The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-02 00:00:00

MILITIA PAY BILL.

After a conversation, in which Col. Wood, Lord John Rus-
sell, Sir Henry Harding°, Col. Sibthorp, and Lord Howick
took part, this Bill was committed.
The Shannon Navigation Bill was read a third time, and
passed.
The Tithe Instalment Suspension was committed.
IRISH CLERGY.

Mr. HUME intended to have put a question to the Noble
Lord the Secretary for the Home Department, respecting the
payments to the Irish Clergy, had he been present. He
thought that the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, in this
transaction, was open to great censure, and he did not think
that the Irish clergy deserved the indulgence extended to them
in this measure.

Sir H. H A RDINGE had never heard a more unjust or
illogical proposition than that which had just fallen from the
Hon. Member for Middlesex. Because the House of Lords,
in the exercise of their discretion, had chosen not to pass a
Bill which the ion. Member thought ought to have been
passed, he urged his Majesty's Government to set the Attor-
ney-General to exact from the Irish clergy that which they
had never received. The clergy were not the parties who had
benefitted by the measure in question. That measure was in
point of fact a boon to the Irish landowners. The Right
Hon: Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) might in
his opinion very well dispense with the Bill under the conside-
ration of the House altogether. It was merely a Bill of in-
demnity to the Government, in the event of their not acting
upon the Act of 1833.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in the
whole course of his Parliamentary career, had never known a
greater blunder committed than bad been committed by the
Right Hon. and Gallant Officer who had just sat down, in
calling the measure before the House a Bill of Indemnity.
How was it possible correctly to designate as a Bill of Indem-
nity, a measure which was only prospective in its nature,
which contained restraining clauses as to giving effect to a
certain Act of Parliament, or certain provisions of an Act,
which had not yet come into operation, but which had no re-
ference whatever to past occurrences.—( Hear.) He called
upon all Gentlemen who wished for a settlement of the
Irish tithe question, not only upon that ground but for the sake
of justice, that the innocent might not be crushed in eonse-
quence of the acts of others, who with the view of befriending
them had really been their bitterest foes. The great bulk of
the clergy of Ireland, he was satisfied, were in favour of the
measure for their relief which had been thrown out elsewhere.
—( Hear, hear.) He for one should have been in favour of it
if he had been a minister of that Church. —( Cheers from the
Conservative benches.) He would take the liberty of telling
those who cheered him why—it was because he should not
only have a personal interest in the measure, but that the in-
terests of the Church were promoted by it, in whose welfare
he had a mire direct interest than ever in the promotion of his
own personal advantage.—( Hear.) He would take leave to
tell the Right Hon. and Gallant Officer that the measure
thrown out elsewhere was brought forward with a view to the
permanent security of the Protestant Church of Ireland. He
would venture to say that he could foresee the time, at no dis-
tant period, when justice would be done to the motives by which
his Majesty's Government had been actuated with reference to
this measure. He could foresee the day when the general
policy and whole course of their proceedings in favour of the
Irish Church would be recognised as just and proper, and As