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and hardly known in Liverpool, but yet as a stranger address-
ing a Liverpool audience, he. would venture on his own
responsibility to say plainly that he should have liked to
see some of the Liverpool champions who were not there.
He should have liked to have seen some of these champions
for the truth of Jesus, who took an honoured lead in every
He should:.have liked to have seen them stand
Ipport the Church Pastoral Aid
to that meeting through
it not right, that those

He would put it honest
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moting the cause of fore

Then they shOuld

stand there with them. Was it right, or was it not right,
that those faithful men should have given their testimony in
behalf of scriptural education? Then it was right that they
should take their stand there. Was it right, or was it not
right, that they should have raised their voices against Po-
pery? Then they should have been there. The champions

agains Popery ought to be the champions of the Church Pas-
toral Aid Society. He really thought that he ought to beg
pardon for these observations, but he would only say that
they were all his own ; he alone. would be responsible for
TN . •

For the rest of Liverpool, be.trusted that the report
of another year would present a very different account, and
he hoped that henceforward. Liverpool would be found a
warm, liberal, and consistent friends to the Church Pastoral
Aid Society._ Olpplause.)

The Rev. F11.11:1>ING o/uLD seconded the resolution

rev. gentleman, after explaining th

Liverpool champions of t
plained of by the last spea

society, which had been corn-
:er, remarked that just at the time
this was called for it spriing into existence.
0 years, nine millions had been added to the
d two millions within the last ten years, and it

the las

240,000 annually

This in

addition of one thousand clergymen

y supp
,000 per annum

was blessed, because of her profession of the Christian
church ; let that church be efficiently worked, and a supply
of faithful pastors be continued to her, and those blessings
would be perpetuated. The best method then of manifesting

an attachment to the church was by hearing the truths whicii
she taught, and exerting ourselves as we had opportunity and
means of spreadirg her ministrations among the sons of
men. He therefore appealed to the meeting on behalf
of this society ; and concluded by saying, that its motto
might well be "the harvest is great, and the labourers are
few, pray ye to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send
forth more labourers."

The resolution was then put and carried unanimous'

m r.

The Rev. ARTHUR IRVINE, one of the secretaries to the
Parent Society, proposed the second resolution, which said
that the meeting being fully convinced of the necessity which
11 exists for the operations of the Church Pastoral Aid
could not hear without deep concern that its financial
in extending aid to many
eration of which they were obliged to
they called for increased exertions.
remarks the reverend eentleman said

