The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-21 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Caledonia, of and from Stockholm, bound for Rio,
on the 22d of March, in lat. 10, 49, S., long. 32, \V., by
the Sisters, arrived at Cowes.

The William Gray, from Peterhead, bound to Leghorn,
in lat. 42, 14, long. 11, 34, by the Hesperia, arrived at
Portsmouth.

The Joseph, from London, bound to. St. John's, New
Brunswick, on the 23th ult., in lat. 42, long. 54.
The Reaper, from London, bound to Quebec, on the 2d
inst., in lat. 44, long. 46, by the Jane, arrived at Cowes.
The Agenoria, of London, from Gibraltar to San Blas,
on the 19th of January, in lat. 37, long. 16, by the Night-
ingale packet, arrived at Falmouth.

DISTRESSED SAILORS' ASYLUM, CAN-
NON-STREET-ROAD, ST. GEORGE'S EAST.
V
The first annual meeting of the friends and support-
ers of this society was held at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, on Thursday the 15th inst. Vice-Admiral Sir
E. CODRINGTON, M. P., the President, in the chair.
We observed on the platform several distinguished
naval officers, and other gentlemen of high respecta-
bility.
The Gallant CHAIRMAN, on opening the meeting,
excused the absence of several noble lords and mem-
bers of Parliament, who, taking a lively interest in
the Fuccess of this important institution,' would have
attended to display it, had not the heavy pressure of
Parliamentary duty rendered it impossible.
Letters, expressive of the warmest sympathy, were
read from the Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Conroy, &c.,
regretting that their duties interfered with their desire
to attend the meeting. 2,
The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to point out the ne-
cessity for an institution like the present, where the
forlorn, starving sailor, reduced to wretchedness by
shipwreck, imprudence, or fraud, may find shelter and
sustenance for his body, and a solace for his mind, of
that rational and soothing kind which the doctrines of
the Established Church so eminently afford, not the
visionary and maddening opinion of enthusiasts, which
have tended much to paralyze the usefulness of a si-
milar institution. From minute personal examination
into the details and managemeat of the Distressed Sai-
lors' Asylum, over which ho presided, the Chairman

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t - • r,
'e't bound to give it his am.
whose auspices it had, in the c-ousrske.off3l%
leptatiate
ifrriorleißiViihia:
en- dial support, and eulogise, licr'ilentleit'rr hrFlf~
a ear, emerged from insigaificance-intq r pec:taie&
and strength. , . .
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A long; elaborate, and interesting report was the.'
read. It detailed the successful efforts that had bee
made to place the institution on a stable, rational, an I
orthodox foundation. It appeared that it is exciusivelf-
conducted on church principles (the church scrvici
being performed every evening to the inmates), and
that it had obtained the patronage of her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, the Bishops of London
and Llandaff, and the Vice-Chancellor; Sir E. Co-:
drington, M. P., as President. and George Grote,
Esq., M. P., as Treasurer.. The report stated the
amount of receipts and expenditure, the numbers of
men re'ieved in each week of each month, and the
total nuMber relieved during the year 1833 ; the num-
ber of meals given away, and the destination of the
recipients of the Alylum's bounty. During the past •
year 20,000 meals had been given away to distressed
seamen, who were lodged, and many enabled to obtain
ships, and all kept, for the time, from being a burden
to the public. The institution is capable of lodging.
nightly upwards of 150 sailors.
The meeting was afterwards addressed by Admiral
Adam, M. P. ; Captains M. Montagu and- Maeono, •
chie, R. N. ; the Rev. J. F. Denham, A., and
others, who warmly recommended the institution to the
inspection and charitable support of the public.- A
highly respectable committee, consisting of naval offi-
cers,
clergymen, shipowners, and others, was named
for the next year; and, after votes of thanks to the
chairman and the committee for the past year, the
chaplain and secretary, and to the gallant chairman,
for his conduct in the chair on the present occasion,
the meeting broke up. . •

PLURALITIES AND NON-RESIDENCE.

