The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-26 00:00:00

INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCE.

It will probably be remembered by a few of our readers
that about eighteen months since a lady of the name
of Mrs. Dunn, the wife of a clergyman at New Brunswick,)
visited this town on a laborious and arduous mission from
the parish of her husband, tor the purpose of collecting sub-
scriptions in this country towards the payment of a debt
which had been incurred in the erection of a church in that
parish, which is an island situated in the mouth of the Bay
of Fundy, about thirty miles from the main land of the Pro-
vince of New Brunswick, twenty miles in extent, inhabited
by about 190 families, numbering 1.100 souls, principally
occupied by fishing. A church was built about twenty years
since, which was destroyed in October, 1839, with all its fur-
niture, through the malevolence of some incendiaries. A
new church was immediately commenced, and was opened in
the October following. Towards the erection of this building
£566 were contributed by the inhabitants and other parishes,
leaving a debt of £153, though the church was not com-
pleted. Such was the depression of trade and the scarcity
of money, that it was considered hopeless to attempt further
solicitations for aid in that country, and Mrs. Dunn resolved
upon undertaking a voyage to England alone, and without
the advantage of friends, to solicit contributions. The result
of her visit we find detailed in the New Brunswick Courier
of the Ist of April last. It appears that this enterprising
lady collected in England and Ireland the sum of £65216x. 2d,
and the following items of the expenditure of the money will
give our readers sufficient information as to its appropriation.
We have already stated that at the time of Mrs. Dunn's
departure there was a debt incurred of £153., to which is to
be added the interest upon it until collected, with a propor-
tion of collecting the previous subscriptions, amounting to
£5l 10s. 7d. The sum of £lB6 3s. VA. was expended in
materials required for the church after 1840. Incidental
expenses, charges upon importing books, travelling expenses,
&c., £137 Ss. 9d. There had been expended and appropri-
ated for school-houses and schools £9O 51., which left on
hand for the benefit of schools £149 ISs. 4d., to which are
to be added the proceeds of some jewellery presented by two
ladies, for which a satisfactory sale had not been obtained.
Before Mrs. Dunn left England, she stated that not more
than £BO should be deducted from her collections to meet
her expenses, and though her memoranda of land-carriage,
passages, and board, exceed that sum by £3O, her husband
considerately makes that loss his own, which is worthy of
notice from the following circumstance :—Mr. • Dunn had
previously appropriated the whole proceeds of the glebe
£lBO for paying a debt upon and finishing the parsonage-
house, and a further sum 0f.t.40 in repairs and out-buildings
that were essential. The result of this expenditure will be
in future an enlarged income, and a comfortable residence
for the missionary ; and the present flourishing state of the
parish with respect to the temporalities of the church and the
ample provision for schools, will materially increase the
ability of the inhabitants to contribute to the support of their
future clergyman. Mrs. Dunn acknowledges with gratitude
the liberal response which was made to her applications, and
attributes much of her success to recommendatory letters
from the lion. and Rev. Baptist Noel, end the Rev. Hugh
M`Neile. She also states that she was much indebted to
Chas. Groves, Esq. of this town. The sum of £lO3 was collec-
ted in Liverpool, and very handsome subscriptions were
raised in Bath, Brighton, Cheltenham, Bristol, and other
places. Donations are acknowledged from the Queen Dowa-
ger, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Dowager Viscountess
lierberton, &c. &c.

On the Ist instant, died the Rev. John Gibbons, rector of
Thornbury, in the county of Hereford, aged 90 years ; and
on the 9th of May, in-his 81st year, died the Rev. T. Lewes,
who had officiated as curate of that parish till within the last
twelvemonths. Perhaps there is no other instance on record.
where the united ages of an incumbent and curate amounted
to 170 years.

RAILWAY SPEED,—The returns given in the report of the
officers in the Railway Department, Board of Trade, show
the average speed upon the various lines, exclusive of stop-
page, as follows :—London and Birmingham, 27 miles per
hour ; Great Western, 33 ; Northern and Eastern, 36 ;
North Midland, 29; Midland Counties, 28 ; Birmingham
and Derby, 29 : Manchester and Birmingham 25 ; Newcastle
and North Shields, 30 ; and Chester and Birkenhead, 28.
The average speed on the metropolitan lines, exclusive of
stoppage, is about 22 miles an hour.

A young woman named Rebecca Rumball, was tried and
found guilty before Mr. Justice Coltman at the Central
Criminal Cpurt, of having attempted to drown her illegitimate
male child. She had thrown herself and child into the water,
intending to commit suicide, and bad tied the child to her
breast; but both were rescued by a constable, and restored
to animation. She was sentenced to two years imprison-
ment.

We hear, with great satisfaction, that Mr. Lockhart has
been appointed auditor of the Duciiy of Cornwall, vacant by
the death of the late John Allen, of Dulwich. Few are the
government opportunities for distinguishing literary men by
granting public offices compatible with their avocations; and
it is highly gratifying, as in this instance, to see the occasion
at once seized, and the palm and profit awarded in so just
and liberal a manner.. The emolument, we are told, is about
.ClOO per annum, and the duties not so onerous as to inter-
fere with the new auditor's accustomed pursuits.—Literary
Luckart is the editor of the Qurrterly
Review.]

PASTORAL. AID SOCIETY.-At the recent meeting of the
Church Pastoral Aid SUciety in London, the Bishop of
Llandaff requested permission to address the meeting, for the
purpose of expressing his undiminished attachment to the
Church Pastoral Aid Society, and his obligations to it in,
distant parts of the country. Be used to hear it objected
against the society that it was not consistent with the princi;
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