Carlisle Patriot 18 May 1844 University and Ecclesiastical Intelligence (3)

University and Ecclesiastical Intelligence (3)

Carlisle Patriot - 18 May 1844

UNIVERSITY AND ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. (cont.) LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. - The 49th annual meeting of this society took place on the 7th instant at Exeter Hall. With the exception of the Sunday School Union, this was by far the most numerously attended meeting of the season. The chair was occupied by Mr. W. EVANS, M.P. The total receipts for the year amounted to £63,523, the expenditure to £81,812 shewing an excess of disbursements over income, of £4,625, but as the expenditure had been reduced to the extent of £5,127 and there being an increase of subscriptions over those of the year 1843 to the extent of £4,328 the committee entertained no doubt that the deficiency would be made good. CONSECRATION OF CHURCHES. - A recent parliamentary paper states that during the three years, 1840-1843, there were consecrated in England and Wales, 128 churches (one of which was not charged for), at an expense £2,534 6s. 2d.; seventy-four churches, with burial ground attached (one of which was not charged for), at an expense of £1,9041 5s. 8d.; fifty-two chapels (three of which were not charged for), £1,124 11s. 1d.; fifty-nine chapels, with burial grounds attached (two of which were not charged for), £1,532 19s. 9d.; one hundred and ten burial grounds and additional burial grounds, (three of which were not charged for), £2171; and nine cemeteries £266 4s. 3d - making a total of 432 consecrations, and a total payment of £9,533 6s. 11d. YORK MINSTER. - The improvement in this Cathedral, rendered necessary by the last fire, are approaching to completion. Workmen have commenced taking down the wall which separated the nave from the transept, and in a short time the public will have an opportunity of seeing the interior of the minster in a complete state of repair. The extensive alterations making in the Lady Chapel are also nearly concluded.

 

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