The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-26 00:00:00

THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

A recent writer says:--" The present Church of
England was self-styled the Poor Man's Church. It is
not difficult to understand how it has been so called.
Church revenues were originally divided into three parts
—the first part for the maintenance of the priesthood;
the second for the maintenance and repair of the fabric
of the church; and the third for the relief of the poor.
But now the people have to keep the church in
repair in the form of church rates; and the poor they
have to support is the form of poor-rates; whilst the
liishops and clergy swallow up all. Read on, and reflect
at the same time. Think it our present State Church
does in any respect represent the spirit of Christianity,
as handed down to the disciples—the poor fishermen of
Galilee; or rather, does it not represent the spirit of
Mammon no: of Jesus. Its God is Money, Rich Bene-
fices, Hard Cash
" See the revenues of the Church of England, which
amount yearly to the enormous sum of 10,483,699/. Re-
peat it,—cry it aloud. The sum of ten millions, four hun-
dred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred and ninety-
nine pounds, which enormous amount, it divided es was
originally intended, to support the priesthood, to keep the
church in repair and to relieve the poor, would indeed
greatly relieve our vast community; but now, not one
penny comes to the poor, but rather the poor man's pots
and kettles and the bed he lies on are frequently sold by
&action to make up this amount."
What will Churchmen ,ay to thi?

EXHIBITION OF 1851.
RECEIPT OF GOODS-FINAL NOTICE.

1. On Wednesday evening, the 2d of April, the tem-
porary entrance into the buildim: for carts, waggons, and
carriages of every description will be closed, to enable
the flooring of the building to be completed; rind no
articles will be admitted into the building which cannot
be brought in by hand, and without the aid of machinery
for lifting, &c. Even such articles cannot be admitted
if they should exceed the width of the entrances—viz.,
6 feet 6 inches.

2. After the 3cl of April, no packing cases will be
admitted within the building. Any articles brought to
the Exhibition between the 3d of April end the 10th
of April mast be delivered unpacked, and i❑ such a way
as to cruse no litter in the building; in fact, they must
be delivered as they would b 4 brought into a private re-
sidence.

3. On and after the 3d day of April any articles sent
through carriers, which require to be unpacked, will be
deposited outside the building, and remain there until the
owners or their agents attend to unpack them.

4. All foreign articles must sent to the east end of
the building; all colonial articles to the south entrance;
and all British articles to the west end of the building,
5. Although the reception of articles after the 10th of
April will obviously occasion great inconvenience, in-
creased expenses. and somewhat jeopardize the punctual
opening of the Exhibition, the Executive Committee
will not absolutely refuse to admit them, but they feel it
necessary to discourage as much as possible such late
arrivals. Accordingly, they give notice that articles
can only be received after the 10th of April and until
the 20th subject to the payment of the following fees to
the general fund:—

s. d.
Every article weighing urder 281 h... 0 10 0
Every article weighing above 281 b.
and under 561 h
Every article weighing above 561 b 2 0 0
. _

And at the rate of IL additional for every 281 b., or
fraction of 28ib., above 561 b.

6. These rules apply to all articles except those spe-
cialty exempted by the Executive Committee.
Z. Tho Executive Committee particularly request that
all goods may be finally arranged on Monday, the 21st of
April, in the way it is proposed they should be exhi-
bited, iu order that the Executive Committee may then
proceeding to having the bnildinp• put hi order for the
0 admission of the public. I
March 20. M. DIGBY WYATT, Secretary.

OXFORD AND THE UNIVERSITY

COMMISSION.

The venerable Alma Mater of the Isis has just dis-
covered a mart's nest of the first magnitude, and is pro-
claiming her discovery to the public with a degree of
twaddling solemnity which is perfectly ludicrous. As
all our readers know, a Royal Commission to inquire
into the state of our two ancient Universities was ap-
pointed at the end of last session. It was announced at
the time that the Commission was directed in no hostile
spirit, but in friendly co-operation with the efforts at
self-improvement which wore being made in the Univer-
sities themselves. No one supposed that attendance
before it was compulsory, or teat it had any power to
enforce the production of documents or the answering
of interrogatories. Of course no such power can be con-
ferred on Commissioners by the Crown singly, or by either
House of Parliament singly. Similar Royal Commis-
sions had issued before; and it was known by actual
practice, as well as from constitutional theory, that at-
tendance before them was perfectly optional. This had
been proved in the case of the Municipal Corporations
Commission; and an analogous case had occurred about
thirty years ago, before the Education Committee of
Lord (then Mr.) Brougham. On that occasion, the
Warden of Winchester refused to produce the College
Statutes, or to answer any questions about them, and
nobody attempted to compel bun.
Well, the Oxford University Commission was duly
°Ppointed; it had held several meetings; it had collected
IThlah information, when suddenly the Oxford Dons
Publish a long legal opinion to prove, what nobody ever
thought of
disputing—narsely, that they and everybody
else might refuse to give information to the Commis-
sioners, and that nobody could punish them for such a
refusal.

