
esadoriel who WI pure care, sod the laferribia
Wed WY et the war lesporteat shassisr. appeorel
ssl-
her he Mese awl esheistioas that red% dad id order 10
sOard err= apaile ogle:=B:=aaity ef
joinng fn lo wt.
Tided for 66 sed of ogarvellyte ths popdoging. The
earl amber et dtlisdebe sa Phew of wig* 41..1
darraelka rereasi to Ow erre of Is6l wee Ovum;
main silleware Ow the p
of straprose whir lad
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the tan nonner wee MIL Of
then the churn of England ,erreddii,ooll,
IS hr every 100 of the pepeloilea, sal he
onto dominations 11 kr eery 110. Te parr
of esiessread re

thereismo tie ewer was
ales eat to he mend me ins the 090,000 anifticael
*doge vue masonry. Tam lire% however, npoessand
insdemrt
tattooers real rbtri elt as eli=oviiits...le the 1r
tic a-
agaalWean wee tar roofer In MN IBMS& In re Ire erns
the country was divided, im terensoo to racier esterre-
dation, into US &Wats. Of these 20 were sleeted as ben
the meet Mono& 01 these 20, 19 were Saluda le the
nes 19 dleletets onstainid a
theme
The war el sittings was onl*p 206ayables of
.1166. It
wee not Loucks alone OM ourin such a coned= ; an the
large towns to the hi ed= wen in Amino abet-
stuns. He found OM the popedation of the °Animus
containing over 106,1130 Manures wee 4,262,000 ; of thin
only a million, or snot ems-third, were provided with re.
iilioas socommodation Is London, is 2.5 1,601118, con-
taining 460.423 inhahitersHwe wen duly 37.600 sittings, or
one in 12. The destitution, however, would be beet ascertelaed
by comparing the number of ministers with the webs of
people to be administer to ; it was important that the people
should have churches to go to, but it was meek more be
portant that they should have mirror sins le primes le
their hoses, sad eem their ministry whim mined. Be
found that in 26 parishes to London thou wee only sae
clergymen to every 9,000 souls. It was the emprobrirm
England that the gospel was not brought within the wed of
the poor ; not only had they no clergyman to p thus,
bat they were elbowed out of the pieces in the direr is
which they had a right. He believed it was sot digtated
that every parishioner had a legal right to • seat in the part
church, so far as there was room, and the churchwoman'
had no right to usign a pew or number of rate to any gr.
Sailer house, much lase to any particular person. The greet
necessity,
necessity, however,was for ad&tional clergymen. He fomd est
is the &ore of London the number of parishes melanins
each stove 6,000 intuthitant• wa. 127 ; the number tideway
was 234 to 1,600,000 people, so that each of these clergymen
hod from 6,000 to 6,500 souls under his are. If ha went le
sore grin caste the matter would appear still worse. He
weld tone the !with of St. Leonard, Shoreditch ; it use.
tabled 36,111 inhabitants, It had one clergyman, and he
me emrstr, so that he had to minister to over 2.5,000 pee*.
He led been dependent for • large portion of his issue en
the hail area By the recent Burial Act he had lose Ores
to thiramount of 300/. a year, his income was reds:ell is
Mont 1001., and he we forced to discharge his curates. The
heal clergy of the metropolis had an undoubted debt to
eseoperstion for the her of income they had sustained try
the Burin Act. It had been promised bat never canted se&
Eyes to the wealthy parishes of St. George, Hanover-
naive and St. James, the restore had lost 2001. each. How
differently the clergy had been treated, too, from the pest=
and lawyers, who had been allowed 2.50,0001. a year comps-
onion for the lose of their preotios in the Probate Cost.
(Hear, leer.) (The Earl of Daisy : They have demanded
it, but it has not been allowed as yet.) He understood frees
the public papers that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
stated it had been allowed. The next metropolitan parish he
would take was Haggeratona In 18d1 it contained 30000
Inhabitents—the number must now be about 40,000: there
wee only one church, with 2.000 sittings, or lin 20. There
WIN three clergymen. The church was my large, the
mynas of keeping it up was about 1001. a year • part of
that had formerly been defrayed out of the burial fires. The
supply wee now stotmed, and the rector stated he did not
know how to provide for the dainties. He would
next take anus nearer home. Their lordships world be sur-
prised to hear that the parish of Pt. James, Westminster,
ores one of the nineteen district. in the metropolis whisk
was is the greatest spiritual destitution. The present moor
bed within the last few years increased the free sittings some
600 or 600, but still they wort only one in sixteen of the
inhabitants. Whistles. celled fro entices MRS generally
otempied by the dementia of those who held the seats. Is
lie reign of George 111. an set was pasted which provided
that in all churches to be erected thenceforward a certain
number of free seats should be reserved. The church
of St. Philip, Regent. 'Stet, in the parish of St. James,
was one of those erected since that act. The
poor were crammed into • dark quarter of the building,
which was out of sight, and even to get there the poor crea-
tors hod to mount 80 steps. Ws that the way in which
they ought to treat manna whom they ought to regard as
brethren f He would go from the perish of St. Janice to the
still more feeltion.eble parish of St. George, Hanover-aquae,
which was probably the richest pariah is Europe. The
in-wards of StGeorge's parish were smeseed to the poor-rste
at 610,0001. it would naturally be expected that here at
least would be found ample church accommodation for all—

the poor sa well es the via ; and he had no doubt if the mat-
tor were brought before then in a viable and tangible way. that
the inhabitants would oonttibute largely to provide sufficient
epiritnal accommodation for their poorer brethren. Hat from
Osfealtstaat to Piccadilly two churches formed the
whole supply for the poor, end for the remainder
of the perish, containing mere than twenty thou-
sand Vernon,, the whole number of sitting@ which the
poor were now permitted to look to as their own in mom-
mated churches amounted to 500. There were some doubts
respecting the legal powers of churchwarden, but be did not
bettitats to may, in the presence of the noble and learned had
on the woolsack, that it was contrary to the common kw el
England to put a mat upon a peat in 'church. Yet upwards
of I.oof /. a year was raised by the rents on seats in the church
of St. George, flanomw-agnare. The minister of St. George's
lid not receive a single sixpence out of the money no raised,
which went he believed to the maintenance el the building;
end certainly every OW must admire the way in which it woo
kept up. (Hear, bear.) Amongst 6,500 of the richest in-
-11440-tote of the ;metropolis who lived in this perish there were
2,500 of the poorest clays, because where the richest people
lived the poorest must live also. There were dens end alleys
la the parish which presented a frightful epectecle of death:i-
dea, physical and spiritual. The Woods and Forests
bad been epplied to for ground near the Green-pat
whereon to build a church, which would greatly relieve the
national destitution in this atm.:cr. The sewer returned
wee worthy of the Woods and Forest,. They said that the
Woods and Forest. did not feel thecwelves at liberty to make
each • pretest. Oh I the mains of red tape ; where would It
mare its tight P (Laughter.) He would not go into any
further details reeprothur the metropolis. The tact, be bad
stated fully jtutified—demanded the sppointroent of s com-
mittee. The right rev. prelate then reviewed the condition of
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the great maanfactiirtag sad mining &Waft of the country,
insisting that those who ware eariebed by industry and coat-
tnercisl enterprise were bound to eel that the meson of re-
ligious instraetion were are wanting. Commercial prom
perky wee not inconsistent with *Meal motion, but the
rtZtootorrierchil sdyantattes would not compensate for
t of Christian principle.
TIN Earl of DERBY admitted that both in the metropolis