The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-02 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY' PAPER.

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ABSTRACT OF REPORT AND EVIDENCE RE-
SPECTING THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMIS-
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The COMMlttee of the House of Commons, ap-
pointed last nation to inquire into the composition
end !management of the commission, separated without
arriving at any definite report, and the evidence has just
been printed. It forms, with the appendix, a bine book of
246 pages. The commission was originally appointed in
1836, to equalise the incomes and extent of jllriadiction of the
several bishoprics. Under the set of 1840, commonly called
the Cathedral Act, its powers ware extruded to the manage-
, mat of the estates of the preber.da and other cathedral
officers therein suppressed, or oAusewise affected, as the
dignities should respectively Ame vacant ; the proceeds to
be ',Plied to the milimetileti'n of cures, and providing for
the better efficiency of the. established church. The cout-
thin of the existing remmisaion is a board of fifty mem-
bers, comprising the s.,euhlshops and bishops, three deans,
five members of the government, six judges, and ten lay
member,. namely , the Earls of Devon, Harrowby, and Chi-
chester, Lord Atuley, Sir James Graham, Sir George Grey,
Mr. Goolhorn Idr. Hobhouse and Dr. Nicoll. The
Earl of ',SeMberough's seat has just been filled
hp by tf p appointment of Mr. John G. Shaw Lefevre.
The bew.rd hare held, since 1840,189 general and 317 com-
mittee. meetings (in all 506), and the management of the
enrAninion may be inferred from the attendances of the
**Ambers, of which a table is given in the appendix : The
Archbishop of Canterbury, 265; Bishop of London, 328 ;
Bishop of Rochester, 190; Bishop of Bangor, 187; Bishop
of Hereford (now rchbishop of York), 1'72; the Earl of
Besaboroogb,23l; Earl of Devon, 133 ; fir. Hobbouse,l9o,•
Dr. Nicoll, 128.—The appropriation of the funds entrusted
to the commission is exhibited in other tables in the appen-
dix : they are divided into the episcopal and the amitular
fund. The episcopal fund is wholly derived from oontribn.
Rona from the wealthier sees, end amounts, from 1837 to
1847, to 140,4161. The payments daring the ammo period
! have been:

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In augmentation of eirrerneleanne. and chapters 17,502 17 2
In augmentation of arebdemeoriee 8,177 12 11
In augmentation of Urines
Towards providing panonage Mimes 51,714 12 7
In endowments of districts and new parishes 28,413 2 4
Towards providing churcbei out of benefactions re-
mired 10,940 0 0
Charges of management and official establishment
Advances to enlicitors and often of the commission 16,871 11 1
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The greater part of the bulky volume is occupied by evi-
deuce and correspondence relating to the dealings of the
commission with the estate. vested in them. It is urged on
the one hand, that the commission are dealing harshly, and
not in accordance with the resolutions laid upon the table
of the Henn of Commons in 184.1; and, en the other, that
the commission are only carrying out those resolutions. The
resolution upon which the whole correspondence hinges is
this. That the price of the reversion (of estates held by
lessees by leases fur lives and years) shall be, as a general
rule, the amount of the difference between the value of the
whole fee.(simple), calculated as if the estate were actually
in possession, and the value of the leasehold interest.
This is tantamount to saying, that whenever a lessee
applies to buy the reversion, he shall first sell his
leasehold interest at a market price, and then buy the
freehold estate at the market price. But leasehold being of
less value than freehold, the lessee will sell his leasehold
. term for a leas amount than he will immediately after give
for the same term as freehold. The lessee therefore says,
.‘ No, I do not want to sell my leasehold term ; I want only
to deal for the reversion, which alone you possess." The
commission replies, " True, hut if you possess the reversion,
your leasehold will, ipso facto, become freehold, and (one
half) more valuable." This lessee rejoins, "The leasehold
terns is mine ; the commission has nothing to do with my
gain upon that portion of the estate ; it has only to do with
the reversion." The commission cut short the discussion
by deciding that, being trustees for the augmentation of small
livings, they cannot concur in the sale of reversions without
securing the difference between the value of the leasehold
term and the value of the same term as freehold in addition
of the value of the reversion. Several incidental questions
have been raised and argued at great length, the surveyors'
values, the right to charge the lessee for excess of building
and other minor points; but as the commission offers etther to I
buy or to sell upon their own valuation, these questions all
resolve themselves into the one point of which party is to
possess that portion of the value of the fee-simple which has
heretofore been possessed neither by the lessee, who being
unable to compel a renewal of the lease could only sell his
i leasehold at a leasehold price, nor by the lessor, who had
, only a life interest as a church dignitary.