If the meshing of all this is, that the Oxford Dons
mean to obstruct the Coa3mission as much they can,
we must say that they have taken a very stupid way
of announcing a very stupid resolution. They will get
no good by concealment. Every abuse that exists
Will be believed to be ten times as bad as
it
really
y them
is,
on account of their efforts to cloak it over;
and a thousand charges against them will find credit
with the public,
which a tree and fair investigation
would prove t..) be unfounded.
The argument is decisive; they Must have something
to be ashamed of, or they would not shrink from being
inspected.— Weekly News.

A CHILD BURIED ALIVE by its MOTHER.
On Tuesday last, ono of the most atrocious cases of
child murder ever recorded was committed atWingfieid,
in this county, by the mother, a young unmarried woman
named Maria Charlie. Clarke, it appears, had been dis-
charged,
,at her own request, from the Union
House that morning, and with her child, a male, six
weeks old. she proceeded to Wingfield, where her
friends reside. Before going to her mother's cottage,
she called upon several of the neighbours, and in the al-
ternoon was seen proceeding in the direction of Mr.
Hill's meadow, carrying the child on one arm and a
scuppet in her other hand. In the evening the child was
missed, and suspicions being excited by what had trans-
pired in the afternoon, the mother was questioned, when
she said she had sent the child to Norwich to be
brought up by an aunt. Not satisfied with this
--representation, she was directly accused of having
ma 4 away with the child._ silo ut first denied it, nut
e 1 =

lON'S

oti fsr,th -made the astounding confession that lohe had
Atitl4l Plated the child, but had buried it alive in ➢sir.
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immediately given to policeman William Clarke, and tl e
woman was shortly afterwards anrehended. The next
morning the meadow was searched, and i❑ a ditch about
four feet deep, filled with water, the scuppet was found,
which it appeared had been missed from the cottage
garden of a labourer named Dasaey on the Tuesday
afternoon. The mother then accompanied the policeman
to acorner of the meadow, and pointed out the spot where
she had buried the child. The turf was removed, and at
the depth of six inches from the surface the body was
discovered. The womao,we understand, has since made
a full confession of her guilt. She stated that she left
the Palham Union House because a young man in
the neighbourhood of Wingfield had promised her mar-
riage. She was apprehensive if he knew she had a
child that he would not fulfil his promise, but she had no
idea of committing the murder until she was leaving
the cottage of Dassey, when the sight of the scuppet
standing outside the door, suggested the thought to her.
She deg a hole, she said, laid her infant i❑ it, and then
sat down and cried. She afterwards covered the child
with turf, " without hurting it at all," and then hearing
it shriek in the ground she stamped upon the sod and
stifled its cries ! She was taken before the county ma-
gistrates of the district, the Rev. A. Cooper, the Roy. R.
Colbeck, and the Rev. J. Hodgson, and remanded for
further examination on Monday next. Yesterday Mr.
Charles Gross, coroner, went to Wingfield, to hold an
inquest upon the body. The prisoner is about twenty
years of age.—Suffolk Chronicle of March 22.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, March 25.
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, Marco 24, 1851.
The Queeu has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Bea-
trice Byng to be ono of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary
to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Caroline Dawson,
resigned.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 24.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. L. A.
Van den Bergh as Consul at Portsmouth, of Mr. G. C.
Welsford as Consul at Weymouth, and of Mr. John
Banfield as Consul for Scilly, for his Majesty the King
of Hanover.

CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 24.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Matthew
Davenport Hill, of Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Mid-
dlesex, EFT, to be one of the Commissioners of the
Court of Bankruptcy, to act in the prosecution of fiats
in Bankruptcy, in the country, in the room of Ebenezer
Ludlow, Sergeant-at-Law, deceased.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Thirsk—Sir William Payne Gallwey,
Baronet, in the room of John Bell, Esquire, deceased.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAnca 21.
MEMORANDUM —The date of the commission of First
Lieutenant Henry Raymond Pelly, corps of Royal En-
gineers, is altered to July 26, 1850.
ADMIRALTY, MARCH 21.
The following promotions have this day taken place
consequent upon the death of Admiral Sir Edward
Hamilton, Bart.' K.C.B.:—
Admiral of the Blue George Barker to be Admiral of
the White.
Vice-Admiral of the Red the Earl of Dundonald,
G.C.8., to bo Admiral of the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White William Henry Brown
Tremlett to be Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue John Impey to be Vice-Ad-
miral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Charles Philip Bateman to be
Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Charles Napier, K,C.8.,
to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Alexander Renton Sharpe,
C.B, to be Rear-Admiral of the White.
Captain William Willmott Henderson, C. 8., K.H., to be
Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
And the following officers have been also promoted
to the rank of Retired Rear-Admiral, under the terms
proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist of September,
1846, without increase of pay :
Captain Joseph Digby.
Captain Charles Warde,
Captain William Ffariligton.
Captain James Rattray.
Captain John Allen.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent.
The Right Hoe. George Viscount Torrington to bo
Deputy Lieutenant, March 18.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County Pa-
latine of Lancaster.
James Lomax, EF q., to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 20
WIII rEIIALL, FEn. 27.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edwin Boxall, of
Brighton, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
The Lord Chancellor had also appointed Parkin
Wigelsworth, of Doniegton, in the county of Lincoln,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court
of Chancery. _ _ _

WHITEHALL, MARCH 19.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Bruges Fry, of
Cheddar and Axbridge, in the county of Somerset, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 13.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a
Levee at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, March 26,
at two o'clock.

auction 640 bags Penang were sold at 3d to 3id for corn-
tn,‘Ti light rather duty. The value of Malabar is 3-}d to
5 id and clean Sumatra 3d. White is wanted at 6d
to Bd. Pod is yet dull of sale at 30s to 405 per cwt.
Ginger met with little attention. Jamaica is held for
21 8s to 91 for common to fine, African 34s to 375, and
Esst India export sort 17s to 20s. At public sale 160
cases Cochin went at 70s to 94s for middling to
good, and mouldy 67s 6d to 89s. Cloves in
fair demand—Bourbon and Zanzibar at 6d to
60, and Penang Od to is 4d. Mace is wanted;
fine 2s 6d to 2s Bd, and other kinds 2s 2d to 2s sd. For
Nutmegs there ar© several buyers, fine and good brown is
3s 2d to 4s, low and mid 2s 8d to 2s 11d, and limed of
first quality 2s 8d to 2s 10d. Some small parcels of
Cassia Lig❑ea have been sold at 94s to 102s—Cassia
Buds are held for 108 s to 110 s. To-day Pimento was in
better demand, and full rates were obtained. At auction
567 bags were sold at 4.-1-d to 3d, but chiefly at 4id to 4'ld
per lb.

SPIRITS.—There are se:lers of Leeward Island Rum
at a reduction; still operations have been upon a small
scale at Is 7d to is lid proof. East India hal been
purchased with caution, and the rates taken arc is sid
to Is 6.1. Is consequence of a reduction of 24 per gallon
having been acceded to for Demorara a good business has
been transacted; and the purchases amount to 350 puns
at 2s 4d to 25 6i for 33p °9 per cent. over proof. There
has been rather more doing in Jamaica. About 250
puns have been sold, fine and favourite marks at 3s 81
to 4s 4d for 35 to 38 per cent over proof, mid to
good 2s 101 to 3s 8d for 30 to 34 over, and low
2s 61 to 2s 9d. Brandy is still purchased with
caution for all purposes. Cognac best brands
of the vintage of 1850 at 4s 3d to 4s 53, 1849 ditto
4s 6d to 4s Bd, 1848 ditto 4s 9d to 4s 1 Id, 1847 ditto
5s 2d to 5s 4d, and inferior sorts 3a to 4s per gallon.
Prices do not give way for British made Spirit; but opera-
tions are upon a limited scale at 9s 8d to 95 9,1; and Gin
at 8s 3d for 22 per cent under proof. Geneva sells more
freely at Is 7d to is Bd, and fine Is 9d to 2s per gallon.
INDIGO.—The demand for East India is improving,
and there are now no sellers under last sales' rates.
Spanish met with greater attention, and realized an ad-
vance of 2d; at auction 100 serous of Guatemala were
all sold at from 3s 4d to 4s 9d for ♦ery low to good.
CCCIIINEAL.—At public sale 160 bags were nearly all
sold—Honduras silvers, low to good mid 3s 4d to 3s 9d,
blacks 3s 7d to 4s 4d, Mexican silvers 3s 2d to 3s 3d,
and Teneriffe 3s 6d.

