The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-28 00:00:00

,BER.

CANADA.

Mr. MONSELL, in reply to, Mr. S. ATTCI-7:'7, said that
no correspondence had tak-u pl Ica between the Colonial
Department and the Legislature of Canada with r3spect
to the appropriation of the Inter-Colonial I:. I luau, iy
Lut he had, among other docum.mts, received two or three
weeks ago, amongst them being a statement relative to
tie extension of certain engagements bearing high bate-
est, and foe that purpose a p.otion of the loan was in-
tended to ho used, but in order that the wants of the rail-
way might be na,t immediately upon being require",
two sums had,been set asi le for that. purFo3e. There was
nothing illegal in the transaction referred to, but it was
occupying the s:rious attention of the Government
Copies of the papers were quite at the service of the hon
gentleman if he required them.

THE CASE OF LAVELLE V. PROUDFOOT.
Mr. CHARLEY called the attention of the house to the
case of Lavelle v. Proudfoot, which was an action fur
libel tried before Mr. Justice Fitzgerald at the late Galway
Spring Assizes. It was tried at some length, and it aroma
out of the " stripping" of certain land for the arrang-
ing for the payment of certain parochial dues,
and the expulsion of certain persons from
the chapel over which Father Lavelle presided.
The exclusion of certain attendants from the chapel, and
the refusal of extreme auction to a dying person because
he had sent his child to one of the certified schools, also
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formed a portion of the charges against Father Lavelle. The
jury gave nominal damages,and under all the circumstances
he should like to know whether the Government intended
to taka steps to protect peaceful Roman Catholics from
similar treatment.
Mr. MOORE defended Father Lavelle from the charges

brought against him, and said he was proud of the
friendship of Father Lavelle, and in all he Lad
done ho had only taken the steps he was com-
pelled to adapt in order to stop the proselytizing that had
been most energetically carried on in his parish. Father
Lavelle and his parishioners understood one another, and
he could aisure the hon. member that his interference was
not at all required.
Mr. GLADSTONE did not think there was any
failure of justice, and therefore he did not see there was
need of any steps being taken. The hon. gentleman op-
posite Lao, as he thought, inappropriately connected the
subject with the Irish Church Bill, and the honour-
able gentleman wanted to know whether tLe

Government intended to take steps to conciliate the
Church of Rome, and also whether they intended to with-
draw the National School system from Ireland. Before
answering the latter question he might ob-
serve with respect to the conciliation of the
Church of Rome, that whether it was the Church
of Rome or any other church all the Government w:sLtel
to do was to act towards it with jititic,, and nothing 1 as.
(Hear.) It was not the intention of the Government to
withdraw the National Seho.d system from Ireland. With
respect to the case of LlvAle and Proudfoot, he thought
it was one that was not a proper subject for dist.ussion in
the House of Commons.
THE PATENT LAWS.

Mr. MAGFIE called the attention of the hquse to the
present position of th 3 patent laws, and moved the fol-
lowing resolution : —That in the opinion of the house
the time had arrived when the interests of trade and com-
merce, and the progress of the arts and science in the
country would be pro►notid by the abolition of patents for

inverri.ns.
Sir R. PALMER seconded the .motion, and said ho had
bug been of opiuion that the time bad arrived when patents
should be altogether and entirely abolished.
['LEFT SPEAKING.I

