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Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Hawkins, Bond-street ; Harris, Lud gate-street; and Stradiing, Royal Exchange. PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MARCH 23. The Royal Assent was given by commission to the Assessed Taxes Bill, the Army Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the Ulebe Land Bill, and several private Bills. The Commis sioners were the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. Several private Bills were brought from the Commons by Air. PITT, Lord STANLEY, and others. The Garden Protection Bill was committed, and received some verbal amendments. One, on the motion of Lord Rose berg, brings under the Bill, gardens surrounded by " close palings" as well as those surrounded by walls. The report was ordered to be made to-morrow.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. ADRIEN, from the Treasury, brought up certain Ac counts relatingto_the Customs. Lord LOWTHER moved for a new writ for the city of Carlisle, in the room of Sir James Graham, deceased. Mr. P. MOORE brought up the Report of the Committee' of the Equitable Loan Bill.—lt was ordered to be engrossed. Mr. S. WHITBREAD presented a petition from the pa rishes of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell, against the Equitable Loan Bill. COLLIER DOCK. Sir J. YORKE, in moving the second reading of the Collier Dock Bill, in the Isle of Dogs, was desirous of observing upon the increase of colliers into the port of London. He would take as a stand of comparison the years 1803 and 1824. In the former year the number of colliers was 4,ooo—in the year 4324 the number exceeded 7,000. This Bill was introduced to sup ply the deficiency of depots for colliers, and to prevent the in convenience of their unloading in the river. Besides, the price of coals would be considerably reduced by a depot of this kind. In 1816 the coals had been so high as Ave guineas a chaldron ; by this depot the supply would be more regular, and the price therefore more even and moderate. Since the reigns of Eliza beth and James due attention had not been paid to this sub ject, and it was one every way worthy the notice of the Legis lature. It was not the object of the Bill to procure any exclu sive privilege for this Company in the Docks they proposed to construct in the isle of Dogs, which might not extend to other Docks. Under these circumstances, he would put it to the House whether this Bill, of the many that were presented to their consideration during this Session, was not peculiarly de serving of support. Lord ALTHORP opposed the BilL He had no interest in it one way or the other, but he would oppose it on the ground of public convenience, and its tendency to increase the price of coals. He would move as an amendment, that this Bill be read again this day six months. Mr. CA LVERT also opposed the Bill on the ground of pub. lie convenience. Mr. CA ',CRAFT said it was not the desireof persons apply.. ing for this Bill to introduce a compulsory clause to oblige col liers to enter this Dock ; they only sought to prevent the inconvenience and nuisance of colliers unloading in the stream of the river. Any objectionable clause might be altered or modified in the Committee, which was the proper place for entertaining it. Sir G. COCKBURN supported the Bill., as he was of opinion that a great public benefit would arise from the removal of the obstruction of the many ships out of the stream of the river, which impeded the tide, and was otherwise attended with in. finite inconvenience. At this period of the discussion the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod summoned the Speaker to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to several Bills. The SPEAKER, after the absence of a quarter of an hour, returned, and stated that the Royal Assent had been given to the Army and Marine Mutiny Bills, and several other Public and Private Bills. The House then resumed, and Sir G. COCKBURN addressed a few words more in support of the Bill. Alderman WOOD supported the amendment, and said. that if the harbour -masters discharged their duty the incon”- niences complained of in the stream of the river would not exist.lt was worthy the att en ti on o f t h e House t h at t h e principal projector of this Bill was a harbour -master, so that the necessity for this Bill gre* out of the neglect of that duty which he. should have performed. If the compulsory clause were struck out, however, ,there would not be, he presuMed, any opposition to the second reading.. Mr, J. SMITH objected to the second reading, on a ground different from those who had already spoken. The I'resident of the Board of Trade had stated; that the exclusive privileges of the London Docks and West India Docks should cease after the term for which they were to enjoy them had expired. This Bill went to create new privileges for docks ; and when the privileges