Very contradictory, and in some instances, highly exaggerated accounts have been published respecting the income of the clergy of the Church of England: some have made it as high as 7, 9, 10, 12, and even 14 millions of pounds sterling a year. But the following is the statement in the sheet "Awkward Facts."

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The cathedral property is very unequally divided among about 600 dignitaries, Deans, Archdeacons, Canons, and Prebendaries. If equally divided, it would give rather less than £500 to each. The majority of the livings of the parochial clergy have houses and glebes; yet there are 2,626 livings without any house, and 3,000 without any glebe; and 3,080 are under £150 a year. The parochial clergy, were their income equally divided, would be but moderately provided for. Much dissatisfaction exists in England with the ecclesiastical establishment; and the question of church reform has been, for some time past, considerably agitated. It cannot, however, be maintained that the working or parochial clergy are on an average over-paid; but the complaint respects the mode of paying, the unequal distribution of the income of the church, the fact that a great part of those who receive most of the income, perform little duty, the system of pluralities, and non-residence.

Mr. Hume stated in the House of Commons, on the 8th of May, 1832, that" According to a return made in 1830, the whole number of benefices amounted to 10,533, and of them 2,919 of the clergy were exempted from residence; 2,147 were exempted by licence, and 1,354 were absent with. out licence; so that the total number of non-residents was 6,120. Of these 1,590 were reported as doing duty elsewhere; but deducting them, there remained but 4,413 clergymen in the parishes whence they derived large emoluments. — The total number of curates of the Church of England in 1831, was 4,254; of these 1,393 resided in glebe houses, and 805 in private residences in their respective parishes; that is, there are only 2,198 actual residents." For a statement respecting the various classes of Dissenters in England, see the American Almanac for 1831.

EDUCATION.

England has two richly endowed Universities, Oxford and Cambridge. The number of members on the books. (including undergraduates), and of the undergraduates, is here given for 1832.

Some of the other literary institutions are the London University, with 29 professors and (in 1829) 437 students; King's College, London, with 23 professors; the East India College, Hayleybury, with 9 professors; St. David's College, Lampeter, with 5 professors; Eton College; and Winchester College. According to returns, made in 1818, there were 4,187 endowed schools, with a revenue of £3,000,525; and 14,282 unendowed schools. Common schools have been much increased within a few years; but England is still behind Scotland with respect to the general diffusion of education. The number of Sunday Schools in England and Wales, connected with the Sunday School Union, reported in 1831, was 5,775; teachers, 88,860; scholars, 778,612.

Sutherland,

23,629

23,840 25,518

Wigton,

33,240 36,258

20,774 22,961 23,117
16,166 20,983 22,918 26,891

Total, 1,265,380 1,526,492 1,599,068|1,805,688|2,093,456|2,365,807

REPRESENTATION IN PArliament.

From the time of the legislative union of Scotland with England, in 1706, till 1832, the former has returned 45 members to the British House of Commons; 30 for the 33 counties, and 15 for 15 districts of boroughs, which comprised 66 towns or burghs. But the right of voting for members has heretofore been extremely limited. The number of freeholders or voters in 1825, was 3,066, as stated in the preceding Statistical Table. The number in 1811 was only 2,429.-"In 1796, the number of real voters in the in the Scottish counties was estimated at 1,390. In two counties, there were only 3 real voters in each, and in 7 not more than 10. The nominal and fictitious voters were said to amount to 1202." See "Key to Both Houses of Parliament."-The number of persons who actually voted at the elec

tions of the boroughs was very inconsiderable, consisting in general of the magistrates and town council, amounting to only 20 in each burgh or in all the 66 burghs to 1,320. See the Article Scotland in the " New Edinburgh Encyclopædia."

By the late Reform Act, 5 members are added to the representation of Scotland, and the representation is now distributed as follows; to the 33 counties, 28 members; to Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2 each; to Aberdeen, Dundee, Greenock, Leith, and Paisley, 1 each; and to 13 districts of boroughs, 1 each; - total, 50. The right of voting is also placed on the same footing as in England.

STATE OF PROPERTY IN 1811.

1. Large properties, or estates above £2,000 of valued rent, or £2,500 sterling of real rent,

2. Middling properties, or estates from £2,000 to £500 of valued rent, or from £2,500 to £625 of real rent,

3. Small properties, or estates under £500 of valued rent, or £625 of real rent,

4. Estates belonging to corporate bodies,

Total number of Proprietors in Scotland,

RELIGION.

The established religion of Scotland is Presbyterianism, which includes about three-fourths of the population. The most numerous class of dissenters from the established church, are more rigid Presbyterians than the members of the establishment, and are generally strict Calvinists.

The revenue of the clergy of the established church arises from rents of land or tithes, called teinds, and from glebe lands, the minimum extent of which is 4 acres of arable land, with as much pasture ground as will feed a horse and 2 cows. The amount of the free teinds of 172 parishes out of 890, is less than £100; and in 1810, the government enacted that the minimum stipend should be, in addition to the manse and glebe, £150; and that the sum required to make up this income (amounting to £10,000 annually), should be paid out of the treasury. There is comparatively but little inequality in the income of the Scottish clergy: the average, including manse and glebe, is computed at £285, and very few, except in some of the large towns, have more than £350. In Edinburgh the income of the ministers is computed at nearly £700.

The established church comprises 15 synods, 78 presbyteries, 910 parishes, and 940 clergymen.