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l'hureli which they bad slwunlonell. histances had oe-
eurrea of persons who front some motive of pipits had
dissentetl from the Established Clud', and who wished to
rettirti sheik thir irritation had subsided, awl Is hould
Iw'
soiTy to elosee the titan' for e‘er agoilea them. II , pro.
posed alst• that Itissenters 011,11114 not have the rhAilit
i 4 al
appearing at vc.:try meetings, or %on oil the apprtorth
of the rate..'•
Sir W. l'T.Vl* joined in esaldenllllll,4 utterly the pre-
sent system of elittrch rate. It was now heroine
worse than an alisinvlity, was hated by Pissenters as
an intolerable 11014 e, and disapproved of 19. Multi
Hides of Churchmen ai a taillree Of weaker.: and
discredit to the t'littrelt. Yet, while feeling that to
preserve the existing arrangement was to perstsverts
in all the intolerance of Laud, ho holirvvsi that Mr.
l'hillimore's proposition was even worse still :
lu the first plats% it was only the repetition of a Holt-
sore rereittealy vroposell veivetokl tlott ionise. So
long ugti us 1K11) it was 'tonight forwitivi by Nit.% Inineembe,
and s11"1"lueutlY bY l'itge Wood. when it %HA !OW.
ported only by twenty menthers, awl resisted by Sir R.
Feel, Sir li. they, and 1.0111 .1. 1111:,..ell. buy measiire
more 111j1141en81. of in:011'10M. it \Willa he Will to vottect‘e.
ItwouldWWl to excite the utmost ill met ilbleeling,
the parishioners contrall:4ll.4 11110 and
compelling won to define their ulliuiuu. %%11.1, itetilaibv. pre.
vionsly Ninny know than they &Were& The tit
11111 ultlleurr was tAs whs.% s' 014 Ilism'ittevs, vvictillg it its
4.611'141n conseientions objection on the ground of 111511•
e‘informity. lint how eonttl the .Weevily of the 111.ellint•
lion he asectiatinett or tested ? liotir.)nt the parish Atter a nom listl
1181511'1181511'it was he to he evelitaPti fro ?
Waa the beadle II) stand la the floor to prevent 111111 WOOL
entering—la laugh 1--tor if he entered was he to lie sub•
jetted to it snit in the veelesitistiewl courts? Anti if he knot
a flintily, wow they to be precluded front entering the
church?"
For his own part, he was rtsatly to NOW for tho entire
abolition of church rates, even without a substitute,
and would rely solely upon vi Imam), tsontrilattion,.
without ally apprehension of their pro' iug instil'-

tieient
Within the last twenty years more elittreltes hod
sprung up Maui for costumes past, and considering the
present position of the EStlll4lllllllll.lll.lid the multitude
of etttwelier4 which ttbottitiletl, Ite 101 W 110 11.10.011 to 11111 i•
1411111 i. 11 lillllllg 1111 in the lAl.lillllls in IN 1114111.11.. SiIWO
111111141 rates were refused ill 1,P1.41)4 the parish church
haul been rebuilt, at an expense of Moot., and six
other elittrelles unit thirty-s4.vett seliiii Its estitlitisli•.4l, ill it
cost of 1110,1N101. The Itissentem, iu the, mean tune. had
ntised :1:•,(11111/. for the motto intrintso. lit the ftwe
of
suet' facts could then. he any doubt thst the zeal of
nienthers of the Establishment would fail to supply the
necessary funds tin. l %arch purposes."
As others, however, might not feel his cottfillettee,
ho was prepared with it substitute forthe rate if it worn
abolished. 'lbis consisted of a system of pew rents,
and a surplus to he derived from a better manage •
ment of Church properties. With regard to the first
of these sources of revenue, the people were al
reedy familiarised with the plan, which would not In-
tl-Trille with the provision of gratuitous seats for the
poor. As to the second, he cited the aultiress pre-
sented last year by certain prelates, members of the
Privy Council, and others, iu Which they stated that,
by an improved system of managing Church proistrty,
not less than half a million per itillllllll could Ist oh-
taed within a very few years, mid applicable 10
Church purposes. Sir W. Clay concluded by moving,
as an amendment, this resolution :
"Thoit this 1111104, Ili, 11.SIthe INplf isitn ml 111 l
*hotter ehtliTh rott•-,, Aittit.l lilt Is' 116.1114101.
11110111 tlllll 111. 1.11141111.4 1,, 0 Welt molt roues me lit present mph-
cattle front pew retort, told from the Increased %aloe %Well ni-
ghtie% ni.thitteil liy the flown hate shilsll may to
tietivetl, under Itetter itottotgontent, from 1111114'11 iilll.lA 111141 Ow

