The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-26 00:00:00

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Tuts Evil,Dm THE LOVE CIIA,A. Mews. Chippendale.
Hose, Roger,. Kotula, Clarke. Weatheriby, Re. ; Madames
tiedgalra, Chlppeo•lale, Burke &c.—TO PARIS AND BACK
FOR .o.—Ma4 TILE RIFLE, AND HOW TO UsE It'.

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at 8 o'clock, THY, MAN lY AIRLIE. James Harebell, Mr. Iler.
man Vatin.—Doom open at soma ; came tauce at half-past.

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ETILTMO, REVERARS. Messrs. Emery, l'arsolle, Rob
OM and swsnbomugh : Mesdames Ada nwanlswongh and John-
etose.—And THE LATEiT EDITION OV ERA DIAVOLO
Maws. Thorne & James : Mesdames Holt, Newton, do.

BRITANNIA.
Two Emma, JAC IC 0' LANTERN ; OR. THE RACECOURSE
AND TUN BLUE RIBBON OY THE TURK—Mr. and Sire
31•IIa16e: the Clutmptua Skaters of England.—And THE Colt
BRAN BILLI ER&

MOD WATER AT LONDON BRIDGT.
MB DAT —Morning, Sh. 31m.— —Afternoon, oh. 10m.
TO-11101ROW—Morning, Oh. 40m.. _Afternoon, 100. 22m.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 26.

THE third reading of the Church Rates Aboli-
tion Bill by a majority of 30 in a House of 228,
and the withdrawal of all rival or palliative
schemes, seem to mark a new stage in this long
controversy, and to presage its early termination.
The opponents of Mr. HARDVANTL EN Bill appear
to have satisfied themselves that there is no alter-
native between the maintenance of the present
law and the total cessation of the power to levy
Church-rates. Looking at the history of the
controversy, it is not surprising that they should
have come to this conclusion. They have had
every opportunity of framing middle plans, and
the House has again and again shown by un-
mistakeable signs how much it would prefer a com-
promise to the absolute triumph of either party.
More than this, the very opponents of Church-
rates were quite willing to forego the complete
assertion of their principles for the sake of obtain-
ing a practical settlement of the question. It
will be remembered that the proposition that
compulsion as a means of securing payment of
the rate should cease, the machinery of the
system being left standing for those who chose
to resort to it, came from Mr. BRIGHT ; also
that last year Mr. HARDCABTLE sacrificed the
chances of the session in order to give the friends
of Church-rates time to agree upon a scheme,
and that nothing was done in this direction.
There are those who fancy that if Mr. BERES-
FORD HOPE, Mr. HUBBARD, and Mr. WALDE-
ORAVE LESLIE had foreseen the enactment
of Household Suffrage in 1867, they would have
induced their friends to agree upon some com-
promise before the question was placed wholly
beyond their control. But this is to suppose
that the difficulty was wholly or mainly par-
liamentary, whereas we believe most who have
looked into it will be satisfied that it is practical
and parochial. The principle of exempting the
Dissenter from payment of Church - rates has
long been agreed to by all parties in Parlia-
ment, and the question which has troubled the
pro-rate party has been how to let him go
without at the same time giving up a hold
upon the Churchman. It was impossible to sup-
pose that a great controversy could long be arrested
on account of such a detail. And, besides, it
wan certain that in the end the Churchman mast
be left as free as the Dissenter. If the noncon-
formist, separated in many cases by only a
slight shade of opinion or feeling from his
episcopalian brethren, was to be absolved from
payment of rates, it was impossible that
the Low Church layman should be bound to
contribute to the maintenance of an elabo-
rate and offensive ritual, and teaching which he
regarded as un-protestant and erroneous, on pain
of being deprived of his right as a Churchman.
We have probably seen the last of these devices for
putting a yoke upon Churchmen from which Dis-
senters are relieved. The ePect of the Church-
rate system has been to tempt members of the
Church of England to forget that religion is worth
paying for ; and this has placed the Church M a
temporary disadvantage, from which it will recover
as 110011 as its interests are seen to be thrown un-
conditionally upon the devoted loyalty of its chil-
dren.

MERE can be no doubt about the reality of
the barbarous treatment to which the Jews are
continually subjected in the Danubian Princi-
palities, and just as little that the Government of
that State is wilfully a party to it. But neither
the unanimous voice of European opinion nor
the remonstrances of the Great Powers of
Western Europe have hitherto availed to induce
Prince CHARLIM and his minister Ba.►Tuxo to do
their duty. The authentic narratives of the per-
secution of the Israelites in Moldo-Wallachia
read more like extracts from some chronicle of
the dark ages than passages in the veritable history
of the nineteenth century. The European Consuls
of Galata have been compelled to join in a protest
against events which took place in that port on
the 14th of this very month, and which they
thus relate :

Eight or ten Jews were expelled the country on
last Saturday by order of the local authorities. The police
put them on board a small boat, and carried them to the
Turkish side of the river. Amongst these poor people was
an old man, so infirm that two persons had to
help bin into the host. Instead of taking them
to the Turkish station of Satoka, they were con.
veyed by the soldiers in charge to an uninhabited
island opposite Galata, which was inundated with witer,
and landed in the marshes, as was done on previous
occasions. The Turkish soldiers picked them op on
Saturday, and brought them back to Galata, intending
to leave theal at the station of the port-captain.
Instead of receiving the outcast., who were
now exhausted from fatigue, and who we are
assured are Mohlo-Wallachian subjects, they were pushed
back into the water with the butt-ends of muskets, and
with bayonets. Two Jews, namely, the old man and a
younger person, attempted to return to the Turkish vessel,
but they were carried away by the current and drowned.
The Rounian guard made no effort to save thew,
although they sink near the bank, whilst the Turkish
vessel made oil rapidly. The Mercury, a steam vessel be-
longing to the Austrian Danubian Company, got ready to