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. and who are impelled by moral fear or timidity to compronaiseffia solemn contract made with the people of the United Kingdom; for it cannot be denied tilt the introduction of the measure stakes at the funds mental articles of the Union. I am decidedly of opipion that if our gracious Monarch threw himself upon tlte aro . " fretless- of his subjects he wield not be disappointed. Extraordinary persons wonld be found to arise from extriordinany circumstances. " This has been the case inaither abd'uot less perilous times; and I am convinced that men wculd be called ioto action, able not only to be the defenders, but the saviours of the realm—(Hear) 1 maintain that a Parliament would be found whine characteristics wr.uld be integrity and consistency, sad who would discharge its duty to GOD, the King, and the country—(Hear). If this were the result, such an administration might be formed as would enforce the laws of the land, such as would not be afraid of all. pealing• to these laws, but would take effectual measures for eontronling spiritual despotism; and would look to the security of civil liberty by taking care that it rested upon its chief and pr •per basis—religious liberty— (Hear). Other causes have been assigned for the ills or Ireland, but I affirm that its bane bas been spiritual despotism—(Heat). Little importance may be attached to these details; but I think an Act 'should be passed to compel those individuals who have property in that country, and who will not reside in it, to leave behind theti some part of the profits they derive from the soil. Tory would be amply repaid by contributing to the comfort and happiness of a degraded and destitute po pulation. I consider it just that the property of these individual, should be made answerable for the acts of violence that take place in the parts , of the kingdom where that property is situated. I shall not trespass farther upon your Lordships' patience. I fear I have alieady trespassei too far. I shall conclude by moving that an humble address be presen:ed to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to order to be lard upon their Lordships table " a return of all Roman Catholic clergy in Great Britain and Ireland, speCifying the number of parochial clergy ; as also those holding titular bishopticks and other dignities, and the districts of which they have sup erintendence; also the number of foreigners acting as Ttoman Catholic clergy in Ireland, whether regular or secular ; the number of boons and seminaries under the direction of the order and society of Jesuits; the names and number of other religious Romeo Catholic orders ie Great Britain and Ireland ; together eith the number of inmates of the different convents and monasteries." The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was not his intention to make any objection to the production of whatever documents ought to be produced to elucidate the point to whioh the Noble Lord had called their Lordships' atten - ion. If, however,the NobleLoid sup posed that Government could give him satisfactory in formation on the subject to which his motion related, he could not have looked very deeply into the Acts of Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland. Had he ex.. mined those Acts carefully, he would see that he could not have the teturns he called for, a., although the Ca tholic Clergy, by the Act of 1791, registered their names, and took the oaths required by that Act, yet there was rothing to show who were the persons that regis tered, or who had since died, or gone into foreign coun tries. There might be a possibility of procuring such returns from its that had been made from time to time, set the fact was, that, officially, they could not be green; Nrcretore,though he would give every assistance to procure then , lie ce uld not answer for the time • When they would be pinduced, nor for their accuracy when prii4uced. He might liere conclude, for their Ltirdships would not expect that be should now enter upon the discussion of the Bills produced by his Right 11,41. iendin the other House. He, however, main canted hiasopinion, and would r--assert what he had stated some nights ago with respect to the measure, and vo Ind sups) , r t it againstthe Noble Lord, or any oneel,e, when regularly under the consideration cf that Hou .e: In the meantime he must be excused front following the Noble Lord in discussing the sentiments he had read from a book which he believed was called Calhadicisat in Aualria—he