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From the same authority , we learn that " the uumber of prelates , dignitaries , and incumbents , is ouly 7 , 694 ; aud
if the above were equally divided among them , each would receive one thousand two hundred and twenty eight pounds per annum . The number of benefices is , However , 11 , 342 . There are 5 , 008 rectories , 3 , 687 vicarages , and 2 , 970 churches , neither rectorial nor vicarial
making a total of 11 , 755 churches . These churches are contained in 10 , 674 parishes and parochial chapelries . The whole of these 10 , 674 benefices are in the hands of 7 , 191 incumbents ; there are 2 , 886 individuals with 7 , 037 livings ; 567 with 1 , 701 livings ; 209 with 836 livings ; 64 with 320 livings . "
We do not pretend to decide between this statement and the following , but the Church has no right to complain of misrepresentation , or to claim credence , while the materials for a correct estimate are withheld from the public . Non-resident Clergy . — Lord King
brought forward a motion on this subject on Monday , Feb . 14 . His Lordship ' s object was to shew the ratio between the non residents of parishes where the patronage was in the hands of laymen , and of parishes where it was in the hands of Churchmen . The usual plea for pluralities , the grand cause of nouresidence ,- was , that the livings ,
separately taken , were too poor to support a clergyman ; but Lord King observed , this plea could be urged only where all the tiviugs held by a pluralist were poor ones . The average income of the clergy of England had been stated to be 365 / . 18 s . 4 d .: he thought the proper rule would be , that where any living was of equal or greater value than that average ,
the incumbent should not be permitted to hold another . The Church , Lord King said , was by no means liberal to her own sons . On some Church property belonging to the see of York , the sums paid to the clergymen were not more than 30 / . a year : in one case of a valuable college living worth 2000 / . the curate received only 30 / ., and the parishioners had been obliged to subscribe to make it up to 70 / .
The Bishop of London said , since he last addressed their Lordships on the subject , he had entered into a calculation of the average income of the clergy ; and he found , if the whole of the income of the Church was equally divided among the various incumbents in England and Wales , it would not exceed 155 / . each ; aud even adding t ^ ie glebe lands , Queen Anne ' s bounty , and property of the va-
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rious Deans and Chapters , it wo old not exceed 200 / . ; while the average income of the Church of Scotland amounted at
the least calculation to 275 / . The publications on this subject were a tissue of the grossest misrepresetttatious .
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Proceeding's in Jamaica . [ From the Auti-Slavery Reporter . ] We have received a great mass of information from various slav « colonies , but principally from Jamaica-, since the last Reporter was published . We can only glance at a few of the points which it embraces .
The Assembly of Jamaica , in their displeasure with the Government for having rejected the Slave Act of 1829 , with its auti-christian clauses , have resolved to take no step whatever to amend their slave law . That of J 829 was proposed to be re-enacted in its former state , with the exclusion simply of its persecuting « n > visions ; but after
loug debates , which displayed not oniy an extraordinary degree of heat and asperity , but gross ignorance of all constitutional principles , and the most determined hostility to all missionary efforts , it was thrown out by a majority of 24 to 16 . The Assembly are thus fairly at issue with the Government and Parliament ; of this country . They seem to have felt the perilousness of placing
themselves in such a predicament - having on one side a numerous population of slaves , possibly excited by the failure of all hope of seeing their condition alleviated ; and on the other , the free black and coloured classes generally irritated by the contemptuous rejection of their claims to equal rights , aud openly proclaiming their willingness to accede to the wishes of Government on the
subject of slavery ; and they could not , therefore , but be alarmed at the prospect of standing alone in a conflict with the Government , and also with both the free black and coloured classes , and the slaves . It appears to be under some such impression that , in despite of all their ancient and most inveterate prejudices , they have carried through all its stages , with unusual celerity , a bill for
conferring on all free black and coloured persons the same privileges , civil and political , with the white inhabitants . This measure , we have no doubt , will prove in its coimequeucen a most auspicious one , whatever may have been its motive The free classes are too strong in their allegiance to be drawn in to join the whites in a contumacious resistance tu
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21 £ Intelligence . — Proceedings in Jumuica .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/68/
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