ABSTRACT OF A BILL TU I REVENT SPIRITUAL
PERSONS IN ENGLAND AND IRELA..ND FROIA
HAVING MORE PREFERMENTS THAN•. ONE,
AND TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND Th.s

LAWS WITH RESPECT TO THE RESIDENCE OF
SUCH SPIRITUAL PERSONS UPON THEIR PRE-
FERMENTS.
Repeals 21st Henry VIII., 36th George 111., and sun-
dry provisions of 29th George 11. (Irish), relating
,to •
pluralities.
Enacts that the terms "preferment and benefice" should
have the meaning therein specified.
That acceptance of one benefice shall in every case im-
mediately avoid all previous preferment, and that such
avoidance shall not be prevented by the enjoyment of the
benefice being defeated, and if two benefices shall be ac-
cepted Upon the same day, the preferment thereto shall bo
void.
Two benefices may be held together where the anntial
value, of the second benefice does not exceed 2001., the tvto,
benefices being only five miles apart. Also a benefice may
be held with a cathedral preferment, where the former
does not exceed 1001. in annual value. Also an archdea-
conry whose annual value is below 201. may be held with
any benefice within the limits of the archdeaconry. But.
the act shall not authorise any clerk to hold at the same
time church preferment both in Ireland and England. The
above exceptions cannot be enjoyed without obtaining dis-
pensation.
The dispensation shall be granted by the bishop of the
diocese in which the clerk seeks induction into his second
benefice, and such dispensation shall specify the grounds
on which it was obtained, and all the particulars of both
the benefices. . _

The decision of the bishop upon a petition for such a
dispensation shall be final.
A copy of the presentation shall be filed in the registry
of the bishop granting it, and, upon filing it, a summary of
it shall be published in the Gazette.
Saving of .all existing pluralities.
The acts of 25th Henry VIII., cap. 16, and 33 Henry
VIII., cap. 28, repealed; Ist George 11., cap. 18
(Irish) ; 29th George 11., cap. 18, partly repealed; and
so 57th George 111., cap. 99; and sth George IV., cap.
91, with a view to amend the law relating to the non-re-
sidence of the clergy.
No spiritual person shall be absent from his preferment
more than 30 days at once, or than 60 days at several
times in one year, under a penalty of three times the va-
lue of such preferment during the time that he shall have
been so unlawfully absent, and if such penalty shall be
twice recovered, the preferment shall be void.
The sum of money to be considered as the value of
the preferment during unlawfnl absence shall bear the
same proportion to the whole yearly value as the time
of the unlawful absence bears to the whole year.
Absence from a preferment shall be understood as
absence from the house of residence appropriated to
the preferment, and where there is no
efit house, one
shall be appropriated for that purpose. For special
reasons, a house other than the house of residence may
be appropriated, but such appropriation shall not ex-
tend beyond a single incumbency.
The house appropriated to a bishopric must be
within the limits of it, and a house appropriated to a
benefice within the limits of the same or an adjoining
benefice. Upon every such appropriation, a copy
thereof shall be transmitted to the churchwardens,
who shall pay a fee of 10d. to the officer transmitting
it. The appropriation may be revoked upon request.
No appropriation shall exempt from liability for di-
lapidations.
When there are two houses, residence in ore stall
be sufficient.

If the clerk has more than one preferment, the year
shall be assigned by the bishop in whose diocese the
most valuable is situate, and in case of cathedral pre-
ferment, such residence shall not exceed one month.

Saving for bishops to attend parliament, and for episco-
pal visitations, and all spiritual persons at present exempted
shall continue to enjoy their exemption whilst actually
employed on the duties causing such exemption.
Residence of fellows of colleges at their benefices shall
be deemed residence on their fellowship, but certain uni-
versity offices shall, upon certain conditions, be a ground
for license of non-residence of nine months.

License may be granted upon grounds specified in the
bill.

Form of obtaining license.
All bishops and lower spiritual persons whatever shall,
under penalty, annually make a return respecting their
residence to the archbishop, which shall be consolidated
and transmitted to the King in council, to whom the arch-
bishops must make the like return of their own residence.
Form of action for recovery of penalty
No action shall lie for the penalty for non-residence
after the death of the clerk.

