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-Church. You eats- do much to break it up, by acting in a
atpirit of kindness; forbearance, and generosity."-(Cheers.)
• 'The reason why I re-Capitulate this brief history of the May-
'oth grant is to call back the attention of the House to the
'Purpose for which the grant was made, to consider how-far
those purposes have answered to justify a continuation of the
grant as it ia, and a refusal of any inquiry. The three pur-
'Poses for which the grant was made, the House will remem-
ber are these :-To secure a well-educated, loyal, and domes-
tic priesthood ; to provide funds for the instruction of that
priesthood, which the Roman Catholics were supposed to be
too• poor to provide for themselves, in order that the priest-
hood might be brought up in a manner suitable to their holy
cffice, and the position they would afterwards fill; and 'to
break up by generosity that formidable conspiracy-(An
lionourable Member -" Cunfederaey ;" and "Hear, hear,
from Irish Members)-to break up that formidable con-
federacy which existed in Ireland against the British
,Government and the British connexion. These were the
Tlajects for which that grant was made and perpetuated.
Well, then, I ask, has the grant in any instance answered
the purpose for which it was given?-(Hear, hear.) That
is a question which I think you are bound to answer for
Tourselves before you determine whether any Committeeof
inquiry is necessary or not. Has the grant, or has it not, pro-
vided a well-educated, loyal, and domestic priesthood for the
people of Ireland? It insy have done so up
,to .a' certain
point, but observe what rumour says, for I am not going to
give any opinion of my own upon the subject.--(Derisive
cheers from the Irish Members.) What I say is this, that
there is strong reason to-believe that many of the priesthood
'educated in that college are members of different orders, who
are sent out to different countries, and who do not remain a
-domestic priesthood in Ireland.-(Cheers.) And, if I ern
right in my conclusion, I say that it is a material ground
for us to go upon before we decide at once to withdraw the
grant made for giving a domestic priesthood to Ireland, to
see if it be applied for the purpose of' giving a priesthood to
iother countries, and to inquire whether we are spending Eng-
lish money for such purposes.-(Loud Ministerial cheers.)
But, independendently of that, has or has not the character
of the priesthood changed of lens years? I suspect the an-
swer must be instead of domestic influence, foreign influence
has more weight with the priesthood in Ireland.-(Loud
cheers.) I think we shall find that the priesthood of Ire-
land, instead of confining themselves, as they ought to do
to the purpose of extending and supporting their own re-
ligion and their oan religious views, have, in fact, proved
''of an aggressive character, which does constitute what Sir
R. Peel calls a confederacy-I will not say a formidable
confederacy-against the British Crown and the British
connexion.- (Cries of " Hear, hear," from Mr. G. H.
'Moore]. I allude more particularly to what has taken place.
since Ur. Cullen was raised to the primacy of the Roman
Catholic Church. The character of the priesthood of Ireland
has been materially changed by that measure. When the
Roman Catholics desired emancipation in the year 1814, I
can produce proofs to you, from the highest authority, that
they then laid it down as a proposition which they wished
the Government to believe, that the domestic priesthood of
the country would not be superseded by foreign bishopu
'being brohght over. Since we have had Dr. Cullen in Ire-
land, we have had foreign influence exercised there, and
events so recent as in the last year will show that the cha-
aracter of the education of the priesthood in Ireland has not
been so domestic as the promoters of this grant no doubt an-
ticipated.-(Hear, hear.) If this be so, Ido not say it is a
justification for you to take away the grant, but I do say it
is a justification for You to make the inquiry, in order that
the facts- if they be not as I have conjectured-may be
rightly interpreted.-(Hear, hear.) With regard to the
second point-namely, the poverty under 'which the col-
lege was labouring, and the reason, therefore, for
giving an extended grant to that college. I remem-
lber when that Act was brought in it was accompanied
lay a Bill, brought in by the Right Honourable Baronet the
Member for Ripon, for -establishing the Queen's Colleges in
Ireland. Those two acts must be taken together, as part of
,one measure. They were simultaneously introduced; they
'were intended to have one object; they were proposed with
one *view. That object and that view was a national and
?domestic one. It was to heal religious differences, to bring
Roman Catholics and Protestants into one common scheme
sof education, where asperities might be worn off, where con-
ciliation might be encouraged, where friendship and good
feeling might spring up, and where all differences, which
have unhappily afflicted that unhappy country, might be
'brought to an end.-(Hear, hear.) How has that suc-
ceeded ? Since Dr. Cullen was appointed Primate of Ireland
