The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION BlLL—
(Conaidered in Committee.)
MISMILITT.—.CIitIie I.—Another amendment wopeeed. In pie 2,
line 24, to leave out the words " unlawfal and .• (Mr. M'Cullagb.)—
Question put, that the words projavaxl to be left out stand part of
the clause." The Committee divided: Ayer, 179; NOM 43.
NOES.
Arundel and Surrey, Hutchins, E. J. Peel, Frederick
Earl of Keating, Robert Power, Dr.
Barron, Sir H. W. /Gogh, %Ilium Power, Nichols.
Blake, Martin J. Lawless, lion. C. Reynold., John
Burke, Sir T. J. Mogan, W. 11. Roche, Fslmund B.
Csetlert nit, Viscount Maher, Nicholas V. Sadleir, John
Clements, lion. C. S. Meagher. Thee. Scully, Francis
Colebrook, SOT. E. Mansell, Wiliam Sullivan, Michael
Cortially, Matthew E. Moore, 0.11. Talbot, J. H.
Devereux, J. T. Murkily, Prancia S. Urquhart, David
Fortero le, Chichester O'Brien, J. Wall, Chattel B.
Gladstone, Rt. tie. W. O'Brien, Air TiTotby
°odd, wyndbam O'Connor, Venrcus TELLW.
Orace, Oliver V. J. O'Ferrall, little. R. MlCullash, W. T.
Oration, terlabertv, Anthony Grattan, Henry
Higgins, G. G. 0. Oswe'd, Alexander
MINOSITIG—Another amentlmen• proporvl, in line 21, to add at the
• end of the Mauve the words "in Enaland " (Mr. beegh.)—Qoestion
put: than words be there added."—The committee divided :
Ayes, 39; Noes, 84.
AYES.
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Anetey, Thomas C. Iligginsn, ii. G. 0. O'Connor, reargue
Arundel and Surrey, Hindman, Edward ()Terrell, Hon. K. M.
E.trl of Keating, Robert O'rlaberty, Anthony
Blake, Martin J. Lawler% lion. Cecil Power, Dr.
lii Rrglnald J. SPeullsgh, W. T. Power, Nicholas
Oorbally, Matthew E. Megan, WiliamH. Reynold*, John
Derma:, John T. Maher Ninholae V. leadleir, Jobe
French, Iritutephen Meagher, Thomas Smilers, John Patrick
Gibson, lin. T. M. Moose% Witia.n Sullivan Michael
Goold, Wyndham Moore, George IL Talbot, J. Hyacinth
Grace, Oliver 1). J. Murphy, F. S.
Grattan, Henry Warren Sir D. I. TET.LCIE.
Greene, John Nugent, Sir Peri Keogh, William
Herbert, Henry A. O'Brien, John Baehr, Edmund B.
Heywood, James O'Brien, T.

