The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-19 00:00:00

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY

The annual meeting of the Liverpool Branch of the aura
Pastoral Aid Society was held in the Music-hall, Bold-street
last evening, at seven o'clock. The following clergymen anC

gentlemen among others were upon the platform :—The Rev.
Chancellor Raikes, the Rev. C. Lawrence, the Rev. A.
Irvine, the Rev. W.
W. Pollock, the Rev. J. Cordeaux, the
Rev. F. Ould, the Rev. T. Nolan, Rev. H. Carpenter, Rev.
F. Barker, Rev. W. Rawson, Rev. T. Carter, Rev. J.
Whitley, Rev. J. N. Peill, Rev. Dwyer, Rev. Butler,
&c. &c. ; Adam Hodgson, Esq., C. Bouttlower' Esq., J.
Howard, Esq., J. A. Payne, Esq., Bowles, Esq,. W.
Maples, Esq., Richard Ilarbord, Esq.,s W. Jones, Esq.,
&c. &c. &c.

On the .. ADAM HODGSON, seconded by thc
Rev. C. LAWRENCE, the Rev. Chancellor RAIKES was
called to the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said he had very
ing the request to take the chair—the more so, because he
saw there had been a certain exercise of their patience till
the chair was taken. The fault unquestionably did not belong
to him or to the rev. friends around him. They themselves
could bear witness that they had been on the spot anxiously
waiting, that the time might come when the chair might be
occupied with any prospect of success. The appearances
were not perhaps very flattering at the present time, but at
the same time he had had enough of experience at public
meetings never to be disheartened by a thin room at first,
because it had frequently turned into a full room at last ;
he had likewise had sufficient experience to know that
a small audience gave a tone and character to the
meeting—a more solid tone pervaded the speeches than
when they had a full room and clamouring audience to sti-
mulate the feelings of those addressing them. In truth, the
subject was so really a good one, and so decidedly necessary,
that it mattered little, comparatively speaking, whether the
room was full or not. If they could but get an audience
sufficient to make their statements before them, they would
depend on their communicating to others fairly what they
had heard. They were aware, he was fully convinced, of the
great object for which that society was instituted. When the
population increased so rapidly and so largely as it had done
in that town for years, they could easily conceive that there
was a necessity for building more churches, in order to meet
the wants of the inhabitants; and if the necessity for build-
ing more churches existed, unquestionably a necessity also
existed for supplying those churches with ministers.
In this town many churches had been built, and many clergy-
men had been supplied to fill those churches, and whatever
might be the increase of population in Liverpool, he could
not but doubt that the well-timed liberality of the rich would
take care that the spiritual wants of the community should
be sufficiently supplied. Unhappily the case was very dif-
ferent in the other parts of this district ; there were places
where the population bad increased almost as rapidly as with
ourselves, but where there had not been the wealth nor the
,liberality in order to. make provision for the spiritual wants
of the inhabitants.. We had a melancholy picture of an im-
mense population growing up without any of those means of
grace and knowledge which we knew and felt from experience
to be absolutely necessary to guide men to a conviction of the
truth, or make life itself a blessing. Much bad been done,
and he was thankful so much was doing, to supply the want
of the church accommodation; and if it pleased God to
spare their lives, they hoped in a few days, with their friends
at Preston, to make a report of the last year's proceedings
for building churches in the surrounding district of Lan-
cashire. But building. churches was nothing unless they
supplied them with ministers. After dwelling for some time
on this point he said whatever might be their means of con-
tributing to the wealth of the society they all might contribute
to its efficiency. Those who could give nothing could at
least give their pravers,—" The prayer of a righteous man
availeth much." It would be in vain that clergymen were
appointed were not the prayers of faithful men employed in
imploring that blessing which came from on high upon their
labours.
The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN then offered up a prayer for
the divine blessing upon the proceedings of the meeting.
The Rev. CHARLES LAWRENCE, Secretary to the Local
Society, then read the report of the committee for the past
year, of which the following are the chief features :
After stating that the auxiliary had remitted to the Parent
Society the sum of £226, the report alludes to the lack of
zeal manifested to the society by its supporters, and chal-
lenges more attention to its objects.
The system upon which the society has acted is noticed in
the following terms:—
" The existence of the Additional Curates Society may be
looked upon with satisfaction by your committee as a happy
provision by which those may be assisted who take different
views of an important, but not a primary question. This
society has taken her stand upon a great distinction not
always remembered. Her supporters regard the' Bishop as
the sole dispenser of holy orders and the guardian of the pre-
cint of his diocese, but subject to such limitations, and
those connected with the rights of incumbents, the usages of
the church, and the laws of the land, have ever recognised
the right of the laity to interfere, more or less, with what
may he termed the localization of men once admitted by the
bishop to the functions of a minister of the gospel. And it
would be strange if an opposition, professedly based upon
principle, to such a system should exist in Liverpool, where
there is not a clergyman now resident, who, after having
been, of course, ordained by the bishop, arid being virtually
subject to his authority, does riot owe, in a less or greater
degree, ;he fact of his position in this town to lay patronage.
" The recognised right of interference in the localisation of
the clergy seeking assistance, in this case entirely limited by
the rights of incumbents, who, at 'their hands, the subscri-
bers of the Church Pastoral Aid Society exercise, not through
a committee of delegated laymen, but through the more suit-
able machinery of a clerical committee. The system, we
contend, is a correct one. If it should work ill it will not be
from defective principle, but from the frailty of that material
of which all human institutions must consist, and from the
errors of judgment and corruptions of heart which creep into
the working of the best systems, and disappoint the soundest

