The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-15 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

reacbed £268,500.

A BII.L TO ABOLI/IH Clienen-RATrn.—The fnollninj
is the short Bill prepared and brought into the House
by Sir John Trelawney, Mr. Dillnyn, and
tkneralThotumion, to abolish church-rates :—" Whereas
church rates have for :mule year* ceased t. be made
or collected in many parishes by reason of the opposition
thereto, and in many other parishes where church-rates
have heCII made the levying thereof has given rise to
litika and ill-feeling : And whereas it is expedient
that the power to snake church-rates should be abolished:
lk it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com ~,,, ns, in this
present parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :-1. Front and after the passing of
this act no church-rate shall be made or levied in any
pari:di in England or Wales. 2. Provided always, that
in any parish where a sum of money is at the time of
the passing of this act due on the security of church-
rates to be made or levied in such parish under the pro--
visions of any act of parliament, such rats s may still be
made and levied pursuant to such provisions for the
purpose of paying off the money so due, but not other.
wise, until the same shall have been liquidated. 3.
Any church-rate made at any time before the 'mooing of
this act may be collected and recovered in the same
way At if this act had not been passed. 4. This act
I may be cited as ' The Church-rate Abolition Act,
"

_
ellEltell•RATlN fill.M.—Two Bills are already before
the House on the subject of church-rates. The first.
which emanates from Sird. Trelawny, Mr. Dillwyn, and
neneral Thompson, sin iiiii arily abolishes the input.
The second Bill " for voluntary commutation of church-
rates," brought in by Messrs. Alcock and Evans, makes
provision for the securing to the l'harity Cmninissioners
of a yearly sum sufficient for the payment of expenses
properly payable out of church-rates, which being done,
claurch-rates will cease to be levied. The funds are
supposed to accrue from rent-charges to be granted
by corporati tttt s, and by tenants-in-tail, or for life ; all
such rent-charges being absolutely binding. The Bill
will not touch the famous Mortinsin Act (9 George
11. cap. 364 The Charity Commissioners will award
and mlininister the funds thus provided.
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•
PROPERTY AND INCOME.-TAX.—In the counties of
England and Wales, the gross amount of property as-
sessed to the Income-tax, under schedules II and I), for
the year ended sth oof April, 1857, was (11) £18,726,869,
and (I)) £17,845,658. In ticotlanol (the counties.) the
t was (II) 1:5,809,932, and (D) £2,316,169. In
Ireland, it was (I)) £2,497,751 and (I)) £1,321,627. The
gross total aiu.,uuit, throughout all Moe counties of the
United Kingdotu was £47,1K14,552 under schedule B, and
E 21,483,454 under schedule D. In the cities and boroughs
of the United Kingdom, the gross total amount assessed
to the tax was 1:2,666,.5411 under schedule It, and
£67,715,496 under Ii; making a grand total for both
counties and boroughs throughout the whole kingdom,
of £49,701,0181 under schedule 11, and £89,198,905 under
schedule I).

MXISCAL HISTORY OF TIRE LATR RUSSIAN WAR.—
A most valuable addition to our Parliamentary litera-
ture has just born made in the shape of a " Medical and
Surgical History of the British army which served in
Turkey and in the Crimea during the War against
RlVisia in the years 1851, 1855, and 1856." It is in two
iiinuenee volumes, or blue-books, the ilrst giving a
military medical history of individual corps, while the
second which is divided into two parts, contains •
history of disease, and a history of wounds and injuries.
This volume is illustrated by diagrania setting forth
much interesting statistical information respecting the
sanitary state of the army. Into the details of this great
work (for it deals purely in matters of detail) it Li
I utterly impossible for us mow even to enter. The

