The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE
PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN
PARTS.

The' anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel in Foreign Parts was held yesterday evening,
in the Lecture-hall of the Collegiate Institution, the body
and galleries of which were crowded with a highly res-
pectable audience. Amongst the clergymen on the plat-
form, besides the deputation, whose names are given else-
where, we observed the following :—C. Inman, Esq., C.
Greene, Esq., H. Swainson, Esq., Archdeacon Brooks,
Revds. Dr. M'Neile, J. Jones, R. Davies, Dr. Carpenter,
S. Fenton, H. Hampton, W. Hughes. J. Baylee, T. Da-
vies, Conah's Quay, D. Stewart, C. Osborne, J. Tobin,
W. Rawson, Seaforth, F. Parry, D. Anderson. W. Pol-
lock, H. Hampton„ C. 11. Burton, J. C. Prince, Barry,
AoplcAon, T. Bowstead, A. Know, T. Howson, J. North,
W. W. Ewbank, C. H. Carr, T. R. Govett, J. Welsh,
Moran, and A. C. Power.

The meeting was presided over by the Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of the diocese, who, in opening the business
of the evening said—l am sure it will be your wish, that
according to the custom on all such occasions, we
should now commence our proceedings by invoking the
blessing of Almighty God upon our labours. (Hear,
hear.)
The meeting was then opened with suitable devotional
exercises ; after which
His LORDSHIP said,—Before I proceed to call upon the
gentleman who is to move the first resolution to-night, I
wish briefly to express the great gratification which I feel
in being able to be present on an occasion like this.
(Hear, hear.) The society in support of which we are
met, proposes to itself the noblest, highest, arid best
objects that can animate our efforts, that is the propaga-
tion of the gospel of Jesus Christ; and, in this great and
good cause, it has now laboured, I believe, for near a century
and a half. If during the earlier years of its exertions, the
operations of the society were confined to a small scale,
yet that was not to be attributed to any defect in the ori-
ginal constitution of the society, or to any defect of zeal,
piety, or judgment in its first supporters and friends; but,
alas, to the want of necessary support from public libe-
rality and Christian bounty in those early days. Happily
that is now no longer the case; for enlarged means are
placed at the disposal of the society by the awakened
liberality of the Christian public, and the appropriation of
the extended means of the society, has extended its ope-
rations, which now reach over the whole of our colonial
and territorial empire. (Hear, hear.) Men of God,
ministers of Jesus Christ are found willing to go forth to
labour as missionaries in those distant lands, willing to
relinquish all the comforts and endearments of an Eng-
lish home, willing to toil in a noxious climate, often
beneath a burning sun, for the sake of spreading
the Gospel of Christ and a knowledge of salvation.
The society for which we are met calls on you to en-
able it to continue to send forth such men,—to place at
their disposal the funds which are required for carrying on
this great work. It is an appeal which, i am sure, will not be
uainly made to the Christian people of England anywhere,
and I am willing to persuade myself, not in vain here ; for
there is scarcely any place in England, with the exception
of London, where the appeals to the charitable feeling of
the people are more readily responded to than in this
town, the centre of commerce, and the great emporium of
the trade of this country. Your port brings you in con-
nection with all parts of the world where the opera-
tions of this society are known, and I trust that as
your vessels are freighted with all that is necessary
for the temporal wants of the people of those climes, you
will feel yourselves called upon, as Christian people, to
send forth that which is greater than merchandise—the
gospel of Jesus Christ to all those countries where British
administration, British commerce, and British enterprise
reaches. (Applause.) On all these grounds, I hope you
will, upon this occasion, when this society appeals to you
for aid, shew your Christian feeling and liberality in ren-
dering them that assistance which. under God's blessing,
is calculated to effect the utmost good. His Lordship
then concluded, by calling upon the Rev. Mr. Pollock,
the Secretary of the Society, to offer a few observations
on the present state, and future prospects, of the Society.
The Rev. Mr. POLLOCK said that he and many of his
clerical brethren felt much disappointment in the unavoid-
able absence of the Rev. Mr. Trevor, of York, who,
could he have been present, would materially have assisted
the objects of the meeting. Another matter of regret
was, that no immediate report of the society could now be
furnished ; for it had been published in February. The
abstract he held of it, however, showed that the funds in
the district this year had exceeded those of last in the
proportion of £4OO to £240. In 1847, the collections
were £143: this year they had far exceeded that amount ;
and the total funds had this year increased from £1,148 to
£1.400.
The Rev. Mr. Dawns, of St. Paul's, was then called
upon to propose the firstresolution. He declared his high
approbation of the objects of the society, and its great
success since it was originated sofas back as the beginning
of the last century—the year 1701. Its object then was to
receive, manage, and dispose of Bibles for the religious
instruction of her Majesty's subjects beyond the seas. It
was a long time to look back, but the success had been
such that they might do so with the greatest satisfaction ;
for it had accomplished much, though labouring under
many disadvantages. England was not, when it com-
menced its labours, aware of the excellent effect ; but God
had since awakened her to that feeling and perception.
The society, exhibited the most satisfactory and pleasing
results that had yet been developed by any sister society.
When established at first, the fund then procured was
£706; but last year the general fund had risen to £67.678.
In this age of a mixture of unbelief and anarchy, we had in
this success an assurance that the society was sanctioned
and approved by God, and that it would so rise that his
kingdom would be paramount over the world. (Cheers.)
His LORDSHIP again rose, and introduced the Rev. Dr.
Robinson, the Master of the Temple, London, and the
friend and disciple of the great Bishop Heber, to the

