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London, England, 1841-02-19 00:00:00

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LONDON:
PR',
l'lte t ...JAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1841.
I°Vrti 4,Ora A.
ad-
oitv NI .0 _ - did not meet yesterday, having
41 eth ler till Friday but whether it were to
`qt. 'eir houseere set iu order, or to recruit them-
-1)11't • for heir great labours on Tuesday, we
14
146,f. he Med.
4',7 hoipPr,_esentatives of the people met at the
tilkNv,`• petitions were presented against Lord
.41 lads 1)4 and for Lord MORPETH'S, against
tti. 1 ow ta
A eit or Q x, against lay patronage in the
tkili r ecotiand, &c.
kt,' to ervi4tilgier withdrew his notice of a mo-
lt -et a monument to Sir SIDNEY SMITH,
1) -eta
) ' 1:: (13chands having taken it up.
'447:4118.. °l%/xELL having learned from Lord
14:4 sent to
that the treaty with Texas had h„ to that country for the ratification,
"ti)o wfts ), tied „expected to take place in January,
tic t, Thuets motion relative to Texas for a ort
IS' about lion. Member gave notice of a m
Nets, w. the issuing of stamps to News-
1441,ittedi.th a view of showing that frauds are
re.,
f„, tt my to A
klov.4ated, fr. PARINGTON, Lord JOHN RUS-
to thAora,,..,that the ordinance issued by the
titti e stiati.". Council of Lower Canada, relative
kept ka thinal'Y of St. Sulpice, was laid on the
to' to priot it was contrary to Act of Parlia-
to 0,11 1,1 t such ordinances.
,kto '4i Reportci' called the attention of the House
ty'kliiir,2 of the Commissioners appointed
iiie 1xt14,4 -1 into the merits of Mr. &vow
11,,yrIttiii% Iwtivention for protecting. ships from
'tieq high .11.1 ell spoke of that ' invention in
the which troul ; he adverted 'to the ne-
,lt,a,rd'i ‘444irtr. HARRIS had experienced from
`lok tit si,, Y.) Spoke strongly in favour of re•
k,Sls,:a's to -,lPc merit, and moved for informa-
%—ed to hit means the Government had
4tllliBsi-P giving effect to the Report of the
r. yriers.
t, Ni 41°Iit n,
-'1( , that - FEItuALL explained at some
,tioll 4, to in;,a,fter all the trouble that had been
qi )lt w estigato ,
.01.r.SNOW HARRIS'S inven-
he 'Att " doub c
'-41(,), aiiral„ t-ni whether it were the best.
l)IA1;`A had ',3' nad been led, by the experiments
,k 4 boll.° be en
made, to adopt a mixed
tk,l t• tt wcd from Mr. HARRIS'S invention,
;tl,l4,Pre%,'s inention, and. the practice on
Nt'q to that.1 Ships ; and this scheme was pre-
-4., for
each of xi-
441e.tialltilict6 vess:r. HARRIS, because it did not
one-fifth of the sum which
til) Ills hadrs cost. Be did not deny that Mr.
'4l,hteq tll,,g_rea.t Merit, but the Admiral
,-.uPtie*--,,y of rewarding every inven-
t4Stl,
l' ‘4t4 ''4qtal'ilp i-
ilm lid i„ - tilought the expense should
Ai 1440_ - the Wa„,
~..t.
oi adopting Mr. HARRIS'S
%1,1'4t1f.,". Ile asej--
,01i t, to
al_ bed the reluctance of the
k aeal
~
.-,nowiedge Mr. HARRIS'S merits
tit;qt.. w 4)otives.
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Ivh , rozir said there were two ques-
-4 at 4 was Mr. HARRIS'„ . 1,. lq, invention not adopt-
til.'ti 0, was
it,)ll ~. the c he not rewarded ? He disap-
tk.tas, !its of. Co he
having inquired into
N ItS'F3 pia, other inventions; h thought Mr.
%till,4`4(le 0,:14 a good one, and that Lord ELIOT
it.'!llgati ''
a case for granting a reasonable
ttl' t li. °lt to th
N'NI °ltti at gentleman.
tSt 't
Ptni tOloilaiiyere tat.. - as of opinion that the
.Ad-
,4 oL, illiity 1 mag on themselves a serious
N 4 ,th 3Y not actinc, on the recommenda-
ker. C°4liiii-s. ''
1 1)1,,, Its of - „ o,ioners they had appointed.
t,_t`,4:44
ritN,tte,(l.lin,:tira•
raS, xtio: HARRIS had been
•et .o . - on ho -
Beagle, during a ser-
-4 been
_`," ot ii-,-e ycar.,, whyti that vf,s-
-0 dor,age. 21ruck by lightning, but had re-
.'" lie reserved his opinion- as
/iti"7..
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Admiral ADA➢i admitted that the invention
was a valuable one, but the Admiralty thought
Mr. HARRIS'S demand of 7,0001. too large. He
denied that political motives had at all entered
into the business ; for he knew nothing of Mr.
HARRIS'S politics, and some of his own friends
at Devonport had recommended Mr. HARRIS'S
plan for adoption, Finally the motion was
agreed to.

