The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-21 00:00:00

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
MANCHESTER IMPROVEMENT BILL.
The report was brought up from the Standing Orders
Committee, stating that the rules of the House had been
complied witb.
SHEFFIELD AND GLOSSOP ROAD.
The report on this Bill was brought up.
LEICESTER SEWERAGE BILL.

The report on this Bill was brought up.
OUSEBURN BRIDGE AND APPROACHES BILL.
The report upon this Bill was also brought up, and
ordered to lie upon the table.
PAPAL AGGRESSION.
Sir R. 11. INGLIS presented petitions from Pershore
and several other places against the Papal aggression,
and praying for a more stringent measure.
Mr. W. 0. STANLEY presented a petition, signed
by the Corporation of Chester and a great number of the
inhabitants, to the same effect.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from the Wes-
leyan congregations of several places in Devonshire,
against the Papal egression.
Mr. DODD and Mr. BECKETT also presented petitions
from similar congregations and to the same effect.
Mr. MUNTZ presented petitions from Worcester-
shire, stating that the petitioners were as anxious to pre-
serve the political rights of the Roman Catholic subjects
of the realm as their own, but expressing a trust that
the House would pass some measure whereby the au-
thority of the Pope, or the authority of any other
foreign potentate, may be prevented from exercising any
power in this land.
Mr. SPOONER presented 16 petitions from different
parts of the country deprecating any trifling with the
subject of the Papal aggression, and praying that the
House would adopt some stringent measures for its im-
mediate repression.
Mr. Child, Lord Sealsam, and several other members
presented petitions from various Wesleyan congregations
against the Papal aggression.
The Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Mr. Morgan John
O'Connell, and other Members presented petitions against
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL also presented a petition from
Ballycotton, in the county of Cork, stating that a peti-
tion had been presented from that county, signed by a
number of children, the eldest of whom was not more
than twelve, and many of whom not snore than three
years of age. He, therefore, wished to draw the atten-
tion of the House to the fact, that the petitioners prayed
that a Bill, supported by such discreditable means, migh'
not pass into a law.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.

Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented eighteen petitions
from different parts of Kesteven, in the county of Lin-
coln, complaining of the distress in which the agricultu-
rists were now placed, and praying for a revision of the
tariff.

