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the military to protect them, and a park of artillery to mark the
commencement of Divine Service.--(Lauoaer.) Aid this was
received with applause and he went on to say that a proclamation
s4ieed by her Malesty's own hand, commanding the attendance of
the Roman Catholic sul•jccts on those Missionm les ; yet tes,iu.
tions founded on such lan:;uage were co. led u”animou-ty.
You say that you will carry into effect the Emancipation
Bill by ACatholics are admitted into Parliament, and that you can-
na help, but a Catholic is eligible to be thefirst Lord of the Treasury,
and in the other House of Parliament, the Duke of Wellington
rejected an amendment that was passed having that office, because,
as he said, he had taken security in the Bill, by providing that if
any Catholic was promoted to that office, he should not
have the exercise of his patronage relating to the Church.
(lino, hear.) A Catholic was eligible to that high office,
but yet he ought not to be a Secretary to the Admiralty, as is con.
tended for by your friend. The spirit of religious bigotry has been
rased against her Majesty's Government, and if you come into
0t13:.e the emancipatioh will be allowed to remain on the Statute.

book as a deaddetter : but it would be utterly inoperative. But
there is one principle which we hold—we hold that Churchmen,
Presbyterian and Catholic are all equal, and that no man ought to
be in on account of his religion —(Hear, hear, hear.)
Si', I do think that the Roman Catholic would feel in
taking office under a Tory Government, that it was likely
they would attempt to degrade him, and that he could
n t without degradation accept office ; that is the effect of the
outrageous spirit which has been excited, ehticavouring to mike
the people of Ireland our enemies—(Cheer..)—and which will make
it most difficult for you to govern in England, in Ireland, or in
the Colonies.—(Cheers.) I have never shrunk from giving my
opposition to measures I thought dangerous, and it was in con-
sequence of that that in last May the Government felt themselves
I ound to resign.--(Hear, hear, hear.)—but, Sir, when I
look to the oteer side, and when I look to the leaders of
that party for the expression of their disgust at the speeches which
have been made to excite religious bigotry, and for their endeavour
to promote peace and charity among all men, and most say that in
witholding those contradictions they have been most culpable.—
Omitting all other subjects, I think with regard to Ireland it will
be dangerous for gentlemen opposite to assume the Government._
(Cheers.) I observe with satisfaction that, amidst the vast extent
of our administration—at home, abroad, under almost every
climate, under almost every religion—that the charges brought
against us, even had they been made out. have been most trivial.
If there are so many of those interests which have not been ne-
gl..cted—if the afrairs of Belgium, for instance, have been brought
to a satisfactory conclusion—if we have still an ally in the Queen of
Spain, and the Basque provinces have been pacified —if Canada at
length assumes a prospect, not only of returning tranquillity, but of
permanent fi eedorn and of peace.—(Hear, hear, hear)—then you
ought to pronounce a general opinion, not merely upon those
items of charge which have been brought forward by the Op
position, but ois the general conduct of affiurs. (Loud cries
of "Hear, hear.") You are, in giving your opinion, not to leave
out of the question those many important interests—those many
vast concerns, on which not a syllable has been uttered that we
have either betrayed our duty or neglected the policy of this
country. -(Cheers.) And, Sir, to allude, last of all, to that for
which it is said by the Noble Lord opposite, we are utterly ineffi-
cient, viz., the questions of Legislation, obstructed as we have been,
to use their own terms—(Hear, hear)—by a minority, and a large
minority, in this House, and a very decided majority in the other
House of Parliament. Ido think that, for the four years of legis.•

lation since 1835, one of those years being the year in which his
late Majesty died, that perha:m scarcely a time can be found of
equal duration, in which measures of more importance have
been carried. In the first year an Act was passed, reforming
altogether the Municipal Corporations of this country, placing
them all on a new foundation, admitting popwar control, regulat-
ing all their affairs with the greatest minuteness and detail. In
another year there were questions with regard to the Church, and
the state in which we found the Church was thus :—There was the

Bishop of Durham with 22,000/.a year,and the Bishop of R.ichester
with 5001. In order to supply the wants of those who had the
smaller incomes, dignities were given them. There were likewise
pluralities to the grew' est extent, so that I remember counting six-
teen names in the catalogue of benefices, and I found that
sixteen clergymen held sixty-five perferments between them.
A Commission had been held upon that subject, and all I hare to
say is that we have gone on with the Commission, and that we
have taken measures to equalize the Bishoprics, and to prevent any
one from holding more than two preferments, or more than two
benefices at greater distances than ten miles asunder. That was
one of the most important Acts since the pas.ing of the Reform
Bill ; there was als, an Act for making the marriage of Dis,enters