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Note T, p. 206.

The number of protestant dissenting chapels in England and Wales is about 7500; and the number of chapels of all denominations, including catholics, quakers, unitarians, and Jews, about 8700 and estimating the attendants at only 350 each on the average, the number of dissenters must be at least 3,000,000; whilst this number, according to the ratio of attendance to which we have referred in Note Q, represents a population of at least 6,500,000. Adding this number to the 6,500,000 of catholics in Ireland, the majority of the population are clearly dissenters.

The completest accounts of any denomination that have yet been published are to be found in the report of the Baptist Union for 1838. It seems that there are in England and Wales 1426 churches of that denomination; in 784 of which there are 75,048 members, and in 451 of them 58,449 Sabbath-school children; and in connexion with 372, 966 village stations. No documents had been received from the rest of the churches.

The following is the income of a few of the religious societies of this country for the last year :

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Adding to this list what is collected in different churches for local missions, we shall have a sum of at least one million raised for the purposes of ab extra voluntaryism in this form.

Reckoning the number of dissenting ministers of all persuasions at 8000, and supposing that they receive on an average 1207. a year each, we have nearly one million more, without taking into account the sums raised and expended on chapels and benevolent institutions.

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