Area, 806 square miles. Parishes, 212. Inhabited houses, 1841, 44,649, Uninhabited, 3,260. Building, 457. Population, 1841: Males, 105,613. Females, 110,242 -Total, 215,855. The Leicestershire Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches joined the General Union in 1835. Thomas Nunnerley, Esq., Leicester, is Treasurer. Rev. G. Legge, Leicester, Secretary. The Association has the aid of more than twenty gratuitous occasional preachers, and occupies as many village stations. of last year £200. The income Where Educated. Homerton 1840 .. Vacant There are small chapels at eleven villages, as follow: Burton Overy; Burbage; Countessthorpe; Enderby; Hallaton; Huncote; Kilby; Newton; Slawston; Swinford; Sketchley; and Whetstone; at which a service is held at least every Sabbath day by the neighbouring ministers. LINCOLNSHIRE. Area, 2,611 square miles. Parishes, 632. Inhabited houses, 1841, 73,038. Uninhabited, 2,250. Building, 456. Population, 1841: Males, 181,802. Females, 180,915. -Total, 362,717. We regret to record that this county is without an association of the Congregational Churches. Place. Date of Erection. .. Pastor. Boston * 1774 .. .. 1831 W. Dickenson Lincoln, Newland Chapel 1840 High Street * S. B. Bergne.. 1819 D. R. Campbell Zion Chapel * 1805 G. Gladstone.. Long Sutton * 1819 Henry Edwards Louth * 1820 W. Todman Market Deeping Vacant Pinchbeck * Hoxton Highbury Hoxton Area, 282 square miles. Parishes, 190. Inhabited houses, 1841, 207,670. Uninhabited, 9,850. Building, 3,156. Population, 1841: Males, 738,970. Females, 837,646.-Total, 1,576,616. This does not include large portions of the metropolis that lie on the southern side of the river Thames. The following lists, however, contain the Congregational churches in the cities of London and Westminster in the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, Mary-le-Bone, Lambeth, and Southwark. The ministers and churches that are not included in these metropolitan divisions are inserted under the head, Suburban and County congregations. The Independent churches, as such, have now no visible organization in the metropolis. The Congregational Board" meets every month, but it consists exclusively of ministers, all of whom do not sustain the pastoral office. Assuredly, while the pastors of London are called to deliberate on the claims of Great Britain and Ireland—the British colonies—and the heathen world, they ought to have an ostensible organization on behalf of the villages and towns that are within the shadow of this colossal metropolis. At the colleges in Byng Place, Highbury, Homerton, and Hackney, there are always four-score young evangelists willing to be employed; and in churches like those of London, assuredly there are as many gifted laybrothers, who would be willing to co-operate with their pastors in supplying the destitute places around. Such resources for usefulness should be organized and called forth. Much, however, is specifically done for the metropolis-the City Missionary Society with its fifty agents; the Christian Instruction Society, with more than 2000 visitors; the Metropolis Chapel Fund, by which three spacious new chapels have been reared. Still the Congregational churches, as such, in each metropolitan city or borough, should form, we conceive, a distinct association for the purposes of maintaining the weaker churches, and gathering others where not already formed. |