Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-25
WEALTH OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH.

The whole number OF parochial ministers is
| l7,l55, including 1885 .cnrates, who have, in
| the aggregate, III income Of f3479 400
| About f283 apiece is the average annual
income Of the incumbents, exclusive IL tho
curates. This is but little above the average
income Of the clergy Of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in America or even OF the Freshly
terrain Church, when the difference in the cost
| Of living, ~ between England and the United
States, il taken into consideration. Moreover
these incomes are more equitably distributed
than is the popular impression. For Instance,
out Of the 1920 bsneices in England and
Wales, there are only one hundred and seven
ty.four which amount to a thousand pounds a
year, and only . thousand which bring in five
hundred pounds q year. But q Thousand
pounds in England will not 60 further than
half that amount here, and five hundred
pounds will not support family better than
twelve hundred dollars The elnoluments Of
the British clergy are, therefore, not 30 verv
muck greater, after all, than those Of their
brethren in the United States
As compared with other professions in Eng
land, the Church, according to the Edinburgh
ReUieW ID really worst paid Of all. That Jour
nal instances case in which rector receives
thousand pounds year, and proves that af.
tor making necessary deductions for poor rates.
OAuAiticsJ uAiu iucVlUdUto CudrScS Oh the H.
come, the nett amount is but f625. The rec
tor in question, according to the Edinburgh
Reviea0 has brother who is county Judge.
and receives fi 900 salary hut in this case
the deductions are slight, 30 that the nett in
come is $3.50. The parallel, if carried up to
the digntaries of either profession, exhibits
similar results. There are twenty-eight bsh-
ops and archbishops in England, receiving in
comes of about five thousand pounds wear.
There are twenty-five principal Judges, how
ever, who receive an average OF nix thousand
pounds apiece annually Moreover, these
twenty-eight Initres are competed Tor by 1875
clergmen, while for the twenty-five Judge
ships, these competitors arc but 1000. The
chances of winning ono Of the great "prizes
is consequently four to one for a barrister as
against . clergyman. These statements are
verified by Official documents and correct ideas
about tho English Church, which have been
widely disseminated, and which have often
brought it into undeseryed discredit
philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Curious CAsE.--It will be- remembered bv
the readers Of the Dispatch that in 1852 We
published statement Of the trial, in Jefferson
county, Of negro Henry, slave, charged with
stabbing and nfticting dangerous wounds
upOu VIC UOuy VI W.T.. IA. ANDERSON. Inc
charge was sustained, and the prisoner SEN
fenced to receive five hundred lashes, to be-
given not to exceed thirty-nine ut anysOne time.
and under the direction of the physician Of the
Jail.
In late communication by Gov. johnson to
the Legislature, upon the subject of g RepYieves
and Pardons,' it is stated that, according TO
petition for pardon presented by the owner
OF the slave, twice thirty-nne lashes have been
inflicted upon the prisoner, and that the last
whipping occurred more than q year ago. The
physician to the jail then resigned. The court
then rendered the appointment to another ply
sician, who declined; then to another, and 60
on to a fourth, who would not act to carry the
sentence into execution. It was part Of the
sentence that the whipping should DO under
the direction oil the physician, and the sheriff
refuses to execute the sentence without such
direction. So there is no prospect Of executing
the sentence, the owner is deprived of the SER
vice Of his slave, and may lose him altogether
He has no remedy. The Governor asks the
Assembly to provide some remedy at least for
similar cases. We perceive that MIR Parker,
Of the Senate has offered q resolution having
that object in view.-Richmond Dispatch.
FALSE ARGUMEkT.--It is said that if the
Missouri Compromise should be repealed by
the Southern members OF Congress and others
Of their friends, the North will, in retaliation,
repeal the Fugitive Slave Act and make no.
more compromises with the South about Sla-
very. That there will be great discomfort at
the North, if the Missouri Compromise shonlSs
be repealed, we do not doubt; very likely, it
will be 80 great that she will not return again
to Congress such Of her members ~ voted for
10 l. L.. IL
in the event supposed, she would be we'll in.
clinod to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act Bus
she cannot, for the same majority that would
enable Mr.. Douglas and his coadjutoss TO re-
peal the Missouri Compromise, would also en.
able them to pusuent the repeal Of the Fugitive
Slave Act. Their motives TO do the one, and
not let the other be done, would be precisely
tho same Pail. Daily Register.
This proceeds on the suppostion that the
North would tamely submit, az 1t always has
done.--Ed Era.
WALKING ON WATER--The perilous expert
ment Of walking on water was recently
repeated, before q concourse of Dublin speeta-
tors, by the Hon. Mr.. Swift This gentleman's
former experiment was that of walking" by
sea from Venice TO Trieste, a feat by which
his life was we'll nigh forfeited. In repeating
the attempt in Dubln harbor, between the
cnstom-house and the pigeon house fort he en-
conntered no risk and was thoroughly sue
cessful His apparatus consists of two.air-tight
/ tin floats twenty feet in length, tapcring to a
narrow point at each end, and joined together
by bars Of iron. Standing on the floats, MIR
Swift propels himself by a double. bladed oar
which he uses with great dexterity.
Mons EMANCIPATION. The Augsburg Ga
sette announces that the Emperor Of Austria
has definitely signed tho decree COMMUNICATING
the emancipation Of the peasantry in Bohemia,
Moravia. Hungary, Serbia, Arabia, the Banat,
and tho Waiewodina, from all statute OF SER
vice labor hitherto paid to the nobleman, or
original owner Of the soil The decree pre-
scrlbes that the peasant shall receive a farm,
with the necessary buildings on it IN word,
homestead, NJ his own property. The worth
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