judgment has been suffered to go by default, and causes of trifling importance sent down from the superior Courts under the authority of a recent Act of Parliament, are decided in this Court. At the Manor Court, over which S. Kay, Esq., solicitor, presides as Deputy Steward of the Lord of the Manor, causes are tried in which the damages sought to be recovered do not exceed £5. The Courts Leet of Manchester and Salford are held twice a year, for the adjudication of cases of nuisance, offences against the market regulations, &c., and for the election of the Boroughreeve, Constables, and subordinate officers of Manchester and Salford. At the Salford Court Leet the Constables of the several townships within the Hundred, also, are appointed, with the exception of those townships in which separate Courts Leet are held. James Heath Leigh, Esq., is Steward of Sir Oswald Mosley in Manchester; and Richard Duck, Esq., barrister-at-law, and John Owen, Esq., attorney, are Deputy Stewards in Salford to the Earl of Sefton, High Steward to the King, who is Lord of the Manor. In the Court of Requests, which sits fortnightly, and of which J. Hill, Esq., barristerat-law, is the Chief Commissioner, a great number of cases are yearly adjudicated, as appears from the following

RETURN TO AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS, DATED 12TH. MARCH, 1834, FOR AN ACCOUNT OF ALL SUMS OF MONEY PAID (UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE 48TH. GEO. III., c. 43) INTO THE COURT OF REQUESTS IN MANCHESTER BY DEBTORS, ALL SUMS RECEIVED BY CREDITORS, AND THE SUMS REMAINING UNCLAIMED ON THE 31ST. DECEMBER IN EACH YEAR; STATING THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SUCH FUNDS ON THE 31ST. OF DECEMBER, 1809, AND THE AMOUNT IN EACH SUBSEQUENT YEAR ON THE 31ST. DECEMBER; STATING ALSO WHERE THE SAME IS AT PRESENT DEPOSITED, AND IN WHOSE . NAMES; ALSO, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CAUSES TRIED, THE EXECUTIONS ISSUED, AND THE NUMBER OF PERSONS IMPRISONED IN EACH YEAR:

The Salford Hundred Court holds its sittings on every third Thursday, and takes cognizance of causes similar to those tried at the Manchester Manor Court.

Manchester (the township) pays from five to six hundred pounds a year, and Salford rather more than half that

sum to the County Lunatic Asylum, of which the annual expenditure somewhat exceeds £7000. The Hundred of Salford pays two High Constables, giving £45 2s. to the one and £30 2s. to the other. The salary of the County Treasurer (W. A. Hulton, Esq.) is £400. The payments to the Coroner for this district (W. S. Rutter, Esq., who is also Deputy Treasurer to the New Bailey Prison) were from July, 1834, to June, 1835, £949 1 3, for taking 820 inquisitions, the number of miles charged being 3415. For prosecutions during the year 1834-5 the payments by the county were

The total expenditure of the county was, for 1834-5, £37,637 19 6, and for 1833-4, £35,761 12 4. The expenditure of Mr. Carrington, the Bridge Master for the Hundred of Salford, was for the year, £2,044 7 11. The monies raised by rolls and arrears to defray the expenditure of the Hundred was, in the Bolton Division, £7,750 6 10; in the Manchester Division £10,669 7 3, being nearly two thousand pounds more than the levies from West Derby Hundred.

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CHAPTER III.

The ecclesiastical government of the parish of Manchester is vested in the Warden and four Fellows of the

Collegiate Church. Patronage is dispensed by them; but, as changes are in progress, it is not necessary to enter more fully into the detail of existing arrangements. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently advised that Manchester and the great county in which it is situate, (with the exception of the Deanery of Furness and Cartmel) should be placed under the superintendence of a Bishop. The Collegiate Church will then become a cathedral-the title of Warden and Fellows will merge in that of Dean and Canons, and an Archdeaconry of Manchester will be created. The See will be subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York. The stipend of the Bishop will be £5000 per annum, and it will be necessary to provide for him a suitable residence. The revenues of existing Bishoprics will be reduced for the purpose of augmenting the poorer, and creating stipends for the new, Sees. It is also probable that there may be some remodelling of the pecuniary affairs of all the Collegiate Churches.

The Warden, the head of the Church, succeeded to that distinguished post upon the death of Dr. Blackburne, who, on Sunday the fifth January, 1823, was seized with sudden illness in the Church, which proved fatal on the tenth. Dr. Calvert owes his preferment only to his high merit as a scholar and a divine. He received his education at St.

John's, Cambridge, in which college he obtained a Fellowship, and subsequently became Tutor; he was also Lady Margaret's Preacher and Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the University. He was made likewise a preacher at Whitehall, whence (having previously published a course of sermons at the request of the Bishop of London) he was preferred to the Rectory of Wilmslow by the Earl of Liverpool, then Prime Minister. The Noble Earl subsequently recommended Dr. Calvert to George the Fourth as the successor of Dr. Blackburne in the Wardency of the Collegiate Church. With this brief mention of the esteemed head of the religious institutions of the town, we pass to the venerable and time-worn edifice itself.

If there be any truth in that beautiful verse of the poet

"There is society where none intrudes,"

and if ever it were capable of being fully and unequivocally put to the test, a ramble through the religious interstices of our Collegiate Church, "that antique oratory," may be made to answer at once the double purpose of enjoyment and of criticism. Surrounded by the dim shadows of the mighty ones of old, we pay no heed to the great roof that overhangs us, "all musical in its immensities" we think not of the carved walls and their ancient appurtenances, mouldering beneath the damp of centuriesour mind gets not by heart their eloquent proportions; we do not gaze

"With awe which would adore

The worship of the place, or the mere praise
Of art and its great masters, who could raise
What former time, nor skill, nor thought, could plan."

All this is as nothing, for a spirit glides beside us and talks with us, and we ramble through the old aisles and the ancient chapelries, and over the effaced gravestones of our ancestry, and know not that corporeally we exist. With our mind's eye we are looking upon the glorious company of the benefactors of our race, who have passed