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al .......1...0 .--- , Dardeent and aspiring. He did not think that, when the Roman ' Gentleman touse, when in oppposition, passions with which he l'i,dic priesthood were better educated, they would be mote had not the slightest sympathy, and prejudices which he ikely to give their acquiescence to the possession of half a mil- disavowed.—( Renewed cheering.) When a htharete a thin hy the Protestant cletgv, while they themselves got ne- salutary change—took place, his former coadjutors were o. l _ F. He expected to hear from the Right Hon- Gentleman &sots d— ( Cheers) his supporters were disregarded the alenaber for Newark (Mr. Gladstone) . some powerful emu- (Cheers) —and the ladder by which he had risen to power __Fats on this s u bj ect , hut though he 'gave him credit for the was thrown down.—( Gi eat cheering.) That has been the motives whi c h actuated him, he confesses) he was di‘aPpointed course of tie! Right. lion. Baronet.—(Cheer , . ) I will not at the result of his speech. Be was afraid that, if this rnea- new go ,aver the events ot eighteen years. I will not say what sure passed, others still more alarming wenn follow ; and if so. °yew ., eil in 1 .27 or 1829. —( Great cheering.) I will only 13e believed that the nolumus fp fano mtri of the Irish say that one sea change was enough for one such Minister. e i; 'Y th ee . 4 'lnman Catholic clergy would 1 e ' converted, by an (Cot tinned cheeerine. ) lie and those with whom he acts , ennow alteration, j intot•olurnos epi s ) co p ar i,_( H ear , hear. ) return again to that ::curse.—( Hear, hear.) I will not now eo aside th-eay' equal claims as I regret thorn, by which the would b eti Meynnieli. an the Disoniters of the country , int, he eircam tanctes, much neon tla it literality. They had cost Government of Lord •lettieurne w.,s overthrown. I will only Principle, and ' coudd on; refuse then no the sh Ping ' ask, was there ever a single body ot men who relied on the aside of expediency. Put the '- Right r Hon. B aronet should ni g h t in ce ,. B,reriet whim he his not again and again bitterly a wing forward proofs that the present meaeire was expedient, , disappointed ?—( Cries of " Na, no," and cheers. ) Well, then, B a r y o n n n 1 then he wan bound toshow that the argument, of ex- I leave the management of this question to the landed gentry. t edieney was a justifiable one The Bila , Honourable i —(Cheers, and loud laughter.) I must refer however to this, Meant neottisihould also clearly define the length g to which he ' that the clamour which did the most injery to the G vernment 111 to go in concessions of this nature—whether the of Lord Melbourne was the cry of "No Popery."—(Cheers.) grant was to stand alone or be accompanied Now, what is, the statement we hear to-night from the Hon. phi other such concessions. After the manner in Gentleman the Member for Donegal, that he supports , the ch the the measure had been received by Mr. O'Connell, measure upon principle, but does any man believe . that . if my it , organ of the people of Ireland, he could not wonder that Noble Friend beside me had brought in this Bib, tis: people of England were displeased at it. That Hon. Gen • it would not he Mewed by the whole of that t alnan said it had been exto tal b eitation and as long as Honourable Gentleman's ploy ?—(Loud cheers.) Four aieitcaeissrti?lished Church remained in a PrelaneL , there would be years ago a very different Bill was brought in, the oh - a ton of that agitation. 'The Protestants abstained . from ject of which was to disfranchise the Catholics of Ireland by Church' repeal solely because of their love of the Established tens of thousands, but the party which then supported the "v ay over ; but if once this bulwark were overthrown, English ' Right Hon. Gentleman represented the Bill as calculated to R oe. _lreland would be uncertain and precarieus. The do the greatest. good, and to purge the House of Commons of reeh_aalember concluded by saying he would oppose the the minions of Popery.—( Laughter.) We asked you to wait -111r.5e. to let it go to the next session. No, no time must he lost; ae to f o ld ACAULAY rose and said—Sir, I have no intention the thing must be done immediately. The change took pl a ce. ' o w the Hon. Gentleman who last sat down into the di.- You have now been four years in power—you could have passed cussin n of th e e . an amendment which really has nothing to do with the Rill, if you pleased, and when yo . u . pleased. Where is it ani te ' ll uu lect under the consideration of the Houses—Meer.) now ?It is flung away—it Is positivly pronounced by its exp eer mY Hon. Friend the Iliereber for Sheffield thinks it author to he so destructive to the representative system that no tas _l ent to propose to us his motion on the subject which he Government could venture to carry it on.—(Cheers. ) What kaeaoften introduced to the notice of the House. I may per_ have you given instead? A Bill for the endowment of Maynooth. oi : sr. equire the indulgence of the House whilst I offer my opi- —( Great cheering.) Did any one ever see such a tour of yet : At Present it is sufficient for me to explain my legerdemain ?—( Cheers and laughter.) You imposed on the . I can the second reading of this Bill, and I think honest, hot-hea led Protestants; they looked on your Bill with I ca - n -n ot do better that ', to review as rapidly as delieht, and see what you have given in its place.—( Cheers. ) ar th e l' ate ll r the objections which have been urged in and out of Do you wonder, then, at the clamour that deafens you ? against them. I think these objections for the (Cheers.) Do you wonder that petitions come upon the table the fir.t p , rt i may be ranged under three distinct classes. In as thick as snow-storms.—( Cheers.) Is it a wonder when for not 4.1 Ace, a large body of persons who it would seem did the very measures of concessam which you opposed when we prop c , ett ' . now object to the grant to Maynooth, object to the were in office, yon now whip your unwilling followers to the 'P e ctabl e ' C i rc a". There is a second class, a large and re- vote.—(Cheers and laughter.) Is it any wonder that Fuse th e ‘ , Y, who object to any grant whatsoever. They op-. those ferocious spirits whom you roused to harrass us are n o t' u g ie r s, a , n t,aa well as the increase. The • conceive that we should now torment yourselves?—(Cries of " Hear, hear. ) 'lll. 1 --"" as individuals or a Government in so orting the Do you wonder that Exeter Hall sets up its bray—( Laughter ) for th e M ust say th at my o pi n i on is, that they PP who voted and that Mr. MsNeil proclaims that the priests of Baal are he 26,(fT 3i r of 9 ,000 L, are bound to ;tee for the higher grant feasted at the table of Jezebel?—( Great cheering and laughter.) "in keg ' and 1 shall be s u r p r i se d, th oug h it ma y no t If you thought that, having raised the spirit of religious ani for t h e ,ping with Parliamentary tactics, that those who vote mosity, you could lay it as speedily as you raised it, you will nforerntehiepi9entohul. this year should vote against it next. To the be doomed —the day of reckoning mst still come, and that day ttano ot 0 d i any Public erant Ido most decidedly object, but I has now come. The Right Hon. Baronet, as a public man, erstand on what principle they art who, while voting is arraigned before the House and the country, to show . us sak e of ,000/., object to ay increaseof ' that rant for the some real principle with respect to Irish affairs which has andersta ay o ae reeti fYing the errors - of which they complain. They guided you in office and opposition. Show us how, if you are lu g a &et to the claim of the Catholic Church, as be- honest in 1845, 3ou could have been honest in 1841. Ex durch teaching a system of error, but I cannot plain to us how after,. when out of . office, you goaded . Ex hen how they can object to an increase of Ireland into madness, in order to ingratiate yourselves with i kper tnt w h ie , a Parliament has yearly voted for the England, you now in place turn round and throw England P er i, t development of a principle which that same into a flame, in order to ingratiate yourselves with Ireland. Let reeyl:_lneht has year by year allowed and advocated. You es hear some argument showing to us that, as a Minister, you have once thit establishment as teaching errors, but if you are entitled to support which will not equally show that you rit e , as " voted for its support, you cannot at least condemn its were the most factious and unprincipled Opposition that ever 111)1101dt_ su perstitious.—( H ear , hear.) You may shrink from this country produced. 'These are my opinions respecting the ao, y en 'g re Maynooth i n a ll its ncient splendour, but if you do conduct of Ministers. But. am I, therefore, to answer the ap ear„ at least bound to prnvide it with the means of Ivote against Peal of the Hon. Ifl,rr.ber for Shrewsbury, and l oo n mut.hat splendour into effective exercise.—( Hear, hear. ) this Bill? Not so. I believe both the Bill and the Minister to be th at to haL not give to the able and effective minister of t ru th, in our hands. The inconsistency of the Minister has certainly You e ,."lch you would be ashamed to offer to your groom. produced mischief, but will that mischief be lessened if incon that who called upon to make a grant which is worse th an sistency is to be displayed on this side of the House ? which it to h oe I" You give to the Irish common soldier. You expe c t that this Bill in itself—and the circumstances under _it is pi g , sho,r homestead calm, and yet you are anxious th a t th e brought in by the Tories, or whatever they call themselves— Repel to u ts' rejoice in their stye. If you do really desire to do will Produce many evils, but these evils would, in my opinion, question the Catholic Church, why nco do so effectually—why be doubled, if it were to be rejected by the Whip,. and, there ready , the propriety of giving 26, 000 /- when you have al- fore, it seems tome it would turn the opinion of this House into Port tgiven 9,0001. for th e same object ? If Yon are to sup- one vast shipwreck, as well as the whole public character of them 'Man Catholi c es t a blishment resPec'ahlY, at leant England. It has, therefore, induced me to restrain b i n . the means of obtaining that respectabilit y w i t h out my fe e lings, and I have determined to give to this Bill i ratuedia re t G e 4 rll dePendent en the-matterour w ill or the capi lee of a through all its stages my most steady . support, ent, and if . (si . ivernment which may ter e and instant consideration. Do you exaect that a appear to me likely to make Great Britain and Ireland a freely thi t tus tt like this . is to be counted as a matter of course? D, sem united kingdom. I give such support regardless of all obloquy think oat this is to move as a matter of course? Do you arid at the ri-k of losing my seat in Parliament. The obloquy tl that thishigh and holy work is' , he promoted as a master so ren-ed I shalt look upon as glory. My seat in Parliament I you r Yis-the cultivation of this 20,600 . individuals?' You ' ' have shall resige. ~ rid eon-i ter it no igimminious tender, feeling a'. mdrailloble cathedrals and lofty windows, your stain e d g l ass cured that I could never lose it in a m o re hnnourab'e cause. your affluent appliances, to make your religion ho nour - —( The Hon. Member resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. ) 4ble jacttpresent, and useful for the future. I have no desire to restr Mr. SHAW confessed that he did not sufficiently rid r ore it is that. I support a lher e f th e Principleof endowing established communities an d from the hirer part of the observations made by the lb& Bill which. like this, is ' mo st Hen. Gentlemen as to render it necessary for him to trouble I t il e k _ el Y e to secure the welfare of the lower classes. It is well the Howe with wit? lengthened reply to them.