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Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington +Libraries for allowing their copy to be used for this transcription. + + + + + + SECOND + ANNUAL REPORT + OF THE + KENSINGTON + CHURCH OF ENGLAND + DISTRICT + VISITING SOCIETY. + + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + PRINTED BY GEO. NICHOLS, EARL’S COURT, LEICESTER SQUARE. + FEBRUARY 3, 1846. + + * * * * * + +*** _The Secretaries will be happy to give all the information in their +power to any Subscriber or Parishioner who may wish for it upon any point +not fully treated of in the Report of the Committee_. + + + + +KENSINGTON +CHURCH OF ENGLAND DISTRICT VISITING SOCIETY. + + + PRESIDENT, + THE VEN. ARCHDEACON SINCLAIR, VICAR. + + VICE-PRESIDENTS, + HON. W. S. S. LASCELLES, M.P. SIR J. CONROY, BART. K.C.H. + SIR HENRY WILLOCK, K.L.S. + + TREASURER, + MR. SHEPHARD. + + JOINT SECRETARIES, + REV. C. A. STEVENS. MR. CLARKE. + REV. T. R. BRANFOOT. + + AUDITORS, + MR. WARNER. DR. WADDILOVE. + + COMMITTEE, + +MR. F. PRATT BARLOW. MR. GLOYNE. +MR. BELLWORTHY. REV. J. H. HOWLETT. +MR. CHESTERTON. MR. MERRIMAN. +MR. COOKE. MR. J. N. MERRIMAN. +MR. COTTON. MR. MOSS. +MR. GARRARD. MR. WEIGALL. + + COLLECTOR, + ALFRED ELLIS, 13, _Hornton Street_. + + + + +KENSINGTON +CHURCH OF ENGLAND DISTRICT VISITING SOCIETY. + + +_At the Second Annual Meeting of the Members and Friends of the above +Institution_, _held at the National School_, _on Tuesday the_ 3_rd of +February_, 1846, + + THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON SINCLAIR, President, + _In the Chair_, + +A Report of the Society’s proceedings during the year 1845 having been +read, it was proposed by SIR HENRY WILLOCK, seconded by the REV. J. H. +HOWLETT, and + +_Resolved unanimously_— + +I. That the Report now read be approved by this Meeting, and that it be +printed and circulated under the direction of the Board of Management; +and that their recommendation respecting the Seventh General Rule be +carried into effect. + + * * * * * + +It was proposed by the REV. DR. HESSEY, seconded by MR. WEIGALL, and + +_Resolved unanimously_— + +II. That the System of District Visiting through the intervention of the +Laity, based as it is upon the highest Christian principles, is a +function of the Church, the due exercise of which is full of promise of +the greatest advantage, both in things temporal and spiritual; and that +the results of the operations of this Society afford a most satisfactory +exemplification of the assertion. + + * * * * * + +It was proposed by DR. WADDILOVE, seconded by the REV. H. W. JERMYN, and + +_Resolved unanimously_— + +III. That the establishment of Provident Funds, whose tendency is to +give a powerful impulse to the promotion of habits of providence, +frugality, and self-reliance, at the same time that they confer immediate +benefit on the poor, is a most important auxiliary to the operations of +this Society, and contributes in a high degree to the effecting of that +moral and religious improvement which is the great end and object of all +its endeavours. + + * * * * * + +It was moved by MR. MERRIMAN, seconded by MR. WARNER, and + +_Carried unanimously_— + +IV. That the best thanks of the Society be given to the Treasurer, for +his constant regard to the advancement of the Society and its objects, +and for his valuable labours in the more immediate execution of the +office he holds; and that he be requested to continue his kind services. + + * * * * * + +It was moved by the REV. J. W. SHERINGHAM, seconded by MR. PICKERING, and + +_Carried unanimously_— + +V. That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Board of Management, +and the Auditors, for their careful attention to the objects of the +Society, in endeavouring to provide for the welfare of the poor; and that +they be respectively re-elected, with the substitution of the names of +MR. COOKE and MR. JAMES N. MERRIMAN in the room of those of the REV. H. +PENNY and MR. MURRAY, who have vacated the office of Members of the +Board. + + * * * * * + +It was moved by the REV. T. R. BRANFOOT, seconded by MR. MERRIMAN, and + +_Carried unanimously_— + +VI. That the most cordial thanks of the Society and of the Parishioners, +are due to the Visitors for their valuable endeavours to ameliorate the +temporal and spiritual condition of the poor. + + * * * * * + +It was moved by the Rev. J. H. HOWLETT, seconded by Mr. HAY, and + +_Carried unanimously_— + +VII. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be offered to the +Secretaries, the REV. C. A. STEVENS and MR. CLARKE, for their most +efficient discharge of the important and laborious duties of their +office; and that they be re-elected; and that the REV. T. R. BRANFOOT be +elected joint Clerical Secretary. + + * * * * * + +It was moved by MR. SHEPHARD, seconded by the REV. DR. HESSEY, and + +_Carried unanimously_— + +VIII. That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Venerable the +President, for the interest he has evinced, and the superintendence he +has exerted, in the management of the operations of the Society; and also +for his kindness in presiding over the present Meeting, and his able and +obliging conduct in the Chair. + + * * * * * + +*** _Ladies or Gentlemen who may be desirous of taking charge of +Districts as Visitors_, _are requested to communicate with the +Secretaries_, _who_, _in the event of vacancies occurring_, _will inform +them thereof_. + +*** _Forms used by the Society_, _will be supplied on application by_ +MR. BIRCH, _High Street_. + + + + +GENERAL RULES. + + +1. THIS Society shall be called the “KENSINGTON CHURCH OF ENGLAND +DISTRICT VISITING SOCIETY.” + +2. The object of the Society shall be to improve the temporal and +spiritual condition of the Poor of Kensington. + +3. A Fund for that purpose shall be raised by Subscriptions and +Donations; Subscriptions to be due on the first of January in each year. + +4. Annual Subscribers of not less than One Guinea shall be Members of +the Society. + +5. The business of the Society shall be conducted by a Board, consisting +a President, Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, Secretary, and Committee of +Management. The Vicar to be President, ex-officio; the Curates, Members +of the Committee; other twelve members to be elected at the yearly +general meeting of the Society. A report of the proceedings of the Board +shall be presented annually at the General Meeting, and published for the +information of the Parishioners. + +6. The Board shall meet on the first Tuesday in every Month to audit +accounts submitted, and decide upon cases referred. Three Members to +form a quorum. + +7. That the operations of this Society shall be extended over that +portion of Kensington which is in connection with the Clergy of St. Mary +Abbot’s Church. + +8. The Visitors shall all be Members of the Established Church; their +business shall be, to keep a List of all the families in their several +Districts, according to a prescribed form; to inquire into all cases +recommended; to administer relief; and to circulate Books and Tracts upon +the List of this Society. + +9. Relief shall not be given in any case by the Visitor to a larger +amount than 2s. a week for adults, and 1s. for each child, nor continued +for a longer period than four weeks, without the sanction of the Board, +at its monthly meeting. The Board, however, shall not be subject to the +same restrictions. + +10. Relief shall be administered by orders on Shopkeepers chosen by the +Board, and not in money, except in extreme cases. + +11. No applicant of notoriously immoral character shall be relieved; but +relief shall not be refused to any person on account of his religious +persuasion. + +12. No person shall be relieved who has not resided three months in the +Parish, and has not occupied the same house or lodging, unless good +reason be assigned. + +13. Subscribers to the Society may recommend cases for inquiry and +relief. Recommendations may be sent to the National School House, from +whence they will be forwarded daily to the Visitors. Money remitted to +any of the Parochial Clergy for the relief of particular families shall +be appropriated to that purpose, if they are found to be proper objects +of charity; otherwise it shall be returned to the Donor, or, with his +consent, added to the general fund. + +14. Visitors will be expected to forward their Books for