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Trinity College, Cambridge, to the curacy of Westbury,
Salop.—The Rev. John Wilson, 8.A., of Clare Hall,
Cambridge, to the curacy of St. John, Preston, Lanca-
shire.—The Rev. 'Nathaniel Atkinson, curate of Wood-
horn, to the perpetual curacy of Horton, Northumberland.
Rev. John Alexander Frere, Fellow and Assistant
of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the vacant White-
Zev. William

by the

of Nestor

5
John4Gr
Hour.,litoi

Ile Hon
a, to the

toi of Wol

fetton-le-Hole, in the parish of Houghton
be Rev. J. L. Low, 8.A., to the curacy o

arwood, in the parish c

leton, ir

Teasdal

THE NEW COLONIAL BISHOPRIC

-The d

three in Australia, and one at the (
have been concluded by the committ<
pointments are as follows :-1. Diocese of
the district of Port Philip, New South `Val
Charles Perry, Trinity College, C
of Newcastle, northern counties of
The Rev. William Tyrrell.

South Wal
hn's College, Cambi

illustrious g►i
of WeHine(

usfustus

Christ Church, Oxford. 4. Diocese of

array, Ur

appointee
:he Arch

s will be consecrated in a few days by t

of Cauterburs'

bum ti

appointments we have just named
St. Paul's, Cambridge, value £1

Bishop of

bourne. 2. Deanery of Beaulieu, Sc
£145 ; patron, Lord Montagu. 3.
sthorp, Northamptonshire, value

of Ra

aurOh; Oxford. 4

147; patron, Bishop of Dur-

and State Gazette

RN INCUM

reduced in vali
Fier, Hetton, ar

;s of th

a under the will of the la

Rev E. S. Thurlov

, regularly funded the

'liole of

receive

he money he
e royalty be-
!oal was first

g• to the rectory s]

principal he has be-
ton-le-spring, for the

enefit of his

sun is large, tiiiffigh tL

xact amount has not yet transpired, but it amounts to

'era! thot

The act is justly regard(

)grable instance of

scrupulous fidelity to the right

and interests of his successors. In this county it has
been the practice to sell or lease the coal on the glebe
royalty, and the incumbents for the time being have re-
ceived the produce ; this practice has been long considered
scarcely,right, as

when the coal becomes exhausted,
ucceeding incumben6 are deprived of all benefit arising
from mineral produce. Mr. Thurlow, on the contrary,
thought he was only justly entitled to the annual interest
of the money he received, and that the principal belonged
to the endowment of the rectory, and therefore he acted
on his convictions and funded the money, which sum by
his will is left to his successors in the rectory for ever.—
Newcastle Journal.

INCUMBENCIES.—An important cause was tried re-
cently before Mr. Baron Parke, at the Lincolnshire
Assizes, whereby the plaintiff, the Rev. John Thomas
Huntley, who was resident incumbent of the parish of

sued the executors of h:

nedecessOr in th

incumbency for dilipidations and waste. The damages
were laid at £459 125., and the defendants had paid £2OO
into court, to cover dilipidations, but denied their liability
as to waste. Mr. Whitehurst, in stating the case, re-
marked that—

