The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-06 00:00:00

Mit Orpreiso.

MAILS.
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will le wade up us the morning of the 7th Nov.
The overland elowd sulk, via liatemilles, to the Mediterranese,
Plypt. Aden, Ceylon. India, tiong-Koog, he., will Mmade up se the
erasing of the 7th Nur.
TIN made ler Mush North Awoke, sad the Veiled States,
will be wade up an the evening of the 10th Nov.
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HOOMMIN New Odessa, and Meals. NW Whiling( them fee
Melvin. Mt. Jsanale- ibiregus, New Grenada, MIL sad Pere, will
is wade up on the morphs of the 17th Nov.
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ripe, Ades, Oeylwa, Inds, Clang-Now% sad (Ties, wag Soutlieler•
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ap taw theorising ed the Nth Nov.
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LONDON. MONDAY. NOV. 6.
We trust that the cue of ecclesiUtl' eal waste which
a correspondent described in the Express of the
25th ult. did not escape the attention of our readers.
It was remarkable, not merely from the large amount
of money that the Dean and Chapter of Durham
have thereby alienated from the church, bat from cir-
cumstances which, overlooked by our writer, we will

supply.
In 1803, the Dean and Chapter of Durham (in
violation of the law of the land as laid down in the
ass of "Knight v. Mosley," by Lord Chancellor
Hatnivicxx, and in contravention of the legal opi-
nion which that ecclesiastical corporation had not
many years previously obtained from Lord Chancellor
ELDON) when Mr. SCOTT of the Chancery bar),
leased the coal under their freehol t property at
Westoe, in the county of Durham, on certain
esservatioes locally known as " tentale rents." Their
bases contemned working the mine so demised to
his in 1806 or 1807; sins when it has been open.
Daring this period of time our correspondent stated
(giving the data on which the calculation is founded)
that the Dean and Chapter must have received from
this sum of not lees than 70,0001., over
have exercised as complete power of die-
ration as if it had fallen to them in right of inch-
Wild inheritance ; and, in point of fact, he amens,
they have divided the proceeds amongst themselves ;
thus in the case of a single mine depriving the church
of the enormous sum of 70,0001,, in little more than
the space allotted to one generation of man.
So far our correspondent : and the case would have
ben lad enough it the facts stopped here. Had the
Ablest from which the Dean and Chapter bad to
illegally drawn 70,0001. been otherwise ofileastly
eadowed ; had the parish in which the Was was
situated been amply supplied with properlyield
roohial clergy; bad its population been resisrkable
he intelligent*, good coodeik and religiose habits
PIK seen mew mask cirommoleases, this alismillina
wed& have bees altogether sajustifiable, bears 11-1
legal, and became it aspired the church of the
moms et sopplyleg the essissiestioal deficiencies of
sew poets of the dWeele it Durham. But the very
MOM of an this was sad is the case. Westoe (we
pray our r lidera' attention) is in the parish of South
Shields ; the population of which is now, in all mew
bility, upwards of 30,000. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in Use gift of the Dean and Chapter, and its
value is stated to be 3301. a year. There are, how-
ever, in it three subordinate curacies : one (Trinitt,
Church) worth 3001. a year, also in the gift of the
Dean and Chapter; another chapel at Herta°, the
value of which is not recorded in the Clergy List ; and
• third at Westoe worth 2001. a year, the patronage el
which is in trustees. Here, then, we have an arise-1
tabled sum of 8001. a year applicable to the core el
30,000 souls in the parish of South Shields; whilst
the Dean and Chapter of Durham, the patrons of the
living, have since 1808 been annually • •
1,8001. derived from the church minerals in the
amoopt themselves and to their own private use. It 1
will not then be a matter of surprise for any one to be
told that the populatioa of this parish is not very
remarkable for intelligence, education, civilisation, or
Christianity, though it certainly is for industry and
activity. Yet did its ancestors (it will be obvious
even from the above figures) leave the church therein
an amount of 'property which, tightly applied, ought
to have made tipus parch of South Shields foremost in
them characteristics.
Bat these figures, large as they are, do not
represent all the wrongs which South Shields
Chapter
suffered at the hands of the Dean and
Chapter of Durham. A great part of the land
an which the town stands was—much of it
still ite—the freehold of the Dean and Chapter.
South Shields has been chiefly erected under Loam
granted by that body : and when, some twenty yew
I ago, it was resolved to establish an university in the
sty of Durham (an institutions, be it recollected, for the'
eta, oat for the poor), the Dean and Chapter agreed
to contribute to its foundation by mewls of the en-
franchisement of part of the leasehold property of