The Sun. — London, England, 1846-03-12 00:00:00

• OCIET-----i as held, o !Ten'-road, r St. garile, to coold6 d r,O O P , fe r 7 rut 1- 00 ,tls* P 3ss'' A' Oil tiaa f. ',Pi' il: b r :ooe' 1, 0 - ZFIE POLISH INSURRECTION. 4 . 1 here give from the continental papers some additional Zit. respecting this attempt to raise the standard of fre?- Z .l l. _ln Poland, and regret to find that nearly all concur in 4,',e/ that there is not the slightest cne of success. "e Journ a l des IJebats of Monday save :—" We received Yesterday sad news of the Poah. insurrection. It may be fete, enthered that General Collins, repulsed by the insurgents 4171.1.er:w0e, had first retired to Podgorze and next to Wa )"'" where he had taken up his position. The insurgents, `the he ' d sag a destroyed a part of the bridge of boats on the Vie latO Gsll the lire of the Austrian troops,invasion Austrian made an teeiwde,G:3 the Ilietiaey Pass i ng the river, which, near Cracow, i s as setene - -at Paris. They directed their course eh i 4 t rde Bo c h n i a and Wieliezka, where are salt mines e°rerr e n term one of the richest resources of the Austrian They seized on them,. and advanced into th e i r ;,'"e of Tarnow, hoping to find a, general rising in eiteki a e "ttr• Others, after having repaired the bridge, oc her' " e odeorzer, and endeavoured to propogate the incur -14,,c!"t. We have said that a horrible struggle had taken to the circle of Tarnow between the nobles and the eZtints. The litter, remaining faithful to - the Austrian ea ,. li lleet, attacked iheir maeters an . d the emissaries who greater'ued to urge them to insurrection, and massacred the colon e l number of them. After this unexpected success, eia'h".hiel Benedetti, head of the staff of General . Retsi, Com gatiieer In- Chief of the army of Gallicia, proceeded to or -I,tai e militarily the peasants - who eiowed so much bitter tiiea the insurgents. He divided them into compa frolueder the orders ° of non•commiSsioned officers drawn The • the troops of General Collin, established at Wadowice. witi Insurgents, after having occupied Wieliezka, situated trel, i n n . two leagues of Podgorze, advanced to Gdow, on the etee . C la med. It was on this point there took place a first bye 4 ,t between the insurgents and the peasants, commanded the,rTtlel Benedetti. 'This engagement, of which we want gen t e e ;'` l s• lied for result the retreat of a part of the insur t'eler,'' the direction of Wieliezka and I'odgorze. General , who h a d at the same t i me received reinforce Tents,. IP E b rt ladvantage of this circumstance, and on the 24 th of tie red 4 .3' marched on Podgorze, which, it may be remem- Vie l e " in front of Cracow, on the right bank of the ertee 4 ,' 11 1 e insurgents, organised in a hurry and badly , endeavo ure d h owever t o h o ld P o dgorze, the rh o ' °4 of which offered no means of defence. tert er i "'That was on both sides sharp and well• con klea although the Austrians acknowledge only one man the - " A e ltd seven wounded, but after two successive attacks t ick i . -4 ; 41,11 1 troops occupied Podgorze. The insurgents then a e, e 'uge in the city of Cracow. This place is seriously !till! P till e - ;, by General Collin, who, under the protection of his e r eQn effect the passage of the Vistula either above or the town. whilst the ineurgente cannot any longer so c litte .7 at teitlet ;he passage of the river, having only some ttre e ' l li nted pieces, and being exposed to the attacks of the Itip! o7 united with th e peasants, whom - . Colonel Benedetti detachments of infantry and cavry. pene ;lte ren lr , ' , till occupies the same position on the . frontiers of ,1 , 4 1 ` 11 ,ie of Cracow, receiving every day reinforcements 'at t ii -e3l a• As to the Russian troops dispatched towards teeet.s.rection, we have no inforneation as to their mov es t roup e Thus, in the actual state of the insurrection, and of reee of the three protecting powers of the republic, the - " e ent of this unfortunate but heroic attempt of the ThePoles%not be long delayed." Thebeet German journals, Which arrived at Paris . on Monday a in g , do not bring much news respecting the insurrection. cgered"s t 'irg Gazette states that General Paskewitsch has A Plandace aof carps d'annee at the service the A % eenlinustria but that it is not of probable rch- the t heir be accept e d, as the Austrians consider their own 1 1te "' er e than s u ffi c i en t t o p u t d ow n the insurrection in 14114 i tart of th e P o li sh terr i tory. Th e A ustr i an Ob server t lefe et '"s the offi ial report by General Collin of the 'tee, „et' the insurgent 3 at Podgorze. General Collin satth, that he had only one killed and seven wounded, but e`ue insurgents left - a great number of dead, and lie made ir'souers. The Universal Getman Gazette mentions tee:tour from Breslaw of the 3d that the insurgents of t s t w k him capitulated, and were to evacuate the town on e' ee °: Several m e arrests have been made at Posen, but whole of Prnssia o n r Poland is said to be tranquil. iiev\e'rom the Epoque, another Government pa . per.) e think it useful to remark how difficult it is, and how 4 4 tI kii te e i t t o ve ry o u r l e d po b r e t „ s t a o n p d ro o n p ounce in the midst of so many con osite versions, on the real import !hreeptl character of events at Cracow. As much as we t klee ue dist resse d at al l ow i ng i t to b e suppose d t h at we are kte -r ent to the generous efforts which a friendly nation can koteP recov e r its nationality, brutally violated, so much tin A e reproach oureelves with impruden . tly encouraging * • • f r om profiting that nation, c,Cid mstrations, which, far 6 41 , i sEre (dll Y, tend to increase its servitude and augment its ZPlB l ;',,, We leave to others, for this moment, the task of le tect' u g or criticising events, before even any positive fact e nd e ' ° ' a reasonable and well-founded opinion to be formed. ' l(l° ,2' we fear that the end of this will be much bloodshed, k iN te rv e t ha Ps, terrible reactions, and that is, we should hagareason grave enough for men ofsense to approve onr ei bince until we can pronounce with a real knowledge ie . National says : Te 'natter." b ill d e e e4n not give a faithful account of all the visits, letters, jette r re4 t, dee and pathetic testimonies received by us eent r he th e Y in favour of the Polish insurrection. It is then Lt: t Q holy cause an d an i ntrep id d evote d ness are suffi e'tis ah rn e ake the g e ne r ous blood of France thrill in her 12 LI: re - ,' Precipitate all the pulsations of her heart. Let t these brave men who combat yonder h o u ' h their heroism penetrates the 1 1 °Li ng of th l'e ar;Ce IV'th ow d in mi c ration ! Let us tell them that Ildte.:ktNi;ewi_:.elii_ Won' admiration to all - classes of society, students . , ee":letnen ha g ve g come in crowds to express to us their tetttee 6t i ()111 ) % subscribe for Poland, but to set out to lend i on to 4 , 84-s tauce. Let us tell them, that if we were per f,o, bav e .l r? t row to enrol volunteers, a French army would "lee. nr eetned the insurgents, who have risen in the name gey. eeuntry . waat • We know well that it is men's arms that ir e • and it is one of our misfortunes to be reduced re.-",Petent good wishes! But there is also strength le, set: there is strength in the opinion of a country , 1 11 Ours Cold-blooded spirits, which only look in , e tteTege to success, calculate all chances: reckon the i'"e - i tel 's of the enemy, and entertain respect only for vie v we should be less agitated, less disturbed, were ' b e y- :` ° eY certain ! It is because the Poles are feeble that e teePear so great ! It appeared that fury and vengeance ZeetneN the last breath f rom thi s nat i on w i thout name, 1128.`‘ Worship, without territory ! Its remnants were dis. it possess d neither unity nor wealth, nor physical 414ttu• Behold, it rises up all of a sudden, and com -8,2 at the end of 60 years, its seventh insurrection, which is alone naked and isolated as it is, three formidable Ad - , t t • Avid! se izes on a city, establishes a government, 114 te C ar l m al that responds to the name of Poland :tioe - j." ) Pttlation of heroes is then seen to spring from that !ter an" which was believed extinct. There are no ,lbY distinctions either of age or sex ; the Catholic Jew, and the Protestant take up arms with emu leee * the women combat by the side of men : burgesses, t IChe n e iii , flobles, are nothing - more than citizens, and all i t ; ta te „e r e,ns are soldiers.uttering the same cry, invoking th "o(l—the God giving to all the same souls to t cum:m.3,2p OtttSktfr_iunee alludes as follows to the demonstration made • -e `utY by the -Polish refugees at the Hotel Lam s eee newilbat is the object of the Debats in rendering an account Zroel t r :, ) eeeding of the Polish refugees? Is it to give it its e -91 th e ,` ° l? is it to make it believed that the French Go gh:ft- beholds with interest this manifestation—that it tt'lt we °I and encourages it? For our part we shall state to der fear Undoubtedly theme is no one who does not d tv 4 t to the character of Prince Czartoryski, and . e r te s - w courage with which the Princess Czartoryslu 1 4 L eiself for the unfortunate Polish refugees. But in 'Ai gr 4 rid and official publicity to the proceeding of the tyre fi'!its'ees for the purpose of offering the . chief power 1 tonsure, has it been considered what . a situation was h a "te Government ? This proceeding may not per eltelle ef ve r been seen with indifferencethe representa th e p i t tesie Austria and Russia. They will demand iii, e 'reh e e'renet; Government , if it approves of it. We know t ,t , C,, % elr e , 4 " ei the reply. The refugees and Prince Czartoryski rtre;'ete . '",be sacrificed, afar having been apparently en khe present Cabinet, in accordance with the .dy eleltee,e-"e3", behold-) with a sort cf joy the public emotion. te,?ere e e r ptions which are being organised, and the national m 1 ,, e1 • - I ,', in France towards the heroic courage of the 1 8 4 IQ 'Bat serves more than is thought the system of 10? existt, ll cost. They will give themselves credit for hay -1.:,411,,,(1 a national movement in favour of Poland, and t r- ,"tirik t es are prepared for Berlin, Vienna, and St. Pe trll,)e,,-' to carry - peOtestations of devotedness in favo7 of ty,`,4 F,t'rder We cannot say whether the Princeemigrants Czarto tleel'ti' i mpartmore force to the insurrection, but it is at they will serve the policy which is opposed . to Gliti e -(1 Which will not only abandon them. but deliver 'Nerei'a‘ilbatever they do.. The dynastic policy and the li N to i f Policy perceive in this a means of rendering eefir tee',_4le ti e rt 'Pe, and they reckon on - reaping all the bene t te e -r lii , an agitation which at bottom scarcely die- t P RINCESS'S T REATRE. ITN . fa - tio l 'ee. entitled Mathews and Co., was produced here tk 4l (l i il a t It is a smart bustling affair, the scene of whict. L a ' country town, where Mr. Charles Mathewsi P, l 4 ll4 try `"„ Open the theatre, and Mr. Charles Fitzmathews , i 4; ),/ "le daughter of an old gentleman residing in the !'ll, eteh 3 , l hews and his Fitz (acted according to the bills by 1 4 4 are so alike, that it is impossible to distinguish Itt l o ir rie ritt t ) l , l c ,ther. This resemblance gives rise to mistakes 1 t i c; and gives Charles Mathews an opportunity, as „,'xhibiting his marvellous rapidity, both of utterance lii tl l l aki n ' 4, ige of ( - Tress, and as author, of showing his wit, 4;144 hits right and left at everything and everybody. % 41t i, ek , ~Wc,L't_l.derful, therefore, that the piece was successful. "" Co. will drive a roaring trade for some time to it 4 , 444,,, FRENCH PLAYS. e k ,:t 41 At _ le made her second appearance here for the :, 4 4 Trid an . u nd ay, in Asmndee, a character which affords N t , , tr aei : Opportunity, of which she knows well how to 1 1,,q. i t 1 for the graceful display of her very versatile 1 ' 4 3 preceded by La Femme de Quarante Ana I ade mlle Mahellan, as La Femme de Quarante oise d eu` r Ac,„ S TATE OF TRADE. r t , 11ARcll 10.