The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-29 00:00:00

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

Mr. REYNOLDS begged to ask the question of which
he had given notice last night, and on which the House
had expressed a resolution in 1848, through the Com•
mitten which had been appointed to consider the matter
every Member of which had, with one or two exceptions,
voted for the abolition of ministers' money in Ire-
land, and stated that the cost of that expense,
if defrayed at all, ought to be defrayed out
of the revenues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
for Ireland. The question which he had to ask, then
was at what time did the Government intend to introduce
any measure with a view to the abolition of ministers'
money. That money amounted to 16,000/. a-year, out
of which his constituents paid 2,0001. a-year, and there-
fore he thought a sufficient case was made out for the
alteration of its assessment.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that, instead of imme-
diately answering the question, ho thought that the
better plan for him to adopt would be to state
the course which the Government intended to pursue. IL
was necessary, in the first place, as the second reading of
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill had been passed, to proceed
with the army estimates, in order to go into a Com-
mittee.—(Hear, hear.) The Government, therefore,
proposed to go on with the army estimates on Monday,
in order to provide for the exigencies of the
country. Having got these settled, they proposed on
Friday to go into the financial statement, anc
his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer would intimate what the intentions of the Go-
vernment were. On the same day he should move, in
a Committee of Ways and Means, the resolution
respecting the income-tax, which would give the
Right Hon. Member for Stafford an opportunity of
moving his motion, the debate on which could be taken
on Monday. The remaining order days, of which there
would be only three at the disposal of the Government
before the recess, would be applied to the purposes of
the financial arrangements of the country, and the re-
maining estimates. He regretted this the more, as he had
intended to proceed with the Committee for the Eccle-
siastical Titles Bill on Monday, the 28th, or to
take the first day which was an order day;
but that was Friday during the holidays, and, there-
fore, he should propose to take the Committee on the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill on Friday, the 2d of May.
He regretted this much, but he would proceed with the
question of ministers' money immediately afterwards.—
(Hear, hear.) There was another matter which had
also occupied much of public consideration—that was
the retention of the office of Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland, which it was proposed to suppress by the Bill
brought in last year.—(llear, hear.) His own opinion
still remained the same, but he had received intimations
from so many parts of Ireland—(Loud cries of " Hear,
hear")—of the feelings of the inhabitants of that part of
the country, that he should not, this session, introduce
any measure for the suppression of the office of Lord-
Lieutenant.—(Loud and repeated cheers from both sides
of the House.) With respect to the question which the
Hon. Gentleman the Member for Dublin had proposed
he would observe that, although it was his intention to
deal with the matter, he could not say at what time the
measure would bo introduced.
CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT IN IRELAND.

Mr. MOORE was proceeding to ask a question with
respect to his motion, which stood on the paper regard-
ing the Church Establishment in Ireland, when he was
stopped by being called to order by both sides of the
House.