Methodist, two Unitarian, one Roman Catholic, one Swedenborgian, & one Quaker congregation: there are also two synagogues for the Jews. The following synopsis will show the situation of each chapel, the name of the minister who officiates, and the hours of divine service: Bowlalley lane New Dock street Jordan,.... Hours of Divine Service. ( Sunday Prayers at 7 mg. Lecture at past 10 mg. at p. aft. and 7 evening. Sunday-at p. 10 mg. p. 2 aft. and p. 6 evg. Prayers at 7 Monday evening, and Lecture at 7 on Wednesday. Sunday Prayers 7 mg. Lect. p.10, Pr. p. 2 aft. and p. 6 evg. Prayers Monday at 7 evg. Lecture Thursday at 7. Sunday- p. 10 mg. p. aft. and 6 in the evening. Sunday at 10 mg. Prayers at 3 aft. and Lecture 6 evg. Monday Prayers 7 evg. and Lecture at 7 Wednesday evening. Sunday at p. 10 mg. Prayers p. 2 aft. Lecture 6 evg. Monday Prayers 7 evg. Lecture Wed. and Thurs. evg. at 7 Sunday- p. 10 mg. 3 aft. in summer, and p. 2 aft in winter. Sunday meeting at 10 morning, 3 af- Sunday-at p. 10 mg. p. 2 aft. 6 evg. f Sunday-Prayers p. 7 mg. 10 mg. and 6evg. Thursday 7 evening. Sunday evening at 6 & Friday evening at 7 Sunday Prayers 7 mg. p.10 mg.3 aft. and 6 evg. Lecture Mon. & Thu. 7 evg. Sunday Pr. 6 mg. p. 9 mg. Lect. p. 10 mg. 3 aft. and 6 evg. Pr. 8 evg. Mon.. Lect. 7 and Pr. 8 evg. Tu. Pr. 7 evg. Fri. Lect. 7 evg. Sat. Prayer 7 evening. Sunday at p. 10 mg. and p. 2 aft. at 2 in Winter. Saturday at 8 mg. 2 aft. and 5 evg. in winter; at 9 evg. in summer; Mon.and Thursday at 7 morning. Friday evg. at 5, and Sat. morn. at 8. Sunday- p. 10 morning & 3 afternoon Sunday 11 morning, & p. 6 evening, and Wed. at 7 evening. The Missionary monthly prayer meeting is held alternately at Fish street, Hope street, George street, and Salthouse lane chapels, on the first Monday evening of the month. In addition to the other places of religious worship, there is in Hull a floating chapel supported by voluntary contributions, and which does honour to the town. This chapel is formed of the hull of an old merchant ship; of four hundred tons burthen, and which is safely moored at the west end of the old dock. The object is to accommodate seamen with a place of worship suited to their peculiar habits of life, and it will contain from six to seven hundred persons, and seat five hundred comfortably. The service is performed gratuitously, by ministers of the Church of England, by the Calvinistic Dissenters, and by the Methodist ministers. Instead of bells to announce the time of public worship, a flag is hoisted at the mast head; two sermons are preached every Sunday, and a prayer meeting is held every Tuesday night in summer. In the winter season this buoyant sanctuary is well attended by a nautical congregation, whose appearance is clean and decent, and their conduct orderly and exemplary. The service on Sunday commences at half-past ten in the morning, and at half-past two in the afternoon. The charities in Hull are numerous, and amongst the most ancient and important of them may be ranked the Trinity House and Hospital. It has already been seen that the fraternity, or brotherhood, of masters and pilots, seamen of the Trinity House in Hull, was first instituted in the year 1369, for the relief of decayed seamen and their widows; and in order to provide a fund for the purpose, the members engaged to pay 2s. each, annually, which sum was then equal in value to about two pounds of our present money. Since that time the funds have been considerably increased by legacies and benefactions, and they are continually replenished by a contribution of sixpence per month from every seaman sailing from this port. The corporation of the Trinity House, is composed of twelve elder brethren, six assistants, and an unlimited number of younger brethren. Out of the elder brethren are chosen annually, on the first Wednesday in September, two wardens, who are at the head of the corporation during their period of office; and at the same time are elected two stewards from among the younger brethren; these offices for the year 1822 3, are The first royal charter conferred upon this community was granted by Henry VI. in the year 1442, and this grant has been confirmed and extended by seven subsequent charters, from the time of Henry VIII. to Charles II. the privileges of the guild consist principally in the right to levy and receive primage for the support of poor mariners, and their wives and widows in alms houses, by weekly and quarterly pensions; in affording relief to shipwrecked mariners; in licensing and appointing pilots; in placing buoys and beacons for the safety of navigation in the river Humber; in settling differences between masters of ships and their men; and in various other powers relating to maritime affairs. The Trinity House, where the business of the corporation is transacted, was originally founded in 1457, and was re-built in 1753. The building consists of four sides surrounding a spacious area or court. The north, the south, and the east sides consist of single The apartments for thirty-four pensioners. front is a handsome brick structure, in the Tuscan order of architecture, with a pediment of free stone, ornamented by the King's Arms, with the figure of Neptune on one side, and Britannia on the other, respectably executed by the late Mr. Jeremiah Hargrave of this place. On the side towards the west are the hall and housekeepers' rooms, with kitchens and