—The market continues in a oehat tak e, both for goods and yarn; the few transac- N,s place being generally at reduced rates, which nivt"L. tha-"„",lnanufacturers seem more generally disposed . to tentit r ," t ur two or three preceding weeks. There is still, te„;°Niderable inquiry for some description of cloth; that a slitrlit concession from the cur- E lead to extensive purchases. •"' MAticx 9.—There has not been the least im -1/414a it 'e, 44 l ( il the flannel market to-day ; everything remains tORI:, ‘4I ' lie,„ tl . o sales have been limited. The wool market Vkt '' ' L ull, and purchases for cash might have been 1 0 f Prices• The wool dealers have suffered much by ohtikt43o44-uetre4,ansufferedit makes them very cautious in doing k tc A tka th l 4„, t r , 1 0.—We cannot report any improvement in 41%' ; there is, in fact, less doing. Stocks are Otth'e u„t , 111 the h an d s of the manufacturers, and although .Posed to submit to somewhat lower rates, the tlki th ) their purchases to the narrowest possible 4 tti4 l „ IN• b lkiil 3 b' RL T ) , 11Aucx 10.—A very fair quantity of t:,1:411414 ti t -4.v e been sold in our market this day, and Ntl,4t'e 4,2eilwarehouses have been more numerous. Fancy It 4„.lt.s44°_f.sale. Could there be an alleviation of the 1 / 4 1 c i 'At i w. e r In the money market, there would be doubt 4n.' ease of business in this district.--Manchmer 11 441 n, 4 4CCIDENT IN THE FOG. —Between ten and wih ,11,14,4theairlsonlositelay; morning the fog on the Thames as.so e . 4 , 14 . g i e t ( 1 1 upon . it could not ` length n a am ho c a e rs capAr, t t liq.! ‘ (: . 11. 1 . 1 4 a stti (,;!= el opal sit by n n' a e p a pre ig ntice, were proceeding up 4 1 !•11, 4 ,: i i Which was deeply laden with iron and warps, and 0, 1 :1> at this time bring very dense, they rowed et2t4ti,e, '4rges which Wca - e lving i,.0re.1 and their butt !tt,'• forinnat, - caught hold or the cable which 64.,rund N% as -Y picke,l up. The boy was carried e t , t aiming up very strong, underneath the 44 4;e7 . " Swimmer, kept himself afloat anti assist- THE - gljNt, LONDON, TfISDAt MORNING. M.A.k - Cil 12, 1846, RAILWAY COMMITITES. (YES I' ERDAY.) Sub-Committee No. 2. This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock : present, Sir J. Y. Buller (Chairman), Messrs. Bell, E. Yorke, Bremston and Walker. This being the day appointed for the hearing of unopposed petl• tines, the Committee proceeded with the following Bills : CALEMCNIAN, PCIALOC, AND GOVAN, AND CLYDESZALE JUNCTION AMALGAMA TION. The usual formal evidence having been heard, the Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. POLLOC AND GOVAN AND CLYDESDALE JUNCTION AMALGAMATION. This 11111 was proceeded with, but some of the witnesses not being in attendance, it was postponed. FIFTH REPORT from the SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY BILLS CLASSI FICATION. The Select Committee appointed for the Classification of Railway Bills, according to the Resolutions adopted by the House, and who are empowered to report from time to time, have further con sidered the several matters referred to them, and agreed to report as follows : Your Committee have had it represented to them by the solicitor for the London, Bristol, and South Wales Direct Bill, that the Com pa•ty promoting that Bill have abandoned so much of their line as connected Chippenham with the Aust Passage over the River Severn, and that it no longer forms a line of communication with South Wales. Under these circumstances, your Committee recommend that the Bill be removed from Group No. 31, and placed in Group No. 18, in connexion with the London, Newbury, and Bath line, and the Berko and Hants line, with which, as now curtailed, it com petes. Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 34. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, and Port, &c. Goole and Doncaster. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway (Meth) ey, Ask ern, and • Oakenshaw Branches). Bull and Barnsley Junction. York and North Midland (East Riding Branches, Nos. 1 and 2). ill:dton and Dritheld Junction. Newcastle and Darlington Junction (Thirsk and . 31alton Branches). Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be refer red to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 37. Horbury Bridge and Calder. Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, Dewsbury, Leeds, and Bradford. Sl.effield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole. South Yorkshire, Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction (Barfield Branch). Midland Railway (Barfield, Elsccar, and other Branches). Sheffield, Ashton, and Manchester (Darusley Branch). 1! titchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Dif yet. Your Committee further recommend that the Worsborough Branch of the Sheffield, Ashton, and Manchester Railway (Dukenfield and Worsborough, and Glossop Branches, and Sheffield Station), he pro vided for In a separate Bill, and referred to this group (No. 37).. - Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee:— amour, No. 18 Leeds Central Station. Leads, Dewsbury, and :Manchester (Deviations andßranehes). Leeds and Bradford (Alteration of Levels). Leeds and Bradiiird (Junction at Bradford). West Riding Union. Leeds, Dewsbury - , and Manchester (Wakefield Extension). BrAford, Wakefield, and MhZland. Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland Junction. Liverpool and Leeds Direct. linddenfield and Manchester (Bradford Branch). Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 39. 3ninchester and Leeds (Railway Extenzion, &C.) addenfiqd and Manchester (Oldham Branch). Oldham District. Oldham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birkenhead Junction. North and South Junction (Halifax to Keighley). Huddersfield and Manchester (Cooper Bridge Breach). Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 40. Leeds and Bradford (Guiseley Branch). Lancashire and Yorkshire (North-Eastern). York and Lancaster. Leeds and York. Leeds, York, and Midland Junction. • York and North Midland (Leeds Extension). North Western. Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 11. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. SECOND READINGS. _ _ _ The following Bills were read - a second time, and orderel to be printed, viz.: Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir• mingham, anti Leicester Railvvay ; Ambergate, Not tingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction Railway ; Leicester and Bedford Railway ; Shropshire Union Rail way and Canal (Shrewsbury and Stafford Railway) ; Stamford and Spatding Thalway. Col. ROLLED ION presented a petition, signed by nine-tenths of the lace-manufacturers of Nottingham, deprecating the practice of working twenty-four con secutive hours. and praying that the time of labour might be restricted to siNteen hours. The petition al.° prayed the House to prohibit altogether the employment of little children, under eight years of age, in the factories. statutes. The effect of the laws regarding Roman Catholics was, that wealthy members of that faith sent their children out of the country to be edues e ted, an d muc h ev il an d incon venience arose out of this circumstance. He would refer to a few other cases to show low members of the Roman Catholic persuasion were at present affected. who from conscientious motives sand, he might observe, those who acted from such were not a few), declined to take the oaths that were prescribed. With regard to the oath of supremacy there were many persons who had a conscientious objection to take it. An eminent individual, who was an Archbishop of Rome, could not sit it the council at Malta, in consequence of the scruples lie felt to take the oath. Mr. Waterton could not qualify as a magestrate in the county in which he lived; and there were many other persons similarly situated, who could not conscientiously submit to take it. It was too bad, therefore, that these worthy indivi duals should still be subject to these malignant and cruel statutes. He would also mention another person, who was subject to their oppression, the Rev. Mr. Greene, chaplain to Sir Clifford Constable. Now these were real practical griev ances, arising from religious scruple* of conscience. He thought, therefore, that the House should interfere and put an end to what must be considered a disgraceful state of t hihge. Let not the House imagine that it was a small or trivial grievance which wes at present under discussion. Thousands of families, from the highest to the lowest in the land, were waiting for their decision to be restored to those rights of the constitution of which they had been unjustly deprived. They were waiting for that decision also in other countries, and he could not help think ing that some consideration was due to their feelings. It was also due to the faith of the great majority of Christendom, tbr they could not shut their ey e s to th e f ac t th at t h ose w h o would be relieved by the removal of those disabilities be-- lunged to a religious creed which comprised the greater part of the civilized world. It was also due to the interests of their own Established Church, for it was the greatest injury to it to say that their faith could not be maintained without perpetuating what was the greatest injustice to others. In conclusion lie considered it most disgraceful to keep up this odious-system of civil penalties against a faith so celebrated—it was re• pulsive to the feelings of all just men, repulsive to the spirit of the age in which they lived, and cruel to those against whom these laws were first enacted.—(llear, hear.) Sir ROBERT INGLIS said, that the experience which he had in that House enabled hint to say that it was a very general feeling that to make concessions was much pleasanter than to resist them.—(Hear.) Concession, however, he had not made, and was not prepared to make, on the pre-. sent question. Whether to liberate the captive, to aid their feilew-eubjecte by a grant of public money —or, as in the present case, to remove the obstruction of certain civil dis abilites—it was fer elter enter to give than to refuse. While he admitted, however, the pleasurable ematione which con cession would giee, he regretted that he could not accede to the motion on the present occasion. His Hon. Friend had said that those penal enactments were the rubbish of the dark ages. He would ask, however, whether this was the case ? The first stage to which he would refer when they commenced, was what was called the golden, or Augustan age of this country—a time when this country possessed more eminent men than the Hon. Member himself, or any of the gentlemen who formed the " Young England " party. He would not, however, throw discredit or disparage ment on the men who formed the glory of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The next period was the great era of civil liberty. The next was that of William 111. The next was George 111. But he (Sir R. Inglis) presumed that the dark age to which the Hon. Gentleman referred was the year 1829. ( Laughter.) That was the darkest age in his estimation. His Hon. and Learned Friend had told the House that great as the provisions of this Bill might be considered by sonic, yet the Bill of the Lord Chancellor, which might be soon expected from the other House, was still more comprehen sive. He contended that no practical grievance had operated front the existence of the statutes which this Bill was intended to repeal. The Honourable and Learned Gentle man had said that it was at present impos sible for any person in this country to bequeath anything to a Roman Catholic college abroad, but why did he not introduce a measure to remove that grievance, if it were a grievance? He had also complained that the Roman Catholic Bishop of Malta was precluded by the present penal statutes from taking a seat in the Legislative Council, be cause he could not take the oath. He (Sir R. Inglis) would not at present enter upon that question further than by saying that his Mope was, that wherever the Sovereign carried her flag she should also there carry her church. —(Cries of "Hear, hear.") Many better than himself had held that hope for centuries, and that till the last few years • was the theory, if not the