SALTPETRE.—British refined is cheaper, limited sales
having been made at 29s to 303 per cwt. In Bengal the
business concluded privately has been small for all pur-
poses, and the parcels at public sale were taken in. Prices
incline downwards, and rule at from 26s to 28s 6d for
low to fine Calcutta. For Nitrate of Soda the demand
is limited with sellers at 14s 6d to 14s 9d per cwt.
TALLow.—The demand has fallen off for Russian on
the spot during the last few days, and prices are not so
firm. There are sellers of fine new yellow Candle at 403
to 40s 6d, and old at 39s to 39s 6ci per cwt; but
only a limited business has been concluded.
For delivery in last three months of the year
there are sellers of new at 40s, and with few
buyers. In home melted a good deal has been done at
39s net cash for immediately delivery. Of Australian
700 casks at auction were chiefly sold at 34s to 38s 6d
for low to fine; but of 500 pkgs South American a part
only disposed of at 35s to 375; 48 casks Belgian 38s 3d
to 38s 6d; 318 skins Ibrail were taken in at 37s 3d; and
80 casks Odessa Sheep at 37s per cwt. Prices of Tallow
are 3s to 4s above this time last year.
OlLS.—There is a further increase in the supply of
Cocoa Nut, and all parties evince little desire to operate.
At auction 600 casks Cochin were taken in at 28s to 32s
6d per cwt. Olive continued to be operated in with
caution; and sellers are willing to accept 41! lOs to
421 for Gallipoli; 40/ to 411 for other sorts, and a
further reduction is anticipated. Linseed Oil is offered
at lower terms ; the value is 33s to 33s 3d per cwt.
There are few buyers for delivery, and with sellers at
33s 6d to 345. For Rapo Seed Oil prices have be-
come firm ; pale realized 34s 61 to 355, brown 33s
to 33s 6d; and Foreign Refined 35s 6d to 365. Palm is
much wanted, and 29s to 30s is the price of fine, whilst
there is no increase of supply. There is an improving
demand for Seal Oil, and holders aro less disposed to
press sales; pale has been selling at 33/ to 34/, and
other sorts 301 to 321 10s. Cod is not to be
obtained under 37/ lOs per tun; few transactions,
however, have taken place. Southern has been
operated in with caution, at from 301 to 311 103 for com-
mon to fine. In Sperm sales are upon a more extended
scale, and rates aro firm at 841 lOs to 851 10s, with only
a moderate supply. Headmatter is in fair request at
901 to 94/ per tun. For auction on Friday 44 tuns, and
400 packages Seed Oils are declared, the chief part Rape
Seed, and Gingelly Oil.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 25.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
Lord PORTMAN presented a petition from a place
in Somersetahire in favour of copyholds enfranchise.
ment, and several against Papal aggression.
THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES.—THE
MARRIAGE ACT.
The Bishop of OXFORD wished to direct the at-
tention of their Lordships to the state of the
Church in the colonies, and to know how
the state of the Church had been affected by recent
enactments, and whether the Noble Earl the Secretary
for the Colonies had received any remonstrances from
the clergy of the colonies on the subject of the celebra-
tion of marriages in the colonies.
Earl GREY said that there were many difficulties
affecting the question. He had laid it down as a
rule that it would be wrong in colonial matters
for the Imperial Legislature to interfere in any
matters in relation to which the colonial legislature
was competent to legislate. Now, he had not received
any complaints from the clergy of Now South Wales
with regard to any matters in which it was not compe-
tent to the colonial legislature to legislate. He had
understood that there was to be a meeting of the
Bishops of Australia on the subject, to which the
Right Rev. Prelate had alluded, but the result
of that meeting had not yet been known; but he should
deprecate legislating on any subject on which the colo-
❑ial legislature was competent to legislate.
Lord MONTEAGLE thought the House ought to
legislate in this matter.
Lord CAMPBELL thought the House ought to legis-
late on the subject of marriage in the colonies, so as to
make the legislation in regard to marriage in unison
with the law of this country.
Earl GREY reminded his Noble and Learned Friend
that the marriage law in England was different from that
in Scotland and from that in Ireland, and he thought in
Australia it ought to be left to the decision of the local
Legislature.
The Bishop of OXFORD declared that complaints
had arrived from the clergy of the colonies of the ope-
ration of the law of marriage in colonies, and contended
that the decision of the matter ought not to be left to
the Legislature, but should be left to the decision
of the Church. It was unjust to tie up the operation of
the Church of England in this manner In the colonies.
Earl GREY had never said that complaints had
not been brought under his notice by the Colonial
Church, but that no grievaece had been
so brought under his notice which could not
be dealt with by the colonial legislature.
It had been suggested that the colonial legislature
would not deal with it, and in that case he thought it
was not a case calling for imperial legislation, inasmuch
as it was a matter purely cf colonial and domestic
concern.

