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London, England, 1851-07-16 00:00:00

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GLASGOW AND SOUT -IV ESTE ILN RAILWAY.— Traffic for
the Week ending July 12, 185 l :
Passengers (21,130), Goods, &c.,
nd Horses and Carriages ... £3,979 11 8
Corresponding week in last year
for Glasgow and Ayr aud Glas-
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle
Rail ways ... £3,208 16 1
Glasgow, July 14, 1851.

THE PACHA or EGYPT.—AA an acknowledgment
of the readiness which the Pacha of Egyp has shown to
comply with the wishes of her Majesty's Government in re-
pad to the construction of a railway from Alexandria to
Cairo, the Lords of the Treasury have given directions that
Nubar Bey, who has been sent to this country by the Pacha,
be all .wed to receive his baggage duty )ree.

LAUNCH C•F THE PARANC—SOUTHAMPTON, JULY
15.—The West India mail s eam-ship Parana. of 2,250 tons,
was launched shortly after noon to-day from the building-
yard of Messrs. Wigram and Sons, at Northam, near South-
ampton. A description et this fine ship is unnecessaey, inas-
mach as she resembles in every respect, both in size and.
powe , the three steam-ships Oronoco, Amazon, and Magda-
lena, recently launched in the. Thames. The Royal Mail
Steam Packet Company have now tour out of five of their
new steam fleet in the water. The last ship, the Demerara,
bu lding at Bristol, will shortly be sent oft the stocks. The
Parana will be copp,tred in the Southampton Graving Docks,
and is to be afterwards towed round to Greenock to receive
her engines and boilers, which are being constructed by
Messrs. Caird and Co., of that place.
THE TOWL,R OF LONDON MUCH MORE TO SIGHT-
SEERS MAN MIRE ARMOUR AND REGALIA.— Every inch of
the Tower walls is tied to a story—is an evidence in history.
If its Roman connexion be fabulous, here, at all events, was
a Saxon stronghold, and here is a Norman castle. At
sight of these architecturally much-abused walls what names
and recolleaions rise! this palace, piton, and fortress,
" the very germ of London," as Charles Knight calls it, is, in
truth, the earl) history of England, written on stone, and in-
terspersed, may we say, with many " cuts on wood." Visitors
should not forget Traitors' Gate-
-" that gate misnamed, through which before
Went Sidney, Russell, Raleigh. Cranmer, More;"
or the little Church of St. Peter ad Vaieula, where lies Anne
Boleyn, with many other noble sufferers; or the Beauehamp
Tower, with its singularly interesting records of some who
were imprisoned there, cut in the stone walls. This latter
will be seen on the west side of the open space beside the
keep, or what used to be called "the Green beside the
Chapel within the Tower," and is now the officers mess-
room. To view this permission must be obtained, but this
will not be found difficult. Many of the inscriptions are
full of interest, none more so to us than the simple word
" JANE," which, if not written by the unto turiate Lady Jane
Grey herself, probably was by her husband, Guilford.
The
present mess-master is apt and obliging in describing the
most important of these " trivial fond records," but be is in
error in pointing out the date to the inscription signed
"William Tyrrel." as " 1241, the earliest inscription here."
It is 1541. The Builder.
THE BALLOON ASCNNT FROM TEE CHINESE JUNK
THAT DID " NOT" TAKE PLACE.—An amusing hoax was on
Monde, night played on the sight. seeing a,
d wonder-loving
citizens of Cockaigne. For some days past large placards
announced for that night a balloon ascent from the Chinese
Junk, lying in the river, with the further tempting novelty,
as the bills had it. of "Aladdin's Aerial Palac ," to be dis-
played from the car. From an e irly hour in the evening
both Waterloo and Blackfiiars bridges, and every. available
spot. from which a view of the junk cyuld be obtained, were
crowded with eager expectant*, who bore the piercing of a
t however,he
bard the
strong north-easterly wind kr hours with most exemplary
patience. A fsw minutes before eight o'acbloolcvke,
yetio relieved
top of the balloon, which had been above the encic-
of
sure around the junk disappearaepdp,:eidit
under, the
under a mimic salute of cannon, it rose
a second or two, for being now
greater pertitm of the gas, i s ascentded Lads
ibetilit
iinitto momentarytheriver,
duration, as it immediately descen
be draw,,
bbuutursdoi,,cglowseitthtioi thatutliteajitai;kdiffic
forsic
ilonnsantTasttan t it disap-
peared altogether. Thus, were enter-
de built in the air," was fully realized,
tabled by Lot. few, thattiti.hea:u' auspicious
Palace of Aladdin"
would prove hut a co ul cou id:
and that the whole aff.Ar WAS only one
u of those harmless jokes
that choleric Englishmen are sometimes inclined to desig-
nate by the homely, but well
understood term 01 "a hoax."
The bridges were sow! after relieved of the hundreds by
which they had been crowd, d and
the whole affair was
passe,
• 1 off in tolerable good humour.
FATAL SoMNAMBULIqd
—On Ni(n.d.ty Mr. U, M.
held an ii quest in the University College Hospital
on Samuel Shilton, .ged forty-eight. It appeared from the
evidence that deceased, who was in the habit of walking in
his sleep, and was engaged mowing for Mr. Daniel How,
of Edgeware, had, with other mowers, gone, ecc.r.ing to
their custom, to sleep on a rick twenty feet high. During
the night he get up in his sleep, and before his com-
panions could stop him he walked to the edge of the rick,
whence he fell to the ground, breaking his neck. Verdict—
" Accidental death."