StoOMIIT.-DDOWT atherdment pr..!piuol, to add et the toed of elue , tte the she 1.4..„ h.
wo.
ease the Wlng proviso : - Provided that nothing be this . i . peke One Shilling, with a Coloured
gIaIDD COMDLIN,IIIII.I.I be cutietruoti to w.f.. G. r: •with the ectleohis. ' Riegravint awl aurnerneill Wooled+. hT John Leech,
THE SOCCON n NUMBER OP
lIE COMIC itisT()lty of ROME, for the
~c; or epirdual fureolone of ter Roman eathoiie archbishops ired !
bishops la the Cubed kintelone."-illr. hr.:nth). (location T
put, 1
...rut the tar rt.. be there boded." 'll.e committee divided; Um erol %momment et 'Limn,. an.l Vsmilios.
Ayer, :0 ; Nov, ill. A NEW MORTIILY IthRIuDICAL.
ATEA. Bp the Autli, of •• The I: 11 11l .:•ry of . lard.'.
heb.hbr, U. A. 11,. bert, Henry A. frFerralk lion. R. M. I Loudon: Prelbaly and Lew 11. Bourertrtet.
Arieter..Thoromi C. iluotins, Goatee G. tErlahemy, Anthony
Att.:new. sc. A. Ilushoure, Thais.. K. (bewail, Aka 'nor
Illthetroner, It. R. Mope, Ale %cud, Pechell, Mr 0. It.
&Mittel MIDI surrey, It WADI, Sir kilt* Power, Dr.
hart of I titans*, Mr ,rol J. Power. Nichols.
wean. sir It. W. heating, It Wert Posy., Philip
Rake, Stettin J. L mien, Mon.. wed Reyissids, John
usueet. Regis del 5. M Cuilthh, W. T. Melts, Edmond B.
Radon N.f T. J. Mahan. William 11. &A IM, John
De keno, Tee met Mahar, Netts '..1.1 V. FebnleliMl, William
amulets, lion. C. S. Me-gbrr, Tirana Slaty, Francis
Carbany, M. r„. ma'am, to, iiki. iiiiiesn. Michael
Dimes; John T. lionseli, Willi.= lath*, John U.
cyan, Jain" UhrPb:. P.S. Testy" E. K.
GM Rich" M. Kurieys Sir D. J. Towneky, .1-bn
Gibson Uo.T. M. Kennwt, Sir Pees TM limy, Jobs A.
Cien!cl,,Weml.tott 0,11 ow, J. Younx, Sir John
Grx,., otlet r D. J. Hike n, Mr T.
Grum, Wary 0•N0ki1,.1.43 li...igh, Weld=
&few. lIIIDI Vliehere.l, M. J. More, George It.
Gransnr - Another anerudtheut pro,ice- 4 to UM at the cad of the
e As. the MI owing proven : -... Prinith • I than nnthing in this set
'outlined Mall be c initrithl I . aff,t try , ,hblehop orb shop, or
etber Nilsen in holy exthill uf the eliu.a, .4 Wm.., oflic: air, in
any dos ret, or bath i pnerohl sup...rime, Acne • of any convey,-
bon of per. ni trot -.ins the human e .thove u lesion, aecordint to
the miles siel doe 91ple of the char it of Rune. ID the Unued
ytpego,,,u, an Me, txto.ed pre% nu. to the Vth .I.y of hey t mlto,
1t...:"- . Wr. gotkir :1-Qiediun bat,- Tee et the proviso be there
eddied e•-The coineuttee dii id A. Ayer, 1:; Rues, 275.
A A k:A. •
=Themes •C. Ifolehow., i hone-on. treonnell, Jolts
1 gal Semen Hope. A rum!, ml. L.Motv, Anthmy
Karl of Mower". mr lia;ph I Omen Wdliost
Iliblie, Ilertin J. henueui. Robert Power, Dr.
Wein. Reginald J. k..,,,a, B iiPcas licen .ids, JODI%
aptituus, ilie. C. e . L.,. leo,. Uor. (7.:eil scholell.l.l. W.
OMMIIIy, Matthew L. M.. ullaph, Wm. T. Scully, Franeie
Dermas, John T. Masan, Wm. 11. Marie, John U.
Kogan, Janie.. Maher, Neriso:us V. Talbot. J. 11.
totheerne,Chieheiter Meagher, I boom Talon. Mosel K.
Ten, llielihrd M. Mahon, To u'o. Tn Writ,. Juba S.
&b um, Rt. Hon.T.M. Morrell, tot .141111 Wee .Prover, 1. R.
Geoid, Wynn. ire Munre. Grate 11. lOwner. bid Juba
Grace. 0. D. J. Murphy, Er: 1ei....
Geattantlkury Nisreot, s.or Foley TIT saes.
ODDI.y haw sehtleu, J. Rohe. Edmund B.
GIR.Mir, O. 0. 0. tibeieu, sir ':iniuthy felbsts, Joao

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LONDON, TrESDAT, MAY 27.

