The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-27

ence of the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel.
The Irish OhUrch.--In 1888 the Liberal Minis
try introduced into the Tithes Communication
bill the principle that Parliament was entitled to
appropriate the surplus funds of the Irish church
to national purposes. 1t was the House of Lords
which, in defiance of repeated votes ia the re-
formed Parliament, compelled the withdrawal
OF the appropriation clause; and although the
battle ragged tercey till 1888, the bill time after
time was rejected by the Lords, and the Wings
were finally compelled to pass their measure
minus the principle which in Ireland was re-
garded as pledge of justice.
The Corporation and Test Acts.-The Lords
were equally inimical to the relief of Dssenters,
as was shown by their rejection of measure
authorizing Dissenters to solemnize marriages
in their own places of worship. When they
passed Lord John Kussell's bill for the repeal of
the Test and Corporation acts, they insisted
upon the introduction of words which excluded
Jews from the benefit of this measure.
Je1ciSh DjSdbtjtieS.-So long ago as 1888 Mr..
Grants bill for extending civil rights to the Jews
was adopted by the House of Commons, but
thrown out by the Peers. In 1S41, Mr.. Divett
succeeded in carrying through bill admitting
Jews to corporate offices. The Lords rejected
it, and did not give way till 1915. In 1913 the
Commons were willing to admit Jews to Parlia-
ment Year after year the bill for removing
these disabilities was passed by the Lower House
by increasing majorities; but the Lords per-
sistently withheld this act of justice. 1t was
not till after ten years had elapsed that Jews
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Commons; but the Lords still reserve to them
selves the right to exclude Jews from their own
chamber, should the Crown, in the exercise of
its prerogative, desire to create Jewish peers.
DiSSenterS and the UniUerSjtieS. In 1884 y
bill removing the disqualfcatons which barred
the universities against the dissenters passed
through the House of Commons by large ma
jorities, but the Lords rejected it by majority
of 102. If it had not been for this vote the
Dissenters would have enjoyed the full advan-
tages of the two universities on terms of reli-
gious equality more than generation ago
Similar bills have more recently met the same
fate.
Church RateS.-In 1858 the House of Com
mons passed Sir John Trelawnys bill for the
abolition of church rates. The same measure
was repeatedly carried in the one house, and as
often rejected by the other until Mr.. Gladstone's
compromise recently put an end to the strife.
Municipal RefOrnl.--In 1885 the House of
Commons passed bill purging the corporations
of the kingdom of their worst abuses, but the
Lords interfered for the more ample protection
of the 'freemen' who had been the cause of
much of the corruption
The Corn LdlCS.-The hostility of the Lords
to the abolition of the Corn laws is matter of
history. On the eve of their abolition the Duke
of wellington, who at all times commanded a
majority OF the upper House, wrote these words:
II am one of those who think the continuance
of the Corn laws essential to the agriculture of
the country in its existing state and particularly
to that of Ireland, and benefit to the whole
EduCdtiOn.-When, in 1885, Lord Melbourne's s
administration placed the management of the
education funds in the hands of n committee of
the Privy Council, in order that aid might be
| dispensed to schools of various denominations,
the Lords, avowedly influenced by a fear that
the ascendancy of the Church over the education
of the people would be endangered, voted an ad-
dress to the Crown against this measure.
Life Peerdges.-ln 1856 ministers advised the
issuing of letters patent comforting life peer
age on Sir James Parke. This exercise of the
royal prerogative was successfully contested by
the Lords, and Baron Parke was raised to the
hereditary peerage by the title of Lord Wensley-
dale.
Paper Duties-The Commons, in 1860, re-
solved to repeal the paper duties. The House
of Lords, for the first time in its history re-
jected a money bill, and that, too, by majority
of 80. AS is well known, the Lower House, after
an angry controversy, succeeded in vindicating
its privileges.
Serious RiOting In Ireland.
There was a serious rioting at Lurgan, Ireland
on the 18th. drumming party entered the
town; sixteen Catholic houses were completely
wrecked, the furniture, LOOMS and bedding
were taken out and burned in the street. Seve-
raj persons were severely wounded.