The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-09 00:00:00

li • Mate elearlemr y the geared why th e Mr s inged ta esanitatka of New Oath .-- ta. other.. Lend Grey had found W..••.7.,,,eA1f,g gem retienetna to the pupate. Tint eist bAs petitioss from die ealeesy sow ,••• lie haw. thee tbe okay, lallowaers, •• ..s." --- tem - a thrust h e. rated *at the art of 6 mad 6 Me% which the ausedtatisa wes estalielthed). c" • ••• ld` is , . • gp aI, lii ii r tric eelealets, and se KW t the weil-kaars • I Ferree/ulna de eu- ezt-stive with ll' • Vas Diessen's L ead sad the ether coloodes t' s* , • , pea ee-et bees receivt el, olleettent eusdarios tkaa that et New Sunk !. „ ~h our perfectly tint iefeetery to the peopa bora le of t and m poi slogs of the ist • hirshfart not to domed • nestle ekambir; the :mantel constitution; bat that et was highly papillae. The L•cisladve 1 4 . - comae. w.ta the eseeptioes that earthird, sad • n en:eel f somine es ; the other twn•thirds were n e peop:e Ir, : ere were 12 soniane. and 24 L n The council was popular, inasmark as : me ••• • washers ountualeored the when is the ratio et • le brume a or. ..mutton for the Australian I. • el.e..t had hees thought desirable to take es Leel worknot of which they Lad had er r • tut ot the g • .nJ it that inossen . then was hotline to viably • .ies thot i• avoit thle to the people. That • ~0 , 1 es wenn a single chamber had hem decided • a k. •:e baronet (Sir W. )ielesworth) , r y to dieotldito,ll between local sad SM .: 1 0 , • s*.:ol. llr ii.h.€l hint to de se, when the sr: of pirlisiaint w• re eassidered. Bat there ;Ten . h. r •ti n to nuking a judicial sad legal body • •,,c i• qe• diens. All Mu had attendel to ...tees knew toot the practice was be allow a van , . c o. a• ie, pleasures to pass late operation at once ; ; f f •enne one legal afoot to nine tenths of . , ; ledual ante. There was, to be sure, the , • c d eh•ertios that tee crown Kill reser? Ld the power ; re:toll, the serest body of roloaial lrgirla lab elevation. When a bill had so ~L, a claim, sad woe usobjneiniable to the ..onseil,ea4 suaurely, it p eased tato operation, and e. on. It hag bora said that New South Wales or 110,1 could at vote 60. for the repair of a Rovers . • • ,me, or a anaket-pleer, or a dais, without weitiag toe Secretary Id &ate. That ern act so. The • : ..y TOSS 1110 'alms in the ernmeil, aed the appro „ en pond there, as it slid here; sad the mosey , laird on all use local to' leen and puma** lour be :wappeopriation received a Veal runt:sties. The Lou t . the power b.Ling reenrd in tb • cfswil Might be Le say ea could be slew., for a eenteletsble time ..- aline the allowames of the clown had b refused to • act. He knew ogle steel we, the ugh it was -nee night fa.st. Pniatielilly, therefore, the consy • incised the power (the crown consenting) o• ....le' ion. To the boa. baronet's proposition this eras, that many of these laws, whose object was 0 .. might be set wide by • legal, deeiaion. Another re•alt from surreadmiag what was called local ~., and reserving the imperial, that a f l overnur , nms.elled to be doubly jealous in watching ever nicht Wrings ea the prerogative. At present, into open:ion, though it might be really an •, t. AA. riot. :mucks had been made by the hon. • r or hyena-nits (Nr. Bather), who stated, uan •• .• Lc of tin diminished curer of voter., that there , corn *her, ugly two wen hare voted, and that •• f r• t resented the constituency. It had been his • lor.anal to be elected without a , • . tv had known a great many elections in even in Westaaiuster, without a lle to Berea the hen member fir Manchester had . ; without' at ‘acta,st ; ulnae, be dared say be , (Lathier.) lint bx mu there was no contest, • ::arc no eur.stifiaeinj 1 Ia conclusion, he would • o ' s • eve with respect to the Cape that Sir R. Smith e . the Attocuy-Generel, and other persons Ia • . ••• •• there, anal Le mists: areal to the documents be • • •ei in p.m of the • spine ability wi h which they . the es . jet:. (Cowen.) r. eaLtDBroNk:, end he dad mat net for the purpose c: • ass ar , view of ten general prig .cipie of c010n... n... nw.,..y as Isis d,wa by die ruble lord, r •.; ...was the can of thou gentles's who had r: • i ....enter soda the LAW of the Colonial Rotors • -es" halt nse mole particularly kr the , leaning the appeal of the honourable and .4 L, L .1 abraber tor that they would not Mae step wilt neuCt to the Australian Con. 51 L it .ore w-t.:ranwillt had not decided et p. p a welt inam.b.r le would not have to my. Ho 4no toe government Cr •dit for a MIL.; :Itt. ka aur.....y spirit, and if be vestared to sts.,te.: &tuber arrunets.ent nes net for the peirpom of attaer os L.ne pvetuaseet. Ilut how Mood the • eo.• sward to s • k lthe eau of the bra./ Has s ibis .• We purer is double clut. r a the halo t tt.• ye.* of New South Wales !• er/..1. , at ; we urtt, laoseSfer, dose all is our I .rte • p :It s 's tor :It Msg. if it bs 000, beCausS a P.., sou the Awe', r n parr of establishing a second e.•t• r•c,r4 to tit, mu jy, it wee imperfect, because s. :r • Vc. WAG t o rennin the seuti- N Luta Wale.. He knew of so Intri+ell, in any colony -art from the interests ir•Wit • n t • • t-opl• t•r an.-r -ts. Nor rp. Atv, 'l% oi,o of the ir :lie ' , logy Welt (Hear.) • see •he people el % w or/tub Wales learned that the p the C 4. ~Loud reprmatativs chamber, u. rey Ae setoiliel *1 i.c principle of dm constitu•ion t ••• New S.u.k r 0. 4, t bite good enough seven rem r, hat it wee net • 19111 destitution fur the present Lx c-ald rot bat :Wok ltat if twelve persous—not lir r•r• in elm learned professions, •re•t • over., •str.Ll COMP ituted tbs grimed of pronto. t Hass re Lord. ut this weary, he appointed by l't crown. and Meriting tb. Ifrrald of their Ilerri••• to the wt.—‘tr• plat-d toptilet with tad La the free of 24 °then I •ail rot rp . riar flretbOn. it would be a lundemental and iletr, hear.) It proceeded on the asien.ption t'. • t tte crown bed soak thing to d. feud, milieu a popular merely woad like to :at •c —that be crown had one in. t.teet sad lie eoloey aeotter. lie would not go further r • • yawl se at that ma, at, but he wield b: prepared ei tee-mix, tame to urge or..be house the adrption of ow wood themes r. r Hear, hear.) lIUME:ookt-1 on tLe present debate as a most in ; 7isc• lee, ler it Medved ibis peaty and tracquilliiy of the : and the torsion or a vast expenditure on the part •tii rummy, if tat pr.unt glop:sal of the government t. rock rOlotiltll IS he h•.p.l it would. (Hear.) He was wick a Iry at • Art Of rut speech of the noble lord tt t r e le hirer :!.au hu prontiers cad statements ; . P. tr.ty waited W.! 'or them to be Teemed. (Ham.) 7. rtr cr,'. nits from sock t t eouth, and nom oast to tweet, di•V•4011101 hertarir: try went Bever allowed to ter Irrtea , l of a soiree of strength, which tl eDAbe it well roversied, titter colonies were a cease •• in emsequet,te tet . ebe repearl blunders eon : u. tie seorie ei governing theme end the Illaaleg is e. try had been tyrannised over. (Hear, hear.) What eo :.3 use to sr al rupee of discord and discontent rt e. from It. riontr, and sot 'heir separation from this ut:ry.He hoped end trusted, indeed be doubted •. tie these coteries, r roe es they got the e. ger of repast* their own affair', would give their full • &Inn .c. !btu, whereby an i 111211110.111 'arise, is every 't 4lTiew,wooil to. 'decal tor this couatry. (Hear, ear Tairefere, he lb amen the result would be a healing tre preetoessly existed, end that the boon • self-gerrentent Webb! be the meats of promAing happy. • mod rronterinnent, sail putting gown discontent and d.er tethers. (Hest, bor.) ADDEHLET quoted M. Ouizot to show that a free I '4 s 11 . 