The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-14 00:00:00

TIM LHIIRCH.

At Tamworth the enniversary meeting of the Church
Missionary Association was held oil Monday, in the north
chancel of the parish church, which was nearly filled. The
Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, as Patron, took the
Chair. The meeting was addressed by the Secretary to
the parent Institution, the Rev. J. Bartlett, Vicar of Kings-
ton, Surrey ; the Rev. E. Burn, of Birmingham ; the
Rev. J. C. Fell, of Sheepev ; the Rev. B. Richings. of
Atherstone ; the Rev. W. gpooner, of Elmdon ; the Rev.
G. Hodson, of Birmingham ' • the Rev. Mr. Holmes. of
Exeter ; the Rev. F. Blick, of Tamworth ; the Rev. Wm.
Thompson, late of Atherstone ; Colonel )ickenson ; and
S. P. IVolferstan, Esq. of Statfold. On the following day
(Tuesday) the animal meeting of the Tamworth Branch
Bible Society was held, and the Bishop again presided.
The platform was crowded, and in addition to the Gentle-
men present at the moil% of the Church Missionary
Association on the preceding day, were Sir G. Chetwynd,
Bart. and the Rev. A. Brandram, Secretary to the Parent
Society, who eloquently detailed its operations in various
parts of the world. The meetings were attended by the
principal gentry of the town and neighbourhood, and the
Bishop was surrounded on each day by nearly thirty of his
clergy. In the evening of Tuesday a meeting of the
Ladies' Association in support of the Bible Society took
place, at which, independent of persons of higher rank,
upwards of six hundred of the poorer classes were present.
Sermons were preached on the Sunday preceding in Tam-
worth church and Fazeley chapel, in furtherance of the
objects of the Church Missionary Society, by the Rev.
Edward Burn. The total collections, including the amount
received at the meetings. exceeded 1121.
The collections in Birmingham in aid of the Church
Missionary Association, we have the pleasure to state,
amounted to 1531. 13s. as appears by the following report:
—Collected after the annual meeting on the Friday,
IS/. 13a. ; on the Sunday—at Christ Church, 581. 6s. 2d.—
at St. Mary's 291. 15s. 1O d., and at Trinity Cheri
21/. 18s. 00.—Aris's Gazette.
The Barbadoes Globe of the 7th of July contains the
following cotnpliment to the new Bishop of that island :
" What has the Bishop done ? In reply to this questi,m,
we say, that in the course of five months, he has visited all
the parishes of this island; he has paid frequent visits to
the central school, and manifested a sincere anxiety for its
interest; he has established fair schools on the same ex-
cellent system (Dr. Bell's) for the gratuitous instruction of
slave and free coloured children in religion: he has ap-
pointed that lectures be preached twice a week in St. Mi-
chael's to the negroes ; lie has abolished the payment of a
fee for baptisms ; he has directed that baptisms and mar-
riages be performed (as they ought to be) in the several
churches of the island ; he has held two ordinations and
one confirmation ; lie has preached and otherwise assisted in
the church service frequently; through his exertions, in
the first instance, a new church is about to be built in the
old church-yard ; by his example an increased spirit of re-
ligion has been diffused among all ranks; lie has also paid
two visits to the Leeward Islands. Finally, his lawn has
been no cloak for apathy or laziness—he has done hits duty,
and done it zealously. It is evident, then, that his situ-
ation is no sinecure; and his high example of personal
activity and labour in the cause of the master whom he
serves, will, we doubt not, have a most beneficial effect on
his brethren, the clergy of this diocese, and, through the
clergy, on the laity."