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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 185

In the House of Lords, last evening,
The Administration of Justice Improvement Bill was
a third time and passed.
The Church Building Act Amendment Bill passed
t hrough Committee, as did the Publie-houses (Scotland)
. sill, when their Lordships adjourned.
In the Commons,
The Committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Assump-
lion Bill was resumed.
Mr. liEocii proposed a proviso to clause 1, enacting
that no prosecution under the Bill should take place
'without the consent of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The
roviso was negatived withuut a division, and on the
qutstion being put that the clause do stand part of the
Bill,

Sir J. GRAHAM opposed the clause, and declared that
it bad been the intention of Sir R. PEEL'S Cabinet to
repeal the entire of the Act of the 13th Elizabeth, and
not merely that portion which related to penalties. He
cunsidered the present enactment pregnant with the
greatest possible danger.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL defended the clause, which,
in fact, merely declared what the law was at present.
Mr. MORE O'FERRALL telt bound to withdraw his con-
fidence from the Government in consequence of the in-
troduction of this measure.
Mr. HATCHELL declared that Lord MANNERS, the
LORD CHANCELLOR of Ireland in 1809, had judi-
cially decided that the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops
could not be recognised by the territorial titles which
they assumed.
Mr. WALPOLE believed that but for the repeal of the
13th Elizabeth, and the clumsy manner in which that
repeal had been made, they would never have heard
of the Papal aggression.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM denied the right of Parliament to
interfere with the Bull, and described the Bill as a de-
claration of war against our Roman Catholic fellow-
countrymen.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL confessed that he felt very great
alarm at the language which had been used in this de-
bate. The difficulty in which they were involved arose
from the question whether the rescript of the POPE
really interfered with the sovereignty of this country, or
was intended to promote the spiritual interests of the
Roman Catholics. If the decision of this question was
to be left exclusively to the Roman Catholics them-
selves, it was evident that the Protestants of this
country must be entirely preoluden from as-
serting the rights of the Crown and the coun-
try against usurpation, as they had beau asserted by
their Catholic forefathers, and must be prepared to
allow their own course to be regulated most probably in
obedience to some dictum from Rome, issued in confor-
mity with the unchanged policy and unchangeable
powers of the Papal See. He contended that the line
which Ministers had felt themselves compelled to take
on this question was one that might well have been
taken in days when the Government and Legislature of
this country were wholly Roman Catholic, and that
what would not be submitted to by Prussia or Saxony
ought not to be submitted to by us. There were but
two alternatives. Either they must pronounce the Papal
rescript unlawful, as every lawyer in the House had
either admitted or maintained it to be, or they must sub-
mit to any Papal bull, rescript, or letter apostolical
which might be issued, however it might abuse the na-
tion, or violate the just authority of the Crown.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM had intended merely to say that,
in his opinion, spiritualities alone were affected by the
recent rescript.
Mr. MORE O'FERRALL knew that nothing had been
further from the intention of the POPE than to offer any
insult to the SOVEREIGN or the people of this country.
After a discussion, in which Mr. HoaßousE, Mr.
GRATTAN, and Mr. REYNOLDS, took part,
The Committee divided on the question, that the first
clause stand part of the Bill, when there appeared—.
For the clause ..- ... 244
Against it ... ... 62
Majority in favour of the clause... 182
The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill.
On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the CHAIR-
MAN reported progress, and asked leave to sit again on
Monday.
On the proposal that the Colonial Property Qualifica-
tion Bill be read a second time, an amendment was
moved that the s.-cend reading be po,tponed to a future
day. A short discussion ensued. The amendment was
lost by a majority of 72 to 31, and the Bill was read a
second time.
The remaining bu.ine•ts having been disposed of, the
House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock.

Some progress has at length been made in the
Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill. The subject
was last night, for the first time since its introduc-
tion, fairly debated. The discussion was conducted
according to the ordinary forms. A division was
taken on the first clause, which was carried by a ma-
jority of 182, there being 244 in favour of, and but
62 against, the clause. The Chairman then reported
progress, and the subject will again be taken into
consideration on Monday. This postponement, how-
ever, was not owing to any degree of factious oppo-
sition, or the Fabian policy, for which the Members of

" the Brigade" have recently acquired an unhappy

notoriety. It was adopted on the suggestion of the
First Lord of the Treasury, for the purpose of eco-
nomising the public time, and not of procrastination.
Many Hon. Gentlemen who gave the measure a ge-
neral support had given notice of amendments,
which, although of no great importance in them-
\ selves, might yet lead to considerable delay ; while
others suggested enactments of so stringent a cha-
racter that there was but little probability of their
being
badopte time should adopted. It was,hn dbe afforded t
therefore, esceedinog
persons
nofto:
thfull consideration, that l ythdeey-
-Birae that those
might
te m
rate steps, la Y °ugth ega
measure ure o h any hasty or inconside-
tfheythwe
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opponents
of the Bill, or
retardtivis!on last night proved that
1 to accelerate. The division
dh
there was no diminutiol
uo.f the Protestant feeling that
first published,
expressed when the
was so loudly and tale
obnoxious rescript wasch
andntate on the pre-
published, and the auda-
the independence
I •cious aggression of a fo •
rneoafrao:t those who known
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people..
rogatives of the Britisyh
participate in
the
Why,ofthe thßerni,tisshhounidatioano
there feelings allow themselves to be
-the hands of the minority, so as to diminishtathm
-weight justly belonging to the English proteste
;against the Papal invasion ? Why should they in
,any degree become parties to the unnecessary waste
:and consumption of the public time that has been so
loudly and :so justly complained of by the commu-
nity in general ? We trust that, on Monday, those
Jim Gentlemen will follow the example afforded by
'the Hon. and Learned Member for Midhurst, who im-
'mediately responded to the call of the P _ REIMER, by
statingthe course he intended to adopt in reference
' the important amendments of which he has given
motice.

