The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-14 00:00:00

" OUR LADYE" CHAPEL.

Mr. Alderman WOOD moved the second reading of
the Lond4n-bridge Approaches Bill.
Mr. BRISCOE said he had been requested to call the
attention of the Hou a 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 previous to the Bill going into Committee. He had
no desire to oppose the second reading of this Bill, but
he wished for a short delay, in order that the necessary
evidence could be adduced to support a case in favour of
granting the open space in front of that chap,-1,
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
Alderman WooD dissented from the proposition of
granting the delay.] Then he felt bound to state his ob-
jections. He referred to a drawing of the building and
the ground, and said that all that was wanted was a
frontage 01130 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. He 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. Alartin's churches.
In this case it was intended on the land opposite to the
chapel to build a colonnade, and therefore by having time
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 olijntion 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 was granted ;
then 60, and last of all '7O 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 be impeded.
After a few words from Mr. C. PELIIA3I,
Mr. HUNT said it appeared to him that the Bill had
nothing whatever to do with the Southwark side of the
bridge.

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

reading.
Mr. BRISCOE then withdrew his oppcsition, 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
be 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 from the county
of Westmeath, praying for the discontinuance of the grant
to Maynooth College, and deprecating the mutilation of
the Bible.

Colonel ROCHFORT 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 had been 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 feeling, or otherwise, a determination was
come to for the purpose of thwarting the experiment that
was now making, that opposition might be successful,
and the children would be separated, but the most alarm-
ing evils would undoubtedly be the result. The great
evil of the Kildare-street Society was, that it gave the
Protestant landlord an excuse for forcing the consciences
of his Catholic tenantry.
Mr. SHAW would make no distinction 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 rnost decidedly objected
upon that principle to the plan which had been promul-
gated by Ministers in reference to education. There
was no real, genuine, ❑npolitical 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.

CHOLERA.
Mr. CROKER wished to ask a question of the Right
Hon. Gentleman opposite, on the cholera. Reports
had come to his ear, that that destructive and alarm-
ing scourge had at length reached the metropolis.
He
was satisfied that the only means of preserving public
tranquillity
was by having no mystery on the subject. For
the purpose of giving the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite
an ?pportunity of making a satisfactory statement on the
subject, he wished now to ask this question.
Mr. POULETT THOMSON said that intimation
had been undoubtedly rec,iv( (I of ten cases of a
highly suspicious nature, and that by medical in-
vestigation these suspicions bad been confirmed. It was
deemed prudent and necessary to give the e irliest and latest
information on the subject through the medium of the
public
received at the Board of Health upon the subject had
Prints ; and be believed the whole information
been introduced in this evening's newspapers. He would
take this opportunity of stating that every precaution had
been used by the appointment of district inspectors, and the
nomination of physicians, to communicate with the Board
of Health, and with the different parish authorities, for the
purpose of preventing as much as possible the progress of
the disease.
Mr, CHOKER took the liberty of suggesting the great