practice, of the beit men in Eng land. He apprehended that that statement would not be contradicted by any Member of the House. Instead of carry ing our language and reineien to Malta, when we conquered it, we accommodated ourselves as much as possible to the language and religion of the people whom we had conquered. That, however, was not the policy adopted by the Romans, the French, or any other nation, or even by England until the last forty or fifty years of Liberalism. Canada was not an exception, because it was surrendered by treaty. He would now come to the general clauses of the Bill. What was the practical effect of the Bill ? He would take up the clause with reference to schoolmasters, and he would ask whether any Roman Catholic had been prevented from exercising the functions or avocations of a schoolmaster because he had omitted to obtain a license from the Protestant bishop of the diocese in which he proposed to establish his school? In point of fact, they all knew that the slightest impediment did not exist against any Roman Catho lic schoolmaster pursuing his avocations on such a ground. Some member of the Church would probably rise in the course of the present debate, and he (Sir R. Inglis) would feel obliged to him if he would state that he knew any instance in which any Roman Catholic teacher had been prevented from exercising his avocations because he had omitted to procure a license from the. Protestant bishop of his diocese to do so. He (Sir R. Inglis) would oppose this Bill, because it would in effect repeal the Act of Supremac y , as well as the law for the expulsion of the Jesuits, which prohibits Roman Catholic bishops from assuming the titles of Protestant sees. It authorises, so far as the Roman Catholic, shall not prohibit any Roman Catholic prelate to assume the title of any see in England. He may assume, if he pleases, the title of the Archbishop of Canterbury. With reference to processions, the House had thoughthfit to abolish Protestant processions, and would the House now consent to have through the streets of Lon don the procession of t7orims Christi, or the processsion of the Host. The present Bill also seeks to repeal a provi sion of the Act of 1829, which prohibits any functionary from going in his sacerdotal robes to a place of worship. When he told the House that there were no provisions or grievances which the present Bill sought to repeal bitt those which had been introduced by the Hon. Member himself, who had brought forward the measure of Catholic Emanci pation in 1829, he thought lie had stated sufficient reasons for inducing him to move that the present Bill be read a second time this day six months. The SPEAKER having put the original motion and amendments, Lord MORPETH rose and said, that he hoped his leight Honourable Friend the Member for the University of Oxford would allow him, a Protestant Member of the House, to express his regret that any attempt ehould have been made to resist those laudalle endea yours to get rid of the last remnant of the institutions of the dark aees. His Right Hon. Friend would object to their being styled the relics of the dark ages. They were, at all events, the relics of an age which had witnessed the passing of the penal codes. All really liberal minds must, however, admit that if they were not re lics of the dark ages, they were remnants of a spirit which reigned dominant and contemporary with the dark ages.—( Hear, hear.) It might be said that these measures which the House sought to repeal were a series of measures enacted since the Reformation. He supposed his Right Hon. Friend would confine the term "dark ages" to tue years which preceded the Reformation, when the King's Govern ments and countries were all Roman Catholics. He had no wish to cast any slur upon the opinions or conduct of any men or body of men with refer ence to the course they might adopt upon the present occasion. He considered that the enactments which :the present Bill sought to repeal originated in the absence of sound views. He was not, however, as he said before. inclined to cast any slur upon the motives of the opposers of the present measure. But on looking back to the history of past ages he could not resist the con viction that of all the principles which have caused evil or multiplied the sorrows of the human race, the principle of bigotry has been the most fruitful—(hear, hear)—and the mcst pernicious. If he was guilty of a bad taste or impropriety towards the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford, and applied the term bigoted to him, he was sure that the term would be received by his Right Hon. Friend with a gentle and reprov ing smile—a gentle smile on account of the natural gen tleness of his temper, and with a reproving smile, because he would consider that such imputations should not be cast by any person.—(Loud laughter.) He could say that hardly a day passed in which lie did not detect some sort of bigotry in those even who thought them selves most free from it. The Hon. Member had said that wherever the flag of the Queen of England was reared, there should her church be planted. He would not venture to say how far that principal had been carried out in our colonies, but it would seem more to the purpose if wherever the English flag might be planted, we were to inquire what was the church of the Queen's subjects. He could hardly conceive that the speech of the Hon. Member would have been made on the second reading of the Bill, for when the House was in Committee, if there was awy particular exception to be made, it might be excepted in the operation of the Bill, and the House would no doubt consent to such a course. These statutes, as they now stood, were useless, unless for the pur pose of keeping up an offensive superiority, and throwing out an unmerited stigma. He found by the first clause in this Bill that preaching was to be punished by forfeiture of goods and one year's imprisonment. Yet it was known that this creed was promulgated every day from 1,000 pulpits, making the statute a mere connivance at a falsehood. Why did not the Hon. Member for Pontefract bring forward a case which occurred some two years ago in which parties were proceeded against for not going to church? These statutes while they were on the statute-book might be enforced for some malicious purpose. There were alto denunciations against bell steeples and even against articles of wearing apparel. The procession of Corpus Christi and the procession of the Host had been looked upon with son alarm as likely to be renewed if these statutes were repealed, but the House might safely rely on the customs of the country being attended to. In America, where these things were tolerated, such a procession was never heard of. The Bill also proposed to relax the prohi bition against the order of the Jesuits, and this relaxation had '-een viewed with some alarm even by persons of en lightened principles. He did not think much of the sugge!• tions which had been made respecting the Jesuits, nor did he believe that any danger could be shown as likely to arise from the proceedings of that body. He would say, let each party in the State enjoy an equality of toleration, and in this matter he was very much inclined to follow the course pursued in the United States, and to interfere with no one who was not guilty of legal infracti at. For his part he was quite anxious to give the same indulgence to religious refugees as they did to political refugees. Let them shut their ports to nothing but crime, and let our island be an asylum inviolate for every species of misfortune. This was his opinion, and this was the reason why he should support the Bill. If pro tection was given to one party, it ought to be given to an other, and lie hoped that the House would never give its sanction to any measure which expressed a sympathy with anything, the only purport of which was to irritate and alarm. Mr. FINCH was . not opposed to the whole of the principles of this Bill, because he thought that some of its provisions might with very great safety be adopted ; as for instance that which went to repeal the law by which schoolmasters were regulated, and which he thought might be very judiciously abolished. But there were other points to which he en tertained strong and insuperable objections. He was aware that there were parties belonging to the religi ous ous community of the Roman Catholic Church who held' in all its force the doctrine of the political supremacy of the Pope.—(Cries of " Where, where ?") The authority to which lie would refer was , the late Charles Butler, the barrister, who it was well known was himself - a Catholic, and who hal-stated that this,ductrioe, was held in the Vati can and its precincts.—(A laugh.) He might add that the same principle was supported by the celebrated &Hemline. And further,- he might cite - the oath as administered under the provisions of the 31st Geo. 111. Mr. O'CONNELL—That is not the oath now administered to Members of the House. Mr. FINCH had just iad the book put into his hands, and he was therefore not responsible for the error, but he still must contend tlat there were many individuals who hekithe doctrine of Papal supremacy. There might be no imme diate danger, t tr. he could see in future years, and that at a o distsnt period, ample cause for apprehension if this Bill were carried. There might be cases of conscience in which the imposition of an oath would be felt as a hard ship, but he believed they were very few, and there was, on the other hand, an evil to be guarded against. Many young persons were led, at an age when they were incapable of judging of their future. course, to take re ligious vows from which, at some after peliod, they would be very glad to be released, and he conceived that a very advan tageous change might be made in the regulation of r. ligious communities. Each of these establishments might be visited by a Commissioner, appointed by Government, who might see each of these young persons separately, and take measures to etlect their liberation whenever it was desired. (A laugh.) With regard to the observation of the Noble Lord respecting the Jesuits, he did not conceive that any security could be taken against them, or at least any that wasworthy of the name. This was in 1829.—( Hear, beer.) Ile understood that ex pression. It was that the Right Hon. Baronet had left be hind him ell his former opinione, and that Hansard should be laid aside. Still he (Mr. Finch) would say this was a constitutional principle. Spain, though a Catholic country, had seen it necessary to suppress many of its religious criers, as inconsident with - the Government of the country, and other nations had done the same. There was, therefore, no thing inconsistent in this country exercising some control over such orders. At p resent Si sters of Mercy -and other religious bodies were springing tip, distributing tracts, and using every exertion to make proselytes, and they were not inter fared with ; yet it might come that in a few years it would be lac _!ssary for a Protestaut Government to interfere with the proceedings of monastic orders. If the IZoman Catholics, however, con ered the subject well, lie was sure they would not venture on processions, in which the host, they so much vene rated, might be liable to insult. There was one other point to which he would refer. The clause which gave the power for Roman Catholic prelates to assume the legal title of bishop and archbishop could not but be offensive to the digaitaiies of the Protestant Church. Nothing could be more offensive than for a Roman Catholic bishop to take the title of Archbishop of Canterbury. He thought that the Catholic clergy would, if this Bill passed, assume the titles of the Protestant clergy. Ile deprecated the spirit which was at present so prevalent among all sections of the Protestant clergy to look favourably on Roman Catholies, and to make unjust concession to them. Having these opinions, be would oppose the second re-ding of the Bill. s'.ir JIM LS GRAHAM wished to detain the House for a short time while he stated his reasons for giving his support to the second reading of the Bill. He supported it. because he was favourable to its spirit and because he conceived that That was the spirit of toleration.