that the Chancery Commission was not, he thought, in
need of any addition to its numbers; but that it was
pursuing a well-directed and extensive course of investigation,
and he hoped that it would enable him to place
before the house a mass of valuable and practical
information. The motion was then agreed to.

On Monday, June 30, Mr. THOMAS BARING renewed
in committee on the Customs bill his recent efforts to
prevent the Adulteration of Coffee by Chicory; moving
a resolution that it be an instruction to the committee
"to make provision for preventing the mixture of
chicory with coffee by the vendors of coffee." All that
the coffee-growers ask (he said), is that chicory should
be sold for what it is, and not for coffee.—The
Chancellor of the EXCHEQUER observed that there was no sort
of attempt at fraud here, because coffee in the berry was
notoriously about twice the price of ground coffee.—Sir
JOHN TYRRELL insisted on the benefit of the chicory trade
to agriculture; he knew a person who farmed 160 acres
with chicory, and employed thirty labourers, where
with grain crops he could employ only fourteen.—
Mr. OSBORNE had no doubt that Mr. Baring's motives
were pure; but there were parties behind him—the
large consignees of tea and coffee—who if the Treasury
minute be reversed would add twenty-five per cent to
their money stock by the withdrawal of chicory from
the market. The motion was negatived by 199 to 122.

On the motion for going into committee on the
Inhabited House Duties Bill, Mr. DISRAELI brought
forward the following Financial Resolutions:—"That,
according to an estimate of the probable future produce
of the existing taxes, submitted to this house by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, it appears that a surplus
revenue may be expected in the present year to the extent
of about £2,000,000. That in the revenue so estimated
is included a sum exceeding £5,000,000, derived from
the tax on income, respecting which an inquiry has
been directed to be made by a committee of this house,
on the result of whose labours may depend the future
renewal or modification of that important impost.
That in this provisional state of the financial arrangements
of the country, it appears to this house to be
most consistent with a due regard to the maintenance
of public credit, and the exigencies of the public service,
not to make any material sacrifice of public income in
effecting such changes as may he deemed advisable in
other branches of taxation." He supported his motion
at great length, and was briefly answered by the
Chancellor of the EXCHEQUER.—Mr. GLADSTONE
expressed his wish that Mr. Disraeli had been more explicit,
but could not refuse to vote in favour of a motion in
accordance with the principles he had always advocated.
After some observations by Mr. Hume and Mr. Labouchere
the house divided, when Mr. Disraeli's resolutions
were negatived by 242 to 129.

On Tuesday, July 1st, the Marquis of BLANDFORD
brought forward the subject of Church Extension, by
moving the following resolution:—"That an humble
address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she
would be graciously pleased to take into her consideration
the state of spiritual destitution existing throughout
England and Wales, with a view that her Majesty might
be pleased to direct the adoption of such measures as
she might deem expedient for affording more efficient
relief to the spiritual wants of the people, and for an
extension of the parochial system corresponding to the
growth of a rapidly increasing population, by the help
which might be drawn from the resources of the
Established Church itself." His speech was in a conciliatory
tone, his object being (as he expressed it) rather to disarm
opposition than to cope with it when raised. He
observed that the statement of the commission, that 600
new churches were required, was in itself an epitomised
proof of the spiritual destitution which exists. In 131
parishes, containing a population in 1841 of 3,972,850,
there were 1,895,852 persons who had no opportunity of
entering a church; and in the same parishes, considering
that one clergyman cannot efficiently attend to more
than 2000 persons, there was a deficiency of 237 clergymen.
The enormous augmentation of episcopal duties
had also rendered an increase of bishops imperative.
Since the reformation, the number of the population
had increased fourfold at the least, and the clergy in
something the like proportion; but the bishops had only
increased by two. Several of them had 1000 clergymen
under their charge. It was desired that the ancient
type of the episcopos should be revived; that bishops
should once more gladden the eyes of the people as
"pastores inter pastores "—as spiritual leaders, who,
resident among their clergy, diffuse among them the
same blessings and the same benefits that the clergy
diffuse among their flocks. The Marquis referred to
the description of what the bishop of our church should
be, given by Mr. Horsman in the debates of last session:
no words could more eloquently or truly express his
own feeling of the type which he desired to see restored.
He went over the recommendations made by the
commissioners as to the sources from which to gain funds
for these parochial and episcopal extensions—the revenues
of the rural deaneries, the sale of the church
patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and the improved
management of the tithes. In applying the deanery
revenues to the extension of bishoprics, it would be well
to select the bishops from existing deans: the plan
might be adopted with infinite good in Westminster.
In other cases, the bishop might act as dean within his
own diocese, while the revenue of the dean would
establish a new bishopric elsewhere: thus you would at
all events secure residence. The proposal for selling
the Chancellor's patronage was not new; it was made
by Lord John Russell as in reference to a motion of Sir
Robert Peel. The plan proposed for the management
of the tithes would increase the value of the interest of
the church by at least £200,000 a year. He did not ask
for a grant of public money, but that the legislature should
take immediate means to apply the property already
possessed by the church in extending and carrying out those
spiritual purposes to which the piety of our ancestors
originally devoted it.—Lord R. GROSVENOR praised the
spirit and tone in which the measure had been brought
forward. If the Chancellor's livings were sold, they
would probably fall into the hands of respectable laymen,
who would increase the stipends, and see that the
duty was properly administered.—Mr. HUME proposed,
as an amendment upon or as an addition to the motion,
the insertion of a very long form of words, calling for a
return to the house of all property of every kind and
sort whatsoever belonging to the Established Church,
in separate returns for every bishopric and ecclesiastical
body, with the value of the rents and fines of all sorts.
He entirely concurred with the object of the original
motion, and only desired to point out how that
important object can be effected. He introduced a few
statements concerning the enormous revenues derived
by the best-endowed of the bishoprics.—Sir B. HALL
supported both the motion and the amendment; for he
was earnestly desirous of church-extension, and he
believed that Mr. Hume's amendment would, if carried,
reveal "incalculable" funds at the disposal of the
church for its own fitting purposes. He then proceeded
to support both propositions by an exposure of the many
abuses in the management of church property. After
dwelling at great length upon various abuses, some of
which he described as ludicrously mean, and others as
of a graver character, he asked what wonder could be
felt that Romanism should grow rampant in a country
where such things were practised in the people's church?
He advised taking away all the property of the
archbishops, bishops, and of all other members of the church,
and paying out of that property a respectable stipend to
all the clergy; giving the primate, for example, no
higher salary than the premier. He would turn all the
bishops out of the House of Lords, and then we should
be spared the sight of wretched Welsh curates doing
almost menial offices in clothes not fit for society. No
clergyman should have less than £200 a year. By this
plan, also, we should do away with church-rates; dissent
would be less popular, Romanism less triumphant,
and the church made a blessing to the people. He
concluded with some sarcasms at the Bishop of London,
for inconsistent and contradictory interference with
matters of church ceremonial.—Mr. MORRIS said a
few words in defence of the Bishop of St. David's,
who, among others, had been attacked by Sir B. Hall.
—Mr. A. J. B. HOPE complimented Lord Blandford
upon the mode in which he had introduced his scheme,