The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAIVIENI

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIESDAY.
Their Lord9hips sat for a short time, but no business of
punc interest was transacted.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Cambridge University and TOIND Bill was ( "1",,-
sidered, and ordered for third reading: The British and
American Great Railway Land Company Bill was read a

second time,

A largenuMber of petitions were presented, P
the withdrawal of the grant to Maynooth.

Viscount CHELSEA gave notice that on an early
would ask her Majesty's government what steps had been
taken to erect a monument to the late Duke of Wellington

in St. Paul's Cathedral

. COUNTY TREASURERS' ACCOUNTS.
Mr. MILES asked the Under. Secretary of State for
flat!
Home department why the County treasurers' account
of last year had not been laid upon the table of the
House ? •

ly
Mr. MASSEY said the treasurers had been extreme
remiss in the observance of the act. The Howe (°e°

haddone all it could to obtainthe;egular transmissi

of this information

ANDING THE MILITIA.

In reply to Lord Naas,
• •
Mr. PEEL said the militia would not be disernbo-I;red r.,
the order in which they were embodied., 'Those in bar
racks and billetted would be disembodied first.

THE BRITISH

FOREIGN LEGIONS.

In reply to Colonel Dunne, a to
Mr. PEEL said that what had been promise- id
foreigners on their enlistment in the English service w°,1,1:,..
undoubtedly be carried into effect. When they were a.1:1,
sharged they would be sent home or to North Americo
according to their own terms, and the privates 'Oil
receive six months and the officers twelve months' PI.
They would have no claim to pension.

THEPRENCA MEDALS OF HONOUR.

In answer to Colonel Lindsay,
Mr. PEEL remarked that the French medals to British
soldiers were to be given in the . 0
proportion of ten to
1000, and General Codrington had been called uP°O
make selections of the most deserving of the Men:

THE MAYNOOTH GRANT. of
Mr. Spooner, in moving a resolution for the abolition ha
the Maynooth. Grant, referred to the number of times
had brought the question forward, and said 'be mould
have been willing to divide at once upon the motion whe
he now made, if he thought such a proceeding 1"i/1dt:the
with general support. He referred at some length -- of
report of the Maynooth commission, and to the nature
the evidence taken before it, contending that the 1.01:4
the report, was sent to Rome, which rendered the meete
tigation a mockery and a snare. He met the argt
Of frith,
that the removal of the grant would be a breach 10rd
by referring to statements made by Sir R. Peel and was
John Russell in 1845, to the effect, that no promis,e /101
made on the subject, and that the conditions under
izvni an
the vote was given had not been fulfilled by the "nous
Catholics. The grants for Roman Catholic instituti
_0
were not too heavy, but now the Roman Catholics wilec'h
dissatisfied and were demanding more, and undeLsde-'
circumstances he called upon the House to take 801" n-ritzy
cided steps to put an end to the taxation of this Pfln-oed
for the support of a religion that had been prone, that
idolatrous. The hon. member concluded by Inevi" the
the House resolve itself into a committee, to consider

grant to Araynooth, with a view to its abolition.
Mr. A. BLACK moved as an amendment, that "Mon
quiry should embrace all grants for evQry•denoinhrt:
of Christians in Ireland. He stated 'that the
church constituted only 113 per, cent of the poi:0110.10,1'o
Ireland, the other sects comprising 77 per cent, While
sum4'of money voted for the established church Viiitig
".1-?0,1900, and .4)38,000 was divided anionxst 'fit I°l
establi-ne

sects, including Roman Catbolics. :• v ' ' in
Lord BERNARD denied that any _compact Nva,.snted
existence for the continuance of the grant, and sL'ox,
that in Ms opinion, the principles inculcated at Maynoo
led to disloyalty and disturbance in Ireland. the
Mr. Lo AN enumerated .the various taxes that
on,
Roman Catholics had to submit to, for which. Ile cop'
sidered the Maynooth Grant an inadequate recomPell',,,
The present time, when peace was just established I.4''' 0
he thought, a very inappropriate occasion to introdo
this discord between religious seats, and, if the
were carried, the majority would be produced by
bination of the partisans of the Protestant establi:
and the advocates of the voluntary princiPle. rre idt
Mr. WILKINSON would not oppose the Maynooth .- -
while the Established Church in Ireland . continued, to-
enjoy
its enormous endowments. 4,1.
Mr. ICENwEor opposed the resolution.
Mr. DE VE-
-1
-ail :the flou.^
it withdraw-

