and the Bishop shall be satisfied of the several particulars stated in the application to him, he is empowered to signify his consent thereto, if he shall think fit. (Sect. 9.) 6. Every application made to any Bishop under this Act, must state that the intended church or chapel is to be appropriated to the performance of Divine Service according to the rites of the Church of England; and offer to set apart such number of free seats as required by the former New Church Building Acts, and to provide out of the pew-rents a competent salary for the officiating minister, and all other expenses incident to the performance of Divine Service, and for maintaining the building. But no pew-rents to be taken, nor service performed, until after consecration, and after a duplicate copy of the ap plication to the Bishop shall have been deposited in the church or chapel. (Sect. 10.) 7. Notice in writing of such application to the Bishop, must be given to the patron and incumbent of the church of the parish, chapelry, township, or extra-parochial place, in which the new church or chapel is intended to be, at the time when the application is made, in order that the patron and incumbent may have the opportunity of laying before the Bishop any statement in writing relating thereto; and the Bishop shall not signify his consent to such application within three calendar months from the time he receives the same, together with a certificate that such notice has been given. (Sect. 11.) 8. The nomination of the officiating minister to any church or chapel built or purchased by private subscription, as first before mentioned, is vested for the first two turns after consecration of the building, or for any number of turns which may occur during the space of forty years after the same, in the life-trustee or trustees, who are to nominate to the Bishop of the diocese for his approbation. And all subsequent nominations are vested in the incumbent of the parish or place where the church or chapel is situate; unless in case such church or chapel be made a district church, as after mentioned, in which case the nomination is to be in the patron of the church of the original parish, with provisions for the lapse of nominations in cases of default, and that the incumbent for the time being shall be a trustee, in case no other can be elected. (Sect. 12.) 9. The nominations of the officiating minister to such churches or chapels as shall be built or purchased, in part by means of rates, are vested in the incumbent of the church of the original parish, except in case the new church or chapel shall be made a district church, when the same shall vest in the patron. (Sect. 13.) 10. The scite of the new church or chapel, with its cemetery, if any, shall be vested in such person or persons, and their successors for ever, as a body corporate, by such name and style as shall be specified in the sentence of consecration; and the same for ever after consecration shall be set apart, and dedicated to the service of Almighty God, as a place of Divine worship, according to the liturgy and usages of the united Church of England and Ireland as by law established, and subject to the Bishop of the diocese as such. (Sect. 14.) 11. The life-trustees, or church-wardens, of the new churches or chapels, are authorized to dispose of vaults and burial-places, and to pay to the incumbers of the parish such dues as he would be entitled to for similar vaults or burial-places in the parish-church, and to invest the remainder of the monies in the funds, and out of the interest or di vidends to make good any deficiencies in payment of the salaries of the minister or clerk, or any other payments or incidental expences to which the pew-rents being liable, were found inadequate, and in the next place to repair the building, with further provisions for applying any surplus income. (Sect. 15.) 12. The commissioners under the former Acts, with consent of a majority of the subscribers entitled to elect the trustees, and of the Bishop, patron, and incumbent, are empowered to make any such new church or chapel, a district church or chapel under the provisions of the said Acts and this Act. (Sect. 16.) 13. After forty years all new churches and chapels shall, without such consent, become district churches, if His Majesty in council shall have made a division of the parish or place for that purpose, as directed by the former Acts; or they shall remain parochial chapels, if no such division shall have been made. (Sect. 17.) 14. Certain officers of the duchy of Cornwall are empowered to grant and convey lands belonging to the duchy for the purposes of the Acts. (Sect. 19.) Several Acts were also passed, during the last Session of Parliament, relative to the Church and Clergy in Ireland; the objects of which partly appear from their respective titles, viz. 5 Geo. 4. ch. 8. "An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for amending the Laws for the Improvement of ChurchLands in Ireland.” 5 Geo. 4. ch. 63. "An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for providing for the Establishing of Composition for Tithes in Ireland." 5 Geo. 4. ch. 80. "An Act for disappropriating, disuniting, and divesting from and out of the Chancellors, Archdeacons, and Precentors of the Diocese of CONNOR, in the County of ANTRIM, in IRELAND (after the decease or removal of the present Incumbents) certain Rectories, and the Rectorial Tithes thereof, Parts of the Corps of the said respective Dignities and for annexing and uniting the said respective Rectories when so disappropriated, and the Rectorial Tithes thereof, to the respective Vicarages of the said several Rectories, whereby the Incumbent of each Parish and Rectory shall have the actual Cure of Souls, and for other Purposes." 