GLMGONT, Jura' 12 —Cotton.—There h9s horn a
fair inquiry for cotton wool from the trade this week, but
prices are about h.l. per lb. lower, and the tendency is still
d wnward. In gods and yarn little is doing, aid prices are
uttchanped, Pig
' Iron.—The pig iron market continues very
qu.ei, Liu
prices keep steady. No. 1, g.m.b, 39s 6d. ;
No' 3' 19g.; G:rtsherrie scarce and cannot be had under
412. 3d. for No. 1. Freights, from the small demand, are
1974 intli t klaigu ad hp= pile.

THE INCOMES OF THE BISHOPS
(From the Times.)
As a suitable preface to the qaes,lons which he has
propounded to the Frime Minister, Sir Benjamin Hall
has obtained a return riving a history of the doings of
the Ecclesiastical Commission for the two septennial
periods into which its existence is divided. We
are now able in some measure to estimate the
degree of their success in the object wbich
they had in view—the equalizing the incomes
of the different ems by applying the revenues
of the larger to meet the deficiency of the
smaller. They did not, indeed, aim at an exact equalitle
since they allowed the Archbishop of Canterbury 15,0001.
a year, the Archbishop of York and the Bishop el Len'
don 10,000/. a year, and the remening bishops sums
vary leg between 4,2001. and 5,000/. Of course the
Commission had no authority to interfere with vested
rights, and it would be, therefore, unfair to cite against
them the fact, that the income of the Bishop of
Leneon for the last. three years has been in round num"
hers 24,0001., 19,000 L, and 20,0001. respectively, while
the less fortunate Bishop of Exeter has received during
the same period 3,0001., 1,5001., and 2,000/. But we may
fairly take the case of the Bishop of Durham, who re-
ceived his bishopric in the days ot reform, and who, after
paying to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 11.2001. ayear.
has received in 1848 23 0001., in 1849 9,000/. zed In
1850, 27 0001. Ia these cases we have the two pele°l
the zenith and nadir. of the episcopal system, end
are fairly authorised in concluding that, notwith-
standing the Ecclesiastical Commission is now
entering on the third lustre of its labours, son3etbieg
is yet wanting towards that equi,able equate,'
which it was its object to establish. Chester
receives 550/., Chichester 6501., St. David's 1,6001 e
Hereford 1,0001., Lichfield 850/, Llandaff 3 1501., M 5 U;
cheater 4,2001., Oxforo 3.500/, Peterborough 1,1501.9'T
Rochester 3 750/., in supplement of their incomes, while
Exeter antione ur two other bishopric.] nearly as poor
are left unendewed. Several bishoprics—as for instant
Salisbury, Worcester,Norwich. sled Ely, are allowed veil
consisecubly to exceed the reductions fixed upon by the
Commissioners without any attempt to equalize theca'
We are not now considering whether the principle upon
which the Ecclesiastical Commission proposed to red.
gulats the incomes of the bishops was a goo
ant, but are only pointing out how utterly it ne'.
failed in the working. The Bishop of Durbs°'
who ought last year to have received 8,0004 ref
ceived 27,0001.; the Bishop of Exeter, who °Ws"
to have received, we presume, at least 4,200/, receive
u
under 2 Mot, or less than one thirteenth part of the in'
come of his more fortunate brother. The plan tiPu
which the Commission has proceeded appears to us pee.
liarly uulertunate, and must have the effect of exhibet°
ing many members of the right reverend bench in
light most eminently unde.irable. A prospective charge
upon the revenues ot any see seems generally to hole
t
been met in a spirit of vicarious liberality, but the re°
determined resistance is offered to any attempt to reduce
the income of the see in the hands of the present inctite.
bent to the amount on the faith of receiving which be
accepted it. We select, as an instance ot the cutleeata
in which a bishop can condescend to Niggle '1;
perpetuation of an income far larger than that ',hir.
he had any hgal or moral right to, the case o' i""
Bishop of Woicesrer. The income of the Bishop of Wee;
rester was fixed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners e`
5,000/ a-year. Now, the average of this see for the slit
veers ending in 1835 was 7.643/. thus leaving a, surplus °
0
2.6431. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, by an order to
1837, fixed the pa) went on this Bee for the eillargegeel
ot smaller bishoprics at the very moderate sum of 2.30ir;
a-year. FM. the seven years ending in 1843 W.,
average of the income of the bishopric was Pretty
nearly the same as for the preceding six. Under
,:„
these rather unpromising circumstances the BidPs2;
