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had been espimild pram/station of them to the King in their robes, ars whir their titles. The Marquis of LANSDOWN was convinced that theie was no objection on the part of; she Noble Lord on the Woolsack to receive any petiiion 'which pas properly worded and signed. His objection in 'the present instance he took to arise to the appearance of an assumption of suprem a cy itithiscountry w,bickwas_ not authorzed .by. law. But -asanother petition had already been ridelved from the Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland, if the present petition were w i t hdrawn and signed with the name i.f the person, st ating( himself to be a Roman Catholic Bishop in. Ireland, he IA as we all objection would cease. The LORD CHANCELLOR was no enemy to Pe titions, from whatever quarter they might come, pro vided they addressed the House in language and used a style admissible by Parliament. There was no doubt that the petitioner was a Bishop in Ireland, but he could not be permitted to call himself Bishop of Wil• terford, as the Constitution admitted only of one Bishop for one place, and he (the Lord Chancellor) acknow ledged only his Sovereign's Bishop. If the respect.ble Petitioner would sign himself Bishop in Ireland, the Petition would be received. The Bishop of NORWICH then withdrew the Petition, fot the purpose of its being properly signed. Earl DARNLEY wished to make some observation( on the Petitions which a Noble Friend of his (the Earl l i of Winchasea) had presented from Parishes in Kent; but before making them, he could not but lament that the first appearance of his Noble Friend, with the zeal and energy which belonged to him, should have been , in a bad cause; he lamented. also that he should have used such strong language towards a living person of transcendent genius, who had long advocated the claims of the Catholics, and lie hoped would soon obtain their accomplishment. However, .as .his Noble Friend had expressed .himself open to conviction, he did not despair of his future conversion to sounder views.• The Noble Earl then stated char most of the Petitions sent to his Noble Friend had been got up by some zealot going about with a Petition in his hand, and asking persons to sign it. who knew nothing but the name of bloody Queen • Mary, and that they burnt Guy Fawkes in effigy once a year. He himself knew one instance in which a Clergyman had applied to a tenant of his (Earl Darn ley's) who had refused to sign what be did not under. stand. Ills wife bad been asked; then the High Con stable of the place, his wife, his children, and as they all refused, signatutes had at last been procured from labourers at some litre works in the neighbourhood, and every individual there who could write had been pressed into the service. The Noble Earl then treated the idea of converting all the Irish Catholics to the Pro testant faith, much as it were to be desired, as chimeri cal; but contended that if anything could render their convertion possible, it would be the removal of those disabilities which made them a persecuted sect, and therefore gave them a distaste towards the Protestant religion. He said they felt as they ought with respect to the late rejection of theirclaims and read two Reso lutious,.passe.d by the Catholic. Association in Dublin, expressing deep regret at...the 'me of. the House ef Commons—a vote which .deprived coven millions of Catholics of their just rightss.but recommending peace, perseverance, and C,hristian-pietp, !with confidence in GOD, and the justice ottheir.canse, and telling them to wait calmly the course of events, and not to give way to despondency or irritation. He maintained thatthere was no proof of the Catholic Priests_ having interfered more than wit natural and proper in the last Election, and that Emancipation must be granted to Ireland, either as a b00n,., or under the, pressure of na tional calamity. . . . The Duke of BUCKINGHAM held several Peti _ tions from Catholics, in the county of Roscommon, praying for the concession of their Claims. He depre cated all collateral debate of the Catholic Question, as it was impossible in such a debate to bring that great and unfortunately terrific question to a settlement. He also agreed in the postponement which had taken place for the. present. He would only say, that when the Noble - Earl 'opposite (the Earl of Winchi sea) brought it as a charge against the Catholic Clergy, that they hid exercised not the influence of property, but their . spiritual power over their flocks during the last election, he wished to Gon that the same complaint could not be made against our own Clergy. However necessary postponement might be for the time, be hoped and trusted that the earliest opportunity would be taken to l br ng the Catholic Question to a decision. Nothing would be so mischievous as for the people of Ireland to believe that their friends despoiled of their cause, and that that House had set its face against their claims.