for these docks had ceased, he was unwilling to see new privileges foi other docks introduced. Mr. iS. WORTLEY was advers e to the compulsory clause contained in the Bill. , Sir M. W. RIDLEY stated, that there was a formal objec tion to the clause complained of in the Bill; for it was a private Bill, and the clause would have a public effect, as it would be applicable to all colliers entering the port of London. Besides, the Bill went on a presumption that the navigation of the river required the alterations proposed in the Bill; if the navigation of the river rendered it necessary, it would be better in the first instance to a ppoint a Committee to e xam i ne that fact, before. they'proceoded on the presumption that it was O. He thought the Bill might pass with the exception of the compulsory clause, which had been animadverted upon. • After a few words from Sir S. VIVIAN, the gallery was cleared for a division. The House then divided— For the second reading Against it - - 65 31 Majority - - —34 The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed. SOUTH -LONDON DOCKS. Sir J. BRIDGES presented a petition from St. Mary's and Michael's, Bermondsey, against the South London Docks. MARGATE IMPROVEMENT BILL. Upon the motion for the third reading of the Margate Im provement Bill, Mr. M'ILBRAHAM stated his intention of opposing the Bill, unless a. clause was introduced to retain the Jurisdiction of the Quarter Sessions to Dover. Mr. CA LCRA FT said he would briefly state the object of the Bill. It was to secure to Margate the permanent advantage of Quarter Seasio:is at equal periods. This was secured by re moving the jurisdiction in cases of ariAal from Dover to Can terbury. Car.te.rbury was- only sixteen miles, Dover twenty_ three miles from Margate ; and at Dover Kenrick is the Judge. —(H ear, hear ! ) Sir J. BRIDGES opposed the introduction of the clause. Sir J. NEWPORT complained of the practice of introduc ing of dailies to defeat the object of a Bill at so late a period as the third reading. Mr. WII.BiiAIIA3I explained. The House then .divided— For.the third reading Against it . - 46 - 14 • Majoritif The Bill was then real a third time. B A EQUITABLE AILL. Mr. CALCItAFT presented LO a petition from certain Inhabi tants of the parish of St. James against the Equitable Loan Bill. Ordered to lie on the table. • ---.32 METROPOLITAN WATER-WORKS. A petition was presented from Bethnal-green against the Me tropolitan Water -works. BARING'S DIVORCE BILL. The House then resolved itsel f into a Committee of the whole House on Baring's Divorce Bill, and Counsel were heard, and witnesses examined, in favour of the Bill. The House then resumed. EQUITABLE LOAN BANK. Dr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from the pri soners confined in - the King's Bench and Margialsea, in favour of the Egtiitable Loan Bank Bill.—Ordered to lie on the table. SHIP CANAL. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a petition from Waterford, in favour of the Ship Canal.—Ordered to lie on the table. . Mr. FREEMANTLE presented a petition from the Grand Junction Water.works Company, against the Metropolitan Waterworks. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT presented a petition from the Auctioneers of London and Westminster against the Equitable Loan Bill. Mr. HOBHOlTSE.presented a similar petition from the In habitants of Covent Garden. CATHOLIC BILL. Sir FRANCB BURDETT brought in a Bill for the pur pose of removing the disqualifications under which his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects labour, and moved that it be read a first time. Mr. PEEL said, before the Bill was read a first time, he was anxious to know whether it was drawn up, in conformity with the petition presented by the lion. Baronet on the first of March ? Sir F. BURDETT (as we understood) said the Bill was founded on the Resolution of the House of Commons, the ten dency of which was to consider the propriety of abolishing those oaths by which his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects were precluded from accepting offices under the Crown. Sir T. LETHDRIME said, that although it was not in accordance with the opinion of his Right Hon. Friend oppo site (Mr. Peel), in whom all those who agrreed with him had, or ought to have, the most implicit faith and confidence, still he could not allow even the first reading of this Bill to pass without entering his solemn protest against the principle it con tained, which he conceived to be at variance with the spirit of the Constitution. It would be highly presumptuous in him at that moment to enter into the details of the measure, but he should be deserting his duty if he did not protest against its very introduction. If he could collect rightly what bad been said by the lion. Bart. the Bill was founded on the Reso lution passed some nights since by the House of Commons.