the +consideration of the Board the day before the monthly meeting, or they +may attend the meeting in person, or by substitute. + +15. A Parochial Lending Library shall be provided by the Board, together +with a supply of Books and Tracts, to be either given, lent, or sold, by +the Visitors. No Book or Tract to be sold at a lower rate than +half-price. + +16. Cases of sickness shall always be reported by the Visitors to the +Parochial Clergy. + +17. The Board, at its monthly meeting, shall supply the Visitors with +funds proportioned to the probable wants of their several Districts. + + + + +SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. + + +The Committee of the District Visiting Society, in presenting the SECOND +ANNUAL REPORT of their proceedings, feel that they have every ground for +renewing the congratulations which they were last year able to offer to +the Society, on the advantages which have accrued to the parish through +its instrumentality, and also, on the prospects of continually increasing +benefits, as its plans become more fully matured, and its operations more +clearly developed and in consequence more completely effective. + +Since the last Annual Meeting changes have taken place in the +ECCLESIASTICAL ARRANGEMENTS of the parish, which, having the effect of +removing the Northern Districts from the superintendence of the Clergy of +St. Mary Abbot’s, render necessary an alteration in the Seventh General +Rule of the Society. The Committee accordingly recommend that the Rule +be now modified, so as to confine the future operations of the Society to +that portion of Kensington which is under the ecclesiastical charge of +the Vicar. It is right to mention that arrangements made by the Clergy +of St. John’s and St. James’s are expected to provide for the requisite +attention being paid to the wants of the poor within their respective +localities. + +Having now had two years’ EXPERIENCE of the DIFFICULTIES which must beset +every endeavour to produce a substantial and permanent improvement in the +condition of so extensive a mass of population, whose individual elements +are so unsettled and fugitive;—the Committee have had a fair opportunity +of judging of the practical working of the Rules that were originally +adopted, and of the plan and operations which has from the first outset +been acted upon. The result, they are prepared to say, amply justifies +the discretion by which those Rules and that plan were dictated. It is a +sufficient confirmation of the opinion they hold, that throughout the +whole of the Metropolitan portion of the Diocese the same general system +of District Visiting, the same active co-operation of Laity with Clergy +in the work of charity, and the same general course of action, have been +acknowledged as the only effectual means of coping successfully with the +pressing evils arising from an overflowing population, from ignorance, +improvidence, and vice; and that, under the sanction and direction of the +Bishop, they have been almost universally brought into action. {10} + +There is one point bearing strongly upon the difficulties the Committee +have had to encounter, to which they are desirous of directing especial +attention; namely, how much the endeavours of the Society to ameliorate +the condition of the poor would be facilitated, if greater care were +taken by the donors of charity to make full inquiry into the CHARACTER +and CIRCUMSTANCES of APPLICANTS, before administering relief. + +It is found that applicants at the doors of residents belong in general +to one of three classes:— + +The first class consists of PERMANENT MENDICANTS; who have a more or less +constant residence in this or other parishes, and are supported +exclusively by the donations of charitably disposed, but +undiscriminating, individuals. Instances can be pointed out, of persons +who it is believed have lived in Kensington for years, professing for the +most part to have some nominal occupation, yet in fact subsisting +entirely upon means obtained by such systematic mendicancy. As they +readily state their trade and abode when interrogated, their tale—which +is but too commonly a tissue of mere invention, or at best only partially +correct—is at once assumed to be true. In the event of further inquiry +being instituted at their abode, the same story of course is told; and +probably supported by the interested evidence of the other dwellers in +the same house, who generally derive their subsistence by similar means. +Relief is given; the idle and the impostor encouraged; and by so much the +industrious and respectable labourer discouraged and injured, the +suffering and the unfortunate deprived of their due. + +The second class is that of VAGRANTS, or TRAMPERS. These have no settled +home, {11a} but sleeping at the nightly lodging houses, at some of the +various Refuges in London or elsewhere, or in the vagrant-ward at the +workhouses, wander about from parish to parish and from town to town +continually; frequenting the various watering-places in their respective +seasons, and succeeding ordinarily in reaping a rich harvest from the +ready liberality of visitants. The tale that is now most commonly and +most effectually pleaded by them is that of distress from want of work. +But though unquestionably there are cases of this description, it is yet +certain that whatever their assertions, a small proportion only of such +applicants are willing to work, even if the opportunity be offered them. +{11b} + +To those wanderers, whose cases are really those of sickness or urgent +destitution, the humane consideration of the Board of Guardians of this +parish has provided that every care and attention shall be paid +immediately upon proper application being made to the Master of the +work-house. + +The third class, which may be designated as that of OCCASIONAL +MENDICANTS, is composed of persons included in the permanent population +of the parish; who, having always been accustomed to rely for their chief +or sole support during the winter upon the bounty they can obtain by +begging at the houses of benevolent individuals, are not, while still +encouraged to do so, to be diverted by any exertions of the Society from +a course which experience has proved to be so profitable. They feel, for +the most part, a very natural aversion from any system of discriminating +charity. They have, they appear to think, a kind of prescriptive right +to an equal portion with their neighbours of all relief administered, +irrespectively of their own moral or social character, and of their +circumstances and wants as compared with those of others. They are +urgent in their importunity to the Visitor, and instead of being thankful +for what assistance he has it in his power to afford them with justice to +more deserving and pressing cases, become loud in their murmurings and +expressions of anger; and in some instances have gone so far, after +insulting conduct to the Visitor, as to carry their complaints to various +residents, who, unaware of the true facts, have perhaps been led by their +statement to form very erroneous and unjust opinions of the working of +the Society. {12} The Committee, with accounts of the whole expenditure +of the Visitors, and the particular circumstances of the various cases +before them, together with many independent sources of information +respecting the character and habits of such applicants, have it in their +power to bear most ample testimony to the discretion and discrimination +with which the funds at their disposal have been administered. And they +confidently call upon the subscribers and the parishioners generally, to +support the Visitors in their arduous, and too often thankless, labours; +and to second them in their endeavours to bring about a permanent +amelioration in the condition of the deserving poor. + +That a great and remarkable diminution has taken place in the number of +applicants of this class at the houses of the residents since the +institution of this Society, is felt and confessed in almost all +quarters. And if in any instances it has appeared, or has been thought, +that no such diminution has occurred, the Committee, from documents +before them, cannot help being satisfied that the cause and the remedy of +the evil lie equally in the hands of those who suffer from such +applications. So long as relief is given at the doors without full +inquiry, so long will persons of