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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

ROUSE OF COMMONS.—WEownwiti, dm 18.

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After our report left yesterday,
ir. Mr. GOLDSMED, in moving the emsoltial el his I
' Returning Ofikers Bill, explained that its object was to
amimilate the varying laws of the three oonntrieoi and to
set nd of the inconveniences of such returns as Dtim-
birtonshire and Holston, by providing that are
• dicer should not vote as an ordinary elector, but=
bays uriasting vote whenever it was neoeseary to prevent

• double return.
Mr. LOWTHER, who moved the rejection of the bill,
admitted that the law needed alteration, and the cape.
dismay of assimilating the law of the three countries, but
- preferred the Scotch law, which required the returning
siker to make a double return and leave the matter to the
- bibs of the House of Commons.
The imendineet was enceded by Mr. Dutton,
v and sup-
ported by Mr. Bereeford Hope, Major er, and Mr.
here
Mr. WALPOLE discussed the present state of the law
relating to returning officers, and, arriving at the conclu-
sion that an alteration was necessary, expressed hie per-
med preference for Mr. Goldamid's proposal.
Mr. BRETT opposed the bill as inadequate, as tending
to make the retuning officer a partisan, and occasionally
, Peng the decision of the election to one who might not
be duly qualified to vote.
After some further discussion, the committal of the bill
was carried by 122 to 67, but so much difficulty arose in
dismissing the details, and so many objections were taken
by Scotch and Irish member', that no progress was made,
end the chairman left the chair with the understanding
that the bill would be withdrawn for this session.
CHIIRCH-RATES ABOLITION.
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Mr. GLADSTONE, in moving the second reading of
his Compulsory Church-rata Abolition Bill, anted that
the new government had intimated to him their willing-
ness to accept the principle of the bill by voting for the
second reading, reserving to themselves the liberty of
proposing sue amendments as they deemed desirable,
n the condition, which he thought reasonable, that it
iherald not be premed beyond that stage this senton. Be
justified his course in pressing it to a second reading by
the pledge he had given personally to Mr. Hardcaatle at
an early part of the session, which afterwards was taken
np b the late government ; and he expressed his opinion
y that the delay, by giving further time for consideration,
would lead to a more satisfactory and comprehensive settle-
ment of the question.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER feared Mr.
Gladstone was under some misapprehension. The only
undertaking of which he was cognisant was that the
government would not oppose the second reading of the
bill on the condition that it were not pressed further this
year,,bat they did not bind themselves to accept its prin-
ciple by voting for it ; indeed, they held themselves at
Woertv to oppose it next year even on principle, if they
SWAM it.
arDEGATE professed his inability to consent to
the principle of the bill, which, by throwing the expense of
the church on the voluntary principle, deprived the poor
of their right to church accommodation, would encourage
enmity of Inaction in the church, and would lead to re-
ligious indifference. On the whole, he preferred Mr.
Harrlcutle's bill, which, if it placed the church on the
voluntary principle, gave it also the freedom of that
system.
Mr. NEATE also opposed the bill, and, as an amend-
ment, moved a resolution condemning any scheme of aboli-
tion which does not provide a legal and certain provision
for supplying any deficiency which may ensue from such
scheme in the funds applicable to the maintenance of the
Made of the Marsh.
Tee amendment was seconded by Colonel BariereLor,
who complained that the bill, so far from being a compro-
mise as was anticipated, was all on one side. He dwelt on
the mischiefs of compulsory abolition in many country
pariahs., and expressed his preference for Mr. Bovill's bill.
Mr. B. HOPE also preferred Mr. Bovill's plan, and
Phoned at length that this bill did not carry out Mr.
Glednone" onginal idea of church-rates minus the com-
pulsion. He consented, however, to read it a second time
as a sign of a desire on the part of churchmen to settle
the question, on the condition that when it came before
the house again it should be referred to a select committee.
He strongly disapproved Mr. Beate'. amendment.
Bir R. PALMER should be glad if the house would come
tea decision upon the second reading of the bill without
my long debate, but as some discussion bad taken place he
might be permitted to sa a few words which might be
useful as tending to assist In the future settlement of the
question. The present measure embraced three princi-
ples,—the abolition of compulsory church rates, the con-
tinuance of the existing machinery for voluntary purposes,
and the making it a condition that those who declined the
ecclesiastical burden. of vestrymen should likewise relin-
quish the ecclesiastical power of vestrymen. With regard
to the abolition of compulsory church rates, he had been
very unwilling to see the question settled without securing
by law the permanent and sufficient maintenance of the
fabric of the church. He yielded to no man in the value
which he set upon the established church as a national in-
stitution. He believed it to be a national institution
which conferred inestimable benefits upon the country,
and which was so interwoven with all our other
most valued institutions that he could not con-
template with anything like tranquillity the conse-
quences of its subversion. That being so, he
bad always been strongly impressed with the truth
