The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-03 00:00:00

SUN'; LONDON, WEDICESDA.Ys MARCH 8, IR4i.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
SATUItnxY, Fun. 27.
Brompton amt Earls Court Road,—Com. on Pet., March 10.
Great Leinster and Munster Railway,—Com. on Pet., March 10.
Ardrossan Harbour,—Committee on Pcti;ion, postponed from
March 2 till March 5.
Chelsea Pocr,—Second Reading, March 3.
Bolckow's Naturaliz.ition,—Second Reading, March 3.
Collyweston Inclosure,—Committee on Bill, March 8, at two.
Southorpe Inclosure,—Committee on Bill, March 8, at two.
South WE stern Railway Bill (so. I),—Committee on Bill, March
8, at two.

MONDAY, MARCII 1.
Coundon Inclosure,—Committee on Petition, March 12.
Christchurch and Lyndhurst Road,—Second Reading, March 5.
Glasgow and Dundyvan Junction Railway,—Committee on Peti-
tion, postpone.l from March 3 till March 5. _ .

ShMts and Wilsontown Railway,—Committee on Petition, post..
poned from March 3 till March 8.
Stoke-upon-Trent, &c., Small Debts,—Second Reading, Mar. 5.
Scrabster Harbour,—Committee on Petition, postponed from
March 4 till March 8.
Wicklow Harbour,--Corn. on Petition, adjourned till March 2.
Gourdon Harbour (No. 2),--Com. on Pet., adjourned till Mar. 4.
Dundalk and Bainbridge Road,—Comtnittee on Petition, ad..
journed till March 9.
SAlgley Road,—Second Reading, March 5.
Thames Haven Dock and Railway,—Committee on Petition,
postponed from March 3 till March 10.
Nottingham. Gas,—Second Reading, March 5.
Harrogate Improvements,—Second Reading, March 5.
Hawkhurst Junction Road,—Second Reading, March 5.
Dean and Chapter of Westminster's Estate,—Committee on Pe.
tition, March 12.
Waningore Inclosure,—Second Reading, March 5.

TUESDAY, MARCH 42,

1. Cambuslang and Muirkirk Road and Bridges, Committee on
Petition, postponed from March 5 till March 9.
2. Portishead Pier,—Com. on Pet., adjourned till March S.
3. Herculaneum Docks (No. I),—Corn. on Petition, March 17.
4. Herculaneum Docks (No. 2),.—Com. on Petition, March 15.

COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS APPOINTED BY TIIE
COMMITTEE OF SELECTION.
I. Abingdon Road Bill, referred to Mr. Bernal, Mr. Duffield, and
Mr. R. Palmer.
2. Britannia Life Assurance Bill, referred to Mr. Bernal, Mr.
Pease, and Mr. Brotherton.
3. Barnstaple and Braunton Roads Bill, referred to Mr. Bernal, Sir
B. Chichester, Sir T. Dyke Acland, and Mr. Frederick Hodgson.
The meetings of the several Committees co these Bills is fixed for
Friday the 12th of March, at one o'clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, 2+lAncli 2

Their Lordshi;)s mct at Five o'Clock.
The Earl of STRATFORD prevented several petitions
from Donegal aga'nst Chu, c.) in Scotland.
The Maripis of NORMANBY laid on the table returns
relating t') the discipline of gaols in Ireland. Also a le-
turn of persons nominated to act as Sheriff; of Coun-
ti in Ireland for the yebr 1811 ; and a return rel fling t.)
the Vaccine Institution.

The Al.trqui: of DOWNSIIIIZE presen!el teitions
from several congregations is connexion with the Pre by-
terian Church cf Ireland agtinst Church Patronage iti
Scotland.

Tl.e Duke cf CLEVELAND presented a petition
flour Sundeiland in fivour of the Drainage inTowns Bill.
The Marquis of SALISBURY inquired of the Noble
Marquis, the Seerrt,ry for the Home Departmet t, he-
tier it was the intention of her Majesty's Ministers
to propose any measure to alter and amend the Turnpike
Acts of England and Vales?