great pleasure in obey-

principles.
" W ►thin the last 15 years a great change for the better has
taken place in England in regard to her church ; and in no
place is that change more apparent than in Liverpool.
Churches have been multiplied in districts judiciously
chosen. Men, faithful to their divine master, and fully com-
petent to their work, have been attached to specific portions
of the vineyard, and the whole will soon present the appear-
ance of systematic and progressive cultivation. Among all
the difficulties still to be encountered, and hindrances every
day experienced, what thanks to God do we not owe for the
dew of His grace lying so thickly on this favoured town !
The Church Pastoral Aid Society has not been inactive and
unblessed in bringing about these results. The districts of
St. Paul's, of St. Michael's, of Christ Church, of All Saint's,
and latterly that of St. Barnabas, have received grants from
her. May not your committee, then, conclude with the ex-
pression of a hope, in conjunction with earnest prayers to
God, that he will pour forth in still more abundant degree
the healthful spirit of his grace and fertilising dew of his
blessing upon us, that this great town shall at no distant pe-
riod rise from the unsuitable position of a receiver which

now she occupies with regard to this society, and pour back
an ample return into the exhausted coffers of her benefac-
tress ! May not rather a still better founded confidence be
placed in the power of the word of the grace of God, now so
fully ministered among us, to touch the springs of men's
hearts, to subject them to the claims of the Saviour, to melt
them at the recital of the spiritual indigence of others, and
to moor them to Christ-like efforts of mercy."
The following collections were made in aid of the associa-
tion, last Sunday week, in this town
St. Mary's, Edgehill.
Seaforth
St. Barnabas
St. Mary's, Kirkdale
All Saint's .
St. Luke's .
St. Simon's
St. Paul's

