To the Editor of the "Nonra-Carsa Day News."
3rm,—In reading in this morning's paper the report of the very interesting historical sermon delivered yesterday b: the Rev. A. J, Walker, I noted that the facts concerning the origin of Trinity Church, now called the Cathedral, seemed not to have been preserved in any document or register in the parish As they are of considerable importance as regards the history of the church itself, and also show how cordially English and Americans united in the foundation of this congregation, they may not be uninteresting to some of your readers, Soon after the Rt, Rev. W. J. Boone, D. D., arrived in Shanghai (June 1845), services for English and American resid-cuts wore begun in a chapel in his house, in what is now Hongkew. The services were taken in turn by Bishop Boone and the Rev. E. W. Syle of the American Mission and the Rov. T. McClatchi the Church Missionary Society.
Matters s> continued till 1847, when a meeting was called at H. B. M. Consulate to t"ke measures for the establishment of church "for the use of Europeans and ing in Shanghai. A full meeting was preserved in of the Chinese Repository. The following members of the Foreign Community were present:—R Alcock, Esq, H. B, M, Consul; Right Rev. W. J. Boone, D. D., Rev. T. McClatchie, Rev. E, Syle, Rev. W. C, Milne, Messrs A. MeCulloch, C. Shaw, D. Potter, T. Moncriof, A. Golder, C. Bates, 'T. U, Beale, D. Robertson, W. Lockhart, R. P. Saul, Cunningham, C. Empson, J. Crompton, H. H. Kennedy, and G. Urmston. the chair pared by Bishop Boone, the meeting and cartied unanimously. The most important and interesting are the Ist, 4th, Gth, 7th, 8th, and 13th resolution: wh rests of religi ould. immediately be taken to build a Church and secure the services of & minister of the Gospel for the Foreign Community residing at Shanghai; and whorons by the zeal and liberality of Mr. T. C. Beale, a lot of land hag been recorded, and is now tendered for this object, therefore resolved, that a Committee of three of our number be appointed for us and in our behalf to procure from Mr. Beale the aforesaid plot, and to build thereon with all convenient dispatch a Church at an expense not exceeding $6,000, the said Church to contain 60 or more pews, capable of accommodating 300 persons at least, and 10 to build @ parsonage at ani oxponso not exceeding $4,000."
4th—That after the sale of the pows above-mentioned, it shall be the duty of the Building Committes to procure a meeting of the pewholders, who shall elect six of their number to act as vestry-men, to whom and their successors in office the Building Committee shall convey the Church to be taken by them for the pewholders, held for ever in trust to be used for the worship of Almighty God, according to the forms of worship and discipline of the Church of England to secure which' object, the aforesaid deed of conveyance shall be duly record-oil in the office of H.B.M's Consul."
Gth.—"That the vestryman elected as above-ment-ned, shall continue in office until the Easter Monday nest ensuing, and that upon that day and ever after, there shall be he'd annually on Enster Monday, by the pewholders, an election for six vesirymen to a-rye for one year, there being allowed & vote to the holder of exch pew which the assessment has been oth That it shall be the privilege Si
the miuis'er to appoint one of the vestry-men elected as aforesaid to act as warden, and that the vestryman shall elect from their number another to act with him, and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.