of the proposition which had been advocated by some of
those who had taken part in the debate, that if there was
to be an established church, the fabrics must be main-
tained ; and if he thought there was no reasonable ground
for believing that they would continue to be maintained
under a change of the law, he should be unwilling to see
that change effected. He could not, however, bring him-
melt to believe that that would be the case, if either they
substituted some other legal, provision for the purpose,
which was not proposed, or if they left the church a free
and fair opportunity of meeting the deficiency by her own
resources ; and be had acceded to this bill on the ground
that it offered a reasonable prospect of attaining that end.
Whether it would be perfect or not, he believed it would
be valuable in a very high degree, and the church possessed
resources and energies quite sufficient to enable her, if all
obstructions were taken out of her way, and she was per-
mitted the use upon voluntary principles of the old ma-
chinery, to meet her wants in every parish in the
kingdom. At all events, he was sufficiently convinced
of the efficacy of the system to be willing to see it tried.
He could not shut his eyes to the dangers to the church
of the continuance of the present state of things, and he
slaw his way to no practicable change which was likely to
be better than the one proposed by this measure. He
could not justify the present state of the law, for it did
not simply impose this tax upon the public for the main-
tenance of the church as other taxes were imposed by the
authority of parliament by means of a purely secular ma-
chinery. (Hear, hear.) It was true, as had been over and
over again said, that church rates were a burden upon
land imposed by common law, and that the common law
established the particular method by which the churches
were maintained out of the land. But the common law
only took the first step, and left all the rest to be carried
out by ecclesiastical machinery. If it were merely a com-
mon law operation, if the common law did not proceed
upon an ecclesiastical obligation, it would not be able to be
asserted in this case that there was no remedy at common
law. No doubt the common law did, on the ground of the
ecclesiastical law which it recognised, say that the land
should be liable for the maintenance of the church, but it
left the ecclesiastical machinery of vestries to work it out
by imposing the rate, and, what was more important still,
it left the ecclesiastical courts to compel the payment. The
common law did not step in in any way to take off any part
of the burden from the ecclesiastical law, and therefore the
eonclusion was, that though the common law imposed the
burden, it did so upon the theory that all citizens of the
state were members of the church of England, and that all
participated in the ecclesiastical duty of contributing to
the support of the church, and treating all citizens as
churchmen, it left the ecclesiastical courts to impose or
enforce the obligation. He was at a loss to reconcile that
state of the law with the advance which had been made in
the principles of toleration and religious liberty. (Hear,
bear.) To say that dissenters might for every other pur-
pose separate themselves from the church, and free them-
selves from ecclesiastical conti 01, but that this burden should
nevertheless be imposed upon them on really ecclesiastical
principles, and enforced, not by common law, but by
ecclesiastical law, appeared to him to be an anomaly tend-
ing to two mischievous results—to keep up constant dis-
content on the part of the nonconformists, and to invite
their interference with the ecclesiastical machinery for the
administration of the church, rendering that machinery
inapplicable to its proper purposes. (Hear, hear.) It
invited and encouraged dissenters to offer obstructions to
the internal management and administration of church
affairs, for which they would have no motive and no in-
clination if this burden were not cast upon them. The
resent law, therefore, could not be justified on principle.
Could it be justified in its practical effects! The law was
that in every parish the church should be thus main-
tained. The obligation was as great in large cities and
boroughs as in the smallest rural parish. But the non-
conformists had been able to exclude the law from
many of the large places, and it was attempted to
maintain it, not upon the large and general basis of a
national law, applicable for a national purpose, but
one for certain parte of the kingdom, for fragmental,
isolated, exceptional parishes. (Hear, hear.) This state
of things was most unsatisfactory and dangerous. It
invited nonconformists to continue in the vestry for the
purpose of exerting their power on every. opportunity ; it
encouraged religious animosities ;it invited conflicts
between the church and nonconformists, which must be
prejudicial to the church and to society ; and at the same
time it tended to stir up great questions with reference to
the church and state, and to the organization of opposition
to the continuants of their connexion. They would be
mach better able to obtain the assistance of parliament for
any re-arrangements which it might be desirable to make
for the temporal welfare of the church, if they were re-
lieved from this perpetually embarrassing question. He
thought it necessary, therefore, that an end should be
put to the menpubory levying of church rates ; and as to
implying by law an substitute, he thought such a scheme
i absolutely mplucncable, for there was not the least
Mum of getting the Hesse of Common. to agree
to it. (Hear, hear.) Exemption had been prop-reed
in two forms. The principle that dissenters, or
persons professing conscientious objections to the mate,
should be allowed not to pay, had been objected to on the