Their Lordships adjourned.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1851.

they had any intention—in the event of their continuing
to be her Majesty's advisers—of acting on the report
of their kirdmh:p4' Committee, by endeavouring to re-
model the law?

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY thought that the
clergy were under great obligation to the Noble Earl for
bringing this subject under the consideration of the
House; but ho knew not whether the prelates should feel
equal obligation for the contrast which the Noble Earl
had drawn between them and the clergy. Although the
Noble Earl's statement was in most respects true, it,was
not impossible that the public might draw a wrong in-
ference from it. As long as the law remained in its pre-
sent state, the contrast which the Noble Earl had ad-
verted to as existing between prelates and the clergy
with respect to contributions to the poor rate must con-
tinue. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that
there was no part of the episcopal income which did not
contribute to the rates, although not directly out of the
pockets of the prelates. The process was this—the pre-
lates paid the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the
commissioners paid the rates. The Noble Earl, however,
had made out a case for the clergy, and R certainly ap•
reared unjust that the personal services of that class,
ithout which they could not receive their incomes,
were not represented in the rent-elLirgo.
Earl GREY believed that the Hint Hon. President
of the Poor-law Board had given notice of his intention
in the other House of Parliament of introducing a Bill
for the purpose of effecting some alteration in the law of
settlement and parochial assessment. At the same time
he could give no assurance that the proposed change in
the law of settlement would be consistent with the Noble
Ear.'s views. As far as he understood the Noble Earl',
♦iews on the subject, he believed that it would be moat
detrimental to the interests of the country to carry them
into affect.

is expedient for the better education of the poor that a
system
of national education should Le established, to be
supported by local taxation.
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS ABROAD.

Lord PORTMAN was understood to say that the ques-
tion with which the Noble Earl wished to deal was one
encompassed by many and serious difficulties. Whether
the Noble Earl intended to bring in a Bill to effect this
object under another Administration he did not know,
but he would advise him to pause before attempting to
legislate en the subject. The clergyman referred to by
the Noble Earl, as paying 10s. in the pound for rates,
paid no more than the other ratepayers in the same
parish. That the area of rating should be extended he
would admit, but that was not the tithe owner's grievance.
The karl of MALMESBURY, with reference to what
had faLen from the primate, disclaimed the remotest
intention of casting a stigma upon the Right Reverend
prelates.
The Rshop of OXFORD maintained that the clergy
were suffering under a grievance which demanded re-
dress. That proposition he submitted to the Committee
of last session, and it was negatived by two votes only.
and if his two Right Rev. Brothers who were associated
with him on the Committee had been present on the oc-
casion thu votes would have been equal on either side.
By a strictadhorence to the letter of the law, it was held
that the personal services of the clergy must not be taken
into cousidsration with reference to the payment of rates;
but if the law wore strictly interpreted in another res-
pect all property should be equally charged for the sup-
port of the poor. Some time subsequently to the pass-
ing of the 43d of Elizabeth it was found desirable, from
motives of convemience, to exempt personal propery
from direct assessment, and that object was effected
in a roundabout way. As long as agriculture was
protected tic consummer indirectly contributed to
the support of the poor. Now, however, that the law
had been altered—as he thought wisely—and the price
of wheat wee regulated not by the expense of produc-
tion, but by the cheapest rate at which it could be
brought in tram other countries, the consumer was re-
lieved from his indirect contribution to the rates; and
the whole burden was cast upon the landed proprietor
and the titheowner. This circumstance constituted a
claim, not for the reversal of free trade, but for a re-
consideration of the principle on which rates were levied.
lie was satisfied it would be found the law pressed
heavily on a most deserving body of men, the parochial
clergy of the Church of England.
Lord BEAUMONT thought their Lordships bad
allowed one error to run through their speeches in not
regarding rates as taxes on property. There was no
injustice at present, as all real property was rated on the
same principle; but, if the rates were reduced on one
deseription of real property on account of services ren-
dered, there would be an unjust distinction between the
rates on the setae kind of property. He did not wish to
see income rated to poor-rates, but thought realized per-
sonal property fairly liable.
Lord PORTUAN observed that there wore duties
rendered by lay impropriators which did not procure
them exemptioa from rating—for example, there were
services as high sheriffs, on grand juries, and in the
militia.