4.1.) opposes its entwine. He did not belim, Lauer, that meek we right ill-treat our colonies, they •••14 throw eruptive upon other countries. The lit grsenid• of the Australians for the little we tad ;tiered snowed their attachment to Begird. Ile implore.' that the press had treated them LrUtutions is a concession to popular clamour, bat U he Lough! that were the we, he would sooner take arms /Lore the e)loniee at or.: but he considered that they •,n 44.1 entering their rights. eipreswd satisfaction with much of the s..e.st 0..1 plan, but complained delayiag the eonstim- L 4. N w Z.mend toll 1b63. ltlr P. SCOTT said he believed that no'hing raid be more %wounded than the rewapion of the table lord at tto tied of the government, that the colonists bad ".:er.. a predilection fno a single chamber. lie t'x'•••ted by thaaking the noble lord for the liberal views Le Nil expressed, and which be hoped would be carried 4... t D.A.; THOMPSON wished to ask whether in the eons etreyets which now were, or were to be in our colonies, so! b•lthiga was to be ade for astride, the aborigines, or th‘er descendents to the privilege if the British constitu tem • Whether gornement proud, d for the prevention of Um* 'emir which took plass when any particular race of veto ace, oeherreel front Mom privileges ? Mr UAW ES, was happy to say that the aboriginal in- Utmost. 41 the British coteries were all British subjects, talon suet could qualify for the franchise equally with them fit r , hihtrm wu t►en screed to, and the report muted to be erhuallt sp os Mo - .day. COUNTY CE7B (IRELAND) BILL. Tbh b lI was ma a ►bird time, and paned. PARTY PROCESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL. S.l S OMERVILLE shoved toe less* to bring in a bill T " : "° Poem-ions la Inland. The bill prop. teed to dial with Vitsces of this hied as the original bill did, si.ly that ilietthing urn general, sad would be per tut sale that every boa, eaotlen•n would °d sett v 4 to be sedleiretli grist as to figure the MOWS LOw i 4 Ol/ftedM bribe is. ASIR iivia to bring is the bill. LL.II.bI.NG AND IMPROVING LEASES (IRELAND) BI Tae Y.LICITOR GENER AL asked leave to introdnee a 4.; to *Wile pine= Levies limited 'sweets in land is InAna to slake bedding kW' tad improving Imes. mated. CHARITABLE TRUSTS (IRELL.ND). The tU rLICITORGENERAL moved lot leave to bring a i hailhatinu rod better nearing the du edmi raittahne ci ekyltat,l. trusts. Mt. 1 CREEK asked the bon. and learned gentleman to dewy the bnt wading of the bill until the public could Lw time to jade s o f i ts peovitioes. le sawyer le the hout.teoh 011111BAL s Mr. T tatNYR wild be should with the second reading to delayed ter • month.—Leave treated. lhe teverel bills above mentioned IMO this brought up, ault elms teed a sawed time ; sad the bows adjounted at haU -1...5. ghe erfresso. ouyoots9 *AILI. The West India Nana, a:audio( Bermuda, Hannah, Name, 11 , entlaras, New Odom% and !genie), end !Wadies these ter Madeira. St. duns -do-Nifteragaa„ New Gnaw* Chili. sad Pora,will bo Rad* up au Fah. 17. TN rails kw Lib" Spain, and Gibraltar will be nada up es Feb. 17. TM sans Me Gibraltar, Naha, Greece, the Tobias Islands, Nape, Cellos, India, sad China, via tkatharaptos, wJ' he made op oft Ile marsiag Feb. 20. The nails few British North *aeries cud the I:failed OAPs will be nada up ea the arealug of Feb. 22. 1110111 ARTY ♦T WINDOM IMMO& Ts Ml —analog. 111,17.. altenart. Na T►a.aaaa—analog. 5a....- Abenres. 1 'LAIL LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9. LORD DOOLEY STUART had the greatest of pulls. men.ary difficulties to watts& with on Thursday night. lie had to state a series of facts, the mien cho!y and disgusting nature of which all deplored and none disputed, end he had to abet a CAMu of which all acknowledged at once the sanctity and the hope lessnere. A foreigner, on witnessing or reading that debate, might consider it cold; and nevertheless it would be impossible for a debate in an English House of Com mons to show more signs of unseitneus adhesion to the cause of Hun,lary ald of eastern independence than were evident on Thursday night. There was first of all the striking fact, that there was not one leader, or eminent man of a party, who stood up for either Austria or Russia. There was not pne member in a full House of Commsns to take the part which the Times and Chronicle dared to do on behalf of Austrian butchery and flagel lation, with the solitary exception of an amateur in those vindictive sports, Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON. His lordship, indeed, seemed to delight in those battles of men, and those saturnalia of executioners. But his lordship stood alone, on a kiwi of self erected pillory, the champion of Halfsatr, and the apostle of that glorious policy of Austria, exemplified by cowardly running away from every field, and flogging and murdering teem women whom they caught apart from their defenders. It was, however, gratifying to see, that none of the Pees party, old ur young, stood up for Austrian oppression ; that not one would volunteer to express Lord ABERDEEN'S aothlanted predilection for the House of HAPSBURG. Not one of the " red tapers," who hroub: ate in Quarterly or Times dust affront the generous feeling of the House of C3MMOOS by a repetition of their wile and inhuman twaddle. The views of eastern policy entertained by the pro tectiocists, as propounded by Mr. DISRAELI, were equally generous. On a former OCCASiOD the member for Bucks ventured a little championship for the house of Austria, and invoked the memory of MARIA THERESA, u the secular ally of England. But since the boasts and bulletins of execution, and since the calling in of Russia to tread down the constitution of Hungary, Mr. Dtanazu himself has not a word to say for the policy of SCHWARTZEN BERG Or NESSELEODE. His jiympathits are all for Turkey; and his sole anger is directed against the liberals for having maimed Turkey, and taken that rib, Greece, from out its side, to form a living king dom of. Sir De LACE EvAxs spoke, we think, the feeling of Europe and of England, when he declared that what ever present sympathies there might be for Turkey, none could regret the formation of an independent asylum and place of renascence for the remains of the Greeks. Theirs was a ease in which sentiment and a feeling of justice outweighed even policy. And however petty, tyrannical, and ungrateful the Greek government may tw, none can lament the par: which England had in making Athens once more a Grecian city under Grecian rule. That great act of inV-rference has, we believe, had more effect upon Turks than even upon Greek+. If it hat emancipated the one, it has humanised and European ised the other. All remember the atrocities which the Turkish troops committed in those days upon Christian populations. Mr. DISRAELI may talk now of the fault committed by liberals in denouncing Tur key ; but the massacre of Scio, and the cruelties of IBRAHIM on the Mores, were then fresh in every saner view, and it was impossible not to execrate the Turks then, as we abhor the Austrians now. Since that time, however, the Turkish government has become humane. It not only treats its Christian rayahs with fairness, but even its own officials are regarded sad treated like those of Europe. We hear no longer of bow-strings and sacks of beads ; and a more humane spirit prevails at the Otto man Porte than on the Burg at Vicuna or the Winter Palace of St. Petersburg. And if we wish to emancipate and launch forth on the voyage of civilization and progress the large Christian population on either side of the Danube, we are confident that this could be done with much more efficacy and independence by keeping them under the suzerainty of the Porte, than allowing them to lapse under the deepotism of Russia. The future fate of Turkey in Europe rests with its Chris tian races. The Turks themselves are there, after all, little more than intruders. Their worth is, that as honourable, magnanimous, and