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imperial Vattia:nrizt. HOUSE . OF LORDS.—Morinsr. Mr. EWART brought up the prisoner's counsel bill from the House of Commons, which on the motion of Lord Brougham was reed a first time. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS —SIR F. PA LGR AVE AND MR. HOGG. Lord BROUGH A M said he had been requested to present a pe tition from. Bridport, relative to the municipal corporations bill, • but as the measure was net before the house, he should postpone its presentation to a future day. He should take that opportu nity to correct a statement relative to himself which had ap peared in a ministerial print that moreing. It was there said that he had beeu the only person to aprint the members of the municipal corporation commission. Such, however, was not the fact. lie had northing to do with the appointment of any of the commissioners except one, namely, Sir Francis Palgrave, whose opinions were contrary to those held by the other com missioners. It was not from his own judgment, but in conse quence of the urgent representations of his noble colleagues (one of whom was attached to the ministry) that he had recom mended that learned person, who, he knew, entertained some very odd antiquarian crotchets, which in his opinion were calcu lated to make him an indifferent commissioner. Lord WHARNCLIFFR said that the protest of Sir F. Palgrave, whatever his antiquarian opi n i ons might be, was well worthy of • their lordships' consideration. Lord BROUGHAM observed that Sir F. Palgrave was un doubtedly a very able and learned man , an d h e wished to speak of him with all possible respect. Lord LY NDHURST inquired whether his noble and learned friend had caused Mr. Hogg to be appointed a commissioner? Lord firtoua HAM said he had not, but he would willingly have recommended him, had he been required to do so, as he was a mart who possessed much legal knowledge. CERTIORARI BILL. Lord B HAM, in consequence of some alterations which it wae.flund. necessary to make in this bill, withdrew it altogether and presented another, which was read a first time. POSTOPFICE. The Duke of RICHMOND, in order to rebut the charges of mismanagement in this department, which had been wade in the other other house of parliament, moved for a return of the gross, and net revenue, and char_ges for the management of the Pustoffice, for ten years, up to December, 1834; together with an account of the manner in which the difference between the groat receipts and the amount of net revenue and charges of management, bointc.£l,o97,oPo, had been expended. The Earl of LicHetteLD expressed himself obliged to the noble duke for having moved for these returns, which he said would expose the misrepresentations of which the noble duke vomplained. Lord - Wallace, Lord. Maryborotigh, the Duke of Wellington, • and Lord Rosslyn, defended the officers df the Post-office against the charges made in the other house of parliament. The Duke of RICHMOND also moved for a return of the num ber of married women appointe.l to Post-offices in Great Bri tain and Ireland, In the years 18.31, 1832, and 1833. The re turns moved for were ordered. DR. MURRAY'S LETTER. The Bishop of EXETER gave notice, that on Thursday next he would put a question to the noble viscount at the head of the government whether a letter which appeared in the public prints, purporting to be from Dr. Murray, one of the education commissioners in Ireland, had been received by him or not. HIGHWAYS BILL. The Duke of Ricitmosn, in presenting the report of the committee on the highways bill, stated that the statute duty on turnpike roads, which certainly formed one of the most onerous charges on agriculture, was proposed by this bill to be repealed ; but he objected to its being done away with by a side wind, and therefore he should take an early opportunity of calling the at tention of their lordships specifically to the subject.—Ad . journed at seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMON'S--MONDAY. The Speaker took the chair at half-past three o'clock. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS-LIVERPOOL PRTITION. Lord SA I , IDoN presented 2 petition, signed by 3.00,./ burgesses of Liverpool, praying that the house would not by the munici pal corporations bits, or by any other measure, deprive them of the rights which they had heretofore enjoyed, and which had been especially secured to them by the provisions of the reform act. Mr. THORNELY stated that the people of Liverpool generally were much opposed to the provisions of the municioal corpora. tions bill ; at the same time he felt bound, in fairness and candour, to admit that the corporation of Liverpool did require reform. To prove this it was only necessary for him to state that the election of mayor cost on one occasion the sum of £B,OOO, and that one contested election for members of parlia ment cost £83,000. Lord SAN DON did not deny that the system upon which cor porate affairs had been formerly managed was very imperfect, but now matters were much altered, and, he was bound to say, in every respect greatly improved. Mr. lionn presented a petition fr3m certain freemen of Be verley. playing, that notwithstanding the municipal corpora tions bill, their rights might be preserved to them. DROGHEDA ELECTION. Mr. O'Cosistet.t. presented a petition from A. C. O'Dwyer, Esq., the late member for Drogheda, complaining of the present - state of the election law under which his election for Drogheda had been declared void. The petitioner, after stating his per sonal grievance, prayed the house not to allow the present ses sion to pass away without adopting some measure calculated to prevent the recurrence of the injustice of which he complained. 8d r. O'Connell said that the decision of the committee rested on this point:—Could a person holding a lease for three lives, with clause of perpetual renewal, grant a qualification to a fourth person for life? Ile (Mr. O'Connell) maintained that he could. I'he petition was laid on the table. IRISH IMICNIcIPAL CORPORATION BILL. .11r. Putter:4 gave notice of his intention to move for leave to hying in a biltrespecting Irish municipal corporations. _ BREACH OP PRIVILEGE. Mr. CHARLTON gave notice that, in consequence of an attack made upon him in the Morning Chronicle newspaper, he should to-morrow move that the publisher be brought to the bar. mist, CHURCH BILL_ Lord MoriPcris moved the order of the day for the second -yeading of this bill. Sir K. Plat. (it was.understood) asked the noble lord what worse he intended to pursue with respect to the public business? - Lord J. It uss,ELL said that he had some additional clauses to move in the municipal reform bill, and that, as the most conve nient course, he would move that it be recommitted. Any dis- Cussion to take 'place might be. disposed of on the Wednesday and Thursday. His hOpe was, that the bill might be read a third time on Friday, and the reason was, his anxiety that the bill then about to be read a second time should stand for-the committee on Monday next, when the right hon. baronet had given notice that he would move the destruction of it. (Hear • and laughter.) Now, if the municipal corporations bill were nut read a third time before Monday, he should certainly feel it necessary to begin with it, and, therefore, the discussion on the Irish church bill would be delayed. To-morrow, then, he would move the . clansea; end the discussion might be taken on the report: • Sir R. Put .suggested that the municipal reform bill be committed pro forma to-morrow, and that the report be brought asp on Thursday. Lord J. Russet'. declared he would take the course recom mended by the right hon. baronet. Mr. WILES was of opinion that the discussion on the bill Could not be disposed of satisfactorily in out day or even in two days. The objects to be considered were of very great import ance, and hon. members had not yet had an opportunity of eensulting their constituents. Lord .1. Russet'. intimated that he would pursue the course At bad already declared. In the event of the debate on the municipal corporations bill lasting longer than he expected, it would be then time enough to alter the arrangement. Mr. D. W. HARVEY gave notice of a motion to the effect that be would move the £40,000 interest on the £1,000,000 to the Irish clergy be made chargeable on the lands wherever the tax in lieu of tithes was to - be levied. Lord J. RUSSELL said he had it in command from his Majesty to state that his Majesty had been graciously pleased to place at the service of the house, for the purposes of this bit', his interest in any benefices or ecclesiastical dignities in Ireland. (" Bear, bear," from the treasury benches.) Mr. LEFROY said he would reserve some observations he had to make for the committee. The bill was then read a second time. Sir H. PEEL observed, that in the event of the municipal car porations bill not being read a third time on Friday, he trusted that the understanding would be that they were to go on with the church bill on the Tuesday or Wednesday. Lord J. Russ ELL agreed, that if they should not be able to to on with the bill on the Monday, it should be taken on the ret day after that, the municipal bill being disposed of. Mr. lluuu thought that if the municipal bill was not read a third time on Friday, the house should sit on Saturday. SUPPLY. On the motion that the house resolve itself into acommittee of supply, Mr. Ffosautit called the attention o f th e h ouse to t h e ser i ous arils arising front permitting soldiers to wear their side arms when. off duty. And Sir George Clerk gave notice that he would oppose the second reading of. the reform of parliament Scotland bill. Among the grants voted were £34.500 to complete the canals and other water communica liens In Upper Canada. £60,750 to defray the cbarges and eolaries of apecialinstices, ,under the slzt%ery . abolition act. £35,000 for the support of schools and education in. Ireland. - An animated discussion., took place on this grant Which was carried on ir division by.tk . majority of 143 against 41.. On the 'Ott of £8:928 for the lionain catholic colleges in Ireland being proposecLeavathat.short debate arose. Mr. LEPROT thought it inconsistent for government to ad. 