After a few words from the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord
Wodehouse, and the Earl of Hardwieke, the petitions
was ordered to he on the table.
THE COMMONS ENCLOSURE BILL

Sir K, H. INGLIS rose to put a question to the
Under-Secretary for the Colonies, of which he had given
notice, whether any answer had been returned to the
dispatch (with an inclosure) addressed by his Excel-
lency Sir Charles Fitzroy, en the 30th July, 1850,
to her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies (endorsed as received in Downing street on
the 4th January, 1851); and if no answer had
been sent, to explain the cause of the delay. And also
to call his attention to certain inaccuracies in the printed
copy of the said communication, as laid before the
House, in answer to their address of the 24th February,
1851, and ordered to be printed (No. 105) on the 10th
March, 1851. With regard to the first question, per-
hap., the House would allow him to recall to its remem-
brance that three or four years ago an order was issued
by the Colonial Secretary, that the bishops of the Roman
Catholic Church in the colonies should be treated with
the same distinction as those of the Established Church.
This produced a remonstrance from the Biihop of Sydney
that precedence was given to the individual, which was
denied to the office, thus leaving untouched the great
question, namely, the right of a foreign potentate to
give dignities to which precedency was attached.
Mr. LIUME begged to interrupt the Hon. Baronet;
he was going into details which could not at present be
discussed.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Earl of RODEN presented petitions against
Papal aggressior, from Cavan, Dublin, Down, and other
places.

Mr. J. O'CONNELL said, that perhaps it would be
better to defer the subject for the present, as of course
there was another side to the case.
The SPEAKER said that the Hon. Baronet had cer-
tainly a right to proceed as he was merely stating facts
connected with his question, and not opinions.
Sir R. H. INGLIS continued—This mode of settle-
ment of the question had been disputed by the Bishop
of Sydney,and severaldispatches had passed on the subject.
The next question he wished to ask was' whether the
last five lines of the first paragraph of the dispatch
was a correct expression of the feelings of the Govern-
ment on this point.
Mr. HAWES said that the paper which the Hon
Member held in his hand was not in correct accordance
with the dispatch which had been:sent out from the Colo-
nial-office. The fact was that the error arose from a
typographical error. With regard to its effect in the
colony he could give no reply, for no answer had been
received to the observations made in return upon the
dispatch received in this country on the 4th of January
last.

Earl GREY presented petitions in favour of the Copy.
hold Enfranchisement Bill.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 25.
The SPEAKER took the Chair st Four o'clock.
THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third time and
passed
Leicester Sewerage.
Ouseburn Bridge and Approaches in Newcastle-upon
Tyne.

