37. That all the remaining property, of what kind soever, belonging to the canonries, prebends, dignities, and offices in the Cathedral Churches of St. Asaph, Bangor, St. David, and Llandaff, and in the Collegiate Church of Brecon, as well those which are now vacant as those which shall hereafter become vacant, be vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, to be from time to time applied to the improvement of poor benefices in the Principality of Wales, unless it be deemed fit to transfer any part thereof to the College of St. David, at Lampeter, in exchange for any benefices, with cure of souls, which are now connected with that establishment, and that power be given to make such transfer.

38. That no new appointment be made to the Deanery of Wolverhampton, nor to any prebend, dignity, or office, not residentiary, in any cathedral or collegiate church.

39. That, subject to the reservation of existing rights hereinafter specified, all the lands, tithes, and other endowments, of whatever kind, belonging or attached to the said last-mentioned deanery, prebends, dignities, and offices, as well those which are now vacant as those which shall hereafter become vacant, be, except as herein specified, vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.

40. That so much of the lands or tithes belonging or attached to the Prebend of Sawley, in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, as shall be determined on, be vested in and enjoyed by the rector of St. Philip's Church, in Birmingham, and his successors, rectors thereof, for ever.

41. That the endowments, of whatever kind, belonging to the Collegiate Churches of Wolverhampton, Heytesbury, and Middleham, be applied to the purpose of making a better provision for the cure of souls in the districts or places with which those churches are respectively connected.

42. That in the Collegiate Church of Southwell the prebendaries be, as vacancies occur, reduced to one; that upon the death or removal of the last of the existing prebendaries, the Archdeacon of Nottingham become the sole canon, and also rector of the parish of Southwell, and that the Rectory of Southwell be annexed to the Archdeaconry of Nottingham; that the said rector be empowered and required to appoint two assistant ministers, and that the first of such ministers be paid an annual income of 300%., and the second an annual income of 2007.; that the Vicar of Southwell holding the vicarage at the time of such annexation as aforesaid, become the first of such assistant ministers; that after such portion of the divisible revenues of the said Collegiate Church of Southwell shall have been applied as shall be necessary for carrying fully into effect the foregoing objects, the remainder thereof be paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; and that all vicars-choral hereafter to be appointed in that church, hold their offices subject to these regulations.

43. That so much of the property belonging to the Collegiate Church of Wimborne Minster, as shall upon due inquiry be found legally applicable to that object, be applied to the purpose of making a better provision for the spiritual care of the parish of Wimborne Minster.

44. That provision be made out of the fund arising from the suppressed canonries and residentiary prebends, in the respective cathedral and collegiate churches, for the performance of such duties therein, as may require to be so provided for, in consequence of the diminution in the number of canons, while that change is in progress.

45. That measures be taken by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England for the disposal of such residence houses in the precincts of the respective cathedral and collegiate churches as may no longer be required, and for the distribution and appropriation of those which may be retained; and that for these purposes plans be from time to time prepared by each Chapter, and when approved by the Visitor, be laid before the said Commissioners for their confirmation.

46. That power be given to unite such of the better endowed canonries which will remain in the Chapters of the several cathedral and collegiate churches as may be deemed properly available for the purpose, with the parochial charge of populous districts, within the dioceses in which such churches shall be respectively situate.

47. That such arrangements be made with respect to the Deanery and Canonries in the Cathedral Church of Durham, and their revenues, as, upon due inquiry and consideration of the Act of Parliament for founding the University of Durham, and of the engagements subsequently entered into by the late Bishop

and the Dean and Chapter of Durham, shall be determined on, with a view to maintaining the said university in a state of respectability and efficiency; due regard being had to the just claims of any existing officer of the said university. 48. That the Deans and Chapters of the several cathedral and collegiate churches do, from time to time, upon being required by their visitors, propose to them such alterations in their existing statutes and rules, as shall make them consistent with the altered constitution and duties of the Chapters respectively; and that in default of their complying with such requisition, the visitors be, in all cases, at liberty to make such alterations; but that no such alteration take effect until it shall have been submitted to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and shall have received the sanction of your Majesty in Council, which sanction shall not be given to any alteration made by a visitor alone, unless the said Commissioners shall have communicated a draft of the proposed alteration to the Chapter to be effected thereby, and shall have laid before your Majesty in Council such remarks as may within three months have been made thereon by such Chapter.