Would say a highly valuable work, but one that had nothing to do with the question, and the author of which was ignorant of the basis that it rested on in this country. in answer to the charge of arbi. traty conduct made by the Noble Lord, he would say that he had done his duty as one of his Majesty's Minis ters in consulting with his colleagues. He and they conceived that the interest of the country required tha• this question should be considered in the present Session of Parliament, and they advised his Majesty to state what hid been stated in the Speech ftom the Throne on the first day of the Session. He had advised the Bills submitted to Parliament, and he had his Majesty's sappion and support in submitting them—(Hear)—and in doing that which became him as a Minister, and his Cr (leagues as Ministers of this country. He did not adopt the mode of going into a Committee of Par La ment to find sanction for the measure, but he went upon his own responsibility—Meaty-to compass what he considered necessary to the tranquillity and happiness of the country. The Noble Lord said he. was going to it oduce Popery and arbitrary power. He denied the fait. Ile contended that if the measure were viewed on its own wounds, the national religion was us no danger of being changed one iota;. but that the Act, if brought into execution, would rather tend to strengthen the Constitution, and temedy the very detects com plained of by the N .ble Lord. He did not this. kit ne cesser? . to - follow the Noble Lord in speaking as to th e pOssibiaty of forming an Administration upon different inane-Vies to the present; but he (the Earl of Win. chilseat had announced two intentions, one to dissolve Pailiatoetit.and the other,to reform it. He wished the blitle*Lord to c l arry these intentions into execution it hetre his attic Duke of Wellington's) succesoo. For hiassal he bad - no intention of doing the one or other (Heiio and 'a 1,114. it was his intention to per severe io ilia eudeaVours for the measure, and by that toile. veclince he,hoped to be able, by their Lordships support, to catty( it to . elif h ppy and final issue. i e ite reltß l LLlA 1;A nt 1 1 :Chien in favour of the Ca Cretan Man vivo *aide, Wiwi. • bore $lll PI feLD prevented a *nitro Petitkin firm 'a place in roper ha. lOLLEY preseited.tere Petitions Irons &Col in Surrey 'gabs the Rouse Catlin* - Jaird KING pteseftted haikr if the buttotiediainta from Clevelaod des Yorkshire,-and Rosh blirgtiliarfoOgith, I.eteesL trr.faire: 't Nuh4e Lord also Emoted do p s othA for t h e sw pod of the Vestry Act from the Roman Cathviip inkthitants plicis to Coh and 'Kerry,'aiid two dotir for the 'Veil of ilpe Vereity item Sktaetiing Acts from pla ces fir Lord CLANK iritlientettrix frtirkins in timer -cit the embolic Miens from the Khrhan,poholii hibabitants of Salliogarry.toonsy of Linserick ; ali t ry s, Drogheda ;soli plus iskilto : conotheswC Cork fuel Lltnitijk ; and a pitliion from Ratitkinie against the ilub4eiring 'Air: ' The Errtet-VERULAM prevented two Pedaloes knit Vices its siatterossoo against further Cootesdous to the litiotha Crtiatt-' aim 'Hoe of the grAitiona alas signed by,2,s4doerioati t The krwited an lAinstso lietitionfrom a pimp Irrirlishiri. The - e Etat oofELDON presentkdli agtihst the Cats (vie Claims from - Gftiltord;chunty: Dowh agora' the parishof Cadres% county s?f Heritiew'; fain She parish of. St. Gregory, Sudbury kfram the town and parish of Chepsrw = from poisfies in the confides of itluntiogdog, Darset. Litscoinjrfas;,..l9lfolk, and Dar :high ;"11Foris-All Ifaints o ltsaboryi, Ahd from the toad . of Birifilinglians. In ptisenting tbh list petition ,the lgobleland roamed Lord said that it centained alma* 'thirty:six thousand signaturer—that it had been voted at a public meeting called by persons friendly to it, and that nothing, he believes; could be objected to the mode in which it had been_ got np, except that it had been signed by some persons under the age of one-and- I twenty. He added that it Was Worthy of re lark that 20,000 of the petitioners had axed their places of re sidence to their names. Lord CALTHORPE admitted the respectability of many of the individuals who had put their name! to the petition presented by the Noble and Learned Lord. Hs contended, itowever'y that on this question a dome • deal majority was not so important is the opinions of the upper classes, whose habits of business and oppot.. tunities made them more capable of estimating the merits of the measure. In saying so he did not mean to reflect upon any part