—(Heas, hear.) rn •l e u s w t t .h a t the conduct of the universities i n thi s country i s He need not, therefore, assure the House that it Wa% his pain genii:4lY to excite the sense of injustice with which the ful duty to oppose those with whom he had all along co-ope- Yoe hf s of Oxford and the sizars of Cambridge are i mp li cate d, rated. It was truly painful to him to do so, but if he were not mend, e your Margaret of Anjou, Your Margaret of Rich. to support the amendment of the Hon. Member for Newcastle. t he You have your founder, of colleges ; an wat a result he should be acting contrary to the dictates of hi! own con et t h e a rrive at? You come to the end of the story ; y ou arr i ve ac;enee. He was in Ireland when a copy of this Bill, and the 0,„ the that all your royal colleges have to be supported speech of his Right Hon. Friend the First Minister of the t ; e ' principle of Dotheboys Hall. There was it is true, a con- Crown, was received, and he had no recollection of anything 'act With the Irish Parlament, but how was that contract having given more pain —such deep distress to the Protestants a v er e fulfilled? By a di sregar d of all principle, a shirking of of Ireland—as did both the Bill and the speech. In using obligation, e a w nd ho an ob. u e tter contempt t for equity and truth , the term Protestants he did not mean the men to whom the There ar som , g i yant to Maynooth, on the Right Hon. Gentleman had just alluded, and whose petition A Principle that it is entirely n t e t edies e s t om its entire exoneration was presented the other night b the Honourable tem- L f rom all claims of social and civil oli r these will onlyd norber tor d i u lnattorough. He disapproved of their language, ey, what is the difference betweeny• 9 , 0001 . represent their sentiments, but he_ 5 4 °,000/ ? I must come to the point as to what doctrines eer will eri spoke of calm, dispassionate, and reasonable men, many of e u e Preached by the Church of Rome, and lam satisfied that whom had all their lives been friend s t o the political equality of do es will be made upon her that she tea c h es error . If s h e th e i r R oman C athol i c b rethren. Like the Hon. Member for teach such errors it is plainly evident that those Newark, they looked upon this grant as the first religious t r tors are the result of the system which has in this country endowment of the sort since the revocation of the Roman Ca that" imposed upon her ; and it should further be remembered tholic establishment in connexion with the State. They re set; .in the inculcation of truth there is an obli ga ti on , i n garded it as a c l ear i n di ca ti on thet henceforward Ireland was not t L . a .e instances, far above the law, and that inculcati on wou ld to be treated as a n i n t egra l p ort i on o f th e U n i te d Ki ng d om.— ao , e e r v l ere, one to appreciate his position in th e soc i a l c i rc l e, (L aug ht er .) Th ey regar d e d i t as t h e h eav i est bl ow that had Which ahle him to arrive at a point, if he could arrive a' all, in ever been struck either by foe or by friend to the Established ch i d ed. " doubts should be resolved and hi s h es i tat i on b e con- Church of Leland. The Right Hon. Gentleman the M em b er f or !elan / , _,Yzee have heard something of Church extension, and Edinburgh first attacked the arguments of those who did not linait s , I Z il e to see that extension promulgated to its utmost object to the grant, but objected to its increase. He (Mr. ~..e same time repudiate whatever errors there may Shaw) was one of those. Hitherto be had looked upon the b " in the What / e __ e k.: ll . urch of Rome, and acknowledge my fealty to grant with the greatest possible indifference. He thought it of E va n ive to be the despotic Government of the Church a doubtful policy to continue it, but he also felt it was impos eat, / "u* Yet while acknowledging this despotic govern- sible to to take it away without bringing upon many indivi - Whi r l, ca nnot, at the same time, appeal against those powers duals whose support depended on it, very great pecuniary ern wow render any Government the conservators of barrassment. He however agreed with the Hon. Member for litt9brol't morals. With respect to the errors of the Church of Newark, that no compact existed upon this subject, but he l e . li . gio n ' e v i r e l ,ili_he_g to say that I prefer that there should be the altogether differed from those who said there was no distinc en 1 thi e ,'_",e, church of Rome rather than no religion at all, Lion between the proposed and the past grant. On the contrary, at e of tbat while that religion is acknowledged, it is a there was an obvious distinction. The Right lion. Gen leman reli ll . , t n i t ` eo : w he b t State to support it in its integrity . , next alluded to the objections of those who opposed the grant are . you to do which may conduce to their on the ground of religion. Now, he would at once declare, etli gla na ben e e a t ‘ 4 of ea ,, t , ' Will any man, after the last twenty years that he totally repudiated the doctrine of the Honourable and ,hi give arlence, think, that by keeping away this grant, you Learned Member for Bath, because he did not think it was just ik s so, it z i pul se 'to the Protestant religion ? It any man or right to say Parliament or the country could make no dis tak h e o ug h t t o vote against the present mea- tinction between two religions. True, they did not make any t ' o li qn re si - - oet T i e o a u r ) . But Ido not think so.—(Cheers.) The practical distinction, but unless they admitted the power of man i Pro o ,, e 5 Which I have stated satisfy me ; and, although to make some distinction latitudinarianism would usurp a: hett e r r slt error is not my wish, what I say is, that I think the place of the real and established religion.—( Hear, hear. ) ilrde sheen at Christianity with any form is better than the en- The Hon. and Learned Gentleman said that he treated that onet of religious i t ' us ruction.—( Hear, hear. ) Although argument with . contempt. It might be so. They had the aPProve of os:. peo,i. 'other lit th e _ , e that form, which has a strong influence highest authority for saying that it was not to the scribe or the tl it l qt in an i'vli of Ireland, yet I think that if we disputant of this world that these things were made plain ; hut way provide for the religious instruction of this he might say, that it was sufficiently intelligent to the I re et poop It le better to confer upon them this boon, even in moral sense of the community that their religious feeling was t ie: i n ltliele error.—(Cheers.) I think that there is great violated. When he heard Englishmen at this time of the day Re ee r r ch of argument against the State endowment of the saying that there was nu difference between truth . and religion, ti nes al rule, ,l i ne. Yet I think that if that is to he taken as a he would ask why was it part of the Constitution that the ((la a PIAY tO n ! argument in favour of the voluntary system reigning Sovereign of this realm must be a Protestant ? Why k er s.) p I 'S ease, which ought to be an exception.— was it that Protestantism was by law established in every por pean_Qns, e c a. _ ° __v in that island, with a population of eight tion i f the empire ? The Hon. Member for Newark let fall an sil — "Sea a ".ur.ch With a population of little more than 800.000, expression the other night, that he could not understand what was °t ie s tuition of revenue—the income of its archbishops indicated by the term Protestantism, and that there were l 'ale e au eedine for ts Ine, i n t o 70 ,000 T.—( Hear, hear.) You have at the many who repudiated that term. He (Mr. Shaw) would not fikh. (Hear n . e north of Ireland, an endowment in another enter into any logical arguments with his Honourable Friend th e :Irth s of ' ,tear. ) But you have in the back ground, the Member for Newark, but he thanked God that the name all t r . tate aes le 'lle population, without any assistance from of Protestantism was yet intelligible to the understanding and is, ue origi,nnear, hear)—and theirs is the religion for which dear to the hearts of Englishmen.—( Hear, hear)—and whe at/1,41,e gaite4',entdowments were intended.—(Cheers.) This ther it be through the Romanism of ecclesiastics or the want af te - u r gst o , he ' r nY Itself. I was astonished to hear Gentlemen of fixed principles on the part of their political leaders, used the el l : '! 4 sin g i t ,.,he Hon. Member for Shrewsbury —say that, for the purpose of alienating the affections of the people of Eng eadta:un of,k e ul l e measure, it would be impossible to resist land from the Church, and shaking their confidence in the )oft th !nent,...._,wesleyan Methodists of England to a similar Government, they would forget the true meaning and forsake " th et ' u _k so, es h e tieo h ear, hear," from the Tory benches.) Well, the cause of Protestantism, then in his soul h e believed .k,r! ~7 th e 81 1._ r : hear ) But are the case , analogous ? that the days of England . as a nation . would tri ee l a reen miteionntest resemblance?—( Hear, hear.) There bo numbered, and the glories of this !wintry 'et y millio ns $ of people in Great Britain—are there departed for ever. though they should not, for Christianity toe a ° ,n_laa ee a c ,, of . Wesleyan Methodists?—( Cheers. ) sake, persecute for conscience sake, on the other hand they I, gait._ nurch In Ireland, with a revenue of a million should not encourage that which they believed to be erroneous. t s *m e Y"nt have th e ~ nt...... w , , b the Presbyterian Church, with a State He should make no objection now, if this Bill did no more than gre et nall ewera u L_ e Wesleyan (Methodists have 100,000/. left. relax the statute of mortmain. And, after all, it was only a Nol- n f 26,00n5 . ° ! John Wesley, and you exclaim against a compact which was entered into by an Irish Parliament; and We; Pop li n,' for educating the clergy of four-fifths of the never ti:l now ,. hail a national inconsistency been committed by e ee _ vse and odists and I shall know how t (e lh; "44 ll'eit'i7n.—(Cheers.c Bring me the case of . the the English t h overhrnen 7 e must say. Government h also a national sin—of N a t In t n ° , a lau g i: . . o deal with it.— endowing a Catholic seminary, for the sole exclusive purpose ) But here is a . case which could not of teaching the Roman Catholic religion. An analogy had teal situ at g l and, in France, or in Prussia, nor in any comatry been attempted, by taking the case of a Protestant landlord wiit in ed li ke Ir , 1 po 4 tile Case e o ar f eds— a (Hear, hear.) It could be and a Roman Catholic tenant. He (Mr. Shaw) was of opinion '-- wer t more (Pt- e : enable weaker country connected that a Protestant landed proprietor should give the utmost Powerful one, which has abused its facility to his Roman Catholic tenant, for the free exercise o rsi t ;, 4.) ti !he minority to triumph over the majority,of his own religion, but he was not bound to give direct en thersog li ke eskaynig placed Ireland in such a position as this— couragement to that which he believed to be contradictory. t een ;Nat wul eh could • - exist elsewhere —and whilst those He thought he saw the Member for Roscommon in his place ; h'iti a h anti t hink it in that country exist and are perpe- they both d ffered in religion and politics, taut there was no 44 0( 0 , 3, it es impossible for • al ly a •,(:)00 n Catholics by you to meet the case of the person in who:e hands he would more readily place his ho t°l44d°Weei t° t he grant alreacl saying,whee you are asked to nour or . his life. On a . question of religion,. however, he would . conceded—" We are against not deprive him of a single right which he (Mr. Shaw) him oe, „settlerlt at al l."