Grants of Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Queen Anne's Bounty.— In compiling these tables the Committee has felt their great importance, and the interest that must attach to them, as showing to how large an extent these grants are continually drawing out the self-sacrifice and liberality of those who are anxious to widen the work of the Church, and to give it greater permanency. The statistical results as here given have never been presented in a similar form before, and their compilation has involved a most laborious and minute manipulation of the Official Reports. In order to arrive at these figures the annual reports presented to the House of Lords have been most carefully examined, and the number and amounts of the grants and private benefactions have been taken out and summarised. It will be further observed that the form into which these gathered results have been thrown exhibits for every individual Diocese for each year, and throughout the whole period, what sum has been granted, and the corresponding amount of private benefaction which the grants have induced. The table is also comprehensive of these results for the Dioceses collectively for each year, and for the whole period. Grants from Diocesan Funds and Church Building Societies.-By reference to the Secretaries of the several organisations the Committee has been able to give a statistical return of the grants made out of their funds towards Church Building, Parsonage Houses, and Clerical and Lay Agency. It must be remembered that these grants are made in every case the channel for securing for the welfare of the Church an extent of contribution considerably in excess of the amount which they represent in any particular case. For this reason the table is valuable in the place it occupies here. New Parishes.-These returns practically represent the details of active Church extension for a period of twelve years, and are taken from an Official Return made to the House of Commons at the instance of Sir John Mowbray. They represent the number of new parishes constituted under the various Church Building Acts. The Parliamentary return has been carefully gone through, and for each Diocese a total has been arrived at showing the number of new parishes formed under the before-mentioned Acts, together with the population which they serve, and the amount of additional church accommodation secured. Five Years' Statement of the Income of the Principal Church Societies. This financial statement has been prepared by direct reference to each Society; a form having been issued defining the basis on which the return should be made. Instructions were given that any balances brought forward from preceding years should not be included in the return of annual income, and in each case a request was made that legacies and donations of any large amount should be separately shown in order to distinguish between annual and accidental support. In the first instance the sum of 5001. was fixed as the minimum income which should be recorded, and this. has been as nearly as possible kept to in the first issue of this book. ORDINATIONS OF DEACONS. TEN YEARS' TABULAR STATEMENT FOR THE PROVINCES OF CANTERBURY AND YORK. 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 Total Oxford Cam- Dublin Durham Other Lite- Total 2224 18 15 21 4 17 25 10 20 35 12 Bangor 020814 89 300 60 73 444 85 294 55 59 390 12 12 11 8 102 17 32 7 7 28 11 102 582 634 667 610 632 701 665 677 679 713 6,560 1,880 2,029 270 283 1,677 421 6,560 CONFIRMATIONS. TEN YEARS' TABULAR STATEMENT SHOWING THE NUMBER OF CENTRES, AND MALE AND FEMALE CANDIDATES. Bishop held his first Confirmation in reconstructed Diocese on October 29, 1877 1875 CONFIRMATIONS. TEN YEARS' TABULAR STATEMENT SHOWING THE NUMBER OF CENTRES, AND MALE AND FEMALE CANDIDATES. Females Total Canterbury 69 2,538 3,075 5,613 76 1,980 3,256 5,236 81 2,406 3,690 6,096 51 1,713 2,692 4,405 York 48 2,227 3,277 5,504 49 2,651 3,825 6,476 44 2,381 3,559 5,940 49 2,253 3,310 i 5,563 8,188 98 4,703 10.526 ) (85 12,845 6 46 127 16 161 388 10 15,518 4,349 8,468 96 193 16 116 186 13,119 Durham 35 933 1,400 2,333 56 2,268 3.479 5,747 37 1,037 1,470 ¦ 2,507 33 1,528 2,337 3,865 Winchester 126 4,989 6,490 11,479 110 3,802 4,939 8,741 132 4,714 8,072 12,786 154 4,577 6,901 11.478 Bangor 18 292 382 674 4 45 58 103 25 462 678 1,140 18 253 363 616 Bath and Wells 38 1,785 1,855 3,640 33 1,261 1,904 3,165 38 1,715 2,425 4,140 37 1,498 2,517 4,015 Carlisle 8 347 536 883 35 1,977 2,451 4,428 40 1,881 2,620 4,501 5 273 439 712 3,530 5.784 78 4,287 6,597 10,884 26 1,968 3,027 4.995 Chichester 15 730 1,343 2,073 35 1,157 1,884 3,041 92 3,854 4,442 8,296 30 987 1,733 2.720 Ely 32 1,317 1,857 3,174 49 1,485 2,267 3,752 85 3,413 4,531 7,944 30 738 1.003 1,741 Gloucester & Bristol 52 1,487 2,274 3,761 56 1,824 2,961 4,785 68 2,241 3,169 5,410 64 1,632 2.931 4,563 Hereford 52 1,396 1,986 3,382 42 875 1,233 2.108 44 1,109 1,534 2,643 49 917 1,354 2,271 3,819 5,708 9,527 212 3,532 5,123 8,655 218 3,976 5,656 9,632 4,740 72 2,810 4,161 6,971 81 2,254 3,441 5,695 84 2,104 3,363 5,467 Manchester 49 8,271 5,277 8,548 58 4,361 7.428 11,789 48 3,220 5,205 8,425 63 4,687 8,103 12,790 Norwich. 39 1,850 3,044 4,894 54 1,963 3,036 4,999 38 1,333 2,175 3,508 42 1,696 2,752 4,448 Oxford 81 3,014 3,476 6,490 81 2,999 3,411 6,410 88 2,792 3,820 6,612 88 2,957 3,317 6,274 Peterborough 48 2,318 3,206 5,524 42 1,198 1,662 2,860 44 2,185 2,763 4.948 38 1,326 1,927 3,253 Ripon 48 2,049 3,807 5,856 41 1,999 3,197 5,196 54 2,648 4,522 7,170 47 2,364 4.477 6,841 Rochester 71 3,148 4,175 7,323 85 3,618 5,248 8.866 59 2,362 3,647 6,009 93 3,724 5,432 9,156 St. Asaph 39 1,234 1,675 2,909 40 1,128 1,882 3,010 50 1,171 1,884 3,055 St. David's Salisbury 74 2,368 2,311 4,679 21 627 632 1.259 83 2,832 3,354 6,186 67 1,992 2,165 4,157 Worcester 3,316 4,886 8.202 73 2,858 4,265 7,123 30 1,271 2,351 3,622 70 2,846 4,084 6,930 Bishop held his first Confirmation in reconstructed Diocese on October 29, 1877 |