there has been a synod at Thurles, and the decrees of that
Synod have been confirmed by the Court of Rome, and by
those decrees no Roman Catholic bishop is allowed to have
any place in any of those colleges; no ecclesiastic is allowed
to be a professor or dean in those colleges; and the laity
'were recommended at least, though not actually enjoined, to
sithstain from sending their children to them. -(" Hear,
neer," from Mr. G. H. Moore.) The Honourable
- Gentleman cheers, but what is the inference which
the House and the country will draw from it? The infe-
rence is, that the object which my Right Hon. Friend had
in bringing in those Bills, and the object of the legis-
lature in passing them-the benevolent and conciliatory ob-
ject has been defeated and destroyed by those who are acting
• under foreign influence.-(Loud Ministerial cheers.) But
that is not all. Since that has happened, you (addressing
the Hon. Member) have endeavoured to establish colleges of
Your own. If establish those colleges of your own, you
-cannot complain if we say it is for the purpose of separating
Roman Catholics from Protestants-(No, no)-of keeping
education from the laity-(No, no)-and of keeping the
Priesthood under foreign influence, by ultramontane laws.--
(thiphatic cries of " No, no," order, and cheers.) The last
Point is the most material one. 'Sir Robert Peel said he sent
forth, this grant as a messenger of peace, that he sent it, as
Honourable Member for North Warwickshire had said,
in a liberal and confiding spirit-that he intended it to
nettle great religious differences, and to break up this
formidable confederacy. I ask any man who hears me whe-
ther the grant has had that effect-whether the system of
education there established has accomplished its object-
whether some of the best supporters of that Act have not
felt in the greatest degree disappointed at the failure of the
'results intended to flow from it ?-( Hear, hear.) We feel
cur disappointment all the more bitter, because we have no
-means of bringing about those beneficial and peaceful re-
sults which I firmly believe was the object of Sir Robert
Peel's Government to bring about, when those two Acta
:Were introduced.-(Hear, hear.) There is one answer which
by anticipation I must notice, and it is the same as is con-
tained in the proposed amendment of the Honourable Mem-
ber for Kerry, that visitors of the College are appointed to
inquire into the management, discipline, and government of
the college, and , therefore no inquiry by a Committee is
necessary. Has the Honourable Member referred year
after year to the reports of those visitors? Does he know
'whether the inquiries of the visitors will answer
the object of the Honourable Meniber for North War-
, vickshire? I will take the last of these reports, and it
is a verY good sample of the whole of them. The report
goes into any complaints by the president, any complaints
by the superiors or professors, any complaints by the students ;
then as to the oath of allegiance being taken by the
students, -and then into the detail of the number and duties
of the professors ; then as to any change or alteration of
the college discipline or any improvement 'in the system of
education within its walls. The visitors wound up by saying
they bad concluded the necessary hiquiries, and the House
Tfould see all the inquiries which they considered necessary
„ were inquiries which had nothing whatever to do with the
:subject under discussion. I think that the inquiry ought to
be grianted upon the three grounds to which I have adverted,
, for, seeing as I do, or at least as I think I do, that the con-
ditions upon which this grant was made have not been ade-
quately or completely fulfilled, and seeing that the reason'
for which it was made are no longer existing to the same ex-
tent as they were when it was made, since we hear, that
funds are forthcoming to endow other colleges opposed to the
system 'we' intended to establish ; and seeing that the objects
Zit Robert Peel had in view-those peaceful, loyal, domestic
objectsf-have not been accomplished as Parliament hoped
they would be accomplished, think the country has a right
si• 1 •
to ask, and Parliament is bound to concede, some inquiry. -
4`2 (Loud Ministerial cheers.) Unless I have been anticipated
-'by the cheers of Honourable Gentlemen opposite, who seem
to think I am shrinking from an avowal of my own opinions
n-(flear, hear)-I wish those opinions to abide the result of
that inquiry. I did'not wi,h and I do not wish to prejudge
•
the question,-(Derisive cheers.) I repeat it again I did
liOtivish and Ido not wish to prejudge the question. The
result of that inquiry may be a complete withdrawal or abo-
lition Of that grant, or such changes as may be easily con-
ceived would amount to the abolition of the grant. From all
this 'I frankly say on the part of myself and on the part of
- the Govemmeet, we do not wish to be precluded, but we
wish that there should be such an inquiry that the whole
question may be investigated, and so settled at some future
day, when the facts are known and ascertained, as to carry
• out the intentions of the Legislature, and contribute, as far
may be, to the peace and prosperity of the country.
Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE said, as he represented an
English constituency, he might have consulted his general
convenience, and have attempted to evade the question
brought forward to-night by the Honourable Gentleman the
Member for North Warwickshire. Bat as he looked upon
this'motion as a mean attempt to raise a no-Popery cry
(Loud cheers)-upon which Honourable Gentlemen relight
go' to the hustings, he would not for one instant shrink from
expressing his opinion, nor would he pander to what he con-
aidered base fanaticism, even should Wiese him the con-
fidence of his constituency.-(Cheers.) The Honourable
Member'for North Warwickshire commenced his speech upon
this subject, as he always commenced it, with assurances of
the greatest goodwill and love towards his Roman Catholic
fellow-subjects; but in his next breath he followed it up by
telling the House, they professed a creed subversive, of
allegiance and injurious to morality. The House had heard
and therefore he need not follow the Hon. Member in all the
;quotations he had made from casuists and text" hooka, but
be, for one, objected to the motion of the Honourable Mem-
(Xeh, ber, because, when he remembered the course he (Mr.
41--;triooner) had always pursued, and the unmeasured length
,5....4.„'5;0f denunciation in which be had always indulged
with regard.to his Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, he ( Mr.
(*erne) was persuaded the appointment of the Committee
woutd be 'only to' confirm a foregone conclusion.-(Hear,
•ess -lean) When the Hon. Member for North Warwickshire
called upon the House to inquire into the system of educe-
ossL ton pursued in this college, it was not for the purpose of
inquiring into the system of education, but for the purpose
42L3estroying the Roman Catholic system of religion. De-
ableaAst Roma had been the constant cry of the Honour-
. loves hrther.- (Hear, hear.) He cheers that and yet
.he
Irish Beess"to„inan Catholic fellow-subjects.--(Cheers from the
peating to.ni '')
ference, that The Honourable Member had been re-
glint what he rehearsed in 1845, with this dif-
resist ; now his 1845 there was a great muster in power to
it into action. friendslla were there and were about to carry
prise at the condctn3oTh-e speeds uttered by the Sec could have increased his sur-
present Government it was the
psrtment. Under the voice
of State for the Home De-
Warwick'ishar'
a bitter enmity._(cries conciliation he concealed
MeMber for North hear.) The Honourable
, ;re quoted several extracts
' from Sir Robert Peel's speech, as this inquiry. But if he
remembered right, the
he supported an
was, that. the Amendment, the same as the motion made, and the
answer of Sir Robert Peel
and the power in the hands of the e Power of the visitors,
Lord-Lie
quite sufficient for the purpose; eons to Lord-Lieutenant, were
would only increase animosity bet4n inquiry, it
Roman Catholics'
Protestants, not only in Ireland, but in this and
co
(Cheers.) And now he (Mr. Osborne) came to untry.-
parsued by the then supporters of Sir Robert Peel
course
present members of the Government ; and if he
shleurded the
little tedious in reading extracts not perhaps from be
ha
learned divines, but probably from as great statesmen buck
must throw himself upon the indulgence of the House. The
Hon. Member for Youghal had read to them the opinion of
Lord Stanley in 'June, 1845, and what he said upon an
amendment proposed by the Earl of Roden. When 1,0,1
Derby _Lord Stanley upon that occasion-took that view;
what did-Mr. Pakingtott, the present_ Secretary of State
for the Colonies think ? "He did not think it in-
consistent with has duty as a Churchman to give
the endowment of Maynooth his support-not a
_ cold or hesitating support-not a 'reluctant support
extracted by party tlee, but a cordial and willing
support, founded on deep conviction, firsts that they must
not venture to have Maynooth on its present footing ;
secondly, that this measure was called for as a step in that
wise and conciliatory policy towards Ireland which every
Government should attempt to carry "
out. -(Hear, hear.)
