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London, England, 1840-01-30 00:00:00

act upon its principles. If it is to be repealed, then
openly avow it. Why set up a cry as if the Church were really in
danger because of such appointments ? I could see a reason—a
meaning—a pernicious meaning in such a cry, if you would honestly
tell us that your intentions are to repeal the Emancipation Act ;
but I can see no meaning in pretending to keep that Act upon the
Statute Book unless its provisions are carried out. But no, you say
if you venture to put it in force, instantly our agitation—for we too
have our agitation—we too have our associations—our orders shall
declare that if it is carried out, we shall have rebellion, we will
talk of resistance,—nay, we will even give you hints of the fate
of James ll.—(Loud cheers.) That is your loyalty. Talk to a
Sovereign who merely executes the law ; she is to be threatened
with the fate of one who had grossly violated the law. What is the
proportion of Catholics to Protestants in the land ?-1 to 4, nay nearly
Ito 3. What is the proportion of Catholics to Protestants in the
Privy Council ? Why 3to 200.—(Loud cheers.) And, after all,
what were the duties of a Councillor ? No power attached to the
office, yet a Catholic was eligible to be made Commander-in-Chief
with all the patronage of the Army. He may be First Lord of
the Admiralty, with all the patronage of the Navy.
Ile might be Colonial Secretary, with the whole patronage
of that office: Nay, he might fill the office of Premier itself with,
all the patronage attaching to that high office. Yet he must not
be a Privy Councillor without any patronage whatever. Unless I
am to suppose that that portion of the Opposition is more childish—
more imbecile than. I hope any large portion of my countrymen can
be, I must suppose that the repeal of the Emancipation Act is
the object of that party. The Right Honourable Baronet is the
same as in 1529. His party is the same, or was.—(Cheers.)
The difficulty of governing Ireland against a vast majo-
rity of the people is the same. The impossibility is as great
as before. What then would be the fate of an Administra-
tion got up by the Right Hon. Baronet ? Suppose he was in
power for three years, I will pi ophesy that at the end of that
period he would be snore assailed, more vituperated by the Tory
party than ever the present Government is. That press which is now
holding him up as one of the first statesmen of the day, would brand
himwith all the vile'language of which they were such perfect masters.
I have seen the representatives of the Church and the Tory gentle.
men go out into the lobby in order to drive Peel from the position
he held. For the truth of this I could refer to the Right Hon.
Baronet the Member for Pembroke, with whom I have gone out
in company with the representatives of the Church and the Tory
gentry, in order to bring in the Government of Lord Grey. They
might not know all that was going to happen, but they were de.
termined to have their revenge, and they were ready to thrown in
the rotten boroughs after it. 1 believe that in the whole country at
that time, or before, the Right Hon. Baronet was the most dis.
graced by his own party of any man that has ever been at the
head of a party. His abilities are necessary to them, but they
never can forget—they never can forgive—that greatest
glory of his public life. He is not the object of
their attachment, but he is their necessary instrument. It is im-
possible to hope that that party will ever forget their prejudices, or
be led away by a few of their chiefs. They might get office, but
that would not be enough for them. The great body of the sup.
porters of the Right Hon. Bart. have no dislike to the Govern-
ment of Lord Normanby or Lord Ebrington, their dislike is to
justice and mercy. They 'do not want the Government of Lord
Haddington, or any other Noble Lord that the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman might send over to Ireland. What they wanted was the
tyranny of race over race, and creed over creed.—(Hear, hear.)
Give them that and they will be satisfied ; withhold It and the whole
party is broken tip. Before he was a month in office the
Right Honourable Baronet would again have the dilemma
of 1829 before him. With the highest opinion of the
Right Honourable Gentleman's abilities, I believe that at the
present moment it is impossible for him to undertake the Govern-
ment of the country without producing in Ireland the greatest cala-
mity ; of that I am perfectly aware. The Chartists were up and
creating great disturbances in this country. Canada was nearly in
a state of rebellion. The West India Colonies were in a state of
great excitement ; but in the midst of all these troubles the Right
Hon. Baronet said, "My difficulty is Ireland."—(Loud cheers.) I
believe, Sir, at the present moment the present Ministry possess the
confidence of the great body of the people of Ireland—(Cheers)—
and that were a change in the Ministry to take place, the fears of
the Right Hon. Baronet would be found to be valid. It would cause
great irritation in Ireland. If he were to take the Government of
the country he would find it very easy to lose the confidence ,of the
party which had brought him in, but he would find great difficulty
in gaining the confidence of the Irish people.—(Cheers.) Ireland is
the principal foundation upon which the Ministers rest their case.