of Worcester memoralized the Commissioners for
ducti• n of the charge upon his bishopric from 2,3001. I'
1,500/.; he corifidelaily states his opinion that the bishopric
will not continue to yield the suns at which it is esti*
mated, expresses his utter inability to pay it, and
forms the Commissioners that such a payment.
claimed, could only be recovered by legal process.
is, as his Lordship explains, to obviate all mistake el
to his meaning, judgment and execution. In support `";
his prayer is auduced the opinion of his brother, Lot"
Cottennann to the eff. ct that the order imposing the rent'
charge upon the see of Worcester is invalid in le'
The Commissioners eppointed a committee, on wilt"
sat the Bishops of London, Durham, and Herefordi
and they, by no means at.palled by the opinion es
the ex-Chancellor in favour of his brother, reported
against the Bishop's claim. On this the Bishop of Wore
cester gave notice of a motion to be made by him in ti,-
Ecclesiastical Commission, to the eff, ct that the reel
charge on his see was calculated on erroneous data, set,
ought to be reduced to 1.600/. per annum, a proposiele..,
on which it never seems to have occurred to bl_r
that he as a party interested was incompetent to deciue'
Luckily the Bishop abstained from this discreditable Pll7
cedure, and the result was that the charge was confirmed'
minus 100/. taken off on the ground of a clerical error.
Of course, our readers will suppose that the average of the
[text seven y ears fully bore out the aptreheneions of tb
Bishop, and justified him, in spite of the contradictil
afforded by the income of thirteeu successive years, in 1190
only in his brother to be judge in his cause, but In
the attempt to adjudicate upon it himself. It is consultugty
those whose apprehension. may have been excited bio
these gloomy prophecies to know that for 611
eevn years concluding 1850 the income of the Bishop fe
Word star has exceeded 9,000/. so that, after paying IPAI
much-disputed rentcharge or 2 300/. he receives, 01,
and above the 5,000/. designed for him, 1,7001., or nes,ll
as leech as the income of his brother of Exeter. V°
have now an average of 20 years of the see of WO:
cester, which raises the income considerably abee'
8,000/. The Bishop has lIQ claim to one shilling 000
5,000/., and yet he considers himself deeply injured bje:
cause he has been obliged to contribute a sum tower
the augmentation of poorer bishoprics which only elie,., ,mg
him 7001. a year more than he ought to receive.
not only have the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Cele;
mission been unfortunate in developing an avidity eft!.
the perishable things of this world exactly proportions j
to the superabundance in which they are distribute
among the teachers of our faith; it has also, singelle"
enough, called several bishops as witnesses against theta
;
selves. The Bishop of Durham considers 8 0001 PI
annum a sufficient remuneration fpr the future ineuer
bent of his princely see, )et be received in 1847, 19,000er
and, in 1850, 18 0001. more than that sum. The Biel
of Winchester is content that the Biehope of Wincbeste:
his successors, shall receive 7,0001, for which sum
of opinion that a prelate can be obtained worthy to di;i
charge the duties ot' his see; yet for the last seven ye L,
he has been in the receipt of an income exceeding WI
sum by an amount in Init case less team 2,000/.,
reaching, last year, 28,0001., or four times the Tee
ample salary which be destines for his successor.
Bishop of London pockets 20,000/. a year, wWch, by 7is
~
own admission, is 10 000/. more than is requ:red.
then, the end and aim of life the accumulation of money
Is there such au utter dearth of objects on which to er
ercise her activity that our Church is obliged to squaeflei,,
her resources tin adding surplus to supetfluity, and gtr
ing more to those who, by their own confession, he/0
already so vastly too much? Something we hear of to
n'cessity of church extension, something of the noses'.
city of reliving the craving wants of the working clergy
in remote districts, something of the increasing dons _
for religious education. The laity are continually called
upon to contribute to these objects, but where are Or
hundreds of thousands which the Church could coati.°
burn after making provision for the decent and of
effluent maintenance of her rulers? They are to
traced into the hands of those who are fortunate enougl
to inherit the gains of men succeeding to the episooll,
office, often with but slender means, and leaving to the:,
descendants a splendid inheritance accumulated frail
funds of the Church.
"Non ho-, quassitum mimes in uses."