rlli, that the feeling of dissentersdissenterswould be against each
ningssamt ; but he did not think there was ninth in
objection, for dissenters were not ashamed of the
artthey held. But, on the other hand, the church
rwish to draw the line wider between herself and
the dissenting body, and therefore to give a pecuniary
motive for a declaration of nonconformity was not for the
interests of the church. Then came the proposal embo-
died in the bill of the Solicitor-Oeneral, about which, at
first tight, there was eonething plensible. It Ina pro-
posed that a man should declare beforehand his desire to
be exempted ; and that at the same time he should give up
all right to interfere in parochial matters. But noneon-
formiste would not be satisfied with that. If all noncon-
formists would send in the notice of objection the difficulty
would be at an eird,but the majority would not give up their
influence, and they would have the present state of things
over gait,. What was proposed by this bill' In the first
place, that the power of using the old machinery should
belong to the church in every parish as before, and he be-
lieved that in the great multitude of parishes where the
people had gone on contentedly under the old machinery,
where it had not been necusary to put in distresses, where
ecclesiastical suits had not been required, where owners
and occupiers of land were members of the church,
bethey
would use that machiney, and that the cases would few
where confusion would arise. He sod those who thought
with him were ready, therefore, to adopt this principle,
relying at the same time upon voluntary contributions.
They thought that, the compulsory church rate ones trot
rid of, there would be no inducement to dissenters to in-
terfere in the affairs of the church ; but as there might be
rpprehension of even a voluntary rate being frustrated, it
was thought that, for the security of the church, those who
were relieved from the burdens of the vestry should also
relinquish the powers of the vestry. The hon. member for
North Warwickshire seemed to apprehend that under
the provisions of the bill persons with extreme ideas would
be able to introduce into the ceremonies and ordinances of
churches things that ought not to be introduced.
parish
Nothing that was illegal could be done under this bill any
more than it could under the existing law, and any one
who agreed to pay the rate might go to the vestry and
object to anything that might be proposed. He thought,
therefore, there was no solid ground in that objection, and
if there were it was matter of detail, with respect to which
precautions might be taken in committee. He trusted the
house would sooede to the principle of the bill.
Mr. HUBBA.RD wasspeaking against the bill when the
debate was adjourned, by the rule of the house, at a
quarter before 6 o'clock.
The remaining business on the paper was disposed of,
and the house adjourned at 6 o'clock.

PARLIAMSNTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—JoLy 17.
THE BALLOT.
PALM

POl TIM noTiol. •. -
Adam? THE KOZIOL
Lord EliotAubyn
Mr. W. Swart Mr. B. T. Kekewieb
Mr. Headless Mr. H. & Suites.
Sir P. O'Brien Mr. F. Suriees
Mr. Moffatt Sir H. Bruce
Mr. Sepholedeld Mr. W. B. Beaumont
Mr. Otway Mr. Reptoa
Mr. W. Ise Sir J. Johnstone
Sir Cleo. Bowyer Colonel C. H. Lindsay
Mr. E. Warner
Baron Meyer Rothschild The Hon. H. Wyndham
Mr. W. K Gladstone
Sir H. W. Barron Mr. B. Hope
Mr. W. J. Allen Mr. R. Dutton
Sir A. Buller Mr. Jardine
Mr. Stanfield Lord Hectare
Mr. Layard Mr. Holford
Mr. Meer& Mr. Berle
Mr. Wickham Colonel Akroyd
Colonel Stuart (Cardiff) Lord Cureon
Mr. Locks King Colonel Pennant
Mr. IL Torren. Mr. Keller
Mr. R. W. Crawford Mr
J Preshfteld
Mr. Hardcsatie Bir J. Pakington
Mr. Doultun Mr. Roll
Mr. Span Mr. P. F. Robertson
Mr. Vanderbyl Sir C. Bright
Mr. Weguelln Mr. I. Hamilton
Mr. M.ltiddulph Mr. blue
Sir. K Hamilton mr. & T. Woodd
bit. Monsen Lord H. Thynne
Sir John Simeon Mr. Neville-Grenville
Mr. J. A. Smith Lard H. Scott
Mr. C. R. Barry Mr. A. Ellis
Mr. C. B. M. Talbot Mr. B. Stanhope
Colonel Prrie Mr. Wein
Mr. Alderman Salami= Colonel Edwards
Sir W. Scott Mr. C. Braes
Mr. Colonel Porde
Mr. LC=ers (blond Gilpin
Mr. Harkey Mr. R. Gurney

OPERATION OF THE BANK ACT.

