The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF OOMMONS.—(THIS DAY.)
The Owns teok *be &sir at 12 o'clock.
OfiEURCH-BATIS ABOLITION BILL.

Xr. HARDOAATLZ moved the mooed reeding of this
MIL It was, he said, mon that thirty years Mans the
nasalise woe first debated in that home. There had Mss
ememens and varied proposals for it. settlement, and of
owe proposals one was the satire abolition of
elterth-retie. a mason which he tasted the
bass would adopt that day. (Mars.) The
proposal• of exemption were all &Hooted with one
Ties, they all nand spa the weaker party Is may
perishes to age a dalmatian whielt would expose them to
Maim anesquersess. (Hear, bear.) All schemes of
aseption had rehears not to tows but to eountry
wishes. Is that parishes there were two parties--on
the one side the gore oath the WSW Awry, ea
tbsother side the eltaksepere and the tenant farmers,
ard any edema of exemptioa would compel
Aspeadant doss to do an sot which would he strongly
cliespprond by those on whom they depended. (Hear,
ban) To require a &eland= el comeisations *nth=
as • ironed of exotepties would toad to orate religions
enuples and to aisenrege profeesionaldiaseet. As regarded
the oblation that the abolition of church atm would
waken the established chunk he would ask whether the
abolition of church aims had WeakSild the established
amok it 'reload ? (Hear, bear.) Oartably it
ems bad not been abolished the Irish Aura
could sot have survived. The emmentatioe of tithes
hared of wrakestag 'he Chunk of Ingbed bad stragth-
sad it. Xerraver, it theald teat be Negates that than*
rates were of the mare of a tax, while other elearges were
of She nature of root. March rates wore the only patios
of the internal orgenbathe of the aura with whisk die-
ters could ma latederu, sad nailer the math matelot
Skimp a majority mien ambles a cripple the vales tithe
&Web. 11 the etranedthat sillbentebureli rates the Maim
of the Aura acid act be kept la repokr. What was the ease
as lauded diassatiag pleas el wsesidis? IA 1772 the num-
ber of dimating dispels is We ethatry was 1,100 ; at the
mesa Oa the numbr was nearly 20,000, end all the mew
buildiep had boos robed aid maintained by voluntary sou.
Warthog. (Hear, beer.) Sorely, then, sharchreen would
ban no &Malty In sr intabia the fabrics of the elarelt ;
added to whisk no lag as asta.ratee were maintained.
Sete would be a motel bitterness in great nembors of pa-
rishes. The 'sandals of etiorsh-rate fatale were a great
~il. The hen. member thee read • plasma distributed in
the wish of Brenda relating be the mime for dare-
Ma of a cloak and ether ertiebe, the property of a labour.
tog man who bad may ream dependent on his for
subbases. H. also atoned to ether saes the same
kind, ell of which be argued tended to bides the shwa
lab diaredit.

Kr. C. GILPIN sewseded the 'motion. He dieted that if
church rate, were abolished adequate voluntary prevision
would not be made for the repair of aerobes, and pre
fasimoss el oppressive distraint.
Mr. WALPOLE mewed the refection of the bill, con-
tending that °berth rates might not to be abolished without
some good substitute being provided.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, after •
powerful azgament scaled church rates, se they
exist, said he wee la hamar of kelvin up the
mititinery but et abolishing the oompuloory process, and if
the bill was not to admit subspeently of a clause of this
list he could sot support its but he traded the hon.
now if the bill would musew the didisalty.

Mr. B. HOP& expressed his eat;sfaction with the pro-
poiel of the Ctssimallor cif the isohogmer, end appealed to
the hoe. member for Bury Bt. Edamnd'a to postpone his
lull until the pesmorities bad bens further considered.
Mr. BRIGHT res.' stied the home that he had frogmen*
advised the abolition of the mampederey power of collecting.
Yr. G. HARDY oppose I Cm proposition.
Mr. MORLEY meld anewse for a large proportion of
&webers in saying that they would welcome with
gretillestiott the proposition of the Chancellor of the Ea-
obequer.
Mr.

woad edictal' with the greatest
sonsideration at a tater, digs of the bill, should it peas a
amid reading, the ;repaid.
Kr. DDIRAF:LI reminded t►e hones that the only issue
Ware them was the twat and nsoonditional abolition of
'blush rates.

