The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

OBITUARY

July 26, at Messina, Sicily, the Rev. Matthew Drake
Babington, M.A., Incumbent of St. George's Chapel, Whit-
wick, and of the Oaks Chapel, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire.
August 17, at Teigomouth, the Rev. John H Ms!), of Exeter,
aged 78.

August 19, at 'lndwell Rectory, Herts, aged 70, the Rev.
Charles John Spencer, A.M., for many years Rector of that
parish, and Curate of Edworth, Beds.

A central committee has been formed in London to pro-
tect the interests of Church lessees, with reference to the
act just passed. On it. are Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Forster,
Mr. Aglionhy, and Mr. Headlam ; and it is proposed to
establish, in connexion with this central organisation,
local societies for the same purpose.—Daily Neu's.
COLONIAL BlSHOPS.—Arrangements have been com-
pleted for the immediate establishment of a mission in
Borneo for the whole of the Eastern Archipelago. It has
been currently stated tlat the first bishop of the new see
will be the Rev. C. F. Childe, M.A., principal of the
Chtireh Missionary College, Islington. Arrangements
are also in progress for erecting new bishoprics in Western
Australia. Sierra Leone, and the Island of Mauritius. It
is believed that one of the new bishoprics will be offered
to the Rev. Dr. Mortimer, head-master of the City of
London School, a Liberal in Politics, and Evangelical in
religious matters.—Weekly Paper.
DURHAM.—Bishop Cosin's Hall, so named in honour
of one of the most assiduous prelates and greatest bene-
factors of the diocese, is to be opened in Michaelmas term.
The Rev. John Pedder, M.A., Bursar of University Col-
lege, has been appointed the first principal. The site of
the future buildings is in close proximity with the existing
establishments, and is now occupied by houses in posses-
sion of the University, and readily convertible to College
purposes. It is proposed to erect, in the first instance, a
suitable chapel for students of Bishop Hatfield's and
Bishop Cosin's Halls, in lieu of the temporary rooms now
set apart for divine service. The domestic arrangements
at the new hall will be the same as those at Bishop Hat-
field's, and there is already a prospect of small exhibitions
being assigned to some of the first students.

A parliamentary return has just been issued by which it
appears that the property, consisting of land and houses, in
possession of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, whether
by lapse of lease or by purchase, to the end of the year
1849, was 3,284 acres 2 roods and 34 perches. The rent
received by the Commissionersamounted to £7,199 18s. 10d.
Of property belonging to preferments, the interest on
which has been commuted, and which. on the expiration
of certain leases, will come into the possession of the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the average is 16,787 acres
and 2 roods. The estimated net annual value in land and
houses is 423,520 Ils., and in tithe rent charges £13,759
6s. Id. A similar return is given in the same document
of all property belonging to vacated preferments, and now
transferred to the Commissioners, held on leases for lives
or terms of years. The average is set forth at 40,246
acres 1 rood and 29 perches. The estimated net value in
land and houses, £73,242 13s. 3d., and the annual rent
charges £41,842 12s.