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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-30 00:00:00

BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT

Archdeaconry : Taunton; diocese of BathlMClWell;: value
£250; patron, Bishop of Bath and Wells.—Chancellorship:
Of the diocese of Bath and Wells; patron, Bishop of Bath and
Wells.—Deanery-literal: In the diocese of Bath and Wells.—
Canonries: Barton, St. David, in the Cathedral Church of
Wells; patron, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Milverton, in the
Cathedral Church of Wells.—Rectories: London, St. Mary-le-
bow, with St. Pancras, Soper-lane, and Ail-Hallows, Honey-
lane Rectory: value, £459; patrons, Archbishop of Canter.
bury and Grocers' Company. Loughton, Essex; diocese of
Rochester: value £458, with residence • patron, W. W. Mait-

Cana; Esq. ittisimury, Salop; diocese of Hereford : value,
.4'449, with residence; patron, Bishop of Worcester. Yarbo-
rough ; county and diocese of Lincoln : value, £226, with resi-
dence; patron, N. E. Yarburgh, Esq.—Vicarages: Gretton
with Duddington Perpetual Curacy, Northamptonshire; diocese
of Peterbo:ough : value, .e 261. with residence; patron, Bishop
of Peterborough. Harhorne, Staffordshire; diocese of Lich-
_

field : value, e'624, with residence ; patrons, bean and Chapter
of Lichfield.—Perpefual Curacies: Over-Darwen, St. James,
Lancashire; diocese of Manchester : value, e 150; natron,
Vicar of Blackburn. Stanley, Wakefield, Yorkshire; diocese
of Ripon : value, £l5O, with residence; patron, Vicar of Wake.
field.—Donative Curacy: Baddesley, Hants; diocese of Chi-
chester : patron, Joseph Weld, Esq. —Curacies: Holton- le-
Clay ; county and diocese of Lincoln. Hitcher], Herts; dio-
cese of Rochester; patron, the Vicar of Hitchin. Woolavington,
Sussex; diocese of Chichester: stinend, £100; patron, Rev.
R. W. Randall.—Chaplainc p: St. Alban's Union, Herts; dio-
cese of Rochester: stipend, £so.—Prgfessorship: Oxford;
Regius Professorship of Medicine, with Tomline 8 Praelector-
ship of Anatomy, and Aldrichian Professorship of Anatomy
that University; patron, the Croy

Radcliffe's Lifiriliy : salary, '150; patrons, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor. the Chancellor of the Univer-
sity, the Bishops of London and Winchester, the two Principal
Secretaries of State, the two Chief Justices, and the Master of
the Rolls.—Merstership : Brentwood Giaininar School, Essex.

OBITUARY.

Sept. 21, the Rev. Richard Lomax Martyn, Rector of Lur-
gashall, Sussex, in his 83d year.
Sept. 14, at Walmer, near Deal, the Rev. E. Pitman, Chaplain
of Chatham Dockyard, aged 60.
Sept. 11, the Rev. M. Y. Starkie, Rector of Rushbury, near
Church Stretton, Shropshire, and Incumbent of Over Darwen,
Lancashire.

Sept. 11, aged 44, the Rev. J. C. Umpleby, B.A. Rector of
Yarborough, and Curate-of Holton-le-Clay, Lincolnshire.
Sept. 13, at the Gloucester County Lunatic Asylum, the Rev.
J. T. Hatton.

Sept. 23, at Chevening Rectory, the Rev. John Austen. aged 74.
Sept. 23, at Bennington Rectory, Herts. the Rev. John Pol.
lard, M.A., aged 68, for 38 years Rector of the parish of Ben.
nington.

