times" affords any excuse for this we cannot say, but it remains for the Society this night to adopt some plan by which the subscriptions shall be more regularly obtained, or the non-payment Members discarded, and the Society be thus freed from their encumbrance.

To contemplate the dissolution of a Society which has been, and still is, of such practical use to the cause of the Church, is too painful to enter upon until the direst necessity renders it imperative, but such it is feared must be the case, unless a very considerable improvement takes place on the subject complained of.

Before closing their Report, the Committee wish to advert to the fact that they have received notice from the Archæological Institute of Great Britain, that they purpose holding their Meeting in 1851 in this City. Local Secretaries will be required to prepare the way for them, and it is hoped that that hospitality for which Bristol is so widely celebrated will be extended freely to a body of Gentlemen who invariably discover many hidden Architectural treasures, and stir up an active spirit in the several branches of Ecclesiology and Archæology.