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INCORPORATED CLERGY ORPHAN SOCIETY.

Poor Orphan Children of Clergymen, Elected August 19, 1824.

Name.

Benefice, &c. of the Father.

Hewlett, Theophilus Peter Norris........C. St. Aldate's, Oxford.

Lowes, William

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Donations, &c. to Clergy Orphan
School, since the last General
Meeting in May.

Henry Moore, Esq. 217.; Richard Berens, Esq. 21.; Bedfordshire Clergy Society, 5.; Bedford Ditto, 5l.; Oxfordshire, Ditto, 317. 10s. ; Anonymous, 100l.; Mrs. Partiss, of Bath, 50l.; Storrington District Committee, 331.; Ditto, Second, 157.; Sir W. W. Pepys, Bart, 100l.

We are happy to be able to report that, in consequence of the circulation of the subjoined account, the sum of 481. has been already remitted to the Treasurers of the Clergy Orphan Society. We trust this bright example will be followed extensively.

Storrington District Committee, in
Aid of the Incorporated Clergy
Orphan Society.

V. Skipsea, York.

.C. of Llandilograban, Radnor.
R. of St. Martin's, Jersey.
Incumbent of Ince, Chester.
V. of Hooton-Pugnal.

dating; and that numerous applications for Admission are, in consequence, unavoidably, and with feelings of deep regret, rejected,

It was unanimously resolved,

That this Meeting considers the above Institution to have a powerful claim to support both from the Clergy and every friend of the Established Church in particular, and from the benevolent in general *.

That a District Committee, to be called Storrington District Committee in aid of the Incorporated Clergy Orphan Society, be now formed.

That the object of the Committee be to make more generally known the character and beneficial effects of the Institution, to recommend it to the patronage of the Society, the contributions of subscribers, public; and to receive and remit to the particularly of those residing in country parishes; thereby obviating much trouble Society, and consequently, to enable the to individuals, and frequent loss to the Society to carry its benevolent design more completely into effect.

That all subscribers of half-a-guinea

Patron-the Right Rev. the Bishop of annually, and benefactors of ten guineas, be

CHICHESTER,

President-The Venerable the Arch

deacon of CHichester,

At a Meeting of the Clergy of the Deanery of Storrington and its Neighbourhood, held this day, July 12, 1824, The Rev. GEORGE WELLS in the Chair,

A Resolution, relative to the Incorporated Clergy Orphan Society, passed at a Meeting of Storrington District Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, held at Worthing on the 29th of June, having been read; and it appearing that the funds of the said Clergy Orphan Society are inadequate to the maintenance of the number of Children, which its School-house is capable of accommo

There are, at present, in the Schoolhouse, (which is situated at St. John's Wood, Mary-le-bone,) 107 orphans; but the house is capable of accommodating 160.

members of the Committee.

That the Parochial Clergy be earnestly requested to make known to their respective parishioners the object of the Society, and to recommend it to their support.

That the Clergy, who act as stewards, and collect contributions for the "Fund for the Relief of Distressed Families of Clergymen within the Archdeaconry of Chichester," be requested to receive contributions from the Clergy of the several parishes within their district, for the Incorporated Clergy Orphan Society, and to pay them over to the Treasurer of this District Committee.

That the Committee hold an Annual Meeting on the day and at the place of the

*The Charity is not of a local nature; but Orphans of Clergy of the Established Church are eligible to admission from any part of the British dominions; and there are now in the School, two orphans of a clergyman late of this Deanery.

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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN
KNOWLEDGE.

Sleaford District Committee Report,
for the year 1823.

President.-The Right Honourable Fre derick-William Earl of Bristol.

Vice-Presidents.-Lord Hervey, Sir Jenison W. Gordon, Bart. the Rev. Rd. Yerburgh, D.D. Benjamin Handley, Esq. Treasurer.-The Rev. Richard Yerburgh, D.D.

Secretary.-The Rev. C. Day, LL.B. The first Annual Meeting of the Sleaford District Committee was holden at the

Justices' Room in Sleaford, on Tuesday,
February 10, 1824.

Sir Jenison W. Gordon, Bart. in the
Chair;

When the following statement of Books distributed gratuitously, or sold at reduced prices by the Committee to or for the use of the Poor, during the year 1823, was read by the Secretary.

Bibles.

Testaments and Psalters.
Common-Prayer Books....
Other Books and Tracts.

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The whole cost of these Books

280

135

281

3459

£. s. d.