of the community; but he con caved that the question, which had exercised the minds of the most eminent men in the country, called for views of political expediency not ulndet stood by the mass of the community. The Noble Lord said that he had a petition to present from Birmingham io favour of the Catholic Chinn, which was respectably signed, though it bad not so many signatures as the petition to a contrary effect. He concluded by presenting the petition. The Earl of ELDON said, that no motion, no peti tion on which their Lordships might be address ed, could make him depart from that rule of conduct which he had hitherto strictly observed. When Noble Lords made motions or presented petitions he would not enter into the question whether the measures of Os Duke would or would not be salutary to the Cliikelo7 England; bet, said the Noble and Learned Lord, "it is my deliberate opinion that the measutes' spoken of to•night are utterly inconsistent with the safety of the Church of England. I shall follow the Noble Doke consistently—most sincerely, but I hope openly and generously—in opposition to the very last moment in which these measures shall be presented to the House. I am not one of those—and the country knows I am not—that will support my opposition by advocating . what is called Parliamentary reform. When contendin' with the greatest General of the age I shall not be want• ing in respect to him, though bringing forward that which is to me a most detest-d measure —(Hear, hear) The Noble and Leaned Lt.rd concluded by presenting• a petition against further concessions to the Roman Catholics. The Doke of SUSSEX made some observations upon the way in which this Petition was got up. The Earl of ELDON said, that if the Royal Duke had access tibia (Lord Eldon's) information u well as bis own, his sentiments would have been different. His Lordship then presented Petitions against the Catholic Claims from a parish la Southampton ; from Hadley, in Essex; ftom the Minister, Deacons, and Members of the Convocation of Cumberland Chapel, Cumberland-street, Shore. ditch; from parishes in the county of Montgomery and Suffolk; from liavessthorpe, Northamptonshire • from a parish in Oxford; and from the &moires Congregation of liessullls, county of Down; Alto a Petition from the Tradesmen of Macclesfield, praying the House to take the state of trade into immediate consideration, and adopt sdch measures as might be thought expedient. His Lordship also presented Petitions 'against the Catholic Claims from Stone, in the county of Stafford ; from parishes in the counties of Surrey and Sussex front Walsingliam, in the county of Norfolk; from Doncaster, in the county of York ; from two parishes in Mango- Metyshlre ; from three pat ishes in the county of Lancaster; from place in the county of Stafford ; from a pariah la the city of York ; from a parish in the West Biding of the county of York ; from a parish in Meriuoethshire; front Southwick, in Hampshire • from Staines; from flaytborne; in Hsu: ; front two parishes in the county of York; from two parishes in the county of Essex; from A parish ha the county of &Milk ; ham Ulverston and Bolton; from Whitth unit, in Surrey ; from a pariah in Dumfriushire ; from patiskin the county of York, and from a place in the county of Fite. The Noble Earl observed that the Petitioas from Scotland contained a prayer that the Petitioners might not be deprived of a right granted to them by the Act of Union, namely, that neither electors nor elected should be human Catholic.—The Petitions were laid oil the table. The Duke of RICHMGMD—My Lords, I am de sirous of offering a few remarks with reference to what has fallen in the course of this evening from the Noble Earl (Winchiheat); and I beg to state that I do niat agree in all which that Noble Earl bas advanced, for do I consider all his arguments to be well founded; but thus far I do perfectly and to the fullest extent agree with . the Noble Earl: I consider that great and certain, dan ger to the Constitution of these realms will follow the measure which it is the intention of his Majesty's Mi nisters to introduce into Parliament, the declared object of which is to grant what is called Catholic Emancipa tion, and thereby admit Roman Catholics to political power. Farther than this I cannot agree with the No. ble Earl ; but to this I will add, that I shall deem it my duty, as a Peer of Parliament, to oppose this proposed measure at every stage—considering it. as I do, to .be hostile in its Very nature to the best interests of the