The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-13 00:00:00

MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

The Deputy IT,her of the Black Rod appeared at the
Bar, and summoned the Howe to attend the House of
Lords, to bear the Royal Assent given by Commission to
several Bills. The Speaker and several Members left the
House, and shortly returned, when the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman read a list of the Bills to which the Royal Assent
had been given.
" OUR LADYE" CHAPEL.

Mr. Alderman WOOD moved the second reading of
the Lontlon-l.ridge Approaches Bill.
Mr. BRISCOE said he had bee❑ requested to call the

attention of the House to a circumstance of some importance
which had lately excited great public notice; he alluded to
" Our Ladye" Chapel, in Southwark, and he was required
to ask the Hon. Member to consent to a delay of three
weeks previaus to the Bill going into Committee. He had
no desiie to oppose the second reading of this Bill, but
he wished for a short delay in order that the necessary
evidence could he adduced to support a case in favour of
granting the open space in front of that chapel,
that that fine edifice might be fully seen by
the public. It was originally stated by Mr. Rennie,
the architect of the bridge, that the building ought
to be restored ; but would the House believe
that it was the intention of the London Bridge Com-
mittee to build on the ground in front of it, and so to
shut it out from public view. If he were not al-
lowed the delay he sought for, he felt himself called
upon to oppose the second reading of the Bill. [Mr.
Alderman Wood dissented from the proposition of
granting the delay.] Then he felt bound to state iiie ob-
jections. He referred to a drawing of the building and
the ground, and said that all that was wanted was a
frontage of 130 feet, a portion of which b longed to the
church, and he knew that in the Committee he could

make out a case for granting that space. ad-
verted to the great expense to which the public had
gone in opening other fine edifices to the public view, and
particularly instanced St. Bride's and St. Martin's churches.
Iu this case it was intended on the land opposite to the
chapel to build a colonnade, and therefore to have the chapel
within the public view the appearance of the street would
be greatly improved.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said the Hon. Member had
taken the House entirely by surprise in stating such
grounds of objection to the Bill. This Bill had no refer-
ence to the Southwark side of the water, but was to
enable the Bridge Committee to make a street from the
bridge to the Bank of England. Regarding the chapel
alluded to, the Committee had complied with the
requests that had been made to them ; a space
of 50 feet had at first been asked, which were granted,
then 60, and last of all 70 feet, were required, and the
Committee had given 70 feet, of which nothing but an
Act of Parliament could deprive them. He hoped the
House would not stop the progress of this Bill, otherwise
a great public improvement would he impeded.
After a few words from Mr. C. Pxr.HAM,
Mr. HUNT said it appeared to him that the Bill had
nothing whatever to do with the Southwark side of the
bridge.

Sir H. INGLIS suggested the propriety of allowing
the Bill to be read a second time, fur the purpose of
enabling its merits to be gone into in Committee; and if
the Hon. Member for Surrey still continued his objections,
it was competent for him to divide the House on the third
reading.

Mr:BRISCOE then withdrew his opposition, observ-
ing that nothing of a personal nature had induced him
to oppose the second reading_ of the Bill. He wished to
know whether the Hon. Member for Preston had seen the
Bill.

Mr. HUNT observed that he had not.
Mr. D. GILBERT trusted the Bill would be allowed
to he read a second time.

Mr. BRISCOE rose, but the cries of " Spoke, spoke,"
resounding from all parts of the House, the Hon. Member
refrained from addressing it.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be
committed.
Mr. CONOLLY presented a petition frdm the county
of Westmeath, praying for the discontinuance of the grant
to M.tyr,ooth College, and deprecating the mutilation of
the Bible.

Colonel ROCIIFORT supported -the prayer of the
petition.
Mr. O'CONNELL did not believe that Government
could have acted with more discretion and sound judgment
than by making the plan of education common as they had
done in Ireland. There bad bee❑ no mutilation of the
Scriptures; and if there existed against the plan any con-
scientious Protestant scruple, he was ready to treat it
with that respect which was due to it. If, however,
through party feelsng or otherwise, a determination was
come to for the purpose of thwarting the experiment that
was now making, that opposition might he successful,
and the children would he separated, but the most alarm-
ing evils would undoubtedly be the result. The great
evil of the Ki'dare•street Society was, that it gave the
Protestant I indlord an excuse for forcing the consciences
of his Catholic tenantry.

Mr. SHAW would make no distinctiom between Ca•

tholics and Protestants upon political grounds, but a great
and most important difference was to be observed as re-
spected religion ; and he therefore most decidedly obj,cted
upon that principle to the plan which had been promul
gated by Ministers in teference to education. There
was no real, genuine, unpolitical Protestant of Ireland
that had not determined to resist it. The Bible was
the only basis and standard of education ; and by the new
system it was mutilated, if not completely shut out from the
schools.