The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-03 00:00:00

CHURCH EXTRNSION.

SCIENCE is progressing, commerce is
industry is labouring with ceaseless toil, a, an
with all these aids to material wealth, thef
strength of the nation, in its maintenance °deo!,
Christian religion, appears to be left to the .;hoot
tory efforts of individual piety and zeal, wi
any really practical endeavour to render the-ito
gress of the Church co-equal with that ;hoof
people. It is not that the subject has been wl,OlO
attention, or that complaints have not been is
of urgent necessities still unrelieved; but the 0,500
are permitted to exist, and year after Year lj
over without any effectual step being tlik neoll
appply a remedy. Since the reign of
this country has multiplied its population si(i soci
and its material wealth perhaps a hundred-. 1
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yet the important concerns of the National -0,
are under fewer Bishops, so that, each being er.
loaded with duties he finds it impossible fAi°3l)fot
form, too often does nothing, and claims cre-trieil
the quietude of his diocese. The whig:„„4
their hand at reform, and, having supPres'se`:
bishoprics in Ireland, contented themsell.eilo of
the creation of one new one in Englaild'r; etioll
Manchester. This, however, was a c°-, est",
wrung from them with difficulty, the grey " her at
bling-block being the addition to the aOll3-
erl/1
Spiritual Peers, and the difficulty was g°' °coatis°
refusing the last-made Bishop a seat in t!i,ed i 4
of Lords. The want, however, to be supPae cislol/
greater : the Church requires far more giVereoillg
than she enjoys, and if the difficulty of hle+baosll
the episcopal votes is still insurmountable' coo
it would not be easy to give a legitiul,,at.e.:lo.the
for it—there is still the resource of collaii"."t 131
Parliamentary privilege to the present lithe re'
far the most important point, however, 13 ill ib6
modelling of the parochial system, whicill'os
populous towns of the north of England' O'er
outgrown its means of usefulness. Whellfiao,
pool was but a small fishing. town, its be
a hamlet of the parish of Walton, raiP-ntiti'
practical inconvenience; and when subsegae,"4o
increased in population, its constitution lector
single parish might have been equally un°hiopolt"
able. Now, however, it has risen into the jireptv
ance of the second town in the empire, Ivitll '001!
lation, including the suburbs, reaching lei vari9
half a million, and yet with no more effecticOt
supervision than when it was but an L1:1.'6-o ofei
place. Liverpool should be a city, a 13israisillAr
and the centre of a diocese. It should- ue
into at least a hundred parishes, each °lle stric
.Ipith °1
incumbent whose pastoral duties would bearoc)l7,
defined, with churchwardens and other Peirif
officers, and with the power to levy Cl
for the maintenance of the fabric and the
of divine worship. We should not then rty
the anomaly of churches being the PresiDe o pc"'
private individuals—of incomes obtained Cr° accofii:
rents--of the poor being excluded in order t°,74
modate the rich—and the people seatie,leilft4:,r,
sheep having no shepherd, each one rannule tr.
some favourite preacher, virtually destr°c4l
unity of spirit and the bond of peace, and PriAaufalfr
in reality, the schism against which 06
.0 ,4
to pray. Perhaps the greatest obstac
realization of the parochial system in lareot
is the want of means for endowment ; " 40er
obstacle is only great because our Church resfr
are wanting in boldness to apply the I • s'•
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their power, or, on the other hand ras
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to obtain their ends by secular authoritY'loo
no Churchman can recognise. If the recibor
longing to the Church were equitably dis`if,
„i
and more ' attention paid to spiritual .fie
cb
than temporal gain, a great part of ti; ve,
would be surmounted ; and were this ,u°o P b 9
case would be made out for an appea! votiefol
ment. The attempt must, however, Oefoi
the Church itself : it would form the 111,,,°0teh'afelt,
topic on which Convocation could dell'io C;011
prove by far the most important slei:i"► OA
extension that has yet been made. "
divided into parishes of reasonable °port' tip
number of population—with dioceses 0184.13;
as nearly as possible to the number of 13'00 ot'ieg
extent of districts—and with the abunds,lleo4igfe,'i
rues belonging to one applied to the 11'fche
another, we might fairly expect to see .ciora tb
of England what she ought to be,--thear °ll
the people, the bulwark against all err-
real strength of the nation

