The Master in Chancery, who has to make the order
for the appointment of the Charity Trustees, in the case of Oxford insisted that there should be at least one clergyman of the Church of England among the number. The TownCouncil for Oxford have without going to a division, recommended the name of Dr. Hampden, Regius Professor of Divinity, for that office.
The Liverpool corporate estate will suffer pretty severely from the church-building propensities of the old Corporation. The patronage of St. Michael's only produced 20001., though it is one of the bestendowed churches in the town ; and though the church cost the public
and the Corporation not less than forty thousand pounds. Should the churches recently endowed sell no better, there will certainly be a loss of sixty or seventy thousand pounds out of the 105,00a settled upon the clergy by the expiring Corporation.—Licerpool chronicle.
The Town-Council of Hastings returned a list of thoroughgoing Tories for Charity Trustees, to the Master in Chancery. On this becoming known, Mr. Jolly and Mr. Russell, Churchwardens of All Saints, petitioned against the list sent up by the Council. The petition was attended to, and the petitioners were required to send up a
list ; and on Monday sennight the matter came off before the Master, who selected thirteen gentlemen—eight from the list sent up by Messrs. Jolly and Russell, and five from that which emanated from the Council.
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