-...E warneu ~...._ , .uat if this vote 01
_wn, some other means would have to be resorted
ior obtaining furids for the support of the ItoLn3rl
Catholic clergy. Money would have to be wrenched frol3l
A:5
an impoverished people, and they might then: look for o' .
turbances in Ireland.
not
Mr. DRIYMMOND remarked that if some step svos -
taken to get rid of the Maynooth influence something efire
would he swept away that they did not think of. f„0
thought the most effectual way of checking the inflile'
of the priests was by education and moralisation.
Mr. MEAGHER opposed the motion.
the in-
:in t
h the*e jilti the
Mr. DEAREY instituted a comparison between time
surrection in Ireland in 1798, which was about the
lace
*hat the college was founded, and that which took Post
afterwards, showing that, while
4-IrOt....:sctea,ntths,etßheofmaailnureCoafthAlri.cssmwitehreou,Bnritedien, agains.,,r
nwoatshaacvkinngowtlheedgceod.obpyerhgtimio,ntoof bteheinp=rence °I 'ed
to the services of the Roman Catholic soldiHeresTiolef
Crimea, and deprecated at such 'a time the retro' and
the support of their priests, whose consolationa
ge •
encouragement had comforted them in the hour of d' nigo
He denied that Roman Catholics were open to the ch,ias, id
of disloyalty, immorality, or Ultramontanisn3, and r-ian
that' stich charges were only made to serve secta

10 years afterwards,

purposes.
Mr. NEWDEGATE supported the motion.
Mr. ROEBUCK opposed it.
After a few remarks from Mr. RIRK, b r Or
North Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner) had again N regretted that the 11011° glienintindtutclide-
this question into the House. He considered tb,a,h the
withdrawal of the vote would be a breach of faith vv" first
Roman Catholics. The vote had been allowed in thf had
instance by a Protestant Parliament in Ireland,
been sanctioned by a Protestant Parliament in '°l3' taut
and had been placed in its present footing by a Pr°tes
minister in this country.
Mr. SPOONER having briefly replied, the House di
vided
on the amendment.

For the amendment
Against it

Majority
A. division immediately followed on the original
The numbers were--

For the motion.
Against it

.159
~133

Majority ..

The announcement was received with loud cheers'
The Rouse having gone into committee, fortt"Mr.
A
Mr. SPOONER moved for leave to bring in a bill foc
repeal of the endowment out of the Consolidate'
for the Collee of Maynooth.
11:Ir. HUTCHg
INS moved that the chairman report Pr°
gress

This motion was negatived on a division by 132 to 154'
majority 22. to he
Mr. D. O'CorotELL moved that the chairman lease
c re
we.
sl. the
Mr. JAMES MACGREGOR complained that Memher °
taking'this course to set aside the solemn deeisi°3
House.
that the
HOLUoS
redhPadate3oxonuestTooNhesawiodutlhdath after the decision,— ciivl-
sioh should be taken upon the main (pestle!), but rabcr
fswoahrmmoe,
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etechtheienicir,
owouldut.
ose tt
honeogtemfit n,
ad
rids faultof wit
aaihl e
danhyi
mh osne i
fnloef the
.it. 1, it was
The motion that the Chairman leave the c"3,-„ 141
negatived on a division by a majority of "9 to
preferred that aitt the
Majority, 17.

reavew. asthen giv.en to bring in the bill

THE ARMV MEDICAL . ate
On the.MOtioll of MF. A. STAFFORD, aDEPARTMENT
select coma' „ Eyre
as ordered to enquire into t'Ll, Atroy Medical 1/e!"-

The other business was disposed of, and the
adjourned at a quarter past twelve o'clock.

COMMENCEMENT OF EASTER TER

The right hon. Lord Cranwoith, Lord High ‘-'"'""
England, yesterday entertained the judges of the
- and common law to breakfast, at his cia6B
Upper isrook-street,'Grosvenor-square,
of Easter.term, previous to their opening their reslocre,
courts at Westminster Hall ; and also held a g,e; a-no
levee of thebar. At one o'clock, the Lord Chancellor nro-
the judges proceeded in state to Westminster Hall, thlevrost-
cession being conducted by the high constable of
,_,Oll of
being.the
minster. The several courts, as also the main and
the hall, were filled with elegantly dressed ladles,„oj of
gentlemen to witness the cereniony. On the arr"rt of
the Lord Chancellor and the judges at the
•Exchequer, they took leave and proceeded to opl°ld
respective courts. their

-coUr:s

of equity

I iASE OF WILLIAM PAL:kr/tn.—ln the -purl
bpll,
Queen's Bench, the presiding judges were Lord CanlPsti--.
uce
Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Erie, and Mr. Jthat
Crompton. Mr. James, Q.C., intimated to the courtnue
to-morrow (this day), he would move for a rule, u
"71in
Ha
the recent act of Parliament, to remove the case of I ',a
Palmer, charged with the Rugeley murders, for trial at
Central Criminal Court.