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that this pitiful trimming does not stop here, but is
again displayed by the elevation of Colonel Cuyler to
be a stipendiary police magistrate of the city of Dublin,
who is reported to be a red-hot Conservative. This
truckling, we must persist in saying, is " too bad,"
and if persevered in must have the effect of alienating
the confidence of the Irish people from a Government
capable of descending to such meanness. What is the
chief argument which Mr. O'Connell uses to induce
Reformers .of every class to abandon those minor differ-
ences upon which they are known to disagree, and to
sustain the present Government at all hazards ? Why,
the injury which Ireland would suffer, should a Tory
Administration return to power, by the appointment of
a furious class of Orange partisans ; and yet we behold
in the present instance Lord Mulgrave doing the very
thing which Mr. O'Connell deprecates. We could
wish that some persons would in time learn that if
Whigs in office take it into their heads to act like
'Tories—that the people may at length begin to reflect
whether the mere nominal distinction is worth con-
tending about—in other words, a perfect indifference
may prevail as to whether we be ruled by Tory Con-
formers, or Conservative Whigs ?—Morning Advcr-
user.

A report was current on Saturday that his Majesty's
Ministers in the House of Commons mean to treat the
amendments made by the House of Lords in the Irish
Tithe Bill as a matter of privilege, and to attempt to
persuade the former assembly that they are bound by
the practice of Parliament to reject the Bill, as re-
turned to them, without reference to its merits, and

simply upon the ground, that it is a Money Bill, which
the Lords should not be permitted to alter. This
rumour seems too absurd to merit much consideration,
although it has been circulated with considerable
industry by the inferior agents of the Government. The
device would, no doubt, be a convenient one for Minis -
ters, since it would, if successful, relieve them from
the odium of rejecting a confessedly good practical
measure, for the very insufficient reason, that it
has been divested of a principle confessedly inope-
rative and useless for many years to come. But
we will not believe, until we witness it, that
Ministers will venture to -take this ground, and still
less will we believe that part of the rumour dis-
seminated by Ministerial authority, that the Chair of
the House of Commons is to be stultified and degraded
by the Speaker lending his sanction to so preposterous
a pretension. The Members of the House of Corn-
mons,
in asserting such a claim as that which it is said
the King's Ministers mean to suggest to them, would
be attempting, in manifest violation of the Constitu-
tion, to legislate, to establish a new principle of law,
by means of a mere resolution of their own, without
the concurrence of the other branches of the Legisla-
ture. •It is not the law of England at this moment,
but is, on the contrary, repugnant to the clearest prin-
ciples of the law of England, that the property of the
Church is public property, which the House of Com-
mons can its pleasure grant to the Crown. The ,ap-
propriation principle even, which the Lords have ex-
punged from the Irish Tithe Bill, stopped very far short
of this monstrous assumption. The vote which it is
pretended Ministers will venture, on Tuesday, to pro-
pose to the House of Commons would therefore be
a vote to alter the nature and subvert the foun-
dation of a particular description of property. It
would be an attempt to effect, by the mere will
of one branch of the Legislature, something more
than the present Ministers ventured to attempt by
means of an Act of the whole Legislature. If such
a resolution were to be proposed and adopted, it might
justly be regarded as an intimation that the House of
Commons is henceforth to make laws for the country,
without the assistance or the control of the Peerage or
the Sovereign. The time is not yet come for this re-
volutionary arrogance, and therefore we conclude that
the Lords' Amendments will bc discussed in reference
exclusively to their merits, and that the coup (Petal
e:hich has been for some days in the contemplation of
I .Ministers will not be resorted to. We should entreat
the Conservative Members of the House of Commons
to be at their post, to assist at the division upon this
important question, in whatever form it may be pre-
ssnted to the House, if we did not feel that any en-
treaty upon such an occasion must be unnecessary, and
that if it were possible to believe it necessary it would
probably be unavailing. If there be a single Member
of Parliament calling himself a Conservative whose
own sense of the importance of the decision to be taken
on Tuesday does not far outweigh anything that it
would be possible for us to say upon the subject, such
individual, if such there be, is far beyond the teach of
any admonition, or remonstrance of ours.---11.1(»-ning
Post.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

PERIAL PARLIAINIENT,

(THIS. EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
LEITH AND NEWHAVEN RAILWAY.

On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE the Eck
burgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway Bill was read a se.
cond time and ordered to be committed.

Colonel RUSH BROOKE felt it his duty to offer an
explanation relative to a statement made by the Hon.
alei-nhe.i. for Finsbury en Wednesday evening, on the pre-
sentation of a petition by the Hon. Member for Berkshire,
and complaining of oppressive conduct pursued by the
Overseers of the Union of Stowmarket. The Honour-
able Member here read an extract from the speech of
Mr. Wakley on the occasion referred to, and proceeded.
These observations having been communicated to him when
in the country, lie had seen the Clerk and some of the most
active of the Guardians of Stowmarket, and he was able
to give the most complete refutation to them. With re-
spect to the first case, the Guardians never knew of it, and
never applied for such leave from the Commissioners ; and
with respect to the second, they had never heard any com-
plaint of the humane and skilful gentlemen who held the
appointment of surgeons to the Union. They also added
that the aged and infirm had received an addition to their
out-door allowance last winter. He was most happy to be
able to refute such scandalous charges.
Mr. WAKLEY said he had, on Wednesday last, at
once given the name of his informant. He begged to say
that he was not answerable for the misrepresentations of the
proceedings of the House which went forth. He had not
made the statements alluded to in the way they were re-
ported ; but there was considerable excitement in the House
when he spoke. The first charge of the blind man being
ill and being refused the attendance of his wife till an order
arrived from the Commissioners did not apply to Stowmar-
ket Union but to Besemere Union ; the other charge re-
specting the Surgeon related to Stowmarket and they
had been confounded together.—(cries of " Hear, hear.")
The Hon. Member after reading the letter he had received
stating the case, observed that the only difference between
that written statement, and the one he had made to the
House, was that the Guardians had told the unfortunate
individual that he could not receive any assistance, instead
of the relieving officer.

Captain GORDON had made most anxious enquiries on
the subject, and he was informed that no such case had
occurred as that alluded to by the Hon. Member.
Mr. WAKLEY was most willing to furnish the Hon.
and Gallant Member with the name of his correspondent,
and he thought, after that, he would not question the
truth cf the statement.

Mr. WILKS presented a petition from the Chairman,
the Vice-Chairman,• and the Board of Guardians of Ket-
tering, complaining that under the Poor Law Bill the poor
who were in workhouses were not allowed to attend divine
worship, and praying that some measure might be adopted
to enable them to do so.

Mr. MANSELL concurred in the prayer of the peti-
tion, which was then laid on the table.
CHURCH RATES.

Mr. HODGES presented a petition from some parish
in Kent, praying for the abolition of Church Rates ; also
two petitions from the same county, in favour of the re-
moval of the Jewish Civil Disabilities.
COLONIAL LANDS COMMITTEE.
Mr. WARD brought up the Report of the Committee,
which was ordered to be printed.
NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY.
Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from the Mer-
chants and Traders of Greenock, complaining of the great
difference in the amount of duty that was levied on Spanish
vessels returning with fish from Newfoundland, and British
vessels, stating unless some alteration was made in the existing
reciprocity laws with Spain, the trade of this country was
very much injured. The difference of the duty upon fish
landed in Spain from Spanish vessels, was 2/. 13s. less than
on British fish. They stated that they considered that they
ought to be allowed to enter Spanish ports equally as free
as Spanish vessels were allowed to enter the ports of New-