disinterested masters, they can allow and develop the local independence of Caristian communities, which Russia as yet would but pervert, corrupt, debase, and despoil. And, there fore, we fully agree in Mr. DthaAent's view of the necessity and policy of upholding the Turkish empire. To avow that aim as oases political principle, however, and at the same time to stand by and see Austria hand over Hungary to Russia, and leave the Dan übian principalities occu pied by its armies, is merely to smother by contra diction and pusillanimity the small perception one may have of policy and justice. We have little to say upon Lord PALMERSTON'S speech, except that it was, like his attitude, decorous and cool. The fervour of his lordship's first love for Hungary is apparently over ; ani he is now submit ting to that mariage tie raison with Austria and Russia, in the way of diplomatic understanding and political alliance, which we suppose, is prudential. A xarnco of the clergy and laity who are opposed to the government plan of national educe, hoe, took place on Thursday last, at Willie's Rooms. The speeches had very little to distinguish them from those delivered at the ordinary meetings of the National Society, and which have occasionally been the subjects of remark in oar columns, except an increase of bigotry and absurdity. dr. DENlsorr, for instance, never before ventured to assert that " all church education flowed from and naturally de pended upon the doctrine of baptismal regene ration;" or to declare, with the knowledge that one-half of the ch urch of England is at issue at this moment with the other half on the interpretation of an important portion of its for mula, " that the chard was the only thing in this country which had anything like fixed and immutable principles!" At no preceding meeting of the kind have we heard a clergyman after reprobating a system of education in violent terms finish by fulminating against the author of the system in the words, " Let him he accursed." These extravagances, however, would not have drawn any observations from us, had there happened nothing of greater importance. Our readers know by tuts time what to expect from the National Society under the guidance of Mr. DEMON ; and we should not have deemed an extra does of ex travagance of sufficient importance to need further comment from us. The great feature in the meeting of Thursday was not what was said, but what was done. The fact that was accom plished was the separation of the church from its edu cational relations with the state. The church, through the month of its organ, the National Society, has told the state that henceforth it will take none of its money : she turns over the said money in her hand, and refusing to imitate the example of the Roman emperor, returns the money with a con temptuous " olet." The National Society, after having done its part in bringing about this consent- mation, disappears from history; we are not likely to do anything in future to bring it forth from its con genial darkness. In the mean time the fact alluded to has its im portance. It means that the government plan of education, as far as the circumstances accompanying the annu al grant can be called a plan, has failed. The horse has, by dint of coaxing and kicking, been' brought to the water, bat he won't drink. Nothing can be more decided than the tone adopted by the speakers of Thursday. There was no room LA for compromise. As long as the committee of council persisted in attaching any, the slightest, con-' dition to the money grants, the National Bo- THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1850. ciety and with it the church would Wass any participation la the said grant. As the whole meaning of the council would evaporate, Were it were something more than • mere body of clerks entreated with the payment of (wrath morales, and with nothing else, the council must abdicate its functions, and the government plan falls to the ground. The anneal grant may, perhaps, continue tor a short time to be voted, but row that the church has refused to core for its share, the great reason foe its Anther continuance will be gone. proportion of the grant absorbed by the other religious bodies is so small com pared with that taken by the church, that a modifica tion of the amount of the grant would be required im mediately ; and when it iscoosidered that this secession of the largest religious body in England is a complete denial of the principle upon which the grant is ad vocated—namely, that a system of government super vision of education ma be introduced, which will succeed to a certain degree in bringing ell emits within its influence—the ground is taken from under the feet of its advocates. _ _ _ We are far from gating these facts with any W intered intention of rejoicing over the failure of the government scheme. On the contrary, we cannot but feel some regret that a plan, the details of which have been worked out with admirable diligence and talent, should have failed from circumstances over which it had no control. But what are we to do? In spite of all the efforts of government, it is clear the sectarian influence is too strong to allow of the existence of a government plan of education. It may be very desirable that all recta should content to sacrifice something, for the sake of producing a great national bene fi t; but if they will not do this, there is nothing more to be said. The government may choose obstinately to continue the grant, and will per haps be able to find means to spend it. It may sue• card in getting hold of deserters from the opposite camp, and keep up a show of success. But it is evident to any one at ho has read the speeches delivered on Thursday, that state education will be as unreal a thing in England, as the state church in Ireland. Even sap pcstng that the government should succeed in build ing schools, with the management clauses inserted iu the trust deeds in every parish in the kingdom, can they prevail against the influence of the clergy and 'bompel the children to be taught ? Certainly not. The buildings might be as commodious as the Irish churches, but they would surely be as empty. Some ' future traveller, pleased with the architecture of the school-houses, struck with the intelbgtnce of the masters, enchanted with the completeness of all the de• tads of plan, would still b utterly confounded at the desolate appearance of these quasi halls of learning. He would be startled at such substantial preparations made for hypothetical students—this converse of the Barmeeide's feast. He would reason with himself, like the traveller in Moore's " City of Hindustan,"— But what is this ? I, wondering cried, As I walked that city fair and wide, And uw in every marble street A beautiful row of butchers' shop., What means for men who don't eat meat Tnis grand display of loins and chops In vain I asked, two plain to see Teat nobody dared to answer me. - - - - We are constrained then, by the force of facts, to declare the government plan a failure. Education, it appears, must submit to the general law of the nineteenth century. It must be left free and unlit. cumbered with suite superintendence. It must claim that freedom which is claimed now in every depart ment of the body politic. It behove. then the com mittee of council to consider whether the changes in the circumstances will not necessitate en abandon- meet of their functions ; and it behoves all the lovers of education to unite to mature some plan by which the greatest amount of intellectual culture should be obtainable, under conditions of perfect independence of the state. IT is five•and-twenty yeses since the floors of the House of Commons were invaded by the squires in top-boots, riding-whips, and pig-tails. They were a jolly, blunt, thick-headed, good-natured, pert-wine-consuming race: stanch tories