—(Hear, bear.) If there be such penalties in the statute-book, he for cite was satisfied that they should be inquired into, with a view to ascertain if, without danger to the community, they could not be re moved.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford had endeavoured to show that the Act of 1829 was one which should be swept from the statute-book. He (Sir James Graham), so far from con curring in that opinion, thought it one of the brightest pages in the statute-book, and was a consummation which he, from the part he took in it, should always look back upon with delight. He did not see why they should Kaye any ob jecti,ea to this Bill, or why they should think that it swept away any of those safeguards which it would be desirable to have. for it did not go so far as the Bill in the other House. The Bill in the other House provided relief for all Dissenters, while this one proposed to remove those only which affected Roman Catholics. In some other respects also the Bill in the other House went further. He had the greatest veneration and respect for the religion which the Hon. Member for the University of Oxford professed, but he was sorry to say that, in his opinion, the policy of that Church towards Roman Catholics, in former times, was most unhappy and unwise. —(Hear.) He believed that in conse quence of that policy the British Crown had been deprived of the assistance of the ablest men in England. The Hon. Member for the University of Oxford had admitted that there were penal Acts on the statute-book which ought to be repealed; yet he was opposed to the second reading of this Bill, which proposed to repeal the greater portion of those Acts. For his (Sir J. Graham's) own part, he confessed that if there were such penal statutes as had been alluded to, it was the bounden duty of the Legislature to repeal them. And what had been the defence set up with reference to the clause respecting Roman Catholic schoolmasters? The Hon. Member for Oxford ad mitted that there was another clause, but that it never came into operation. He also admitted in the course of his speech that that statute ought to be repealed, and yet he said that he would oppose the second reading of this Bill which proposed to repeal it. He (Sir J. Graham) was most anxious that this Bill should be passed into a law as quickly as possible. He was not, however, prepared on the part of her Majesty's Government to sanction the second reading of the Bill. lie also reserved to himself the power of proposing, in Committee, some alterations with regard to the concluding clauses of the Bill. The Hon. Member had said that this Bill proposed to repeal the Act of Supremacy, but it pro posed no such thing. He (Sir J. Graham) would, in fact oppose the repeal of that Act ; nor did the Bill which was now in progress in the other House of Parliament propose the repeal of the Act of Supremacy. He did think that, considering the immense, number of the Roman Catholic subjects of her Majesty, penal ties should no longer be enforced against them in either a temporal or spiritual point of view. —(Hear, hear.) Ile would again say that he really thought that the great settle ment of the year 1829 should, so far from being regarded as unhappy, be considered as a most politic and wise settle ment.—( Hear hear.) To that settlement he was determined to adhere. With the reservation to which he had already referred, he was prepared to give his most cordial support to the second reading of this Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WYSE would gladly have left the introduction of a measure of Roman Catholic relief to the good feeling and in tentions of Protestant Members of that House, rather than a measure of that nature should have originated in conse quence of any complaints made by the Roman Catholic por tion of the House. He did not think it wise to keep on the statute-book the remnant of a law condemned by the general feeling of the people of the country. His Right Hon. Friend seemed to have misunderstood the subject before the House. The House was not at present in Committee, where objections might. be taken to this or that chance of the Bill. They were discussing the general principles of the measure. If these enactments were useless, as the Right Hon. Baronet had stated, lie would ask why were they kept on the statu,e book ? He thought, therefor ~ that his Right Hon. Friend was bound, in consequence of his own showing that the laws were ineffective, and were continually evaded, to support the second reading of the Bill • while, at the same time, Hon. Members on his side of the House were not bound to re pudiate the measure in consequence of any observations which fell from the Right Hon. Baronet. He (Mr. Wyse) considered it perfectly impossible to attempt, by any legis lative enactments, to bind the opinions or consciences of any class of her Majesty's subjects.—(Cries of" Hear, hear.") If the House would look through the Act, they would find enactments compelling the citizens of a free country, differ ing from the established religion, to attend the public read • ing of common prayer. He could not be blind to the-benefits conferred on the country by the wise government of Queen Elizabeth and the politic measures of her statesmen ; but lie could not help attributing to her the bad policy which had been observable on the subject throughout the succeeding reigns. With regard to the observations of the Hon. Member for Rotlandshire he gave him due credit for good feeling ; but he wished that he had been more accurately informed of the opinions of Catholic writers, and of the nature of Catholic prayers. There was no such thing as a recognition of the tens- poral supremacy of the Pope in any place beyond the Papal dominions. Such a belief was well suited to the dark ages, but not to the present time ; and he would join all Europe in deprecating the extent of the power of the Pope beyond the Papal dominions. With regard to whathad been said about an enactment for the suppression of the Jesuits, and the forcing open of conventual institutions, or that there should be at least. an inquiry instituted into their practice a sort of inquiry of lunacy, perhaps—did the Hon. Member not know that those institutions were perfectly open, and that females entering them were allowed a certain time to consider before they assumed the title of nuns ? With regard to the title of bishop, it should be re collected, that though it was different in Ireland, in England no Catholic bishop took his title from any English see, and there was no Roman Catholic bishop who took his title from an existing see, except when the Protestant title had ceased, as in the case of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, and in that case there was no Protestant title. Therefore he hoped that that House would not longer con tinue this relic of an age of bigotry, of which he, if he were a Protestant, would be utterly ashamed. On these grounds. then, he trusted that in this House he should hear no more of non -right of dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church to the titles which they now bore.—(Hear.) ' Mr. COL _ A g f r e o ni un b d er s upon which he should support his found in the statute- QUIMeN was anxious to t t h h e e Acts bearing upon this subje c t to be for the University of Oxford. He admitted that there were perfectly prepared to get rid of; and matters, he agreed with s b o o o f k a , r t ons which had fallen from the Hon. Member washitchheyhte-elawtaeds to educational the observe who had just sat down. There were parts of this Bill to which he took exception, but if those'parts were expunged in Committee he did not know whether he might not be in clined to assent to the measure.—(Hear.) He, however, certainly did not agree with the Right Hon. Baronet the Se cretary of State for the Home Department, that because a Bill contained enactments which were wise and just in le them selves, he was justified in voting for it second reading, the Bill at the same time there was a paramount part of and contrary to which was considered highly objectionabl e, without going back spirit of the constitution.—(Hean And,) back to defend the reign of Queen of religion, Elizabeth, distin guished advancement as that reign was for the and the promotion of literature, because any one who looked into the works of Spen ce v or Shaks p ere, or stu died the works of Lord Bacon. must be convinced that it requ i re d no defence. He would contend that the paramount part of the Bill to which he objected was decidedly opposed to that wise and equitable spirit which ought to actuate them in the present day.—(Hear.) The constitution of the country was based upon one recognised and constituted authority ; they must take care not to allow an authority to exist that was above the authority of the Crown and the Parliament of the country. He found that it was the opinion of many parties connected with the Church of Rome, that that Church had power over all ecclesiastical matters ; that in this respect it had supreme control. This was asserted by many writers who concur in this view of the power of the Church. If so, let them take the case of an election. A vote given in an election would be considered an ecclesiasti cal matter, though an elector was considered alone respon sible in a political point of view to the country. That a vote at au election was an ecclesiastical matter, was stated by the Church of Rome, and in proof of that they had the evidence of the Committee appointed in 1835. It was shown before that Committee that the Church of Rome held this opinion. Mr. O'CONNELL said it was not so. Mr. COLQUIIOUN said the Hon. and Learned Gentleman could not dispute the fact, as the evidence taken before the Committee fully bore that out. It was held to be an eccle siastical matter, because an oath was taken at an election. Mr. O'CONNELL—The Church of Rome does not say so. Mr. COLQUIIOUN said the best course was to look to the practical proceedings of the Church, and not the mere words. It was their duty not to ask what the Church taught, but what she practised. He (Mr. Colquhoun) did not seek the mere words on the authority of books, but what was practised and continually acted on, and that it was as he had represented it to be could not be denied. As long as he had a seat in that House he would oppose every attempt at ecclesiasticA domination, he would always be the advocate of the right of free judgment and the right of conscience. The Jesuits had ever aiwed at this domina tion, and he called upon them to take all legal steps with a view to undermine their power. He did not wish to re-, move them from the soil in fact. That was not a policy which he would recommend, but he thought that every means should be taken to prevent ecclesiastical power from the - ,N ow, as the Act of Supre novy, the Ist of Elizabeth, went to put an end to that power, lie considered that it should not be repealed. He must, therefore, offer his decided objection to repeal these laws ? though he did not wish At the same CALEDONT►AN (CLYDESDALE zuNcrrorT) MIEVI.A.TIONS. The formal evidence having been heard, the Committee found that in the can of this.l.llll the standing orders had been complied with. The object of the Bill was to etilet an amalgamation between the Clydesdale and the Caledonian lines, and to obtain powers to make two deviations from the 11111 of last year. The estimated cost was 15,0001. Sub-Committee No. 3, The Committee resurnetl its sittings at the usual hour this morn ing, In Room No. 8. There were present Mr. Aglionby (in the chair), Mr. Aldam, Mr. Statisticla, and Mr. B. DAnTINIOUTII, nnxxHrovi, TORBAY, AND EXETE E. . The object of the petitioners in this case was to make a railway front Dartmouth, Brixham, and Torbay, on the south coast of De vonshire, to the city of Exeter. The capital of the Company was 7e0,0001., and the cost of the line was estimated at 630,0001. The line was oppose , ' by several petitioners, and only the tbrmal proofs were taken to-day. oxrortn, WITNEY, CHELTENnAIVZ, AND GLOUCESTER. The