The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY

PATRONS.
The Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Winchester.
The Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Llandaff.
The Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Chester:
The Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Chichester.
The Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Rip6n.
The Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Norwich.
The Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of‘Feterborough.
The Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop,of Worcester.
The Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Oxford.
The Rt. Rev. Lord BiOop of Sodor and Man.
The `'lost Noble Mar4uis of Cholmondeley.
The Rt. Hon. Earl of Chichester.
The Rt. Hon. Earl of Harrowby.
The Rt. Hon. Earl of Gainaborough.
The Rt. Hon. Earl of Calthorpe.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Bexley.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Feversham.
PRESIDENT.
The Right Hon. Lord Ashley, M.P.
SECRETARY.
Rev. C. Clayton, M.A., Senior Fellow Cairn College

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Cambridge.
Office, Temple Chambers, Falcon-court, Fleet-street,

London.
BANKERS

Messrs. Williams. Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane,

London

THE existing grants are to 259 incumbents, having '
under their charge a population of 1,991,828 souls,
With an average income of £193 per annum. These '
grants r.,vide stipends for 248 additional :curates, and '
41 lay - assistants. During the last year ninety new
go•lts were made, seventy-three of these are to districts
Where aid had not previously been granted, among which
there are two where the population exceeds 20,000 souls,
one where it is 19,000, six where it is 10,000 and upwrrds,
and five where it exceeds 8000 and is under 10,000 ; while
the average population to each of the incumbents, (ex-
cluding the small numbers confided to the care of the
gay chaplains), is 7060 souls.
During the nine years of this society's existence, it has
aided at various times 440 incumbents, has supported 477
clergymen, and 98 lay-assistants ; it has led to the erec-
tion of 51 churches or chapels, to the purchase of 11, and
to the opening or keeping open of 36. By its grants the
those
of attending divine service, in addition to
:uose which the parises enjoyed before aid was obtained,
58 offered 425 times on each Lord's-day, 158 times on
Week days, while 258 weekly cottage lectures have been
established in various parts of the parishes aided. many of
them at late hours, in order to suit the time of the factory
labourers. Thus the Word of God is more extensively
Preached, while a population of nearly 200,000 are brought
tinder general pastoral visitation. Ninety-one of the
lociety's grants are to the diocese of Chester, amounting
7415 annually • of these, ten are to Liverpool, of the
annual amount of £9OO.
The receipts from Ist of April, 1845, to the present
"'roe, as compared with those during the same period last
Year, exhibit a defalcation of £951 13s sd, whilst the cur-
tent payments at present exceed those of the preceding
iear at the rate of £936 lls 3d per annum ; from which
tt Will be seen that the Society's funds are now virtually
1,!.8s than they were last November, by the large sum of
A.lBBB 4s Bd.
in consequence of this deficiency, the following Reso-
lution has just been passed at a Special Meeting,—" The
• Sub-commiitee regret that they do not feel themselves
3Ostified in making any new grants during the present
month," notwithstanding that there are before them urgent
cases of application from forty Incumbents having under
'heir pastoral charge an aggregate population of 191,990
souls. The following contributions since the beginning
of the present month are gratefully acknowledged
J• G. Elgood, 98, Wimpole-street .£lO 10 0
Rev. J. H. Gurney, St. Martin's-place.. 10 10 0
Friend by Mrs. Bunell .
Loftus Wigram, Esq. Lincoln's Inn 25 0 0
Miss Middleton, Bath
Right Hon. Lord Harrowby. 50 0 0
John Deacon, Esq. Birchin-lane 3O 0 0
Rev. J. W. It. Disney, Newark ... ••• • • 10 0 0
I. Donations and Subscriptions vrill be thankfully received
'3, the local Secretaries, Rev. C. LAURENCE, Mount-
tleasant, and Rev. 'l'. NOLAN, Hope-street, and the
eciety's papers will be furnished by Mr. Perris, book-
tiler, Church-street.
The ANNUAL SERMONS and MEETINGS are
itPected to take place about the second week in February,
46 ; and it is earnestly hoped that the friends of the
Society will make timely preparation to render the pro-
dings as effective as possible.
IVAP. ?4, 1845,