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TnE lIITNDRED AND MST SALE.

CUSTOM HOUSE, LONDON, JULY, 1847.
FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial
Sale ROOMS, Mincing-lane, on Tuxsnar, 27th, WEDNESDAY, 28th,
THURSDAY, 29th, FRIDAY, 30th July; and on MONDAY, 2d, TUESDAY,
3d, and WEDNESDAY, 4th August, 1847, at Twelve o'clock at Noon
precisely, the following GOODS for home consumption, viz. :
Agate Brooch Pieces Lace, Cotton
Buttons Bathes
Beads Berthes
Boxes r Collars
Seal-handles, &c. Shawls
Artificial Flowers Scarfs
Almond Paste Veils, &c.
Bronze Candlesticks Meerschaum and other Pipes and
Candelabras, &c. Bowls.
Buttons, various Musical Boxes and Instruments,
Beads viz. :
Boxes, Brass Pianofortes
Glove Accordions
Buhl Organ
Wafer Marqueterie Tables
Needle, &c. Chairs
Barege Shawls, Scarfs, &c. Cabinets
Bandannoes Bookcases
Baskets Drawers
Brandy Escruteires, &c.
Chinese Paintings Matting, E. I.
Catlings Marbles
China Ware Jars Marble, Manufactured
Ewers and Basins Opera (11a.ses
Bottles Paintings for Brooches
Toilet Pots Porcelain, Plain and silt
Flower Vases Pongee, Silk
Figures . Paper, Gilt, &c.
Cups, Saucers, &c. Percussion Caps
Coral Negligees Pictures
Caps Pomatum
Cambric Handkerchiefs Perfumery
Curtains, Embroidered Pepper
Clocks, various Pencils, Slate
Carved Wood Rugs, Persian
Cameos Turkey, &c.
China Crape
Cologne Water
Cordials
Cheroots
Drawing Instruments
Embroidered Slipper and Chair
Pieces
Envelopes
Earthenware
Embroidery and :Needle Work
viz.:—

Rum -
Ribbons of Satin
Steel truckles
Steel:Purse Slides
Garnitures, Ste.
Segars
Segar Moulds
Snuff
Silk Worm Gut
Slippers
Shawls, Long and Square
Stays
Swiss Cottages
Sugar
Silk and Cotton Stuffs
Do. and Goats Hair ditto
Silk Manufactures, viz.:
Net

Caps, Cuffs, Collars
Chernisettes, Sleeves
Shirt Fronts
Habit Shirts '
Lace, Veils, &o.
Flock for Paper Stainers
Feathers, dressed
Feather Boas
bluffs
Tippets, &c.

Itracelets
Garters
Purses
Laces
Gloves
Mitts
Ties
Handkerchiefs
Transparencies
Porcelain

Fans
Frames for Pictures, &c
Gauze, gummed
Geneva
Hat Crowns and Linings
Hand Screens
Hair Manufactures
Ivory Card Boxes Toys
Counter Boxes Tobacco
Chess Men Tea
Napkin Rings Varnish
Brooches Watches
Backgammon Watch Hands
Men, &c. Springs
Leather Segar Cases Keys
Pocket Books, &c. Maker's Tools, &c,
Lutestrings Walking Sticks
Labels Waistcoating
Lace, Thread Wine
Silk and various other Goods
For Exportation only.—Gold and silver watches, clocks, books
spirits, extract, sugar, a brass gun, muskets, &c., &c.
For Exportation, or, for Home Consumption, on Payment of
Duties.—Wood, wine, coffee, tea, saccades, preserved ginger, provi-
sions, sugar, soap, books, silver plate, &c., &c.
For the Benefit of the Crown.—Sundry old boats, oars, sculls. &c.
To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames-
street ; at the London and West India Docks, at the Tobacco-ground ;
Rotherhithe, on Friday, the 23d, Saturday, 24th, and Monday, 26th
of July, 1847, from Ten o'clock in the morning until Three o'clock
in the afternoon, and on the days of sale, from Ten o'clock in the
morning until Twelve o'clock at noon. Take notice, goods sold at
this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day on
which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of
Receiver of Fines after Two o'clock in the afternoon, and on the
days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver of Fines after
Eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

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With numerous Maps, Railway Charts and Views.
A. and C. Black, Edinburgh ; and sold by all Booksellers.

