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London, England, 1852-04-21 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, April 20.
ROYAL ASSENT.
Tho Royal Assent was given to-day to the Mutiny
13111 and the Marine Mutiny Bill, and several private
Bills. The Lords Commissioners were, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Marquis of Exeter, and the Marquis of Salis-
bury. Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.
At Five o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat
on the Woolsack.
COUNTY COURT PRACTICE.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a petition
from the attorneys' articled clerks of Westminster, pray-
ing to be allowed to act as advocates in County Courts.
ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT.
The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition from
Galway against the Ecclesiastical Titles Act.
On the motion of Lord REDESD ALE, the Law of
Evidence (Scotland) Bill was read a first time.
MAYNOOTH GRANT.
Earl TALBOT presented a petition against the May-
nooth grant.
PATENT LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
Lord COLCHESTER, in moving the third reading of
this Bill, stated the alterations which had been intro-
duced into the Bill while in Committee. The nature of
these alterations, however, did not reach th'e gallery.
After a few observations from Lord WALDEORAVE and
Lord CAMPBELL, the Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The Bishopric of Quebec Bill was also read a third
time and passed.
THE MAYNOOTH GRANT.
The Marquis of CL &NRICARDE rose to put a
question to the Noble Earl at the head of her Majesty's
Government as to his intention relative to any future
grant to Maynooth. After going into the history of
the original endowment, the Noble Marquis said that
the answer given by the Noble Earl opposite to the
question put by a Noble Lord not now present (Albe-
marle), had been materially disturbed by the speech of
the Solicitor-General (Sir F. Kelly), delivered only a
few days ago, in which that Learned Gentleman stated
that he was ready to concur with the Government,
of which he was a Member, in any step to put an end to
the College of Maynooth,l if such a step should
be found necessary upon inquiry, and if the existing
contract and engagements could be got rid of with
honour. With regard to any inquiry, no notice of any
intention of moving for a Committee on the subject had
been given by the Government in either HOUR'. There
certainly was a notice of motion for a Committee on the
subject standing on the order-book of the House
of Commons, in the name of Mr. Spooner, but
the proposed object of that Committee was
not to inquire into the existing contracts and engage-
ments with the College of Maynooth, but to inquire into
the nature of the education given at that college. That
was a motion which when made by a Noble Earl
(Roden) not now present, in 184:5, the Noble Est.),
now at the head of her Majesty's Government, had op-
posed. This was a subject of such great importance
that the Government ought not to leave this country and
Ireland in the dark as to their real intentions ; and if
they had any intention of making an alteration in the
present settlement of the question, it was not on the
hustings but before Parliament that they ought to
deliver them.
The Earl of DERBY said that he thought that the
difficulties of maintaining the endowment to Maynooth
to which he had alluded on a previous occasion, would be
greatly increased by the speech of the Noble
Marquis. The Noble Marquis had more
leisure than he had to read newspaper re-
ports, but he must protest against her Majesty's
Government being made responsible for any newspaper
reports of any speech whatever upon the hustings; and
still more for the accuracy of any comments which the
Noble Marquis might make upon that report.
From what tie could learn from the Noble Mar-
quis of the speech in question, the Solicitor-
General appeared to be of opinion that the set-
tlement of the Maynooth question in 1845 had not pro-
duced • all the good effects which had been anti-
cipated from it. In that particular point he
could, only say that ,tho Solicitor-General shared
the feeling of a large number of people
He quite egreed with the Noble Marquis that any in-
thnien of any alteration ought to be procleimed before
Parliament, and nut on the hustings, and he could only
repeat his former statement that her Majesty's Govern-
ment had no present intention of making any
alteration in the present grant to Maynooth;
but should circumstances arise to make any such alter-
ation. necessary, •ample notice would be given in both
Rouses, and the Noble Marquis would have full oppor-
tunity of taking-any steps which he might think neces-
sary for the purpose of opposing it.
Earl GREY thought that his Noble Friend was en-
titled to a distinct answer to the question which he had
put relative to a most important matter. The Noble
E trl opposite was a Member of the Government which
had brought forward the Bill of 1845, and in that House
had appealed to their Lordships, as statesmen and as
Christians, not to reject that Bill. If there was a respon-
sibilitythemeasure when introduced, surely
in rejecting
was greater of rejecting it a ,er it had
the land for seven years. Thal/obit,
tEbehaeernlr ehtstldee nlssati
e7btieloidtithat the Government had no present
intention of proposing
an alteration, and had laid greate
Now he did not ask
sthtreetwe
(t)-)tl,ttrwlotro:l
113 thoueht be had a right to ask
pledge himself never to repeal the
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Act of 1845; but a
the Noble Earl whether the views which ho expressed
point their Lordships were entitled to an explicit de-
on the question in 1845 were now altered. Upon that
clarutio-n. Reference had been made to a speech of the
Chancellor of the Eschequer on the subject of the prin-
ciple which ought to guide Parliamentary government.
Without saying that the Right Hon. Gentleman was
right in the application which he had made of those
principles, he must say that the Right Hon. Gentleman
had stated them with singular ability, and, abstractedly
considered, with singular earn:eases. Their Lordships
were all aware of the efforts now making to excite the
feelings of the electors on the Maynooth question. Go•
vernment were not j
on among the different religious
ustified in adding to and stimulating
the agitation going
bodies by refusing to exproas their views.on the question
which was exciting them. The iNubla E was usage
taken in supposing
thit his Noble Friend who had asked
the question had gonathe length of giving up altogether
the ground of good faith and 4,dherence to a contract,
expressed or implied, rte
a reason for continuing the
grant. There was certainly an implied promise that
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the college would not else eelowe d to be put down.
He hoped the Goverbraefit were not going
the same course On this sabject• as they had on the
question of a duty on foreign abea.• eepe4 they adopteywere
not going to avoid the responsibility of expressing a de-
cided opinion on the subject, sad that they were not