ARCIIDEACONRY OF TAUNTON.—The Morning Chro-
nicle announces that the Bishop of Bath and Wells has

appointed the Rev..G. A; Denison, his lordship's examin-
ing chaplain, vicar of East Brent, to the archdeaconry of
Taunton, vacant by the death of the Ven. Archdeacon Htt

milton

It is stated that a portion of the parishioners of St. Se.;
viour's, Leeds, who went over to the Church of Rome
with Messrs. Minster, Ward, &c., have returned to the
Church of England, having found the practice of the
Church of Rome to be very different from its high pro
fessions, and offering nothing to compensate for the abanr
donment of the Church of their fathers.
WELCH SERVICES IN WELCH CRURCRES.—A short
time ago an English service was substituted for one in the
Welch language at Melincryddan Church, near Neath, in
Glamorganshire. This change met with the disapproba-
tion of many of the subscribers, who had given towards the
erection of the building on the express understanding that
the whole of the services were to be conducted in the
Welch language, for the benefit of those of the inhabitants
who spoke only that tongue. The change reached the
bishop of the diocese, who has expressed his disapprobation
of the alteration thus made ; and for the future the ser-
vices will be conducted in 'Welch, as originally designed.
The bishop deemed that in a church erected and provided
for the peculiar benefit and accommodation of the Welch
inhabitants the services should take place in their own

language.

EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR ESTATES

Much time has been consumed, and a great deal has
been written, about the measure which has been often '
talked of, and has lately been attempted, for settling the
respective rights of the landlords and tenants of Episcopal
and Capitular estates. A degree of interest altogether
disproportioned to the subject has been awakened, and
the reverend name of the Church has been somewhat
unjustifiably drawn into the discussion. Bishops and
Chapters are not the Church, nor even the most impor-
tant part of the Church, as they are learning. and will
have to learn day by day. The mode in which their in-
comes are to be made up to the present Parliamentary
standard, which is all that is now really in dispute, is
important no doubt to them and their successors; but is
matter of comparative indifference to the Church at large,
which is interested only in preventing a recurrence of
those scandals and indecencies to which the ancient sys-
tem of ecclesiastical leases led, and for which the Church
as a body was held up, though unfairly, to public dislike
and contempt.
Bishops and Chapters there will always be • and they
ought to he, and might be, the lights and leaders of the
Church. We hope to see them in many ways much
nearer their ideal than they are now, and questions be-
tween the existing bodies and their lessees, on what terms
leases should be granted, and what are their respective
equities in lands granted on the present system, have but
little bearing upon this far more important subject.
The property, however, which they possess is, in its
aggregate, immense, and capable of supporting, in proper
hands and under proper regulations, a vast amount of
zealous and efficient labour. The richest Church upon
earth might certainly have a good deal more for its money,
of those results which its endowments are intended to
produce. At the conclusion of a masterly report, the
Lords' committee recommended the introduction of a
Bill permitting, under certain restrictions, and in com-
pliance with certain conditions, ecclesiastical lessors to
sell reversions, and lessees to buy them, and, conversely,
the lessees to sell and the lessors to buy the residue of
leases at present outstanding at a v luation. This re-
commendation was acted upon. Such a Bill was intro-
duced, and carried, and is now therefore law.
The Bill is mild enough, and threatens to be, at least
for some time, almost wholly inoperative. But there can
be no doubt that the true principle has been hit—namely,
that the ownership of property should never be divided.
Ecclesiastics should own in full integrity whatever pro-
perty it is right they should own at all. They should
reap all the benefit, and take all the responsibility.; As
it is, they too commonly share the benefit with their
lessee, and evade the responsibility altogether ; and, this,
too, in places where they own the tithes, and yet refuse
sometimes even the smallest pittance to the churo or
charities of the. parish. It is quite right that this should
be put an end to. What Bishops and Chapters can ma-
nage, let them manage altogether. What they cannot
should be sold, and the money used for the purposes of
Church extension.
The one great point to be aimed at is to prevent the
possibility of a system of beneficial leasing ever growing
up again. Beneficial leasing is the result of personal
selfishness. It means that a set of individuals, wanting
to get themselves in advance more than the Corpotation
to which they belong is at the moment entitled to, release
their tenant from a considerable portion of what be would
ultimately be cbliged to pay, in return for his paying
them a large sum beforehand. Individuals benefit nt the
expense of the Cot poration and the Church. Out of this
personal selfishness the whole present question has arisen.
Had it not been for the personal avarice of Bishops and
individuals in the Chapters, what is called " the right of
the lessees" i ould never have been beard of. We trust
it never will be beard of again. But it moat certainly will