§ SIR JOHN TRELAWNYsaid, he wished to take that opportunity of putting a question to the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The question of church rates had been before the House for several years, and now one Member of the Cabinet had given his decided opinion in favour of the abolition of church rates, while he believed that they were all in favour of its settlement. On the last occasion, they were prevented from coming to a decision on the question; though, for his part, he was determined to wait there till three o'clock every morning to make progress with the measure, and thus obtain a settlement of the question, He hoped, however, that the right hon. Gentleman would be kind enough to give 1587 them a day when the subject might be fully discussed. It would save the House a great deal of trouble if the right hon. Gentleman would take that course.
§ MR. NEWDEGATEI rise only to ask Her Majesty's Government not to afford any such facility to the hon. Member for Tavistock (Sir John Trelawny) to press forward his proposition on church rates as would prevent this House from giving full consideration to the proposition that has been made to-night by the hon. Member for Hertfordshire (Mr. Puller) to convert the church rate into a rent charge. The hon. Member made that proposition before, but he was precluded from pressing it by the forms of the House; and I now venture to express the hope that the House will not preclude the hon. Member from bringing forward that proposition in a form in which it can be fully discussed, as it seems, in my judgment, to offer a reasonable mode of solving some of the difficulties of the question.