On Saturday, July 17.
LETTER from SIR ROBERT PEEL to
the ELECTORS for the BOROUGH of TAIibiIVORTH.
London : James Bain, 1, Haymarket.

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Just published, in post Bvo., price Bs. 6d.,
PHE REV. DR. HUME'S ACCOUNT of the
LEARNED SOCIETIES and PRINTING CLUBS of tke
UNITED KINGDOM.
"This is a most useful volume. In looking at its contents we can-
not help feeling that such a work has been long wanted. The object
of the author has peen to give a concise account of the origin, history,
objects, and constitution of the numerous learned societies of the
United Kingdom. We are much mistaken if there are not many
who are entirely ignorant of the history and constitution of the so-
cieties of which they aro members. To all such, and to those who
take an interest in the progress of scientific unions, Dr. Hume's work
will be most welcome."—Medical Gazette.

London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

LONDON and SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.

Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL
MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of SHARES in the LONDON
and SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY will be held at the
Nine Elms Station, Vauxhall, London, on FRIDAY, the 6th August
next, at One o'Clock in the Afternoon precisely, when the Directors
will submit a Report of their Proceedings on the Affairs of the
Company during the preceding Half-year. A dividend will be de-
clared, and the General business of the Company transacted.
And notice is hereby further given, that the said Meeting will be a
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING, to consider the propriety of
Purchasing or Accepting a Lease of the undertakings authorised by
the " Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Act, No. 1,
1847, and the Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Act,
No. 2, 1847," upon the terms embodied in a Memorandum of Agree-
ment, dated 19th January, 1847, and made between the Committee
of Management of the then projected Windsor, Staines, and South-
Western Railway Company of the one part, and the Lond and
South-Western Railway Company of the other part; and to autho-
rise and approve such Purchase or Lease. And also to consider and
determine whether any and what number of New Shares shall be
created under the powers contained in the several Acts of Parliament
passed in the present session of Parliament, authorising the London
and South-Western Railway Company to create further capital in
Shares of what amount, and upon what terms and conditions, and
with what rights and privileges Such new Shares (if any) shall be
created.

And notice is hereby farther given, that the BOOKS of the COM-
PANY, for the Transfer of Shares, will be CLOSED from the 30th
day of JULY, to the 6th day of AUGUST, both days inclusive.

_By order of the Court of Directors,
P. LAURENTZ CAMPBELL, Secretary.
Nine Elms Station, Vauxhall, July 16, 1847.
._____

BRIGHTON AND CONTINENTAL STEAM
PACKET COMPANY.
Second Call of 21 per Share.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of a Resolution of the
Board of Directors, the Proprietors of Shares in this Company are
required to PAY a CALL of 2/. per SHARE on their respective
Shares on or betbre WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of August next, at
the Banking-house of Messrs. Denison and Co., Lombard-street,
London.
A Circular will be sent to each Proprietor previously interest te
of payment, which must be deposited with the Bankers. at
the rate of bl. per cent. will be charged on all Calls remaining unpaid
after the 18th August next.
By order,
Brighton, July 12, 1847.

Wed. J. IRON, Secretary.

BRIGHTON AND CONTINENTAL STEAM
PACKET COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given that a GENERAL MEETING of the PRO
PRIETORS of SHARES in this COMPANY will be held at the Com-
pany's Office, London-bridge Station. on FatnAy, the 23d July,
1847, at Twelve o'clock precisely, for General Purposes.
By order. WM. J. IRON, Secretary.
Brighton, July 12, 1817.

