The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-07-18 00:00:00

TOURISTS' TICKETS.

THE SALE OF ADVOWSONS.

The report of the Select Committee appointed by
the House of Lords to inquire into the laws relating to
patronage, simmiy, and exchange of benefices in the
Church or England has been issued. The Committee
cmisisted of the Archbishop of York, Duke of Marl-
borough, Earl Beauchamp, Earl of Shaftesbury, Earl
of Chichester, Earl Nelson, Earl of Harrowby, Bishop
of London, Bishop of Winchester, Bishop of Peter-
borough, Bishop of Carlisle, Lord Brodrick, Lord
Overstone, Lord Belper, Lord Blachford, and Lord
Selborne.
The Committee are of opinion that all legislation
affe ling Church Patronage should proceed upon the
principle that such patronage partakes of the nature
of a trust to be exercised for the spiritual benefit of
The parishioners, and that whatever rights of property
originally attached, or in process of time have
attached, to patronage, must always be regarded
'The memorial bronze Statue of the late. Earl of with reference to the application of this principle.
Derby, which has been erected by his political and All exercise of the rights of patronage without
private friends within the ornamental enclosure in due regard to the interests of the parishioners
Parliament-square, London, was unveiled on Saturday should, so far as possible, be restrained by law ;
by the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., First and the law should also aim at imposing such
Lord of the Treasury, in presence of a large and dir. checks on the exercise of his choice by the patron
tinguished assemblage. as should prevent, as far as possible, the appoint-
The enclosure, to which access was had by tickets ment of unfit persons to the cure of
souls.
issued by the Committee of Subscribers, was filled In futherance of these objects it seems to the Com-
syth members of both Houses of the Legislature and mittee desirable that publicity should be secured for
other gentlemen, with many ladies. Beyond the en- all transactions relating to Church patronage, inasmuch
closure all available space was occupied by a serzjed as abundant evidence has been given that secrecy in
MEW of spectators eager to obtain a glimpse of the inro- such transacrions tends to foster those evils and abuses
ceedings or catch the echoes of the Premier's eloquence, which it should be the purp roe of legislation to pre-
A covered platform in immediate proximity to the vent. Subject to these conditions, which apply alike
Statue was erected fir the accommodation of the to all kinds of Church patronage, the Committee are
Premier and the Memorial Committee. of opinion that it is not desirable in any way to
At a few minutes after twelve o'clock Mr. Disrtsli , diminish by legislation the existing variety of the
arrived, accompanied by his Private Secretary, Mr. ' sources of patronage in the Church of England.
Montagu Corry, and was received, amid general cheer- It appears to the Committee that adowsons,
jog, by Lord Hampton, and other members of the if made unsaleable, might, and in many cases
Executive Committee, with Lord Henry Gordon would eventually fall into the hands of paupers,
Lennox, their Honorary Secretary. The prune ,or of persons otherwise wholly unfit to die-
Minister was condujted to the platform, followed by charge the duties of patronage, and who would
the Earl of Derby, the Duke of Richmond, the Lord yet be unable, even although willing to do so,
Chancellor, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Chelmsford, to dispose of their rights to other and more fitting or
Lord Hampton, Lord John Manners, and most of the competent patrons. This is a danger of so serious a
leading members of the Derby Administration. Seats nature as in the opinion of the Committee to out-
were also provided on the platform for the Speaker, weighs any advantages that might result from abso-
the Lord Igayor, and Mr. Ayrton. The Prime
lutely forbidding the sale of advowsons. But, add
-1.1 the Earl the Committee, al,hough considerations of public
. _ .. . . -..

Minister had on his right Lord Hampton and
of Mahnesbury, and on his left the Earl of Derby and
Lord J. Manners. The cheering with which the Vrime
subsided,

,
policy may not require or admit of the complete sup
presrion of the sale of advowsons, they may never-
theless justify the imposition of certain further 8ud-
....