Qaborne) did no the col •
flee e Secretary for the owes

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In hiS place; and probably his opinions upon religious sub-
jects had undergone as much change as his opinions upon
saccharine rnatters.—(Hear, and a laugh.) Now, he was in
a position to carry oat those wise and conciliatory measures
he so much admired.—(Renewed • laughter.). Talking of the
character of the Irish priests having changed, and accusing
them of a want of allegiance to the present Sovereign, what
said the Noble Lord who was supposed alone to represent the
chivalry in this House? —the Noble Lord, the First Commis-
sioner of Woods and Forests, when
" As free as nature first made man,
And wild in woods the naked savage ran."
(Hear, bear, and, g laugh,) In one of the best speeches he
ever delivered, and he had spoken many good ones, he Said :
"The cry idraised, The, Church is in danger.' I admit that
it is; but not from this grant to Maynooth,' nor from the
Vatican, nor from the Jesuits, that the Irish Church is in
peril; it is from herself; frontlet own self-willed and dia.(
obedient laity that she is in danger. They who would have
her isolate herself fretn the rest of Catholic Christendom,
fraternize with the Puritan, and denounce priestcraft with
the Presbyterian! I admit the Church to.be in danger. I
amirresistibly reminded of the dying words of the martyred
Laud on the scaffold. They may who list trace all the glory,
renown, and magnificence' of the old English monarchy to
the Deitch:conquest 'of 1688, 'even in the penal code and Pro-
testant ascendancy the safeguards of the empire; but, for
myself, ,I claim "a liberty to mount higher, and to act in
1815 as though William 111. had died Stadtholder of Hol-
land."--.(llear shear.) Is he going to act in 1852 asif
William of Orange had died Stadtholder •of Holland?—
(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord proceeded ,with some very
pretty poetry :
" The priests, those gentle priests end good,
Their fathers loVed to hear,
Of the God wham they reverea.';
Sole type beloVe, Midst work and woe,
which
with a fatal
" Acknowledge 'frankly, and at once,-
you admit to be so great, sand which hall
~
Accredit a minister
obstinacy, you pretended- to ignore
;Nun Nuncio at St. James's
to the Vaticans—(Cheers)—receive c
feeling
'tlertopower
With every pl.
—(Cheers and laughter..) . . . • ,
disloyallym not acting
confidence as a Churchman, that I a
to.vards the Church in sanctioning this measure, and, as a
statesman, that I am promoting the best interests of my
I give my vote for the permanent endowment of
country, „
the College of Maynooth." Those were the Opinions of two
members of the Cabinet—two consistent supporters of the
permanent endowment of Maynooth. But thsie was an-
other member of. the present Cabinet who consistently op-
posed this grant—the present Chancellor
of the Exchequer
the man who carried brains with hitn.s.-(A laugh) He.
(Mr. Osborne) must crave their forbearance; though after
the polemics they had had introduced by the reverend gen-
tleman—(Loud laughter)—he begged.the Hon. Gentleman's
pardon—hitroduced by the Hon. Gentleman, the House
might be inclined to manifest some little impatience, but he
begged their attention to this speech bf the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, because it • • wits upon this speeech
that he based his opposition to the present mo-
tion. The •- Right' Honourable Gentleman (Mr.
Disraeli) was quarrelling not with Maynooth, but with
Sir Robert Peel. It was in a speech delivered teethe 11th of
April, 1845, and he believed that was the first•occasion when
the Right Hon. Gentleman totally fell out with Sir R, Peel.