TuE most startling, and at the same time the mos:
fearful fact of modern tunes, is the utter ignorance
in which the dominant classes and the authorities
themselves ate, of the feelings, ideas, intentions or
desires of what are called the lower orders. Louts
Piiiweee was reckoned the most sagacious pcliti-
cian of his day; and M. GUIZOT.,3 shrewdness who
will question:' They had legions of police, secret
and overt, together with myriads of functionaries to
afford them information. Set they evidently knew
as much of the lower strata of the Paris population,
as they did of Crim Tartary. We do not think, that
the Duke of WelddeuToN, Sir Meuse!) Nitric,
and Mr. Feances O'CoNNott, knew much more of the
feelings or the London lower orders on the famous
19th of April.
We had another memorable example yesterday of
expectation. amounting to complete confidence, that,
the people of London would crowd by thousands and
tens of thousands, to enjoy the first day's privilege
of seeing, at a shilling fee, the contents of the Crystal
Palace. A complete army of policemen were ready
to receive the sovereign people: their advanced
nerd extended almost to the end of Piccadilly,
where precautions, in the way of marshalling car-
riages, began. Hut, alas! camages there were few,
and foot passengers not more than ordinary. The
opening of the Crystal faders fit a popular price had
not stirred or excited the depths of the London papa-
lation —tio. not in one hundridth degree of what
the Derby race on Epsom Downs had done.)
And, instead of the artisan population flock-
ing to Hyde-park to honour Saint Monday,
fur once in a rational was-, the masses held aloof.
Some twenty thousand limiest people, or less, did
wend their war to the Exhibition, where they
wire quite as ortlerly, and about half as numerous, as
the higher paying crowd of Saturday last. But
crush, excitement, trouble, there was none whatever.
If there did exist any greater annoyance than
temal, it proceeded from the police, and front the
orders which they had received to turn people to the
right and left. and round all sorts of corners in the
mast inexplicable way. Had the crowd been really
great, this would certainly have increased the con-
' fusion; as it is, it only increased pisiple's impatienee,
and augmented their fatigue,einee, in order to get from
one end of the building to the other, one had to go
through a labyrinth, threading through merchandise,
and encountering sights, those precisely which one did
not want to see. The only use or advantage that
can be derived from visiting such an exhibition must
be obtained in freedom, freedom to stop, to examine,
to turn back and compare, to go from the manufac-
t are of one country to a similar display of another. H-
visitors are obliged to tread a maze, or to keep
moving at the bidding of a policeman, the entire
benefit as well as pleasure of sitch an exhibition will
be lost. We do not want to make repraches. We
admit that it was natural to expect a great crowd
yesterday, and that a greater force, us well as more
stringent orders to keep passages clear and the crowd
moving, must have been given. What we say.
therefore, is merely advice fur the future, not blame
for the present or the past.
Perhaps, alter all, them is reason for nothing save
congratulation at the paucity of visitors yesterday.
Humour of a crush may have made the prudent defer
their visit till a later day. For although the artisan
class in the provinces have had no doubt their
curiosity more stimulated by this Exhibition than
their brethren of the metropolis, still the latter
cannot be indifferent to 80 much that mast be inte-
resting and profitable fur them to behold in the
Great Exhibition.

With the iudwdrious classes, too, the disposal of a
day is no such light matter. To numbers this is
far more important than the difference between five
I shillings and one shilling. In France, as in con-
tinental countries, they would have solved the diffi-
culty by opening the Pxhibition of a Sunday. Here,
very properly, this is nut to be thought of. But, at
the same time, the circumstance of there being no
day but what each can steal from his earnings, or
his business, or obtain from his master, must be taken
largely into account.
Thus by dispersing holidays, and by regulating
the excursion trains from the manufacturing and
populous districts, it will be possible to afford to the
people the full enjoyment of the Exhibition, without
more crush or polity interference than the holders of
season tickets themselves suffered from. Whoever
was at the Exhibition on Saturday last must admit
that it was far too full for comfort, and much too full
to admit of any visitor pursuing the task of serious or
comparative inspection.
The expediency of having issued season tickets at
all is now much to be doubted. It has filled the
Exhibition from day to day with a class of mere
idlers, or obstructives, and literally leaves the payers
of a shilling, who are rid of them, much better off
I (that is, provided the police would leave them alone)
than the payers of five shilling., who have come for
the purposes of information, and who arc obliged to
take the mere crush of fashion instead.

Ma. BAILLTE proposes this evening to renew
his oft-repeated efforts to obtain from the House,
of Commons a confirmation of his views regard-
ing the government of Ceylon. The subject is
k rather fad and we can hardly cherish a hope that
anything new or useful will be elicited by another
wearisome discussion, such as we have had dining
the last two sessions, and of which the staple may be
said to be fiat contradictions upon every species of
fact in every conceivable tone, from every section of
politicians. The Ceylon question, as it is somewhat
unmeaningly called.was a healthy and promising nettle
two years ago, when first the member for Inverness
took it under his care. Its primal power of sting-
ing was then admitted on all hands; and nobody
seemed to touch it without being made to feel more
or ken of its irritating efficacy. But from the
moment that it was placed under glass in a select
committee room, it began to spread and sprawl in
the usual way, to lose all its original characteristics,
and finally to run to seed in a marvellous manner,
much to the disappointment no doubt of those by
whom it was rashly hot-housed.
Four huge blue books, utterly irreducible to any
clear or conclusive account of what did and what did