opposition to this case was then resumed. Mr. VENABLES appeared to support the petition of two occupiers of property near Cheltenham, which was proposed to be taken t'or the purposes of the railway, but the promoters had neglected to give them notice of this fact. The same petitioners also complained of alleged omissions and defects in the plans and sections. One allegation was that a cottage near to Cheltenham, proposed to be taken by the railway, was not marked on the plans. Mr. DEANs, on behalf of the promoters of the Bill, admitted this allegation. It was not a cottage, as alleged by the petitioners, but a small brick hut. Mr. AGLIONBY did not find any exception of small brick huts in the standhip; orders. Standing orders not complied with, The petitioners then proved that their cottages, for which they paid r, rent of 4/. per annum, were placed upon the plans and ssction, but no notice had been served upon them to that effect. Standing orders not complied with. . . . • . Mr. VEXABLEs said he had a petition against the Bill, signed by landowners on the line, who complained of omissions in the plans and sections of property of which the petitioners themselves were not the owners and occupiers, while the property alleged to be omitted was situated at a considerable distance from that part of the country, while the petitioners' property was intersected by the railway. Mr. Muss demanded that the consent of the occupiers or owners of the property alleged to be omitted to the presentation of the peti tion in question should be proved by Mr. Venables before he was heard upon it. _ _ _ Mr. VENABLES apprehended that as this was an objection open to the general public, it was not necessary for him to prove such consent. Mr. AGLIONBY said it was true that it had already been decided that suzh allegations were open to the general public, but each ape must be taken upon its particular merits and particular facts, and if the particular circumstances and particular facts of the case did not justify the hearing of a general petitioner, not immediately interested in the property alleged to be omitted or incortectiy described, it was competent for the Committee to refuse to hear evidence or arguments upon such petition. That was the opinion of the Committee in the present instance, and the petition therefore could not Us admitted. Several allegations urged by other petitioners, of omissions and defects in the plans, sections, and books of reference, were substan tiated, and alloWed by the Committee. The Committee then adjourned. Sub-Committee, No. 4. Sub-Committee, No. 4, met this day at llalf-past Twelve o'clock, in Room No. 11, Sir William Heathcote in the chair. DITDLIN AND SANDYMONT. The proceedings in the case of this line have been postponed to Monday. WATERVORD TEADIORE LINE. In the case of this line, eight miles in length, estimated cost of completion 90,0001., there being a material witness absent, the Com mittee postponed their report. Parliamentary agents, Dean and Co., London ; Solicitor, R. Cherry, Waterford ; Engineer, 3.1 r. Townsend. Cork, CALEDONIAN (CARLISLE DEVIATIONj. The Committee found that the sanding orders had been complied with. CALEDONIAN (GLASGOW TERMINI AND intaNcums). The object of this Bill was to enable the Caledonian Railway Com pany to form certain branch and terminal railways in the vicinity of Glasgow, which were as follow, viz.: a branch from the Polloc and Govan Railway, near Govan ironworks, to Clyde-terrace, in the barony of Gorhals, and thence across the river Cycle, to or near Dunlop-street and Argyle-street, in the city of Glasgow ; a branch from the said proposed branch to join the joint line of the Glas ,row, Paisley, and Greenock, and the Glasgow, Paisley, and Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railways ; a branch from the first - mentiomed branch, to join the last-Mentioned proposed branch ; and a branch from the Polloc and Govan Railway, near Cook-street, Tradeston, to the river Clyde, with depots, stations, &c., on those proposed iines. _ _ . Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Grahame and Co. • The Committee bound that in the ease of this Bill the standing or ders had been complied with. CALEDONIAN (LANGHOLM BIL&NCII). The object of this Bill was to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to make a branch railway to the town of Langholm. Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Grahame and Weems, London. The Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. CALEDONIAN (GLASGOW, GA.RNICIRX, AND COATBRIDGE PURCHASE). The object of this Bill was to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to purchase the Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Rail way, and the petition set forth that the same would be of great public advantage. The Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. SCOTTISH CENTRAL (ALLOA BRANCH). The. object of this Bill was to enable the Scottish Central Railway Company to make a branch railway, by the Ailoa Ferry, to Tilli coultry. Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Grahame and Weems, London. The formal evidence having been heard, the Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. SCOTTISH CENTRAL (CHIEFS' BRANCH). The object of the promoters of this Bill was to be empowered to make a branch railway to Crieff, in the county of Perth. Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Grahame and Weems, London. The formal evidence having beex completed, the Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. SCOTTISH CENTRAL (DENNY BRANCH). The object of this Bill was to enable the promoters, the Scottish Central Railway Company, to make a branch railway to Denny, in the county of Stirling. The estimated cost of the undertaking was 50,0001., and the petition prayed that the promoters might be authorised to raise any further sum that might be necessary for the completion of the undertaking, in any manner that might be agreed upon at any extraordinary meeting of the Company held for that purpose. Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Grahame and Weems, London - • The formal evidence having been heard, the Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with POLLOC AND GOVAN AND CLYDESDALE JUNCTION A.WIAZGA eIATION. The consideration of this Bill, which had Wen postponed, was re sumed. The object of the Bill was to amalgamate the Polloc and Govan Railway with the Clydesdale Junction Railway, and to authorise certain deviations of the Clydesdale Junction line. Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Grahame and Weems, London. The formal proofs not being completed, owing to tne absence of some necessary evidence, the thither consideration of the Bill was postponed till to-morrow. ST/IMINGSIIIILE MIDLAND 7ITNCTION. The object of the promoters of this Bill was to obtain powers to construct a railway trout the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to the Scottish Central, to be designated as above. The amount deposited was 15,000/. ; Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Grahame and We.tins. The formal evidence having been heard, the Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. STEATIITAY AND BREADATMANE. The object of the promoters of this Bill was to obtain powers from Parliament to construct a railway from the line of the Perth, and Inverness Railway to Aberfeldy, to be called the Strathtay and Bread*lbane Railway. Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Grahame and Weems, London. The formal evidence having been completed, the Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. CALEDONIAN NORTHERN DIRECT. The object of this Bill was to make a railway from the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway, to be called as above. Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Grahame and Weems, London. The formal proofs having been heard, the Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. This was the last case on the list for to-day, and the Committee adjourned shortly after four o'clock to twelve o'clock to-morrow. • RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. 11.1.3TCHESTEZ, MARCH 10. STocK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Clitheroe Junction, % dis.— East Lancashire, No. 2,3% p.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., % p. —Lancashire and North Yorkshire, die. —Liverpool, Freston, Manchester, and Southport, 3s. 6d. p.—Manchester, Buxton. Mat lock, and Midland, l p.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C)., 6p. c.—Manchester and Leeds, 47 p..—Ditto, Fifths, 914 P. North Staffordshire, 3 1-16 p.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 3, 2 p.--Nest Riding Union, 1 9-16 p. LEEDS, MARCH 10. STOOK Eximexax.—The sales are—London and Croydon, 20% Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 2% p. —East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Accrington), 2% p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 2s. 6d. dis.—Leeds and Bradford, 47—Leeds and Thirsk, 17s. 6d. dis.—North British, New Carlisle branch, 2—London and York ;31.:1s. —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 20s. p.--West Riding Union, ;t►, —Bradford, Wakefield, and 311d1and, 20s. 6d. dis. Buckinghamshire (late Rugby), 7s. Gd. dis.—Grand Union, Ss. dis.— Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 225. 6d. dis.— -Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 12s. 6d. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Mat lock, and Midland, 311. p.—Midland and Thirsk Junction, 255. dis.— North Stafforashire, 3 p. —North Western, 11s. p. SHEFFIELD, 111 A CU 10. STOCK EXCHANOE.—The sales aro—Grimsby and Sheffield Quar ter Shares, 1% —Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 113.—Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal, 1/. 17s. —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 2. NEWCASTLE-1:PON-TYNE, Mese!' 10. STOCK EXCHANGE. — The sales are—Manchester, Leeds Extension, 2 1 ,4 p.—North Dritish,Halves(Carlisle), p. _ _ _ _ HUI)I)ERSFIELD, ileicii 10, SToca EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Huddersfield and Manches ter Railway and Canal, 8 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 13% —Grand Union, 20s.—Huddirsfield, Halifax, and l'radford Union, V. 19s.—Manchester, Bux:on, Matlock, and Midland, 31s. 6d.—Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, 27s.—London and York, 31. 4s.—West Riding Union, 31. 10s. 6d. HULL, ➢PARCH 10. STOCK EZCHANOL—The sales are—North British, Carlisle, 21. 4s. —Hull and Barnsley Junction, 255. 6d.—Lincoln and Waintleet, 355. —North Staffordshire, 51. 7s. —West Riding Union, 3%. YORK, 31Ancn 10. STocK Excnsmix.—The sales are—Direct Northern, 2 Grand Union, I—Leicester and Bedford, 17e.—London and York, 3% Ditto, Extension, 2/. 12s.— Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid land, 31. 138.--Newcastle and Berwick, 18%—Newcastle and Dar lington, Brandling, 37% Ditto, Extensions, 9w- North British, Carlisle Extension, 21. 2s.—Welsh Midland, 1/. 3s.— York and North 31alland, Selby, 74—Ditto, Extension, 31—Ditto New (East and lYest Biding), 9 4. EDINBURGH, 11IA.Ren 7, STOCK EXCHANGE.-- The sales are—Aberdeen, Banff and Elgin, 345. —Direct Northern, 44s.—East Lothian Central and Tyne Valley Junction, 335. Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 16s,—Edin burgh and Leith Atmospheric, 25s.—Edinburgh and Northern (New port), M.—North British, Extension to Carlisle, 495. GLASGO W, 111.tacil 9. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are - Airdrie and Ilathgate, 40s.— British and Irish Union, 50s.—Caledonian, I I —Caledonian Exten sion, 38s.—Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 308. Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction, 44s.—East Indian Railway, 10s. 3d.-- Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, nasgew General Terminus, 8% clla.sgow and Belfast Union, 345. 6d.—Glasgew, Kilmarnock, and Ayr; 701.—Ditto, New, 241.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 38s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrozsan, 475. Glasgow and Dundee Janet'', n, 325.- -Great Indian Peninsular, es. 6d.