I know-well how little chance there is of finding an unprejudiced
audience on that subject. I* wish we could find an audience in
thr.t country to judge of that question as it was judged in foreign
nations, and as it will be judged of in after ages. The passions
which now deluded the great body of the Bight Hon. Baronet's
followers would not last for ever. The parcxysm of bigotry and
fervour of fanaticism must have an end. The history of these
latter years will often be looked upon with regret. It will be seen
that there is a part of this empire, which from the remotest period
has been struggling against the grossest tyranny —(Hear, hear.)
The country itself, which ought to be granary of the
world, because its soil is good and well watered,
was barren.' Its ports, which ought to have been the emporium
of the wealth of the world, were nearly empty. The decree of
! Nature had been rendered unavailing from the tyranny of man.—
( Loud cheers.) In the:l2th century it was a conquered province,
and in the 19th century it was a conquered province still.—(Loud
cries of " Hear, hear.") During the interval many great changes
had taken place, which had been of great benefit to ether portions of
the empire, but to Ireland there was no relaxation of its iron rule.
The revolution came, and brought with it to England and Scotland
civil and religious freedom, but to Ireland it brought nothing
but religious animosity and the despicable tyranny of one religious
party ruling over another. In 1782 Ireland received nominal in-
fluence ; in 1800 it received a nominal Union ; in 1809 caine
the Emancipation Bill, not as a cure for the evils pressing on that
country, but as a necessary preliminary to all the cures that
were necessary for the peace of that country. But it came
too late—the consequence was disappointinent, and then
came agitation that produced errors on both sides.
Agitation produced coercion—,eoercion again produced agitation,
until the eyes of the humane, the enlightened, and the philan-
thropic were turned from that unhappy part of the empire with
disgust and despair. At length arose a Government deter.
mined to try the only means that had never yet been fully
and fairly tried in Ireland—humanity and justice.—(lmmense
cheering.) The State, which had so long been the cruel stepmother
to the many, and the mother only to the few, became time
just and affectionate parent of all the great family.—(Tremendous
cheering.) The people, for the first time, looked to the Government
with confidece as a benificent protector. Battalion after batta.
lion, squadron after squadron, has been withdrawn, and yet every
day has property become more and more secure and order more and
fixed.—( Reiterated cheering.) Signs of prosperity, such as cannot
' be counterfeited, such as cannot be denied, have at length appeared,
and those who have hitherto despaired of her regeneration, at length
hone that the time is not far didant when Ireland may assume that
station among the States of Europe to which her great natural ad.
vantages fully entitle her. Such is the manner in which history
will one day speak of the exertions of this Government. 'What is
to be its fate I know not. Whether it is now to be smitten, and to
fall is a question for this House to decide. Whether the result is
to be victory or defeat I know not ; but I know that there
are some defeats to the full as glorious as the greatest victories,
and yet I have seen and shared in many glorious victories. Ah,
those were great and happy days, as the Right Hon. Baronet well
remembered, when, amidst the prayers and blessings of millions,
the Noble Lord led us on in the great struggle for the Reform
Bill.—(Loud cheers.) When hundreds nighty waited in anxious
expectation around our doors until sunrise to hear tidings of our
success,—when all the great cities of the empire sent forth their
thousands to meet the mails coming from the metropolis to learn
whether the battle of the people was lost or won.—(Loud cheers.)
Those days the Noble Lord cannot hope to see again,—two
such triumphs are too much for any man.—(Hear, hear.)
He may be driven from the Government. But perhaps there still
remains to him the less pleasing, the less exhilarating, but not the
less honourable task, of maintaining against superior numbers, for
a series of years, those civil liberties, and those rights of con.
science, which ever have been so dear to his illustrious house—
ammense cheering)—and in that case there will not be wanting
at his side men who, amidst evil days, and with unab sled spirit,
will assist him in upholding the noble principles of Milton and of
Locke.—(Vociferous cheering) He may be driven from office—
he may be doomed to opposition for a series of years, and be made
the mark for the sectarian rancour of extreme parties—attacked by
the Lauds on the one side, and by the Praise-God-Barebones on
the other—(Loud cheering)—but he will be regarded by
future ages as the champions of freedom have ever been
regarded. Justice will not be refused to him by posterity, and this
Government will be looked upon one day as a Government which
has endeavoured to bind in union sects and races too long hostile
to each other, and to heal by a mild and paternal Government the
fearful traces that Lave been left by the misrule of ages.—(The
Right Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst most vociferous cheering,
which lasted some minutes.)

