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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1845.

The Douse or Lords did not sit.

The Commons mot at Four.

Mr. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on the second reading
of the Maynooth Bill be should move to limit the grant
to three years.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice of an amendment to
Lord Joan RUSSELL'S resolutions on the state of the
country, calling the attention of the House to the consi-
deration of the propriety of extending the suffrage
The third reading of the Maynooth Bill was fixed for
Monday, May 19, and the debate on Lord J. RUSSELL'S
motion on the state of the country, was fixed for May 26.
Sir R. PEEL promised to state his plan with regard
to Provincial Colleges in Ireland before the Holidays.
Mr. WATSON, at the request of Sir J. GRAHAM, post-
poned the second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief
Bill to the 28th May.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE consented to the discharge of
the order for the second reading of the Arrestment of
Wages (Scotland) Bill, on the understanding that the
LORD-ADVOCATE would take up the subject, and that
there should be no arrestment of wages except upon ex-
ecution.

The Canal Companies Tolls Bill, and the Cana]
Companies Carriers Bill, were respectively read a se.
cond time.

The Common Law Process Bill was read a first time,
and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Six o'Clock.

The commotion excited in Great Britain against the
Maynooth grant has been responded to in Ireland, and
bids fair to widen the breach between Protestants and
Catholics, and render the Union a curse rather than a
blessing. Every friend of peace, every lover of his
country must lament the result, because a separation
would be one of the greatest calamities that could WO
the two islands ; and the next to it would be a union
maintained at the point of the bayonet. Should this re-
ligious war be carried on much longer, these are the only
two alternatives to which rational men can look, and the
prospect certainly is sufficiently dismal. When we are
threatened by the United States, when the war
party in France are only waiting for the death of
Louis PHILIPPE and the return of M. THIERS, the
mortal enemy of England, to office, we are torn by
internal dissensions, and sowing the seeds of a civil war.
If any feasible object were in view—if Protestantism
could be made ultimately triumphant, and the Catholic
religion banished from the country--there might be some
rational ground for the attempt ; but all history, the test
of three hundred years, the increase of the Catholic popu-
lation in Ireland, the hopelessness of making proselytes,
by persecution, and the unanimity which prevails
among statesmen of every party against ruling
Ireland by force, leaves not the slightest chance that
such a result could be attained. The speech of Sir R.
PEEL, OR introducing the measure, and the cordial sup-
port which be received from the Opposition, and also
many staunch Conservatives, diffused a general joy
throughout the sister island, but the loud clamour now
raised against it, mixed with cries of "No Popery,"
and the marked hostility to the Irish nation displayed
in so many quarters, have destroyed the bright pros.
pects of millions, and rendered this healing measure the
cause of only more bitter enmity between the two
countries. Mr. O'CoNNELL is roused to madness
by this unexpected insult ; his ardent feelings are
shared by the whole body of the repeaters, and
it is needless to say that the priests and the people
will follow in the train. What else could be expected?
Never was so grievous an injury from so mean a cause
inflicted on a brave people. They are treated as aliens,
their religion is described as idolatrous and damnable,
and they are not even allowed the privileges of Canada
or the most contemptible colonial possession. The
expressions used by an Irish Catholic clergyman
feel-
ings of his countrymen. `gain'lTanohndegedvulerirnitsrlg,m"
in a letter to Mr. O'CoxNELL are in unison with the
as
ete ye. hEa es
Every
myw oho ninet
one,
havehave st:tktleend tphleaeqeueinstioEnn
even the most apathetic, has been alarmed and
aroused to a sense of national duty, anddespair p
any measure of justice from England has sunkdre of
into every heart." And in another place—" Much
g)
has been said about the gratitude we owe
fo
the grant to Maynooth, but I confess that I for
one
r
(and I am joined in the sentiment by the priests and
people of this diocese) feel no gratitude whatever. In
the fiat place, our own energies and determination
wrung that paltry sum from a bigoted and and anti-
Irish Cabinet ; nor shall we ever thank the rich glutton
when he disdainfully flings us the crumbs from his
table. Secondly, the grant is so miserablein amount, that
it Vltiho looks uPouja uo other light thou u s Diner

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