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IT is rather a curios' coincidence that Miss

THE SHOE-LANE RIOT. TALBOT was married and the Ecclesiastical Titles
Lord 11. C. STUART asked if any steps hail been taken Bill read a second time in the Lords on the same
by the government "rug& dim"' riug the policeman day. On the morning of that day the following ad-
arrein,t whom a verdict id manslaughter had been returned
isement occupied a prominent place in the co-
by the coroner's inquest on the body of John Hogan, killed vert
in the recent diaturlmnee in Shoe-lane, and whether any lumns of the daily organ of the Romanist and Roman-
reward bail been offered by the government ? Wog. priestboods:—" No. 3.i, Golden-square.—This
Mr. Boe vEitth "i.l the m"mt-'ffice poesented no evening there will be the usual Tuesday converse-
knowlidee of the circumstance., as they hod no control zione." It can hardly have been a " merry meeting."
over the City police. Nu application for a n;waril had been
Such concurrent rcmembraneers of the fact that
made, and it was unusual iu such eases for rewards to be
riestl
Wrens'. py usurpation had been repelled from without
IMPROVEMENT OF TOWNS (IRELAND) BILL. and baffled within the church, must have cast a
In answer to Mr. Mossaet, gloom over the cartlinalition halls.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said it WA. not in his power to The
thoughtless or unworthy Englishmen who,
my whether the !minimum -it of Towns (trekked) Bill
either from slavish subserviency to their spiritual
would be proceeded with. Ile was most anxious to do so.
CASE OF MARY ANN HICKS. directors, or from want of a proper sense of what is
Col. SIBTHURP gave notice to drew the attention of due to the national dignity, have, in the struggle
the "IMO, to the case of Mary Ann Hicks on an early tt against Rome, palliated or abetted the papal en-
cillittco BUILDINGS ACTS AMENDMENT LH croachmcnts, arc beating about in all directions for
ID answer to Mr. S. Banana,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that consolation under their defeat. They affect to be-
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of the vnm at to exclude from this lievc, that, with the single exception of Lord JOUR
It was ..... ititeiltailt
bill the climes that had been objeacil to, to have the bill HussELL, all the cabinet ministers were averse to
°untainted pro forma, and then reprinted. The bill with- legislation on the subject. They even find a mel-
out those clause, promoted a meet desirable object, and was ancholv pleasure in taunting ministers with having
altogether unobjectionable. been Oblig!..d to make their measure more stringent
AITORNIES• AND SOLICITORS' CERTIFICATE
DUTY RILL. than they intended. If they can alleviate their pro-
The second reading of this bill Will postponed for three found mortification by such silly averments, and by
weeks. such exultation in their own deeper defeat, be would
SALE OF BEER (No. 2) BILL. be churlish, indeed, who should grudge it them.
Sir J. PAKINGTON presented petitions front 300
foe men, mad from upwards of SO gaol chaplains, in favour Let them talk of the bill as they please ; let them
a this hill. As the gaol chaplains resided in different yummier about its inadequacy to meet the emer-
parts of the country, their signature* had only been at- gency, the alleged impossibility of carrying it into
Melted by the authority of letters from the parties. execution ; ono thing is certain. It is an unequi-
The 1411"1"It held th"t the petition could nut he re- vocal, a national declaration that the antipathy of
teivell.
mr. nionN ELY said the number of petitions sent in England to priestly arrogance mid usurpation is un-
with groups of signatures in the same writing was a source abated. It is a renewal of the great protest against
of great inconvenicace to the committee on petitions. the plunder of the industrious laity under false
Mr. WALTER presented a petition from Nottingham, pretences; against the suppression of free inquiry by
against the bill.
Sir J. OT ON, after stating that he could not Rome through the instrumentality of 'superstitious
hope to the bill this laWlol3, moved for have to with- fears and physical coercion. It is a proclamation
draw it. that the English people as a body are-protestants in
Withdrew,' accordingly. the brand and unsectarian acceptation of the name—
ENIIIANCRISSEML:a OF COPYHOLDS (No. 3) protesters rigiinst the juggling erection of temporal
BILL.
Mr. AOLIONBY said this bill was the result of the re. power on the basis of ecclesiastical authority.
• of a select committee, and had his full sip- An attempt has been made to represent the bill—
rural ; but he thought it better not to press it any further which in the course of a few days at furthest, will
this session, but to allow it to be circulated through the have received the assent of the sovereign, and have
country during themes'. with& view to its early riintrodue- become law--as in attempt to bias and coerce tril-
lion flint ikWOOII. He moved that the bill be committed that glows conviction. It is nothing of the kind. It
day three months.
Agreed M.
debars neither priest nor layman of the liberty to
ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE entertain and avow what religioua opinion he pleases.
