The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

THE WEATHER TABLE.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1853.
The state of the Weather at each of the tollowing places
at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are
arranged in order of latitude.
SOUTHAMPTON—N.B. ; Gentle Breeze; Partially Cloudy.
TUNBRIDGE—N. ; Gentle Breeze ; Partially Cloudy.
BAtiINOBTORE—N.E. ; Gentle Breeze ; Overcast.
Gaznxericn—N. ; Gentle Breeze; Overcast.
STROOD—N ; Gentle Breeze ; Partially Cloudy.
8w won—N. ; Light Breeze; Cloudy.
CAXIIIIIDOE—N. ; Gentle Breeze; Cloudy.

(BY ELECTRIC TILEGHAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. 10.45 A.K.
Wind S.E., moderate, and fine.

Arrived—Hampton, from Maranham ; Clarissa
Cuiver, from New Orleans ; Ariel and Rainbow, from
Havre; Howard, from Beirout ; Clemence, from
Antwerp.
Sailed.—Walter Baine, for Newfoundland.

DEAL, TuEs.ty, 9.35 Am.
Wind S.W., fine, and cloudy.
Passed.—Dania, from Trinidad, for London; Maid
of the Isles, from St. Helena, for London; Faith
(screw steamer), from Africa, for London; Pansewitz,
from Waterford, for Riga; Copernicus, from Char-
leston, for Bremen; Ormelie, from Calcutta, for
London.

Anchored.—William Simpson, from London, for
Batavia, in the Gull Stream.

SIR JAMES BROOKE.—The Singapore Free Press
of the 2nd July says :—Bv late arrivals 'rem Sarawak, we
learn that Sir James Brooke was taken ill on the 2nd ultimo
on board the Weraff, while on his passage from this to
Sarawak. On his arrival at Sarawak it was found to be
small pox, and for some time very great fears were enter-
tained for his safety, as he appeared to be in a dangerous
state, and no medical aid, except that of a native doctor,
was available. The latest accounts, however, represent the
crisis of the disorder as being apparently past, and it was
hoped that he would soon be convalescent.
PARTRIDGES.—Very unfavourable accounts have
reached us of the partridges. Numerous pairs of birds are
seen without young ones, and it is thought that the rains
of July have destroyed whole coveys.—Northampton
Herald.

OkFENCES AGAINST THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RE-
LlGlON.—Yesterday a parliamentary paper was printed,
showing that at Malta persons interrupting the worship of
the Roman catholics are liable to be imprisoned for two
years, aad for stealing any articles from Catholic churches
to confinement from four to six years..

THE CROPS.—We have received several communi-
cations from districts of this and the surrounding counties
giving a most cheering account of the state of the wheat,
oats, and barley crops. all of which have arrived at matu-
rity, and are fast falling under the operations of the sickle
in many quarters. Wheat is not an average crop this year,
but for quality is superior. Oats and barley will yield a
fair supply, especially the latter, which was plentifully
sown. As regards the potato crop, we have again to add
that for the last 15 years it has not been excelled, both as to
the quantity under cultivation and the excellent descrip-
tion of the esoulent, which is daily coming into market in
abundance, dry, large, and substantial—the poor man's
friend—without symptom of blight, and selling at from sd.
to Gd. per stone. Only two solitary complaints of disease
have been made at our office, and samples left, which
certainly do exhibit an appearance of blight. We have
seen a sample of superior new wheat, which is just pre-
pared for market by Dr. Peppard of Bushy Park, in this
county. It is red chaff, white wed, and very luxuriant.
The potato fields in the west of Clare are giving a most
luxuriant and healthy crop. Ilay-makieg was the chief
employment of farmers this week, under the glorious sum-
mer weather which has now endured without an hour's
interruption for the last fortnight. The corn fields are
ripening fast to maturity, and wheat, wherever sown, pro-
mises a good crop.—Limerick Chronirle.
BELFAST AND BALLYMENA RAILWAY.—We are
about soon to obtain an important extension of our railway
communication in the north of Ireland. The gap between
Ballymena and Coleraine and the harbour of Portru•h will
be speedily filled up by a continuation of the Ballymena
line to the latter place ; and the branch line which now ter-
minates at Randalstown will be extended by Mahcrafelt
and hloneymore to Cookstown. At Coleraine the Bann
will be crossed, in order to form a junction with the line now
open between that town and Londonderry ; and, whilst the
Londonderry Company proposes to carry a continuation of
their line to the west side of the Bann up to Castledawson,
there to join the Ballymena branch, the line front London-
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tion to this great commercial centre—is that immediately
connected with the Ballymena line ; and we are enabled to
inform the public that Mr. Dargan has taken the contract
fur constructing the lines from Ballymena to Coleraine and
Portruvh and from Randalstown to Cookstown ; that he
will immediately commence operations ; and that ho
engages to have the line to Pot trush completed in one year
(it is a favourable line) from the time the land is given over
to him. _

