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In the Patronage of the Crown, the Bishops, Deans and Chapters, the Universities, 



and Collegiate Establishments. 

 1,733 Rectories, containing 4,637,508 acres, at 3s. 6d. ...... 811,563 



2,341 Vicarages, containing 6,264,516 acres, at Is. 3d 391,532 



Annual Value of Public Livings 1,203,095 



In the Gift of Private Patrons. 



3,444 Rectories, containing 9,216,144 acres, at 3s. 6d 1,612,825 



2,175 Vicarages, containing 5,820,300 acres, at Is. 3d 363,768 



1,000 Perpetual Curacies, averaging 75. each 75,000 



645 Benefices, not parochial, averaging 50. each 32,450 



Annual Value of Private Benefices 2,084,043 



8,000 Glebes, at 20. each 160,000 



Total income of Parochial Clergy 3,447,138 



Income of Bishoprics 150,000 



Ditto of Deans and Chapters 275,000 



Total Revenues of the Established Clergy .. 3,872,138" 



It is thus seen that nearly twice the amount of the livings disposable 

 by the church, and even by the crown, are in the hands of private 

 individuals, and are in fact of the same nature as private property, 

 being capable of being sold like any other part of their property, of 

 being willed, &c. Thus of two millions, out of little more than three, 

 the possession is strictly belonging to the people themselves, which 

 it may be presumed, the owners are by no means willing to get rid of. 

 As for the general tithes of the kingdom, amounting to about eight 

 millions, five millions are computed to be in the possession of laymen, 

 and to be but another name for rent, with which the clergy have nothing 

 whatever to do, by service, or otherwise. In fact, after all the decla- 

 mation that has been wasted on the subject, the actual property of the 

 Established Church down to its lowest ranks, is not above a million 

 and a half a year, little more than a fiftieth part of the national 

 expenditure. 



The state of Ireland continues anxious. O'Connell's trial and his 

 pleading guilty, or suffering judgment by default to pass against 

 him, does not appear to have checked the popular discontent in any 

 important degree, nor even to have checked himself. In a speech 

 which he addressed a few days since to one of those meetings, for 

 organizing which he had been arraigned, he told the multitude, that, 

 so far from pleading guilty, he still stood upon the law ; that so far 

 from making any compromise, he was more determined to advocate the 

 Repeal of the Union than ever ; and that he was then on the point 

 of setting off for London, to present the petitions for Repeal to the 

 Legislature. Mr. Stanley, the Irish Secretary, on being called on to 

 state whether any compromise had been entered into with O'Connell, 

 declared himself in the negative in the strongest terms, and stated that 

 he would be brought up for judgment, like any other person found 

 guilty. 



Yet with all those declarations, there is something puzzling in the 