DEPUTATION TO THZ CHANCELLOR OP TEI RICHIQUIL
A deputation, consisting of the Lord Provost
of Glasgow and the following members of the Glasgow
Chamber of Commerce—Mr. Stephen Mason, Mr. H.
Dunlop, Mr. W. /Easton, Mr. G. Crawford, and Mr. J. S.
Fleming—waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street, for
the purpose of supporting the prayer of a memorial pre-
viously presented, that an inquiry by royal commission
should take place into the working of the Bank Act.
Mr. Dalglish having introduced the deputation, the
request of the memorialists was supported by the Lord
Provost of Glasgow, Mr. Beasley, M.P., Mr. Ackroyd,
LP., Mr. Dalglish, M.P. Mr. Graham, M.P., Mr. Crum
Ewing, M.P., Mr. Kinnaird, M.P., and Mr. Kidaton.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCH/QUIR then said—l have
listened with very great attention and interest to your re-
marks. It appears to me, as doubtless it does to you also,
that there would not have been this great desire to investi-
gate the principle upon which our banking system should
be conducted were it not for the present state of the
monetary market. I confess I think it was very wise in
ou to limit your representation generally to the advisa-
bility of investigation, because discussions of an inter-
locutory character upon the question of currency are
interminable—(a laugh)—are deficient in precision,
and are not satisfactory. If I allude to the ques-
tion without dwelling upon it, it is only because
I do not wish you to think me wanting in courtesy
to any member of the deputation. What I think we are
suffering from is not so much a want of currency as a want
of capitaL Ido not think there is any banking arrange-
ment that could relieve us from the embarrassments we
are now daily experiencing. Possibly some mitigation
might have been found in a bank act framed differently
from the present. Ido not give any opinion upon that,
it is not necessary that I should now do so ; but the miti-
gation would, I fear, have been of no great amount. The
evils that we must all acknowledge to exist, the embar-
rassments thiit most of us feel, arise from deeper causes than
mere banking arrangements. With regard to an investigation
into the principles of bulldog and the action of the Bank
Act, without giving an opinion at the present moment as
to whether it is expedient we should have such an investi-
gation, I would firstobserve that there would be no inability,
whether it be by royal commission or by parliamentary
committee, to obtain the opinions of local authorities and
gentlemen connected with the great emporium of banking
and commerce in this country : because although no doubt
a travelling commission might investigate the question at
Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester, still, at the same
time, when there have been investigations on kindred
subjects by committees of the House of Commons, we
have been favoured with the presence of the highest
enthoritiee from those great centres of industry. I re-
member myself that at the investigation which took place
in the year 1854, and which lasted three months, we bad
gentlemen from Liverpool and Glasgow called by the
representatives of both opinions—both schools of banking
and currency. We had the advantage of their informa-
tion and views, and Ido not see myself that we should
obtain by a royal commission moving about more authen-
tic or more valuable information than we should obtain
under the circumstances to which I have referred. Irre-
spective of that, gentlemen, the means of locomotion
are now more easy than they were twelve years ago,
although they were then tolerably easy. Ido not conceive
that any very great benefit would be obtained by a roving
commission, should we decide upon the expediency of an
inquiry. There is no doubt that a royal commission would
of course be able at once to enter upon the investigation,
and that a committee of either house of parliament would
not. (Hear.) That is a fact that should not be lost sight
of by us. Practically it is an important cousideration. I
do not think, however, that by moving about the country
we should obtain any additional advantage. With respect
to the general subject, Mr. Bedley is aware that it is in a
day or two to be brought under the notice of the House of
Commons.
Mr. Kiroweri—On Friday next, by Mr. Watkin.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—We shall then be
able to enter into the large question involved in the sub-
ject. I shall say no more at present than that I shall
give the whole matter my earnest consideration and bring
it before my colleagues, and I shall be happy if our deci-
sion is one that will be attended with public advantage. I
need scarcely say that it is • subject of great difficulty, as
it is one also of great importance. I never was myself a
believer in the doctrine of over-issues. I do not think they
are possible. That question has been very well settled by
a Scotchman, Mr. Fullerton, who was a very considerable
authority on the subject, and whose work is an admirable
one. With regard to the main point, as to the banking system
and the effect of the law upon the present state of affairs,
Ido not wish my opinion, small as the value of that
opinion may be, to be regarded as an authority for this
proposition, that a change in our banking system could
relieve the embarrassments we are experiencing at the pre-
sent moment. I believe that the causes of those em-
barrassments are more deep and more extensive than
is generally supposed, and that, as I before observed,
it is want of capital and not want of currency we
are suffering from. At the same time I must
admit that nothing is more legitimate than the wish az-
, that the present system should be inquired into.
regived no opinion upon the general question. If I did I
should go into a large discussion, which would weary you,
and lead to no practical result. It will be discussed in
illtent, there we will be able to give our opinion ; and
e7and have no doubt, the house will decide according
to the merits of the question to be considered.
The deputation then retired. having thanked the right
hon. gentleman for the courtesy with which they bad been
received.