SOUTH EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic recei is for
the week ending August 13,1853 4L5.140441/24 • Apto,
week ending August 14, 1852. 19,011141061.'
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1M I'EILIAL PARLIAMENT.
itorsF op WM/B.—MONDAY, AI:Gt'ST 15.
The heirie met at 4 o'clock.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The It .yal swat was given by eommiesion to the ((Mew-
ing hills . —Pubbelting. a (*.deed) ; Parish Vetries,
No. 2; Highway hates; Elec.iiitis; Entry of Seams •
Lunacy Reitiatation; Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Act
Coetinuanee; New•paper Stamp Duties; Crime and Out-
rage (Ireland); Registrar of Meeting.; Municipal Corpo-
ration. Act Amendment; S.,eriffe' Court. (Scotland) ; Oaths
in Chancery, de • Naval C.seet Volunteers; Land Tax Re-
d. mption ;Con•olidated Annette. (Ireland) ; Turnpike Acts
Cuntinuance (Ireland) ; Poor lt• lief Act Conti ;
Richmond (Y•okehire) Burgett° l'a•tures ; Electric 'Tele-
graph Company; W••rcest rand Hereford Railway; West-
port Port and tinhorn; Bayswater, Paddington, and Hol-
born Bridge italtwey ; West Cornwall Railway; Crieff
Junction Railway ; Trelee and Killarney Railway; Impe-
rial Continental 0 oi, No 2; Brecon Colleciete Church;
Ca/thin All Estaarylleclam diort;.Eirit Anglian Itailway,No.
2. Chard Railway; Limetiek Improvement; Mourn oithshire
Railway and Cabal; Severn and Wye It olway and Canal;
South Wales Mineral Railway; 6taff.relehire Potteries
Waterworks; Stamford .n 1 Es •endine Railway ; Cork and
Baal-o It Merry (No. 2) ; Galway Improvement ; and
several privose bills.
The royal eninrotoioners were the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, and the Duke of Argyll.
EIIEE TRADE IN INDIA.
Earl GRAN V I LI.E sad that some misa,•prehension had
soma abroad Irum an uoservation which he made the other
night upon the third reading of the India Bill. It was Un-
der.t.h.J that lie expressed himself adversely to the intro-
duction of tree trade into India lie was one 01 those who
believed that the priori ilea of free trade were applicable to
sett, community and nation, and must ultimately be to
their advantage. AI he meant to express on the occasion
referred to was, that in India certain religious °everyman
and hetii•ii had created ouch monopolies of labour in certain
classes that it had increased the difficulties of the government
there; and that even by the introduction of the beneficial
principle of tree trade, hardship, both to persons and classes,
had been infixted which could not occur in any other
country. He on far, however, from expressing an opinion
advent to free trade, but exacily the reverse, fur he spoke
of the desirability of ereaties competition, and carrying out
to the fullest extent free trade in that country.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.
On the motion of the Lon'. CHANCELLOR, the Com-
mune' are dements to this bill were considered. Ile should
more that, with me exceution, they be agreed to. That
fin pima opplied to the 19...• inetion, which placed small
charitit• under the control of the Attorney• General. This
would nicrioarily increase the expense of administerin‘
those charities; and as the eject of the bill was to diminish
ate, the introduction of the section in question was con-
trary to the spirit of toe merino, and he should therefore
mute It. om fission.
The motion was agreed to.
The Land Tea Commie...men' Names Bill, the Defacing
the Coin Hill, the Linen, do , Manufactures (Ireland) Bill,
sod the Militia Ballots Su.pension andMilitiaLaw Amend-
ment Bill, were read a second time.
On the motion of 1".141 STANLEY of ALDERLEV, the
11 ickney Carriage Duties Bill was withdrawn.
PILOTAGE BILL.
The hove* then went into committee un this bill.
On the loth clans living read,
The Earl of HARDWICKE said, he had presented
wren' petitions from Liverpool against this clause, which