—(Chee y r ) The • question may remain self possessed. He (the Member for Roscommon) said that Ille 11 • wh at at a future stage ,( Cheers. ) is this endowment to they should treat the Roman Catholics as they themselves go into hat t i lac t e i l t hot f unds ar therost appropriate ?—(Cheers.) would desire to be treated, but he did not think that it would e° ._ seem. to now.—( Hear, hear.) In the first increase their friendship if one of them gave direct encourage ihthe'qrapie • be perfec_tly c l lear, that if you have inconsistency to the religio . n of the oth.er, his cooduct. The fir prone i tt ;'_,llin e t It seemshu can have none against the ciple which was violated was this, that while they were increasing q tedie° t nairitai t° me+ in i:?ties ide als desist ne voluntar •' . • • - • the next place ins- funds for the aid of the Roman Catholic religion, they were h e et all t o • ) principle, unless the State diminishing the funds for the education of the Protestants, by i, ree or _ o r mai give endowments for religious pur- making a transfer of the rates to the incomes of the clergymen. et r adolite .believertsoanbye ll t ßiou s e ' when effort s for the propagation of truth. While they were increasing the buildings of the College of * ill k ni t andowed,"antl'e case of a country in which other Maynooth, the Ecclesiastical Commissioner , were refusing to th ero ha lato,atleft without tte religion which the majority of repair the churches for want of funds. These things were not ta,iitsfet.e, that, anornaly.b_es ( t, and which alone they unobserved, arid could not be unfelt ; for his own part, he was assistance, I consider the case one at a loss to kno what had been the inducement which bad led Hear s hear.) I think, her Majesty's Government so to do violence to the feelings of this 02T from every motive, we are bound to thousands and tens of thousands who sign the petitions which ; i tis t . 4. ) --oeession to the h Roman Catholics of Ireland.— nightly crowded the table against the Bill. He was sorry to the h. measure itself . th e ci t e hi t st et '. B of objections chief observations I had to hear the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Edinburgh But there describe them as mere paper and parchment. The strong feel thlP"aiirellight °I the wtch have been forced upon us. ing of England and Scotland was opposed to this measure. The kelt n ut ti wit h it debate, we were called on to resist Hon. Member the Secretary for Ireland stated that there were k ik''' . ( 1 1 ') 3° Wi th peril was brought forward b men who very few petitions from Ireland. But of all the petitions Ilet i l hrot t ear, hear., enal honour or with creditpublic which did from II d I e which was in favour of as to ut b ghtf or , er 1 We have heard the same argument • the 13111 was that alluded to by his Hon. Friend opposite, the t ea 1. re aeh , . ard. But I think this is a question which should Member for Perth, which came from a congregation of Die tinie 3 ,1 1. t Into conside ' tliZe. ta Id be weighed ration. Ido not think that the senters, as a kind of token of gratitude to the Right Hon. e th e ban ,e e , e ail OctcontY y consideration of party, with Baronet. The Hon. Gentleman then alluded to the quota iat t cold tof public 'lt )' he Pass e s . , have e a , good laws, and that • men, I think it right tions made by the Right Hon. Gentleman the „ Member ... for t`erl 1 thi nk -- m PrinCiple s public men should Newark from the speech of Mr. O'Connell— ehlet rne. Shand ' ..."( Loud and continued cheer- thank you ; the Con P ciliation-hall is obliged to yAoogitaßtioenpe,al ti, 'I , e s .'Ples B at poi hri ange of that it should not a • ear_ seem to have and Maynooth ought to pray for you." The Hon . Gentleman th e se en in o i ee to be .guidedoby those fixed said that this measure was chiefly important on a . ou . nt . of least i tt „tner ea desir a m e tt a n d. in be _ m ta m t e h n e se wo Ch rl e d e t r h s.2 principles which it involved. He was of the cam e o 0, 4 `,,1 ta, tali chic ui s t l i tatn should protru P side of the had been very strongly asserted on the other 0 _ !le k `,'ealie t . aa t k is l e nen._( Cheers ce d e . , pinion. I complete chango House, but it was very faintly shadowed forth on the par not ititttee with ,e needs an an counter- cheers. ) her Majesty's Ministers, who had gone too far, or no Y argument to (od a. ith thh ~ ote g ood, anti it prove that if the far enough. They had excited the fears and the li e Ttee rl i it sest V o °r s m iio e a r i may yet be viewed in con- Protestants of Ireland, which they could not easily appease, conduct and professions of those who and they had excited the hopes of the Roman Catholics with 41 1: .e sta Yet them in• • of Pt he e , ° ur cou rse is Public estimation.— this Bill, which he did not believe they intended to realise. tt th e th e m sand the r n „, or e t e ar• We are to distinguish Before he sat down, there was one other point to which he )11 1e Nto kithors asu re for it e s .-s a ( Cheers.) We ought to would wish to advert. He would wish to remind the House sated :Iliti-ollii:2-eceIrt: I N ti r te e v i fo tts the we might s p e ak in merits, whilst and the Government that they were" now touching on very f in such forms of tender and dangerous ground.—( Hear.) There were very few tt, hie Pent t atulai h censure, I feel bo or.—(Hear, hear.) thinking men connected with Ireland, whatever their political to _ y man to speak.—( Hear.) I opinions might be, who did not labour under the impression th i N te „ at th e o htl_,avose : a i n elie n v , and the .political hostility that their country had long been treated more as a colonial des N i l la tlaa great tteuealtlficattons of an excellent the l Right Honourable pendency than as an integral portion of the British empire.— A ti i t eter en ' i hat h e ! i : Or finance, andeefo p ea i t b est nati„ to 4 great industry g e ntillinister—that he ( Hear, and cheers from the Opposition.) So convinced were fince4:°llciteyasi" therret management of they of this fact, that they were all compelled to admit that 41)4 o ....p l antte r fo rr Y "n the Gotseor nowledge, and a "Divide et Impere" had been the maxim by which thoy had t , t a, i.t. r the interest thefnmet of the country long been governed.—(Cheers.) Yes, party against party bad ” led ea e Pi te r o ar. 1 o , nii ti expe r i , But I cannot d Crown and the been too long the only rule in that country.—(" Hear, hear, li e de e , to p,„ ence, a ~.deny that those who, in , from the Opposition.) The only rule then understood in >i (Great wer, nnvi eona time have trusted him and variably was, the party of the Government against its oppo tea at cheerio find themselvesipssaibleeetuouddetimei de-knelt th i isnents ; and its present state did not much differ, because it was . habit s of the Ri h y i as i now the Government party so divided from side to side that g t Honourable it might be called the Government divided against itself.— use, but the cur d t Jerv a- • 0 . • lc al c i ` t e e et? , e M a ri , hth e e re' he Cari ' a u el , e w e , !e ar --(' a ce of it, e , Of a 0 he bu il ' gi TO 'Ca S N , LONDON, TUESDAY MOR NING, APRIL 15, 1845. (" Hear, hear," from the Ministerial side.) But, of late, too many attempts bad been male by those who ought to have been the last to make them, to scatter the minds of such men from the right directien, and distract their intellects, to such an ex tent, that they were now almost incapacitated from compre hending the evil consequences of sech a system.—( Hear, hear. ) The national character of Irishmen had been deteriorated, and their public spirit had become almost extinct.—(" Hear "from the Opposition. ) Their unpolitical interests had been lost sight of—their noble resources forgotten or neglected—their poor laws, their every public institution neglected or laid aside— their position as a nation lowered, and their honour sacrificed to measures of imperial policy.—( Loud cheers from the Oppo sition. ) Even the last remnant of royalty left them, their Lord. Lieutenant, had become so great an object of inferiority that it k ad nearly cea.ed to dazzle—( Hear, hear)—and the Castle of Dubin was now very little better than a registration court for the behests of the Home-office of this country.— (" Hear, hear," from the Ministerial benches.) Then he would say let the British Government and the Imperial Legislature beware lest they at length form the Irish nation into one great bond of union for the expression of a general feeling of dis content.—( Hear, hear.) For those reasons that he bad offered, and not wishing to trespass longer on the House, he would give this measure his most cordial opposition. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT hoped the House would not think it presumptuous in him, at this late hour of the night, if, on account of the speeches he had heard, he should endeavour to convey, in as few words as possible, his reasons for voting fer this measure. But he did conceive it was his duty to say a few words in answer to the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Edinburgh, and also that of the Member for Dublin, on the measure now before the House, and at the tenor of which he was perfectly astonished. The Hon. Member for Edinburgh, in his speech, which, like all others that fell from him, was brilliant in language and powerful in argument, had adduced many reasons which he (Mr. Herbert) conceived were reasons for passing this measure.—( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had shown that in this measure there was no principle involved.—(Cries of " Hear, hear," from the Opposition.) Nothing could be more clear than that such was the effect of the Right Hon. Gentleman's argument ; and if so, he would wish to know, then, how this . . measure could be called so great a violation of public prin ciple ?—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) He (Mr. Herbert) could not see what there was in this measure to charge the present Government with dereliction of principle.—( Hear, hear.) In every year that this subject was brought forward, those who now belonged to the Government then supported it ; and if so why should they now oppose it ?