The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-20 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, June 18.

The Senate has unanimously refused to receive
the manifesto of Don Juan. Drafts of the
budget for the ensuing year has been presented
to the Cortes. The Ministry has requested the
ratification of the payments of arrears which was
made on the demand of England. The Govern-
ment luis presented projects of law for the sale
and replacing of the landed property of the
church, and has announced its intention.of intro-
ducing projects for reforming the tariff.

AUSTRALIA.
LONDON, June 19.
The Omar Paella has arrived from Melbourne,
with gold valued £60,850.

GAZETTE NEWS.
Major-General Larcom, to be Knight Com-
mander of the Bath.

MAIL NEWS.
Ceylon, from Southampton, and Valetta, from •

Marseilles, with outward mails for Calcutta and
China, arrived at Malta on the 13th inst., and
proceeded to Alexandria ; Simla arrived at Galle,
May 21, with English mails for India, despatched
April 27 from Southampton ; Ottawa left Galle,
May 19, with English mails of April 18, for
Australia.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY.

Lord LYVEDEN moved the second reading of the Church-
rates Abolition Bill. He reminded the House of the various.
occasions on which it had yielded its own opinion to that of the
country. After citing the often-quoted difficulties arising out
of the unsettled state of the question, and reviewing the maul
proposals hitherto made for settling it, he adduced the audio-
-"r " - Lordship's House to prove the
reality of the grievance which it was . , s„
remove. From all these considerations lie contended that the
time had passed for compromise, that every proposal had been
exhausted, and that the further maintenance of the rate was
impossible. Its existence was of more injury to the Church
than any possible benefit the Church could derive from it, and
he called on its friends to put an end to a controversy so fraught
with difficulties and dangers.

The Duke of Mkitutonoyon moved to defer the bill for three
months. If compromise had failed, it was not owing to the
church, but to the persistent hostility of its enemies. The law,
while it imposed the obligation of the rate, likewise provided
a remedy for its abuse, and that remedy was tobe found in the
Ecclesiastical Courts. Admitting that great things had been
done by the voluntary principle, he declared that it would be
insufficient for the additional burden which would be thrown,
upon it by the abolition of the rate. The evidenee taken before
committee clearly proved that the ultimate object of theoppo-
sition to Church-rates was the separation of Church and State.
He appealed to the justice of the House not to permit this-
injury to the Church of England.
After some remarks front Lord Wensleydale in reference toe
the law of Church-rates,
Earl DE. GREY :AND RIPON urged the House to look at
the question as it stood at the present moment. Why did not
the opponents of the bill bring forward a measure of their
own, or consent to go into committee on this bill, and propose
such amendments as would meet their views? He denied the
charge brought against the opponents of the rate, that they
had ulterior views, or sought the destruction of the Churcb-
On the contrary, the rate had been condemned by men of all.
parties and various opinions as involving serious damage
the Church, while, in itself, it was destructive of Christina,
harmony. As a friend of the Church, he supported the pyesent
measure.

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY opposed the •bill, but ex—
pressed his willingness to accept any compromise by which as
adequate provision would be secured for the maintenance of the:
church fabrics.

Earl GREY contended that the existing, system occasioned na
grievance of which complaint could justly be made. since the-
grant of a Church-rate was entirely at the discretion of the
parochial vestries.
The bill was supported by the Earl of Airlie, and opposed by'
the Duke of Rutland.

The Duke of SOXEMET argued in favour of the bill, that thr
existing system of Church-rates stimulated incessant conten-
tion. The amount thus contributed for the maintenance of
churches averaged only £2t a-year to each parish, a sum which
it would be easy to replace.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE assented to the second reading of
the measure, but intimating that he should suggest some
modification in its details, if it came to be discussed in com-
mittee.
The Earl of DE EBY remarked that all prospect of compromise
had been extinguished, and the question they were now called
upon to decide involved either the maintenance or the total aboli-

Lion of the Church-rates. The supporters of the rate had bees
willing to settle the question on amicable terms, and would
have accepted any fair proposal for an equivalent. As the issue
had, however, been narrowed to a mere affirmative ornegative,
they were obliged to meet the challenge of their opponents by
a direct vote for rejecting the bill.
Their lordship* divided on the motion that the bill should be'
read a second time :—Contents, 31; Non-contents, 128;
majority against the bill, 97.
The remaining business having been disposed of, the Honig
adjourned at twenty minutes past ten.