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PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LOS s, MAncii 5.
Lord BEXLEY was introduced, and took the Oaths and his
Seat. His Supporters were, Lord COLCHESTER and Lard
MARYBOROUGII.

Lord KENyoN presented a petition from the Archdeaconry
of Liecester, against the Marriage
the table. Act.—Read, and laid on

The Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer Appointment Bill,
the Exchequer Bills Bill, the Animal Duties Hill, the Transfer
in Aids Bill, the Lanarkshire Roads, and the Haw Passage
Bridge Bills, were read a second time—Adjourned.

lIOUSE OF COMMONS.
Sir JOIIN WILLIAM HEAD BRYDGES, of Wootton Court
in • the County of Kent,
,took the Oaths and his seat for
Coleraine.

A person from the Bank presented an Account of the Cash
Balances in the hands of the Direciors.—Laid on the table.

RAMSGATE HA RI3OUR.
Returns relative to the number of Foreign. and British Ves-
sels which had entered Ramsgate 113rbnur, and of the Annual
Balances in the hands of the Trustees, were also laid on the
table.

MARRIAGE VALIDITY BILL.
On the motion of Sir Joux NICHOLL, this Bill was read a
third time and passed.
The second reading► of the Marriage Act Repeal Bill was
postponed to Monday next.
LONDON BRIDGE.
Mr. Alderman WOOD brought up the Report of the Corn.
mittee on this subject, and obtained leave to bring in a Bill for
the rebuilding of _London Bridge.
SUPPLY.

On the motion of Mr. LITSIIINGTON, the Order of the Day
for the House resolving itself into a Committee of Supply, was
postponed to Friday next. _ _ _

The Committee of Ways and Means was also postponed to
the same day.
SCOTCII CREDITORS' BILL.
On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, this Bill was read
a third
.time and passed.
IRISH ASSESSED TAXES REPEAL PILL.
• This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be commit-
ted to-morrow.