this class be found to ask for it: so +long as bounties are conferred without respect to character and +circumstances, so long will mendicants be encouraged to exist in the same +state of debased and dependent pauperism. {13} + +It is evident that one of the first objects to be sought, both in respect +of time and importance, is to FIX and SETTLE the population. {14} The +means and measures which immediately present themselves are those whose +tendency is, on the one hand, to encourage and assist the laborious, +deserving, and permanent portion of it: and, on the other hand, to +initiate, and stimulate the growth of providence and industry in those +who have not yet learned the necessity and the duty of striving to help +themselves and to improve their own condition; and at the same time to +check the migratory and mendicant habits of that class of persons, the +term of whose residence in any one place usually depends exclusively upon +the limits of the indiscriminate benevolence of charitable individuals in +the neighbourhood. Such measures are those which the Committee have +taken; and in endeavouring by their means to attain the end desired, they +trust they shall in future receive the full co-operation of those +parishioners who, with every desire of doing good to the utmost of their +power, yet may have sometimes been unawares throwing away valuable +resources upon unworthy objects; upon persons, at all events, whose cases +are not THE MOST deserving cases of industry, respectability, sickness, +and distress. + +These, then, are the classes of persons of whom it may be safely affirmed +that a very large majority of the APPLICANTS FOR RELIEF AT THE HOUSES of +the residents is composed. And this statement will, the Committee hope, +exhibit the strong necessity of discriminating inquiry being made +previously to relief being afforded, not only in order to avoid giving +encouragement to such persons, but also in justice to the really +deserving poor, in order that they (whose cases are for the most part +known only to the District Visitors and the Clergy) may receive that +assistance and relief which all will confess to be their due, and every +one desire that they should obtain. + +Most earnestly do the Committee appeal to the Members of this Society and +the parishioners in general, to consider the importance—the Christian +duty—of administering the proportion of their income which they set apart +for charitable purposes, in such a manner as may produce THE GREATEST +amount of good. That duty clearly is, not only to “distribute,” but to +“distribute to the _necessity_” of their brethren. To perform this +effectually, a knowledge of that necessity, as it really exists, must be +acquired: which implies an intimate acquaintance with the habits and +circumstances of families, and with their various grades of desert and of +distress. This, again, can only be attained by a watchful +superintendence, exercised for a length of time over them by the same +persons—as by a permanent Visitor, or the Clergy. Of these, then, let +inquiry be made respecting such applicants; they will be at once willing +to state whether, in their opinion, they are or are not fit objects of +relief and encouragement. To these, who possess the most certain means +of information that are attainable, let any, {15} who are desirous of +affording assistance beyond a mere annual subscription, apply. They will +recommend to their notice, not the most importunate and clamorous, but +the most necessitous and the most deserving. They will point out as fit +recipients of encouragement not the professed beggar, nor the impostor, +nor the vagrant, nor the idle, nor the improvident, nor the drunkard, nor +the irreligious; but those, who are aged, or infirm, or sick, or “maimed, +or halt, or blind;” those, who are honestly and diligently striving, with +perhaps but a single downward step {16} between them and pauperism, to +maintain their position as respectable and profitable members of society; +those, who are anxiously endeavouring to avail themselves to the utmost +of their spiritual privileges and advantages, in order to fulfil their +duty in their several relations of life, to God, their neighbour, and +themselves. + +The Committee turn with pleasure to the notice of the BENEFITS which have +been permitted to flow from the exertions of the Society. And here they +naturally begin by adverting to that IMPROVEMENT in the TEMPORAL +CONDITION of the poor, which all experience proves to be an indispensable +preparation for the higher and more important advantages. For it is +almost universally found that, below a certain point, the moral and +intellectual are absolutely concurrent with, and vary as, the physical +wants of a population. The miserable effects of too long continued toil +and exertion without adequate repose and nutrition, with insufficient +clothing, exposure to cold, damp, and deficient ventilation, and other +privations to which the poor are too often subjected, invariably extend +their influence over their social condition and habits, and affect +materially their position as moral and intelligent beings; bearing +powerfully upon matters with which at first sight they might appear to +have little connexion. {17a} + +The anticipation expressed last year of an increased appreciation of the +PROVIDENT FUNDS by the poor, has been more than justified. The number of +depositors to the COAL FUND, which in 1844 was 388, in 1845 has been 581. +The sum deposited in 1844 was £160; in 1845 it amounted to not less than +£263. In the St. Mary Abbot’s division the amount of deposits has +actually been doubled. The total value of coals dispensed has been £320, +instead of £200 as in 1844. The most remarkable increase is in the +districts of Jennings’ Buildings, among the Irish; of whom, in 1844, 14 +depositors laid by £6; in 1845, 68 have deposited £33. In another +district, in Charles Place, the number of depositors has increased from 3 +to 17. In Campden Place 73 out of 125 families, and in Southend 36 out +of 50 received coals at Christmas, averaging in quantity from three to +four sacks each:—the fruits of their own industry and providence. {17b} + +CLOTHING FUNDS have been established in eleven districts. The number of +depositors has been 100; and the amount distributed in articles of +clothing to them, £33. It is confidently hoped that a considerable +increase in the number of Subscribers and in the amount of Subscriptions +to the District Visiting Society may enable the Committee to establish a +general measure; which for want of sufficient funds has been hitherto of +necessity postponed. + +The above facts speak for themselves. That in the second year of its +establishment upwards of ONE-THIRD of the whole poor population—and +consequently a much larger proportion of the permanent and industrious +part—should have been persuaded and encouraged and enabled, by the means +of this Society, to lay up for themselves a winter provision of what is +so essential to the comfort and health of their families, would +demonstrate at once, even were this the only point of attention, and +these the sole benefits caused to the parish, that neither have the +Visitors been inactive, nor their exertions and the plans of the Society +unproductive of valuable results. If these facts proved nothing more, +they would at least prove this, that the respectable and industrious poor +are willing and anxious to help themselves if encouraged to do so; that, +unless when their ignorance has been insidiously imposed upon, they are +desirous of considering the rich as their friends, and indeed look to +them to give that encouragement, and that, if it be given, they will +return the fullest and most desirable reward to their benefactors, by +proving that their help has been of real benefit to them, not only in +their outward circumstances, but also in their improved moral and +intellectual tone of feeling and habit of life. These facts give an +earnest that each succeeding year will continue to add materially to the +efficiency of the Society, and to the amount of good produced through its +means. The most difficult and most important step is secured; the +CONFIDENCE OF THE POOR in the Visitors and in the Society. {19} And thus +a foundation is established for a superstructure of operations, the fruit +of which, under the Divine blessing, will assuredly be that of +continually increasing