'ranee a sum of money to assist in the cultivation of a religion which ky law they had separated from the state. Mr. Pistol 'opptiled the grant because, if a good vote, it was too small, and. if not, it should he discontinued altogether. The Vote was carried without &division, and the house resumed. CUSTOMS ACTS—TEA DUTIES. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Esc', xoulta the' Donee resolved itself into committee upon the customs arts. Mr. S. Rica, after alluding to the present scale of discriminat ing duties on teas of Is. 6:1. ' 2s. 2d., and 3 s . per. lb ., an d stat i ng that from the difficulty of classing teas, the experiment had - failed, moved the following resolution—'That it is the opinion of this committee that the duties on tea should cease and deter mine from and after the Ist of July, 1836, and that, in lien thereof, there he levied and paid on all teas taken for home con anniption 2s. ld per tb." • This resolution was agreed to, and the house resumed. Some private bills were forwarded a stage. Mr. Toots moved a resolution respecting the pa ss i ng o f private bills, but on th e mot i on o f Mr. Ituthren the house was *Quoted out.--Adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TvasDe r. The Duke of . Wst.r.triGroN presented a petition from the heads of houses and fellows of the university of Oxford, against the Thirty-nine articles subscription bill. Lord KtovroN presented a petition to the same effect, signed by GOO under graduates of the university of Oxford, whose Ames were affixed in a few days. The seamen's enlistment bill was brought up from the Commons, and read a first ti me. The Earl of ABRRIDEEN presented a petition against any al teration in the timber duties, from the shipowners and ship builders of Glasgow, from the merchants of Greenock, and from the chamber of commerce of Greenock. The Duke of llictiNoNn presented a petition from certain farmers of the county of Sussex, complaining i‘f the operation of one of the clauses of the poor law hill, which imposed on them a very heavy expense . for the building and repairing of poor-houses. The farmers complained, and not without justice, that they should he compelled to pay such large sums for these purposes, keeing that they had taken the farms before the pass ing of the bill. The petitioners were most respectable men, and, agreeing as he did with them, he hoped that the 'evil which vas inflicted by this particular clause would be, if possible, re . znedieu iu the present year. A. longer time ought, he ccn ceived, to_ be allowed for the repayment of money lent .to parishes for_the buildingand repair of workhouses. * LOAN £SSOCIAI lON EILL. The hens* went into committee au this bill. The clauses were read and aireed to with some amendments. Report to be received to-morrow. ATTENDANCE OF PE S. Sotne conversation arose respecting the attendance of peers on appeal cases. THIRTY NINE ARTICLES RILL The Earl of RADNOR moved the order of the day for the se er/11d reading of a bill entitled " An act prohibithig subscrip tion to the 3J articles in certain cases." His lordship observed, that on the present occasion they were cslted nn to consider the principle of the bill which he had felt it to be his duty to intro duce. That principle involved the question whether Young persons ought not to be admitted into the universities, without subscribin g the :39 articles. The first part of the bill pointed out the cases in which subscription to the 39 articles should not be hereafter required, and the second clause provided fur those cases to which the bill was not invent to extend. A consider able differenc e with reference to what took place at matricula tion existed in the practice of the two universities of ()semi and Cambridge. At Oxford, the applicant for admission was called upon to subscribe to the 39 articles on matriculatien, which was not the case in the university of Cambridge. At Oxford also the person about to be matriculated was obliged to subscribe the three articles contained in the 36th canon, which was not required at Cambridge. The object of the bill was to render such subscription unnecessary at the time of entrance into either of the universities, or until the party shall have at tained a certain age, or should have proceeded to take the de gree of master of arts. Ile could not help thinking, after all he had heard on this subject—after all the consideration which had been bestowed on it—after all the discussion to which it had given, rise in this and in the other house of "parliament—that none of the articles which had been adduced against the prin ciple on which the bill was founded were satisfactory. He could not understand the absurdity, lie would not use a worse epithet, of calling on boys of 16, di', or 18 years of age, to silos scribe the 39 articles on their matriculation,—articles of the nature of which they knew nothing. The idea of young men being thus called on to subscribe that which they did not un derstand was as offensive to common sense as it was to the prin ciples of morality. To say that individuals might with pro priety be called on to sign such and such things, without know ing or understanding them, appeared to him to be perfectly ri diculous; yet such was the assertion, such was the language, which he heard used from time to time by different individuals. For his own part,lie felt the utter impropriety of adopting such a system. He could Dot undeistand how anybody could justify themselves for calling on any person, under any circumstances, to subscribe his name to that of the nature and tendency of which he was ignorant. That, however, was what was done every day . at the university of 'Oxford. Very lately a propo sition we; iytade to the university of Oxford to substitute a de- claration in place of subscription to the 39 articles. Ainengst those who were particularly zealous in canvassing against that proposition wa s a gen tl eman near l y re l ate d to himself, an iuti mate friend of his, add one who was extremely ardent in the ' support of any "cause which he supported. He circulated printed letters, which were addressed to alt the non-resident members of the convocation, and in which he strongly opposed any alteration in the existing system. The last paragraph in the letter was to the effect that it was a mere matter of subscrip tion, involving uo oath at all. It was well known with regard to Oxford (and to it he more particularly directed his observa tions, being most intimately acquainted with it),--it was well known with regard to Oxford that tests were insisted on for the purpose of exctuding dissenters front the university. Now, he did not very well see what value could be attached to a test which it was notorious those who took it did not and were not called on to understand. Such a test could furnish no criterion by whichao judge whether a person was a dissenter or a Ma housedan. In point of fact, howev e r, di ssen t ers were not ex cluded : a particular class of dissenter's, baptists and socinians, Were excluded, but the universities were 'not thereby confined to members - of the church of England. Besides, there we re other , tests to whi c h n o b o dy o bj ec t e d , and which would serve the purpose ,of excluding dissenters much inure effectually than the 39 articles. Attending chapel was one of those means; fur if an individual joined in the daily worship prescribed by the university, there would undoubtedly be a much better se curity that he approved of the doctrines of the church and was sincerely attached to its dicipline than if he had, perhaps in ignorance, signed the 39 articles. If that were so, and if nobody objected to the service ofthe colleges as a better test and sign of a closer adherence to the doctrines of the national church, then why unnecessarily persevere in that which could not but in souse degree be objectionable, if not mischievous, and which did not, in fact, secure its avowed object ? In Bavaria and in France no tests were required on admission to their universities; persons were admitted with equal freeness, whatever might be their religious opinions, even into the pro fessors' chairs, and he . was informed that M. Guizot, one of the French ministers, himself a protestant, had formerly filled a