SUPPOSED SCALE. 300 and under 500, the Benefice to be raised to £150 per annum. 500 and under 2,000,

ditto ditto 200 ditto 2000 and under 5,000, ditto ditto 300 ditto 5000 and upwards,

ditto ditto 400 ditto

2000 and under 5000 Population, 5000 Population and upwards,

raise to £300 per annum. raise to £400 per annum.

Total.

In Private In Public
Patronage. Patronage.

Total.

In Private In Public
Patronage. Patronage.

No. Sum. No. Sum. No. Sum. No. Sum. No. Sum. No. Sum.

497 68,550 211 30,189 286 38,361 244 44,160 97 17,378 147 26,782 2971 276,641 1438 131,446 1533 145,195

...

SUMMARY of the foregoing Table, as far as it applies to PUBLIC PATRONAGE.
Population.

Augment to. Number. Sums required.
300 and under 500

£150

280

£17,210
500
2000

No. 3.-NUMBER of BenEFICES in each DIOCESE below the annual value of

£150, with a population of 500 and upwards ; distinguishing in how many of these the population amounts to 2000, 5000, and 10,000 respectively.

Total number, 3528.

EXETER
GLOUCESTER
HEREFORD
LICHFIELD & COVENTRY
LINCOLN
LLANDAFF
LONDON
NORWICH
OXFORD
PETERBOROUGH
ROCHESTER
SALISBURY
WINCHESTER
WORCESTER
YORK -

Total with a population of 500 and upwards, and under £150 per annum, 1440.

No. 4. TABULAR ABSTRACT of the CORPORATE REVENUES of the principal CATHEDRAL and COLLEGIATE CHURCHES on the OLD

Foundation, on an Average of Seven Years, ending with 1834; and the Disposition of those Revenues, first, in defraying the general Expenses of the Establishment, and, secondly, in Payments to, and Dividends among, the Members of the Chapter.

Surplus paid to

and Stipends

Total Expenses

divided among

Of
Fabric.

the Members
and
Total Receipts.

Establishment.

of the Salaries,

Chapter.

Grammar
School.

1}132

£ d. £ s. d.

£ si d.

£ si d.
not
SYORK
2307 12

+
I

2307 12 1
specified
LONDON,

No Grammar
9490 8 11 37 1005 12 0 314 19 3

1320 11

3 8169 17 8 (St. Paul's.)

School. CHICHESTER 4611 12 9 26 665 15 2 806 2 10

1471 18 0 3139 14 9 EXETER. 9839 4 5 38 1049 0 0 1013 5 8

tt

2062 5 8 7776 18 9 HEREFORD

4238 14 4 42 376 16 3 289 14 1 £48 50 714 15 4 3523 19 0 LICHFIELD

1673 4 0 30 330 0 0

tt

330 0 0 1943 4 0 LINCOLN

879 17 1

$

20 0 0 899 17 1 5771 2 2 SALISBURY

253 14 9 586 16 5 151 1 0 991 12 2 3560 18 6 WELLS.. 6431 6 10 33 368 11 0 852 17 2 40 00 1261 8 2 5169 18 8

No Grammar WINDSOR 16,684 7 2 38 1577 16 7 375 11 11

School attached.

} 1953 8 6 14,730 18 8 ST. ASAPH 2574 14 1 26 478 90 643 4 7

tt 1121 13 7 1453 0 6 BANGOR No Revenues or Establishment as a Corporate Body.

202' 14 8 ST. DAVID'S 1361 11 8 30 182 4 8

20 10 0 II

1158 17 0

No Grammar
LLANDAFF

965 17 10
157 17 10 84 15 5 5 { ]} 242 13 S 723 4 7

School.
* The servants of the cathedral are paid entirely by fees.

+ The fabric has estates which support it in ordinary times.
# The fabric is supported by the proceeds of an estate vested in the Dean and Chapter for that purpose, under an Act of the 37th Geo. III. ; and the
sum expended thereon, on an average of seven years, was £831 9s. 8d.

$ The fabric is supported by estates of its own, under the control of the Dean and Chapter. The average expenditure, during the last seven years, was £1483 10s. 8d.

|| Return states that it cannot be ascertained. ( The school is supported by separate estates, granted for that purpose.

** The school is annexed to the Prebend of Highley. #t No grammar school attached to the cathedral.

No. 5.

COVENTRY RELIGIOUS AND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY.

SIR, -Allow me, through the medium of your valuable journal, to direct the attention of the public to the origin and formation of an institution lately established in this city, having for its object the providing for the workingclasses the means of obtaining all necessary and useful knowledge upon religious principles.

This Society originated with the teachers of the Sunday school in Trinity parish. In that school there are twelve hundred children, and it is conducted, under the direction of the clergy of the parish, chiefly by persons who volunteer their services, having been themselves educated in the school. Of these there are between fifty and sixty in number, who are anxious for their own improvement, but found that the only Society open to them was the Mechanics' Institute, where they stood a chance of having those principles in which they had been educated undermined by their associates, while they could not obtain the religious works of which they stood in need in order to defend the church from the attacks constantly made upon it by persons in their own line of life. They accordingly waited on the Rev. W. F. Hook, the vicar, and proposed to him the adoption of some such plan as that upon which this Society is conducted. He immediately acceded to the proposition, obtained the Bishop's sanction, and the support of the neighbouring clergy.

Such was the origin of this Institution, and it may be considered as the result of the inculcation of those sound church principles which the clergy in this city uniformly preach.

The Bishop is of course President of the Society, and the Archdeacon of Coventry its Vice-President; among its members and friends are several noblemen, and nearly all the clergy in and near the city.

With respect to the objects of the Society, they cannot be more ably shewn than by transcribing the address at the head of the catalogue :—“The object of this Institution is to afford to its members the means of obtaining all useful knowledge, by establishing a library by organizing classes for mutual instruction, and by procuring the delivery of occasional lectures on those branches of science which require the exhibition of experiments for their illustration.

To the studious and industrious an opportunity will thus be provided of raising themselves to a respectable station in society, while society itself may be improved by their exertions. But since man is an immortal being, to whom religious knowledge is of paramount importance,—and since the same authority which commands us not to be slothful in business, enjoins us to be ready alwags to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and reverence, -while no species of knowledge calculated to benefit its members will be neglected,-instruction in the faith and discipline of the Christian church is recognised as a primary object.

To assist in this desirable work, the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have presented this Institution with books from the Society's catalogue to the amount of 25l. which is considered the basis of a library, to which the committee add, from time to time, such works as they consider most conducive to the ends for which this Institution has been formed.

Thus, while no species of knowledge calculated to benefit its members will be neglected, the most useful of all knowledge, “religious knowledge," is the grand distinguishing feature of this Society, to imbue the mind with that wisdom from above, the highest and holiest, adapted to all states, and attainable by all capacities, endeavouring not less to induce habits of social feeling, of order, of loyalty, and unobtrusive industry, to which valuable qualifications, it must be admitted, this age does by no means seriously incline us. While, therefore, our library is well stored with theological works, and those of the best character, and the reading of them recommended to our members, still they are only recommended, and it remains with them to choose between such works and others purely literary and scientific. The reading-room is well

VOL. IX.-May, 1836.