LONDON taiirizsr. °animus COMPANY ).
—Togo receipts for week riding Jell 16, 14,

few days. Mr. Renter will forward Mr.
Glue a short epitome daily, and I have
undertaken to make a brief precis of the
leading_facts in to-day's and future issues of the
Day News directly it is delivered here. This will
be at once telegraphed to the Great Eastern, be
there printed off by Messrs. Day and Son's litho-
grapher, and published on board, so that the par
sengers and crew in mid-Atlantic will be actually
better informed as to the world they have left than
half the dwellers in our country towns at home.
Further, Mr. Cyrus Field is carefully filing each of
these items of intelligence, and will telegraph the
whole to the agent of the asociated Press in New
' York the instant the Great Eastern is in communi-
cation with Heart's Content. By this means it is
hoped to astonish the United States by an-
nouncing, together with the intelligence
of the successful laying of the cable, news
from Europe posted up to the very. day.
The practical value of immediate communication
between ship and shore was amusingly illustrated
on Saturday. On the evening the Great Eastern
I left Berehaven three of her sailors deserted. Ad-
vance notes for wages had been given them, and
these under ordinary circumstances musthave been
paid on presentation to the company's agents in
London. But Captain Anderson simply sent a
meage to Mr. Glass, who forwarded it to Lon-
don—" Brown, Jones, and Robinson deserted ship
at Berehaven, please stop advance notes," and the
intended fraud was checked. The astonishment of
runaway Jack, on. presenting his note, or the
chagrin of the crimp or outfitter who has cashed
it, will in its way be as fitting a commentary upon
sucoeasful cable-laying as the news of the man
overboard from the Terrible. This incident, and
the picking up the drowningaailor by the Great Eas-
tern were known here a few minutes after they
occurred, and the record kept of the messages
I transmitted between ship and shore shows in
minute touches the inner life of the
expedition. "0. K.," which is telegraphic
slang for " all correct," occurs with pleasing fre-
quency, while Mr. Gooch, one of the directors on
board, almost soars into poetry in too terse enco-
miums on the good working of every one concerned,
and the glorious weather they have enjoyed. Mr.
Glass is the official medium of communication. To
him all messages are addressed, and through him
all news is sent to the Great Eastern. The first
exception made to this rule occurred this afternoon,
when on the invitation of Mr. Glass, Mr. J. C.
Parkinson telegraphed a message to Mr. Deane,
the secretary of the Anglo-American Company on
board, and shortly afterwards received his reply.
Nothing can exceed the sanguine tone of engi-
neers and electricians, whether stationed here, or
on the ship. The days yet to be spent in cable-
laying, the depths to be traversed, and the time
when the line will be fairly opened are as frequent
topics of conversation, and are as confidently
alluded to as they were last year before the fatal
break. Yet it is obvious that there must be strong
grounds for anxiety, until the shallow waters off
Newfoundland are gained, and it is the next few
days which vrillvirtualy decide the fate of the cable.
Every hour up to Monday night, when it may
be fairly hoped the trial will be over, is
of the gravest consequence to the expedition. That
all the undulations of the Atlantic bottom should
be passed, and the entire line paid out without
check or hitch is almost too much to expect. If
the precautions adopted meet their purpose, andthe
rapid reversal of engines, and the detection and
remedying of stray faults prevent their being fatal,
all interested will be amply satisfied. At present
everything has gone smoothly as a pleasant dream.
The speed of the ship, the percentage of slack, and
the records of the electricians, all point to unadul-
terated success. Captain Anderson's instructions
are under no circumstances to exceed six knots an
hour in speed, and five and a half knots is the
pace run, whereas the hazardous rate of eight knots
was sometimes made during the cable laying of last
year. Twelve per cent. was the estimated
percentage of slack, and 11.8 per cent. is
the last return, while the beaming faces of the
electricians tell outsiders in better language than
the most ingenious code, that in their department
all is going well.
It was nearly three o'clock this afternoon before
those waiting at Foilhummerum learnt the bearings
of the great ship at twelve o'clock. For the change
in position has already delayed the noon of the big
ship to this extent, and as it will of course con-
tinue to augment as she gets nearer and nearer to
America, amusing calculations are made as to the
date of the news sent by telegraph and published
on board. It is curious to sit silently in the large
white wooden building here, and when listening to
the monotonous click click of the instrument in
the adjoining chamber to know that it is record-
ing messages as quickly as they leave the lips
or hands of the senders, and that in spite
of this there are technically some hours
between their delivery and receipt. Absolute
silence is of course enforced in the darkened cham-
ber known as the instrument-room, and the entire
building is so light and fragile that the same rule
has to be observed throughout it. In vain do
tourists plead for and impulsive natives endeavour
to take for themselves permission to examine the
process of reading off messages. from the sea. The
place is carefully guarded against intrusion, and
Mr. Varley, Mr. May, and their staff, alone watch
the mysterious steady spark of light as it moves to
and fro upon the scale, and expresses thought, and
hope, and feeling, as accurately as if it had a soul.