country ; at the 'aloe-woe I must say, that my opposi.. Lion shall be fair. open, and generous—(Hear, from the Duke of Wellington)—and that 1 will not call to my aid any means but those of pure Parliamentary practice. I assure the House that if this measure should unfor.u -nately-1 use the word in its strongest sense—should unfortunately pass into +Jaw, there will be no nian in the country more anxitius than myself that it shoal answer the expectations of the Noble Duke and his col leagues in the Government—no individual in this House or in the kingdom can feel more satisfaction than I shall do if such shall be the result ; but I must thy 1 feel con winced that if the Noble Duke should unfortunately ob tain ,the .victory fin which he is now contending. he Will, for the first time in his life, have season deeply to deple-re his success. The Earl of FALMOUTH—My Lords, I am also desirous of saying a few words in allusion to some of the observations of the Noble Earl (Winchilsea). It is well known that I am no relocates; all who are ac quainted with me !mow that I have never been; but, at the same time, I must say I think those who 'would re form the conititution should take especial case lest, attlei the constitution has been reformed in their sense, and permanently injured in mine, there should exist a nkessity for many farther reforms, for the purpose of supy oiling the wreck of that constitutior. I consider the treasure about to be introduced into this House by Ole Nothe Duke at the head of his Majesty's adminis tiation to be pregnant with evil to the country; and if 1 Cotild3oi one moment suppose otherwise—tor I bare rein prejirEkes either to indulge or to vim:pier, nor have I fifty disappointments-4a osinrplain of or to revenge—l would no Stinger pereist in my opposition ; brit that op position I shall costumes I do conscientiously believe Wirt this caeretuth * ill, if carried, sooner or later lead to the ruin alike inoraitnionol my country. ' The Bartel ELDON addressed the 'II use, but in said* a tone that we were 'enable to hear his prelishi 'niiry Obserimions. Heallodedlo the Act of 1791, 'which bad been pa`ised for Vie Sae( of the English Ca thanes, and to the Act 'ol 1793, which had been patted' for the relief of the Irish Catholic., and said (hit tibia 174,yiar 1915, pigeitos ilocelhe Artr 1 16.13, there 114 hes kbuigfienk Itniterials by Which 'the Howse gotta aidettaia to*:litt Otabglish and It iibtbma4 Cithblita had reteised the benefit. of those Acts of ~170.1 and USA : rfi o s conforming to the cisidiaosnamposcd ,t ea. ft' Wes his sisb o ikesses,aiellie . ppins, as pd be. , saseetbte, meant to moveisr t Ich lefurmat e iTil of pig ht belkticeinitry *ids referente - to t. It *s hismish tato Vat.' o4etliscsifstincilon between IhisfatkeaquiNest by .di* Aßt of 1•79 T and that of 1703, wit/Pa View to show that ihe Roman Catholic pledged himself under the one Act to a diffeseet.kiod.of allegiance from that required by the other. The first' Act required a Roman Catholic to swear allegiance to thi heirs of the House of Bruns *let, being Protestants; while the second, unless his memory deceived him. reqdirect• only an oath . tri sup port the succession in the fami l y of hii presespt Majesty, and required suiting. further. He would tberefoie move on Friday for the production of . cei ain . papes s dritfi reference t o . this subject.. and t at the PO be summoned' for tit's( day —OrOCted; • • Lord CALTHOllfiltprovented a Petition frominradasbato in favour of the Catholic Claims.—Leid on the tarok. The Marquis of Olt 110 ND presented Petitions from Castle Comer and other places in Ireland in favour of the Claims of the Catbolics.—Laid oo the table.—The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The statues of the defaulting Members on the Call of the House on Thiraday last were read; those who did not answer were or dared to stand In thei► places on Tuesday neat. Mr. C. BARCLAY brought in a Bill for erecting a new mar. hat in the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time. Mr. F. WILSON presented Petitions from the Clergy, Church. wardens, and other inhabitants of Kirk Raton, South Kirby, Wal. tee, Kirby Langdale, Staindrop, Hademere, and three other parishes In the county of Yott, against further Concessions' tb the Roman Catholics. _ _ Sir R. V YVYAN presented a similar Paition from Falmouth. which bad been agreed to at a public meeting. and whirls was most mmieroudy and respectably signed. Also similar petitions frum the borough of St. Ives, and from two other towns in the county of Cornwall. Lord A. HILL presented Petitions in favour of the Catholic .