other offices. Over these offices are two elegant council chambers for transacting the business of the house. The various apartments of this building contain several curiosities brought from foreign countries, and are ornamented with a number of paintings calculated to gratify the traveller and the man of taste. Adjoining the front of the Trinity House is a handsome chapel, built in 1772, and fitted up in an elegant manner for the purpose of divine worship, wherein service is performed three times a week, and a sermon preached monthly by the Rev. George John Davies, M. A. the present chaplain. In the same year that the chapel was built, a Marine School was founded by the Trinity House, in which institution thirty-six boys receive the advantage of a nautical education, each member of this corporation appointing two. The children remain in this seminary three years, during which period they are annually provided with a neat uniform and every other article of dress. The other alms houses belonging to the Trinity House, are Robinson's Hospital, given to this corporation in the year 1682, by William Robinson, Esq, then sheriff of Hull; and in 1769, re-built and enlarged for the reception of decayed younger brethren and their wives; six rooms in the hospital, for the reception of as many widows of seamen, erected by Dr. Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David's, about the year 1687: the Merchant Seamen's Hospital, in Whitefriargate, built by this corporation in 1781, for the reception of poor worn-out seamen and their widows; and a Hospital for decayed seamen and their wives adjoining the Trinity House Chapel, established in 1787. In addition to these charitable foundations, the corporation of the Trinity House have just completed on part of their property, situated near the site of the town's walls, another large and handsome pile called Ferris's Hospital, in memory of Alderman Ferris, their benefactor, which will afford accommodation to from ❘tion of twelve poor persons, who each receive during the winter months: the Rev. Kings man Baskett, M. A. is the master and chaplain. The apartments in the hospital for the brothers and sisters amount to fifty-seven, of which twenty-nine are for women, and twenty-eight for men; they are well fitted up and exceedingly convenient, and each individual is allowed three shillings and sixpence a week besides fuel, with some few occasional payments. The revenues of this foundation which arise from rents of lands and a share in the Hull Doek Co.'s concerns, now amount to from 800%. to 1000/. a year, though in 1600, the annual rents only produced 544. twenty to thirty inmates. Extensive benefits do of course result to the seamen of the port of Hull from this munificent foundation, the revenues of which, appropriated to charitable purposes alone amount to five thousand pounds a year. The Charter House, another of the ancient Hospitals of Hull, was founded in the year 1384, by Michael de la Pole, the first Earl of Suffolk, of that name, adjoining to his other foundation of the monastery of St. Michael. In the rage for sweeping away religious and charitable foundations, this establishment was seized by Henry VIII. but afterwards re-founded, as has been already seen, by his son and successor Edward VI. In the year 1642, when Hull was besieged by Charles I. the governor, Sir John Hotham, totally demolished the buildings of the Charter House, to prevent the royalists from obtaining a lodgment here. At the end of the civil wars, this hospital was re-built, and the sum of 278/. 18s. 3d. was paid out of the public purse, by the then governor, Lord Fairfax, towards the expenses of the new erection. This building stood till the year 1780, when it was taken down, and the present spacious and handsome structure erected in its stead. The building forming the Charter House as it at present stands, has two projecting wings, and is in a style of architecture suited to the humble purpose to which it is applied. On the top of the portico before the front door, supported by six handsome stone pillars, are the following inscriptions: Deo et pauperibus Michael de la Pole has Edes posuit, A. D. 1384. Renovatas iterum auctiusque instauratas piæ fundatoris memoriæ, D. D. Johannes Bourne, rector, A. D. 1780. In the principal body of the building is a handsome chapel, which not only serves for the use of the house, but also as a substitute for Sculcoates church There are in Hull several other hospitals: these are Lister's Hospital, founded by Sir John Lister, alderman and member of parliament for Hull, in 1641, for the recep two shillings and sixpence per week, there is also allowed 27. per annum, and suitable apartments for a lecturer: Gregg's Hospital, of the date of 1416, for twelve poor old women, who receive one shilling and sixpence per week: Crowle's Hospital, erected and endowed by George Crowle, alderman and merchant, in 1661, where twelve poor women, the youngest of the age of fifty years, receive an allowance of fourteen pence per week, eightpence of that sum being derived from funds left by the founder, and sixpence received from the parish: Watson's Hospital, founded in the year 1687, by Dr. Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David's, where fourteen poor persons receive a stipend of one shilling and sixpence per week, (exclusive of the six pensioners belonging to the Trinity House:) Gce's Hospital, built about the year 1600, affords an asylum to ten poor aged women, and onę shilling and twopence per week towards their support: Harrison's Hospital, built in 1548, yields one shilling and twopence per week to ten poor women: and a foundation of this nature situated in Dagger lane, bequeathed by a person of the name of Ratcliff, a weaver, endowed by Mr. Buttery, and augmented by the corporation, yields one shilling and sixpence a week to six poor men and women, with an annual supply of fuel which is common to all these minor hospitals. The Lying-in Charity, established in the year 1802, extends its benefits to between three and four hundred poor married women annually, and from the time of its institution to the beginning of the year 1822, six thousand four hundred and twenty-two patients have been admitted, and given birth to six thousand four hundred and forty-one children. Mrs. Forbes, of Robinson row, is the matron of this excellent institution, and to her recommendations are sent. The Female Penitentiary, situated in Portland place, established in 1811, has for its object to receive and employ, and ultimately to restore to society such women as, having followed vicious courses, are desirous of obtaining the means of reformation. From the opening of the Penitentiary to the beginning of the year 1822, 151 patients have been received into the house, of whom it is reported that ten left without leave, twenty-seven by permission, sixteen were dismissed, forty-one went to service, thirtytwo were restored to their friends, seven were sent to the Infirmary, one died, four were married, and thirteen remained in the house. Mr. J. B. Briggs is the treasurer and honorary secretary: Miss Thorp is the matron, and Miss C. Thorp her assistant. The General Infirmary may rank amongst the most important monuments raised to benevolence in the town of Hull. The want of a public hospital for the recovery of the sick and lame poor had for some years been apparent in this place, when a few charitable individuals assembled in the month of October, in the year 1781, and opened a subscription for erecting and supporting a house of mercy, where the skill of the ablest practitioners might be united to the advantages of pure air, and proper food and medicine in effecting the recovery of the objects of their bounty. A proposal so laudable could not fail to meet with supporters, and a sufficient fund was soon raised to furnish a house for a temporary infirmary till a suitable and more permanent building could be prepared. This temporary establishment was opened on the 26th of September, 1782. In the mean time a field of two acres, situated within a short distance from the town on the Beverley road, at the end of the street, now called Prospect street, was purchased at a cost of 550l. and buildings erected upon it which swelled the amount to 4,126/. The accommodation thus afforded allowed of the reception of seventy in-patients. In the construction of the building great attention was paid to the interior arrangement, and no hospital in the kingdom has a freer circulation of air or more complete provision in every respect, for the objects of its care. The principles of the establishment are the most liberal and humane: not only are all the distinctions of sect and party disregarded, but locality itself gives no peculiar privileges, and the recommendation of a governor, at all times easily obtained by a proper object, forms a passport into the house, and a claim upon all its healing benefits, as well to the sick natives of the Ganges or the Nile, as to him who drew his first breath upon the Humber, and to none of them is any recommendation whatever necessary when the case does not admit of delay. The average expenditure of this Infirmary is about 1400%. per annum, and the number of in-patients yearly 300, and the outpatients 800, exclusive of the vaccine cases. Since the first opening of the house, in 1782, to the first of January, 1822, no fewer than 22,656 patients have been admitted, of whom 17,279 have been cured, and 2,696 greatly relieved; and the total number of persons vaccinated here to the beginning of 1822 was 11,240. Three physicians and three surgeons give their attendance gratis. The Right Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam is the president; and Mr. J. Higsoti, the house surgeon, apothecary and secretary. The Dispensary, for Hull and Seulcoates, situated in High street, near Sealelane staith, was established on the 1st of September, in 1814, at an annual expense of 350%. and is supported by subscriptions, and other voluntary donations. Some estimate may be formed of the benefits of this institution when it is stated, that it now affords relief to about 2000 patients a year, and that, from the first opening of the es. tablishment to the 5th of April in the present year, 14,540 patients have been admitted. Six surgeons are in attendance in turns, daily, gratis, and two physicians whenever their advice is required. The treasurer is J. C. Parker, Esq. and secretary W. Laverack. There is at Sculcoates a Refuge for the Insane, established in the year 1814, by Dr. Alderson and Mr. Ellis, surgeon. It is now conducted by the former and Mr. Casson.It is capable of containing from 80 to 90 patients; its present number from 50 to 60. The magistrates of the East Riding of this county direct all pauper lunatics to be placed here, having