profeSsor's chair in one of the French universities. Bologna and Rome required no tests; and at l'i'a, where both Greeks, Jews, and Mahommedans attended, no test existed ; the only difference was when a Mahominedan took a degree, that the chancellor left the chair and ceased to preside, and the vice chancellor conferred the degree. The professors' chairs also, for which no test was required, had frequently been filled by Englishmen. At Padua no test was imposed, and it frequently happened that the professorships in that university were held by English presbyterians and Calvinists. In the Roman catholic countries, in the Venetian and Austrian states, no jealousy was entertained with respect to religions persuasions, and no test whatever was required. He (Lord Radnor) was a protestant himself, but he had always been taught In believe that pro testantism had nothing to conceal respecting the rights of private judgment and free discussion; it was, therefore, some what mortifying to be told that the English were the only universities which were to be shut up,evhile the Roman catholic establishments were to lie open to persons of every persuasion. In the Prussian states, in Baden, and Breslau, no tests were required; and at the . present moment a jew was professor of medicine at the university of Copenhagen. To come nearer home—in the university of Durham, lately established, no test was established for persons going there for instruction. Why, then, should Oxford and Cambridge alone be bound by tests which were not understood, and which did not actually accom plish the objects for which they were designed ? It had not been arrays so at Oxford : it was known that at one period that university was 'open to.persons dot only of different countries; but of different rotigim,a. tll5, lifr" wa• at Oxford a proresSor of divinity and ahead of a house long after he had been sum moned to appear before the court of Rome to answer for his heretical opinions. (The noble lord then gave the namei . of several distinguished foreigners who in early times filled differ ent chairi in the university, but the low tone of voice in which he spoke, and the rapidity with which he read the statement, prevented us from being able to fellow him's) He then adverted to the argument brought forward by the noble duke (Welling ton) on a former occasion, that subscription t o the 39 articl es should be maintained for the purpose of k ee pi ng up t h e necessary alliance between the church and state. l'hat was a very odd way, in his (Lord Radnor's) view, to secure the alliance between church and state. He had shown that the church itself never required that subscription of laymen, and the state never called for it, except in one individual instance, where persons residing as judges in ecclesiastical courts, and who had to decide cases referring te'the 39 articles, were required by an act of parliament to subscribe the articles. The King, as head of the church, was never called on to subscribe them, and he very much doubted whether the noble duke opposite had suscribed them as Chancellor of the Liciversity of Oxford. `rite Duke of WELLINGTON said he had certainly signed them, and (as we unde rs t oo d) h a d seen t h em subscribed by a noble friend of his (the Marquis Camden) the other day at Cambridge. Lord RADNOR thought there was some mistake at least with regard to Cambridge, for the late chancellor was an avowed unitarian, and of course he could not conscientiously sign the 39 articles. The noble lord then referred to the admission of Messrs. Farraday, Dalton, Brown, and another, to degrees as honorary doctors at the Oxford installation, being dissenters, and without subscribing the 39 articles. He maintained that there was no necessary connexion between the university and the church—nu more than between the church and the faculties of law, medicine, or philosophy. The whole system had grown out of the manner in which the university and' its powers were absorbed by the heads of colleges—which was really an usurpa tion. Soule people fancied that the universities and the colleges were'one and the same thing; but that was not by any means the case. The colleges were excrescences which had grown out of the universities. The noble earl concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said it was not his intention to follow the noble lord through the arguments he bad drawn from the state of the continental universities, because he had an objection to arguments drawn from subjects with which we could be but very imperfectly acquainted. Oxford or Cambridge, he apprehended, had no occasion to take a lesson from the universities on the continent. (Hear, hear.) In some of them it was well known the utmost laxity of religious opinions pre vailed, and time greatest indifference to all religion. In the Roman catholic universities it was not surprising there should be the 'absence of any test whatever. What was more striking was, that in catholic universities on the continent, with respect to which the noble earl had wand ere d i nto t h e century before last, peesous of different religious persuasions Might he admitted not only to prosecute their studies, but to hold professorships. He could not account for this, but he knew that in somenf those universities such toleretiou might be extended to particular per sons without any apprehension on the part of the - governing powers, because they kcew they had always the power of bring ing into force the laws against heretics on any occasion when ever it might be necessary to set those laws in motioa. With respect to the universities here before the reformation, thenoble lord had staid - they were open to the whole world except as to certain heietiCs, who, whenever they showed their heads at the' universities, were cruelty persecuted. The not,le lard had cited the case of Mr. Wyeliffe. Every pe rson k new t h at h e was per. ' seent.ekleot ho was .stup.orted 14 some of the, niorstepowerfuf. persons in time realm, otherwise he never would have been able to stand against those persecutions. It was well known hoW hii ashes were treated, and there was hardly anything he could have suffered at the stake which be would not have been tortured With but for the powerful influence by which he was protected. Having thus adverted to some few of the observations made by the noble earl, he would revert to the bill now before the house, the title of whirls' prohibited subscription to the thirty-nine articles of 'faith in' certain cases. The reason was given in the preamble, and was—" Whereas the subscription of particular articles of faith in the cases of persons of trader years, and be fore they can have so accurately and minutely examined the same. and the grounds on which they rest, us to give an entire and implicit usseut to the doctrines therein laid down, is un reasonable, and may tend to evil consequences." This was the gist of the noble lord's argument—that requiring the subserjp lion was unreasonable, and tended to evil consequences. He would observe, that this bill proceeded upon an assumption that -subscription to the articles on all occasious, and all persons, had exactly the same significance and import, and that that import was an entire and implicit assent to the doctrines therein laid down. •if this were the case, the proposition would be nntenable. There was a distinction which he felt bound to make between the tnatriculative subscription at Oxford and that which took place afterwards. fie would take the lowest age to show what time intention was: a student twelve years old matriculating at Oxford was required to subscribe to the thirty-nine articles. Was it not absurd to suppose that a boy of that age was to be taken as having fully and maturely considered every one of those articles in such a way as to lie able to give an' entire and im plicit a s sent to them all? The university n ev er lo o k e d f or or required any such thing. He was admitted simply Upton the subscription, without having undergone any previous examina tion, without any questions having been put to him, and without his even having heard the articles read over. If such under standing on the part of a boy of that age could have been ex pected by the divines and statesmen, and the statesmen in Queen Elizabeth's time were divines, who were parties to the enactment requiring the subscription, they must have entirely lost their own understandings. (Hear, hear.) A boy haying thus been required to sign the articles, lie was placed on the university books and transferred to a tutor, who was directed to instruct him in the rudiments of religion, and particularly in the thirty-nine articles. (Hear, hear.) That being so he pur sued his studies for three or four years, under the immediate direction of his tutor; he was then called upon for a second sub scription to the articles; but was he allowed to subscribe to them in the same way as before ? Certeinly not. Although he had been studying for three or four years the articles under the 'direction of his tutor, and had . proved his preficient knowledge of theirt . by ,a, public examination, yet the university did not altow•him then to "subscribe to them until they were read over in his. presence by a proctor; and at thet time' be was required to declare