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London, England, 1852-06-24 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PA RLIAMEN T.

.:XOUSE OF CO.VAIONS, June 23.
COLONIAL C BURCH.
;Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
~.;•r HORSMAN said they ough to proceed with
caution in this matter. The ptincieles must be
en to be clear and unambiguous, but he was sorry to
he was at a loss to discover what really was the
deject of the Right Hon. Gentleman in pressing the
resolution. The Government had announced that
they intended to turn their attention to the subject
of the Colonial Church, and he could see
h,. practical good that was likely to result from
this proposal. The Bill which the Right Honourable
Gentleman formerly introduced was a revolutionary
Bill, intended to introduce an ecclesiastical tyranny into
the colonies, but the speech which proposed it was a de-
lusion and a snare. The speech was a lamb, but the
Bill which came after it was a wolf. This motion,
let the House remember, was brought forward by
the organ of a party who should not be lost sight
el-eit was a dangerous and encroaching party, whose
tactics could be gathered from the fact that its organ
had made a speech on such a day and at such a
il
time when he knew it would have to go forth without
reply, and leave the people to suppose that it was un-
answered and unanswerable. The course, however, pur-
sued by the Colonial Secretary was widely different—it
was m oily and straightfoeward, end it must be gratifying
to the ItillSe and the country to know that it would de-
feat the purpose of those who had been instrumental in
bringing the subject before Parliament. No practical
peed could possibly result from the adoption of this rose-
livion, but the Right Hon. Gentleman wanted it to pass, to
print his Bill and send it out to the colonies. That might
be the avowed object, but it was not the real motive for
this movement. The fact was, there was a party in the
Church who wanted to establish a tyrannical syster:tel
the colonies, in the hope that they might be atter; tls
was
enabled to introduce it at home. Their real object
to destroy the free spirit and pure simplicity of the
w...ahlrc,elii,
for the purpose of subeticuting in its place a ne _Ling'
oaf
edifice and the worst and most odious t
together to
episeepal and priestly domination.
Parliament would continue on its guardil° hoped, however,
and prevent this.
Tea Right Hon. Gentleman had said that the bishops of
the colonies had been deterred from meeting
settle their own affairs for fear of penal
said, consequences. of
course the Right 11". Gantlemarl t belihe libeved what he
but he (Mr. Horsman) would take y of disbe-
lieving it altogether.
inThe bishops
k p had ert
already met in
synod, as everybody coloniesthe,'hew. Who was
to prosecute them for so doing, or under whae
law were they to he,. prosecuted? He certainly
objected to this Bill, and protested against
its being transmitted to the colonies in its present sape.
Considering the dangers and difficulties which now sur-
rounded the Church, any legislation for the distant colo-
nies ought to be attended with great care and caution.
He thought this was a proposition most dangerous and
absurd, and be hoped that when the Government came
next year to redeem tie pledgee which he understood
they had given, to legislate on this subject, they would
do so oil principles clear, defined, and intelligible.
Sir W. P. WOOD regretted that the Hon. Member
for Cocitermomh should invariably impeach the motives
of any Hon. Member who might chance to differ from
him in any opinion, and impute to him sinister and dis-
honest reasons fur such differences.—(Hear, hear.) The
other day it was himself (Sir W. P. Wood) who had been
imPugned with reference to the view which he had taken
of the state of the law on another subject, and
to-day it was the Right Honourable Gentleman the
Member for the University of Oxford. The Honour-
able Gentleman said that this Bill had a concealed
motive—that its real obj,,ct was to establish an eccle-
siastical tyranny in the colonies. Certainly, if it had
such a concealed motive, he had never seen any motive
so well and dexterously concealed. (Hear, hear.)
It was a very odd way of establishing an ecclesiastical
tyranny to seek to give the laity a greater power
and a larger share of legislation in church matters
than was possessed by the laity of this country.
The Hon. Gentleman said that some of the bishops in
the colonies had done mischief there, but he (Sir W. P.
Wood) thought that it was but necessary to refer to the
progress of the Church in the distant colonies to show
that the bi,:hops had done great goad. Many of them
had been sent to a heatnen population, or to a convict
population standing in need of religious education even
more than heathens. Within the last fifteen years the
number of clergy employed under the colonial bishops had
increased threefold, from 500 to 1,600, and in the Cape of
Good Hope they had increase sixfold. iThe power which
the Church in the colonies wanted, and which he thought
would be conferred by some Bill of this sort, was to
show the force, energy, and vitality which it possessed
when duly organized. Ia eft' sting this object, he hoped
the Hun. Ms mber for Cockermouth would join, laying
aside his prejudices for once, and endeavour to aid the
causeof Coris:ian truth by adhering to Caristian charity.
Mr. BUTT strongly objected to this Bill, to the intro-
duction of which he was only induced to consent by
the implicit confidence which he placed in the Right Hon.
Baronet the Secretary for the Colonies.
Mr. GLADSTONE wished to say a few words on a
personal matter. For the first time in his public life he
had felt greatly grieved by the tone which the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Secrets.rif or the Colonies had adopted in
his speech on the second reading of the former Bill.
