The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 9.

Wnitirr the church is squabbling abint baptismal
regeneration it apposes to be as mindful as ever of the
main chance. Reports of Easter vestries are principally
interesting to those who reside in the localities to
which they specially refer, but the various acoounte
`which have appeared during the past week,sufficiently
attest one great fact—namely, that the church is
still 'moping, and that it continues to drive the people
into op title to its encroachments. There never was&
perriod when the laity so readily responded, as they do at
present, to teary reasonable call for assistance on the
part of the church. They come forward with thousands
open thousandsann 'idly to assist distreesed districts—
tnprovide means of spiritual instruction for the poor—
to build churches and schools and parsonages—to
endow ill-provided districts, and to carry out the
whole work of the church wherever amistance is
required. And what doss the church do in return
Does it relax ever so slightly irs grasp upon the
soutane! puree P Does it forego a single claim, how-
ever offensive, upon people whose conscientio as scruples
keep them without the pale of its communion
Oa the contrary, ever; thing that is dine voluntarily
for the church only seems to make it more imperative
in insisting oa what it ..all. its " rights." Tha more
it is assisted the greater become its requirements.
We verily believe there never was nob a pressure as
there is at this present Easter Cr Easter offerings
and tithe moseys, and, where the: e is a chance of
getting it, even for that most obnoxious of all
imposts—a church rate. We may advert to one or
two oat of many remarkable inatanoni in point,
which within the last three merits have coma under
our notice.

If any one wanted an illustration of a wealthy
pariah be would probably point to the pariah of St.
Marylebone. Ths direct endowments of that pariah
amount to more than 7,0004 a year. In one way or
another at least 7,0001. more is raised in it annually
for the advantage of 13 clergy. Indeed, we very
much miscalculate it the clergy of St. Marylebone
receive, in one say or another, many hundred pound.
short of 20,0001. a year for the performacce of spit i-
tusl functions in tne churches and chapels of that
Paria!
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It almost unnecessary to say that this rich en-
dowment is very unequally distributed, nor will many
require to be told t: at the lion's share of the vast
mood goes into the pockets of the clergy cf the mother
church. The rectory of Sr. Marjlebme alone is
worth nearer 3,0001. than 2 0001. per annum. Its
prr sent r holds with it a stall in the rich
Cathedr oal Canterbury ; so that his present gross
emolument from the church can be taken at little less
than 3,0001. a year.
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Now St. Marylebone, like many other metropolitan
parish.., has its burial-gronod in what is or was a
aubarb. Tee burial chapel of St. Mary!ebone is
situated in Bt. John's-wood. A clergyman is attached
to it who is a sort of curate of the parish church. He
has no pastoral charge : but there are Sunday ter-
vines in the chapel and he is paid a limited stipend
out of the parish funds. This rev. gentleman's main
duty, however, is to bury the dead of the parish ; the
fees for the performance of that service going to swell
the revenue %,f the rector.

In anticipation of the master arrangements of the
present year, the incumbent of the Burial Chapel pre-
sented to the Marylebone vestry a memorial repre-
senting his long services—he has been in his ;pres,nt
charge a quarter of a century—acd the limited
amount of his income. He asked for a small increase
of stipend. The !ethos in Bt. Marylabone is uni-
formly liberal; the Inhabitant. u a body are also
favourable to the charch. The vestry were disposed
Ito grant this increase, when oce of them thought of
inquiring whether something could not be done by
the rector of the parish, who received the fees for the
interments at which this gentleman officiated ?
Now we must say that this appears a very natural
and proper question. Not so did it seem to the
rector. He expressed a hope that "he was not
placed in that chair to be bullied." He told the
vestry very plainly that be "should do nothing and
should pay nothing but what the law required." He
made it a subject of strong complaint, in point of fact,
that he should be even asked to give some 501. a year
out of hie large income to this grey-beaded, hard-
worked, and ill-paid curate. The vestry saw that
there was nothing to be got in that quarter, so they
voted the money and saddled the rate-payers with
the amount.

Now when we consider what the laity annual:y
contribute in this parish for church purposes—when
we look at all they have done and are doing for the
promotion of church interests—we must say we think
the clergy of luck a parish as Bt. Marylebone are the
last people who should appear before the public under
such circumstances as theee. But it seems to be quite
a matter of course with them to come to the public
for everything without doing anything themselves.
Not very long ago, the incumbent of one of
the richest districts of the parish sent Toned
a begging letter requesting his parishioners to
relieve him of the burden of one half—and that the,
worst half—of his duty, to come forward with we
don't know how many thousand pounds, to provide
not only a splendid church and schools in a district
which very much requires religious teaching, but
also a suitable residenese for an incumbent, end a
liberal endowment fur him ! And when this rev.
gentleman was asked if be did not mean to
ewes portion of his own ample stipend to the
teams of the new incumbent who was to relieve him
of so mach of his duty, he very coolly replied is
print, that he should be ashamed to give up
any portion of the church's revenue in a district ess-
taining so many wealthy laymen ! Such are a di
incumbmt's Entine of his responsibilities and of
what is due from him even to his brethren of the
Irdnistry.
A clergyman's notion, however, of what is due to
himself is often strangely in cont;ast with his notion
of what is due to others. The parish of St. Andrew,
Holborn, presents a remarkable instance of this.
A rector of that wealthy and important living has
Wt " exchanged " it for a valuable preferment in the
est of England. This gentleman has himself much
reason to ask for consideration, for it is now nearly
five years since he became non-resident and left the
pariah to look after itself, ander the charge of a
carats. What, however, is his last set as rector of
Bt. Andrew's, Holborn ? It is to send round a sort
of lawyer's letter smug the pox inhabitants of
Saffron-hill and Hatton-garden, claiming arrears of
tithe, and requesting payment under paue of imme-
diate proceedings according to law, which "be shall
much regret the necessity of being compelled to
take' For five years this rev. gentleman has
not been present to look alter his tithe; but
five years' absence does not bar legal proceedings to
recovery, and the rector knows no moral statute of
limitations which it might be becoming for him to
observe.
We have said that, where it is possible, church
rates are even obtained and enforced. A document is
in one hand purporting to be an account of a seizure
made a week or two ago in Scott's-yard, Cannon.
street, City, under warrant obtained by the church-
wardens of Bt. Bothaw for arrests of two
years church rates!ill'he rate alleged to be dee was
171 3s. , the property seised was valued at 671. 7s.'
The gentleman who has drawn up the document
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