that he agreed in the articles. His early subscription. therefore, was only a mark of his adherence to the church of Eng land, and that he was desirous of being instructed in the articles. Another objection had been raised, and that more particularly in reference to himself, as if he had aC:ed simply upon the fact that no subscription was required before a boy was 12 years of age. There was an age before which a child was not capable of forming a choice with respect to religion, and that was fully acknowleAged by the rite of confirmation in our church. In , old titues•l2 Years was the age at which children were called upon to take upon themselves the vows of their sponsors. Under certain circumstances children were received at con firmation at that age now, although it was preferred that they should he a little older. By this bill it was proposed that the student was 23 years old, or had taken a degree, before he could he supposed capable of being edited upon to subscribe satisfactorily the 39 articles. That had been stated so clearly by the noble lord that it required not to be gone over again. The fact was that young men generally went to the University between th e ages o f 17 an d 19, ; ni l took their first degree front the ages of 20 to 22 ; and he was of opinion that tire 39 articles, containing the rudiments o: Wigion as taught in the church of England, were its such lauguage as might be fully understood by any young man of 22 or 2.3 Tears of aore, %rho bad obtained a liberal education, and studied iu the University for three or four years, so that he might be able fairly to give his assent to them. Some of those article were founded on the natural principles of religion ; others, though at first they might appear startling, were capable of being proved by a reference to scrip ture; and who could wish for more than that they should be borne out by scripture ? Many of the doctrines of religion were far beyond any of our comprehensions, but we thought they were sritficiently proved by being once brought to the test of scripture. A youlta , Man taught, ther e f o r e , as h e h a d p o i n t e d out, was to be expecte d' at the age of 22 or '23 to he able to un derstand the articles; anti he would deny that calling on such an individual to subscribe them, was unreasonable. On the other hand, he would contend that it was most reasonable that the University should require a proof from those whom she ad mitted into her bosom that they had fulfilled her intentions, made themselves acquainted with those doctrines she taught, and imbibed those principles she endeavoured to instil. (Hear.) Thus much as to the unreasonableness of the subject; and he now came to the assertion that the subscription might tend to evil consequences. It might be supposed that in the course of three centuries (for he believed .it was inure than 250 years ago that subscription was introduced at Oxford,) the tendency, whether good or evil, must have been fully developed, and he thought it had. To him the tendency appeared to be not to evil but to good consequences. (Hear.) The consequences which had been produced were, that during a space of nearly 3iX). }ears the Universities had preserved religion' in all its purity; that polemical controversies had been banished from the' seats of those sacred institutions, and that a succession of learned and well-principled men had been produced to fill all stations in the different professions of life, and in the several departments of the state. He deprecated therefore alteration in a system so fruitful of good. (Cheers.) It was most desir able that the youth should be attached, nut merely flow habit, from prejudice derived from their parents, or perhaps from their party, but from personal conviction, to the doctrines of the church of England. (Hear.) He would venture to say that as the doctrines of the church were more fully understood, so would they be more highly and justly appreciated; and it required hut little knowledge of human nature to know that they would be stu lied with greater assiduity, with greater attention and interest, in proportion as the student was aware that he would be called upon to declare his assent to them at it certain period; that, just as he was aware of that, he would consider them more attentively, examine their language more nicely, be more ready to trace their connexion with scripture, and he more anxious to fix them in his mind. It was must de sirable that every man in the country should be acquainted with the principles of the religion he professed. There would then be much less heard of the prejudices that had been raised, some originating in malice, others in error and ignorance, against the articles of our church, and such knowledge among the higher classes he sincerely believed would be promoted by a continuance of a subscription in the Universities. (Hear.) In this he could see nothing whatever that could tend to evil consequences, but fatal indeed, in his apprehension, would he the consequences of this bill, it' it ever should be passed into it law. The sanction of that house, the sanction of parliament, would then he given to a calumny againit the church, and against its fundamental principles. (Hear.) It would go forth to the world as the opinion of parliament, that a peculiar creed of the church was unfit for the assent of studetits, as being above their comprehension, or altogether unworthy Of. their belief; and that it regarded her peculiar doctrines not only with indifference but with disapprobation. (Hear.) The pass ing of this hill would be the heaviest blow which had yet been inflicted against the church. (Hear.) It would be indirectly condemning her tenets, and pronouncing an assent to the pro position that those tenets were unreasonable and tending to evil consequences. When he entered the house he did not know the intention of this bill—he did not know whether it was merely to relieve the members of the University from the neces sity of subscription, who, by the way, were not desirous of such relief, or whether it was intended to throw open the g ates of the University to dissenters. Th ere was muc h to b e said as to both. He did nut accuse the noble lord from what he had said of Iris approbation of certain Universities being open to the admission of protestants, catholics, jews, christians of every denomination, pagans, and mahometaus, of a wish to admit jews, pagans, and mahometans into the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; but undoubtedly his statements might convey such a feeling to the minds of people. The present pleasure was one of the greatest importance, both with respect to our chtfrch and Uni versities; and he called upon their lordships to pause before they assented to an invasion of privileges which had been ap proved of for centuries, and to a disturbance of things which had and which still worked moat beneficially. It was an inter ference with the discipline of the Univeisities without any charge of mismanagement, and that in a manner which threw a slur upon our church, and a censure upon our Universities, for teaching a system of doctrine unfit to receive the assent-of those who were educated in our institutions. (Cheers.) He would conclude by moving that this bill be read a second time this-dav• six months. The Bishop of LLANDAFF admitted the right of government to interfere with the universities so as to control and regulate them, and snake them subservient to the public good, but thmieht the bill now proposed by_the noble earl was totally un called for, and recommended on grounds altogether untenable. . The J3ishop of Gc.oucesrea supported the amendment. The rev. prelat 3 said, in conclusion, it had been said that no bad con sequences had resulted from the matriculation of some young dissenters at Cambridge without requiring them to subscribe to the 39 articles. H e bad observed this circumstance with plea sure, and, as far as he had the opportunity of judging, he was bound to admit that no bad consequences had ensued from their admission. But these instances were very few, and when they were admitted, it was not as dissenters, and Indeed many of them afterwards took degrees, and professed themselves mem bers of the chur c h o f England. Others, it was true, left the university without taking a degree, but while they remained in it they participated in its privileges, not on a tacit, but an ex press condition of attendance at lectures, religious as well as others, and at college chapel; .and, till they left the university, it was not known, except perhaps to a few private friends, what theirown religious opinions or those of their family were. He repeated, then, that he was glad that the dissenters did in some instances join in, communion with members of the established church at the oniversity of Cambridge; but once admit this to be a right, and the case was entirely reversed. (Hear, hear.) The university would then, instead of being looked up to as a standard of the correctness of religious belief to members of the established church, be filled with popular and ardent preachers of the different hostile persuasions: and their lordships might depend upon it, that the attention of the young men would be more occupied with these controversies than with the subjects which now engaged their minds. The noble earl must be aware that the measure he proposed was too small and too short to stop here. The noble earl might destroy subscription, but that would not prevent the adoption of other tests by most of the colleges, if not all; and that the only consequence of the success of the noble earl's hill would be, that perhaps one or two colleges in both universities might admit dissenters, which would shortly be deserted by all who belonged to the established church. Now what would he gained by this? Would it not be better that the dissenters should endow a university of,their own on the same footing as Oxford and Cambridge, and run a fair and liberal course of competition with them ? He did not and could not admit that our universities were not nurseries for the church of England. (Hear, hear.) They always had been, and he hoped they always would be, so. But, if once the dissenters were admitted there, they would no longer be places for the education of members of the church of England. (Hear.) Viscount Melbourne spoke in favour of the motion. The Duke of Wellington opposed the bill. Ou a division the num bers were— CONTENT. Present Total ... Proxies 29 tsor CONTENT. Present........ Eta,) 163 Proxies. Majority ag ain s t the seco n d Total secoudreading....lo6 The bills on the table were then forrrar* - a stage, and the house adjourned at ten u'eloell. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TcEsosr. • The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock. ca (Ism' TO ANIMALS. Mr. PRASE moved that the house go into committee, and, the speaker having left the chair, the house was occupied duriug the a hole of this sitting on that bill. The speaker resumed the chair at five o'clock. PnszoFFICE. Lord LowTuza, al/tiding to the debate which his lordship termed," the field-da4 of Postmaster-General in the Notice of 'or - tli s t - rniveit:',Alir the purpose of explaining statements which regarded him personally, for " a return of papers from the office of the Postmaster-General, statin which of the recommenda tions of the commission ers h a d been carried into effect anti which not, together with the reasons fur Out carrying the latter into effect." The motion was agreed to. NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAIIENT. Mr. H.twus gave notice that he would call the attention of the house to this subject on Tuesday next. ALLEGED BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. CHARLTON, after stating at some length the particulars of his correspondence with the Morning Chronicle, abandoned any further proceedings against the printer of that paper. cofinpil.ATloNS BILL. On the motion of Lord JOI-N RUSSELL this bill was com mitted pro forma. Some resolutions were agreed to. The re port was brought up forthwith. On the question that it be taken into consideration on Thurs day next, Air. IlustE wished to know if any clause was to be added re lating to the disposal of property by corporations since the in troduction of this bill. He had . heard that some corporations had raised money by mortgage, and that others had sold their property. He thought that such sales ought nut to be held good. Lord J. Russat.r. said that a clause had been 'prepared to that effect, cud he would state it to the house on Thursday. THE MAUHITIt S. Mr. C. BULLER took that opportunity of stating that he would postpone his motion respecting the condu c t of th e go vernor of the Mauritius till the 13th of August. Sir G. GREY expressed his regret that it should be postponed to so distant a day. Mr. C. But IRK said he did so because, on applying at the Colonial-office, he was given to understand that the noble lord at the bead of that department would not be reaay to go into it at present. The report of the municipal corporations bill was then ordered to be taken into further consideration on Thursday. ABORIGINES IN BRITISH SETTLESIF.NTS. On the motion of Mr. PowELL 13vvroN a select committee was appointed to inquire into the treatment of the original in habitants of Biitish settlements. BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH. Mr. R. WA SON moved " that the petitions from Great Yard trhattla, (preseuted ,on , the 26th and 30th o f J une ,) among other things, that the sum of two guineas has been lately paid to many of the voters, at the house of one of the moat active pattisans in behalf of the sitting members, and humbly and earnestly praying that the house will cause an inquiry tab° made into the circumstances stated in the petition be referred to a select com►uittee." The motion was carried on a division by a majority 0154. CORI:U.110N OF TIIF, FIMF.mEN OF TH6 CITY Or YORK. Mr. AGLIONBY moved that the petition complaining of bribery at York he referred to a select committee. Agreed to without a division. The house adjourned at two o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY. The llouse of Lords merely sat to receive the reports upon two bills from the House of Commons, and after the presenta tion of a few• petitions of no pa!die interest.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY. The Speaker entered the house shortly before four o'clock, at which hour there being only thirty-eight members present, the house adjourned till to-morrow. LONDON POLICE REPORT. HATTON GARDEN. PLATE IioaBEHIEs.--Tuesday John Goldsmith, a middle aged man, was brought to this office before Mr. Laing, in the custody of Inspector Oakley, and Passey, 101), E charged by Ellis, Esq., 'lll.l l . for Coventry, with having stolen a silver spoon ; and also on suspicion of being concerned in stealing jewellery to the amoont of upwards of illooo. Mr. Ellis attended with a friend and several of his house hold, and on the prisoner being placed at the bar, Mr, Laing ordered that the witnesseo on both sides should withdraw whilst he went through the examination. It appears that about four years ago, whilst the family of Mr. Ellis were at dinner, the jewellery was stolen under the most mysterious circumstances, and, although every inquiry was made into the matter, no tidings whatever could be traced of the thief or property, and fourteen servants were discharged the house. Since that period the affair has remained a pro found mystery, and all notion of ever recovering any part of the property was entirely abandoned. The prisoner, who was in the habit of visiting the servants, called at the house on yesterday fortnight to see the butler and housekeeper, who were still retained in the service, and was there whilst the servants were at dinner in the housekeeper's room, where a certain .por tion of the plate was allowed to be used, and after he had quitted the place one of the silver t a bl e spouus was m i sse d , b ut no sus picion fell upon him. Ott Wednesday last, however, he called at the shop of Mr. Keyzer, silversmith, of Tottenham-court road, and offered three silver tablespoons (one bearing the crest of Mr. Ellis) and a silver dessert spoon for sale, the whole of them being . broken and the edges of part of theta being burnt so as to give them the appearance of old plate. Mr. Keyzer agreed with him for price, and, after apologising, requested teat he would give him his name and address. The prisoner said 'his name was John Smith, and that he,resided in Grove-street, Camden-town, and referred him to a Mr. Collard, grocer, of Camden -town, to prove that he resided there. Mr: Keyzer told him that he would make the proper inquiries, and if he would call again on the following day he would eitheryay him for the plate or restore it if h e f oun d a ll r i g h t. Mr. Keyzer instantly proceeded to Mr. Collard, and on his arrival he found the pri soner there with Mrs. Collard, who slid that she knew the pri soner and his wife, who did reside in Grove.street, but they had quitted that neighb our h oo d. I n f ormat i on was immediately given to Passes', who made further inquiries, anti ascertained that the prisoner lived at 47, Chester-street, Kennington-lane, and that during the last tour years he had been in the frequent habit of visiting Mr. Ellis's house to see one of the servants, and on ascertaining that the spoon bore Mr. Ellis's crest (a hand and serpent) he instantly proceeded to that gentleman's house, when he identified the spoon, and discovered that on the very day that it was used by the lady's maid in the kousekeeper's room the prisoner had paid a visit there. On the Friday after he offered the property for sale he called on Mr. Keyzer, to be paid or have the property returned, when Mr. Keyzer t4drd him he was not satisfied, and that he would not return the property un less he consented to go with him and Passey to the station house, which he agreed to do, and there he said he had pur chased the plate produced, about two years ago, in its present state, at Machin and Debenham's auction-rooms, in King-street, Covent-garden, and he denied any knowledge of Mr. Ellis. He was liberated, but the property was detained by Passes, who having received information as to the jewel robbery on Sunday last he proceeded to 47, Chester-street, Kennington, in com pany of Inspector Oakley, where they discovered the prisoner to he living with his wife and child. .Passey inquired after the prisoner, who was denied, and stated not