The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-11 00:00:00

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the employment of stipendiary curates, wo have prepared a 13i11
embodying the suggestions to which we have alluded; repeal-
ing the pro:ent statute law, and re-enacting its principll pro-
visions, with such alterations and additions as aepear necessary
to carry those suggestions into effect. But we think it right
to state explicitly-our opinion, that the residence of the
parochial c!crgy, to the extent c: acs: the interests of reli-
gion require, can only be secured -by providing the means
of augmenting poor beneficeS, and erecting glebe houses.
There are not less than 2,878 benctices on which there is
no house of residence, and 1,723, the houses unen
arc unfit for residence.

We deem it right respectfully to rope.,.t the observation made
In our first report, that in all our proposals we • assume that
vested interest:, will be respect:2d, as far as regards the reve-
nues and profits of persons actually holding any of the offices
which will be effected by those proposals.
Flaring, in the course of our proceedings, been informed
of your Majesty's gracious intention not to fill up the stall
ohich has become vacant in your Majesty's Royal Chapel at
Windscr, until it should have undergone our consideration,
a2id having also received, through Viscount Melbourne, your
Majesty's express permission to deal with the chapter of that
chapel, notwithstanding its contiguity to and connection with
the Royal residence, in the same mode as with other chapters
in the patronao-e of the Crown, we have without scruple of.
fered to your kik:sty, in the foregoing report, such sur.nges-
tions as have been dictated by our sense of duty as well
regard to those dignities which are in the direct patrona,;,,e of
your Majesty, as with regard to those which are in the gift of
archbishops, bishops, deans, and chapters.
We have further to acknowledge the communication by Vis-
count Melbourne, of your Majesty's commands, that no ap-
pointment shall take place to the stall which has lately become
vacant in the Chapter of Westminster. As the reasons as-
signed in cur former report for recommending the union of the
stall then vacant in the same chapter with the parish of St.
Margaret, apply with equal force to the annexation of similar
preferment to the equally .populous parish of St. John, West-
minster, we humbly submit to your Majesty's consideration
that the present vacancy affords a suitable opportunity of pro-
viding for the spiritual wants of the latter parish.
We also think it due to those archbishops and bishops who
have forborne to collate pending cur proceedings, to sinecure
rectories, prebends, and offices within their patronage, to enu-
merate the preferments now remaining vacant on this account,
with the names of their respective patrons :
In the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury :—The si-
necure rectory of fishbury, in the diocese of Salisbury ; the sine-
cure rectory of Rilken or. Cilcain, in the diocese of St. Asaph.
Archbishop of York : The prebend of Souih Newbold, in
the cathedral of York.
Bishop Of London : The prebend of Chamberlayn Wood,
in the Cathedral of St. Paul's.

Bishop of St. Asaph : The sinecure rectory of Llanbryn-
mair, in that diocese.
Bishop of Bath and Wells : The precentorship of the chutth,
and the prebend of Litton, in the cathedral of Wells.
Bishop of Chichester : The prebend. of 'Waltham, in the
cathedral of Chichester.

Bishop of St. David's : The precentorship of the church of
Brecon, and the prebend of Boughrode, in the same church.
Bishop of Exeter : One of the non-residentiary prebends in
the cathedral of Exeter.

Bishop of Lincoln : The three prebends of Carlton cum
Thurlby, Ernpingham, and Welton Rival], in the cathedral of
Lincoln.

We have further to cbservc, that the Rev. J. H. M. Lux..
moor, the present possessor of the sinecure rectory of Whitford,
in the diocese of St. Asaph, has expressed his willingness to
resign all vested interest in the same, if it can be appropriated
towards the endowment of a Welch professorship in the northern
part of the principality of Wales.
And lastly, we have received from Mrs. Hartley, of Bath, the
liberal offer of placing at our disposal, with reference to the
object of this commission, her interest in a portion of the tithes
of the parish of Wendron, in Cornwall.
All which we humbly submit to your Majesty's consider-
ation.