The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

THE ROYAL BRITISH BAHL

It has been pretty generally rumoured within the
last few days, that the trial of the directors and the other
poreses charged with being concerned in this gigantic swin-
dle would take place at the October and November session of
the Central Camino' Court, end that the ordinary session
would be specially adjourned toe particular period foe that
pewter, a in the are of Palmer. It appears, however,
that the officials of that court have not received any
notification upon the subject, and there is very little
doubt but that the trial will take place in the Court
of Queen's Bench during the November lean The
public is aware that no indictments have been at present pre-
ferred against any of the defendants in the ordinary funn,
but the Attorney-General in his of leial capacity bas " in-
formed the court" that certain persons whose names he men-
, tired, he bed reason to believe had been guilty of • misde-
meanor in having unlawfully conspired and combined tog.-
thee to obtain divas Image sums of mosey by more of MOO
sad tradable pristener. Upon this information the Court
of Queen's Bench Issued its process for the appreheaska
of the persona named in the information, and Mr.
Runiphry Brown, Alderman Kennedy, Mr. Carron,
the manager of the bank, and several others wwe
wrested and held to ball to answer the charges made against
them. Under ordinary circumstances a charge of this chit-
racier would be properly brought for Investigation before the
Central Criminal Court, but the court of Queen's Bench being
the highest court in the kingdom, both in criminal and civil
matters, having instituted the proosedings against the parties
would not delegate to an Inferior jurisdiction the power to
diapnee of the matter, and the trial will, therefore, no doubt
take place in the court of Queen's Bench, before Lord Chief
Jerks Campbell. Daring the interval that has elapsed since
the follow Inquiry into the affairs tithe Royal British Bank, it
Is understood that a close investigation has been instituted
Into all the accounts, with a view to sweeter whether thin
is any case of murkier; having been made sway with that
were deposited with the bank with written instructions, the
disposal being contrary to such instructions. This is made
a felony by s 'pedal act of parliament, and Sir John Paul and
his partners were convicted under that statute, sad sentenced
to transportation. At present, it appears that no such case
has been discovered ; but, in theevent of there being evidence
to support a charge of this description, it is prubable that a
bW would be preferred before the grand jury at the Central
Criminal Court. It is rid thin whenever the trial shell be
appointed to take place, the defendants will make an applicee I
tion to be tried separately, the object of this proceeding brag
to confine the evidence to the particular person under charge,
and thee exclude ► good deal of evidence se to the fraudulent
intentions of the parties and the general combination be-
tween them. The application will doubtless be strongly
opposed on behalf of the Crown, and it is to be hoped, for
the sake of public justice, that no technicality will be allowed
to interfere to prevent the whole of the facts connected with
this disgraceful ask from being brought before the jury and
the public, in order that those lemons proved to have bra
concerned in these ominous frauds try receive the paidelt-
✓ent they justly deserve.

THE BRITISH Mrseux.—This institution has been
evened to the retitle, alter being dosed for the urea perioe
ter the elesening et the galhetee ow! . iwarreagentent a( the
sentente. The end depertssent 4 Antiquities, Neenent,
lifiebery; te.. is nett egen front 10 to 6 o'clock. The new
reeding ruts Sequa to weeder. flew 9tw 9 idea daffy: '
EUILT CLOIIIIO ASSOCIATION.—This nociety
bolds a Ranthagelpeeting this evening In the lower helk
UMW RAh the pett to coureenee Is eight o'closit.

EPISCOPAL PATIOYA6E.

In accordance with an address of the House of
Comma= of the 3rd of Await last, " copies of the report
of the Lay Sub-Committee on Episcopal Patronage, pro-
ranted to the Ecciadaatisil Commissioners on the 17th day of
May, 1849 ;" " and of a raped of the Committee on Epis-
copal Patronage, pedants' to the Eoclasimdcal Commis-
sioned in the year 1850," have pst been laded.
TM following le the substance) of the report of the Lay

