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London, England, 1848-02-16 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER LOANS (IRELAND).

In reply to Major BLACKALL,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he should, on
Friday, state the intentions of the Government with
respect to the Exchequer loans to Ireland.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.

On the order of the day for going into Committee
on this Bill,

Mr. LAW rose to move that the House should go
into Committee upon the Bill this day six months.
The Bill divided itself into two portions—one of
which was the repealing, and the other the enacting
portions of the Bill. The Bill appeared to have been
framed in such a manner as to insure the largest num-
ber of votes upon going into Committee upon the Bill,
because there were many Hon. Members who were of
opinion that there Awere many more obsolete Acts
which ought to be removed from the statute-book.
Now the Hon. Member for Midhurst (Mr. Walpole)
had most ably argued, and his arguments had not
been answered, that all these obnoxious Acts were
already repealed by recent statutes passed for that
purpose. He (Mr. Law) would not, therefore, detain
the House by going into any discussion upon that
point. He felt fully convinced that all those statutes
were repealed, and he could not, therefore, consent to
go into Committee for the purpose of repealing
statutes which were already repealed by former
statutes.—(hear.) The next question, then, to be
considered was, whether he would consent to go into
Committee for the purpose of reviewing the Emanci-
pation Act of 1829, and the effects of that measure
upon the country,
.and the nature of the securities
which accompanied that Act. He felt the greatest
respect for his Catholic fellow•countrymen, but he
would not censent to repeal the securities of that
measure without the repeal of the entire Act. lie
deprecated re-opening the agitation of that question.
Would the consent of the Legislature ever have been
obtained to the Act of Emancipation unless some
sureties were proposed, and the assertion that the
measure should be a final settlement of the question ?
It was now too bad to be told at the end of eighteen
years that those securities should be repealed.—
(Hear, hear.) The present was a most unfortunate
moment, and he would rather that his Catholic
brethren had rallied round the Protestant Church
for the support of Christianity, than have used their
endeavours, as some of them had done, to introduce
into the Legislature persons the most opposed to
Christianity itself.—(llcar, hear.) Not only was
the time most inopportune for the discussion of the
question, but the agitation of the question would
prove most baneful to the best interests of the
country.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. H. DRUMMOND freely confessed that be
had done everything in his power to exclude Roman
Catholics from seats in that House, but it was per-
fectly absurd for some Hon. Members who belonged
to his own party to suppose that the House could be
induced to retrace its steps on this subject. Unless
this and the other Bill, to which reference had been
mado by the Hon. and Learned Member who had
just resumed his seat, could be resisted on principle,
they could not be refused on the ground of expe-
diency. The Hon. and Learned Member had there-
fore recalled reminiscences of the past that would
have been better let alone ; and rather than revive old
animosities Hon. Members on that side of the House
ought to adopt language within those walls which
would be listened to and tolerated out of doors.
Upon these grounds and many others he thought it
desirable to go at once into Committee upon this Bill.
Sir R. H. INGLIS could not supporr the position
which had been taken up by his Honourable Friend
who had just sat down. It appeared to him that his
Hon. Friend's speech had nothing whatever to do
with the Bill under discussion. This Bill in no way
related to the power of Roman Catholics to hold
offices in the State. It repealed no less than eight Acts
that had already been specifically struck off the statute-
book, and therefore it was his opinion, that while this
Bill was professedly brought forward to relieve the
statute-book of some of its cumbersome Acts, it was
a pretext to revive certain assumed grievances which
the Roman Catholics laboured under, with
the view of striking another blow at the
Protestantism of this country. The Pope of Rome,
he would venture to assert, was doing in this country
what he dare not do in France. The Pope knew
full well that he no more dare to establish a bishopric
in France or Austria with the sanction of the So-
vereign than he dare raise an army to invade these
countries. The Pope, hewever, relying upon the
support he should receive from the Roman Catholics
of this country, had dared to do as much in England,
and some of her colonies, and he maintained that,
instead of repealing Acts which were necessary for
the protection of the established Protestant Church,
they ought to take steps to resist the usurpation
of the Bishop of Rome, which was the only
title the Pontiff could legally claim in this
country.—(Cries of " Her, hear.") The Roman
Catholics of this country were endeavouring to
abolish the securities vs hich the Emancipation Act
raised against encroachments upon Protestantism.
This Bill, however, did not propose to give the
Roman Catholics any office to which they were justly
entitled, and he felt it would be establishing a dan-
gerous precedent if the House adopted it. Inci-
dentally he might notice a Bill which had beenintro-
duced in the other House of Parliament, and he might
state that the title which that Bill gave to the Bishop
of Rome was neither just nor legal.
The SPEAKER called the Hon. Baronet to order
for referring to a Bill that was not before the House.
Sir R. H. INGLIS apologised for having violated
the orders of the House, and proceeded to insist that
the House was too negligent in the watch it kept
over the movements of the Pope. The Bill proposed
to re-invite the Jesuits into England, a sect that had
been prohibited by every state in Europe, Catholic
or Protestant. He objected, therefore, to the
Bill in that respect. If the Bill was
allowed to become law it would go far
to ail that movement which he was sorry
to say was now prevalent, that of disuniting
the Church from the State. He cordially concurred