The Merquis of NO RICIANBY said that he had given
his bee attention to the subject. Thcre was at present
a great pressure of business connected %%hit his de-
partment of the Government in the other House, which
pi evented him f om stating the precise course which might
be taker. But for the satisfaction of the Noble Lord,
he would depart from the course usually followed under such
circumstances, and state that a Report would be laid
before the other House, and upon the manner in which
that Report might be received must depend the measure
which would be proposed to Parliament.
CHURCH PATRONAGE (SCOTLAND.)
The Earl of DA LHOUSIE, seeing the Noble Earl
(Aberdeen) in his place, would ask, according to the
notice which he gave last night, what the Noble Earl
iet.mded to do this Sessile with respc et to the Bill which
he brought in last y ear on the subject of Church retro-
nege in Scotland? The Noble Lord at the head cf the
Government had said that he would not introduce any
measure on the subject, but would leave the law as is
stood to vindicate itself. If the measure cf his Noble
Friend (the Earl of Aberdeen) hal been carried last year
au end: might have been put to all causes of dissension ;
but since that was withdrawn the demands of the
extrorne party had increased. They would have
been satisfied last year, with a mere veto upon the no-
mination, but now they called for an entire abolition of
patronage. They had declared that no measure falling
short of their demands would have a beneficial result ;
and under those circumst traces, he- thought, that the
only thing to be done was to leave thel aw as it stood to
exercise its own authority, and to vindicate itself upon
the heads of those who violate or evade it. The majority
of the people of Scotland who could form an opinion on the
subject, and the whole body of the Dissenters, were op-
posel. The Noble Lord concluded by asking of the Earl
of Aberdeen, whether is was his intention to bring in this
Sessi in any Bill upon this subject similar to that which he
proposed last year.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said Le was not sorry to
herr the question put to him by I is Noble Friend, for he
had received inquiries of a sinner nature from so many
parts of the country, accompanied by such strong repre-
sentations, that he was glad to be able to state the
course it was his intention to pursue, and, at
the same time, in a few words, his reasons for
adopting it. Their Lordships were perfectly aware
this subject had lost none of its interest or importance,
but he (the Earl of Aberdeen) thought in the course of
the last few months it had assumed new features. It
might probably appear somewhat s. range that he should he-
sitate in renewing a measure which had met with no formi-
dable opposition in that House, the second reading of which
had been carried by a large majority, and which had passed
through Committee, and been reported to the House—a
measure too which had been received by a large body of
the parochial clergy in Scotland with decided approbatien,
which they came forward voluntarily to declare. When he
said the parochial clergy he spoke not of unendorsed minis-
ters, or of those whose position was equivocal in the
Church, and respecting whom it was doubtful eleseher by
law they formed part of the Church Courts or not. But
of the Established Clergy nearly half had came forward
and subsci ibed a declaration in favour of the measure. The
measure had also been received by a major ity of the laity of all
ranks with entire acquiescence. But nevertheless he could
not forget that the Government had thought it their duty to
object to the measure. He did not allude to his Noble
Friend, the Noble Viscount at the head of her Majesty's
Government, because he (Lord Melbauree) had ex-
, pressed no opinion on the merits of the measure;
but, on the contrary, had abstained from doing so,
and therefore, if he thought fit, there was nothing to pre-
vent him (Lord Melbourne) from making it his own to-
morrow ; but many of his colleagues, and particularly the
Noble and Learned Lord, who usually presided in that
House, had strongly objected to the Bill as a conce,si in
to unjustifiable pretensions, and a wanton violation of
the rghts of patrons that at the very same time the
Gene-al Assembly objected to the measure as Eras-
tian and incompatible with the scriptural independ-
ence cf the Church, as riveting still more strongly
the fetters of patronage, and finally, as tending
to dethrone the Redeemer from his seat. Now, of
these different classes of objections, far as they were
as the poles asunder, he hoped his measure was
justly liable to neither ; but, if so, he left it to the reason
of any man in his senses to decide which might, with
the most appearance if truth, be urged; but
different as these objections were, when united
in practical opposition to the measure—they ap-
pealed to him to deprive it of all chance of effect-
ing the only good he had hoped from it, that
of restoring peace to the Church ; and when that
opposition was aided prac'ic.lly by the resister-ea
of e Government, and of t' e dominant party in the As-
sembly, it would prevent the beneficial s ffect which he had
been sanguine enough to anticipate. It was in
consequence of this feeling that lie did not press his
measure through the House. He was not aware that
any change had occurred in either of the parties who
objected to his 8,11, and therefore the same reason would
prevent him from pressing it upon the House in the pre-
sent Session. But there was an additional reason. He
had leen told last year that the object of the petitioners
for non-intrusion was the total abolition o: patronage ;
and though he did not at the time believe it, he had
some reason to think that this was the real subject at
which the party who had referred to him [aimed. The
me:sure he introduced was certainly not calculated
to satisfy them on this polo:, and therefore for this and
the previous reasons it would be useless to renew it.
He understood her Majesty's Government had maturely
considered the subject, and that they had come to the
determinat'on to preserve the law as it at present stood.
He Lai nothing to quarrel with in that decimation, as
no doubt they bad seen nothing which would render a
change in their plans judicious. He lamented the course
taken last year, but no doubt the Noble Viscount
acted in a manner which he thought consistent with his
duty. But to make that declaration eff.ctual, it must be
honest and sincere. He did not mesa to intimate any
doubt of the honesty or sineer.ty of the Noble Viscount,
but that he must take care that the other Members of his
Government acted and spoke in harmony with him. Unless
he did so the people of Scotland would be misled and deceived.
For instance, the principal law officer there, the Lord Ad-
vocate, was looked upon (he was sure erroneously) as
their principal supporte". In that House they knew how
to estimate the dimensions of a Lord Advocate—( A