not happen during Lord TottaiscroN's adminis-
tration in Ceylon, but containing instead an
almost unparalleled amount of irrelevant and im-
material allegations, counter-allegations. explana-
tions, and confutations,—is all we have for the money
this absurd inquiry has cost us. Parliament was
just as competent, or au -competent to form a wise
and just decision on the doubtful facts of a distant
case in March, 1549, when Mr. B.tutte first brought
it forward, as it is now in the month of Mar, 18,31,
after nearly two sessions have been spent by fifteen
of its members in sending for witnesses across the
I habitable globe, and setting them to worry each
other's characters to death in a committee•room with

closed doors. 'lie committee contained undodstedly

some of the ablest and most experienced men in the
lower house of the imperial legislature: and the
record of their pmceedings bears abundant testimony-
to the assiduity with which they devoted themselves
to their ungrateful task. hat the thing they had ,
'been appointed to do was in reality beyond the'
powers of any set of gentlemen sitting round a table'
by the banks of the Thames. The blunder lay in
supposing otherwise. A parliamentary inquiry
into the minute details of grievances or revolts,
in remote dependencies it an utter übsur-
dity ; and if the history of the Ceylon corn-
nuttee does not suffice to wake this plain
to all degrees of understanding. nothing can. For!
the sole result to which they seem to have come
after infinite waste of time Lind toil, as expressed in
their final report of the 21th July, I:350, was the ex- •
pression of their deep regret that a royal commis-
sion had not been sent to the colony to inquire on
the spot into the circumstances upon which, notwith-
standing " their utmost diligence and perseverance,
they found themselves unable to make n complete
report," or to offer any specific advice to parliament.
They (lid, it is trne, intimate, in terms sufficiently
indicative of distrust and dissatisfaction with the
general state of atffiirs as it had been laid before
them, that the serious attention of the executive at'
home should be directed to the consideintion of the
.• changes that mig:it be necnssary for the better
government of the colony."
It admits of little doubt, that by this recommenda-
tion the committen meant to express their opinion in
favour of a chnage of hands in the local administra-
tion. The miserable arptabhles and animosities be-
tween the principal civil seTvants of the crown in
the island remitted it hopeless to look fur anything
like united or efficient action so long as they re-
mained; and the want of dignity, temper, and con-
sistency betrayed by Lord. Younixtrrox in his
private communications made it impossible fur him
to continue in the posit fur which he ought never
to have been selected. Lord ToRRIMAON was
recalled, and Sir EMERSON TENNENT and Mr.
WimmuesE, witti whom he had been personally
embroiled, were offered appointments elsewhere..
The colony has long since returned to a state of
tranquil industry; and the remembrance of the
lamentable events connected with the insane insur-
rection of 181 a is gradually passing away.
Mr. Rutin, however, cannot reconcile it to him-
self that something so very like nothing at all
should come of the laborious investigation over
which he so long presided. Accordingly he
nos ;Oren notice of a vote of direct and
unqualified censure on the ex-governor for having
resorted to martial law in orda. to repress rebel-
lion, and on the Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies for not having reproved this resort to unusual
• rigour. This is in fact fulling back on the original
accusation of March, 11419, from which all the sub-
sequent branch imputations, :scandals, and charges
sprung. The over-expanded brambln is to be cut
down if printable to somewhat of its early dimensions,
:11111 its many withered off-shoots are to be cast aside
the the occusioa. Mr. !Wild': seems to forget that
contraction of political interest is a much more difficult
process than expansion. He likewise overlooks, we •
suspect, the impossibility of getting the same buoyant
element back into the same compact balloon out of
which it was suffered to pass, in order to fill one of
greater dimensions. Unless lie has new and unused
!outcries in the shape of fact or argument, he will
hardly be able to bring the House of Commons back
to the condition of feeling in which they voted the
select committee of enquiry in 1819. It' nothing has
been elicited during its tedious and profitless investi-
gations to alter the point of' view from
which the measures taken to crush the
disturbances of July, 1844, in Kandy, ought
to be regarded, there is no great probability that the
hon. member for Inverness will he able to du much
more than repeat over again his speech of
March, INIU. Patliament and public opinion eon- I
tarred in the sentiment at the time, that u sufficient
ease for inquiry lad been made out, and the means
were afforded accordingly for that purpose. But
the inquiry has confessedly failed to establish ally-
thing beyond what Mr. Banta. stated two years
ago, and which the House of ('ommons pronouneed
wholly insufficient ground for a vote of swore.
Nobody vindicates or approves indiscriminately of all
the acts done by the military during the continuance
of martial law. Courts martiad have been actually
held upon some of those who took part in the pro-
ceedings adverted to ; and we are disposed to think
that the uttention publicly coiled to them will exer-
cise a salutary influence ou those who may have the
misfortune to be- placed in similar circumstances else-
where. But the idea of gihbetting a minister of
state for the questionable severities of military tri-
bunals in a distant deismdaney, is absurd. 'flue
select combine° refused to record any direct con-
idcmnation of any part of Lord TORRINGToN's con-
duct, and rt Arliori the Houle of Commons are not
likely to record a vote of censure for approving
cruelty and injustice against Earl Oa v.

