The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-24 00:00:00

York .

Lotidon • '635 13,929 12,204
rafter 18391
Durham,
146 ' 19,066' 17.8:.`,0
urio(.lO',ster - 'lfif; ' .}{;'151..1 10,750
St. Asaph ' 131. ' ' -'6',301 ., 0,:00-
,
Bangor ' I'2l- ' ..4,464 3,814
Bath and Wells
Bristol 234 '' 2.351 2.450
Carlisle - 127 .-.' 2,213.. • . 3.000
[after 1853.]
Chester 551
3,261., 3:2W
Chichester 267 . 4,2..9 3, 800
St. bavid's 4Q7 - 1,8W7 2 800
Ely . 149 ' -11;105 ll 000
Exeter 6ll - 2,713.- "
Glout ester 2Bl . ',282 2'2(X)
Hereford 256
_,2,5162 516
Lichfield & Coventry. 606 - '3;923 4'350
Lini:oin ' 1234 . 4,542 4"200
Llandaff 192 924 1'250
Norwich 1021 - ' 5 395 4 700
Oxford
[tAtii-jeet to a contingent).]
Peterborough 290 .3,103., .. ...... . 3,000
Rochester 94 . 1.4,',9 1,459
Salisbury 386 3.939 5,000
Worcester 212 .... . . 6,569 6,500

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The report then proceeds :
According to the foregoing table the net income of all the.
bishoprics of England and Wales in the year 1831 amounted,
on an average of three years, to the stun of £157,737, and may
now be calculated at about £1,18,875. but it appearS that this
amount is very unequaly distributed,-the incomes of one-half
of the bishoprics falling below the stun necessary to cover the
expenses to which a bishop is unavoidably subject. A different
distribution of the episcopal revenues it the natural remedy of
this inconvenience. Incomes must also be,provided for the two
new sees which are to be erected. • -
If the total amount of the net income of the bishoprics, as
stated in the second column of the preceding table, had been
liable to no further diminution, we apprehend that these objects
might hove been nearly accoMplished by such a distribution,
without any addition to those incomes by means of comineu-
dams, either with or without cure of soulS; the former of which
additions we think ought tube altogether discontinued. ,
This might be done-by enabling the future incumbents of the
richer sees either to transfer part of the estates to the poorer
bishoprics, or to pay over annually a portion of 'their incomes,
to the Governors of Qt3cen Ann'sllounty., to be applied to the
augmentation of such bishoprics; or either of these modes might
be adopted, accuiding to the particular circumstances of each
ease.
The total amount, as above stated, cannot be, however, con-
sidered as the future income, fir the reasons alleged in the
third column, which shc...s a diminution of nearly £9OOO per
annum; and a further diminution is also to be expected from
the application, either in whole or in part, of impropriations,
which form a considerable portion •of the incomes of many bi-
shoptics, and which in most instauces they were Compelled to
accept in exchange for manors and estates, fur the improvement
of populous and poorly-endowed vicarages,: and coracles con-
nected with them. .

The total income of the bishopric's iu trig,land -and Wales
will then uo longer be sufficient to.atfoid adequate income
to- k ieh bishop, merely by a different distribution; and the
most obvious mode of supplying the deticier.av will be per-
manently to annex to smoo of the...poorer'bishopcies certain ca-
thedral preferment; partiyuldrly.w the qn.kpters of Si. Paul's
Westiaaiiioer, on account of theieir sFfitid9u,i'ke inetropo-
.
lie.
_ _ _

In considering the incomes of the archbishops and bishops
it is proper to advert not only to the expense's necessarily in-
curred in journies forthe, purposes of contirtnatiiin, consecra-
tion, and other official duties, iii maintaining ancient and ex-
tensive houses of • residence, in 4i:eying up hospitality, and in
contributing to all objects connected with religion and charity
in a manner suitable to their.
.station, hut to a burden which
presses heavily on newly promoted bishops, who are selthim
men of wealth. The unavoidable expenses. attending their ap-
pointment arc so considerable that they may be ealcutated 'at
the income of One whole year in mii§t of the sees, and at much
more than a year's income in the smaller ones.
Upon the whole we are of opinion aro where the annual in-
come of a bishop amounts to EISA). it is. noCuecessary to make
any addition; nor would we recommend any diminution, unless
it exceed 5,500. But we think that the-two archbishoprics, and
the bishoprics of London,- Durham, and Winchester, ought to
base a larger provision thau the•rsst,
These arrangements, if citified into effect, will tend to pro--
.iiititut,the desirable- object of 'dituinishit4--the frequency of
translation.

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MARIZIAGgS. IN.4IIERICA.

(Nut rjuiter colytet, T 1.•• E.)

Ma-rried in the vicinity of Connersville' Indiana,-by the Hon.
J. M. 'Treadway, Mr. Isaac Mark,. t Miss Lavinia M'Cor-
wick ; and by the same, at thu saute tiMe and pace, Mr.. Muses
Marts to. M'Curmack, ail Id that country.
Messrs. Isaac and Moses are twin brothers; Misses Lavinia,
and Titbit ha are twin sisters---The first paii are the older
the second pair the. younger hiiru, The brothels were hornlin
the 27th day of May, 1812; the sisters were.boin on the 27th,
May, 1816; all were mat tied on the 2likday.of May, 183 L The
brothers resemble each other so nearly, as also the sisters, that
Judie T- says it puzzled him exceediuAly. to tell which was.
which.

• THE. Pooa Lew Acr.-We are considerably stinted for
room to-ea), on account of a press of important political mat-
ter, but we ate quite sure that we can do nothing better titan
strenuously advocate the came of the poor and helpless, whose
right to the support of those who readily contribute to their re-
lict is unquestionable. It is not enough for us to tell us. that
the poor taw amendment bill receivid the support of a fp eat
many conservative memberS, and of members of the present
government—men Should look to the working of acts of parlia-
ment. What alight have been the intentions of th.4..evrii con-
cocted this act, beyiald giving ham!tnne incomes and relit ing
pensions to a certain number of commissioners and asstst..nt-
commissionefs,'We du m.t pretend to guess; but in its opera: tin
it has proved a failure, and alailme.attended with the must
distressing and heart-tending cuasrquencest—John Bull.