state did not justify the commi

applicatioi
postpone,

not to congratulat

l'arebt. Society

ne had ever seen,
i( upon one of the most intelligent and
which it had been his pleasure to address, and still
more might he congratulate it upon' the meeting being pre-
sided over by the Chancellor of the Diocese. The Church
Pastoral Aid Society was not a new society, but at the same
time it required in some respect an apologist. He (lid not
allude to the old objections, to those storms which raged
against it, or to that bluster which, instead of destroying it
had only had the effect of making it take deeper root, of
strengthening its branches, and of enabling it to afford shelter
and sustenance to many a perishing family. He allude:a to the
grounds and reasons of the misconceptions which, he feared,
had prejudiced its cause in this neighbourhood. From the
want of a general understanding of the mode of its operations
- sometimes appeared anomolous, and some-
In sense way or other the operations of the
society were orderly in themselves, though they were liable to
be misconceived. For instance, there might be a population
of large amount which had no grant, and there might be in
the immediate neighbourhood of it a much smaller popula-
tion which had a grant. To him who was unacquainted with
the principle of the operations of the society this might ap-
pear anomalous. But it was forgotten that the society might
not be able to act upon the large population—that according
to its principle it could not send a minister or lay assistant
into that large population until the incumbent • had applied
for a grant. When the society commenced it was appealed
to from many quarters; the committee was aware there were
more pressing cases which might be brought before them,
but because the incumbents did not choose to apply, the
society was not at liberty to interfere. Hence the appa-
rent anomaly of grants being made to small populations in
the neighbourhood of large populations which were without
a grant. There were other circumstances which made the
operations of the society appear unjust, and which required
close scrutiny to be fully understood, but the meeting might
depend that the society did not misapply its funds. It de-
pended of course upon the representations made by the cler-
gyman applying of the nature and character of the place, and
if those representations misled the society, surely it was
not the society which was in fault. (Hear, hear, hear.) He
could answer for this on the part of the society, that if they
had reason to believe that a grant was ill bestowed they
would take the earliest opportunity of having the
defect remedied. They would not, however, act upon
mere representation, but upon full investigation ; therefore
he would ask any one who objected to the grant to allow the
matter to be brought before the committee, and if they would
give information he would ensure that the matter should be
righted. Ile had deemed it right to occupy some portion of
the attention of the meeting on this point, because it was a
matter of wonder why the support of Liverpool to this society
was not greater than it had been. The population of the
country had increased since the commencement of the society •
upwards of six millions ; but there had been no commensu-
rate spiritual provision made. The consequence was, that
there was now in this country a population larger than
the entire kingdom of Scotland without spiritual provision.
In the large towns, it was presumed, there were a mil.
lion of human beings destitute of pastoral supervision.
In London there was only one minister to 15,000 of the po-
pulation; and the population in the manufacturing districts
and the large towns were equally unprovided for. It was
almost within the memory of some persons when letters used
to be addressed to " Birmingham' near Wednesbury ;" but
so rapidly had the population of the former increased, that
while Wednesbury had but little above 11,000, Birmingham
had upwards of 200,000. This increase had taken place
without any corresponding increase in the means of grace.
But he would not detain the meeting by enlarging on this
topic. It might be said, " Why does not the Church, with
her ample endowments, provide for these things ?" She was
not able. Her endowments were exaggerated. The in-
come of all the benefices in England was only three and a half
millions, and if this sum were equally distributed among all
the beneficial clergy it would only yield an average income
to each of £215 per annum. There were 3535 livings under
£350 per annum ; and it was a fact that there were benefices
and vicarages in England under the value of £5 a year; but
in addition to all this there was a large amount of new
churches which were not called benefices, the endowments of
which were still smaller than the average of the benefices.
For these the church had no means of making provision.
But it was said if the church is not able to supply this
deficiency the dissenting body were. Now, giving the dis-
senting body full credit for the best motives, and the
greatest exertions, they were not able to supply it. On
the authority of a dissenting publication he would state
that the whole amount of their places of worship in Eng-
land, and those embracing the deistical, Socialist; and
the idolatrous Romanist, were only a little above 8000. By
some they were stated at 6000. But take them at the larger
number, there were in England 10,500 benefices—and if one
dissenting chapel were given to each bene

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there would

still be 2500 benefices-:unsupplied. What, too, was tilt
fact ? The dissenting chapels were not equally distributed.
In part of the county of Lancaster there was a considerable
proportion of the whole, leaving the other parts of the county
totally destitute of spiritual provision. Making every allow-
ance for prejudice and conscience. :mil

every cram
for the best motives, he must say that dissenting teachers
were not pastors ; he knew it from his own experience,
when in charge of a neglected people, for he had never
found theta visiting the sick or the poor. They were removed
periodically, and this circumstance made them the ministry
of the congregation rather than of the district. He repeated,
he had never found them exercising pastoral supervision.
Now, to supply these deficiencies which the church could
not supply, and which dissent was neither able nor willing to
supply, the Church Pastoral Aid Society stepped in. It was
obliged to interfere, but it interfered not with the order of
the church in any degree ; it mearly supplied the means to
overburdened ministers of assistance, whether they chose to
employ clerical or lay aid according to the canonical order
of the church. From its first institution it had supplied art-
sistauce to 470 incumbents, operating upon the population of
two millions. Its operations did not at present exii
that dtoe
withtbil
an
large a number ; but from the first it had supplied
as-
sistance. He would not detain the meeting
num-
ber of school-rooms and cottage lectures supplied
of the society, but he would bring before th e 1.-12.hee etirnegvt. two
no
_r
three instances of overburdened clergy
ni
tleman then related the manner in which ns.everal aged cler-
gymen, some 80 years of age had beea.cioiemapoeflled
smallto apply to
the society for aid, particularly in parishes
in which, if aid had not been granted,there must, necessa-
rily, have been intermissions in the services. of the church.
He also described from correspondence with the parties, the
excellent effects produced by the assistance of the society,

