The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS.

surEmali RKPOET.

This morning was issued the sixteenth report
from the lieclasiestical Commtenoned+ for Wand with an
appendix. The report detail/ the amount of work already
accomplished io the angmeutation of benefines, and iacludes
a statement addressed to the Home Secretary, in answer to
the report of the select committee. The appendix,
besides an aliened of the account' for the year, contains
a minute of the estates oummlttee in reference to the
alleged ill-management of the estates of the commission ;
a report by a committee of the Treasury, made in 1859,
explaining the duties and at ibliahment of the office of the
commissioners ; and a report of • select committee of the
commissioners themselves, appointed to examine tato the
accounts.

begin with • abort amount of what

they have done, and what they have a prospect of doing.
The existence of a common fund for the augmentation and
endowment of beakless having curs of souls dates from
1840, end &trio; the first 16 years from that date—that is,
down to 1856—the sommiesioners appropriated far Its
porpoise • capital value of more than three millions.
During the mtbetqaent seven yam they have sp.
propriakd from their own resources shoat • million
and • half, and the public bays met them with bens-
factious to the amount of another million. So that on the
whole five millions and a hall of money have been applied
far the nugmeattation of benefices, four millions and • half
of which have bees derived from " the redistribution and
improvement of enclesisstical property previously enjoyed
by the holders of cathedral dignities and sinecure prefer-
ments." The oommissioaers then c,lculate, as • sort of
estimate of the work that remains to be done, that in
order to raise to 3001. a year all beoefires in public
patronise with a population of about 500 persona.
and to provide half the amount necessary to raise
to • like amount benefices in private patronage
with a like population, they would require 330,000/. a year
in perpetuity, or • capital rum of ten millions—an smonat
of which they only my that " the funds at present at their
disposal would be insuffinent to provide it, but they think
that the continuous increase of the permanent income of the
Common Fond will enable them to provide a considerable
portion of it" by a system of appropriating such income in-
stead of capital. By this means, within the next five years;
they expect to raise to 3001. a year the income of every bene-
fice now existing with a population of 4,000 proems, and also
to appropriate to the endowment of new churches 16,0001.
• year in perpetuity ; every such church to be endowed, by
the commissioners skate, or by them and private persons,

with 2001. a year. Accordingly, within the next year they
are prepared braise to 3004 the income of all be•e6oes with
• population over 8,000 perm= ; to appropriate 3,0001.6 year
in perpetuity to the endowment with 2001. • year of new
charring with • popalatios of &COO prawns ; to make
further appropriations in capital sums to the fittest of
100,0004, and, in short, on the whole, to make greats of
the capital value of 700,0001-

THE LATE SIR HITYPEriZT Divv—A committee
has been organieed at Peosarice with the object of raisies a
monument to the memory of the celebrated chemist, Sir
Humphrey Davy. At a meeting held au Monday evening it
was announced that two ladies were willing to subscribe
1,0001. provided the mocuasset take the form of alms-
houses. The liberal offer was accepted, sad numerous other
lasheass.
subscriptions have beep received is fartherme of Oa

LATIUM INTELLIGENCE.

INDIA.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
SERIOUS CHARACTER OF THE RECENT

WAR.

We have received Bombay papers, dated
March 14.

The Bombay Gazette says it seems to be now
certain that the recent war on the north-west
frontier was not the isolated enterprise of some
tribes of hardy mountaineers, but " was under-
taken in concert with, and as the first act of a
wide-spread Mussulman conspiracy against the
English domination in India." Numerous arrests
have been made by government iu Umballah,
Patna, and even Calcutta, and it is expected that
at the trials which are about to come off the whole
history of the plot will be disclosed.
It is expected that Sir Charles Trevelyan's
budget will show a deficiency of at least half a
million in the opium revenue.

The last steamers of the Persian Gulf Tele-
graph expedition have left Bombay for Cape
Mussendom.

The Nawab of Rampore has resigned his seat
in the Viceroy's Legislative Council.
A duffadar (native officer) of the Poona Horse
made a furious attack lately, on parade at Seroor,
on the adjutant and the commandant of the regi-
ment, both of whom he tried to cut down, but was
himself run through the body by an English officer
and killed before he bad done any mischief. Fana-
ticism is the only cause assigned for the attempted

ition.

