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Even this, however, would be insufficient. The fare of the eye
most be proteeted front injury. Out eye brines form lege over-
haogieg ruins to protest the eves from the injuries to which
they . are exposed.: There is hair growing upon the brows,
which lie obliquely, and by that contrivance turn off any
perspiration which comes upon the brow, and by their elasticity
litre w off any substance havin, kt tendency to fall into the eyes.
Persons who lose their -eyebrows experience a great many
miseries, which would surprise those who have their. In addi-
tion to these we have eyelids, which are a decided convenience.
When we look at the sun, our eyelids immediately close ; ins
deed, if we had them not, our sight would he destroyed by the
powerful light albs, sun. In order to enable us to close our
eyelids,-we have muscles which raise or depresS them agreeebly
to our will. The upper eyelid has more motion than the lower
ode, and sometimes its muscle becomes palsied, in which case, •
the afflicted individual has to raise the eyelid with his hand. '
We have got lashes attached to theSe eyelids which completely
close up the openings to the eves, by the manner in which they
insert themselves into mine another. Our eyelids would be apt
to grow together by being closed for so long a time, were it net
that in their margin there is a very beautiful thieg, calk,' a •
fringe. There is likewise introduced int. ttte mare,in of each
eyelid_ pieces of stiff gristle called lanes, which stretches out to
the proper extent. There is another contrivance : there are an
immense number of little glands which secrete and pour out a ,
geaotiiy of oil to anoint the margins of the eyelids. This goes
oii every moment of our lives. Some children get diseases in
iheir eves, and these glands do not perform their duty, but on
be contrary secrete a quantity of unhealthy, indeed, poisonnns
matter: By frequently washing their eyes with milk and water
this complaint is readily cured. Persons who get sand or some
such like matter into the eves, sometimes cause themselves con-
sirietaide pain by rubbing their eves. Now, we have inside of
he eve a tear bag, which we call the lachrymal gland, Which is
the wash-house for washing the eye. This cistern is supplied
with blood-vessels. Whether we cry or do not cry, this tear.
vessel is aiways pouring out moisture, provided it is in a proper.
slate; and when a person gets anythiug, iuto the eye, this gland
secretes a great quantity of water, which it pours out all over
the eve. To shed tears is one of the greatest reliefs in the
world. Men, cannot cry; and in consequence they frequently
go mad. omeu eau, and therefore, they 'rarely go mad.
Thus we see in some novels, when the heroine is placed in a
eriticai situation, " nature came to her relief, and she shed a
flood of tears." Many persons get rid of headaches by a good
flew of tears. If. when a person has got any dust in his eye,
instead of rubbing it, he would only pull up the upper eyelid,
the tears would rundown and remove the irritating body. At
the margiu of the eyes there are two little ducts which receive
the tears when they have done their ditty, and carry them into
the nose. There is a little red body at the corner of the eves,
next the nose, which is called a gland, which secretes a poison
which is very unpleasant to insects, and keeps them away. This
little gland passes out during the night a quantity of water.
Many persons think they cannot do any harm to their eyes,
and you will frequently see persons on the top of a coach read-
ing books; this is bad, because, as the coach shakes you are
always altering the axis of vision, which injures the vision.
There is not a class of her Majesty's' subjects which is worse
treated-than mantuamakers. They, sit trout morning to night
stitching, and their sight is injured sooner than that of any
other class of persons. The eyes Of watchmakers are very
touch injured, and yon will find that watchmakers are cut off
much sooner than cleckmakers. We should remember that our
eves were given to us for use. and we should endeavour to do
all the benefit we can for them, by treating them as they weie
intended to be used.

ANNUAL :MEETING
OF THE CHLUICEI DEOCESA.N SOCIETY.

the Blue Coat
chai... The meeting
Yesterday morning, at twelve o'clock, the third annual meet-
ing:lap.: assemblage
i.iuort:
of the Chester Diocesan Society, was held in the Chattel of
flospital, the
,Lori Bishop of Chester, in the
was resoecianly attended, and there was a
111..'eawerieetnge: (,)rthlehe s‘elictrtceetaseryp, present.
The Right Rev. CH A i iilet A cii in opening the meeting, called
D. vine blessing. After which, e'imt.plore the
t. Yheßight Rev. Ca A ((I'M A a then said, as representatives of
the Chester Diocesian Society, they were assembled fitr the third
titre, hi - •
give all account, if he might so .say, of theit steward-
snip--to render an a• count of the sums committed to their charge,
e,specially
.bt, the inhabitants of Liverpool, to whom it was,
therefore hi; that they,. should retider an account. He trusted',
thatt they sh,old he able to do this with joy, and not with griei",
rwe,ten, tiodoobiedly, ;here was inoeh for which they had great
.ason to be thankful. Very considerable change had been
.made io many parts of the country which, but a few years
'uOtlit!
world.
presented a very dark spot in the moral, and religious
trusted, !Id Many of those black spots had been retnoved, and he
~.„. the results to be expected were such as they rooked for.
tv.viat u regard to to the Diocesan Society, it must be remembered
I,' . its success, and the results or what it had done, did not
on
nmit of that easy calculation. and did not make such a flame
paper as the *reports of the operations -of some societies
made
• T hey could not count. so large a nunther of individual
ch.litches,. or so large a number of persons aceommodated as
jnght haVe been done,. if the object wAsdifferent to what ii. was.
