The Commissioners of Char...
The Commissioners of Charities have made a. statemcnt to the Secretary of State of their proceedings, This is9 a brief abstract, though the whole of their reports previously published fil ten folio volumes, ef more or less, but all of considierable thickness. The abuse of these charities wiif be minre than suspected, when we inform the public tflt. an article in the present abstract is entitled " Proceerlings; I in the Court of Chancery against Trustees, &c., of Cha_- "c rities ;" aad that the mere name or descriptior, of the causes prosecuted or prosecuting, occupies five pages of the abstract, which is in folo. Ve shall probably present the whole of this legal part on the first vacant day. Witlh re- spect to the general labours of the Commissioners,they have, as we have stated above, filled ten folio volumes. le find also that the number and income of the charities they -lmre investigated in the counties of Bedford, Berks, Cumber-' land, Derby, Devon, Essex, Glocester, Hereford, Hertford, Kent, Lancaster, Middlesex (inclutling London and West- minster), Northampton, Nottingham, Oxford, Rutland, Salop, Somerset, Southampton, Stafford, Surrey (including Southwark), Sussex, Westmorland, Worcester, York, city of Bristol, is as follows:- Total number, including Chartered Companies and General Cbarides . . . . 10,7S6 Number of the above, the inceme of which excecds not 21. . . . . 3,679 Above 21. and not exceeding 5L . . 2,2a5 Above ll. and net exceeding 101. . . 1,046 licome from - from - fromi rents . . . . ?216,157 19 6 rent charges . . . 23,048 8 3 other sources . . 83.5t3 0 1 Total Income . . ?322.709 7 10