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LONDON, FRIDAY: MAY 16, 1851

Mr. VirraTEsinE, in a first speech, defended the Bill, in
which the Protestants of his country, he said, took a deep
interest. The relations of this country and Ireland towards
the POPE were at this moment of a peculiar and almost
unprecedented nature. He had reminded the English
people of the happy days they had enjoyed when JAMES
was upon the throne, and he had announced his deter-
mination to reunite England to the Romish Church.
Describing the recent proceedings of the Court of Rome
towards Ireland, especially with reference to the col-

leges—every step of which, he observed, required the
attention of the House—Mr. WHITESIDE accused the
POPE of doing an unexampled act in the appointment of
Archbishop CULLEN, in order to acquire a domination
over the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and to govern
them according to his will and that of the Propaganda.
He then adverted to the next step, the assembling of the
Synod of Thurles—an extraordinary transaction, be
said, and illegal throughout, for it was convened under
the edict of the POPE, with the view of putting in circu-
lation the Papal rescripts. In connexion with these pro-
ceedings, he charged Lord CLARENDON with not up-
holding and enforcing the law, thereby offiring en-
couragement to Papal encroachment; and he concluded
with an animated reply to the speeches of Mr. BRIGHT
and Mr. KEOGH.
_ _

Mr. LAWLEB9 moved the adjournment of the debate—
a motion which was supported by Mr. MOORE.
Lord J. RUSSELL objected to the further adjournment
of the debate, which was negatived, upon a division, by
359 against 46.

Mr. R. Fox then moved the adjournment of the House;
whereupon
Lord J. RUSSELL consented to the debate being ad-
journed until this day.
The other motions having been gone through, the
House adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock.

The debate on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill has
been again adjourned. It was not the principle of
the measure that was in question That had been
affirmed by an overwhelming majority on the second
reading of the Bill ; it was simply on the question
" that the Speaker do now leave the chair," in order
to go into Committee to consider the details of the
Bill, that further discussion was demanded. It could
not truly be asserted that the case had not pre-
viously been sufficiently canvassed, or that
its nature was not clearly understood. It
has, in fact, hitherto been the measure
of the session, and it bids fair to be the sole monu-
ment of legislative labour during the Annus Mira-
bilis, 1851—the year of the Great Exhibition. It
has been debated during thirteen working nights.
Every member of the.lrish Brigade has had an oppor-
tunity of explaining his views and opinions on the sub-
ject at least half a dozen times. We believe it
would be impossible now to bring forward any new
argument at all bearing on the topic,
and yet we find a minority of 46—who
must have clearly seen the feeling of the
House when the first division disclosed a ma-
jority of 313 against the motion for adjournment—
persisting in repeated motions to the same effect, and
thus grossly abusing the power placed in their hands
fer a very different purpose, in order to cffer a:factious
obstruction to what they well know must eventually
become the law of the land, either in its present or in
a more stringent form.

This system of obstruction bas at length become a
perfect nuisance. It is ab=olutely intolerable that when
there is so much to be done, and the time for doing
it is so very limited, so many valuable drys should
be wasted through the undue observance of those rules
which, though framed in a proper spirit for the pre-
vemion of certain evils, have been so far perverted
from their original purpose as to render the remedy
far worse than the disease it was intended to cure.
During the present week we have on Monday had the
House adjourned without making any practical pro-
gress on the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill.
On Tuesday the entire day was wasted in consequence
of forty Members not being in attendance
when the Srzem.Eß should have taken the
chair ; and again Thursday has been lost

in a similar mode to Monday, and on the

very same topic. We must, therefore, once more
call for a Committee of Inquiry on the standing orders
with a view to their revision. The progress of legis-
lation must be expedited if we wish to achieve any
practical amelioration in the existing laws, and the
sooner the preliminary inquiries are entered upon the
better. The time of the country must not again be
misapplied and frittered away as it has been too fre-
quently of late years, and more especially since the
commencement of the present Parliamentary cam.
paign.