*aims front the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Kilmore,l. ilbrodie. and another parish In the county of I)own. Also a Petition from the parish of Kilmore against the Subletting Act. Lord LOWTHSR presented Petitions from the inhabitants. of Alston, in the county of Cumberland ; from the Clergy and Chan tenor of the diocese of Carlisle; and from the Churcpwardrns and inhabitants of the parishes of &. John and St. Bridget, in same city. A similar Petition was presented from a certain dissenting coo vexation in the comity of Lioculp. Mr. ASHURST presented Petitions to the same effect horn St. Clements, near Osfowl. and another parish in the same county. Sir JOHN ORYDGES preuenred jollier Petitions from the In. habitants of the borough of liridport, and of another district in she county of Dorset. • Mr. PORTMAN said the Petitiorwwere respectably signed, but be would contend that • re-action had taken place in that county (Dorset).—Tbent Petitions were ordered to be printed. masease MOM TIM LOSS& A Message from the Lords acquainted the House that their Lordships had agreed to several Private Mlle, and termed a copy of the Report or the Select Committee of the House of Common or the subject of anatomy, together with copies of the evideac• taken betel. the said Committee. The request having been acqui• need in by the House, the Lord? measengen were called ba, aid 'recited from the Speaker a communication to that effect, cans LT CLAIMS. Mr. A. O'NEILL rose to pseseut twe petitions pray. ing that no further concession; should be gleaned to the Roman Catholics; and to which, front that importance, be begged the ateentioniotthe House. The first was from the town of Hull tfifTecond from the parish of Sutton. He begged leave to state that the petition which he had the honour to present from his immediate con stituents was signed by no fewer than 7;648 persons, comprising the Mayor, Clergy, Merchants, and other inhabitants of the town of liull—(Heir). The popu .lation of that town was about 45.000, of which number (he repeated) 7,648 had signed the petition then in his hands, which being from male adults exclusively; the House would see represented the sentiments of thereat majority of the population of Hull. The advocates of the Catholic Claims, in speaking of the of sir millions of - Catholics," were not equally candid, for they omitted to remark that in that number the whole of the popu lation was inclUded—(Hear, hear). With respect to she petition before the House, he begged leave to ley that no person under age had been permitted to sign it—no prisoners in the goal had bten allowed to subscribe their names to it—nor had any pauper been permitted tooth& his signature to it—in shot t, all po.sible care had been taken to render the petition worthy of the special atten tion of the HouseL.—(Hear, hear). bir. SYKES admitted that the Petition was numerously and respectably signed, but deprecated the use of Inflammatory pla cards,. several of which bad been posted vp in Hull ; and to the excite!ntent wanted he attributed many of the signatures sexed to the Petition. Even the steam-boat passengers bad been pressed Ito that tervice. Mr. CRESSETT PELLHAM supported the Petition, which was brought up, read, and ordered to lie on the table. Mr. O'NEILL, in moving that the Petition be printed, skid he was quite sure even his Hon. Colleague him self would admit the authority on which he (Mr. ;0' Neill) bad asserted the respectability of the peel. tionets. It was contained in a letter he had received from the Mayor of Hull, in which that Magistrate thes ex i nessed himself, 1 beg leave to state, for your in. 4Ormationythat the meeting at which the Petition was agreed to nes one of the largest, most orderly, and Most unanimous, ever assembled in Hull within , the memory of man."