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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

Mr. Norris's prize for the best prose essay on a sacred
subject, has been adjudged to John Herbert Jones. R. A._

:ollege, Cambridge. Subject : Huth God cast
e ? God forbid.--Rom. xi, i.—[Mr. Jones
Rev. John Jones, of St. Andrew's, in this.

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entire receipts of the year amount to £101,305 155., and
the expenditure to £105,851 2s. 9d. The issues of bibles
have amounted to 1,441,01; from the depository at home,
1,104,787; from depots abroad, 336,864; being 525,846
copies more than the preceding year.
BARNES v. SHORE.—The Queen's Bench decided last
week, in the case of the Rev. Mr. Shore, that a clergy-

man cannot

..buudrge mn3seit from the restraints, nor is he merely by
that act stripped of the privileges of his order. The pro-
ceedings on which that judgment was given have been cal-
culated and intended to rid Mr. Shore of certain vows
which he once solemnly took, and has since very deliber-
'tely broken, to r-' ase -( f-- vtions wt

Jim from obliga itch it is
his practice to violate, and to deprive him of a character
which he owns he cannot conscientiously sustain.
A NOBLE OFFERING.—The Rev. W. J. E. Bennett,
M.A., incumbent of St. Paul's Church, Wilton-place, at
the close of his sermon last Sunday morning, referred
with satisfaction to the efforts which had been made by
his congregation in aid of a fund to erect a new church in
that district to be dedicated to St. Barnabas. The rev.
gentleman said that on the previous Sunday he had an-
nounced that the money given at the offertory that day
would.be applied to the object alluded to, and he had the
pleature to announce that £2,300 had been subscribed for
that pious purpose, and that during the week he had re-
ceived various additional sums, amounting to £9OO.—
London Paper.

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FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY. —This
ancient festival, coeval with the Restoration, was cele-
brated on Thursday, as usual, at St. l'aul's Cathedral.
The sermon was preached by the Dean of Lincoln. Be-
sides the dignitaries of the Church, Prince George of
Cambridge was present. In the evening a large number
of the friends of the Church dined at the Merchant
Tailors' Hall. Amongst the company were—the Arch-
bishops of Canterbury and Armagh, the Marquis of
Westminster, the Bishops of London, Ripon, Chester,
Chichester, Oxford, Bangor, Llandaff, Calcutta, and
Jamaica ; the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr Justice Erle, Lord Bolton,
the Lord Mayor, Sir Claudius Hunter, Sir George Cerro',
Sheriffs Laurie and Chapman, the Chamberlain, Aldermen
Marshall, Challis, Farebrother.Thompson, Moore, Gibbs,
Hughes, &c. The Lord Mayor occupied the chair, and
proposed as the first toasts, " the Church and Queen,"
" her Majesty the Queen Dowager;" " the Crown Prince
of Hanover, Royal Steward of the year." The Rev. Dr.
Jeif returned thanks for his royal highness, and said that
he could declare that he had never known his royal high-
ness to do anything unworthy of his station as a Prince
or a Christian gentleman. The Lord Mayor then gave
" Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the rest of
the Royal Family."
CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—The annual meet-
ing was held on Tuesday. Lord Ashley was in the chair,
and the numerous assembly was addressed by the Bishops
of Winchester, Llandaff, Chester, and Norwich, Mr. .1,
Labouchere, Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Revs. Hugh Slowelb
Fielding Ould, W. Pollock, &c. Lord' Sandon wrote a
note, regretting he could not attend, for, added his lord-
ship, " there is no society in England that does more
good." The Bishops of Oxford and Calcutta, and the'
Earl of Effingham, have accepted the office of vice-
patrons. The income of the society last year was £22,505,
being an increase of £2,079 over the preceding year, and
£677 over any former year. The society's recent appeals
have met with the liberal response of £2,079, and it now
provides 272 incumbents with the means of supporting
266 curates, and 57 lay assistants, at an annual charge of
£25,418, when all the grants shall be in operation :—and
a population of 2,012.643 thereby have conferred on then,
the blessings attendant on so many additional faithful la°
bourers of Christ. The grants of the society have already:
led to the erection or opening of 103 churches and 111
rooms licensed for public worship; and, in the parisbet
or districts now aided by this institution, 408- additional
services on the• Lord's-day, 142 on week-days, and 268
school-room or cottage lectures are regularly maintained
besides which there has been secured fully double the
amount of pastoral visitation, and superintendence of the
various parochial schools, and management of benevolen",
and religious local societies. Multitudes of instances were
detailed by the speakers, in which the society conferr
the very greatest blessings on neglected districts. With reference to the constitution of the society the Bishop f
Winchester said, " My Lord, I feel a peculiar satistactio.n
in being permitted to attend your Lordship's bidding 0;1s
_
day, because I deem it to be my especial duty not to F.;.
wanting upon any occasion, when this society sumai°7'/-
me to attend its. Meetings, to perform the twofold duty. .
0,
expressing my gratitude and my confidence in the Socieot_Y,
I am happy to say, that I have. never been one of thho'fi-,
who have looked upon the sociely with any other eye,
that of unfeigned thankfulness to Almighty God, for 13,,0
ing raised up friends to assist the clergy in duties far 14,,
onerous for them, and who have in carrying out the
sign§ of the society, expended its funds in a manner csiof
culated to draw forth the sympathy and thanksgiving o
Wee'
every friend of our Church. My Lord, I have never heed
able to see anything in the principles or in the objet" ,6
this Society which ought not to be dear to a churchmanno
heart.. And I should bemost ungratefulindeed, if were
to add, that its conduct has been as excellentas its prilsie.ll 1
have been pure. Connected as I am with many societi'_%,
confess, that there is none in which I repose greaterccio 7'ie •
deuce than that which has assembled us this day." And
Bishop of Llandaff added, " Nothing gave him gr•eare
pain than the complaints which were current some)0001•
ago against the agents who bad been selected by th!,, 0019
mittee. But according to his judgment, they 1317,0 t
performed a sacred office in making that selection, •
fee
the trustees of a fund, it was their bounden duty ▪ et
that the funds were not misapplied, but placed in a Pd'beelv
channel for carrying on the work for which they 111 ich 111)
granted. He had never known an instance in R' ciatit9
Improper inquisition had been exercised, or any PTOO or
shown— any disposition to favour a peculiar elv"
section of the Church, or any encouragemen to tu;bich
elusive teaching of certain doctrines—a fault to fiats,
zealous people were sometimes liable. Fromtbese he be-'
these defects in the administration of theirfunds,
lieved the Society to be entirely free."

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visit Paris during the present year. re'
rearkable instance of the instability of hulumrnanisig'erea'tonteeslsl''
and there is no doubt that his dislike to medicine reu"onie'
caused his early dissolution ; for rather than takedand
simple remedy he allowed disease to ghin the asce,Asus
over his constitution, and death was the result. A'ato of
is that persons cannot be too watchful of tbeir,:mcient
health, and being always provided with a safe anu'r„. the
medicine, such as Frampton's Pill of itealth--.7:l,bre.
two greatest blessings of this world, health and 1 "