—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member then alluded to passages in the speech of the Right Hon. Member for Dublin, and having quoted them, then went on to say, that the result of that had been to throw the Catholic interests into the hands of men who had no property nor stake in the order \ and tranquillity of I re l an d ; an d, therefore, the Government had seen the necessity of proplsing this measure, in order to give the na tural instructors of the people an interest in . . the State, and to place the peace of Ireland on a firmer basis. The Right Hon. Gentleman behind him, who had spoken against the measure, had taken a course which he (Mr. Sidney Herbert) could not understand. While his speech had cer tainly been against the measure proposed by Government, his arguments were entirely in its favour. He argued by analogy in favour of this measure, for he showed th a t o th er coun t r i es h a d munificently endowed their Catholc clergy. If they were to allow a grant at all, why not at once give a liberal one ? He knew that they had been told that night to take this as a warn. ing that this measure would not have the effect anticipated. He wa3 fully prepared for the next year, and the year after, and even the succeeding year, to find that this Bill would not be a successful measure, but the House must bear in mind, that all good laws operated at first but slowly, although the result might be permanent giod to the interest they were intended to benefit. He was anxious, however humble his efforts, and however feeble his arguments might be considered—he was anxious that whatever might be the odium, or the un popularity, or the responsibility that attached to this measure, for good or evil, to share in it, and for this reason alone if for none higher, he troubled the House at that late hour of the evening. He was not one of those who thought with the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Member for the University of Dublin, that the independent spirit of the Irish would be destroyed by this mea. sure of the Government. He did not know, indeed, what the Right Hon. Gentleman meant by this independent spirit of Ireland. Surely measures calculated to give them an enlarged -ducation, and to spread abroad a more liberal feeling, could not be expected to destroy this Irish spirit. If, by an inde pendent spirit, the Right Honourable Gentleman meant the spirit of party—which unfortunatply then existed to a great degree—he would inform the Right Honourable Gentle man that the Government asked for no higher corn pl ment than the having destroyed this independent spirit. —( Cheers.) And such a result he thought might be now prophesied, for no Gentleman in that House could have ii.tene I to the speeches of the Trish Members without being struck by the altered tone of their speeches They heard none of the party feelings, they heard none of those perverted appeals to religious feelings which were the disgrace of former debates. He trusted that the Government would receive from Irish Gentlemen that c3-operation and assistance without which the best measures would most certainly fail. His firm conviction was, that the measure was so sound in prin ciple and policy, and so calculated for the good of the people of Ireland, that he felt bound to give it his support.—( Hear.) `n the motion of Mr. BERESFORD, the debate was then adjourned till to-morrow. The Justices Clerks and Clerks of the Peace Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. OR the motion of Mr. LYALL the following gentlemen were appointed a Select Committee on Commercial Marine:— Mr. Lyall, Mr. Gladstone, Viscount Sandon, Mr. Chapman, Sir William Clay, Mr. Liddell, Mr. Bingham Baring, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Captain Gladstone, Mr. Hutt, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Ross, Mr. Dennistoun, Mr. Wawn, and Mr Barclay. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. FRIDAY, APRIL 11. Dim and Colchester Junction Railwav —( committee on petition, adjourned from Monday 14th till thurklay, April 17. Dias, Beccles, and Y armou th Railway,—Conunittee on petition, adjourned till Wednesday, April 16. Bristol and Gloucester Railway,—Committee , . on petition, adjourned till Thursday, April 17. Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin to Mullingar and Athlone),—Committee on petition, adjourard till Friday, April 18. . Direct Northern Railway (No. 1), --Committee on peti tion, postponed from Monday 14th till Thursday', April 17. Ely and Huntingdon Railway,—Committee on Bill, Mon day, April 21, at twelve. Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, and Coke Extension Railway,—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Bristol and Gloucester Railway (No. 2), -Committee on petition, Tuesd a y, April 22. Dunstable and L on d on and B i rm i ng b a ni railway,—Com mittee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway,-.--Com mittee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborougli),—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway,—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (hipley to Colne), —Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Barnsley Junction Railway,—Committe4 on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch),— Committes on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Leeds and Dewsbury Railway,—Commi ttee on Bill, Mon day, April 21, at twelve. Harrogate and Ripon Junction Railway,—Committee OR Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. West Yorkshire Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.. Leeds and Thirsk Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. _ . Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment, — Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Wednesday, April 16. Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway,— Second reading, Tuesday, April 15. Londonderry and Coleraine Railway,—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway,—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Belfast and Ballymena Railway,—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Manchester and Leeds (Burnley Branch and Oldham and Heywood Branches Extension) Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Lynn and Ely,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier (No. 1), — Committee on petition, postponed sine die. ' Staines and Richmond Railway,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Wednesday, April 16. Birmingham arid Gloucester (Wolverhampton Line) Rail way,—Committee on petition, postponed from 31onday 14th till Tuesday, April 15. Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Deviation) Rail way,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15. Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Branch and Chel tenham Extension) Railway,—Cotnmittee on petition, post poned from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15. Birmingham and Gloucester (Gloucester Extension, Stoke Branch, and Midland Junction) Railway, —Committee On petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15. London and South. Western (Epsom Branch) Railway,— Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Wednesday, April 16. Midland Railways Company (Birmingham, Gloucester, and Bristol and Gloucester Railways Purch - ase),—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Purchase,—Committee April 18. ENDOWMENT OF MAYNOOTH. PUBLIC MEETING AT THE LONDON TAVERN. A requisition, signed by about 200 of the principal merchants, bankers, and traders, having been addressed to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, praying him to call a public meeting of those who were opposed to any en dowment to the Roman Catholic clergy from the na tional treasury, and disposed to take part i n suc h oppo sition, for the purpose of petitioning the Le g i s l a t ure against v en e da the meeting, eetmeasure,ing, whichhis Lordship, shheilpd yesterday, at twelve, in consequen. te , con for one o'clock, at the London Tavern. The large room, which is able to contain about 1,000 persons, was crowded long before the latter hour. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor took the chair at a quarter past one. Among those upon the platform we observed—Am brose Moore, Esq., D. W. Wire, Esq., D. W. Harvey, Esq., John Labouchere, Esq., Rev. Michael Gibbs, and a great majority of those gentlemen who signed the re quisition. Before the chair was however taken by his Lordship, it may be mentioned that a person in the body of the room, who gave his name Mr. Murray, addressed the meeting in the most incoherent manner, against the pro• posed grant. He concluded, amid the laughter of theme about him, by prophesying that a great religious crisis was at hand, when sectarian differences would be for gotten, and when the Ishmaelites and others, "at pre sent under the curse," would be rescued from the house of bondage. The cheering consequent on the entry of the Lord Mayor and the gentlemen who accompanied him, having subsided, The LORD MAYOR rose, and said—Gentlemen, in con sequence of having received a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, requesting that I would call a meeting of the merchants, bankers, and traders of the City of London, being opposed to any endowment out of the national treasury for the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, and to consider the best means of opposing such a measure, I felt it my duty to comply with this request; and in order to give them an opportunity of expressing their sentiments against the proposed measu e, I have called this meeting to-day for that purpose. The object being unique I trust there Kill be no opposition displayed by any present, for while we give every credit to the advocates of the grant, we also claim credit for the purity of an opposition. I trust, therefore, that whatever is said or proposed to-day w ill be in a Christian spirit, without allusion to party or political objects, and without any personality. Mr. D. W. WIRE—I beg to announce that the first resolution will be proposed by John Labouchere, Esq. Mr. LABOTTCHERE—My Lord, ladies, and gentlemen, if the proposed measure which we are met here to oppose had received the sanction of the popular opinion and of Parliament, I should, however much I regretted the cir cumstance, have submitted to it without murmuring. I might, indeed, have deemed it my duty to lift up my heart in prayer to God, that he would avert from this guilty nation the judgments which they so justly do served; but when a measure of this kind, which is con trary to the law of God as revealed in his Holy Word, is under the deliberation of the Parliament of the country, I think it is my duty to avail myself of my privilege, as an Englishman, to protest against the measure, and to join in any p etition which may be drawn up to oppose it. It has b een stated b y an eminent opponent of the measure in the House of Commons, that a great ma j or i ty o f the inhabitants of England and of S cot l an d are oppose d to it. lam well acquainted with th at i n di v id ua l, and he agrees with me in the sentiment th a t t h e oppos i t i o n is founded, not upon political but o n re lici ous mot i ves . Numerous petitions have been presented ' by every Member o f the Le g islature against that measure, an d sure ly we may enter tain the hope that the Legislature will not turn a deaf ear to the representations contained in those petitions, and that our gracious Sovereign will not be called on to affix her signature to a Bill which p rac ti ca ll y di savo ws the princ i p les s h e swore to maintain on com ing to the s c u h r E e eri :. g iii ) with nolt bhoavcearraineodthtehrrohugop that the mea be; Throne.—(Loud numerous instances recordered ill country or oof l t m o g e a e t s b u e r r e s a b generally . u n o p n o e p thebeeeaens annals a l we s of h our e % e o t l e t r he b s e e i i e n g stances occurred in the time of Sir Robert Walpole, where the measure was of a secular natufre a . Isecul the popular voice was so powerful in the case osecular nature, how much more strongly does the analogy apply to this case of a religious nature. I dodo, then, entertain the hope that the distinguished individual at the head of the Government cannot be wholly indiffe rent Loa sentiment so largely expressed throughout every m part of England and Scotland, and that he will drop the easure. Among the various argumen ts in su pp ort of this measure, the one to which the greatest weight is to be attributed is this, that we are under a contract to afford relief, either by grant or by endowment, to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth. If we were under such a contract, I. addressing myself to commercial men, would not urge the Legislature fur one moment to break through that contract. If the bargain were made they were bound to adhere to it, whether for better or worse. But it is not so. I feel convinced, after ex amining every authority upon the su bj ec t, a f ter weighing every argument _ advanced to prove it, I still feel convinced that there is no con tract at all in the matter. — (Bear, hear.) I am willing to allow that the College of Maynooth, when first established in 1795, received from the Irish Par liament a grant of money. lam willing to allow that at the period e . f the union between might be increased England and Ireland a certain sum of money was voted utions included in i for a specific number of years, to the support of a certain Among these the College of Maynooth was comprehended;f but this, be it t or remembered, was to be a. space of twenty years only. Each gr or diminished, or suspended a lto gether.