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•

The Bishop of Versailles, on account of the fre-
quency of the practice of suicide, has addressed a circular
letter to the Rectors of parishes and the Clergy of his dcese,
4,-.siring them to conii4t, this tendency of modern manners by
all till, nipans in their power, arui repinding them that, by the
canons and regulations of the Church, the forms of Christian
burial are to Le Tefpszaki ).:1 all cases of thitt ipel not resulting
from well-pyosT4 snantal alienation,

The Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales believe it
may determine the line of conduct of many Tithe-owners and
Tithe-payers, if they now make public the views and inten.
tions of the Commission as to the manner in which it will apply
its compulsory powers to the commutation of Tithes.
Daring the last six months 1,003 voluntary agreements have
been received.
If the process of commutation were wholly compulsory the
Commissioners would not think it prudent, or perhaps practi-
cable, to press it at a quicker rate than this.
The appointments have hitherto been completed with more
harmony, and with much less of irritation and opposition, than
had been generally reckoned on, but they consume much morn
time than it is desirable they should.
The causes of this slowness are, the limited number of per.
sons to whom the parties to the agreements are content to trust
the processes either of mapping and measuring or of appor-
tioning, and the great accumulation of work in the hands of
that limited number of persons.
If the Tithe Commissioners increase the quantity of work
to be done in the country, by adding a number of compulsory
awards to the voluntary agreements now making, and under
which the apportionments are proceeding towards completion,
they must either employ the same apportioners and mappers
whom the parties themselves are now employing, or they must
employ a different and inferior class, and one in which the par-
ties show no disposition to place confidence.
If the Commissioners employed the persons at present em.
ployed, they could not materially accelerate the pace at which
the apportionments are now completing. If they employed
persons in whom the landowners had not cont deuce, discontent,
appeals, and consequent on these, very heavy expenses both to
the public and individuals, would fullow, which must entirely
destroy the harmony and contentment which have hitherto
marked the progress of commutations. This would constitute
an amount of evil which, in the opinion of the Commissioners,
would very much more than balance any good which their
immediate compulsory interference, on a wide scale, could
effect.

The Tithe Commissioners, therefore, announce, that while
the voluntary commutation proceeds at the pace at which it
has lately proceeded, it is their intention to interfere com-
pulsorily oily iu a limited number of cases, which will

consist,-
Ist. Of those in which litigation is in progress.
12dly. Of those in which tithe has been taken in kind prier
to the appearance of this circular.
3dly. Of cases in which the Commissioners are requested
by both tithe-owners and land-uwners to interfere.
4thly. Of cases in which an incumbent has been recently
appointed, or may be hereafter admitted to a rectory or
vicarage, and becomes thereby owner of the great or

small tithes.
The Tithe Commissioners wish it, however, to be under-
stood that, if the progress of voluntary commutation slackens,
they may:probably think it right to interfere more actively and
widely, and that they will interfere at once in any special
cases or particular districts of which the peculiar circum-
stances appear to them to make an early interference
desirable.
While making these announcements the Commissioners
earnestly advise all parties to commutations to apply them-
selves deliberately, but resolutely, to the task of making volun-
tarily their own arrangements.
It is true that in few cases the compulsory processes may be
completed as cheaply as the voluntary, the award, perhaps,
even more cheaply than an agreement ; but it is never certain
that this will be the case in any one instance. It is highly
improbable that it will be the case in the majority of instances.
Where the parties institute no contest, and make no struggle
before the Commissioners, a compulsory commutation, may be
promptly and cheaply settled.
Whenever, either at the commencement of a compulsory
commutation, or what will oftener happen accidentally and dur-
ing its progress, any individual, however small his interest,
grows suspicious and litigious, and denies facts as to past trans-
actions and averages, or disputes admeasurements and valua-
tions, he may force on a protracted investigation, re.admea-
surements, and fresh maps and re-valuations, which must lead
to burdensome and indefinite expenses to be borne by the par-
ties, besides causing a wasteful expenditure of public money.
It is indeed clear that an apportionment made by the Commis-
sioners must in nearly every case be more expensive than one
conducted by the landowners themselves.
Should these considerations have their due weight with the
parties, the Commissioners see no ground for doubting that
by very far the larger portion of tithe will be voluntarily and
amicably commuted. As yet, out of all the voluntary appor-
tionments confirmed, the parties have been driven to re valua-
tions only in one.
The Tithe Commissioners wish the persons employed to
map and apportion to understand very distinctly that, although
under the circumstances enumerated here much forbearance
will be exercised towards them, and although the power of
taking the apportionment out of their hands will be very cau-
tiously exercised, yet such forbearance will have its limits.
Whenever it is found that: there) has been trifling or loiter-
ing, or a disappointment of the fair expectations of their em-
ployers, the Commissioners (however much they may regret
the necessity for doing so) will not hesitate to take the appor-
tionment into their own hands. In such cases the time and
cost already bestowed upon the work will be lost.
The Tithe Commissioners recommend all tithe-owners to
take care that the first instalment of their rent-charge is
made due, and that tithe should cease to exist, on some
quarter-day after the confirmation of the apportionment.
This will prevent the possibility of there being an interval
between the signing of the agreement and the confirmation of
the apportionment, during which they may find it practically
very difficult to collect either tithe or rent-charge.
They also recommend to all landowners to contract for the
completion of the apportionment by some given day after the
confirmation of an agreement or completion of an award, and
to stipulate, that if the apportionment is not then completed,
nothing shall be paid for it. If they do not do this, they will
run the risk of having first to pay partially an apportioner
selected by themselves, and secondly the expenses elan appor-
Lonment made by the Commissioners.
W. BLANIIRE,
T. W. BULLER,
R. JONES.