meeting.
Dr. ROBINSON, on presenting himself, was received
with marked applause. When silence was restored, he
observed that he could not but feel proud—although he
felt reluctance in entering upon so delicate a topic to his
feelings—in having his name associated, in the kind man-
ner in which his Lordship had been pleased to do, with
the great and good man who was gone. (Hear, hear.)
In speaking, as he would be obliged to do, of the portions
of his past life, he could not dwell upon them without
great feeling, and therefore he would, rather than for a
moment obstruct the great and important discussion
which was to be brought before them, suspend his obser-
vations on that portion of his life which was spent in
communion with the celebrated bishop who had just been
named, and who was honoured by all who had a true
Christian feeling within their bosoms. (Hear, hear.) He
could never, however, forget that he had the proud dis-
tinction of being the friend and servant of Heber; it was
his happiness in life not only to share in his counsels, but
to tread as nearly as he could in his path. Therefore he
trusted that they would bear with him if he mingled
something of his personal recollections of one whom he
loved, and who was beloved by all British Christians,
with the few observations it would be his duty to make
to them- He felt the greatest pleasure in seconding the
motion of his rev. friend who had just preceded him, and
in doing so he would observe that he now rose to speak
after a friend of his early youth, an associate at college,
one from whom he had been separated for 35 years, and
whom he now met for the first time as a fellow-workman
in the great cause in which they were all engaged. It
was delightful to his feelings, after so long a separation,
to find that they were endeavouring to promote the one
great cause, to promote the one object, which alone was
worth living for—the glory of God and the salvation of
his people. (Hear, hear.) In uttering these few words,
he had accomplished the whole object of this great society.
They bad no other object in view than the salvation of
man, and the glory of God. He had no doubt the mem-
bers of their society—the men who sacrificed all the en-
dearments of home to the desire of spreading the gospel,
were the instruments in the hands of God destined to
achieve the great object which all Christians ought to have
in view, viz., the spreading of the gospel in heathen lands.
He had no doubt but that as they had already achieved
much, they would yet achieve more. He doubted not
but that they were called upon in this work ; for every
indication of divine providence since the foundation of the
society has been propitious to their efforts. It was to
providence alone they attributed their success, for there
were difficulties in their way when they commenced which
no human power could overcome ; hut still they should
not hide from themselves that they had still got difficulties
to encounter. But let them not despair, for their hope
was placed in the Almighty in whose name they believed,
whose command they followed, whose power was watch-
ing over them, and who was calling upon them to the
conflict with the power of darkness as it at present existed
in many parts of the world. They had heard recently of
a Society which had been got up for the establishment of
universal peace, and although he could not persuade him-
self that there was the slightest chance of that scheme being
realized, yet he honoured the feelings and sentiments of
those noble hearts who propounded so glorious a scheme
to the world. He felt persuaded, however, that there was
only one society for the establishment of universal peace—
only one peace congress in the world—that society was
the Church of Christ, that congress was the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel -of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ to every heathen, =believing Christian in
the world. Therefore it was with the highest, the noblest
feelings of his heart that he joined the Society and the
whole of his Christian friends in the promotion of this
great cause. This was the peace society.; this was the
only congress which could secure its establishment.
(Hear, hear.) It was important that all who came to
their meetings should perfectly understand not only what
they had done, and what they were doing, but that all
should-be made acquainted in asclearand succinct a manner
as possible with the full and exact state in which Vie affairs
of the Society were. Nearly 150 years ago this Society was
incorporated by charter. Its object was to,provide Christian
teaching and Christian ordinances for all colonies and
dependencies of the British empire. He begged that
they would observe that by doing so they also provided
for the conversion of those heathen nations in whose
neighbourhood British colonies had been formed. The
first fruits of their labour were (in the West Indies, and
from that, after the Lapse of a few years, their footsteps
were directed to the great continent of America. The
society's success was so great that churches were erected,
regular establishments were made in which provision was
secured for the future spread of God's word. A regular
church was established by means of this society, so that
it might with truth be said that the episcopal church of
America owed its origin to this society. From a small be-
ginning the church had spread to the extent of 29 bishops
and 1300 ministers, all of whom had flocks more numerous
than they could al tend to. When the United States, by poli-
tical convulsion, was separated from the mother country,
the society naturally transferred its labours to the N. Ame-
rican colonies, and there those labours have been blessed
by Heaven. Blest in a manner almost unequalled in the
history of the Church, for not only in a short time have
the people there received additional ministers, who ham
been true to them, but the onanization of the pool*,