advantage, temporal, moral, and spiritual; and +whose effects will be found in the present and future happiness of both +him that giveth and him that receiveth—of both Visited and Visitor. + +Other POINTS OF CONGRATULATION which last year offered themselves to the +Committee have this year not less of prominence. + +The large number of BAPTISMS which was then exhibited, 100 above the +ordinary average, has been in 1845 scarcely diminished. It is believed +that very few above the age of mere infancy now remain who have not been +baptized. + +The TRIENNIAL CONFIRMATION which will in the present year (on the 9th of +June) be held in Kensington Church will, there is good ground for +believing, be attended by a large number of persons who through the +exertions of the Visitors and the Clergy have been brought to feel an +anxious desire to avail themselves of this sacred rite. + +Few points of attention are of more importance than that of obtaining +SITUATIONS or EMPLOYMENT by the Visitors for the poor in their respective +districts. Whether they regard the removal of young persons from vicious +associations to positions in private families where they may have not +only the advantage of advice and direction in the duties of life, but +also the forcible influence of moral and religious example; or whether +they consider the benefit derived from providing openings of honest +livelihood {20a} for those who perhaps have long been struggling against +bitter distress and consequent urgent temptation; the Committee feel that +it is impossible to overrate the importance of the subject. The +instances which have been reported tend strongly to confirm their +estimation of it, at the same time that they demonstrate the value of the +assistance given by the Visitors in this respect. {20b} + +The opening of a new NATIONAL SCHOOL for boys in the Gravel Pits will, it +is hoped, have the effect of reducing the excessive pressure on the Town +Schools; the fulness of which has hitherto placed a considerable +difficulty in the way of the exertions of the Visitors and Clergy. + +A somewhat similar difficulty has prevailed with respect to the +inadequate extent of ACCOMMODATION at Kensington CHURCH as compared with +the population. It is not easy or satisfactory to impress upon the poor +the duty of public worship, except in the anticipation of a more +proportionate amount of accommodation being before long provided. + +The Visitors have been during the two years instrumental in circulating +upwards of 2000 TRACTS: and the Committee have the greatest satisfaction +in reporting that there is reason to know that of those families who are +in a position to avail themselves of the use of the Holy Scriptures and +of the Liturgy of the Church of England, very few are unprovided with +both Bible and Prayer book. {21} + +In order to afford means of enabling the Visitors to carry out more +satisfactorily their endeavours to raise and improve the condition of the +poor parishioners, a LOAN LIBRARY has been just established, in +compliance with the fifteenth rule of the Society. But it being +necessary to reserve a certain sum in hand to meet extraordinary calls +upon the Treasurer, it has been found impossible to appropriate more than +a very small and inadequate portion of the funds to this purpose. The +Library has in consequence only been brought into action over a very +limited number of districts. The Committee trust that this +representation will produce a very considerable increase of DONATIONS for +the ensuing year, so as to enable them to bring so valuable and important +an institution to bear upon the whole parish. + +In dosing their Report, the Committee are anxious to express their +cordial THANKS to those MEDICAL GENTLEMEN whose attendance and advice at +the Dispensary and attention to the wants of the poor at their homes, are +productive of so much important benefit to them. It is impossible to +speak too strongly of the advantage derived to the parish by their +arduous and exemplary labours; which, though gratefully appreciated and +acknowledged by the immediate recipients of the benefit, are perhaps not +sufficiently, as they cannot be too well, known to the body of the +parishioners. + +And they desire to express most warmly the sense they have of the +assiduous and successful exertions of the LADIES and GENTLEMEN who have +taken the initiative in the work of charity as VISITORS of the poor. {22} +Under discouragements and annoyances of no trifling description—against +coldness and suspicion—in spite of fraud and imposture—they have yet +persevered in the exercise of their privilege as members of the Church, +in following the example of Its Divine Head, who “went about doing good.” +The Committee trust that as these labours, and the operations of the +Society in general, become year by year more effective, and their results +more fully ripened, there will be found to have sprung up a more intimate +connexion among the different classes of the community: one which, +founded on an interchange of beneficence on the one hand and gratitude on +the other, and supported and cemented on both by Christian sympathy and +love, cannot fail in being productive of important advantages to the +welfare of all concerned. If it be the ordinary duty of the Committee, +while administering the funds at their disposal, to adopt such measures +as shall enable the poorer classes to perceive and fulfil what is due +from them in this interchange; it is _now_ their office to point out to +the wealthier and educated classes, who may be anxious for the +opportunity, how they may perform their part. + +A blessing is promised in Scripture upon HIM THAT CONSIDERETH THE POOR. +It is hoped, that every member of the Church who enjoys wealth, or even +competence, will ‘consider’ conscientiously in what manner his exertions +for the relief of indigence and the advancement of religious improvement +may be most judiciously directed; what talents he possesses, not only of +property, but of time, and influence, and connexion; and in what way +those talents may be most beneficially and effectually applied. {23} It +is hoped, that the necessary relation of Christian principles to active +charity will, from year to year, be more generally and more practically +acknowledged: that every one will learn to feel that for practice as well +as principle of Christian love he is absolutely accountable: that it is +therefore imperative upon him for the benefit of others, and at the same +time pre-eminently for his own, to take a lively personal interest in +concurrence and co-operation with the Clergy, in endeavouring to secure +the temporal, moral, social, and spiritual welfare of those who from +their position in rank and in neighbourhood are in a measure committed to +his charge and care. + +The Committee can scarcely be wrong in entertaining the belief, that were +this personal co-operation effectually carried out, there would result, +under the blessing of God, a far nearer approximation than now exists, to +what every CHRISTIAN must anxiously and from his heart desire—UNITY IN +CHURCH AND NATION “IN ONE HOLY BOND OF TRUTH AND PEACE, OF FAITH AND +CHARITY.” + + + +TREASURER’S REPORT. + + +The TREASURER, in presenting to the Donors and Subscribers the BALANCE +SHEET for the past year, begs to call attention to the decrease in the +number of both Donors and Subscribers. Although it was not to be +anticipated that the former would be kept up to the same extent as in the +first year of the establishment of the Society, when a large outlay was +to be met, it was not unreasonable to expect, that both the number of the +Subscribers, and the aggregate amount of their subscriptions, would have +considerably increased as the operations of the Society, and the great +benefits resulting therefrom, were more generally known. It is earnestly +hoped that when the foregoing Report has been circulated through the +parish, and the large amount of good that has been effected through the +agency of the Society has been thereby brought under the notice of the +inhabitants, its claims on public liberality will be better appreciated; +and that no one who is blessed with the means will hesitate to contribute +of his abundance, so as to enable the Society to carry out all those +beneficial measures intended for the amelioration of the temporal and +spiritual condition of his poorer and less favoured brethren, which were +proposed at the formation of the Society, but from which it has been +hitherto most reluctantly withheld by want of the requisite funds. + +The Treasurer also begs to express his regret at the small amount +collected in the ALMS BOXES at the Parish Church, in comparison with the +number who attend the several services; it is gratifying, however, to +observe that in one or two instances a larger amount has been deposited +as a THANK OFFERING—examples which, it is hoped, may be frequently +followed by those who have experienced any special blessings. + +The Treasurer wishes it to be distinctly understood that he would +thankfully receive DONATIONS or SUBSCRIPTIONS of however small an amount, +as it is the wish of the Society to afford an opportunity to ALL CLASSES +to assist, as far as their circumstances will permit, and each according +to his power, in the furtherance of the great work of practical Christian +charity. + +_The Treasurer in Account with the Kensington District Visiting Society_. + + +SUBSCRIPTION ACCOUNT. + +1845. £ s. d. £ s. d. +Subscriptions 377 13 0 +Deposits in Alms Boxes:— + For January 1 17 4 + February 2 7 3 + March 3 1 9 + April 1 13 6 + May (including 9 17 3 + Whitsunday) + June 1 8 7 + July (including a 6 0 9 + Thank Offering on the + recovery of a Child) + August 1 15 3 + September 5 12 7 + October 1 17 1 + November 1 16 0 + December 2 7 4 + 39 14 8 +The Vicar’s proportion of Collection at Church 4 15 2 +Door, on Christmas Day +Produce of Sale of Bibles and Prayer Books 3 15 6 +Deposits received from 636 Depositors 267 8 1 +Interest on Deposits in Savings’ Bank 2 14 9 +Balance in hand on last Coal Account 5 0 +Interest on amount in Savings’ Bank 2 17 0 +Cash from Donation Fund, to meet DEFICIENCY 35 5 4 + £734 8 6 + + * * * * * + +1845. £ s. d. £ s. d. +District Grants for 43 9 0 +January + February 33 6 0 + March 48 19 0 + April 44 19 0 + May 28 2 0 + June 8 15 0 + July, August, Sept., 28 6 0 + October + November 47 11 0 + December 22 5 0 + 304 19 0 +Paid Mr. Stanham for 121 tons 11½ cwt. of 170 4 2 +Coals, delivered at 28s. +Ditto Mr. Neate for 93 tons 3 cwt. at 28s. 130 9 4 +Ditto Mr. Bailey for 11 tons 14 cwt. at 28s. 16 7 7 +Returned to 55 Depositors having left the 8 0 8 +parish, or having subscribed less than the +value of 1 cwt. +Expenses:— + Books, Printing, 46 0 1 + Stationery, &c. + Collector 25 19 0 + Sundries, including 14 19 2 + use of Board Room, + &c. + On Coal Fund Account 6 4 0 + Receivers of 11 5 6 + Deposits on Coal + acc. + 104 7 9 + £734 8 6 + + JOHN SHEPHARD, TREASURER, + ALFRED WADDILOVE / GEORGE WARNER } AUDITORS. + + 9th February, 1846. Examined and found correct. + + + +DONATION ACCOUNT. + +1845. £ s. d. +Balance in hand from last Account 94 6 7 +Donations 41 6 1 + £135 12 8 + + * * * * * + +1845. £ s. d. +Purchase of Books for a Loan Library 15 0 0 +Cash to Subscription Account to meet 35 5 4 +DEFICIENCY +Balance in hand 85 7 4 + £135 12 8 + + JOHN SHEPHARD, TREASURER. + + ALFRED WADDILOVE / GEORGE WARNER } AUDITORS. + + 9th February, 1846. Examined and found correct. + + + + +ALPHABETICAL LIST OF STREETS, &c., +INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICTS OF THE +KENSINGTON DISTRICT VISITING SOCIETY. + + +*** _Members recommending any case for inquiry_, _are requested to state +exactly the residence of the applicant_, _and the No. of the District +from the following list_. + +*** _Communications respecting persons resident in Streets_, _&c._, _not +in this list_, _should be made to the Clergy of the respective portions +of Kensington or Notting Hill_. + + No. of the District. +Adam and Eve Cottages, High Street 25 +Adam and Eve Yard, High Street 25 +Albert Square, Southend 17 +Annis Place, Duke’s Lane 26 + +Ball’s Court, High Street 19 +Barlow’s Cottages, Kensington Square 17 +Bird’s Cottages, Duke’s Lane 26 +Bird’s Cottages, Jennings’ Buildings 4 +Brown’s Buildings, High Street 4 +Bullingham Place 26 + +Campden Street, 1–10 32 +Campden Street, 11–end 33 +Chancellor’s Yard 25 +Charles Place 15 +Charles Street 12 +Charles Street (Little) 15 +Charles Street Cottages 15 +Church Court, No. 2, 7, 9, 10 and Galleries 22 +Church Court, No. 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 23 +Church Lane 27 +Church Street 27 +Claremont Cottages 35 +Cooke’s Lane 16 +Cousins’ Cottages 36 + +Dark’s Cottages 4 +Duckmanton Court 20 +Duckmanton Yard 11 +Duke’s Lane 26 +Dulwich Court 26 + +Edge Place 36 + +Gardener’s Buildings 20 +Gore Lane, West side, 1–20 1 +Gore Lane, West side, 21–34 2 +Gore Lane, West side, 35–47. East side 3 + +Haines’ Buildings 17 +Holland Place 27 +Holland Street 28 +Hornton Mews 24 +Hughes’ Cottages 19 + +Ivy Cottages, Gore Lane 4 + +James Street, North side, No. 1–4. East 12 +side, 1–2 +James Street, East side, No. 3–10. West 9 +side, 4–10 +James Street, No. 11–20 14 +James Street, West side, No. 11–14, 21–24 13 +James Street Mews 12 +Jennings’ Buildings, &c. No. 1–23, 37–63 4 +Jennings’ Buildings, &c. No. 24–36 5 + +Kensington Place 4 +King Street, West side, No. 1–4 17 +King Street, West side, No. 5–15, 1 18 +King Street, East side, No. 16–24 19 +Knibbs’ Cottages 25 + +Market Court 21 + +New Court, Jennings’ Buildings 4 +Newland Street, East side 25 + +Palace Place, No. 8–14 7 +Palace Place (remainder) 8 +Peel Street, North side, No. 1–25 29 +Peel Street, South side, No. 1–10, 71–75 31 +Peel Street, South side, No. 11–14, 21–29, 30 +34–51 +Phillimore Mews 24 +Playhouse Yard 4 +Pratt’s Cottages, Jennings’ Buildings 4 + +Reservoir Cottages 36 +Russell’s Gardens 10 + +Sharp’s Cottages, Jennings’ Buildings 4 +Shephard’s Gardens 10 +Somerset Yard 25 +Southend 16 + +Tavern Yard 4 +Thomas Place 4 +Trafalgar Place 16 + +Wiple Place 27 + +Young Street 11 + +LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS AND DONORS, +_Corrected to December_ 31_st_, 1845. + + +*** _It is particularly requested that any error in the following list +may be notified to the Treasurer or Secretaries_. + +*** _Subscriptions and Donations may be paid either to the Treasurer_, +_Secretaries_, _or Collector_. + +_Subscriptions may be given in favour of any particular District_, _if +desired_. + + Donations. Subscriptions. + £ _s._ _d._ £ _s._ _d._ +HER MAJESTY THE 10 10 0 +QUEEN +H. R. H. THE 10 0 0 +DUCHESS OF KENT +H. R. H. THE 5 0 0 +PRINCESS SOPHIA +The Venerable 5 0 0 +Archdeacon +Sinclair, Vicar +and President + +Abercrombie, 3 3 0 +Mr., 25, +Kensington +square +Alton, Mr., 1 0 0 +Palace gate +Alexander, Mr., 5 0 0 +15, Notting +hill square +Alexander, 1 1 0 +Miss, 26, +Hornton street +Alston, Mr., 5, 1 1 0 +High row +Anonymous 8 0 0 +Armstrong, 1 1 0 +Mrs., 13, +Earl’s terrace +Auldjo, Mrs. T. 2 2 0 +R., Noel House + +Bailey, Mr. C, 45, 1 1 0 +High street +Bailey, Mr. W., 4, 1 1 0 +Newland Terrace +Barlow, Colonel, 8, 2 2 0 +Leonard place +Barlow, Mr. F. P., 2 2 0 +24, Kensington +square +Barlow, Mrs. F. P., 2 2 0 +ditto +Barlow, Mr. James 2 2 0 +P., Hyde park gate +Des Barres, Misses, 1 1 1 +19, Upper Phillimore +place +Barrow, Mr., 1 1 0 +Kensington palace +Barrow, Mrs., ditto 1 1 0 +Bayford, DR., 10 0 +D.C.L., 1, Hornton +villas +Bayford, Mrs., 6, 1 1 0 +Upper Hornton villas +Baynes, Mrs., 7, 1 0 0 +Lower Notting hill +terrace +Beachcroft, Mrs., 1 1 0 +17, Notting hill +square +Beachcroft, Mr. C., 1 1 0 +High street, Notting +hill +Beetham, Mrs., 7, 1 0 0 +Edwardes’ square +Bell, Mrs., 15, 2 2 0 +Kensington square +Bell, Miss, 27, 1 1 0 +Hornton street +Bellworthy, Mr., 1 1 0 +Newland place +Bennington, Mr., 2, 1 1 0 +Marlborough terrace +Bentley, Mrs., 11, 10 0 +Holland street +Berry, Miss, 39, 1 1 0 +Kensington square +Biggar, Mr. J., 3, 2 2 0 +Allen terrace +Biggar, Mrs., ditto 2 2 0 +Birch, Mr. W., 5, 1 1 0 +Terrace +Bird, Mr. S., 2 2 0 +Hornton villa +Bliss, Mrs., 4, 2 2 0 +Addison road +Bowdler, Mrs. C., 10 0 +Grove terrace, +Notting hill +Boynton, Mrs., 12, 1 0 0 +Gloucester terrace +Brabant, Mr., 12, 1 1 0 +Ladbroke terrace +Breeze, Mr., 19, 1 0 0 +High street +Brewer, Mr., 10, 10 0 +High row +Bruce, Dr., 29, 1 1 0 +Lower +Phillimore-place +Buckley, Miss, 5, 2 2 0 +Orme square +Buckley, Mr. T. W., 2 2 0 +ditto +Buckmaster, Mrs., 2 2 0 +16, Holland street +Burnell, Rev. S. 1 1 0 +Burt, Mrs., 10, 1 0 0 +Lansdowne terrace +Butlin, Mrs., Ealing 2 2 0 + +Conroy, Sir John, 5 0 0 +Bart. (V.P.), +Vicarage place +Conroy, Lady, ditto 1 0 0 +Callcott, Mr. W. H., 1 1 0 +The Mall +Callcott, Miss, The 1 1 0 +Mall +Callcott, Miss A., 1 1 0 +ditto +Camden, Mrs., 