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I was to bear the expense, sent me 1001. each, and two 50l. each, and one anonymously 401., and left me not above 140l. to pay. I felt this a call from God to know nothing of tethers, but to go to the utmost extent of my power, now that the corporation livings are on sale........ Accordingly I devote to this blessed work 2,500l. and I send to a variety of places this proposal :-Collect amongst you one-half, and I will give the other half-or, if three persons will subscribe three-fourths, I will give one fourth, and the first presentation. Thus on the first plan my pittance will go as far as 5,000l., and on the second plan, as far as 10,000l. And then I say to any persons, Help me to enlarge my pittance; because every 100l. will, on the first plan, be equal to 2007., and on the second plan to 400l. If I could get from others 1,000l., it would not spare me one penny, but would enlarge my efforts to the amount of 4,000l. But behold, I have begun with Derby, and, (with the exception of Mr. Evans, who wishes to enlarge my sphere of operation,) I have got but 1007., and that is from Mr. Cope. So that I shall have to sacrifice for that one place nearly one-half of my pittance, whereas I expected that the religious people there would gladly meet me half way. On receiving his letter I was almost ready to weep. Truly, for the most magnificent church in the county, there is only one person found to meet my offer of fixing the gospel there in perpetuity, or to give a shilling towards it, and thus all my glorious plans and prospects are defeated. . . . . .I had pledged myself to purchase the great living at Northampton at any price. But the vicar has written me word that the corporation intend to get, if they can, an act of Parliament to enable the bishop of Lincoln to add to it a valuable sinecure in the town; and in return for that, to have the nomination vested in him. Whether this will go forward I do not know. If it do, my intentions with respect to it will be frustrated. But should that be the case, I have my eye upon all the provincial towns, to spend all I can in securing the gospel to them........I have actually sent to Bath my proposals, and if they be accepted, (Bath will sell for at least 5,000l., having five churches under it,) I shall have my poor pittance swallowed up by that alone. I wrote thither under the full persuasion that the people of Derby would meet me half way, instead of only giving one solitary hundred towards it........What to do I know not. (All that I purchase will be committed to my trustees, as all my twenty-two livings are.) I think I must secure Derby, because of the immense importance of it. I will have four or five other places if I can get them, and get the means of fulfilling my engagements. Pray do for me all you can with any of your friends who are able to assist in this good cause. Any sums may be placed to my account at Smith, Payne, and Smith's, London. Oh that there were amongst religious people more zeal for God, and more love to immortal souls! In all my livings I have no personal interest whatever. If I had never done more than purchase Cheltenham, I should be already well repaid for all the pains I have taken, and all the labour I have expended." [This letter well merits preservation.—ED.]

DR. CONQUEST'S PRIZE.

THE Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, and Dr. Pye Smith, after much prayer, and great labour and anxiety, have awarded the prize of one hundred guineas, offered by Dr. Conquest, for the best essay on the love of money. It will be published early in June, by Ward and Co., under the title of " Mammon; or, Covetousness, the Sin of the Christian Church." One of the adjudicators says of it, "It is incomparably the best essay! I have seldom, if ever, read so interesting a work; it possesses peculiar charms of language and illustration." Three others are designated as "the composition of minds of a superlative order." Both the adjudicators express an earnest desire that they also may be published. Dr. Conquest received altogether one hundred and forty-three essays, forty-one of which were written by clergymen of the church of England, thirty-one by dissenting ministers, fifteen by females, and fifty-six by laymen. [This is really worth inserting.-ED.]

APPENDIX (A.) TO SECOND REPORT OF THE CHURCH COMMISSIONERS.

No. 1.-PROPOSED ARRANGEMENT OF ARCHDEACONRIES.

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No. 2.-NUMBER of BENEFICES in each DIOCESE with a Population of 300 and upwards, requiring AUGMENTATION; and the Sums necessary to augment them, according to a SUPPOSED SCALE, founded upon the Population; distinguishing those Benefices which are in Private, from those which are in Public, Patronage. Collected from the Ecclesiastical Revenues Report.

300 and under 500 Population, 500 and under 2000 Population,
raise to £150 per annum.
raise to £200 per annum.

In Private In Public
Patronage. Patronage.

DIOCESE.

Total.

In Private In Public
Patronage. Patronage.

Total.

ST. ASAPH

13 £530 3 £221

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10

653

5

346

BATH AND WELLS

26

1589

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1157

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10 £309 24 £1,911 8 £767 16 £1144
5 307 33 2,677 13 1215 20 1462
3,579 29
2113 22 1466
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666 41,058 386 23,848 280 17,210 1564 122,873 744 60,031 820|62,842|

* Under the head of Public Patronage are included all Benefices which are in the gift of the Crown of any archbishop or bishop or other dignitary or officer of the church-of any corporation, ecclesiastical or lay-and of any rector whose patron comes under either of these descriptions.

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SUPPOSED SCALE.

300 and under 500, the Benefice to be raised to £150 per annum.

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500 and under 2,000,

2000 and under 5,000,

5000 and upwards,

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2000 and under 5000 Population, 5000 Population and upwards,

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No. Sum. No. Sum. No. Sum. No. Sum. No. Sum. No. Sum. No.

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497 68,550 211 30,189 286 38,361 244 44,160 97 17,378 147 26,782 2971 276,641 1438 131,446 1533 145,195

SUMMARY of the foregoing TABLE, as far as it applies to PUBLIC PATRONAGE.

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No. 3.-NUMBER of BENEFICES in each DIOCESE below the annual value of £150, with a population of 500 and upwards; distinguishing in how many of these the population amounts to 2000, 5000, and 10,000 respectively.

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Total with a population of 500 and upwards, and under £150 per annum, 1440.

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