—(Hear). it might not be unim portant t s observe, in seply so his Hon. Colleague, dun; so far from beiteg pressed, not any t.f the petni..ners had been solicited to sign the Pstieson. He (Mr. O'Neill) had himself written to segued that the utmost care should be taken to pleseht all possible ground of cavil or objection to the signatures—(Hear). He deprecated inflammatory placards as much as has Hon. Colleague did, but prayed to be allowed to remind him (Mr. Sykes) that the fist placard exhibited in Hull with.referekce to the subject was the Duke of Clarence's speech—(Hear). He should only Wither observe, that the spirit of the country might be estimated by the fact' that the Petition thew bclore the House had, no farther back than last Mouday, been agreed to at a meeting of (amity thousand persons, of whom nearly eight thou sand had signed it within the short period of a week. • The Petition was then ordered to be printed; as was that Wu Sutton, ptesentt by the UAW Honourable Member. Sit C. BU RELL presented a similar Petition (tom a parish in the county of Sussex. The Honourable Member proceeded to read letters stating that the Petition had been lying but a short time for signatures at the Town Hall. It sufficient time had been given it would contain signatures innumerable. He could , not see What reasonable objeciion could be made to the signatures of any class of the people. The house was bound to attend to the petitions of the poorest classes as well as to those from the richest, and, the - huMblest had the same right to present petitions as the highest. Why should not women, to be allowed to sin. these Petitions ? Women• had been burnt by the Catholics fof'their adherence to Piqtestant pries: ciples ? In. the time of the. af)'aie: of. Queen Caroline women went up with eddies": whet Majesty ; wbX ,hould not women be Row allowed to g address House on the dangerous measure of admitting "Papisit to power ? M r. SYKES disclaimed any intension o f throw ing any imputations on the petit:His who ba4 signed ibe petitions. ;As to burning, if Protestant viuMeu were burned by "tatholics, so ? likewise, likewise, Catholic w . pgtlea. were b* . Ixt4l. PrOtbstants.. He held in his liked two Cathblic sts,A epee it skew ana glissjap t o liolteo) o yibOVretehithedby oder antic Xichtiiihoii OT Gioia'. I bury ; but all that either instance proved way, that the crime of persecution belonged not to any class of per, sons. but to the times. 6 . Vitiom temporis, non hoe:lions I s tuit." Mr. TUITE, in presenting several Petitions from parishes in the c.-unty of Meath in fats Or of Bounce., pinion, denied that the petition lately presented as that of the Ps otestant .-orm•44 beeline:44ot the ventiments nE all the Protestants of that cosmos 'llhe Hisn..Mensb er sent on co impute violence to the Brunswick Cleba r a a d an infl .mmatory .peech to a distinsoishesr Meow of them, fu - pr osed to he Me.Sergernt L.froy. Carmel ROC If FORT did nut rise ro•frilsow his Hoe. Colleague about hest°. y or *front' Lefroy, but, trona a hat fed from him relative to theWestmewth Protestant. Petition, .t was necosary for hint to state, his tins. Friend may be eight sedative to the w.ird 11 under. signed." which wan in the Petition, although it 'Mi g h t aril have 'b: en callsd the. Peri!ti n et the Nohlemen, Grieco's% kc • &c. tale (Connie) Retenfret) may have awaited, foe it was signed by three resident Noblemen out of four, and by orally the whole of the resident lauded props ietm., &e. &c. The Duke of Bocksngbam never resisted in Westmeath, and was now abroad. Ili. Hon. Colleague very rightly does' not say the thirty landed propisetors who ate for the Catholics :tie ieodenr,fi.r. many of them are not; in• Shutt, few corm. ice were so unanimous as Westmeath on this suljes4 without any di parattentent to the highly respectable ibJiaduab who di/feted Item him.' He (Colonel Rochfoal must obsess , , was na counter petition that could have come over in a sou& b o a, and therefore they very oisely pinned it to the ' "tin case" petition float Leland—(Laugher). Mr. MOORE bad not intended t s trespass on the attention of the House on that occasion ; hoe, having heard the ob.etvatMns of tne Honourable hiembet IVestmeath, lie could not al:ow them to pan without declining that they were calculated to do much mis chief to the peace of that country, for shine interests the Hot). Member had protested in much regard. The Hun. Member had uttered souse strictures on the speech delivered by a sita•iiiguisheit Menthe, of the hush Bar, at a public meeting in Dulalio. He was sure the lion. Meta. brr had riot read the entire 44 that respectable person's speech, '.r. if he had, that he looked at its arguments through a false and distorted medium. when he could toting himself to assert that it was of an ieflanimatory character. Ile au willing to pia the speech into s h e hands of any impeetiol otae. and he was sate that he could convince him the tenour of the arguments Mir lurely constitutional, as much 'se - as' that of any • -peeeh that had ever been delis ered is that or any other House ;'particularly when it vas recollected that the ,course of reasoning was founded nu us that necessarily involved points of great delicacy, and from . which Honourable Altakblr+nticbt easily se;ect isolated passa},es, such tan that relative to abadviog subjects from their allegiance. That signer:ern had been over and over again advanced in that House, and a.as founded on most safe and constitutional. principles. It was f lauded ea the preamble of the Bell of eiclusion, to the elect that. 4t Wheicas James had, by tfie advice of Jesting and othi !Wish persons, committed acts of which he forfeited his right to the Wolin, Ste. kc. ke."