5 Geo. 4. ch. 91. "An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws for enforcing the Residence of Spiritual Persons on their Benefices; to restrain Spiritual Person's from carrying on Trade or Merchandize; and for the Support and Maintenance of Stipendiary Curates in Ireland." The only Acts passed relating exclusively to the Church and Clergy in Scotland, are the following, viz. 5 Geo 4. ch. 72. entitled, "An Act for amending and rendering more effectual an Act for augmenting Parochial Stipends in certain Cases in Scotland." And 5 Geo. 4. ch. 90. being "An Act to amend an Act for building additional Places of Worship in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland." CITY OF LONDON TITHES. THE interest which, more particularly during some months past, has been excited by the consideration of the unpleasant disputes arising out of the situation of the Tithes in several parishes within the city and liberties of the city of London; and of the proposed measure for the relief of some of those parishes, lately pending in Parliament, has attracted much of our attention. The Bill introduced in the House of Commons was opposed and lost on the second reading, upon the ground that the House could not interfere to take away the rights and properties of parties without their consent, in the manner proposed by such Bill. The Bill in question, of which a copy is before us, proposed to afford relief to the several parishes of Allhallows Barking, Allhallows the Less, St. Botolph without Aldgate, St. Giles without Cripplegate, and St. Gregory by St. Paul's, (as also, we presume, to such other parishes as might have been added to the Schedule of the Act before it passed,) by allotting specific sums to be paid, in lieu of tithes, to the several impropriators and incumbents, and (we infer from the blanks left in the Schelude) to the several other parties in possession of, or claiming to be entitled to, the tithes of those parishes respectively; and containing also a clause, "That in any parish or parishes where any impropriations be, it shall not be necessary for the impropriator, or impropriators, henceforth to pay, or allow, any sum or sums of money to the respective incumbents of such respective parishes." That the Bill, for the reason alleged in opposition to it, should not have succeeded, occasions us no surprise; but supposing it had passed into a law, it seems that it was intended still to have left, in the same situation as at present, the very injurious disputes existing in several parishes within London and its liberties, which were included in the Fire Act, (22 and 23 Chas. 2. ch. 15.); and it would certainly not have affected any of the parishes not included in that Act, except those before mentioned, and such as might have been added to the Schedule of the Bill during its progress through Parliament. The Bill, in its preamble, professes to apply to those parishes only, which are not included in the Fire Act; but as the very first parish which, in a few lines afterwards is mentioned, in the enacting part of the Bill, is the parish of St. Gregory, which is included in the Fire Act, as united to the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish-street,-we presume the framers of the Bill must have overlooked that circumstance : and it seems doubtful, whether the clause, before extracted, in consequence of the generality of its terms, "any parish or parishes where any impropriations be," would not, and was not intended, to have extended to parishes included in the Fire Act; particularly as that Act is noticed and referred to by the preamble of the Bill. As, notwithstanding the failure of this Bill, we entertain considerable hope that some means may yet be provided for putting an end to the very unpleasant disputes, not less injurious to the best interests of religion, than vexatious to the parties immediately interested, which have so long disturbed the tranquillity of many parishes in the city and liberties of London, in consequence of the present state of the law respecting their tithes; we propose, in a future Number, to resume this subject, which, at present, we are laboriously investigating; and if such suggestions or observations as we shall then offer, may prove ultimately of service in so good a cause, we shall think our labours abundantly repaid. In the mean time we will only observe, that it is evident parliamentary interference only can accomplish the object desired;—that, in our judgment, before it can be expected the Legislature will interfere, either agreements must be concluded between the several tithe-owners and parties liable to pay tithes; or such proposals for an accommodation of differences be made by the latter and refused, as Parliament may think ought to have been acquiesced in, in cases where the claims to tithes are doubtful;-and that the most probable mode of bringing about - such an accommodation of differences is, in the first place, to ascertain, as correctly as possible, what are the legal rights of the parties; and, with that view, to clear up, as far as may be, the doubts which at present exist in the construction of the Acts of Parliament affecting the question, which doubts have partly arisen out of the several decisions upon the London Tithe cases, that have been adjudged in our Courts of Law. HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY. (Continued from No. II. page 599.) No part of the island seems to have suffered more from the northern pirates than the long line of coast which the county of Kent exposed to their invasion. In Mercia and in Northumberland they formed settlements, and thus lost much of their ferocity. In Cornwall, the reliques of the Britons appear even to have taken part with them against their earlier oppressors; but every season brought flesh fleets into the mouths of the Thames and the Stour, which rarely abstained from laying waste the country, even after having received the purchase of their forbearance, and prosecuted their voyage only to leave the miserable inhabitants of Kent a prey to the next Sea-King that made for their harbours. Few of the religious societies outlived this system of alternate tribute and plunder; their endowments, finally, devolving upon that of Canterbury which escaped. Nor was the wreck which she thus saved her only compensation for the inflictions of the period. The manor of Chartham was bestowed upon Archbishop Ethered, and the convent of Christ Church by Alfred in 871, the year before his accession to the throne, in which he fought no less than nine general actions, the last of which was at Marden, probably in Kent. The individual character of Alfred threw a short-lived gleam across this period of gloom. If the fleets which he fitted out and the armies which he led against them were, by no means, attended with invariable success, his intrepidity, nevertheless, rendered his kingdom a far less inviting field than the invaders had found it in former reigns, and they were contented, for several years, to direct their course to other shores. In this season of comparative tranquillity, the mind of Alfred was still actively employed for the advantage of his kingdom. The Romish Clergy had now been established in England for nearly three centuries, without the slightest manifestation of moral improvement in the national character; and the lamentation of Alfred, that scarcely one of his subjects understood the liturgy, coupled with his assiduous cultivation of the Saxon language, evinces an awaking sense of the folly of using the Latin in religious offices. We are not authorized in assuming that the overthrow of this vicious system was contemplated by Alfred and |