£36 0 0
33 0 0
20 0 0
19 0 0
15 0 0
10 10 0
9 0 0
5 16 0

The TREASURER then read a statement of his accounts ;
from which it appeared, that, whilst Liverpool had contributed
only £205 ss. 2d. to the funds of the Parent Society for the
year, she had drawn from them, in the same period, a sum
of no less than between £5OO and £6OO.
The Rev. W. POLLOCK, incumbent of St. Helen's, then
moved the first resolution, to the effect that the report
be printed, and the usual officers appointed. He pre-
sumed that that resolution was never intended to be
any thing more than a peg to hang a speech on ; but, as far
as it referred him to the report that was just read, it gave
him the opportunity, if he only had the power, of speaking
to any length, and of speaking on almost any subject con-
nected with the interests of the Church of Christ in this
country. When a short time ago he received a letter from
the committee of the Pastoral Aid Society, requesting that
he would consent to appear as one of their deputation, he
felt there was
,but one course to pursue, and that was, at
once to obey. He felt, indeed, as well he might, that the
society might have found many abler advocates, though, at
the same time, he felt they could not find a warmer one.
They never could find an advocate who felt every feeling of
pastoral obligation, and every Christian sentiment of regard
and esteem, or one who would plead their cause, at least,
more earnestly than he would do wherever he appeared as
their representative. And now that he had come, if any
thing could give him additional pleasure, it was to see him
(the Chancellor) occupying that seat. (Applause.) He
(the reverend speaker) did not wish to adopt the language
which would be most disagreeable to him—that which
might be deemed the language of flattery, but he would say
it gave any minister in the Church of England confi-
dence to have him presiding over any meeting that took
place They did feel that his presence was of itself an as-
surance of the purity, of the holiness of any cause be per-
mitted to be heard before him. He would follow the report
in the first place, generally to the principles of the Church
Pastoral Aid Society ; and in the second place, to the opera-
tions of the society, its success, and its results in Liverpool.
The rev, gentleman then took a very animated and eloquent
review of the period when this society was established, in the
course of which, he said it was when chartism was assaulting
all that partook of the nature of settled law—when socialism
was blaspheming against all that was held good or sacred,
and above all when popery had returned at length within the

precincts of the constitution ; it was at such a-period, in the I
year 1837, that God put it into the the hearts of other chosen
chosen servants to institute and organize the Church Pasto-
ral Aid Society. (Applause.) When the founders of this
society looked abroad on the state of things he had described,
they attempted to meet them by such means as he would
further lay before them. They looked with much anxiety at
the distractions by which society was torn and shaken, and
they felt persuaded that the true way of healing this was only
if they might happily succeed in multiplying in the land
the dwelling places of the son of peace. They believed
that the oil which should be thrown on the troubled
waters was of that bought by the unction of the
Spirit of the living God. Such, he was sure they could
bear him witness when he said, were the first persua-
sions of the founders of the Pastoral Aid Society. But
they had another step to advance. Having determined to
give themselves to the work of God—the holy work of ad-
vancing so far as they might the cause of the gospel amongst
their countrymen—they had then further to inquire by what
legitimate means they might carry their design into execu-
tion. Was there a lawful and ordained instrumentality for
the spread of the gospel of Christ already in existence, or
must they desire a new one ? They had already a chief shep-
herd and a fold in this country, and was it their duty to ac-
knowledge that fold or to found a new fold ? The founders
at once decided that the fold should be the Church of
England. They knew her to be holy in her faith—catholic
in her constitution—and apostolic in her descent. They saw
her when they looked at the annals of her history—they saw
her in better and purer times, although they were more
troubled times—they saw her supported by the blood of
many a martyr to the truth as it was in Jesus—and even
now they saw the tokens of God being with her in the con-
version of many a sinner. They knew, too, when they
looked at her parochial system, that the machinery only
needed to be carried out in practice to give to every sheep a
fold and every fold a shepherd. The fact was that prin-
ciple would not permit them,and inclination never tempted,
them for a moment to look urther than the church. There
were some whom they might be permitted to call unautho-
rized dictators, who had been bold enough to pronounce
that that was not a church society. (Applause.) Really,
he must confess, they were in utter ignorance of the autho-
rities which, no doubt, such parties were able to produce in
support of such an assertion ; but until those authorities
' were produced, and as yet they had only heard the result—
until they knew the full authority on which such a statement
was based, they were constrained to say, first, that it was
essentially wanted and required for the wants of the church
on the one hand and the order of the church on the other.
It was an earnest desire to extend her borders, to throw
wide her sanctuary, to carry out her ministrations, to widen
her courts, to strengthen her streets, to perpetuate her
standing, and to develope her spiritual exercises ; it was a,
desire to see her .a clean church, not having spot, or wrinkle,
or any such thing. He said that if such feelings and such

efforts as these could entitle any society to be called and ad-
mitted as a church society, then the Pastoral Aid Society
was all that it pretended to be ; indeed, it was the Church
Pastoral Aid Society. (Applause.) But, secondly, he must
be permitted to observe as well, that if there were any like
Reno and Shiinski of old, who would impede them in their
good work, whatever difficulty they (the society) might
find in making out that they were a church society,
they need say little of the task they had imposed
upon themselves of proving their claim to the hon-
oured name of churchmen. Yes, the name of church-