Subscribers and the public, because it shews that the liberal contributions in the District have not been bestowed in vain; and it is such as can hardly fail to secure a continuance of that support which has already enabled the Committee to supply the spiritual wants of so many of their poor Brethren. Although much has been done, much still remains to do: The distribution of Books has been hitherto confined chiefly to Sleaford and its immediate neighbourhood; but it is to be expected, that the demands on the resources of the Committee will increase as the advantages offered to the Poor become more generally known. The Committee are persuaded that the design and effect of their Institution require only to be understood, in order to insure the encouragement and assistance of all who are convinced of the importance and blessing of religious knowledge; and they confidently anticipate an extension of its beneficial influence through the general co-operation of the gentlemen and clergy resident in the District.

At the above-mentioned meeting the Rev. John Smith was requested to accept the office of Treasurer, and the Rev. Ch. Day that of Secretary, for the year 1824.

Anniversary of the Bath and Wells
Diocesan Association of the So-
ciety for Promoting Christian
Knowledge.

On Thursday the 15th inst. the Anniversary of the above very valuable Institution took place in the large AssemblyRoom, at the Market-place, in the town of Taunton. The attendance of Clergy and Laity was unusually numerous, comprising a large body of the Diocese. The Bishop of Bath and Wells presided on the occasion, and was accompanied to St. Mary's Church, at 11 o'clock, by the whole of the assembled members and friends of the Society. The Sermon was

to the Society amounted to 199 10 3 preached by the Rev. J. H. Cardew, B.D.

The cost to the District Committee.

123 9 9

The sum returned to the Dis-
trict Committee by the sale
of Books at reduced prices. 90 15 7
It appears therefore that, by means of
the District Committee, Books of which
the original cost was £199, have been dis-
tributed in and about Sleaford to or for
the use of the Poor at a charge, to the pur-
chasers of only £90.

The Committee have much satisfaction in laying the foregoing statement before

The

Rector of Curry Malet, near Taunton, from the text St. Mark, xvi. 15. collection at the Church door amounted to 321. 10s. 6d. After the Right Reverend Chairman had briefly and appropriately opened the Meeting, the Rev. W. B. Whitehead, the Diocesan Secretary, as usual, presented and read the Report of the proceedings during the past year. The accounts given of the Society's present state and progress in this Diocese were, upon the whole, of a very gratifying character. From most of the eight districts, of which this

Diocesan Union is composed, the returns of all kinds answered this favourable description. In particular, a rapid improvement was manifested during the last year by the CrewkerneCommittee, which now promises to diffuse through its extensive district the blessings of the society as effectually as they are diffused through any other portion of the Diocese. The only part of the extent of country embraced by the Associa tion, in which the operation of the Society may be considered to have been hitherto feeble, is the Deanery of Ilchester: and the Report, we are rejoiced to add, announced the prospect of such an effectual movement among the friends of the Society in that district also as will place it there at length upon a permanent footing of beneficial prosperity. The returns of the Bath Archdeaconry, however, displayed the most extensive activity in the great cause of moral and religious im provement, whilst those from the Frome, Taunton and Dunster districts, were secon dary only in a trifling degree. The num ber of Books and Tracts circulated by the Association during the year appeared as follows, viz. Bibles, 1354; New Testaments, 1933; Common Prayer Books, 5065; Psalters, 563; other bound books, half-bound ditto, and tracts 30,601. The number of children of the poor, announced as having been reported from the different districts, under education within the limits of the Diocese, amounted to 20,500.The Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and the High Sheriff of Somerset, moved and seconded the reception of the Diocesan Report. The other principal speakers were Sir Thos. Acland, bart. M.P. the Rev. E. W. Grinfield, (who impressively recommended to the Meeting the plan of the Bath Book Depository in Kingston-Buildings, by means of which the Society is so admirably brought into contact with the public, and the diffusion of its books promoted in a degree utterly beyond the power of private distribution), the Rev. T.S. Escott, the Rev. the Diocesan Secretary, Sir Tho. B. Lethbridge, bart. M.P. the Rev. C. M. Mount, the Rev. H. Marriott, and the Rev. John Clarke.-A vote of cordial thanks was passed to those clergymen who are in the habit of attending punctually to the annual school circulars sent round the respective districts, accompanied by a hope that every parochial deficiency now apparent in the general report may, ere long, be regularly completed.-A commencement was made in the very desirable system of reporting from time to time the state of Parochial Libraries established in REMEMBRANCER, No. 69.

the districts. A regular return appeared under this head, from Nether Stowey, near Bridgewater, signed by the Rev. Mr. Allen, the Minister of the parish. The Local Funds of the respective Committees were announced as prosperous, amounting to between 4 and 500l. per ann. whilst the Diocesan Fund, established to support the Association in its corporate capacity, amounted to the sum of 3287, stock in the New 4 per cent. National Securities. An additional investment also in the same stock is soon to take place, aided by a legacy of 201. bequeathed by that zealons friend of the Association, the late Rev. T. A. Salmon, of Wells.