Nlr. in suppiiiiiiig the amendment. dilated
upon the scandals which he said dishonoured the
Church in the iserson of its highest dignitaries, and
exhorted Lord .lohn Russell to become leader in a
movement for Church reform.
,Ir. Comm.:it also preferred the tuntaulment. in his
anxiety to get ridolthe very mums of rhumb rate.:—
'• of all this taxes lovivil off the eosin 11111 l tit y. these were
the most otbievtionstille. were ohjertitatalolo 'wettest.
tito•y were levieol nista all for the iteno.fa of the few—lie.
eatt...e they were tussirtaia its to the poverty front which
they were raisisl—beestote they %cry aury Naillll% Ili the
11111114/I.leli to which they /stall Ito allitiest—aid. Issue, ti.•-
1•1111.4.• they were ciao twilit'. only ire the 414.1i-411MHeart s*, snits
of this cootitary--courts whose atethool was so tuitions. o•\ •
pensive, and dilatory, its to tax to the very utmost the finals
Id. the suitors. loot the patients. of the public. Ho was
quite in *MIMI* 111. 1/114111,4ril of Sir W.
I'luy, which
'le soul 1111111 N notiotetionee of rhoreho itiKlti the fowls
which were 4,Eiginally 'loot 4441 to that istepose, and whirls
otaight to lone es int iont•il to it, nrh ss he loe-
lieled
sorb all arrangement would el.tillitee to the benefit
of
the isablie, hat all ti, the interests of the Ultoreli."
11r. 11%1,1. wi.he,l to 11111 1111 1.1111 I/11111! iniberable
differences engendered out of the chum!' rate ipti,
which emliittered this minds of all, and Were
thistraelive of the charitable itilltiettees of our 441111
11111 n eilliStignit). The proposed 11111, howe%rr, 1111
thought, more likel) to it !tilt than to allay seetariatt
:strife, and preferred the amendment accordingly.
:Mr. Hume, after pleatliug that, as Ireland was freed
from the church cess. England ought to he exempted

1.4711411ie of any religious siirtiee. Also he stetted Ingtl ---• T
tht.ry ..110111,1 p mode left thou of returning, to the from the church ee..s. mound ought to hP exernP":" "n"'

In the case of all these persons you now found order
cleanliness, and decency, where before there was
nothing but filth, disorder, and indecency, the result
being of such a nature as to astonish all who di-
rected their attention to the subject.
• SLAVE TRADE IN CUBA.
A petition from Mr. Alexander Stuart, the owner of
large and unprofitable estates in Jamaica, was pre-
sented by Lord Baotrutux to the House of Lords on
• Monday. The petitioner possessed thirty-one estates
in the island, which had become utterly unproductive:
he could not obtain a shilling hom them nor sell an
acre at any price. His ruin and that of his fellow-
proprietors was traced by the noble lord to the ope-
ration of the Slave Emancipation Act, coupled with
the recent obliteration of the differential duties on
slave-grown sugar. Referring to the published state-
ment that a vessel with MX) slaves on board had re-
cently succeeded in landing her cargo in Cuba, Lord
Brougham inquired whether our consuls on the spot
had been instructed to take any step, or whether any
investigation had been ordered, in relation to this out-
rageous infraction of the treaty between England and
Spain.

The Earl of CLAUENDON regretted to acknowledge
that the fact alluded to was even under-stated. As
many as 1,400 Africans had been packed on board a
vessel of only 400 tons, which succeeded in eluding
all the cruisers, and, having effected the middle pas-
sage, had landed 1,100 surviving negroes in Cuba.
When once passed into the hands of Spanish owners,
the existing treaties and laws of the country afforded
no means of liberation to the unhappy slaves ; never-
theless the British Consul-General at the Havannah
had succeeded in rescuing 300 of the number. Corre-
pondence had also taken place, which had resulted in
an assurance from the Spanish authorities that the
treaties should hereafter be better observed ; and an
earnest. remonstrance had been addressed to the
United States Government, whose colours the slave-
ship in question had carried, which he hoped would
induce them to guard more effectually against their
fag being disgraced by such nefarious practices.
CHIMNEYSWEEPS.
The progress of the Chimneysweepers' Regulation
Bill, which had passed committee in the Lords, was
resisted by
The Earl of WICKLOW, who declared that the abso-
lute prohibition of " climbing-boys" was perfectly pre-
posterous in Ireland, where the soot from the peat
tires collected into hard cakes, which were altogether
immovable by the machines.
Lord BF:MIXON; believing that in England also
many chimneys were so constructed as to be inirer-
vious to the machine, and that many houses were
burnt in consequence, moved the formal rejection of
the bill.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY defended the measure,
which he had introduced merely to render more ef-
fectual, and guard from evasion, the act already
existing on the subject, and whose results had proved
to the highest degree beneficial.
The opponents of the insisted upon a di-
vision; but Lord MONTEAOLK having discovered that
the bill had infringed one of the standing orders,
which provided that every measure interfering with a
trade or altering the law of apprenticeship should be
examined and reported upon by a select committee,
Lord SHAFTENBUBV consented to withdraw the mea-
sure for a while, in order to have that process duly
completed. The bill was therefore referred to a se-
lect committee.