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

But what has been, &tie at least

may serve to show what can be accompl
and prayers..

shed• by pains

The key.. JonN. JONES,.. of St. Andrews, moved. the
adoption of the report. He commencedby declaring his
continued attachment to. this most excellent society.
This,.he- said, was a changing world, and :people's ideas
of things were continualty varying •, and, therefore, after
an interval of a few yearsAt might be well to • declare his
unabated attachment to.. the society. He declared pub-
licly tltet, so far from his attachment decreosing towards
it, it iacreased. every year. The society. had now. stood
the test of about ten years, and it was- advancing in use-
fulness, zeal, devotedness' and the .good opinion of
the public. He thanked God it was so wisely go-
verned, so ably directed, and so zealously labouring.
Ile then referred to the lamentable state of spiritual des-
, tisunktutio;
ani-lidnsawihditcihmsabmyesuopfpothrteinpgarrise,s,wihnießthigwlaasn do
nwee
ore?
the best, if not the best, Society in the Country, the
Christian, public were absolutely doing their utmost to
promote the efficiency of the Jews' Society, and all the
other religious and charitable societies in existence.

7fiteit;v. Mr, HASLEGRAVE, 0nt,730f the deputation, in
seconding the resolution, alluded to the origin of the

society, tracing, it up to its present- position. He gave a,
variety of statistics, showing the. inadequacy, as a whole,
of the present churches thrqughout the land, with its
amazingly increased population- together with the unequal
labour that was thrown upon t.. 4 pastors of different pa-
rishes and livings, from the unpropertioned number: of
inhabitants. in many of them, as compared with the duties
to be performed. government had neglected to provide
sufficiently for the spiritual wants of our vast counnu,nity,
and it was for the people—the faithful—who were 'the
Church.. and not the clergy alone. to come forward and

the country from demoralization, and defection from the
Church, which was founded on the Word of God. It was
true that 50 new Churches had been built on the voluntary
principle, but, at the same time, 300,000 souls. had been
afixikd to the. population,. so that we were from .this increase

tnkland and Wales the

er provided than before. to
pulatioit' increased 4,000 per

[lst to meetthisinCrease adequatOly, considering

persons wer

s many as one

The motion was cariiecrujn-animously
The Rev. Thos. NoLAN, though he laboured under a
severe cold, made a forcible and affecting appeal to the
auditory. He stated that he had .received a letter from
his dear friend and brother the Rev. H. M'Neile now in
Ireland, in which he stated that he was amongst the
middle of his afflicted countrymen, and could not leave
them in their distresseatherwiso he would have been
present. Cheers. He moved, a resolution to the effect
that thankful as they ought to be for the increase of the
funds of the Society, its means were yet inadequate to the
wants of those who were spiritually "destitute. He in-
vited attendance at the breakfast in the Concert Hall, ____ ___ _—
Lord Nelson-street, to take place this morning, for the . •_■■.`",----s--"''''_.
same object, end concluded by saying that one of the COMMITMENTS FOR TRIAL AT THE SESSIONS, BEFORE
greatest recommendations of the Society was the scrupu- Mn. RUSHTON YEATennAY.—Win. Lister, for having
lolls care which they took in selecting pastors who would obtained 6s. 2d. at the office of Mr. H. W. Gilliat, mer-
carry out the principles and formula of the church in all , chant, Water-street,.by representing himself to be a car-
their purity. ter named Thomas Ryley, and presenting a bill purport-
The Rev. Mr. IRwINE next addressed the meeting in lug to he from the latter, to whom the sum stated. was
support of the resolution which had been just proposed. due.—James Brown, a painter, was charged with stealing
Ile entered into a lengthened statement relative to the a quantity of bed-clothes, some carpeting, wearing ap-
vast disproportion which existed between the spiritual parel, &c:, from his employer, Mr. Taylor, of Seacombe-
wants of the people and the amount of ministerial aid street, Everton-, who resides in one of 8 houses there
built by him, but not yet all finished. The property was
which was then available to supply these pressing wa"ts-
found in two of the vet unoccupied houses, to which the
He contrasted the numerical state of the population of
prisoner lead access by keys given to him to complete his
this kingdom as it existed previous to the Reformation,
and the number of bishops and clergymen who then offici-John Braham,
work.—Thomas Hoalihan, for robbing a fellow-lodger,
ated, with the population of the present time and the num-
of a sum oimoney while the latter was ill
shed Church,
ter of clergymen who were now in the Estahli bed, and malting off with it,

Pres cot, anc

population of 307,689
The West Cheshire, Circuit contains the following
Towns :—Altrincham . Birkenhead, Chaster, Knutsford,
Nantwich, Runcorn, ,I,lford, and Warrington, population

307,603.
The East ICheshice Circuit embraces Ashton, Congle-
ton, Glossop, Hyde, Macclesfield, and Stockport :—total
population 296,3.27.
It is not- intended that Courts should be held at the
same intervals in till the Court Towns of each district.
Once n week will be necessary in some, whilst in others
once a fortnight, or even once a month will be sufficient.