5, 10 0 +Allen terrace +Casamajor, Mrs. R., 1 1 0 +13, Hornton street +Chalmers, Mrs. 1 1 0 +Chesterton, Mr., 14, 1 0 0 +Young street +Chisholm, Mr., 30, 1 1 0 +Bedford place +Clarke, Mr., 17, 3 0 0 +Kensington square +Close, Mr. J. D., 1, 1 1 0 +Bedford place +Codd, Mrs. Harrison, 10 0 +10, Campden hill +villas +Codd, Miss, ditto 10 0 +Cole, Mr. H., 24, 1 1 0 +Notting hill square +Collyhole, Mrs., 14, 5 0 +Young street +Compton, Miss, 20, 5 0 +Lower Phillimore +place +Cooke, Mrs., 12, 1 1 0 +Scarsdale terrace +Coombe, Mr., 5, 1 0 0 +Upper Phillimore +place +Cope, Mr. C. W., 9, 2 2 0 +Hyde park gate, +south +Corder, Mrs., 32, 1 1 0 +High street +Cornell, Mr., 1, 1 1 0 +Canning place +Cotton, Mr., 10, 2 2 0 +Kensington square +Cowper, Mr., 6, 1 0 0 +Campden hill villas +Crane, Mrs. and 1 1 0 +Miss, 16, Scarsdale +terrace +Crosse, Miss, The 3 0 0 +Terrace + +Deane, Mrs., 24, 1 1 0 +Lower Phillimore +place +Disbrowe, Miss, 2 2 0 +Kensington palace +Downing, Mr., 4, 1 0 0 +Lower Phillimore +place +Drake, Mr. J., 1 1 0 +Ladbroke road +Durant, 1 1 0 +Major-General, Hyde +park gate + +Elliott, Mrs., 26, 5 0 +Notting hill terrace +Escombe, Mr., 6, 1 1 0 +Boyne terrace + +Farrance, Miss, 26, 1 1 0 +Lower Phillimore +place +Finch, Mr., 3, 1 1 0 +Madeley villas +Forbes, Mr. J., 4, 1 0 0 +Allen terrace +Forbes, Mrs. J., 1 0 0 +ditto +Forbes, Mrs. R., 1 1 0 +Hyde park gate south +Forbes, Mrs. and 1 0 0 +Miss, 2, ditto +Forbes, Capt. C., 1, 1 1 0 +ditto +Fortune, Miss, 2, 5 0 +Bedford place +Freem, Miss, 23, 5 0 +High street +Frost, Dr., 5, 10 6 +Ladbroke grove + +Garrard, Mr., 18, 5 0 0 +Notting hill square +Gee, Mrs. John, 5, 1 1 0 +Victoria road +George, Mr., 4, 1 1 0 +Hornton villas +Gloyne, Mr., 5, 1 1 0 +Terrace +Godfrey, Mr., 3, 10 6 +Somerset terrace +Good, Mr., Palace 3 0 0 +Green +Gorham, Mr., 5, High 5 0 +street +Goss, Miss, Vicarage 2 2 0 +place +Gower, Mr., Norland 2 6 +Nursery +Green, Miss, 17, 1 1 0 +Hornton street +Griffiths, Miss, 9, 1 0 0 +Church street + +Hopetoun, Countess 1 1 0 +of, Niddry lodge +Haines, Mr. John, 10 0 +High street +Hardenberg, Miss, 9, 5 0 +Norland terrace +Hardman, Mrs., 30, 10 0 +Upper Phillimore +place +Hardwick, Dr., 28, 1 1 0 +Lower Phillimore +place +Harper, Mr., 21, 2 2 0 +Kensington square +Harper, Mrs., ditto 1 1 0 +Harrison, Mr., 3, 2 2 0 +St. George’s terrace +Harrison, Miss, 5 0 +ditto +Harrison, Miss 26 +Eliza, ditto +Harvey, Mrs., High 1 0 0 +street, Notting hill +Hay, Mr., 1, Terrace 2 2 0 +Haynes, Mrs., 2, 1 0 0 +Norland square +Heale, Mrs., 14, 2 2 0 +Notting hill terrace +Hepburn, Mrs., 7, 1 0 0 5 0 +Allen terrace +Hessey, Rev. Dr., 1 1 0 +27, Kensington +square +Heward, Mrs., 5, 1 1 0 +Young street +Higgins, Mrs., 2, 10 0 +Newland terrace +Hinchcliffe, Mr., 1, l 1 0 +Notting hill terrace +Holmes, Miss, 14 0 +Wright’s lane +Horsley, Mr. and 2 0 0 +Family, 1, High row +Howlett, Rev. J. H., 2 2 0 +9, Young street +Hughes, Mr. W. H., 1 1 0 +50, High street +Hume, Miss Emily, 3, 2 6 +St. George’s terrace +Hunter, Major, 14, 1 0 0 +Albert place +Hutchins, Mrs., 19, 1 1 0 +St. Mary Abbot’s +terrace + +Irby, Hon. Misses, 1 0 0 2 0 0 +Queen’s villas +Ifold, Mr., 33, 1 1 0 +Bedford place + +James, Mr., 45, High 10 6 +street, Notting hill +James, Miss, 2, 1 1 0 +Addison road +Jackson, Rev. J., 1 0 0 +Kensington palace +Jackson, Admiral, 2 0 0 +21, Hornton street +Jeffries, Miss, 5, 1 1 0 +Marlborough terrace +Jenings, Mr., 2, 2 2 0 +Terrace +Jenkinson, Mr., 4, 1 0 0 +Campden hill terrace +Jermyn, Rev. H. W., 1 1 0 +26A, Kensington +square +Johnson, Mr., 47, 10 0 +Notting hill square +Johnson, Mrs., 11, 10 0 +Notting hill terrace +Jolly, Mrs., 40, 10 0 +Bedford place +Jones, Mr., High 1 1 0 +street + +Kennedy, Rev. W. J., 1 1 0 +9, Campden hill +villas +Kidd, Mr. R. C., 5 0 0 +Hyde park gate +Kidd, Miss, ditto 1 1 0 +King, Mrs., 29, 2 2 0 +Kensington square +Kirwan, Miss, 6, 1 0 0 3 3 0 +Lower Phillimore +place +Knevett, Miss, 20, 5 0 +Lower Phillimore +place + +Lascelles, Hon. W. 2 0 0 +S. (V.P.), Campden +hill +Lascelles, Lady 2 0 0 +Caroline, ditto +Lascelles, Miss, 1 0 0 +ditto +Lady, A, by Miss 10 0 +Disbrowe +Lady, A, by Mr. 5 0 +Simpson +Lateward, Rev. J. 2 2 0 +F., 10, Notting hill +square +Lawrance, Mr., 10, 5 0 +Church street +Legrew, Mr., 1, 10 0 +Ladbroke place +Leicester, Mrs., 1 1 0 +Bullingham place +Lever, Mrs., 4, 1 0 0 +Campden hill terrace +Lewis, Mrs., 7, 10 0 +Edwardes square +Litchfield, Mr., 12, 1 1 0 +Kensington square +Litt, Miss, 42, 1 1 0 +Kensington square +Lomas, Mr., 34, High 1 1 0 +street +Lutyens, Major, 9, 2 0 0 +Upper Phillimore +place + +M‘Caul, Mr., 43, 10 0 +Kensington square +Mackay, Mrs., Ivy 2 2 0 +bank, Notting hill +Mackay, Mrs. E., 17, 2 2 0 +Scarsdale terrace +M‘Queen, Mr., 38, 10 0 +Kensington square +Mair, Mrs., Cobie 2 2 0 +house, High street +Makins, Mrs., 2, 2 2 0 +Campden hill villas +Martin, Mrs., 13, 10 0 +Bedford place +Maurice, Rev. —, 7, 1 1 0 +Ladbroke villas +Maurice, Miss, ditto 1 1 0 +Merriman, Mr., 45, 3 3 0 +Kensington square +Merriman, Miss C., 2 6 +ditto +Merriman, Mr. S., 2 6 +ditto +Merriman, Mr. W., 2 6 +ditto +Merriman, Mr. J. N., 2 2 0 +11, Young street +Merriman, Mrs., J. 1 1 0 +N., ditto +Miley, Mr., 6, Upper 1 1 0 +Phillimore place +Morris, Mr. R., 2 2 0 +Wright’s lane +Mortimer, Mr., 23, 2 2 0 +Notting hill square +Moss, Mr., 1, 1 1 0 +Terrace +Murray, Mr. 5 5 0 + +De Noüall, The 3 3 0 +Baroness, 24, Upp. +Phillimore pl. +Nasmyth, Mrs. 10 0 +Needham, Miss, 2 2 0 +Linden grove +Nicholls, Mr., 27, 1 1 0 +Upper Phillimore +place + +Osborn, Sir John, 1 1 0 +Bart., Earl’s court +Oak, Mr., 36, High 5 0 +street +Oliver, Mrs., 4, 1 1 0 +Lansdowne terrace + +Paine Mr., 2, Young 1 1 0 +street +Pallister, Miss, 22, 1 1 0 +Kensington square +Parker, Rev. J., 21, 1 1 0 +Bedford place +Parkin, Mr., 13, 2 2 0 +Notting hill terrace +Parkin, Mrs., ditto 1 1 0 +Paxton, Mrs., 56, 10 0 +High street +Payne, Mr. W., 15, 1 1 0 +Hornton street +Paynter, Mr., 1 1 0 +Addison road +Penley, Major, 9, 1 1 0 +Ladbroke villas +Penny, Rev. H., 12, 3 3 0 +Upper Phillimore +place +Penny, Mrs., ditto 3 3 0 +Perceval, Mr. John, 1 1 0 +Campden cottage, +Notting hill square +Perring, Mrs., 9, 1 1 0 +Rich terrace +Pickering, Mr., 4, 2 0 0 +Pembroke road +Pickering, Miss, 5 0 +Notting hill terrace +Pickering, Miss H., 2 6 +ditto +Pitt, Mrs., Wiple 1 1 0 +place +Pitt, Miss, 31, 1 1 0 +Kensington square +Pollard, Mr., 22, 1 0 0 +Notting hill terrace +Pollock, Mr., 7, 1 1 0 +Bath place +Pollock, Mrs. R., 6, 1 1 0 +St. George’s terrace +Powell, Mrs., 18, 1 1 0 +St. Mary Abbot’s +terrace +Pownall, Mr., 5, 1 0 0 +Lower Phillimore +place + +Quilter, Mrs. H., 5, 1 1 0 +Campden hill villas + +Rathbone, Mrs., 15, 1 1 0 +Lower Phillimore +place +Richardson, Mr., 4, 2 2 0 +Norland terrace +Rodney, Miss S., 7, 1 1 0 +Gore +Rougemont, Mrs., 1 1 0 +Wright’s lane +Rougemont, Miss, 1 1 0 +ditto +Rougemont, Miss 1 1 0 +Helen, ditto +Rougemont, Mr. H., 1 1 0 +Wright’s lane +Rougemont, Mr. 2 2 0 +Alex., 23, +Kensington square +Rougemont, Mrs. A., 1 1 0 +ditto +Roy, Mr., 6, 2 2 0 +Lansdowne terrace +Rundall, Mrs., 13, 1 1 0 +Earle’s terrace +Russell, Mr., 11, 1 1 0 +Church Street +Rutter, Mrs., 5, 1 1 0 +Young street + +St. George, Mrs., 4, 1 0 0 +Notting hill square +Senior, Mrs., Hyde 1 0 0 +park gate +Seward, Miss, 44, 1 0 0 +Notting hill square +Shaw, Mr. W. A., 5 0 0 +Wycombe lodge +Shephard, Mr., 7, 5 0 0 +Kensington square +Shephard, Mrs., 5 0 0 +ditto +Shephard, Miss M. 1 1 0 +A., ditto +Shepheard, The 4 4 0 +Misses, Notting hill +house, Notting hill +square +Sheppard, Mrs., 5, 2 2 0 +Ladbroke place +Simpson, Mr., 9, 1 1 0 +Notting hill terrace +Slater, Mr., High 1 0 0 +street +Smirke, Mrs. E., 1 0 0 +West cottage, +Bedford place +Smith, Mr. P., 11, 1 1 0 +Hornton street +Smith, Rev. Theyre 1 1 0 +T., 13, Notting hill +square +Sparrow, Mrs., 4, 2 2 0 +High street +Stark, Mr., 17, High 10 6 +street +Steer, Mrs., 27, 5 0 +Notting hill terrace +Stephenson, Miss C., 1 1 0 +Kensington palace +Stollard, Mr., High 1 1 0 +street, Gravel pits +Strange, Mrs. John, 2 2 0 +2, Hornton villas +Swindley, Mrs., 10, 14 0 +Wiple place + +Teed, Mrs., Campden 5 0 0 +house +Thew, Mrs., Hyde 2 2 0 +Park gate south +Thompson, Mr., 20, 2 2 0 +Kensington square +Thompson, Mrs., 1 1 0 +ditto +Thompson, Miss, 1 1 0 +ditto +Thompson, Mr. F., 2 2 0 +20, Kensington +square +Thurtle, Mr., 2, 1 1 0 +Albert place +Tuck, Mr., Inspector 1 1 0 +of Weights and +Measures, 5, +Mayfield place +Tyne, Mrs., 18, High 