proposed to give to the Bard of Trade the power of licens-
ing masters of vessels to pilot their lion vessels. The sands
lathe Mersey so frequently cheesed their position that it
was insporailde fur a month together for any man to know
how to beteg in a ship. Foreigner. under ;his clause would
he able to bike out a license Si pilots, and it would strike
a blow at the Liverpool pilots. All the authorities of the
borough wen opposed to this clause. lie should, therefore,
after the words "recited act," move the words, " Pro-
•ided always that nutting ia this act shall affect the pinta
Liverpool.'
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY said he could sot
agree to the amendment of the noble earl. Ile trusted their
lordships would sot agree to the smendineut, and he would
repeat that the provision was nund only by the determi-
nation of this port not to carry out the law which
pt. facilities for the examinations of pilots, and which had
been acted osi in all other port..
After a few words from Lord CoLvirtsnin and Lori
Btut: rut T,
The house divided--
For the amendment 6
Against it
The bill then passed through committee.
THAMES EMBANKMENT BILL.
This bill was reed a third time and passed.
MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL.
The report of amendments on this bill was received.
DRAINAGE OF LAND (IRELAND) ACT AMEND-
MENT BILL.
The report of amendments on this bill was received.
DUTIES ON HORSES LET FOR HIRE BILL.
This bill was read a third time and paved.
DUBLIN CARRIAGES BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the motion for ening into committee on this bill,
The Earl of ABERDEEN was understood to express his
regret at the opposition offered to the bill by some members
of the established church of Scotland. If he thought that
it would interfere with the rights and privileges of the
church of Scotland he would be she last person to bring it
before their lordships ; but, believing, as he did, that
nutting of the kind would take place, he confidently recom-
mended it to the favour of the house. He confessed that
he put very little value on all tests of this description—
(hear, hear)—and every day landed a testimony either to
their being valueless or mischievous. This test, on
which it was proposed to legislate for the fu.
turn as regarded the lay professors of the outvoted.
tits of Scotland, did not establish any abstract
principle, but it caused a great practical eon
which WAS felt very much at the present time, and whit*
would be greatly increased hereafter unless some sash
remedy as was now proposed was applied to it. For whets
ever the test was sot altogether disregarded it was attended
with great hardship, and the truth was that it was only
effectual in eases in which the framers of the test
themselves would have been anxious that it should
not have been applied, for it was applied to
those persons whom the framers of the test would
bate been most desirous to admit into the universities.
The universities of Scotland were not ecclesiastical incite-
Bons, and the church was entirely incompetent to impose
any test en the professor—and not only so, but students
were admitted of all setts and persuasions without any
question as to their religious opinions. The professors had
no authority over the students outside of their lec-
ture rooms; they were. independent of the un-
wind, authorities, and these institutions were
open to the whole world and , were entirely
different to Oxford and Cambridge. On many pro-
visos attempts a bill of this kind had been
rejected by the House of Commons by small majorities, but
on this occasion, by an understanding which had been
come to among different parties, it had passed by a majority
of 5 to I, only one Scotch member voting against it. They
had now the advantage of public opinion in favour of the
measure, sad W trusted that an end would be put to that