— The question was brought forward by the Hon. Member for Westminster with all the force and weight of his peculiar ta lents, and undoubtedly with a degree of candour and judgment most creditable to himself and advantageous to the cause; but it was imposible to shut one's ears to the rumours that were abroad, namely, that a Bill was to be brought down to the House of Commons not founded merely on the resolutions of the House, but containing other principles of the most important .nature. The one related to the suggestion thrown out by the Honour able Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. Croker)—a principle which, although familiar to those who were in the habit of con sidering the question attentively, was still new to the House of Commons—he meant the.establishment of a pecuniary provi sion for the Roman Catholic -Clergy. Public rumour had stated, that there was another province to be mixed up with it, which affected the elective franchise.—(No, no! from Sir Francis Burdett and many Members near him.)—Well. he was glad to know that no such provisions were introduced.— The measure, therfore, he now understood, went only to the alteration of the Test Act —to the omission of certain words, which would have the effect of making that oath palatable to persons professing the Roman Catholic religion. There was, therefore, no objection to it on the ground of any novelty; yet still he felt all the objections which he felt to the principle of the bill, and which he had uniformly avowed, still irremov able. Undoubtedly, on the last discussion, be had heard argu ments of the most fascinating kind advanced in its support, and new and most able views of the question taken by its support ers, but still lie must conscientiously declare, that they were not sufficient to get his assent to such a change in the Constitution. New lights, it was said, were thrown every day upon it, but he regretted that they were not brought into such a focus as to make every body masters of the subject. Roman Catholic Bishops of the greatest talent, of the most profound learning, were, it was understood, examined before Committees of Par liament ; and it was generally rumoured that the effect of their examinations was of a character that would astonish the former opponents of Catholic concession, and trip up not only every objection in that quarter, but actually opinions which it was supposed the Roman Catholics had themselves entertained.— Amongst those examined he (Sir T. Lethbridge) spoke from second hand, was a most Learned Divine and a very emi nent man, Dr. Doyle, the author of certain publications which appeared under the signature of J.K.L. These writings he (the Member for Somersetshire) had read, and he looked upon them as something like the authoritative opinions of that very able and most Reverend Doctor. But now he understood that we were to prepare ourselves for a new system, for an entire change of doctrine. If all that were true, the opposition would rest altogether on new grounds ; and as formerly the ob jection was founded on the religious doctrine of Popery would so far be weakened in its operation. He should not, in the present stage, take the sense of the House on the motion. He felt it his duty to protest against its principle —he admitted that an apparent apathy was manifested out of doors on the subject—(hear, hear, hear from many parts of the House);_ he sincerely regretted it, but he was persuaded that it was not in unison with the true feelings of the country. Mr. Secretary PEEL said :hat he did not wish, in the pre sent stage of the Bill, to provoke any discussion, at the same time that he was anxious to guard himself f rom t h e impres sion, that by not ta ki ng t h e seTseof teas stlethei House in its first stage his opposition was relaxed it w who introduced the Bill , to defer the due , courtesy to these discussion to the secon d reading. Indeed, in this case, it was due t o t h e recorded de sire of that House, because the present Bill was i ntroduced by the Hon. Baronet in pursuance of its resolution and opportunity to state, order.— (Hear, hear !)—He took, however, that principle—that he was prepared that his opinions on the measure remained unchanged —that he should continue to oppose its hear ! )—and that he should, House upon it. , to accept no comprorntsete' t l r i ; sense Ofthe on the second reading, take But if the principle of the Bill were carried, he still trusted that even Honourable Members who supported that principle would attend to the Committee, and attentively discuss it in its de tails. These details would be of the greatest importance, par ticularly when it was notified to the country that the Bill or dered by that House to be introduced, and which was to grant security to the Protestants, was drawn by Mr. O'Connell, the Leader of that very Catholic Association which Parliament had that very Session found it necessary to put down.--( Hear, hear !)