in the amendment that had been moved by the Hon.
Member for the University of Cambridge, that this
Bill should be committed this day six months.
Mr. C. ANSTEY trusted that the House would
go into Committee on the Bill.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.

WOKING, TUESDAY.—The inquiry into the death of
David Markland, the engine-driver, late in the service
of the Londun and South-Western Railway Company,
who met his death on the evening of the 14th ult., by
the accident on the railway within a short distance of
this place, was resumed and concluded yesterday, at the
Railway Tavern, near the station.

Mr. C. J. Woods, the coroner, arrived shortly before
two o'clock, and the proceedings were opened precisely
at that hour. Mr. Dalrymple, the company's solicitor;
Mr. Gooch, the locomotive superintendent; Mr. Stovin,
the manager of the traffic; Mr. Godson, the superin-
tendent of the line; and several other officials were again
in attendance.

The jury having answered to their names,
The CORONER said he believed their present proceed•
ings would be confined within a very narrow compass.
Since the last meeting of the jury he had ascertained
from the professional gentleman employed by Jones and
Fleming, that he should not require the attendance of
any of the witnesses who had been previously examined.
Under these circumstances, there was only one other
fact which it would be necessary for them to ascertain;
that was the parish in which the accident occurred, and
he believed a witness was in attendance who would
prove this. He was not aware whether the company
had any other witnesses in attendance whom they might
wish to call.

Mr. Dalrymple said they bad none. Fortescue, the
guard, was gradually recovering, but as yet was not ill
situation to give evidence.
David Pearsey, labourer, was then called—He proved
that the accident occurred near the 25th milestone from
London, and within the parish of Woking.
No other witnesses presenting themselves,
The CORONER said, before he proceeded to sum up be
should be glai to know whether the jury wished to have
the whole of the evidence read over to them. _

The foreman of the panel, having consulted with his
brother jurymen, said he thought that would be quite
unnecessary.

The COIiONER then charged the jury, after which they
returned a verdict of "Manslaughter against William
Jones and Lewis Fleming."
The foreman added that he hoped the suggestions
which had fallen from the jury in reference to the re-
construction of the luggage-road boxes, the addition of
elevated boxes for the guards, and a new description of
break, would be carried out by the company.
Mr. Dalrymple said all the suggestions referred to
were already in progress or operation.
The foreman asked if any means of communication
between the guards and the engine•driver had been
adopted.

Mr. Stovin said they were at present trying two plane.
viz., hells and electricity. Thoy hoped, ere long, to
establish a perfect communication; but of ill subjects
this was the most difficult in railway economy: One
thing he hoped the company might congratulate them-
selves upon, and that was that the present was the first
fatal accident which had occurred on the line for the last
six years. _ _

The jury coincided in the remarkable freedom from
accidents on the South- Western Railway.
The several witnesses having been bound onr, the
proceedings terminated.