The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-18 00:00:00

committee,
Mr. BROTHERT-611

Sir W. SOMERVILLE here entreated the house to go
on with the unopposed bill ; and Mr. Brotherton gave way.
Several orders were then disposed of, others postponed,
and at a quarter to two the house adjourned.

MCSIC.tL FETE AT MrLCRAVE HOCSE.—Yester-
day, by the liberality of Viscount Itanelagh, the military
musical festival lately held in the Gardens of Chelsea Hos-
pital was repeatedin the grounds of Mulgrave House, on
the banks of the river between Parson's-green and Ful-
ham. The bands of the six Household regiments, with
that of the Royal Artillery, played in concert overtures
and selections from the Camp of Silesia, Le Prophctc, and
other favourite compositions, with great effect. The com-
pany was rather select than numerous, owing in part to
the clouded sky of the early afternoon. The .Committee
of the Hospital for Consumption are anxious by these en-
tertainments to raise funds sufficient so that the works al-
ready commenced for building the east wing of the institu-
tion may be carried on without delay to their completion.

THE FRIENDS OF THE PEACIi MOVEMENT had a
meeting at the Town.haLl, Manehester, ea Wednesday
evening, to appoint delegable ot approssidos Pesos
Convention. Tbs 'allowing resolution musiisflod: " That
this awAisti. &deer of secortag the posimt extent a
state of peeemoolo peace and laelneheok eon believing
that the " amps= el Kansas," sounomul la landau on
1 the 2241 kit" ompeeilly eekiell se the ponent junc-
ture to foam semis bereveleat end Christina *ea. has
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Philip Thomson, ail Gongs Bradshaw."
The Antwerp Company's new iron steam ship
Dom Osy, moiler the command of Captain Jackson,
mind yesterday morning at St. Katherine's Wharf, with
a hill complement of goods and passengers. This, her first
voyage, was performed in 18t hone from Antwerp to the
Tower.

DEATH OF ONE OF THE LIVERPOOL RIOTERS.—
One of the rioters, an Irishman, named Mellie, died on
Wednesday evening, from the effects of a gunshot wound
received during the late disturbances arising out of the
attack made upon the Orange procession.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 18.

THE public will learn without surprise that the
Jewish Relief Bill has been rejected by the Lords. The
question now is what steps ought to be adopted
by the supporters of the measure in the other house,
and out of doors. It is, however, a question which
we believe neither of hese parties are prepared to
answer; they have of late been thinking of anything
else but the bill, and though pretty certain what
was to be its fate, have made no preparations for
their next move. Of course it will be again pre-
sented to, and pawed by, the Commons next session ;
and we believe a very moderate exertion will then
be enough to prevent the Lords from rejecting it
again. Proxies and presents included, 232 peers
'toted on the question, and the majority was 36.
This is not a majority that can keep its ground
against a pertinacious determination of the people
and their representatives.