49. That the several corporations or colleges of vicars-choral, priest-vicars, or minor canons, be dissolved at such times respectively, and that their endowments be dealt with in such manner as shall be determined on, with a view to the efficient performance of the cathedral service, and to the improvement of the annual incomes of the existing members, so as to secure to each of them a provision at least equivalent to that which he now possesses; and saving also the present rights of any lay vicar who may be a member of any such corporation; and that plans for carrying this alteration into effect, and for the efficient performance of the choral service for the future, be prepared by the Deans and Chapters of the respective cathedral churches in which such corporations or colleges exist, and after approval by their visitors, be laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; and that the benefices belonging to any of the said last-mentioned corporations and colleges, be, upon the dissolution of such corporations or colleges, respectively vested in the Chapters of their respective churches; to be by them conferred in the first instance, upon minor canons, subject to the regulations and restrictions hereinafter specified.

50. That all persons holding the office of vicar-choral, priest-vicar, or minor canon, in any cathedral or collegiate church, be hereafter styled minor canons; and that the right of appointing them be, in all cases, vested in the respective Chapters; that their number, in each cathedral or collegiate church, be not more than six, nor less than two; and that the stipend of each minor canon, hereafter to be appointed, be not less than 1501. per annum.

51. That no minor canon, hereafter to be appointed, in any cathedral or collegiate church, be allowed to take and hold, together with his minor canonry, any benefice, unless such benefice be within the limits of the city wherein such church is situate, or within the liberties thereof.

52. That no minor canon, hereafter to be appointed, be qualified to take any benefice in the patronage of a Chapter, beyond such limits and liberties, until he shall have actually served as minor canon for five years at the least; and that within one year after the acceptance of any such benefice, by any minor canon, he vacate his minor canonry.

53. That the propositions respecting minor canons do not affect the chaplains of Christchurch in Oxford.

54. That, subject to the reservation of existing rights hereinafter specified, upon the vacancy of any benefice in the patronage of the Chapter of any cathedral or collegiate church, the Dean and Chapter present thereto either one of their own body, or a minor canon, subject to such regulations as aforesaid; or a spiritual person, who shall have served for five years at the least as master of the grammar school, if any attached to such cathedral or collegiate church, or who, in respect to the patronage of the Chapter of Durham, shall have served for the like term, as a professor, reader, lecturer, or tutor, in the University of Durham, or who shall have been educated at that University, and shall be a licentiate or graduate in theology therein; and every such schoolmaster, professor, reader, lecturer, or tutor so presented, shall, within one year thereafter, vacate his office; and that if neither a member of the Chapter, nor a minor canon, nor such schoolmaster, professor, reader, lecturer, tutor, licentiate, or graduate as aforesaid, be presented within three calendar months from the time of the vacancy, the bishop of the diocese in which the benefice is situate do, within the

next three calendar months, collate or license thereto a spiritual person, who shall have actually served within such diocese, as curate or incumbent, for five years at the least; and, that if no such collation or license be granted within such time, the right of presentation, for that turn, lapse to the archbishop of the province; but that nothing herein contained affect the patronage possessed by the said Chapter of Christchurch.

55. That, subject to the like reservation of existing rights, the patronage of all benefices, except rectories without cure of souls, possessed by deans and other individual members of Chapters, in right of any separate estates held by them as such members, or possessed by prebendaries, dignitaries, or officers not residentiary, as such, be transferred to the bishops of the dioceses in which the benefices shall be respectively situate; except in the case of the collegiate church of Southwell; and that the benefices in the patronage of the prebendaries thereof be transferred, as the prebends fall in respectively, partly to the Bishop of Ripon, and partly to the Bishop of Manchester, when the latter see shall have been created, in such proportion as shall be determined on.

56. That all ecclesiastical rectories without cure of souls, in the patronage of the Crown or of any ecclesiastical corporation, aggregate or sole, where there shall be a vicar endowed, or a perpetual curate, as well those which are now vacant as those which shall hereafter become vacant, be suppressed; and that thereupon the lands, tithes, and other endowments, of whatever kind, belonging thereto, respectively be vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; and all patronage belonging to the incumbents of such rectories respectively, transferred to the respective patrons thereof.