Lord PONVERSCOURT moved the adjournment of the debate.
The remaining Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at One o'Clock.

SPORTING INTELLIGENT;,

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.
THE CHESTER CUP, P.P.
100 to 11 agst Sir Thomas Stanley's Cowboy—off
100 to 8 agst Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. 0. Fairlie's Abraham Newland
100 to 7 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole
8)0 to 46 agst Mr. Fowler's Gurney—taken and repeated
20 to 1 agst Mr. F. R. Price's Captain Pops—taken
100 to 1 agst Major Hay's Retriever—take 20
The field against any ten, bar Sir Thomas's Cowboy; 12 to
1 against Colonel Peel's lot; take 500 to 5 on Melbourne ; 500
to 10 against Stansty (offered). It is said 5,000 to 50 was laid
against Aimwell yesterday. We give this engagement as re-
ported to us. His owner did not back him except in a fancy
bet or two this morning.

MISS SI ItICKL AND'S " LIVES OF THE
QuEeNs or ENGLAND."—We are requested to state. that
Mr. Colburn, of Great Alarlborough•street, has this day pub-
lished, Vol. 1., price B'. 6d. bound, of the " Lives of the
Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, with Anec-
dotes of their Courts ;" now first published from Official Re-
cords and other authentic documents, private as well as public.
By Miss Agnes Strickland. Dedicated, by permission, to her
Majesty. To be completed in four or five Monthly Volumes,
beautifully embellished with Portraits, Vignettes, &c. Agents
for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; for Ire-
land, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. Orders received by all
Booksellers.
39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, and 96, Cheap-
side, corner of Lawrence-lane.—We, the undersigned, have
been for some time making use of the Messrs. S. and B. Solo-
mons' newly-invented Spectacle Lenses, and in justice to the
inventors we consider ourselves bound to state that they cer-
tainly do afford most astonishing relief to imperfect vision, by
candle-light as well as by day ; they agree with our vision
much preferable than any other lens we have tried .—James
Blundell, M.D., 1, Great George-street, NVestminster ;
George G. Sigmond, 24, Dover-street ; T. J. Petti-
grew, M. D. ,F. R. S., Saville-row ;J. Ramsbotham, M.D ,
Broad-street-building; H. Colbourn, 28, Harleyford-
place, Kennington ; John Hooper, surgeon, 29, Newington-
place, Kennington ; F. Daldy; surgeon, 33, New Broad-street;
Messrs. Griffiths and Duncan, surgeons, 3. Leadenhall-street ;
W. Day, surgeon, Isleworth ; R. Noble Elwyn, surgeon, 36,
Albemarle-street; E. Stoddart, surgeon, 32, dolden-square,
&c., &c. The Messrs. Solomon, state that their Invisible
Voice Conductor, by which thousands of deaf persons have
been greatly benefited, is the size of a seven shilling piece, and
when fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not
more perceptible than having a piece of wool in its place, by
which t...e faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with
distinctness. 39, Albemarle-street, and 96, Cheapside, corner
of Lawrence-lane. No agents or travellers employed.
THE SPORTING TAILOR.—This hero of a
shopboard in Cheltenham is, or was, so passionately fond of
the hounds, that he was in the habit of constantly starting on
foot, from the kennel to cover, with Lord Segrave's hounds,
quite regardless to distance ; but what is still more extraordi-
nary, from his fine wind and speed, as well as perfect know-
ledge of the country and the line which the foxes usually take,
he has very seldom been known to be many minutes in making
his appearance at the conclusion of the best run'. He has
hunted thus five das s a week on foot with Lord Segrave, and
has met the Duke of Beaufort's hounds on the sixth On one
occasion he walked from Cheltenham to Berkeley (twenty-six
miles) and found the hounds gone to Haywood, ten miles
fur-
ther, to which he proceeded : he was rather late, but saw a
good run nevertheless ! It appears, however, that the sporting
tailor is not at home on horseback; otherwise opportunities
must have occurred of enlisting himself in the service of the
field. Indeed, we are told that Lord Seagrave; more
}pia rethaannsowneeer
offered him a good situation as earth-stopper but
was in true unison with the actual love of the chase, that,
he could not stop earths a-nights and hunt a-days too, he must
decline the offer."

