The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL BTANDIIIII.

em into sub Mission, what is to prevent
setting up in any other trade ? Upon

there areat the present"time a

'hops, bl

make:

any otner similar places ; and the Committee may
ittst as legitimately make sails, or blocks, or bake
ship bread. at a inw as i+nrn.of

,ess resulting from their corporate manage,
warehouse goods or coope

len of

town would do well to

carrying out full

y of ti

iples which

1 announced

s those of the Dock Committee, anc

unfortunately becoming too Cornmor
s. *At the. present moment, with th(

and ad

tion of monopoly inquicate'd from- every platform

ies in ev

to public coin

s the exclusive power to
se could equally well a'

nivate ent

mn plisl

Our •G

Companies we fornied to supply us with gas. W
ed no more from them. They are now ga:
1. They deal in lead piping and
.iror
leliers and burners, glass shad
Railway. Companies make ti

locomotives, print their own• time bill
Our Town f

their own hotel k

a addition to ti

or let

g off little

plots of the

nmodation a

showmen

for un-

lir who use it, are wanting to set up more pull
employed younger brothers of proud families, I
to procure more accommodation for the people.
Now, anybody who knows any thing of the actual
circumstances of newly-ere eed churches, will be
well aware. that the clergymen are so badly provided
for that no man, who is not actuated by a sincere

of his holy calling, would be induces to devote
himself to the church for the purpose of obt
such an incumbency. We fear that £l5O a year is

awing

• QUI pcilua In i lie CICEgy IJI ULle
churches which are springing up about us, and
eery man will know that this sum, about equal to
the wages of a book-keeper or warehouseman, will

be a provision "for the unemp:
hers of nroud

ok botl

.ed younger
liter in the

sly dishonest,
A

To show the reaCconditiorn 'of the cl

ch

We may quote th.

rent of actual cases which are d

he circumstan

.ared to represent
of incumbents

Manchester; it was read at the recent meeting

of the Church Reform Associat

Case A

Note from an incumbent, long r

to a friend s

The note is now in n

I have received your enclosure, and thank you for it.
rived most opportunely, just when I wanted some
ey, for, I may tell you, I had not 20

n incumbent of the F

to a gentleman_p

deration. Some, like myself, lu
xed to support them through li

very little income
I should not say

As long.

, as my £32 a-year would not, could not, support.
I and others are blessed by the Almighty with
rength to discharge our ministry, all things

How are pew
come, to a great extent, tails ; and the clergy,
in general, only having bad a bare sufficiency in the da)
of vigour, were not able to lay something each year past,
have no resources."

:ept lee; their uncertain in-

and, iherefu
Case C.—

An incumbent of the parish applied, this
month, to my informant, for a loan of £5O. on a little

private property he had, to enable him to pa,
his pew rents fall due.

Case D.—An incumbent of the parish. Wife and three
or four children. Income only £lsoper annum. Obliged
to solicit his payments in advance.
Case E.—An incumbent, income about £lOO. Wife

and family. Obliged to curtail his family expenditure,
and quite unable to give adequate education to his child-

Case F.—Curate, salary £lOO. Wife and four child.
ren. Wife obliged to perform house duties, from ivabilit3
to defray the expel
Case (

Of a maid-servant

harassed by a sm all college debt,

sent income does not allow
has

borrowed a trifle from an