57. That the Bishops of London and Lincoln be empowered to appoint one of the archdeacons of their respective dioceses to succeed to the new canonry in the Chapter of St. Paul's and of Lincoln respectively, and that such canonries be annexed to such archdeaconries respectively; subject to such regulations, before any vacancy shall occur among the existing members of the said Chapters respectively, as may be determined on; and that upon the occurrence of any such vacancy, provision be made for such archdeacon, and, if it be deemed fit, for one other of the archdeacons in each of the said dioceses, by the application of a portion of the income of such canonry.

58. That the prebend or canonry in the Cathedral Church of Rochester, which is now annexed to the archdeaconry of Rochester, be annexed to the new archdeaconry of Maidstone.

59. That archdeaconries, not otherwise competently endowed, be provided for respectively, by the annexation, wherever it may be practicable, either of an entire canonry, or of a canonry charged with the payment of such portion of its income as shall be determined on towards providing for another archdeacon in the same diocese, or of such last-mentioned portion of the income of a canonry, or until such arrangements can be made, and in cases where it may be necessary, by augmentation, out of the fund, in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, accruing from the suppression of cathedral dignities or offices, or of sinecure rectories; provided that no such augmentation be made out of the said fund as shall raise the annual income of any archdeaconry, so augmented, to an amount exceeding

2001.

60. That no person be hereafter capable of receiving the appointment of dean, precentor, archdeacon, or canon, until he shall have been six years complete in priest's orders.

61. That, with respect to benefices which are annexed, by Act of Parliament or otherwise, to the headships of colleges in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, power be given to sanction, with the consent of the respective colleges, the sale of the advowsons of such benefices, and the investment of the proceeds in proper securities, and the payment of the interest thereof to the respective heads of the colleges for the time being; and that upon the completion of the respective arrangements, the present incumbents be permitted, on resigning their respective benefices, to receive the interest of the proceeds arising from such sales respectively; and that power be given to the colleges themselves to purchase such advowsons.

62. That power be given to sanction, with the consent of the University of Cambridge, the sale of the advowson of the benefice annexed to the Regius Professorship of Divinity in that University, and the investment of the proceeds of such sale in proper securities, and the payment of the interest thereof, to the Regius Professor of VOL. XX. NO. II.

Divinity for the time being; and that upon the completion of this arrangement the present incumbent be permitted, on resigning the said benefice, to receive such in

terest.

63. That wherever any benefice with cure of souls is held together with any sinecure preferment in the patronage of any college in either of the Universities, or of any private patron, the revenues of which latter preferment form a part of the income of the present incumbent of such benefice, power be given, with the consents of the respective patrons, permanently to annex such preferment to such benefice.

64. That in those parishes in which both the profits and the spiritual charge are divided between two or more incumbents, each having a mediety or portion of the benefice, power be given to sanction any plan laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, by the bishop of the diocese, with the consent of the patron or patrons, for constituting any of such portions separate benefices; or for consolidating two or more of such portions into one benefice, to be held by one incumbent; or for making such other arrangements as may promote the efficient discharge of pastoral duties in such parishes.

65. That, with an especial view to the better care of populous parishes, power be given to sanction any arrangement for the purpose of improving the value or making a better provision for the spiritual duties of ill-endowed parishes or districts, by means of such exchange of advowsons, or of such other alterations in the exercise of patronage as may be agreed upon by patrons; with the consent of the bishop in every such case, and where a bishop is himself one of the patrons, with the consent of the archbishop.

66. That power be also given to sanction any apportionment of the income of two benefices belonging to the same patron, or the income of one benefice having more than one church or chapel, between the incumbents or ministers of such benetices, churches, or chapels; but that this power be not exercised with respect to benefices in lay patronage without the consents of the respective patrons ; nor, in any case, without the consent of the bishop of the diocese, except where the bishop himself is patron, and that in that case the consent of the archbishop be required.

67. That none of these propositions respecting the division of corporate property, the severance of separate property, or the exercise of patronage in respect of separate property, affect any dean, archdeacon, canon, prebendary, dignitary, or officer, (except the said Henry Hart Milman and John Jennings) who shall be in possession at the time of passing any Act of Parliament for carrying these propositions into effect; but that every such dean, archdeacon, canon, prebendary, dignitary, and officer thereafter appointed, be subject to such regulations as shall be made in pursuance of such Act; and that the proposition respecting the qualification of persons to be presented to benefices, and the apportionment of the income of any benefice in the patronage of any Chapter, do not affect such Chapter so long as any person who was a member thereof on the 13th day of August, 1836, shall continue such member.

