The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1853.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TunDmr. Jims 21.
Toe Luau CHANCIILLOR took kis seat at 3 o'clock.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
PETITION puEsuNT ED.

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CH ‘RITAIiLIt ilt1:4T11 BILL —By L'ird BROUGHAM,
Inna Beth. in f of.

TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY.

1.4r,1 N KS r, having read en extract from the
Tt1..11 of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the
gut j et of the registration of assurances end trawler ut real
property, to the eff.et that some more simple means should
▪ adopted for the transfer of rest property, said he wished
to ask h.a nol.le and learned friend on the woolsack whether
Lt hAd in actual preparation or in contemplation any mea-
sure or measures directed to the objects to which he had n-
forted.

LORD CHANCELLOR said that he bad no measure
actually in contemplation; but he bad had nuiNerous con-
wersati ins with many learned persons, with a new to con-
sider what might be done. (Hear )

INCOME TAX BILL.
The Sul of ABERDEEN, in moving the second readinc
tsf this bill, said that, at the first formation of the preterit
pairetnniest, be stated to the house that therewould speedily
be • financial difficulty, or Tattoo. • Bnancial crisis, by
the failure of a largo portion of the revenue, in consequence
of the early expiration of the income tax ; and he added
that it would severely try the ingenuity of say person who
lead to repair the loss. The income tax having expired in
the month of April, it became necessary for the government
to ginsider what course they shoull pursue. Ile believed it
would net have been impossible to have allowed the tax to •
lope without being renewed, and to have found a substi-
tute for it, but the surplus at their disposal was so insignifi
Cant, and such • tax as would have been necessary fur the
?tarpon of supplying the deficiency occasioned would have
tutu so onerous, so oppressive, and so unequal,
that it would hne created more dissatisfaction, and
have been more unpalatable than the income tax itself.
They. therefore had as hesitation in deciding upon renew-
ing the income tax. But then the question arose, in what
spanner and for what pe-iod, and with what modifications
should this be done t Then was something in the nature
of toe tax itself, notwithstanding the incalculable advan-
(ages
which we had derived from it both in war sail peace
—Viers was sossethiag is its very nature which was open to
radical objection. There was no doubt that it was inquisito-
rial in its character—irksome and objectionable ; also that the
principle of self-assessment afforded a facility, if not an
encouragement of fraud, very much to the loss of the re-
venue and the injury of 'morality. (Hear, hear.) But be
thought, notwithstanding the prevalence of this opinion—
is which, he mu-t admit, there was much reason—his right
bon. friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had so dealt
with that notion that be had absolutely succeeded In
s(l -wing every opposition to his plea, sad inducing the
b lief that it was the Daly one capable of being carried.
He did unsay that the mode which he had adopted was
jest and even, but be proved that any other plan was its-
possible, and that any attempt at any other mode would be
attended with more iaequality and more injustice.
blew, what was the result? Not that the in-
came tax should rot be renewed, but that it
should not form say permanent portion of our financial
sptem ; and that in renewing it they should take cars to
wcure a mode by which it should become extinct, and ex-
rim he might say, of itself. During the period from 1853
to 180), the time at which the income tax would expire, re.
missions of taxation would be made. In the course of the
pornat year the remission would be above one million.
The whole of the reductions of the charge upon permanent
omens of income therefore will amount to about
8,954,00 W., making up the amount of the income tax,
which he had taken as the estimate for 1800, within
1100,0001., so that their lordships would see that at that
time, if they thought proper, the income tax might be dis-
pt used with by an additional burden of 100,0001. Now he
must say that this appeared to be a solid system of finance,
and it was one which had already been received with
pr at readiness by the country. He believed it was a system
which, coupled as it was with the great relief of the mew of
the people and the continuance of that system of free trade
so wisely adopted, if pioneered in (if we should 'be foetus
Ran enough to
epreser the incalculable b sif
peace), would caus this country to sea years of
trial prospeeity which hitherto it had not attained. ear.)
The Earl of DERBY did not rise for the purpose of
offering any opposition to the second reading of this bill,
because he was quite aware that the state of the fineness,
as the noble earl (Aberdeen) had stated, was not such as
would enable the peanut or any other government to die-
run with the income tax. Bat he must say
that the speech of the noble earl, from the fleet
to the last, appeared to him (the Earl of Derby)
to have been • contradiction of the premises me
which he proccedLd. He could not but think that some
of the calculations of the noble earl (Aberdeen) were of •
character so vague as to render it perfectly impossible to
take them Lathe bases for further arguments and calculations.
He (Lord Derby), however, believed the income tax to be
inevitable. He was not prepared to ask their lordships to
refine that which was necessary to the country. He believed
*bather° must be a continuance of this tax, and that insole.
milting to it now, with all its injustice and all its inequali-
ties, they were submitting to a tax which, though
immainally for years, was really one of which neither
the noble earl (Aberdeen) nor himself would live to see the