and church and-king men, ignorant and speechless, but with a good share of independence and sterling honesty. The ex-member for Colchester, whose recent retirement from parliament caused the election in that town of yesterday, was among tke list of them. In the forty fifth year of his age, and in the full bloom of dense toryism, he was elected for his county town, being one of the best justices in those parts ; acd he has continued for a quarter of a century to represent Col chester respectably, dozing away his evenings in the house when not otherwise engaged, voting with his patty whenever required, and never troubling the reporters on any occasion except one, when he was confidently believed to have been the author of a speech, stated to have been delivered very late at night, by " an hon. member on the back benches, whose name we did not know, and whose remarks we could not catch." Lord JOHN MANNERS, who has been sent down to stand for Colchester, is a striking calmest to all that Sir GEORGE SMYTH was. The knight-errant of " Young England," is the hero of a sort of aristocratic socialism, which a few well-meaning dreamers are striving to elevate from a fancy to a principle. Lord JOHN Manners represents the very antipodes of everything that Sir GEORGE SMYTH typified and personated :—chureh and state, ancient Institutions, good old times," pig-tail and powder, every one of which seem to tremble before the Quixotic re vivers of medieval customs, monastic confederacies, crows and crucifixes, and the ancient " Books of Spate." Lord JOHN MANNERS is to his party hat tale" Phonetic Nuz " was tot he press; whil st the mud of Sir GEORGE SMITH, we will be bound to say, might have been measured, every inch of it, by the columns of the Standard, and would never have been found to deviate one hair's breadth from that I Praise and proper gauge. But "so wags the world." We in London, who see a few things from our place behind the scenes, ars not always so surprised at these changes and rotations as some people may expect in us. But what most the Colchester people think of seeing side by side two such differing representatives of the same party? How do they swallow the change from the old-established faith in pig-tails to the new creed of croziers and cricketing, ceremonials and leap-frog P We fancy we see " the gaping rustic, stare aghast "as this new school of political phi losophy is presented to them. It was somewhat hard of the Carlton to inflict it upon Colchester, where it is by no means likely to be un derstood or appreciated. Essex folks are not generally thought to have much genius for this sort of thing. The church there is too cozy and comfortable to trouble itself with Puseyite innovations ; and the people of that district have not yet by any means arrived at the point of enlighten ment which enables them to attach importance to Lodi Orman. By such festivities, however, the Carlton, if we r to jags from their 'pape_re, intend b celebrate the return of Lord JOUN MANNERS to the House of Commons. They are in =daisies at the idea, that after signally lading to secure a seat for himself from any great constituency, each as Liverpool or London, Lord Jous MANNERS has a chance of slipping into Colchester. " His accession to parliament," says the iforningllerald," will be a matter of real importance," and then it observes—with a hard hit at some one --- belonging to its party :—" In him we feel we have got above the region of the prosers, the triflers, and the twaddler—that we are listening to a man of :iiense and 'genius, and what in more to a man whose aims are noble and whose prineVes are sound." Poor Mr. Digium ! Hard is the fate of the m who u to be thus set np and knocked down by his own friends lost as it may snit their convenience or caprice. Hard is it that not only are the battles of rly to be fought nightly in public, but that the battles for the leadersfiip are to be fought u well. What an the odds upon BENJAMIN against the " man whose aims are noble and whose principles are sound P " Dissatisfacuon" invariably follows defeat. The pro tectionists us enraged at th4r recent signal disoom iltures in Lords and Commons, and hence this setting up a new leader. Their little victory of yesterday will afford them but a small balance of consolation. The liberal candidate—considering he did not spend a shilling, and did not throw himself into the struggle till too late to hope for sumo—polled a very name roan constituency. Unless Lord .Tomc Miami; prove himself in the house to be what he hes not succeeded in proving out of it, Protection, it it does not expire from sheer in anition, will die out—like may a better oauee—for the want of a head. ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES. REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS. The following i i 2p a t i document, being the first report from the and Capitolar Revenue Conanshnionen, was resonlay TO THIS MORIN 4 NOVI' axcazinser ltabtaTT. We, your Majesty's sommithosen appointed by a commission bowies date the fish day of January, 1819, "for the purpose of Inquiring into the prams system of haft and mangiest the real property of the church Ise Saglaad and Wales, batmen to the archbishops end bishops, to the cathedrals and iesibegkte churches, and the several members thereof being a:operations sole, and to the several minor ooporations aggregate within the mid cathedra* end also that vested in theaidealtatieal eosanderionen for England; end for asessiderfag bow, and by what system of manage. mint, such property can be rendered most productive and beneficial to the said church, and most conducive to the spiritual welfare of the people, dee regard being had to the just and reasonable claims of the present holders of such property, under lease or otherwise ; and also for considering whether any and what improvement can be made in the existing law and practice relaying to the incomes of the said archbishops and bishops, and of the several members of chap'er, dignitaries, and officer@ of the said cathedrals and =rit• churches, so ea best to secure to them respectively bls•vad of delimiting annual incomes,"—humbly pre sent to your Majesty this our First Report. On certain important portions of the subjects referred to is your Majesty's commission, the voluminous evidence already in existence afforded us much valuable information, but we have felt ft our duty to eadeavoer to obtain further pirthulan as to the present condition of church property from the several ephoopel and capinlar bodies, is well as from the ecclesiastical commissioners for England; and from some of there bodies we have received very elaborate returns as to the nature and extent of their estate", and the mode in which they are leased and managed. We have also received much useful evidence from lessees and others interested in or acquainted with church property, who have appeared before us. The real property of the church belonging to the several &uses of dignitaries and corporations mentioned in your Mai- sty's commission may be stated shortly to consist of houses, lands, manors, mines, minerals, and tithes, or tithe rent-charges. The pm. at system of leasing and managing such pro perty differs little from that which has prevailed for many ages • and its origin and nature, as well as the objections to which it is liable, were fully reported upon by the committee of the Rouse of Commons on church leases in 1839. The tenure of such property generally is by !este, either for three lives, renewable at the dropping of any one life ; for twenty-one years, renewable at the expiration of every seven ; for thirty years, renewable every ten; or for forty years, renewable every fourteen; and in such leases a rent, usually little more than nominal, is reserved, and a fine varying in different cases (being, in fact, the principal source of