be
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work appears to bare been compiled under the leave about EO4, 000 to
superintendence of Dr. Andrew Smith. Director- half-year.
antialurgDre.onLaliain:l;Vni half year ending the 31st of DecembeirvidlLahntif..lrhihen
General ; and the medical genUemen employed to write BRISTOL AND ENETEIL—IL •
tilltalldireTAlZ a5........,......2..7,,rair5dbar7 a this company intend to recommend a d•
altebitituicwin.te)l.lld toeire:ll:o7Pectuk'n,ilt'Dir. ernrgYdr:w IS'elunlivae. ranin hcieie,
trahtaet 'd'feChilrml'er C.fOiritthePeoor arnresunpum; di iiii.trngpetnh'eed"ottilley. thial
preface, bears honour:dale testimony. Thu meteorolo-
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAT SHARE/I.—Vioe.ch....
gical diagrams and tables in the appendices were
designed and compiled respectively by Sir. J. Hall and °eller Wood has decided the (mood ~,, between the
directors of the Great Northern Itsilway
by Dr. Jeplison, now surgeon, )(Meal/rat:eon Guards,
and Staff-Surgeon Matthew. The maps have been ahareliadalers, which has been lone hiiE'deda in favour
furnished by ureter of s:r R. Airily, K.c.8., quarter. of the latter. The A shareholders are mat in figure to
imasiter•General. receive any dividends until the B shareholders be Paid
Prime INeoug AND EXPENDITTRE.-
in the year six per cent. per &nouns front Dec. 31, 1855•
eliding the 31st of Amended'. 1858, the jellaba: income of NEW RAILWAY PROJECT.—The prospectus has heett
the United Kisigal amounted to 1:66,266,W.15, anal the issued of a railway from London Bridge to (lath.
public expenditure to 1:65,159.338, leaving a balance of Cross. It 111 intemleal to take the line along the soul
income amounting to £3,127,657. The balances in the bank of the river which is to be crossed at Hurigerford
Exchequer at the end of the Year were £7.755,455. The awl the present Hungerford niarket converted into ;
following are the items of the invitee of 1856:—Custums, railway station. It is proposed to effect • junction with
1.11,0'JI,91111; Excise, 1:17,11i6,000 ; stamps, £7.99u;.:12; the Mouth Western Railway in the Waterloo.road, and
taxes (land anal assessed), £.1,155,003; income-tax (iliac. thus establish • connection between all the railways ou
turately stylish " property-tax"), £7,5U1.187 • Pod. the south side of the river, with a station on the north
OiliCC. ci,(15,0n) ; anal Crown lands. 11'77,446'. The side, at Charing Cross. If this project is carried suit
items of expenditure are: —lnterest anal managenient of the proposed station will be situated in the most (*li-
the public debt, I-28,501,49 ; the charges on the Con- rodent spot in London, as it is accessible by oweihoi
*delisted Fund. £1,n32.576; and the supply services, from all parts of the metropolis. It is proposed to raise
1:31,575,2:42. The Army (in this last item) figures forl a capital of £BOO,OOO, in shares of £lO each, with a
C12,51‘4,736 (including Canninissariat, Ordnance, and deposit of El per share. The project is promoted be
Militia charges); the Navy (including packet-service, several of the directors of the South Eastern, by *. (
transports, latc.), for £9,637,103; Miscellaneous Civil P. Villiers, M.l'., Sir James Duke. M.P., Mr. What.
Services, for C 7,253,059 ; the salaries of Revenue man, M.l'., and Lord Alfred Paget, M.P.
Departments, for E 4,474,4411; the China Naval and
Military operational, for £391,943 ; and the war expenses
(Russia), fair £230,11110. The Civil Lists oasts the
country £4416,1471 ; annuities and pensions, L-339,405;
salaries. &c., £1514,060 ; diplomatic sateries, £O.,
£162,638; and courts of justice, &c., £14,685.
Ths total A ~,,, unt of current anal deposit accounts in
the Metropolitan Joint Stock Banks is C:E1,583.2119, the
total liabilities, C43,555,tiri9, and the aggregate asset*,
after paying dividend anal kmus, £41,40,5:8. It ap-
pears that tlw capital lucid up amounts to £3,972,660,
the reserve fund to C 757,601, the net profits for the ,
half year being £325,349, while the total amount of : a
divideet and bonus declared for the same period has ' tii.
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