The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-08 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

HOUSE 07 COMMONS.—Wimussatir, MAlar.
ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES.
(The doge of the debate, and the division which followed,
is the leis edition of yerterday's Earns* :]
Yes CANE seoooded the motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that be
addressed himself to the guidon, sot in the character of •
member of the pverameet, but simply in his capacity as as
individual mem. He was sawed that the great majority
of the house was of opinion that It was desirable that this
matter should be brought to a settlement. He deprecated
the disciesios of the question on the theory of church aid
er the exinsokm a the valise, whisk latter elenaget
bad introduced into the diereurioa by Mr. Da Cass,
end whose mimed seemed to be that the church wee safe
in that house so left as
_yea lospi the salon eat. The
=a n resolved keen into eh, that every Individesl
be told lw law, es perishes sew weft, rectl.!
thatch rates, "Exempt yeareelaa• He Si
that the sums principle ahead be • ti=4
subject which was dose in regard to ems la
Ireland, which, so far from weakening the dm*
there, had, is the epilog of may, skengtheeed
it, and even eirengthened it leo mot ; acid also
that the operates the present law as a medium of pie-
sal taxation was meet objeetkeade ; while it was miss.
lately usjust to the church, whisk wee in some ketones
left to the Duey of dignities. He, however, still eon-
• to be one who us not se edemas cl the simple
abolition of the rats, isassueli as it weeld lane away
rural parishes eapeovided with the necessary means
of providing for the fade of the church, while he
esied to one effect of total abolition, a,
thatobj would tend is permit dlesentars stn'-tollen is the leasegensent of the material again
of the church. That iadividual eximptioa which be idea
cited might be utabilsheal by the removal of the existing
compulsory prose" while the imposition of church rates
should be conlasd to those who close to pay them, can
being takes that thou who thmsdves from the
payment ahead not be to
.parthipate is the
assangentent of the fend whisk was raised by ale Mani*
If the bill emesieed a simple semis of be eould
net support it, but he esied • modification of It le cue
susses with the priuipW wide!' be bad eauseistal.
Mr. B. HOPE mid that is Ms spunk et Mr. Gledstese
he saw a hope of • settistaset a this usales, se • masa
don had bees med• is that dined= by see who had not
say the will but the pewee to envy it ea • jut and happy
OWL
Mr. BRIGHT said that, with mud to bangles:sr now
than hitherto to • settlement of this questiog periwigs se •
matter of thee that wee teat; but so far as • compromise
was conemsed, tie meteor was at that moment exactly
la the pertain in whisk it eked three yeses ego. He
would say that so far as priacdpie was mourned
compecenies was impossible ; bat yet he theesol
gosedbiag might be due towage a settlement, sad be bed
os • former occasion made • pressouritioa akin to that of
Mr. Gladstone. Be bad proposed the abolitios of the En-
gisinate sad the bailiff I. coansorke with church rates. He
seggeded that the bill should be read a second Mem sad
in examittee let the comps/my power of collude( the
sate be Mediated. This would leave everything else as it
stood, sad as it would operate is an exemption of those
who objected to pay the rates. ft woad toad to remove all
Heiresses of feeßeg and sense of plumose.
Mr G. HARDY is substance &Wised the proposition of
Mr. Bright, 'evolving se it del • spawned,e of
by seeepting the second reading of the bill. e
Mr. Glaciates* as a member of sad representetive of the
goveramest to pat his proposition into the elope of a bill.
After stow eerie from Sr T. LIDTD,
Mr. MORLEY stated that his must wish was that the
proposition of Mr. Gladstone should be sacepted,
gabs did that it weald be acceptable to the pest body
the diessaters. While the dissenters firmly believed that
the property of the church was satiseal, they would ears-
fully &basin from applying any of that property to *bar
own peruses.
Mr. HARDCASTLE declined to assent to any camera,
ease involvieg the coatisuance of compulsory Tutu, bat If
his motion was carried he would listen to any suggestion for
a settlement.
Mr. DIBRAXII versed the house not to vote set one
issue when they istended to support smother. The motion
for the second roadie' of the bill 'evolved as anoints and
unooeditional abolition of church rates. He suggested the
adjournment of the debate. and that lit. Hardcastie should
take an opportunity of having the sense of the house de-
clared on the new and other issues whisk had been raised.
He must meet a proposition teethe absolute &bedlam of the
'rates with a negative.
The house was cleared for a dividers, but Mr. Walpole,
oh of the tellers, returned immediately to announce to the
Speaker that Mr. Percy Wyedhut bed been accidentally
abut out, and
Mr. P. W YNDHAM, on being interrogated by the Speaker,
geed permission to be allowed to record kis vote with the
nom, which was acceded to.
The house divided :
For the moond reading 285
For the amendment
The announcement of the numbers was rusived without
say demonstration on either Ms of the tense.
The following bills were &deranged a siege :--Ocesolidated
Find (1,137,1121.) Bill—third realist; Prime Alfred's
Annuity Bill—third reeding ; Mutiny Bill--second reeding.
THEATRICAL LICENSES. Ac.
Mr. BARING nominated the select committee oe Thea-
trical Licenses and Regulations :—Mr. Guam, Mr. Wa-
r:a...Lord Reshape Cecil, Lord Brevet Braes, Sir Arthur
Mr. Clay, Mr. Olive, Mr. De Cane. Mr. Looks. Mr.
Leak Mr. Taverner John Miller, Mr. 013eiras, Mr. Powell,
Mr. Selwin, and Lieat.-Oolonel Stun. Power to seed for
persona, paper', end records. The to be the quorum.
METROPOLITAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, he.
Mr. AYRTON nominated the select committee on Me tre-
polite° Local Government, Ac.:—Mr. Ayrion, Mr. Ties,
Mr. Barley, Mr. Leeks, Mr. Lwr.arr, Mr. Baring, Mr.
Mill, Mr. Heebner, Lord John Meaner., Mr. Faccott, Mr.
Tamer, Sir William Gallwey, Sir Matthew White Ridley.
M. Seedbed, end Mr. lEekeivich. Power to seed for per-
seas, papers, and records. Five to be the quorum.
The bocce adjourned at 5 o'clock.

