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London, England, 1836-06-03 00:00:00

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on one princile, Lord Grey's retention of o te
a c rooter principle, have equally rc stsd.
Wh ,•Istyereirkslisl ",
the Noble Lord refer so repeatedly last night itsk-A..qr.tekel,e'
Whit did be desire to intimate ? Against an narantlact:. „s
winch he meant to convey, let the church commis ofisu sr*
by Lord Grey be appealed to. The Melbourne Cabinet is
forned—disSolved in a moment of royal misapprehension of
the state of Ireland. The Right Ilonourahle Member for
Tamworth c imea in, announces the_ non•appropriasien as the
bas's of his policy, is struck down by the resolutien moved by •
the Noble Lord, and out of the ruins of his AdroitilstratiOn
furnishes a nes proof of the riecessny of making this great
and paramount concession to the power by which that Adminise
tration was laid prostrate. The Melbourne Cabinet send- up
their Bill to the Lords. It is lost ; but are the Government
shaken, or in the least affected by it? No; a resolution of
the Commons annihilates a Ministry in an instant; and fb the
Lords the Cabinet bii defiance. Who,
_then, will deem it
Matter of doubt . by whom the victory will be won, if, indeed,
to an encounter the two Houses should onheppily he driven ?
Take that single fact; not go t 4 remote periods or
tionable examples ; look at the (Act-,t within your intoted‘,4te
recollection, at that which IS passing this moment none .e
eyes, and away with till Ara on the part of the 7,„epia, and
with all confidennn no the part of their antagorlsts I The ses.
sion of 1,4 G"
ei. closes; '-• and mob-eland ev(r.',s arise which exhibit
...,e fatal impoliey of the Lords in o new and remarkable light.
This tithe question, which had before been so productive of
disaster, generates a series of new evils. The writ of rebellion
is issued ; the law officers appear before the Chief Baron and
his brethren, to opeosethe employment of the police in the
execution of these writs ; the executive is discomfited by the
Court, and the Chief Baron
.becomes virtually the master of
the whole constabulary force. Is this state of things to con-
tinue ? -As yet, indeed, there has•been no violent outrage,
because the people look to the settlement of the question, and
entertain the strom)est confidence in the Government but
if the question continues unadjusted, and there is but one
mode of effecting it, I shrink, I own, from the contemplation of
the cons •crnees. A single, a most painful fact, will illustrate
the-state to which things have arrived. Not long ago, a letter
aidressed by me to the clergyman of my parish, was pro-
duced in this House. I made no complaint of its produc-
tion, nor of the steps taken by the Rev. Gentleman to instr
his tithe. I have recently learned that he has applied, to the
Government for the protection of the police in going every
Sunday to church, in order to secure him from any outrage
to which he may be exposed, and accordingly he proceeds
every Sunday to church, accompanied by the police. I not •
only condemn, but I denounce as detestable, any attempt to
offer him violence, or affront; but while I denounce it, I can-
not avoid deploring the political circumstances of a country, of
which these lamentable incidents are the symptoms. There is
not a Protestant State in Europe but this, in which a propo-
sition so preposterous as that Church property is inalienable,
is asserted. Look to Scotland when an effort was made to
inflict episcopacy upon her (how full is her history of the phi-
losophy which teaches by example), .and look at her after
her national religious rights had been asserted. Noble and
enviable country ! She has won victories in civilisation.
Her agriculture has climbed to the summit of those bills
whose heather was once red with her martyrs' blood • the,
palaces of her inl.ustry ascend on the banks of every frith ;
her estuaries are covered with navies that bear the prodoce of
her labour to the remotest marts ; in every seien.ze that
exalts and expands the mied—in every art tbct cheers and
embellishes. existence, Scotland has made the tritest important
contiibutions to the happiness of mankind. res. ut, alas ! when
from the contemplation of the splendid soectacle which Scot-
land exhibits I turn to my own unfortursate country, my heart
sinks, I confess, within me in the melancholy conscioustiess
in which every Irishman, no mater what may be his creed,
ought to participate. But if Ireland does exhibit this fatal
contrast—if in a country treat ought to teem with abundance,
there prevails wretchedness without example—if millions of
paupers are without employment, and often without food or
raiment—where is the fault? I; it in the sky that showers vers.
lure?—is it in the u?;, that is surpassingly fertile ?—or is it in
the fatal course n...nich you, the arbiters of her destiny, have
aeoeted ? has for centuries belonged to England; England
has usen' her for centuries as she pleased; how has she used
bcne and what has been the result ? A code of laws ,:ias esta-
blished, to which in the annals of legislative atrocity there is not
a parallel ; and of that code, those institutes of unnatural as-
cendancy, the Irish Church is a remnant. But although that
detestable policy was without example, it has sinee been
chosen as a model. Well did Nicholas exclaisso when he
perused the debates (as I have heard) in this House, on his
frightful tyranny to Poland, well did he exclaim, " Poland
is Russia's Ireland." He confiscates as your fathers did ; be
banishes as they did ; he debases as they did ; he violates the
instincts of human nature, and from the parent tears the
child, as they did; and he inflicts upon a -Catholic people a
church alien to their national habits, feelings, and belief, as
you do. And think you not that there are men found in the
Senate of St. Petersburg, who exclaim that the Greek Church
must be maintained in ascendancy in Poland—that it is the
bond of connection between Poland and Re ssia—that
Greek_ priest, dispensing hospitality, and holeiing out a salu-
tary example by the excellence of his more:, conduct, must in
every Polish village be the source of im.provement ? and can
you doubt that some Tartar Secretary for Poland—( Loud
cheers)—is sufficiently prompt to ftscnish the materials for a
Warsaw speech, and to exclaim eaat a lesson must be given .
to Poland, and that she must lee taught to fear, before she
can learn how to love?—( Lo' d and continued cheering.) You
all exclaim the Russian policy is not only wicked but insane.
Is English policy commendable and wise? You cannot hope
to proselytise us through the means of the Establishment.
You have put this experiment to the test of three centuries.
If the truth be evith you it may be great, but in this instance
it does not sustain the aphorism, for it does not prevail.
Yet 'nave tried everything. First,. penal codes, then found-
ling hospitals, and charter schools (those norseries for Cor-
porations), afterwards Kildare-street ‘Societies; but these
also you have abandoned ; and even the. -Noble Lord opposite,
with all his scriptural addictions, seed although he be the
_author of a work on the Parables for the use of children (I
wonder what he says about tlee Pharisee)—( A laugh)--still
so convinced was he of tt.ie futility of all attempts at our
conversion, that lie himOelf introduced that system which
is so erroneously designated by his present auxiliaries, as
the mutilation of the Word of God. How can re-
ligion advance soitii police, process servers, and Commis-
sioners of rsebellion for its missionaries ? Recollect what
argumernes, or, if you please, what sophisms these abuses
stioply to its opponents. Have not the rival clergy an oppor-
tunity of asking whether it is in an aeeldama that the vine-
yard of the Lord should be planted ? Whether they are, indeed
the Ministers of Christ who, while they inculcate the reading
of his Word, enter the field of massacre with the Gospel, as
an implement for swearing a distracted mother over the body
of her child that lay dead and stark before her, and whether
they are, indeed, the priests of the living Grid, who with the
hands that. distribute the sacramental cup, and putthe bread of
life into circulation, load the instruments of homicide, and
then turning sentimentalists, with fingers dripping with hu.
man blood, wipe their tears away I These, you may say, are
exaggerations : take means that your Church do not afford too
many opportunities for their indulgence. But if in a religious
view the Establishment, as it is constituted, cannot conduce to
the interests of religion--in a political view, what purpose does
it answer? It is said that it cements the union. Cements
the Union At this moment it disturbs the foundation of the
Legtsrature, brings both Houses of Parliament into collision,
and to its centre shakes the constitution. —(The -Hon. and
Learned Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheers.) •
As soon as the Hon. and Learned Member for Tipperary sat
down, tha debate, on the motion of Mr. BROTH E RTON,
was adjourned to this day.
The remaining Orders of the Day were thee disposed of,
and at a few minutes before one o'clock this morning, the
House adjourned.

