The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-15 00:00:00

ZEE LIVERPOOL ANDARD.

be a timely and useful beacon to all those who may be disposed
to embark their capitai in a similar undertaking.

• " A BS'Tft ACT -BEACON FIRE-OFFICE.
Received for premiums from the establishment
of the office, four years and nine months . .£14,984 7 4

Subscribed capital of 1:25 per cent. ou £200,000. £50,00{1 0. 0
Loss

Residue of subscribed capital £24,10U l 1

There should also be deducted niwards of E.6,0ti0 from the
above balance, being the difference between the interest on the
capital of £xo,ooo and the amount of the dividends paid to the
proprietors, being at the rate of five per cent.
Paid losses by fire
Management, &c .. 23,003 15 9
Directors' salaries
Managing Director 3,812 0 0

40.878 6 3
14,981 7 4

LOSS

..E25.893 18 11."

If, after the perusal of this statement, any thing be wanting
to suggest the necessity of extreme caution to all those who may
be inclined to join in establishing a new fire insurance company
in Liverpool, I would advise them to reflect upon the fact, that
:within the last five years the insurance companies have
,sus-
tained and paid losses iu Livernool to the enormous amount of
upwards 01E350,000, nine-tenths of which have been incurred
on mercantile risks. Notwithstanding the efficiency of the
present Fire Police, (I challenge any oue to prove to the con-
trarv,) the insurance companies have paid £50,000 since the
establishment of that force ►n August, 1834; and I must observe
also, that uninsured properly to the amount of £lB,OOO has been
destroyed in Liverpool during that period.
As a perso❑ who I•as been singed 1 little in early life by fire
speculations, I beg to subscribe myself
A BURNT CHILD.

Imptriat 111i:tiaraEnt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY.
REPORT OP THE ECCLESIASTICA I. COMMISSION.

Viscount MELBOURNE on presenting the second report of the
ecclesiastical.commissioners appointed to inquire into the state
of all the sees iu England and Wales, expressed his great satis-
faction at finding that the report had been unanimously agreed
to; and that it bore the siematures of all the commissioners
whose names were inserted in the commission. The subjectsof
investigation were divided into three heads, viz., territory, re-
venue, and patronage. The question of ecclesiasti.'al patron-
age was one of great delicacy. and difficulty, of much interest
and importance. The commissioners had upon this subject ex-
pressly reserved themselves for another report. He now would
proceed to the first head, upon which be should'feel it necessary
to offer some observations on the subject respecting territory.
The last report, as their lordships were aware; recommended a
new arrangement of the dioceses of England and Wales, an ar-
rangement that should he made, without being too sweeping,
and that should. tend to remedy the great inequality which at
present prevailed ; some of the territorial possessions of the
hishopricks being so extensive that it was impossible for the
bishop to execute his duties, for no human strength nor industry
was capable of performing it ; and on the other hand, others
were so small that the bishop bad comparatively little to do. In
the recommendation of that report by the present com-
missioners, with respect to this, part of the Subject, the same
principles were adopted, with but one or two alterations. It
had been suggested that the dioceses of Bristol and Llandaff
should be united (he was now speaking of the first report); but
in the present report an alteration in this respect was made, for
the report pointed out a portion of the bishoprick of Bristol to
be united with the see of Bath and Wells, and the remaining
part of the see of Bristol, with the see of Gloucester. By these
arrangements there would be an increase of duty for the Bishops
of Gloucester and Bath and Wells to exercise. There were
some minor alterations in other sees, into the particulars of
which, however, it was not necessary that he should enter.
The report also' recommended the union of the bishoprick of
Sorter and Man with that of Carlisle. With respect to the re-
venues, it was proposed to reduce the more opulent sees, for the
purpese of increasing the income of those bishopricks which
were less amply provided for. It was not intended to produce
a perfect equality in that respect, for such a principle was con-
trary to the best interests of the church, and, in his opinion,
was inconsistent with the form of the government under which
we lived. .The disposition of some of the chief alterations in
the revenues of the respectiVe sees were these :—The estimated
annual revenue of Canterbury amounted to £17,000 per annum ;
it was proposed to reduce it to £15,030 per annum. The bi-
shoprick of London was estimated at £12,200 per annum ; it
was proposed to reduce it to £lO,OOO. The see of Durham
(about which he should say a few words presently) was esti-
mated to pimps an 'annual revenue of £17,800, the proposed.
reduction was to £8,000: That ofWinchester was estimated at
£10,700; it was proposed to be reduced to £7,000. Worcester
was estimated at £6,500, it was proposed to reduce it to £5,000;
St. Asaph and Bangor (one being £5,200, and the other
£3,800) were to have a revenue of £5,001) each. The reductions
thus effected would form a fund of about £28,500 per annum,
to which was to be added the saving in the transfer of the see of
Bristol £2,300 a year—thus making altogether a fund of
£30,800 per annum. Lord Melbourne referred the house to the
report itself, respecting the proposed alterations in the sees of
1 ork, Bath and Wells, Norwich and Salisbury. The commis-
sioners had recommended that the secular jurisdiction of the
Bishop of Durham should be separated from his ecclesiastical
functions. The same arrangement, it had also been suggested,
should be extended to the Archbishoprick of York and the
Bishoprick of Ely. His lordship then referred to that part of
the report relating to-prebendal foundations, to deans and
chapters, to sinecure livings, to non-residence, pluralities, and
to benefices in the gift of ecclesiastical corporations. The al-
terations proposed by the commissioners would constitute a
fund of about £130,000 per annum, applicable to the purposes
of reducing the great inequalities by which the interests of the
church were injured in the estimation of the public. ll3y lord-
ship concluded by saying that this was founded on-conservative
principles to the church ; and that it had his entire approbation.
He therefore moved " that the report be printed."
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY agreed with Lord Mel-
bourne in the opinion that the proposed alterations would be for
benefit of the church, and that they would increase its efficiency
and promote its stability: The report was ordered to be printed.