the bishops and 'the ministers, that the preaching of the
word of life—the faith of the Church ; the light of
the gospel of Christ is now secured to them, and to their
posterity for ever. (Applause.) All this was owing to
the exertions of the Society. This should be admitted as
being almost wonderful, when they remembered,
as stated to them before, that during the early part
of its existence it was so poor; but he could tell them
that all had been done by the steady and persevering
manner in which they had followed out the objects
for which the Society had been formed. Seeing
the 'people thirst for divine knowledge, they directed
them to the waters of life, and their efforts were not un-
availing. It was impossible for him to speak of the next
subject he had to bring under their notice without feeling
deep shame and sorrow. He spoke as a Christian man,
and an Englishman, and it was with feelings of deep
shame and sorrow that he was compelled to dwell, even
for a few moments, on our penal settlement in Australia.
It was necessary for Englishmen to atone, as far as com-
pensation could atone, for the deep and aw ul crime com-
mited on that country. It was impossible that England
could atone without a national confession of her guilt;
and therefore, whenever they met together, as at present,
it was necessary that her guilt should be confessed. It
should be a source of shame and sorrow to every English-
man to remember that this colony was founded in guilt,
in crime, and in misery, of the deepest and blackest
dye. No doubt the laws of the land required that
convicts should be sent there. They had the right
to say to the man who violated the laws of the coun-
try that he should leave the bosom of the mother who
nourished him, and that he must be banished from all the
privileges and all the enjoyments of his native country.
Human laws extended thus far: human authority gave
there this just power and necessary authority ; but Eng-
land had no power to withdraw from her subjects those sa-
cred and spiritual consolations of religion which such men
stood in the utmost need of. She had no power to banish
them from the light of the Gospel, and the holy teaching
of God's word, and yet, would they believe it, the govern-
ment of the day, had it not been for the interference of
Wilberforce, were about sending their first convict ships
to that colony without a single chaplain ! (Hear,
hear.) And the convicts numbered one hundred thousand
when there were but 14 ministers in the entire colony.
Let them contrast that state of things with the present
condition of that great and important place. Let them
remember, that but a short time since the place that was
but a dependence on the diocese of Calcutta has now five
bishops end an efficient body of clergy. In India the ex-
ertions of the society had been pre-eminently successful.
After an interesting account of the state of the mission
in British India and the adjoining territories, in the course
of which the rev. gentleman expressed his warm approve
of the government aid in the work of education, he ob-
served that some benevolent writer had remarked, that
from Christian charity we assisted these churches in India,
and enabled them to maintain their altars. The result
was, that these churches were , the centre of light for the
religious instruction of all the Heathen population; and
he ventured to say, that as a number of villages had been
given up to their spiritual attendance by the government,
renewed vigour and life would be imparted to them, as the
promotion of native missions in India was found to be
highly effective. Multitudes of Brahmins had been con-
verted in every province in India. In one village, such
had been the efforts of the Church Missionary Society, and
this conjointly, that in one village, with a population of
only 800, the people had themselves built an Evangelical
Church of stone, and attended every evening, after their
labours in the fields, to return thanks for their preserva-
tion and welfare during the day, and to implore protection
during the coming night. If those who heard him would
support these churches, the empire of India would go on
