The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-24 00:00:00

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PAR; NTARY PAPER.

FIFTH REPORT OF. THE. ..COMMISSIONERS
FOR BUILDING CHURCHES IN THE HIGH-
LANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.

TO THE HONOURABLE' THE KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, AND BUR•

GESSES, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Fifth Report of the Commissioners appointed by virtue of
an Act of Parliament, passed in the fourth year of the
reign of his present Majesty King George the Fourth,
intituled, " An Act for building additional Places of
Worship in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland."
In carrying into execution the Highland Church
Act, the Commissioners have not been inattentive to
the due distribution of Churches among the Islands
as well as the Highlands of Scotland; insomuch,
that eighteen Ministers will be established in various
islands, from Shetland to Islay,—twenty-four Mini-
sters (one of them officiating at two new Churches)
will be established in various parts of the Highlands
of Scotland. The Commissioners trust that herein
they have administered with frugality and discrimi-
nation the sum of fifty thousand pounds, granted by
the Highland Church Act; which will thus produce
forty-three additional places of worship, each capable
of accommodating a congregation which may be
deemed to average at 400 persons, or about 17,000
persons in all.
The manses, which are commodious, and sufficient
for the residence of the Minister, have cost nearly as
much as the Churches to which respectively they
appertain; and the Commissioners have succeeded
in obtaining from the applicant heritor, in almost
every instance, a larger portion of glebe than is re-
quired by the Act,—and very generally they have
secured for the Minister a right of digging peat for
fuel, and of pasture for his cattle,—privileges of no
mean importance in secluded situation,, where the
suitable conveniencies of life cannot be obtained, un-
less at home.

The Commissioners have so nearly performed the
task allotted to theM, as to be enabled to anticipate
with sufficient certainty that a small surplus will re-
main in their hands, after all the expences incident to
forty. two churches and forty-one manses are paid in
full; and they are well pleased to be thus authorized
to fulfil a former engagement to build a church and
manse in Strath-Conan, a change in the proprietor-
ship having rendered progress therein hitherto un-
certain; but a distinct offer and undertaking was
received in December last. No place in the High-
lands appears to be in a state of greater destitution
of religious ordinances than Strath-Conan; eleven
or twelve hundred persons (who inhabit the extreme
limits of the large parishes of Contin, Urray, and
Fodderty) residing at distances varying from twelve
to eighteen miles from any place of religious worship.
Carnoch, in Strath-Conan (in the parish of Con-
tin) is therefore included in the following list of
Churches and of Manses, which may be deemed final
and complete, the Lords Commissioners of his Ma-
jesty's Treasury not having thought it advisable to
recommend to Parliament to make any additional
grant for the building of seven churches, included in
the former list, as being applications unsuccessful
for want of funds.

LIST OF ADDITIONAL PLACES OF WORSHIP, IN THE HIGH