to be at home; but he felt satisfied that he was, and gave a signal for Inspector Oak ley to enter, on doing which - they found the prisoner in an apartment up stairs, and informed him that they had called re lative to the silver plate which he offered for sale at Mr. Key zer's. The prisoner assured them that he had purchased it at Machin and Debenham's. They then told hint it was no good to say anything more upon the subject, they had ascertained that the spoon belonged to Mr. Ellis, and he was their prisoner, and they took him to the station-house. On searching the house they found a quantity of jewellery, consisting of gold brooches, a silver shell brooch, comelier). gold chain, coral earrings, silver buckles, tortoiseshell, pebbles, and mother-o'-pearl orna ments, ear-drops, a large chased ring, a ring of peculiar con struction, set with blue stones, a silver box, with pearl top and a looking-glass inside on the cover, containing some ancient Greek and French coins; the gold top of a scent bottle, a pep per castor, with a long silver top; a silver fruit knife, with a lion on the blade; a valuable silver watch, made by .Barthard, of Paris, with F. IL inside the case; a metal watch, and other articles, which the offieers took possession of. One of the tablespoons and the dessert, spoon which the prisoner offered for sale bore the crest of a pheon (Irish plate.) Mr. Keyzer stated that the spoons bad evidently been broken very recently, which he could tell from . part of the edges; the ends of some of the pieces had been put into the fire to give it the appearance of having been broken for some time. James Colburn, butler to Mr. Ellis, stated that he knew the prisoner. He was introduced to the ti , use by a person named Deakin, who lived with Mr. Ellis formerly as butler. The plate was under his care, and six table spoons (including the one now produced) were used in the housekeeper's room, and the prisoner on . yesterday fortnight called at the house, when the spoon was missing. Mrs. Colburn, housekeeper to Mr. Ellis, anti wife to the last witness, stated that the prisoner called to see her on Monday wrie. t6c s v geris were toed, and the one now pro duced, which was offered by the prisoner for sale, formed part of the service. Mr. Laing asked the prisoner what he had to say to the charge? He replied that he purchased the spoons two years ago at Machin and Debenham's sale rooms. Mr. Laing asked how he became acquainted with the house keeper ? Prisoner.—l wag introduced by Mr. Deakin, the former but ler. His wife had been out to China as lady's maid to Mrs. Mellish, in whose service Deakin was a butler. He had some time ago kept a public-house at Wapping, which he sold. Mr. Laing.—Were you at Mr. Ellis's on Monday week? Prisoner.-1 was, your worship. Mr. Laing.—At what time? Prisoner.--At dinner time,one o'clock,when the servants dined . . Colhurn said that the spoon was not missod for three days after it was stolen. It was frequently the case that spoons were missing, and not found for several day s a f ter a party: Mr. Laing asked the prisoner where he first met with Deakin ? Prisoner.--At a public-house in the neighbourhood of Cam den-town. Mr. Laing.—You must give a more satisfactory account of this property. Prisoner.—l can only say that I bought it at Machin and Debenhain's. _ _ Mr Laing.—Then I shall remand you, and I shall require you to produce somebody from there'to prove so. Prisoner.—l don't know how lamto do so. Mr. Laing said that he could if it was the fact, which was not consistent with truth. Mr. Ellis did not recognise any of the jewellery, which still remains in the possession of the officers, who are making the most active inquiries, to trace, if possible, other robberies. Mr. Laing then remanded the prisoner, and ordered that no person should be allowed to communicate with him during the interim; and subsequently the court was cleared, and he con • sulted privately with Mr. Ellis and his friends, when they quitted the office. THE TEA TRADE. On Monday there was a full attendance of the merchants and brokers connected with the tea trade at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, for the purpose of receiving a report of the measures taken by a committee appointed to memorialize government on the subject of the reeent order of the Com missioners of Customs, directing that Fokein bohea teas should not be passed as heretofore at the low duty. The public sales of teas recently imported, which were adjourned from yesterday week, were fixed to be proceeded with in the event of the appli cation to government being attended with success, Mr. Thompson, whose sales had precedence, on mounting the rostrum, stated the proceedings of the committee. A memorial had, in pursuance of a recommendation of Lord Melbourne, at the recent interview, been sent to the Lords of the Treasury, stating that the public sales of a large quantity of teas had been suspended in consequence of the inspectors having dem an ded • the duty of 2s. 2d. per lb. on Fukci n boheas, although.at the East India Company's last sale such teas had passedat the duty of Is. 6d. per lb. The memorial proceeded to - state the Injury that would be inflicted on the dealers and importers of tea if any such change were made, especially as orders had been sent to China for the purchasing the next season's teas. The memo rial concluded by praying the Lords of the Treasurf to direct that Fokein boheas should continue to be chargeable the duty of 'one shilling and sixpence in the pound. • The result of this' memoriatisad been that on Saturday the Treasury sent a'ComL niunication, directing that the 'Classification originally adopted should be adhered to; and an order to th a t eff ec t was i ssue d b y the Commissioners of Customs late on Saturday afternoon. He (Mr. Thompson) had hail some conversation with one. of the inspectors, and had asked him what duty would now be put upon Fokein bttheas, and he had been told that they would be rated at the duty of one shilling arid sixpence per lb. Mr.-Sanderson asked w h e th er any official statement to that effect had been sent to Mr. Horsley Palmer, whose name Was first signed to the memorial. Mr. Thompson said he was not aware that any communica tion had been made to Mr. Palnier to the effect that Fokein boheas would be passed at the low duty. Fle would, however, remind the trade of what Mr. Grant had said upon this subject on the 2d of January, 1835. The hon. gentleman then stated that he had no hesitation in stating that no greater duty than Is. 6d. would he imposed upon any bohea teas sold at the sales then about to take place. Mr. Twining said that that might be said perhaps to relate to the East India House sales. Mr. Thompson observed that the East India Company had themselves since regulated upon this subject upon the assurances . then held out. He had observed in the orders of the House of Commons fur that evening that the customs duties bill and the tea duties stood for consideration. He (Mr. Thompson) had addressed a letter to Mr. Poulett Thomson, ask►ng for infor►na tion as to whether anv measures would be proposed on the sub ject of the tea duties, but had received no answer. Mr. Travers said something might perhaps escape miniriter, on the subject of the tea duties when the customs duties bil l was under consideration. A suggestion was made for adjourning the sale, hut it was not acted upon. The auctioneer stated that the boheas were withdrawn. The other teas declared were then put up, and those sold realised full prices. About 60,0(X) chests have been announced for the present sales. HanaiNG Fist-Lk:ay.—The greatest fishing of herrings that has been got in the West Highlands this season was taken at .Tarhert on the morning of Saturday last. There were upwards of four hundred boats at sea, and all got herrings—frou► three hundred to fourteen ►naize, or seventy hundred. They have been purchased by the curers for the Glasgow market at Iron) 7s. 6d. to Bs. per hundred, and are of the finest quality. The fishermen state, that, from appearances, a very successful fish ing may be expected at. Tarbert and the neighbouring coasts for a few weeks at least.—SeottiA Guardian. DUELLING DISCOUNTENANCED IN THh FRENCH ARMY.--M. Vial, Colonel of the Bth Dragoons, has been superseded, and placed on the list of officers not in active service, in consequence of his having fought a thiel with Lieutenant-Colonel. Clerard,• of the canoe regitneut.—Freficit Paper.- • FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1835. We have received Jamaica papers to the 10th June, but they are not very interesting. The following ex hibits a curious state of society upon a limited scale : (From the Montego Bay Standard of June 3, 1835.) In our paper of the 23d ult. we briefly mentioned the fact that a fire had broken out on Mrs. Caldwell's settlement, near Lamb's River, which had destroyed the dwelling-house. We have since learnt some circumstances connected with this affair, which are of a most extraordinary nature, and which impera tively call upon the proper'authorities thoroughly to sift it to the bottom. It appears that among the apprentices belonging to Mrs. .Caldwell, and some others in that neighbourhood, a most mis chievous imposture is practised under the pretence that they had become possessed of the gift of prophecy ! They had actually gone the length, it appears, of pruphecying that de struction was to fall on the house of Mr. Wiggan, whose pro perty adjoins that of Mrs. Caldwell, and who is the brother of that lady. The foreseen destruction, however, fell.upon Mrs Caldwell's house instead. The fire broke out iu the ginger -house, in the middle of the night, and quickly communicated with the dwell ing -house, which was soon destroyed. The negroes assem bl e d, but stood looking on, and positively refused to give any assist ance towards extinguishing the flames, saying that it would be flying in the face of prophecy—that it was a judgment from the Lord, and it would he sinful to render any assistance. They were then asked to blow the shell, but even this they refused to do, some still appealing to the prophecy, and others pretending that they were out of breath with the fatigue of walking up the hill, and therefore could not blow! In the meantime, the flames made so much progress as to put it out of the power of any one to save the buildings, and both were consumed. It is too evident that this fire was the work of an incendiary, and that the guilty individual is one of Mrs. Caldwell's own ap prentices. One of those who pretends to possess the gift of pro phecy cans herself the Virgin Mary, and another blasphemous wretch has assumed the name of Jesus Christ ! The parties ate all baptists, and we have heard that a minister of that persuasion has been endeavouring to hush up this affair under the pretext of investigating it himself! We, however, call upon the ma gistrate; to do their duty, take the case into their own hands, and not permit so serious a crime' to pass unpunished, otherwise there will be no security for life or property in the neighbour. hood where these prophets reside. It is very easy for these miscreants to prophecy that destruction will come upon a settle ment and to cause their prophecy to be fulfilled. Should they escape punishment in the present instance, there may soon be another " judgment" falling upon tome other unfortunate ob ject of their malevolence ; and so they may proceed from bad to worse, until the extent of their " judgments" equal that of Christmas, 1831. The individuals we have mentioned, the one as assuming the name of the Virgin Mary and the other that of the Saviour, were both deeply implicated in the events of tha t disastrous pe►iad ; let us hope that this may not prove a prema ture explosion of a similar plot. Persons who were deeply con nected i❑ the former insurrection appear to be the movers in this arson ; and those who, to say t:so least, applauded the most active in the work of destruction are now endeavouring to screen the guilty parties by pretending to investigate the matter! We repeat our earnest trust that the magistrates will do their duty and sift this mysterious affair to the hottoM.: We beg leave to call attention to an important clause intended to be added to the new Municipal reform bill, and which will be found in another place. In this clause the leaseholders of property in Livet:pool are deeply concerned, for it completely alters the terms upon which the corporation have hitherto acted in granting and re newing leases. At present we have no room for further comment. The sickly liberals and pseudo religionists of the day are ever and anon telling us that poper► does not now wear the same harsh and gloomy aspect which it did in the dark ages. Frequently have we warned our readers against indulging this fatally erroneous opinion. The Romish creed is a creed based upon falsehodd. The zeal of the devotees of popery is rebellion ; and their priests, more particularly in Ireland, are brought up in all the low arts of fraud and deception. It may suit the ends of these plotters of evil occasionally to mask their base de signs under the treacherous veil of an unotrending anxiety for the welfare of immortal souls. , But be assured, that the baleful features of their abominable superstitions, and their revolting and disgusting ordinances, remain in all their original hideousness. in England they are too wise and too prudent to exhibit themselves in any combined form against the institutions of the state. In Ireland they have not, till of late years, come forth from their lurking places ; but emboldened by the success which has hitherto attended their insidious attacks upon that branch of the protestant church of England established in that king dom, they have recently been less guarded, and now, for sooth, they have discovered to us the present standard of their religious faith. . . In the palmy days of popery, when the occupants of the Romish chair possessed an almost boundless sway over the mils and bodies amen ;—in the days when the pope was allowed to possess the title of Christ's vicar, almost undisputed, then did their doctors not -hesitate to declare a royal road to heaven, which was to be paved with arti ficial sighs and confessions, pardons, indulgences, and we know not what besides; then did their principal doctors, their guides of conscience, teach men to break all the ties and ligaments of society, telling their disciples that faith is . not to be kept with heretic, directing them how to LIE artificially, to equivocate and forswear, to cheat in their business transactions, to disannul contracts, laying down laws also by which to exempt their priests, even though guilty of high treason, from the secular arm, requiring the charge against such to be laid in an ecclesiastical court, and holding a cardinal innocent unless seventy:firs-: could witness against him, and acquitting a bishop if there were not sixty-four to appear against him! It was dur ing these times, when the Romish guides were busy in structing subjects to rebel, children to be disobedient, and servants to be unfaithful ;—then it was that there lived and flourished one DOMINUS DENS. This DOMINUS DENS published a work of the nature and character of those of which we have just now been making mention- The book passes under the spec;ous title of " Dent's cow pkte Body of Theology." Some may here perhaps ask - , but what has a book pub lished in these the worst and most persecuting days of the papacy,—what have the opinions then in circulation to do with the case of the Irish papists now ? We are ready to admit that in former times every species of de-' lusion was practised on the people which would bring supplies to the papal coffers, and no doctrine was left un broached if it could be made subservient to the enslaving of the minds of blind and confiding votaries; but surely now these opinions have given way to others of a more lenient and rational character. The pope now is _only allowed a mitigated supremacy ; indulgences and dispen sations have now only a theoretical existence. These, with many other similar excuses for popery, form the lan guage of the modern deseondantiv of those who- lived at the glorious reformation. Now, we repeat what we have often before stated, that popery is the same in spirit and in practice in the present day as it was three hundred years ago. There is the same virulent hatred of truth, the same hateful lust after illegal power. The scenes which are of daily occurrence in Ireland show that they have not forgotten how to use the wea pons of temporal warfare in support of their spiritual . usurpations. H a d we not hi ng e l se to c h arge the men of Rome with than these practical commentaries on their creed, surely it would be no light thing that we had against them. Still we might possibly be told that this' ebullition of feeling on the part of certain professors ought not to be regarded- as the necessary results of papal dominion. We assert that it is the system itself which is at fault ; and on the system must be charged all the murders, and rapine, and plunder, which distract poor un happy Ireland. In proof of our assertion we refer to the above-mentioned work of DOMINUS DENS. This work is the store-house of the vile and disgusting morceaux on which the priests of Rome, in Ireland, love to glut their debauched and depraved mental appetites. Did this work exist only in old libraries an:l among ancient records, its bestialities and extravagancies might be chargeable on the outward asceticism and inward lustful depravities of the ancient monks. But this volume has not been allowed to moulder among musty folios. It contains too clear and precise an exposition of the degrading doctrines of the Romish church for their priests to allow it thus to re main in oblivion. The savage atrocities of whith the popish priests in Ireland were to be the instigators,—the crimes for which they were to grant absolution,—the measures which they were to take for their own aggran disement,—the means they were to employ for the ad vancement of the designs of the papal see,—the plans most efficient in the work of protestant annihilation,— Ithese were things requirin g so l emn concert an d arrange ment. The work which it was assigned to the Romistt hierarchy to effect in Ireland was not the work of the mo ment. If done at all, it could be done only by the uni . form and preconcerted activity of. the whole priesthood: The scheme was uf far too much importance, and involved far