2 6 +street + +Vallance, Mr., The 1 1 0 +Villa, Notting hill +square +Vallis, Mr., 9, 5 0 +Mayfield place +Vallotton, Mr., 1 1 0 +Clifton house, Old +Brompton +Vincent, Mr. H. W., 2 0 0 +Thornwood lodge, +Campden hill +Vincent, Mr., 1, 1 0 0 +Upper Phillimore +place +Vyvyan, Miss, 10, 10 0 +Notting hill terrace + +Willock, Sir H. and 5 0 0 3 0 0 +Lady, (V.P.) Little +Campden house +Waddilove, Dr., 2 2 0 +D.C.L., 8, Ladbroke +place +Wade, Mr., 2, Upper 2 0 0 +Phillimore place +Warburton, Mrs., 7, 10 0 +Allen terrace +Ward, Dr. O., 9, 1 1 0 +Leonard place +Warner, Mr., 9, 2 2 0 +Kensington square +Webster, Mr., The 1 0 0 +Mall +Weigall, Mr., 5, 2 2 0 +Hanover terrace, +Notting hill +Weston, Mr., Hyde 2 2 0 +park gate +White, Captain, 4, 1 1 0 +Leonard place +White, Mr., 10, 1 1 0 +Leonard place +Whitehouse, Mr., 1 1 0 +Bloomfield lodge, +Ladbroke terrace +Willis, Miss, Palace 1 1 0 +green +Willis, Miss E., 1 1 0 +ditto +Willock, Major, 2 2 0 +Vicarage place +Wilson, Mr., 1, 1 1 0 +Phillimore terrace +Winn, Hon. Mrs., 26, 1 1 0 +Upper Phillimore +place +Wiseman and Coles, 10 0 +Messrs., 57, High +Street +Withers, Rev. E. W., 1 1 0 +31, Lower Phillimore +place +Woodcock, Mr., 4, 10 0 +High street +Worthington, Mr., 3, 5 0 +Mayfield place +Wynyard, Mrs. C., 1 1 0 +Kensington palace + +Young, Miss, 25, 3 3 0 +Kensington square + +Special for St. 8 15 0 +John’s Districts +Special l 13 1 + + * * * * * + +_Subscriptions and Donations received after December_ 31, 1845, _will +appear in next year’s list_. + + * * * * * + + * * * * * + + Geo. Nichols, Printer, Earl’s Court, Leicester Square. + + + + +FOOTNOTES + + +{10} See the Second Report, lately published, of the “Association for +promoting the Relief of Destitution in the Metropolis, and for improving +the Condition of the Poor, by means of Parochial and District Visiting, +under the superintendence and direction of the Bishop and Clergy.” It +contains a large amount of most interesting information. Copies may be +obtained by application to MR. HALY, at the Office of the Association, +No. 4, St. Martin’s Place, Trafalgar Square. The Secretaries of this +Society will also endeavour to obtain copies for any parishioner who may +express a wish to that effect. + +{11a} Very frequently, however, they assert that they are resident, and +have long been resident, in the parish. Without hesitation they name +their abode; which is often stated to be at a particular house in Gore +Lane. No one unacquainted with the minute circumstances of each street +would suspect that the number they take care to select is one which does +_not exist_ in Gore Lane _at all_. The deception is of course only +detected when the case is recommended to the District Visitor for +inquiry. + +{11b} It appears from the last Report of the Mendicity Society, who have +had opportunities of proving the fact upon an extensive scale, and have +endeavoured to apply such tests for the purpose as might discriminate +fairly between the idle and the unfortunate, that of 3289 applicants, +who, being able-bodied men, were offered work at stone-breaking, only 839 +availed themselves of it, 1630 did not work at all, and 820 worked only +one day. “Facts which, after making all reasonable allowances, would +lead to the conclusion that about three-fourths of the above applicants, +were persons who were quite satisfied to lead a life of idleness, and +determined to use no exertion to earn a subsistence.” + +{12} The following instance, among others, which show forcibly the +necessity of caution in this respect on the part of Residents and +Subscribers, appears in a communication from a Visitor to the +Secretaries:—“I have this day refused to give any relief in Mrs. —. +Firstly, because she appears to be forming a habit of making a regular +weekly application, on each Saturday. Secondly, because anything given +in the District seems to be considered by her as justifying her in making +application. Thirdly, because she uses bad language to her children, and +shows violence of conduct and temper. Without naming other reasons, it +may suffice to say, that I have seen no one feature in her case entitling +it to so much attention, on account of character, conduct, or +circumstances, but the reverse. She told me that she had acquainted a +lady yesterday, that I had not been in the District during the last +fortnight; I have been there _three times this week_, and given relief +where required. A glance at the accounts will show that the —’s have, +when occasion has demanded it, participated largely in the funds of the +District Visiting Society; and that great caution is necessary to prevent +them and others from obtaining a regular winter allowance.” + +{13} “The present demoralizing system of begging—a thing so ruinous in +its effects, that the major part of the delinquents with which our +prisons are filled, owe their progress in crime to the encouragement +given to idle habits by the false feeling of charity acted upon by the +public, in the promiscuous dispensation of alms to those who are seldom, +if ever, deserving of them.”—_Report on Poverty_, _Mendicity_, _and +Crime_, _to the House of Lords in_ 1839, _by_ W. A. MILES, Esq. + +{14} In some districts the greatest inconvenience has been felt from +their unsettled condition. The following is but one out of several +similar complaints on the part of Visitors:—“I have found the people +thankful for the little they receive. But they are such a moving race, +that before I get acquainted with their habits they are off to another +quarter, and new people fill their places; this to me is most +unsatisfactory.” + +{15} “The present month, has afforded further evidence of the discontent +and disappointment produced by undiscriminating bounty. The gift of +bread or coals to a certain _number_ of families taken indiscriminately, +or to _every_ poor person, in such a locality, is not only indiscreet but +unjust, and impedes the exertions of a society whose principle is to +discover and encourage the good, to deter the bad.”—_Report of a +Visitor_, _February_, 1845. + +{16} “The month of February appears to be the most trying to the poor of +this district. Their little savings, if any, have been exhausted; their +clothes and furniture are gradually being taken to the pawnbroker; hunger +and cold are producing disease, unless timely help is afforded. . . . +The clock is generally the first article sent to the pawnbroker; then the +wife’s articles of wearing apparel; the children’s shoes, the husband’s +coat and waistcoat; and afterwards his tools, his spade, his saw, &c. +The last portion of property, is the bedding and furniture, when shavings +are substituted. Such seem to be the regular gradations of distress. +The last, happily, has seldom been witnessed since the first month or two +of the Society’s operations in this district. It was pointed out to me +to-day in another place.”—_Report of a Visitor_. _February_ 1845. + +{17a} A subject intimately connected with that noticed above, viz. the +relation between IGNORANCE and SOCIAL MISERY, has received some +remarkable illustrations from the practical operations of this Society. + +It would appear from the amount of relief administered in certain +districts, selected for the calculation on account of their remote +distances from one another, and from their containing a labouring +population exclusively, that, although subject to modifications from the +peculiar character and condition of the inhabitants, or from +circumstances of an accidental nature in each case, yet the same law is +found in the mass to prevail throughout; PHYSICAL DISTRESS AND WANT OF +EDUCATION ARE EXHIBITED AS CO-EXISTING IN A DIRECT RATIO. + +Omitting, for brevity, 80 families of intermediate degrees of education, +it appears that of the remaining 100 families respecting whom the +calculation was made, the amount of relief required by those in which +neither father nor mother could read, or one of them imperfectly, has +been actually _twice as much per head_ as by those in which either father +or mother could read and write well. + +The attention of the Committee was drawn to this important subject in +consequence of the Report of an Intelligent Visitor. The result of his +experience shows that, in his district, “distress has been very much in +proportion to the deplorable ignorance of the recipients. More than half +the relief has been given to persons who could neither read