IMPROVEMENT BILL. It interferes neither with the liberty of the priest to
The house went into committee on this bill, inculcate his doctrines, and administer his rites and
Mr' BAINES, the promoter of the bill, said the public sacraments, nor with the liberty of the layman to
liindented fur it to the Lunt Chief i untie. of the Queen's
tenene 'li ;it had ease down from the other house with the receive these ministrations. It leaves to the Roman
approesit of nearly all the law lords, and every one best catholic elector the full exercise of the rights
erquainted with the subject. Its objects were important. of citizenship ; to the Roman catholic legis-
The tint was to give power tea court to amend any variance lator the unrestrained liberty of voice and vote
between indietm.nt and evidence in criminal cases, subject in the senate. Roman catholics in England are
to the restriction that the primate was not thereby in-
jured in his means of deceit, Another object of the free to believe and worship as they lease;p their
bill was the shortening and amplifying the forms of criminal e personal liberty, their rights of pnvate property,
pleadings. A third object of the bin war to do away with ob- are as secure as those of protestants; they may
*lions strictly formal. Another object was this. It pro- boldly, in and out of parliament, call in question the
Tided that on trials for offences, where it should turn out *lace or expediency of any law that mi.slikes them,
that the party had nut been guilty of the entin• offence
chanced, but only of the attempt to commit it. the effect and advocate its abrogation. The pirotestants of
the belief in the Romish
should not he as at present, that the entire indictment England wish, indeed, to see
'boob! fell. Under the present ball the jury might find the church eradicated from the minds of men, but they
party guilty of the attempt, when the court could deal know that that cannot be accomplished by penal laws
with the hnding accordingle. These were the prim- anti coercion, and that they have no right to use
app objects to be attained by the bill. There were several
others of lesser importance, which he would not then stop such instruments, even though they could be effi-
to explain. Hi. opinion was that this bill would have a cacious.
great tendency to improve the adiniMetratiers of criminal The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill is a blow struck, not
lustier, to render it cheaper and more certain,—by doing at Roman catholice,'mt at such of their priests as seek
away with salvo technicalities—and thus to reduce the to extend over non-members of their church the same
question to be determined according to the real truth and .c • flu -
justice of the ere. (Hear, beer.) authority that y exercise over their own
tSr clamor I beteg put, The insolent attempt of a foreign sovereign to parcel
Mr. S. WORTLEY said he highly approved of the min- out this country into administrative districts, and to
eiple of the bill. But he thought it might be improved in confer territorial titles of honour and authority with-
some respects. In eases, for instance, where a verdict in this land, were it a mere empty insult, would call waareturned by a coroner's jury behind a man's back,
charging him with ((dewy, that pa rt y could not he admitted for resistance. But it is something more. It is pal-
to bail unless ha went before one or the judges, which was pably intended to be the first step in a series of mea-
tovzespensive proceeding ; he. therefore thought justices surer for conferring upon the dignified priest-
have the power of admitting to bail : and it would . hood of the Romuth church in this country a
be well if the present act would confer such power. (Hear, 1 more absolute control over whatever funds
fir') can persuade their flocks to devote to
After a few words from Mr. Armstrong. Mr. Napier, Sir the?.
J. Parkington, Mr. Aglionby, and Mr. Whiteside, ere esiastical purpses. It is well known that in 1
Clause I was agreed to. old times, when' ecclesiastical property in this coun-
The other clauses., up to 2A, were agreed to. try was thus plieed at the disposal of the hierarchy,
On clause 25, relating to the mode of arraigning the a large per ventage of it found its way into the Ito-
prisoner,
treasury, and that of the residue a large propor-
Mr. NAPIER moved the rejection of the clause, on the man
ground that it would enable parties to make a vexatious Don was indirectly made the means of rewurg
sr of it. subserviency to the court of Rome. Our Roman
Mr. HATCHELL thought that an inconvenient use catholic forefathers struggled against the system
it
might beou made of the dame, and that it would be better to which plundered the laity of the country to replenish
*mike t.
Mr. GEANGER thought the elausc ought to be struck the Roman treasury, to promote the secular ambition
oat. and intrigues of the Roman court, and their protes-
Mr. BAINES said the clause was not his ; it was intro- tant descendants will not submit more tamely to such
deeed in the Hone of Lords. practices than they did.
The ATTORNEY.GENERAL said he was not going to
oppose what seemed 'to be the wish of the house,
namely, that the clause should rest7rasliek out. But, at the The Roman treasury has presented comparatively
a beggarly show of empty boxes since the Popes
same time, it was desirable, if pcoable, to avoid calling on were restricted to the revenues of the domains which
a prisoner to plead not guilty, when in his conscience ha they hold as temporal sovereigns. A natural desire
knew that he was guilty. (Hear, hear.)
The clause was then smack out. is felt to bring back the times when Peter's penes
Mr. BAINES moved the following clause: o Whenever flowed into the POPE'S coffers from every country 1,
any person shall be convicted of any one of the offenses Europe. Long accustomed to fish in
following, as an indictable misdemeanor, that is to say, any waters, the fisherman at Rome has bss
cheat or fraud punishable at common law ; any conspiracy making a bold attempt to avail himself of