The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-09 00:00:00

Lieittenaut had to act with a liberal Beforming Govern-
ment, the very natural consequence was, that they were
Pulling two very different ways; but even though this was
the case, lie thought that between them they might
have avoided casting a stigma on the county of Lincoln.
He did not complain of the Noble Earl having retiree
from Stamford from the Saturday to the Monday. Being
a family man, no doubt the Noble Earl was very rigit—
(A though be hail to serve the Xing, that did
not exempt him from serving his family too ; and as Sa-
turday was a convenient sort of a clay, it was all vet.)
natural that he should have made choice of it to 7.'em.l his
way homeward—(Laughter)—but thoma:h there was this
justification fur the Colonel, there could be no doubt that
the militia had lost great opportunities of efficiency of
service by the additional alasence of the Lieutenant-Colonel,
who, having seen service all his life, and having been in
Portugal, Spain, and Waterloo, and he knew not where be-
sides, would, beyond all doubt, have been highly useful in the
way of illuminating the Lincoln militia ; and ne doubt it was
owing to the Hon. Gentleman's absence that the regiment
was as blindly ignorant of service on the last day of the
three weeks as they had been cc the first. Having said thus
much of the South Lincoln militia, be would new pass on
to the North Lincoln militia. He happened to be in the
neighbourhood. looking after some of his firma, and there-
fore could speak as to the impression made on him on see-
ing them going into Lincoln. All that he had seen were
parties of fenmen, going about six at a time towards the
city, and withal so blythe and frisky, that to him they
looked more like lively Emeralders than the sober men of
Lincolnshire. With respect to the Lieetenant-Colonel,
the thing for which he appeared best suited was to be a
member of the Charles-street Club, and about as much
might be said of the Adjutant. But ta return to his nar-
rative. From the time that the men came into Lincoln
nothing whatever happened, except that there was a mus-
ter (he believed) of the clergy and the cld women of the
place in the cathedral yard ; but of course, no harm came
from that. But though this was all that took place with
respect to either of the two regiments, to their great eur-
wise they !earned that, pursuant to a direction from Lord
Viscount Melbourne, they were to be disbanded before the
regular time, in consequence, as he felt justified in saying,
of the correspondence that had taken place between the
Lord Lieutenant and the Government. He thought-,
therefore, that in moving for a copy of this correslenndence,
it was nothing but what was fair and proper with the
view of discharging the county from that disgrace
which was now hanging over it, in consequence of the
sudden and unexplained disbanding of its militia force.
Ike expected that the Hon. and Gallant Member opposite
would reply to him, and he hoped that, when he did, be
would practise more courtesy than way usual with him—
that he would not inflict upon him a repetition of that
notice in which he called a county meeting—at which he
(Sir W. 1.) united with his constituents for a public ob-
ject—an assemblage of four hundred ragamuffins.—(A
lau:h.) He was in the habit of sitting growling and
grumbling like Etna, and than a crater would burst, and
out would come nothing but smoke and ruhbish.—(Great
laughter.)

HENEAGE seconded the motion.
Air. GEORGE LAMB would certainly resist the
prodnvtion of the correspondence on general grounds.

Colonel SIB fIIORPE said there was one matter that
he was in some degree bound to notice, namely, she charge
brought against him of having ahs,.-2nred himself during the
period of service. He trusted it was pretty well known
that that absence W 45 solely occasioned by illness. The
Hon. Baronet had that evening addressed the House upon
a subject with which he could not be supposed peculiarly
conversant ; lot if he had favoured them with a disquisi-
tion upon the tobacco trade, it would probably have proved
one on which it would have been in his power to have
afforded more information.

Mr. TENNYSON stated that it was not owing to
any conduct on the part of the inhabitants of Stamford
that the period of service was in any degree curtailed.
'The motion was then put, and negatived without a
division.