The Right Hon. Gentleman opposed tha present endowinent,
but not upon the grounds taken by the Hon. Meinber for
North Warwickshire. He had no feeling in common with
the Hon. Gentleman; for, in fact, the Right lion. Gentle-
man (Kr. Disraeli) was asleep during the delivery of the
Hon. Gentleman's (Mr. Spooner's) speech—not.in a Trea-
sury sleep, but in a bona fide sleep, if the Right Houourable
Gentleman ever did sleep.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) "I
oppose this Bill on account of the -.manner in which it has
been introduced, and on account of the men by whom it is
brought forward Are we to.be told, that be-
cause those men have crossed the floor of the House, and
have abandoned with their former seats their former profes-
sions, are we to be told these men's actions are to remain
uncriticised and unopposed, because they tell us to look to
the merits of their measures, and to forget themselves and
their former protestations?—(Hear.) Let us endeavour to
put an end to the misconception and subterfuge which now
surround us.—(Cheers.) You have permitted men to
gain power, and enter place, and then carry measures
exactly the reverse to those which they professed in Oppo-
sition—(Hear, hear)—and you are reconciled to this proce-
dure by being persuaded that by carrying measures which
you disapprove of and they pretend to disrelish, they are
making what they call the best bargain' for you. The
Parliamentary course is for this House to ,have the advantage
of a Government formed on distinct principles.--(Loud
cheers.) Here is a Minister who habitually brings forward
as his own measures those schemes and proposals which he
bitterly denounced and opposed in Opposition.—(Renewed
cheers.) Let me. ask the admirers of this 'best-bargain'
system how, they think the Right Honourable Gentle-
man would have acted in Opposition?" " Let us tell per-
seis in high places that cunning is not caution, and that
habitual perfidy is not high policy of State.';'—(Loud
cheers.) And in all his (Mr. Osborne's) reading he
never read anything so graphic as the Right Hon. Gentle-
man's definition of the state of Ireland, and upon that state-
ment he grounded his opposition to the resent motion. He
(Mt. Disraeli) said, " The present condition of Ireland was to
be traced not to Protestantistn, but to' Puritanism—(-Im.)
They would see a a teeming population, which, with reference
to the cultivated soil, was denser to the-square mile than
that of China, created solely by agriculture, with none of
those sources of wealth which are developed with civiliza-
tion, and sustained consequently upon the lowest conceiv-
able diet, so that in case of failure they had no other means
of subsistence upon which they could fall back. That donee
population in extreme distress inhabited an island where
there- was 'an Established Church, which was not their
church, and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom
lived in distant capitals. Thus they had "a starving popula-
tion, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in
addition, the weakest Executive in the world. That was the
Irish question."— (Cheers.) But the Right Hon. Gentleman,
apostrophizing Sir Robert Peel, and even then foreseeing, as
he (Mr. B. Osborne) predicted at the time, that he would
one day be Minister—he said," The monent you have a strong
Executive, a just• Administration, and ecclesiastical equality,
you will have order and peace in Ireland."—(Loud cheers.)
( Here Mr. Walpole was about to leave the House, when the
Hon. Gentleman exclaimed—As the Right Hon. Gentleman
is going to find the volume, I will give him the date before he
goes.—(Laughter.) He will find it in a speech delivered April
11, 1845.) He continued—lt was because there was no
ecclesiastical equality at this moment that he refused to be a.
party in aiming this one-sided blow at his Roman Catholic
fellow-countrymen. He could not look at this question in
the light of a common endowment. He looked at it in the
light and as of the nature of a restitution. These were the
words used in this House by a Noble Lord, who was now
member of another House—the Earl of Harrowby, then Lord
Sandon, who represented Liverpool ; and they were used also
by the Noble Lord thd Member for the city of London:
The Noble Lord looked upon it then in the light of a restitu-'
tion. He hoped' the Noble Lord still looked upon it in that
light, and that. he would not consent—though he had been
quoted to-night along with Ca.ssabucitte— (Laughter)—that
le would not consent to be - • • a party in aiming this direct
, insult at the Roman Catholics, that he would not pander to
the prejudices of Englishmen, of• ht
some.whombe
honest, but many of whom were merely scheming for the
next election— he hoped the Noble Lord would not pander
to the base feelings of these fanatics and schemers, and
that he would resist the motion.--(Hear,hear.) He could not
understand a party talking of the love they bore to the Ro-
man Catholics, at the same time that they addressed them in
terms such as were used by the Hon. Member for North
Warwickshire, followed, as he was; in milder language
though in the same spirit, by the Right Hon. the Home
Secretary. If they entered into a political union.with Ire.
land, the mass of whose population were Roman Ca-
tholics, they were bound to put the priesthood of that
people on a -footing of -equality with the Protestants. If
Parliament would not do that—if they refused to give to
Irishmen their just rights—then he said they were bound
to dissolve the Union. But they, had no right to come
down to this House, and while they gave 35,000/. as a
Regium Donum to the Presbyterians, refuse this paltry vote
of 26,000/. to the Roman Catholics, and thus offer another
• insult to the feelings of the mass of the population. Bute
said the Hon. Gentleman, in the true pulpit-ground style
of oratory, I object to the propagation of error, and the
Hon. Gentleman quoted a great many, extracts, which they
all had the misery of hearing,Tiom a variety of books, some
of which were not text-books of Maynooth at all. At one
, time he feared the Hon. Gentleman was about to quote
the whole works of Thomas Aquinas, who wrote
140 volumes —(Laughter.) He also quoted from the works
of a M. Baille, whose name the Honourable Gentleman
pronounced in such a manner that some Gentlemen thought
it 'was Henry, Baillie, a Membeeof this House—(Laughter.)