—(Cheers.) Nay, chartable instit • ' number of charities and institutions. that number, after a few years, received no assistance at all.—(Hear.) One of these was purely 1 Protestant. Now, if they were justified in withdrawing the grant several religious and from one a a n itorr o f these chartlies—(Hear, h that they were • •.9_ . ear) — it was equally clear with drawing it from all,Again, b has been argued that this allowance was for, and has been given for a number But is that a reason why it shouldalways of years, be they called continued ? Why were d on to give their money towards such an institution ? O n po li t i cal grounds he migh t oppose i might clearly s h ow that, instead of conciliating the eßoman Catholic popula tion, the efforts of the Government had, on the contrary, conducedHeontrary, con duced to greater hostility. might show th a t th e Catholics them selves were neither desirous nor under the necessity of asking for such a grant. But h e argue d against this gra nt neither but he did argue against grounds ; it becau se h e con ceived that the Church of Rome was imbued with despe rate and fatal errors, and he could not assent to a gran t to Maynooth , be cause it He then . was ,, _ helping t o p ropagate such moved That errors. this meeting regards with the deepest r e p u g nance and apprehension the pro position just submitted to Parliament by her Majesty's Ministers, for the permanent endowment of the Romish College of Maynooth, considering that measure to in volve a distinct renunciation of the national Protestantism to which it would humbly ascribe that Divine blessing, which has raised Great Britain to its present elevation of power, aad wealth, and prosperity." M r . D. Gov= said that he would not hare presented himself before them, if he had thought that discussion or argument was at all necessary in order to oppose a grant like that to Maynooth, in the most Protestant city of the most Protestant country in the world, and he, therefore, seconded the resolution, which was carried with some opposition. Mr. J. J. CUMMINGS, in moving the second resolution, said he did not feel himself justified in taking the same ground as Mr. Gould, on 3 question which he regretted had met with so much favour in Parliament ; because he thought that, in giving his suppol t to a resolution such as that which he held in his hand, he was bound to state the reasons which had intluenci d his own mind ; and he would not have taken part in the proceedings of this meeting, if he had net been impelled to do so by conscientious motives. They had been discussing points in which debatable positions were introduced. But they had new come to a point in which it was not toleration, but participation which they were called upon to take in what they all conceived to be a sin against God. The Roman Catholic h a d b een a d m i t t e d t o a full and fair participation in all civil rights ; but to re oss the line, and themselves voluntarily to support that which they were well aware was in itself nothing less than idolatry-- The LORD MAYOR interrupted the speaker by remind ing him that it was a contract. Mr. CUMMINGS said his Hon. Friend had reminds d him that it was a contract, and the very name of a eon tract reminded him of that which would carry with it the principles of every high and right-minded merchant. But in this instance they were called upon to bind themselves hand and foot to—not the support of May nooth alone—but also for the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. They knew no thing of such a principle of expediency as this. The attempt to conciliate the Roman Catholic people of Ire land was a vain and a fruitless effort. There was au expediency that was allowable, but that expediency was limited by the word of God, and they were now called upon to give their adhesion to a principle which transferred the honour due to God alone to a faith which gave that honour to graven images. They were all aware that the prosperity of the nation depended, not on their merchants, their commerce, and their manufactures, but upon the fiat of God alone—and if God did but for one moment frown upon them the whole of the prosperity of the country would vanish in a moment. Having thus ex pressed his views he moved--" That this meeting, contemplating the measure in the light in which it is viewed by leading statesmen on both sides of the House of Commons—as the first step to the establishment of the Romish priesthood in Ireland—is of opinion, that before attempting the introduction of so great a change in the national policy, there ought to have been offered, on the part of its promoters, some distinct explanation of the course intended to be pursued on the great question of religious endowments. And, without implying or admitting that such a question ought to be entertained at all, this meeting considers that those who have propounded the present measure should at least explain whether their object is to establish two religions in Ireland, or three, or what number." Mr. AMBROSE MOORE said that no one could doubt the splendid abilities with which the Premier had been endowed, but as he had not stated what was his particular object in proposing this endowment, it was was plainly clear that the people of England had a right to require them. This measurse was not opposed by any one or two sections of the com munity, and heconceived that the combination of parties by which it was opposed was the happiest union of parties which he had ever witnessed. He thought that if they looked at the Bible Society, and the other religious so cieties, who collected hundreds of thousands of pounds for specific objects, they would hardly think that it was either fair or just that this money should be taken out of their pockets for a purpose to which upon every principle they were opposed. He then quoted a passage from the last pamphlet of the late Sidney Smith, to show what he conceived to be the misconduct of the Roman Catholic priesthood in the administrations of the sacraments of their church. With respect to the only principle contained in the Premier's speech—namely, that Ireland should be governed through the agency of the Romish clergy—on this ground alone he would have opposed it, for ho was of opinion also that Mr. M'Neill was right when he asserted that the less temporal power the better, and much as he respected the clergy of the Church of England, he would rather they were without any power at all than that they should possess the power with which the Romish priests were now to be endowed. He thought that the policy of this grant was the very worst that could possibly have been pursued, and thus thinking, he seconded the resolution. Mr. DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY said that when ho recollected that brilliant eloquence which had been used both in favour and in opposition to this grant, he regretted that he had not had more time to brush up old recollections than that which was allowed from the time he entered the room. He was no advocate of intolerance ; he had never drank at the fountains of sectarian bitterness ; and it was not because he was no friend of the Church of England, and still less a friend of the Church of Rome, but because he thought that religion was too sacred and unearthly to be at all upheld by State endowments that he opposed it. If the principles which he had heard propounded to-day were to be carried into effect, the Church of England ought to send into Ireland an army of clerical crusaders to Protestantise Ireland.—(The speaker was here inter rupted by great clamour and confusion.) The LORD MAYOR interposed, and stated that if he were not allowed to keep order, he must quit the chair ; but he must remind his friend (Mr. Harvey) that this meeting was called for a single purpose. Mr. HARVEY readily recognised the rule which the Lord Mayor laid down, and he conceived that every speaker was bound to state his own reasons for opposing the grant to Maynooth.—(The speaker was again interrupted by great clamour.) He was opposed to the grant on two grounds. First, that the grant was uucalled for ; and secondly, that if made, it ought not to be made out of the taxes. In his opinion, if this grant was made, it must ultimately become a rule of State, and on this ground he was en tirely opposed to it. It was an objection to this step, that if they were to have an Established Church at all, they must have the Catholic Church, for it was for them to say whether it was right that there should be a people for a church, or a church for a people. But it should be recollected that there was a nume rous and highly respectable body of people, who would put in the same claim, and he would ask them whether they were ready to concede an endowment to every dissenting sect in the country? If not, they must refuse this grant. He knew that many people liked to steer their course by their political leader, and he was sure that Sir Robert Peel's followers would be grateful to him for reading a few lines from a speech of that Right Hon. Baronet himself. It should be recollected that about ten years ago the Whigs, in order to turn out the friends of Sir R. Peel, brought in what was called the celebrated —now it was called the notorious—Registration byHe then read part of a speech made Sir It. Peel after his exclusion from office, to the effect that the Whigs, if powerful in the House, were powerless without it, and that there was a public opinion superior to all majorities, and which must ever hereafter become an element of every Government of this country. In compliance with the suggestion, he came there not to oppose the Government of Sir R. Peel, but to assert the power of that opinion, and to coalesce with them in opposing whatever might be an imposition on their liberties or a plunder of their pockets, and with this feeling lie should most cordially move " That this meet ing feels entitled to complain of the unprecedented at • tempt now making, by a coalition of the two great par ties in the Legislature, to force through Parliament, with unusual haste, a measure, including a grant of the public money, in spite of the deep repugnance so strongly manifested by all classes, degrees, and denominations of the British people." Mr. WetEeurose moved the adoption of a petition to Parliament to the effect that the grant to Maynooth was the first step to the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, and that some explanation of the extent of the intention to establish one or two, or more religions in Ireland, was necessary. Mr. RIDLEY seconded the resolution, and the petition was adopted. the Rev. Dr. BUNTING then rose to propose the next resolution---" That the sincere and grateful thanks of this meeting be given to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, for his kindness in calling the meeting, and for the ability and courtesy with which he has presided over it." He considered that his Lordship was entitled to their thanks for promptly calling such a meeting, and of giving the citizens of London an oppor tunity of declaring their sentiments on this important ques tion. He saw no reason why the Protestants of this couutry should support the Roman Catholic religion and Roman Catholic establishments in Ireland ; but at the same time he thought that their Roman Catholic brethren in that country ought not to be subject to any civil disabilities on account of the religion which they professed. But because he was of this opinion, was he to be asked to further and to patronise their peculiar and distinctive doctrines ? Could not Sir Robert Peel have adopted souse measure in favour of the Roman Catholics without placing a tax on Protestants to give effect to it ?