662 





Oat of 890 parishes, this augmentation takes place in 

 the case of 172 ; and the sum required for this purpose 

 is L.10,000 annually. There is very little inequality 

 in the income of the Scottish clergy ; few have an in- 

 come of above L.350, while the average has been com- 

 puted at L.285, including manse and glebe. In 

 Greenock and North Leith, where the glebe has been 

 feued, the income is much larger, the former of these 

 yielding L 800, the latter L.1300. In large towns, 

 also, the stipends are enlarged to meet the exigencies 

 of the situation ; and thus the ministers of Edinburgh 

 enjoy a revenue of nearly L.700, varying a little ac- 

 cording to the sources (an annual tax on house rent 

 and duties connected with the port of Leith) from 

 which it is collected. 



In addition to parish churches, there are chapels-of- 

 ease in large parishes where one church is insufficient ; 

 thus in St. Cuthbert's, or West Kirk parish, there are 

 no less than three such chapels, the population being 

 upwards of 40,000. The total number of such chapels 

 is fifty- four. So early as the year 1709, a society 

 was formed for promoting Religion and Education in 

 the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. From the 

 funds of this society, and from L. 2,000 annually given 

 by the king, missionaries, teachers, and catechists, are 

 employed in these places. This has a most beneficial 

 tendency, and will tend more than any other thing to 

 the civilization and refinement of that part of the king- 

 dom. By the bounty of government additional churches 

 are about to be erected in large and populous parishes. 



Dissenters in Scotland amount to about a fourth of 

 the whole population. There are about 30,000 per- 

 sons, representatives, as it were, of the Covenanters, 

 in the reign of Charles II. who would not accept of 

 the settlement of presbytery as fixed at the Revolution, 

 and who are commonly termed Cameronians from the 

 name of their famous leader. Almost all the dissent- 

 ers are more rigid presbyterians than the members of 

 the established church, and are all strict Calvinists. 

 The following table gives a general view of the man- 

 ner in which the inhabitants of Scotland may be ar- 

 ranged according to their religious opinions. 



Table of Religious Opinions. 



1. Members of the established church, 1,638,484 



2. Seceders from the established church 

 of various descriptions, but all hold- 



ing presbyterian principals, - 285,000 



Total of Presbyterians, 1,923,484 



3. Separatists, of various persuasions, as 

 Baptists, Bereans, Glassites, Unitari- 



ans, &c. -* . 50,000 



4. Roman Catholics, - 70,000 



5. Scotch Episcopalians, ... 33,000 



6. Church of England, . . 5,000 



7. Methodists, - - 10,000 



8. Quakers, - 530 



2,092,014 



The following table represents the state of the 

 churches connected with the establishment, and also 

 of the dissenting chapels at the end of ] 825. 

 Chapels of ease in the church of Scotland . $4, 

 Churches in England in connexion with the church 

 of Scotland, of whom nine clergymen are not li- 

 centiates of the church of Scotland 52 



SCOTLAND. 



Churches in Ireland in connexion with the church 

 of Scotland .... 



Churches abroad in connexion with the church 

 of Scotland. 



n Canada . . 10 



Nova Scotia . . 6 



New Brunswick . 2 



New South Wales, &c. 7 



Statistic. 



Ecclesiasti- 

 cal state. 



25 25 



Ministers of the church of Scotland on the 

 Dutch establishment. 



Amsterdam . . 2 



Rotterdam . . 2 



Dordrecht . . 1 



Middleburg . 1 



6 6 



Missionaries employed by the committee of Gene- 

 ral Assembly for managing the Royal Bounty 38 

 Missionaries employed by the Society for propa- 

 gating Christian Knowledge . . 9 

 The following is a list of the synods of dissent- 

 ers from the church of Scotland. 



No. of presbyteries. No. of churches. 



Reformed Presbyterian synod 3 28 



The united associate synod of the 



secession church . . 19 333 



Of whom there are out of Scot- 

 land, viz. at Newcastle . 14 



London . . 7 



Dissenters. 



21 



The associate synod . 3 



Original Burgher Associate Synod 5 . . 

 The constitutional presbytery, or 



original Antiburghers . 



Relief synod . . 7 



The Scottish Episcopal communion, six dio- 

 ceses .... 

 Episcopal chapels in Scotland not connected 



with the Scottish Episcopal communion 

 Independent churches in connexion with the 

 congregational union of Scotland 



Total number of churches not in the establish- 

 ment ..... 



From which deduct as in connexion with the 

 church .... 



Number of dissenting churches in Scotland 

 To which add the number of established cler- 

 gymen ...... 



And the chapels of ease and missionaries 



Total number of clergymen in Scotland, ex- 

 cepting Catholic clergymen, of whom there 

 are no returns 



19 

 50 



16 



84 



65 



77 



863 

 185 



678 



938 

 101 



1717 



Though the established religion of Scotland is the Catholies. 

 reformed, there are still, as is evident from the preced- 

 ing table, considerable remains of that ancient religion 

 which has never adopted the sentiments of the re- 

 formers. The antiquity of the Catholics claims for them 

 a distinct notice. And here we must separate the casual 

 inhabitants following the Romish church, to bestow our 

 attention on those who are the hereditary Catholics of 



