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IMPERIAL PA RLIAMEN T.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS
The EPEAKER to, k the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the Accidental Death Pt'
surance and Rlilway Assurance Companies Amalgams'
Lion i 3 in were considered and agreed to.
Ti a Stockton and Hartlepool and Clarence Railway]
and Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock Companies, and
the Limerick Improvement Market Bilia were reads
third time and passed.
The following Bills were considered nod agreed to:-.-
Astia,,ll and Buckland Road.
Ox tord,Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (110.1')
The Presbyterian Ministers' Widows' and Orphooat
Fund Bill was read a second time, and ordered to ,_
commit tee,

PETITIONS.
Several petitions were presented, praying for the re'
peal of the attorneys' certificate duty.
Sir JOHN YOUNG presented a petition from Sat.
borough against the Maynooth grant.
Mr. KEOGH presented two petitions against the
Militia Bill.
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MA ICNOOTII
COLLEGEthedaßyfo — ADJOURNED DE'
On the order
of
ATrEti
jcurned debate, e resumption of the ad"
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY rose for the purpose of or
posing the motion of the Hon. Member
berfor North War"
wickshire, but it must not be supposed
that hevi„9ll
- opposed to inquiry, for he was of opinion that the result
M
of the most stringent inquiry would redound to
thecre"A7
of the Maynooth College.—
‘-ear.) The conclusion
such inquiry, he believed, would satisfy every initAlt:ial
person that Maynooth College was an institution we''-,e,
e
had answered the purpose for which it was inteadts
and in which the soundest moral doctrines and the
strictest loyalty were taught.—(Hear, hear.) WO
then, he might be asked, do you oppose the motion?-''
(Hear, hear.) Ho would tell them. The inquiry we
proposed in a mean spirit of retaliation upon the Roman
Catholic body, and it was not brought forward in good
faith,—(Hear, hear.) At first the motion was
absolutely against the grant to Maynooth, and so the
the noticeend ofof
February,
votes
notice down
mo
nto.
don for an inquiry was placed upon tha paper, and the
t
previous notice was still allowed to remain standing.(Hear, hear.) But shortly after this period her
Ma-
jesty's present advisers came into office, and as, no doubt,
the original motion was discovered to be a difficulty in
their way, the notice of motion for the absolute disco:
tinuance of the grant to Maynooth was expunged from
the votes.—(Hear, hear.) So far, then, for !Ile
first. Now for the second. What necessity
was there for it? He insisted that there was
none, because some few years ago a commission vissl;
pointed by the Crown to examine into the doctrta
taught in Maynooth, and that investigation ended, as
others would do, in establishing nut only the soundness'
but the validity and scrupulous morality of the print
ples taught and inculcated in the minds of the Staub-jai
at Maynooth.—(Hear, hear.) All the charges le:
had previously been made against the cage were
thoroughly refuted, and the insinuation that ultra's°n_
tans views wore entertained by its professobrse
was denied in the report prepared by
Commissioners.—(Hear, hear.) Where, then, would ""
the benefit of instituting a second inquiry? If the /31.0
tion was intended to put the House in possession of 100.
information upon the subject he could assure the House
that no more information could be obtained thin the I,
li
port contained, and all, therefore, that they should do,
that was the object of the motion was to order the
port to be reprinted.—(Hear, hear.) But, admitting o'e
another inquiry was necessary, the inquiry could be be;
without any motion of the sort, for the lA%
Lieutenant not only possessed the power of appoindl32
but also if he so thought fie
an annual v:sitation, to ra;
new the Commission, which' could sift the subject far
more efficiently than a Committee of this House.—(ll";
hear.) The visitation had taken piece every year sic ,`;d
the existence of the grant, and if any of these abuses e:t_
exist in the college which had been charged egaill,st
ahr'
they would long ago have been brought to
hear.) He complained of the spirit and manner iii
__
which this motion was made. A Commission in;
sitting and examining into the abuses of the Begfoo
Universities, but in the appointment of that Comniisroa,
there had been no desire to prejudge the questtow
as was manifested in this instance.—(Hear.) Pe a
could the Lion. Member for North Warwickshire, '7l
strong and conscientious Protestant, conduct an itePs.rtta
inquiry into the doctrines and religious Prinel.liee,
taught in Maynooth? But setting that objection as ii
could this inquiry be proposed in good faith, 7111
was clear that they had a!moit atteins the end of
moribund Parliarnent?—(Hear, hear.) Appoint bag
Committee, and what could it do? Why, nothing,
simply meet once and adjourn, and then the dissolattil
would suddenly bring their labours to a close.--(lleaerda
Permit him, however, to ask the question,
what grone„
• ae.
had been urged in favour of the inquiry ? None at ot
Every argument which had :en brought forward was
in favour of inquiry, but against the grant, because 1",.
Roman Catholic religion was the ruling principle of
college,—(Bear, hear.) It should be remembered tlrt
the object of the Legislature in assis 'ng the college 7.,
to promote the domestic religion of the people f „,e
land, and he was prepared to prove that the college
authorities authorities had in no way departed .rom the origil.
purposes of the institution.—(Hear, hear.) He leo7.
tended that Maynooth had nothing to do with the ultra
montane teaching now prevalent in Ireland. Did they
suppose that if Sir Robert Peal, when he proposed to
he
increase the grant to Maynooth hal found
0,57,1
teaching practised at the college, woe such as it was
described to be, he would not have asked a commission
of inquiry, and been guided by the result? Sir be did
Peel was slow in approaching reform, but wheneing
effect any reform, it was always of the most Beare
caution,
and comprehensive charactertyet, with all his Tilts of in
had never seen anything to condemn or complain of
the system of education pursued at Maynooth. The
riculum at Maynooth extended over eight
years, and
period elapsed from the time the young man entered
st
until he went forth to the world an ordained pries`
Now the permanent grant was made in 1845, but it did
not come into operation until 1846, so that six years is!
elapsed since the benefits of the grant had been enjoyed
at Maynooth. Therefore, he would undertake to say
that
that not a single Roman Catholic priest, educated at
d
Maynooth Since the grant was made,
in any public demonstration in Ireland. Wee it a logis_
cal conclusion, then, to say that such was the system of
had participated
participated
it, that an wag absolutely'
education pursued at Maynooth, and such the evil effects
arising from inquiry
necessary? He thought he was bound to make
the inquiry
the Committee that the system of education hai
whether, if it was proved before
never been altered and was free from the objections that
had been urged, those who supported the Hon. Member
gforra
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insurrection wo l d b
we a
sPreparedirteol a
nudp
wh ohl
od
wtkase
it that stood between the people and bloodshed but the
Roman Catholic priests? He met with a positive dole,;
the assertion that the education at Mayncath encouraged
immorality,t and shook the allegiance of those under
away
doingi s influence. One of the most illogical reasons for •
with the grant, was advanced by the Horne
But afteProoimr,probvaintg twheascon
Secretary,once poor,
who said the College of Maynooth $lll3
making now comparatively
Oefomtbpearpartoivfeeslysore,rd.
them almost affluent, were they to reduce theta
to a state of poverty again? The Home Secretary bad
also stated that the college was intended for domestic
purposes, and that the funds voted by Parliament, in-
stead of being employed for the education of priests at
home, were used for the education of foreign priests
but if that Right Hon. Gentlem a had instituted the
most meagre inquiry he would have ascertained there
was no foundation whatever for that'assertion, which was
so often repeated by the great champions of Proles'
tandem.