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TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1854.

ABOLITION OF CHURCH RATES.

IT would be difficult to decide upon what prin-
ciple the present Parliament is constituted, for it
has yet proceeded upon no other plan than to con-
sent to the introduction of bills, no matter for
what impracticable purpose, and then, after a dis-
cussion on the next stage, to throw them out.
This has 'been particularly evident in the course
pursued with reference to the bill for the abolition
of Church-rates. On the motion for its introduc-
tion, notwithstanding the strenuous opposition of
the Ministerial leader, it was carried with a large
majority, and yet, on Wednesday last, when the
attempt was made to pass it through a second
reading, it was thrown out by a majority of 211 to
184. We must perforce give credit to Lord JonN
RUSSEL/ for the zeal which he 'displayed in defeat-
ing this iniquitous scheme, although our praise of
him 'must be considerably modified by his rash
promise to introduce a bill on the subject next
year. We do not agree with him, that all admit
the wrong which is inflicted under 'the present
system of Church-rates, and only differ as to the
nature of the remedy. He himself -supplied an
argument to the contrary, when he asserted that
'the Dissenters of a 'former day, so far from being
opposed to Church rates, were willing contributors
to the sustenance (itthe National Church, believing
it to be the strongest bulwark of Protestantism
against the encroachments and aggressions of
Rome. He contended, manffilly, that so long as
we had an heiceditary monarchy and an hereditary
aristocracy, the existence of a National Church
was essentiallo our national unity ; it was a part
of our national institutions, which must stand 'or
fall together. We boldly affirm that the payment
of Church-rates is no grievance whatever, except
to those who would consider it a grievance to dis-
charge any ohligation, and 'that the cry has been
got up for a party purpose by those whose ultimate
object is the destruction of the Church, While-the
effect would be to raise once more the hydra diead
of Romish superstition ;and tyranny upon the
ruins of 'the Reformation. The Church, us an
institution under which, 'by the blessing of Pro-
videneerthis country has reached the pinnacle of
nationagreatness, should be the dearest object of
every Englishman to maintain ; and, though we
have bad-the melancholy task to record the refusal
of a Clistre-h-rate in Protestant Liverpool,- we look-
' forward to being able 12,hortly to report the removal
of this stain upon our town by the granting,of the
requisite rate without opposition, and the question
being no more asked,' 'How is it that your-church
clocks ark not going r