end.
Lord PORTMAN would only say a few words in
14 ferencs to this bill upon the great increase which bad
taken place of late years in direct taxation. The course of
things at pretest was to widen that system in comparison
with the amount of indirect taxation ; and he spoke,
therefore, by way of warning against any further steps in
that direction. There was one peculiarity in the bill to
which he would call attention ; it was, that it was the
first bill in which an allowance was made to the clergy in
respect of sums actually expended in ecclesiastical service.
Lord BREWERS (who was very indistinctly heard) was
understood to object to the income tax generally as tw-
in.* and intiaisitorial, and complained especially of this
bill, by which nemiaally a tax of 7d. in the pound was
imposed on land when to tact it amounted to 9d.; and
he denied that any one could defend the incidents of •
tax of this description.
Lord BROUGHAM agreed with the noble lord who
bad just sat down with regard to the great evils of the
tax which he had pointed out; but there were also many
others besides those whisk the noble lord had noticed.
His noble friend at the head of the government held out
the prospect of their seeing the tax taken off in seven years;
but he (Lord Brougham) could not help fearing that that
seven years and many other seven years, would elapse
before there was an end of this tax. This tax was only net
worse than • tax on the food of the people ; thea a tax en
the knowledge of the people; and than a tax on law pro-
ceedings ; and, looking at it as ens of the worst taxes, he
retained the opinions he expressed, and would be ready to
reiterate the resolutions which he moved in 1842 and 1851,
with the ate exception, that he was more inclined to listen
to the argument against the possibility or any. modification
with regard to the warms and different emcee of income.
Without the hops of the tam ending at the time his noble
friend Mated, he yet admitted that the state of the finances
of the Manny rendered it mummy.
The Mamie el CLANRICARDE was one of those who
; act the Meese tax when it was introduced by Sir
Peal. They were told then that it was imposed for
skies yews but he thought then that it would be mons-
oon% nag he did aot sow see say real reason why it should
sew esimisete is semmyeere.
The Ilestrvis le LANIEDOWNI 411111111.ei that the cos-
liness, et the eas maid wisslesft iispeed upon the
desieha of fats» goemonteas mad Aftee legislatures ;
list en his own part, and on this part of the government, he
sbe to NIL that ewer= is the sesessity for eon-
• the tan to the dam w bed bees howled in the
ilill , the *miss they swat le Nam was sot that it
peemesestt but the very attettssy. (Hear, hear.)
MU serpent Met the tax would be peemaseat he should
le the most isessielest of human bakes is supporting it,
%Meg ea essismo esseeleas onward lis
Grey,
es la ewe aelheritresly, bet oe the sado-
auth
Or
of Sir Robert Peel, Lead Oresellis. Grey, and
Wiest every ether shames is this wastty daring the
lest twenty ysen—to as Mews s. as a permanent source
of sod be was maim is take this opportunity of
stating, ths4 bs had ha se dives amp& his oriaies in
this respect. The *WM with elidt Me peemmeet bed
deed the period of Triers he the madams* of the las
was the very reverse of that whisk bad been esesmed by the
noble lord opposite—that of Wei it mere lbsek upon the
financial system of the cosaley—theg peeled lad bees
adored ea the se empties, heeded es ihele, that peer
after year the romans would es Wm= hese the impetus
given to trade by the removal of than Ime ad wise
lauties which hod Whew acted as 'beds le r fall develep-
meat of the resources of the gauntry, that by the year 1880
we might altegetterteuse with a tax which, he ad-
mitted,should be to only seder special circum-
stances. As a t swarm as revises such • tax was
in the Owende
igrei obleetiesabie sad unconstitutional,
lieing,as it was, • tax met ealy lathe peekets, but on the feel-
ings of the people. With regard to the extension of the
Sas to Ireland, he theeght the time had come for consider-
ing how ter the taxes et the two countries should be imi-
row apps_th•priodple of equality. It was not because
the mmolidatel assaities were remitted that the income
lax wee imposed, but as it was considered unjust
1., continue to exact from Ireland the payment of those
annuities which formed • galling sad most waled impost,
sad as It was impossible longer to exempt that country
from the taxes paid by this, the moment was thought
favourable for sweeping away those consolidated an=
which, more than any income tax could do, bad leaded is
cheek the prosperity of the country, and at the erne Mtn
establishiag sousethhig like equality of taxation Won= the
I, o centime. (Hear, hear.) As to the sleds of levying
the tax is Ireland, the government hod gives the gooiest
the fullest attention, and had adopted the made proposed
in the bill as the mat equitable and fair to all parties. It
bad bees said that • property tax was a war tax, and should
tidy be imposed in time of war. He earnestly hoped that
it might be loss before we shook: have to resort
to it for that purpose—(hear, hear)—hut shoeld
war unfortunately come, the continuance of this
tax would be found to have raised up • Omit
seedy to be appropriated to the swimsuit defence and the na-
tionsl honour, and by placing the finances of the country in
• position to enable it to enjoins its polities amongst the
stations of the earth. la the event of • war we should take
the surest means of preserving peace. (Bear, hear.)
The Earl of WICK LOW approved of the extension of
the tax to Ireland, but nbj,oted that the made in which it
wee to be imposed would make it equal to upwards of a
shillingiaateed of sevenpence in the poand upon the land
is that country.
emami The hill was then reads second We, and ordered to be
tted.