—The House would feel it necessary, under such cir cumstances, of minutely attending to the details of th e Bill. Mr. TIERNEY admitted that the conduct of the Right Hon. Secretary (Mr. Peel) was both consistent and candid.-- As one of the Committee selected by that House to introduce the present Bill, he felt himself called upon to say, that the drawing it up was not delegated to any individual whomsoever. For his own part, he most unequivocally assured the House, that with those Gentlemen belonging to the Roman Catholic Body who came to England, he never had one single minute's conversation either on the religious or the political part of the question : he had carefully avoided it. Having assisted in drawing up the present Bill, lie also declared that he did not know or believe that any other Gentleman belonging to those who were employed by that House to prepare the Bill gave any such authority. At the same time he believed that Mr. O'Connell was incapable of stating an untruth—(Hear!)— and the circumstance might be thus explained. Some Gentle men had probably a Conversation on the subject with Mr. O'Connell; and, having heard his views, expressed a wish to have them stated in writing ; but that any real or formed in struction had been given, or that any delegation had been made by those entrusted by that House with the introduction of the Bill, he most positively denied.—(Hear Mr. Secretary PEFL observed, that he had'no other autho rity for his statement but the publication of a letter in the public prints, signed Daniel O'Connell, and which had not since been denied. Lord HOTHAIII (as we understood) stated, that he should not support the second reading of the Bill, unless it provided an allowance for the Roman Catholic Clergy, and altered the elective qualification in respect to the 40 shilling freeholders. Mr. TIERNEY begged to remind the Noble Lord, that the present Bill was introduced pursuant to the Resolution of that House. On the points to which the Noble Lord adverted . no instruction had been given to them. In not coupling them with the present Bill there was no dereliction on their part. Indeed, had they so blended them, they would have acted in consistent with their duty. It was, however, open to any Hon. Member to introduce provisions directed to those objects. The question was then put, and the Bill was read a first time. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT then stated, that after due con sideration, he felt himself bound to fix the second reading for Thursday, the 14th of April next. Mr. ESTCOURT lamented that the Hon. Baronet felt him self bound to persevere in his original intention. The very day on which that great question was fixed, occurred in that one week in the year when country Gentlemen were called upon to attend the Quarter Sessions of their respective counties. That of itself was one reason for delay, and though he himself acquitted the lion. Baronet and the supporters of the measure of any unworthy motive, yet the country at large would be apt to'conclude, if the discussion was pressed on, that it was done so with the view of taking advantage of the absence of those who would have opposed it. It was a measure of that impor tance which should be prepared in the fullest manner, and digested with the greatest care. - No injurious eacts could fol low an extension of tfie time for four days. Mr. SYKBS said, he knew that both from himself and nu merous other Members, various representations had been made j to his Hon. Friend (Sir F. Burdett) to postpone the discussion according to their respective views of convenience; and though no one who knew his Hon. Friend's characieristic disposition to oblige better than himself, yet he felt that it was necessary to adhere to his original intention. As to the Quarter Sessions ) they could, by law, be holden by adjournment. Mr. C. WILSON considered it unwise either to exclude these Gentlemen from the discussion on so momentous a ques tion, or to deprive their respective counties of their attendance at the Quarter Sessions. sHe should move, therefore, as an amendment, that the second reading of the Bill be fixed for the 20th of April. Mr. CALCR AFT expressed a strong desire that they should proceed unanimously ; and as a general feeling was expressed to have the discussion deferred from the first week after the recess to the second, he trusted that his Hon. Friend would accede. It was most unusual, the first day after a recess, to have a Call of the House. Three or four delays in the present state of the Session could not be attended with any inconveni ence in jlie proceedings of the House of Lords. Mr. Secretary PEEL trusted, that the Honourable Baronet, whose whole private life evinced such a disposition to candour and honourable dealing, would feel the necessity of postponing the discussion to such a period as would allow the fullest at tendance. A number or the Irish Members were absent at the Assizes ; they were naturally anxious to be present at the dis cussion. The greater portion of them would most probably take a different side of the question from him (Mr. Peel).