The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

£l3l 1 0
36 4 6
8 8 0
936 7 0
42 3 0
4 14 6
43 11 6
18'5 0
g 9 0
40 5 0

Total..
Here :again Churchmen give NINE POUNDS for every one
given by Dissenters.

GLOUCESTER.

Sums subscribed.
Churchmen. I Dissenters.

Institutiou.

Infirmary
Lunatic Asylum
Dispensary
Benevolent Society
Female Ditto
Ladies' Dorcas Charity
Lying-in Charity
Magdalen Asylum
Gloucestershire Society

£4O 19 0
3 3 0
19 19 6
5 14 0
2 9 0
12 2 0
1 0 0
3 2 0
2 2 0

Total ..
In this instance TWENTY-SIX POUNDS are given by
Churchmen for every one pound by Dissenters.
LEEDS—INFIRMARY, 1833.
Sums subscribed.
Churchmen. I Dissenters.

Annual subscriptions
Donations

£1652 17 0 £458 17 0
272 0 0 47 0 0
199 0 7 0 0 0

Congregational collections..

Total

FOUR pounds to one in fav,
is notorious as the stronghol
NOTT:

£2123 17 al £505 17 0
rour of the church in a town that
Id of dissent.
'INGHAM.
Sums subscribed.
I Churchmen. f Dissenters.

Institutions.

General Infirmary
Lunatic Asylum
Dispensary for the town

£lO2 IS 0
16 16 0
132 6 0

Total ..

£252 0 0

Seven pounds to one in fai
Donations and Legacies to
the General Infirmary,
from its commencement JJJ
Ditto to Lunatic Asylum ..

£lOOO 0 0

180 0 0

Total
Twenty-one pounds to on,

£25,000 0 0
in favour of th
ENFIRMARY,
£79 19 8
1124 6 6

£llBO 0 0
e church.
1832.
Collected at
Dissenting
Meeting-houses

WILTSHI RE—
Collected at Salisbury Ca- 1
thedral
Do. at the different churches'

Total
Sixteen pounds to one in

£1204 6 2 £73 18 11
Favour of the church.

The grand total produced by these different sums put
together, stands thus—

SUMS GIVEN.

By Churchmen By Dissenters
415,594 10 51 I £3,406 5 7
Which shows a clear balance in favour of the Established
Church of FORTY TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY EIGHT POUNDS. Such is the overwhelming pre-
ponderance of the LIBERALITY of Churchmen over that of
Dissenters in these few places. And it is stated that the
Dissenters in the said towns are as numerous and respectable
as they are in other parts of the country, in proportion to
the population.
With these facts before us, what comes of Mr. Kelly's
statement that " Civil Establishments destroy the grace of
Christian liberality ; and that men are systematically taught to
restrain this grace and to abstain from its cultivation 7"
Arguing from these results the public will come to a different
conclusion, and concur with the writer of these lines, in the
inference that Christian liberality is fostered and exercised
by the church beyond all comparison, and, that just in pro-
portion to the spread of Dissent, will the spirit of disinter-
ested benevolence retrograde, and the comfort and privations,
not to say painful sufferings, of the " masses" be neglected.
The Established Church is emphatically the church of the
people, and the best friendof the poor, the destitute, and the
unfortunate. Let the people know it by the publication of
facts such as the above, and they will not fail to rally round
the church, and stand in the gap against the further advance
of its assailants. Let " The Liverpool Young Men Esta-
blished Church Society" appoint a committee to investigate
the state of the public charities in Liverpool, giving in paral-
lel columns the sums subscribed by Churchmen and Dis-
senters respectively. By so doing they will render the church
material service ; and let me recommend to them, and to all
the working classes in the town, " A Letter to Sir R. Inglis,
Bart., on the Relative Numbers, Influence, and Benevolence
of Churchmen and Dissenters, by Presbyter," price three-
pence, to which letter I am principally indebted for the sta-
tistics given above.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
D. JAMES.

Kirkdale, March 12, 1840.

A destructive fire broke out early on Friday morning, in
the extensive warehouses of Messrs. Blith, Hilton, id
Hughes, featherbed manufacturers, 47, Upper Thames-street.
They were entirely destroyed, but the greater part of the
stock, we are happy to say, was saved, though the loss sus-
tained must be very great. Several neighbouring houses
also were much injured. Amongst the burning ruins were
found two of the patent fire-proof boxes, containing bank
notes, cash, and papers, to the amount of £5OOO, all of which
were uninjured.
INTERESTING TO LADIES.—The more delicate the beauty
of a female, the more susceptible it is to the effects of our
rigid winters. The fine skin of England's lovely women is
not calculated to withstand exposure to their own climate,
without the assistance of some soothing application to allay
the smarting irritability produced by the action of a wintry
atmosphere. No discovery has effected this purpose except
Rowland's Kalydor, the application of which not only re-
moves the tenderness of the skin produced by cold, but all
cutaneous eruptions. In addition to these advantages, by
imparting a pliancy to the surface, which is delightful and
luxurious to the sensation, it decidedly prevents the skin
from being susceptible to the attacks of bleak biting winds.