emolument to the lamer) is payable at each period of renewal. Power has been obtained under special acts of parliament, and aloe under the Leasing Act posed in the fifth and sixth years of your Majesty's nigr, tor granting leases for ling terms of years, for building, mining, and other purposes. Some portions else of the pro-' pert yof the church are let at rack rent, and others are in hand. With reference to the terms upon which renewals of leases are effected, it appears that the church realit ordinarily tram one fourth to one third enly of the rack-r, atal value of its estates, the remainder being in the hands of the levees; and that the fines arc calculated so as to allow the lessees a return varying from five to tea per cent. There is little doubt that, under a different plan of management, the antes might be made to produce a much larger income for the church, and at the same time be held upon a tenure more acceptable to the lances. Very opposite opinions are entertained as to the rights and claims bath of lessors and lessen. On the one hand, it is assumed that the church may propetly let all its !ewes expire ;on the otter, that the lessees may justly claim a perpetual renewal of the advantages they have hitherto practically enjoyed. We shall not discuss the comparative soundness of either view, inasmuch as we are unanimously of opinion that there are reason, of policy and prudence for continuing, as a ge neral rule, the present relations of the lemon and lessees of church lands ; and we have therefore applied ourselves b the task of showing how the actual system may be modified s • as to be advantageous to both parties. We think that as a eeneral rule, the fee simple in the landed property should remain in the church, but that a right of perpetual renewal 'Mould be secured to the lenses upon the terms hereinafter mentioned. We mey state, that, in considering what was reasonably to be expected from the lessees ee an equivalent for the boon emeeded to them of a right of perpetual renewal, though we approached the subject from different points of view, and adopted various processes of reasoning and calculation, yet we arrived at the same conclusions as to the relative propor tions of interest which it appeared right to assign to the church and the lessees respectively, in the future dealing with the estates. We ultimately adopted, and are now prepared to recom mend, the following propositions for the future management of church estates, to come into operation at the nest accruing period of ren,wal. FARMS AND LANDS (Excitarvz OF MANORS, HOUSE rat). ?MITT, MINIS, AND WOODS) HELD ON LEASES FOR TEAKS. We have already adverted to the different views taken by the church and the hams of their respective rights. On the one hand, if the church were to enforce the utmost rights which it could claim, it might ran out the leases, and at their expiration come into poseention of the rack rent, but without any intermediate fines. On the other hand, the most that the lessees could claim would be the right of perpetual renewal upon the present easy terms. As an arrangement fairly intermediate between these extreme*; Wpropose : I. " That, as a general rule, with respect to 21 years leases of farms and lands renewable every seven years, the church should continue to renew, and that the lessee should have a right of perpetual renewal on the following terms, viz.: (A.) Tint henceforth a septennial tine should be paid to the church, calcul eted at the same rate of interest as at present, but only on half the annual finable value; and that at the end of the now existing term an an nual rent should thenceforth be paid to the church equal to the other half of the annual finable value. We may, in other words, express the arrangement thus, vie.: That as to one moiety of the annual finable value, the church should, as it were, run out the lease ; and as to the other moiety of the annual finable value, the church should renew the lease upon fine calculated at the same rate of in terest as septillions. From the mass of evidence before us we conceive that it would be necessary to make an exception to this rule in cer tain &striae—in the dioceses of York, Durham, Callas, and Ripon, In which, after due inquiry, the usual selling price of a renewable lean, Dave 171 years to run, should be found to have been two thirds at least of the slue of the See. In those districts we propose that the church should renew upon fines calculated at the same rate of interest as at present, as te two thirds of the annual finable value, and should, at the expiration of the now existing term, receive an annual rent equal to the remaining third of the annual Amble value. ll.—That the following alternative arrangements should be admissible. (B.)That the portion of the annual value towhlch the church would be entitled as rent under the foregoing plan at the end of the existing fourteen years lease should be discounted, and converted at a rate of interest of three undone-third per cent.(being the ordinary rate of landed investment) into a less rent, to commence immediately. (C.)—That in lieu of paying the half fine and this lad mentiostad immediate rent the lessee continue to pay the whole tine septennially, as at present, and a smaller immediate rent; the rent being converted into fine at the ordinary rate of money biterest. of four per ant. (11.) —That the future payments by the lessee, whether fine or rent be converted, at the above-mentioned rates of intaest respectively, into one immediate rent. valuations should only take place once in 21 years, instead of septennially, as at present and that both the fine and the rent payable should be i ncreased or dimi nished propottionably according to the valuation; such valuation to be made by two surveyors, one to be chosen by each party, with an umpire previously to be appointed by some government board, power being given to the parties to agree to resort to this umpire in the first instance. We conceive that this Warsaw of the interval between successive valuations will afford ample enceuregcment to ordinary improvements. With regard to extraordinary improvements, power should be given to the lessor and lessee, with the sanction of some central board, to enter into reasonable arrangements. It may be convenient, before proceeding to the practical application of the foregoing propositions, that we should premise : let. That a septennial fine of 1801., the first payment being made forthwith, is equivalent to a perpetual rent of 251.(i.e. 24.99111, the rata of interest being assumed at four per cent. SOW a septannialylne of 761. is equivalent tea perpe tual annual rent of 121. 10s., and a septennial Rue of 1001. is equivalent to a perpetual rent of 181. 13e. 4d., and so in proportion. 2nd. That a perpetual rent of 1001. to commenter 14 year hence is equivalent to a perpetual rent of 031. [63'1871.] to c :rumen*, immediately, interest being here calcu lated at the before-mentioned rate of three aid one third per cent. Consequently a perpetual rent of 501., to commence 14 years hum, is equivalent to a perpetuareat of 311.10 e. to commoners immediately. perpetual rent of 331.6 e. 8d„ to commence 14 years beam is equivalent to a perpetual rent of 211. to commence i mmediately. Applying these principles :- Ist. To the °seamy one in which the fines equal one and a half year's annual value, zed, suppotins • _lease of which fourteen years ls unexpired, and the U AW° " I " 1002. The present septennial fines of 1601. paid to the lessor, t h e' shush, are equivalent to a rent of 251 According to the proposed plan the lessee would, under Proposition 1., hale the right of perpetual renewal upon the following terms ; via. (A.) 261. fine, to les paid every seven years, the first payment to be made immediately, and 601. rent to commenee fourteen years hence. Under Proposition 11. thelollowing alternatives would be admissible viz. (DJ A septennial Sae of 761., and sll.los. rent in prineenti; (0.) A septennial fine of 1501., and 1W rent in pee. mend; or n.) 441. rent In pnesenti. them four alternatives as equivalent, the .harsh we nt by adopting any one of then, obtain what would be equivalent to 441, rent in pretend, instead of the present septennial fines of 1601., which are equivalent, ea above premised, to a rent of 251. This would give the church an increase of 191. on 251.,1. • , 76 per ant. On the other hand, the lessee, whilst he retained 661. per annum of the annual value, instead of 751. pee annum as at present, would be freed from the present uncertainties as to renewal and the rata of fine, and secure the advantage of his own impreeemente for an extended period. 