INC1:3111ER ED ESTATES (I 1: ELAND) CON-
TINUA NC E ACT WILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, is moving the second
reading o✓ this bill, enured into a brief esplanttßin of the
nature and extent of its provisions. Their lordships wore
aware, he said, that the Incumbered E.tates Court
way constituted under an act of parliament which passed in
1849, and which provided that the court ►hould continue
for three years. That act, which expired last year, was
continued for twelve month• longer, and so that period hail
very nearly expired, the object of this bill was to continue
'the court for two years more, power being given to the
commissioners to d' "hute the money which came into
their hands for two years after that.
Lord MO:STEM:ILE was sorry that the introduction of
this bill had been delayed, because the delay had been pro-
, ductive of considerable inconvenience in Ireland.
Atter a few words from the Earl of CLAIM/AM, the bill
was read a second time, and ordered to be eommitted.

•
BURGH It Alt BOU RS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed.
Their lordships then adjourned at twenty minute. to nine
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TI:Esn.►T, JtNE 21.
The 13ramcza took the chair at 5 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
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The Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway. and the
Westminster Improvements bills were read a third time.
The following bills were considered end ordered to lie
upon the table:—British Electric Telegraph Company;
Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland); Liverpool,
Crossby, and Southport Railway.
WARRINGTON AND ALTRINCIIAM JUNCTLY.s/

RAILWAY BILL

Mr. BROTHERia3i-Mo-veith-e-r-e•-com. mittal of the bill.