— . He was confident that the tide was very near turning, when the question would be carried, and it was for their Lordships to decide in what spirit it should be made . the law of the country. The course of human reason could not be stopped any more than the springs of the ocean. It was for their Lordships to regulate it, and on them depended whether it should fertilize the land, or carry with it devastation and ruin. Many on both sides of the Channel rejoiced at the late decision, and many experienced Statesmen deploted it. The triumph was felt by those who did not wish the pimple of Ire land to look to the Imperial Parliament for protection, but to demagogue., and Leland was sacrificed at that altar. It (tang,: toweled, let it be met at' once, and let the question be settled, by admitting the Irish Ca-, tholics to a participation in the rights of British sub jects, and accepting the allegiance and affection which Ireland offered. Many would tell her that they were her of ly frituds. In the language of prayer and the attitude of Petition she implored to be saved from those men, and to be restored to hetself. Let not their Lord ships then leave her to those who would lure her to destruction. The Bishop of CHESTER rose in consequence of an expression which hat fallen from the Noble Duke. He lad alluded to the statement of a Nclsle Earl (Winchil. se.l) respecting the use made by the Roman Catholic Clergy of their spirtual influence during the late elec tion, and expressed a wish that the Protestant Clergy had exercised no other. He (the Bishop cf Ches!ei( was convinced that the Noble Duke had misunderstood the Noble Earl, who could not have imputed to the Ca tholic Priests, the exercise of their spiritual influence as a crime. The Noble Earl must have meant to argue • from the extent of that influence the danger which might arise from augmenting it, and uniting it with temporal power. LI must have meant that they had . abused that sacred influence. And indeed he (the . Bishop of Chester) conceived that they had taken the • polished weapons of the armoury of Heaven and em ployed them in carnal warfare. But our Clergy neither h a d, nor could have acted so. One single Clergyman had recommended fetitions against the Catholic Claims from the pulpit, and his conduct had called forth the instant and probably the jest TOWN Hose. Hi, das to the impropitiott of itig political riiileges to designing men, wl use them forte worst purposes , though at time be did not include ttll the Catholic_ Clerg that description of men, for it embraced many spostable characters. Another Eat I also (Earl _ .had spoken in terms of great discouragement, if not contempt,of the attempt which was now making in Ire land to diffuse the pure light of the Gospel. Woe to the Christian who should presume tik lift his voice or hand to stem the flood of light now bursting opon that country. If carried on in a spirit of piety and with be coming zeal, that attempt would bring down the bles sing of the ALMIGHTY. He therefore regretted to see a Peer of the British Parliament discourage an event -which would shine in characters of ligl.t in the annals of the present age. It had been called a crusade! but what was a crusade? In itself nothing reprehensible, for it was only an attempt to plant the Christian Cross in the land of infidelity. And could any similarity be drawn between the present effort and the cruelties prac tised against the Vaudois, the Albigenses, or by the Spaniards on the Moots? An immense religious debt was due by thiscountry to It eland, which he now hoped would be discharged to the last fractior. • Earl Rammer and the Bishop of Cuomo mutually explained. and after a few words from Viscount Comma, the Petition was laid Go the table. The Doke of BUCKINGHAM then presented Petitions to the same effect Irons the Catholics of several Parishes in the °sunder . of Westmeath, Roscommon, Kinsale, Mayo, and the Queen $ County.—Laid on the table. The Marquis of LANSDOWN also presented Peti. tions in favour of Emancipation from the Catholics of the County of Louth, the Noblemen, Gentlemen, and Freeholders of the King's County, the Inhabitants of Manchester and Salford to the amount of malty thou sands; the Protestant Landowners of the County of Wexford, and the Inhabitants including Protestants of the Church of England and Dissenters of the Town of Warminster.