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" The Act 6 and 7 Wan. IT., cap. 77, sec. 1, prop. 40
provides, ' That such alto rions be wade to the apportion-
mut or exchange of soclotietral pateonage among the
sere' Whop ea gall be °constant with the relative
etude and importance of their dioases,wher newly
end ea shall sEoed en adequate quantity of patronage to the
bishop of the new ewe.'
"Tine La Bub-Committee of the Botheastical Commie-
generator to which the coneidenstion of the above
saatamist was referred by the board, having considered •
verb*, at methods for accomplishing the object, have agreed
to the ihnowleg report
" The sub-committee feel peat Milieelty in making any
eattefecterj estimate of ' the relative magnitude and Wi-
th* several diocese.' If population gee might
be taken as the measure of that inagnoutle and importance,
the matter would be clear and simple • but the utility cc
memiesity of powering pitherge deride likewise, to some
extant, on the number al the dap, whether ineurebeets or
metes. There are some dioceses, too, which posers im-
pede* of a Meet kind, bearing upon the question of
=LT; thus the bishoprics of Oxford, Ely, sod Durham
a university of an acclriastical character cor-
nered with them, and it would appear desirable the on
this amount they should hare • peer amount epatensege
seeped to them than if population or the number of dio-
cesan clergy were
ha merely to be considered ; again, the
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parka the church of the bishopric of Winchester
render it unseemly to cut down its patronage bedew
of the mosely created but more populous bishoprics Thies
considerations have Liguori the sub-committee to elmadca
the ides of attempting to form an exact numerical war mar
taring the importance of tech see, and in lieu thane to pro-
pose a distribution of the bishoprics into (outlaws, treating
those in each class se of equal magnitude sod importance
the with soother. The sithrocomittee have then =de-
voured to assign to each bishopric an amount of patronage,
beiag the aims or equivalent, for the Dietaries in each
des, bat different as respects the diarist chem.
"The archbishoprics and Welsh bishoprics are not M-
abee In these classes, as the peculiar CirOlilleeMONl of the
freer sod the difference of language of the latter seem to
require that they should be separately considered.
"The following is the classification which the sub-oren-
mitre venture to propose:
Number ol Number of
Modem Own
• Name of Bialsoprla. Papalallas 'Mate Um vtiklaoe
Dmao. Mama
let Claw :
Leedom
2nd Class
(A) Durham 674,562 .. 272 .. 372
Winchester
Ely
Oxford 478,773 788
(B) Chester
Exeter . . ... 874,739 .. 761 .. 834
Lichfield 782,721 .. 462 .. 689
Lincoln
Manchester
Norwich 636,717 .. 1,167 .. 974
Ripon 916,147 .. 376 .. 615
WCCOISiIe
Clam :
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Bads sad Walla 418,120 626 .. 660
Olottareter and
Bristol 610,453 490 .. 506
Peterborough 438,397 .. 623 .. 815
Rochester
Bfiliebury
4th Oar:

Carlisle 261,230 254 146
Chiebiatar 299,763 528 428
Hereford 234,360 .. 306 .. 462
“.7114 aabloosialttea propoe lo wigs tba *Foliage

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spplicable to these sees iniherfollowlyg—Freportkes: via :
To the let clam 9
T• the 2nd class
To the 3rd clam 6
To the 4th clam 4
. In seder more easily to explain the scheme for the dis-
tr(hntioaatthe episcopal patronage, framed according to the
principds•bees eatlissil, the sub-conneeities have prepared
the to i 1
=lv (C), and (D).
" Table ( sheers die number of livings the patronage of
which heisajle:o each ma, and the diocese in
which living Is situate. The Teetical columns
will show the puma am of livings in the patronage of
each bishop, and whitlow within his own or some other aced
which diocese; the honsental, the number of livings in each
Ikon which are in the patronage of its own or some other
sad which bishop. The principal diagonal line of figures
contains the comber of livings which are in the patroneg• of
the bishop in whose diocese they are locally situate. All the
rest are situate in one diocese, and the patronage belongs to
the bishop of some other diocese.
o " Table (II) shows the endowed dignities in the patronage
of each archbishop and bishop.
" This naturally leads the subcommittee to observe on the
advantage of the patronage being exert:Wed by the bishop
within whose deposes the living is elevate. Where thie is not
the cam, if the bishop wishes to reward a deserving minister
of his diocese, he loses the Meantime of his further sad
.by
giving him • living out of the diocese ; snd when the living
Is not such as to render it a reward of merit, and the only
object is to find a suitable person to place in tt, the bishop of
the diocese where it is situate, who is most likely to know
the state of the population, and other local circumstances,
lac., could more mime:eerily provide for it then any other
biehop. In rearranging the patronage, therefore, the sub-
committee conceive that it would be right to keep in view, as
en Important principle, the giving the patronage to the
When within whose diocese it I, locally situate. It is On-
sue, however, that the principle 'mat not be adhered to so
Mrkely as to prevent the fulfilment of the duty of arranging
the patronage according to ' the relative magnitude and im-
portance of the dioceses.'
" Although, therefore, the sub-committee feel very reluc-
tant to suggest ermogements which may remove into the
patronage of the bishop of the diocese (A) livings locally
situate in, and in the patronage of the bishop of diocese (li),
yet such must be the ease in fulfilling the intentions of the
act, in consequence of the locally unequal distribution of epis-
copal patronage.
4 . With them profs:story explanations and remarks, the
eub.committep propose to the board for their tonaideration •
scheme arranged in table (C), which conteins the various 1
permutations of patronage requisite or expedient in order to
produce the proportional distribution contemplated.
" The general :milts of the scheme will be found in table
atlin proposing the arrangements indicated in tables (C)
and (I)) the sub-comueittee deem it right to call the attention
of the board to the following points:
" Ist. That under the new arrangement the patronege
belooging to a large portion of the bishoprica will be confined
to the limits of their respective dioceses.
" 2nd. That with respect to the various transfers of patron-
age which appear to require to bo made they will for the
most part be transfers of patronage to the diocese wherein
it is locally situate, or tramline of foreign patron.
age from one diocese to another diocese. There are, how-
ever, instances in which it is necessary to transfer to another
&mem patronage from the diocese in which it is situate sad
to which it belongs. These instances ere inevitable, es
before has been noticed, owing to the great inequality of
patronage as at present fondly distributed.
" Upon this point it may further be remarked, that with
respect to the are of London, which under the proposed w-
LIEETent will have penalties in severed different dioceses,
hop well continue thus to have the opportunity of
transferring to rural pari.hca clergy whose Labours in the
louden parishes way render such a transfer desirable for
their personal welfare.
"3rd. The arrangement is based upon the number of the
dignities and livings; but regard has also been had to their
annual value.