Mr. T. M. GIBSON objected to the bill being re-com-
mitted to the same committee, and proposed that it should
be postponed till Monday.
Mr. BROTIIERTON acceded to the proposition, and the
bill was postponed accordingly.

=Wieners; and it was necessary that the income of
the dignitaries should be made a first rent
cheese upon the property. Those dignitaries who'
were not in possession of a deed income were to have such
a sum paid to them =should make up what thdy were in
any case entitled to receive. The provision were very
simple. Tbi re was only one other, of which be had taken
ne secoent in his estimate of church property. but which
would have the effect of materially enhancing that value.
The principle adppted by the commissioners with regard to
all property in their possession; of not renewing the leases
of tithes, would be carried out with respect to the property
of corporations =mine under their management. 'When-
ever any surrender of lessee or tithes took place, either by
purchase or lapse, a sufficient provision would be nude for
the wants of those placer, and the residue would he made
to form part of the permanent endowment of the ecclesiu-
field corporations. The step be now proposed was the ne-
cessary consequence of all the previous legislation, and
appeared necessary to render it complete. He had shown
that the commissioners were already in possession of pro-
perty to a considerable amount, over which they ezerciaed
little or no control. The position of the bishops was ez-
evedingly unsatisfactory. (Hear, hear.) He proposed that
it should be in every eau their own property that should
yield them their lawful amount of income ; that they should
have constant access to the accounts of those properties;
that an account should be kept in every can distinct; that
the fee should remain in themselves, the commissioners

being only their agents; and that the strongest cautions
should be adopted of which the law was capable to secure
prompt and immediate payment. If they wished to confer
real efficiency upon the Church Building Acts, that could
only be done by holding out to districts and parish., a
prospect of • permanent endowment, which those acts were
unable to afford. If they wished that the act of enfran-
chisement, 14 & 15 Victoria, should confer a reel boon upon
the church by enhancing the value of its property,
unless they adopted a mode of administration suited to
the new description of things, they did little to pro-
mote the real interests of the church, but rather led
it to encounter a new and formidable danger. As the po-
pulation was increasing, and as thousands of forms of vice
and danger were threatening the state, • heavy responsi-
bility lay on the legislature, notonly of framing enactments
whose terrors should repress crime, and of providing for the
temporal comforts of the people, but of regarding them as
beings entrusted to their care, with undentandings given
them from above, and with spirits framed in the mould o(
time, but destined for eternity. He would urge the house
to assert its indisputable rights over all matters, ecelesies-
tical as well as civil, and so to discharge its inalienable
duty as to prove the necessity end the advantage of the
union between church and state. Events were now dioly
proclaiming that it was not only to human law, bit to
' divine assistance, that we must look for the inviolability of
our empire. The noble lord concluded by quoting some
words of Archbishop Tillotson, in reference toQueen Anne's
bounty to the church, and expressing • hops that they
might prove applicable to the present time. He then
moved for leave to bring in a bill to make better provision
for the management of episcopal and capitals, property.
THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION.

. -
Mr. INOHAY SppOtrad at the bar, and presented the
report of the Liverpool Election Committee. It stated that
Charles Turner and Wiliam Forbes Mackenzie were not
ilduly elected, and that the last election was a void election ;
that Charles Turner and William Forbes Mackenzie were
by their agents guilty of bribery and treating ; and that
William Dodd and about 20 others were bribed by the pay
ment of fis. each. (Laughter.) That others were bribed
by the payment of 10s. each ; bet that it was not proved
that such bribery was with the consent of the sitting mem-
bers. net refreshments were provided on the polling day ;
that the several payments were made to the voters on ac-
count of their having voted for the sitting members, under
the name of a day's pay, and as a compensation for the time
which it was alleged they lost in voting. These gifts
were not beyond their daily average earnings;
but from the position of the polling places in the
different wards, the voters might have polled without any
such interruption of time, or without needing refreshment.
As to the other candidates, there was no reason to believe
that any illegal transaction had taken place with regard to
the voters. The committee did not think it right to re-
commend that the issue of the writ should be suspended,
or that any further inquiry should take place.
An Rote. Stempel: gave notice to move, on that day
week, that the writ should issue.
Lord D. STUART said he should move as an amend-
ment that at the nest election for Liverpool the votes
should be taken by way of ballot. (Cheers.)
EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR PROPERTY.

