The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-01 00:00:00

REVENUES OF THE CHURCH

As the public entertain very different notions of the reve-
nues of the Church, we may supply, from a proof sheet of
the October number of the Churchman, with which we have
been favoured, the following statement on that point :
" There are 10,719 benefices. What is their total income)
£3,300,000 in round numbers, or about £3OB each benefice
Of these 10,719 benefices-
-297 are under ..
1629 from £5O and under
1602 .... 100 ..
1355 .... 150 ..
1978 .... 200 ..
1326 .... 300 ..
830 .... 400
954 .... 500 ..
323 .... 750 ..
134 .... 1000 ..
32 .... 1500 ..
18 .... 2000 and upwards
So that nearly 5,000 out of the 10,000 livings are under £2OO
per ann. ; upwards of 9,000 are under £5OO ; and the rest
vary from £5OO to £l,OOO, except 134 from £l,OOO to £1,500 ;
32 from £1,500 and under £2,000 ; and 18 from £2,000 and
upwards. Of the above list
13 are under ..
19 from £lO and under
39 .... 20
63 .... 30
172 .... 40
307 .. • • 50
317 .... 60
254 .... 70
353 _ ... 80

£5O per annum
100 „
150 „
200 „
300 „
400 „
500 „
750 , ,
1000 „
1500 „
2000 ..

£lO per annum
20 ..

400 .... 90
or 1937 livings under
402 .... 100
295 .... 110
318 .... 120
296 .... 130
289 .... 140
329 .... 150
290 .... 160
245 .... 170
234 .... 180
247 .... 190

or 2945 livings of from £lOO and under 200 , "
Thus, out of 10,719 benefices, 4,882, or nearly half, do not
reach the value of £199 each. Wealthy church ! prodigious
revenues I astounding superabundance of this world's goods !
It may here be taken into account that the income stated
is that of benefices—from which the stipends, in most cases of
one, and in many (where the population is large) of two or
three curates ought to be deducted. Besides this, clergy-
men, whether rectors or curates, are expected to put their
hands in their pockets, and actually do so put their hands,
for subscriptions to a vast number of public institutions, and
For an infinitely more vast number of cases of private distress
within their parishes. We believe that in this country all
parents who apply a capital for the subsistence of their chil-
dren in the world look to a return of 15 or 20 per cent. upon
the capital ; but with clergymen the outlay for qualification
cannot be less than £2,000 ; while the return, after all pro-
fessional expenses, may be best indicated on the whole by a
negative quantity. This is a fact which cannot be disputed :
and we call ourselves a Christian, while we certainly are a
wealthy, nation ! Her majesty's late ministers were very
fond of mooting plans for the supply of church destitution,
out of the superfluous revenues of the clergy. We only
wonder that these noble snd right honourable persons did
not, in their pious zeal upon the occasion, bring in a bill
framed on the excellent suggestion of Mr. Malet, for resto-
ring to the church the broad acres wrested from it (in Tavis-
tock, Woburn, and Covent-Garden among other places) by
the rapacity of Henry VIII.

Mr. Bronterre O'Brien, the Chartist, was released from
Lancaster gaol on Friday.

COMBINATION IN THE COUNTY or GALWAY.—ATTACK
AND DESTRUCTION OF A HOUSE.—The town of Caltra, upon
the evening of Wednesday last, became the scene of one of
those unhappy and lawless outrages which. thank Heaven,
are latterly becoming of rare occurrence amongst the people.
It appears a good deal of angry feeling has manifested itself
of late amongst the workmen engaged upon the new line of
road established in this quarter of the country. The employer.
a man of the name of Henessy, became peculiarly obnoxious
to the workmen. Upon Wednesday last he attended the fair
of Caltra, where a strong body of police were in attendance ;
no bad feeling having exhibited itself during the day, the po-
lice were withdrawn about seven o'clock in the evening.
Their absence became the signal for a general outbreak.
Henessy, unfortunately, had not left the town at this hour,
but remained drinking at a public•house. The rioters, to
the number of fifty, broke into the public-house and de-
manded Henessy, who fortunately by this time got under a
bed. The publican immediately ran across the street to the
priest's house (the Rev. Mr. M`Goveran,) and to the house
of Captain Kelly, J.P., demanding their protection. Capt.
Kelly was at the time from home; but his son-in-law, Mr.
Dillon O'Brien, of Fairfield, and Mr. Cruice, of Camla,
(brother to the stipendiary magistrate of Erris,) who hap-
pened to be dining at the house, accompanied by the priest,
immediately repaired to the scene of riot. Upon entering
the house they found the rioters smashing the furniture, and
declaring that nothing but the life of Mr. Henessy would
satisfy them. It becoming evident that the retreat of the
unfortunate man would be quickly discovered, the reverend
gentleman stood upon the entrance to the bed-room, and de-
clared that any man who would pass there, should pass over
his dead body. Temporarily awed, the people taking advan-
tav,e of the calm, and while Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Cruice
(the latter gentleman has been cut severely across the face,)
at the other side of the house, gallantly defended the poor
publican's property, Henessy was conveyed by the priest
rioters.
ftthrough a back door, which had escaped the notice of
a yell of fury the
they showerZtitin
knockine.nd: Upon finding their victim had escaped, after
Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Cruice, they went with
complete wreek!the outer part of the house, from whence
the three gentlemen never immense stones, until the house became a
more daring thanthe whole of this frightful scene
theneover deserted the house, One ruffian,
house, and struck down the rushed into the wreck of the
arms ; he was overtaken before
woman with an infant in her
down reaching the entrance by Mr.
O'Brien, who struck himand disabled him by a blow
of a loaded whip. Ten of the noters have been taken.—
Dublin 31trrning Register.