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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 185

Mr. LAWLESS moved the adjournment of the debate—
s motion which was Fupporteti by Mr. MOORR.
Lord J. RUSSELL otjeuted to the further adjournment
of the &bate, wnich was negatived, upon a division, by
359 againq 46.

Mr. it Fox that moved the adjournment of the House
whercul.on

Lord J. RUSSELL consented to the debate being ad-
journed until this day.
Tt e other motions having been tone through, the
House adjourned at a Qadrter 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 overwh?lrniug 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 legis'ative 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 Lida Brigade has had an oppor-
tunity or 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 40—who
must have clearly seen the feeling of the
House when the first division disclosed a ma-
jority of 813 against the motion for adjournment—
persisting in repeated motions to the same effect, and
thus grossly abusing the power placed in their hands
for a very different purpose, in order to offer 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 has at length become a
perfect nuisance. It is absolutely intolerable that when
there is so much to be done, and the time for doing
it is so very limited, so many valuable days should
be wasted through the undue observance of those rules
which, though framed in a proper spirit for the pre-
veUtion 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 SPEAKER 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
calumniavr, we hastened to protest against a proceed-
ing so tit generous towards men who were, according
to our belief, iefiaenced exclusively by feelings of nip-
gled b-nevolence and inagnatninity. Our confidence
we are ready to acknowledge was implicit
in the largeness of scope desirable upon
every similar occaiion ; and we felt satis-
fied that no proket of a nature so pecu-
liarly beneficent in is 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-
clalty, and this, moreover, in spite of all that bas
been uttered in a sinister manner to its disparagement.
What we trusted might have proved under proper
tend:drUZ
management an enterprise worthy of the send-
-111%1'4 in which it originated, and not altogether
promote, is
alreadygreat cbaeugsienainigt
to wasasauimne-
up for the gatirt.of
to itself the ,„ .
that half-a-doze:4°n an exclusive entertainment, got
of a narrow eircie, to the end
hour upon the sta egefiatlemen may strut their little
evyttiar ithe amusement of the Court
it must bneic:oenleassesed
and their own
ification.
an
any cir-
cumstancesthat an amateur per-
formance, in ninety_
triehmeshoollit o.f. every hundred,
is nothing less than a
rate And fatuous absurdity.
there-
fore, would the lamentable character
demonstration be enhanced, if we
the QUEEN and her attendant /
the spectators, and some of the
More
display of delibe-
nobles
ofcan any' such
particularly •
_e_ of the living cultivators of literature
among dimagineamo
moat disti!
among the lucklesa group of the dramatis persona.
Whether it may have been with a view to restrict the
possibility of criticism, or, on the other band, to impart
to the proceedings a miserable semblance of aristo.
cratic exclusiveness, it appears that the conductors of
the undertaking have assumed to themselves the pri-
vilege of distributing among their literary contem-
poraries insults of a rather gratuitous description,
heightened, moreover, by an affectation of couftesy
and. the w Pro
Ile of_ a bribe,
pre-
sume it was imagined -
that a very natural fee
lug of badigh .
a by. which. we
tion could be propitiated. Inateid

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
brutuin fulmels.

Mr. Wxoc.PnossNit denied that the Quzzx's prero-
gative had been attacked by the See of Rome.
Mr. CAMPBELL thought it would be better to reserve
further cialcussion until the House should be in Com-
mittee.

Mr. TRELAWNY and Mr. P. HOWARD opposed the Bill.
The LORD ADVOCATE isid that the people of Scot-
land felt the dt (pest ir.digriatiun at the attempt to re-
orgatrze a Charon which had been in abeyance for three
cen tu. The language of the rescript was like that of
a conqueror, and it was necessary to organize measures
of dfteneo ',gamin such an aggre4sion.
Mr. REYNOLDS coubidered the use -of the word toles.
tion, when used by one British subj•-ct to another, as
most otf. Lyve. Be denied the existence of &,ny Euro-
Lean conspiracy, because had any sun existed it must
have been known to the Roman Catholic prelates of
Ireland.

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air. WHITESIDE, in a first speech, defended the Bill, in
which the Prot ebttants of his country, be said, took a deep
in!erest. The relations of this country and Ireland towards
the POPS Were at this moment of a peculiar and almost
unprecedented nature. He had reminded the English
p-ople of the happy dais they had enjoy, d when JAMES
Was upon the throne, and he bad announced his deter-
mination to reunite England to the Sourish Church.
Describing the recent proceedings of the Court of Rome
towards Ireland, esp,cially with reference to the col-
leges—every step of which, he observed, required the
attention of the House—Mr. WHITESIDS accused the
POl.ll of doing an unexampled act in the appointment of
Archbishop CULLEN, in order to acquire a domination
over the It.}man Catholics of Ireland. and to govern
them according to his will and that of the Propagßnda,
He then adverted to the next step, the assembling of the
Synod of Thurles—an extraordinary transaction, he
said, and illegal throughout, for it was convened under
the edict of the POPE, with the view of putting in circu-
lation the Papal reseripts. In connexion with these pro-
cEediegs, he °barged Lord CLARENDON with not up-
holding and enforcing the law, thereby offering en-
couragement to Papal encroachment; and he concluded
with an animated reply to the speeches of Mr. BRIGHT
and Mr. KEOGH.