2.-Buppooe the eau of a lease in the exempted districts, the flee being ono and a half year's annual finable raw, the lasso fourteen years, and the finable ulna of 1001., the lease would have the right of perpetual renewal on ono or other of the following equivalent alternatives— namely : (A) 100?. i.e. two-thirds of the present flue, and 311. Bs. 'Bd., one-third of the finable value, ea rent to commence fourteen years hence; (B.) or 1001. fine, and 211. rent in pretend ; (0.1 or 1501. fine, and 121. 131. 4d. rent in pretend; (D.) 371. 13s. 4d. rent in prrasenti. Comparing this last equivalent alternative v:s., 371. 13s. 4d. net in reran% with the present Knee, which are tetravalent to 261. rent, it will be found that the church would obtain en increase of 601. per cent. beyond the pre. sent fines; whilst the luau, instead of enjoying practically, although uncertainly, 761. of the annual value, (s. e) three fourths, would retain permanently 621. fis. Bd., which ismere than three-filthe of the annual value, besides the other ad vantages of improvements before alluded to. 3rd. In the ease frequent in the south of England, namely, where the fine is two years' annual value, the arrange. ment would stand thus: (A.) Either 1001., i. e. half the present fine, and half the fineable value, namely, 601. rent at the end of fourteen yeon; D. or 1001. fine, and 311. 10e. rent in prsmati ; C.) or 2001. fine, and 141.1&.8d. rent in prenenti; or D ) 481. rent in panenti. This would give an increase to the church of 141. 16s. 341. above the 331. 6s. Bd., which is the annual value of the pre sent flute, namely, an increase 01 44 per cent.* We think that some one of the above alternatives should be made compulsory, in case the parties sinned not ogres • but which of them should be made compulsory, we submi t to your Majesty, should be left to parliament to deter mine. The large actual interest of the lessees in the estates, and the small actual inkiest of the church, appear to us to snake these terms practicable and advantageous to both parties. The second case above cited affords a convenient illustra tion of this point. In that cue the lessees enjoy, on the whole, an inters t, as has been sees, equivalent to three. fourths of the annual value of the estates; the church re taining one-fourth. By reducing the interest of the lessees to three-fifths, and snaking it permanent, the smaller rate. rest of the church will receive a large comparative augmen.l tation at a very moderate sacrifice on the part of the lessees. If, by default o f the leases, the renewal should not be ef fected at the usual period, or within three calendar months afterwards, we think that interest should be chorged, at the rate ci 4 per rant. for the first year, and of 6 per cent. per annum to the two following years ; and if by the like de fault three yesn should be allowed to lapse, the lessee should not bs entitled, as of right, to any renewal ; and the lessor should be at liberty to pant a concurrent lease to take effect in possession at the expiration of the existing term. We should observe, that the foregoing piopositions aro not intended to be applied to the cases of lands belonging to thclesiutieal corporations, where by mutual arrangement between the parties the leases are now in the course of being run out, or are intended so to be, or where there is an express understanding to that effect; or to the cues of lands which have been prospectively assigned towards the augmentation of the endowments of spiritual cures. There are some lands, more especially smaller holding., which we think might be advantageously sold or exchanged, with the sanction of the Central Board. FARMS AND LANDS (EXCLUSIVE OF MANORS, HOUSE PRO PERTY, MINES, AND WOODS,) HELD UNNER LEASES FOR LIVES. We think that the leases for lives ghoul!, in the first instance ' be converted into leases for years, and when reduced by &Mallon of time to terms of tourteen years that they should be treated as leases for years are proposed to be dealt with under the preceding recommendations. The lives should be valued and the rate of interest Wm land according to the usage of the district, but a certhicate of age and health should be furnished. The Central Board should be empowered to commute a part of the future rent and fines into a smaller rent, to com mence at an ear"ier period. In the event of any life in the lease being precarious, a shorter term should bet given as the equivalent ; or, is case of any disagreement on this point the conversion of the lease for lives into a lease for years should not take effect until the dropping of the precarious life. In some casts it may happen that the lives in the lease hays been insured by the lessee, or that they are the lives of members of the lessee's family, and that for this or other personal reasons the lessee may be desirous that his lease should not be at once converted into a lease for years. The Central Board should be authorised, in such cases, instead of converting the lease for lives into a lease fur years, to proceed as follows, viz : Assuming the case of a full stated lease:—Upon the dropping of the first hie the Central board should renew the lease, not by the addition of a new life, but by the addition o f such a reversiocary term of years, to commence on the death of the survivor of the lien in being, as should be equivalent to the addition of such new life. The like process should be repeated on the dropping ofthe second life. On the dropping of the third life, the lease would thus become a lease for years, to be dealt with se before men tioned. The fine to be taken in these cases should be calculated according to the practice of the district, but only upon half the finable value, and a rent should be reserved to the lessor equal to half the finable value, to commence at the dropping of the last life. Arrangements might easily be made for enabling the lessee to pay a less rent commencing at an earlier period, similar Is those already suggested as regards leases for years. We think it probable that in dealing with these cress held upon leases for lives, some legislative provision will be found necessary in order to m^-et the consequences which might otherwise result from the conversion of • freehold into a chattel interest. WOODS AND WOODLANDS. These are frequently held under lease, but a considerable extent of valuable woodlands is in hand. We would recommend that all timber now growing on the leasehold estates held under the church should be valued at the next period of renewal, and paid for by the lessee, and thenceforth he eeasidend as his property ; and that the fu tare fines should be assessed upon the value of the land with out reference to any timber growing thereon. We would here suggest, that in future there be no reser vation of game, but that it should in all cases go with the lease. ills AND TITHIS. The whole of the tithe commutation rent-charges belong ing to the several bodice into the management of whose revenues your Majesty has commanded us to inquire now produce a gross annual