Power given to the bishop to enforce residence by mo-
nition, on penalty of sequestration.
. .

Power to the bishop to appoint a curate at a specific d
salary, where the duties of the living are inadequate.y
performed.
Power to the bishop in certain cases to increase the sa-
lary of curates. . .
Distance between two benefices to be ascertained by ad-
measurement of the shortest road or path by which a per-
son can walk from one to the other.

Peculiars shall be deemed part of the diocese where
situate.

The certificate of the commissioners, certified by the
King in Council, of the value of any preferment, to be
conclusive evidence.

The acts 37 Henry VIII., c. 13; 17 Charles 11., c. 3;
and 4 William 111., c. 12, repealed.
. .

All unions of parishes and churches in England and
Wales prohibited in future.

The following is an abstract of the returns
made to the House of Commons of persons nominated
or appointed, and their salaries and emoluments, under
the Act of Parliament fur the increase of offices :
The amount paid to officers appointed to hold courts-
' martial in 1833 was 1,9721. 25., travelling expenses to
the same 2491. Os. 6d. ; total, 2,221/. 2s. 6d. The
salaries of the visiters to lunatics---namely, a barrister,
two physicians, and their secretary, amounted to
1.900/. ; being 3001. per annum for the barrister, 5001.
each for the physicians, 300/. for the secretary, with
3001. more for providing and maintaining suitable
offices and for other purposes. These officers are also
alloWed IL a-day during the time they are occupied
with making visits, and 25.. a-mile for travelling ex-
penses. The expenses of the metropolitan. commis..
ss iuorneer rrse'
coeffii
vcees w27corel.,4saOssL, of which
assistant
t clerk thelci clerk
audantdhetrbeaa:
lance, 601., paid for the office rent. Four inspeBtors
of factories were appointed at a salary of 1,000/. "per
annum, and four superintendents, with a salary of 2501.
each, making a total of 5;000/. FiVe ecclesiastical ,
commissioners were appointed, whose salariei have not
yet been fixed ; and solicitors to be paid by bills of
costs and not by salary. Six commissioners' clerks,
with the following salaries, were appointed in Octo-
ber :-1501., 1301., 110/., 1101., 110/., 801., :SOL, total
770/. Four provincial architects were also appointed
in October for the Irish counties of Armagh, Dublin,
Cashel, and Tuam, at the respective salaries of
92/. 6s. 2d. each ; and two persons were appointed as
attendants in the department, at the salaries of 39/.
and 271. 6s. ; total 4351.-108. Bd. Seventy-four indi_
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the remainder at 2/. Forty deputy-assistaat bare ste s
have also been appointed, at 5/. ss. per day; wits ex-
penses, as provided by the act. Total 2101.

SECONI) EDITION

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

THIS EVENING.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at twenty-five minutes
after five o'clock.