INROADS OF THE JESUITS.
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a petition from an indi-
vidual of the name of Wm. Parker, who was better known to
the Hon. Member for Cork than to himself. He did not mean
to vouch for the truth of the allegations of this petition, and
least of all for that which reflected on Sir Christopher Bird,
holding a high Colonial Office at the Cape of Good Hope. The
Hon. Member proceeded to read this petition, which set forth
that great evils resulted both to the said Colony and to Ire-
land, by the insidious and secret practices of the Jesuits. Ile
defended the Orange Lodges as loyal and Constitutional, and
necessary to counteract the designs of the Jesuits. The Peti-
tioner accused Sir C. Bird of being a Jesuit, and prayed the
House to hear evidence at the Bar to examine into the truth of
his allegations, and render justice to his sufferings from the
Jesuits. The Hon. Member stated that he knew little of the
petition or its contents, further than that it had been placed
in his hands, and he had. thought it his duty to present it. He
would go so far as to say, that he had good authority to state,
that at Stoney Hurst there was an institution of Jesuits, and
he believed under the direction of the brother of the individual
alluded to. He believed it was not doubted that Jesuit Socie-
ties existed in Ireland, and were greatly on the increase. An
Hon. Baronet, in 1814, indeed, stated in that House, that lie
knew, the Jesuits had received 30,000/. from Rome to build
churches, and promote these Societies. If this were the case,
it was not to be supposed that these people had been idle since
1814. Many Irish Members, on that occasion, said they ne-
ver heard of such an institution, and he was surprised they had
never heard of any thing more *We on 'the subject; It be;
hoved the Irish Members to look 'to this. But, at the same
time, it was to be borne in mind that this was an English
question ; for whatever concerned the Protestant Religion con-
cerned England. He might be answered, that the Jesuits did
no harm—theywent on acquiring knowledge. But if they had
done no harm, what good had they done—and if there was no
danger in their existence, why had they been expelled from
various empires. They were 'expelled from China, from Pa-
raguay, France, Sweden, and Denmark, Spain, Genoa, Malta,
and Parma. Buonaparte desired they might never be allowed
to exist in his dominions ; for, said he, their doctrines are, that
their General is the Sovereign of Sovereigns, and General of
Generals, whose orders they were boundto obey, however
contrary to the laws of the land in which they were. " No,"
said he, " I will never have a body in my dominions who
are under the orders of a foreign General at Rome."—(Hear,
hear, hear !)—Now Buonaparte knew the doctrines of most sects,
and if he was wrong, it was incumbent on those who favoured
the Jesuits to shew it. He did not understand the meaning
of the silence held upon the subject of these Societies ; he
thought there was some hidden' mystery and dangerous plot
under the whole. He held in his hand a pamphlet, written by
Mr. Steele, who had had some experience of the Hibernian
Schools, and who said that he had witnessed the Priests stand-
ing with whips at the corner of the streets leading to these
fls w°giiiinict were afterwards to lead them to
their disciples to enter them, and
rsceliceotorles,thaonsed cr,onlly.e ctrate
commit th*outrages for which the Catholic inhabitants of
Ireland were-remarkable. He had no hesitation in saying that
he believed all the misdemeanours committed by the people,
and the evils which afflicted that unfortunate country, were at-
tributable to the pernicious doctrines of the Jesuits, who' had
got so much ahead there owing to the neglect of the British
Legislature.—(A laugh.)---Ile begged to inform the Hon.
Member for Westminster (Mr. Hobhouse) that he was not to be
deterred from doing what he considered to be his duty because
of his laughter. e had already stated that he knew nothing
of the truth of the allegation of this petition, but he thought
they were of a nature to require attention, and especially when
connected with other circumstances known to him and the
House. The petition had been put into his hands, and he
thought himself bound to present it. If it were doubted that
"there was a Jesuit establishment in Ireland, he called upOn
the Irish Members to say what that institution in the County
of Kildare was. They had already been told of this, and it
had been alluded to in the petition presented the other night
by the Hon. Member for Armagh. He would mention an-
otherplace too, and that was within a few miles of Dublin, where
a large mansion had been bought by a Dr. Murray connected
with the Archbishop of Dublin, to be appropriated, as he had
been informed and believed, to the purposes of the Jesuistry.
When allegations of this kind came in upon them from all
quarters it was absolutely necessary the House should look
about it and endeavour to ascertain both the truth and extent
to which this great evil had been allowed to creep. They
were told that they had almost got possession of one of our
chief colonies, and were spreading themselves over Ireland
and England, and it was time they should be closely watched.
The Hon. Baronet concluded by moving for leave to bring up
the petition.
Mr. C. lIUTCHINSON said he knew the Petitioner, and
believed him to be exemplary in every private relation of
life. He believed he had claims upon the Government' for
having been deceived in the hopes held out relative to the Cape
of Good Hope, in consequence of which he had lost considers.
ble property, and had a large family to maintain. He admitted
the petitioner's private grievances, but could not agree with
him in the other views in his petition. He regretted also
that he had alluded to Colonel Btol by name, whom he consi-
dered a very meritorious officer. '1 he of the petition
was the complaint relative to the Jesuits of Ireland, whom he
charged with being the cause of the outrages and sufferings of
that country. He undertook to say that the charge was wholly
false—it was insolent and ignorant. It was not to the machi-
nations of the Jesuits, as had been said also on a late occasion
when petitions were persented to the House by the Hon.
Member for Armagh, that all the crying evils of that country
were to be attributed. It was most unfair and unjust to charge
them, and most extraordinary that advocates should be found
amongst the respectable Members of that House for such opi-
nions and doctrines. He had not said it on a late occasion ; but
lasB2sOnicthw—(as thatileltr the l
PopeHe repeated what he had said. In
said to Cardinal Gonsalvi that
he said it then, that he knew of no establishment of Jesuits in
the Ireland,
year
the order ofJesuits had not been restored in Ireland, because
it was contrary to the wishes of the Government of the British
Empire..., His Holiness
at the same stated that the order had
been restored to Russia, because he had received a petition
from the Emperor Paul, requesting that it might be so. And for
the same reason it had again been establshed in the Two Sicilies,
they having frequently solicited to the same effect. Now, as to the