The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14.

AFTER waiting resignedly for half the session
so as to leave his opponents a fair field for action,
Sir JoHN Titei.swsr has to-day moved the second
reading of his Church Rate Abolition Bill. The
testimony of adversaries was the one thing
wanted to certify that measure as the only prac-
tical settlement of the Church Rate question.
That witness it has now received. Those who
ought to know best tacitly confess that no better
solution of the question can be produced. Last
year a numberof honourable memberswere induced
to vote against Sir &mix TaxLAWNY'S Bill on the
understanding that this session the pro-rate party
would produce a more suitable measure. They
now see the result. The HOMO% the Horse,
and Dmirmotmis can give them no help. Like
the POPS they are shut up to a weakly
non possumus. This has been made still plainer
today by Mr. SOTHERON &TeeIIRT, who comes
forward, not with a statesmanlike proposition, but
with a whining and inane paragraph, which he is
to move by way of amendment, about the "in-
"justice" of taking away the right of English-
men to raise among themselves the sums required
for the repair of their Church. It is marvellous
that a single Englishman exists capable of writing
such arrant nonsense. Every child knows that
the right to raise money among themselves for
the support of their Church is one which does not
depend on the law, but is exercised daily with-
out the sanction of statutes or the aid of police.
Even within these last twenty years the poorest of
these three kingdoms, suddenly finding itself
in want of churches, schools, and parsonages,
has raised the sum of five millions for that pur-
pose, without any help from the civil magistrate.
Mr. Esreouiir knows very well that the legal right
he defends is neither more nor less than the right
of a dominant Church to throw upon the members
of other churches burdens which, light as they are,
its own indifferent children find too heavy for
them. Truly, the age of chivalry is gone when
those who pretend to be the special friends of the
famous Church of England, to which great men in
all generations have been proud to belong, can advo-
cate such meanness. The Church would indeed
be in poor case if it had not children of wiser
temper and higher faith than these. Church-
men who have studied the times know very well
that nothing is more damaging to the deep and
permanent interests of the Church than the re-
tention of this invidious privilege. As long as
it lasts it is the engine by which the opponents of
the Church will always prefer to work, and one
which when it is gone they will much miss. While
it remains it will be defended by the foolish and the
timid, as everything which is is defended ; when

it is abolished its former supporters will wonder
why they prized it, just as intelligent landlords
now wonder why they valued the Corn Laws.
It is time this attempt 0 uphold a tax con-
demned by the present state of society and by
modern ideas of freedom and justice should
come to an end. Sir JOHN Timswarv's Bill
is the only measure proposed with this
object. It is to be opposed for the ninth time by
a party which undertook to show a better way of
attaining the end, but has failed to do so ; and it
is easy to see that it is to be opposed strenuously.
The course of all true Liberals is clear. The pro-
rate party, having fallen back upon old Tory prin-
ciples, must be convinced by to-day's vote of the
difference between a Pall-mall re-action and the
settled determination of the great, free, and in-
telligent constituencies.