too serious considerations, to allow its success to de pend on the individual and voluntary exertions of its per petrators. The command to establish popery, and po pery exclusively, in the Irish dominions of King WILLIAM IV. had gone forth from the poi - 4 himself. It remained only for his slaves, located iu that country, to obey the mandate. They wanted not the inclination, Tall they stood in need of was an efficient plan. Their rabid jell• . lousy would not entrust the formation of this plan to one of their own body. What then was to be done? UNI FORMITY and SECRECY were essential parts of the infer nal scheme. The course which they were to pursue was soon agreed upon. This was not the first time their church had been the instrument of perdition in the mas sacre of protestants. This was not their first attempt to enslave the consciences, and pollute the minds of their votaries. When did the Romanists forbear to strike if there were even the shadow of an opportunity ? It was no new thing in the annals of Rome to enjoin. =iv der,—it had long been their practice to sanction fraud. Rebellion has ever been a favourite tenet of theirs. It only remained, then, . for the Irish hierarchy of Rome to search among their ancient record% and they would find innumerable sanctions for their vile and base plots. But policy had here. its work to do. A reprint of the Lateran Council under Pope INstoevss' the THIRD, or the bull of Pope PAUL the THIRD, against our own King HENRY the EIGHTH, would have given the sanction of mother church to REBELLION and PER JURY. But this was not enough. It was not every priest in Ireland who had received his education in those seminaries of filth and pollution—those corrupt dens of iniquity, treason, fraud, and rebellion—which abound on the continent under the name of monasteries. The Col*. lege at Maynooth is bad enough; but it is nothing tO the foreign schools of jesuitry. It remained, - then, that, in addition to these sanctions for persecution and tyranny. the priests should be furnished with a bribe—a dish on which they might feed their diseased imaginations. To whom, then, could they fly so well as to DOMINUS DENS He had written a •' Complete Body- of Theology." He would furnish them with texts for their conferences--- he would aid them its corrupting the minds of their de luded worshippers—he werdd teach them how to make the readiest use of auricular confession! . He gave them a license to sin alai to absolVe from sin ; he furnished them with matter for a sensual repast under a spiritual .plea; he taught the accursed doctrine of intention, by which the priest has unlimited power.; in short, DOW' NUS DENS at once. armed them with the weapons of con troversy, taught them the best and shortest method to extirpate heretics, and provided them at the same time with an obscene repast over which to. gloat with a dis gusting avidity. This, then,. was the book for their purpose. Accordingly in 1808, as. the following extract from the N Annual Directory," published by the accre dited agent of Dr. MURRAY, who usurps the title of Archbishop of Dublin, will show : "At a meeting of the !lomat) catholic prelates of Iralasit assembled in Dublin on the 14th of September, 1808, the,' unanintoutly ugreed, that " Dens's Complete Body of Theology" was the best book on the subject that could be republiblied, containing the most secure guidance for such ecclesiastics so may, by reason of the peculiar circumstances of this country, b° deprived of the opportunity of referring to public libraries, ol• consulting those who may be placed in 4uthurity ever them. la consequence an edition of this work was ordered to Irt printed bf the present publisher to the number of 3,000 copies." H e re, then, is the authoritative sanction to the reprint of this work, and all the sophistries and references 1 0 oaths in its denial are of no avail. Some of o4r contour poraries have been at great pains to convict Dr. Mußasf of wilful perjury in his letter to Lord Met.aovingS• Pshiw ! What does a papist care for perjury ? It is tg aim.: of which, except under very particular circnur stances, his church does not take cognizance. In the hull of Pope Pius V. against our Queen ELIZABETA the following practical commentary on the value. of arttrath in the eyes of a papist occurs:— " Et item prceeres, eubditor et popalas dicti Rev!, ac catelv v (mines qui till QUANDOCUNQUE JURAVERUNT # JURAMENTO hu jusmodi ac omni prorsas dumini , fidelitAai, e$ übtequii debitu PERPETUU ABSO Livros, - &c. What need have we of; any farther . prof vs, ies these wen disregard 9ao lO' tSie par,l THE BEDFORD VOTE MANUFACTORY. ( From the Standard.) The Following is the paragraph from the Northampton Herald to which we yesterday alluded:- " We pledge ourselves to the truth of the following statement : -There Is at Hartford, a parish within a mile of Huntingdon. a field of arable land containing jinly acres. It is the property of the Duke of Bedford, and is rented by a tenant named John Watford.- Now will it be believed that cut qt . this forty-acre . field no less than forty votes have been created by the Duke of Bedfi,rd, and in tavour of men as completely dependant upon his will as ever were the electors of Gatton and Old Sarum upon their respective lords. That no doubt may remain about the matter, and to enable the Duke of Bedford to contradict our statement, if untrue, we extract a list as we find them registered. " 1. Rev. Philip Hunt, Duke of Bedford's chaplain; 2. Charles Wing, Duke of Bedf or d' s agen t' s cous i n; 3 . Ch ar l es Short, Duke of Bedford's apothecary; 4. Charles Palgrave, Duke of Bedford's freeman; 5. William Palgrave, ditto; 6. John Palgrave, ditto; 7. Hobert Palgrave, ditto; 8. R. Pal grave, sen., ditto; 9. h. Palgiave. jun., ditt o; 10. Samuel Lowell, ditto ; 11. John Lovell, ditto; 12. William Lovell, ditto; 13. H. T. Atterbury, Duke of Bedford's tenant; 14. John Heighington, ditto; 13. Th omas B rown, di tto; 16. Ro bert Brown, ditto; 17. Charles Dobson, ditto; 18. Thomas Parnell, ditto; 19. Joseph Wiggington, ditto; '2O. Charles Higgins, ditto; '2l. James Stnatf, ditto; 22. Joseph Tween, ditto ; X 23. Edward H a ll, ditto; 21. Joseph Httlatt, ditto ; 2.5. John allieeman, ditto; 26. John Molleeey, ditto; 27. John Twigge, ditto: 28. Thomas Overman, ditto; 29. Henry Edw. Platt, ditto ; 30. Ben. Twitchell, ditto; 31. Edward Wall, ditto; 32. John Robert Walker, ditto; ari. John Linney, ditto; 31. William Perkins, ditto; 35. Robert Sisson, ditto; 36. John Burnham, ditto; 37. William Brimley, ditto, 38. John Purser, ditto; 39. Thomas Twitchett, ditto; 40. John Watford, oc cupier." Such are the desperate means resorted to by our oppo nents—the liberal, purity-loving whigs. The object of this particular manoeuvre is clear. Lord John Russell was once member for Huntingdonshire. Kicked out of that county, he took refuge in Devonshire. Now, rejected by Devon, he would fain, by such means as these, force himself back upon the men of Huntingdon. Surely however, they will defend their own rights. These forty faggot votes may every one of them be struck off under the Splitting Act. But this plain warning, that the whigs are prepared to go all lengths, and to run riot over all laws, must surely arouse the conservatives. Let every man, then, register at once. The last day of claim is on illoaday next and the' form of claim for counties we again subjoin : " To the overseers of the Parish of " I hereby g ive you noti ce , that I claim to b e i ns e r t e d i n t h e liSt of v o t ers fu r the county of Middlesex, and that the particu lars of my place of abode and qualification are stated below. Dated this day of ,in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and thirty-five. " (Signed) " [Christian and surnames at full length.] . " Place of abode. " Nature of qualification. " Where situate in this parish." LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. OIGNOR BLI'T'Z, H of the Art of CI Magic, Slight of Hand, Ventriloquism, c., will have the honour of displaying his extraordinary po ers at this Theatre THIS EVENING. the 17th instant, pr v nos to his departure for America, (his fifth appearance these e years.) The Amusements of the Evening will consist of New and Extraordinary METAMORPHOSES, never yet exhibited in Liverpool; ILLUSIONS, both pleasing and astonishing; MAGICAL COINS ; PROLIFIC HAT; TRANSFOR MATIONS; VENTRILOQUISM; LEGERDEMAIN ; FEATS OF DEXTERITY; DANCING OF FIVE DIN NER PLATES;—forming Waltzes, Quadrilles, Reels, and Country Dances, with various others too numerous to mention. To conclude with the Wonderful GUN TRICK. Signor BLITZ will suffer any Gentleman in the Theatre to fire at hint with a Gun loaded with powder and two halls, (pre viously marked,) and immediately after its discharge will exhibit the same balls in his hand, warm and smelling of gunpowder ! ! ! Boxes, 2s.—Pit, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock; and Chi,dren admitted to the Boxes at Half-price from the beginning. Doors to be open at Half-past Seven, Performance to begin at Eight exactly. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication of "A Friend to Justice" cannot be in serted on anonymous authority.' ribe tiberpool eeetantiatt. THE LI'VERPOOL STANDARD. JUL- , 17, 1836.