But the olject or i his society was not to assist those who had
assistant e from ether societies, or hail resources within them-
seives; -
its, otiiect was rather to do for those who were destitute
of means, what they themselves could not accomplish, and to
assist those who could not be assisted by other societies. The
mosequence mils, that larger expenditure had taken place in
certain inclivi,wal churches, than-would have been the ease, if
tilt, objects of the society hail been different. They set out
with the idea of being the friends of the wretched; or if they
did not like to take an idea from anything so Melancholy as I
death, let t ben, take it from Dim who sorgot those, who, with-
OTt Hint. were lost—to raise those, who, without Hilo, were
without the knowledge of being able to rase themselves. )t
was the u-feet of the society to go to those desutate places
whet e no great funds or whole resources could be round, but
where, without aid, they must remain destitate.• But, notwith-
siondiug, that they should be able to show a considerable num-
ber or churches .that had growls up under the assistance, and
auspices of this society; anti they must remember, that of (hose
churches they!shouldso exhibit, not perhaps, oie fourth of them
—nht live out of twenty would have existed at. all without' the
assistance or this society; that, as far as they went in the re-
pert, they were actual creations. (Hear.) Another thing he
mil:stied to mention, that they were not to suppose, that they
were tocutioniug,in the tem•trt all that had been (Lou-e without
I ite aid or the society. On the emiliate, it would tell them
no(hii:g.or the new churches building at Manchestet, of which
tout or live were in prior vess in the last few years, since the
sue,ety had been eskiblisbcd. It would not tell them of the,
new church recently erected at Rortenstall,nur at Walton, Oar
of the eheich erecte(i by :"tlr. Greenall, at St. Heleus, nor of
the new church at Present. Nor stilt more should they tell
them of other Churches erected out of the beat or the society.
They slid not tttl.e all these things to themselves, and they
therefore, did not iotrude them tato the report. But it was
necessary that they should k
-now, that there were these different
gleams in their prospect, though they did not come within the
view of their own oiciu re. But there was another thing which they
tnigt fairly speaof, which ill less came within the pi ovinee
of cahlculaiion: he meant thest general impulse which bad been
given, (apelatoe, ) which. he trusted, would not stop till the
dist ;hos which tied hitherto been looked upon as places of des-
titution. should have been provided with that without which
they weie poor indeed. For example. they could take no tie-
cooot here of the nuMber of schoo's which were growing up
under the aa,.lices or ,hui.che3, which were now iii operattou.
to almost ail the large manu;',ouring distrieis there were now
schools which aid, io tact, sunolv the place i
d churches. There
weie as Many or I beseas these acre of churches, and perhaps
as mady,.persons received .eli,:tious insiructioo iti those school-
rooms as in the churches. mid the . lest' iii..iost there
L e given w
oe
site
quite as adequate to furnish the means of glace, t nt) c
say there tvas aut. degradation in this. Let tuetn consider the
ot iiria o: our relii,?.ion. Witat was it ot a smal seed? What
was it hat a tulle ae llustl, 11h5'w furnisb'l d capability o
shelter to it:e world. Let them consider again the scripture
auitioritY.ibey had foe purposes of this Lim!. Row was it Lin-
de, she ',joed".,l( dispeosation, where, fur a length of time, for
many huadreo years, waere w.is lite ark of Clod and toe coven-
ant but in a lent, sod moved from place to place as the people
had to move: And vet God did not withhold his blessing froin
that art; which was in that is ; and so those who were two or
three miles oistaol from their parish ctio,ches would find a
hlessitig iu those schools, in which situations they often found
two or three thousand persons. Though they/ might not he able
io raise a church, they wet e stilt able to tint.' a place where
the imllis or toe gospel were nieached, and where they might
learn those tuings which appertained to their everlasting inter-
est, and where, in the to•ogyess of things. the event might be as
it was in the Jewish dispensaiion. Tuete was a lime when it
was no longer suitable (hat Goo should be so worshippeo, anti
then Ile raised un one in whose mind he ought to have a tem.
