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And be it enacted, that in case any suit or other proceeding has been prosecuted or commenced, or shall hereafter be prosecuted or commenced, in any of His Majesty's courts in England or Ireland, for recovering any great or small tithes, modus or composition for tithes rate, or other ecclesiastical demand, subtracted, unpaid, or withheld by or due from any quaker, no execution or decree, or order, shall issue or be made against the person or persons of the defendant or defendants, but the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall and may have his execution or decree against the goods or other property of the defendant or defendants; and in case any person now is detained in custody in England or Ireland under any execution or decree in such suit or proceeding, the sheriff or other officer having such person in his custody shall forthwith discharge him therefrom; and the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such suit or proceeding shall and may, notwithstanding such discharge, issue any other execution or take any other proceeding for recovering his demand and his costs out of the property, real or personal, of the person so discharged. AN ACT FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW AS TO THE TITHING OF TURNIPS IN CERTAIN CASES. ANNO QUINTO ET SEXTO GULIELMI IV. REGIS. CAP. LXXV. [9th September, 1835.] WHEREAS it is frequently convenient and necessary, in the agistment of turnips by sheep or cattle, to sever the turnips from the ground, in order that they may be the more easily and completely consumed, and thereby to prevent waste, and it is not reasonable that such severance should vary or affect the payment of tithe: Be it therefore enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this act, in all cases where turnips shall be severed in the manner and for the purpose aforesaid, and shall be eaten on the ground by sheep or cattle, and not otherwise removed, the same shall be subject to the payment of tithe in the same manner and to the same extent as if they had been eaten by such sheep or cattle without having been so severed as aforesaid, and no farther or otherwise. COPY OF " REGULATIONS FOR THE BETTER ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM," Passed under the seal of the Dean and Chapter, and sanctioned by the Lord Bishop of Durham, according to the provisions of the Act of Parliament 2nd William IV., Sess. 1831-2. 1. That, under the Bishop as Visitor, and the Dean and Chapter as Governors, the affairs of the said university shall be managed by the Warden, and a Senate and Convocation. 2. That the Warden shall have charge of the ordinary discipline of the university, and shall convoke and dismiss the senate and convocation, in both of which he shall preside, having an original and a casting voice in each, and a previous veto in convocation, subject to an appeal from not less than onefourth of the members present to the dean and chapter, and further to the Bishop of Durham, in case of the dissent of two members of the chapter from their decision. 3. That the senate shall transact the ordinary business of the university, and shall be competent to originate regulations and other measures relating to it; but which shall not be in force until confirmed by the convocation. 4. That the convocation shall confirm, or reject, what is submitted to it by the senate, but shall have no power to originate or amend. 5. That all regulations passed by the senate and convocation shall be forthwith communicated in writing, by the warden, to the dean and chapter. 6. That the first, or present, senate shall consist of Charles Thorp, D.D., Warden; Henry Jenkyns, M.A., Professor of Greek and Classical Literature; Temple Chevallier, B.D., Professor of Mathematics; Thomas Williamson Peile, M.A., and Charles Whitley, M.A., Proctors; and of William Palmer, a Master of Arts. 7. That the senate in future shall consist of the Warden of the said University for the time being; of the Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History for the time being; of the Professor of Greek and Classical Literature for the time being; of the Professor of Mathematics for the time being; of the two Proctors for the time being; and of one Member of Convovation, to be nominated annually by the Dean and Chapter; and further, of such other persons as may hereafter be determined by statute. 8. That the first, or present, convocation shall consist of Charles Thorp, D.D., Warden, and of all such persons as, having proceeded to the degree of Doctor in any of the three faculties, or of Master of Arts, in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin, are now Members of the University of Durham. 9. That the convocation in future shall consist, besides the original members, of all persons regularly admitted to the degree of D.D., D.C.L., M.D., or of M.A., in the University of Durham, and conforming to the regulations thereof. 10. That degrees in the several faculties shall be conferred by the Warden in Convocation; but the grace for every degree shall be allowed by the dean and chapter, before proposed in convocation. 11. That no one shall be admitted to a degree in the said University of Durham without the assent of the dean and chapter, and of the senate and convocation; nor without residence, for the requisite number of terms, within the university; nor without going through the requisite exercises and examinations; nor without subscribing to the three Articles contained in the 36th Canon, which are as follows: I. That the King's Majesty, under God, is the only supreme governor of this realm and all other his highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within his majesty's said realms, dominions and countries. II. That the Book of Common Prayer and of ordering of bishops, priests, and deacons, containeth in it nothing contrary to the Word of God, and that it may lawfully so be used, and that he himself will use the form in the said book prescribed in public prayer and administration of the sacraments, and none other. III. That he alloweth the Book of Articles of religion, agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces, and the whole clergy, in the convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord 1562, and that he acknowledgeth all and every the articles therein contained, being in number nine and thirty, besides the ratification, to be agreeable to the Word of God. 12. That the number of terms, and the exercises and examinations, necessary for each degree shall, until settled by statute, be determined by the senate and convocation. Durham, September, 1835. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. RETURN to an order of the Hon. the House of Commons, dated 16th July, 1835-for a return of the sums of money voted to the College of Maynooth during the last five years; the number of professors employed therein, and their respective salaries. A return of the sums of money voted to the College of Maynooth during the last five years:—annual amount uniformly, 8,9281. with the exception of the grant for the year ending 31st of March last, which amounted to 8,9781.; 50l. additional to the grant of former years. Total amount in five years, 44,690l. A return of the number of professors employed at the College of Maynooth during the last five years, and their respective salaries -The Prefect of the Dunboyne establishment, First Professor of Theology, Second ditto, ditto, Third, ditto, ditto, Professor of Sacred Scripture and Hebrew, each 1221., ditto of Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy, ditto of Logic, Metaphysics, and Ethics, ditto of Rhetoric, ditto of Humanity, ditto of English Elocution and French, ditto of Irish, 1127. each, ditto of Declamation, about a month each year, 21. N.B.-The Prefect of the Dunboyne establishment, and Professor of Theology, Canon Law, and Ecclesiastical History, in the second quarter of the last year obtained an increase of 201. per annum. The salaries of the other professors have been uniformly as in the above return. John Fennelly, Bursar. Matthew Flanagan, Secretary. THE TRIBUTE.-PURE PATRIOTISM. I. THE O'Connell exaction, under the name of a national annuity, continues to be inflicted on the country-and, in preparation for the appointment of a new tribute Sunday, an account of the last year's receipts is published in the radical journals. The amount of this tax for last year was thirteen thousand four hundred and fifty-four pounds, as testified by the signature of Patrick Vincent Fitzpatrick, secretary: a moderate purchase for such a stock-in-trade of patriotism. The details are given with apparent accuracy; and we are enabled from them to collect who the paymasters of Mr. O'Connell are, and consequently whose especial service he is engaged in. The items of receipt are given alphabetically.—We have been at the trouble of analyzing the two first letters, A. B.— and we find to one hundred items of contributors, there are ninety-six Romancatholic priests, two Roman-catholic bishops, and one Roman-catholic convert, named as the collectors or tax-gatherers. Had we leisure to go through the alphabet in the same manner, we are certain the result would be similar. So that there can be no doubt that Mr. Daniel O'Connell is the paid agent of the Roman-catholic priesthood of Ireland.-Dublin Evening Mail. II. We extract from the Freeman's Journal the following items of the general report on the contributions to the O'Connell Annuity Fund for the year 1834, up to the 7th of September. The following were the taxes levied without the authority of parliament, by the tax collectors of Mr. O'Connell, upon his subjects in the city of Cork alone : The total for all Ireland is 13,4541., and the report is headed by a quotation which seems to imply that this is not enough! The House of Industry, the great refuge of the poor of this city, contains ten Roman-catholics at least for one protestant. If this institution were exclusively protestant, we should not, as we have said, be surprised at its receiving little assistance from the Roman-catholic clergy; but being essentially for the relief of the Roman-catholic population, how can it be accounted for, that, in despite of repeated applications for aid, not even a charity sermon for the institution can be entreated or extorted from the chapels since they began to pile gold and silver and brass for Mr. O'Connell ?—and this too, with the example of annual sermons by the protestant clergy, dissenters and all, before them. RETURN FROM THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS FOR IRELAND. 1. An Account of all Receipts and Disbursements of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, from 1st of August, 1834, to the 1st of July, 1835. 2. An Account of the Future Income which may be expected to be received by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, derived from Suppressed Sees, Tax on Incomes, Sinecures Suppressed, and other Sources of a permanent description, supposing the Church Temporalities Act to continue in force with its present provisions. The future income which may be expected to be derived from suppressed sees Ditto by future Bishops of Derry ... ... ... ... £ s. d. 50,780 3 3 N. B. It is estimated that the funds which may eventually be at the disposal of the Commissioners, from sinecures, dignities, prebends, &c., may amount to 22,000l.; but the Commissioners cannot reckon on this with any degree of certainty from the little information they possess on the subject at present. July 18. J. WILSON, Secretary. 3. An Account of the Average Annual Charge for the Repairs of Churches, and other Expenses, formerly defrayed by the Vestry Cess; together with the Expense of the Ecclesiastical Board under other heads, stating what may be expected to be the Permanent Average Expenditure of all descriptions incurred by the Ecclesiastical Board. A considerable sum will be required to be immediately expended in the An Account of the sums which have been received, and which within any specified period (say six months from the 1st day of July, 1835) may be expected to be received, and the total sum likely to be at the disposal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, by the purchase of the Bishops' Lands, under the Church Temporalities' Act: £ s. d. Amount of sums which have been received up to the first of July, 1835... 83,521 7 7 Amount which may be expected to be received within six months from the 1st of July, 1835 ... ... .... 47,194 7 6 The total sum likely to be at the disposal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by the purchase of the bishops' 'lands, &c., under the Church Temporalities Act, cannot be estimated, as it is quite optional with the tenants whether they will purchase perpetuities or not; but were all such tenants to purchase perpetuities, the total amount might be estimated at about 1,200,000l. July 18. J. WILSON, Secretary. 5. An Account of all Monies issued by way of Loan to the Ecclesiastical Board, together with interest paid or payable thereon : February 14, 1835. Received from the Board of Works in Exchequer Bills, under the provisions of the Act 4th and 5th William IV. cap. 90, Interest payable on same to the 1st of July, 1835, at 4 per cent. July 18. |