He (Mr. Osborne) must protest'against inch a course. This
House had no right to have its time wasted, its attention

distracted, and the worst passions of the people excited by
the speech of the Hon. Gentleman. The Hon. Gentleman
had no business to make this House a rostrum from which
to address his North Warwickshire constituents.—(Hear,
hear.) The Hon. Gentleman was followed by the Noble
Lord the Member for Woodstock, whose abilitiekno one would
deny, and he had no doubt 'that when the Noble Lord hid
a little more information, and had read more of the books
whch they were all told they ought to study, he would not.
come to the conclusions 'at which he now appeared to have
arrived. But when the' Noble Lord said, he refused to pro-
pagate error, he asked him how he would get over. the fact
that in many of our colonies—in Malta, in Gibraltar, in the
Mauritius, and in. Cainida—Roman Catholicism . was
guaranteed by direct votes 'of, this yaw" ? If they
looked at all - their colonies, from India to Newfonnd -
hmd, they would find that' this House had guaranteed
the establishment of Roman Catholicism. ;,Even in
Ireland they would- find that '2BO Chaplains of work-
houses were paid and supported by direct `votes of thiS
House. Nay, if he remembered rightly, ' the Government of
the day founded in 1833 a Hindoo college for the propagation
of Ilindooism. He wondered if the Hon.' Gentleman was as
well acquainted with the Hindoo system of divinity as he
professed to be'with 'Roman -Catholicisni ? What- was the
House to think of the odour of that sanctity which strained
at the Alaynooth gnat and swallowed the Brahminical camel?
—(Cheers.)
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Were they to suppose that the Hon. Gentleman for North
Warwickshire, togetherw
during his speech-(Laughter)—
doos than they had for Roman
but it was because they knew that if
thbaad t
Catholics?l greaterwawas
notrs 0 ;
they were -to treat India as they treated Ireland this
great empire would Very speedily totter to its- foundations.—
(Cheers.) But then the Right Honourable Secretary said
that the character of the Roman Catholic priesthood was
changed, and from his language he left the House to imagine
that they had been among'the chief conductors of
the insur-
inßight II
848 Had theon.Gentleman taken ttie
section 1 • . .
pains to inquire in
to the statistics of Maynooth ? . Was he
aware that Primate Cullen was not brought tip at Blaynooth
-ware that in that unfortunate confederacy.
at all? Was he a
or conspiracy, or w ~
hateverha might choose to call' it, there
connected with Mavnooth who •at all
" 'est
was only one priest
sympathised in it, and that was kather lienyon? Yet the
had the indecency to come forward on
Right Hon. Gentletnan.
`election, and tell them that he was for
the eve of a general ,
I ooth priests were disloyal, and
an inquiry, because the A ti3n
many sympathisers with
abetted rebellion. W he aware, on the other hand, that
lia
Trinity College, Dublin, furnished
Smith O'Brien?- (Hear.) Was he aware that the' famous.
song which rang through all Ireland
~ ~,8 o . .
" Who fears to speak,or v t . , .
College?
was the production of a" Man educated at Trinity .
all, let. it not
(Elear, hear.) If there was to be an atincialry
; College—let
be a one•sidecl inquiry ; let them go to Trauty .
laces of
them see what was the system adopted at all 4leir.P 13 the
Hon. N--eers-) But a great point was made y . a
Hon. Member for ' North Warwickshire, folloWed .by.the.
Home Secretary, that they had no right to give the mony of
Protestants for the endowmentof error. Now he at once
denied that this was protestant
(Cheers.) lie
denied altogether that the money givenolritneY; MaY):looth was
in any sense Protestant money.- 811
of the public revenue raised • e held . , ending
the in Ireland for the year
the sth of January, 1851, from which it appeared that the
total amount was 3,500,0007,
sterling, and on examining the
tariff of tptatiop, it wolddte found that the Roman Catholic
populatiO4 vontributettbY Air the larger proportion QC that