The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-03 00:00:00

CHURCH RATES'.

Mr. S. Estcourt has fixed his motion on this
subject for the 24th inst., and last night communicated to
the house the following amended liaise of its terms
"That the law relating to church rate. may be beneficially
nettled by combining in one measure the following
objects:-1. To repeal the present legal proems for
enforcing compulsory church rates ; 2. To give facilities
for the collection of voluntary rates ; 3. To enable vestries
specially summoned (and in which owners of property
shall have a vote by proxy), to transfer from the occupiers
to the owners so much of their liability as relates to the
repairs of the parish church and churchyard, and to
make some special rate as may be voted by the majority,
recoverable by the same process as rata, for the repair of
highways."

The minority who voted last night against
the third reading of the Highways Bill, were
Me. 0. Bailey, E. Ball, G. W. Bentiock, J. L
Briscoe, W. Cox, G. Cubit!, Sir J. Duke, Messrs. H.
W. Freeland, R. S. Gard, J. Grams, C. D. Griffith, J. P.
Hennessy, G. Hodgkinson, S. T. Kekewich, J. Kershaw,
W. Lawson, W. J. Monies, O. N. Newdegate, Capt. D.
O'Connell, Mr. G. Onslow, Major Parker, Messrs. J. Pi!king-
ton, T. J. Robartes, G. Selater-Booth, C. J. Selwyn, J.
J. Somas, W. Marvin's, J. Vance, J. P. B. Wellhead,
J. White, J. Wild. Tellers, Mews. Barrow and Beach.

The minutes of evidence taken by the select com-
mittee to whom the Trade Marks Bill and the Merchandise
Marks Bill were referred, have just been printed in a blue-
book of 117 pages.

Mr. Isaac Butt is to ask the Chief Secretary for
Ireland a queetion relative to the Yoaghal poor•law union
in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening.

On Friday Sir F. Goldsmid will call the atten
tine of the House of Oommous to the persecution of the
Jews at Sanstow.

Colonel William Stuart will ask the Secretary
of State for War, on the 17th, whether a free passage will
be granted to the wives and families of officers who were
sent out to Canada during the pest winter, or any other
allowance be made to enable them to join their husbands in
Canada.

An English nobleman, the Earl of Dunmore, h
reported by the Richmond Examiner of May 1 as one of
the gnats at the Exchange Hotel in that city, he having
"run the blockade in the Nashville on her last inward
trip."

We (Times) aro requested to state that Mr. Rick-
ards, of Queen's College, Oxford, is no longer a candidate for
the Professorship of Political Economy, the election for
which will take place on the sth instant. _ _ _

The presentation to the rectory of Foxley, Wilts,
having lamed to Oxford University ham the patron
(lady Holland) being a Roman catholic, four candidates for
the vacant preferment have announced themselves, viz.,
the Rev. Lewis A. M. Way, late carats of the pariah, Rev.
H. B. Byrne, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, the Rev.
Charles Hill Awdry, M.A., late of Queen's College, and the
Rev. Octavian Ogle, M.A., of Lincoln College.
A letter from King's Lynn says :—" Perhaps
it is a noteworthy circumstance that while zabeeriptions for
the sufferers have flowed into the keeping of the Mayor of
Lynn, a neighbouring incumbent, apparently alarmed lest
the waters should by and by wet his own parishioners, has
volunteered a partial drainage in exceedingly good time—in
the form of a demand for immediate payment of his tithe,
not usually collected till Michaelmas."
A letter from Darmstadt, dated the 30th May,
in the Nord, says :—" This morning, at 11, a funeral service
was performed for the repose of the soul of her late Royal
Highness the Grand Duchess Matilda of Hesse and of the
Rhine. A magnificent catafalque had been raised in the
centre of the Catholic Church. His Royal Highness the
Grand Duke, the Prince Leopold of Bavaria, brother
of the deoeased lady, their Royal Highnesses Prince
Charles and the Priem', Prince Alexander of Heise,
and all the prince and princesses of the Grand Deal
Home, were present at this sad and mournful ceremony.
The foreign ministers resident at Darmstadt, Count Lot-
sow, Baron Labenski, Count Reisil, Baron Omits, and
all the ministers accredited to the Grand Ducal Court,
who reside at Frankfort, testified by their presence their
deep grief at the lees which the Grand Duke has sustained.
All the great nobles of the Grand Duchy, all the members
of the Chamber of Deputies, the Generals, the Ministers,
the civil and military functionaries, the catholic clergy, and
the protestant clergy, were assembled in the vast enclosure
of the church to pray for the repose of the soul of the
excellent Princess whom we have just lost."

Letters from Cologne mention the passage of
large bodies of emigrants bound for Antwerp, where they'
are to be shipped for the Bawls. At the atm* time we
him of districts of Prussia where there is • greet scarcity
of bands for labour. The papers attribute the emigration
to South America to the efforts of unscrupulous scents,
who deceive the working chimes by magnificent promises,
in fulfilment of which they find, upon arrival, an unhealthy
clim►te, unsparing taskmasters, sod endless misery. A
mercantile house at Antwerp is named as being actively
engaged in this traffic, and as forwarding amp altar cargo
of unfortunate Germans across the Atlentio to perch is the
coffee plantations of Sea Paolo.