The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

TEA PARTY at ALL SAINTS' SCHOOLS,

THE first annual tea meeting of the congregation and
friends of All Saints' Parish Church was held, last night,
in the upper room of the new school-rooms, in Great Nel-
son-street. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Henry
Marlen, incumbent of the parish ; on the platform were the
Rev. S. B. Sutton, Rev. J. R. Conor, Rev. J. 0. Powell,
Rev. Isaac Holmes, Rev. George D. Todd, Rev. Richard
Dandy, Rev. Wm. Winlaw, Rev. John Woodhouse, and
Rev. W. B. Matthias.

About three hundred sat down to a well served and
plentiful supply of tea and cake, furnished by Mr. Mel-
bourn, 20, Clarence-street. The room was tastefully
deem% to I with flags and banners, bearing appropriate
devices, and with flowers and evergreens. Grace before
tea and after tea was sung by the choir in good style ;
after the latter of which an anthem was sung, and a
prayer offered up by the Rev. J. Woodhouse.

- The Rev. H. MAitrEzi expressed the great pleasure he
experienced in meeting with so numerous a body of his
parishioners at the beginning of a new year, and under cir-
cumstances more gratifying than had usually been his
fortune. Never till the present occasion had he been able
to meet them with what he felt entitled to call all the parish
machinery in full operation. Our schools (said the rev. gen-
tleman) are now built, and mostly completed in all respects,
and are nearlyallpaidfor. (Cheers.) We have them now in a
conditiontoreceive the aid of the government to clear off our
small remaining debt, and in a few weeks or months we will
have our schools in full work and without debt. In look-
ing at a report made by his predecessor, he found that ac-
cording to. that report there was but one school in the
parish, although it extended to Kirkdale. There were
8,000 souls in All•Saints' Parish, and among these were
children of all fit ages to attend school. In 1817; we
got a school opened in Upper Beau-street. another was then
added, and after that the church was built, and at last we
have got our schools built and free of debt. (Cheers.)
He had therefore- to- thank his congregation for the
efficient manner in which he had been aided, and hr
a particular mannerhe had to thank the ladies for their'
kind and generous- exertions. The schools had been,
built at a large expense, no small portion of which
was swallowed up in the cost of the site that
being not less than £1,404. The building cost £1,310;
the residences £300; in all £3,273 ; but as some
little apparatus was still, wanting, say that £3,300 may be
set down as the full sum. He was glad to say that nearly
all that sum had been• raised in the space of two
years, still they were something short, to meet which
they would be in a short time entitled to receive £854 from
the committee of the Privy Council. (Cheers.)
The New Year's Hymn was-here sung.
The Rev. IsAA c HOLME& addressed the meeting, and
congratulated the pastor and the congregation of All
Saints on the exertions they had made and the success
they had met with in their laudable exertions.

The Rev. J. R. Co1;o commencing his address,
begged to correct a popular errov-which,existed as to the
ecclesiastical status of the Rev. Henry Marlsn,who was
not unfreqa9tly called the incumbent of All aints' dis-

trict ; uflsr, his position ;;;,:zitothat of the' rectors of
Liverpoolrand All Saints' was a parish. It might be well
enough known that 200 years ago Liverpool was a slice
out of IValton, and now All Saints' is a slice out of Liver-
pool. The. rev. gentleman, in a speech full of facet* and
replete with well-told anecdotes, enforeed the blessings of
'a really charitable disposition, and urged on the. meeting
the gratification of indulging in it in, regard to such ob-

jectssas the-one they were that night met. to promote.
The collection in favour of the Schoot.Library, amount-
ing to £7 6s. 1d.,. was now made ; during•which time au
anthem was sung-
The meetirg was then addressed by-the- Revs. J. C.
P-OWELL, of St. Thomas's, S. B. SurrtrN and Jon's-
,WoonuousE,.. who severally urged on those present the
;important claims. of the schools and the- library ; after
'which the doxology was sung, and the meeting-separatell.