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subject shall take place, I wish it should take place with that
protest nil My part of what I our sure was the object of the
late Government, and of a great majority of both Houses of
Parliament - to resent an insult on the Crown, and in no way
to interfere with the exercise of religion—(Hear, b,2ar )
and I may state here, that independently of that dispositt'al
which ncy Noble Friend late at the head of the Govern-
ment naturally felt in his intercourse with the Noble Earl
and his Right Honourable Friend on this subject, he was
prepared, independently of that wish, to make such altera-
tion in that Bill which, while it attained its object of a
distinct declaration against that foreign invasion, should at
the same time remove any misapprehension which might
possibly be entertained in this country or in Ireland, as to
its possible effect on the exercise of the Roman Catholic re-
ligion and the full enjoyment of every Roman Catholic pri-
vilege by those authorities by whom alone the Roman Ca.
tholic religion can be carried on. Ido not wish to go into
the various topics to which the Noble Lord opposite (Lord
Stanley) has referred, but my Noble Friend near me re•
minds me of one point upon which it is necessary to correct
a misapprehension, a misbelief rather, on the part of the
Noble Lord. The Noble Lord said there was strong reason
to suppose that, independently of the want of support of the
other House of Parliament, other considerations had pre-
vailed with the late advisers of her Majesty in the course they
had taken of resigning. I beg to say it was entirely owing
to that want of support, as evinced, not upon one occasion,
or of an accidental vote which took place at an early hour
in another House—it was a general absence of that support
in the other House, and no difference of opinion amongst our-
selves, which induced us to take that course.—(Hear.)
Lord; STANLEY—What I said was, I could not divest
myself of the opinion that, independently of the two circum-
stances referred to, namely,—the smallness of the majority on
Mr. Disraeli's motion, and the subsequent defeat on Mr.
Locke King's motion, there were other questions upon which
the difficulties were so great,—the fear of opposition from
their own supporters was so great that, independently of
thcse two questions of Papal aggression and the Budget, it
had largely entered into their consideration in inducing the
Noble Lord to resign,—an event that took place so suddenly
that, if I am not mistaken, the Noble Marquis was out of
town at the time; the Noble Earl near him, if I am not mis-
taken, received the information while he was in the City that
the Cabinet of which he was a member no longer existed—
(A laugh)—and the Noble Earl the Lord Privy Seal, al-
though a near relative of the Noble Lord, was as little ac-
quainted with the intention of the Cabinet as he was with the
Pope's intention—(Great laughter)—and that the Noble
Lord, when he wrote to the Queen announcing his intention
to resign, had not consulted his Noble Relative.—(Hear).
After a few words from the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in
which he merely stated that he was out of town at the time
referred to by the Noble Lord,
Their Lordships adjourned.