- Now, the distinguished person whose speech had been so severely censured merely argued on the supposition that improper persons may have access to the Crown, and exercise an improper influence over its councils, and on that assumption he protested against a men. -ure such as the Catholic Relief Bill, which tended to give access to the,-Royal ear and :the. Royal colleens to personi of, those eery religious and: pall.. tical opinions, the adoption of which by the Crown had caused the abdication of James the Second. This wa s . the tenour of the Learned Sergeant ' s reasoning, and all who knew the character of that high indivichial a eie awatethatthere was nor minf id the conimunity alum averse f am uttering a single sentence calculated to in. ime the feelings or disturb the peace of the cowary than the highly respectable person on whom the Hoe. Member for Westmeath had made su.:h an unwarrant. ' able attack.—Tl e petitions were then brought op. They were from parishes in Westmeath, in favour of Como. sion to the Catholic.. THE CATIVILIC IBLIIIP SILL. Mr. PEEL brought up a Bill for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects, and moved that it be read a first time. Mr. C. PELHAM tone amidst loud cries of '• Oh! Oh! The Hon. Member wa► understood to say that it could not be en titled a Bill of Relief, as It went to violate the Constitution establish/1i in MSS, and was proceeding to state his objection to it, when Mr. Secretary PRRL, said. that it had been understood by • Honourable 'Members that no disca•don should take plate on the first reading of the Bill. It was most important that no delay should occur in bringing the Bill before the House and the country. Ii was his Intention to mover 'firs( of that Bill. 'and of the Elective Franchise Amendment Bill, at an early time of t►e evening. If these were done. he bad na doubt he should have them printed for distribution to Members by an early hour to morrow morning. Sir E. KNATCH BULL confirmed the Right Hon. Secretary's assertions as to the understanding that there should be no discussion on the first reading of the 13111. He would suggest to Honourable Members the propriety of not disc•seing the subject at that stage. The Bill was then read • first time, and ordered to he read a second time on Tuesday week (116):—Ordered to be printed. Mr. Secretary PEEL then brought up the Elective Franchise Amendment the question that the Bill be now read a first noses • • Mr. C. PRLHAII wore ander the gallery, and. amid racism,. lions of•oarprise hour the -Catholic party in the Hauge, recorded to say, Aka& if she Hill pasbed; the Constitution of 111$ would be destroyed. The Honourable Member, yielding is Mambos of tome friends, resumed his seat. The MS was then read a Int time and ordered to be read a Weed timema Tuesday ne=t.-Orde red to be printed. ' Mr. Secretary PEEL, in reply to a question by an Honeorsble Member, said, that as the second reading of the Bill wis a moor of Importance, it was probable, as It fell no St. Patrick's day. Oa the managers of the festival (St. Paula's charity dimmer) woad 6e it nu another day than the Mb. Lord MILTON said that, from cooverations he had hawk% Gentlemen from Ireland; be was enabled to state that Tuesday was not an objectionable day to them ; on the contrary, he b. Steed that the second reading of the MI en Sc. Patrick's dig would be raster acceptable to the Gentlemen from Ireland. Mr. CHARLES PALLIER objected to the second readirg of the Elective Franchise Bill on the same day that the Reid . was to be debated. Mr. PEEL said, that at present be bad only deed that . 