The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-30 00:00:00

" ART. 3.-ALLOCATION OF ECCLESIASTICS.

" The primal Church of Madrid shall have for prelate a very
reverend archbishop, with the privileges of a patriarch of
Spain, and chaplain major of the national armies. The seven
other metropolitan churches shall each have an archbishop, and
the 39 suffragan dioceses each a bishop.
" There shall be a chapter in all these dioceses for the ser-
vices of legal council to the prelate, and public worship.
These chapters to be composed of 12 prebendaries and 12 as-
sistants in the metropolitan churches ; and of 10 prebendaries
and 10 assistants in the others.

" There shall be a curate in each parish with the necessary
assistants. The curates shall be of four classes; their classifi-
cation shall be made by the diocesan juntas.
" The Government will make a new distribution of pa-
rishes after having arranged with the diocesan juntas, and will
fix the number and the division according to the rules laid
down by this law.
" In each diocese there shall be a seminary for giving in-
struction in ecclesiastical science. It shall be under the im-
mediate inspection of the diocesan, but depending on the
superior Government, which shall arrange the plans and rules
of instruction and order. If any diocese has two or more se-
minaries they shall be united in one.

" ART. 4.--ENDOWMENT OF CLERGY, AND EXPENSES OF PUBLIC

WORSHIP.

" The endowment of public worship, and of ecclesiastics, is at
the expense of the nation, which will fulfil this duty in the manner
which shall be decided upon by the Cortes in the Budget indi-
cated in the table joined to this law. The primate shall have
150,000 reals per annum, the metropolitans, 120,000 ; the
bishops, 80,000 ; the prebendaries, from 6,000 to 7,000 ; the
curates, from 3,300 to 10,000 ; for the seminaries, 1,000,000,
&c., and thus in proportion for the different endowments of
churches and their ministers. The total of this budget amounts
to 151,774,800 reals per annum. The 43d, and last article of
this law enacts that the bishops may in future dispose by will of
their property like all other citizens, and that should they die
intestate, their relatives shall inherit, according to the common
law."

A fire, the origin of which no one doubts to be
wilful, took place last week at Mr. T. Braddick's, Silverton ;
and on Sunday, the 25th instant, nine houses were burnt at
Collumpton, being set on fire by a woman named Lock, who
was committed from hence on the 26th to the County Gaol, to
take her trial at the Assizes.—Slierborne Journal. _ _

The weather continues most propitious for the
growth of the several kinds of grain and vegetables—all of
which have made most extraordinary progress during the last
fourteen days. Throughout a great proportion of the counties
of Renfrew, Lanark, Stirling, Perth, and Clackmannan, every
sort of crop, with the exception of beans, is in a very thriving
condition—the late rains having completely restored the weak
plants, and set turnips and potatoes in active growth. Wheat,
oats, and barley, promise a fair return—the latter is in the ear
in some places. Over the above range of country we only ob-
served a single field in which potatoes were not a most luxu-
riant crop—close set, and fine broad strong stems—so that
this year we may reasonably expect there will be enough and
to spare for man and beast. Hay is a fair crop, and will fall
below the scythe in no mean swathes.—Ayr Observer.
On Wednesday afternoon a Frenchman, who said
he had lately arrived from the Continent, put up at the Free-
masons' Coffee-house, No. 119, Fleet-street, and, after par-
taking of tea and supper, engaged a bed for the night. He
left the house about nine o'clock yesterday morning, under
pretence of going out for the purpose of putting a letter in
the twopenny-post box at the corner of Bride's-avenue. He
did not return, and some suspicion having been created in the
mind of Mr. J. Smithson, the landlord, he proceeded to his
bedroom, and discovered that he had been plundered of a sil-
ver watch and appendages, which were safe in the apartment
when be left it. The Frenchman, who answers the descrip-
tion of a fellow that has lately committed several other rob-
beries in taverns and coffee-houses, is about five feet five
inches high, light hair, thin person, fair complexion, thin sharp
visage, carrotty whiskers if any, slightly ma!ked with the
small-pox, and speaks very fast. He wore a dark blue frock-
coat, rather worn, and Wellington boots. It is expected that
he will embark for Dover, Calais, or Boulogne this afternoon
or early to-morrow morning, as he talked about returning to
France before he left Mr. Smithson's house. The watch is a
valuable one, capped and jewelled, stops and seconds, gold
minute, second, and hour hands ; within the ease a satin watch-
paper, on it a girl finding a rabbit ; the other paper has the
watch-maker's name, Kid, Banner-street. A gold chain is
attached to the watch, with large gold seal, set with white
eernelian stone.