The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-20 00:00:00

THE HELOTS OF THE CHURCH.

From an analysis of the Ecclesiastical Dic-
tionary, he finds the Pluralities to stand thus :-
1 Person holds 11 Livings.
1 do. ...... do. S
5 do. do. 7
12 do. do. 6
61 do. .. ... do. 5
209 do. do.
567 do. do. 3
2027 do. do. .. 2
4305 do. do. 1

7191
The greater Dignitaries of the Church are-
-2 Archbishops—average income of each £26,400
24 Bishops do. 10,100
28 Deans do. 1,580
61 Archdeacons
26 Chancellors
514 Prebendaries and Canons, do. 545
(I hen follow Presenters, Succentors, Minor
Canons, Vicars-General, &c.)
After all, it is farcical to think of the zeal
with which the Government has been busying
itself about cheese-parings and candle ends, the
few pounds squeezed off a clerk or landwaiter,
or the one or two thousand retrenched from the
4,0001. or 6,0001. paid to a Minister of State,
who is loaded with labour, responsibility, and
expellee, while these overgrown smecurists, more
useless than the geese that cackled in the Roman
capitol, are left untouched !
The salaries paid to the French clergy are
under-stated in this book. The sum put into
the Budget of 1830, for the Church, is given in
the Part of Mahe Brun's Geography, just pub-
lished, and stands thus :—" Salaries of the
Clergy,
33,071 francs ; Aids to the Clergy,
2,480,000 ; Ecclesiastical (Ad(Administrative)36,64l,ooo, or 1,460,0001."
The French clergy receive probably some
720000--in720000--inn
all, Department, 370,000 ; Non-Catholic Clergy,
dues or offerings from their flocks, but they must
be small. If we estimate them at 101. per annum
for each Priest, we shall have the total amount
400,000/.; and thus the whole sum paid to
under 2,000,0001.; or about 501. per
40,000 priests and dignified clergymen will be
rather
annum on an average. The building and
both countries ; but we must hear in
main-
tenance of churches are defrayed out of other
in
nhat the French Government pays the dis-
senters(that is the Lutheran and Calvinistic
while our Government pays only those
fu
mind,l ds
Established Church. England has, we
tocil,feinrtghkey,)akbout 7000 Dissenting clergymen, whose
average revenue may be taken at 1201.
The enwluments of the Clergy of all sects
in England will therefore amount to £10,300,000
D t9,t046,
ofotohoeo. a
French
ennd 840,0001
ehlergy
14,i051(3w o,ooSiOnocfe England
inilab
aof all sects .. ... 2,000,000
tts,
acioni contains
ailwea3t this
2,000,0d0a0y
we have the following as the proportional ex-
pence—
paid to the Spiritual Instructors of a mil
lion of persons in England } £735,000
paid to the Spiritual Instructors of a mil-
lion of persons in France
state and reiterate these facts. The 62
62,500
or very nearly as twelve to one ! We like to
election Cambridge
faithful
ehsflur s,that the Church of
England
isat
in-
veterate and
rights; and if theto people,
a rlav chteeor , ofthetyh the
obtainm o most
the
ascendancy, do not "
for count and reckon" with
the Church
its misdeeds, their weakness and
stupidity will richly
merit contempt.

- - -- •
The view of the Scots of the duties of a
My., is well illustrated by the following real dialogue,
Why does Mr. no longer stand for
?" " Oh, he has no occasion now to go to
parliament. He has got appointments for all his rela-
tions."

Prophetically indeed did NAPOLEON Say—
You will see that in a short time the English will cease
to hate me. So many of them have been, and are, in
France, where they will hear the truth, that they will
produce a revolution of opinion in England. I will leave
it to them to justify me, and I have no doubt about the
result."—Barry O'Meara's Voice from St. Helena,
Vol I. p. 128.—h not this true, as well as prophetic ?
There are not less, we believe, than five dramatic pieces at
this moment on the English stage, of which he is the hero.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

rim LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING;

St. James's Palace, y IS,
This day the Baron de Cetto, Envoy MaExtraolB3l.rdinary and Minis-
ter Plenipotentiary at this Court from the King of Bavaria, had
private audience of his Majesty, to deliver a letter fron
his Sovereign ; to which he was introduced by Lord Viscount
Palmerston, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of Sate fol-
Poreign Aff“irs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knt.
Master of the Ceremonies.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.
2d Somerset Regiment of Militia.—T. Willy, Gent. to be En-
sign, May 5, 1831.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk.
B. Gurdon, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant, April 30.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of
the County of York.
North York Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry.—Lieut. T. Simpson
an .1 J. C. Maynard, Esq. to be Captains ; W. l'ybus, Gent.-to bt
Cornet, May 3.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenanilif the County of Wigtown.
Wigtown Troop of Yeomanry.—H. Hathorn, Esq. to be Cap-
tain-Commandant; S. H. Stewart, Gent. to be Lieutenant ; W.
Maxwell, Gent. to be Cornet, April 27.
Stranraer Troop of Yeamanay.—W. C. Hamilton, Esq. to be
Captain-Commandant; J. H. Ross, to be Lieutenant; A. M.
Caird, Gent. to be Cornet, April 27,

Whitehall, May 4.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Webb Thacker, of
Litchfield, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to he a Master Extra-
ordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

Whitehall, May 17.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Stewart Clarke,
of the City of Bristol, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in
the High Court of Chancery.