sum of 6.50,0001. at the least. The greater proportion of these rent-charges, and also the uncommuteil tithes bolonging to the same bodies, are let on leases for lives or 21 years. A considerable amount of tithe property also is in hand. We think that leases of tithe rent-charges should be dealt with on different principles from those suggested fur the management of land. The reasons which exist for retaining the lune, on the landed estate' and establishing a sort of partnership between them and the church are not applicable to the case of tithe rent-charges. These have neither been formed by the past exertions, nor are to be improved by the joint future exertions, of lessees and lesson; nor is there any feeling in respect of such property analogous to that en tertained by &lessee of land. We recommend, therefore, that all leases of tithe rent charges as d tithes belonging to the bodies before alluded to shoad be suffered to run out, and not be renewed except in special came of leases for twenty-oos years where they are under settlement or mortgage ; and that in such special cases, with the approval of the Central Board, the leases be I once mom renewed for seven yeses. --- iANOi2, HOUSE PiOPEETT, AND MINES. We have endea voured to avply principles analogous to the foregoffig to the several descriptions of property above men tioned, and hid hoped to have embodied in this report our recommendations thereupon ; but each of them has presented so puny difficulties and peculiarities that we have deemed it 'ma ientto reserve them for further consideration, and make them the subject of a second report, which we hope to be prep tred to lay before year Majesty very shortly. MATES LET AT B. 11111; OR IN HAND. We recommend that all property let at rack rent, or in hand, should, as • general rule, be retained in the urns oon• dition, subject to the power of kale or exchange hereinafter advised. Having reported to your Majesty in the preceding reoots mendatiens our opinions and suggestions for the better ma nagement 01 church property generally belonging to episco pal and capitular bodies, we propose next to offer some further remarks se to the particular mode in which we think the proposed new system of management might be best car ried out with respect to the Wales rri each class of dignitaries and bodies separately, and also as to " what improvement might be made in the existing law and practice relating to the incomes of such bodies respectively, so u best to secure to them fixed instead of fluctuating incomes." Fallowing the order contained in your la tjesty's commis sion, we proceed— First,—with respect to the Estates of Archbishops and Bishops, and their Incomes. It may be useful here to explain how the episcopal re venues are at present re gulated under the provisions of the act 6 & 7 Will. IV., C. 77. That set aims at seJaring to the archbishops, and to cer tain bishops named, average mensal income. of stated amounts, and to the other bishop, average annual incomes of not Woe than 4,0001. nor more then 6,0001. ; and it ex pressly provides that the arrangements for that • purpose shall be effected by charging on the one kind and granting on the other fixed annual payments. Power is also given by the act for a rovision of the fixed annual payments at the end of every seven rare, upon new returns of the episcopal re venues • but any alteration made upon any such periodical revisice; is not to come into operation till the then next vacantly of the see. • If Instead of converting the fine into rent and the rent Into fine at 4 per cent. tate of intereet, they were to be to converted at 31 per ant. rate of interest, the alternatives (A.) and (B.) herein set forth, would remain the same as elated. The alternative C. would be somewhat increased, end the alternative (D.) alightly d••••=1 These enactments are in the terms of the recommendations of the Church Inquiry Commissioners, and do not affect the menagement of or control over the episcopal estates, which coutiuses to be exercised by the respective archbishops and bishops. Thb pima haa not, herhoweve, worked wvll in pleading, owing to the uncertainty of event; which determine the incomes, and the varying amounts of the fines which fall in s m the Tmi feet n o W a S g te ff slo think to t hf r i h ee n t It p as o lm r tiap.e that i o: uie f" l eer , (regard °.ll ,he tbeh s bbeing making anb rh herein-beforep: a e u s: d Un ree i inde recommended), Fe thus me e i a n regular received e i Is one u e them. oh! veered : ( c . ..d lde e 152 1p h l ts . thr ,:n ei dma d , s n u nees b- e. ins Omvenient demesnes) should be placed, but only for a time, in some central body. That such central body should consist of a committee of bishops, selected by %beauties..., combined with and aided by two or three persons conversant with the management of real estates, to be appointed as pirliament should direct, who together should form a board, to be c a lled " Th e B oar d of Episcopal Estates." That, immediately after the pasting of an act for thi n pur pose, the Board of Episcopal Estates should be responsible for the oeyment of the sum decided on as the proper income of each sae ; that the whole of the funds and property in their bands should be made effectively subject to tb t liability ; and that the surplus income should be transferrfd to the Ecclesiastical Commiesioners for England, for church pur poses. That the Board of Eliscopal Estates shoull be impers tively required, aa soot es circumstances would permit, to assign to each bishop lands, tithe rent-charges, or o'her en dowments of a nature not likely to very materially in amount, 'Bente or arising within or convenient to big dio cese, and sufficient to produce the annual net income which he is intended to receive; and that the prop, rty so ar igccd to each see should thereafter be enjoyed and managed by the bishop himself: Under these arrangements the legal estate in fee simple will remain in the respective bishops until they shall have been provided with separate estates or endowments, when the surplus estates and revenues should be eh( gether trona furred to the Ecclesiastical Comraiseionera, for the purposes of that conc.siion That, upon the vacancy of any see, inquiries should be insti tuted into the thou actual annual velem ut the property belong ing to it, with a view to a re-adjus.tnent,U nereasary so sa to preserve to the new bishop the inc o m e intend e d ftr such vacant see, and not a greater or less ; bat in estimating such annual value, any material change in the value of money affecting the income of the see, shculd be ti.ken into con sideration before diminishing the property assigned to it; anti Thigh should be open to the retie commissioners, if they shall think lit, to accept the offer of any bisho„: hay ing a vested interest in the existing endowments of his see, to put himself in the position of bishops hereafter to be appointed, and thus to secure to himself the advantage of a fixed income. Secondly, with respect to the corporate estates belonging to the cathedral and collegiate churches in En t / and and Wales, and the Incomes of the deans and canons thereof. Tho management ot the corporate matte ot cathedral and collegiate churches is not affected by the Chapter Acts, but still remains under the ab s olut e emtrol of the several chapters, who are liable to the nayment to the ecclesiastical omimistioneri for England, of tr.e proportion of the chapter revenues belonging to the enspended cononrim ; and in the cues of Durham, Saint Paul's, and Westminster, cf the annual sums oleo with which these chapters are respectively charged. Subject to the application of the rew system of manage ment, we think the control over the estates should continue vested in those bodies. In order to ensure to future members of chapters fixed instead of fluctuating annual