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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY •
!racts from- the Morntri,g P(pers, May 7, 1525.

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'jn 'ilftinte of Sir Francis Burdett,. Mr.
.-'ez.sjitititilsainnioved last night the Order of the Day,
!•.fur going.:into a Committee on the Roman Ca.:
tholic Bill. The motion was not opposed, as,
there had been a general understanding that the
last -stand: would be made on the third reading ;-
but the itself was strongly combated. Ge-
steral Gascoyne led the attack, and Sir Thomas
Lethbridge carried it on manfully, and in a man-
-ner which cannot fail to counteract the effect of 1
the,delusions which seem to have spread over the
intellects of a portion of the House. He showed
. that the proposed Bill went by a direct legisla-
tive enactment to recognize a foreign supremacy
in the kingdom, which every Protestant Member
:was•called upon by the Oath of Supremacy to
,• Ore-ar did not exist. It was a measure therefore
• which required them to break their most solemn
engagemects to each other and to the country.
Be appealed to the proceedings of the Catholic
Orders in Ireland, in France, and Spain at this
very moment to show that the Catholics were
not different from what they had been formerly.;
• and as a proof of their incroachments even
England, and of the danger which resulted from
them to the Protestant Religion, he quoted the
following remarkable fact, which is indeed preg-
nartt with instruction. It was the case ,of a
'farmer who lived, he should not say where. The
neighbouring Clergyman, who had been in the
- • •habit of reading prayers to him and his family
• for many years, was suddenly refused permission
to continue that practice. U pon requiring to
- know the reason of this change, he was told that
the farmer had lately taken the lease of some
Lnd.from a " Catholic Establishment," and there
.was a clause in his lease that no Protestant prayers
should he put up under his roof, nor a Protestant
bible allowed to be there.—(Hear, hear
circumstance he related to show that the feeling
of Catholics towards Protestants was just the
same as it was fifty or one hundred years back.
The Hon. Baronet concluded one of the most ar-
gumentative speeches yet spoken against the mea-
sure; by this solemn and well founded declaration:
—" I am not' prepared, with my feelings upon
this subject, to violate the oath of supremacy
which I have taken before this House and the
country, and I defy you to enact one clause of
this Bill without such a violation being the con-
sequence." Mr. Secretary Peel, whose opposi-
tion to the Bill has been throughout of the most
:manly and liberal description, repeated his decla-
ration that he would not take the sense of the
louse before the third reading of the Bill, as
there was a general impression that no division
would be called for upon the present stage, and
expressed a hope that others would alio abstain
from dividing the House," as it would not be
acting fairly to do so-without having previously
given notice." .Mr. Butler Clark defended the
Bill as necessary to the tranquillity of Ireland,
and the security of property. Col. Trench justly
contended that as the past evils of Ireland flowed
from misgovernment, and as a new mode of Go-
vernment had lately been adopted of a more be-
neficial nature, if the House would allow things
to go on in that country as they now were for two
years longer, without adopting the proposed mea-
sure, he would answer for it that noagita tor would
he able to disturb its repose. The house having
resolved itself into a Committee the Speaker ex-
pressed hisdecided hostility to the Bill. An amend-
mentmoved by r.Gi pps,lnd consisting of the word
44 Protestant,'- was then effected in the clause
which " disclairits, disavows,. and sol.onnly Rh-
jures any intention to subvert the present Church
Establishment ;" which clause now stands thus—
" the present Protestant Church Establishment
of the United-Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland." .Mr. Robertson then moved an amend-
ment, leaving to Irish Catholics the right of sit-
ting in Parliament, but taking it away from those
of England and of Scotland. This amendment,
however, was negatived without a division. Mr.
Brougham then moved another amendment, which
was carried, establishing two Commissions, the
one to examine the communications received. from
the See of Rome, and the other to certify their
belief of the loyalty and peacenible demeanour of
persons nominated tneertaitt olfices in the Church
before they were admitted to perform their func-
tions. The whole of the Clatises having, been
ultimately agreed to, Mr. Brougham reported the
Bill proforma, with an understanding that any
M)ember -might move to re-commit it on Mondry,
and that the third reading should take place on
Tuesday, on which day a grand combined and
last effort will be made to throw out this ob-
noxious measure.

[BRITISH PREss.ll
The proceedings in the House of Commons
Were of importance last night. On the Order
bring read for the House to resolve itself fritOa
Viirnmittee on the Roman Catholic. Relief. Bill,
General Gascoy tie eiCreSSed strongly his objec-
tiVii to t -proposed • conCeSSi cirt, more e s per.fa ly
iii ombination. with the scheme for peusiOning
tize,tatholic:Clerzy. lie .pointed
fallacy of considering the. •Disfrancliiement
alit
144.colla.teral security, when, according to
it t
proviiiions, every forty shilling freehohler was to
oam-twin possession -of-hii right of stiff-rage diiriug •
the continuance ofihe • present leases ;f-and thus
tboltonse Was called upon,io pass one 'Bill, • the,
eftet-of'which vlould be immediate, in consider-
ation of another .-Bill.-that would not come into
ofteration•tmtil the present forty shilling free-
hoWersor their tetwses.liad•ceasea to exist.. :But.
thetialinetit'of the Catholic , Priesthoiol rsas, ill
tt `optni on of the Gallant General, in hi. test
tkiiiite•tuipopula4 throughout the: 031)Illry:. We
iti#lftPlofrvorry` if this were the case, 'not because
vq*Pabsolutely. friendly to any .provisipn for
tionitomAsh,elprgy: for their : own sakes,- but be-
We rook Upon the .rmeasure to
*'sbtti.ss.'Of the legistit_iite: ,remedies .which. At
last seem likely to he applied to the distractions
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