The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-05 00:00:00

DISABILITIES 07 TEI JEWS.

Kr. ANDIATO;;;;;;;i; 7: That till courtLae heard with
nor it pigmy, that the Right Has. Lord Jolts Russell, one
of the onsinherii for this city, has in the House of Commons
reserved IW soda to move, ' that the house do resolve itself
Mtn a oommftles to casdior the oaths of allegisco.
nosey and and Awake, and elm to consider the disabilities
her Mothegy's Jewish subjects.' Thareeognising
is t▪
he mid notice • prop:cal for extending the rights of pied
end religious liberty to a large and influentialaammdd most loyal
body of her Majesty's subjects, petitions be presented by
this court to both homes of parliament that they will be
Vnot any longer to the passing of a law for
ast:Koval of all disabilities adopting persons of the Jewish
religion, and thereby enable the Baran Lionel De Rothschild,
who has been five times returned to parliament as one of the
repreemtatives of this city, to take his east in the House of
Decagons."

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The motion wee carried, and the !Sheriffs were ordered to
present a petition,
t th.— which we adopted in conformity
herewiAdjournal.

CHURCH RATES AND BURIAL PRES IN 87.

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OPINION OF THE NEW ATTORNEY-OENERAL.—
Yesterday, at the weakly meeting of the 'eft., of St. Pett-
ers& hold at the Vestry-hall, Camden-town, Mr. Church-
warden Wren in the chair, Mr. (1. W. F. Cook, the vestry
clerk, presented an important opinion of Sir Fitzroy Belly
and Mr. Hugh Hill on a case which had been prepared by
him as to the right of the church trustees of St. Pancras to
fess on interments in ths new cemetery of the parish at
Fischley. The opinion was to the following effect : ' The
tight of the church trustees to fees in respect of interments
in the new burial ground depends in the first instance on the
sonstraction of the 38th section of the 16th and 16th Vic.,
cep. 86. By that enactment the church trustees are entitled
to such fees on interments in the new burial ground as they
were entitled to before the new burial ground was provided
on interments in the burial ground of the pariah, but so ter
only as such has ars by law appbcahls to say perochiel pur-
pose or the discharge of any debt or liability. Title makes
the material Inquiry to be, whether the fees, if paid to the
church trustees, are now applicable by law to any parochial
pup= or ths discharge of any debt or liability. The Ist 1
sad 2nA Geo. IV., o. 24, s. 63, &fines the purposes to which
the former burial fees were applicable. In the first instance
they was to discharge the wages of sextons and other local
=peness of the like kind connected with "the burial
grounds or places of the perish," and the sur-
plus, if any, to other purposes specified
In the 62nd motion. f the burial grounds or
Owes of the said parish mentioned in the 63rd section be
limited to the burial grounds of the parish existing at that
time, then is these grounds have been shut up the local a-
peman connected therewith would no longer exist as a par-
pose to which burial fees could now be applied, sad the fees
would be applicable to the other purpose mentioned In the
62nd section. We, however, think that the new burial
ground provided under the 16th and 18th Vic. c. 86, so far
as it has been eonsecratad, by force of the 92nd section of
that tot must be considered the burial ground of the pariah,
so as to satiety the words and porpoise et the 59rd section of
the let and 2nd Geo. IV., c. 24, and that the banal fees
remind In the consecrated ground are in the first Waters.",
applicable to the local expenses of that part of the bar al
ground, and that the surplus, if any, is payable to the
trustees for the other purposes mentioned in the 62nd mo-
tion. Ths question is one of importance, and we advise the
burial board to apply the fees in the first instants, to those
local expenses of the consecrated new burial ground which
are specified in the 63rd section., Ming the =Plat, If en',
to the church trustees. The WWI board should keep •
strict account, to show the application of the
(Signed) Fitzroy Kelly, Hugh Hill. Temple, Fper.7,
18.588. A report from a committee of the vestry on this Nib-
ject was also presented, stating, in reference to a conference
which had been held between the church trustees and the
burial board, after receipt of counsel's opinion, that they
could not recommend that the burial board should contract
with the church trustees for the payment of a fixed annual
sum in substitution of fees, and advised the vestry to send a
oouplz f the case and opinion to the church trusteesand
b board for this parish. The report was adopted
unanimously.