—Lesiiirthagow, 425. —Perth and Inverness, 30s. 6d. Svotti-11 Central, 141.—Scottish Midland Junction, 4%—South Midland. 665. Stirling and Dunferm!ine, 393. Biscuits of maize or Indian corn, have been manu'ac tured at Bristol, and they are described as very agreeable and nu tritious. _ _ _ IMPORTANT FACT.—It Was stated by Dr. Guy 'before a Parliamentary Committee, that heat, not moisture, is the chiei cause of sickness ; that in London in 1842, the maximum disease was in August (the warmest month), the minimum in January. In ac cordance with this faet, the Zoological So , :iety of London have lati.b q xposed their carnivorous animals to the open air in place of con tinuing them in artificially heated dens, the result being an Im proved state of health and fewer deaths. _ _ _ RF.PREENTATION OF BRIDPORT.—Mr. B. Cochrane. who was returned on Saturday by a majority of one over Mr• Romilly, took his seat last night, but rumour says that he is not likely to keep it after 'ail, the Mayor having discovered au cm,: since the return was made, which places Mr. Cochrane hi a minority of one, instead of a majority. The blunder can only be remedied by petition. GROUP, No. 41. Blackburn and Preston. East Lancashire (Deviations and Branches). Liverpool and Bury (Branches). Manchester, Bolton, and Bury (Canal Navigation and Raliway). Preston and Wyre Longridge Junction). Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton. North Union (Branch to Horwich and Wilderwood), two Bills. Preston and Wyre Extension, and Darwen Junction. Manchester and Bury Atmospheric. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, and Canal Navigation. North Union Railway. Blackburn, Preston, and Eastern Lancashire Amalgamation. Prtston and Wyre Harbour, Railway, and Dock Company. Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 42. Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Southport. Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston. West Lancashire. Blackburn, Chorley, and LiverpooL Tour Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : cntour, No. 43. Leeds and Thirsk (North-Eastern Extension). East and West Yorkshire Junction. Leeds and Thirsk (Nidderdale Dale). York and North Midland (Whitby and Pickering Extension). Great North of England (Bedele Branch). Great North of England (Boroughbridge Branch). Leeds and Thirsk (St. Helen's Deviation). Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee GROUP, No. 44. Lancashire and North Yorkshire. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction. Northumberland and Lancashire Junction. York and Carlisle. Yorkshire and Glasgow Union. Blackburn. Clitheroe, and North-Western Junction. Clitheroe Junction. Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction. Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROVP, No. 45 Whitehaven and Furness Junction (Whitehaven Deviation and Kirk santon Extension). Lancaster an4l Carlisle Extension to the Caledonian Railway, and Lancaster and Preston Junction Amalgamation. Cockermouth and Workington Extension. Furness and Windermere. Ulverstone, Furness, and Lancashire and Carlisle. Furness Extensions. Whitehaven and Furness Junction. Caledonian (Carlisle Deviation). Your Committee recommend that the following BillS be referred to a distinct Committee:— GROUP, No. 46. Newcastle and Darlington Junction and Tyne Dock. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh, and Direct Glasgow Junction. Wear Dock Railway. Newcastle and Berwick. Newcastle and Carlisle (Extension and Branches). Newcastle and Darlington, Durham and Sunderland, and Wear- mouth Dock Purchase and Branches. Newcastle and Darlington, Pontop and South Shields Purchase. Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 47. Welsh Midland. Swansea Vale. Shrewsbury and Hereford. Shrewsbury and Herefordshire. Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction. Vale of Neath. Monmouthshire. Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 43. Monmouth and Hereford. Newport, A bergavenny, and Hereford. Great Eastern and Western. Swansea and Loughor. Tenby, Saundersfoot, and South Wales. Llynvi Valley and South Wales Junction. Taft Vale. Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester. Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 49. North Wales. Chester and Birkenhead. Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction. Mold Junction. Birkenhead and Llangollen. North Wales Mineral (Deviation and Breaches). Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction (Deviation and Branches). Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 50. Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction. Shropshire Union and Canal, Newton to Crewe, with Branches. Shropshire Union and Canal (-hrewsbury to Stafford). Shropshire Union and Canal (Chester and Wolverhampton line). Shrewsbury and Birmingham. Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction. Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction (No. 2). Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 51. Great North and South Wales. Worcester and Portdynliaen. Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred a distinct Committee : GROUP. No. 52. Runcorn and Preston Brook. St. Helen's Canal and Railway. Grand Junction (Huyton to Warrington). Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction. Chester and Manchester Direct. Liverpool, Manchester, and Stockport Direct. South Staffordshire (Showhill and Portobello Branch). Manchester and Birmingham. Grand Junction (Huyton to Ashton, and other Branches). Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 53. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway (Dudley Line). Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley (Stour Valley Line). South Staffordshire (Junction). South Staffordshire Junction (Bilston and Presttield Branch). South Staffordshire Junction (Willenhall and 131ozwich Branch). Trent Valley, Midlands, and Grand Junction. Birmingham, Lichfield and Manchester. Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction. Your Committee recommend that the following Bill be referred to a distinct Committee : GROUP, No. 54. Grand Trunk, or Stafford and Peterborough Union. Oxford, Coventry, and Burton-on-Trent Junction. Trent Valley (Alrewas Branch). London and Birmingham (Coventry to Nuneaton Extension). Leicester and Tamworth Junction. Midland (Leicester and Swannington Alteration and Branches). Midland (Burton•on-Trent to Nuneaton and Branch). Direct Birmingham and Leioester. Leicester aed Birmingham and Branch to Coventry. Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester. Your Committee recommend that the following Bills be referred to a distinct Committee:— GROUP, No 55. Manchester and Hyde. Sheffield, Ashton, and liaachaster (Whalley Bridte and Mayfield Branches). Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crowe. Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and 3fidland Junction. Congleton and Crewe. Manchestester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction. Sheffield, Ashton, and Manchester (Dukentield, Worsborough, and Glossop Branches, and Sheffield Station*). * Except the Worsborough Branch, which is included in Group No. 37. The public are specially informed that a few days wi ll complete the entire range of E. Moses and Son's new pre mises in Aldgate and the Minories, and that due notice will be given of the day of opening. MONUMENT TO WALLACE.—On Thursday evening, at the end of the first part of Mr. Wilson's entertainment, the concluding song of which was " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled," a gentleman came to Mr. Wilson, and said that mag nificent song had powerfully impressed him with the fact, not commendable to Scotland, that there was not a monument to Wallace, the hero who had done so much for his country. He gave his name for 501. to head a subscription for the erection of a monument to Wallace on the Abbey Craig, near Stir ling, and requested Mr. Wilson, who has done so much for the songs of Scotland, by keeping alive those parts of her history recorded in song, to give publicity to the intended monument, that all ranks, high and low, rich and poor, might.have an cipportzenity of contributing - to it. No spot in Scotland could be fixed on more appropriate or more mag nificent for a monument to Wallace, than. the Abbey Craig —it would be an honour to Scotland, auc: an ornament to the district rendered classic by the heroic deeds of the Wallace and the Bruce. It may be mentioned, that the gentleman who has made this generous offer has been thirty four years absent from his native country, and has just re turned to it.—Caledonian Mercury. ACCIDENT TO A LUGGAGE CRAIN Monday an accident occurred to the up goods train, between Pangbourne and Goring, on the Great Western Railway, by' which considerable inconvenience and delay were occasioned to ti to up mail and other trains proceeding to Paddington. It appears, that the goods train, propelled by the Capricormis engine, had a timber truck attached, laden with long logs of oak. By some mischance one of these be cme loose, and from the consequent oscillation, three trucksi hi yludiug the thnber carriages, were thrown off the rails. The wreck trucks, wheels, timber, &e. was strewn along the railway, ob structing the traffic on the up line. Shortly after the accident the day mail came up from Bristol, and was compelled to pass over a crossing, and travel for some distance on the south or down line, arriving at Paddington at a quarter before twp o'clock, being thirty five minutes behind time. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL On the order of the day being read, Mr. T. DUNCOINIBE moved that the Speaker do leave the chair, when . _ _ Sir JAMES GRAHAM observed, that since the sub ject of friendly societks was last before the House he had had an opportunity of coriskiering it more in detail, and was now in a position to bring in a Bill which would embody the whole of the lion. Gentleman's amendments. He proposed, in the first place, to classify and specify all societies, de ejusdent yeheris, which should be in cluded in the operation of the Act, underone general head. He thought it would be of great importance to aeopt the suggestion thrown out by Chief Justice Tindal. Mr. Tidd Pratt had, in the case of savings' banks, had the power of arbitra tion, and he proposed to give him, under thii Act, the power of arbitration with regard to friendly societies, with a regular salary, He also proposed that there should be a record kept of all such societies as had been enrolled, with a short sum mary of the objects for which they were formed. He would, therefore, suggest that the House should go into Committee pro .ti'r" l , and he • would also suggest that the Hon. Mem ber should postpone the further consideration of the Bill for a fortnight, in order that these proposed alterations should be made known. Mr. DUNCOMBE said that he would not put the House to the trouble of considering tLo Bill on the present occasion, but he should accede to the motion of the Right Hon. Baronet, and allow this Bill to go into Committee pro . Prina, and then receive the alterations prnpostd by the Right Hon. Beronet. It era quite clear, after the statement of the Hon. Gentlemen, that he must consider the Bill as destroyed Hie object is introducing the Bill would »ot be in the leeet pre vented by the alterations of the Right Hon. Baronet. The object he had in view in bringing forward this Bill was, simply to remove all doubt at present existing with regard to the decision of Justice Wightman, in the Court of Queen's Bench, and, in point of fact, to extend the operation of the Bill to all societies not illegal in themselves. He could not conceive why societies not of an illegal nature should not be benefited by the Act. Friendly societies were of great benefit to the industrious classes, and they should be more encouraged and better brought under the control of the law. He coulu not conceive that any society of an illegal or im proper nature would venture to enrol their rules. He was very much afraid that the proposition of the Eight Hon. Baronet would control the operation of the present Act with regard