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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31.

IN the House of Loans, in answer to Lord
CRILLNISFORD,
Earl Russ= said that the latest intelligence
relative to the British prisoners in Abyssinia was
up to 28th April, when it appeared that they were
suffering no additional hardships, and it was the
intention of her Majesty's government to send out
another mission with presents, and he would be
ready to communicate all that he learned on the
subject to the noble lord.
The Commissioners of Supply Meetings (Scot-
land) Bill was read a second time ; as was the Dogs
Regulation (Ireland) Bill
The Companies' Workmen's F.ducation Bill was
read a third time and passed.
The Passengers Bill passed through committee.
The County Voters Registration Bill and the
County of Sussex Bill were read a thud time and
passed.
The house then adjourned.

In the House of Cosimedia, on the resumption
of the adjourned debate ou going into committee
on the Roman Catholic Bill,
Mr. NEWDZOATZ moved as an amendment that
the house go into committee that day six months,
and argued that this bill was the first attempt to
make an inroad on the compact entered into by the
Roman Catholic Emancipation Act ; and that there
ought to be an inquiry into the question before the
house consented to alter the oath imposed by that
act. He also contended that it was no insult to
any Roman catholic member to repudiate through
the oath now prescribed doctrines which it specifies,
which had been repudiated by their church in all
ages of its history. The hon. member at length
dwelt on the insidious designs of the ultramontane
section of the Roman catholic church, against which
the existing oath was a security.
Mr. GREGORY expressed his surprise that any
member could persuade himself to vote against the
proposed change in the Roman catholic oath, on the
supposition that security would be gained for the
established church by an asseveration which con-
tained a clause denying the doctrine that sovereigns
excommunicated could be deposed or killed by their
subjects, and pointed out that that doctrine was
held and advocated, and in the case of Charles I.
acted upon, by presbyterians, puritans, and such-
like protestants, far more than had ever been done
by Roman catholics, and therefore it was as much
incumbent on protestant as on Roman catholic
members to take the oath as it was now prescribed
to the latter, an oath besides on the meaning of
which scarcely any one was agreed.
Sir J. PAKINGTON stated his regret at the time at
which and the manner in which the bill hadibeen
introduced, inasmuch as it was likely at this par-
ticular juncture to revive differences between pro-
testants and Roman catholice which were always to
be deprecated. Besides, such a measure, involving
an important change in the constitution, ought to
have been brought forward on the authority and
responsibility of her Majesty's government. Again,
the period of the session was unfavourable for the
proper and deliberate discussion of such a bill ; and
above all, such a measure ought not to have been
brought forward on the eve of a general election.
He then proceeded to argue that the Roman
catholic oath was part of a final compact
and settlement of the Roman catholic ques-
tiou. The oath, though consisting of many
ps, arrived at one end, and that was
that Roman catholic members should not take
advantage of the constitutional privileges conferred
upon them to injure the established church, and
though be recognised the honourable conduct in
this respect of the Roman catholic members, there
was no doubt that the obligations they contracted
under that oath bad operated as a check upon them.
If, therefore, that oath was abrogated it would
=nee great alarm amongst the protestants both of
England and Ireland—especially as there were