Mr. RUSSELL moved the second reading of the
Dudly Water Works Bill.
Mr. J. OSWALD moved the third reading of the
St. George's Market Bill, Southwark, which was ac-
cordingly read a third time and passed.
Mr. WILKS presented a petition from certain
magistrates of Middlesex against the Great Western
Railway.
Lord ALTHORP put it to those hon. gentlemen
who had motions, Whether they would allow the Poor
Laws' Amen&lent Bill to have precedence, and suffer
the house to go into committee upon it.
chin L YALL said that it was now some months
since the session commenced, and during that time he
had had in the, paper a notice of motion connected with
the shipping interest. Under these circumstances he
'sloped the house would allow the bill to be read a
second time that evening.
Lord ALTHORP submitted to the house whether
they had any objection, in order to make some pro-
gress in the bills now in committee, to apply some of
the morning sittings to that purpose. Those sittings
were not calculated for a regular debate, as they
must close at a particular hour, but they would answer
very well for the consideration of separate clauses in
committee. If there were no objection, he would
move for the appointment of a committee upon the
Poor Laws' Amendment Bill for a morning sitting, if
it should be fo•and necessary to do so.
Lord GTAANVILLE SOMERSET objected most
dezideiny to the proposed arrangement. There were
.1.11%t1y important private committees sitting in the morn-
ing, and these could not be neglected by hon. members,
without neglecting the interests of their constituents.
He did not wish to throw obstacles in the way of the
Government, but he must decidedly object to such an
arrangement.
Sir. JAMES GRAHAM thought that some ar-
rangement might be made to prevent inconvenience to
either side of the house. He suggested that the hon.
member for the city of London should post-
pone his bill relative to merchant seamen's
widows to Friday se'nnight. ( Hear, hear.) He
( Sir J. Graham) had also a bill to forward a stage,
which he should postpone to Friday se'nnight also,
and he was sure that no objection would be made to
giving the bill of the hon. member for the City of
London precedence on that day.
Lord ALTHORP said a few words, which were
quite inaudible.
Lord HOWICK remarked that he also had
a bill relative to justices of the peace, which he
should postpone. If the house was not disposed to
give some accommodation to the government, it would
be impossible to get through the business.
Mr. FLEETWOOD objected to the arrangement.
He did not speak so much for himself as for other
hon. members who had bills to forward.
After a few words from Mr. C. GRANT,
Mr. G OULB URN observed that there were not
less than 16 public committees sitting at that moment. If
important questions were brought forward during the
morning sittings, either that important business must
be neglected, or the committees must be left to be re-
ported by one or two members.
• On the question being put for the second reading of
the Merchant Seamen's Widows Bill, _

Mr. G. F. YOUNG wished to know whether he
should be allowed to present some petitions both for
and against the measure ?
The SPEAKER inquired whether those petitions
had been received by the hon. member between half-
past one o'clock and the present sitting of the house ?
(Laughter.)
The petitions were not presented.
Mr. LYALL rose to move the second reading of
the bill. He observed that this measure was one of great
importance to the British shipping community. It was not
his intention to appeal to the passions or prejudices of the
hon. members of that house, but to their sense of justice.
When this tax was levied, doubtless the legislature in-
tended that all seamen, whether they belonged to the
merchant service or the royal navy, should derive
equal benefit therefrom. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Not
only had the merchant seamen derived no be-
nefit from Greenwich Hospital, but he could prove
that under the existing system they would
never derive any benefit from that establishment,
although on all the principles of justice he contended
that they were entitled to all the benefits which
seamen of the Royal Navy derived from it.
He had understood the right hon. baronet opposite,
the First Lord of the Admiralty, to say the other day,
that if a merchant seaman had only served one
day in his Majesty's service, he would be en-
titled to be received into Greenwich Hospital ; but
he (the hon. member) had looked through the hospital
regulations, and he could find nothing of the kind stated,
He believed the regulations required a man to serve
twenty years in his Majesty's service, before he
could be entitled to any relief from that hospital.
( Hear, hear.) The honourabie member then read
the preamble, and one or two sections of the 7th and
Bth of William 111., to show that the merchant seamen
were obliged to contribute 6d. per month towards Green-
wich Hospital, without deriving any benefit whatever
The hon. member proceeded in detail to state the prin-
ciples of his bill, and the beneficial results which he an-
ticipated from it, if it met the sanction of the house ;
but from the low tone in which he spoke it was quite
impossible to catch a whole sentence of his observa-
tions. The hon. member was addressing the house
when we left.

'PRICES Or STOCKS THIS HAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock -. . ... .....216V. 15%4 Vew 5 per Cent.
3 per Cent. Red 91%14 India Stock 270 1..;
3 per Cent. Cons. ....... ..92k.f,% Ditto Bonds 28 Vi pm.
131. i per Cent. 9834% South Sea Stock ....... ..... 10.1%
Ditto Red 90 8% Old Annuities -
New 314 per Cent 11'03414 New Ditto
n per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... - 3 per Cent Ann. 1751 -
4 per Cent. 1826......... 10111%% Ex. Bills, £ 1,04)0 5O 51 pm.
Bank Long Ann.to expire Ditto 'OO 50 51 pm
Jan. 5, ISM 17 3-16 li', Ditto Small
Oct.lo, 1859 - Ditto Commercial 53 pm.
Jan. 5, 18130 l7 7-16 Ditto Advertised
Jan, 5, 1880 - Bank for Account 216
Aprils. 18..0 - India for Account .....270 6.144
Jan. 5, 1870 - Cons. for Account MG%

PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Aastrian Bonds looli Peruvian Bonds ...... ............ 11
B Istian Bonds 9B Ditto Account ..-.3
Ditto Account 9B Portuguese Bonda 784
Brazilian Bonds 7534 Ditto Account 784,
;Ditto Account -5%T.:, , Ditto New Bonds ... 79 14%
Buenos Ayres Bonds 3l ! Ditto Acconnt 794%
1 IDitto Account 3014 :Prussian Bonds lO3 4 3
Chiliad Bonds .... ...
Ditto Account 084 Russian Bonds, 18'2'2 ......
Columbian Bonds 2334 Ditto Account,
Ditto Account. ''l Ditto 111
Ditto Bonds, 1824 n 614 Spanish Bonds, :so• 36 534 634
D tto Acc,mtit 06,.',14 3414 Ditto Ace .34 5% 6%N
Dinish Bon ;
Ditto Accrunl 75 Ditto Bonds ISA
75 Ditto Account 33
Greek Bonds French Rentes, hp. c. 106' —c
Ditto Bonds, 182!; 334 -- Exchange 251 404
Ditto Account — -----3 per cent. —- —c.
%I'xiean Bonds ,5 per cetit :!34 Exchange —f --.
Ditto Account Dutch, ni p. c. 5.2%14
'lt o, 6 per cent 444 i Ditto Account 524%14
Ditto Account .444% Ditto, 5p c. 417 634,
Neapolitan...« ....... ......... 914 Ditto Account 97 6 7,}

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share
Alten Mining Company £9 11%
0
angtc. Nies.. 10... n. 11a5. at st. pm. £lllo
&Intim Mining Company £l5O
Brazilian Mining Company 5
Brazilian Imo. ntin. Co. (iss. at 5/.pm.) £2O
Ditto Macaubas Cocaes. 2O
Ditto St. John Del Rev
Cata Branca Mining Company llv
British Iron Minim' Coon-any
Colinnbitn Minim Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 52%
English IViii.ing Company ..
;eneral Minine Association l2
Hibernian Mining Co. £lo
Mexican Mining Co. .£49%
-teal del Monte Mining C0....(unr0g.)
U.iited Hex. Min. Co. tizi. at 21. ram.) 40
Ditto New Se: ip 5
alliance Fire I nsurance Comp o
erotector Ins i mance CornO.
Australian Co.
t'anada Ctlnnany IS
general Steam Navigation t'o
National Provincial Bank of England IS
Rio Doce
,revineial Bank it Ireland

127%35
15
51N
204
'"4
614
:31
i 3

11 li
£1 7 (1

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 17.
01.,11k ,locx ... ........ 220 tt atria. nstir.(pef Share
':onsols, :I ner cm..
3w. Stock, U,', per cent 98!4 {National Ditto
.)itto, New 98% Patriotic Ditto• ....... .... •••••• .
Der Cent — Hibernian Bank
(-Inv. Deb. 34 percent.... 91 Provincial Ditto —
itoyal ( anal stock — Royal Irish Mine —
than,: Canal Stock — Imptsial Vine —
City Deb. 4 per cent. SON Mining Co of Ireland
3,llast office Deb. 4D. c. r,ornmercial Buildings

COURSE OF EXCH
Amsterdam C.r 12 41
)itto, at sight VA 21
Rotterdam 2 U 12 41
Antwerp 12 5
Hamburg Al. R. 13 12
Altona l3 12
Paris, 3 days' sight :25 50
Ditto 0 U 25 75
Bordeaux 25 SO
Berke 7
Frank Out on Maine, Ex. M. 152
Petersburg!), ruble, 3 Us. 10V
Vienna, effective ft. 2M. 9 57
Crieste do 'lsB
tladrid 34114
Pad's 371'

.......... 36
Inrcelona ......... 36
Seville 36
Gibraltar 47 ,