The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

Rev. D. D. Stewart, Live

Vicar of Burnley ; Rev

.ohnson, Esq., Runcorn ; and G. Carter, Esq.
The Rev. Jonathan Brooks, senior Rector of Liverpool,

pied the chair

The meeting having been opened with prayer by the
Rev. Chas. Lawrence, the Chancellor of the Diocese,
read the folllowing report of the society for the past

The report after alluding to the growing' sense of the need of
creasing church accommodation, states that the committee

nau rue misiortune or neginning the year io-to min an upput cm,
balance avainst them of .1150. In consequence of this, little
was done towards encouraging the objects of the society during
the two first quarters of the year just expired. At the meeting
on April 1, two applications from churches (St. Silas's, Harper,
and St. Simon's, Connor) building in Manchester and in Liver-
pool, were declined, under the conviction that they were not
within the scope of our operations. Applications from the
districts of Coldhurst, in Oldham, of St. Paul's, Lane-bridge, in

Burnley, were declined on other grounds, but chiefly on objec-
tions to the plans proposed as being too expensive. The cases
of Whitworth Chapel, to be rebuilt, and of an offer from gentle-
men, owners of mill property at Prestolee, were reluctantly
deferred.

At the quarterly meeting, June 30, an additional grant of
.e2B was granted for the completion of the church at Birkle, in
Middleton, and .e3OO for a new church at Whitworth, in the
parish of Rochdale. The case of this chapel was included in
the last year's report, but it may be well to recapitulate here,
that the population of the chapelry is 4970, the old chapel has
426 sittings, but none free, except those which are placed in
the aisles. A plan for the enlargement of the chapel had been
submitted to the Incorporated Society, but as they saw reason
for objection, and recommended a new church n nlan w^ or,

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pared for their approbation, which offered 1139 a sittings for tin.
sum of £2,300; The local subscriptions have only reached
x"700: the sum expected from the Incorporated Society was
£5OO, and your committee agrees to promise .t'3oo, under
the hope that private benefactions may yet be drawn
out, which might supply the apparent deficiency. At the
same meeting several orders, for the payment of grants, were
made: but no other promises, under the conviction that has

uded to. At the quarterly meeting, September
Ise of the West Leigh Church, in the parish of Leigh,
ht before the committee by the Rev. the Vicar, who
in enmnlianre with the renuirements of the Incor-

already a
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the probable cost of the church -would be ..e2500, the population
of the district being 2500; and, in consideration of these changes,
the grant of £2BO was confirmed, with an addition of .e5O more.
An application was also made from the newly appointed minis-
ter of the district of Portwood, in Stockport, mentioning the
difficulties with which he was surrounded, but that he had suc-
ceeded in raising the sum of £BOO, applicable towardsthe build-
ing of a church, and in the consideration of the peculiar cir-
cumstances of the place, the difficulty of obtaining a site, and
the total want of local resources, It was resolved that .'BOO
should be applicable to the purposes of that district.
Another application was made from the incumbent of the
district of Coldhurst, in Oldham, requesting some further as-
sistance, in order to complete the church. The grant of the
Incorporate Society of £2OO involved the outlay of .eIBO in the
construction of a chancel; and though the church? which is
calculated to hold five hundred people, is to be finished with
this addition for .t'l4oo, the building fund fell so short, that it
was deemed necessary to assist it by the grant of an additional
£lOO.

At the same meeting applications were received from the dis-
trict of Hurst, in Ashton-under-Lyne, and from the district of
Dane Bridge, in Northwich, which were not deemed admissible,
on account of the extensive scale of the building ; and the vote
of a grant to St. James's, Congleton, was renewed, on a• letter
from the incumbent encouraging hopes that the work would be
speedily proceeded in.
At the quarterly meeting, on December 30, payments were
ordered of the grants made to St. Paul's, Macclesfield, of the re-
maining moiety of the grant to the church at Whitehaven, and
of .elOO to the church at Waterhead, in Oldham.
At the same time, the returns from the collections made dur-
ing the preceding summer, under the authority of the Bishop's
'..tte- were - --ted, and it s,"- red that the collections -

ready paid and notified amounted to £1,920. Under this state-
ment, your committee feel themselves justified in meeting the
applications before them with a greater liberality, and the fol-
lowing grants were made :
To the district of Christ Church, in Denton, a grant was made
Of £4OO. In this parish the population amounts to 8000, and
the old chapel only offers 300 sittings. The new church is
planned to hold 860. Subscriptions have been raised to the
amount of £1425, and the Incorporated Society has promised
.e4OO.
T in Duckenfield, the same sum of £4OO

o at. Mark's c._ Act., _
was voted. The population of this district is 7000. Local sub-
scriptions only .amount to .'l5O. Her Majesty's Commis-
sioners have made a grant of £250, the Incorporated Society
of £350, and an unknown benefactor, through the bishop, has
given .eBOO.
To the district of St. Paul's, in Burnley, and of Hurst, in
Ashton-under-Lyne, grants of .t2OO were voted.

To Bridge, in &ortliwich, and to Scarisbrick, Orraskirk, £2CO
each.

To All Saints' district, Habergham Eaves, £l5O.
And additional grants of -eloo each to Welsden, in Todmor-
den, to Charlestown, in Ashton-under-Lyne, and of to East
Crompton.
The cases of Sliuttleworth, in Bury, of St. Matthews, Chad-
derton, St. John's, Chadderton, in Oldham, and of Whitworth,