The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

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THE VACANT SCOTTISH .ICIX;ESHIP.—We have no
doubt the Lord-Advocate (Mr. ('. Millie) will claim the
gown vacant by Judge Murray's death, and that
Solicitor-General Mure will succeed to the office of the
former. The only difficulty will consist in claiming
even • shred of independence for the electors of the
county of Linlithgow, should they be asked to choose
two Crown lawyers to represent them within so brief a
space, and neither of them connected with the locality,
There will be a scramble for the Solicitor-Oeneralship
if the Ministry should remain in office so lung.— Scot -
t isk Press. WEDNESDAY.
DEATH OF Loan Ifransr.—Lord Murray died at The Juries (Ireland Bill wee read • second time.
his house, in Great Stnart-strect, on yesterday afternoon. On the order for the mecoitd reading of Mr. Walpole's
In the case of one so well-beloved we had rather a few Churelorates Bill,
days should peas before speaking ; we make the mourn- Sir J. THELAVANT moved to defer the second reading
ful announcement, therefore only in the simples in t wds, for six months. lithe voluntary principle was to be
relied on at all, lie observed, his own Bill carried out
Not in Edinburgh only, of whose society lie was the
brilliant and acknowledged head, but throughout the that object simply, and i.e contrasted that measure
wide circle of the illustrious in rank and intellect in with the Bill under consideration, his objection% to
every part of Europe to which his friendships extended which, it. 'intentions, and its whole scheme, he detailed
will the loss be deplored. Lord Murray's withdrawal at some length, contending that it had • tendency to
makes a blank which cannot be supplied. Venerable perpetuate church-rates, and even to revive them, with
age, extending to the fourscore years that mark the all their discords and litigation, in parishes where they
heman term, hail not impaired either the activity of had ceased.
his intellect or the warmth of his affectionate nature ; The amendment was seconded by Mr. 11./111/CASTI.F.,
and as his health had been in the early part of the who observed that the ;Mir form coliiiirouiiime had passed,
winter unusually vigorous, it was natural to look to his and that, if nut, Mr. Walpole's scheme was the worst
having not a few active AISI beneficent years yet to form of compromise.
spend among us. It was, indeed, only a fortnight Mr. S. ESTCUCET remarked that the House had now
this day since he last occupied his accustomed seat the advantage of • choice of measures, based upon
in court, hiving throughout the session diseharged his (lament principlea, which they could compare. The
judicial duties without interruption. Though ',remind- Bill or Sir J. Trelawny, for the abolition of church.
tory symptom had previously exhibited theinaelvee, rates, was • rough way of dealing with the question.
iii. Sinew became serious only 10 days since, and lie The proper mode was to ascertain what were the grie.
had not been a week confined to lii4 bed. For two or venous complained of, and to devise suitable remedies ;
three days. however, scarc.ily any hove of recovery lio.l and he proceeded to consider this inconveniences and
been entertained ; the venerable sufferer waited with FRIDAY. hardships of the present system as respected clergyman
patience and fortitude the inevitable stroke, and met The House met at 5 o'clock, as well as Nonconformists, and the manner in which
it with Christian n-solution and resignation. A g !add GICICY gave notice that he withdrew his notice they could be obviated by Mr. Vi alpole's Bill swill by
all clime% in Edinburgh the utmost eynipathy and of motion for Monday next fur papers relative to the certain anienduieuto of it. l'iiiii ineseure he reganled a%
anxiety have been inanifestsol since it become generally lonian Islands. a reasonable mode of milling a difficult question, and
known that Lord Murray was seriously ill, and the an. Lord Sr. (3FAIMANN asked whether the proclamation re just than the total abulitien or the entire coin-
nouncement of his death, though not unexpected, will of Prince ('oum, which appeared in the ?Mini of Friday, mutation of church-rates.
spread • glootn over the city such hiss seldom been was authentic. Sir G. Gott ulttierved that the choice was nut limited
experienced. His death will tie felt only not as the Lord Msialnowar had received no information on to the two Bills of Mr. Walpole and Sir J. Trelawny ;
departure of • man universally beloved and esteemed as the point at the Foreign-office. but it was of no import. the question was whether the House ought to adopt the
a munificent Public benefactor, as the honoured head I once at the preaent moment whether the document was scheme of the former as placed upon a satisfactory basis.
of mail schemes of usefulness, as the patron of every genuine or forged. The Congrese at Paris, which be Ile agreed that it would be an arbitrary set on the part of
worthy charity, and the Witrill .tipporkr of all j1111,10Ve• hoped would meet next week, would discuss this mates the House to deprive every rural parish throughout the
silent, but as the lest of that highly distinguished band on the first opportunity. kimplum where rates were willingly paid of the power of
who throughout the first 30 or 40 years of the century The report of the amendments on the I)ebtor and Cre. raising a small sum for the repair of the parish church;
reflected more lustre on E litiburgh titan did even the ditor Bill was brought up. but he stated various objections to the machinery of the
great intellectual lights of an elder day—and which The Logo Cilaxi'Ettint stated that certain alters. Bill before the Heine (including the additional pro'
Included such names as Jeffrey, Playfair, Sidney Smith, turns had been made and some penal clauses added. He visions suggested by Mr. Estcanirt), which he considered
Francis Horner, Thomas Bmwn. Henry Cockburn, and proposed that the Bill be read a third time on Thursday did not rest upon a satisfactory bailie. His principal
the still surviving Brougham. Our generation can have next. objection was that the Ihll left untouched those parishes
no such loos again to deplore—no such man is left Lord CEANWORTH thought ceitain reversionary pro. where the question liad been settled by the practical
among us. Lord Murray was in hie alst year. He was perty should be withdrawn from the operation of the abolition of church-rates, and be could not vote for the
raised to the bench in IMO, having previously received Bill. second reading,
the honour of knighthood. Ile was the second sun of Lord ST. Litortaans to moved that • clause be added Sir J. PAIIINGTON, rising with some warmth, said the
Alexander Murray, of HenderLand, Lord of Session and the Bill which would have the effect of enabling the speech of Sir ti. Grey had forced mon his mind the eon-
J unfit:alit; =6 daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay, Bishop of the diocess, in cases where the clergyman's vietion that the spirit of party was still to be paramount
best, of 16v . end IH•011 of the Aria Earl of Mans- conduct had not rendered him unworthy of occupying on this question to the spirit of peace, and, because the
lield. Born in Mid-Lothian ;he married 182, Huy, the pulpit, to allow hint the same income that the gentleman aPPaaita to him had shrank from cicaling will/