laugh)—but in Scotland he was looked upon as a
much more important personage than the Noble
Viscount himself—he was, in fact, the Govern-
ment himself.—( Hear.) He was happy, howsve-,
to find that the Le.riied Lord had retreated from hi; pc-
sition, and had declined to attend at a public dinner, on
the ground that a public demonstration at that time would
not advance their common objects. These objects were
the destruction of all patronage, and the stigmatising the
judgments of the Supreme Courts in Scetland, and of
that House. Such declarations were very injurious,
and the dominant party in the Assembly of Scot-
land had circulated a report that it was his
inter.tion to bring forward a measure of a much moro co-
ercive and stringent character, although he depreca'ed
such an idea. He trusted that eventually the law, tempo-
rate4, firmly, and steadily administered, would be found
too strong for those reverend agitators.
On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the Commit
tee on the Copyhold Tenures Bill was postponed ti]
Friday.

Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presenti3d a pet. tion from
Kilkenny in favatir of Lord Stanley's Bill for the Regis-
tration of Voter: in Ir,‘land.

M.-. M. PHILIPS presented a petition from the
Clamber of Commerc. of Manchester, praying for the
adir.ission of East India produce at the same rate as the
produce of ether countries.

Mr L. HODGES presented a petition, praying that
he House would not consent t•) any extension of the
~owcr,7 of the Poor-law Commissioners.

Mr. FIELDEN presented petitions with a similar
prayer from Broomsgrove hill, and two places near Car Hale.
Sir F. POLLOCK brought in the Double and Treble
CorAs Bill, which was read a first time.

Mr. M. J. O'C 0N NE LL presented two petitions from
places in the county of Kerry in favour of the Govern-
ment Registration Bill fur Ireland, and against that of
Lord Stanley. • •

Mr. TURNER presented three petitions from respect-
able houses in Manchester against the Copyright a Dc-
sig,ns Bill.
Mr. FOX MAULE presented several petitions from
Scotland, praying fur the total abolition of Church Pa-
tronage.
Captain POLHILL pre cafe" petitions from the
county of Bedford, against any further grant to the Col-
lege of Maynooth, and in favor of the eitmsion of re.ii-
gious education.
Mr. E. ROCHE presented a petition from Kilve', in
the county of. Cork, against Lord Stanley's Irish Registra-
tion Bill.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented a petition
from the Lord Provost and Corpora'ion of Edinburgh,
prayirg fir the ternov2l of all restrictions on free trade.
GRINISDITCH presented a petition from Man-
chester, against the Copyrizht of Designs B 11.
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (IRELAND)
BILL.

Mr. HUME presented a petition from a place in the
county of Tyrone in favour of Lord Morpeth's Bill, and
against' Lord Stanley's ; also petitions to the same effect
from places in the counties Fermanagh and Cavan.
CHURCH-RATES.

Mr. EASTHOPE gava notice that on Wednesday, the
10th of March, he would move for leave to bring in a 1311
for the abolition of Church-rates in England and Wales.
Mr. M'KINNON said it was not his intention to pro-
ceed with the motion of which he had given notic.3 on the
subject of the Iralth of towns, as the Government had
taken up the subject.
PARISH CONSTABLES.

On the motion of Sir E. KNATCHBULL the second
reading of the. Pa4.rish Constables' Bill was postponed till
Tuesday, the 9th of March.
Colonel PE RCEVA L moved for leave of absence for
Colonel Henry White till after Easter, on the ground of
urgent private business.
- Lord HO WICK said they ought to take care that the
motion would not interfere with the public business of the
House. If he mistook not, Colonel White was on the
panel and was liable to set ve on the Election Committees.
He did not mean to offer any opposition to the motion,
but he thought they ought to inquire into the nature of the
business which prevented an Hon. Member taking his share
in the business of That House.

Sir R. PEEL thought when an Hon. Member moved
for leave of absence, he ought to state what panel he
was on. Now it appea•ed that the Hon. Member was on
No. 5 panel, and was not likely to be called upon for some
time. •- _ _

Mr. Sergeant JACKSON knew that Colonel White
had very important private business to attend to in Ireland.
The motion was then agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. 11 AWE S the Medical Profession
Bill was postponed from Wednesday till Wednesday week.