RAILWAY AND °THIN BILLS IN PAI

Yesterday, in Mr. Dodgem's Committee of Ways sod Means,
the following bills were passed :—The Beddgelert Railway ;
the Drayton Junction Railway ; the Stockton Gas ; Bothnia
Water ; Minchester Royal Exchange ; Banbury Gas : West
liFiddle.e-r Water ; Mon Valley Railway ; Neeth and Bre-
con Ittilway (capital) ; New Milford Docks ; Whitby, Rad-
om; and Mkklleaborinagli Uslon Railway ; Devon and So.
mereet Railway (capital) ;Morayshire Railway ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire 'Railway (North Lancashire Loop Line);
Central Wsles Extension Railway ; and the Leedom Chat.
Nam, and Dover Railway ((Chatham Dockyard Branch). The
Wrexham and Miners Railway and the Salisbury sad
Yeovil Railway petitions were adjourned. In the House of
Commons Mewling Orders Committee the only bill which
cams under consideration was the opposed petition of
the Aberdare Northern Railway, sad the engineer's re-
port not being prepared a further postponement was
adored.
MR. SEWARD'S INPERBBION ow BRITISH AMERICA.
—The Hoe. William IL Seward, Secretary of State for the
Ceased States, made a tour of the British American Pro-
vinces with a party of friends, a few days ago, and before
leaving Canada he wrote the following statement of his im-
peessioes " Hitherto, in common with most of my
exuntryinea, se I suppose, I have thought Canada, or to
speak more accurately, British Amartca, a men strip
lying north of the Mated Statue, easily detachable from
the parent state, but incapable of sustaining itself, and
therefore, ultimately, say, right sow, to be takes on by the
Federal Union, without materially changing or affecting
its own condition or development. I have dropped
the opinion am a national commit. I see in British North
America, stretching, en it does, acme the continent, from
the shores of Labrador and Newfoundland to the Pacific,
sad occupying a considerable bolt of the temperate NOP,
traversed equally with the United States be the lakes, and
enjoying the magnificent shores of the St. Lawrence, with
he thousands of islands in the river and gulf, a region mend
*rough for the seat of a groat empire—in Me wheat fields
th the west, its broad ranges of the chans at the north, its
inexhaustible lumber leech—the most extensive now re-
mainiog on the globe—its invaluable fisheries, and its
yet undisturbed mineral wealth. I find its inhabi-
tants vigorous, hardy, energetic, perfected by the protestant
religion sad British constitutional liberty. I fed them
jealous of the United States and of Great Britain, ma they
eight to be ; and, therefore, when I look at their extent
and resources, I know that they can neither be conquered
by the former nor permanently held by the latter. They
will be independent, se they are already ealf-maLataioug.
Having happily escaped the curse of slavery, they wild
never submit themselves to the dominion of shiveholdere,
which prevails io, and determines the character of, the
Visited States. They will be a Russia in the United
States, which to them will be France and England. Bat
they will be a Russia civilised and protestant, and that
wilt be a very different Raisin from that will& fills all
eouitero Europe with terror, and by rams of that supe-
✓iority they will be the more terrible to the dwellers la the
southern latitudes. The policy of the United Stases
is to propitiate and secure the alliance of Caned*
while it is yet young and incurious d its future.
But on the other land the policy which the United
States actually pursues is the infatuated one of rejecting
sad spurning Micros', perennial, and overgrowing Ca-
nada, while seeking to establish feeble States out of de-
caries Spanish provinces on the onset, aid in the islands
of the Gulf of Mexico. I shall sot live to see It, but the
man is already bore who will see the United State' mourn
ever this stepeodons folly, which is only preparing the way
/or ultimate danger and downfall. All Southern political
sere most set, though many times they rise again with
diminished splendour. But those which illuminate the
pole Tennis for ever shining, for ever increeniag in spies-
-Toronto Globe, Feb. 17.
GSM's YILLD OF CALIFORNIA IN 1866.—From
the samesors returns Id 25 comities in Catfoi Ma, 303,522
awes of wheat were planted, Oldie, 7.3611,512 bushels, and
E/0,791 sores of barley, yielding 10,366,084 bushols.—Coli-
fornien paper.
Artemis Ward utters acatbing maledictions on
Wisconsin town where he lectured. His spat took
2 Mils. ei7o. at the door, while Arteamia took the measles
inside.—Miseoswi Detwers4

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