ole worthy of Him. ‘• Behold," said Davol, " what luxuries
tin I surrobrideo by ? I dwell in a hOuse ofcedar, whilst the
ark of Goa; it welleth in curtains. It du
:4:11 not to lie." So might
to the end in our populeos dist rich. There might he many, he
Imre, w,i() would 415 e up bud say, God should not be
i worship-
per, 1161 way There might tie no impropriety that the tinths
n i •
of (his religion who'was born in a stable, because there was no
room elsewhere, should be perfivaned in a very humble nuild-
lug, while there was room to preach his doctrines in a church—
I ill tit poolation should say, •• we dwell in houses of cedar;
Got; has blessed its; bow can we hest show the sense have
gi of
the distinction which he has unsigned us." We we will. not ve
sleet, 'io our eves. nor slumhier to our eyelids, tit' we had a tem-
ole iitting lot' the Lord. (;fear.) raecefore let then"' 110 t de-
si;ise the day o;..tuall liiim.s; let thou nut despise [he humble
builitiog wh-ere the wieis,er use preacla those truths which he
has nut .he pewee 10 do elsewhere. One word tun the subject of
footis. 'They Old not lioliandetr their funds; they thought that
thev had beeif olacett io their hands that they 'night be spent,
awl Ilito.efore they had sent theta; end lie believed before they
tea that. room, that that., that thei should be ZlOOO worse thau
toil hing'• They had tea appticatiens to assist churches that nay;
and they tubst at least e%pend !AM/ inure thou their funds; if
the poetic:gave theM leave, thee shou at do it in faith. It ter
oink. had ti • : ..
. een me hope, in the course of the last sear, to take
1..1,17.a_5u ,eti rug the two re permanent provision for the great object,
t . torwat ding which they weie met, than it now had, But last I
year hat; not been a favourable one. In the piesent year they '
ought look forward lollil4ol' the f. God - • . '
vim'. of to snake themselves !
mere known in the • a
provinces titan they had oune—to snake
II w
themselves as L metropolis
Hi, der,e nown as in the of Liverpool.
,4'Y would • - .
allow num to stud a letter, in the course of the
sii.nuter re tie .t• •
,h,,,,.4.1 .(l ~ .dg %oat collections inigitt be made in their
s.lu churches lot this great Inject. to tea' way he trusted they
ri.
sul,ii pi oceed in the measures their had begot,, and in which
'': lia.l so greatly prospered. They had set an example for
othersl..l,,r. to follow. lie was sure that as friends of their eat a idlished
(': 1...0", they had chiefly to oujetts or this kind to make their
curet-) slret ll t
0,,' ico her torus, and strengthen her tents; and the
way to strengthen her tents, was be adaetiug, heasell to the in-
(-7ea,•ing wants or the population. lo that way he trusted that
hey should•see as they had hitherto seen, that the God of David
w"s, Present. Ile trutited that oar Church would be able to hand
i.o those who came after her what she had herself iecoived, the
i amp of pure!and• undefiloireligion. ( Hear.) He cone' I 1
w",h, caihng on the Rev. Chancellor r• 'k , , 'ln e(
tat es to teat, the revolt.
The Elev. COaucellor 11;viKE then 1h •
oceeded to read the
reno.G. ,

that no private resources were adequate to meet the call. They
admitted that the stated increase in the popdletion would alone
requite a larger sum then they Omit:Twee ste then• income, in
order io meet the accession of numbers by the largemeut ot
church accommodation; and thee coniessed that ir they went
out with the avowed intention or noing illtoat wee requiretl—of
supplying all ;het was needed—of redressing the ectinutulated
consequences of a century or neglect, their plan Wight be con-
sidered visionary and hopeless.
" If I heetetensi'ale supply has Felten short o,whatthey thought
110011 have been reatieett, the wetk ttas (lever been standing.
etel. No application for assistance. as vet, has been rejected
for want. cif kinds; and it all that they desired to do, has hilt
been dune, or not been dente thiouel., lust ru eteosality, they
reeoice to state that God oes raised op fellow labourers, who
have come to their help,--who have taken. or are about to take
00 themselves some portion of the bit ten, and dot eu impulse
has been riven to. pi ivate benevolence which seems likely to
diminish the necessity foe public interrereece,
" It may he sufficient pa this respect to point to the separate
associations, whites hive been formeil for local objects only, in
the towns of Meuchestet, Bury, and Bolton.
" Your commotee have new, then, to advert. to the state of
the funds, on which the extent of future exertions must depend.
Teey have first to acknowledge with gratitude the realtiatten of
that plan which was alluded thin the lah Year's report but which
it was not thought expedient to include in the last year's ac-
count. A hundred indieidnaliewere induced to subscribe £5O
each for the general purposes of the society. The plan origina-
ted in Liverpool, and but for a peculiar concurrence of circum-
stances it would have been accomplished there, Difficulties
having delayed its progress, the co-operation of friends in other
pads of England was invited, and the result was successful.
To that true spirit of benevolence which thus prompted the
friends of the church in Liverpool to lose sight or their own-
more immediate wants in coutemplatine the religious destitution
or other districts, the committee feel that some special expres-
sion of gratitude ie due. The necessities of their own neigh-
bourhood were urgent and great, but they had the kindness to
consider the necessities of others as greater, and freely offered,
in the relief of the poorer and more destitute districts, a bounty
which might have been most usefully employed at home.