—Laid on the table. Earl RODEN held two Petitions against the Catholic Claims—one from the County of Londonderry, signed by 22,000 persons, and the other from the County of Tyrone, also numerously signed. As a resident pro prietor in Ireland, he thought it his duty to state his conscientious conviction on this important question. He lamented deeply that it should continue to divide the opinions of his Majesty's Ministers and be left open, for it thus became an apple of discord thrown between two great contending patties in Ireland, and led to immense mischief. It was in consequence of this divi sion of opinions in the Cabinet that a system of policy had been pursued by the Government of Ireland, which was more than childish, and under the name of conci liation, created so much discord that it had excited the disgust of Protestants and the contempt of Catholics. 'He spoke in strong language, but he spoke what he felt, and he felt from experience. He trusted that the hour was approaching when those differences of opinion in the Government would no longer exist ; when they would be forced to take a decided part, and either to ephold the Protestant Constitution, or to raise again that dominion and supremacy of Popery, which many of their Lordships ancestors had struggled and bled to overthrow: This was the alternative which the Go vernment would have to embrace. It was impossible that things should remain as they were, and as impos sible, consistently with safety, that Catholics should be admitted to legislate for a Protestant people and Church. He did not. speak from a reference to mere history, but to what he had heard the Catholics them selves openly disclose at their Meetings and Associa.. ti,ns in Dublin, when he said that the admission to Parliament was only a step to further encroachments. If words or actions'meant . anything, the words of the Gentlemen in the Association, and the conduct of the Gentry of Ireland in : approving them, shewed that their sentiments and principles were the same. If there really was a persecution of the Catholics—if they were treated as the Greeks under the Turks,' or if one sect tyrannised over the other, no man living would be more anxious than himself to see justice done. But if there was persecution, it was the persecution of Catholic con ' vests to the Protestant faith by the Catholic Priests, and that arising from the influence of the Catholic Clergy over the minds and bodies of the people. It was that dominion which, thank GOD, many of his tenants were throwing off. This glorious reformation might be called a mere chimera, but he was persuaded that it was the work of GOD, the result of his power, through thepreach ing of his unadulterated word. He had read somewhere that the refusal of the claims of the Catholics would drive them into rebellion. This he did not believe ; but great as were the calamities of rebellion, he would rather risk that evil than endanger the Constitution by admitting to legislate for Pro estants, men who could only give the State a divided allegiance. He might be asked, Are you .atisfled with the present state ?'f things ? He answered no: for Ireland had a Government, which as an Irishman he might say, was no Govern ment at all, and whose measures instead of alleviating had aggravated eviry evil. Their Lordships would remember that two ye..rs ago they had passed a Bill, called elsewhere an Algerine Act, which some had opposed as infringing on the liberty of the subject, but which he had supported, because he thought it would put down party associations of all kinds. It had, indeed, put down all those which associated to protect the laws, and he did not complain of it, as the time fol such asso ciations was gone by; but what he complained of was, that the Catholic Association still existed in all its mis chief, extending its venom to all parts of Ireland. At tempts, it was said, by a Noble Earl, on a former night, had been made to suppress it, and had failed. No real attempt had been made.—The Government was infatuated, and the Catholic AsAaciation still stood in its strength. It was true, that a prosecution had been entered against a Gentleman, for the language which he uttered within its walls, but if he was to be. lieve that the language which he had read was that of the King's Attorney General for Ireland, it was hard for Mr. Shiel to be prosecuted, when his prosecutor was allowed o use expressions calculated to do still more mischief. He apologised to the House for thus tres passing on its time. But lie could not forbear express ing his sentiments. He should now close in the words of a Noble Friend of his, that the present state of Ireland with the existence of the Catholic Asso6ation, inflicted indelible disgrace on the Government of that country. The Bishop of NORWICH said that the Noble Eall had complained of hi. having