incomes, we recommend that the amounts of the incomes which the y are respect i vely to receive should be defined ; and that with regard to future members of chapters,so long as their estatzs realise sums sufficient only for the psymmt of such incomes and the average annual expenses of the chapter establishments (in cluding the maintenance of the services and the sustentation of the fabrics, and the expenses of any school attached to the cathedral or collegiate church), the control over their estates should not be di-turned; but that if and so soon as such estates, in any case, should be found to realise more than suf ficient for those purposes, a proportionate part of the estates (equal in value to the amount of the surplus so ester taiiieo) should be transferred to the ecclesiastical commis sioners for England. That, with respect to the amount to be provided far the suiteneation of the fabrics, which should be ampl', anl in clude a sufficient sum far insurance against firo, the surplus of each year beyond *hat may be found necessary to expend should be accumulated by the respective chspters to meet orture demands. lhat the powers vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England for enforcing the production of documents and the attendance and examination of witnesses, ehoffid be ex tended to the purposes of any act to be passed ter carrying nit the above principlis. That the r use opportunities as are proposed to he given to - bind of immediately see-- - Themselves fixed existing bishops im,ediately securing to themselves ts ine-tmes, should be affordel to existing members of chapters. Thirdly, with respect to the separate estates of the mem bers t , f cathedral and collegiate churches, being corpora tions sole. We have included in this class all deans and canons hay ing separate estates, and all aon-residtntiary prebendaries, dignitaries, and officers of cathedral and co legi ite cburchee, whose estates will, under the provisions of the cathedral acts, be vested in the ecclesiastical commissioners cn the next avoidance of the several preferments. The control over these estates, until such avoidance, 'e rasing with the respective dignitaries, and we do not think it advisable to disturb that arrangement, except so far is rewards the application of the new system of management hereinbetere recommended. Fourthly, with respect to the estates of the peretal minor c3rporstions aggregate within the cathedral and call.- gate churches, and the incomes of the members thereof. We think that a plan of proceeding similar to that which we have hereinbetore recommended with regard to the higher capitular bodies might bo made applicable to the minor carporations. Fifthly, with reap , et to the estates belonging to the ecclesi astical eommissionen for England. These consist o f the umpteen estates and endowments formerly held by deans and canons in certain chapters, the endowments of non-reeidentiary prebends, dignitaries, and offices, and the endowments of suppressed sinecure rectories. which have become vested in the COMMillliOntill, either upon the vacancies of such preferments, or, in certain cases, by commutation of the interests of the holders thereof. A portion also of the commissioners' property consists of the estat:s formerly belonging to archdesconnes now other wise endowed by the board, and also estates which hare from time to time been purchased by the board by way of invest ment. The estates, on their vesting in the commissioners, hays been for the mod part under lease either for lives or year', but some have been found to be subject to arrangements under special sets of parliament, or let at rack rent, and others have come into their possession" in hand." Under the provisions of the acts by which toe proceedings of the commissioners are governed, the board possess abso lute rights and powers of ownership over their estates, and, acting under the authority of those provisioas, and more particularly the express provisions of the Church Endowment Act, passed is 1843, the commissioners have mortgaged the whole of the property vested and to be vested in them to the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty for • sum of 600,0001. Three per Cent. Reduced Bank Annuities. Notwalutaneing this charge thus created, the commis sioners still retain the same powers snd rights of owner chip as theretofore, but, in order to render the security given to the bounty board incapable of being materially reduced by the alienation of the estates, the commissioners are compelled to treat all purchase moneys u capital, and, as soon as convenient, to reinvest them in land, if not applied in replacing the stock borrowed. In April, 1845, the commissioners agreed upon certain g 1 resolutions for their own guidance in the manage ment of their estates, which resolutions were afterwards laid before parliament, and published. The commissioners have considered themeelves completely bound by those resolutions, and, in accordance with the terms therein set forth, they have in numerous instances purchased outstanding leasehold interests, sod in come cases sold reversions or made exchanges ; and 'several applications and negotiations for sale, purchase, or exchange upon thou terms are, we are informed, now pending. The greater portion of the commissioners' estates is still under lease ; the remainder is either let at rack-rent or re tained in hand, the louses haying expired er bees purchased by the commissioners. Under all the circumstances, we do not consider it advis able to apply any new system of management to the estates already in possess:on, or let at rack rent; hut with regard to all other estates vested or to be vested in the commissioners, we recommend thst the knees under them should be entitled to the same advantages as shall hereafter be offered to the lessees of other church property. We recommend that extensive powers of star, purchase, and exchange over the property of the church should lei noted in the centr.l board, subject to the restriction that all purchase monies received on behalf of the church should be treated as capital, and be ultimately reinvested in the put -1 chase of real property. With a view to protecting the church from any improvident or unnecessary alienation of its property, we think that no sale of its interest in any portions of its estates should be allowed, except with the sanction and approval of such antral Board. We think also, that provision should be made for em powering such board to cause to be determined all ques tions of boundary, and to set out and define the limits of the lands where such limits are not sufficiently ascertained ; and also to settle all claims for compensation fur waste or damage committed ; and to determine, in cue of dispute, whether the district in which the property is tutted. ($b within the exception which would entitle the lessee to con tinue the present system as to two thirds of the finable value •, and further that the declaration of such districts should be one of the primary duties of the central board. In recommending the foregoing system of assuagement, we propose that all existing ewleseastical dignearies and members of chapters should, during their several incumben t' in the amount of such 'misted as at present ; any definen of the foregoing renew tines occasioned by the ad o ption p.araorihdeniest twehheiwchathaehyesw.ohaluld 6haeyes, res bee e n i" en th ti e tled actu f a r l om ans th u e al propose's being made up to them out of funds to be by loan for that purpose. With that view, and in order to supply any other tem porary deficiency, we think that p ower should be obtained for effecting loans frees time to time as they may be re at hand, we do not ghipudhpirFihupelnioit diflieu r s eho ie t uun ty am in eu p a l th e a m se t7ree ri s p t ; y ; h t i , hh or m fee ehmi l itlottneuthotat-