" Your Committee trust that betievoleuce like this will not
go without itsreward; and they who have watered others will
be watered also themselves, and that the liberality they have
exercised towards the community will he returned by the com-
munity to theist necessity sheuld require it.
" The amount of emote, subscriptions paid up to the present
date, and for the year 1837, is i:1031 3s. The collections in
churches for the last year have yielded Ws. Bd., and the
sums announced as donations, in chief part belonging to the
Liverpool fund, amount to 1:4.953 165., forming a total uot much
exceeding £6OOO.
" The balance we have seen of the general account shows
that a sum of about £BBOO remains in the halide of their several
bankers. Of this sum £6160 is already pledged, and will pro
bably be drawn out in the course of the year. fresh applica-
tions for assistance are being daily poured in, and the cry of a
population just awakening to spiritual wants, and asking for
relief, is repeated in our ears. Calls are being addressed to
the Church of England, as a common mother of us alt, from
quarters where the feeling of attachment was hardly supposed
to exist, and a little more seems needed than a heady and
united effort on the part of her friends to raise her again to the
position which she ought to occupy—to make her the source of
light, and comfort, and hope, to the great mass of her popula-
tion, and to put the :whole country more than ever in unity of
spirit and in the bowl of peace.
" The committee regret that they are now called to announce
a loss the society is about to sustain by the withdrawal of Mr.
Horsfall from the situation of Ire ismer. The duties connected
with this office encroach too much on the time that be can spare,
and in returning the abstract of our compocated accounts, which
he-has this year bad the goodness to draw up, he communicated
his wish to resign the office which he has tilled with so touch
advantage to the society. Your committee, while they deeply
regret his decision, calf only do it with expressions of gratitude
for the valuable services he has already rendered ; and if the
society is no longer to enjoy the benefit of his superintendence,
they must be thankful that the sanction of his name and the
benefit of his council Was extended to it when it stood most in
need of such advantages—When it was going forth as a candivate
for public cOutidence, and its acceptance depended on the pa-
trouage it met with
"With this announcement, the committee would close this
report. If they have trespassed upon the patience of their
heaters by its length. they must plead the importance of the
cause, the variety of intetes:s which are at stake and involved
in the interests of this society. (in its progress depends, as far
as human judeetnents extend, the dearest destiny of thousands,
of hundreds of thousands of our countrymen.
On the success of its exertions it depends, whether our manu-
facturing districts shall prove a source of wealth and power to
the country, exhibiting a beautiful and unrivalled combination
of intellectual activity, of increasing wealth, and redundant
population, or whether they shall be a volcano which shall
scatter devastation over the laud, and poison the springs of its
prosperit y.
"But your committee are unwilling to press temporal motives
as al guttients in this cause. They aim at higher ends than the
stability of present advantages ; :Ind they feel that a deeper re-
sponsibility rests on those who have the power of contributing,
than that of maintaining good order and propriety. They be-
lieve that, in a Christian community, power of doing gond con-
veys the duty of doing good; that each individual is bound to
seek the spit itual welfare of others, as well as his own ; and that
it is impossible to escape from the obligation without rendering
all these, iu the coneolatioos and hopes of the gospel.
" these words teach the ears of any who yet have not
weighed the duty which they inculcate; the committee would
draw their attentions to the words of scripture, as the sum of
this appeal :—' If thou ferbear to deliver them that are
.drawn
to death, and them that are ready to be slain ; if thou sagest,
Behold we saw it not; doth not He that ponilereth the heart
consider it, and Ile that keepeth thy site: 'cloth not he know it?
and shall not he render to every man according to his works.'
Proverbs xxiv., 11 12."
The Rev. Receon BtiooKs then carne forward with great
pleasure to move the first resolution, "that the repert now read
be printed and circulated, under the direct ion of the comittiitee."
As it would be one of the ;sleet means of eelending the know-
ledge and usefulness of this society, he thought it would not re-
quire many observations from him to show the psopriety of the
meeting adopting this resolution. After the full manner in
wise report had gone into the proceedings of this society. and
after tie observations of his Lordship in opening the business
of the day, he thought it must he clear to every one that there
existed a necessity for additional church room in all the pope-
lons parts of ibis diocese was beyond doubt; and that the only
means by which they could accomplish this most be by the exer•
tions of the chinch itself. Time was when it was not considered
unreasonable that the national church of England was fairly en-
titled to a portion of the national revenues; and when the
executive government of the country had no difficulty in pro-
posing to parliament that it should apply a portion of its reve-
nues to the furtherance of that pure established form of worship
efaorrigiialyntiin,,t.ahnetkedinighdeolin.n.eanTslooorseth:iimes had now passed
which had been adopted in the country, and carry its blessings
in'
jorceivle,:ry
away; and he believed they must all be convinced that it' the
dome good. ur or es-
tending us usefulness, it must be by the exertions or her mein-
berg. He trusted it would be the means of teachine her that
she had an energy within herself, and powerful resources of
which she was not before conscious. Indeed they tnight say
that this had already taken place. lithe,/ looked throughout
nietiti et
the kingdom, it was aonost sej g. thing to reflect on. and
atifyin
that day hailgiven
w i at nats irrati
h erpririTfutgt I
o the
reflect l
like the present.