avoid and avert the cost to the church which the
proper performance of its duties as landlords, as in
building and improving, would have involved ; it
amounted to a transfer and devolution of those
duties to middle men. Certain moral and equitable
rights have arisen under a system which has been
in op,ration, with very little variation in principl..,
for more than two centuries and a half. And those
rights are not now to he disposed of, obliterated, and
given to the winds by such episvoixa commonplaces
as were heard on fhursday lam. Prelacy must
descend from this clouds of words to the regions of
sense before the question can be profitably discussed
and milled.

Now that the bishops and cathedral clergy are
confined, in dwell- rat least, to something like fixed
incomes, " the Christian people of this country "
have, no doubt, an interest in the surplus of their
estates such as they never had before ; for all such
surplus goes into a common fund for the promotion of
religion. The community will gain just in proportion
as, by the better manage uent of tho property, the sur-
plus is mereaseil. This is, of course, high motive to
improecthe management ; but, and even holy
us it is, it cannot abate to the church lessees one iota
of their moral rights; and because in times past our
ecclesiastical pastors and masters hare been wasteful
Endsehish, we are not now to be unjust and greedy.
But what do these rights amount to? What is
their value? The bishops reply—to nothing legally
beyond the existing tenure of the leases. Yet, prac-
tically, says Lord STANLEY," to not much short of 24
to 25 years' purchase." Now, it is quite true, that
the church might run the leases out ; but era /sm.
When run out, the church would get back the land
exhausted, rained, worthless; for so improvident
have been its leases, that church tenants are
not liable to impeachment of waste; and this
power to destroy the land gives the tenant
an existing interest in it far beyond the fair ow fur
the period his existing lease huts to run. It is idle,
then, to talk of running out the leases. Parliament
I will cut. if the bishops would, submit to see so large
a proportion of the soil of England ruined by the folly
of the church, and the proportion due to the lessees
is the only question to be tuvued.
Episcopacy, wise enough hi its generation, feels this;
it, thereto's., confines its objections to a rigiit of per-
petual renewal. Practicully, though not legally,
church lessees, have now that right ; and it is because
they have it only practically, and not legally,
that church lands are worse cultivated than
other land. Fixity of tenure, whatever be
the terms of the tenure, is indispensable to a
proper use of the soil under tenure ; and on this gene-
rid principle alone a right of perpetual renewal on
some terms is the soundest of all policy. For the
church cannot at any time get again into the full pos-
session of the property its bishops and cathedral clergy
have alienated in a ;gaud sound state. So, the church
must be contented to part permanently with some
part of its interest in that property that it may be
beeserrod in a productive condition for the general
benefit. " Therefore," Lord STANLEY told the bishops,
as previously we had advised the lessees, " this is not
a plain, simple, easy question; lint one where A 01111.1•
thing must be conceded on both sides."
Exactly so. floes, then, Lord essitsues Bill con-
tain the elements of a just compromise? if you
ask a churchman, or a bishops secretary, he
will answer- No; it is a lessees' bill." a you
inquire of a church tenant, he will reply—" No; it
is a lessors' NIL" It pleases neither of the parties
interested in it: and their einumon dislike of it
on such conflicting grounds is probably the very
strongest argument in its favour.

