The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

Temdal

THE NEW COLONIAL BISFIOPRICH.—The definite ar-
rangements for the settlement of four new bishoprics,
three in Australia, and one at the Cape of Good Hope,
have been concluded by the committee. The new ap-
pointments are as follows :-1. Diocese of Melbourne, for
the district of Port Philip, New South Wales:.,--The Rev
Charles Perry, Trinity College, Cambridge. 2. Dioce
of Newcastle, northern counties of New South Wales
The Rev. William Tyrrell, St. John's College, Cambr;
3. Diocese of Adelaide, South Australia
Christ Church, Oxford.
Rev. Robert Gca

Augustus Short;
the Cppe of Good Hope

4. Diocese ( f

versity College, Oxford. The above newly-appointed
bishops will be consecrated in a few days by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. The following vacancies result
from the appointments we have just named :-1. Perpetual
curacy of St. Paul's, Cambridge, value £120; patron, thf
Bishop of Melbourne. 2. Deanery of Beauli,
ampton, value £145 ; patron, Lord Montagu. b. Vicar-
age of Ravensthorp, Northamptonshire, value £243 ;
patron, Christ Church, Oxford. 4. Vicarage of Stockton-
upon-Tees, Durham, value £247; patron, Bishop of Dur-
ham.—Church and Stale Gazette.
A HINT FOR NORTHERN INCUMBENTS.—The rectory

1, South-

of Houghton-le

by the er

Hetton, and

considerable auinientaiion under the will of the lat

it appears, regularly funded the whole of the mv--
received from coal rents in right of the glebe royalty be-
longing to the rectory since the time the coal was first
mns.lt.nd orldi _ . • .

annual interest of tnis
money to his private use. The principal he has be-
queathed• to the rectory of Houghton-le-spring, for the
benefit of his successors. The sum is large, though the
_ amount has not yet transpired, but it amounts to
,everal thousand pounds. The act is justly regarded as
anlot.ourable instance of scrupulous fidelity to the rights
and intensts 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,
succeeding incumbents 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 be 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 exeeutc

of his predecessor in• ti

were laid at £459 125., and the defendants had paid £'2oo
cover dilipidations, but denied their liability
Mr. Whitehurst, in stating the "case, re-

into court

as to waste

marked tha

" 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 refs

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

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 Wilell tney
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." .

The-question as to d
their extent, on which

active waste