—(Hear.) Had a measure been proposed to conciliate the people of Ireland, without entailing upon the people of this country the expense of supporting it, he thought they would have given it their hearty support. But it was a monstrous principle to tax the people of this country by a property-tax —for, in fact, it would have to come out of this tax—to support doctrines and establishments to which they were so strongly opposed.—(Cheers.) Conciliate Ireland. Let them do what they could to allay religious animosities, but do not let them effect it by the sacrifice of religious principles. Religious peace was a great object to attain, but to maintain religious principle was a greater object still.—(Hear, hear.) THOMAS FARMER, Esq., seconded the motion. He considered himself honoured by having been called upon to support it, and perfectly concurred in the sen timents of the Rev. Gentleman who had last spoken, and in those of the gentlemen who had addressed the meeting. The motion was then put by Mr. Wear., and was car ried by acclamation. The LORD MAYOR then rose and said it was a source of great satisfaction to him, in the discharge of what he considered his public duty, to receive so unanimous a t es timony of appreciation as to the manner in which he had conducted the meeting. His Lordship resumed his s eat amidst general cheering. the ed chair,been mooted. and tthe e meeting Mr. WIRE called upon the meeting to sign the pe titions which were lying in the tavern for signature, an d to use their exertions to induce their friends and ot h ers to separated. TaghietaLteortdh the question then tn which left On Saturday morning the body of a middle-abed man was found in the river Thames, off Phunstead, in Kent, and re moved to the workhouse to await an inquest. The same afternoon another body, of a young man, was found in the river off Battersea, and removed to th e R e d House to await an inquest. Both bodies were much decomposed, and ap peared ty have been in the water for some tune. AGGREGATE PROTESTANT MEE TING AGAINST THE MAYNOOTH GRANT. Last eveni g a public meeting was held in Covent-garden Theatre, according to the terms of the advertisement by which it was called together, "of the Protestants of all de nominations, to protest against the establishment of Popery." The doors were opened at half-past six o'clock, and within a quarter of an hour after every part of the building—boxes, pit, and galleries —was crowded to excess. Of the occupants of the boxes a considerable proportion were ladies. The whole extent of the stage was thrown open, and folly occupied by the members of the Committee, the principal ministers of religion belonging to the various denominations of Protestants in the metropolis, and the leading gentlemen connected with each communion. The business of the meeting commenced at seven o'clock, Robert Bevan, Esq., in the chair. The Rev. CHARLES PREST having read the 4tith Psalm, and the Rev. Dr HOLLOWAY offered up a prayer, The CHAIRMAN rose to address the meeting. He was sorry that a gentleman, who was better known than himself, and who was more able to give effect to their deliberations, had not been chosen to preside over such a great assembly. He was not a politician ; he had not been in the habit of attending public meetings; yet, notwithstanding, humble as he was, he would do his best to fill the situation to which they had called him. These were not times to remain in a private capacity or to look passively on, when a great principle was at stake; and hence he came forward to lift up his voice against the wicked and ungodly measure proposed by Parlia ment. He viewed with mixed feelings, though with great sorrow of heart, the fact that their rulers contemplated so grievous a sin ; for, through the providence of God, good was brought out of evil, men of so many religious parties being thus collected together, up ,n the broad principle of resistance to a great wrong, and protection to the Protestant faith. The present meeting was entirely a religious one. Politics had nothing to do with it. They might differ on political subjects, but they were united on the religious duty of opposing the grant to Maynooth, now under the consideration of the House of Commons. It, was pleasant for him to see persons differing so widely on other questions now uniting in the common object to oppose the leaislative end owment o f P opery. —( Cheers. ) This w as a rioly, a legitimate alliance— ( Cheers.) They did not come forward to that meeting on the ground that it was wrong to tax the people to support May nooth.—( Murmurs of dissent.) That was riot the case. Many might think that no religious system ought to be en dowed—( Loud cheers)—but that was not the grounds of the present opposition. Every person, he (Mr. Bevan ) admitted, had a right to hold whatever opinion he thought fit, in regard to religious endowments, but it was not on such a view of the question as that that the promoters of the present meeting had called it together. Some might imagine that if endowments were to be granted at all, theirs should be the favoured religion, while others might conceive that all religions should be endowed ; hut those were not the grounds upon which they had met together en that occasion. The ground on which they opposed the measure was, because it proposed the endowment of Popery.—(Cheers .1 It was to this point that the resolutions and speeches of the night would have to be directed. On that principle they were all united— that the grant to Maynooth should be opposed.—( Cheers. The parties who were now supporting the grant did so on two grounds—either from an avowed love of Popery, or because it was carrying out an implied engagement or compact on the part of the State. It could be easily shown, with re gard to the latter excuse, the only one within the scope and consideration of the meeting. how weak and futile it was.—(Hear.) No such compact existed, either implied or otherwise.—(Cheers.) He maintained the State was under no engagement of the kind.—(Cheers.) The great evil in arguing the question was, that the people did not know what Popery was—did not comprehend its true charac ter—but this was their own faults, they did not examine it. If they only looked at its accredited documents, they would soon find out its true nature.—( Cries of " Name, name.") Den's Theology.—(Great cheering and hissing, which lasted for somo time.) A book, many portions of which could not be rendered into English without exciting the greatest disgust.— ( Cheers.) How an education, with such text-books as that, could make the priests of Ireland better men, or otherwise im prove the condition of that country, he could not understand.— (Cheers.) In conclusion, he hoped, as Protestants, they would manfully come forward in defence of the principles for which their forefathers fought and bled.--(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then read several letters of excuse from parties who had been invited but could not attend the meeting, among which was one from Fox Maule, Esq., M.P. They were all expressive of entire agreement with the objects of the meeting. The Rev. Dr. CaoLY, in rising to move the first resolution, was received with loud cheers. The resolution was to the effect, That as it had pleased God to place this country since the Reformation the first among the nations of Europe, it would be a fearful dereliction of duty, and an act of base in gratitude, to abandon those Protestant principles which had led to such prosperity. The Rev. Doctor having read the resolution, went on to say that he never appeared before any assembly with feelings of deeper emotion, or with so much respect for the voice of public opinion. They were Pro testants—(Loud cheers)—and he gloried in the name, and assembled—not for any trivial purpose, but to defend the faith of their ancestors from the hands of the enemies into which it had fallen.—(Cheers.) He was not much in the habit of attending public meetings, but he recollected that nearly ten years ago he stood under the same roof, and for a similar purpose—that of protecting Protestantism.—(Hear, hear, and cheers). That was a time when the people were sunk low, and the country was placed in a con dition of great difficulty ; yet, notwithstanding that, public opinion was appealed to, and it fully, fairly, and triumphantly defeated the attempt which was then made.—( Loud Cheers and much interruption.) He was desirous of obtaining the good opinion of all present, but he would not be put down.—( Great cheering.) The same voice that was victorious on that occasion was raising itself once more in the country—the voice of the people, magnanimous, universal, and irresistible—(Cheers)—and it would again prevail. He rejoiced to see both the Cathedral and the Chapel united on the same common grounds, and his watch-word to them was "No surrender."—( Loud cheers.) That was a time for the various sections of the Protestant public to lay aside all minor differences, and to unite in defence of their religion and the Constitution of the country. It was not his wish to offend his Catholic countrymen, or to say anything to wound their feelings, for he opposed the proposed grant to Maynooth as much for the sake of their own liberty, as from a desire to preserve the Con stitution of England. He was desirous of taking the ban dage from their eyes, to show them how much they were deceived.—( Cheers and interruption.) His view of the ques tion was, that everything good in England had resulted from the Reformation.—(Cheers and hisses.) Before that period, while England was Roman Catholic, the people were slaves.— ( Cheers and confusion.) Yes, he maintained they were slaves. With the Reformation a great change took place for the better. Elizabeth raised the glory of England to the highest pitch of greatness. Not only was her power respected and feared throughout Europe, but she broke down the strongest nation of which the Continent could then boast—Spain. In the next reign, though Popish plots were rife, yet they were all anni hilated by the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, and Protes tantism was triumphant. Charles 1., who followed, was a splendid sovereign, just the king for a rising nation, but he committed the great sin of making a Popish alliance, and from that day he went wrong, the grace of God was withheld, and he ended his days on a scaffold. Next came Cromwell, a splendid man though a guilty one, but he redeemed his errors by the great support which he gave to Protestantism, by which he made his reign memorabl e , an d the name of England respected everywhere. Charles the Second, a weak and foolish man, was declared a Papist, as was James that succeeded him, the great Popish King; yet during their reigns the country was scourged, and flayed in every pos sible manner. William, of glorious memory, followed. Protestantism being once more triumphant, England swept Europe before her. It was under that reign that the great military victories of the Duke of Marlborough were achieved. This retrospect would teach them, that while Popery sunk the nation, Protestantism raised it up.--(Cheers. ) The great act of William was the exclusion of Roman Ca tholics from both Houses of Parliament.—( Loud cheers and hisses, which lasted for several minutes.) That good king saw that the only way to get rid of the swamp of error, was to stop up the fountain-head that fed it.—(Renewed con fusion.) He now came to the important period, when the Constitution was violated by the passing of the Act of Catholic Emancipation in IB29.