in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus and all the arts of
civilised life. They must put forth not only their hearts,
but their hands to achieve this great work. (He sat down
amidst loud cheers.)
The Rev. T. IlowsoN, the principal of the Collegiate
Institution, addressing his lordship said, after having lis-
tened to the eloquent speakers that preceded him it re-
quired all the encouragement that the familiarity of that
place was capable of imparting to him to enable him to
make the few observations he had proposed. It was a
matter of very great satisfaction to bins to know that the
society, on behalf of which they were met together, was
one that had for its object, first, Christian education, and
secondly, Christian evangelisation; they were kindred
objects, and the best employment in 'which they could be
engaged. (Hear, hear.) It we could suppose, what
was not likely to take place, that some revolution threat-
ened us, and barricades were erected in our streets,
they would fall before the power of those who had been
religiously brought up, and, if this were true of education,
it was still more emphatically true of evangelization.
Mr. Howson here read the resolution, the effect of which
was, that as Englishmen were beholden to the colonies
for many temporal benefits, they were bound to contribute
to their spiritual necessities. No one could doubt the
truth of the purport of the resolution, it was only a mere
matter of justice to assist the colonies in their efforts to
confer religious instruction on their population. Mr.
Howson went on to point out the extent of area
occupied by our Colonial Church between Canada I
and Mexico. and from the Mississippi to the Amazon.
If American ambition should succeed in what he
did not believe they would in annexing the whole of
that territory first named, the objects of religion would
still be sacred there, for over that entire extent were
spread bishops and ministers of the Protestant Church.
But though it was a gratifying reflection to know this, ,
still it could not be said that England had done her duty
to the colonies. He would not trespass on the attention
of the meeting longer than to say that as their cause was)
a good one, it must prosper;—earthly kingdoms pas:l
away ; earthly glory fades into nothing, but this was not
the fate of His kingdom which they sought to establish.
The Rev. MELMUTII, professor of Hebrew in
Canada. next rose. He said as it was not more than three
months since he left Canada, he felt considerable diffidence
in addressing a meeting like that, and he trusted they
would make allowance for his imperfections when they
considered the disadvantages he laboured under. He
could corroborate all that Dr. Robinson had said respect-
ing the church in America. The members of the Epis-
copal Church there felt they were Englishmen. He had
not been in Canada many years, and, therefore, could
not pretend to know a great deal about its state.
but they could form some idea of the onerous labours of
the missionary ministers, when they were informed that
one diocese contained 200,000 square miles, and numbered
800,000 souls ; he was sorry, and yet pleased, to say, that
over that vast extent of territory, there were 83 ministers,
two-thirds of these were exclusively supported by the
society, the other third had only lately been ordained.
With all tnis, the church was in a critical juncture,
thousands arriving daily without any spiritual in-
structors. The hardships and privations suffered by
the exemplary clergy of Canada, were touchingly pour-
trayed by the speaker; they in no case received a
higher salary than £lOO per annum, and out of this sum
they had to keep a conveyance. He was sure these facts
had only to be known to gain the sympathy of his hearers
towards men, who having had a university education,
were content to spend a life of such poverty and labour.
Describing the long journeys it was sometimes necessary
to perform in the pursuit of their Christian work, Mr.
Melmuth said that he had himself travelled a distance of
fifty miles to administer the sacrament to a dying
man, and this too over a wild and broken country.
But his great gratification arose from the fact that Canada