apart from his office. It was, he thought, sufficient to re-
quire that th. it,fluenre of the office should uut be lased ia
demur tun of that church.
The amendment um then put sad negatived, sad *a
clause passed.
The remantiog dames pauud through commit% me, and the
house resumed.

corms or CntINION LAW (IRELAND) BILL.
This bill was read a third time aad passed.
The Burials (th.riad the metropolis) Bill, and the Em-
ployment of Children in Factories Bill severally went
t h committee.

Ths A.semcd Tazve,l _____ nee or. Lives,andSherifri (Scot-
land) Babb warn severally read a third time and passed.
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because they would toad to show that the agent of Mr. e
Butler Johnson was as much implicated in the corruption
practised et the election as either of the unseated meembers.
Mr. LOWE said the commissioners, in the exercise of
their discretion, had declined to report these papers to the
house, and be thought the house ought to pause before they
adopted this motion. The act of parliament under which
the commissioners acted armed them with • power
and jurisdiction unknown to any other court or
tribunal in existence in this country, and in the
exercise of that authority the commissioners in this in-
wipce had thought fit to all for the production of certain
documents, but having had the papers laid before them
they did not think it was expedient to print them in their
report. Now, parliament having i d the commis-
donors with such a discretion woald the House of Cotn-
Mows be justified in interfering with its exercise? lie
I eartainly thought not, and since the production of these
ciPzicould neither add to the Canterbury case nor lead
ulterior proceedings against the agent complained of
he really could see no use whatever in agreeing to the me-
den. (Hear, hear.)
The motion was withdrawn.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
Mr. ROTRERON moved for leave to bring in • bill to
retralatie friendly societies. These societies, be thought,
should now be placed on a permanent basis, and they bad
mew gained sufficient experience to enable them to effete
that object. One of the obj.-cts of the present bill was te
intend the operations of friendly societies from 1001. to
2001.; in the case of annuities, from 201. to 40/. ; and la
cases of sickness, instead of the amount being limited to
20s. a week, as at present, that the amount should be se-
Leave was given to bring in the bill, which was brought
la accordingly, and read a first time.
CRIMINAL CODE IN MALTA.—RELIGIOUS
PERSECUTION.
Mr. IL INNAIRD said some months ago his attention was
celled to a code for amending the law in Malta, and he
made application at the Colonielioffice to know if the code
had arrived, and he was told the code was in the Colonial-
office. He then moved for a copy of so much of the
criminal code as related to offences in respect of
He had not been able to obtain this return, although he be-
lieved that every exertion had been made by the Under-
Secretary of State, till this morning. In the amended code
there were seven separate articles relating to offences con-
nected with religion, the punishments awarded by
which reminded him far more of the intolerant
enactments of despotic governments rather than the
enlightened legislation of a free country, whose
bout it was to have taken the lead in the promo-
tion of civil and religious liberty. And allow him to
add that this was unprecedented in the law of Malta itself
The only argument he had heard in their fasour was that
they were the necessary result of our guarantee to the Mal.
tete of the exercise of their religion. lie therefore begged
to ask when a guarantee was given which would warrant
the paining of such a code as this? lie could discover Re
such guarantee; but, on the other hand, he found that
when Sir Nicholas Maitland issued his pruclamittioe
on Oet. 15. 1815, he merely promised the:natives that they
should have the Ire cise of their religioa. It appeared to
him that that meant no more than that they would afford to
the Maltese the same protection in the exercise of their
religion that we ourselves enjoyed. He found that by the
code of 1837 penalties of hard labour and imprisonment
were awarded to whosoever should disturb the sacred
functions or worship of the Roman catholic, or the Angli-
can religion in the celebration thereof. These enactments
were evidently not intended to interfere with the full right
olf diseunion and in conformity with this it was expressly
Hissed by the English commissioners that no Eng-
, Usk government would grant protection to their
*Aeon from argument. Consequently the ordinance
Hillieh was passed in relation to the press forbid the
publication of any writing reviling, or otherwise insulting
nay doctrine of the Rumen catholic or of the Anglican
Eureb. In that there was the principle of equality ; bet
to turning to the amended code, he found the Roma*
ditch was designated, for the first time, the Roman who-
Me apostolic church, while the Anglican church was entirely
emitted by name, and only included under the general
emu" dissension," so that it was positively proposed that
the religion of the sovereign of this country was only
hemseurth to be regarded in Malta as dissension.
Then the functions of the Roman catholic church
were alone termed sacred ; that was another innovation_ ,
the term was not applied to protestant worship. Then he
came to the penalties which applied to insults to the Roman
catholic worship, and to thefts in the private houses of the
priests. He found also that the term " blasphemy!' was
applied to persona who spoke against the Virgin Mary in
the saints. Then, from four to six weeks' imprisonment
was awarded to those who stole the Eucharist, to which
might be added solitary confinement for a period of
sixty days, and all this might be increased by