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAsr EVENING.
cusroms AND INLINJ REVENU-E.
On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Mr. HUN I.' complaTned that there had been no dis-
cu.sion oa the second reading of this bill, an I there-
fore he proposed to call the attention of the right
hon. gentleman to some of the peculiarities of the
proposition he had made with a view of me sting •
the deficiencies that ha I oczurred in tho revenue of the
country. He thought the arraLgemoat with respect t
the payment of certaiu taxes most objeetionah!e, more
especially the inc ems tax. The de tici sucy, Ito
believed, had been sot down by the right he:iota:-
We geutle.nan at £3, t0),0 0, all suppsing the
bill new u der c meidaration to rude i are
ascent of P.-xliament, the sum of X 2,910,000 woad
fall into the haids of the right hon. gentle:nan. lla
thought it twat obj ctioaahle that tit a pressure
shoal l le) put upoa the taxi, ayer j tit ut the
p trtt,ulae time when the greatest strain was
a ws.,s .uade upon his resources at the beginning of every
now year. It was also said that £lOO,OOO would be saved
in the collection of tit ► inc me tax under the new arrange-
ment ; such an arrangement was a good oie supposing it
couli be conveniently done, but ho thought the incon-
venience and oppression that would be ore asiooe Iby the
payment of the whole of the assessed taxes at the com-
mencement of the year would very far outweigh any ad-
vantage to be reaped by the change. Another effect of the
arrangement of the right hon. gentleman would be that
the Exchequer balances would be seriously interfered
with, and, indeed, to such an extent that it would
prove a great inconvenience to future Chancellors of
the Exchequer. The more convenient course ho thought
would have been to have made the income tax
payable in the January quarter, and the land,
house, and assessed taxes in the July quarter,
which would have avoided the great inconvenience
which was now the principal objection to the proposals
he had made to the house. The payment of taxes at one
particular period was in itself a good 0.10, bat the cumu- ,
lating the payment of all the taxes into the same quarter
.of the year was the great inconvenience of which he Corn-
.plained.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said before
be replied to the observations of the right hon. gentleman
he might say that owing to representations that had been
need° to him from various quarters it was the intenticn
"to allow the exemption of brood mares from duty
(Hear, hear.) He did not see that the income-tax payer
was hardly dealt with by the proposition he had submitted
to the house, and with respect to one of the hardships
mentioned by the right hon. gentleman, viz., the ccmpuleory
payment of five quarters income tax in one year, that was
always done if 12 months were taken instead of the.
financial year. There was, in fact, no great hardship,
as the disadvantage was fully compensated for by the
advantage given in October, when they did not ask for
any tax at all. With respect to . the Exchequer balances,
he did not think there need be any misgivings, because
although it was said he should have to go to the Bank
of England for a loan, he did not think there
was any particular objection to that, without it was with
respect to the amount they would have to pay for the ac-
commodation. But that particular objection it was
his intention shortly to meet by proposing to the
house a bill giving the Government the power of borrow-
ing from the Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt. (Hear.) Ho did not agree with certain strictures
that had been made with respect to the duty the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer owed to the Bank of
England. (Hear, hear.) He did not see that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to pass
by everything for the benefit of the Bank of England.
(Hear, hear.) It was the Chancellor's first duty to take
I care of the taxpayer and not his duty to put a large
amount of capitalinto the concern, admirably managed as
it was, in order that the monarch which the merchants had
set up might more effectually control. the market then it
did at present.
Mr. CRAWFORD said it was most fortunate for the
right hon. gentleman that ho had not to undergo an exami-
nation before the Civil Service Commissioners previous to
taking office, if so he would have found it difficult to
make those gentlemen understand that a man did
not pay more money in five quarters' income tax
than he did in four. (Hear, hoar.) According to the
calculation of the right hon. gentleman in three years, if
that arrangement was to last for that period, the tax
payer would be called upon for fifteen quarters
taxes. He thought the right hon. gentleman had
scarcely done the Bank of England justice. It
was not the duty of the Bank of England to find funds for
the commercial community. (Hear, hear.) Its duty wiS
to take care of the funds of its proprietors, to put them to
the best purposes, and not to create a resource to be o
made
useful en cases of emergency. With respect to the Bank hotthstat-
ing storm signals, when it did so it was only to induce
in
degree of caution being used which he regretted t bay
many cases was entirely disregarded.
mystified by the Chancellor of the Eorhfiex.cr;
Mr. BARNETT said he was another of those,
uarters of
don with respect to the psymente,,osition, s rhoa lc uwl aa -5
ha thoug'lt,
income-tax in 12 months.t
toT hbe,p:
;node of getting two
would ultimately turu.ohu
htaexdiadyneont think would be very
by t wh
hepyheigair,sl;t:;oivueodnoef,
Altar soma further
schedule was agreed
to, and the bill was
FF (PENSIONS) BILL.
othethheo
re discussion,
Mr. HUNT cart ied a proviso that no pension shall CIVIL O
at-
tach to au Oleo hereafter created except those created by
Act of Parliament.
Sir 11. SELWIN-IBBETSON'S Beerbouses Bill was
considered in Comtnittee, and on the motion of Mr. Alder-
man LUSK its operation was extended to the metropolis.
Several other bills were forwarded a stage, and the house
then adjourned.

The two poachers arrested at Grimsby, charged
with the murder of Enoch Goldby, havebeen committed for
trial. It will be remetabiTed that in a poaching affray
(lobby, a gardLuer, was slot down.