had begun to help herself. A society bad been formed
some time since, which was enabled to employ
twenty missionaries—a college had been built, towards
which £l,lOO had been raised, exclusive of £7O for
another similar purpose. Much good was being done
in another direction, namely, in evangelizing the Ronaish
Canadians, and several conversions had been made. A i
German minister had likewise laboured successfully in
confounding the neology of the Germans. After a very
flattering account of the prospects opening in Canada,
Mr. Melmuth retired, when the collection was made, and a
psalm sung.
The Rev. Dr. M'Nastx, on rising, was received with
loud cheers. On their subsiding, he said :—My Lord, I
have much pleasure in complying with the request of my
rev. friend the secretary of this society, and rendering any
assistance in my power towards the interest and efficiency
of this meeting. Our object is admirable : our instru-
mentality is excellent : our duty is urgent. On every
side, whether we consider our aims, our means, or our
motives, the cause in which we are engaged is worthy.
(Hear, hear.) Our object is to propagate the gospel;
those glad tidings of great joy, for the preparation of
which the 'Son of God was contented to be betrayed into
the hands of sinful men. Yes ! to prepare the gospel, to
be able to send forth his messengers, saying, the oxen and
fatlings are 'killed, and all things are ready, the eternal
Word who in the beginning was with God, and was God,
was made flesh, made of a woman, made under the law.
As man he lived a keeper of the law, supplying perfectly
every moral duty, which man as a moral creature was
bound to fulfil. As man he died, a curse upon the cross,
enduring the extreme penalty of the broken law, to which
man, as a.einful creature, was righteously exposed. Thus,
in the language of the prophet, he made an end of sin, he
made reconciliation for iniquity, and brought in everlasting
righteousness. He rose again from the dead, leading cap-
tivity captive, and proclaiming to the 'universe that 'God
is well pleased for his righteousness sake. He ascended
into heaven, and ever liveth at the right hand of God,
making intercession, and sending forth the Eternal Spirit
to etuicken, renew, enlighten, sanctify .; so that, as Lord
Bacon expresses it, " Christ having man's flesh, and mrn
having Christ's spirit, there is an open passage and mutual
imputation, whereby sin and wrath were conveyed to
Christ from man, and merit and life are conveyed to man
from Christ." This he will continue to do, until he shall
have accomplished the number of his elect, and hastened
his kingdom. Our object, my Lord, is to propagate this
glorious gospel of the grace of God, an admirable object,
indeed, in which we are following the steps of apostles
and martyrs ; apostles. who, for the propagation of the
gospel, braved with holy boldness the persecuting tyranny
of Pagan Rome..; and martyrs, who in the same holy cense.
patiently endured the more ingenious and protracted tor-
tures of Papal Rome. These all died in faith, and being
dead they yet speak, and urge us to persevere stedfaetly
in what they have so nobly advanced. Who, then, can
deny or gainsay the excellence of our object ? Nay, who,
amidst the blessings of this favoured land, can justify a
refusal to give us his cordial co-operation ? (Applause.)
For as our object is admirable, so our instrumentality is
excellent. It is expressed in sword—our national Church—
but it is not so easily described. Concerning our Church,
we need not in dutiful affection say more, and we cannot
in truth and justice say less, than that she is apostolical
in her origin and constitution, sound and scriptural in
her doctrines, tolerant and charitable towards those who
differ from her, spiritual and elevated in her piety, and
practical and holy in her influence on the lives and tempers
of her genuine members. if some of her members be not
genuine, and misrepresent their venerable mother, how-
ever she may grieve over unworthy children, she cannot
be reasonably made accountable for misconduct in oppo-
sition to her plainest instructions. If some of her ment-
leers deny her apostolical constitution, or others exaggerpte