one degree, which meant all the aggravation of
punishment which might be inflicted by prison regu-
lations. A more iniquitous and monstrous law was never
proposed, and seeing that they had hundreds of soldiers and
sailors in that island, any one of whom might in a moment
of inadvertence take some bread and wine from a priest's
house, he thought they ought to pause before they allowed
such a punishment to be inflicted as was inflicted by this
code. He was astonished at the audacity of the legislative
council proposing that our Queen should sanction such a
law as this, and he was sur..rised that government bad not
gives them an opportunity for discussion before this code
wee sanctioned and allowed to become law. He could only
lay that any one suffering under such a law would
glee rise to a discussion in the house, *bailor to
6,at made with respect to the Medial. If he were in Malta
and • Roman catholic procession were to go by, he can-
didly imafessed he should not take off his hat, nor should
he kneel, but under this law he should be liable to impri-
sonment though he was a British subject. This was con-
trary to the whole spirit of British law, and unprecedented
in Malta itself, and he could not believe that the noble
lord who led this house, and who wrote that admirable
dispatch to the Duke of Tuscany, would sanction such slaw
as this. In conclusion, the hon. member moved that the
proposed amended code for Malta is maul d to the
constitutional right and liberty of her Majesty's subjects.
and is an innovation in Maltese law, and that an humble
address be presented to her Matesty, setting forth the ob-
vious effect of such code, and preying her Majesty to take
the said code into consideration, and to withhold her &auc-
tion to it until the subject shall have received the mature
consideration of parliament.
Mr. T. CHAMBERS said the proposed alteration of the
penal code of Malta was an alteration of the penal code in
relation to doctrine, opinion, and worship. It was said they
guaranteed the exercise of the Roman catholic religion
there granted. It was guaranteed on the terms read
by his hon. friend ; that was, they were to
have the free exercise of their religion, and he trusted they
would have it ; bat undoubtedly they would not have it if
this law were passed. This was an appeal on behalf of the
Roman catholic laity as well as the protestant laity. This
cods altered the legal status of every class in Malta.
Mr. F. PEEL said he was not sorry that his hon. friend
had stated his objections to this criminal code. In one re-
spect he would qualify his satisfaction of the speech of the
hon. gentleman, because he must say that, to a certain ex-
tent, it was an injudicious one, calculated to keep alive
animosity, which it was their object to allay, between the
different sections of the community at Malta. Ile thought
also he should he able to show that it was inaccurate and
not so correct as it might have been if the hon. gentleman
had chosen to refer to documents which were as accessible
to him as they were to himself. He understood his hon.
friend to take a general exception to this code on the ground
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Mr. 1. BUTT said the boo. gentleman (Mr. Peel)
bad not satisfied him that the effect of the code would not,
after all, really be to make the Roman catholic shurth the
dominant religion in Malta.
Mr. PELLATT thought that the code contained a vast
amount of objectionable matter. if the house assented to
it. they would be going back to the middle age*, and este-
blishing a benefit of clergy for one particular body of reli-
gionists.
Mr. NEWDEGATE pointed oat the wide construction
which the words of the cod* relating to insults offered to
Roman catholic ceremonies, functions, and articles, might be
made to bear. It was a rule with the Roman catholic chureb,
that whatever was once made en article of the faith never
. ceased to be such. It followed, therefore, that the doctrine
against which the oath of abjuration taken by members of
parliament was aimed, name,y, the "impious," " here-
tical," and " damnable doctrine and poeitien," that princes
excommunicated by the Pope might be deposed and
murdered by their subjects or others, though suspended,
was still an article of the church, which it would be
punishable in Malta to revile er ridicule. (Hear, hear.)
It might be very well to tolerate the worship of saints ; but
surely, after it was abjured in this country, her Majesty's
•übjects ought not to he liable to penalties for
objecting to such doctrines. Besides the code involved a
new principle, it created a crime without any criminal intent.
All they asked was that the government would take time
consider this code.
Mr. HUME said the mistake prevailing through the
debate was that they were about to pass a law for this
country, and not for Malta. When England took possession
of Malta the inhabitants had guaranteed to them the free
exercise of their religion, as the dominant religion—("No!")
and it was intolerance now to treat it otherwise. The de-
claration made by members of that house might do very
well in this country, but was wholly unsuited to Malta or
Lower Canada.
Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD said the allegation that
Roman catholic& held the doctrine that excommunicated
princes might be deposed or murdered by their subjects,
bad always been protested against as a calumny. It had
never been a doctrine or an article of the catholic church ;
he abjured any such doctrine, and so would any other
Roman catholic. There were many cases where the law
of England punished crimes without reference to the in-
tent, as assaults and libels. He had no wish to see the
catholic church a dominant church ; be sought for equality,
and no more. In this case they were dealing with a
country essentially Roman catholic, and where its existence