represented the Roman Catholics as persecuted. Ile repeated tbat He had been brought up by still ahler men than the Noble Earl, 'who taught him to believe that every re• strains and every inconvenience f.ir the sake of religious ' i n/Anions, WAS perwcution, and he therefore must con• *ore Zlie ipost pers. ' .th.. • • contended. tta; if .tbe the Turk towards th* towards the Cash°lid. fable Earl wilted the every 7: and It ish Peer howl speaking on the subject of Ireland, and he now extended the disqualification to the other House, charging the prosecutor of With having u.ed more dan gerous language than that Gentleman. The Home had now heard the Noble Earl hisrisef declare that rather than adopt a conciliatory measure, he would see rebel lion in Ireland. Had any thing been uttered by the CathOlics more formidable or more mischievous ? Charges were every day heard in that House against five millions of our fellow subjects, from those Pro testant Lords of the ascendancy, but the Catholics had no means of answering. If their Lordships wished to save Ireland, let them not wait for her conversion, de sirable asit might be, but let something be done to put down not only Catholic, but alsoPrritestant Associations. Viscount CLIFDEN maintained that a great change had taken place in the doctrines of the Catholics. The Petitions were then laid en the table. _ . Karl DARNi.6Y presented Petition.in favour of Emancipa- tion from Parishes in the County of Meath, and from the County and City of thvgbeda.—Laid on the table. The Earl of MOUNT CASHRL presented a Petition from a Parish in the County of Londonderry, against the Catholic Claims, and said, that if, like other Noble Lords, he supported those Claims, he should conceive that be bad violated the oath which he had taken as a Deer of Parliament, and committed perjury.—Laid ,as the table. The Duke of MUNSTER presented o Petition from the . County of Kildare, numerously signed in favour of the Corks.lien— Laid on the table. Lord LONG FORD presented Petition againat the Catholic Quints from parishes in the County of Wicklow.—Laid on Use table. Sir TAIOMAS ACLAND and others briniest up several Bills from the Commons, which were read a first time. The Army and Marine Mutiny Bills went respecdvely through Committees, and were reported. Adjourned till Monday. • ejeAt . r i tit4 Siat ths,Catholics of Ireland si F eiyM. diktat/ people•on tba face of the ewe h o m i g ht T Etrl of CARNARVON co t h e tame mcide of persecution adopted by the ;y under Greek,Affered from that pursued ro most re. the - quit Was •the game. The Nab Darnley) other day to disqualify every filitish HOUSE OF COMMONS. Lord CLIVE presented a Petition from the Partners, Millers, end others attending Woodbridge Market, against the propesed alteration of the Corn Laws.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. BELL presented a Petition from certain Owners and Occu piers of Land in the roomy of Northambertand, to a droller effect. Ordered to be printed. " The lion. Member also moved for a Return of the number of Game Licences granted in the last five yearn.—Ordered. Sir H. PARNELL presented a Petition from the Millers of Carlow, against the importation of Forego Flour.—Ordered to be printed. Sti T. ACLAND'presented a Petition from certain Owners and Occupiers of Land In South Melton, praying that any alteration in the Cirn Laws, may be confined to the mode and not the measure of protection.—Ordered to be printed. Also a Petition from the Titmice' of some Roads, against the expenses of Turnpike Acts. Sir B. M ARTIN presented a Petition from Plymouth, against Catholic Emancipation. Also a Petition from certain Ship-owners of the same port, com plaining of the change in the Navigation Laws.--Ordered to be printed. Sir W. ROWLEY presented a Petition from certain persons complaining of the severity of the Statute of Edward VI. against brawling in churches and church-yards. The Petition stated t►e case of a woman who bad suffered a long imprisonment and other hardships under the law. Sir T. GOOC H said that the provisions of this Statute were so ludicrous and absurd, that it ought to be repealed. One of the punishments in it was that of cutting the offender's ears, and if be had no ears, branding with a hot iron. Lord MILTON agreed with the Honourable Members that so barbarous a Statute ought to be repealed.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. Lord WILLIAM FITZGZRALD presented a Petitien Prow certain Roman Catholics of the County of Kildare, praying for Emancipation.