FONERA L OF THE DUKE OF GORDON.-ThiS
morning the remains of the Duke of Gordon were removed
from his House for the purpose of being carried down to toe
family vault in Aberdeenshire. The body was to be carried
down to Greenwich, where. the Firebrand Government
steamer was prepared for the purpose of conveying it down to
Scotland. The processiOn was opened by six mourners on
horseback—then followed several companies of the 3d Grena-
dier Guards, of which regiment the Noble Duke was Colonel
—the Band playing, the Portuguese Hymn, and the soldiers
with reversed arms—then came the Coronet of the deceased,
borne upon a cushion by a man on horseback ; he was followed
by the hearse containing the body, and ten mourning coaches ;
the Duke of Richmond chief mourner. Then followed three
of his Majesty's carriages, and one from each of the other
branches of the Royal Family ; they were followed by another
party of soldiers, and the procession was closed by a dozen pri-
vate carriages of the Nobility, mostly Dukes.
NEW SERIES OF TII E OLD MEN'S TALES...---
Those who remember the sensation produced by " The Old
Men's Tales," will know what to expect from the appearance
of the New Series now in course of publication. Speaking
of that extraordinary work, the " Quarterly Review" observed,
" Upon us the impression of these Tales was such as we re-
collect to have received from the novels which we stole and
secretly read in the days of our boyhood ; we found them inte-
resting and affecting' to a degree which made us begin again
to think the serious occupations of life were weary, stale, flat
and unprofitable."

General Lord Ludlow is to be appointed to the
3d Regiment of Guards, vacant by the death of the Duke
of Gordon. Lord Ludlow is a very old 'eneral officer,
and has always been a steady and consistent Liberal. He
lost his arm while serving with tie Guards in Holland, and.
afterwards commanded u brigade of Guards throughout the
campaign in Egypt. G.meral Ross, now Governor of Guern-
sey, is to have the vacant regiment, and Major-General Mice
is to be appointed Lieutenant-Governor of -Guernsey in his
place.
Exc USE FOR A Ho LI DAY.—The Winchester
( American) Republican has the following neat article
" Our office has not been cleaned for two years. In order to
begin the Sear like civilized people, we have determined to
have a general cleaning, to wash and scrub the faces of our
types, and to put a fresh shirt on our devil, &c. In conse-
we have issued only a half sheet this week."
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quence of these doings, and to allow all bands a chance of
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which inculcates aka-
keeping Christlnat,
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stincncc from intoxicating liquors, originated with a ma
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named Turner, a member of the Preston Temperance S
„ho, having au impediment of speech, iu addressing a „I'
ing, remarked, that abstinence from •nv
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intoxv,ating
liquors would not ;
they must insist upon tee.+ t 1
abstinence.
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...atm from Trieste say that the choler).
disappeared there, but that a malignant jaundie- has succeeded,
which has already assumed the character cf an epidemic, and
had carried off several persons, had nearly