17);d 7f ;dent, from the speech
of the noble lord, that he had devoted great industry and
labour to the subject, rid was animated by a very great
regard for the good of the church and the spiritual welfare
of the people. (Hear, hear.) With respect to this parti-
cular proposition and the details of the bill, he thought
it far better that the house should see the bill, and have an
opportunity of considering it, rather than enter into a dis-
cussion on the present stage. (Hear, hear.) Many of the
propoeitions were of very great importance ; and to some
objections might be entertained. He quite agreed with
the noble lord that they should not consider the acts passed
from 1836 to the present time as forming a complete eye-
tem ; but that they should, from time to time, adopt other
provisions for removing abuses, and promoting the efficiency
of the church. He heartily concurred in giving leave toe
the introduc ion of the bill; and he trusted t►e noble lord
would not unduly press a bill of such great importance at a
petiod when parliament might not be able to give i a whole
attention to it. (Hear, bear.)
Mr.'HUME wished to express his great satisfaction with
the proposal now made, though he did not approve of it in
all its parts. He had made a similar motion in 1836, but
had not succeeded in it. He bad protested against the vote
of a million and a half for new churches, and he should
maintain that an more public money should be devoted to
that f urpose. He did not object to the surplus of capitular
incomes being applied to' the use of the church ; and he
thought it highly wrong that such enormous salaries should
be received by dignitaries. The noble lord considered that
this property could only be applied in support of one sett of
the establishment ; but it should be remembered that it
was originally devoted to the education of the whole com-
munity, and he thought that at least one-half of it ought
still to be applied for this purpose. The noble lord com-
plained of the destitute state of some parishes. Let him
look at the voluntary efforts of dissenting bodies, and of the
free church of Scotland, by whom three millions bad been
raised in a few years. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HEADLAM expressed his entire concurrence in the
object of the noble lord. With respect to the diocese of
Durham, the operation of the scheme of the commissioners
was to divert the church funds of that district, and apply
them to the country at large, leaving the population of Dur-
ham comparatively destitute. Newcastle, with Gateshead,
contained a population of 113,000 ; they had been applied
to to raise a fund fur the church, to which they had ac-
ceded, though it was very hard upon them that their own
funds should be diverted In thi., way he had described. The
population of the empty of Durham had increased faster
than any other district, with the exception of Lancashire
and one or two others—the result of the opening of the
great coal-field there ; and there was no doubt that a dis-
, triet with a population so rapidly growing must require a
great extension of church accommodation. He should en-
deavour to introduce into the bill a clause giving the
dirricte where the funds were produced a prior claim upon