—(cheers

man was an honOured name, /—and as far as
he, an humble individual, was concerned, he did venture:to
say that he had no higher earthly ambition, as far as title
was concerned, than to be esteemed both a warm and high
churchman. (Hear.) But it might be that he, in common
with the multitude, might be mistaken as to the true meanine

rchman saw in his

might be necessary to deny
us, the comfortable truth of

,ustification by faith—it might be necessary to return towards
Rome, at least as far as Appii Forum, forgetting that both
bond and captivity awaited them there—all these things might
necessary- to entitle them to be called churchmen,
'were necessary, then he would confess that he was
not a churchman, and the society he had the honour to re-
present was not a church society. (Applause.) He had
spoken negatively on this point, but if he had spoken nega-
tively of the services rendered by the society to their beloved
church, it was not because he was. compelled to do so. He
thought he was able to give substantial proof of the truth of
all that he had stated. He should not, however, at that time do
anything more than deal with general remarks. Mr. Irwen
who was to follow him would go into detail. 247 incumbents
had already been aided by the society, and many of them by
more than a single grant. He was himself a pluralist on the
bounty of the society. Under these 247, there was a popu-
lation in charge of 850,000 souls. Not to speak of the aid
rendered to such—not to speak of the increased means of
grace,. they had cast into the treasury of the church £130,000
each year. They spoke of the church building society. He
had the happiness to say, that through the instrumentality of
this society, 154 churches had been already built—one within
his own incumbency, and there were 64 now in progress.
117 licensed places of worship had been opened in neglected
districts, and 37 more were contemplated. Great good had
been done by the distribution of tracts, prayer books and
homilies, &c. Their good example had been followed by the
institution of the additional Curates' Fund Society, and a
similar society had been established in Ireland. " May our
common work go on and prosper, for it is in the name of the
Lord, and for the glory of his great name." An attempt
had been .made to establish a -piece of rivalry—of unholy
rivalry•—between the Church Pastoral Aid Society and the
Additional Curates' Church Society ; but they were the par-
ties who utterly repudiated it. If any gentleman objected to
that society being called their daughter, she was their sister
---a 'sister that they laved and prayed for. He sail distinctly,
that if there was an objection to the peculiarity of their prac-
tice, then let such person subscribe to the other society ;
only, for God's sake, let no man be guilty of the hollow,
transparent,' dissimulation of making the peculiarities of one
society an excuse for helping neither. What was the posi-
tion of the society in Liverpool ? He found that Liver-
pool received £6OO a year from this society, and that
she only returned £201) in money. (Hear, hear.) He
must say, honestly and openly, that this ratio should be
inverted, and that instead of returning one-third of what it
received, it should give three times what it received. Where
the fault lay he did not presume to say. He was a stranger
and hardly known in Liverpool, but yet as a stranger address-
ing a Liverpool- audiences •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
holy cause.- He should: have liked to have seen them stand
there to advocate and to support. the Church Pastoral Aid
Society.- He would put it honestly to that meeting through
the chairman. Was it right, or was it not right, that those
champions of whom he spoke, should be forward in pro-
moting the cause of foreign missions? 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 be ought to beg
pardon for these observations,• but he would only say that
they were all -his own ' • he alone would be responsible for
them. For the rest of Liverpool, he 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._ (Applause.) _ _

but if they

The Rev. FIELDING doLn seconded the resolution. The
rev. gentleman, after explaining the absence of some of the
Liverpool champions of this society, which had been com-
plained of by the last speaker, remarked that just at the time
such a society as this was called for it sprung into existence.
During the last 40 years. nine millions had been added to the
population, and two millions within the last ten years, and it
was increasing at the rate of 240,000 annually. This in-

crease would require an addition of one thousand clergymen,
and it was a fact, that this society supplied one-third of that
number at the expense of £27,000 per annum. England
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 which
she taught, and exerting ourselves as we had opportunity and
means of spreading 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 unanimously.
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
still exists for the operations of the Church Pastoral Aid
Society, could not hear without deep concern that its financial
state did not justify the committee in extending aid to many
applications, the consideration of which they were obliged to
postpone, and therefore they called for increased exertions.
kfter some preliminary remarks the reverend gentleman said
he had not to congratulate the Parent Society
London upon one of the fullest meetings he had ever seen,