Mr. PAKINGTON moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to alter the election of county coroners. At
present every freeholder is entitled to vote ; he
proposes that the list of registered Parliamentary
voters shall also be the list of voters for coroners.
Mr. HUME objected to. disfranchising the 40s.
freeholders, and though he would not oppose the
motio:i, he would oppose the fill at every subse-
quent stage.
_ _

Mr. Sergeant JAcksox* was in favour of nar-
rowing the constituency.,
Mr. WARBURTON approved of so much of the
measure as facilitated taking the poll, but if the
design of narrowing the - constituency were per-
sisted in, he hoped the House would give it the
most dogged resistance.

Mr. GALLY KNIGHT thought the office of coro-
ner required regulation.
„J,,eave Ivas given.
Lord KEANE'S Annu4y,liill Was rat(' a second
time, after Mr. HUME had re 1:1
ment of his services :I',:sted that -ft state-
House. ..ght be laid before the
The House.
adjourned Light 'at o Clock.
P

is generally admitted, to borrow the words
of a paragraph we quoted yesterday, that Pusey-
ism "is a deep and powerful scheme of thought."
" It is earnest and uncompromising. It disclaims
and disdains expediency." It is embraced by
many sincere and clever men. They believe
their purpose to be good, and they are stern in
following it out. For their doctrines they claim
the highest reverence, and for themselves they
demand the highest authority next the Deity.
The vigour of old Papal Rome is said to lie in
the cohesion and boldness of the pretensions of
Puseyism. Whatever is incongruous with itself
it smites and spares not. It claims to be a god
upon earth, and commands intelligence like a
slave. Puseyism is an iron mace. " The prin-
ciple would carry it, though it be the principle
of the Monk HILDEBRAND." The attacks on Sir
R. PEEL justify these remarks. It is a power of
thought sprung up in the Church, and likely to
expand far,beyond its bounds.
Such a stern, uncompromising creed, enter:-
taMed by,men of.-conscious integrity and con-
scious power, must have 'great influence on the
Church, The poor driirellers of the ordinary
persons, with their ready cut-and-dry formal
prayers and creeds, whio they repeat mechani-
cally, without faith or devotion, can never make
head against the sincere and invading Puseyites.
Political Bishops and political Rectors may con-
tinue for a season to hold their sees and their
livings, but lukewarmness will never stand against
the enthusiastic monks of Oxford. Whatever
maybe their effects on the country, they will rend
the Church to its foundation.

Perhaps amongst Dissenters we may find
that uprightness of heart, and that enthusiastic
spirit of devotion which are necessary to make
head against Puseyism : we shall not find them
in the Church. The enthusiasm there all be-
longs to the Puseyites. But the Dissenters have
no organized means of union, and they will be
unable to resist the progress of this new fanati-
cism. There is considerable danger, therefore, that
Puseyism, in spite of the power which statesmen
possess over the Church, will obtain a speedy
and a:conspicuous triumph. Under a new form,
and another name, the dominion of Old Rome
will be revived, and secular knowledge will be
trampled under the hoof of priestcraft.
With such a prospect before us it is to be re-
gretted that the antagonist principle of priest-
craft, free thought, is not more encouraged by the
public. Opinions are sometimes frowned down,
not because they, are false, but because the
priests have denounced them. The sincere
and enthusiastic lovers of truth, and of secu-
lar knowledge, get dishearten by the op-
opposition even of those they mean to serve, and
the field is left to the Puseyites. They cannot
be successfully combated by those who adopt the
same principles. The true antagonists of Pusey-
ism, who are not to be found in the Church, and
perhaps not in the ranks of the Dissenters, are
in fact enchained by the public whose cause they
defend. Some persons may think it a just retri-
bution, that the people who have suppressed the
free expression of thought, should be doomed to
wear the heavy yoke of Puseyism.

