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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 b►y a majority of 211 to
184. We must perforce give credit to Lord JOHN
RUSSELL for the zeal which he displayed in defeat-
ing this iniquitous scheme, althongh 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
Me Dissenters of a former day, so far from being
opposed to Church-rates,•were willing contributors
to the sustenance of the National Church, believing
it to be the strongest bulwark of Protestantism
against the encroachments and aggressions of
Rome. He ,contended, manfully, that so long as
we had an hereditary monarchy and an hereditary
aristocracy, -the existence of a National Church
was essential to our national unity ; •it was a part
of our national in§titntions, which must stand or
fall together.. We'bcildly affirm that the payment
of Church-rates •is 'no grievance whatever, except
to those who would +consider it• a.grievance to dis-
charge any obligation, and that the cry has been
got up for a partypurpose by those•whese ultimate
object is the destruction of the Church, while the
effect would tact() raise once morethe hydra-head
of Romish superstition and tyranny upon the
ruins of the Rdformation. The Church, as an
institution under which, by the 'blessing of Pro-
vidence, this country has reached the pinnacle of
national greatness, should be the dearest object of
every Englishman to maintain; and, though we
have had the nro!ancholy task to record the refusal
of a Church-rate in Protestant'Liverpool, we'look
forward to being able shortly to report the removal
of this stain upon our town by thegranting of the
requisite rate wiLhout opposition, and the question
being no more asked, "How is it' that your church
:clocks are not. gang ?"