to the friendly societies now existing. It would be competent for him (Mr. Duncombe), when the Bill was again produced, to suggest such amendments as he should think proper. He considered his Bill as com pletely gone ; but lie would certainly do his best to reduce the alterations proposed. The Legislature intended when it inserted the words " and for any other purpose not in itself illegal" that the operation of the Bill should extend to all accieties of this natcre. He uuderstood that this alteration was introduced in 1834, by Lord Althorp, expressly for the purpose of allowing every society not fur a criminal purpose to enrol itself: The Right Hon Baronet had said that lie should not object to the Act extending in future to societies to sup port workmen out of employment. There were such societies in existence, and unless the Act were made a retrospective Act, these societies would be destroyed or thrown into con siderable confusion. The law would do infinitely batter if allowed to stand as it now existed, instead of introducing these alterations and leaving it to the discretion of Mr. Tidd Pratt as to what societies should be enrolled or not. As to the question of allowing a salary instead of fees, he left that to be settled by the Right Hon. Baronet and Mr. Tidd Pratt. He certainly believed that as a public officer no person had given greater satisfaction than Mr. Tidd Pratt. He was in constant communication with the industrious classes, and seemed to be an universal favourite amongst them. Ile would conclude by saying once more that he would consent to the course proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet, and should afterwards take the earliest opportunity of offering such opinions as he thought necessary. The House then resolved itself into Committee upon the Bill. _ _ _ Sir J. GRAHAM Lid, he would take that opportunity to make one or two remarks on what had fallen from the Hon. Member. He thought that no other changes than those proposed in the Bill would be perfectly efficient. At the present moment, in case of any dispute amongst the members of friendly societies, they had ne re medy but the Court of Chancery ; and in order to obviate that, he (Sir James Graham) had proposed that Mr. Tidd Pratt should have the pow,.r of settling any such dispute by arbitration. The Hon. Member had said when the last alteration in the Bill was introduced, the object of it was that all societies not of an illegal nature should be enrolled. He wished to call the attention of the Hon. Mem ber to a most important change which had taken place recently with respect to friendly societies. The House would remember that the int( nst of funds in savings' banks had been reduced to Si. ss. per cent., but on friendly societies' funds the interest was 31. 16s. per cent. If that were con tinued the effect of it would be that all savings' banks would become friendly societies, to take the benefit of the increased interest. Under the operation of the Honourable Gentleman's Bill there could be no doubt that savings' banks were not illegal societies., but were associations coming urder the form of mutual assur ance societies. It was quite impossible that this state of affairs could be amended until the whole subject came ander the ctimideratign of Parliament. Mr. WAKISY said that it would be better to postpone the consideration of the Bill until after Easter, for it was very desirable that this subject should come completely under the attention of the Legislature. He had, with his Hon. Colleague, been repeatedly urn , d to bring this subject for ward for alteration ; but out of their efforts, and the ruins of the Bill, had arisen a sort of monster which would frighten all the parties interested.—(Hear.) He saw great difficulty in this matter, and he did not per ceive where there was any necessity for introducing these words, and this was the more evident from the circumstance that, although it was universally acknowledged, that savings' banks were not political societies, yet they were in this Bill included precisely in the same category. Sir J. GRAHAM was not only not opposed to restricting the usefulness of friendly societies, but anxious by all the means in his power to promote it, and it was with a view to that object that he was desirous of introducing these altera tions into the Bill, as it was left by the Hon. Member for Finsbury (Mr. Duncombe). He believed that by this means they would obtain the advantage of keeping the savings' banks associations to their proper character, and all he wished was that they might Obviate the diffi culty which would otherwise arise. The Attorney and Soli citor General and Mr. Tidd Pratt had all been consulted, and they had all expressed an opinion that the alterations were both desirable and requisite. The alterations gave to parties desirous of avoiding th e d ec i s i on o f M r. Tidd P ra tt the op portunity of appealing within eight days to the Solicitor- General ; and this alone, he thought, was a valuable altera tion, which ought to recommend itse!f to the House. Mr. B. HAWES thought that this alteration would be a valuable improvement of the law, and if the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Duncombe) had not succeeded in obtaining all that he desired, he had at least this consolation, that he had been the instrument of effecting a great enlargement of the utility of friendly societies throughout the kingdom. If he had not altered the whole of the law, his procee4ing had affected a great part of it, and the country had to thank him for a great public improvement, although he might nut have ob tained all that he desired. Sir J. GRAHAM would beg to assure the Hon Gentleman that the clauses to which he referred had been most carefully considered, and had been framed so as not to affect the so cieties now in existence. Mr. Tidd Pratt had bestowed much attention upon them, and every desire was felt to divest the measure of everything that was objectionable in its character. Mr. IVAKLEY wished to know whether the Bill, as now amended, had received the approbation of Mr. Tidd Pratt. Sir JAMES GRAHAM—Most decidedly. The Bill then went through Committee, and the report was brought up. SALMON FISHERIES. Mr. PAKINGTON rose to move the second reading of this Bill. In doing so, he would only detain the House a very few minutes , but was comrelled to trouble them for that space, because he was aware that the provisions of the Bill were not known. Such , being the circumstance, he would beg to state that the principal objects of this Bill are to consolidate the laws on fisheries, and to regulate the casting the nets. The Bill will be a very great improve. ment on the law as it stands; and he should, therefore, at once move the second reading of the Bill. Captain HARRIS had no desire to offer any opposition to the second reading of this Bill, but there were one or two of its propositions which appeared to him to be impracticable. One of the provisions was, that no fishing should be made within two hundred yards of any dam, or within a certain distance of the banks. Now, upon the Avon, which was a great salmon fishing river, such a rule would prove most in• convenient, and he thought that some other might be sub stituted for it. His object, however, was not to oppose the Bill, but merely to draw the attention of the Hon. Gentle man to the circumstance. After a few words from Mr. BUCK, who also declined any opposition to the Bill, it was read a second time, and or dered to be committedotL!he 6th of May. • ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. Mr. B. ESCOTT moved the second reading of this Bill. In doing so he said he felt the high honour that had been done him in selecting him to move the second reading of this Pill, in place of the lion : Member who w as t o h ave d one so (the Hon. Member for l insaleb. This Bill sought t o remove a great deal of legis lative rubbish which caused certain re• s t r i c tions on c o nsciences, and was a disgrace to the statute book, inasmuch as it imposed penalties for the sake of con science upon families of high honour, and who had descended from a long line of ancestors. He hoped it would not be said by those who should oppose this Bill, that the Esta blished religion in this country should be supported by such restrictions upon the exercise of the Roman Catholic religion as this Bill sought to remove. In reference to the Bill which had been brought in by the Lord Chancellor, he (Mr. Es • cott) would say it would be much better to t a k e th e two Bill s together, and make a good Bill out of th em . I n t h e coin mon law of the land . there was no p ena l t i es or oat h s f or non• conformity in religious matters, and he hoped ere long t o see the common law un i versall y restored to this beautiful and simple princip l e. With re g ard t o the personal inconve by reason o f th e ex i stence o f t h ose many,thiouse to conside r h ow thi s matter the 31st Geo. 111., nor t h e 1 0 t h G eo. IV., that Catholi cs were un d er to ta k e an sA nl r teoc en :ntooa c , v. e i s et de e N i etv d hio u iteui r l l e ed d ra b s necessity i oatb, as the condition precedent to a p erson t a ki ng out a license to teach, and whic h he might, upon religious grounds, feel obliged to refuse to take. Ther e cou ld not b e anyt hi ng more annoying than for Bishops of the C a th o li c Ch urc h to interfere in neuters relat in g tothe education o f P ro testants. as it was equally anno y in g for Catholic dignitaries t statutes shut out Catholics from many important offices, as he cou ld not i n agree menttheexistingeducation with his conscience take th em . F or i ns t ance , oaths t hisnt requirederf e re there could not be a greater hardship than that the i office of proctor n the ecclesiastical courts—au office which had nothing to do with religious faith— should be debarred Roman Catholics on account of these penal statutes. He would furth er re f er to a most i mportant section of the Catholic Church, the Christian Brethren, who were much affected by the law as it stood at present. These men were of the most exalted and excellent character, and had done much for education in Ireland, yet by these penal statutes they were outlaws, subject at any time to banish ment. They had the testimony of M. Guizot as to the excellent and praiseworthy proceedings of the Christian Brethren, and yet such was their position under these penal to be considered one who would support his religious prin t ciples by penal enactments. He objected to any intolerance, as it was subversive of all religious principles, of all Pro testant feeling. Intolerance was not the doctrine of the Church of England. The Church of England recognised the right of the exercise of private enescience and judgment. —( dear, hear.) flut he found that it was admitted on all side - , by every body in point ,of tact who looked at the present aspects of the day s that we were advancing to a very important period in the history of Europe—( Hear, hear)—a period-in which we were engaged in a great struggle between the ecclesiesiical autho rities and the civil power.—(dear, hear.) Ills Honourable - and Learned Friend the Measlier for Rutlandshire had alluded to the movement within the Church of England. (Mr. Col qu h oun ) did not mean to say it was not one'aff 'Pell ir i ke 1 , •:;. 