We cannot conceal from ourselves that the
Tories have some advantages in the Parlia-
mentary struggle about to take place relative to
registration and franchise in Ireland. They have
never admitted the existence of a necessity either
to extend or define the franchise their oppo-
nents have admitted and have proposed to amend
the evils of the registration. Lord STANLEY'S
may be an unjust Bill, but it is an advantage that
he proposes to remedy what the Whigs have
admitted to be an evil. Their own Bill, in fact,
admits the evil, but proposes a different remedy.
At the same time, it proposes both to define and
extend the franchise, which the Tories have not
only never admitted to be requisite, but they
have strenuously maintained is not wanted.
They have always resisted the extension, and in
that they have been supported by many Whigs.
In a party contest, such as that which it is under-
stood is to commence on Monday, these are
great advantages.

Moreover, the plan of the Tories has been
known, and has rallied about it the whole of their
party. They fought for it last Session—they will
fight for it this. To leave it; Would be to add
inconsistency to deertion. LordkORPETICS Bill,
however, so far as the definition of the franchise
goes, lilt novelty. The Whigs have not yet, as
a party, declared their adhesion to it, and many
of them might without inconsistency, and pro-
bably without disgrace, find in its enactments a
pretext for not supporting it. So short a time
has yet elapsed since it was promulgated, that
public sentiment could not be formed and orga-
nized to support it; and some timid Whigs in
the House, wanting the support of their consti-
tuencies, may be at best only lukewarm in its fa-
vour, or may be inclined to resist it. All these are
disadvantageous circumstance's for the Ministers ;
and if they win the fight, it will he from the
essential justice of their measure, and the in-
crease of the statesman-like virtues of calm con-
sideration, and a preference of the public benefit
to the interests of party.

In fact Lord MORPETH and his party have only
the justice of their cause to stand on. However
much the Irish may like the Bill, they have had
no opportunity since it was published of con-
gregating in masses and declaring their adhesion
to it, violently as they have denounced Lord
STANLEY'S Bill. Had the principal provision
been made known six months ago, and canvassed,
as Lord STANLEY'S Bill was, during the whole of
the vacation, the probability is that the people
of Ireland would have petitioned for it almost as
one man. Their voice demanding it cannot be
heard by Monday, and their friends in the House
of Commons will want that most powerful moral
support. •

Tbid Bill of Lord Morpeth (says the Duilin Evening.
Post) has been hailed in this country as the great charter
of our rights—as the bulwark erected by an honest Admi.
nistration against the encroachments of Toryism—and from
sane extremity of the country to the other it will form the
rallying cry for vigorous and simultaneous exertion amongst
the peop!e,
The crisis is one which involves the security and exten-
sion of our electoral rights, or their abrogation altogether
coutinuance of impartial government, or the resump-

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to the amount of compensationwhich Mr. HARRIS
ought to receive.
Sir THOMAS COCHRANE :ivarinly espoused
the cause of Mr. HARRIS, and describßa his
conductors as calculated 'ts3 thve many
lives and much valuable property. It cer-
tainly must be a fell All thing for a single
ship sailing over foe boundless deep to be struck
by lightnin;.., and never infpte )3e heard of. If Mr.
HARRIS be the inventAmr, of a Means of prevent-
ing such disasters" he is, worthy of high honour
am'. a large reward.
Sir R. INGLIS was glad that all parties con-
curred in praising Mr. HARRIS.
Sir C. tßisroN, who entered into the scientific
merits of the case, and Captain A'CouRT, took
the same side.

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