Unless the Guild of Literature be conducted
throughout in a spirit of liberality proportioned to
that by which its promoters appear to have been ori-
ginally actuated, it had better never have been pro-
jected. From its very outset we have accorded to the
enterprise a support as earnest as it was spontaneous
and unconditional. Immediately the undertaking be-
came subjected to the derision of one atrabilious
calumniator, we hastened to protest against a proceed-
ing so ungenerous towards men who were, according
to our belief, influenced exclusively by feelings of min-
gled benevolence and magnaminity. Our confidence
we are ready to acknowledge was implicit
in the largeness of scope desirable upon
every similar occasion ; and we felt satis-
fied that no project of a nature so pecu-
liarly beneficent in its purpose, and noble in
its character, could be degraded into a parade of
charity on the part of a mere clique for the enter-
tainment of a mere coterie, however select or illus-
trious. Unfortunately, we are already beginning to re-
cognise the dissipation of that day-dream which we
have been cherishing with such preposterous cre-
dulity, and this, moreover,in spite of all that has
i
been uttered n a sinister manner to its disparagement.
What
We trusted might have proved under proper
manag
eain
Nola enterprise worthy of the senti-
ments
unworthy of itthe originated, and not altogether
great cause it was in-
tended to pramote,e.
oin a already beginning to assume
to itself the aspect
ofexcl
up for the satisfaction usive entertainment, got
:ll may arrow circle, to the end
that half-a-dozen gentlemen
strut their little
hour upon the stage for the am
naent of the Court
and their own especial glorification,
a Under any
delibcir-
cumstances it must be confessed that
ever
is Y hundred,
or
per-
formance, in ninety-nine cases out of
ev
is nothing less than a melancholy dis
rate and fatuous absurdity. More particularly, there.
fore, would the lamentable character of any
such
demonstration be enhanced, if we can imagine
the QUEEN and her attendant nobles among
the spectators, and some of the most distin-
guished of the living cultivators of literature
among the luckless group of the dramatis persona.
Whether it may have baen with a view to restrict the
possibility of criticism, or, on the other hand, to impart
to the proceedings a miserable semblance of aristo-
cratic exelusiveness,
it appears that the conductors of
g have assumed
the undertakin
to themselves the pri-
vilege of distributing
among their literary contem-
poraries insults of
a rather gratuitous description,
heightened, moreover, by an affectation of courtesy
and the promise a bribe, by which we pre-
sume it was imagined that a very natural feel-
ing of incliguatiou could be propitiated. Instead

The Lords met last evening at Five, and after the
transaction of some routine business adjourned.
In the Commons the adjourned debate on the Eccle-
siastical Titles Bill was resumed by Mr. SCULLY, who
expressed his conviction that the Government intended
to enforce the provisions of the Bill, and would not let it
remain, like the clause in the Act of 1829, a mere
brutum fulmen.
Mr. WEGG-PROSSEB denied that the QUEEN'S prero-
gative had been attacked by the See of Rome.
Mr. CAMPBELL thought it would be better to reserve
further discussion until the House should be in Com-
mittee.

Mr. TRELAWNY and Mr. P. HOWARD opposed the Bill.
The LORD ADVOCATE said that the people of Soot-
land felt the deepest indignation at the attempt to re-
organize a Church which had been in abeyance for three
centuries. The language of the rescript was like that of
a conqueror, and it was necessary to organize measures
of defence against such an aggression.
Mr. REYNOLDS considered the use of the word tolera-
tion,
when used by one British subject to another, as
most offensive. He denied the existence of any Euro-
pean conspiracy, because had any such existed it must
have been known to the Roman Catholic prelates of
Ireland.