491 nominally. On Tuesday n ext th e/ - might appoint some MOM cm. Tient day for the seised melding enlist (the Elective Franchise) Ibi• • Mr. MOORS helpd to be ignerstood that, in declining 11) cuss the Relief BM ow that segades, he was net to be csatigil as shankelig hi right•lnd intends" as appose it in a future 0 1 1 1 Lord DUNCANNON declared his Iminikei of dividing ill House In opposition to the Elective Franchise Amendment SA Mr. H. GRATT,AN expressed his dls has g g gig Ilee• Hee Female, Hill, but "amid mid falling the trap laM4* welsh! not say insidi ous ly) by the oppose& of the Rend HA* 'Age the friends of tint Bin heft ea masking to it. Mr, Bsattgry FEEL repemeoSiristestiss to "pant nano ilaA coniening day for tip seemed reading and th e disrladso i heprieniie Franchise 11111.. • C. HASTINGS • Pencils frost Derby 084 141 ' .esimr as _nog the Mrc Ld i tiVAlD prepinisli a Petition frost tenni weeedis. narks, en seers, and anitla preying that the law width reletelse ref _eau might be revised..—Ordered tei be whited. • • h is. CALTHORPB presented a Petition from tbe tows Si , nrighlioyibeed of *taus; Cadsidics.lgneestag moist any further amesning to do • Mr. 0 4 1 4EN1 81 4;thee be coidd iafores the Hoses abet din li f ued • lr CPPros . very highest teapactabilliW *P"'t p.i 6 1,*!ifil4.11aupp,ppsta MA, Ind bees ke • Mr. B. COOPER presented a Petition to the U l l' effect from the inhabit . tiuners held feelings, i • of thektingter 61 the and they expressed tho la ng uage. The Petiti. duals, including the m town and neighbourh• deacon. a number of :. wading Ministers. He *lron s were made, nor .signatures to the Petiii• so prevalent in the cog to suppress the inclinat ward, and the names . reptitionsly signed wed regulation of the Petiti• wales should not be per 1 ?ouch under the age of the prayer of the Peti concurred. The mitio Constitution, which ha 'night not now be inva might be made, nor any which had been approv and that those which ha. and a half might last t. Member presented simil Hainswick, and other pa Mr. GREEN present from the county of Lane expressed their sentimen • ' Lord STANLEY tho such a state of confusio, the Honourable Member petition so quietly. f strongly on the subject pied so much of the p In the nighboorhood ft 1 there was only one Ma and the petition might promoted b Cle r gymany his w Reverend Petition, copies of whit church during divine - i wicked men might be jest,. This Petition was ) to house, but even to th - signatures of the miners ing 5.000 inhabitants, it _ persons. Mr. GREEN said th f titre of addressing the H. He thought that it was • for itself; and, as he kne powerful language, he trading bib opirlions on t fellow the Hoo. Memb I had made, for he did n• (erred to the question. Wi the existence of which the only say that this was n which he had presented He would not answer for Clergymitito whom the might have made, but he in one district from whic against the Roresan Cathol• had been received on a 5. Monday he had received I was a sufficiei,t proof that I . the country. Si FRANCIS BL'RD L , on Monday neat resent Catholici of Ireland. Sir H. SMYTH had fl the Clain!: of the Roma detain the House for any take that opportunity of p haste with ninth the Mini measurer. He had been was sufficient ssoi.ce of the . Idueed. That would have Ruble Duke at the head I them that the Bill wou ld the fi lends of the Protests were no securities at all i . .entire aid unqualified em . a fashion, and, he thong down Petitions, and of keepers who had signed th his constant's!, had asked they should pursue, he tol the General Election. and come back to defend thei who had betrayed their tr ing to their meritc. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR t cient time for disiussing tl Bill was not to be read a next; and Petitions were almost ever, one of which for one, would be sou wrl to his constitries•ts, to be j veneasorb. There were le , consider that the liberal c titles which were introbtuce quilliaation of Irelan d . Tit . to the general action. He • to see amither general elec t events, congratulate him:el Tying the great measure , Christian charity. M.. DANIEL wriirr Honourable (;olleagun had ( ligibly where be said the' inept who tt.ey were that ' drd riot know wh• ther !Jib Alluded to him as betrayers pledge to Lis cwastitueuter • dissolution elf - Parliament to r assure his Honourabl e C o l want. were to call upon the renal election. but he never meld consent t • allowed the exercise of his Member then referred as Went, of'debaling on petit is: en merle by as ffioao • Race) a few niststa agn. • in answer to certain none be would support the preac .. it was calculated to lead to goes 11 ii f the tabsio;tchialrthadai :1 t to v tk kind of Partiamenuoy Lim not a kills wilawieheeitto . pose the Rill if he thought j seducing the revenue s o f th I I boldsess, and he would • pr on: would haveinduc - the Hon. 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