31r. HUNT postponed, for a fortnight, his motion
which stood on the paper, for certai❑ returns connected
with the Courts of Requests in the metropolis.
TITHES (IRELAND).
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Mr. STANLEY rose, pursuant to notice, for the pur-
pose of calling the attention of the House to the subject of
Iri•h Tithes. On the 6th December that H ruse, in com-
mon with the other House of Parliament, reel ived from
his Majesty a strong recommendation to take the subject
of tithes in Ireland into their immediate and most
attentive consideration. Is reply to that recommenda-
tion, the House signified they would consider it their
first duty to inquire if some important improve-
ment could not be effected in the law of Ireland, to
remove the evils arising out of the tithe system, or to pre-
vent the causes by tehich those evils were produced. In a
few ‘lays after that recommendation and answer had passed,
a Committee was appointed, and the subject thus referred
to that Committee engaged their most careful and labo-
rious investigation. As the Chairman of that Committee,
it had become his duty to report to the House, that though
the Committee had not been able to conclude their labours,
yet that they had proceeded far enough to he able ti lay
before the House some portion of the information which
they had acquired, and to call upon the House to take
such steps as, under the circumstances, might be necessary.
The Committee, then, having proceeded that length, it
became his duty to lay before the House the views which
his Majesty's Government entertain upon that question ;
but he thought the most convenient course would be that
be should submit those views to a Committee of the whole
House. He conceived it to he more convenient as afford-
ing wider scope for debate, and affording him a better op-
pertunity to explain and state the whole of the plan which
his Majesty's Government had resolved upon adopting, as
well as the resolutions upon which they intended it should
he founded. He, therefore, int,ndcil to conclude by
ninving, " That the House do then resolve itself into a
Committee of the whole House." To that course he an-
ticipated no opposition ; and, therefore, he should at once
move that the Speaker do leave the chair.
The question having been put,
Mr. BROWNLOW, from the notice of the Right Hon.
Gentleman as it stood on the paper, concluded that it was
his intention to open up the whole of the plan of the Go-
vernment before he made any such motion as that the
House do resolve itself into a Committee. The usual course
in ail such cases was that the Government should previously
state its plan to the House, move resolutions, and if neces-
sary afterwards go into a Committee. It was scarcely
fair to call upon Hon. Members to discuss a subject of
that sort i❑ Committee, the House being at the time in
perfect itnorance of the views and intentions of his Ma-
jesty's Government; for it was generally taken for granted
that when the House went int.") Committee, it stood
pledged at least to the princip'e of the resolutions proposed.
(No, no, and hear.) He recollected that that was the
practice pursued on the Catholic question, and that there-
fore precedent was altogether ageinst what had been pro-
posed by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He should resist the
proposition that the Speaker do leave the chair—at least
until the views of Government were clearly and fully stated
to them. In the absence of all such information as he had
a right to expect, he should certainly oppose the motion
on which they were then required to pronounce a decision,
He thought there was touch reason to deplore that the
Right Hon. Gentleman had called upon them to deal
with a partial report ; why should not the whole opinions
of the Committee be I,id before them, and why should
they not have the whole of the evidence on their table, be-
fore they were called upon to pronounce a decision ? He
protested against being thus called upon to deal with a
partial report; but he begged at the same time to have
distinctly understood that be held the parochial clergy of
Ireland to he fully entitled to the protection of the Legisla-
ture; at the same time it did appear to him that nothing
could be more absurd than to call upon that House to
legislate on a subject of that nature without once affording
the slightest information as to the position in which the
ineumhents were in relation to their congregations. He
was as ready as any man to admit that the parochial clergy
were not to blame ; but it was not enough to hive that
face before tlora—they should also have fully placed before
then► the condition of the tithe-payers. The clergy had
in a great number of instances urged their claims with
temper and moderation; but what did that tell of,the
condition of the tithe-payers? There could be no doubt
that matters had now proceeded to a fearful extent, and
yet it was rumoured that there were to be new laws
of coercion for the purpose of enabling the parochial
clergy to recover the arrears of their tithes. It really
did appear to him that no course could be more cal-
culated to aggravate the evils at present afflicting
Ireland than was the course which it was under-
stood the Right Hon. Geedeman proposed to pursue—it
would do anything but promote peace between the clergy-
man and his parishioners. Did any rational man suppose
that it would dry up the sources of that bad blood be-
tween the Rector and his congregation, which had been
the cause of so much misery in Ireland ? So far from
that, it would aggravate the difficulties and dangers of the
situation in which the clergy were placed, and prove in the
highest degree injurious to the interests of the Church
establishment. He would again repeat, that the clergy
were entitled to protection ; they had entered upon their
sacred profession upon the taith of being protected by the
law, and nothing but their own conduct could deprive
them of the benefit of that protection ; but if the Govern-
ment wished to secure to the Procestant clergy the g, od-
will of the people and the efficient protection of the lime,