Name. Bagge, J.. Balfour, J.. Belany, R. .......... Patron. Val. Pop. 453 97 140 700 156 727 Alder, W............. White Notley, v.......... London..... Bp. of London............ £195 Beauchamp, W. H. Langley, P.C.............. Daubeny, H. J..... Potter, C. H........ Richardson, E..... ...... 192 1623 Durham.... Archd.of Northumberld. 111 Talk-o'-th'-Hill, P.C. ... Lichfield.... Vicar of Audley.......... 215 1196 St. John, Redhill, P.c... Winchester Trinity Ch., Louth...... Louth........ Trustees. Symonds, T. M.... Bicester, v........ Turner, A........... Whitchurch, v............ Lincoln...... Lord Chancellor Boyer, J. W. R., Rector of Swepstone and Fussell, H. D., at Glastonbury. Greenwood, R., Vicar of Colaton Raleigh. Harrison, H., B.D., Rector of Pontesbury, and Hore, W., Vicar of Ferns. Mandell, W., B.D, Senior Fellow of Queen's Middleton, S., B.D., of Douglas Lodge, Cheltenh. Orme, R., Rector of Essendon. Probyn, J., Dean and Archdeacon of Llandaff. Stephens, D. E., Cur. of Trin. Ch., St. Giles's. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. INCORPORATED SOCIETY, FOR PROMOTING THE ENLARGEMENT, BUILDING, AND REPAIRING OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. THIS Society resumed their sittings for the season on Monday, Oct. 23, when the Lord Bishop of Norwich took the chair at a meeting held at the Society's Chambers, 4, St. Martin's Place. Grants were then voted towards building a church at Cowhill, in the parish of Oldham, Lancashire; building a church in the parish of St. Andrew, Plymouth; building a church at Broad Town, in the parishes of Broad Hinton and Cliffe Pypard, Wilts; building a chapel at Ingleton, in the parish of Staindrop, Durham; building a church at Milton next Gravesend, Kent; rebuilding a chapel at Penrhos, Montgomeryshire; enlarging, by rebuilding, the church at Dawley, Salop; enlarging, by rebuilding the nave, of the church at Holcombe Burnell, Devon; repewing the church at Holwell, Beds; enlarging the church at Codford St. Mary, Wilts; enlarging, by rebuilding the nave, of the church at Winterborne Whitchurch, Dorset; increasing the accommodation in the church at Llandyfreog, Cardiganshire; increasing the accommodation in the church at Hinxton, Cambridgeshire; enlarging the church at Woodham Mortimer, Essex; building a church at Eccleshill, in the parish of Bradford, Yorkshire; and rebuilding the chapel at Ellerker, Yorkshire. The population of these parishes and districts is 108,508 persons, for whose accommodation twenty churches and chapels are now provided, containing 13,873 seats, and including free sittings for 4,666 persons. With the Society's aid, seven new churches will be erected in populous districts, by which means, together with the alterations contemplated in the existing places of worship, 4,527 additional sittings will be provided,3,113 of which will be free. The population of one of the parishes assisted, is upwards of 60,000, with church-accommodation for less than onetenth; another has a population of nearly 24,000 persons, with accommodation for less than one-fifth; one with 9,300 souls, can only accommodate one person in twenty-three; and another, with a population of 8,700 persons, has churchroom for about one-eighth of that number. Certificates of the completion of the works in twenty-two parishes were examined and approved, and the Board issued orders to the Treasurer for the payment of the grant awarded in each case. Previously to the execution of these works, which included the erection of eleven new churches and chapels, and the rebuilding of four existing churches, the provision of church-room for a population of 119,934 persons was, 25,210 sittings, 8,497 of which were free. One of these parishes, with a population of 56,000 persons, had churchaccommodation for about one-fourth; another, with 17,500 persons, had accommodation for less than onee-fourth; another, with upwards of 10,000 persons, possessed church-room for one-tenth; one with nearly 8,000 persons, has accommodation for one-eighth; three parishes, each with a population of upwards of 3,000 persons, could only accommodate 462, 450, and 288 persons respectively; and one township, with a population of 4,000 souls, in a parish containing 13,500 persons, had neither church nor chapel. To the very insufficient accommodation provided in the places which have now claimed the payment of the grants voted by the Society, 6,939 sittings are added, 5,304 of which are free and unappropriated. TO CORRESPONDENTS. If "Wintoniensis" be "but of yesterday in his Theology," he ought, of all people in the world, to be the most careful in conferring nicknames, such as Rationalist, and the like, on his brethren. We can quite understand the impression that has been made on him by his first glance at the writings of the distinguished person to whom his letter refers; it is by no means an unnatural one; nevertheless, we beg to remind him that an author, marked by far more than ordinary originality and depth, is not to be judged at a first glance, and we feel bound to recommend to him a studious perusal of the principal works of the one in question. He will find nothing in them to unsettle his faith, but the very reverse. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. DECEMBER, 1843. Australia: its History and Present Condition, containing an Account both of the Bush and of the Colonies, with their respective Inhabitants. By the Rev. W. PRIDDEN, M.A. Vicar of Broxted, Essex. London: Burns. 1843. Colonization Circular, issued by Her Majesty's Colonial Land and Speech of his Excellency Sir George Gipps, in Council, on Friday, 9th of September, 1842, on the Resolutions proposed by the Colonial Secretary in Approval of the Report of the Committee on Immigration. Sydney: D. Welch. 1842. Report of Immigration Committee for 1841. Sydney. 1842. Fraser's Magazine, October, 1843. Art. "New South WalesColonial Immigration-The Bounty System and its Frauds." General Report of the Land and Emigration Commissioners. November, 1843. London: Knight and Co. THE appearance of Mr. Pridden's careful compilations from the many books of travels and various parliamentary papers in which the rise and progress of our Australian Colonies is delineated, enables us to open up the subject of Emigration, especially as connected with those settlements, and to bring down the information on the subject to a much later date than it was in Mr. Pridden's power to effect. And we do this the more readily in a periodical which chiefly circulates among the clergy, from the certain knowledge that they, by their advice and encouragement, can do far more than Poor-law or Emigration Commissioners, to overcome the opposition to Emigration so prevalent among our poorer classes, and to set in a right and proper view, without concealment or exaggeration, the real case of the NO. XXXVI.