—(Continued interrup tion.) The Bill would be looked upon as an unholy, rash, and ill-judged , measure.—( L ou d cr i es o f " No, no; question, question; ' cheering, intermingled with hisses, in the midst of which the chairman rose and decided that the speaker was out o l order.) The Rev. Doctor spoke for a short time !anger in a somewhat similar strain, and amidst considerable confusion, and concluded by moving the resolution. The Rev. J. BLACKBURN seconded the motion, and in the course of an address of some length, declared his " unalterable repugnance and detestation " of Popery. The motion was then put, and carried unanimously. The Rev. JAMES SHERMAN briefly moved the second re solution, which was condemnatory of the Government preposi tion to endow Maynooth. The motion being seconded by the Rev. W. CHALMERS, was unanimously agreed to. The Rev. Dr. Dixow, in a very long speech, consisting principally of a review of Mr. Gladstone's speech on Friday evening, moved the third resolution, protesting against the hurry with which such a measure as the Maynooth Bill was being hurried through Parliament. He concluded by recom mending the formation of an Anti-Popish Society. DANIEL BLACKBURN, Esq. seconded the resolution, which was agreed to. - Sir CULLING EARDLY SMITH moved the fourth resolution, recommending that in the event of the Bill being carried, that the meeting should reassemble and decide upon the course to be pursued at the next general election. He stated in the course of his observations, that the meetings throughout the country that had already taken place on the question of endowing Maynooth had been so far successful, that the Whig leaders were divided amongst themselves upon the question, and a con siderable accession of strength might be calculated upon. The resolution was seconded by the Rev. Dr. HOLLOWAY, and unanimously carried. A petition founded on the resolutions was then read and agreed to, and a vote of thanks being given to the Chairman, the meeting separated at eleven o'elock. Dotesio, at his Grand and Royal Hotel at Slough, is seducing the world, in spite of frost and cold, to go and make a day to try his Chef de Cuisine with the little army of minors under him. The epicures pronounce the ensemble as perfect as his announcement, and the best criterion is, that his house has been quite full dur ing last week's cold, and he contemplates erecting im mediately twenty summer rooms (on the plan of the Star and Garter, Richmond-hill), to enable him to avoid the disappointment of his friends during the spring and summer. - THE SEASON OF AUCTIONS. The wintry wea ther keeps in check the promised announcements of Mr. George Robins, which he has in petto for the monied world. He is quite right in waiting for a change from sleet to grfen leaves (although the auction duty has now hid its diminished head), believing, as we do, that every one looks best when attired in their new suits. The large estate of the Earl of Ducie (200,0001. value) will be amongst those exhibitions which are of rare occur rence. Since the days of Lord Ormonde's sales (by George Robins also) there has been no parallel case to the WoodAester estate. There is also one in the ad j.:Aning county of Worcester, approaching 100,0001. value, not far from Great Malvern, and one of less im portance, within two or three miles of Gloucester. Then the famed Didlington estate of the Hon. Mr. Wilson, in another county, in Norfolk, this approaches also 100,0001., and appears admirably adapted as an exchange against Three per Cents. at par. The railway passes close, and so it does in the case of the Lord Ducies's, but more anon of these events in anticipation. CnßtsT Clitaten, EXETER.—Our readers and the public generally are too well acquainted with the unhappy state of the diocese of Exeter, through the proceedings of Bishop Philpotts, that genuine son of Archbishop Laud, to need information from us. We refer to this for the sake of calling at tention to the advertisement of Christ Church, now erecting in Exeter; and we confidently trust, that the sympatlty so generally N expressed for the g oo d p eo ple in that_city Kill be practically exhibited by con t r ib u ti ons to the Chu rc h . , We have seen an engrav i ng o f th e church, wh i ch is ve r y ~ handsome, and will be q u ite an ornament to the city of Exeter. SMOKE PROHIBITION. On the motion of Mr. MACKINNON, the Select Corn mittee on the Smoke Prohibition Bill was appointed, con sisting of the following Members :—Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. Beckett, Viscount Newry, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Hawes, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Octavius Duncombe, Lord Francis Eger ton, Mr. William Henry Bodkin, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Borthwiek, Mr. Hindley, Mr. Protheroe, Mr. Ricardo, and Mr. William Williams. PRISONS (SCOTLAND). On the motion of Mr. EDWARD ELLICE, the Committee on Prisons (Scotland) was appointed, consisting of Mr. E. Ellice, jun., the Lord Advocate, Mr. Home Drummond, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, Mr. Duncan, Mr Cum ming Bruce, Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr. William Forbes, Mr. Loch, Mr. Henry Stuart, Mr. Patrick Stewart, Mr. Escott, Mr. Hussey, and Mr. Antrobus. Mr. ROBERT SCOTT obtained leave to bring in a Bill to declare valid assignments and surrender of chattle interests in real property made in certain cases. The House then adjourned, at Half.past Twelve. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) Sub-Committee (No. 1.) This Committee assembled this morning, in No. 7 Com mittee• room. Present—Mr. Strutt, Chairman ; Mr. Beckett, and other Hon. Members. DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY. The Committee proceeded with the case of the promoters of this Bill, which is viewed with great interest. The Committee took an allegation this morning on the subject of the notices in the Gazette. It was alleged by the opponents, the London and York Company, and the Midland Company, that the notices were irregular, and evidence had been adduced, and the notices themselves put in. . _ The Committee decided that the notices were defective, and, consequently, that the standing orders had net been complied with. There are a vast number of other and important allega tions, but it is believed that this one of the defective nature of the notices having been sustained, will prove fatal to the measure for the present session. Sub-Committee (No. 2). LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY (MAIDSTONE, ASHFORD, AND TUNBRIDGE.) Sir John Yarde Buller (Chairman) and the other Members ofsthis Committee, assembled this day in No. 6 Committee• room, shortly after twelve o'clock, and resumed the hearing of the IlLidstone, Ashford, and Tunbridge line, which had occupied their time for the last three days. In about half an• hour after the Committee had assembled The CHAIRMAN 'announced that the Committee were of opinion that the standing orders in this case had not been complied with. LONDON AND CROYDON ENLARGEMENT LINE. This was the next line called on, and the usual forms were gone through to prove that the standing orders had been com plied with. Allegations were then gone into on the part of Mr. Lambert, petitioner, and having been investigated by the Committee, The CHAIRMAN declared that there were four instances of an unimportant character in which the standing orders had not been complied with. 'he next line called on was THE LONDON AND CROYDON, ORPINGTON BRANCH. This line was opposed by Mr. Goodhart, and the Com mittee, after a very short inquiry, declared that the standing orders had not been complied with. Sub•-Committee (No. 3.) This Committee assembled in Committee-room No. 8 ; pre sent Sir Wm. Heathcote, chairman; Mr. Childers, Mr. C. Legh, and Mr. Shirley. CHURNgT VALLEY RAILWAY. The Committee proceeded with this case. The formal proofs had been gone into before Easter, and the Committee this morning proceeded with the opposition. They took the allegations respecting errors in the book of re. ference. The material allegations were, that buildings and land on the plans were not referred to in the book of re feree ce. The objections were gone into at great length, and at the adjournment of the Committee a considerable number were declared to have been sustained. Sub-Committee (No. 4.) This Committee assembled thismorning at twelve o'clock, in Committee-room No. 13 ; present Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Thornely, Mr. T. Egerton, Mr. Stansfield, and Captain Jones. HULL AND GAINSBOROUGH RAILWAY. The Committee have been occupied for two days in inves tigating the allegations contained in a petition of Mr. H. Hinde against the Bill. The objections have been of the most multifarious character, and the majority of them have been sustained. _ Vv Mr. Webster appeared this morning as the agent in sup port of the promoters of the Bill, and Mr. Parkes in support of Mr. Horde's petition. The Committee was engaged this morning upon an allega tion respecting the levels marked on the plans of the pro moters. It was alleged that these levels were inaccurately marked with reference to high water mark at a place called New Holland, opposite to Hull. The room was cleared upon this allegation. The Committee decided that the allegations had been sus tained. RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR LIAMENT. COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK, TUESDAY, APRIL 15. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Wolverham_pton Line). Birmingham and Gloucester Railway ( Worcester Deviation). Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Branch and Cheltenham Extension). Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Gloucester Extension, Stoke Branch, and Midland Junction). WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16. Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Gloucester Railways. Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension Railway. Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railwa y . Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment. Staines and Richmond Railway. London and South-Western Railway (Epsom Branch). TnuitsDAY, APRIL 17. Diss and Colchester Junction Railway. Direct Northern Railway (No. 1). Bristol and Rai Gloucester FRIDAY a ,APRIL 18. Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin to Mullingar and MiAdltahnlodnße)a.ilways Company (Birmingham, Gloucester, and Bristol and (Animater Railways Paellas.). SUMMARY OF NEWS AND putiltr Opinion. " Who runs may read? FOREIGN. The Duke de Montpensier left. Paris on Thursday for. Algiers. The Marquis Ferriere Levayer left Paris for Macao 6. 