nor write.” + +Upon this fact he has founded an energetic appeal for measures to be +taken to provide for the education of the adult population, so far as +practicable. The Committee trust that the liberality of the Subscribers +may put it into their power to co-operate with the Clergy in adopting +measures for the purpose, which the limited means at their disposal have +up to this time rendered impossible. + +{17b} It seems desirable to mention that in both the years 1844 and 1845 +the benefits of the Coal Fund have extended over the whole of +Kensington—St. Mary Abbots, St. John’s, and St. James’s. A Coal Fund and +Clothing Fund have also been established in St. Barnabas’ District +supported by local contributions. + +{19} “It very gratifying” writes a visitor, “to observe the alacrity +with which the women went to their boxes to get out their Clothing Fund +cards and money. [The deposits were collected weekly by the Visitor in +person.] The exchequer of the poor in this, an Irish district, generally +consists of a few shillings deposited within a very small box carefully +kept within two or three other boxes, or at the bottom of an old chest. +On no one occasion has any bad money been offered to him. The money is +generally, indeed invariably, paid by the females. The confidence with +which they give their money is a trait not to be unnoticed; it being +often difficult to prevent them paying their money in the street, and +without any card or check. When the Visitor has been prevented from +calling at the time appointed, they have very frankly and very properly +reminded him of it.” + +{20a} It not unfrequently happens that residents have needle-work, +charing, or other work to be done, and are at a loss to know where to +find respectable persons to undertake it. A reference to a District +Visitor will both supply their want and at the same time obtain +employment for some deserving individual to whom it may prove an +invaluable assistance. A large number of sempstresses, charwomen, +laundresses, &c., depend solely upon the work which they are casually +able to obtain. + +{20b} The intervention of the Visitors has been productive of most +valuable assistance in many other respects. The following instances have +been reported as occurring in a SINGLE district: + +Mrs. A. came to me in great distress in consequence of her goods being +about to be seized for rent. She owed about a pound; she begged of me to +save them. She stated that in about a fortnight she should go out as a +monthly nurse, and then she should be able to pay. She had told her +landlord this but he was inexorable. In consequence of my opinion of her +character, I called on the landlord and reasoned with him, and begged a +little time for the poor woman; which he granted me. _She has since +discharged the debt_. + +In another instance:—“B. had been long out of work; at last he got +employment; but on the first week, late on Saturday night, he came to me +in great perplexity to tell me that his landlord to whom he owed 3s. 6d. +had entered the house during the time his wife and himself had been out, +and turned his children and little furniture into the street and locked +the door; and where to put his head under with his family he did not +know.” The immediate intervention of the Visitor succeeded in obtaining +from the landlord permission for the poor family to stop there until they +could get some other habitation. + +. . . “I found Mrs. C. lying in extreme debility from inflammation of the +chest, and in great distress of mind from fears of her destitute +condition. She said it appeared almost like an interposition of +Providence that I had come to see her. . . . She told me that she and +her husband had partly gained a living by selling vegetables to a lady, +and by occasionally being employed by her; but for some cause they had +been discharged from their employment and ordered not to come near the +house. She wished me to get her an interview with the lady, as soon as +she could get out. I ventured to write to her stating all the +particulars. She promptly, the next morning, sent to tell the woman to +come as soon as she was able. An interview taking place, the secret came +out that the lady’s cook wanted to obtain that a tradesman in town whom +she knew should supply her mistress; and accordingly had represented the +poor woman to her as imposing and ungrateful. On vindicating her own +character, the lady restored her to her former position. I have since +been enabled to give them a character from personal observation that has +enabled them to get the charge of a gentleman’s house, who is so +satisfied with them that he has personally thanked me. The poor couple’s +gratitude has been great to the Society for thus rescuing them from +poverty and disgrace, and placing them in comparative comfort.” + +. . . “I had known D. and his wife to be cleanly, industrious, and +upright people; but the husband having a serious attack of illness was +laid up three months, during which time the rent accumulated to £4. The +landlord seized on their furniture, which if it had been sold, must have +broken up their home for ever. She applied to me in her distress. On +making her case known to the managers of the District Visiting Society, +they obtained (from private sources) a loan of the part she was not able +to make up, and saved them from destruction. A part of the money that +was lent has been returned. The continued illness of the man I believe +to be the only reason why the whole has not.” + +{21} Any person may obtain Bibles and Prayer Books at the prices of the +Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, by applying at the depôt at +the Girls’ National School Room, on any Monday, between one and two +o’clock _only_; the Mistress having kindly consented to take charge of +them. + +{22} The following short extracts from reports by various Visitors will +exhibit some of the difficulties with which they have to contend, as well +as many grounds of encouragement and anticipation of better things to +come. + +“Of the persons in this district, there is much to be hoped from the +gratitude of the families who have been relieved, and from the symptoms +of self exertion that are beginning to exhibit themselves, shown by the +subscriptions to the Coal and Clothing Funds.” + +“The people have generally appeared quiet and cheerful, and have shown +every outward mark of respect and gratitude for the assistance rendered +them by the Society.” + +“I feel convinced that the trifling assistance supplied during sickness +or the temporary want of employment, has been in many instances of the +greatest importance to the sufferer, sometimes saving his little all from +the pawnbroker, and enabling him to struggle through his difficulties.” + +“The District Visiting Society’s funds are highly beneficial in my +district; and have been so especially in S’s case; also F’s, and B’s, +M’s, and B’s. All has been most gratefully received. I feel great +comfort in knowing much good has been done. . . . There is severe +distress in my small district. . . . ” + +“In a district,” it is reported, “where one day was remarkable if spent +without some disgraceful scene of drunken brawling taking place, a day of +brawls has now become the day to be remarked. . . . The most profligate +characters have left the district, finding they have not the attention +paid them that others have. . . . Christmas day (last) was spent without +one drunken scene; a circumstance unknown for many years—almost within +the memory of the ‘oldest inhabitant.’” + +Several instances have occurred of famines of bad character having +migrated first from district to district, and then, finding that each +successive Visitor was aware of their character and withheld relief from +them, have finally emigrated from the parish altogether. In two +instances in particular, families of a very bad class left, giving out +that it was in consequence of the inspection of the Visitor. It is +needless to add that by all respectable poor, the attention and personal +interest of the Visitor is invariably courted, and gratefully +acknowledged. + +{23} Individuals who desire to visit personally and to relieve from +their own resources a small number of poor families, but who are unable +to take charge of a District, are requested to communicate with the +Clergy upon the subject. 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