The following telegram has been received by
Reuter'sTelegram Company (Limited) at 6.15 p.m.,
July 18, from Mr. R. A. Glass, managing director
of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance
Company (Limited) :
VALENTIA, Jour 18.

The following telegram has been received from
the Great Eastern to-day :—Noon (ship's time),
July 18. Canning to Glass. Latitude, 52.01 N.,
longitude, 26.37 W. Cable payed out, 682.48 miles.
Distance run, 600.9 miles. All going on well.

THE MEMBERS FOR MARYLEBONE AND THEIR CON-
STITEENTS. —Yesterday afternoon the borough members
for Marylebone attended a very numerous meeting of the
representative vestry of St. Pancras, at the Vestry-hall,
Camden-town, and explained the course they bad adopted
in reference to the various measures which had been be-
fore parliament during the present session. Mr. Church-
warden Robson presided, and the members on entering the
hall were received with applause. At the conclusion of
the addresses of the hon. members, Mr. J. R. Collins
moved, and Dr. Collins seconded, a vote of thanks for the
way in which they had discharged their parliamentary
duties. • •

--REPRESENTATION OF BRIDOENOITH.—The writ
for a new election in this borough, consequent on the
acceptance by Mr. Harry Whitmore of office as one of the
Lords of the Treasury, was issued on Monday night, and
on Tuesday Mr. Whitmore put forth an address soliciting
re-election. The hon. gentleman does not in any way refer
to political questions, but contents himself with the ex-
pression of the earnest hope that his constituents will, by
re-electing him, afford him the gratitying proof that they
still consider him worthy of the confidence which for the
last fourteen years they have so kindly accorded him.
Notwithstanding the evenly-balanced state of parties in
the town, as evidenced in the last election, when Sir John
Acton, a liberal, was beaten by only one vote, it is not ex-
•cted that there will be any opposition on this occasion.
Mr. 'Whitmore, however, on Tuesday afternoon, took
the precaution of paying a visit to his constituents and No-
Belting the promise of their support.
COLONIAL BISHOPRICS. —The Colonial Church
Bill is withdrawn for this sesdon, and the Archbishop of
York's motion for a select committee shares the same fate.
Of the petition which gave occasion to the debate, and in
his treatment of which Lord St. Leonards did himself no
credit, the less said the better. Miss Coutts is a lady of
enormous fortune, who, out of her abundance, has given
munificently to various colonial churches ; if, in conse-
quence of what has happened, she wants her money back
again, we hope and trust there may be the means of re-
storing Ste her. But it must be distinctly understood
that we cannot refer, now or at any future time, to her
wishes or opinions as influences which should determine
the constitution or organisation of those churches in the
very slightest degree. The idea is indeed too preposterous
to be stated seriously.—Guardian.
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&eine at inamweionos aywasata /.1 mush, asthma,
eonseniptioa, &batty, wasUpatios, markets, palpitation, ner-
vosa Mesa. lios sot dome* ernaphaste. Tt Wale Ilty Uwe
Ha east ht War .remmed/ot, mai le the boa food tar taboo;
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