EXPENSES PROSECUTION BILL.
Mr. FI I ZROY presented two petitions praying tha
the fifth clause of this Bill may not become part of the law.
PAPAL AGGRESSION.
Mr. W. EVANS presented petitions from several
places in Derbyshire against the Papal aggression, and
praying for a more stringent measure than that which
was now before the House. He also presented petitions
from the Roman Catholics of the same county against the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Sir J. TROLLOPE also presented several petitions
against the Papal aggression.
INCOME-TAX.
Sir J. TROLLOPE also presented petitions from
Sleaford, signed by 4,000 persons, who, in very strong
language, complained of the distress into which they had
been sunk by the alteration of the corn-laws, and pray-
ing for a revision of the income-tax.
Mr. PETO presented several petitions from the
Wesleyan bodies of Norfolk and Suffolk against the
Papal aggression.
Similar petitions were presented by Mr. Miles from
the Wesleyan Methodists of Somerset; by Mr. B. Deni-
son from the Wesleyan Methodists of the West Riding;
by 'Mr. Hildyard: from the Wesleyan Methodists
of Whitehaven; by Mr. Williams, from Kennington,
Stockwell, Camberwell, Brixton, and other places in the
Borough of Lambeth; by Mr. Grogan from the Wes-
leyan Methodists of Dublin ; by Sir F. Baring from
the Wesleyan Methodists of Chester; by Mr. Stewart
from the same body in Newark, and by Mr. Disraeli
from Buckingamslaire.
Petitions against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill were
presented by Mr. Keogh, from Carlow; by Mr.
Reynolds, from various places in Ireland; by Mr. John
O'Connell, from the county of Dublin; and by Mr.
Grattan, from Longford.
THE LAND COMPANY.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a petition from a
large number of the subscribers to the Land Company,
complaining cf the conduct of the located members and
praying the House to pass the winding-up Bill.
THE SCENE IN THE HOUSE LAST NIGHT.
Mr. HAYTER at this stage of the proceeding,
moved that the House, at its rising, do adjourn till Mon-
day next, when
Mr. MOORE immediately rose to recall the attention
of the House to the scene that occurred last night.
He said he felt:compelled, however painful it might be
to himself and the House, to call the attention of the
House to the subject for the sake of his own cha-
racter and position, and in doing so, he assured
the House that if he had given expressions
to feelings of indignation last evening which
were not called for by the circumstances of the case, it
was to be attributed to his ignorance of the rules of
that House and the authority of the Speaker, both of
which it was their interest as well as duty to maintain
inviolate.—(Hear, hear.) He could not, however, allow
the slightest misconception to exist as to what were the
opinions which he expressed on that occasion. His
opinion was that to speak, not only with irreverence
but with levity almost amounting to indecency, of
that sacred name which all generations ot Chris-
tians called blessed, ought not to be permitted
in any assembly professing to be Christian.—(" Hear,"
from the Irish Members.) If those allusions, instead of
being applied to the mother of God, had been applied to
the mother of princes in this country, such profanation
would have been immediately checked.—(Hear.) He
would not, as the Honourable Member for Ripon
had said, sully his lips by repeating such a term, which
he considered ought not to be permitted in an assembly
of English gentlemen to be used, as appertaining to a
community of Christian ladies, dedicated to a life of reli-
gion and charity. He confidently appealed on such
a matter not only to the accomplished and cultivated
minds of English gentlemen, but to the intuitive percep-
tions of all Englishmen against the prurient fancy of
obscenity, senility, and dastardly insinuations—(Order,
order)—then he would say unmanly insinua-
tions against English ladies.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he was not present
when the discussion arose, but it appeared to him that
nothing was more in accordance with the rules of the
House than the statement of the Speaker.—
(Cheers.) He (Lord John Russell) did not
wish the privileges of the House circumscribed,
but he must say that every one could not but regret
that anything falling from an Hon. Member should give
offence to Roman Catholic Members.—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. O'CONNELL hoped, for the sake of order and
decency in their proceedings, such language would not
be used for the future.
Sir R. 11. INGLIS said that after the Hon. Member
for Surrey had last night expressed his sorrow if he had
given pain to any one, and after the statement which
the Noble Lord the First Lord of the Treasury had just
made, deprecating the introduction of language into the
debate which might give pain to any portion
of the House, he hoped that nothing further would take
place on the subject. Having the opportunity of ad-
dressing the House on another subject, he should say a
few words on the subject of a contradiction which had
been given by the Hon. Member for Dublin
to a statement contained in a petition which
he (Sir R. Inglis) had presented a few nights ago; the
most important point of which was, that an individual
therein named was at that time a postulant in a con-
vent at Clifton, about to become a nun in that con-
vent. The Honourable Member for Dublin, he un-
derstood, had contradicted that statement most distinctly.
It was needless for him (the Hon. Baronet) to state that
he knew nothing of the subject from his own knowledge,
but be held in his hand a letter from the Hon. Cray en Fitz-
hardinge Berkeley, in which that gentleman having seen
by the public prints that the Hon. Member for Dublin had
contradicted the statement contained in the petition, now
re-asserted his original statement, stating that he him-
self had visited Miss Talbot in the convent on the 14th
of last month, and bad heard from her own lips
and from the superior of the convent that
in six months she would take the white veil, and at the
expiration of twelve months more take the black, and
become a professed nun. Upon hearing this from his
stepdaughter Mr. Berkeley stated that he had strongly
remonstrated with her, and called to her mind the
injunctions of her dying mother with such effect as to
draw from her an exclamation that she had yet six
months to consider on the subject, before she took the
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