The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-17 00:00:00

VD, Court.

OSBORNE, At01.76T 16.
The Queen and Prince, the Princess Helena, and
the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce,
the Hon. Pdsry Seymour, and the Hon. C.iptaiu do nos,
drove out yesterday afternoon.

A meeting of the Royal Conuniuion for the Exhibition of
was held on Monday at the Privy Council Office. The
commissioners present were—Earl Granville, the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell, Sir W. Cubitt, Sir C. Eastlake, Sir C.
Lyon, and Mr. Coulson, QC. Mr. Edgar Bowring, Secre-
tary to the Commission, was in atendance.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Walter Westrup, Dr.
Dundaa Thommon, Mr. J. E. Shearman, Mr. F. Slater,
Mr. Thomas Middleton, Mr. William Pairtt, Mr. B. Corco
son, Mr. Redden, Mr. G. Wedd, Mr. Northam, and Mr.
H. J. Westrup, had an interview with the Right Lion. E.
Cardwell yesterday .0 .
sue Boars 01 ran .••.
unpatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of the West India lalands.—Despatches
were received yesterday from the Governors of the Wist
Coast of Africa.

ADMIRALTY, Auo. 18.—PRomorioss.—Surgeons
W. Macleod, M.D., and B. D. Prichard, to he promoted.
APPOINTMENTeI; Mate J. H. Thomas, to President; Chile
S. Boxer, to Sampsan, and C. B. T. Brockman, to Impreg-
nable; Assistant Surgeons W. N. Brake to Dolphin, and
W. G. Ratably and M. H. Dixon, to London; Midshipmen
C. C. Eden, C. F. Walker, D. A. Price, A. F. Tighe, J. M.
Morris, and 11. F. Blair, to President; Naval Cadet W. S.
Bailey, to Valorous.

THE BISHOP OF DURHAM AND HIS

INCOME.

At Dr. Maltby'e triennial visitation, on Tuesday
last, he thus referred to the much debated question of his
income:—Of the charges which have been made against
myself personally I now proceed to take some notice, be•
cause, as I have already said, the char►cter of a bishop
affects the church to which he belongs. The circumstances
under which I received the appointment to this important
diocese differed in no respect from those in which any of
my predecessors were appointed, except that I was expected
to acquiesce in the arrangements made by the Ecclesiasti.
cal Commissioners. The commissioners, after much inquiry
and deliberation, decided that I should surrender the estates
in Yorkshire, amounting to 1,800/. per annum, and also pay
for the purposes of the commission the further sum of 11,2001.
per annum. I could, of course, know nothing about the
property of the see, but men of businen considered this an
advantageous arrangement for the bishop. That such an
my own opinion, and that it continued to be so for some
time, must be apparent to any one who will take the trouble
to consult the charge I delivered in the year 1837. Affairs,
however, took au unexpected turn. By the introduction of
railways,an impulse was given to enterprise and speculation
which very greatly affected the episcopal revenues. They
created a surplus of 8,000/. a year, and I was as much
at liberty to dispose of this surplus as of any other portion
of my income. How, then, did I dispose of it ? Not in
sordid accumulation, as has been uncharitably represented,
but I considered that an opportunity was offered me of
repairing, in some degree, the injustice which all
who are a^quainted with the see of Durham be-
lieve to have been inflicted in withdrawing from it, annu-
ally, so very large a sum, without some proportionate
return for the relief of its spiritual wants. I am per-
suaded I give utterance to your sentiments, as well as to
those of every intelligent layman in the diocese, when ex-
pressing an earnest hope that there may be future regula-
tions for our vast increase of population, and that wide-
spread districts, yet unenlightened by the rays of religious
knowledge, may attract more attention, so that the labourers
in this, our spiritual vineyard, may be more appreciated
and better rewarded. In order to remove, in some degree,
the disadvantages to which the diocese was thus exposed I
devoted mach of my income to the building of churches and
parsonage houses, by giving assistance on suitable scales, as
also to other objects of pnbtic usefulness, and in supplying
tunas for the support of the clergy in certain cases where
no endowment or no sufficient endowment was to be found.
I cannot, indeed, hope that I have in every case satisfied
the expectations of those who have applied to me ; they
may not have been aware of the number of persons who,
like themselves, have called for aid ; nor possibly could
they know the principle I chiefly keep in view in the ds•
tribution of these funds. I consider, first, the claims of a
place where we have property, and from which it derives
some advantage ; and next, I feel myself bound to give as-
sistance where there are few proprietors, or other persona
able to relieve the spiritual or other pressing wants. In
addition to each various and multiplied calls, I scarcely
need mention that T have for some years past placed in the
hands of the ecclesiastical commissioners sums varying
from 2,00 et. to 4,0001. per annum, to be employed at their
discretion. They, in their turn, have acted most hand-
somely by calling the sums thus received the " Maltby
Fund," and appropriating them exclusively to the build-
ing of parsonage-limas in the diocese, in Northumberland
as well as in Durham. The result of the different pay-
ments thus referred to is as follows :

To the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for
England up to this year £190,400 0 0
The produce of the Yorkshire estates sur-
rendered to them 31,500 0 0

Total sum withdrawn from the see.. £221,900 0 0

Voluntary payments up to the lst of this
month, amounting to £14,600 0 0
Sums paid by Mr. Oresley on works of
piety, charity, and general usefulness .. 41,067 18 6
Sums paid by myself for similar objects in
and out ot the diocese 14,319 7 8

Making a total of
Including the voluntary payments to the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners. This portion ot my accounts could not be
made up to a very late date ; but I have no doubt it will be
found that I have expended above 70,0001. in pious and
charitable noes, and not, u has been said, for my own selfish
ends.