CLERICAL APPOINTMENT.—TiIe Rea J. H. Our-
ney is to be rector of St. Mary's, Iderylehone. It is pro-
bable that the Rev. W. Jacobsen, of Magdalen-hall, will
succeed Dr. Hampden in the chair of Ruim Professor
of Divinity.—Morning paper.
REGENT'S CANAL COMPANY.—The half-yearly as-
suably of the proprietors of this canal was held yesterday,
at the establishment at the City-road Basin. Mr. Bethune
was in the chair. The report of the committee was satis-
faetory as to the traffic, which left • profit on the half-year
of 13,3001. Bs. 6d. The tonnages were 586,013 tons, yielding '
21,6471. The dividend for the half-year was fixed at 12s. 6d.
per there. The East and West India Dock and Birmingham
Junction Railway Company had paid this company 8,0001.,
to avoid its opposition to the bill. The committee had
agreed to make additional wharfs and a dock at Camden-
town, to connect the canal with the London and North
Western Railway. After some discussion, in which the
committee were charged with spending upwards of 10,0001.
amongst the lawyers and engineers for the late railway
scheme, which was far from basing the unanimous approval
of the proprietors, the report was adopted unanimously, and
the meeting adjourned.
ROYAL FREE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday evening a
court of governors of the above society was holden in the
board-room of the institution, in Gray's-inn-road, for the
transaction of general business; Dr. Rice, D.D., in the
chair. The report stated that during the past quarter 6,337
destitute sick persons had been relieved. During the past
week no fewer than 1,889 patients had applied, being an un-
paralleled number in the history of the charity since its in-
stitution in 1828. This hospital in entirely free, poverty and
disease being the only requisite for admission.
DOMESTIC SERVANTS' BENEVOLENT LISTITUTION.
—Yeeterday afternoon a meeting of the committee and sup-
porters of the above society, was held at their offices in Sack-
ville.atreet. The report stated that the society had only
been formed last year, and that the progress made was of a
most gratifying description, there being at present upwards
of 1,600 members, end 1,5001, invented, together with a ba-
lance in the hands of the bankers of above 1001. The objects of
the society ars to provide annual pensions from 151. to 251.
per annum for aged and infirm members, and to grant tem-
porary relief in cases of peculiar distress.
'rue MONSTER MOTION.—Mr. Chisholm Anetey
has made the nearest approach to the discovery of perpetual
motion that has ever yet been arrived at. It occupies four
pages of the Votes of the House of Commons ; extends
through the whole history of England ; comprises the whole
of theknown, and three parts of the unknown world; and
refers to every communication, " either Witt or osten-
sible," that hen ever passed between any persons, upon any
' subject whatever. To comply with this motion we should
require another Raleigh, to write another History of the
• World ; another Cocker, to invent another system of arith-
r metir, capable of making the calculations and returns that I
L Mr. Chisholm Ansley demands ; and it would be necessary
• to examine all the chiefs of all the tribes with which this
r country has ever communicated, by treaty or otherwiae.—
Pwsch.
A TORNADO OF BUFFALOES.—The Hanibal Gazette
says, that young Houston, one of the Marion volunteers, was
lost on the way from Santa Fe, in a singular manner. We
are told that when a hunter ride, into a herd of buffaloes, it
is often the case that they become frightened, and the whole
mass starts with furious 'peed for the mountains, end there
is no way to get out but to keep the same speed, and work
your way gradually from among them; to halt would be
certain death, as the mass would pass over and crash you ;
and hunters are often carried seven and ten miles before
they can disentangle themselves from the headlong herd.
In this way Mr. Houston dimppeared. When last seen he
' was flying over the plain, endeavouring to make his way out
• of a drove of levers] thousand, and has not been heard of
since —St' . Loofa Era.
DREADFUL FIRE.—PROBABLE LOSS OF LIFE.—
Ili Between one and two o'clock this morning a dreadful fire
happened at Hammersmith, neer the Suspension-bridge, on
' the lower Middlesex side, which it is feared will termi-
t' nate in the loss of life. A police countable, while on duty,
noticed • sudden outbreak of fire from the City Arms public•
house, and roused the inmates. The landlady, Mrs. Beau-
' wont, and family, sleeping in the lower part of the house,
dropped into the street with little injury, as did also some
others ; but the pot-boy, having to jump from the second
! floor, and also a man (in poeaession of the premises) were so
dreadfully bruised that it was found necessary to convey the
mm to St. George's Hospital, with little hope of surviving
this day. Several engines reached the scene of destruction,
but water was some distinct from the premises, in conse-
quence of which the flames obtained complete mastery, and
by three o'clock the whole of the house, stock, and furniture
were destroyed. The property was insured in the Pheenix
' Fire-office for 7001.