The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

BUILDING OF CHURCHES

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)
The energy and power which the Church of England has
put forth, of late years, is quite astonishing ; and yet it seems
still to increase and grow. The efforts which the last seven
years have seen would have been deemed incredible a quarter
of a century since, and still every succeeding month brings
tokens of a further growth.
In the year 1820 the voluntary contributions received by
the three great church societies were as follow :
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge £51,822
Church Missionary Society ..
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
In the year 1810 the receipts of the same three societies

were—
Church Missionary Soeiety
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 81,970
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (about) 40,000
Being far more than a doubling, in the space of twenty years.
But this is only a single feature. The National Society, in
1820, collecting £2500 per annum, raised, in the course of
last year, about £15,000. Two societies also have recently
sprung up, for providing additional curates, and these raised,
in the last twelve months, about £30,000 between them.

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The main effort, however, is directed to the supply of our
overgrown parishes with new churches and ministers. The
total sum raised and spent on this object in the course of the
last 10 years must he very great. In London we have seen
£120,000 raised in four years by the Metropolitan Churches
Committee, and £-16,000 since then, for the single parish of
Bethnal-green. Other districts, too, have made their separ-
ate efforts. Islington, when the present Bishop of Calcutta
took the vicarage, had one church and one chapel of ease. It
has now ten churches and chapels connected with the Esta-
blishment.
A very remarkable effort of this kind has just been made
in Manchester. The Rev. Hugh Stowell, who is incumbent
of a church at Salford, called together a few of his friends,
and proposed to them to make an attempt to build and en-
dow ten new churches. The sum necessary to be raised was
£-10,000. In about three weeks they succeeded in collecting
£22,000. Meanwhile a spirit of emulation sprang up in
another part of that immense town, and a meeting was
called, with the dean in the chair, to concoct a similar but
independent scheme ; or rather to' revive an old church-
building society, which had latterly fallen asleep. And this
second subscription has already reached £17,000 ; in addi-
tion to which, one wealthy individual has engaged to build
and endow one church at her own cost! Amidst all these
plans and efforts, a very natural inquiry is made, why the
government remains quiescent, and lends no aid in this im-
portant work ? And the people are already beginning to call
upon the House of Commons to contribute some help in
furtherance of their undertaking.
Now, the mere fact of the earnestness and costliness of
the public movement constitutes in itself some claim on the
attention of the legislature. Any proper and laudable object
on which the people have set their affections becomes, from
that very circumstance, a matter worthy of the consideration
of the House of Commons. Even the embellishment of,
and free access to, a piece of one of the parks, is quite mat-
ter enough for the mind of parliament, if the people reason-
ably desire it.
Sir R. H. Inglis's motion is to be renewed, we perceive,
shortly after Easter; and a good many petitions in its favour
have already been presented. Their number, we anticipate,
will be greatly increased as the period fixed for making the
motion draws near.

The King of Hanover has given directions for the dis-
mantling of his apartments in St. James's Palace ; waggon
loads of valuable ,articles are daily sent off.
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER DATED MACAO, JAN. 22:
" Regarding the terms of Captain Elliot's treaty with the
Chinese, I have not temper to speak. He had the Chinese
at his feet, and might have had, what he wished ; and what
has he got? A few paltry dollars and a barren island, where
to be sure there is a fine harbour, but it is 109 miles from
Canton, the seat of business, which will always have the pre-
ference. If all foreigners were excluded from Canton, it
would do very well, but while the Americans and others ga
there we must do so likewise. There is no doubt that had
Elliot taken the Bogue forts, which would not have cost a sin-
gle life, and pushed up to Canton, the people would have
forced the Commissioner to make peace on any terms. The
Chinese cannot fight, and the panic occasioned among them
by the shells and Cougreve rockets is beyond description ;
they are greater cowards than ever I thought them. Their
numbers are of no avail, indeed a disadvantage. You will
see we have not gained even liberty of ,trade to the northern
ports, on which our hopes of increasing the sale of British
manufactures were founded. I cannot believe that Parlia-
ment will approve Captain Elliot's conduct. The Chinese
are already chuckling, and say they have got the best of it.
It makes me quite sick to think of it, and there are not half
a dozen people either on shore or afloat who are na quite
turioul.".

THEATRE,IIOYAL, LIVERPGO

filidir the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Liesn4

EASTER HOLIDAYS

The Public are respectfully informed, that the celebrated
Vocalists, Miss DELCY, whose success was so decided,
last .season, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane; and Mr.
TEMPLETON, of the same Theatre, arc engaged for
TEN NIGHTS, and will make their fifth appearance here
THIS EVEN IN G, Friday, April 16.

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To give additional effect to the Operas, an arrangement has
been made with Mr. F. GARDNER, of the Theatre-
Royal, Bath, (pupil of Mr. T. WELSH') for the period for
which Miss Delcy and Mr. Templeton are engaged.
The Opera of FICA DIAVOLO, which was most rapturous-
ly received last night, will be repeated early in the ensuing
week.

The Opera of LA SONNAMBULA, in which Miss Delcy
was greeted with most enthusiastic applause in the cha-
racter cf Amina, and Mr. Templeton was received in his
original character of Elvino with the warmest tokens of
approbation, will be repeated This Evening.
The Opera of CINDERELLA, having been received on
Monday and Tuesday with most distinguished applause,
will be repeated previous to the termination of the engage-
ment of Miss Delcv and Mr. Templeton.
grills present FRIDAY, the 16th inst., will be performed
Bellini's Opera of

LA SONNAMBULA.
The Musical Auangements conducted by Mr. Rophino Lacy.
Leader of the Orchestra (which will be considerably aug-

mented) Mr. Aldridge.
Amina. ... (betrothed to Elvino) Miss Delcy.
Elvino.
Rodolpho.. Mr. G. Ilorncastle. Liza.. Miss E. Honner
After which, the popular Romantic Melo-Drama, called
THE. WOODMAN'S HUT.
Moritz.

TO-MORROW (Saturday), the Tragedy of DAMON
AND PYTHIAS. Damon, Mr. Stuart; Pythias, Mr. H.
Holl ; Calanthe, Mrs. W. H. Bland ; Hermion, Miss Clea-
ver.—To conclude with the Musical Play of GUY MAN-
NERING. Col. Mannering, Mr. G. Horzicastle ; Henry
Bertram, Mr. F. Gardner; Dominic Sampson, Mr. Baker;
Julia Mannering, Miss E. Honner; Lucy Bertram, Mrs.
Barton ; Meg Merrilies, Miss Cleaver.
On MONDAY next, Mr. TEMPLETON's BENEFIT,
and the last night but four of the engagement of Mr. Tem-
pleton and Miss Delcy.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The advertisement of Mr. M`Neile's lecture was, owing to
an oversight, omitted in the STANDARD of Tuesday last.

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