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CAPITAL LOTTERY

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wh.eh was so highly apaeureel of, and in which veer* Capital
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Lenity •err heown •.
THE PSEIRENT LOTTERY
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With 104 noire Csinials.anil 4,1100 Tickets law than the last
Lottery. All the Prisos are Stetting Muney,and the Luitery
will badmen the uld fsviiiiriir plan (as the Lon was) ;,
more in ill Not used not saint ; but an early purrhase
is reelimirsende4, as the first Tiveills Prises will receive in
addilian 1,0001 each, sa►ing 20,000/, in the first half hoot.

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parttellettitt in Hu Carni* of the I. Lottery, rein/ ska,.f...
of the Great PI ites to the Pui)ltc.

On the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, the
Oder of the Day was reed for the second reading
of the Churches Budding Bill.
A passage iii the Lords Coinmissiouers' Speech,
at the opersiog of the Selwyn, feinting to the ne-
cessity for increasing the number of places for Di-
vine Service, was also read, at the Noble Earl's de-
sire. by the Clerk at the table.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL then said, in moving
Vie second reading of the Bill then OH their Lord-
ships' table, he felt persuaded thst he was pro-
posing a much more important legislative measure
than he had ever before submitted to their Lord-
ships' consideration; be felt, therefore, that he had
not so much to defend its priociple, as to etiologist.
for not having, at a much earlier period, brought
it forword. In the circumstances of the eountry.
he mast, however. find hie Eximoz-boiseloss be oat
d-Brous. in bringing farwaro . a Moosmo, wet
to advance one crude and insufficient. but one
which he could offer as the result of his beet re-
&clime. To many venous it had appeared. from
publication" on the subject and returns to Podia.
await, that the evil had gone beyond a remedy ;
Lot, although it might not be possible to achieve
all the good that was desirable. Parliament shorkl
endeavour to attain whatever was practicable--and
the present measure, even though it alight not
come up to the fullest wishes of all. was yet. he
trusted, maculated to affect seen the root of the
evil. Returns to Parliament, he hail said, had re-
presented the evil as far beyond remedy. So it
had appeared to a respectable Whitler!, who had
the merit of being the 13 rot to thaw the public at.
Motion to the subject. But this view of the case
was very fallacious—for it proceeded on the suppo-
sition that the surplus of inhabitants over what
could he accommodated in the present places of
worship, was the amount nevi to be provided for by
this measure : for if the children under the age at
which they were usually taken to church were de-
ducted front the general population, mud if allow-
ances were made for illness. accidents, and volun-
tary absence, there would he a catwiderable dime-
notion made from the general population of any pa-
rish. It was impossible also, in considering the opera-
tion of the measure. nut to have some regard to the
numbers of Dissenter., which, united to the former
inottiticateons, would probably reduce the propor-
tion of pertains to be accommodated in ',laces of
worship to about one in three of the whole papa.
lotion, or, in the largest and most populous parishes,
to one its four. Os, these calculations was the mea-
sure Jimmied which he had the honour of submit-
ting to the Douse; and as it was not too much to
wok that in this country latices of worship should
be provided for one in four of the whole people, so
by looking to the present state of the metropolis,
and the large manufacturing towns, every one would
be convinced that this accommodation did not exist
at present. It was intended to grant to the parish
of Mary-le-Roue, live additional churches; to the
parish of St. Pancras, live; to St. Leisooril's,
Shoretlitch, four; to Lambeth, three; rod in the
same proportion to other puristic*. TO Manchester,
stern additional churches should be given; to
Slittfi Id, four; to Stockport. there; to Binning-
ham, three; and so on to others. tie should now
Mate how it was meant that the Bill should
operate. It embower' two distinct olijects.--one.
that a certain good should be made by Parliament
fur the building of Churches, the other that rub-
sc iptionseleitild be receiveil from individuals in aid
of the same object. The 'smog to be granted by
11•Irrotoseist ons•butited to 1.000,0001. which, at the
rate of 10,0001. to a church, a id, ..ith economy, I.e
had nimbi; so know that is Ousels might be built
fir that suits, would give (o 4dditimial churches
to the country, without V.los lirrilig die AM• that
might he wised by. etitui irpuoh. Olt die tile* y of
private •olociiptiou be eotertaitseal the .unit dais-
giallie expecistiou.. from Navin,: Press what the
town of Liverpool had alrewtv achieved by ii. own
ono...eked exertions. rutt lows, hail, by private
polowriloitor witloo its. :I. built 1141 iti4 'hats six
c.iurclie.—that town, which, from he'll nothing
1110 re at the commesseement of
Ins preterit Majesty's reign, had acts iiicreat4d to a

