The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-04 00:00:00

SHARES.

Bristol and Gloucester, 30. paid • 46%

Chichester and Brighton, 5-
paid
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent.,ll 13s4d. paid,No. 1
Ditto ditto, paid, No. 2
Great North of England, 100 paid
Ditto ',le* Shares ( 5 paid)
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 60 paid B7 q
Rei- ' 3%

...endal and Windermere, 1% paid 3X.
Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid • 8%
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 6%
London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) lO
London and York', 2% paid • 4
ManchEster and Birmingham
Midland Counties (100 paid) 109%
North British, 5 paid . 6
Northern and Eastern (45 paid) ••• —
Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 35%
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid .....«.. 12%
South Eastern and Dover (33 2a 4d paid) ..... ...„ 404
York and Scarborough Branch ( 10 paid)
York and Selby Scrip. paid :63(
Central of France, 2 paid
..... • ••• L 34

SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 2.—The Peninsular and
oriental Company's steamer Liverpool, Captain F.
Meehan, arrived this day, at forty-five minutes past
three o'clock, A.M. from Gibraltar, bringing the follow-
ing mails :—Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo.
Her dates of departure are as follow :—From Gibraltar,
22d ; Cadiz, 23d ; Lisbon, 25th ; Oporto, 26th ; and
Vigo, 27th ult. Ships of war lying at Gibraltar—Her
Majesty's ships Albion and Warspite (the Polyphemus
sailed on the 21st for Malta); the Danish steamer Hecla
and brig Mercurius; the Norwegian corvette Nordjstein ;
the Austrian corvette Adira ; and the Prussian corvette
Amazon. At Cadiz—Two French line-of-battle ships,
and La Belle Poule frigate. Vessels passed off Cape
Mary on the 20th—The brig Traveller, for London,
from Cadiz ; specie on board—seven packages ; fifteen
passengers.
THE CHURCH.—BENETICES AND CHURCHES.—A
Parliamentary paper, moved for by Sir Robert Peel, has
just been printed, containing a list of benefices and
churches augmented by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
for England, made up to the Ist of May last. The list
extends to thirty-eight pages, and affords a description
of all the benefices and churches augmented by the
Commissioners in England and Wales. It appears from
the summary that, under schedule A, the Commissioners
had, in 496 livings, made by unconditional grants an
annual augmentation, amounting to 25,7791., which was
divided under four branches, in the following manner :
—ln places where the population was 2,000 and upwards
the income was raised to 150/., in 261 livings, which
amounted to 16,722 L; where the population was 1,000
and upwards, the income of 96 'livings was raised to
120 L, making 4,3741.; where the population was 500 and
upwards, 80 livings were augmented to 100 L, making
3,253/. ; and in instances where the population was
below 500, in 59 livings the income was increased to 801.,
making a sum of 1,4301. It further appears that grants
have been made by the Commissioners to meet benefac-
tions when the income was below 2001., in 48 livings.
The Commissioners have local claims upon tithes, &c.,
in 29 livings, and in ten livings the incumbents have
claims for compensation for the loss of fees surrendered
to new churches. The aggregate number of livings,
after deducting 21 included in more than one schedule,
which have been augmented, number 562, and they
amount to 29,809/. It thus appears that, under the pro-
visions of the Cathedral Acts, 562 livings have been
augmented by the sum of 29,809/. per, annum in per-
petuity, and that sum is exclusive of money expended
and promised to meet benefactions for building and pur-
chasing houses of residence for incumbents whose annual
incomes are below 2001.

SHIPMENT OF SHEEP FOR SCOTLAND.—A novelty
was witnessed on Wednesday forenoon at Hore's Steam-
packet Wharf, Wapping, in the shipment of 211 live
English rams and ewes on board the Dundee, Perth,
and London Shipping Company's steam-ship London,
Capt. Ewing, for Dundee. The novel shipment is for a
gentleman in Fifeshire, named Clark, who intends culti•
'rating the English breed of sheep in Scotland,