it, they would not allow others to deal with it. Sir
l:eorge had, he said, shown why, according to the rules
of the House, lie ought to vote for the second reading.
and haul not assigned any reason why he should not do
so. There were two principles in the Bill, to neither of
which Sir George objected ; yet he declared he should
vote agnitiA the second reading of it. In considering
the real sumpe 3111li intention of the Bill, Sir John re-
, marked that all property was subject to the charge of
church.rate, and that there was no injustice in enforcing
it ; but, although this was is legal and ancient charge, he
agreed that it might be grating to the feelings of Dis-
senters to pay it, and lie was willing to meet them ins
spirit of peace and conciliation. 1 his was the spirit in
which the Hill haul been framed. The present I:overn-
inent haul done what their predecessors never did, made
• fair offer, and it remained for the Hon, and the
country to decide whether this question should he settled
I in a friendly or continue a subject of prolonged
. .

agitation. -
Sir IL BETHELL observed that, after the speech of
Sir J. Packington he hail sonic difficulty in understand-
ing what SSA !lig notion of peace and conciliation. He
had brought charges against Sir G. Grey which were
groundle,s and unjust, and had conveyed them in Imp
gunge anything but conciliatory. He disputed the lil4-
trine of Sir .1. Pakington as to the origin and nature of
church-rates which he (Sir IL Bethel!) chalacterized an
the progeny of a wicked system of intolerance which Mc-
one mode of faith for all. The cs law even
now treated all the occupiers in a parish as inen of the
1,3111 C form of belief ; this was the fintooktion if the
liability to clinch-rate, and to this the Dissenters ob-
jected.
Mr. Dar tinnao mad it wan with very great In he
difT, red from the proposal of Mr. WA LPoLK ; but pallia-
tives would not do. This waa a question of to inciple, or
it was nothing. A nub was ma.le by a large party in
the country to pull down the established church, and lie
would not assist tlenu in supporting this or ally +Millar

111C3Alre.
Mr. 11. w, gave his hearty signiori to the Hill, the
only practical mode of tletthug this lineation ialld
in the fabric of the establidwit church, while it re-
lieved Dia,enters from the obligation of contributing to

tha- t church.
Mr. L r. said the present state of the law of church.
rates Mall not only oppressive to Dissenters, hut was oh-
jected to by many churchmen, Mid he iniisteill that the
Bill did not remedy its evils. It was no comproini.e,
and it would not cure the great evil, the visasi civil wars

to which the present Bill -gave rise.
Mr. Watrin.r. called attention to the iiiii.rtasit fact
that the House had arrived at the se I reading of this
Mil, when the only question to be determined was the
principles involved in the measure, and not the mere
machinery. The principles were two—first, the volun-
tary commutation, instead of the compulsory part), nt
of church-rates ; second, the exemption of those who
objected conscientiously to paying them. No opponent
of the Bill, lie observed, had pointed out wherein these
two principles were open to objection. lie vindicated its
provisions, and insisted, in opposition to Mr. Drum-
mond, that it did not conflict with the principle of an
establishment.
Mr. STAN itorr. persevered for some time in a vain at-
tempt to be heard.
! 17pon a division the amendment was carried by 27A
to 171 ; the Bill is consequently lost.
The House adjourned at 6 o'clock.