had been guaranteed by the crown.
Mr. WARNER thought that if this cods should become
law Without a protest from this country it would be moat
disgraceful. (Hear, hear ) lie particularly ohjecred to
the words ' shall outrage the objects of worship."
This might be construed to compel protestant' to
he uncovered when the host passed by. Another
clause might be construed so as to silence protestant
ministers, and even to prevent protestant professors from
lecturing in the college of Malta. (Hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said the house must consider, on
this question, what was the position in which we found the
Roman catholic church in Malta; what was due to the sub-
ject" of her Majesty residing there, and what was due to
civil and religious liberty on the part of the government of
this country. With regard to the first of these points, no
use would deny, that when we took possession of Malta the
great majority of the inhabitants were Roman catholic',
and that it was part of our profession and public promise
to the people of that island that we would respect their
religion. (Hear, hear.) This was avowed in the various
proclamations which were made at the time. There was no
proclamation or declaration on the pert of the crown of
England which did not openly and solemnly declare that
the religion of the Maltese should be confirmed,
maintained, and respected. By that religion every
body would allow was meant the Roman catholic religion.
It should be recollected likewise that at that period the
question was not, so much as it was now, between Roman
atthelics and the various denominations of protestant', but
between the Christian religion and nll those who forsook it ;
for at the time the French had possession of Malta the great
object was to prevent the overthrow of the Christian religion
altogether. Such being the case, we were no doubt hound
to respect the worship, the practice, and the faith of the
Roman catholic" In order to do that it was necessarily
implied in the undertaking we had given that come puni-h-
-meut should be awarded to those who openly insulted -.nd
reviled that religion. (Hear, hear.) That was no more
than we claimed here, as a reverence due even from persons
who did nut belong to a particular faith—that they should
not insult or revile those who were advocates of that faith,
and were carrying on their public worship. The case was
the same under the law which it was now proposed to super-
sede by the present criminal code. A law of the 14th of
March, 1839, prohibited "any writing, reviling, ridiculing,
or otherwise insulting any doctrine of the Roman catholic
church, or the government or discipline of the Roman
catholic church, or any ritual or other religious observances
of Roman catholic christians of racy class or description."
Therefore, according to our original declaration, and ac-
cordino to the law at present existing in Malta, the exercise
of the Roman catholic religion was protected and maintained,
and any open insult to that religion was punishable—the pu-
nishment varying from one to twelve months' imprison-
ment. With regard to one class of objections that had
been made, he did not think that those objections ought to
prevent the advisers of the crown from assenting to the
proposed alterations in the code. It was "aid that the es-
tablished chum ch of England was not especially mentioned,
separated from other Christian communities, and put in the
place of honour in which it had formerly stood. But if the
legislature of Malta chose to specify the Roman catholic
church, which was the established church there, and not
any other, they were wholly authorised to do so, and
no objection should be taken to that. There
was likewise no foundation for the objection of Mr. New-
deism, about the declaration made by members of that
hams against • certain doctrine with reference to sovereigns
adeammunicated by the Pope; because, whatever might
have been the practice with Popes in bygone ages, he did
net believe that any Roman catholic of the present day
would allow that it was an article of his church that van-
(ranee might be so wreaked upon excommunicated princes.
Mear, hear.) He could not see that there was any ma-
terial difference in the present law with regard to any
article of the Roman catholic church. At the same time,
*are bad been observations made by hon. members which
be thought required further consideration, and which
should be weighed most deliberately. (Hear, hear.) He
did not say that they were conclusive against any particular
terms in the code, but he did say that they deserved the
easaskieration, not only of the government, but of the legal
advisers of the Crown in this country. (Hear, hear.) He
agreed with Mr. Butt that certain words introduced in a
parenthesis in one of the clauses were unnecessary; they
were also ambiguous, and might be interpreted in a manner
which a present we should not be prepared to assent to.
To make an offence against the Roman catholic church pun-
ishable, he did not see the need of defining the
civil rights of that church. (Hear, hear.) Some
words in the other articles were also liable to excep-
tion. Where any of the services were disturbed, without
violence, and without the intent to profane, the punishment
was from one to throe months. He should have thought
that two or three days' imprisonment, ore small fine, would
have been quite sufficient for an offence committed without
any violence, or any intent to profane. (Hear, hear.) He
saw no objection to protecting the Roman catholic church
against the profanation of the Virgin Mary ; but the words
"by gestures" were certainly liable to a very wide inter-
pretation. This had proved to be the case at Masao, where
also the Roman catholic faith was the prevailing religion,
. .

Zito Orvrefigs.

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