After the conclusion of the regular business of the day, a Diocesan Association of "the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," was established, and the Rev. C. M. Mount, Minister of Christ-Church, Bath, was appointed Secretary.

A large and highly respectable company, amounting to between sixty and seventy, met their Lordships, the Bishop of the Diocese, and the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, at dinner, at the Castle Inn. Among the laity present were Sir T. B. Lethbridge, bart. M.P. Sir T. Acland, bart. M.P. the High Sheriff of Somerset, William Hanning, P. P. Palmer Acland, Webb Stone, W. Oliver, Wm. Speke, H. Leigh, — Fox, esqrs. &c. &c.; and among the clergy, the Archdeacons of Taunton, Bath, and Richmond, the Rev. R. Frankland, (canon residentiary,) Rev. J. Williams, Procter Thomas, and H. Barnard, (prebendaries of Wells) the Rev. Drs. Colston and Palmer, the Rev. Messrs. Escott, Marriott, Brymer, Bower, Formby, Stephenson, Scott, Biddulph, sen. (of Bristol), Mules, Newman, Phelps, Dawes, Spragg, and Clarke.

Collection at Poona for the Bombay District Committee.

We have pleasure in mentioning to the credit of the two regiments of Europeans now at Poona, (H. M. 47th and 67 th,) that since the opening of the Church at that place, when a collection was made for the benefit of the Bombay District Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, they have, of their own accord, made a contribution amounting to 95 rupees, and transmitted it to the Rev. T. Robinson, the chaplain at the station, for the purpose of being added to that collection. It is highly gratifying to the friends of this venerable Institution, to

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perceive, that those by whom its exertions are, in this country, chiefly occupied, give such satisfactory proof of the sense they entertain of the benefit they derive from it.-Bombay Gazette, March 3, 1824.

Account of the Ceremony of laying the Foundation-stone of a new Church in the East Indies.

On Monday last, the 1st of March, the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the New Church at Tannah, was performed by the Venerable the Archdeacon, in the presence of the whole of the Society resident in the place. A eight o'clock in the morning, the gentlemen proceeded from the Adawlut to the spot chosen for the site, when, after appropriate prayers had been offered up by the Rev. D. Young, Chaplain of the station, the Archdeacon deposited, in a cavity in the stone, a bottle, containing several British and Indian coins, together with a brass plate, on which was engraven the following inscription.

Individuæ et Benedictæ Trinitati Gloria. Ecclesiæ in Tanna Anglicanæ, Jacta sunt fundamenta,

Die Martii Primo

Anno Salutis MDCCCXXIV. Georgii iv. Britanniarum Regis Quinto. Viro Honorabili Mounstuart Elphinstone, Rebus Bombaicis Feliciter Proposito.

Patre in Christo Admodum Reverendo
Reginaldo Heber, S. T. P.
Secundo Sedis Calcuttensis Episcopo.
Adjuvantibus

Viro Venerabili
Georgio Barnes, S. T. P.
Primo Bombaiæ Archidiacono

et

David Younge, A.M. Ecclesiæ apud. Tannam Ministro, Cui Operi Pio Munifico Curante suo, Gulielmo Tate, Centurione Sumptus Suppeditabat Societas Illa Anglicorum Honore Digna, Apud Indos quæ Facit Mercaturam Quod Feliciter Vertat Sui Gloriæ

Hominumque Saluti

D. O. M.

Precibus Christianorum in Tanna
Hodie Nuncupatis
Benigne concedat,
Amen.

This inscription having been read, and the plate deposited, a stone was lowered down, and guided upon the one containing the cavity, by the principal gentlemen of the place, while a royal salute was fired

from the fort. A blessing was then pronounced by the Archdeacon, after which the party present returned to the Adawlut, where they partook of an elegant breakfast given by E. H. Baillie, Esq.

The plan of this Church, designed by Lieutenant W. A. Tate, is very generally admired; and the situation on the Esplanade in front of the burial ground, such as will make it a great additional ornament to a place, which is celebrated for possessing many natural advantages.

We cannot help remarking, that this event presents a subject of congratulation highly interesting, whether we regard the credit of the government by which it is undertaken, the advantages of the people for whom particularly it is designed, or the honour and ultimate increase of Christianity in this country. The zeal with which the work is commenced, gives a promise of rapid progress, no less creditable to the activity of the engineer, than the elegance of the design is to his taste and profes sional talents. Bombay Gazette, Marck 3, 1824.

Farewell Dinner to the Bishop of Barbados.

ON Tuesday, the 27th of July, a farewell dinner was given to the Bishop of Barbados and the Leeward Islands, at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, by the principal members of the congregation attending the National Society's Chapel, in Ely-place. In the course of the evening his Lordship was presented with a very handsome piece of plate, in testimony of the respect entertained for him by his late flock, and of their gratitude for the benefit derived from his instructions while Preacher of the National Society's Chapel.