AmoiTottrai. succession in the episcopacy, after
having, for a succession of centuries, allowed the pro-
perty bestowed on the Itoman Catholic, and trans-
ti•rred by the state to the Protestant Church, to be so
mismanaged as to have given its tenants pecuniary,
though not legal power to compel the church to re-
new their leases on certain definite terms, and to
have bestowed on their renewable leaseholds a value,
according to Lord STANLEY, " not much short of 21
or 25 years purchase—Episcopaey, notwithstanding
its divine mission and character, having so permitted
the church's property to be abused, has (as we the
other day anticipated it would) taken fright at Lord
CAnusLes Episcopal and Capitular Estates Hill—
. a measure intended to remedy, so far as circumstances
and justice to others will now permit, the wrong
done to the church by its bishops and cathedral dig-
nitaries.

There is something very characteristic of episcopacy
in this alarm. So long us the bishops and deans and
chapters were principally dependent for their in-
comes on the tines arising from this waste by them
of the church's property; (which property, says the
episcopal proprietor of the great Paddington estate,
" is held in trust for the Christian people of this
country,") no one ever heard one word of regret
or compunction fall from the prelatical lips which
now cannot denounce too strongly the practice
of renewal. On they went, renewing and renew-
ing every seven years on fines varying from
one year to two years and a half annual value; on
they went, depriving the church of the corpus of its
mineral wealth ; of course, to the lessees a
further and additional claim for perpetual renewal
every time they signed, sealed, and delivered a new
lease. None of them bold enough, for the sake "of
the Christian people of this country," to run their lives
against the leases as did Lord BRISTOL, when (in the
rollicking days of Irish independence, wherein agist-
, mcnt tithe was destroyed) he was Bishop of Drainv.
But no sooner have the episcopacy of England
and the cathedral dignitaries been assured, and
secured from the Ecclesiastical Commission, some-
thing like fixed incomes, irrespective of the proceeds
of their sees, deaneries, and stalls, and are, in conse-
quence, no longer dependent on fines for revenues, than
theyhave had a new revelation on the subjectof church
leaseholds. The venerable " heads of the church'
now begin to see the enormity of what they had
before been doing; they now appreciate the gravity
of their past ;practices; and, when Lord Calitistr.
proposes to legislate in a spirit of compromise
rendered necessary by episcopal and eapitular
waste fur centuries, the right reverend Fathers read
the House of Lords a homily on the sacrilegious
impiety of alienating church property—they them-
selves and their order having in times past been the
hugest of all its alienators.
According to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
" they had received that property from their prede-
cessors, and were bound to transmit it unimpaired
to their successors." According to CHARLES JAHEN•
our own Diocesan, "it would be a dereliction of duty
to sacrifice the church's rights;" nay, rising in holy
fervour, "it would rob posterity. Whilst in the
obstetric language of Oxford's grandiloquent prelate,
the subject was "pregnant with the spiritual in-
terests of future generations."
That the church's property has been alienated and
wasted by the system of church leaseholds, which has
prevailed since and notwithstanding the restraining
statute of ELIZABETH, is a matter of regret to the laity,
as it is of scandal to the episcopacy and cathedral
functionaries. But for the waste and alienation, the
church alone is responsible ; the system was devised,
adopted, and persisted in, to gain present income at
the expense " of the Christian people of this
country;" it was projected and insisted in to

Thi; discu"ssion in the Lords Will, perhaps, nhate a
little the extreme pretensions of both. The church
will have noted, how every temporal peer who
spoke, except the Duke of liveet.Eutiit, rejected the
extreme episcopal pretensions; and how the PRIMATE
himself, whilst speaking in their support, voted
against the Bish.m of OxFottn's amendment to get
rid of the bill altogether. And the lessees, pow-
erful as they are in the other house, will sec that
the legal right of perpetual renewal is a privilege for
which they must prey the church substantially.
With a view to this compromise the bill could not
have been better disposed of than it was. on Lord
it.r.'s own proposition, on Thursday evening.
And when it conies out of committee, then will be
the time to discuss the terms of the comprondse there
to be arranged.