77u house dividad at tweatpflva Wooten to 3, wham
limo appeared—
Foe the snood read* of the bill US
Against it Z3
biejority for the mond reading of the
Lill

The Charboe'lor of the &chequer. ces retureiet to the
house with the ayes. was meted with • load sheer from
the liberal numbers, who oleo cheered the result of the
division.

on? ispusraraz EZEINTION.

SECOND DAY.

The doors of the Guildhall were opened this
awning *WI o'clock, end from that hour up to 1 the
•amber of visitors to the exhibition wee very cossidert
able. The many objects of interest exhibited appeared to
command mach ►ttention—the visitors freely dismandeg
the industry and skill evinced by the working man.
The idea is contemplation of founding a public free library
for the City has already elicited the warm approval and
promised support of the Lord Mayor and the Corporation, and
the committee have likewise received several intimations
from loading guestimate in the City of their intention to
',Ascribe and funtiek the library with books. Among the
many allele' shown several of them emanate from firma—
haying the names of the heads of these firms Daly attached
to them ; but in ember to carry out the reel object
of the exhibition it is dsterrained that the " work-
kg man" shall hive his name fixed thereon,
cad that he gloms shall compete for the prises. A large
timber of letters have been received from gentle-
Sea offering to set as adjudicators. The musical ar-
sagemente of the exhibition are not yet oom-
Plaie ; but the public will not have occasion to com-
plain of a lack in that respect. In addition to the organs
and pianofortes alreedy in operation In the ball, Mr. H.
firyorson has made an offer to erect a large concert or
orehartral organ, the farnitare of which will be in keeping
with the architectural &adoration& of the ancient building,
which the committee have accepted,
There are many 'doable articles exhibited, which are
MOT place l there by way of advertisement, the owners
laying no claim to compete with the industrial 000tribu-
tor. Ther will duly be placed in the catalogue under the
had of " loan decorations." The exhibition will now re-
main open from 10 to 6 daily, admission Is.; and tram 6
hit the close each evening at 6d.

In committee on Marine Mutiny Bill, Mr. P. A.
Taylor will 'move the mimics a the dame relating to
keen.

On going into committee of supply on Army
Estimates, Mr. P. Wyndham will ask the Secretary of
State for War if it would not, in hie opinion, facilitate re.
entitling for the army, if appointments in lb. (hell Service,
up to the value of 255. par week, were thrown open to those
soldiers who, after 18 years' service with good character,
mime to qualify themeless for theme appointment&
To-morrow Mr. Milner Gibson will introduos
a bill for consolidating in one sot provisions sPaliokbio to
metroplitan and other railways, and a bill to make better
provision for the security of reservoirs, sod otherwise to
amend the low relating to waterworks.
Mr. Hubbard after Easter will move that the
ire insurance duty operating as • tax on property, with
excepions in favour of wealth and improvidence, ought
not to b• Perpetuated WI • memo of raising • portion of
the n►tional reveous.

Mr. Mellor to-morrow will ask the Finance Secre-
tary to the Treasury whether it is olio fact that the clerks
of the eswtcr-General of Imports and Exports have ap-
plied to the Board r f Customs for liberty to forward a peti-
tion to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treestuy,
prariog fora reeessideration of a petition protected ia May
lost, with a view to giving them a more substantial boaellt
than is afforded by the teasel Treasury minute tiptoe
custom salaries ; and whether such permission has been
ref used.

To-morrow Mr. O'Reil;y will ask the Secretary
of Skate for War whether the hones of cavalry regiments
IMO) sent to Ireland have beets remove-I from Emend to
that o"mtv, ; and, if so, whether this was not in viola-
tip of the orders la council for the prwrentioe of the in-
troduction of the cattle plague into the latter country.
The Ron. Arthur F. Kinuaird, M.P., has con-
sisted to preside at the forthcoming anniversary fennel
of the Printers' peceion Corporation, ot Feday, Aged 8.