that althou

he might congratulate it upon one of the most intelligent and
attentive 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 did not
allude to the old objections, to those storms which raged
against it, or to that bluster which, instead of destroying i t
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 alluded 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
its 'proceedings sometimes appeared anomolous, and some-
times eccentric. In some 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. lie 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 ;" hut
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
1350 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 nets
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. Or
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 there at the larger
number, there were in England 10,500 benefiCes—and if one
dissenting chapel were given to each benefice, there Would
still be 2500 benefices—unsupplied. , What, too, was the
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, and giving every credit
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 be had never
found them 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
fas-
sistance to 470 incumbents, operating upon the population 00
two millions. Its operations did not at present extendttoass.
large a number ; but from the first it had supplied that
sistance. He would not detain the meeting with the num-
ber of school-rooms and cottage lectures supplied by many
of the society, but he would bring before the meeting two or
three instances of overburdened clergymen. The rev.
v aged gen-
tlemancr-
then related the manner in which s
t ol
income,l
apply to
gymen, some 80 years of age had been
.schoemspeoe eralfllsemda
the society for aid, particularly in part
there must, necessa-
in which, if aid had not been granted,
rily, have been intermissions in the ervices of the church.
He also described from correspondence with the parties, the
excellent effects produced by the assistance of the society,

not only in dese cases, but it-, many districts of Yorkshit
Worcestershire, and other popular counties, for a report of
which we regret we have not room.
The Rev. ROBERT DAVIES said that at that late
should confine himself merely to cordially seconding
solution • which being put, was unanimously carried
The Rev. JOHN CORDEAIIX (of St. Silas's) rose I
the third resolution, and said that he should best consult
the comfort of the meeting by offering only a very few re-
marks. That resolution was—" That this meeting desire to
record their unabated attachment to the principles, objects
and plan of the (

to move

earnest prayers
ig, as we arc

would, at
of the clam
convinced that no system, however excellent, can prosper
without it." The resolution went to record un unabated at-
tachment to the principles and objects of the society, and that
led them to the second clause, that they must look to the
Lord for its future progress and prosperity. It was essen-
tially a Church of England society in its principles and. ob-
jects. It was s society which sought the Christian pastor to
go from house to house ; to spread abroad the light of religion,
and to induce those who seldom atter.ded divine worship to
go to the House of God. Let them but look to this and other
towns, and they would find that tens of thousands were without
the means of religious instruction, and had no real hope of
eternal salvation. In the society, however, they had a remedy;
if they had the heartfelt inclination, they had the means in
the gospel of truth. Their efforts were not prescribed. and
they had but, with uncompromising fidelity, to preach
that blessed gospel. It was deeply to be regretted that
the expenditure of the society exceeded its funds; and he
implored them not to let it be said of Liverpool that while
she received £6OO of the society's funds annually they only
sent £2OO to the general fund. He besought their
earnest prayers, so that a blessing might rest on
the future labours of the society, and that by that
blessing they might bring thousands from darkness and de-
lusion to the glorious light of redemption. Equally (lid he
implore them.to cultivate personal religion for if they felt its
benign influence themselves, they would 1.") e the better ena-
bled to appreciate its worth, and to dispense it to others ;
and their prayers would not, he trusted, be in vain. One
speaker had likened the society to a ship proceeding gallantly
on her course, and such was his own attachment to the noble
vessel, that he was prepared to nail his colours to the mast.
(Cheers.) Some were invidious enough to frown upon her,
but she nevertheless proceeded bravely on her course ; she
had been launched six years ago; her sails were filled with
the breath of heaven, and be doubted not all present would
fervently exclaim " God speed her :"
The Rev. Mr. NOLAN, in seconding the resolution, said
that he would not trespass long on the attention of the meet-
ing at that late hour. The resolution expressed an unabated
attachment to the principles and objects of the society.; and
they had much reason to be attached to it. There was no
need of a rival society, for their society had passed the fiery
ordeal, and had come out pure and unscathed by the flames of
opposition. lie passed a high and delicate compliment on the
bishop who was placed over them, and for whose long preser-
vation to them he sought their prayers. So long as they kept
within the pale of the church, so long would the fair portions
remain to the flock, and the refreshing waters of salvation flow
around them. Let them, therefore, pray to God, whose true
church it was; let them strive heart and hand to leaven the
corrupted mass of humanity around them. Every Christian
however humble could forward the object in view, for he
could influence others by his example. They must not,
therefore, give a barren vote on this occasion, but must
speak well of the society wherever they went, and
pray to God for his blessing upon it. He would say a word
with reference to the contributions to the society, and was
reminded of an apt but somewhat quaint saying, first " Make
all you can ;" secondly, " Save all you can ;" (both of which
were good precepts)—and thirdly, " Give all you can,"
which he hoped they would on this occasion. Before he sat
down he begged to allude briefly to what had fallen from
their respected friend, Mr. Pollock, with reference to the
non-attendance of certain of their brethren in the ministry.
lie assured them from that gentleman that on looking round
and seeing what he conceived to be a paucity of attendance
at the meeting of reverend gentlemen, he had made some
remarks, no doubt in the zeal of the moment, but that he did
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-
serves, 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 society, and 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 title parent, and it was a pleasing reflection
that the child hail been enabled to assist the parent in the
hour of need.