We might almost venture to hope from the pro-
ceedings of last night that the obstructives had be-
tome sufficiently aware of the general tone of pub-
go opinion to see the folly and inutility of the sys-

Tamworth has- recently been the scene of one of
hose disgraceful incidents which, happily for the
credit of humanity, occur but seldom. At a very
limited distance -from the grave of the illustrious
statesman whose ashes are now reposing under the
village church of Drayton Bassett, within a mere
stone's throw of the house consecrated to his memory
by so many noble associations, in the very town-hall
where the eloquen t tones of his rhetoric have scarcely
ceased from vibresting, Sir ROBERT PEEL was
vilified by that miserable gang of Protectionists
who helped to swell, under his leadership, the
once respectable ranks of Conservatism. Against
a violation so peculiarly flagrant not only of the
common decencies of society, but even of the awe-in-
spiring sanctity of the tomb, the voice of the public at
large could not foil to be raised in the most solemn
and emphatic langf sage of indignation. But for this
instantaneous repui liation of the sentiments expressed
by these slanderers of departed greatness, we should
have been disposed to believe that the age of honour
had passed away, just as BURKE regarded the age of
chivalry as exti act because no sword leaped from
its scabbard in defence of Mame ANTOINETTE.
Surprise has bee a expressed by some at the violence
displayed upon tb e late disgraceful occasion down at
Tamworth, when the populace vented their fury by
an outbreak of a :rather serious description. Those,
however, who hes' in remembrance the peculiar na-
ture of the feeling's with which the name of the late
Prime Minister o f England is cherished by his
former tenantry, cannot view the warmth of their
enthusiasm in its regard with anything like astonish-
ment. Endeared t o them by so many recollections,
the friends and neifg ;hbours of a man so distinguished
could not listen wli 1, equauluiity to the abuse so in-
decorously directed against the reputation of Sir
ROBERT by his to rmer allies and supporters. No
wonder, therefore,. that in the first glow of their dis-
gust they were stir prised into a display of emotions
which subsequent reflection might not unreasonably
induce them to regret. Hurried away by the irre-
sistible forcel of their indignation, the people of
Tamworth forgot the example of the great
administrator Nvlaose name they were soli-
citous to def and from insult, and who,
under the irri teflon of the grossest obloquy
and of the most der ipicable vituperation, preserved on
all occasions an air of serene and imperturbable self-
possession. Had he himself survived to witness the
recent disturbance which has attracted general at-
tention towards a'stmworth, he would infallibly have
been the first to -protest against it as an act less
indicative of regar d for himself than of disloyalty to
the Constitution.
Nevertheless, vrtiile we regret the impulse which
so far mastered the judgment of the rioters as to
induce them for once to set at defiance all
the regulations of law and of order, we cannot
but admire the elev ating sentiments of indigination in
which this very fault may be said to have originated.
Neither can we do otherwise than exult in the reflec-
tion that the vitupe rotors of the deceased statesman
experienced the stare ngth of that wrath which their
indecent ribaldries against his name evoked from the
mass of his forme]: tenantry. Surely, as has been
observed already, surely, surely there was room
enough in the -United Kingdom to admit of
some less inappropriate spot being selected
for the display- of these execrable passions
than the very locality inhabited by the per-
sonal admirers of Sir ROBERT, and rendered sacred
by being the last resting place of his remains. The
circumstance of those sticklers for Protection having
deliberately assembled together in the Town-hall of
Tamworth for the express purpose of pouring out the
vials of their hatred and calumny under the shadow
of the very roof-tree where their quondam master had
lived, and almost 'within view of the revered place of
his sepulture, evidences on their part a callousness to
all the nobler and gentler faculties which dignify
humanity, such as transforms them at once into
objects of national disgust and abhorrence.
Nothing, we are satisfied, could be more distasteful
to the more respectable portion of the Protectionists
than the tone latterly adopted by the more disreput-
able members of the same party, especially moreover
in reference to the very subject here referred to,
namely, the late Sir ROBERT PEEL'S brilliant
and glorious reputation. To a gallant and
chivalric temperament like that of Lord STAN-
LEY, the language employed by such men
as Mr. G. F. YOUNG must necessarily prove
in the very highest degree offensive. To a
conscientious believer in the utility of the Corn-laws,

like Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, the brutalities
and the Billingsgate by which his arguments are
backed by the ruck of the agriculturists, must prove
in like manner equally distasteful and worthy of abomi-
nation. Earnestly should we rejoice to witness some
effort made by men of this class and character to vin-
dicate the cause they are solicitous to forward from
associations with any such detestable proceedings.
Some protest of the nature intimated is almost im-
peratively demanded from the leaders of the unruly
band of Protectionists.

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field,ae presented
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hour of ten nearly the whole corps had assembled on the
ground. Shortly afterwards Lient.-Colonel Fitzroy, attended
by other officers, entered the ground, when the national anthem
was performed by the baud of the company. The corps then
formed into line, and afterwards proceeded through their
various evolutions, discharging several royal salutes in
honour of the day. During the proceedings the band per-
formed several favourite airs.
ROYAL VISIT To THE CHINESE JUNE..—Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, at-
jtended by Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour, visited the Chinese
unk yesterday. Her Royal Highness devoted more than
one hour to a close inspec.zion of this most singular specimen
of naval architecture, and departed highly amused by the ex-
traordinary evolutions performed in her presence by the crew of this the first ChiLtese vessel which ever reached the
shores of Europe.