Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-08-21

.boos N tbe BrIiish Church cause them
ssIye. 10 b5 istiy paid Is nov going on
n England. Il began in he bose OF
0oml:s5ns on motion Of Lord sand
fotd IS proTide for the spirituaI des''tu-
tIea of ihs people BY founding new bi-
sHsofics and psrishes and 5dild;hg
chnIehes, the expense ta pc mel Rariiy
from ths present income Of The church
ana partly BY pr;yate subscriptions. 4
Hereupon Mr.. Huns moved for re-
tasnp the exact anioani of he proper-
q and the incomes belonging 70 toe "a
Tions bishoprics and ecciesiasiiea. eo-
dies. His desire was 10 see The tunds
Of the church applied as they ought to
be- By asreport made in 1881 while
the average income Of the $3.50 curates
employed in the kingdom. was SS95
each. the bishops had from $50, 900 to
$4,000. In order in some measure
10 remedy this, law had been passed
limiting the lowest bishops revenue TO
S92 500 and the highest, that of The
Archbishop of Canterbury TO S75.000.
But this law bad been grossly eyaded,
and the funds which ought TO have gone
to minor clergy had been taken from
them. The facts ought 70 be exactly
ascertained.
Hereupon Sir B. Hall made speech
in which he handled the reverend pre-
lates without reserve. They had all
got great deal more money than the
law allowed them. The Bishop Of ST.
David's was to have S22, 500 year; but
in seven years he had pocketed S6,S25
more than that sum. The Bishop of
Norwich was to have the same, but in
seven years he had got S35s 1855, too
much. The three Bishops oflOxford.
Rochester and Salisbury had cribbed
$4,000 more Than their proper reve-
nues. The Bishop Of London, in IA
years, had taken S386. .295 to which he
had no good right; and in the same time
the Bishop of Winchester had outrun
his just income 1925, $3.50, and the BIZ
shop OF Durham S398,290. If other
people were to do such things it would
be called robbery. So too in some mi
nor offices of the church. In the dio-
cess Of Ely there were FIVE clergymen,
whom he named, receiving together
S55.7I5 a year, who did no duty at all.
and one more receiving Si6,95O, who
did duty only as it suited his conve-
nience. I fasseo
In this way Sir B. Hall went through
the abuses of the Church, and showed
up the more prominent with an unspa-
ring hand. He went for reforming
them all. The state of things was dis
graceful in the highest degree. An end
should be put TO such a system of cleri-
cal peculation. He would propose TO
take the property of the bishoprics,
deaneries and ecclesiastical bodies, all |
and singular, and pay the clergy proper
incomes. leaving no chance for them TO
get more by trick and management.
Instead of SIS, 900 year, let the Arch.
bishop of Canterbury have no more SAL
AIRY than the Prime Minister. As for the
Bishops, turn them out of the House of
Lords. give them $4,000 or SIS, 900 a
year, and make them act in their spheres
as good parish priests would. In re-
spect Of the inferior clergy, he would
have none Of them allowed to starve on
$50 or $500 year, without clothes fit
to be seen; none Of them should have
less than 3 900 nor more than 80, 900.
By this means the Church would be
made useful, respected, and blessing
to the country at large,while there would
be ample funds for its extension. lar
This speech, as we'll as one of SIM
liar sort, made subsequently, in the same
debate by Mr.. Horsman. could not but
provoke replies from the prelates in
question, and the public press has been
widely occupied with the subject. The
Bishops defend themselves with a spirit
quite vehement and irate, but apparent
y with no great success. Their pecu- :
mary malPractices seem in most if not /
in all cases, TO be beyond, disproof, and ,
The practical good sense of the public ,
treats them with lite indulgence. Their
enormous salaries they cannot long re.
lain; and however disagreeable TO their !
tastes, if will be happy day
Ior the Gaurch when a more, equal dis
Iribution of its income Is Is ffsaSSe among s
Is ministers. II is urged by the cow n
ards who abound everywhere. that the q
exposure Of these scandals must be .
lurtful to religion; but the plain an a
swer is that not the exposure, but the d
themselves, cause that hurt i
The Bishops have done wrong, not the
aithful public servants who have re-
Fealed their doings. :
Thus one by one the abuses that have !,
grown into the political and ecclesiasti- :,
,al system of England are assailed and J,
lbated. The revolution moves tardily, y
,ut it moves. Common sense and the e
instinct of justice are sure at last 10 have I
heir way. And distant as may be that i
complete separation of Church and {
State. so much to be desired for the D
kingdom. there is no reason to doubt its :
inal achievement.-N. Y. Tribune. !,