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AUGUST 26, 1850.

the present rate of fine may be conferred on the lessee in
cmsideration of an additional annual rent, to be ascer-
tained as in the instances above cited; and subsequently
the leases f..,r lives may be converted into renewal terms
of years in the mode before suggested by us with re-
spect to leases of farms and lands.
We have reason to think that some of the house pro-
perty of the Church, especially that held at rack-rent of
infssior quality, may be advantageously sold or ex-
changed.
In many caws the subsisting leases might be con-
verted into leases for long terms of years, without right
of rene Nal, by the addition of a sufficient number of
years for that purpose, and upon payment, by th..
lessee, either at once or at intervals of a consideration
equivalent to the value of the fines which he would pay
under the present system for successive renewals during
that term.
The Central Board should have power for these pur-
poses, the lessors' and lessees' interests having been first
ascertained as above-mentioned.

We do not propose that the foregoing suggestions
should be applied to house prop ,rty, or buildirg land let
on leases granted under special Acts or the Leasing Act,
as to which we have no change to recommend.
Exception should also be made in cases where the
leases are in course of running out, or where there is
sufficient evidence of an intention not to renew, or where
the proptrty is immediately adjoining any church, resi-
dence house, school, or hospital. reasonable compensa-
tion being made in such cases, with the sanction of the
Central Board, for the loss of the privileges allowed to
other lessees.

It would be convenient also that the lessors, with a
view to effecting public improvements, and with the sanc-
tion of the Central Board, should, during three years
from the passing of any Act for carrying the foregoing
recommendations into effect, have power to refuse to re-
new, or within a like period to give notice of their inten-
tion not to grant any further renewal. The lessees,
however, in cases of refusal upon these last-mentioned
grounds, should be entitled to reasonable compensation
for the loss of the privileges allowed to other lessees.

MINIii.

The mining and mineral property of the Church is
ordinarily let on leases for three lives or for twenty-one
years, upon payment of a fine and small reser►ed rent;
and the minerals are worked in some instances by the
lessees themselves, and in others by their under-lessees.
In addition to the proceeds from fines and rents, there
is another profitable source of revenue which may be
said to be incident to mining property, viz., the right of
granting way leaves and of opening pits and other ease-
ments for working mines, which rights are generally re-
served in the leases of the surface.

We have not thought it necessary to enter here into
further detail with respect to the peculiarities of this
species of Church property, its extent and Importance,
and the mode in which it is leased and managed, having
been fully noticed in the report of the Committee of the
House of Commons of 1839.

Having regard to the large amount of capital which
has been sunk upon the property, and the great risk and
losses to which the adventurers are exposed, we think
that the lessees generally are entitled to the same ad-
vantages of permanency of tenure as were proposed by
us in our first report to be conceded to the lessees of
firms and lands; and we are of opinion that the lessors
of mining property will be practically benefited by this
arrangement, in like manner with the lessors of farms
and lands.

We recommend, therefore, that the principles of ma-
nagement therein proposed with respect to farms and
lands let on renewable leases for lives and years should
be applied, as nearly as may be, to the mining property
of the Church held upon leases granted upon the pay-
ment of fines ; and that with respect to other leases of
mines (except those under special Acts), we recommend
that no rene.,:als should be effected in future.
..
without the
sanction of the Central Board.

We think, also, that in all future arrangements re-
specting mines, provision should be made for treating
a part, not being more than three-fourths nor less than
a moiety, of their produce as capital, and not as in-
come.

- We would further advise that no new mines belonging
to the Church should be allowed to be opened or
worked, or licences or leases for such purposes granted,
except in accordance with the provisions of the Leasing
Act* before referred to.
With regard to the reservation of the right of grant-
ing wayleaves, opening pits, &c., we are not prepared to
recommend any interference with the existing practice.
MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY.
Before closing our report, we think it right briefly to
advert to certain miscellaneous kinds of property which
are, we find, sometimes included in leases. Thee are—
quarries, clay pits, watercourses, fisheries, ferries, tolls,
wrecks, &c. There are also certain annual or periodical
payments, such as pensions, tees, tenths, &c.
We are not prepared to recommend any specific mode
of dealing with this class of property, but would suggest
that the Central Board should be empowered, with the
concurrence of the respective owners, to adopt such
measurtts relating thereto as may seem to them to be
most advisable, due regard being had to the circumstances
of each case.
All which we humbly submit to your Majesty's gracious
consideration.
Witness our hands and seals this 30th day of July,
1850. HARROWIIY.
IV. LYALL.
WILLIAM PAGE WOOD.
R. B. ARMSTRONG.
JOHN GEORGE SHAW LEFIYRE•
R. JONES.

