The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROllB2 OF LORDS.—TarRADAT, Arun. gel.
The LORD CISANCILLOR took hie mat ou the Aoolmelt
at 6 o'clock.
UNION OT 11,21161PICES BILL.
The globs" of LONDON, in movie( the season reading
ef the above bill, used that the object of the bill was
be provide that a wealthy parish with a small piailatiou
abound contribute to the amenities of its pores neigh-
bours, or rather that the wealthy parish should contribute
I. the spiritual instreetina of its owe poor, as
there was NO doubt that the poor who lived in
the immediate aeighbourbood, although out of the
perish, were its owe poor. It wax proposed by the bi:l that
chur in certain instances which were at prevent • ...Oen'
ghouls' be taken down altogether, in such a marin,, he
tr.:veal, toe the ssfeiguarls provided in the bill, no t•. pre-
in.ut nun desecration in the removal of any blinding coo.
acratal by the reminiscences of the past. Many ‘.f the
sty churches, which bed leather beauty nor antiquity
to recommend them, might, he thought. be re-
moved isle district" teeming with popilAuon with
the mates* beaellt. Before any church could be re o.oved,
however, it would be necessary to obudo the convent of
the Ss' ,retary of State for the Home Department, the
Arliiu,hop of Canterbury, and the bishop of the sLocese.
Any chasme was pr.-loved to be made
it was provided in the bill that a commission
should le previously Waned, consisting of three
London
and two laymen, the latter in the city of
U. hen sppointed by the corporation. He trusted if their
Imbibils were willing to consent to this bill, that so oppor.
tu would occur, by the union of parishes, for placing the
el in a position such as they must all desire to see every
cies-came in—that be should have a house to live in, and
eh- Ad have, if not egwergh, at least something approaching
as .Agh, to live wpm is that home. It was out his (the
Boil op .4 Loiedso'd wish so to amalgamate the Parishes as
to make theca one parish in tomporel mattera. 'I hey might
have as men, charekwaedens and other officer. as they
phased. What he desired we, that the parishes should be
united for minimal parpoese, and be believed this could
be dose is perfect accordance with prisciplee which had
lees already assetioned by par ' tin recent legislation.
Be hoped in stake the of Loudon model parishes,
the clergymen be have sufficient incomes, cure of souls ace
Is. Ire t for constant atteetion. sod tn. to ,iitivst• tbs.
se as to ewes es a model to the whole land.
With views ha asked their lordship fora second med•
istivi,o.l the hilL
Earl of CARNARVON hoped that the house would
pay careful attention to this bill before thev allowed it to
proceed farther. The right rev. prelate called it a mutt-
on once bill, hut the fact war that it disagreed with the act
155.1.1, which it professed to cootinue, in many important
particular.. The same words had been preserved, but the
a, otriaction was different, and the clause, hail every eve of
theni be..i resit ingeniously inverted. Another objection
err., that th. y -meat bill proposed to apply to the whole al
an.l Wales, whereas the right rev. prelate had
m.plissil his arguments exclusively to the diocese of Lades.
Ti. • noble earl pr seeded to examine the clauses in dela%
po.rting out their difference from those of the act of Ina,
an ! coueludal by suggesting that the bill should be edernd
to a *elect committee.

T:.e Bishop of OXFORD said be had uppreed the bill of
not providing sufficient security fur the sanctity of
th• alen4, and there was nothing an the present bill to re-
iibje lion. The sanctity of a church might be re.
aa .ved with it by new consecration, but he believed there
kind always been a edema compact between civilisation aad
Christianity that the bodies of the dead, when once u-
teri ail.. buried an consecrated ground, should never be dis-
turb...l in their reiting.places. If from the great value
which had become attach-4 to these sites the compact
should be broken an order Visit these large prices :alight be
obtained, it would lw a breach ce the port of the rhumb.
Ae could not give a (-imolai foe the ask of these elks,
which the church h.i4 contncted should be kept undkh
torbel ground. In thn 15th duos he should propose the
w11:t1..11 these • " That if any burials there bad
taken place upon the uid situ," then that the site should
be kept undisturbed ; and is or of the late reports of the
b tbest weds al autluiratios of the City, it was stated that
wroth itig was so daugerousaa that of disturbing these old
irhurihvaols.

Lord REDESDALE mkt he entirely speed that this bill
should be limited to the City of London.
Earl GRAN VILLE was uadeiwtoori to suggest that the
renter part of this debate would have been mire appro.
piste if the Rouge were in committee. There see.i.r.l to be
no
objectiou to the principle of the bill, the peat object of
winch all their lordships seemed to be of opinion it would
be desirous to &Mot. No doubt there were many of the
clauses which would require alteestiou sad ametilment in
committee, and to carry out the provisions of the measure
would require all the energise sad ability of the right
revortal prelate.
The Bishop of EXETER mid as it would be impossible
far him to 'Reed the committee he would now express his
mined prayer that their lordships would reject that dame '
which contained • permiasioa to grant the sites ..f those
eburaiea which iihnulel not he wanted to other protestant
conweptionii. '• Protestant" wan a very vague term, and
web,' it might be included the Yarrow of America and
all thore who profeeval to be Chriatians (and who were
not Roman catliolbah but who differed very much from the
clo!iii .4 k:nuland oa µAnte of doctrine which the church
of Laglenot thought eateutial to salvation. It would be
Is ;roper for the church of England to hand over such
et, so. that they mi,tht he used by other denominations.
T., Earl of DERBY said he should be sorry to interpose
soy ohetacle in the way of the passing of a measure which
for the Ity of London he believed to he a matter .4 great
unportaoce, but he saw considemble difficulty, if it should
to read a sewed titno. ..f confining it within the limits
&pined by neap of (bra kr !Alpe.
E.o.IOREY has afraid that considerable inconvenience
trivlil be created if the o,v,atiun of the 1..11 wi Collfi I
within toe itaTtir limito If they were not to give a fair
degree of oudilesice to a.m. authority other than parlia-
amt. it was nap...made that the iniprovements so much
sty .iced in the church could ever be accompli bed. What
we. repaired was a rows onick acid mare ready available
authority than parliament ; arel he thought it unwise that
you liameat should endeavour to keep two much in its own
ham Is the power of dealing with questions of this nature.
The hill wo. then nisi a seems' time.
Bishop of LONDON observed that be was reedy to
enrc the operation of the bill within oarmie limits,
wag afraid it would he impoweible to confine it to the
City of hood .n, a. it was desirehle to wake provision for a
Tat 2 nom of the population outside the walls of the City.