The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-20 00:00:00

IRISH TITHES.

Lord SKEL ME RSDALE presented petitions from Preston
and Kirkombe against the Irish Tithe Bill.
Petitions to the same effect were presented by the Earl of
BANDON from Dublin, from Temple Martyr, in the county
of Waterford ; from Bandon, county of Cork ; Killown, in
the same county; and the Grand Jury of the county Cork.
The Earl of CARBERRY presented petitions in support
of the Irish Church, and proceeded at some length to point
out the inconveniences, moral and religious, which would
result from the contemplated suppression of Irish Church
livings. The clergymen were the best friends of the lower
classes, and he would add, of the Roman Catholic peasantry.
The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from a
Society residing in London to the same effect.
The Bishop of EXETER moved for a Return of the in-
comes of the Parochial Clergy of the dioceses of Clonfert and
Kilrnacduagh, in Ireland. lie hoped there would be no objec-
tion to it, as a similar return, on a mere extensive scale, had
been moved for, and obtained by the Noble Marquis the Presi-
dent of the Council.

Viscount DUNCANNON objected to these Returns on the
ground that the Returns already made would answer every pur-
pose required. Independently of this they would be produc-
tive of great inconvenience and expense.
Lord H ATHERTON said these returns could not be made
in time to be made use of in the discussion on the Irish Church
Bill.

The Bishop of EXETER did not know by what authority
the Noble Baron (Hatherton) made that statement, but ho
would put no faith in his predictions, and thought it unfair of
him to interfere with the granting of these Returns.
Lord HATHERTON explained.
Viscount DUNCANNON had no objections to the Re-
turns being moved for, if the Right Rev. Prelate persevered in
his motion.

The motion was then put and agreed to.
The Dille of CUMBERLAND presented a petition from
the Senior and Junior Fellows of the Uuiversity of Dublin,
praying for protection to thy Estp.blisheci Church in Ireland,
and praying that the Irish Chu:ch Bill might not pass into a
law.

Lord PLUNKETT was acquainted a good deal with the
College from which the petition emanated, and begged to say
that a similar petition had been set on foot some time since,
which the governing body of the University had vary properl)
put a stop to, and he regretted that an appeal had been made
from them to the junior members of the University. He de-
precated the circumstance of a college, established for the pur-
pose of national education, mixing itself up in the party feuds
and political broils by which the country was at present agi-
tated. It was well known that Orange Lodge:, existed in
that University.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND considered that the Uni-

versity, as a Protestant Establishment,- had-a Tight to express
its sentiments upon so important a subject as that which wa•;
at present under discussion, and which so vitally affected the
stability of the Established Church in Ireland,--( Hear, hear.)
He knew not whether Orange lodges existed in that Univer-
sity or not, but this he would say (and he cared not how he
might be calumniated) that he had never sanctioned the esta-
blishment of Orange Lodges in the University of Dublin.—
( Hear.)
The Earl of WICKLOW was astonished at the state-
ments just made by the Protestant Lord Chancellor
of a Protestant King, that a Protestant University had
no right to express their sentiments upon a measure so
detrimental to the interests of that religion.—(Cheers.) The
Noble Earl then presentel petitions from various parishes
in Meath and Wicklow against the Irish Church Bill.
The Earl of GLENGALL presented several petitions to the
same effect.

Lord VERUL AM presented a petition in favour of the
Bill for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt.
Viscount MELBOURNE presented a petition in favour of
the Municipal Reform Bill, and took that opportunity of stat-
ing that he had received a letter from Mr. Wood, one of
the Municipal Commissioners, denying the statements which
were given in evidence at the Bar of their Lordships' House,
relative to his conduct as a Commissioner.

Lord TE YNH AM gave notice that on the bringing up of
the Report on the Municipal Corporations Bill, he should
move that the amendments made by their Lordships to clause
23, giving a qualification to the Municipal officers, be abrogated.
He thought in so doing, he would be best discharging his
duty to the public, which was at the present moment in a
state of the greatest excitement relative to this measure.
The Bishop of HERE FORD presented a petition in favour
of the Islington Market Bill.