therefore, give a barren vote on this occasion, but mu:
speak well of the society wherever they went, an
pray to God for his blessing upon it. He would say a wor
with reference to the contributions to the society, and ova
reminded of an apt but somewhat quaint saying, first " Mak
all you can ;" secondly, " Save all you can ;" (both of whic
were good precepts)—and thirdly, " Give all you can,
which he hoped they would on this occasion. Before he an
down he begged to allude briefly to what had fallen froi
their respected friend, Mr. Pollock, with reference to tr
non-attendance of certain of their brethren in the minist
He assured them from that gentleman that on looking r
4 seeing what 'd to be a --- •

-“, no conceives. paucity 01
meeting of reverend gentlemen, be had mane;
remarks, no doubt in the zeal of the moment, but that he drs
not purpose them to apply to particular individuals, and least
of all to that brother in whose behalf, in the domestic afflic-
tion that pressed upon him, their warmest sympathies were
engaged. As they felt the grace of God operating on them-
selves, so ought they so to labour as to be the means of ex-
tending it to others. If they thus clung to the church, they
would go on conquering and to conquer, and the dew of
God's blessing would descend upon their labours, and crown
them with success.

The CHAIRMAN here intimated that it was now time the
meeting should be brought to a close. Any slight cloud of
difference that had arisen between some of the speakers was,
he felt convinced, the result -Merely of individual zeal for the
welfare of the societrrtmci was worthy of consideration only
inasmuch as it evinced this individual anxiety for the success
of the society, and their ardent attachment to the church.
The church was the parent, and it was a pleasing reflection
that the child had been enabled to assist the parent in the
hour of need.

Mr. ADAM HODGSON proposed a motion of cordial thank:
from the meeting to their worthy friend the chairman fo
his kindness on this and on former occasions, which, he fel
assured, would be met in feeling the most cordial by all whc
one-third of that I were present.
England

motion was immediately seconded, and carried

acclamation.
At the suggestion of the chairman the Doxology was sur
And the meeting then separated.

I it I)

EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE

,--TIIIS DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circuit

A change of wind having brought in many vessels which
had been previously detained off the port, we have to note
since this day week a fair quantity of Barley and Malt coast-

wise ; a considerable increase in the supply of Oats, with a
moderate arrival of Oatmeal, from Ireland ; and from abroad
a liberal accession of Wheat, amounting to nearly 15,009qr5.
chiefly from France and the Mediterranean, besides 1360 ors
from Calcutta.

At the opening of this day's market, good English, Irish
and foreign free Wheats were held with rather more firm
ness ; but the millers remaining for the most part inactive
very moderate sales only were practicable, and the trad
closed at a decline of id. to 2d. per 701bs. from the
this day se'nnight.
Here and in the country markets towards the em
week, about 2500 qrs. of Ancona Wheat, in bond, Ns
posed of at 7s. ; and since, 1509 qrs. of Polish Odes;
to 7s. ld., with a parcel of good States Wheat at 7s.
701b5., have changed hands here; exclusive of 150(
Western Canal Flour, sold to-day at 28s. per barrel.
In any kind of free Flour this morning, the trap
were limited on the terms of last week

rates of

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 12th to the 18th April, 1842, inclusive

l of last

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