HOLDS
pyIIoWLEDSsTABNIJDORONG
LEAsxt.
CO
TO BE SOLD, pursuant to an ORDER
of the
lIIGII COURT of CHANCERY, made in a
against LYNE, with the ap probation of Sir Gsresis
of the Masters of the Court, some time in the month of
(of which due notice will be given), at Westbourne, in the
August
Sussex, a Dwelling. house, Garden, and Appurtenances, formerly the
hoef
residence of Philip Lyme, Esquire, deceased, and two old Cottage. Id:
joining thereto, two small Dwelling-houses and Gardens, and a
Meadow called Ballads Mead, containing one acre and three-quarters.
The premises are situate at Westhourne, and are partly —01)311,1d of
the Manor of Westbourne, and partly Leasehold for the residue of a
term of 1,000 years.
Particulars and conditions of sale are in preparation, and may
shortly be had gratis, at the Master's Office ; of Messrs. W. and E.
Dyne, 61, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; of Messrs. Leblanc and Cooke,
Bridge.street, Blackfriars ; of Mr. Smart, solicitor, Emsworth, Hants ;
and of Messrs. Sowton and Son, solicitors, Chichester, and the pre-
mises may be viewed on application to the tenants. W. and E.
Dyne, for Daniel Smart Emsworth, plaintiff's Solicitor.

GOLD, SILVER, DIAMONDS, PEARLS, and
all the most precious and costly gems, are imitated to such
perfection, that but very few uninitiated persons can positively tell a
paste brooch or a ring from a diamond, the real pearl from the
imitation, or German Silver from the genuine; but put them into
the hands of the connoisseur, how soon the delusion vanishes when
he affirms they are but vile and base imitations. So it is with the
most valuable inventions as well as stones and metals. done but
the inimitable in value are imitated in appearance, and as soon as
the consumer (the best connoisseur) attempts to use them, how soon
he finds out their utter uselessness. Thus it is with the most valuable
of all inventions ; the celebrated ➢LETALLIC RAZOR TABLET
of GEORGE SAUNDERS has been the target for imitation for
the last thirty years.
To Gentlemen who shave themselves the following query is pro-
posed.—Why do all the first cutlers in Europe use and recommend
Saunders' Four-sided Tablet Razor Strop ? The answer is simply
because it is the only one that gives to a razor a keen and smooth
edge.

DEPOT, 278, STRAND.
To wholesale purchasers A liberal discount will be made.

TO THE ELECTORS of WEST SURREY.
GENTLEMEN,
In consequence of the approaching dissolution of Parliament, I
again take the liberty of requesting your suffrages and Support.
During the many years that I have been honoured with your confi-
dence I trust you have ever found me a warm friend of civil and re-
ligious liberty, and a steady supporter of those principles which first
procured sae your favour and protection. In that long period I have
never made a profession on the hustings which I afterwards forgot,
or forfeited any pledges I have- given, but uniformly persevered,
during a long and chequered political life, "through good and evil
report," in that course which I thought most conducive to the wel-
fare and prosperity of the country.
Though unable from attacks 9f the gout to make again a personal
canvass (which I am sure your long-experienced kindness will par-
don), yet, keeping a regular register of our Parliamentary proceed-
ings, I shall be happy to answer ninon the hustings the question of
any freeholder, and defend or explain every vote I have given.
Should I once more be honoured by your suffrages, you may de-
pend upon my best attention to your local interests, and my support
of every measure that will, in my humble opinion, alleviate the
burdens, increase the commerce, and improve the social Condition of
the empire.

With every sentiment of respect,
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your most obliged and grateful servant,
Denbles, July 17, 1847. W. J. DENISON%

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
8. WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, London ; 97, George-
street, Edinburgh; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, College Green,
Dublin.

(Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.)
In 1841, the Company added a bonus of 2 per cent. per annum on
the sum assured to all Policies of the Participating Class from the
time they were effected. Parties wishing to secure the benefit of
the next division of profits in 1848, should make immediate appli-
cation.
When the insurance is for life, only one-half the annual premium
need be paid for the first five years.
Every information will he afforded on application to the Resident
Director, E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall,
London, where prospectuses, &c., may be had.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital L 500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
Thts Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured
h ts, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
.,,Y is citeet other oonveftionotes.or necessity. • - -
surances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors
at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth '
bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each
policy effected on the profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

Annual
Age. 0 e, Pre.

Policy
taken
out in
,--
£ s. 4.j
1837 243 9 3;
1838 218 4 8)
1839 192 1 101
1840 143 5 10,
1841 138 14 2
1842 111 6 8

Bonus inj
addition
Assured.

The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be ha.z---7;7rie
office, or any of its branches In the country; or, on application. will
be forwarded post free.

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S MANIFESTO
TO THE ELECTORS FOR THE BOROUGH OF
TAMWORTIL

Drayton Manor, July 15.
Gentlemen,—There appears every probability that a
dissolution of Parliament will immediately take place.
If it be your with that I should continue to represent
you, I place my services at your command.
I have received the offers of support from more than
one place of the first importance in respect to com-
mercial enterprise and wealth, and to the number of the
constituent body ; but having represented you for many
years, and having received from you, under trying cir-
cumstances in public affairs, signal proofs of your esteem
and confidence, I ant unwilling, by any act of mine, to
interrupt the connexion which has long subsisted be-
tween us.
But I cannot seek your support on any other than
publie grounds, and as the position in which I stand is
in some respects a peculiar one, I feel it necessary to
transgress the limits of an ordinary address, in soliciting
your attention to the course which I have pursued in the
present Parliament, and in explaining, so far as is con-
sistent with that freedom of discretion which is essential
to the proper discharge of Parliamentary duties, the
general principles to which, if re-elected, I intend to
conform.
When you last returned me to Parliament I held the
chief office in the Government of this great empire. I
am now addressing you in a private capacity, rejoicing
in the recovery of leisure and independence, without the
intention or wish to resume either that authority which
belongs, or ought to belong, to the possession of office,
or that influence which is conferred by the lead and
guidance of a great political party aspiring to power.
But I am not, on that account, the less anxious to vin-
dicate, to your satisfaction, the motives by which I have
been influenced, the measures to which I have been a
party, and the general course of policy of the Adminis-
tration with which I was connected.
The chief acts of that Administration, and the circum-
stances which led to its dissolution, must be familiar to
your recollection.

- You have now ample means for judging whether the
conduct of the Government, in respect to the external
relations of this country, was calculated to promote the
public welfare. You can contrast the position of affairs
in 1841 and 1846, and can determine whether the sta-
bility of our Indian empire has been impaired, or whe-
ther a succession of glorious achievements in the field,
and the vigour and firmness, and, above all, the justice
and moderation of those who have directed the public
councils in India, have not increased throughout the
East respect for the British name, and promoted willing
obedience to British authority.
There is, I fear, some justice in the reproach, that the
people and the Parliament of this country are com
paratively indifferent, excepting under circumstances of
sudden excitement, to the administration of foreign
affairs. But it would be a grievous neglect of duty on
the party of those whose choice of representatives will
determine the general character of the future Parlia-
ment, to exclude from their serious consideration this
great department of the publie business.
When the late Government was formed, the charge of
that department was committed by the Queen to a
Minister of whom I may say with truth, that he suc-
ceeded in acquiring the esteem and confidence of every
honest man engaged in the diplomatic service of other
andcsotantdeus,civeto hethe madegreat
objectthat eefsteheima
politicalnd confidence
feie
i
maintenance of honourable peace.ali—t