Mr. ADAM HODGSON proposed a motion of cordial thanks
from the meeting to their worthy friend the chairman for
his kindness on this an on former occasions, which, he felt
assured, would be met in feeling the most cordial by all who
were present.

The motion was immediately seconded, and carried by

At the suggestion of the chairman the Doxology was sun
and the meeting then separated.

The Duke 6f Sussex has been appointed by her Majesty to
be the Governor of Windsor Castle, in lieu of the late Lord
Munster.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 15.—The royal mail steamer Me-
dina, Captain C. F. Burney, for the West Indies, left here
this day at one p.m., having on board GO passengers.
It is stated that the expenses of the Great Marlow Election
Committee were £lOO per day ; and as the committee coin-
menced its sittings on the 16th March, and did not terminate
till the 11th April, the expenses must have amounted to from
£B,OOO to £lO,OOO.
The Frankfurter Gazette states that the consul-general at
Trieste has officially announced that the corn-trade has been
declared free by the government of the lonian Islands.
Lord Abinger will not be able to take his seat on the bench
this term, through indisposition.

A. man, of the name of Michael Welsh, was examined at
the Marylebone (London) police on Friday, and, from the
evidence, there is little doubt he intended to commit crimes
equal in atrocity to the dreadful tragedy recently perpetrated
in Aldermanbury, that is, to murder his children ; but his
intentions were providentially frustrated by their presence of
mind.

A fatal conflict took place near Waterford on Monday last,
in disposessing a tenant from a farm. The latter, and a large
►party of his associates, resisted the law, and during the pro-
cess of taking forcible possession, the tenant received a wound
from one of the constabulary, and died in a few minutes.

The Duke of Marlborough has been appointed Lord
Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Oxfordshire, in the
room of the late Earl of Macclesfield.
DUKE OF LANCASTER'S YEOMANRY.—The Lancashire
Yeomanry Cavalry will assemble in Lancaster on the 10th of
June, under the immediate command or Lord Francis Eger-
ton.

REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—An eminent jeweller, who at
one time was reported to be worth four hundred thousand
pounds, is now an inmate of the Charter House.

LOVE AND LAW.—The difference between love and law

this—in love the attachment precedes the declaration; in

law the declaration comes before the attachment.
We hear with pleasure that the splendid chapel built for
the Irvingites, on St. Augustine's Back, in this city, is likely
to be purchased and dedicated to the service of the Established
Church.—Bristol Journal.

There is no doubt now that Mr. Hume will be our member.
Mr. Jobson, no doubt, has told us that he is sure of being
returned; but, withont intending any disrespect to him, we
hold to our opinion that Mr. Hume will be the man, and it
is with no small feeling of humiliation we make the admission.
We feel deeply the disgrace that the Montrose Burghs incur
in being the means of again restoring Mr. Hume to a place
in parliament.—Montrose Standard.

EXPOILTATION OF .COALS FROM PRESTON QUAYS.-011
Sunday last, the Albion brig sailed from the port of Preston
with a load of coals, for Stettin.. This is the first vessel
which has been loaded for a foreign port at Preston Quays.
On Monday, the Rambler, also loaded with coals, for Que-
bec, left our port, having been laden at Lytham. These
vessels are both the property of the Messrs. Humber, of
this town.—Preston Chronicle.

