against the church property administered;
but. the cost of the general establishment
(about three thousand a-year) is paid by the
state. The commission consists of a large
number of unpaid members, including all the
bishops; but, within it, is a smaller body,
consisting of paid members, called ihe Church
Estates Commission, which manages the
property,—while the larger body has the disposal
of the accruing income; which will soon become
five hundred thousand pounds a-year. In
Ireland there is a similar body charged with
managing the property of ten episcopal sees
that were suppressed some twenty years ago.

The Tithe Enclosure and Copyhold
Commissions are now united under three
commisioners, with one assistant resident
commissioner. The commutation of tithes in kind
into tithes in money—a work now nearly completed
—the superintendence of the conversion of
copyholds into freeholds—a change now
compulsory—and a superintendence of the
enclosure of waste and unappropriated lands, as
well as the fresh division of lands inconveniently
intermixed, and a consideration of
application for loans from the state for purposes
of drainage, are the duties of this consolidated
commission; of which the cost is something
over twenty-four thousand pounds a-year.

Lately, the Home Secretary has come to be
more and more charged with a responsibility
touching the general health of the kingdom.
Parishes are bound to provide places of
sepulture for their parishioners. The Home
Secretary is empowered to forbid the use of
any intramural graveyard dangerous to
health; and, upon the receipt of such interdict,
it remains with the parish to discover
where and how new burial ground shall be
provided.

By appointing at the head of the General
Board of Health, a Minister of Health,
parliament has lately recognised in some degree
the necessity of eventually placing so extensive
and serious a charge as the care of public
health in the hands of a distinct department
of the state. At present it depends much on
the Home Office; and, where the Board of
Health has no authority in the metropolis, a
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers has been
acting, or professing to act, subject to the
Home Department. Its action has produced
inadequate, not to say ridiculous, results, and
a promise has been made to the public that
it shall be soon remodelled! It greatly needs
to be.

CHIP.

HENRY THE NINTH OF ENGLAND!

A correspondent writing about a King
who does not appear in the history of
England, announces that he possesses a medal,
bearing the representation in bold relief of a
head, apparently that of an ecclesiastic, the
circumscription being—"HEN. IX. MAG. BRIT.
FR. ET. HIB. REX. FID. DEF. CARD." On the
reverse is a large cross supported by the
Virgin; a lion sorrowfully crouches at her
feet, with eyes directed as it seems to the
crown of Britain, lying on the ground.

Behind, to the right, is a bridge, backed by
hills and a cathedral, probably St. Peter's at
Rome. On this side the inscription is, " NON.
DESIDERIIS. HOMINUM. SED. VOLUNTATE. DEI.
AN. MDCCLXXXVIII."

The manner in which this medal came into
the possession of an Englishman was somewhat
singular. At the time when an English
army was serving in the Calabrias, and
assisting Ferdinand the Fourth of Spain against
Bonaparte, a British officer happened to get
separated from his regiment, and, while wandering
near Canue in Basilicata, in dread of immediate
capture  (since he was in the rear of Massena's
lines), he sought protection at a handsome
villa by the roadside. He was hospitably
received by a venerable man, who proved to
be a Cardinal. The curiosity of the refugee
being excited by the interest which the Italian
dignitary appeared to take in the welfare of
the British, he ventured to demand whom
he might have the pleasure of addressing;
the reply was simply, "Your King!"

When the officer had recovered from his
surprise, the Cardinal presented him with
the medal; and, from him, it came to the
writer. It was one of those struck upon the
death of Prince Charles, to commemorate the
imaginary succession to the crown of England
of Henry Stuart, the Cardinal Duke of York,
in whom the direct line of the Stuart race
terminated; and who now sheltered the
fugitive soldier.

It is well known that this prelate was,
until the day of his death, the secret idol
of many in whom the last hopes for
the restoration of the kingdom of Great
Britain to the family of the Stuarts were
centred. He was the second son of the
Pretender, and was born at Rome on the
twenty-sixth of March, seventeen hundred
and twenty-five. When twenty years
of age, in the much celebrated "forty-
five," he went to France for the purpose of
heading fifteen thousand French infantry,
which assembled at Dunkirk to invade
England, and to re-establish the Stuarts
on the throne. But, after the battle
of Culloden, the contemplated invasion of
England was abandoned. Henry retraced
his steps to Rome, and took orders, and
seemed to have laid aside all worldly
views. His advancement in the Church was
rapid; for, in seventeen hundred and forty-
seven, he was made cardinal by Pope Benedict
the Fourteenth.

He lived in tranquillity at Rome for
nearly fifty years; but, in seventeen
hundred and ninety-eight, when French
bayonets drove Pope Pius the Sixth from the
pontifical chair, Henry Stuart fled from his
splendid residences at Rome and Frascati.