Sir Hugh Rose has left Hawn! Pindee on a tour
through Huzara, Cashmere, and Thibet, to Simla.
The Viceroy will leave Calcutta early in April
for the north-west, to open the railway as far as
Ghareeabe.d, on which occasion there will be a
grand banquet at Delhi
The Star of India was presented to the Jeypore
Chief at Ajmere, on the 10th inst., by General
G. St. P. Lawrence, C. B.
The new University of Bombay is to be built
from the designs of Mr. G. Gilbert Scott.
Sir Mordaunt Wells, who leaves Bombay for
England by this mail, at the dinner given in his
honour by the Bombay bar, denounced the present
constitution of the Indian high courts, on account
of the admission of untrained civilian judges to sit
on the bench.

The Bombay Chamber of Commerce has pre-
sented a memorial to government, praying that
there may be one common terminus for the two
railways entering Bombay, or that, if this be im-
possible, the Great Indian Peninsula Company
may be compelled to bring their line into the town
on arches instead of at the level of the streets.

The friends and admirers of Mr. Robert Knight,
the retiring editor of the Times of India, have
started a subscription to present him with a purse,
to show their approval of his conduct as a journal-
ist. The contributions already amount to nearly a
lac of rupees (10,0001.).
The British government has applied to the Indian
government for as much of its garrison strength
as can be spared, to the extent of six regiments.
The Indian government has determined that only
two regiments can be spared.
Captain Burton has succeeded in apprehending
at Bareilly, Azeem Khan Hukeem, the murderer
of his father at Kotab. The prisoner has been
sent to Kotah for trial.

The Bombay Gazett€ says that in Bombay the
tightness of the money market is again so great ea
to cause fears that the commercial crisis of the
last two months of 1863 will be surpassed in in-
tensity by the crisis which is now approaching.

The cotton merchants of Mooltan refuse to send
their cotton to the government screws, and are in
great excitement on acoount of the act passed by
the Bombay government for punishing the adultera-
tion of cotton.

Large quantities of cotton are said to be oa the
way down from tho north-west to Bombay this
year.

THE SLESWIG INVASION.

Notwithstanding the groat number of shots
fired by the Prussians, little effect has been
produced on the fortifications of Duppel. The
works there are constructed according to the
system adopted by General Todleben at Sebas-
topol, and being principally of earth can be easily
repaired when injured. Tc carry such a place, the
best artillery is not sufficient; an infantry, at the
same time firm and active, is required, and ac-
cording to all the accounts, the Prussians in that
arm of the service are far inferior to the Danes.
The precision of the Prussian fire is, however, very
remarkable, and some curious details on the point
are given in private letters. Thus, in a Danish
battery established on the coast of the Venneog-
band, the Prussians selected for their mark a
mortar of 84. In the course of the fire a ball
entered the month of the gun and choked it ! A
few minutes after two other mortars of smaller di-
mensions had their carriages broken.
Advice' from Copenhagen state that the elections
for the formation of the Superior Council (Lands-
thing) have just taken place in Denmark, properly
so called, and in the island of Alsen, not occupied
by the enemy's army. The old chiefs of the Na-
tional Unitary party have been named in moat of
the districts—that is to say, that the principle of
the defenoe and preservation of the monarchical
unity will have a majority in the First Chamber.
The session extraordinary of both chambers will
open in the course of the present month.

AUSTRIAN VIEW OF THE CONFERENCE.
The Vienna Gazette publishes an article on the
conference expressing doubts as to the confidence to
be placed in the communications relative to the
object pursued by the powers interested in the
question of the Duchies. On the subject of the
position taken by Austria and Prussia the article
says :

rim two greet dermas powers having drawn the sword for
the welfare of the Duchies, casnot allow that a struggle en-
tered into for the independence, if not absolute, at least
relative, if not material, at least moral, of the Duchies,
shall terminate without satisfactory guarantees being
obtained. Thais guarantees must secure to the
Duchies the most entire independence and a position
absolutely equal in right to the rest of Denmark. They
must also secure not osly their administrative, but also
their political union, and moreover relations of protection
between than and Germany. The idea, It is true, is not
to bring forward those joss demands in a haughty =inner,
and to explain them in such a manner as to make them
appear unacceptable. Austria takes part in the con-
forms with the firm hope that it will be pos-
sible to solve the question in an boa:arable
manner, and without disadvantage to all the powers
interested. Sacrifices must be made, bet they must be
guided by justice and equity. The Angriest government
wishes to avoid the obstinacy of Danmark giving to the
present militia the proportion of a European one. It is for
that rams that it maiden it useful and desirable that the
majority of the powers taking part in the *oaf wane* should
salts in the object of finding a desirable arrangement instead
of complicates( by the admixture of other element' the
ohmmeter of a question which belongs exclusively to public
right, or pleading in favour of pretensions which are either
too bad or too timid, The Austrian government feels caw

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