It is for you to judge whether Lord Aberdeen acted
wisely in disregarding those appeals to national pride
and national sensibilities which, if not provocations to
war, were great impediments to the maintenance of
op
fe a cat
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lien
aresolving e tao t adjust,an if
d mutual
concession,possible,
the
petty differences which constantly occur between powerful
nations, and which, if treated in any other spirit, are
easily inflamed into national quarrels.
It is for you to judge, in reviewing our discussions
with the United States, whether it would have been
wise to have insisted on extreme rights of territory
on the north-eastern frontier of the province of Maine,
and on the banks of the Columbia river, and thus (even
if war could be averted), to have ensured for another half
century a controversy full of bitterness and irritation;
or whether it was not the better policy to propose, in
the spirit of peace, conditions perfectly compatible with
the honour of each country, and not requiring from
either any sacrifice, territorial or commercial, which
would not be dearly purchased by the cost of a single
week's hostilities.
But, Gentlemen, however important are the considera-
tions to which I have been adverting, there are others,
in respect to which, from their relation to our social
condition and domestic policy, you will probably feel a
more immediate concern. The most prominent at the
present time are those connected with questions of reli-
i gion, and with the recent changes in our financial and
commercial legislation.
On these points I desire to enter into unreserved ex-
planation with you. I write without concert or com-
munication with any other person whatever, and the
views and opinions, therefore, which I may express are
expressed on my own behalf exclusively.
I feel, Gentlemen, the deepest interest in all that con-
cerns the welfare of the Established Church. I feel that
interest, from sincere conviction of the truth of its doc-
trines, and from the firm belief that the Established
Church is capable of being made, and through the tem-
poral zeal, and active exertions of the highest spiritual
authorities, is in the progress of being made, the most
powerful instrument that exists for administering the
consolations of religion, for spreading the knowledge
of divine truth, and for supplying the imperfections of
human laws, by the obligations and restraints of religious
duty.
I have resisted, and shall continue to resist, every
proposal for appropriating any portion of the revenues of
wethhaelrumCrhchurch, in any part of' the United Kingdom, to other
than ecclesiastical purposes in direct connexion with the
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abolition of ecclesiastical sinecures, the curtail-
ment of excessive emoluments, and the application of
such a portion of the revenues of cathedral and col-
legiate churches as was not requiredt for the purposes of
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That there were in London and its suburbs four h." containing an aggregate of 166,000 persons,
with church-
roomp"ar
for 8,200, being not quite one-twentieth of the
population—that there were in the same district 34
parishes with a population of 1,137,000 inhabitants, and
church-room for 101,632 persons—that in our own
neighbourhood, in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
there were 16 parishes, each having above 10,000 inha-
bitants, with an aggregate population of 235,000 persons,
and church-room for about 29,000.

--"No doubt it was within the competency of Parliament
to make provision for the supply of these alarming defi-
ciencies in the means of religious instruction, by large
grants of public money derived from general taxation;