In.11!Y
Tun Towx Couxcm.—The following ts..o4';„ I'4o
of the business of the Town Council to-71°'*;44'"cls',1411
ceedings of the Finance Committee, ciron'°'o4o,suer
mendation to increase the salary of D. 31;0Per;o0:,
the magistrates' clerks, from £75 to '-6,014e1,,,
recommendation to sell the reversion of Pre,,ool4"oli,°4l'
street to the committee of the Ragged ScPloglentreet°
tion with St. Silas's Church, for £5O; relivle's„„ of .40.4%
purchase freehold premises, situate in be sui-1411e
Crosshall-street, from Mr. Woodward, for
.ttteo,
The proceedings of the Markets Conlgr. kir. ',0,1,91
recommendation to increase the salary °f of rA era
£250 to £276 per annum, and the sn'3„`;eonsret°col;l'
house from £lBO to £2OO per annum, tu`" otithiftee.,
which was postponed at the last jorolns4lra';,e
The proceedings of the Education the tb ;;;il,
prising recommendation to increase son (41.,
William Owens, teacher in the Coporati°ll,,ceecliltloein,,Vo
from £lB 4s. to £3O per annum. The Priotio°..Alo
Health Committee, comprising reconaule°„roeli
the salaries of the following officers, I': fro,n.,o' itV„6 tro
White, clerk in treasurer's departinellAto,
1 60
£240 per annum ; Thomas J. Hughes, wfroolftd -
£9O per annum ; James MTadzen, ditto,
per annum ; Thomas J. Nicholson, ditto!
from or
£7O per annum ; James Rogers, itto, front „of,„
per annum ; Benjamin Owens, ditto, Flo
F 4
per annum : James Lothean Ascroft, c`1,5.0 P I"tlit
engineer's department, from £l2O to £so t°l4;. c,rlt y
James Lee, surveyor of drainage, from tetelt4e,:y4
annum ; Geo. Powell, surveyor of To wilse pert, Ai
from £lOO to £llO per annum ; Jan, j.p
hiC
the engineer's department, from of roe JP of
to £7O per annum, the considerationo.be
postponed at the last monthly council., veconr:iA
of the Baths Committee, conwrisivll,ycos7. 0ry1,61
to increase the salary of W. P. '-xe1.,60 Pepljtconlyl
works, from £lO4 per annum to The the
and the appointment, pursuant Wbers of tioc6,,oo;bo
Amendment Act, 1854," of two Inew the 011 7r..0
to meet the two justices appointed by
_I (Roca of
rot,
County of Lancaster, at their Anolitine a°,,cll)°pe
held on the 14th ult., to jointly deter purity sof torooc/,
respective proportions in which th c.utirrebte 4,64.108f3.
shall contribute to the expenditure
.17.uct.
curred, under the above-mentionea,4, 7s• en gitocvor
account, amounting to the sum of be 03sti, ty,
lowing motions, of which notices
,t 164 be g pef„ol,!o4
By Mr. Councillor Thomson : Tkatv;ith t!'; to t'botire
to the Health Committee to confer
_nowt° doe1:004,;,
mittee with the view of obtaining Pe.oto die 004
niptY I)3'l° ot
the public sewers, which now e rgy, of 0 tit AO
across such basins into the river 11!!„ °wet belt
iron pipes. 2. That as the profes tl,l,e,oiraupeccof
George's-hall with a musical festival., or v', 0011 to r 0
public hospitals, and as the public 1?,13!.-otinc16_10te" J
to the hall, whilst the members of tnt e„ reeatadkile rco
admission, each member of the Con tbreed toiottiociti3O
for all free admissions he used onbtr refer
r (fool,
Mr. Councillor Picton : That it.
,‘ort
to
Courts committee to consider ant11.7,.0,-11?:1;, into '
the beat mode of rendering St. Gevert7t of Love_ 09
available for the use and eniorro „tly sc...f ~!ift
generally, with instructions that
_,eniont.oai
cj
posed, the recreation and imPr°'d essentl I'oo°l4
classes shall form a prominent a 7. lerkste tbe rtietd
Mr. Councillor Bigham That tne pa;,
be requested to make a return,
_T:,1110,ti0',;',e(6.0.,"1
fines levied for breaches of dock liititsc°!; 0301,517.del
v, awe
past
.041
ing under the various bye-la
fr;r tlle Peri,iti°rll7o
appropriated, week by wee spora.--resoJ-t.e
the amounts levied for the corra..at tb.e to to,
By Mr. Councillor Anderson L'-";eforrir4ter 06tbel4
by the Council on the 13th ins" the Au 001'0014d
House of Correction Committee:2 ea to, jotorefe.
Thos. Carter, requesting the ,01.11,0 stet
'tter bcreSL.
sions of the Juvenile" Reformat s ort
effect, be rescinded, and that the.!i4.o tor
en 6
a special committee of the. Co'