* By this Act (sth and Gth Victoria, c. 108) ecclesiastical
corporations, aggregate or sole (with certain exceptions are
enabled, with the consent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
for England, to grant leases of mines. reserving certain rents
or royalties, but without the payment of fines; part of the
improved value accruing the reunder,in the proportions above.
mentioned, being payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

Her Majesty's steam-sloop Salamander, for Madeira,
Rio de Janeiro, end East Indies; the Inflexible steam-
sloop, for the North Am.-rican and West Indian station;
and the Alban steam-tender, for Jamaica, all sailed on
Friday morning.
The Albion, 90, remains in the Sound.
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 24.—Her Majesty's steam-vessel
Tartaru-, 4, Lieutenant-Commander Sir Godfrey
Webster, arrived in the Sound last night; left Malta
4th of August, touched at Algiers on the Bth, and sailed
on the 9th, called at Gibraltar on the 11th, mid left on
the 13th; same day anchored at Tangiers, and sailed on
the 4th.
Toe squad, os were cruising off and on between Sicily
and Italia going within signal distance of the latter
place every 43 hours, to obtain fresh meat and pro-
visions and reS ive orders. The men were perfectly
healthy.
The French vessels ware the only men•of-war at Al-
gieri, which place was free from cholera, although it
prevailel all al ing the coast of Barbary, from Tunis
towards Tripoli; as far as Egypt. Tunis is almost de-
populated by death or desertion.
The troops at Gibraltar were healthy. The Hercules,
12, Master-Commander R. Fulton, and the Janus, 2,
steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander R. A. Powell, were in
the bay. .
From the 14th the Tartarus experienced heavy weather
to the 16:11, when it blew so hard that she was obliged
to anchor in Cascaes Bay, which she left on the 17th,
and has been figthing against strong head winds all the
way acrols the Bay of Biscay. August 20, lat. 43 39,
long 10 3, saw a large homeward-bound ship, evidently
one of Green's Indiamen, which exhibited number
6,251, with the second distinguishing pennant, barque
No. 4,132, with a similar pennant, and an English screw
steamer under canvas, probably one of the Liverpool line.
The Tartarus brings passengers, Captain Parker, son
of the Commander-in-Chief, a portion of the officers and
crew of the steam-vessel Porcupine, several invalids, and
some gentlemen discharged from the service. The offi-
cers of the Porcupine are Lieutenant-Commander E. F.
Roberts, Assistant• Surgeon Lawrence Carey, Clerk in
Charge; W. J. Jenkins, Mr. Wilberforce, and Mr. Ham-
blyn, midshipmen, and the chief engineer. Second-Master
W. P. Heins was left behind at Malta to get receipts for
stores. The second engineer and some of the stokers
have joined the Mediterranean fleet.

The gunner of the Porcupine died alongside of the
Tartarus on the 30th of July ; he kept the first watch
until twelve o'clock, and at four in the morning was
found in his bed, dead of blue cholera.
On the 11th of August W. Bignall, ordinary seaman,
invalided from Malta, died on board the Tartarus ; and
14th Mr. R. Rawlins, mate, late of the Superb, also died
on board that vessel.

The Tartarus left Woolwich, Nuv. 7, 1847. She was two
years actively engaged in the suppression of piracy in the
Archipelago, and has latterly been employed in attend-
ance upon the fleet. From the 11th to the 15th of Jane,
during the &titan's visit, she was at Rhodes, where she
did all the honours of the nation On the 23d of
July, after the settlement of the Greek question, she
gave up the deposit money of 150.000 drachmas to the
Treasury at the Pawns, and proceeded thence to Candis,
where she took from the Volsge, 22, surveying vessel,
her mate, Mr. John F. Royer, whom she conveyed to
Malta for medical treatment.

Mr. Wise, Bridal Minister at Athens, has sent home
in the Tartarus some valuable manuscripts, addressed
to Mr. Forcehall, of the Museum, for the use of that in-
stitution.

The T.rtarus had fuel only for 12 hours' consumption
when she entered the Sound. After coaling she proceeds
to the eastward.
WOOLWICH, AUGUST 24.—APPOINTMENT.—Mate—
William J. F. Baker (1849) to the Flamer steam-sloop
at Portsmouth.

The Wasp la team-sloop is to be taken out of dock on
Tuesday next, and the Buzzard steam-sloop taken in to
be coppered. One of the warrant °Moira, a carpenter,
is appointed to the Buzzard, and joined here yesterday
from Portsmouth.

The San Fiorenso, 50, building at Woolwicb, is hav-
ing her frame timbers put up, and they are all soaked in
Sir W. Burnett's solution for preserving timber imme-
diately the wood is converted into the requisite shape at
the saw mills in the dockyard.
A number of hands have been placed on the Brisk
steam-sloop, building here, in order to get her ready for
launching.