— This was at least a proof that he did not seek for delay or any undue impression. The discussion might take place on the Tuesday in the second week after the recess, and the Bill might be committed on the Friday following. All other bu siness could be postponed to that most important question.— (Hear, hear !) Sir F. BURDETT said lie trusted the House would give him credit for a desire to meet the wishes of all parties, with a just view to a sense of public duty. As, however, such a feel ing for further postponment was manifested, lie should comply with it—(hear, hear !)—and lix the second reading for Tues. day, the 19th of April. On the motion of Sir .1. NEWPORT, the Call of the House was fixed for Monday, the 18th of April. Greeme's Divorce Bill went through a Committee, in which Counsel were heard for and againct the Bill. Mr. SYKES presented a petition from the Owners of Ships in Hull, praying that Parliament would adopt means for the vigorous prosecution of the Herring Fishery. Mr. 81 KES moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend- the Act of the 7th and Bth of William 111. c. 6, relative to the re covery of Small Tithes and Ecclesiastical Dues. The Hon. Gentleman observed, that by the existing law, although a Cler gyman was authorised to bring his claim for tithes under 101. before two Magistrates for decision, yet it was prOvided that neither of those Magistrates should be the Patron of the living. It sometimes happened, however, that in a parish there were not more than two resident Magistrates,of whom one was the Patron of the Living, and the object of his Bill was to remedy the in convenience thereby created. Mr. D. GILBERT confessed that he was not quite satisfied as to the merits of the Honourable Gentleman's proposition, and recommended that at least permission should be granted by the Bill to remove the claim for the consideration of the Magistrates of any neighbouring district. Mr. SYKES replied, that he meant so to frame the Bill, that it should be open to the.partiea to adopt the course recommended by the Honourable Gentleman. Leave was then granted to bring in the Bill. Sir J. YORKE presented a petition, for the 16th time, from the brother of a Lieutenant Eyre, who, in the year 1781, had captured booty to the amount of a million sterling, at a Dutch settlement in the East Indies, of zhich, however, he had been immediately afterwards dispossessed by a military force be longing to the East India Company, complaining that the claim of his brother upon the Company in consequence, amounting to between three and four hundred thousand pounds, had never been paid, although allowed by the Treasury, and praying for redress. Mr. HUME observed, that it was very extraordinary that a claim which had been so long agitated had not yet been set at that if he had been apprised of the rest in some way or other; There were many other cases of petition, be would have. pre paredprize-money in which the captors had not yet received their Just demands. himself on the subject. Of course he, could not be l intention r supposed to know any thing about it • without previous in quiry ; but it did not appear to him likely that a claim which .llE to ßß pr l e E se S nt sa s i bi d e , h had been resisted far above forty years rested on any very strong foundation. After a few. words from Sir F. ra N.MIVIANNEY and Mr. ForinES. the petition was ordered to lie on the table. . Mr. BERRIES brought in a Bill to repeal and amend the Quarantine Laws, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. Dir. BERRIES gave notice, in the n a m e of his Rig h t Hon. Friend the Chief S cr etary for Ireland, that on the 15th of Friend would move the 31 6 u April his Right lion. Irish •ce a neous Estimates in the Committee of a upp i v. The other Orders of the Day were then - ai sime d of, and the House adjourned. POPERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - - Sin—The partizans of the present Govern ment have, it is true, little need to stoop from their triumphant eminence to look at the strugglingS Of what would be Opposition : strugglings which are but the convulsions of advancing death, ai which occasionally inform us that the appirently lifeless mass before us still retains a solitary spark of animation. If Opposition had but one life, •it would be only due charity not to molest her expiring agonies )vith unseasonable expo sures : but as she is an Hydra, it may not he amiss even now to spew her in her true colours, and put on their guard those well-intentionitd per!ons, wlio may yield themselves during some of her future lives, if not to her violence, yet to her sophistry. Read the following paragraph which appeared in the Chronicle : " With respect to the paying the Irish Catholic Clergy by the State, the measure has our decided approbation. We are certain that the public money never was laid out on a