The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

THE CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY

We rejoice to hear that an adjourned Meeting of the
Friends of the Pastoral Aid Society will be held on Fri-
day evening next, in the Concert Hall,. Lord Nelson-
street. The Rev. H. M'Neile in the chair. We have
been asked to direct attention to the Advertisement in
our columns this day, we can do no better than by stat-
ing that the grants made for the support of Curates mid
Scripture Readers in Liverpool, amount to £l,lOO per
annum, and inserting the following deeply interesting
extract, from one of the occasional papers published by
the Society, showing what it has been the honoured in-
strument of effecting in the parish of Whalley, near
Blackburn The parish is about twenty miles by thirty
in extent, and containing, seven years' ago, when the
Auxiliary to that Society was formed in that parish,
110,000 inhabitants :7
. _ _

"At the time of the Reformation, the population of
e parish of Whalley could not exceed 6,000. There

- -
was then a church for every 400 inhabitants ; i. e., 15 in
all. In 1801 the population had increased to 49,000.
During this long interval one ruinated- church had been

restored by the father of the prea
tional church built in 1788. Th'
churches for 100,000 inhabitant'
average to every 6,000. "he
enumerates 33 churches no six nexvlN

the year 1835 sap 17

or one church on the

The clos,

of the year 1833
constituted eccle-
about to be built."

siastical districts, in which c

arches ar

" In each of these places there is al
vice on each Lord's day, where form
without a preach

ast one public ser-

' hear,' for they wen
could ' preach,' becau

could no
and non
" School

room services and Pastoral-aid grants may fairly 1
claim to seven *of the 16 new churches ;
them as originators and pioneers, it is doul
them had at this moment, in the present decade, raised
In the December quarter there were I its heaven-directing spire." _ _ _

for witholit

it if one of

The present st'ait of clergy in this parish is 53, in

and V

unng t

active duty."

" The next subject of inquir
rw are all these additional de

!sts itself i

342,547
338,929
359,634

ality, maintaine

of this

•J was, a

343,847
349,519
346,446
355,950

nearly as can be a

from official return

per annum ; in 1815 it

£4,172

136 per cent

"of all ti

!haritable sour

arterly table, it may

ncome, the Church Pastoral

and calls fa
In

ber,- and its pecuniary aid £986. In the year 1815 it still
enumerates 11 grants, at an expenditure of £990. From
this source alone, thereibre, the parish derives-one-fourth
.part of its increased clerical income; and the fact is eli-
cited, that this Society, supported by volititary contribu-
tions, brings to the spiritual aid of this extensive district,•
through its eleemosynary channel - £290 per annum,

more than t
Commission

lie whole arramzement
iers have eff.

f the Ecclesiastical

for it under the head of

ore than the
i constituting

count of the

,e amount

I income, we arrive at t

,me of a

locality. Nor ought it to be o

ked that this pa-

:ed witl

a able to

mony of it

) THEIR' DISTR

D FELLOW-

!rTRYMEN AT HOME.

in the Irish character, that in

ns of t

In the Times of last
bearing- upon this subj

th

States have ahvays remitted very

s to their relatives at home, but
urprised to hear the extent of this

,nt houses in New•Yor

lent of the amount they had thus remitted
isle and female, within the last 60
ere is the

1 also for the ent

of 1846

1 amount received in New Yo:

from Irish

labourers, male and fi
ber and Dec

le, during the months of .Novem-
-35,000
i 1,690

1-84 G, 5175,000, or equal to £

for the year 1846

,000, a

stood to average

£3 to .£

mch draugbt
id b

at to all parts

very packe

3ondent

` From year to year,"
an increasing with the
rove most conclusively

J on, and
n Ore affo:

:y of ma
id thrif

:lets could be

-hat th,

haN'e done for suffering Ireland,
t be mad(

y that the Iri3h landlo

their former

doiug for their

who has occasionally been in the habit of
money order office in Liverpool, cahnot fail
with the number of Irish labourers
'or orders for their friends at home ;
Ithentiaded fact, which perhaps does eot

rims of Irish

tbsisting upon the rate,

.y remitting