—Crdered to be printed. Mr. V. FITZGERALD presented a similar Petition fean two parishes In the county of Clare. The Right Honourable Gentleman expressed his regret that the Petition had not come into his bands before,what he must consider, the unfortunate decision of the House the other night. It was his firm conviction that the evils under which Ireland suffered could only be removed by some conciliatory settlement of this question.—The Petition ordered to be printed. Lord MILTON presented a Petition from Halifax, praying for as alteration in the Corn Laws.—Ordered to be printed. Lord MILTON presented a Petition from the Manufacturers of Bingley, praying that the House would MX allow the export of machinery. The Noble Lord said that he was always most happy when his own opinion coincided with the prayers presented by Constituents to that House. In this case, however, the general principle upon which he acted would not allow him to concur in the views taken by the Petitioners, Mr. DUNCOMBE said, that the Petition only prayed that certain articles of machinery might not be exported. Mr. HUME expressed his regret that such Petitions as these should come before the House. The Petitioners only regarded their own immediate Interests, and not the general benefit of the community. Mr. CA LCRA FT said that the use of machinery was an injury to the working classes, and the House ought to express a sympathy for their suffering, and to make allowance for their feelings, al. though it knew that the general use of machinery was the only f illing which enabled us to compete with the manufactures of other countries. Mr. LITTLETON thought it strange, if the principles advo cated by the Hon. Member for Aberdeen were true, that the per. sons engaged in manufacturing machinaty did not petition to have the export trade thrown open. He never beard any one person era. gaged In these manufactures who thought it desirable to have them exported. The question was, whether or not the exportation of machinery would not enable fweigners to take advantage of all ow improvements, and by that means destroy the superiority we had hitherto been able to maintain ? The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. SPRING RICE presented a Petition from certain Raman Catholic Freeholders in the County of Waterford, complaining of statements which bad been made in that Honse injurious to their character. They stated that in voting for Mr. Stuart, against Lod G. Beresford, they bad only followed the dictates of their' con.l science, and they had never repeated it. Mr. DAWSON said that the statements of the Petitioners 'Might be true W not.'What he had stated in the House was, that ' Sln of the tenants of the Marquis of Waterford addressed that Nobleman, and expressed their sorrow for baying voted against Lord G. eresford, and that some of them declared their repentance with tears in their eyes. This Petition wu signed by only 24 per sons, and what they said might be correct, without affecting his statement in any way whatever. • After a few words from Messrs. S. Rice, H. Grattan, Dawson, and Calcraft, the Petition was ordered to be minted. Colonel ES gave notice, that on Tuesday next he should move for a Select Committee to inquire into the mode of taking the Pull at Elections for Cities and Boroughs. A Petition was presented from the Parish of Cream, in f of Catholic Emancipation.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. H. GRA (TAN presented a Petition from an individual, Secretary to an Insurance Office in Dublin, praying for a reduction of the Insurance Duties.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. SYKES presented a Petition from the Shipowners of the Port of MU, signed by 200 persona, the owners of 80,000 tuns of shipping, which some years ago was worth 1,200,0001. but was now alarmingly depressed in value. That which was formerly wort► 161. per ton, world now fetch no more in the market than it They attributed the whole of their suffering and distress to the change in the Navigation Laws. The case of the Petitioners was peculiarly hard, because their trade was chiefly to the ports of the Baltic, where the competition of the foreigner was most paiwerfie. He did not go the full length of the Petitiosers with respect to the Reciprocity Acts. But this he would say, that whether the law was good or bad, it was adopted at a wrong time. We ought first to have had a general free trade, and particularly In the article of Corn.