as Ibis were not confined to one or two dioceses, but wet e
nhes et
such ofthienesltirgu:
become general thtoughout the kingdom. To his ibidship it
must be gratifying; he was very early in the field; and nee of
the first to suggest to his clergy anti-the lay bedy over whom
they preside, the necessity of exertions of this sort ;
and tt ems;
be very gratifying to hits to find that this plan had been taken
up be the kingdom at large, and that these meetings were now
established in every diocese. They raised a great deal of cash
in this kingdom for different purposes. A great deal of money
had been raised to calve- Christianity to foreign paoe. With
thelobject of this he quite agreed; the spirit of our religion Was
not exclusive; it would carry Christianity to every part of the
world. But he was aware that they had peculiar obligations
to themselves; that though they were called on to assist other
places, yet they were more immediately bound to assist them-
selves. They ought first to take care of the wants or those
bound to them by closer ties; and then when that was done, let
those who had the means apply them to other pug posPs ; but he
etiold not think that those did rightly who cat tied their charity
to things at a distance, and negleeted their own homes._ He
concluded *Oh moving the resolution, (Applause.)
The Rev. Mr. Bitters', rector of Wallasey, rise to second the
resolution. He could not second the resolution without ex-
pressing a wish, if the report were printed, that it should lie
extensively circulated in every part. For it partook more, he
thought, of the nature of a recommendatory appeal on helm f
of the cause cif the society; especially to the members of the
Church of England; at least, in as much as it was a report of
the proceedings of the past year, It appeared to him impos-
sible, that any friend of the church could read the Vero with-
out seeing the absoltue necessity that there was, dial the church
should conic forward to her uwu help; and in the second place,
that the iuguence that might already be expected, trout the
strong reaction which he believed had taken place in the public
mind, with regard te the church. He aso eeded with the i ectete
that the national church had a claim on the national. seventies.
It did appear to him absurd, that the ChaSch, which was called
the national church, should not have nation at stipport. He cun-
tended, that. the Church of England was a voluntary chervil, it
had been raised by the voluntary contributions of their anceste
tors, and it was only returning to the original prinuiste of
the support of the Chinch of England through the interven-
tion of this society. And while it was its vain Iteeintke an
appeal to the e%ecutive of the land fur national suppiee, they
Ought to be thankful that they should uot Make an appeal 10 the
people in vain for support. lii the report, a careful ober ryes
might perceive in various pares of the country. expressions of
attachment to the elsorch; and every One must be struck with
this, that in those districts where there was an evident want of
the instruction of the Church of England, if her own effortti
did nit supply that want, there was no other body ma the
country that would ; and, therefore, he trusted, that the report
"would be circulated far and wide. It was by this means only,
that the church would become again the light and glory of the
world, and looked up to by all, but a very small intuoritte.
Church of England men appeared to laitour under a ereat mis-
take; they imagined that they tserecoatribuliug indepeudentlit
of such societies as this, a large portion of then' Wealth to th.e
support of the church, Whereas, the fad was, they gave nothing;
If a man paid his tidies he gave the iucttuthent nothing heft his
right : he only gave what was hie duty to pay, even if he did pas
it to the church ; and yet it was supposed, that a great sacrifice
was simile, and touch was contributed, and a large portiou of
wealth was given by
payment of tithes. Every one knew that
this was a falsity who would examine that sooject; and then
au appeal might be made to the population, " What do you do
to support this cause ?'' They almost did nothing. When this
was known, the people would rise as one mats to the support of
the -hutch, and give their wealth to meet its exigencies.—
(Applause.)
The Rev. CHAMMAN then put the resolution, which was
unanimously carried.
Mr. T. B. Elo(ISF A i.n. said-lie had been requested to move the
ETRAC't 'qr THE espnee. inest resolution, "That it is the couvictiou of this meeting that
"in preSenting this their third remit to the pultlic, the corn- the welfare of this country is closely connected with an adee
suit tee of lee Chester Dioresall Church Bundle?, Society desire grate provision of church accommodation and pastoral super-
-10 begin by reeorillog theft gratitude to GOd, the ant hot and i inteudance, a provision of which many places are derived, from
giver of allgoon, for the tneasnte of assistanre they have hither- the rapid increase of population." The former pact of the
jn enjoyed, and the snecesS which they are enahled 10 report, solution contained a principle Which few in that room wonsd
r that assistance has been in any varies less than had been t feel disposed to question. What the tatter pert asserted Might
"riginallv exner led, or if Unit stir eves may still seem, as it tin be easily proved, by es re'erence to the large and gyewipg popu-
nl‘estionithly is, but disminfnneittned to -the greatness of the lation by which they were surroonded at that motacut. The
"Ins which have been eeeciiied t it' ;he sinus that hate been iprinciple laid down in the resolution Was, that au_ additional.
