The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.

In answer to a question from Mr. 8. O'Bante,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said a bill
had been introduced into the House of Lords on the subject
of Charitable Trusts, and it was now printed.
FACTORY LABOUR.
In reply to a question from Mr. THALAWNY,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
could not hold out any hope of introducing a bill this session
to compensate labourers who were willing to work 12 hours
• day.
BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTER, Bro. BILL.
On the order of the day being read for going into com-
mittee on this bill,
Mr. ESCOTT rose to move an amendment. The people
of this country were universally opposed to having four
new bishoperammed down their throats. He should
like to know from the noble lord at the head of the Woods
and Forests, whether the county of Yerk approved of
this bill? Would his hon. hiend the member for
Sheffield (Mr. Ward)—the author of the appropria-
tion clause—tell him what his constituents thought of
it ? Perhaps the right hon. gentleman the member for
Dungarvon—once the advocate of popular rights and sound
principles—would also tell him whether the people of Ire-
land approved of a bill for creating four new protestant
bishop? He would go from Ireland to Scotland and ask
the right hon. gentleman the member for Edinburgh (Mr.
Macaulay) what the people of his country thought of nth a
measure? Her Majesty's ministers had given no reason for
bringing forward this bill, and if it was carried it would be
by the opposition, and not by the supporters of the govern-
ment. Where was the noble lord the member for Lynn ?
Was it for the making of these (our "Brummagem mitres "
that his ancestors came over with William? Would his
tacit or open support of this bill secure him popular favour?
Where, too, he would ask, was the hon. member for Shrews-
bury ? Why was he not in the house to oppose such a mea-
sure instead of riding through the county of Buckingham in
John Hampden's saddle ? He would raise himself more in
popular estimation by raising his voice against such
a measure than by all the pamphlets he could write
or addresses he could make to the farmers of Eng-
land, Why should these new bishops be saddled on
the people? It was said they would not be. No,
but the poor clergy would suffer for it. Every shilling of
the money which would be required to establish these new
bishopric', would be taken from the poor working clergy,
who would otherwise have received the benefit of it. (Hear,
hear.) The largest majority that had voted tor the bill was
only one-fifth of the House of Commons—why then did not
hon, gentlemen came down to avow their opinicns and sup-
port their principles ? (Hear, hear.) Under all these cir-
cumstances he felt it his duty to persevere in his opposition
to the bill, and those who acted with him were determined
to debate it. The noble lord might prorogue the parliament
on Thursday, but if he did so the bill would not have piped.
He should conclude by moving that the other orders of the
day be now read. (Cheers.)
Mr. AOLIONBY thought if this bill paned, it would he
but the commencement of bishops' bills, as clearly appeared
from the evidence of the Bishops of London and St. Asaph
on the subject, both of whom thought there was greater need
of bishops than of maistanes to the small or 111-paid clergy
aa:Ca)—and both of whom said they were of opinion that
mode of providing for the spiritual destitution of
the people was to create more bishops. (Much laughter.)
Mr. HUME was sorry that the noble lord at the head of
the government persisted in forcing on this bill : he had
hoped that he would postpone it until next session, and he
would put it to him whether it would not be wise to do so,
and whether it would not serve the liberal cause if he were
now to postpone until the next parliament this most ob-
noxious and objectionable manure 1 (Hear, hear.) He
implored the noble lord not to waste the time of the house
any further, but at once to withdraw the bill. (Hear, hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL could not but think, after hearing the
speeches which had been made against the bill, that the op-
position to it arose mainly from a ahopprehension both on
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