The language, ho -sever, which the Right Hon. Gentle-
man had used to-day had convinced him (Mr. Gladstone)
that the expressions he then used lay within the fair
limits of debate; and he wished spontaneously to say
that he entirely withdrew anything which he might have
said when labouring under his first impression, and re-
gretted ever having used them.
Sir J. PAKINGTON said he most cordially accepted
the Right Hon. Gentleman's apology.
The resolution was thin agreed to, and the Ch-irman
being directed to move tor leave to bring in a Bill to
amend the laws relating to the Colonial Church, the
House resumed, and leave was eiven to bring in the Bill.
METROPOLITAN BURIALS BILL.
The 11.31133 then went into Committee on this Bill,
commeecieg with clause 38.
The remaining clauses of the Bill were agreed to.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE proposed a clause exempting
from taxation horses and carriages kept for funeral pur-
poses only.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
apprehended it was impossible to move a clause of this
nature in Committee on this Bill. It would be neces-
sary to go into a Committee of the whole House, and
move a special resolution with regard to this parti-
cular tax.
The amendment was then withdrawn.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH moved a clause providing
compensation for the owners of burial grounds which
might be closed by the operation of this Bill.
The CHAIRMAN said the same objection would ap-
Ply to this clause as had been urged against the clause
of the Hon. Member for Finsbury. If the compensation
Were to come out of the Consolidated Fund, a prelimi-
nary resolution would be necessary.
After a brief discussion the clause was added to the
Bill, The preamble was afterwards agreed to, and the
'milt° resumed.
GENERAL
report was ordered to be received to-morrow.
BOARD OF HEALTH (AMEND-
MENT) BILL.
ir the motion for going into Committee on this Bill,
alteratieuEOho RGE PECHELL suggested that certain
e t
to owg of Brighton.
be made in the Bill with reference to
thAf,,Brighton.
The etegs: words from Lord J. MANNERS,
Sir GEoßdttlnt into Committee.
clause 5, whichPECHELL moved the omission of
e.:greed to.
The
motior,watalated to Brighton.
All the other
resumed. lusee were agreed to, and the House
The report was r,rd
FRIENDLY
se(ZI to be received to morrow.
This Rill was read
a IBTIES (No. 2) BILL.
BISHOPRIC OF eiZI time and passed.
a_ltILL.
LeettIjTCHURCLI (NEW ZEA-
Tb.is Bill was considered
to be read a third time taegtturit
‘agreed to, and ordered
VALUATION (Htiiv•
as
amended, as
tine red and agreed to,
This all,w AND) BILL.
lend ordered to be read a third
utshed.
CRIME AND OUTRAGE (tla,-,!netrow.
This Bill was read a third time att'lleAND) BILL.
PATENT LAW A AIEND
ILL.
This was read a third time and giu
INCUMBERED ESTATES (I-RELZ,/,
paso4. BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and p,4? BILL.
SCHOOL SITES ACTS EXTENSIteN
This Bill was read a third time and
PROPERTY OF LUNATICS BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
DISTRESSED UNIONS (IRELAND)
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
WOODS, FORESTS, AND LAND REVENUES
This Bill was consideredßlLL and. agreed to, and ordered
to be read a third time to-morrow.
EXCISE SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS BILL.
This Bill was considered and agreed to, and ordered
to be reed a third time to-morrow.
SECRETARY OF BANKRUPTS OFFICE
ABOI
This Bill was considLereTdmlOlrN BILL.
and agreed to, red
to be read a third time to
BISHOPRIC OF QUEBEC(row' and orde
This Bill BILL.
as amended was considered and agreed to,
land order, d to be read a third time to-morrow.
COLONIAL BISHOPS bILL.
This Bill passed through Committee and was ordered
to be reported to-morrow.

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lE tROPOLITAN SEWERS BILL.
On the mo':,ion for the third reading of this Bill,
Mr. PETO said that he had the honour of being
cAlled to the Commission list appointed on the subject
of the r7ietropolitan sewers, and with him were asso-
ciated 'Ai. Stephenson, Mr, Bendel], Sir W. Cubitt, and
severa't other gentlemen connected with the public works
of tb e kingdom. It was distinctly understood on the
part of the Government and the Commission that the
attt:ntion of the Conami&:loners was to be directed tin-
rumittiniy to the c,-tnzioicration of plans for the sew-
IN 'age of the ineiropolis. They had accordingly 80 de-
Voted thqr ir:tentin; 211 d during the sixteen months
l'heY hds.heen en the •Coincai:ision plans had been ih-
irestigate-and ma'cured for the se ,erage both on the
northern itand southern si,!es the river, and works of
great ini:.znitule, which ha Liz.: urgent necessity of the case
.qvi'pg u ,Performed. I.lpan Lard
Ebrinigtou gl toffice irm e the Commission. he p
(Ur. e of
Pete) lid beenan re-
f
quer,ted to take the position
of san,dey• c h
and to re.prisent the Commission ut
in that
Louse. Since that time, he rugrettEd to say, they had
kst their chairman and two or three other members, and
)1 (Mr. rti•io) telt it his duty, in conjunction with Mr.
it-ePht'nst',n; Mr. Bendel], and Sir, W Cubitt, to resign
as,oth They had done so si:z.py on this ground, that
Y lual :not, as they had conceived, had good faith
re
them—lie did not mean on the part of the pre-