The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

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in augmentation of archdeaconries. With regard to the
fabric expenses mentioned above, we find that during the
last 14 years about £370,000 has been expended on the 28
cathedrals and on the collegiate churches of Westminster
and Windsor, of which £250,000 have been provided
from chapter funds and the individual contributions of
members, and £120,000 by public subscriptions. About a
third of the cathedrals have special fabric funds. The
fabric of St. Paul's, for instance, is maintained by a fund
in the hands of trustees, independently of the Chapter
and its revenue. At Exeter the repair ^

of the fabric fop
rm
cilarge on the.capituhlr revenues. York Minster
has an ancient statutable claim to one-sixth part of the
entire income of the common estates ; and at Durham it
is considered that the woods of the Chapter are by statute
appropriated to the repairs of the cathedral and capitular
buildings.

GOSPEL PEOPAGATION SOCIETY.—A meeting of the
friends of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts was held on Thursday, at Enniskerry, in
the county of Wicklow, which was attended by several
clerto men, and a numerous assemblage of ladies. The
Archbishop of Dublin presided. The first resolution was
proposed by a layman (Viscount Monck). It was as fol-
lows :—" That the present extent of emigration from the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the
circumstances and position of settlers in a new land, im-
pose upon the mother country and church the strongest
obligation to provide the blessings of religious instruction
for those who go forth to people our colonies." The Rev.
John Grant proposed the next resolution :—" That the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
by its long, faithful, and successful exertions for evange-
lizing our colonies and the heathen, deserves the cordial
support of all sincere members of the Church of England
and Ireland." After several addresses had been delivered,
a vote of thanks to the Archbishop was agreed to, and his
Grace, in responding to the compliment, spoke as follows
" My Christian friends, after what has been so fully set
before you, I am not going to detain you with any obser-
vations in reference to the resolution you have been so
good as to pass ; but I wish to remark generally, that in
this, as in all other cases, I have thought it my duty,
where there is an institution or society which is in itself
good, never to allow myself to abandon it in despair, on
account of any even real, well established faults which
may exist in it, so long as there is the least hope of reme-
dying those faults. I believe that 19-20ths of all that
has been urged against this society is, as has been well
set before you, altogether imaginary and unreal. But
I never supported this society supposing that the colonial
bishops, or the clergy at home, or in any part of the
Church, were faultless and infallible. I considered that,
the object being a good one, the only way in which I or
any one else could have a chance of introducing any re-
quisite improvement, is by joining and furthering the
society, and by that means acquiring a certain degree of
influence in it. If every one in this country were to
turn rebel against the government who thinks that some
acts of parliament are not perfect, and that some parts
of the constitution need 'improvement, it would break
up the whole frame of society, If every person were to
withdraw from the Church, and from some other reli-
gious community, because he saw that there was some-
thing requiring amendment in the Church, but of which
he would not attempt the improvement, he would very
soon find that the same was the case in every other
religious community that he should join, and eventually
he would cease to be a member of any Christian church
whatever. And so it is with all human institutions.
It is with the view I have mentioned that I have always
most cordially supported this society, while, at the same
time, I have watched carefully for every opportunity of
introducing any improvement which I thought desirable ;
and I am happy to say that I believe there is very good
hope of any improvement that may be needed being intro-
duced. If the society itself were objectionable in its fun-
damental principles, of course I should renounce it ; but
we are not at liberty to renounce and abandon at once, in
despair, every thing which we think admits of improve..
ment: If persons were to spread a report that no repu-
table person resided in such and such a street or squareof
the city, but that it was inhabited solely by disreputable
persons, the declaration would very soon become a true
one ; all respectable persons would abandon the locality,
and it would be given up to the lowest and vilest of the
population. And so it is with every human institution
and every society that can possibly be formed by fallible
man, Our way is to live in the Church—to live in the
country—and to live as members of society—and to endea-
vour to introduce into them whatever improvemen
think desirable. With this view I have given my cordialneclass
of to the society ; and I will just mention,oou
knl,ass
ow
of our colonies in particular, of which n'arase 3ea
haat '
lled the
a most vehement opponent—
deprecate the system of colonizing
while I have been using
scum of our population ; but
n to infuse some better
nArngtralithae
penal colonies. I have enjeamvoeurajjedviwi'mthosttheearrnefuesstelyantod
those endeavours, have also
improvements have been ,an.ndotewivetillisitan
of the population. I
unfortunately degraded character
those colonies as good as they
have endeavoured to make
principles even into thoseintcolosntiunecsvid
system on which they had. been founded."
e g, at the same time, I deprecated the

TILE expense incurred in taking the census of Great
Britain in 1851 was £125,487, or not quite lid. per head.
LORD BYRON, writing to a friend, in the year 1807
says : " Sad news just arrived—Russians beat. A. bad
set—eat nothing but oil, consequently must melt before a,

hard fire."
Mu. Llwx,rr, in consequence of urgent remonstrances
from the public press, has been at length dismissed by
Mr. Gladstone from his post of private secretary to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, which he had continued to
hold notwithstanding, the exposure about the " specula-
tions "in which he did not make use of his official
knowleage.".