THE FRENCH POSTOFFICE AND THE ENGLISH PRESS.--.
The Boulogne tribunal of first instant, has been engaged in
the trial of the Courier, employed by the Morning Chronicle,

Morning Herald, andMor. nin g Past, to transport the late

-, •
intelligence received by the Calcutta mail from Paris to
Boulogne. The Procureur Du Roi took eight days to con-
sider of the sentence.

It is stated that the venerable Earl Grey afforded indiffer-
ent proof of his sympathy with the tactics of her Majesty's
Opposition in Parliament, by the reception he gave the other
day to the presumptuous individuals who solicited his coun-
tenance to the Northumberland County Meeting on the In-
come Tax. The Noble Lord signified his disapproval of the
agitation sought to be created, and intimated that, in the
plight in which the country was left by the late Administra-
tion, the financial measures of Sir Robert Peel were sound,
and had his approbation.

CHARGE OF FORGERY.—At the Cambridge sheriff's court,
on Friday, Mr. W. B. Buller, surgeon, Mary Buller, his
wife, and Edwin Buller, his brother, were charged with having
forged a promissory note for £2OO, purporting to be executed
by the father and mother of the female prisoner. The ma-
gistrates committed the female prisoners, and discharged the
female.

,
On Thursday, a young gentleman, of independent fortune,
of the name of Mr. R. B. L. Burton, aged 18 was thrown
from his horse whilst riding in Hyde-park, and
unfortunately
killed. The deceased was a personal friend of Prince George
of Cambridge.

TROOPS FOR INDIA.—On Friday, the 29th Regiment em-
barked for India, and in a few days the 10th Regiment,
greatly augmented, will also embark for the same place'
An extensive gang of juvenile thieves has been captured at
Warrington, and committed for trial.

••••••
RENFREWSRIRE BANK.—A.. 4 meeting of creditors was
held on Monday, when claims to the amount of £25,000
sterling.were given in.

lieutenant Napoleon's
stepped hat
forward,ore fell
poiffckaedt , arid returned it to
him. Emperor. "In
" Thank you, Captain," said the
what regiment, sire ?" re tor at ruepview, when a young
ted the Sub. quick as lightning,.
Napoleon smiled, passed on, and forthwith had the lucky
youth promoted to the step of his ambition.
NEW MAGISTRATE.—At the general quarter sessions of
the peace, held by adjournment at Preston, on Wednesday,
Esq., of Flaxmoss House,
the 6th instant, William Turner,
magistrate for Lancashile.
near Haslingden, qualified as a
MALTA, Aram s.—William Curving, a seaman of the
Cambridge, after a trial which lasted two days, has been
fa court-martial assembled on hoard
de-
clared, by sentence o
tit and Ist instantguilty
the Impregnable on the 31st t • v of
to the Cambridge, whilst that
the murder of a boy belonging,
vessel was lying at 'Gibraltar, and sentenced to be hung on
board of his ship, which sentence will, it is said, be carried
into execution to morning.
SINGULAR AFFAIR.—A sheriff's court was last week held
which a female named
in Maryport, in servant, Ann Mawson,
sued her late master, Thomas Archer, of Dovenby, for a
balance of wages ; the testimopy was of such a nature as to
puzzle the jury, and they. had to pay the usual penalty
at-
tending a want of decision ; they were locked up, night
came
on, and in this doleful plight were they situate •
orone who candle. About midnight some
had" a heart to
feel for other's woe, " humanely placed
window of the room, and three of thea ladder against the
made their escape. On this circumstance unfortunate jurymen
to the under-sheriff in the m being made known
or
nine, who most gladly availed ning,he released the other
liberty.themselves of the proffered
MARRIAGE OF A POK
who has writtensu PRIEST.—The Genevese tra-
vellerTimes, records the followsoing in a letter dated New York,
take leave to record th e amusing incidents of the day I
Catholic priest was the e fact of a riot at Rochester. A
lead lives of revelry exciting cause. These gentry may
riot in their cow, and debauchery without hazard of a
this rev. congregation, but to commit the crime which
gentleman
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think
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