The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-12 00:00:00

THE CENSUS.

The NOBLE LORD gave notice that on Thursday he
should more for the instructions issued by the Registrar-
General for the taking of the census.
PAPAL AGGRESSION.

Earl FITZ WILLIAM, in presenting a petition from
certain Roman Catholic inhabitants of the city of York,
against any measure fur inflicting pains and penalties
upon the persons professing the Catholic religion, said
that he was not aware that any such measure had been
proposed to Parliament. He was aware that a measure
had been introduced into the other House of Parliament
to prevent persons usurping territorial titles conferred
upon them by a foreign power, and he approved of that
measure. He desired to preserve in this country that
pure religion which we had enjoyed for three
hundred years, and therefore he desired that
their Lordships should legislate on this subject.
He entirely approved of the object of the Bill. He found
that in the other House 400 Members had voted in favour
of it as it originally was introduced, and therefore he
supposed that the great majority of the House were in
favour of making it effectual. He had, therefore, learned
with astonishment that the Government had determined
to abandon those portions of the Bill which would alone
make it effectual. If the Bill passed without th© means
of making it effective, they would pass a law which
would involve the Legislature in disgrace and
in ridicule—(Hear)—and it was to be lamented
that Parliament and the Executive Government
should have thus disappointed the hopes of the
nation. He felt it his duty to make these observations,
and to ask if it were true that those who had the con-
duct of this measure in the other House had de-
termined so to frame it as to make it ineffective.
If the Bill had never been introduced, it might have been
said it was a subject not fitted for legislation, but having
introduced that Bill they admitted that it was a subj-
ject for legislation, and having made this admis-
sion they made the legislation ineffectual. If the
Ministers thought they would have done their duty, or
have satisfied the country by such a measure, they would
find that they had grievously disappointed tho hopes
and expectations of the conntry.—(Hear, hear.)
He desired to preserve this country as a
yt and that no justifiable means
untriedr to preserve it as such. The hard-
shipshoud Protestant
b e l e
fcto u n t
was not upon the Roman Catholics, but upon the
Protestants of this country, that they should be com-
pelled to submit to this aggression. A gross insult had
been committed, and he should propose that it should not
be lawful for any subject of her Majesty to assume any
title, civil or religious, without permission of her Ma-
jesty, and then it would be lawful for her Majesty to
permit the assumption of such titles when it might
seem fit, and to prohibit others from so assuming an
usurped title. He warned her Majesty's Ministers
against trifling with this important question. It was a
question in which ho felt deeply, because h© was desirous
of preserving that religion which he believed to be the
truth, and he called upon Parliament and the Ministers
not to be treacherous to themselves, if they valued their
own reputation and the religion of their country.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in answer to the
question put by his Noble Friend, would state that cer-
tain alterations were intended to be made in the Bill
introduced in the other House of Parliament; but this
House could not entertain the question until the Bill
should have reached their Lordships' House. He him-
self did not think those alterations affected the princi-
ple of the Bill.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM said the alterations did not af-
fect the principle of the Bill ; they only made it totally
ineffective.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 11.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW WRIT.

Mr. CLEMENTS moved for a new writ for the
borough of Dungarvan in the place of the Right Hon.
Mr. Shell, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

SECO/if) READINGS.
The following Bills were then read a second tine:—
Derby and Ashhorne Road.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Fifth Shares).
The second reading of the Smithfield Enlargement Bill
was postponed until Monday next.