14 MARCH 1868, Page 3

Mr. Gladstone's Bill for abolishing compulsory Church- Rates passed through

committee on Wednesday, by a majority which renders it most likely that it will not this time be rejected by the Lords. The principal clause wee/carried by 167 to 30, -and so we hope this wearisome and half-unreasoning controversy is finally set at rest. Mr. Bright has all the credit of the solution actually adopted.