them.
Sir B. HALL said he had long paid attention to this 11
subject, and had endeavoured to bring about • better dis-
tribution ofchureh property, in consequence of which he
had been exposed to much obloquy. He certainly did not
expect, at so early a period, to see the House of Commons
acquiescing in the proposition to permit a.trill like that to
be introduced, which went further than anything he had
ever proposed. He would not enter largely onto the sub-
ject, as there seemed a unanimous feeling that the propo-
sitiom should go forward, and should be discussed on the
sesemiseading. If it were proposed that the of the
thumb should be made available for the church generally,
imbed bre particular districts, he would give it his hearty
She church ought to be viewed generally, not in
asilsaa ; and if any district was more richly endowed than
estrether—if there was more property in Durham than was
noesseary for the wants of the community—the poorer ds.
triets ought to hove the benefit of the distribution of that
property. (Hear, bear.) Ito Wales, real poverty might-he
seen among the working clergy ; and any proposal to make
the superfluous wealth of the diocese of Durham available
for the wants of the church, either in the poorer districts
of England, or in the principality, should have his hearty
support. He sincerely hoped that the bill would pass into
a law this session, being confident that its result would be
to render the church more beloved and more cared for.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. EWART expressed his approval of the leading fea-
tures of the bill. He wished to call attention to an ano-
maly in the working of the capitular act, by which the
deans on the old foundations received more than those on
the new, who were limited to 1,0001. a year, and some of
them actually received less than the canons. In this re-
spect, the object of the act bad been defeated; and ho
hoped the bill now proposed would supply a remedy.
Mr. FEROL'SON spoke in praise of the efforts of the
hard-working clergy, to whom, he said, the present
efficient state et the church was mainly due.
In his own name, and in the name of the working clergy,
he thanked the noble marquis for having introduced the
bill.
Mr. A. PELLATT concurred in the tribute of praise
which was bestowed on the noble lord for having introduced
the bill. He sympathised with the distresses of the work-
ing clergy of the church of England, but, at the same time,
there were clergymen in the enjoyment of large incomes for I
which they did little in return. He thought there ought to
be • meet searching inquiry into those incomes, and into
the management of church property. As a nonconformist
he thought he was entitled to claim • part of the merit for
the nonconformist clergy in helping to bring about the
improv.d state of things which the noble marquis re-
fared to.
Mr. PHILLINIORE observed that pluralitieswere rapidly
disappearing, and by the existing laws it was impossible they
could be renewed.
The Marquis of BLANDFORD, in reply, tendered his
thanks to the government for the manner in which the
had received tis motion, which he agreed in thinking, with
his hon. friend the member for Marylebone, was • sign of
a wrest advance. (Hear, hear.)
Leave was then given to bring is the bill.
SEPTENNIAL ACT.
The SPEAKER having called on Lord Dudley Stuart,
whose motion for the repeal of the Septennial Act and for
shortening the duration of parliaments, stood next an the
notice paper,
Mr. II CM E submitted to his noble friend whether, eon-
. sidering that the government had promised to introduce a re-
form bill nest session ; considering also the great Importance
! of the subject, the state of the house (which was very thin),
and the prospect of the debate being interrupted, It would

sot be better deg his ble friend not to submit his motion
under these riven :-.(Hear, beer.)
Lord I). STUAILTaIa he, was mast unwilling to post-
pone a question of so much importance as the shortening of
the duration of parliaments, but at the same time he was
desirous of giving every weight to the opinion of so old, 90
tried, and so steady a reformer es his hon. friend. Ile was
pats aware also that he roes to bring forward his motion at
toe mast critical hour of the dry. (Laughter.) Under them
' circumstances he would bow to the hotter judgmer.t of his
hon. friend. But he should decline to give any pledge as
to the course be should pursue in reference to the subject
in the present session, or any future session of parliament.
(Hear, bear.)
The motion was then withdrawn.
SEIZURE OF WATCHES.
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Mr. M. CHAMBERS YOU to move for • select committee
to inquire into the circumstances connected with the un-
lawful seizure by two officen of the customs, on the 10th
day of February, 1152, of foreign and English watches of
the value of upwards of 5,0001., end of books, letter., papers,
and bills of exchange, the property of Lucien Merchant,
and to ascertain what steps have been taken by the com-
missioners of customs to investigate the conunet of the offi-
cers, and to make restitution of such property. The hon.
and learned gentleman, after a few introductory observe-
tions, and characterising the seizure as unlawful, was pro-
ending to state the circumstances under which it was
made, when
An HON. Maxuxa moved that the house be counted.
And there being but 31 members present, the house ad-
journed at a quarter to 8 o'clock.

ghe exoregus,