The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

of Cossioutin

INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EN-
LARGEMENT. &C. OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.—On
Alimony, a rxr-eting of this society wan held in London,
the Bishop of Durham in the chair. Orders were issued
to the treasurer to pay the grants originally awarded in
twelve cases, wh,re the churches have been bnilt or en-
larged with the aid of this society. The returns from the
parishes assisted show that for an aggregate population

of 93.942 souls, church accommodation was previously in
exis!ence suitable to only 12,790 pet sons; of these seats
only 2330 w.-re tree ; and that additional church-room has
thus been obtained for 4040 persons. including 3101 free
sittings. New grants were made for the erection ► f
churches Portwood, near Soniharnoton, Leek. N
castle, Burnley, and Oldham, Newcas le. in the pa
Chin' and the new districts of St. Jatnes, Bands
E.st Compton, in the parish of Oldham. These a
tricts, taken together, contain 13,787 souls at the present
time, without any other means of attending Divine wor
slip in the form prescribed be the Church of England
I ban such temporary accommodation as may be furnished
by rooms hired for that purpose. The ecclesin,tical com-
missioners have endowed the new district parishes of Cot-
manhay ; St. Luke, Lt ek ; S. James, Burnley; and Ea-t
Compton ; incumbent ministers site appointed to each
Ten other grants are made for rebuilding, with enhrge
ment, the chapel of St. Ann, Bishop Auckland. and th
he. of Tretherne. tear Dursley. and Brining
likewise fir enlarging .I,su.

Chebterfivld,
Mary extia,

it. near Wellingto

,r Nladdir,gron, near D vi

Alborimuli. near Itirlestone;

-Dervvent, near Yor

f},. in I

The amount of the Kray.t• r

prt.7l,,rty in the

In 'ht Wind

x:so'►

Nli,s Susanna Letitia Archer liuu

ROME'S iiicriTg.—lt has often been
holy, catholic, and al ceche church is in t:v.! of

V 26, 1846.

popish Lin perty. The following very clear remelt k rolves
the question. It is out of a monthly publicatii n that has
had an extensive circulation—" Free Though•s on Pro-
testant Nlatters," by the Rev. Tresham Gregg. chaplain
of St. Nicholas Wit lrn, a chaplaincy endowed by Roman
Catholics in the reign t f Richard 11., as certair.l many of
our Church 'Mt gs wt re. It is as follcws recollect
that a Roman Catholic gentleman once attacked me on
ot.ey to say

takit g

this ground : he charged me a
coat-s, and instead of this, performing for i s services,
uld have thought heretical. 1 met
said 1, "you charge me

what the donors

his oi-jectitm tt

hat )ouNelf

riot very elderly iii appe

rinv history, you would fee
Th.ugh

le char Ciei, sir

ty about

1,400 years of age." My fiend started at this in-
formation. "Be not surpris d, sir," said I, " 1'I;11 shall
hear my story. I was ordained by St. Patrick shortly
after his arrival in this country, and r.rr ached the
very same doctrines that I do at present. Things
went on very pleasantly with me for about 7LO years, at
which time the English, at the instiption of the Pope,
invaded this our 'naive land ; th, y did all they could to
educe me from that simple faith which I bad learned
from the great apostle of Ireland ; and, alas! with too'
much success ! My mind b.:came corrupted by the EU..
t:etstitions of Popery, and at last 11)i-came quite a bigot
in that time; and in those days of my darkness, I riot
only myself had a zeal which was not according to know-
ledge, but I thought I was doing G. d service, when I
snccerdtd in persuading the people to devote almost all
their substance to the maintenance of those idolatries
through which 1 was bewitched. In the reign of Richard
11. I was appointed chaplain of St. IC:cholas Within, and
I took great pains to induct the. parishioner's to make a
handsome provision for my old age, which, persuaded as
they wire of the importance of my Popish principles,
they realty did. I e joyed the provision which they made
for me, blindly practising the errors which I was imbued
with, for above 100 years, until the perod of the Reforma-
tion. Then, for the first time, I began to perceive the de-
lusions of which I had been the' victim—that I had alto-
gether departed from the faith of St. Patrick, and not only
gone wrong myself, but had been a blind leaderof the blind.
lloyrever my eyes were now opened, and when they were, I
did not reign ray chaplaincy. nor did I give tip the pro-
vision which I had raised for it in the days o' dark-
ness. I applied it to the use for which I had

neither 1 nor they k

to that wh

said I t

lent, or

LAW I

tortunately at that

aceonplish what we

pr, ail through the snap-

ul I true

rverttd the purpose

a purro

~i~~b.,~

lumber of

ItiL.NUt

n the list of

k, by failing

The Lord

I was an

er the haltmee of a

n ruined on a

firm of
n that,

letore,

BIG WIGS

y ohe part-

ie entered gen-

t l 4 eti,tomary

On Friday, the firs

rige of all our

aged to be

d,v of

n. and Beim R

;Tear in full-bottomed

day of Trit i'y term, the Barons
=n's counsel appeared in wigs of
teir irld hips had goLe through
wr ea.= called on. Mr. Martin
-ration the ca,e of S:oclid de and