Fourth Report of His Majesty's Commissioners appointed by virtue of an Act of Parliament, passed in the fifty-eighth year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, c. 45, intituled, "An Act for building and promoting the building of

1824.]

Monthly Register.

additional Churches in populous Parishes."

563

of Middlesex; Chorley, in the county of Lancaster; Farnworth, in the parish of Dean, in the county of Lancaster; DewsSINCE His Majesty's Commissioners made bury Moor, and Hanging Heaton, in the their last Report, ELEVEN churches and parish of Dewsbury, and county of York; chapels have been completed, at Erding- Belper, in the parish of Duffield, and ton, in the parish of Aston and county of county of Derby; Gateshead, in the counWarwick; in the parish of Saint Augusty of Durham; Greenwich, in the county tine, in the city of Bristol; Camberwell, of Kent; at Pimlico, and in Regent-street, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, in the county of Surrey; Pudsey, in the and county of Middlesex; Kidderminster, parish of Calverley and county of York; in the county of Worcester; Norwood, Hackney, in the county of Middlesex; Hoghton, in the parish of Leyland in the Brixton, Kennington, and in the Waterloo county of Lancaster; in Wyndham-place, Road, in the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, and county of Surrey; Quarry Hill, Woodin the parish of Saint Mary-le-bone and county of Middlesex; Nuneaton, in the house, and in Meadow-lane, in the parish of Leeds, and county of York; Leicester, county of Warwick; in King-square, in in the county of Leicester; Tyldesley, in the parish of Saint Luke, Old-street, and the parish of Leigh, and county of Lancascounty of Middlesex; Workington, in the county of Cumberland; and at Stanley, in ter; Camp Field, and Salford, in the the parish of Wakefield and county of parish of Manchester, and county of LanYork. These churches and chapels afford caster; Langham-place, and Staffordaccommodation for six thousand five hun- street, in the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, dred and eight persons in pews, and for and county of Middlesex; Beckford-place, eight thousand six hundred and twenty- and in Great Suffolk-street, in the parish seven poor persons in free seats; that eight of St. Mary Newington, and county of of these churches and chapels have been Surrey; Stand, in the parish of Prestwich cum Oldham, in the county of Lancaster; consecrated, and divine service is regularly performed therein, and the remainder Regent-square, and Somers-town, in the will be consecrated within a few weeks, parish of St. Pancras, and county of Middlesex; Fylde Road, and in the Parks, in That in the whole, twenty-six churches and chapels have been completed, which, the parish of Preston, in the county of according to the allowance of twenty in Lancaster; Attercliffe, in Broad Lane, and near the Infirmary, in the parish of Shefches for each person, the scale assumed by His Majesty's Commissioners, will afford field, and county of York; West Bromaccommodation for thirteen thousand six wich, in the county of Stafford; in the Hoxton division of the parish of St. Leohundred and twenty-four persons in pews, nard Shoreditch, in the county of Middleand for twenty-three thousand and twenty sex; Stockport, in the county of Chester; and at Alverthorpe, in the parish of Wakesix poor persons in free seats, making a field, and county of York; that according total provision for thirty-six thousand six to the returns made by the Architects, hundred and fifty persons; but as the assumed scale is greater than is actually retwenty-four of these churches and chapels quired for each person, the accommodaHis Majesty's Commistion will in fact extend to a much greater will be completed in the course of the number; and it is particularly gratifying present year. under consideration, for eighteen to His Majesty's Commissioners to be sioners have also received Plans, which enabled to add, that, from the information which they have received from the places churches and chapels, to be built at the of St. Philip, Birmingham, in the county where new churches and chapels have been following places; Dale End, in the parish erected, that the sittings in pews are aud Over Darwen, in the parish of Blackmostly engaged, and that the free seats in of Warwick; Lower Darwen, Mellor, general are fully occupied. burn, and county of Lancaster; Bishop Wearmouth, in the county of Durham ; Earls Heaton, in the parish of Dewsbury, Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlesex ; and county of York; Netherton, in the parish of Dudley, and county of Worcester; in North Audley-street, in the parish of St.George, Hanover-square, and county of Middlesex; Liverpool, in the county 4 D 2 of Lancaster; Hulme, and in Travis

His Majesty's Commissioners have further to report, That Forty-four churches and chapels are building at the following places:-Ashton-under-Lyne, in the county of Lancaster; Bermondsey, in the county of Surrey; Bolton, in the county of Lancaster; Shipley and Wilsden, in the parish of Bradford, and county of York; Brixham, in the county of Devon; in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in the county

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