20 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 3

Of the Chancellor's livings ordered last session to be sold,

37 have been sold, 53 are under negotiation, and 85 have been inquired about. The purchase-money of the 37 livings has been 65,3001., -the majority of the prices offered being very high indeed. In fact, Lord Westbury, with his vulpine keenness of scent for human weaknesses, has traded on the strongest foible of the „squires, who give twenty or thirty years purchase for advowsons which secure them local power. It is everything to the owner of Marketton to be able to keep all the curates about him hoping for a presentation to "that great opportunity of usefulness."