"There is a great and general deficiency of voluntary funds for the maintenance of schools for the poor in the rural parts of South Wales. By far the most liberal contributors to such schools in England are the clergy. The following table exhibits the clerical income of the beneficed clergy in my district. I would beg to call particular attention to the average area and population of the parishes in Carmarthenshire, and to the income of the clergy in the remote hundreds of Dewisland and Kemess:-- +----------------+---------+----------+------------+----------+--------------+ | | | | | | | | |Number of| |Vicarages or|Number of | Total Income | | Counties. |Parishes.|Rectories.| Perpetual | Glebe |of Clergy from| | | | | Curacies. | Houses. | Benefices. | | | | | | | | +----------------+---------+----------+------------+----------+--------------+ | | | | | | £ | |Carmarthenshire,| 77 | 16 | 72 | 26 | 9,974 | |Glamorganshire, | 125 | 53 | 83 | 33 | 18,101 | |Pembrokeshire, | 140 | 58 | 85 | 34 | 17,418 | +----------------+---------+----------+------------+----------+--------------+ |The three | 342 | 127 | 240 | 93 | 45,493 | |Counties, | | | | | | +----------------+---------+----------+------------+----------+--------------+ +----------------+------------------+--------------+-----------+------------+ | | Average | Number of | |Average area| | | Income of | Parishes on | Average | of square | | Counties. | Clergy per | which the |population | miles | | | Parish. |average Income|per Parish.|per Parish. | | | | is taken. | | | +----------------+------------------+--------------+-----------+------------+ | | £ _s._ _d._| | | | |Carmarthenshire,| 119 13 0 | 75 | 1,380 | 12 | |Glamorganshire, | 153 7 11 | 118 | 1,364 | 6 | |Pembrokeshire, | 129 0 5 | 135 | 255 | 4 | +----------------+---------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+ |The three | 133 0 4 | 328 | 1,068 | 6 | |Counties, | | | | | +----------------+------------------+--------------+-----------+------------+