Sale Of Curacies.
(From a , 'ns is so ctecidtedly an age of traffic'in every thing sus- ceptible of sale or purchase, that it is scarcely possible for lasse to occur which can be described as a novelty. WVe monfess, however, that we have felt surprised at its being stated to us, by a gentleynan whose authority cannot be im- peaclhed, that a regular mart exists for the buying andl sell- IDif CURACIES, which form of church preferment is sub- ,;'qfed to the same discussions en its value, as property in lhd, houses, or the funds. The rate of purchase, we un- ?erstand, is about u years' amount of the annual value: a curacy, therefore, ot lool. a-year wouldt, according to this scale, produce 2501. to the party who had it in his disposal. 'T o wvhat extent this strange abuse is car- ried, we have not, of course, the means of ascertaining. and as it is clearly an offence prosecutable un(ler the eccle- siastical law, we may be consi(terel as departing from our sphere in taking notice of an evil for which that tribunal may be an aiequate cute. But the fear of publicity rnay soenitimes effbet that to which the tribunals of the country are unequal, and no doubt a paper like The Times would deem it a duty to make knowvn any Suchl case, if statedl on tompetent authority,.ani exposure from which the most hardy anfl shameless in the practice would probably shrink. No instance has yet occurred, we believe, of any case of the 4le of a curacy having been brought under ecclesiastical ensure. *S'ALE OF CURACThS.