previously inspected the estab lishment and expressed their approbation of it, by which this part of the county was saved the expense of erecting a pauper lunatie asylum. A considerable portion of the place is set apart for the reception of private patients. It is surrounded by large gardens and apparently very convenient for the purposes intended. A Dispensary for diseases of the eye and ear was instituted in 1822, at No. 55, Mytongate, where patients, properly recommended, are admitted, from 10 to 12 o'clock every Tuesday and Friday. The surgeon of this institution is T. Buchanan, C. Mм. The Charity Hall is a spacious and convenient structure, in Whitefriargate, for the reception of the poor of the parishes of the Holy Trinity and St. Mary's, in Hull. In the 9th and 10th of William III. an act of Parliament was obtained for erecting workhouses and houses of correction in Hull, for the better maintenance and employment of the poor; and under the authority of this act, the premises called the Charity-hall, formerly used as a cloth-hall, were purchased and appropriated to the purpose of a workhouse. The provisions of the original act were confirmed and extended by an act of the 8th of Anne, and by another act of the 15th and 28th of George II. by which the mayor, recorder, and aldermen for the time being, and twentyfour other persons, to be selected by the six wards, were constituted a corporation, to continue for ever within the said town, by the name of the governor, deputy-governor, assistants, and guardians of the poor, to have the care of them and to provide for dious, is said to be one of the best in England. This school is open to all sons of burgesses, on the payment originally of 14s. then of 20s. and now of 40s. per annum, for classical instruction only of which description of scholars there are none at present. Writing and arithmetic were introduced into this school by the present master, and are now taught at a charge of four guineas per annum, for free boys, and eight guineas for the sons of non-freemen. The number of scholars are, at present, only 10 free boys, and 14 other scholars. They are admitted at any age, and there is no prescribed time of superannuation. This school has one exhibition of 40%. per ann. to any college in Cambridge, founded by a person of the name of Barry, or Berry, and a scholarship, founded by Alexander Met their maintenance. The parochial expen-calf, of 12s. 9d. per week, and rooms at diture of Hull has been subject to great fluctuatiors: from 1801 to 1808 it averaged ten housand pounds per ann.; in 1813, it amounted to 17,680l.; in 1817 to 31,200%.: and fron the second of February, 1821, to the second of February, 1822, to 16,279%. which sum includes the county rate of 1,190. The average number of paupers in the house during the past year was 385, an the average cost of their support exelusive of clothing, about 3s. per head Weekly. Sculcoates workhouse, situated in Wilson's row, Wincolmlee, is under the direction of a visitor and four guardians. The House of Correction, which is a small plain building, situated in Fetter-lane, near the Market-place, receives criminals for misdemeanours, and debtors from the Court of Requests. The keeper is Henry Lee. The gaol, situated in Myton-place, is kept by Francis Coates, where prisoners are confined previously to their removal to the County gaol for trial. This prison was erected, pursuant to an act of parliament, obtained in 1783. The lectureship of the Holy Trinity has usually been enjoyed by the master of the Free School, though that is not the case at present. The masters of this school who have been distinguished are:--the Rev. Andrew Marvel, M.A. father of the renowned patriot of that name; John Catlyn, originally a bricklayer, but who, by the force of his genius and application, became a great proficient in the learned languages; Rev. John Clarke, M. A. the translator of Suetonius and Sallust, and the Rev. Joseph Milner, M.A. author of the History of the Church. Amongst the eminent men educated here, may be mentioned Andrew Marvel, M.P. for Hull; Thomas Watson, D.D. Bishop of St. David's; the Rev. William Mason, M.A. the poet; Isaac Milner, D. D. F. R. S. Dean of Carlisle; William Wilberforce, Esq. M. P.; the Rev. Francis Wrangham, M. A. F. R. S.; and the eloquent Archideacon of Cleveland. In Hull, as in most of the other towns of England, there are Free Schools, as well for the higher as for the more humble branches of learning. Amongst these the Free Grammar School, founded in the reign of Richard III. in the year 1486, by the Right Rev. John Alcock, a native of Beverley, and suecessively Lord Bishop of Rochester, Worcester, and Ely, takes its precedency. In 1578, the old structure being at that time in a ruinous state, William Gee, Esq. an alderman of Hull, opened a subscription for erecting a new school house, himself subscribing twenty thousand bricks, and eighty pounds in money for that purpose.The erections were soon completed, and the school room, which is large and commo-mits any, except such as are recommended The Vicar's School, situated in Vicar Lane, was founded by the Rev. William Mason, father of the poet, in the year 1737, (in commemoration of the blessings of the revolution,) and it affords education to 54 boys, appointed by the vicar of Trinity Church for the time being; but the present vicar, with his usual liberality, rarely ad |