-N. S. 4 F effects of Emigration, on the Colonies, the Emigrant, and the Mothercountry. Had Mr. Malthus been correct in his theory of population, by this time the people of this country must have been making their daily meals on one another, not indeed metaphorically, but physically. Still it is evident that there was a truth in the professor's theory. In such a country as our own, production and employment cannot keep pace with population. There is a far narrower limit to the increase of production, and to the demand for labour, than to the progress of population. The experience of every one amongst us, whether in professions or in trade, compels us to admit that the cry is not for workmen, but for employment, and that with all our new methods of increasing supply and fostering demand, we are carrying on a constant struggle, one with another, for the bread we live upon. This want of employment is the source of all our political troubles-the prepared tinder which requires but the spark of the agitator to kindle it into flame. Give all the weight you can to political chicanery, to local or even political grievances, and you would fail in exciting the lower classes, did not want of employment and of food predispose them to discontent and violence. And this want of employment is not confined to manufacturing, or what are admitted to be over-peopled districts; it is all but universal. It was but a month since, that we were present at the Quarter Sessions of a purely agricultural county. The harvest had been abundant, the demand for workmen less restricted than in previous years, through the absence of the Irish reapers; and yet, with all these advantages, the calendar of prisoners was double what it usually is at that time of year, and was confined almost entirely to offences against property, where all that the prisoner could say in his defence was, "I had no work, and I am starving." For this state of things—a state daily and hourly increasing in distress-some remedy must be found; some remedy other than either poor-law relief, christian education, or judicial punishment. Parochial charity is a great, but a dangerous, remedy; let us do everything we can before we convert the free labourer into a pauper. Education-christian education--is a great boon; but it is ill talking to a starving man. It is very easy for us, with little to want for; with many a comfort, with many a luxury; to say to the poor man, "Thou shalt not steal;" but when cold poverty sits by the colder hearth; and hunger, with all its pangs and all its temptations, is the poor man's constant companion: oh! then, temptation assumes its most alluring form; and the poor man measures the enormity of his crime by the intensity of his distress. As for judicial punishment, what is it but a necessary evil? We must endeavour to provide employment for those who will work. Seeing, then, that within our own shores we cannot reasonably hope to provide for the due employment of our rapidly-increasing population, we must assist them in seeking, in other climes, that sustenance which we cannot afford them here. You must assist them by every means in your power, in seeking employment in other lands. At the same time, bear in mind the benefits that must result to you who are left behind, and so regulate your assistance as to induce the emigrant to seek that country whence the greatest benefit is likely to accrue to you in return. Encourage colonial, rather than foreign emigration. The labour, the capital, the skill, which you export in the form of emigrants, returns to the mother-country in the form of increased demand for her productions; and the labourer who, had he remained a poor man here, would, in all probability, have been a continued expense to the country, when removed to the colony becomes a contributor, by his consumption of British production, to the wealth of his old country. But, to ensure this result, the emigrant must be an industrious and good workman, not the refuse of society, too often regarded by people as the fit objects for emigration. "The majority,' says a late writer on Colonial Emigration, who cry out for emigration as a panacea for our present distressed population, are too apt to regard it as a means for purifying the mother-country, and not as the best method for extending the demand for her produce, and thereby relieving her labouring classes, by establishing in more advantageous climes an industrious people, linked to us by the closest ties, who may raise what we require and take from us more produce, on the supplying of which so much of our prosperity depends. Doubtless, it is a great temporary benefit to relieve a particular district from the presence of the idle and the wicked. But it is a permanent good to create a demand for that produce, on the production of which the industrious live, whilst you permanently injure yourself, by preventing your colony, in consequence of the refuse population poured into it,. from ever compensating you for the capital expended in thus removing, by wholesale, your dangerous classes. It is equally injurious to the colony, through the mother-country, to drain the latter of all her industrious population, as it would be to the mother-country, through the colony, to export from the former none but the idle and wicked portion of her population. An emigration of labourers without capitalists to employ them, is equally fruitless as an emigration of capitalists without labourers to turn their capital to profit.'" Since the year 1825, we have poured above a million of people into the United States, our American colonies, and those of Australia. Above sixty thousand, on an average, have annually emigrated from our country. Of these emigrants, a million have gone to America, for, until the establishment of the Bounty system in New South Wales, the emigrants to that colony were comparatively few. The consequence of this has been, that Canada and New Brunswick, though neither of them as yet suffering from a redundant population, are still fully peopled, and wages and employment commensurate with the abundant supply they have received in the last eighteen years. There is still just sufficient demand for good workmen, to induce a (comparatively speaking) small body of superior workmen to emigrate, but by no means that demand for average labourers that would Within the last year, the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, with the very proper view of meeting the increasing demand for information respecting the British Colonies, and general emigration to them, as well as for the purpose of furnishing information that can be depended on, and is not got up to favour this or |