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" The mama vetted of the patronage in each elan will be
Mad to approach an average, with some exceptions.
"It will be perceived that is London, Durham, Ely, and
Oxford, the average Is consiticesbly higher than in any of the
other sues. Raving regard, however, to the special peculia-
rities of these sees, the inequality appears to be of minor ins.
parlance.
" The proximity of Winchester end Rochester dioceses to
the metropolis appears to render the higher average valor of
their prefenuent rather advantegeous then objectionable.
The other deviations from the average do not seem to re-
quire petit-e'er notice.
" 4th. It he. beat already dated that the =ed modifi-
cathue relate to the twenty-one English bin
"The Welsh bishoprics will require further CA:widen,
lion;
i t some obviously expedient change. are, however, aug-
ht tables (C) and (D), and three hying. situate he
rrelshire are proposed to be transferred from St.
(which I. dieproportionstely 'applied with permute) toA1711!
Eel, the patronage of which, although not inferior in num-
ber, of less than the average in value.
" Fora deathr purpose it is proposed to transfer two living.
In Lancashire from the patronage of Canterbury to that of
, sad three in Tortellini in the dittoes@ of Ripon
fritnotester York to Ripon.
In order to compensate the tee. of Canterbury and York
for them roosters it is proposed tp treader from York to
' Canterbury the patronage of one living in Ely sad seven in
Usiitai, all in thwproviziee of Centailtury, sauna annals to

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---"6th. Bnbjeet to that modification, it is not proposed ID
aide the patronage of the archbishoprics.
" It may, however, be convenient to remark that the pa•
the archbishoprics is, as it ought to be, larger
= of
would have been had It been regulated by the import-
mos of their sees, considered merely asbishop
4' In fact, their patronage may be regarded partly as 'pit-
o.. Ankpartly sio srchtemsoopel.
gth. The proposed modifications and trendies can only
be made as-dually, inasmuch as some of the Lido. cannot
be effected he the Orders in Council ander the Act 6th and
7th Will. IV% P. 77. The alterations affecting their patron-
... only beamid into awn either with their consent,
i7,-,ther the next eesidanoe of their seas.
"7th. There ere AO some territoriel exchanges and alters-
lions of boundaries In rue dioceses in otatemplation, but the
sub-committee do not roftahlar that the prupoeed arrange-
manta need be delayed on that account."
The various tables alluded to in the foregoing report occupy
28 pages. The report of the EON:opal Patronage Committee,
which is dated June 4, 1860, occapiss only a mingle page, and
is as follows

I;;;;t—The Bari of Devon, the Bishop of St. niaph,
the Bishop of Duthie, the Bishop at Oxford, the Bishop a
Wpm, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Right Hon. Henry
filoulburs, the Bight Hon. H. Hoblionee, and J. O. Shaw
Lahore, Bp.
The committes having fterther considered the matters
referred to them, with a view of revising the aikulations,
submit for adoption by the board the following princi ,ples
on which they conceive that the re-arrangement of episcopal
Pa° twin bard, via. :
1. That the patronage al the archbishops remain un-
altered, except as to certain exchanges which it may be found
nemssary to make.
"2. That the relative importance of the ems, which ia to
be the measure of their patronage, be estimated partly in
refermos to the population of the respective dioceses? and
partly ha refamee to the number of officiating miniatere

3. That the proportionate weight to be given to each of
there roadderettcas be two-thirde in ruped of number of
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a —lldatbsir minister% and one-third is respect of population.
" 4. That the patronage be distributed according to the
relative importance of the eras as thus ascertained.
" 6. That if it be found requisite in this re went to
subtract patronage from the present patronage of any see,
sits-diocesan patronage be subtracted in all cases where
possible.
8. That if it be requisite to add patronage to any see.
liriega locally situate within the limits of the diocese be first
add"
7. That the patronage be so dratributed as that both in
number of benefices and annual value it shall correspond as
nearly as may be with the relative importance of the respec-
tive es* esosetainsd u above mentioned.
"S. That the arrangements with respect to the Welch
betiopekebe coridered raparately, but that the patronage
to Weira sees locally situated within English
dioldeVfm Mendered to English ems, and ram versa.
" 9. That it wield be desirable to enter into negotiations
with the for the exchange of livings, with a
view to Min the number of craft of extra-diocesan
patronage wide& may be found to arise from the proposed
enangenerat Whim the same shall have bean carried into
effict."