1 day. lie was the bearer of the ratification of the treaty con cluded by M. de Lagrenee with the Chinese Plenipotentitry- M. Levayer is to embark at Marseilles tor Egypt, and ter proceed to Asia rid Suez. The l?et'e de Paris states that the Duke de Broglie was ex pected to return to Paris in the course of a week, tbr the pur poseof consulting M. Guizot on certain points connected with the object of his mission to London. Ile is to be absent during ten ur fifteen days. LI the Chamber of Deputies a Bill has been passed to pre vent the piracy of literary works published in Sardinia, to pursuance of one of the provisions of the treaty of commerce concluded in 1813 between Sardinia and France, and which• has recently been the topic of much cavil in the Chamber. • The ..1»u dr hz Constitution states that there are in Lucerne 1,602 prisoners in all, and that the number of wounded volunteers there is 150. The dead have been buried--30 at Matters, 40 at Litton], and 9at Lucerne. Several persons, it is said, perished in the Emote. Amongst the prisoners are 180 Bernese, and 694 Argovians. No person whatever is admitted to see the prisoners. A Zurich journal estimates at 40,000 Swiss livres (59,000 francs) a day the expense of the army embodied by the Federal Directory; a charge, it adds, which will fall heavily upon the cantons, which have already been impoverished by extraordinary expenditures of ever kind. The troops of Schwez and Zug, commanded by Colonel Abyberg, had advanced to the frontiers of Argau, where they: remaiheil in observation of the movements of the volunteers. The Queen of Prussia arrived at Dresden on the evening of the 4th, on a visit to her sister, the wife of Prince John. It was expected that the King of Prussia would soon. join her Majesty. An autograph letter of the Emperor of Austria to his Minister forbids the name of German Catholic Church being given either in the journals, or any printed writings, to the body of Separatists which has been recently formed in Germany. The Journal des Debuts inserts a letter from Berne of the Bth inst., which states that the arrival of the federal troops in the canton of Argovia, appears to have anticipated that of a corps of Schwartzbuben, mountaineers of Soleure, who intended, it is said, to excite the inhabitants to a revolt, and afterwards to unite themselves to the army of Lucerne and of the small cantons. The Argovian militia disorganised, in consequence of the recruiting made by the free corps and of the loss of their chiefs, killed or made prisoners at the attack of Lucerne, were gradually repairing their losses, and might in a few days be lit to occupy the country. *Jaw 41.. as asessi.aula. The case of Connell and Gandy, which was tried at Liver pool, is one of considerable importance to the commercial world. It was an action brought by a depositor in the Isle of Man Bank against the defendant, who was represented tat have been a shareholder in the bank at the time it stopped' payment. The bank was not formed under the provisions of any Act of Parliament. The defence was that the COIDIOMM law of partnership did not apply to joint-stock companies, and that Mr. Gandy having ceased to be a share— holder in 1840, although the fact of his retirement was not publicly gazetted, had ceased to be liable. The jury, however, under the direction of the Judge, found for the plaintiffi. His Lordship, in the course of his summing up, said that there was no legal difference between a firm of six and one of 600 persons, and that the person who held himself forth to the public a partner in such a firm was bound to make the fact of his retirement public also, in order to re lease himself from his liability. There were several actions of a similar nature in which a similar verdict was taksto, and these concluded the assizes. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Duke de Broglie, accompanied by his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, had ajengthened interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday afternoon, at the Right Hon. Baronet's residence, in Whitehall-gardens. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne entertained the Duke de Broglie, Prince Albert de Broglie, the Earl of Clarendon, Countess Flahault (Baroness Keith and Nairns), the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Count and Countess Jarnac, Lord John Russell, and a distinguished circle, on Sa turday last, at Lansdowne House. The Duke of Beaufbrt does not go to Newmarket, as wis anticipated. His Grace, with the Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies Somerset, will leave Badminton for Beaufort House during the present week. The Earl of Ilarrowby has improved in health during the last few days. The Earl of Ellenborough entertained the Earl of Clare, Lord and Lady Colchester, Lord and Lady Colville, Sir Wil loughby Cotton, Colonel Monteith, Colonel Oldtleld, and Mr., Mrs., and Miss Wilberforce Bird at dinner on Saturday last, at his Lordship's mansion in Charles-street. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have left Bretby Park for Newmarket. The Noble Earl and Countess do not return to Chesterfield House until after the second Newman. ket The Earl and Countess of Albemarle left their residence in Berkeley-square on Saturday last for Newmarket. The EMI of Bradford has arrived in Belgrave-square from Castle Bromwich, Stailltrdshire. Viscount and Viscountess Newport have left the Noble Earl's residence and removed to their new mansion in Wilton-crescent. The Noble Viscount and Visconntess left town on Saturday for Newmarket. Count Flahault may now shortly be expected in this country, to join Countess Flahault and the lion. Misses Ei phinstone Flahault, as, according to letters received from Vienna, the Noble Count intended to have left that city on the 3d instant for Paris, on his way to England. It is as serted that the Noble Count is not likely to return to Vienna as French Ambassador at the Court of Austria, an important appointment being destined for his Excellency Count Flahault in the French capital. It is said he is to be appointed tutor to the Count of Paris. MISCELLANEOUS. The mortal remains of the late Earl of were re moved on Wednesday last from Silverten-park to Orchard ‘Vyndham, preparatory to their interment in the family vault. The funeral took place the next day ; a large body of the deceased Earl's, tenant►y assisting on the mournful oc casion. On Sunday, a sermon in aid of the funds of the City Dispen sary, which was established in the year 1789, fur the relief of the sick and diseased poor of the Metropolis, was preached in the church of the united parishes of St. Mary-at-hill and St. Andrew Hubbard, Little Tower-street, by the Rev. James Rowsall, M.A., domestic chaplain to the Duke of Suther land. After the sermon a collection was made which realised 20/. ss. Sunday two sermons were p reac h e d i n the chapel of the Scottish Hospital, Fleur-de-Lis -court, Fetter-lane, before a numerous congregation, the principal portion of whom were both deaf anfilumb. It may appear somewhat paradoxical that persons so afflicted should be enabled to attend divine worship in congregation with their more favoured brethren who enjoy the faculties of hearing and speech. The ser vice, however, is rendered intelligible to the deaf and dumb portion of the congregation by a gentleman who is well conversant with the sigps by which those so afflicted com municate together ; and as the clergymen proceeds with his discourse, he, standing in a prominent situation facing the afflicted, interprets it by those signs. These services are established under the auspices of the Society for the re lid of the adult destitute portion of the deaf and dumb com munity. On Sunday morning, about eleven o'clock, a gentleman's carriage was proceeding at a rapid pace in the direction of the Haymarket, when near the corner of Windmill-street the near fore wheel came oil'. From the quickness of the pace and the sharp shock occasioned by the axle falling on the ground, the coachman lost his seat, and was thrown with great violence. The horses were at once seized by some passers by, and the owner of the carriage and his lady alighted, perfectly uninjured, but greatly alarmed. The coachman was taken into Mr. Hutchinson's, a surgeon, who paid him every attention, and after a short time he was so far recovered that he returned home. The Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr Railway, at a s p ec i a l meet ing on Wednesday, the 2d inst., determined upon extending the ( 7 ompany's railway from Ayr to Loch Ryan, and of form ing certain other lines for the accomodation of the interior of Ayrshire. The Eastern Counties Company raise 710,4001. by shares to pay off that ann , unt in bonds and debentures which are out in the market and shortly fall due. The alteration is calcu lated to save in interest about 7,000/. a-year ; and four per cent. is to be paid upon the cells as they are made. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. 1.4 )x Dos, A pp, i. 14. int' westerly, fresh breeze, . and showery. ILuisGATF., Amin. WindS.W., blowing hard.--- Arrd. Rebecca and Eliza, Newcastle for Rouen, assisted in leaky, and with bulwarks damaged, having been struck by a sea, 9th inst., off the Newark ; Delta, Sunderland, for lire -t, leaky; Fruiterer, Hartlepool, leaky, and with rigging damaged, having been in contact. Dr:AL, APRI L Wiud N.W. to N.N.W.; r.m., S.W. by W. 13, r.M., S.W. strong.—Arrd. Wellesley, Toiler, Calcutta; Brunette, Cousins, Ceylon ; Amelia MI, Hill, Bombay ; Clansman, Peck, lchaboe ; nymen, Mainland, Calao ; Sophia, Honduras; Marion, Mills, Charleston ; Ram bler, Baxter, New York. 13. Arrd. Queen Victoria, Singa pore; Good llope, lchaboe; Courier, Thunsen, Rio, for Ant werp ; Apollo, Rio for llamburgh; Boreas, Sabine, Porto Rico, for Antwerp ; Fan tome, Allen,J amaica ; Augusta, Chinliansen, Charleston, for Copenhagen ; Bertrand, Boston, for Ant werp; Albion, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Duke of Gloucester, Cape of Good Hope; William Gales, Venus, for Valparaiso; Islander, Barbadoes ; Arab, St. John's, New Brunswick. The Facility, May, of and for Salcombe, from Shields, got ashore on the Goodwin Sands, at noon, this day, and shortly after upset ; crew saved. Kn At usii, APRIL 11.—The Emma, Jones, of Cardiff, for London (cargo, oats), is leaking, and must discharge. LIMERICK, APRIL 11.--The Governor, Gormein, hence to Quebec, is on the Cock Rock, but expected off without injury. PonTsmount, Amu. 13.—W ind W.S.W. blowing hard. —Arrd. Hendrick Hudson, Moore, New York, and old. for London. • LIVERPOOL, APRIL 12.—Wind N.E. to N.W., moderate. 13. W., fresh.—Arrd. Barbara, Mauritius ; Anna and Miracle, lchaboe ; George IV., Cornelius, Rio Grande; Sa lt n o r p o iat , i, , N B ev e N ll, Or Jamaica ; Barbadian, C u b a ; T hern i s, llemphis, Coffin, Mobile ; Fannr, Savannah ; Concordia, Boston ; Palermo, Anne Little, and Ann Bates, Ichaboe ; Adam Smith, West Coast; henry Duncan, Kent, New Orleans; Swallow, La Guayra ; Lord Seaton, Good Intent, and Importer, New Orleans; Harmony, Raukins, Sattelite, Mobile ; Syria, Savannah; John Renwick, Charleston ; Monticello and Hottinguer, New York ; Cambria, steamer, Boston, Ist inst. ; Alecto, Ashford, 'Mauritius; Douce Davie, Frazer, Ichaboe; Spring field and Severn, New Orleans ; Kalamazoo, New York. Off, barques Lanark and Ilindoo ; brig Mary, Africa. PorrsmouTit, Arno. 13. Arrd. Moffatt. London for Aden, leaky. Cow Es, Arra', lg.—Wind N.W. 13. S.W., squally.— Arrd. Oscar, Wrangles, and Fanny, Hayles, Ichaboe. OFF WEYMOUTH, Aram 13. Sondraporvey, Rogers, Sydney, New South Wales ; Duke of B e df or d, China. Thilopoirr, APRIL 13.— SW. Royalist, St. John's, New foundland. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 13.-3 P.NI., blowing a gale from S.W. by S.—Arrd. Columbia, Cromer, Ichaboe. PERNAMBUCO, FEn.2o.—Arrd. the brig Penguin (packet). SAl.comsE, Arutt.l3.—Arrd. Matilda, Newport for South ampton, with loss of mainmast head, bowsprit, &c., in a squall yesterday. Off, Agnes, Burgess, Jamaica. FALMOUTH, APRIL 13.—Wind W.S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Romulus, Cayill, Ocean, Britchard, Enchantress, Newton, Mary Cocker, Mail, Gordon, and Clifton, Lockyer, Ichaboe; Quebec packet, Iladden, Pernambuco ; Lucille (late Yule). Port Republicain ; Eliza Ann, Brunel, Rio Grande. Herald, Jones, Ichaboe, and sailed for Liverpool. WATERFORD, Arnir, 10.—Arrd. Sarah Maria, Ichaboe. DUaLtx, Arno 10.—Sld. Sir James 111Donnel, Quebec. CORK, Arm'. • St. 0 Arrd George, Martin, Ichaboe, and sailed for Clyde ; Governor, `'arty, St. Domingo, and Bayed for London. Sid. Pons Ale, for St. John's, New BrunamOk. otr, Hannah, Ichaboe; Shanks, Ichaboe. LIMERICK, Aram 12.—Wind Munan, St. Min's, New Brunswick. Bld. Energy and Norio, Quebec.