"iseti seem inadequate to the Charge of meeting the demands of provision ror church accommodation and pasioeal superintend-
a Population so wasi and se inereasiug; and if the efforts atieadn acme lie provided; and that oe that depended iO a great degree
the work already tieoceolishen— seem losi, out ,of sight the welfare of this country. 'This was a petritstiti principle;
io I:te overwhelmiog-magr i:ude (tribe work that is before them, and if they awarded to those men whicatlvoeeted political opt •
your committee car. only remind you that they anticipated these oleos which they deemed calculatett ins the benetit or it e
abertne ions of hope etidOiS:,ppointments; that they gtive his country the title of petriets, surely that uiau Wlii) exerted him
tt
eneuregemetil tlei Wee Get the evil could be remedid at self fro- the establishment olsdch noel-lies as this, for pre;
°nee, net. did they d 'nish in their representationsthearAnnnt muting the spiritual welfare and bseiriti, or his country, noetit
or the oifficutty tel he everconte; en the contrary, they Wotelil I lie vatted a due patriot. But he witold proceed with the
remind elm tine thee itensined front the ;bit that'the notettnntle. pot or the resolution. It esseitidf the fart that _the, sapid in
ot' the Want was such, Ilia, it might have justly elaintrel a tsa- crease of the population prevented the necessary
,church
!inn's care, and been made the of-a nation's briunty. commodation and pastoral superintendence. A mere cefereuce,
They made a rt.Dre9untati,.n or the actual disproportom bet weerY as be had staid to the populedeu tiv wisch we weee surrounded.,
dee .chureli-accosieniodattute and the population; which proved proved ttiLit tact.' Ue banded. thatfbali CA‘en.'s tel

froth Was in the parish_ J 65.000 inhabitaitt%; iitiCe %tit tttliti
they han one 6niall ehitrch erected in the parish; Whilei
the popolation had increased to something like 35 to4o,oUd
peoole.,so !hat instead ur (me e4uich,, they ought to have ha
from [ii to i 0 chore:oil.. He was aware that sites lot eburehel
in Liverpool were not easily attained, and when attaineci, it
inuoi be at enornions co,i. tie would here•ore :suggest to the

coffluio tee .he propriet reiriering the churches already eie.,
wed .is eilicient as posstnle ; and this tioght be none by appiil
cat ion to the clct y or ihe town, who haa not a tbifd service to

grain theieehticcWes, and, let them apphint a Minister it, give
one service more on the Sundav, and one on a week day even-
ing. This would mate tne entirties the hail inure effi-
cient than ndw. He was quite aware that sOnte•Ohjected to
this; but the More the objections were 'narked inte, the more
trifliag they would appear; art t these were not titnes,when the
Church of England coh,d allow weight •to trt tine: objections.
There was no duute hitt that this plan would du great good.
The enemies of oor church (•ie active on the right hand
and on the lett; aiid it behrived the members of the church
to he active, sod, like. the Israelites of ted..iviole they erected.
their churches oue hand to defend them with the other.,
(Hear.) Mr. byrth herd spoken of our church being a volun-
tary church; he would poi enter into that queatiOu ; hut there
was no doubt that this society was a voluntary society, and was
calculated to stop the reproaches thrown at the clergy—that
they refused to act on the principles of primitive equality, when
the first Christian society had 01 thingS in common. He felt .
convinced that the Church of England was gaining ground in
the aifections of the people; and if the clergy commued faith 4
fully to re each the truth as it was in Jesus, and were supported
bv the leii v. he wait convinced that ihe church would he the best
bulwark of the land—a stay to the th• once a support oi the
laws, and a blessing to the country. (Applause.)
The Rev. Dr BbAcKticHN rose to second the resolution. lie
congratulated the meeting that this society had been the fore-
rimier of many similar societies io England. Pe was certain
that every true teyer of the Church of Englaed, must behold
peculiar satisraction the formation of these societies, which
were proceeding in the most. admirable Manner in the work of
for the improvemenftif the mass of our population; for it was
riot only in the manufacturing districts and commercial ports
that the population was increa,ing, but it was increasing
generally in a ratio that bid &lit-thee to AN calculation. lf, as
some politicill eConentists haditold theM, population increased
lb a geometrical ratio, and tile :means for-providing for the
scriptural teaching 'of the population could only inctease in an
arithmetticai ratio, it was clear that the• funds lot building
churches could never by possibility be tintticient. The forma-
tion of such societii,s as these tended bY example to catty the
principle-forther into action; they were encouraged by example
to contribute to such good objects. He was awate that objec-
tions had been made to this society and Whets of a similar nal
tore, as if the Church of England were depattitig ftom some
System that had been from time immemorial observed by her;
He believed, if ioVestigated, that it *mild be Sound that that
•observation had no fouodatidn whatever in fact ; ior, if by the
voluntary system they meant surponiogreligion by free bounty
acrd liberality, he asserted that such a system had been pursued.
