Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-05 00:00:00

christian benevolence ta.bestow. (Cheers.) Near the town
of Winsford, he need scarcely remind them,Ahat his lord-
ship's charity had been almost boundless, and he hoped he
would forgive him if he said 'that he was now meditating in..
his heart the kind .project of adding another church in that-
town. (Loud cheers.) He 'concluded by proposing the
healta of the chairman, which was -drunk With lo'ud cheers.
The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compliment, said
he felt that he did not deserve the warm.terms.im which the
Lord Bishop had spoken of him; but this he, ould say,.
that he would endeavour to deserve them to the uttermost.
He had.been exczelingly happy to have been present at the
society's meeting to-day.. lie hoped and believed. that such
meetings would do a considerable amount of good,. because
the union of the clergy and the laity, could not but be-
benelcial. What con tituted the church h'ad be'en much
misunderstood. It had been said. that the Church, consisted
only of the clergy, as though the church was not compose&
of the blessed assembly of the faithful of all classes. ,(Cheers.):
So far as he was personally called, he Was willing and ready-
to do as much! good as was in his power to pro Mote the
interests of the church, and the , active union of clergy
and laity. He hoped he should never . fail in symp4hy for
the %lido*, the orphan, and the desolate. - Ike concluded by
thanking them cordially for the compliment which they had
paid him.

The iniblAN again roe and said it was a yery fortu-
nate thing that the toasts which he had to ilitto'duce to.
their notice were all of a inture to require very: little pre-
face, and the one which he, had now to Awing. befOre them-
would stand on its own merits, and would not require any
words from him. It was the health of the predeher of the
day. (Cheers) He thought that every one who had at-
tended the church, to-day, must regard it as-their own
fault if they had not derivel benefit as well as eTatikation
from the discourse which they had heard. (thet chairman),
considered that it was a most admirable Srerinoir, and he
hoped it would be productive or good, and withe-ut paying
a common cuckoo compliment, he. said that they . were, and
that they ought to be, really grateful to the gentleman who.
gave them such good advice. (Cheers.). . _

The Rev. Mr.l3llten, after Warmly 'thanking the com-
pany for the kind manner in which they had received his
name, referred in complimentary terms to the Bishop of
Chester, and the pleasure he had felt when at college he was
an under-graduate tinder his lordship. lie then said, that
with
arnddtohethbeegsgerrned oitiootfhathnek dthaye,
gethentkdembtenwitwshio firsthis side, allon
asked him to preach it, for it induced him to look the ques-
tion fairly in the face. He began to consider what really was
the christian clergyman's duty. lie began to think and to
feel what was right to be done, and it had led him to make
the observations which had fallen from him in the
sermon, In conclusion, he made some practical observa-
tions as to the manner in which the interests of the society
might be promoted.
The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said, this was the last
toast that he had to offer to them ; and he was sure that it
would not be the least welcome. It was " Succsss to the
institution, and to the officers who took such great care of
it." He was sure that the success of the institution would
be well received by every gentleman amongst them. The
claim of the widows and ophans of the clergy was one of
the saddest that could be contemplated, and one that com-
manded itself instinctively to our better nature. The be-
reavement of the widow and orphan was sad on all occasions ;
but it was more peculiarly so in the case of the widow and.
orphans of a clergyman. The noble chairman reviewed the
condition of the clergyman, and showed how much he was
exposed to personal danger, and the consequent distress of
his family in case of death. He showed how a -clergyman
was called upon to visit the bedsides of the sick• under all
circumstances and seasons, and the risks he ran during
disease and epidemics of being suddenly taken away.
We were all, he said, under God's will, and the man
in the field of battle might be as safe as one of them in
that room; but when there was disease, and the clergy-
man who was called in was struck down, there was
no party who could have a greater claim noon their sym-
pathy than the widow and orphans of the soldier who
perished in the cause of Christ. He felt that it was not only
a duty, but a blessed privilege to have the opportunity of
contributing* to such a society as this, and thus being en-
abled to relieve a certain amount of human misery. He
expressed his opinion that the people of this country, from
the Queen to thc- lowest subject in her dominions, would be
found willing to support such a society, if its claims were
fully laid before them, and concluded by proposing pros-
perity to the society. _

The Rev. Thomas Greenalli the treasurer, and the Rev.
W. Quekett, rector of Warrington, the secretary, responded,
and the proceedings terminated.

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A SON STABBED BY HIS FATHER,—At the Manchester
Polie&court, on Tuesday, a tailor, named John M'Gannett,
was charged with stabbing his son, a youth of seventeen or
eighteen years. It appeared that the son had been living
in a disreputable house in East-street, Lower Mosley-street;
and on Monday night the father went fo fetch him home.
lie refused to go home, struck his father,' 'and the two had
a scuffle in the entry, from which the youth ran out bleed-
ing from a wound in the back. It was supposed.that he
was stabbed with a pair of scissors, which were found,.
somewhat stained with blood, in the prisoner's pocket. The
son is at present in the Royal Infirmary, and the prisoner
was therefore remanded.