August 27, 1838.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS.--We understand that the
deputation from the Town Council who went to London about
the Gaol Assessment Bill, were greatly astonished, as well as
pleased, at the pains taken by the Peers to ascertain all the
bearing of the case, and give effect to the reasonable views of
the parties. Those who suppose that the Members of the
Upper House make their duties a sinecure will learn from the
following anecdote that they have been mistaken, at least in
regard to some. The deputation had occasion one forenoon
to call upon a Noble Duke connected with Scotland, and
found him busily engaged with the Gaol Bill, which they ob-
served lying in shreds on his table, with numerous notes and
alterations in his Grace's own handwriting; and he told them
he had been so engaged since seven o'clock in the morning,
without having tasted breakfast. —D undee Courier.
A number of the inhabitants of Matlock were on
Tuesday last thrown into a huge fit of perplexity, not to say
terror, by the appearance of an apparently formidable looking,
although nondescript, sort of animal progressing down the
river. It appeared, as it rolled, and heaved, and plunged
about in the shallows, to possess _horns and legs, but owing to
its peculiar motion no one could clearly distinguish whether it
had head, feas„ or tails. A couple of daring spirits at length
put off in an Oxford wherry, resolved to attack the creature,
and various were the conjectures on shore as to whether it
would turn out to be a horned porpoise, a misshapen alligator,
or a disguised grampus, who had missed his way in returning
from a marine masquerade. After a severe chase the gallant
crew of the wherry cautiously approached the monster, and
the very first harpoon (or hay-fork, we are not clear which)
that took effect, proved the enemy to be neither more or less
than—a wheelbarrow.—Derbyshire Courier.
On Saturday last an inquest was held before John
Wood, Esq., at the house of Mr. Birkbeck, the sign of the
Bee Hive, York, on view of the body of Caroline Ann Mar -
Mar-
shall, 81 years of age, who resided with her son and daughter-
in-law, in Hope-street. From the evidence adduced there was
strong suspicion of the mother having been poisoned lay the
daughter. Indeed, the Coroner said that the evidence was
so
strong, and the public feeling so excited in the neighbourhood,
that he called upon the jury to have a post mortem exarninatiohn..
The inquest might be adjourned. Mrs. Marshall, the daug
ter-in-law, was called in, and the Coroner informed her there
was a case of strong suspicion against her on which she became
in a violent passion, and was very abusive in her language.
The Coroner, however, intimated that as it was probable sne
she would be charged with the crime of poisoning, it was de-
sirable the body should be opened, and adjourned the inquest.
A singular circumstance occurred on Monday
morning on the Canterbury-road ;as the Dover mail was on
its way up to town near Ingress Park, the seat of Mr. Alder-
man Harmer, at Greenhithe, a hare jumped suddenly in the
road in front of the horses, then going at full speed ; the
frightened animal started off along the road, and kept at heer
utmost speed in front of the hot ses fur at least half a mil'
There were only two outside passengers besides the coach-
man and guard; and they had the pleasure of enjoying achyse
of a description rarely seen. The hare at length finding the
straight road would not free her from her pursuing enemy
left the road for the safer covert of the fields. The ivriter of
this paragraph was one of the two " outsides."
loi,?:sin.As:wooerOasvePtrhPsaOotßTUNE VISITOR.—One of the hand-
f bCotriophaerr,,swollaeathawdesdeaclasrterdoogbLerfotroe C
leis toobnile:
lately
.ireeeived an unexpected call from a visitor, who instead
of cm y opening the door, bolted right in through the shoe
window, carrying glass and wood before him, and snugly en-
s onsed himself in the treadle-hole. Oa exploring his re-
tighieliono'dea‘w-eortbe,
foundr his guest was no other than a good
and, securing him fast, he exclaimed
re-
treat et
Ca tHo r e
away, my buck,
you're right relcome— arse like you
in the month's worth twa,i
Commissioners "—Edinburgh
Observer.