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Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 318, 6 November 1860, Page 3

The Arms. —This destructive insect, "which has defeated tor so long a time the ingenuity and labours of the vegetable growers of the district, has this year, we are informed, made its appearance in the wheat and oat crops of Mr. Moulder, of-Orange.— Bathurst Free Press. '■

Church Livings.—There are under the patronage of the Crown—that is of her Majesty's Ministers—about 200 dignities (such as bishoprics, &c.) and 290 livings, of the annual value of £400,000. The Prince of Wales has the disposal of 22 livings, worth £8000. The Lord Chancellor disposes of 788 dignities and livings, of the value f .£200,000. The Duchy of Lancaster has 49 value £15,000 The archbishops and bishops, with tile deans and chapters, have the disposal of 4000 dignities and livings, of the value of £1,000,000 There are in the gift of the University of Oxford 482 livings, value £150,000. Cambridge has 307 livings, value £100,000. The livings under private patronage are 7063, with an income of nearly £2,000,000. This gives for the Church in England 23,215 dignities and livings, with a gross income of nearly £4,000,000. The Irish Church has two archbishops and 13 bishops, with 300 dignities and 200 livings, >yi(h.an annual income of nearly £1,000,000. The total number, therefore, of dignities and livings inutile United Church of England and Ireland is, 15,500, with an aggregate income of nearly £5,000,000. These calculations are based on the published, values of the various dignities and livings, the actual value tesog in very many ami much gTOt^r-i'flftitfv