" By the law of this country, presentations cannot be
sold, though they may be given away ; and when a clergy-
man is appointed to a living, he comes into the receipt of
the profits of the glebe land, the tithes, and all other
profits, and takes them to his own use. But at the same
time, having only a life interest, certain burthens cast
upon him. The law says he shall keep in repair all the
buildings and fences that are on his living—that he shall
not pull down or destroy them—or that if he does pull
down or suffer dilipidations, he shall restore them to their
original state at his own cost. This is no hardship in an
incumbent, because his living is given to him, and he gets
all the profit; he cannot therefore justly complain about
being compelled to keep up the living, for he need not ac-
cept a living unless he likes. If an incumbent was not
compelled to keep up a,living' it would in time become
worth nothing, because each successor would naturally
get out of it all he could, and expend nothing upon it.
The law therefore said that an incumbent shall leave the
buildings and premises in as good a state at his death as
upon his entering. The main question which would arise
in this'cause, would be as to the extent to which an in-
cumbent was liable for what was called active waste. He
apprehended that not only was an incumbent bound to
keep the buildings in repair, and renew them when they
required renewal, but that he must do nothing to destroy
the substance of the benefice. He could not dig away
the soil, otherwise his remote successors, by one digging
away a portion, and another a portion, might be deprived
of the whole. Thus. one might begin to dig a gravel pit
in a glebe of ten acres, and others might follow it up till
all the soil was removed ; and thus the land which was
destined for growing crops of corn for the benefit of the
living, would be lost."
chalk from
a d
ooaflkgrpalyte ;l
andre-
moved
The question as to dilapidations was merely as to
their extent, on which the surveyors on each side differed.
Wi h regard f
from
a
to
gravel`active i
andas t,'
liatc
:a. -- •

been used in the glebe ; and, with respect to the gravel, it
was shewn that Mr. Grant, the predecessor of the plain-
tiff, the Rev. John Thomas Huntley, had been anxious to
prevent the gravel from being taken, but could not pre-
vent the surveyor of the roads taking it, as under an act
of parliament he had power to enter upon it without leave,
and that the neighbouring magistrates- gave orders to the
rat under these circum-
e sold to private

parish officers to

individuals. Baron Parke, in sending the case to
the jury,
said, with regard to the dilapidations to. the buildings, it
was clear the sum paid into court was sufficient to pay. all
legal demands. W
-With respect to the waste, if the Jury
found for the defendant, he was willing to allow the plain-
tift'
to findtomove ther
thecouplaintiff,rt on t
above, but if
groundtheythatthought m
siote
their
duty of
the waste land had been sold for private use, it would be
for them to estimate the damage. The jury found for
the defendants, in respect to the dilapidatiorp, that was,
that the amount paid into court covered their liability,
and, for the plaintiff, relative to the waste; damages five

THE CHANCELLORSHIP OF THE 'UNIVERSITY

OF CAMBRIDGE,

" If, however, those ties of early associations, and that
grateful feeling which attaches a scholar .to the place to

ing in my case, I hope that this deficiency may be com-
pensated by that interest which.l must most strongly feel
in the welfare of this country, and in the institutions to
which is committed the important trust of training the
rising generation which is in future to serve and adorn
her in Church and State.
" I feel that the task I shall have to perform is not
rendered more easy by my having to repair the loss you
have sustained by the death of that most excellent noble-
man who filled the office of Chancellor b
on his-ac- you may rest assured that my new dutie

constant and earnest attention, and ,
find me equally ready to co-operate with you in you_
endeavours to promote'the general cause of religion, lite-
rature, and science, and to maintain those rights and pri-
vileges the exercise of which is essential to the perform-
ance of your duties."

'ince having concluded I

.ellor presented the principal meml

versity to his Royal Highness,
members then retired. Before 1
Vice-Chancellor and all tl
were ushered into the library, I

member

the Vice-

to the distinguished par

In, the evening a grand put

_
ers of the deputation at
Adition to the U

versity c

ts were also y

the Marquis of Exeter, the Mar
rthampton, the Bishop of London, the Rev
Vriothesley Russell, the Right Hon. the Speaker
Imre of Commons, the Right Hon. Henry Goi
he Hon. C. E. Law, Mr. G. E. Anson, Colonel th
B. Phipps. and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seyn
A band of the Life Guards attended

THE GENERAL FAST.

on Wednesdo

was unit

'erpool, and the town presented throe

rance of a strict Sabbath, with one exceptio

service the Judges proceeded with the

from that entire and

thus withdr

gcoonsel, attor-

and thoughts whic

umiliation and prayer

tis,
or worldly

the bulk of our fella