LORD BROUGHAMexpressed his regret, that not being present upon the third reading of this Bill, he had not been able to declare his approval of its object. He was not, indeed, so sanguine as to its successful working as the noble and learned Lord who had introduced it; but he believed it would secure a beneficial change in regard to the poorer benefices of the Established Church. The patronage of small 1924 livings was an incumbrance to the Lord Chancellor, as he had personally experienced; and soon after being appointed to that high office, in 1830, he sent a circular to the right rev. Prelates, making a proposition in regard to these benefices, offering to abandon to them the patronage of livings under £100 a year; but he was sorry to say that it did not result in anything being done. He approved the Bill which had recently passed through that House, and hoped it would be accepted by the other House, but hoped that some measure would be adopted to put an end to the sale of next presentations.