The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-05 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od;
new do., £2 Os to £4 Os ; old cloven do., £3 108 to £6 Os ;
new do., £3 10s to £5 Os; and straw, £1 4s to £1 12s per
lead. Trade steady.

CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £.5 Os ; new
do., £2 Os to £4 Os : old clover, £3 10s to £6 Os ; new do.
£3 lOs to £5 Os; and straw, £1 53 to £1 12s per load:
Both hay and straw were in steady request, at full prices.
WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od;
new do., £2 Os to £4 Os ; old cloves, £3 lOs to £6 Os Od
new do., £3 10s to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 4s to 12s per,
load. A lair demand.

A YEAR OF ~ ciTURCLI REFORM:,

(From the Liberator.)

We have now before in the 13th general report
of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. . . . A
bishop—one of the Ecclesiastical Commission—is a
gainer by the past year's effort at " Church Reform."
We had thought that grants out of the funds of the
Ecclesiastical Commission towards bishop's palaces
had ceased for some years past, but we were mis-
taken. The Bishop of Salisbury appears in the
present report as a suppliant for 12,000 for' adding
to, altering, and improving the episcopal house of
residence.

This £2,000 makes up the sum spent on bisb op's
palaces by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners out of
the fund " for the relief of spiritual destitution in
populous places," to nearly £172,000.
Next to the bishops come the archdeacons. Three
of these " oculi episcopi" are benefited by the last
S ear's proceedings of the Commission. The Arch-
deacon of Cardigan gets £2OO per annum; the Arch-
deacon of St. Alban's a stall in Rochester Cathe-
dral, value £9OO per annum ; and the Archdeacon
of Totnes £162 per annum—all out of the fund for
the relief of spiritual destitution. The income of the
second of these dignitaries, independently of his
archdeaconry, is £778.
Deans and chapters follow archdeacons. In their
collective capacity the Dean and Chapter of. Wor-
cester have had voted to them this year the sum
of £15,000 for the repairs of 'Worcester Cathedral.
Now the Dean and Chapter of Woreeteter have an
income, according to the report of the Cathedral Com-
missioners, of rather more than £9,000 per annum,
and they are obliged to repair tb.e Cathedral out
of this income. They have, however, it now ap-
pars, neglected to do this : they have preferred tw
distrihute the revenues of the Cathedral amongst
themselves. Here we have the result,—£ls,ooo
taken from the relief of spiritual destitution.
Chapter property to this amount is therefore cold,
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners becoming the pur-
chasers, in order that the expense of repair, as the
order in council expresses, should not be " o,larged.
on the parties now entitled to the benefit and en-
joyment of the divisible corporate revenues of the
said dean and chapter."
But the deans, in their individual rapacity, are
not neglected. First, the Dean of York has his
£2,000 legally secured to him ; and secondly, the
Dean of Chichester has all anxiety respecting his
future income dispelled by £l,OOO per annum being
warranted by an order in council.
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But do the poor clergy get nothing out of the
funds of the Commission? Undoubtedly they do.
But on what principle are these funds distributed ?
From the list of 145 benefices augmented daring the
year, six belong to London, one to Bristol, one to
Macclesfield, one to Norwich, one to Nottingham,
one to Rochdale, and one to Smethwick ; but not
one to Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry, or any
other place where destitution has become notorious.
On the other hand, we have a curacy (Albrighton),
with a population of seventy, augmented with a
capital sum of £467; Tredington, with a• popu-
lation of 150, augmented with a similar grant
of £7OO ; Tunstall, with a population of 150, aug-
mented with a grant of £125 • while Bury, in
Sussex, with a population of only 599, is actually
augmented, in addition to three previous annual
grants of £lO, £39, and £lO respectively, with a
grant amounting to two hundred and twenty-eight
pounds per annum. In London, the perpetual
curacy of St. Matthew, Pell-street, is augmented
by a capital sum of £l,OOO ; while the pew-rents
alone of the same church are stated, in another part
of this report, to amount to £226 per annum. And
this, while the ministers of district churches in
populous places are only allowed, on an average,
£137 per annum !
Of the £51,003 12s. 9d. expended by the Coin-
mission in the year, the legal expenses amount ed
to £13,502 15s. 4d. ; the surveyors received
£8,532 Os. 4d. ; the clerks, £15,578 19s. ; and the
agents, £10,453 2s. 9d.
Bishops, archdeacons, dean and chapters, deans,
minor canons, lawyers, surveyors, clerks and ag;ents
are, then, according to the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners, the " spiritually destitute" for whose relief
they were appointed. And this is ,‘ Chumh
Reform !"

DESPERATE LEAP AND RENT E ESCAPE.—
On the afternoon of Thursday last a man, named Laker,' a
shoemaker, native of Ashford, performed several most des-
perateleaps while in a frantic state of mind,
dangero
serious injury. It rap-
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on the preceding evening noticed something peculiar in. his
manner, and in the course of conversation found that he
was dwelling upon the delusion of an attempt being made
to send him to an asylum. He aftßrwards became more
Composed, was got to bed, and medical advice was obtained.
About 2 o'clock on Ow following afternoon he crept quietly
out of lam, izmbed up to a window placed above the half.
' fending of the stairs, and jumped from the sash on to the
roof of a scullery, about 20ft. below. The roof giving way
beneath his weight, he fell through, and running across the
yard, sprang to the top of a wall 7ft. or Bft. high. Thence
he jumped on to the roof of another building, 20ft. or 30ft.
below, and then made another descent to a still lower build-
ing, breaking in the slated roof, and falling backwavds, ae
is supposed, into the yard of No. 14, Undercliff. ?de then
proceeded into the kitchen of that house, where, he was
found leaning on the table in a trembling condition, and
with no other clothing than a shirt. The crashing noise
caused by his falls attracted the attention of 'Mr. W. F.
Beecham, jun., Mr. Sellman, and others, who immediately
ran to the spot; and to their great surprise found that,
although cut and bruised, the poor man did not appear to
have broken any bones "or sustained any serious injury.
The medical assistance of Mr. Wilson was called inz to
tio the
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was thought prudent to convey the unfortunate maa:ten
Infirmary, where he received every
The entire distance which he jumped Zesceascertained to be

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train from Leicester to Peterborough, and w,
ton, ha was getting off the engine on the irLspector on
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and fell b3tween the tender and the . rniatsed his hold,
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mediately extricated, but life was slgine. He wa
being dreadfully mutilated _as quite extinct, the body
children, ' He hae left e. wife and five