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. DA W SU N presented a Petition irom F. R. West, Esq. cons. plaining of the P,titions against his election. The Right Iltso. Gentleman said, he should move that the Petition be printed, and that ou Monday next ha should call the attention at the House to it, Mr. W YNN doubted whether some part of the prayer of the Petition was not inconsistent with the laws of the House. Mr. DAWSON complained ut the difficulties threteeu in the way of 6' entlenwn oleo radio MIA de 1 kip tie ilubtro, hy talk Act. If k were always tate imiught forward to crash unit applicants to the jostles of the litiessat would be much better Cr his Right lion. Friend to try to amend it. The Denhi;li Hetet% waa tine of a peculiar nature, and Mr. West bad already he en .Ky i 7 used by one decision of the House. It was the .pinion of the mutt eminent Calumet that the law warranted the prayer ut this pctitt v a b 1 r. WYNN said he was not bound to find Gentlemen in undep standing for construing the Grenville Act. There bad bemu se? . attempts set up to recondite dialculties 4n . the construed,* ofi l l; Election Laws during the present Session than within the tws years before. He protested against the opinion of Cossied bth. he'd of any force is that House. They were the framer, 4 - 4 Law, and were not to take its interpretation from W. s s in i ousi or any where else—not front Judges even, much less Cuon•el. ever eminent. The Right Honourable Gentleman appealed ivae Speaker upon the objectionable portion of the Petition. The SPEAKER described the condition of the parti es s e mi.. rence to the disputed election end to the Petitions which they h e g already presented to the House. If he understood the objm of the present Petition, It was to ask the Haute to do that tibia by Ise could °MY be done by an Bleetheo Committee. , After some observations from the CSAPCIII.I.4II of the rafts . puss, Mr. ASILCIOXST, and Mr. DAWSON, the Petitioci e rss withdrawn. Mr. BIRCH presented a Petition from the Operative Ss wy e rs of Nottinghatia,ageinst the use of Machinery..-Ordered t o be pr b iec Mr. HUME presented a Petition from the working amain Mock bine, signed by a Committee of twenty-one pitman se there, preeentatfves of the whole. The petitioners complained of the pr e , posed grant to the Duke of Clarence of 9,(.001. a year, and of th e alteration in the Corn Laws, which alteration they stated had mad e beeastdearit ilistead of cheaper. They prayed for a rejection of the proposed grant, and also for general retrenchment and a redcoat* of taxation.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. HU ME presented a Petition from a Mr. Charles Grant et Margate, praying that Counsel employed by panacea accused of fe. bey might be entitled to address the Court and Jury in beta s ( their aliens—Ordered to be printed. Mr. HUME moved for Copies of • variety of respect the Clergy and reserved lands in Upper Catiada.le * s red. Mr. W. SMITH moved for a Return of the chi value ofth e Reports which have been made from the United Kingdom, boor the year 1814 to the year 1944, to the Kam Indies and China, m s . anguishing each year ; also ler • similar Return 6f the Exports to the West Indies during the same period; also for a Return of the official value of the goods imported into the United Kingdom from the East Indies, China, and the Mauritius, durincthe sane period; and for a similar Return of the goods imported from the West Indies during the same period.—Ordered. Mr. BERNA L presented a Petition frocw ‘ the Com:SW M. sembly of the Island of Montserrat, complaining of great Mg r * and their Usability to sustain the burthrns impelled on them Ih ie Petitioners prayed fat relief, and attributed their decayed Mim e to the continuation of the high war duty on sugar, of rupee gut. The Petitioners moreover stated, that they ;lone of his Minty's subjects laboured under the oppressive borthens which were laid tee during the late war. The Hon. Member declared that he knew of oo persons more entitled to the cantideration . of that Hou ma ' of his Majesty's Government than were the Petitioners, and he earnestly called the attention of the Right Hon. Chancellor of did Exchequer to the statement and the prayer they made—The Pitie don was ordered to be printed. Lord CASTLEREAGH presented a Petition from the Ran of Belfast, praying for protection to tkeFiratir Tradc.—Otdered be printed. Mr. at: DA WSON presented a Petition front the Roman Catlin Hes of the county of .Louth, praying for Catholic Fiume/mike. He stated that the Petition was signed by no less than 4,000 Mir pendent Freeholders, and was therefore most worthy ut the nota tion of the House. The Hon. Gentleman supported the prays g the Petition at considerable length, sod cooteoded that it mast he granted if the best interests et the country were ceueultaL.- Ordered to be printed. mama or cialummt airb anIit&LAXD. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the House go into a Commktee on the Duke and Duchess of Clarence% additional Annuity DM Mr. J. MARTIN asked whether the Duke of Cumberland had received the additional 6.0001. a year for the education of the young Prince in England T—lf he had pocketed the money the House bad been deluded. Toe CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that the 'Duke of Cumberland bad not received one farthing of the 6,0001. the King not .baying required the young Prince to be brought is this country--(Cbsers). Mr. J. MARTIN said the additional amount appeared ie de finance accounts. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rejcined, Sat tie sum was charged because it might have been demanded, hat it had not—(Continued cheers). Mr..HUME opposed the Speaker leaving the Chair. It was mockery to make such grants when the people were starving by thousands. They prayed for bread, and all relief was denied. It %VA impossible that the House could continue to have the respect of the country If such unfeeling grants as them were made. Mr. MABERLY said if they were to have a Monarchy it mat be supported; and that, the distresses of the people ought rota be brought in on such a question. He sympathised with sack dis. tresses, and would do all he could to relieve them. Mr. TENNYSON supported the and said the Doke moll have tetra swami while there was a saving from the late Duke's — Mr. LESTER supported the Mr: MONCEoppuied It, u grants that the rate at the caaatry would oat warrant.' Mr. CA LCRA FT supported the Bill, andpw nothing in tie circumstances of the country, or the situation 9f the Royal Date me presumptive, not to warrant it; and he the tight the grants exceed ingly moderate. Mr. PLUNKETT supported the grants, mad thought they were censurable, if ceantrable at all, on account or their smallness. He was persuaded that there was no individual in the ceuatry, what ever might he his situation, who would refuse his mite. Sir T. D. ACLA ND supported Use Grants, became the Duke was now the Heir Pnrsumpdve. Mr. BEAUMONT said be did not so mill oppose the Grant 36 the breathless haste with which it had been proposed. Alderman WOOD did not agree that the poorest man woel.lhe ready to support the grants; he thought the cootrary—(Cries of " Question r) --a Sir, you shall have the question when you please: — but that shall net he till I liko.—(Lood laughter.)—l give pain to no man by intemipting him, and I will not be interrupted in this way —(Hear, kear.)--The ezpenditom ought to be reduced. It fr ) i almost Wholly upon the lower claws. Every man who took his pot of beer or glass Glen contributed to this expenditure. It was uncalled for, and he should resist it"—(Applause.)., Sir R. 'HERON opposed the Grants, as unnecessary and enealled for, and what the people ought tact to have imposed swon'thma. The House then divided, when there appeared to he— ll* the Motion 29 Against it 11 Majority In favour of the Modem . The House them went into s Committee as Ike 903. Report oa Monday. As the Orders of the Day were severally postponed, Mr. HUME said, he really could not understand what wag the cause of patting off the business of the Country night after night to this manner. There appeared to be a complete dissolution of Government business; be 'apposed they were waiting for some new Minister to tell them what they were to do. Mr. Alderman WOOD said, they were now adjourning tee Orders of the Day at that early hear ' though at other time. they were pressed to proceed with them after twelve o'clock. He did not wish to remain in the House after twelve o'clock, but he did not wish to leave it sooner, If there was business to be done. STIPIIIIDIA at Mr. V. STUA RT, before introducing his motioo, relative sorbs appointment of a Stipendiary Magistrate in the Barney of Kitimat• thomas, in the County of Waterford, presented a Petition from 400 of the Gentry, Clergy, and Magistrates of that County, complaining of the appointment, as a gross violation of the law, and as a base effusion of party spirit. Tke Honourable Member entered into a ' history of the appointment, from which it appeared that it was made completely against the sense of the County, and contrary to the protest of a great body of the hlagistices. lie concluded by moving for copies of the certificates of appointment of the Fune• tionary in question, and of the Memorial ot the Nigh Shldito the Lord Ueutenant on his appointment. • Mr. POWER seconded the motion. • • Mr. GOV I.BURN did not oppose the motion, but tbooghTh it doe to himself to explain his conduct in the transactinD. The Right Hon. Gentleman then, at some length, defended the conduct of Government. Mr. H. GRATTAN supported the motion, and denounced the Police as of unconstitutional origin and conduct. Alter a few words from Mt. Yaw Manama, the returns wag ordered. _ On the motion of Mr. Humus. the Animal Indemnity Bill on read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. 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