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Year , Income . £ . 8 . d * Brought forward 213 , 813 3 3 Baptist 1826-7 .... 12 , 304 10 10 Baptist ( General ) 1826-7 .... 1 , 62113 0 Church 1826-7 .... 45 , 950 1 3 French Protestant 1826-7 958 7 9 Gospel Propagation ...... 1826 .... 25 , 218 0 0 London » ,. 1826-7 ... 34 , 603 10 0 Scottish ... 1826-7 .... 4 , 455 1 4 United Brethren .. » ..,...,...., 1825 .... 10 , 20011 3 Wesleyan ... 1826 .... 45 , 382 17 2 TRACT AND BOOK .
American Tract .......... „ 1826-7 .... 6 , 335 12 6 Church of England Tract 1826-7 .... 365 14 2 French and Spanish Translation 1826-7 • • • 539 4 8 French Protestant 1826-7 .... 480 7 6 Irish Tract and Book . 1826-7 .... 3 , 346 10 0 Prayer Book and Homily 1826-7 .... 1 , 827 9 10 Religious Tract 1826-7 .... 15 , 002 0 5 British and Irish Ladies * 1825-6 .... 1 , 253 8 5 Christian Knowledge 1826-7 .... 65 , 439 0 11 Continental 1826-7 .... 1 , 876 6 11 Hibernian ( London ) 1826-7 .... 7 , 462 14 6 Irish Society of Dublin 1825-6 .... 1 , 472 13 7 Irish Society of London 1826-7 .... 760 7 6 Language Institution 1826-7 ... » 608 5 6 Port of London Seamen ' s 1826-7 .... 895 3 5 Total .. £ 502 , 072 15 8
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architecture , which were sometimes cultivated in Italy , and were admirable . The expense of the building was unimportant to those who received immense sums of money which they had but few otheT means of employing ; the work gave occupation to artists and the peasantry . It was equivalent to the manufacturing occupation of later days , and at once made
the brotherhood popular , serviceable to the district , comfortable and stately in their dwellings , and secure in the possession of a property which could not be taken from them by the common predatory habits of the time . They produced noble buildings ; and however it is to be regretted that the enormous sums laid out on them were not better employed , in the popular education , in the
propagation of science , or in works of humanity and charity , yet here we have them , and it wduld be culpable to let them go to decay . But the idea of building new Cathedrals is totally absurd , extravagant , and useless . The modern expense of building a single Cathedral on the old scale—and to build it on any other must be beggarly—would actually erect fifty tolerable churches , which are as much wanting in the northern parts of the dio *
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Intelligences—Liverpool Cathedral . 20 &
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Liverpool Cathedral * A singular proposition has , it is said , been lately made by the Corporation of Liverpool , to shew their zeal for the church by erecting a Cathedraly if it can be made the head of a new Bishopric , to be carved out of the diocese of Chester . One formidable objection arises from the poverty of that diocese even in its present extent . It is rather curious to see what a staunch Scotch Tory says on this subject , —a man who in England would see nothing but national honour and stability in honours conferred on the church .
We quote trom Blackwood : " To build a Cathedral would be to embark in a tremendous expense , for no useful object under the sun . Cathedrals were the natural . growth of the monkish system . When rival abbots laboured to attract popular favour to their pious fooleries , by exciting popular wonder , the Cathedral , too , was the scene of rival ambition . Nothing could better shew off the idolatrous tricks or the pompous train of this early prelacy . The Cathedral , besides , gave the chief employment that men of monkish seclusion could And for the exercise of t >? ¥ tas » te » in .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/61/
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