The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY 6- CLERICAL NEWS.

The following appointments have taken place :—The
Hon. and Rev. Thomas Robert Keppel, M.A., of Down-
ing College, to the rectory of North Creaks, Norfolk :
value, £1,077. The Rev. Henry Sewell, of St. Peter's
College, to the rectory of Burgate, Suffolk ; v lue £560.
The Rev. John Booth, 8.A., of Queen's College, to
the perpetual curacy of St. Stephen's, Salford ; value,
£145. The Rev. John Wallis, 8.A., of Pembroke Col-
lege, to the perpetual curacy of Stainton-on-Crosscrake,
Cheshire; 1.-'B9. The Rev. James Charles Gregory, 8.A,,
of Trinity College. to the curacy of Holt, Bradford,
Wilts. The Rev. Henry Bryant, B.A. of Queen's Col-
lege, to be minister of the district of Murk:field, Che-
shire. The Rev. Timothy Brayshaw, M.A., of St.
John's College, to be minister of the district of East-
wood, Keighley, Yorkshire.
WELSH TITHES BELONGING TO ENGLISH ECCLESIAS-
TICAL DIGNITARIES.—The Times gives a list headed as
above, from which it appears that a rent charge of
£13.749 lls. 3d. in ten Welsh counties, is the property
of thirteen bisheps, deans, and chapters, and canons in
England.
THE ST. ASAPIPI CONFIRMATIONS. —The Chester
Courant, on competent authority, states that, so far from
being dissatisfied, the Bishop of Sodor and Man was well
pleased with what he witnessed on the occasions in ques-
tion.

REGISTER OF BAPTISM AND Bit?. SITTLIMENT.—
The Rev. H. Eley, of Broomfield 7carsge, near (
ford, having enquired of the Poor-law Conitnisetoners
whether the register of baptism at the parish church was
in itself sufficient evidence to prove the settlement of the
parties baptised, the commissioners reply 7—" The register
of baptism is not of itself sufficient evidence to pros, the
place of birth of any person, with a view to ascertaining
his settlement, although it may be adducod as one of the
circumstances tending to prove it (H. v. North Pethorton,
5 B. and C., 508; It. v. Lahbenharn, 5 B. and Ad. 968)."
13kNEFICES AND CRURCEIIII.—k Parliami.naary docu-
ment Bas just been issued, containing a list of I.•.enasces
and Ant, the Eaciewiaatieal

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sloners for England, and made up to ttze lot of May I,st.
From the summary it appears, that under schedr.l.! A the
commissioners had in 4A li•ings, made by unconditional
grant*, an annkrAl augmentation straousti nig to £25,779,
which was divided under four brarvc.hes in tits following
wanner :—ln places where the popalatioa was 2,000 and
upwards, the income was raised to £l5O in 261 living.,
which amounted to £16,722; where the population was
1,000 and upwards, the income of 96 livings was rased to
£l2O, making £4,374; where the population was 500 and
upwards, 80 livings were augmented to £lOO, making
£3,253 ; and in instances where the population was
below 500, in 59 livings the income was increased to £BO,
skulking a sum of £1,430. It further appears that grants
have been made by the commissioners to moat benefac-
tions when the income was below £2OO in 48 livings.
The commissioners have local claims upon tithes, &c., in
29 livings, tnd in 10 others the incumbents have claims
for compenEatim for a e loss of fees surrendered to new
churches. The aggregate number of livings, after de-
ducting 21 included in more than one schedule, which
have been augmented, number 562, and the amount to
£29,809. It thus appears, that under the provisions of
the Cathedral Acts 562 livings have already been augmented
by the sum of £29,809 per annum in perpetuity, and that
sum is exclusive of money expended and promised to
meet benefactions for building and purchasing houses of
residence for incumbents whose annual incomes are below
£2OO.