1 11. fOreboded great and serious danger to the Church ; bend U 4& did not mean to say that if it increased he should not shrink from asking the Legislature to interpose for the purpoee of arresting the progress of that dangerous movement. He, for one, would not shrink when the proper time arrived from grapy ng with the difficulty. The Honourable and Le , rned Member had said: that there was a Mr. Wharton, and an Archbishop of Rhodes, and another gentleman, Mr. Green, who had objected to take the oath required by the Act, and had consequently suffered great annoyance, but the Hon. and Learned Member had said that it was not the oath of 1526 that they objected to, and he had also refused to read the osth. But what did the, oath require ? Merely that Roman Catholics should deny the civil authority of the Church of Rome, and yet the Honourable and Learned Member had called upon the Reuse to approve of his Bill because a certain layman and an Arch bishop had experienced sonic incouveffience because they did not choose to take the oath in question. Ile (Mr. Col quhoun) contended that if this Bill were passed it would en gender most urgent and serious dangers which, in his opi nion, it was not wise to increase in times like the present. If the Legislature passed this Bill witithut any modification, and just as it was proposed ley his lion. and Learned Friend, they would give the strongest support to those men whose conduct would be calculated to injue in the most fatal - mintier the liberties and constitution of this country. Come from his Ilon. and Learned Friend, or from the Lord Chancellorconte, in fact, Irene what quarter it might—he should give his most decided opposition to a Bill like the present, whether it was supported or opposed by the Government," or whether it was backed or con demned by the highest authority in either House of Parliament. lie should, in feet, oppose to the unmet every attempt to break down the constitution of Great Britain.—(llear, hear.) He would not give his sup port to rneesurce like the present, which he believed to be fatal to the conetitu theta anti liberties of Euglishmen—libertiee obtuined at a period which his lion. and Learned Friend looked back to with csnteuir, but which he ( Mr. Colqu holm) regarded %deli the greatest of veneration and respect. Mr. O'CONNELL said the Free Church of Scotland had repu diated the principle of ecclesiastical supremacy in temporal matters. His opinion was that in ecclesiastical matters ecclesias tical government should be supreme, and in civil wee temporal matters the civil power should be supreme. With reference to the speech o f th e Right lion. Member for the University of Oxford, he had stated many things which would have been better if considered in Committee. He could assure the house, that as regarded any processions of the kind being exhibited in the streets of London or other large towns, he had too much veneration for that solemnity to expose it to the ribaldry, and perhaps to the insult of those who differed from him in their opinions upon that subject. He would, however, state to the House, that at Malta an officer of the British army conscientiously refused to tire the accustomed salute at the time the procession of the Host was passing by. He was punished by the Government of this coun try for not doing so, by being dept iced of his commision. He (Mr. O'Connell ) however brought the circumstances under the consideration of the House, and undertook his defence on the ground of his conscientious Scruples. lie did not think he could allow himself to be silent upon the monastic order. There was no law to prevent those institutions. There was no law to prevent the superiors of convents keeping nuns in their house. The doors of the convents are al ways open, so that the nuns might leave at any time they thought proper.—(Hear, hear.) They had not however done so. The Right Hon. Baronet seems to be impressed with unfavourable notions regarding the JeLuite. lie bad had opportunities of looking over the history of that illuetrions . order. Ile was convinced there never were greater friends to the advancement of literature than they had been. He believed that their virtues were their crime. lie defied any man to state, .with name and fact, anything derogatory to that illustrious order which he was not able to refute. Their lives were spent in the performance of the most antic virtues. They are compelled to spend a number of years in a course of training at their colleges, to enable them to teach others, and at the expiration of that period they may or may notbe admitted into the order. They have produced many great men in all branches of literature and science, which no person can but admit. The authority of Pascal, although a great and fascinating writer, yet he does not attempt to look into the facts of the case ; and he (Mr. O'Connell) believed that there was not a statement put forward in that book that he was not able to refute. Michelet was not either any autho r ity t o b e quoted upon the subject of the Jesuits, nothing could be more atro cious than his book. As to Eugene Sue, the writer of romances of the most atrocious nature, he states no fact whatever of the Jesuits. He succeeded by drawing largely upon his imagination to turn his work into a most gross and unnatural romance. There is not a single fact recorded in it. They had been persecuted by many countries by reason of their superior moral lives. Spain and Portugal had ba nished them from their countries, and no person could say that those countries were et all in an enlightened state. He thanked God that the order was now reviving again, that in the last year 40 missionaries had been sent to a great portion of the most uncivilised parts of the globe. They would probably double their number in the next year. He begged pardon of the House for introducing to their notice the sub ject of the Jesuists ; it'was the first time he had troubled the House with such a subject; and concluded by stating, as 'his firm and settled conviction, that they were the greatest benefactors to the literature and science of this country. Mr. PAKINGTON, thought a member of the Protestant Church, would gladly support the principle of the Bill, which he believed was to remove those enactments against Rout ;It Catholics Which had now become obsolete. But, .at • the same time, thought perfectly willing to make any concession to his Catholic brethren, he could not go so far- as the principle contemplated in the Bill. He could not support a measure calculated to remove those safeguards of the British conetituttorif which were framed at the time of the rassing of the Catholic Emanci pation Act in 1829. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL could say that he had been educated at a Jesuit c,:llege, and from what he had seen there, he believed that they were g o od Ch r i st i ans , enlightened gentlemen, and loyal subjects. Mr. NEWDEGATE thought that it would be found that the order of the Jesuits would be difficult to be traced; he would not deny that there might be among them some cha racters remarkable for their attainments. Several countries, however, which the Hon. Member for Cork must be aware of, had found it necessary for the preservation of internal peace to banish them. Mr. O'CONNELL stated, in reply to the Hon. Member, that the forty missionaries he had alluded to had not been labouring in England or France, but their labours had com menced at the Mores, and ended at Cochin China. Lord JOHN MLNNERS could not see what possible good it could do to the. Honourable Member for Oxford, or any other Protestant, to witness the continuance of these laws upon the statute-book. The Honourable Ba ronet said he would remove them when some prac tical grievance resulted from their enforcement, but what was that but carrying out the old adage of not shutting the'stable till the eteed was stolen ? He could not agree with the fears expressed by Hon. Members in refer ence to the Jesuits. About 100 years ago a similar feeling prevailed in this country against the Tempi:Ars. There was no atrocity of which they were considered capable. The Spectator, a few years ago, stated that the feelings pre valent about Jesuits were " more suited to circulating libraries and romances than grave political discussions." These opinions were absolutely ridiculous. The Jesuits were a body of learned and intelligent men, and had of late carried the Gospel to China, and conferred' a great amount of good on benighted lands. He thought they should rather imitate their example, as well. as that of the Christian Brothers and the Cistercians of Mount Melleray, than sully the dignity of the British House of Commons by heaping aspersions upon them which wire utterly devoid of truth and unworthy of their chafacter. ESTCOURT apprehended that the enactments, of 1829 were not inoperative and useless, for the speech of the \oble Lord proved distinctly the reverse. The Noble Lord dwelt at some length on them, and considered them of little consequence;importance bu t he u w ,a a s s o a ld tt e c n h o e u d g t h n ttohermemem when ber t that hey con siderablewere e under discussion. He. should atost willingly support the amendment of the Hon. Baronet. Mr. P. BORTWICK supported the second reading of the Bill, because it was founded upon the broad principle of cha rity—the child of Christianity and the mother of th e Ch urc h of England. He considered the works of Eugene Sue ex ercised a more pernicious influence on society than any act the Jesuits had ever committed. Mr. M. MI LNES would have preferred that this discussion had taken place upon the Government Bill. He passed a great portion of his time in Catholic countries, and had even heard the service of the Church of England under the walls of the Vatican. He considered that the re moval of these disabilities would have a good effect on the Roman Catholic religion abroad. Ile hoped that they would eschew these absurd delusions about Jesuits, and remove for ever from the statute-book these odious penalties and dis abilities. Colonel SIBTHORP said he would adopt in reference to this measure but one course, and that was the consistent course, and the same that he had pursued in reference to the grant to the College of Maynooth. He did hope that the Hon. Member for Oxford would take a division on his amendment; and here, let him say, that he did think that the Protestant religion was much indebted to that Honourable Member for the manner in which he had defended it. With regard to this measure he would sit down by saying, that he would support the sug gestion of the Hon. Member for Oxford, becauss he feared that to leave the measure of the Right Honourable Baron et unsupported: would have the effect of undermining the Pro testant religion in this country. Captain HARRIS said he quite agreed with many Hon. Members that many of these penal Acts should be repealed ; but at the same time he should oppose the present measure, because he conceived it to be too general a measure. Lord J. RUSSELL said he wished to put a question to the mover of the Bill. He would wish to know whether certain penalties which had been alluded to would be repealed? Mr. ESCOTT said he would be very glad to introduce a clause to the effect of abolishing those penalties, though he believed that in the existing state of the law these penalties could not be enforced.—(Cries of " Divide, divide.") Mr. P. HOWARD said the Hon. Member opposite was mistaken as to the existing law in reference to Jesuits. Mr. B. ESCOTT replied. He said the Bill ow would contain a clause to prevent processions of Roman Ch country, which should have a malicious or offensive eten in den t e h v is . hadHe heard Holi. iinjuriously Members ious contend ought thatt b be other repealed. Acts He affect ing otliepersuasions Billthen proposed and in either case I b f e t a b b e o y l ws abolished; ed reason and for d tftuholelyyt haNevgerreee Acts d either with i which tibesmo obsolete this e i ( u s It or lete, then they were no use, a they should be repealed.— ienadr,olluegahrt to . of "Divide, divide.") were pe i n ,o s u b d t c h r e i n es that was a s tronger withdraw, and i d ed_to f t theirh they ( 66 divided,S tS t rang e rs r h s t when there e t r s h e oc e t r o h e n e a d n p r p o o r e a d a d e r i e r og Against it ... 23 Majority for the second reading —4B MANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, AND GREAT GRIMSBY DIRECT RAILWAY. This Bill was read a second time. OUT-PENSIONERS' PAYMENT (GREENWICIA AND CHELSEA) BILL . Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT moved the second reading of this Bill. Captain PECHELL briefly expressed his dissent from the principles of' this Bill, as its operation was by no means calculated t o b enef i t the interests of, or to give satisfaction to, these yete:eans. It r. SIDNEY HERBERT defended the Bill as a MUNN that would inflict no haAlship on the pensioners, but rather be a means of protecting them. The Secretary-at-War had N - ,‹