The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-26 00:00:00

ORUBCR-RATIRI IN NORTH TYNE.

After the keen contest in the parish of Bellingham
last year, the friends of the church resorted to a voluntary
subscription, and we leers funds were thus obtained to meet
the necessary demands. A meeting was held lately for
appointing churchwardens, but good sense ruled, end ao
attempt was made to impose a church-rate and renew the
conflict. As the adherents of the church of England in the
parish are able, without much effort, to meet the nooses': y
expenditure, it is hooed that church-rates will never be per-
mitted again to disturb the harmony that should subsist
among the professed followers of the Prim). of Pesos.
01111211111111) PARIBIL—III this parish the majority of the
inhabitants are presbytstians. A motion that there be no
church-rates was carried last year. At the Easter meeting
this year a proposal was made and pleaded for that a rate
should be laid on, be it ever so small, but this was met by an
imperative refusal. And so long as the law stands that a
rate cannot be imposed hut by the consent of the majority
of the ratepayers, to lay on a church-rata in this pariah is
harlots.
TROILNEYBIIRN PARIBIII.—At the Easter meeting this
, proposal was made to lay on a rate. This was met
Fria a
amendment, "That thin be no rate." Some of the
Fu
of the rate, finding they were in the minority,
withdrew from the meeting, and the amendment was canted.
. .

Coasaxernx Paatex.-ln this pariah the 1;;;d7Z lay
on a church-rate was met by an amendment that there be
no rate. The opponents of the rate were in the majority ;
but as they had agreed to pay a small annual rum to the
sexton, it was agreed that a rate of a farthing in the pound
be laid on for this purpose. It is to be regretted that the
principle wee sacridoed for such an object, when the small
sum required might have been easily obtained by •nbscrip-
tion. Should parliament delay abolishing this obnoxious
tax, it is pleasing to notice that the people are acquainting
themselves with the law upon the subject, and finding that
they have it in their own power to terminate an impost un-
just in principle, while it is degrading to the churchman
and vexatious to the disenter.—Nereesstie Express.

THE NATIONAL VACCINE BOARD.—This morning
was hatted the report of this hard for the pest year. They
state that in the course of the peat year 11,622 letters of
application for lymph have been received and answered.
213,207 charges of lymph have been distributed, from which
116,386 persons are reported to have been vaccinated. 6,327
have also been vaocteated by the vaccinators of the
Vertabliehment. A very large demand for lymph bee
been ootasioned for the redrafting department of the army
and militia, and for the additional troops required for the
lailen service. During the pest year this metropolis has
been very free from smell-pox. The number of deaths,
as taken from the regis. ear-general's quarterly returns, were,
during the last three months of the year, only 26 out of.
population of about two millions end a half. The report also
of the medical °Moen of the Small-pox Hoepitel states that,
with the exception of 1853, there have not been so few owe
of small-pox as dating the out yea; that in the hospital the
mortality in the vaccinated cues was 6} per cant., wbffilii in
the unveccinsted CAMP it was 28* per cent. Although Lashio&
is thus shown to have been unusually free from smell-pea,
disease bee existed in en epidemic form in Nang parte of an
amatry. The retarn I. the miletrar.generare lest quintet
above be provaleinse Is Somereabbire, Staffordshire, and
sewn] ether pima At Sheffield there were in the qualm
130 fatal mine: of thew the proportion of deaths In the
vaccinated Bled unateelaated is not goaerslly reported ; but fa
ate distelet it ie stated that " out of 16 deaths 14 was with-
oat preview vaeetasties."