ALARMING ACCIDENT TO A RAILWAY TRAI/C+4o
accident of a very alarming kind, and which at one time
threatened to be attended by most serious consequences, oc;
curred on Monday to the mail train of the Bristol and E2rel'
Railway while on its way from the latter to the former citli
The train took its departure from the terminal station 1'
Exeter at about the usual time, and proceeded without arid
particuLr occurrence, beyond a 'Wit, loss of time, until it 13,'
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arrived at a distance of 'between one and two miles from l"'
terminus at Temple Meads, Bristol, when the utmost eq.
sternation and alarm was excited among the passengers, ;
i-ts were made to signal the engine-driv. ey,
consequence ex
fire,eti ce of
tri being known that one of the carriog
for a time ineffectually, as the train was carried full a 104
before it was pulled up. Fortunately, it was nearing t",.
city, and had to pass through a densely populated distric;
as it passed ants
them, which drew attention to the arni
and the inhabit of the houses skirting the line gave
alarm
ent. It appears that cone of the iron tiers of a wheel
one of the second-class carriages broke in two, probable/4
from its having been imperfectly welded, and the increae4
friction consequent on the irregular motion ignited ,
smoke
dwaonrd spak.Trks
The epast ngers were at first alarmed by
vr
, Mai flew off from the burning material'
but at length a piece of the iron work was struck agai°s,
the bottom of the carriage with such force as to break i°,;
portion of the floor. The flames now forced their way ill";
the carriage, greatly alarming and perilling the passeDger%
but it is gratifying to be able to state that the train I""
I stopped in sufficient time to prevent any very serious con
sequences.
DEATH
Or LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MULLEN, ILOLieutenant-Colonel
Mullen, who formerly served in the
Ist Royal Regiment, from which he retired iu 1843, died 0,!:
the ith instant. He ha,t served in the West Inuies and tr;
Ye insula, and received the war medal with two clasps lf„
Guadaloupe (the attack aid capture in 1810), and for tu"
battle of Vittoria in 18.3. In .835 he was nominated °
Knight of the Hanoverian order.

BIRTHS.
OF A BON.
On the 12th inst., at Cattou-hall, Derbyshire, the lady of
the Hon. R Curzon, jun., of an heir.
On the 12th inst., at Christi .n Rectory, near Weston-00W
Mare, e wife of the Rev. S.ptintus Pope.

OF A DAUGHTEIt.
On the 12th imt., at CarlW,:, the Lady Mary LOP.
Wallace.

MARRIED.
O. the 12 h inst., at St. John's, Hackney, the Rev. 0'
Vear, of Gouditurst. Kent, second son ot John De VI
Esti.. the Close, Norwich, to Sarah, second daughter of
J. Bayes, ot Clapton-square.
On the 10 it inst., at Trinity Church, Marylebone, the
Ray. James Alexander Bell, incumbent of Pearidge, St:
ford, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late 14'
Henry G. Lonsdale, vicar ot St. Mary's, Lichfield.

DIED
On the 12th inst., Daniel B. Nfoore, Esq„ late Of
Caius College, Cambridge, aged 39. of
On the 2Lh lust ,at 13.-eky- hi,l, Maidstone, Mary, wife
Captain Gar, ine Shaw, late of the 14, h Dragons s.
On the 12th ialst.. at Cheltenham, S. F. Waddington, Ffg
On the 13th inst., at Capeeure, near Boulogne,
Stokes, Esq., aged 81.

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