by the Church of England ever since she was a church;
It- was tt se, indeed, that it was the duty of every cbristian.
government to summit some twin of religion; bot it was
not the duty of euvernment to do every thing towards its
support. He conceived that all clasSes and all persons were
betted to ceetriou•e their hunts of assistance to the peat cause
of truth and religion, whatever toeir means rnight be, froth the
king on his throne to ihe poorest or his subjects. l indivist
dual had some means peculiar to himser of assisting in the
great woe L. and woo:d hies toe efforts that were made wink
such a good oi•ieet. He conteeded, that much oreater good
was done by gbluing people to sutiscrtlie towards a'thurch, anrk
thus take ate interest in it, than in orovieing then; a church
without such subscription ; for, in the latter case, it took a,.
tength u. rime to excite an interest in the people and vrocure
congregation. while, in the funnier, there was a uli congrega-
tion as soon as the church was conseci a t ed. de cencluded with
seconding the resolution, which was unanimously i•atried.
The Rev. JA111.54 PANNA DY, the vicar of Si Helens; rose
with much pleasure to propose the . third reiolut tun, "that, for
the reasons assigned in the second reSolu,ian, it: was desirable
that the Diocesan Society shotilit ieeeive the sunnort of all
ranks of the commonity." Ile ihnught that the Welfate of the
count, y was connected with an adequate piovision h•r chinch
accommodation was evident to every individual. Whatever
gave secueity to the elitech, would also !;ive stability to the
country. They haul seed this exemplified in Variaus districts
where churches had been erected under the superiuiendance of
this soCiet,7. He had seen instances in large manufacturing
testricti_ where great discontent prevailed amongst the lower,
classes on ceiiain state suaiects, which bad lately agitated the
oublic mind; and no sootier' had that district come under the
pastoral sunerinteudatne of athhe tiiinieter appointed fur the
district. than they had seen that spirit •of discontent at once re=
removed; and the individuals so brotight tinder this pastoral su,
perintendance, hecotniog not out" reenter attendants at their
churches, but also good subjectS of their country. He would
venture to mention one fact. Some three or four years ago,
there was great disconient in the country on :the subject of.
church;raies, and in that particular diitrici a•taChed to the pa.
.rish with which he was connected there was a chapel of ease,
built. In the previous year, the whole population of the
trict went to the parish church, in oilier to oppose the usual
annual chuerch rate; out the very year alter the erection ofthi
edifice, though the'saine parties endee voured to excite tire same
population to the same act, net a sins le individual could, he
indirect.; to come from that particular district for that pura'
pose. (Hear.) They saw in ibis fact the effectual-benefit o(
• societies like the one *hose welfare they were then -met td
promote. He contended, that dissent had aSsuated a very
d.fferent. aspect to wnat it farmer!), put on. It was now most
clearly coonecled with every thing which they as alurchtneti,
ought to deprecate and avoid. 'l'hev saw the connection futile=
lug between dissenters and certain political patties in the stele;
they saw as a body that they were directly opposed to the es-
tablished church, and they ought to bear it in mind that unless
the church came forward and supplied the religious scams of,
the population the dissenter§ would do it instead, and a p.
Whin inimical to the established church would g ow. Toe
town of St. Helens contained a pepulatian of le,ooo souls, and
possessed church accommodation for only 200fiz the remainder
were thus excluded from the benefit of religioui ins-ruction. and
there was.-,~;anger that they would grow up emu iral and dissie
paled, and communicate their habits to their children. It the-et
fore required a strong and unanimous effort on the part tti,
clergy and the laity to come forward and support this grelPlo
glorious cause of providing church accommi dation for th6po-
pulation: He concluded by proposing the reselution.
• Thomas GaovESi Esq., briefly seconded the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
. The Rev. FIELDING Out.n rose to propose the next resolu.

tion, "that the meeting desires to reit'. rn'thanks to ALMIGHTY:
Got) for the increase of church accommodation and pastoral
superintendence." There were a few statistical facts con-
nected with this subject, which when addressed to the attention
of individuals, made, in his judgement, a more fdrcible appeal
than any speech. There were in England not fewer than five,
millions of individuals who attended no place of worship what,
soever from want of church accommodation ! and taking the.
average duration of human life at 30 years they had 166,000 in-
dividuals annually dying, unblessed by the means of grace; or
to bring the calculation lovie,. down, 450 a day., Now if it
were a tact that this diocese contained a pdpulatitin of upwards.of one mlllion and a half, that population increased 40,000 an-
nually; that being the fact what .an alarming disproportion be-
tween church rtecommodation and increase of populatiot was,
exhibited; He imagined that these facts were calculated to
wake a powerful impression on every individual who had a heart
to feel. The resolution called oh them to exPress their gratitude
to Almighty God; this was a special du'v, that they should
return him thanks; and how . better cou d they do it than iu,
copying after the example of the man "after His own heart,"
by demonstrating that t hey , appreciated the advantages that
they enjoyed, by carry nig out, each in his own sphere, the
great objecti which the society had in Oiew; and studding over
the whole of this diocese with temples tit' glory to God, where
succeeding generations might experience the happy fulfilment,
of God's promigeS, " in all places where my name is called there
wilt I come andbless.'! ( Hear.)