Minister was received having Hut—
Lord Hampton rose and said :
My lords, ladles, and gentlemen—lt has been my pleasing
and yet melancholy duty to act as Chairman of the Com-
mittee of Subscribe', who have watched the progress and
the completion of the tribute of respect and love wilioh now
stands before you, and it is in that capacity only that I
would presume to take the first step in the interesting pro-
ceedings of this di, It would ill become me to detidu

tations .as 6 the conrditions under which such sales
should hereafter be permitted. The secrecy with
which sales of advowsons may at present be con-
ducted obviously tends to promote and shelter abuses
and evasions of the law. The Committee, therefore, re-
commend that all sales of alvowsons or next presenta-
tions be duly registered within a limited time in the
diocesan registry of the diocese in which the living is
--4 h the he vendor and - '

Yet, II thine influence shape
Effects in Nature, speed the corn.
To ripen, and the grape.
Then, having reaped rich harvest ; seen

kat vintage safely o er :
We'll drink the Comet of Ei,ghteen
Hundred and Seventy.four.

ts..l d

atteinpteL

At noon, on Monday, at Kia.ingen, Prince Bis-
marck, while driving out in the country in the direction of
the Saline, was tired at and slightly wounded by a shot
which grazed his right ...lint. The perpetrator, a young man,
was an once arrests,l, and was nearly lynched by all inturiated
crowd. The Imperial Chancellor, an hour and a half after-
wants, drove through Kissingen in company with Count
Pappenheim. and aligwed himself to the people. The wound
In of an insignifleanilicharacter. Prince Bismarck appeared
in the public gardens at Kisningen in the evening, and was
enthus BAT:idly received Ile sae subsequently serenaded
by the Musical society and the town hand of Kissingen. In
, acknowledging these testimonies of sympathy, he said that
1 the attempt can not directed against his jet son, but agninnt
the cause he represented Three years ski many had died
for that cause, and why should he not be ready to ilie also?
At the conciwiion of his speech the Prince was loudly
cheered.