arose out of that common law; and thirdly the decisions
made under it were at all times liable to be reversed
on an appeal to the sovereign of the realm.
If, thee, in these three great particulars it was liable to
be subject to the common law of the land, how could it
become the dangerous agent which so many persons had
represented?—(Hear, hear.) He was not surprised that
the Roman Catholic laity of the kingdom desired to
have the existence of this law more practically effi-
cient amongst them, for they desired the presence
of a body of eminent men who would be able to settle
questions upon just and right grounds, which were now
too often decided only by prejudice or caprice.—(flcar.)
That was the real state of the case—(Hear)—but they
acted as if there was something improper or immoral in
this law. They know that such was not the fact, and
he would ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern-
ment, whether it was right—whether it was becoming—
whether it was decent to raise at this time of day a cry of
"No Popery" in the country ?—(Loud cheers, and collator
cheers.) The canon law was at this time part of the
law of England, it had been so, and would continue to be
so, without any question of the validity of its decisions,
until the Court of Queen's Bench should come
to any different result upon matters which
had been submitted to the operation both of the canon
and the common law.—(Elear, hear.) They talked of
the doctrines which this law would be likely to
strengthen. He believed that many honest and able
men in the Church of England were sincere believers in
many of those doctrines.—(Cheers and counter cheers.)
And they might talk of the effect of those doctrines; but
when he saw an eminent minister of the Church of
England obliged to be protected from personal violence
by police when in the performance of his pastoral
duties, he thought the less they dwelt upon the
effect or the liberality of those doctrines the better.
He would call the attention of the House to an incident
which occurred to Bishop Butler. That Right Reverend
Prelate contended for external religion, and he was
branded as a Papist for it—mistakenly branded, of
course. Now, ho thought the Tractarians could,
like the great author of the Analogy, afford
to treat the opposition raised against them
with contempt, but he warned the Noble Lord at the head
of the Government that this Bill would not set this
matter at rest. As yet they were only on the threshold
of the excitement, and to him it seemed fearful to con-
template the results which would inevitably follow the
passing of the Bill. But it was said that the Church
of Rome was despotic and intolerant, and for
that reason it was necessary to have a law of this cha-
racter in this country. Now was ever before an argunien-
turn ad hominem more absurd than that presented to the
House? Because Rome was intolerant, the country
ought to be intolerant too. Such an argument
was so worthless that it hardly merited a reply.
and he had only referred to it for the purpose of
protesting against its introduction into this debate.
There was another topic upon which he wished to say
a few words. The Noble Lord the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs told them the other night that the Bill was a
complement to the Catholic Emancipation Act. Now
ho allowed that one of the clauses of that Act, to a
certain extent, prohibited the assumption of titles
but he denied most emphatically that it prohibited their
establishment of a hierarchy, like that which the Pope
had recently created, and he hoped that argument,
like the other one ho had just mentioned, would be
abandoned without delity.—(Hear, hear.) Instead
of promoting animosities between the two churches, the
Legislature ought to strive to apply itself to soothing the
angry feelings which prevailed out of doors, for he be-
lieved the Church of England had more to fear from
irreligion than from the proceedings of Christian Rome,
and he therefore called upon the Government to retrace
its steps and rather assist the two churches
in stemming the torrent of Atheistic principles,
than strive to promote religious fanaticism and discord
by a useless system of legislation. The Church of
Rome ignored the existence of the Established
Church of this country, and ho would recom-
mend the Government to return the compli-
ment, and treat these bishops as phantoms
or nonentities which could aot be grasped. That was
the only safe way of dealing with the
so-called Papal aggression ; and though the
Noble Lord could not recede from this Bill
without injuring his own reputation, or proceed
with it without producing great mischief, ho recom-
mended the House to adopt the suggestion at once.
He hoped, in conclusion, that as the Noble Lord valued
the peace, security, welfare, and prosperity of this great
country, he would desist from proceeding with his fatal
Bill.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PORTAL, in rising to make his
maiden speech, begged the indulgence of the
House for a few moments while he stated
the reasobs which induced him to vote against the second
reading of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) He could not admit
that the Bill consisted of that judicious mixture of good
and evil alleged by those who supportid it; so far from
it, it was totally impotent for good, and all powerful
for evil, while it was calculated to foment
and excite religions controversy and dissension
throughout the country, the injurious effect of which
might remain for many years to come.—(Cheers.)
The Bill was just large enough to irritate the Roman
Catholics in Ireland, and not large enough to sa-
tisfy the Protestants of England.— (Hear.) He fully
shared in the indignation and resentment which
the act of the Pope had excited a spiritual
invasion which literally ignored the existence of our
own Church; but he disagreed with those who thought
the measure of the Government was a proper one to meet
the difficulty. The Bill was a mere mockery and delu-
sion, alike unworthy the deliberative wisdom of that as-
sembly and the dignity of this great country.
Mr. J. O'CONNELL spoke the opinion of the whole
