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ASCFOT RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
FERNHILL STAKES.

Flatterer
Queen's Head
Rogerthorpe

1
2
3

Six ran.
FIFTH TRIENNIAL.
Wink field
Bracken
Rodomeli

2

Six ran.
11 OVAL HUNT CUP.
ATEST BETTING.
ROYAL HUNT CUP.
7 1 ag st Bracken
Bto 1 ag:at Early Bird
S to laf tst Calamus
S to 1 'agst Brother to Little Harry
Ar.rived—Brother to Little Harry.

Chalice

4DJOULiNED MEETING OF TEE LONDON
AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY CO.
(TLI.IS DAY).

Tb e CHAIRMAN de,...llared the state of the poll to be, by
°I-1,1 scrutineer—Fox the adoption of the report of the
directors, 1,546, 322/. 16s. Bd. ; against it, 1,139,7341.
ips• 7d. ; giving a majority of 406,5881. 16s. id. ; and by
the other, for the motion; 1,519,1891. 9s. Od. ; against it,
1,141,829/. o,d„ 7d., giving a majority of 377,360/. Bs. sd.

ImPYARIAL PARLIAMENT

Fi° CrSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
ch,1":".• • FITZROY (in the absence of the Speaker) took the
't 4t 12 o'clock.

NEW MEMBER.
117 r. TITE took the oaths and his seat for Bath, in the
te:'
tal of Mr. Phinn, recently appointed Under-Secretary
he Admiralty.

THIRD READINGS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
The Folkestone Improvement Bill, the West Somerset
mineral Railway Bill, and the Weymouth Water Bill.
The following bills were considered and ordered to be
rthe
a third time :—The Hartlepool Pier and Port ;
e Stockport, Disley, and Whaley Bridge Railway ;
the Great Northern London Cemetery ; the Mid Kent
act North Kent Railway ; and the Torquay District
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PETN
Petitions were presenlTlted O
byS. General Peel from
liuntingdon praying for the repeal of the Maynooth
endowment Act ; by Captain Duncan, from York, with
,tsimilar prayer ; by Mr, Brotherton, from the National
Temperance Society, praying for the total closing of
public houses on Sundays ; by Mr. Duffy, from Mayo,
re favour of the Lands Improvement Bill ; by Mr. Had-
,.id, from Sheffield, signed by 5,952 inhabitants, for the
repeal
of the Maynooth Grant, and against all endow-
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entu of religious bodies, and against the Regium Do-
*tura •
in Ireland ; by Mr. Spooner, a number of petitions
'fraying for the repeal of the Maynooth Grant ; by Mr.
r ulleY, several petitions from Oxfordshire with a simi-
Prayer.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS BILL.
ojile above bill passed through committee, and was
r ered to be read a third time on Monday.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS (IRE-

LAND) BILL.
This bill also passed through committee.
IiA.YNOOTH COLLEGE—ADJOURNED
DEBATE.
On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned
batefrom Ist May,
lar• T. CHAMBERS presented 77 petitions from van-
-es parts of London praying for the repeal of the May-
"`
~"th Endowment Act.
Mr. Sergeant O'BRIEN then rose to oppose the mo-
tion of the hon. member for North Warwickshire (Mr.
Spooner), for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the
'l4aynooth Endowment Act. He said the act in
question was introduced by the late Sir Robert Peel
no hasty spirit, but after mature deliberation. The
abject with which it was introduced was to secure the
education of Roman Catholic priests in Ireland, instead
of being sent to the Continent, and thus to secure the
affections of the people of Ireland. He regretted the
Persevering efforts made by the hon. member for North
Warwickshire to keep alive in this house a spirit of
Polemical discussion, which must be offensive to the feel-
ings of every member of the house professing the Roman
Catholic faith. He would remind the house that when
the Protestant faith was established in Ireland, the
ItTlogle remained faithful to their own creed, and though
ik,ZY did so, their property was transferred from
rikZ own church to the new one by the strong
htt of power. On this ground he contended that the
cos1„-, 1845 was an act of clear, though of tardy and in-
if t6ete justice. (Hear, hear.) He maintained that
bete had' been no compact between the Government
ju„the Catholics of Ireland at the time of the Union
„"e•s and sound policy would now -dictate such
'°lnpact. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) In 1807, Napolepn, ,
knowing the influence he should gain by having the
Irish Roman Catholic priests educated in France,
leered to restore all the endowments which had been
eetranged from them in Spain and Portugal, to induce
them to go over to France to be educated. That offer
2'as rejected—as it ought to have been —by the heads of
"le Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, who would not
,accept any favour from a ruler who was then an enemy
to their country. He would rely on the report of the
ceminissioners appointed to inquire into Maynooth for a
refutation of every charge advanced by the hon. mem-
ber for North Warwickshire against the college ; and as
t 0 the charge of the evidence having been unfairly
altered by the witnesses after they had given it, they had
the written statements of Lord Harrowby and Mr. Twiss,
that no
undue or unfair alterations had been made in the
evidence. The hon. and learned gentleman then read
extracts from the evidence of Dr. °Manion, and other
Witnesses examined before the commissioners, to show
that at the doctrine taught at Maynooth, so far from being,
b 8 was charged against it, that Catholics were not
eland to keep faith with heretics, that oaths and
tjeliBes were as binding on the consciences of
tied es in their dealings with people of a different
reed to their own, as if those dealings were with their
Wn co-religionists. If it became sinful, as the honour-
able member for North Warwickshire said, to extend aid
to
Wi4laYnooth, whit was to become of our engagements
th the Catholics of our colonies ? (Hear, hear.) He
Wi:'lld ask the honourable member what result be ex-
Acted from his bill if he succeeded in getting it ?
h
ing„ en• member said be expected it would diminish the
4, 'etice of the priests over the flocks ; but he could
d!ure him that the people of Ireland would not with-
draw their confidence from their priests even if this bill
perßed --their fidelity to their faith had withstood the
froll.l°r6 of the penal laws, anc:. would not now shrink
called an further persecution. On these grounds he
re_e d upon the Government to resist this attempt to
rse the liberal policy adopted of late years by this
country
towards Ireland. (Hear.)
•eib WHITESIDE congratulated the hon. member
°,"ad just sat down on the fairness and moderationableLl4tl evinced in his speech. The right honour-
gentleman the Secretary for Ireland put the
t• ea as one of political importance, irrespective
`y the religious part of the question, and that
t ti„"e ground on which he (Mr. Whiteside) would wish
1r)43-I,tt it. He referred to a petition presented to the
a„ ." Parliament from Roman Catholics, protesting
ettriSt the College of Maynooth being made an ex-
thrs,ivelY Catholic seminary, and praying to have it
tA wu open to the education of all classes. That was
tot,llPerate, wise, and judiciou Ireland, and did honour
r "0 11°Dlan Catholic..laity of and it was to be
regretted that course was not adopted.