situated, with names of t. , purchaser.
and that no sale not so registered be valid in law.
The attention of the committee has been drawn to a
mode in which the sale of advowsons has been used
for the purpose of evading the statute which forbids
a sipiritual person to purchase a text presentation
and thereupon to present himself. There is reason to
believe that this provision is not 'infrequently evaded
by clergymen buying, instead of the next presentation,
the ad wools of a living, presenting themselves on the
next vacancy, and then reselling, the advowson, interest Valedictory of his honour the Mayor of Denver :--
on the purchase money being allowed to the purchaser " Thank God, it's over with me ! I wouldn't take it again
for a kingdom-not if I knows it,"
until the following vacancy. Such a proceeding,
amounting as it practioally does, to the purchasing of The most popular judge in Missouri just now is the
a spiritual charge and office for money, which it has one who has decided that a woman is nut an old maid until
always been the aim of the Legislature to prevent,. she is 3,5.
might, in the opinion of the COmmittee, be prevented ; A spinster of the upper ten recently purchased an
first, by making illegal all contracts to pay interest Egyptian mummy. She said it would seem better to have
until vacancy upm SUMS received Lir the sale of anion around, even if he was advanced in life and ',withered,
advowsons ; and, eecondly, by extending the policy Laconic funeral oration by an Arkansas poker
of the statute of Queen Anne, so as to prevent pla)er :- - Gentlemen. ray partner never killed a num
the presentation, after the next vacancy, of any •'The London correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, unless he had a reason for i-, and wlun be tucked the cards
who has been viewing th
e[lute of Westminster's pictures it was done in the prettiest way you ever see. 11l shoot the
clerk who has purchased an advowson, oither
and art treasures at Grosvenor House, London, writes as man that sayslie hasn't gone to heaven."
directly or throngh a trustee, to the benefice of
il fo, owe :
folvowson has been so purchased. The The San Francisco News Letter says ,---" Milhaa's
which the
"'Grosveipir House contains old halls and suites of masterpiece is undoubtedly his Paradise Lout Had he, how..
evidence which has been given to the committee goes
drawing-rooms which make even the largest apait- em:nbleiiss, day visited San ltafael, and put up at the Marin
to show that sales of next presentations are open to
ments in an ordinary house look small in comparis,in. 1, ,
greater abuses than the sale of advowsons ; while on his delight7til experi. ebn-ire l't.hiti.ht'hiusg% fais'iii'li:7l'itsbil
the other hand, the prohibition of !such Fates is 'less A hundred persons might dine with comfort in the
would certainly have surpassed his previous elfoit." t ' "
open to the objections whia lie against prohibiting the dining-111,3i, while two thousand guests would scarcely
The editor
either he of a Csiloraslo paper inm fore his sub",
sale of advowsons. The prohibition of the sale of next crowd tl richly-decorated ball-room and reception
scrib - ers that n nor hia paper hes been suspended,
tminion a the rooms. As we passed through the ball-room several and they are cordially invited to tall and pay their subscrip-
presentations however, would, in the
couonittee, be attended with considerable difficulties French workmen were busily engaged regilding the ties.
and objections. The committee are theref oresisp magnificent chandelier (which holds two hundred can A party recently made a" vain" attempt to sell
to rely, in the first instan •e, on the goo d effect of their dies), preparatory to the grand ball given by the Duke the house in Brooklyn that Goodrich was murdered In torn
Legislature and Ducnesss in honour of the Euiperor of Russia. I Vonkeni palaces.
previous recommendations, should the
will observe just here that the English aristocracy never
see fit to adopt m, the and are of opinion that only in A trans out West hear ,1 the district schoolmaster
have their ball-rooms (Sr r drawing-rooms lighted with eav the earth turned round .This
. his was a new idea to him,
the event of their failure should further legislation be
gas, the light of wax-candles being considered much he doubted it So, when he went home that night, he
softer and more effective. The pictures, which number ot a potato on a shame by be cabin.door In ths morning
several bmplred, are distributed through the halls and r, was just. where he had placed it. "Now," asid he, in
principal rooms. The Duke is not only a most
apnadtrozoonfeyarto, but isadevs.arenrcetrirtitixhr,
i';elet tito.'ar.libitilagetu.r.iriteici
hind roundt,rnwnheearerow.o.up
rnt
readyne n advancement ot I giveany would be the tallest scatterin' of the nations and of that
Pertater. Ivo, Ur. Schoolmaster, the 'arth is flat, and I
good cause The Duchess is spoken of as being as know It"
mbouthnititeeinauet
amiable and lovely as she is wealthy; both she and LOOKING EXCEEDINGLY SMALL !-A lecturer on
her husband delight in a display of almost f, udal optics, in explaining the mechanism of the organ of vision,
hospitality. Though in the heart of the West End, renarked-'. Let any man gaze closely lido his wife's eye,
there is a beautiful garden attached to Grosvenor ..d he will see If 'r
so exceedingly small that -
lecturers voice was drowned by the shouts of
House, an and a lawn planted with fine old traps. The Li,ere the
and applause winch gieeted his scientific remark.
Duke travelled ,throuh the United States several 4hter hi
A 1 t, .
years ago, when his title was Lord Groevenor, his
ittabuAXl a
7,11:11'.311, tNplaNljkli !-A, countryman sent to
'father being then living. A good @tory is told apropos
. id.ied forty-four years photographs
I;l7,lgmasgcteur.rli odleh.feriui-,ltive,nwl2cof
of his stay at the house of i n old farmer in Illinois, her. He enclosed fitty mote for the same. A photoigaph
Where he went for the purpose of shooting prairie was selected from a large assortment, and proved enarely
chickens, bringing with him a numerous suite, several satisfactory to ths unnaphlatklatad granylr.