of the Roman Catholic body when be affirmed that the
Pope had no temporal jurisdiction in this country. He
did not think that anything that had transpired in the
course of the debate had at all advantaged the case in
favour of the Bill; and it was clear that no Crown
lawyer would so far risk his reputation as to assert that
the supremacy of the Crown in religious matters was at
all consonant with the common law. Blackstone, who
would not have hesitated to assert such a doctrine, had
at existed, had said nothing of the kind. He did not
mean to enter into the subject, because the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) had
in a few sentences admirably refuted all that could be
said upon it. He trusted that the Right Hon. Gentleman
would go on in the course he had commenced, for the
people of Ireland would appreciate his sentiments and
his desire to protect them from insult, and to place them
on a footing with the other subjects of the empire. At
the same time it was a part of the case that Roman
Catholics could scarcely be called upon to argue, be-
cause it was the very essence of their religion that they
should allow the absolute supremacy and power of the
Pope; and if any kings in former times had denied
that supremacy they had ceased to be Catholics. In
speaking of the affairs of Switzerland, the Noble Lord at
the head of the Foreign-office stated that the r'roteatant
majority in that country had a right to interfere with
the education of the children of the Catholic cantons,
simply because they were the majority. Was that doc-
trine to be entertained by this country, because, if so, he
confessed that he should think it of the most startling
consequence to the people of Ireland, for, though the Ca-
tholics formed the majority in Ireland, they were vet the
minority in the empire? It was no unreasonable fear
upon his part that such might be the case; and it was
remarkable that there had been no answer from the
Treasury bench to the eminent legal opinions that had
been quoted to show that the first clause of the proposed
Bill carried with it all the venom, and would have all
the practical effect of the others which had been struck
out. The Most Rev. Prelate the Catholic Archbishop
of Armagh had been most peculiarly the subject of unfair
attack in the course of the debate. But it was not true
that Dr. Cullen was a man ignorant of Ireland. Ha was
the representative for many years, and chosen agent, of
the Catholic bishops of Ireland at Rome, and be
had therefore the most intimate acquaintance with
the affairs of Ireland. His choice was no novel act on
the prrt of the Pope; but the consent of bishops
Ireland being required was a perfectly novel practice;
of
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that was a concession made by the Pope,
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chose he might revoke that concession. II
in this case for a most laudable purp n ose-
He found that
the Roman Catholic episcopacy had
themselves by the arts and blandishments divided among
ents ohf thweasGnoo-
vernment, and he had selected Dr. Cullen,
on,
monk, but an eminent and illustrious
a Ron. Gentlemanm of whom Ire-
land had reason to be proud. [The of Dr. Cullen, to
read several extracts from the pastoraldeus sled secret societies,
show that he had strongly codnthe upholding of treason-
the preaching of sedition, and
had been made of the pro-
able practices.] Complaint
synod on the subject
ceedines of the Synod of Thurles, but what crime was
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there in the declaratiodistinctly laid down by
of education? It d
nsboefebt, that
writers of the EnglishbaProtestant Church that education
province of the bishops and
the 'and this principle had only
was a matter within
pastors of that Church,
the Catholic prelates. [To show
been carried out by
mixed system of education, the
the
the danger of
Honourable Member read some extracts from the evi-
dence given by e a professor
in 1827 before the Parlia-
mentary Commission of inquiry into the Belfast educe-
tional institutions,
who admitted that he did not con-
sider Jesus Christ to be God, but believed him to be a
created being.]
A professor of one of those institu-
tions also wrote a work of such infidel tendencies that
his brother professors, although no two of them enter-
tained tho same religious belief, were completely
shocked, and
called him to account. It was, then, a
mockory to say that there was no danger in this mixed
system of education, when such men were allowed to
exercise the office of professors, and , the law had no
right to require that Catholics should place their chil-
dren in such establishments. But the Noble Lord (Lord
sr. Russell) had endeavoured to cast a slur upon the
loyalty of Catholics because they would not violate
their conscientious feelings by accepting these institu-
tions. That was a most audacious insinuation, and be
(Mr. O'Connell) threw it back with indignation. In
1844 the Noble Lord declared that ho thought it a foolish
prohibition to prevent Roman Catholic bishops from
styling themselves by the names of their dioceses; and
the Noble Lerd might he assured, that whatever Par-
liament might do, the Irish people would still uphold
their bishops, obey their counsels, and reject everything
that might tend to impair their authority.
Mr. L A.WLESS considered that every Member re-
presenting a Catholic constituency was bound to raise
his voice against the present Bill, and he felt himself
the more bound to do so because he was a Protestant re-

Presenting a Catholic constituency. When the Noble
Lord now at the head of the Government succeeded to
office bonfires of rejoicing were lighted up throughout
Ireland, because the people rembered the opinions he
had expressed in opposition, and especially his declara-
tion that Ireland was occupied, and not governed.
There were now, however, other bonfires in Ireland, and
in every one of them the Noble Lord was burnt in effigy.
(A laugh.) It might be said this was but a proof of the
fickleness of popularity and of the capriciousness ( f the
people. That he ('air. Lawless) denied. It was the