it into papal assumption ; if some rationalize away her
sound and scriptural doctrines, or others overload them
with gross and anti-scriptural traditions ; if some abuse her
charity into latitudinarian indifference, or others with ex-
clusive bigotry magnify her decent and orderly ceremonies
into the place of essential truths, denying the christianity
of all who do not conform to them, and so leaving them
to the uncovenanted mercies of Gad ; if some refine her
spiritual ordinances and sacraments into mere unmeaning
signs, or others debase and degrade them into opus ope-
rautn incantations ; if some reject her holy influences
through unbridled worldliness, or others caricature them
by monastic austerities—our Chards herself is not to blame.
She reproves on either side, and would fain correct on both
sides, those who have departed from her well-balanced in-
structions., ( Hear, and loud cheers.) t repeat, therefore, my
Lord,our instrumentality is excellent in itself. his wrought
indeed by imperfect hands, arid no machinery entrusted
to human management can be expected to work invariably
without fault. To deny the existence of any fault is worse
than folly. To assail and attempt to destroy the whole
machine because of faults or supposed faults in its work-
ing, is insensate enmity. To forsake it because in some
parts it workS in a way we do not like, is narrow-tniaded
selfishness, but to repair what is broken, to adjust what is
misplaced, and quietly to endure for the general good thosa
parts which are not in accordance with our own personal
preferences ; this is enlightened Christian friendship.
( Hear, hear.) Uniformity of preferences is impossible,
but the unity of the Spirit is not impossible; and it is
only by a spiritual sacrifice of personal preferences, and
that on both sides, that there ever can be in this world a
true bond of peace. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) As then
our object is admirable and our instrumentality excellent,
so our duty is urgent. Without entering into the wide
field for missionary labours, supplied by the aborigines of
our colonies, a bare consideration of our emigrants is
sufficient to establish and impress this duty. Last year
from the port of Liverpool alone there sailed above
121,000 emigrants ; and up to July of the present year
there have sailed 91,575. Multitudes have since departed.
Should these all, while pursuing the necessaries or en-
joyments of this world, be left without Christian in-
struction and spiritual superintendence ? Alas! what
can this world do for them, supposing them all eminently
successful in it ? What has it done for its most distin-
guished votaries ? Let disappointed schemes, wounded
affections, and broken hearts give answer. Affection
misplaced is idolatry. The world is full of idols. Jehovah
is jealous. The idols are broken. And therefore the
world is full of lamentation, sorrowing, and woe. The
Rev. Doctor concluded by pointing to the duty of giving
to these emigrants all that the Church of England could
give them, and then they would be in a condition to fulfil
the Divine injunction,—" Go forth and replenish the
earth and subdue it." The Rev. Doctor resumed his seat
amidst loud applause.
The Rev. C. H. BURTON, incumbent of St. Phillips,
stepped forward to second the resolution, which he did in
a few appropriate words. His lordship read the resolu-
tion, which•being put was carried,
The Ven. Archdeacon BROOKS rose amidst the loudest
and most unanimous demonstration of approbation on the
part of the meeting. He passed a high eulogium on our
esteemed bishop for his uniform and impartial efforts
whenever called upon, in the cause of religion or charity.
He cordially thanked his lordship for his services that day.
Mr. INMAN seconded this motion, which was received
-with the warmest approval, and
' The Lord BISHOP responded in a truly affectionate
strain, depreciating his humble services in the good cause,
and expressed the gratification he experienced in meeting
so many Christian friends assembled in such a cordial
spirit. He closed his remarks by giving the benediction
in an impressive tone to his hearers, and was warmly ap-
plauded.
The meeting separated about a quarter to ten.
The collection made during the proceedings amounted to
£2l Ss.

Particulars of Contributions to the Propagation Gospel
Society, in 1847, 1848, 1849.

Num. Church Annual
Year. Serm. Collections, Subscrip. Donations. Total.
s. d. I a. d. a. d. £. a. d.
1847 8 141 3 9
_j 830 4 4 155 19 6 1187 7 7
1848 2 28 8 7 870 13 2 286 7 6 1185 9 3
*430 0 0 I I I 430 0 0
458 8 7 1615 9 3
1849 400 0 0: 880 0 0 160 0 0 1440 0 0
Showing an increase in 1849 over the local income of 1848 (in-
dependently of the Queen's letter) of £254 102. 9d., and over
that of 1847 of .e 252 12s. 9(1.

*tinder Queen's Letter.

SECOND EDITION.

Siandard-ojice, Two o'clock, p.nz

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—Tins DAY.

The Share Market continues to advance, and considerable
purchases have been made this morning. Our private tele-
graph also reports a like favourahle change in London. Our
quotations to one o'clock are—Great Northern Preference,2o ;
Leeds Fifths, 6 d; London Stock, 110 115; Quarter Shares,
16/3 17/3 p; Midland .€5O Shares. 17i d ; Shrewsbury
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