earned into execution, and it was therefore desir.
able to intrust them with as large a dicretionary
power as was consibitlli with propriety. It
was also resolved not to interfere in the re-
motest degree, with the rights of patronage,
pnvate or public. It was, he observed, a sa-
tisfactory circumstance, that at a moment when
the spirit of economy prevailed so strongly in the
Horse of Commons, that the present grant of a
million was voted without the slightest opposition.
This proved the high sense entertained by that
House of the importance of the measure, and how
sensibly the promotion of religion and morality was
entwined with the prosperity and happiness of the
country. The Noble Earl then concluded by
moving, that the Bill be read a second unit..
Lord HOLLAND did one rise to object to the mo.
firm. because, under certain modifications; he pro.
&stied himself to he • friend to the measure; but
after what had fallen from the Noble Lord, he
could not abstain from stating the principle upon
which his support of the aseasure was founded.
As far as the Bill "rent to promote the building of
churches, lie assented to it ; nor did he think it
unreasonable that the State should furnish some
assistance towards that object; but lie felt he should
be acting disingenwously did he not state, that
to the grant contained in the Bill, without any
modifications, he could not *Meta.

la the present state of the country, it was mine.:
cessary to waste many words in proving the impro-
priety of taking so large a sum from the pockets
of the people. The Noble Lord had used ■ flight
of oratory in representing thi► ineligure us the moat
important legislative measure he had tvrr sub-
mitted to Poehutment. Did the Noble Lord forget
that the House had beeu before now aisslomly
dehatisig who was to be the Regent of the kingdom,
or the enemas by which millions of money might be
drawn from the pockets of Ow pettish. ? Sod' gots-
irtus appeared to him to be at lcaat equally important.
Ile was willing to allow that places of worship
should be ; hut why should they not he built
by the revenues of the churca itself, weich was
e-r.ai.ely soaringly well endowed to attlinit of a Na.
reifies. fat such au übj. ct ? The awn of Liverpool
bud na.hieved this ;outpour by its own memos, and
having done eft el' ,s to tnrrit ull the eutmoviada-
boo. of 014.14(114e Earl, it was soniew,,at inigecerous
after so great an exert►on to make Liverpool pay
its proportion towards building church** ov:•r the

The Archbishop of CANTEDDUAY rote for the
purpose of congratulating the House, that tut dif-
femme existed on this point between the Noble
Look ou either side, but sit respect to the original
promoter of this invaluable measure. The point,
however, had been some time bluer under. the
consideration of his Majesty's 31inistra• ; for a
few years wore he had received a letter irons,
II Right liosiourable Ceratlem. u high iu his 31..-
jesty's confidence, who informed him, that a
measure similair to the preSVOI was so far La»
vaticed, that in five day,' it should be put into his
hands. Before those hve days were passed, that
Right Hon. Gentleman was assassin tied. The prn-
posal of the Noble Lord opposite (flullein!), for
appropriating the resenues of the thurclito this
object, was wholly iutfficient, for the evil was of
Magnitude that required
.au immediate remedy,
and the accumulation of the church revenues would
be a work of slow progress. Ills Grate
cutumrnt-
ed ott the impolicy of tequiring lucre:no d serviccs
in the church, as it would isiterfire with the other
mid no lees important duties of 14 clergyman. As this
point would, however, be placed its the discretion
of the Bishop, no evil could result front the coact-
went.
The Marquis cif LAMSDOWN considered the pre-
sent 'erasure absolutely indispensable, and -Imolai
give it his fullest support on the present, as well am
on any other uectision, notwithstanding the he. hogs
he entertaitied respecting the t?..tretne In-dens that
oppressed the people. Thr, Noble Litirquie felt
pine difficulty, ItOwever, in discovering why the
Presbyterians of Scotland, who were not Loittrin-
plated in the Bill, and the people ~f Ireland, who.
for the greater part, did not require the advantages
provided for by the measure, should contribute
wards the building of churches in Etigkitil.
The Earl of Lixeitcorit. said, that he c..,1141 we
no ieirson why the principle of the pt.-sent measure
should not be ettroded to Scutlatid, if it were
found necessary ; but that it would tin utterly
in making a general roviviosi, to exempt
any part atilt kit gdotu, united its every respect ua
'lreland end Scutlind were with England, limn
sharing the burden. If these parts of the empire
could be so exempted, 011 the ground of not sharing
in the advatitage, tlir same exemption ought its jug..
tics to lie eetei.drd to many perishes. dioce-ts, and
towns. in England, which did ((((( requite the ex.
teottion of the prosisions of the Bill. The lumina
irelo a
t e oc Lette
s uclitt
at"
mason
fromti
i I
sn:li a et. s.l lerat would
afford
The Bill was then read a
mined for Wednesday.
The Mwqmis Of Oteassemot

not uttypttng
second time, efd cote.
t presented from