10 AUGUST 1867, Page 3

A Parliamentary return just published shows that the Eccle- siastical

Commissioners have in twenty-one years spent 206,8001. on Bishops' palaces. No leas than 52,1941. was spent for the Bishop of Lincoln, 19,0371. for the Bishop of Manchester—note the difference—and 9,0541. for the Bishop of Llandaff. The Bishops must have houses, of course, but there are degrees in all -things, and what will content Manchester might, one would think, -content Lincoln. The " bondagers" of that county, who want spiritual instruction a good deal, are fairly entitled to say that, asking the Church for bread, they get only bricks.