68. That the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, from time to time, as they shall think necessary, cause to be amended the valuation of the revenues of the bishoprics, cathedrals, collegiate churches, ecclesiastical corporations aggregate and sole, and benefices, in England and Wales, which was made and estimated according to the Returns made to the Commissioners appointed by your Majesty to inquire into the Revenues and Patronage of the Established Church in England and Wales, and specified in the Report made by the said last-mentioned Commissioners, bearing date the 16th day of June, 1835; and that when any such amended valuation shall be completed, the same be printed by your Majesty's printer, and be received as evidence of the value of every dignity, office, or benefice therein mentioned.

69. That all monies received by the Treasurer of the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, under the Act passed in the fifth and sixth years of your Majesty's reign, for protecting the revenues of vacant ecclesiastical dignities, prebends, canonries, and benefices without cure of souls, and for preventing the lapse thereof during the pending inquiries respecting the state of the Established Church in England and Wales, be paid over to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; and that the said Act be repealed.

70. That the lands, tithes, hereditaments, monies, and revenues, to be vested in

and paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, under these propositions, be, after a due consideration of the wants and circumstances of the places in which they accrue, except as herein specified, applied to the purpose of making additional provision for the cure of souls, in parishes where such assistance is most required; in such manner as shall be most conducive to the efficiency of the Established Church.

71. That the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England be empowered to inquire into the state of those hospitals, which were returned as promotions spiritual in the reign of King Henry the Eighth ; and that in those cases in which they shall find the endowments of such hospitals to be capable, after satisfying the objects of the founder's bounty, of affording a better provision for the cure of souls in the parishes with which they are connected, the said Commissioners do consider and report to your Majesty in Council, and that your Majesty in Council be empowered to sanction measures for effecting such provision.

All which we humbly submit to your Majesty's consideration.

KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.-At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, when the royal me dal was awarded to the Rev. W. Whewell, for his researches connected with the theory of the tides, and a Copley medal to M. Becquerel, for his memoirs on the subject of electricity; another Copley medal was awarded to Mr. J. F. Daniell, Professor of Chemistry in King's College, for his two papers on voltaic combination, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1836, in which are described the principles, mode of formation, perfect steadiness of action, and the great power of his constant battery. Having formerly obtained the Rumford medal, this is the second time that this Professor has been distinguished by the Royal Society; and he has been elected this year into its council, with two of his colleagues, Professors Wheatstone and Royle, M.D. The students of King's College have also been distinguishing themselves, as the gold medal which is yearly given by the Society of Apothecaries to be contended for by the botanical students of all the schools in London, was this year awarded to Mr. William Davies, a resident of Chelsea; and the prize which is given to be contended for by all those who are apprenticed to the society, and who are not allowed to enter the lists for the general prize, was on the same day (the 28th ult.) awarded to Mr. William Ward. This gentleman is the son of Mr. Ward, the surgeon, of Wellclose-square, celebrated for his mode of growing plants shut up in glass cases, by which means they can and have been brought with great facility even from the East Indies and New Holland. Both the gentlemen were King's College pupils, and do credit to Mr. Don, the librarian of the Linnæan Society, and Professor of Botany in King's College.

DR. HAMPDEN.

Copy of a Letter from Dr. Hampden to Dr. Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury. MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,-Having seen for the first time in the public papers of yesterday a memorial to his Majesty, from certain members of the University of Oxford, sent to your Grace, I beg leave most respectfully to address myself to your Grace on the subject.

I trust that I shall be fully believed when I affirm, as I do in the most solemn manner, that I have had no thought in any thing that I have said or written on theological subjects, but to uphold, to the best of my ability, the doctrines and established formularies of the Church of England.

My Bampton Lectures are simply a history of the technical terms of theology; nor have they the slightest tendency, in my view and intention, to impugn the vital truths of Christianity. My pamphlet, entitled "Observations on Religious Dissent," had no other design but to induce a charitable construction of the views of those who differ from us. Nothing could have been more painfully shocking to my feelings than the connexion of my name with opinions which I detest. I may be indulged on this occasion with saying, that a belief in the great revealed truths of the Trinity and the Incarnation has been my stay through life; and I utterly disclaim the imputation of inculcating any doctrines at variance with these great foundations of christian hope. I do not pretend, my Lord, always to have stated my views with the precision and clearness that I could have wished; nor do I venture to assert that I have avoided all mistakes in what I have said, or that I have always taken the best method of teaching the truth.