but I felt persuaded that it would not be for the advan-
tage of religion that such a proposal should be made,
until after all the resources of the Church, which could
properly be rendered available for the purpose, had been
applied to it. I felt also persuaded that the appropria-
tion of those resources, with the willing consent of the
Church, to such objects as the augmentation of poor
benefices, the establishment of new ecclesiastical dis-
tricts, and the general improvement of pastoral super-
intendence in very populous parishes, would not only
increase the local efficiency of the Istablishment, but
would tend to confirm its hold on the respect and attach-
ment of the people.
It was for such purposes that, with the willing consent
of the church, I proposed, in the year 1843, a Bill,
which passed into law, for making better provision for
the spiritual care of populous parishes in England and
Wales. Under that law there have been constituted, and
agreed to be constituted, 218 ecclesiastical districts and
new parishes; and spiritual instruction and pastoral su•
perintendence will thus have been provided for a popu-
lation of above 764,000 souls. I oppose this fact to the
charge of indifference or hostility to the welfare of the
Church.
I certainly did not think it inconsistent with the true
interests of the Church, in cases wherein I deemed the
claim a just one, to protect the rights, and to consult
the feelings and wishes of those who dissent from its
doctrines.
With these impressions, I gave my support to mea-
sures for quieting the titles to Dissenting places of wor-
ship, and for repealing many penal statutes in matters of
religion, obsolete so far as their
practical operation is
concerned, but at variance with the mild spirit of modern
legislation, and giving gratuitous offence by implying
suspicion and distrust, without offering the slightest re-
medy against any apprehended danger.-
With these impressions also, while cordially approving
of the proposal of her Majesty's present Government to
extend the system of public instruction in this part of the
United Kingdom, I expressed an opinion that it ought
to be sufficiently comprehensive to hciade the children
of Roman Catholic parents.
During the period to which £ am-Satereidg, the state of
Ireland (that fruitful source of constantly recurring and
painful discussion), was repeatedly forced upon the consi-
deration of Parliament. I shall, in this address, advert
only to the topics in connexion with Irish affairs which
have excited the chief interest in this part of the em-
pire, and in respect to which opinions and pledges are
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mostimportant subject byaquotaj0 from the writings of
now demanded by many constituencies from those who
marolestcwiaminllpdpoidates for their favour.
that eminent man whom posterity will regard as the
most eloquent of the orators and the most profound of
the philosophic statesmen of modern times.
It is now fifty years since Mr. Burke, in a letter ad-
dressed to his son, placed upon record the following
opinions:—
" Being myself," he says, " no more than a common
layman commonly informed in controversies, leading
only a very common life, and having only a common
citizen's interest in the Church or in the State, yet to
you I will say, in justice to my own sentiments, that not
one of those zealots for a Protestant interest wishes more
sincerely than I do, perhaps not half so sincerely, for
the support of the Established Church in both these
kingdoms. It is a great link towards holding fast the
connexion of religion with the State, and for keeping
these two islands, in their present critical independence
of constitution, in a close connexion of opinion and
affection. I wish it well, as the religion of the greater
number of the primary land proprietors of the kingdom,
with whom all establishments of Church and State, for
strong political reasons, ought in my opinion to be
firmly connected. I wish it well, because it is more closely
combined than any other of the Church systems, with
the Crown, which is the stay of the mixed con-
stitution, because it is, as things now stand, the sole
connecting political principle between the constitu-
tions of the two independent kingdoms. I have another
and infinitely a stronger reason for wishing it well; it is,
that in the present time I consider it as one of the main
pillars of the Christian religion itself. The body and
substance of every religion I regard much more than any
of the forms and dogmas of the particular sects. Its
fall would leave a great void, which nothing else, of
which I can form any distinct idea, might fill. I respect
the Catholic hierarchy, and the Presbyterian republic.
But I know that the hope or the fear of establishing
either of them is, in these kingdoms, equally chimerical,
even if I preferred one or the other of them to the Esta-
blishment, whichi certainly do not.
"These are some of my reasons for wishing the sup-
port of the Church of Ireland, as by law established.
These reasons are founded as well on the absolute as on
the relative situation of that kingdom."

To the reasons thus adduced by Mr. Burke for the
support of the Church in Ireland, must be now added
the weight and authority of that compact, guaranteeing
its maintenance, to which, at the time of the Legislative
Union, the Parliaments of the two kingdoms were con-
senting parties.
In a subsequent part of the same letter Mr. Burke
proceeds to observe :
" Ireland has an established Government, and a reli-
gion legally established, which are to be preserved. It
has a people who are to be preserved toli.-and to'be led
by reason, principle, sentiment, and interest to acquiesce
in that Government. Ireland is a country under peculiar
circumstances. The people of Ireland are a very mixed
people, and the quantities of the several ingredients in
the mixture are very much disproportioned to each other.
Are we to govern this mixed body as if it were composed
of the most simple elements, comprehending the whole
in one system of benevolent legislation ; or are we not
rather to provide for the several parts according to the
various and diversified necessities of the heterogeneous
nature of the mass? Would not common reason and
common honesty dictate to us the policy of regulating
the people in the several descriptions, of which they are
composed, according to the natural ranks and classes of
an orderly civil society, under a common protecting So-
vereign, and under a form of constitution favourable at
once to authority and to freedom, such as the British
Constitution boasts to be, and such as it is, to those who
no wenjoy it?