NEITTIER episcopal explanation in the Lords nor
popular discussion in the Commons, has at all altered
the opinion we first came to and expressed on Bishop
?domes dealings with llorfield Manor.
Lc. ally and substantially, it has been alienated
from the church by that prelate; it is now his lease-
hold estate, his goods, his chattels, his personalty ;
for three lives, that is, for the next half century in
all human probability, it will, under its present
tenure, remain the property of the bishop, his repre-
sentatives, executors, administrators, or assigns; and,
whilst it so remains, the church will be deprived of
what he or they thereby gain. Dr. 1410xE can, of
course, give the church the benefit of the lease
he has granted to his own nominee. After having
got possession of the estates, and when scandal has
been attached to his manipulation of it, he says he
will do so. When, therefore, that has been done by
good and perfect assurances in the law, the public
will treat llorfield Manor as having been rightly and
properly dealt with. But until the deeds are signed,
sealed, and delivered, the act of parliament obtained,
or the applieat ion of the property in some ot her way set-
tled by law, neither charity nor justice, neither logic
norfair dealing, can assent to the proposition, that, in
this matter of liortield, JAME?, HENRY MONK, one
of the rulers of our church, as yet "has done his
duty in that state of life to which it has pleased
Gou to call him." For, in so serious a question of
property, no man is entitled to substitute even pub-
licly announced intentions for their execution, or to
demand from his fellow-creatures applause and ap-
probation for designs which no one ever heard of;
until his moral conduct was impugned in consequence
of his legal acts.
With this expression of opinion, adding, however,
thereto, that Mr. llousansx, in bringing to public
gaze the whole affair,has deserved well of the country,
that the inferences he drew from the evidence before
him were fair and reasonable inferences, and that in
the laborious task he has set himself of cleansing the
Augean stable of English episcopacy, he must be
prepared to have his motives aspersed, and his regard
for the church depreciated by the corrupt, the un-
clean, the weak, and the timid ; with this expres-
sion of opinion we propose to leave the Ilortield
case. Not because we think it a small matter ; but
because there is an attempt to convert it, and sympa-
thy for Bishop MONK, into a screen and a cloak for
the monstrous state of episcopal "facts rendered to
the country by the bishops themselves in their sep-
tennial returns; and against that attempt it is our
chief duty to warn and protect the public.
The real questions which those returns have
raised, which must and shall be discussed, and which
parliament will have to reconsider, are—first, even
assuming that recent statutes have fixed at pro-
per amounts episcopal incomes, ought the bishops to
have such means and opportunities of evading the in-
tentions of the legislature as they now have and now
exercise ? and, secondly, have their incomes been
fixed at proper amounts? To both these questions
we arc prepared to give the most decided negatives.
On the former, however, we shall have little con-
troversy or difficulty. For, to preserve the liberal
and large sums parliament consented, at a timo when
political parties were so nicely and evenly balanced
that episcopacy itself could turn the scale either
way, the bishops should enjoy, they will very
readily and eagerly agree to be placed on fixed
stipends, and to resign all management of the pro-
perties of their sees. So that, it is the latter gum
tion only. which we have seriously to tackle.
And m considering it, we may start from this
point, the', in no country in the world, in no Chris-
tian Church, have bishops revenues and advan-
tages at all approaching to those of this country
and of the Church of England. We have
now before us two public documents which
enable us to form some comparison between
the pecuniary position of episcopacy in this and
at least two other European countries. They
are the French Budget for 18.51, and the Concordat
concluded between the Holy See and the Queen of
SPAIN on the Kith day of March, 1831. In the
former we have the opinion of a
.government ex-
tremely.desirous, from the emergencies of its politi-
cal position, to conciliate ecclesiastical favour and
procure episcopal support, as to the fitting incomes
of the episcopacy of France with its 30 millions of
people. Aud, more important still, we have in the
other the amounts which, in the solemn and de-
liberate judgment of the SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, are
proper and suitable for the due maintenance
of the •prelates of Spain—a country in which,
be it recollected, there still remain colossal
private fortunes, and in which, by this very concor-
dat, the Roman catholic religion is declared to be the
faith of the nation, "to the exclusion of every other."
These, then, are early not documents to be treated
lightly, or to be disposed of by the illusory remark,
that the circumstances are not parallel or comparable.
To the comparison then. It appears from the sep-
tennial returns just laid before parliament, that the
cost to the church of English episcopacy—in all 25
bishops—is about 200,0191. a year. In France,
we gather from the budget, the cost of its
80 bishops in 1851, is about 42,4801. to the
State. And in Spain, the sum total of
the revenues the POPE has; sanctioned for its 48
bishops is 61,9901. So that the cost of episcopacy. in
England, where one-third at least of the population
conscientiously dissents from an episcopal church, is ,
greater by 157,539/. than in France, where there
are one million of dissenters, and by 139,010/. than
in Spain, where no other faith than the Roman
catholic is tolerated. This, we say, is a contrast as
important and suggestive as it is striking; yet it
excludes altogether the cost of protestant episcopacy
in Ireland, which is a fair element of consideration,
but which we have at present omitted, rather than
in any way. overlay or embarrass the suect.
The Primate of the Church of England has
15,0001. a year and two palaces, the repairs of which
—(and their repairs during Dr. HOWLEY'S incum-
bency cost 60,0001.)—are now a burthen on the
church. The Archbishop of Paris has a stipend of
1,6001. a year, with a palace, and a small allowance
for " frais d'aablisaement," included in the total cost
before given; and the Primate of Spain, the Arch-
bishop of Toledo, has the same annual sum. The
other fourteen archbishops of Franco have
each 6001. a year; and its sixty-five bishops
but 4001., with residences and similar al-
lowances. In Spain, the classification, ar•
ranged by the Fora, is somewhat more extensive.
There, the other eight archbishops have incomes
varying from 1,5001. to 1,3001. a year; and the
fortyt bishops, from 1,100/. to 4001. a year ;
with fts, if, as the concordat runs, " they have
not been sold ;" and some 5,000/. a year is allowed
amongst them all for the expenses of episcopal
visitation : an item wo have also taken credit for in
the 61,9901., to which the total cost of prelacy in
Spain is limited.
Nor let it be supposed that in so fixing the in-
comes of Spanish bishops, the POPE merely eon-
' seated to take all he could get. The contrary
was obviously the case. For in regulating the
stipends of the cathedral clergy of Spain, and
the expenses of maintaining public worship,

the POPE has procured from the crown of Spain the
concession that both shall be increased "when cir-

em stances permit;" whilst in favour of the bishops
he has made no such stipulation. We have a right,
therefore, to infer that in this, the Spanish concordat,
we have a general estimate of what ought to be the
incomes of epi9copy in the opinion of Popo
Plus IX. and his advisers.
Now, making every allowance for all reasonable
difference of circumstances between England and

these two countries, for the parliamentary duties
that we here add to the spiritual and ecclesiastical
functions of our prelacy, and for the claims of mar-
ried life, still the contrast between our episcopacy
and those of France and Spain as to incomes cannot
be justified or upheld.
Whilst there are 6.5 bishops in France with only
4001. a year each, or 26,0001. in all, the gross in-
come of our bishop of WINCHESTER in 1850 was
28,3881. Os. 7d., or 2,388/. Os. 7d. more than all the
bishops of France received by way of stipend from
the state. Is this reasonable, proper, or decent ?
The fifteen archbishops of France annually cost tho
state 8,4001. by. way of stipend; and the nine arch-
bishops of Spam receive amongst them 124001. a
year. Whereas our two archbishops have between
them 23,0001. a Tear, or 4,000/. a year more than tho
14 archbishops of those two Roman catholic countries.
In 1850, the Bishop of Duniust received 25,419/.;
and for that sum in Spain 23 bishops would have
been supported; and for the 24,272/. which our own
diocesan, Dr. BLoMFIELD, received in 1848, tho
a Bishop of 11°31E," as he calls the head of the Ro-
man catholic church, would in France have kept GO
prelates; all equally boasting with him of apostolic
descent.

It were, however. tedious and painful to pursuo
this contrast. Enough has been done to-day, at least,
to show that the church gets infinitely more for its
money in France and Spain than in England. Yet
here wo boast that we arc the more practical
people.