—....--,--
Retribution sooner or later descends upon any
ruler who dares to adventure deliberately upon a path
of mis-government. History has proclaimed this in
a thousand instances from the beginning. It will
continue until the end announcing the same inexora-
ble sentence. For examples of its veracity we need
scarcely even turn a retrospective glance towards the
records of antiquity. The truth is emblazoned in
unmistakeable characters upon the scroll of the diur-
nal annalist: contemporary events assure us of the
inevitable downfall of the upholders of tyranny in
every clime and under every circumstance ; and the
account of their adverse fate is given from time to time
in the chequered columns of journalism. During a
very narrow interval from the present moment we
have seen the vengeance wreaked upon some of the
most puissant princes in Christendom by that veritable
Nemesis the energetic mass of the popula-
tion. In France the lesson was afforded by the
first and last of the Orleans dynasty. In
Austria the same warning was articulated by
the movement which degraded FERDINAND
from imperial pomp to a despicable and dishonourable
obscurity. Now-a-days we are listening to the enuncia-
tion of the same terrible decree--a decree rendered
audible by the intelligence received periodically from
the shores of Portugal. There, in spite of innume-
rable portents of the destiny awaiting her maladmi-
nistration, DONNA MARIA DA GLORIA has blindly
persisted in that lamentable system of favouritism
which has so long proved ruinous to the members of
the house of BRAGANZA. One might reasonably have
expected that the narrow escape of the Queen of
PORTUGAL, in 1847, from the chances of an ignomi-
nious expulsion, and a consequently involuntary de-
thronement, that her MAJESTY would have recognized
at length the folly of persisting in a course so detri-
mental to her own interests and so infuriating to the
multitude. It would appear, however, that the
impunity vouchsafed to the royal councils
upon that occasion, by the unjustifiable in-
terference of the Spanish and British Govern-
ments, only tended to confirm her belief in
the wisdom of her ill-considered policy, inducing her,
shortly after the pacification of the kingdom, to sum-
mon once more to the conduct of affairs that most
despised and detested of all European statesmen, the
notorious chieftain of the race of CABRAL, better
known by his title as the Count DE THOMA.R. For a
long while past the chagrin of the nation at that pre-
posterous re- elevation has been more and more glaringly
developed. From the manifestation made at intervals
throughout the various provinces of Portugal it
was sufficiently perceptible that the then
existing position of things could not be very
long preserved, but that ultimately a potent,
if not wholly irresistible, movement of a reactionary
character must be adventured upon by the malcon-
tents. That movement, long anticipated and loudly
foretold, at length commenced under the auspices of
the noblest administrator in the land, Field-Marshal
thefo Duke of SALDANHA. People cannot already have
forgotten vaitcitshseitufidresst wohuitchhreaskwaoitfedthethaptrasen
a
illus-
triousrevolution.n,,e
Theyecauned
noetrlowsehiseihghttheofvetthereaehxlteraadoerr-
dinary circumstances
of the populace was suddenly transformed from an
apparently ruined and
master of Portugal and toutcastvindicator
dia.
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of the Portuguese. The metamorphosis
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have
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inflaming their imagination.
Since the abrupt and astonishing transformation
here referred to, the.Mgreo a eveuta but been

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THE LATE LORD COTTENHAM.—It is expected
that the mortal remains of the late lamented Earl of Cotte4-
ham will arrive in London on Tuesday or Wednesday next,
when they will be taken to his late residence in Park-1 one,
thence to be removed to Totteridge for interment, according
to the directions of his will.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Provincial Bank
of Ireland, held yesterday, a report was presented to the
meeting, rather gloomy as to the agricultural prospects of
Ireland, but, in respect to the flax culture and linen trade of
Ulster, rather satisfactory. In spite of all difficulties, the
directors had maintained the usual dividend of 8 per cent.
per annum, and had realised a considerable surplus after the
payment of that amount. The account showed the net pro- 1
fits of the bank for the two half-years to amount to
45,395/. 4s. 6d. The rest was 11!,3771_ II s. 10d., from
which the directors proposed to pay a dividend at the rate of
4/. per cent. for the half-year, or at the rate of 8 per cent.
per WILIILM.