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OVER £8,000,000. VOLUNTARY OFFERINGS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Annual Summary of tho Voluntary Offerings of tlio Church of England for the year ending Easter, 1911, is ns follows':— I. Funds contributed to Central and Diocesan Societies and Institutions, and administered by their executives: £■■ s. d. Home Work ; "0,201 U 9 Foreign Mission Societies, .Mission.ii'.y Colleges, Studentship Associations, etc. 360,933 S 0 Educational Work 78.05S- 2 2 The Clergy (Educational and Charitable Assistance) 2H2.120 1 2 Philanthropic Work 071.463 1. 1 11. Funds raised by Church Collections or Parochial Machinery; administered for Parochial purposes alone. £ s. d. For the Parochial Clergy ... 852,501 12 l> For Elementary Education 505,(i22 16 0 For General Parochial Purposes 3,993,101 1 9 I Totals. £ . 6. d. I—For General Purposes 2,75C,10S U G 11.-For Parochial Purposes 5,411,231 10 3 28,107,338 4 5 Stated to !be nearly GOO years old, a carved angel in tho roof of St. Andrew's Church, Burlingbam, Norfolk, fell to tho floor within three yards of the. spot where tho rector of the'church was standing. The London County Council have asked tho City Corporation to reconsider thoir decision to oppose tho council's proposed application to Parliament for authority to extend the existing tramways iu Farringdon Street from Charles Street to a point north of Ludgate Circm). An advertisement has appeared in the press requesting any person who witnessed the signature of Sir John Murruy Seott, Bart., to any will subsequent to December, 1907, ov has the custody of such a document, to communicate at once with a firm of solicitors. It will bo venieinbored that Sir J. Mnrrnv Scott died suddenly on January 17 wliilo on a visit lo tho Wallace collection in Hertford House, and the fuel that his will cannot b<i found is tli<r Vast incident in his strain,'!', history. He was (.ho sou of a pour medical man, and became tho private -'OCTf'tary to I.ady Wallace. He accumulated a large fortune, and received a baronetcy for bis untiring and successful oll'orls to secuiv tlm priceless collection lor the nation. Sir .1. Mnrrav Scott, wns a man of great wealth at the timn of his death, and the whereabouts of hi* will has ilefiwl the most minute search, which has been curried out in ill likely places recently. Sir Joha Mun«j Scott xm wot m&iiUd.