more de sirable object than the one in question. OF COURSE, roe should prefer paying them out of the excessive Revenues of the Irish Protestant Church ; hut we cannot obtain that object at present, and there is no reason why we should decline a benefit because it might still be made more extensive. Pay the Catholic Clergy, by all means; nay, pay them well. The part of the plan of which we least approve is the alloWing the clergy to take any fee at all from their flocks. We would much rather that they received at once so much froiaa the State as to leave them no pretext for taking any fees ; and, having thus freed them from the necessity of receiving any thing from their flocks, the Legislature might prohibit all fees, oblations, &c. under a severe penalty. At present the Catholic Priest has a direct interest in promoting marriages, and other wise adding to the misery of the people. The Scripture says, the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, and Catholic Priests being men, have, of course, their share of the failing of humanity. However anxious they may be for the spiritual welfare of their flocks, it is natural that they should have an eye occasionally to their own temporal welfare. God forbid that we should say that many Catholic Priests do. not act in the most disinterested manner, but in reasoning with regard to whole classes of men, we must consider the motives which are likely to weigh with the majority. That a better ar_ rangement than that which has been announced might be de. vised we are sufficiently aware; but if the best arrangement cannot be obtained, that is no reason why we should reject the best which we can obtain, more especially when almost any arrangement of the question will be a benefit to the country. The fact is, that THE GRAND DIFFICULTY BEGINS WHEN EMANCIPATION IS OBTAINED. IF AFTER SUCH AN EVENT YOU SUOULD GO TO MUNSTER AND TELL TIM SLAVING PEASANT HE IS NOW EAIANCIPATED, WHEN THE FIRST FEELING OF JOY SUBSIDES, FIE WILL STi lIIIVISELY SURROUNDED BY THE SAME MISERY BY WHICH HE IS AT PRESENT SURROUNDED. But though Emanci pation cannot relieve the distress of the poor peasant, it re," moves out of the way a subject, the agitation of which serves to keep us from the consideration of the great evil. It is of the utmost moment that the attention of the public should not he withdrawn from the consideration of the social malady, by dis putes which must be terminated before we can think of the steps which are to be taken, either with regard to a cure, or the ascertaining that the malady is beyond the skill of the poli tical phystrian." On this, I wish to make a very few remarks. First then of all, we have the great organ of that party which calls itself Liberal adopting the creed of a man whose unprincipled rejection of every moral and legal obligation they themselves have so often denounced—who would have com pelled the country to adopt his own pernicious example, and defraud the public creditor. The Liberal of the Morning Chronicle would coolly pillage the Irish church to enrich the Papists How would he like his arguments to be applied to his own case, and be told that it was a great pity Parliament did not seize the miserable profits of his own dirty vocation, and appropriate them to the interests of some Constitutional paper, as yours for example ? Certainly, this would be in all respects as fair and honourable as the case which this Liberal gentleman regrets to his ever lasting infamy. The next circumstance which strikes us in this remarkable passage is, the manner in which; the scribbler speaks of the Popish clergy. On all occasions, where foreign politics are to be treated of, the Popish clergy always receive their share of abuse at his hands, becaZ•• , e, on MOSt casions, they take part with existing govertnnentc. In the present case, however, our hero knows his men, and therefore" the public money never . Was lai out on a more desirable object than the one [that] in question." This total want of honour anthconsistency is followed up by an instacce of imbecility, whitb can only be accounted for by the adage:— Quos Jupiter ♦ult perdere, deuieutat prius. What shall we think of an advocate of" Catholic Emancipation," who, at such a crisis as this can breathe the incontestible, but fatal, truth, that " the .grand difficulty begins when Emancipation Is obtained ?" But " fas est et ab• hoste Nothing can be more essentially true than what this clumsy bungler has let out ; and let ,us not be cajoled throUgh our zeal for the improve ment of Ireland into a measure, which, by the con fession of its own advocates, is so far from adapted to the end in view, that it is only the beginning of difficulties. Surely the people of England will require something more to induce them to resign the securities of their church and Constitution, than the arguments of a deliberate advocate of robbery—who tells them, at the same time, their concessions will do no good. BRITANNO.