" Yo'u have an ecclesiastical establishment, which,
though the religion of the Prince, and of most of the first
class of landed proprietors is not the religion of the
major part of the inhabitants, and which, consequptll,
does not answer to thtni any
one purpose of a religious
establishment. This is a state of things which no man
in his senses can call perfectly happy ; but it is the
state of Ireland."

was with reference to that state of Ireland, and with
reference to such considerations as those to which Mr.
Burke has adverted, that the Government with which I
was connected brought forward
measures which consti-
tute no precedent for any other part of the United King-
dom, but are specially applicable to the peculiar con-
dition and structure of society in Ireland.
Some of those measures encountered vehement opposi-
tion; the more formidable,olitical considerations, than
because it was offered much
less from partyp
or purely
from sincere conscientious scruples. But, Gentlemen, I
am bound to avow, that I look back with cordial satis-
faction to the part which I took in support of those mea-
sures, and to the spirit in which they were conceived. It
was a spirit of justice and kindness towards our Roman
Catholic fellow-subjects in Ireland—a spirit which will,
I trust, animate our future legislation with referenco to
that country. It is strongly recommended to us by many
powerful considerations, by painful recollection of our
relations with Ireland in earlier periods of our history—
by sympathy with her present sufferings—by the
urgent necesssty, not more for her welfare than our own,
to improve the condition, moral and physical, of her
people.
I will not be deterred, by the risk of provoking new,
or reviving dormant hoitility, from recalling to your re-
collection the general character and object of the mea-
sures to which I have adverted.
In the first place, we altered the law in respect to Cha-
ritable Donations and Bequests in Ireland. We enabled
the Crown to appoint Commissioners for the better
management of such donations and bequests, of whom
one-half in number must necessarily be persons profes-
sing
, questions relatin to buests which con:
the Roman Catholic faith. For the exclusive con-
sideration of the Roman Catholic Commissioners were
corned theall usages cr disciplineg of theeqChurch of Rome.
We gave full power to all persons and bodies corporate,
by deed or by will, to give estates or property of any
description, in trust, for the building or upholding of
Roman Catholic places of worship, or for the mainte-
nance of any person in holy orders of the Church of
Rome having pastoral superintendence of a con-
gregation.
We enabled her Majesty to endow new colleges for the
advancement of learning in Ireland. We gave every
facility to the students in those colleges for receiving
religious instruction according to the creed which they
might profess, and for attendance on divine worship at
the church or chapel which should be approved by their
parents and guardians. We at the same time provided
that there should be no obligation to attend any theo-
of Maynooth.
That
logical lecture or religious instruction, excepting with
the approbation of parents and guardians ; and we
pro-
hibited the administration of any religious test as a qua-
lification for the admission of students, or for the tenure
of an office, or the enjoyment of any privilege or advan-
tage in connexion with the new colleges.
We
gincreasedoriginallythe grant
mfoardethein the Coll reignege of George
111., and by the advice of Mr. Pith at a period of great
national peril, " when, to guard this empire and Ire-
land
in particular, from the enterprises of a dangerous
and malignant power, and to protect all civilised society
from the inroads of anarchy, the King found it neces-
sary to avail himself of every rational aid, .foreign and
domestic, and to call upon the skill, courage, and exp_
rience of all his subjects, wheresoever dispersed."
It was at such a crisis, and under such circumstances.
that an Irish Parliament, exclusively Protestant in its
character, established the College of Maynooth, and re-
ceived from the Throne congratulations " on having laid
i
a wise foundation for educating at home the Roman Ca.
tholic clergy."
Fifty years bad elapsed in 1845 since those congra-
tulations were offered. For fifty years a grant of gb
pu lic
money bad been annually continued for the avowed pur-
pose of aiding the education of Roman Catholic youth
Roman Catholic doctrines, and fitting them for holyin
or-
ders in the Church of Rome. We considered that . t
ere
was, at any rate, no new violation of religions • a
in making thatgrant less inadequate to the Principle
Purpose for