A SHARP LOOK OUT FOR THE SPARROWS.
—FLA MSTEAD SPA !MOW CLUB.—We have been favoured
with a copy of the rules of this club, which we insert for the in-
formation of our readers :—" Every person in this club to send
twelve sparrows' heads to the clerk at Flamstead, on the last
Wednesday in every calendar month, to 3farch inclusive, or
forfeit one shilling. If sparrows are short, two other heads for
one sparrow. No heads allowed that have not been shot or
caught in the parish of Flamstead, nor any heads that hare not
been eying. There shall be two feasts in the year; the first
on the last Wednesday in March, at the •house known as the
Bird-in-Hand, Flamstead; the second, on the last Wednesday
in October, at the house known as the Chequers, Flamstead;
dinner at two o'clock each day. Every member to attend the
feasts, or forfeit one shilling. Club hours on the feast days are
from twelve to two o'clock, when all forfeits are to be paid; and
at which times any new article can be made tending to improve
the club. Any person swearing in club hours to forfeit two-
pence for every oath."—Hereford Times.
ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.--In consequence
of the great extent to which some shopkeepers have been in the
habit of adulterating Coffee, we understand, the Board of Excise
have given orders to their officers to present all parties found
practising the fraud. The penalty in all convictions of this
sort is 100/. and we trust this fact, and the warnings which we
have thought it our duty to give, will havethe effect of deterring
all parties found attempting the imposition so justly corn_
plained of
COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—On Tuesday Corn-'
missioners Winslow, Murray, and West assembled, fur the fifth
time, at the Sheriff's Court, to inquire into the state of mind of
Mr. Henry Bryan, formerly of Shirland Park, Derbyshire, and
now a prisoner in Whitecross-street. It appeared that the sub-
ject of the Commission had entered into various trades, and
conducted himself in a very extraordinat y manner. At times
he would go into the street attired in fantastic- dresses, carry pistols about him, and use alarming threats to persons whom he met. He had also accused his wife of infidelity without the
slightest ground for so doing. He entertained an extravagant
idea of his own prowess, and
d imagined that the Irish had
conspired together to murder him and his family, and that the
Lord Chancellor was an Irishman, and was likewise opposed to
him. He fancied that a seal which he possessed displayed his
unbounded loyalty and attachment to her Majesty and the Royal
Family, and so long
as he he retained it no harm could come to
him. He imagined
should become a great general, and
the
that he would havehonour of instructing Lord Hill in
laws far the government of the country. Other acts
of delusion
usion of his ware givenmn inof
evidence,Mr. _ and the Ju.
Two ry datedßryan'sinsanity frtithe sth December, 1835
o young men are now in custody on the
charge of obtaining a large quantity of goods under false pre-
tences. They have hitherto filled very important and confi-
dential situations in the city, one of them having acted as a
traveller for a house, and the depredation charged upon is very
extensive.— Glasgow Herald.
STATE OF TRADE.--.There was an exceed-
ingly flat market, yesterday, both for yarn aid for goods of all
descriptions ; very little business was done, but we are not
aware that the"e was any material alterati<n of prices. The
unfavourable change in the demand for yarn was ascribed, in
some degree, to the non-arrival of the continental mails, several
of which from Hamburgh and Holland have been delayed by
the late stormy weather ; and it is se; posed that there w ill
be little buying for the German market until their arrival.—
Manchester Guardian.

A WINTER IN ICELAND. 2 r6zs.
Celburn, London, 1840.
A Winter in Iceland It makes one's teeth
chatter, and one's blood freeze to think of it. Yet
Mr. Dillon, the author of the present volumes, no ;