12 MAY 1838, Page 9

Fifty-two clergymen in Derbyshire have presented a memorial to the

Archbishop of Canterbury, expressing strong disapprobation of the Denefires Plurality Bill. They state, that there are five thousand benefices now held in plurality, of which two-thirds are sufficient alone to maintain a clergyman ; that the provision which prohibits the hold- ing of livings in plurality which are distant more than ten miles from each other will " have the tremendous evil almost untouched," as of the livings at present held in plurality, "nearly three thousand are within ten miles of each other and above two thousand within five miles of each other." Such is the precious measure for the rehrm of the Church which the Liberal Ministers are carrying through Parlia- ment for the Bishops!