The Rev. JOHN H.SNRY GUNNING seconded the resolution,.
which he briefly advocated, and which was unanimously passed.
The Rev, CH NCEILVii RAikEs next proi.osed, in a short
speech, the re-election of the committee .for the ensuing year;
which was seconded by the Rev. E. Gilt ESTONE, and unani-
mously passed
The Rev. Dr. Craws WILSON rose to move " Thatthe ref
speetful thanks of the meeting be given to the
_Lord Bishop o
the Diocese, for his support generally to the society, and more
especially for his services in the chair on that occasion." He,
thanked the society for the assistance it had afforded him in
providing extended church accommodation for the population.
of Prestori, of which place he Has tl e incumhen:. Owiug to its
assistance haying been aff.rded it had eicited a spit it which,
before lay uormant, and now four chorches were in progress or
being built, two of which were so independent of all assistance
from the society. ,
The Rev, 13taxii B,:conded the resolution, wh c t as
carried by acclamation.
The Right Rev. CHAIRMAN briefly retdrned thanks, and the
meeting separated at two o'clock.

THE LIVER THEA'IRK.—The lovers of fun and pantomime
tire now t.tY.-ie4 a treat at this theatre. " Laughter holding,
his sides" riots in the hixuriance of risible enjoyinent at the
feats of Messts. brown, king, and Gibson. The pantomime it
well worth seeing.

OR A MOO IrOtt TH. 13criEfti4 on .ittii Poott.--17‘re are glad
to Lind that an oratorio,. for the relief of the pour, will take
glace, under distinguished r4tr9nage, ou Tues,dav evening, the
Oft. of March, at. the Theatre Royhl. The Messiah of Handel;
•With Mozart's accompaniments, is ;the pieCe selected for per-
formance.t • From, he well-known ilticieney of the choral So-
,
ciety, we are. justified in stating, that ample justice will be done
to.this splendid composition.
D. Austort's THLRMONIIiTIiII STOVV.S.—Much public in,
terest has recently been excited by the introduction of a stove
on an entirely new principle, invented by the celebrated Dr..
Arnott. By means of this stove a delightful summer tempera-
ture may be obtaiiied in our sitting rooms and offices in the
severest weather, at ,a cost. of .about twopence per day. Our,
townsmen, Messrs. Bennett, whielt advertisement will be found
in another column; have recently fitted up several for gentlemen.
in the vicinity, and have, we understand, made arrangements
for manufacturing them on an extensive scale.
•

RELIEF OF THE Poou.—The committee fni distribfiting
amongst the poor, resident in St. Anti's Ward, have been roost
indefatigable iu prosecuting their benevolent enterprise. On,
Saturday last, the first day of operation, no fewer that 18011
families were relieved, some of them in amost abject state of
destitution. Every case is carefully inquired into, and the
relief administered by visitors, whose duty it is to see that the
funds raised by•the benevolence of the iMblic are duly adminis-.
tered. We are of opinion, that these letal associations are the
best calculated to meet. the necessities Orthe poor at this incle,
ment season of the year. Alreadv the sum of £l6O has been
raised in this Ward. We hopei the other districts will imitate
so good an example.

• ,
THE .I"'EAST 111.F.440N i:11) THE F1,1)0.,
(!oute.tupontry of lir Albion incioirk.: natiee to cor:,
respondents in his yesterday's paper " will ally one inform us.
from wiat .poet's works this baukrieved yontaiiiin is taken?",
—We will enlighten him. He sill find it in Pope's "Firs
Satire of the Soo cnd Book of-. Horace iMitated" at the 12Stli
fine, For his benefit we transcribe the verse :
" There, my retreat the best companions erece;
Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. 2,
There St. John mingles with my princely bowl
The resit of reason and the-flow of soul."

Tics STYiA M'6ll UIIGF.NT.—A paragraph has gone the rounet.
Of the pepars stating that owing to the severe gale ou Saturdai,
week. C:;litain l'7.nierson, of the Urgent, was obliged to put into
llo;yhead. •We must, in justice to Captain Emerson, set the
pt,t,je right in the matter. We learn that when within two
hours sail, of the new Light Ship,, one of the side levers broke.,
She was ben or csnirse reduced to one engine,: and as the gale
still continued to rage in all its fury, Captain Emerson deemed,
it his ditt, for the safety of all on board, to run back to Holy-
head. Captain Emetseu, in a letter to a friend; says, " I never
felt a heavier gale in the Channel, and the sea vas frightful;;
yet the Urgent never steamed less than 6t hour,—th
wind directly a-head, the ship like a duck oil" tree water; oroil
iCeifeetli eit4: