The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVES,, MAY 18, 1851. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. the Pepe had the aad the bishops, and b.. allowed to be published from the 'government twist the Pope had the power a< i of all claws* This was an imps where, previous to its teparat eadalis religion conned • MY. It WM t►e per , ,diatwas gek.atisit HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuvuoAT, THAT IL su Lase ciwltm.Eoftse?k 14sottt_st ho o'clock. - Lardos`ntiN~t,%dw sitar -- LYNDHURST evald he abilgad le Nee odds lard Iles Lord Chid festive Of 11411/110 , IteNSIES the sew aide, ea Wes bias ben Twisty Ode Op] nate ewe dap seat. ensit. ea his yid's& tamema-blanenel=olla open Wm. sad meld sat semealeatly be Win beess on the Isilieriag day. Lord cAmrszu. assetad, and head Tuesday neat CHANCERY REFORM. The LORD CHANCELLOR. a reply le Lae* bank explaised that the delay in iaerudeeleg 12 a fte eltsseerty reform arose entirely hem the prelseeted 'mad nixes shish its details required, and dee anxiety felt to leader tb• measure complete and ellestasl. He hoped to lay the hill beton the home la the comes of a fortnight at furthest. PROPERTY TAX BILL. Lord LYNDHURST pointed out an inaecuraey in this bill. nee laargistal note of a clause treated the bill as of three years' duration, whereas the clause itself described it as a bill to last for only one year. Tb. Marquis of LANSDOWNE said no doubt it was ea error of the printer's, and could be easily rectified. He proposed to read the bill a second time on Monday next. Their lordships them, at ten minutes before iii o'clock, adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY, MAT 15. The Sraacsa took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Stroud and Gloucester Road Bill, and the lJttozeter to Stoke, near Stone, and from Millwieh to Sandon Turn pike loa ds Bill (amendments to be proposed), were read a third time. The Christchurch (Southwark) Parish BM eras read a second time. TILE MORTMAI N CO MMITTEE. Mr. J. O'CONNELI.gave notice of his intention to move that the Ana. Member for Limerick, the boa. member for I)ablin I:Mvemity, end the hon. member for Athlone be added to the Mertmain committee. GENERAL BOARD OF ITEALTR. Mr. I1l.:5114 wished to mk a question of the noble lord the member for Bath re•peetmq the General Board of Health Bill. The object of that toll Wl.l to give validity to the orders of the Board of Ilealth, and to enable them to give elfeet to thern orders with respect to six boroughs, of which Yarmouth was one. What he wished to know was, whether there would be any objection to have Tar month excluded hum the bill, and to have a separate bill fur Yarmouth . ..... Lord ASHLEY said that EN noble friend the First Coin ma.eiuner of Woods and Fore lv. w.u. the proper person to put the queation to. ALLEGED I'ROSELYTISNI IN KERRY. Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland a question respecting the investigation held in the Dingle workhouse, county of Kerry ; and whether the pro test:tot chaplain, and other paid officials, alleged to hare Wag eatholic paupers to become protes tant*, are still contihued in their respective appointments ? Air W. SO.NI Elt VILLE said he bud no information what ever on the subject, and it would he necessary for Aim to communicate with the poor-law oltice in Dublin before he Gould :knew. r the question. REYNOLDS wed he would repeat the question on M lav- INTERNATIONAI. INyEIttIIANGE OF PUBLIC PRIN:ItEDINGS. Mr. sTANFoutir wi'4lll.ll to ask the Secretary for Fo reign Affairs, whether any application had been made on the• part of foreign governments, especially thine of France and the United States, for an interchange of the rreords of the proceedings of the respettive legislator", and other documents, suels as returns, reports, and p litical statistics; and whether it was the intention of the government to bring the subject under the notice of parliament. Sir 0. biltEY (in the alrenee of Viscount Palmerston) aaiil that uppiiration had been mule through the ambasaa dors of foreign countrii s, and the communication, respect ing th em were forward e d to the Speaker, that he might, on the part of the House of Commons, exercise ■ discretion with reganl ae them. But he believed that in no instance was the application refuurl. DUNCAN CHISHOLM (ALIAS GEORGE MATH liWs). Is rrply In questions from Mr. Se r t.hr, Sir W. St/Nit...kV] LLE said that the retirement of Mr. Winter, one of the principal clerks in the Chief Secretary's Office in Dublin, wa• quit• voluntary. ile was 14) year% in the Woke service, and there wain.. person who had facial eosi n. shin with him but must acknowl.lite the itlicieney of his services. (Ikar, hear.) As reg.irdeil the ease of I/unean Chisholm (alias tkorge Moth. ws) he hail no inforniation to give nor had the government of Ireland. Ile did nut think it would he consistent with his duty to state the instructions that haul Los tt 1611T111 to the police. THE SLAVE 'I'ILAUE IIItAZIL. Sir J. PAKINGTON wishisl to ass the noble lord (Russell) in the aheience of the Secretary of State for the Eon ign Ikpartment, whether he intended to make any immintinieation to the house, or to lay any papers on the sable, in explanation of that Isiragraph in her Majesty's gawk at the opening alto. session, in which she stated that the government of Brazil has taken new, and I hope ef ficient measures, bir the suppression of the atrocious traffic iu sla yes." looorol J. It t sahl that hi* noble friend would, nn Doubt. I.oy raiser, on the table of the hote.e concerning the ti otenornt in her Majeaty'a aperch. Indeed, every account fnon Ileosil tratifirol to the 'Yr. , . of the mearaures that had h e ro ado l ote o l. No dot. r than tit it lay hr had 'ern a raper at.stonot th.ot nu oda.r trade wag now earned in ono the runt of Hraxil. --- lATENSIoN OF THE FRANCHISE. Mr. T. ID•Nt'l 'AIDE. in r. miring the notice of amend. molt 'which hr h.Ol ei.rn a frig night. ago on the motion of Mr. Ilium r“orting parliamentary reform. obnared that hr dui not romr to the hinro• till halfixot 4 o'clock on Tut4l4y. herguse h•• undroitmal that the hon. member for hlontroo had lioniti.ol to give the house an airing in kg it.ington•carslen. in the fiat imOnce. TII4I WINDOW orrv. of the two , BAN by the late sin, laetaswr of PaleCatiell in . Bseis, untie: the Dutch government, were The idis Med bed Mid that tJathins perstesedineg en the pert of the Poem . wealikely to endanger the liberties of this wintry, bat be seemed to forget that the Pope had panned • awes on the continent which tended to preserve mouse. ehkal institutions. When Ireland was strongly excited in 1798, what did the Pope do ? His Holiness addressed the ROM= catholic hierarchy and said that secret societies were the nurseries of sedition and rebellion. Similar had recently been used with regard to these soett u s a g Dr. Callen—that eminent man who had been designated a " political demagogue," and who the Attorney-General called an "Italian monk," • phrase which that right hon. gentleman ought to retract. Instead of trying to put down the hierarchy, the government ought to support that exemp buy body. (Hear.) The noble lord had stated that the prevent bill would do no more than the act of 1829, hut he had declined to answer the question so aptly put to him by the hon. member fur Athlone (Mr. Keogh.) That question was whether he would enforce this bill, and the noble lord did lot say he would or he would not. But the measure, if carried, might be put in force at any moment. Had the Roman catholic hierarchy committed any o ff ence against the act of 1829 ? Was the appointment of • bishop of Galway a violation of that act, or was the appuint ment of • bishop of Rosa a violation of it ? He be lieved these were violations of it; yet, the act was not enforced—because seven millions of people would not stand it. (Hear.) lie wanted to know if the act had not been vio lated in other respects. The act provided that no Roman catholic bishop should take the title of any town or place held by a protestant bishop, and that if he did he sub- jetted himself to a penalty of 1001. Now, a case bad oc curred in the courts of Dublin, in which it was shown that the Roman catholic archbishop of Dublin had signed his name Archbishop of Dublin ;" and was not that the re sumption of a title held by the protestant archbishop of I Dublin ? (Hear, hear.) He wished to know whether it was really intended by her Majesty's government to enforce the present bill ; and, if it was merely meant to be • dead letter, why, he should like to be informed, should it be at all ? Thu prerogative of the crown had a been ed talked of, but if that prerogative extended to Ireland, did it not likewise extend to the co lonies ? And, if we allowed the creation of Roman catholic bishoprics in the colonies, was it not unfair and unjust to include Ireland in the opt ration of the hill now tinder consideration ? (Hear, hear.) He could not disco . . Ter bow the protestant; of Fngland had been in anywise politically injured by the late proceeding of the Pope, or how the Protestant bishops, rectors, or churchwardens were at all effected by it. He believed the country would yet see that that proceeding did not interfere with them in say respect. Before the act of 'n was paned, the prates tants anticipated danger to arise from its enactment; but, prior at all event., to the late aggression, the pro 7 testants could not see that any danger whatever had resulted from it. If the present bill were confined solely to &island, Ireland would nevertheless oppose it. if the deetty of the one country were attacked, the clergy of both would feel themselves attacked, and the Irish people would mist every attempt to persecute the Roman catholic elern tif England. A declaration had lately been mole by tin loan catholic nobility and gentry to the effect that tb titles given to their bishops were purely spiritual. He helievett that the present government, in attempting to do that which no other government had ever ventured to do, had acted upon reasons very different from those which they assigned. The government saw no real aggression in the appointment of a hierarchy, and took no Mimes at the course taktu by the Thurle, synod in respect to the col lege question ; but the government did see, or feared, ea increase in the number of Homan catholic, in this country, tad it was against the prte;reisi of that religious system that they now proposed to legislate. There were, how ever, other grounds upon which he (Mr. Scully) would ant the propriety of the course which he and his frienib, were taking in resisting the motion that the Speaker should leave the chair. They had to look to the amendments which were to be submitted when the house did go into committee. The bill itself was bad enough and would di, mischief enough. But these amendments would madden the people and would increase the danger of vio lence, even of revolution. The question, then, was, were they to afford the opportunity of putting these amendments ? thesell amendment, were carried they would run the risk of provoking a civil war. Such amendments came appropriately from the party which had given notice of them; and the noble lord would do well to hand over the whole measure to that party and to wash his own handsel' all the consequences of this description[ of legislation. 'flie very first amendment proposed was that the conduct of the Roman catholic biebuips should lie made amenable to the inquisition of a eonamon informer. Now the noble lord was bound to state asking permission to put the bill into committee what he would do in respect to the amendments on the paper. Until some explanation was proffered by the government the Irish memhers must be held to he perfectly justified by the circumstances. The next general election would show the effect which thin controversy hail had in Ireland. Under ordinary circum stances, and with the new electoral law in operation, the noble tool would not have had to expect more than thirty totes against him from Ireland. Ile would now have to look for as oppistition numbering eighty—an opposition pledged to resist his government at every step, unless he was determinist to develop a wide and comprehensive policy fur Ireland. Let her Majesty's government, there fore, beware. Any attempt to enforce this bill would re sult in a revolution. Mr. WE(Bi-PROSSEIt would vote against the bill. Ile thought that the discussion had so far been utterly irrele vant to the true points at issue. It was. a dangerous thing for the at ite to interfere with religion. bodies, especially when these bodies were not endowed by the state. There was not in these days .o much danger of priestly domination as of undue interference on the ' part of the state with things religious. 'file tendency not only of our goy rionent, but of all government+, Inured toward+ the making of such encroachment+ on the rights and liberti.w of religious bodies. (Bear, hear) There had no *lonia been a great outcry in the eituotry, and be-rause the people had Imam laded into fury on the subject, it Na• the duty of that howse to du 'sane-thing. Ile (Mr. Wegg•l'nisser), however, held that it licenne that house not to redeet the outcry of mob., lint the calm and ilelihe rate opinions oh' the enlightened portion of the community. (Hear, hear.) Mr. taMPIIELL did not consider that all the efforts of Irish members to pr.-vent th, house getting into committee would avert the enartinent .onie legislative measure. Mr. TM:LAWNY implored her Majesty's government not to pine:ell with this bill. Ile was a friend of her Ma jesty's present administration, and was anxious to act with them, but could nut do so until they gave up proceeding with such a measure. ('dear, hear.) Mr. l'. I 1.1 10W.tIll) said that the noble lord at the head of the government had on a former night remarked that the friends of liberty, whether in Germany, in Italy, .n other parts of Europe, were now 'nuking anniutedy to the passing of this measure. Now, he (Mr. Howard) was at a loss to know what real exponent of feeling on the continent bail expressed any approbation of the .111. (Hear, hear.) It was not the friends of liberty, hut the skulking friends of intolerance, who really wished this hill to peen. Ile deprecated the tendency which the noble lord (lord John Russell) had to speak in disparaging terms of Austria, for that power was one of our oldest allies. and with it it became us to be on friendly terms. (Hear, hear.) They knew that England was the last of the great powers of Europe to concede liberty of conscience. It was no uncommon thing for a' Pope to create a hierarchy in countries which were beyond his temporal sway, but this was not to be held as any in terfennee whatever with the preroitativev of the sove reigns of those countries. lie (Mr. 'toward) thought that this country had been pursuing a course which it would soon see was not justified by reason. In Nlidilleses—in Northumberland—there had been no county meeting. Nor in the county of Buckingham, which had the honour to return the leader of the r pposi hon. So much fur Buckingham. (A laugh.) And the county meeting in York did not contain as many Yorks shiveuien as were collected together on a fiftlrrate Derby day. Ile had supported all measures congenial to liberty ; he would continue to do so; amp, at the same time, he would defy any effort of any government to interfere be tween man :intl his Maker. Mr. T. 111' ' ------ to know Whether the ivohle lord at thelicallid the government intended to proceed that evening with the Inhabited House Duty Iti,l ? Lord J. 111 . 14:4E1.1. mid he hail %tate.' ten Jar ago that the doveroment would he mmt reluctant not to prweed with the owaiiiire icor the repeal of the nimbi." tax, but that the matter must, sn .11110 degr.r, depend on the decision with • biopic with n lieet to other financial M1,11•111',. . . . . Mr Is Et it :II nulled to ask the hon. ..nd learned mem- Ia r for Mullonst (Me. Walled.). if he would st. it.. whether or not he had entered into any arrangement with the goy. ritment with rmlavt to the aMmulnients, of whieh he h... 1 izacrt Mama., in reference to the Leel..sia.tical Titles A—Li...loom Itill Mr. WALPOLE row b. reply, hut bring met with l o ud era. of .• w." from dill1o•nt part. ..f the house, he inue d...t.ly sot down willinut saving anything. Mr. Kt:Mill ,vsd, a• the hon. and learned member h MI dirlined to simmer the question he would ask the noble lord at the heal of the government whether any arrange mint or usalrr.tamling of any kind existed Is•tween her M. w.f.. 's it.o.ninamt and the hon. and Icarn.4l tnetnla . r for Slidliunt with n•femtice to the chins, of which the hon. and learned member had given notice in regard to the Feelestotheul Titles Bill, and whether or not the noble lent'. . iew. sere in any respect altered in conacquenet, ? Lord J. RUSSELL eitid if the question were asked in committer he would answer it. (Hear, hear.) A conf mum took place with the Lords, at the termina tion of whirh Mr. Imhourliere ulna:n...l at the bar. and stated that the members acting nu heluilf of the House of Common. had agre.sl to the resolution of the Lord., with rens et to vmfertme.s. EII:LE:MAST It' A L TITLES ASS r NI PT lON BILL. On the Duke of t h e day for maiming the adjourned debate on this bill, Petition. atainst the bill were prmentval by Mr. J. HET NoLDS, front Homan eatholies in Armagh. Donegal, Levrina. Monaghan. Kildare, Lundonderre, Antrim, Meath, Wallow, and Queen's county; and by Mr. GRACE, from IiIIinVOIIIIIIMI. awl by Mr. LAWLESS, from Tipperary, t o the ...me etfeet ; by Mr. O'FLAHP.itTY, front placea in Galway. against; lay _Mr. FOHBF.S. from places in Scot land, in favour of; Mr. GOULD, from Limerick, against; Mr. tIItEENE, from Kilkenny, against; Mr. KEOOII, from places in Tipperary, against; Mr. MADAN, from Longfonl and other place.. against; Mr. J. O'CONNELL, a gnat nniuher front parishes in Dublin and elsewhere, against; hr Mr. ME.kfl II Ea. from various places in Gal way; by Mr. MOORE, from the town and parish ofTnain, in the county of Dalway, from several parishes in Mayo, slim., and other Irish counties (those petition. also ems- 1 plained of the religious houses Lill); by Mr. H. GHAT- TAN, from Meath ; by Mr. hIONSELL, from. Limerick ; and by Mr. )1.%11 lat. from Tipperary. Th., petition., in consequence of the object and prayer of each being stated at length. ...Copal' within a few mi nutes of two hours in the presentation ; of this time Mr. Reynold. oreupied IS minute.. and Mr. John O'Connell nearly half an hour. The order of the day was then read, when Mr. St'ULLY rose in order, as he said, to oppose the mo tion for the Speaker's leasing the chair, and he did so he comic he believed the bill to be unfounded in frets, and that, If carried, it would be dangerous to the moral and axial eiMaition of Ireland. The noble lord had stated that no continental state, whether cathulie or protestant, would permit each an aggralkaan as he said the Pope had nude upon On indepsvdenee of England ; hut, looking at the reports of our ambassadors and consuls, he (Mr. Scully) was led to quite a elitferent roneln.ion. He found that in alin.t every nation in Kumpel there had been en inclina tion of late to inviesee the power and efficiency of the Montan catholic chunk, and to mum, those obstacles and peesecuting statutes which formerly stood in the way of its deindsvpment. Itoppearod that Austria (to which the noble r i s. lorded refereed had mover forbidden provincial councils or diocesan • and that the Pope h a d t h e power of na nomiting I hisearoby. In Prussia—• protestant coun try—the relations between the King and du Pop were re ulated by a eareenhit signal in 11321, and then the Pope hail divided thir emantry into districts precisely as he had done Item hat 111 oinsorquenoe of oertein conevnions piven to the catholic thumb by the king, he had a veto on the ap pointment of hishoz s tor cause shown• and by the statute of 1850 the publi of bulls and reseripts from the Popo was allowed. ' In another country not referred to by the noble lord—Cionacc--it appeared hum a letter writ- ten by Mr. Wyse and„suotcd in the rep or t s ma d e t o t h e noble lord the Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that' the lope even there" directed the appointment of the Human embolic bishop and his coadjutors without the in tervention of the Greek government. Again, in Bel gium, thong\ the alexia wen toted by the chambers, The LORD ADVOCATE said he believed that rime 18•29 there had been in this country, and espe cially among the protestant part of the community, a vet! sincere and honest and growing wish that their religion. differences should mingle as little as possible with their political discussions; the removal of the disabilities on dissenters, whether catholic or protestant, hail led to a more friendly and free and cordial intercourse among persons of all denominations and all creeds, and that intercourse had been productive of its natural fruit in greater liberality and charitableness of feeling on all sides ; and so far from there being any desire on the part of the people of this country to revive the old cry of intolerance, or to raruack too curiously ancient statutes for forgotten penalties, he believed the very reverse was the fact, and that one great moral which could be drawn from the strong and vehement expressions of opinion on this question was that they hail come from a community who were so far from wishing that such a question should be stirred, that he believed nothing but a conviction of a strung and over whelming necessity would hate prompted them to take the measures they did. But it was not difficult to find where the real CALM of this agitation was. lion. gentlemen oppo site spoke as if this brand came from the bands of the go vernment. (" Hear " from the Irish members) It would be strange indeed if that party who had always been the friends and supporters of religions toleration, who had fought thu battle of toleration in darker times, should have been the persons to give rise to this controversy. Indeed without a strong and overwhelming necessity it would have been infatuation to have prompted such a measure. Surely no one could doubt that it •was the papal rescript that gave rise to these divisions. that rescript which reor anew a church which for centuries had been kept traTedyance, and altered the form which it had— he would admit it had—for centuries. (Hear, hear.) Whether it was right or wrong, whether it was or was not opposed to the institutions and constitution of this country, to deny that this measure of the Pope was part of the encroaching policy of Rome, was to lose Night of the question Is fore them, and this was sufficient ground fur the government of this country to take some steps to meet el thea- s aad lifea a/neural' his intention of dithung the d an province hereafter in soak manner as he may click pedient. His cardinal bad carried out and easemitall the a that it. 1 costmand of hie master. and he had annoweeedie the spiritual people of this aouatra that he_ governs eight eonities catholic and some islands air:i t ' l l:mg until his master shall other sr.) Let wise determine. was the condition in which them ' England now stood. (Hear, hear.) Upon Ireland the .ed body Pope had lavished extraordinary blewinge unasked, rim humility. peeted, uninvited. Archbishop Cullen, of whom he desired wrong, to sprk with no feeling of disrespect, had appeared as legate gores- in thee protestant city of a protestant pronnee--Arriugh. B= tr w Y hich nd w e r which He slid , Ireland. am I the e h t t a i t h o u p tl o e f b A y virtue h— o l f a t It n e P h r e t irf o f t were but the reflection the Pope. You claim your title by virtue of the appoint :lie illellefilk• llme eleenad and spiritual supra. meat of the sovereign of England, confirmed by parliament amp , Irbil& the raidgessaniasd. (Hear, hear.) Now, and by long usage of 300 years. I claim the character if they admitted spirited pmmeacy in the sense in which and usurp the title, and I proceed to exercise the functions it was set out ia that damment, it wee clear that there wee of your office." ) Cheers and counter cheers, and cries of a eleisa est up for temper& sup ; for, according to all " No, no.") A commentator on their ancient statutes *Bhp led reed of the papal d the temporal was had observed that there were two modes by Wiled IS the spiritual sifswitacy Pope. (Hear, hear.) which the Pope had been in former times la B! was said that this swam mailroom for the setting the habit of assailing the power of England. Oee ht manes the Roma mina esiedestral organisation, mode :was by exciting foreign invasion; the other by sad the hen. and lumpiremlier ibr Athlone referred to fomenting domestic disturbance ; and the latter was found the Worms. and Bps Mr Chareh of Scotland as having the most efficacious. (Cheers and laughter.) And it cat boat permitted te die the sane thing. Now, he saw • tainly was a remarkable fact in the history of Ireland, that pot diNmnsee between whet right be done by a voluntary when physical force was spoken of or applied, religious con genials within the kingdom and what was done at the troversy ceased ; and that when the physical force man was MB at • *rim potentate arse st the kingdom. (Hear, at rest the religious controversialist sprang into activity. Mar.) But the fact wasime aaoNR body attempted to do (Cheers.) The assigned grounds for the interference of what the Pope had doh s are Iblinemi the authority which the legate of the Pope in Ireland with the Irish colleges by Cardinal Wiseman Medicinal hit bilildi ia this country. means of the Synod of Thurles, and through the instrumen- Mew, hear.) The hon. ad beggleimember referred to tality of the heads of the Roman catholic church were the am of Dr. Skinner, Bishop at Aboilleea, who excoms that those provincial colleges were attended with danger mamicated one of his clergy far ea ecclesiastical offence. to faith and morals. Now it was important to know Bet that car told against the avgaimint of the hon. and whether the heads of the Roman catholic church believed bread gentleman, for the question was brought into the this assertion, or brought it forward merely ex a pretext to eerie In Seethed, and there the bop very properly de- cover their attack upon the temporal government of Eng. scribed himself as " William Skinner, D.D., exercising epic- land in Ireland. Those acquainted with the past history copal jurisdiction in the district of Aberdeen"—the very of Ireland were aware that, long prior to the union, the words of the act of parliament—(hear, bear)—thus showing Irish parliament was petitioned by the Itoman catholic that he did not attempt to assume a territorial title. (Hear, people to throw open the colleges, and the schools, and the hear.) It had been said that the people of Scotland were university of Ireland to them. 'they asked the legislature indifferent on this subject. Ile could assure the house that to place them on art equality with their protestant fellow. this was not the case. The feelings of the people of Scot- countrymen, and they asserted " Suffer us to enter with land were now as protestant as in 1.)60. The solid presby. you the walks of literature and science, and our progress teflon spirit was but little effected it was true, and he will be as rapid searour own." The university was thrown did not think it was derogatory to their good sense not to open to them ; and in that university all the honorary die move till the emergency required it. But the temper of tinetione and .11 the preferments, save the fellowships and the people of Scotland was much mistaken if any one ima- some scholarships, were extended to the Roman catholics gined that the old protestant spirit of the north had in the of Ireland, which distinction+ and preferments those who slightest degree abated. (Hear, hear.) They were now, founded them founded not for the Roman catholic', but for he was happy to say, more tolerant, but they had not be- the protestants of Ireland, and the result was that in:that come a whit lees protestant. (Cheers.) university for sixty years the Roman catholic gentry of Ire- Mr. REYNOLDS said that the Attorney-General for land hail been educated. There Shea acquired his brilliant England and the Lord Advocate for Scotland had expressed attainments ; and there many Roman catholic gentlemen their opinions on this subject. But he should like to h ear now sitting in that house had been taught. lie (Ir. what the Attorney-General for Ireland hail to say. ("Bear," Whiteside) believed that the Roman catholic% educated in and laughter.) The legal voice of Ireland remained silent, that university were always more tolerant than if educated The hon. and learned member had used a word which elsewhere; for it was impossible to study the literature of ought never to be used in that house—he had talked of antiquity, and to associate with gentlemen and scholars, "toleration." (Laughter.) What was the meaning of without softening somewhat religious prejudice. The priests that word? Was it applied to the ten millions of British of Irelandnever interfered; the bishops of the church never subjects who professed his (Mr. Iteynoldea) creed ? In his interfered ; the Pope never interfered ; and yet in that uni opinion it was offensive and infamous in a society of Britons TersilY was a protestant school of divinity, and the. protest -(laughter) —nor did he understand its application to any ant religion was the religion of the mass of the students. It sect whatever. The hon. and learned member had also wan, however, thought by the British legislature that the talked about humility. He (Mr. Reynolds) did not en- establishment of the provincial colleges would be more in tertain any feeling of humility. (luch laughter.) On accordance with the interests and the wishes of the Roman the contrary, he felt that the act of IS2O was a tardy art of catholic+ of Ireland. But what took place before the erees justice, and that he ought not to feel any humility in return Hun of the colleges ? The government of Sir Robert Peel fur that concession. (Bear, hear.) The hon. and learned appointed a commission to examine people in the north of member Said that Dr. Skinner had pleaded in a Ireland as to the fittest place to found the college intended Scotch court simply as exercising episcopal authority for Ulster. Three commissioner* sat in Armagh. The in a district. For "district" let them read "diocese," and Roman catholic primate then was Dr. Crolly. The chair let them then read " Glasgow" or " Aberdeen." (Hear, man of the commission happened to be his (Mr. White hear.) He held in his hand a petition presented to that side's) friend, one of her Majesty's counsel, and resident house by the hon. member for Glasgow (Mr. Ilastie), in barrister for the county of Monaghan. That gentleman which Scotch presbyterians complained that " since the had furnished him with information as to what had passed year 1810, the bishoos of a sect commonly called the Scot. between the heads of the Roman catholic church before being tiab episcopal church had, with much assurance and increno operated upon by foreign influence and previous to the Pope leg boldness, renewed the ancient diocesan division of Scot- having expressed his will. On that occasion Dr. Crolly land—(heir, hear)—and assumed those territorial titles of gave his emphatic opinion in favour of the measure just jurisdiction which belonged to the bishops of the established passesl, and especially of the propriety of establishing the church of Scotland prior to the abolition of episcopacy Ulster College in Armagh. Nay snore, this ltonman catholic therein." It was further stated that some of the Scotch head of the Homan catholic church not only approved of bishops were addressed by the title "my lord," and signed the college as being eminently calculated fur the promotion their official documents with their Christian name of faith and morals, but he offered, if the institution only, and that one of them at least bore on his were foundeil in Armagh, to endow a professorship and to private carriage the episcopal mitre. (Hear, hear.) subscribe for that purpose out of his limited means so large Notwithstanding all this, the Secretary of State a sum as 1,0001. (Hear, hear.) The report of the fur the Home Department had given notice of a clause for coenmiciioners was never published, but the evidence was the exemption of bishops of the episcopal church of Scut- as he (Mr. Whiteside) hail stated ; and other of the Homan land from liability to punishment under the provisions of catholic bishops had given the same testimony and the 831110 this bill. The noble lord had declared he did not intend approval. Now, other steps in this transaction required to interfere with the free exercise of the Roman catholic the attention of the house. It was important to inquire religion ; but would the noble lord consent to introduce a what had been the mode of nominating ltoman catholic clause hi the bill declaring that nothing therein contained bishops in Ireland previous to the appointment of the pre. should be construed to prevent a catholic bishop in sent primate. The question hail been inquired into special the United Kingdom from discharging his functions as he tally in that celebrated inquiry which took place previous to hail been in the habit of doing, or would he agre e to the passing of the Emancipation Act. Bishop Doyle insert a similar clause with respect to bequests? If he was examined; and Bishop Doyle, in reply to questions, would, he (Mr. Reynolds) would guarantee that there stated that the power of the Pope to appoint natives or should he very little opposition to the bill. Otherwise he, foreigners to Homan catholic bishoprics in Ireland, was and thew with whom he voted, were determined to oppose acknowledged by the Human catholic church in Ireland; it by every means in their poser. lie would now refer to but that, in point of tact, that power had never been ezer an opinion given by the lion. and learned member f o r elms'. Bishop Doyle went on, then, to state that the muds Aylesbury (Mr. Bothell), whom he was happy to Sue in hie of appointment was this:-three names were submitted to place. as to the effect of the bill. The hon. member then the Pope, these names being selected by the parochial quoted the opinion at length, to the effect that under the clergy; and it was the ins ariablc practice in Rome to hill say deed or writing in which the prohibited titles were appoint the proem whose name appeared at the head used would be void at law. On this point he (Mr. of this list. (Ileac, hear.) Now, at the death of Reynolds) would set the opinion of the h :nourable Dr. trolly, three names were submitted for the vateint and learned member against that of the noble lord. dignity; ))r. Dixon, Dr. O'llaulon, and Mr. Gieran, the But it did not depend upon this opinion. Thee hail also priest of Duudalk, a man of taste and of liberal the judgment of the hest lawyers in England that the spirit. But the Pope of Rome invaded the privileges of hill was a bill of pains and penaltie.—in short, a revival of the Roman catholic church in Ireland. His Holiness set the penal laws. And then he was told that he should hear aside the three names chosen by the parochial clergy, and his fate with resignation. (Laughter.) What had brought he did an act, in the appointment of Dr. Cullen, which, him and no many of the imbue lord's former supp o rters according to the esidence of Dr. Doyle no I'ope had ever over to that (the opposition) side of the house Nothing before, in any one: instance, attempted to do. (Cheers.) but this bill of pains and penalties. (Hear, hear, from the For what purpose? To destroy the domestic power Irish member,.) Ile was accused of voting black white, of the clergy; to destroy the domestic election of in orthato snatch power from the present holders; but did the clergy ; and to usurp the power of 'p ilot the officials vote black white, in order to preserve it to Pointing a foreigner, 4.r whont he pleased, to them. (Ileac, hear.) They said they were in harness, do his will, and the will of the propaganda in Ireland. and his belief was that they were labouring un- (Ch -era) Then came 4111 the occur, unexpected and %min der a disease rather prevalent on the treasury sited by any Roman catholic in Ireland, Br. Cullen, in the benches a complaint that might he designated double character of Archbishop of Armagh, and Legate of lucrative taciturnity. (Cheers and laughter.) The the Pope. NOW it was clear, when they hail Dr. Cullen in motion was that the Speaker leave the chair. He (lr, Ireland, and Cardinal Wiseman in England, that the reli- Reynolds) hoped the Speaker would not leave the chair !lions peace of both countries was likely to be disturbed. until that day month. (Loud laughter.) And, when he ale. A% hiteade thin adverted to the next step, the assem. I said that day month, he was sure he did not wish the blend of the Synod of Thurles—an extraordinary tranaie- Speaker to undergo any personal inconvenience. Whist he tion, he Said, and illegal throughout, fur it was convened hoped w.ue that the right hem. gentleman would never leave under the edict of the Pope, with the view of putting in the chair upon this ill-judged, mischievous, and circulation the papal rescripti. In connexion with these unealled.for measure mischievous, because eaten- proceedings, he charged Lord Clarendon with not uphold latvel to divide man front man —ill-advised, be- ing and enforcing the law, thereby offering encourage :cause he feared it was instigated by party motives— merit to papal encroachment; and concluded with an luncalled for, because he believed the enlightened people animated reply to the sjacches of Mr. Bright and Mr. Of England and Scotland care nothing about it. C' Hear, Keogh, the 'runner of whom he thought had been hear," and a laugh .) Now, the proceedina of the Pope hal mos-, unfortunate in one of his arguments weainst been in force since October. Who had Men hurt by it? this bill when lie stated that, while one-half of the Did the noble lord (J. Russell) feel hurt by it ? Was the Roman catholic bishops only had condemned the col , hon. no n u for Enniskillen (Mr. Whiteside) hurt by it ? leges last year, the whole of the Itontan catholic bishops Were any of the protestant members hurt by it ? No ; would be found to condemn them this year. No doubt but they would be hurt by passing this act. They would that was so. But why? Because none of'the bishops were have no peace or quietness in Ireland if they passed it, now at liberty to exercise their own judgment—because and they ought not to have peace. But une gad they were crushed by foreign influence—and because they heel resulted from this effort to trample upon Irishmen. It were by that foreign and alien influence induced to eon. had brought her men together, combined them as one demo instituti ~,,, which, like Dr. Crully, they knew in their man, and they hail sworn upon the altar of their country, consciences to he fair and good to the country. (Cheers.) that, if this bill were passed, the government must, They knew how the synod of Thurles had been conduceesl in order to put it into execution, walk over the It was illegal. (Hear, hear.) It had been brought tog.- dead bodies of the catholic" of Ireland. (Loud ironie.el then by the authority of the Pope. The summoning of that and cries of " Oh, oh'."' When the- - - eons- synod by and under the authority of the Pope bad been ilk ' 'file. . laughter, ") .. tfiey weis Pelted to double their army and their p dice force, to have every field a garrison, to pick juries, to do everything that was hostile to the population that would be up in arms against them, then John Bull would find to his cost that he would have to put his hands in his pockets to the very elbow to pay for it. (Roars of laughter.) Yesterday, when they discussed the clauses of a bigoted, in tolerant, and insulting measure, introduces! by the hon. member for Bosbnin (Nil. Lacy) he heard a deal that , sickened him. The division sickened him more. Ile found 'fill English gentlemen recording their votes in favour of a mauve which the him. member for Berkshire,Mr. Palmer --(Order, order). He withdrew the word "Palmer." (Great laughter.) That hon. gentleman declared that there was one clause in the bill of so grays a nature that no English gentleman holding the commission of the peace would degrade himself by discharging. Notwithstanding that, 91 members recorded their votes in its favour. Ile was ashamed of the company he had been lately in. (Lquil laughter.) He was sick of the contem plation that ninety men in that house could have voted for such a bill, but the fact had taught him this lesson, that the greater part of these ninety would not hesi tate to vote for the repeal of the Emancipation Bill. The names of some of his own countrymen were amongst them, though he had supposed that their gallantry would have got the better of their bigotry. (Hear, hear.) Ile begged again to remind the noble lord and his government that they were on the brink of a dangerous precipice; that if they passed I the bill in it, present shape, or in any shape that interfered with the free action of the Roman ca• thulic religion in Ireland, they were entering upon a field of strife in which they might come off second best. Mr. WHITESIDE said that, were the question one on which little interest was taken, he, in the premise' •It SO in many gentlemen superior self, should leave it to be discussed by those skilled in poli tical Kleine, and who stood high in the estimation of the house and the country. The question was not, h owever , of that nature. It was one in which this own constituents took a deep interest, and in w hi c h the protestant people of the flourishing province (Ulster) to which he belonged took likewise a deep t. (Hear, hear.) It had stirred the feeling and mewl the indignation of the English people, who were gamnally governed by calm reason, and seldom yielded to undue excitement. It must tie confessed that the rela tions of this country and of Ireland towards the Pope at the present moment were of a peculiar and almost unprece dented nature. (Hear, hear.) Very near them sat in this city a privy councillor of the Pope—a member of that con , clave that could elect *Pope, and one eligible himself to the popcdom—hound by an oath, the oath of obedience, to that sovereign, who had heaped upon him the highest distinc tains. lie said he was a loyal subject of a sovereign whose interests might clash very materially with the interests of I the Pope. (Hear, hear.) What was it the Pope had said ? He had remanded the English people in his epiecepal letter • of the good days of the Romish church when Mary and James were upon the throne, and he bad announced his determination, so far as he could, by the esevcise of his power, to rescue Vie church of England from the calamities which had befallen her. In the execution of this gracious purpose ha had partitioned out this kingdom into dioces eee use authority of gal, if then hail been legal evidence to have established the fact. When Lord Clarendon had arrived in Ireland, what had been the state of the law ? The Emancipation Act had been in force. The declaration previously passed by the Homan catholic bishops hail been before ham. The post poned address of the catholic prelates of Ireland hod been an his hand, in which they had declared their gratitude to that house, and with throbbing hearts commanded the en lightened resneet and obedience of the people towards the parliament which hail passed that law. (Hear, hear.) The bishops had signed that document, by the very titles which were now called in question. The same law existed now which had existed then. They had the same rights now which they had then, and none other. In the anivendtv, with many other students, he (Mr. Whiteside) lad paid his shilling to hear the right hon. gentleman, the late Master of the Mint (Mr. Shell), in which with a burst of that enthusiastic eloquence for which he had been so re markable, he had expressed the overflowing loyalty which he felt towards the government for passing the measure of catholic emancipation. The law had been then perfectly clear that Roman catholic prelates had no right to assume these titles, and yet be (Mr. Shell) had been the person to express his gratitude to the government for the measure to impress upon others the duty of yielding it their respect and obedience. Laid Clarendon hail been received by the protestants of his (Mr. Whiteside's) country with all that respect which had been so justly his due. He (Lord Clarendon) had gone there with a fair fame, with excellent talents, with • manner prepossessing, and with everything to recommend him. (The hon. member resumed his seat amidst cheers and cries of Divide.") After • few words from Mr. Kitoou, Mr. LAWLESS moved that the debate be adjourned, which he said he considered - . 's of - necessary after the speech the hon. and learned gentleman. Mr. MOOKI supported the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL said he should, under ordinary cir cumstances, consent to the adjournment ; but really, after thirteen nights' debate, and after the mode in which petitions had been that night presented—(hear, hear) —he thought it was necessary to take the sense of the house. Mr. REYNOLDS, who rose amid loud manifestations of impatience, said he understood the noble lord opposed the motion for adjournment because of the mode in which petitions were presented that night. Now that cap fitted him. (Ironical cheers.) Now permit him to ask the noble lord, in sober seriousness, if he, bearing in mind an order of that house prohibiting any member from reading a petition front the people, tying him up—(cries of " divide ")—tying him up—(renewed cries of "divide.") It would occupy lees time to hear hint than to interrupt him. (Divide, divide.) They should not divide till he had done. Th e times he had had the honour of p resen ti ng ban 21 localities where meetings of the catholic inhakillinti were held, and last Sunday 1,54)0 meetings were held awl taaeowdy in the chapels in Ireland, and they (the Rama catholic members,) had instructions not to present these petitions in globo; and when he had a petition from any of Ms fellow-countrymen heswould assert his right to read its tide, to state its contents, to state the number of persons who had signed it, to do all that which he believed was iithin the privileges of that house, and he made no apology to tp noble Med foi exerebing That privilege. (" Divide.") Me was quite prepared to vote on the motion far adjourn ment as Often as it was put. Mr. O'FLAHEKTY (who rose amidst loud cries of " divide") said irony member had been guilty of unbe coming conduct in presenting a petition it was the duty . of the Speaker to have galled him to order, and he nut having given them that correction they would not take the opinion of the noble lord as to what they were to do. The house then divided : For the adjournment 46 Against it 359-313 On the gallery being re-opened, Mr. It. M. FOX was addressing the house. He said that he, as a protestant, was anxious to have an opportunity of stating his opinions on new matter which had been intro duced into the debate, and particularly on the attack made on the Roman catholic hierarchy of Ireland; and, there fore, he should move the adjournment of the house. (Cheers from the Irish members, and cries of " Oh" from other parts of the house.) Lord J. RUSSELL observed that if hon. gentlemen were really anxious to address the house, on new matter which they conceived had been introduced in the course of the debate, be could understand the desire for an adjournment for that purpose. (Hear, hear.) And if that, and not mere delay, was the, object, he would not oppose that desire, but consent to the adjournment of the debate. (Hear, hear.) The motion for adjourninz the house was then withdrawn, and the debate adjourned till to-morrow (this day.) INHABITED HOUSE DUTIES BILL. . . On the order fur the second reading of this bill being 'read, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE observed that he had, on a previ ous occasion, put a question to the noble lord on the sub ject of this bill, the answer to which was not satisfactory ; he would now put that question to the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He wished to know what objection the government hod to proceed at once with the second reading of this bill ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought hk hon. friend had no real ground of complaint. As the bill was unopposed, there could be no valid reason why the government should not select the most convenient time for proceeding with it. Mr. AGLIONBY was anxious to see the bill read it se cond time, because that would strengthen the hands of tho government. Lord DUNCAN said he could not but regret the course which the government was pursuing. A sort of doubt had been thrown on their intention to repeal the window duty; and he hoped, therefore, that the noble lord would at once assure the house that the government would proceed with time bill on the first convenient day. Lord J. RUSSELL said there would really, he believed, be no long delay in proec ding with the bill. He could only repeat what he stated on a former night, that when ever the government might propose the second reading of the bill, it would be in confidence that there would be no considerable reduction of remaining taxes. The second reading was then postponed until Monday. The Bridges (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Valuation, Ireland (Salaries and Allowances) Bill and the Lodging Houses Bill passed through committee. COMMON LODGING-lIOUSES BILL. On the motion of Lord AbILLEY, this bill was read a Accmil time. SMALL TENEMENTS RATING ACT AMENDMENT Vie erpreso. TO CORREsVoNDENTS7 A Mewl Edition et the Express: , ismisisimr he eewae „ow. Casette." is published every Dueday and Vrid.y ought, is time Wit.Ad !steadied for " The Ezpreek" Loadoo Eeeolag pew. moat be et the Ofloa. W, Bowrerie-dreet, by Too o•eb,.ek u th e day el pablieadao. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DAT —llecaing. Rh. 3qa. Artrrnmn, 2n. 31R. Te•rioasupw—Mornlag. 313. 1012 Aftersuun. 3k. 3.. BILL. This hill was read a third time and passed. ST. ALBANS BRIBERY COMMISSION BILL. This bill was read n second time. APPRENTICES TO SE.t SERVICE (111E1411.'03) BILL. On the motion of Sir W:)tsinviLLE, this bill passed through committer. ENFRANCHISEMENT OF COI'YIIOLDS (No. 2) BILL. This bill was read a 'rood time. GUNPOWDER STORES. On the motion of Sir G. (Am', learc was given to bring in a bill to repeal so much of an act of the twelfth year of King George 111., relating to the making, keeping, and carriage of gunpowder, as exempts therefrom certain maga zines and stores of gunpowder near Liverpool, and to make certain temporary provisions with regard to the said magazines and stores. Mr. S. HEUBERT moved the following as the select committee on the Pa,engers Act : Mr. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Clements, Mr. Hawes, Admiral Bowles, Viscount Mel gund, Mr. Adderley, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. William Miles, Mr. Pule Carew', Mr. 'Brett, Mr. Bunbury, Lord Naas, Mr. Serjeant Murphy, Sir John Young, and Sir Thomas Birch. Mr. WAWN objected to the name of Mr. Clemente. In the present depressed ewe of the shipping interest he thought the large pate ought to be better represented on the committee. Mr. S. lIERBERT disclaimed any intention of malting a partialselection. Neither did he think that the question materially affected the shipping interest. However, the committee contained the reprcntatives of several of the principal shipping ports. Mr. WAWN persisted in his objection, and moved that the house be counted, when, forty members not being pre sent, the house adjourned at two o'clock. PARLIA3IENTARY DI VISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION BILL. Minority (Ili) .ho lotei lest night for the gljourninent of the Debate. A un4n.K. sW 1. hope, Alexander ll'Flahoriy, Anthony Harrow Sir Item yW. I toward, l'bilip 11. l'oneonliy. C. I. A.C. 111.1 tr, Martin J. Kia•lllft, Itoburt Purr, IN. Itewirt, Itrginabl J. Kwhill, Wilblun Pow, r, Nirbeas Rorke, sir 'lb etas J. Wtsilligh, W. T. it..ilki.., John Puler, l'irrw S. Magin, WA lain It. Scully. trancir ()whiny. 3latthew K. Maher, Nichol. V. giny.tir, Hon. G. Cron hod, Wiliam S. Meagher, Thomas Som. re, John P. oerrooia. John T. Nihon, The (PG. Sullivan. Michael Dun,vmbe Morons Ignore, George It. Talbot, J. 11. 1%4,n, 1111 e% Illnrean, It. K. G. Tenison, Edward K. Ka. Richard 11. Murphy, Franck S. Tannic Sir John Fox, Win. J. Surrey., Sir D. J. Grace, (hirer 0. Nugent, sir P. TIELLRIM Ofillt4o, Henry 0' hrien, J. Resnold., Jona Greene, John O'Brien. Sir I'. la.wlesr, Cecil Higgins, Geo. 0. 0. O'Connril, John Mr. utn is, we arc informed, prevented from ath•nding to his parliaeuentary duties by a severe attack of inflammatory sore throat. l'A t LIAM ENTARY COMMITTEES. GREAT CEXTRAL Chi CONSUMERS COMPANY.— Yesterday the committee on the bill to incorporate the Great Central os Consumers Company not for the tint time, in Committer-routit Nu. 9. Mr. Wranicham, Q.C., and Mr. Wilde appeared in support of the bill ; and Mr. Talbot, antl Mr. Hope against it. Considerable discussion took place as to the beau stantli of the City GM Compauies, and of the Paving Companies and merchants and traders pc titioning against the bill. Eventually, on the room being cleared, the committee derided in favour of the locus striali of tin: parties. Mr. Scrjt. Wranghion, in a speech of consi derable length, then opened the case, recapitulating the prin- 1 cipal features of the measure as set forth iu the committee last session, when the company, he said, 1 , /“.1 derided as one that was nut intended to be tarried out. What, however, were the facts. Since then the promoter. had erected their work,,, and laid down their mains at within 7001. or Ala of the original estimate of 130,000'., and were now supplying, at M. per 1,000 cubic feet, the bet gas to imo consumers in the City. The company would not have been compelled to expend near so much tIA this, had it not been fur the ex pensive parliamentary contests in which they had been in volved; mid they, moreover. were in a position, next month, on the present amount of consumption, to pay 5 per cent., and retain a surplus in addition. Mr. Croll, the company's engineer, and Mr. Lakin, tho chairman of the company, were examined as to the general position of the company's affairs and iu corroboration of the statements by counsel, and the committee adjourned to this day, at 12 o'clock. HAKWICH EI.V.CTION COSIWITTEIL — Yesterday the com mittee, in continuance of their protracted scrutiny., declared the vote of George Naldborough, of Ilarwich, " bad ;" making the fifth vote in favour of Mr. Crawford, and plac ing him on a par with the numbers polled for Mr. l'rinsep, one more vote being required to place him in a majority, and to entitle him to be sitting member. EXTENSIVE. ROBBERY IN LAMB'S CONDUIT-STREET. --On Wednesday morning the extensive premises of Messrs. Della Torre, of Lamb's Conduit-street, were plundered of a considerable quantity of valuable property, including clocks, chronometers, timepieces, barometers, and other articles of value. The burglars entered by the shop-door by the usual appliances, and then deliberately proceeded to select the various articles of value. The gas was lighted, and those who resided in the upper part of the house thought that the ordinary business of the establishment was being carried on. The result was, that property to the extent of upwards of 1001. was successfully carried off. It is a singular fact that this street is afforded no protection front the police Mr. Collingwood was recently robbed of a cash-box, containing upwards of 901. Mr. Smith, the baker, has been also robbed of a considerable sum ; and Mr. Ordish, the bookseller, had his windows cut through, and a quantity of most valuable books abstracted. It is in tended by the inhabitants of Lamb's Conduit-street, and the immediate neighbourhood, forthwith to memorialise the authorities of Scotland-yard, with some view to further protection. ACCIDENT TO TILE MARQUIS OP ANGLESEY.—We regret to announce that an accident, which might have been attended with very serious consequences, occurred OR Wednesday afternoon to this gallant veteran. Lord Angle sey was riding down Grosvenor-streetat a sharp pace, when, on arriving at the turning into Park-lane, the polo of an omnibus was driven with considerable force against his lordship's horse. The concussion caused the animal to rear up and fall back. Lord Anglesey, of course, lost his seat, but fortunately disengaged himself f rom th e st i rrups an d rose unhurt—a circumstance the more happy, from the fact that the left leg worn by his lordship was always attached to the stirrup-iron by a small chain, which the force and weight of the fall providentially broke. The noble marquis rode to Uxbridge-house in a friend's carriage; and was not seriously injured by the accident. GRASS PARKS IN DUMFRIESSIIIRE.--The letting of grass perks has now been nearly brought to a close and, as far as we can learn, the prices given are not only equal to those current during late years, but decidedly higher in general.—Dainfries Courier. SEVERAL CASKS OP FRESII-KILLED BUTCHERS' Maar have been brought by the steamer Cesarea from Hamburgh, as a portion of her cargo, consigned to order. This description of foreign provision is on importation free of duty. -. r 4 nomination of th e . hhi s hia "0 • air, lt • ,from thl op t=ao o I bans and reeer . ,pes . w ee k ..:., • . , w e a) . • to bpi od s led without ?Ay • • 1 ' 1 ! / • spill authoritr of i the ero halawri m d, i 'fr" ... ; *in - . lit not be 'Modal-as 01 ee or ming . : l ie - h i . that L oot be immiiiimn spii Bo illoPormal ~......, .r% not' may ever. liCalleoll cat 2":I AU . f• - • , 4._ 1 i •. bat yosflo of this motry. akar. 4.. am, jail the Pope is marari with Peratadises la iiilms• Is rellika td no Soy tied 1-•• a dissenting and iinsted I; s t atz migajtik la the _ net -ietly, oomMously, and with bum r moos e • • pi& -0-4- ter7l 'Win tWo. •Z• that term was w mmiler Ike aameroua with that rimed !which was due to the go ties of doe, liammi . Akar, Teat . and inttatutior o! the country . under 1 - . LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 16. THERE is no principle of law requiring more so lemn sanction than that no man has a right to tako advantage of the act or vow of another bartering away or ceding his natural liberty, and to seek to enforce any such act of self-sacrifice by penalty or coercion. Ifone person were to play the Roman debtor, and make his person over as that of slave to his creditor, the law would not sanct• t. Neither can it sanction a woman's abdicating that portion of her nature and her rights which is most precious. An institution for the voluntary performance of acts of piety and the observation of a life of chastity has nothing reprehensible. But how insure that it is voluntary ? Row prevent or exercise vigilance over institutions which commence their edifice with a set of under ground cells for confinement and coercion ? Then, how prevent the debasement of the mind, as well as maltreatment of the body, in such institutions ; the object of which is to grasp wealth, acquire power, and extend the empire of asceticism and of the reli gion founded on it, till it comes to dominate the weaker portion of society, principally the female sex, who arc the chief victims of the conventual system ; for the illiterate monk, recruited from the lowest class of society, intellect and information, is not so unhappy in succeeding to render the lowest grades of human intellect dominant over all that is higher. Continental countries. catholic as well as protestant, have seen the necessity of legislating for such ob jects. The monastic system in its natural develop ment, is such as no government and no people have found it possible to tolerate. All have interfered to regulate and restrict, to protect female helplessness, to prevent bigotry from following up in the impunity of the dark its monstrous principles. And in truth, governments in thus acting have merely saved mo nastic institutions, such as nunneries, from their own ruin. For the reason, that as to a series of habits, and a state of discipline and conduct. utterly incom patible with the age and even its tolerance, all con ventual establishments infallibly proceed. The natural remedy fur all great and wide-spread abuses, which no power, either of law, or of public opinion, can cheek, is a revolution—the great Lynch law of society. And thus it is, that in all countries it has been put in practice against abuses of religion. It was this Lynch-law which dealt with conventual abuses in Spain, in France, and which will deal with them in Italy. There are some very intelligent poli ticians who maintain that this is the only real and effec tual remedy against ecclesiastical * domination or abuses ; that the best mode of treating such is complete tolerance, the giving full scope and facility of develop ment ; their own excesses working more speedily and effectively the great and radical cure. We cannot agree in this mode of regulating social institutions, nod amending their errors. Lynch law on the part of the people is. howe:er, the inevitable conse quence of an alxlication of all authority and con trol on the part of goveniment. And of this we may feel convinced, that if parliament and govern ment declare themselves incapable of interfering in such matters, the public or the people will, on tho explosion and evidence of some graft conventual crime, determine on doing justice itself. We must confess, that in the entire of our views for legislating on papal aggression, and for raga luting the use of Roman catholic authority in this country, we have been greatly actuated by the con viction, that if parliament and government proved unwilling or impuissant to defend religion and personal liberty against that ul tra-Romanism which is the enemy of both, the people themselves, the people of England, would undertake their own defence in some of their own ,well-known and vigorous, but highly incon venient ways. From the preponderance of Roman catholics in parliament, from their deten ll ill ation to regard every question in a puny light, and to view every wish to ref mm or guard against abuses in their religious domain as u personal insult to themselves and a sacrilege; if to this bo joined an utter disregard for any other politi cal principle in the parliamentary conduct of their co-religionists, there may result an utter impos sibility fur any parliament or government in this country legislating or interfering in the smallest way on religious matters. Let this be once known, once allowed, once esta blished, and the efibrt will be made to discover some means of doing that for which representative govern ment is unfit. Of course associations will he the means tried. These have been catholic ussociutions in Ireland and Orange associations in Ireland, now patronisnl by a bigot government, now tolerated by a weak one. But, after all, association did the busi ness in Ireland, and rendered catholicism triumphant in Dublin first, to triumph in one day in West minster. We most say, we doubt the people of England suffering this quietly. A great struggle is now making, and by liberals, to prove to the English people, that the present parliament and government can do nothing in defence of religious liberty. and agptttut the encroachments of catholicism. , vre fear, will be a counter-etibrt on the part of the peo ple to return an ultra-pmtestant parliament, and to enthrone an ultra-protestant administration. But even this lamentable experiment would fail, for Lord STA N LEV would prom more powerless, as he certainly is more insincere, than Lord Jolts. And then amidst fresh encroachments of the triumphant 11,:munists, we should hear once more the cry of," To your tents, 0 Israel r"fhe old puritan and popularly protestant spirit of the British people would awake, nay, w ou ld associate and arm, And the true and final result of parliament and go vernment both abdicating their power of iiiterferenco and legislation, would he merely to adjourn tho question from the field of debate to that of battle, and to re-enact on the soils of our two islands the old quarrel with the old mode of termination ' which illustrate and deface the En g li s h an d Irish records of the seventeenth century. THE Court of Queen's Bench having by its recent decision referred Mr. Wiiisros back again to tho Bishop of Itoemismit in his controvery with tho Dean and Canons of that cathedral, it becomes im portant for the public to thoroughly comprehend the present position of the question ; and w h at i t i s Mr. Wiiisrox will have to appeal to the Bishop, as Visitor, about. • - . The original point at issue between that gentleman and the Dean and Calloll3 was, our readers know, simply whether the alimentary allowance of the foundation boys at the Cathedral Grammar School and at the Universities, under the statutes of HENRY VIII. should be illusory or substantial : Mr. WHIsroN contending that his youthful cliintels were entitled to be fully maintained, as of the happy reign of VicrontA ; the eapitular authorities, on the other hand, arguing that they were only bound to give the boys the scanty mill starcitory money allow ance temp. HENRY NHL the bishop, when appealed to, referring Mr.WitticroN to the Court of Chancery ; and the Court of Chancery resolving, when, in obe dience to episcopal suggestion, Mr. WI:Is - tom went there, that it had no jurisdiction in the matter. This, however, is not at present the matter in hand: though it, of course, is the question behind the immediate point of contention ; and will have to be resolved when the preliminary campaign shall have been decided, regardless of its issue. The appeal now to be made to Bishop MURRAY is of a more per sonal kind, and regards the legality or illegality of Mr. WHISTON'S dismissal from his office of Master of the Cathedral Grammar School by the Dean and Chapter. Failing to procure any attention to his arguments by private correspondence with the Chapter, or by an appeal to its \ isitor, Mr. WIIISTON published his now famous pamphlet, " Cathedral Trusts and their Fulfilment," in which, amidst pages of rare learning and valuable research, he certainly drew a singularly disagreeable and repulsive, but very truthful, con trast between the estimate entertained by deans, 1 i I I I . 1