The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

CLERICAL NEWS.

DR. PUSEY.—This reverend gentleman preached on
Sunday week at Ilfracombe on behalf of the National
Schools, the first sermon he has delivered since his aca-
demical suspension, preached by the express permission
of the bishop of the diocese (Exeter,) given at the con-
firmation lately held by him there.
ORDINATIONS.—The following is a list of the remain-
ing ordinations for the present year :
Aug. 25.—Bishop of Norwich, at Norwich.
Sept. 22.—Bishop of Lincoln, at Lincoln.
Bishop of Ripon, at Ripon.
Bishop of Peterborough, at Peterborough.
Bishop of Exeter, at Exeter.
Bishop of Salisbury, at Salisbury.
Bishop of Llandaff, at Llandaff.
Sept. 29.—Bishop of Glocester, at Bristol.
Dec. I.—Bishop of Ely, at Ely.
Dec. 22.—Bishop of Oxford, at Oxford.
Bishop of St. David's, at Lampeter.
bishop of Salisbury, at Wells, for the Bishop of
Bath and Wells.
ADDITIONAL CURATES' SOCIETY.--The sessional
meetings of this society are adjourned until November.
Meantime some notice of its recent operations will be gra-
tifying. The progress of the society is prosperous, though
not rapidly so, and the expectation of the committee of an
increase of income has to some extent been realized,
though not in proportion to the demands which still con-
tinue. The society has recently formed ruri-decanal and
parochial associations in several dioceses, by which the
permanent annual subscriptions have been considerably
augmented. The produce of collections made at the
offertory has also been remitted from various parishes,
from which contributions had not previously been received,
and the claims of the society have been successfully advo-
cated in several large towns. The total receipts from
these various sources, exclusive of donations, amounted
this year to £14,571, an increase of £4186, as compared
with the preceding year. Of this aggregate amount,
£2006 is in accordance with the rules disbursed for local--
ties for which it had been expressly contributed. From
the diocesan and district committees £3908 was received— ,
exceeding the contributions of former years—though
three-fourths of the amount locally raised by those of the
diocesan associations, is expended in grants for additional
curates in their respective dioceses. Amongst the liberal
donations to the society is £l5OO from R. Fountayne
Wilson, Esq., to be added to the society's funded pro.
perty, and the same benefactor has since presented £lOOO
for the year ending at Easter, 1845. A number of other
donations of from £lOO to £3OO are also announced.
Eleven annual subscriptions of £lOO and upwards have
likewise been continued. These are pleasing results ; but
the means placed at the society's disposal are still inade-
quate to the full accomplishment of the great objects in
view, and it is hoped that the augmentation of its funds
will be progressive in the present year, and in future,
through the formation of similar associations to those
named; sermons ; publications ; and the advocacy of the
press, in promoting this great movement towards the ex-
tension of spiritual knowledge, and moral regeneration
amongst the labouring classes. Last year 33 grants were
made for the support of additional curates in populous
places, and three in aid of endowments. Aid has been
granted to 150 parishes or districts, and additional pastoral
superintendence provided for a population of 1,299,000.
The society's income is, therefore, fully pledged for the
present year. The following data will be quite sufficient

to convince our readers of the necessity which exists for
great efforts to be made for the promotion of this great
cause :—ln the counties of Lancaster and Chester the po-
pulation has increased since the last census at the rate of
about 20 per cent., and to the amount of 330,453 souls ;
and thcugh exertions have been made to meet this grow-
ing multitude, yet it is to be feared that lost ground can-
not be recovered without public assistance. In the parish
of Manchester, which contains more than 353,000 inha-
bitants, there are seven entire townships without pastors,
varying from 1200 to 5000 souls in each ; and there are, it
appears, applications unaided on the society's books from
three districts, two of which are in Manchester' and one
in the vicinity, containing populations of 7000 and up-
wards, in neither of which is there more than one officiat-
ing minister ! And a similar deficiency of religious in-
struction, and disproportion between the pastors and the
population nominally confided to them, exists throughout
the whole of the mining and manufacturing districts.