Lords Sitting of 4 May 1866

MINUTES.
SELECT COMMITTEE—On Ecclesiastical Commission, nominated.
PUBLIC BILLS—Second Reading —Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) * (90).
Committee— Exchequer Bills and Bonds * (58).
Report —Exchequer Bills and Bonds * (58).
Third Reading —Poor Persons' Burial (Ireland)* (94); Customs Duties (Isle of Man)* (82); Local Government Supplemental* (84), and passed.

ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN IRELAND.

  MOTION FOR RETURNS.
  THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH, in moving for Returns connected with the Established Church in Ireland, said, that he was induced to ask for this information because it had recently been stated that the number of parochial benefices belonging to the Established Church in Ireland in which there were clergymen without any Protestant parishioners was 191, whereas the fact was there was not a single parochial benefice which did not contain within it some inhabitants members of that Church.
  Moved, That there be laid before this House,
  Return of the Number of Benefices having Provision for Cure of Souls in Ireland, with the Population of the Established Church resident therein, according to the Census taken in the Tear 1861: The Word "Benefice" to be understood to mean "The Parochial Benefice or Territorial Extent comprised within each particular Cure of Souls," in accordance with the Definition given by the Commissioners of Public Instruction in Page 3. of their Report, 1884:
  Number of Benefices in which there is no Member of the Established Church:
  Number in which there is 1 and not more than 20
  Number in which there is 20 and not more than 50
  Number in which there is 50 and not more than 100
  Number in which there is 100 and not more than 200
  Number in which there is 200 and not more than 500
  Number in which there is 500 and not more than 1,000
  Number in which there is 1,000 and not more than 2,000
  Number in which there is 2,000 and not more than 5,000
  Number in which there is 5,000 and upwards:—
  (The Archbishop of Armagh.)
  Motion (by Leave of the House) withdrawn.

ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION BILL. (No. 52.)

  SELECT COMMITTEE NOMINATED.
  The Lords following were named of the Committee: The Committee to meet on Tuesday
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  next, at Two o'clock; and to appoint their own Chairman:

  L. Abp. Canterbury

  E. Chichester

  L. Abp. York

  E. Powis

  D. Somerset

  E. Harrowby

  D. Richmond

  E. Russell

  D. Marlborough

  V. Eversley

  E. Derby

  Bp. Oxford

  E. Hardwicke

  L. Stanley of Alderley

  House adjourned at half past Five o'clock, to Monday next, Eleven o'clock.