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street Chapel, Leighton, Bedfordshire ; Down
Altringhain ; Willingham, Cambridgeshire ; Bed-
minster, Dorsetshire ; Ascott, Oxfordshire ; Oak-street,
Accrington, Lancashire ; Hartlepool, Durham ;
Pately Bridge, Yorkshire ; Shipston, Oxfordshire ;
Zoar Chapel, Neath, Glamorganshire ; Godney Hill,
Lincolnshire ; Sutton St. Edmonds, Lincolnshire ;
Edington Aston,lnear Birmingham; Hallaton Hawston ;
Milton, Oxfordshire • Bethesda Chapel, Forest-row,
Sussex; Tunbridge Wells; Ashwell, Hertfordshire; Chad-
lington, Essex ; Providence Chapel,Throwley, Devonshire;
Shilton, Leicestershire ; Nairn, Scotland ; Beerford, Ox-
fordshire ; Havant, Hampshire ; Baptists, Wandsworth ;
Heasham, Derbyshire ; Whitefriars-lane, Coventry ;
St. Clement's, Norwich ; Downton, Wiltshire ; St.
Mellon, Monmouthshire ; Fishguard, Gloucestershire ;
Old Lampford, Essex ; Dublin ; Kingiland, Mid-
dlesex ; Wesleyan Methodists, Ramilton, Done-
gal • Skibbereen, Cork ; Ballinasloe, Galway ; Clough-
jordan, Tipperary ; Ballyshannon, Donegal ; Far-
ringdon, Berkshire ; Petigo, Donegal ; Cwm, Avon;
Michaelstone, Glamorganshire ; Bromsgrove ; James
Cameron, minister, Dumfries ; Calvinistic Methodists,
Hay, Brecon ; Forest, Brecon ; Teachers of Sunday-
Schools, Carnarvon, North Wales ; Leighton, Bedford-
shire; Hallaton; Oak-street Sunday-School, Accrington.
Lord BERNARD presented petitions from Brandon
and from several parishes in the county of Cork against
the Bill for the endowment of the College of Maynooth,
and also against the system of national education.
Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented petitions against
the Maynooth grant, and also against the Parochial Set-
tlement Bill.
Lord ALFRED LENNOX presented a petition from
a congregation assembled at Providence Chapel, Chi-
chester, against the Bill for the endowment of May-
nooth.
Mr. DARBY presented a petition from the Wes-
leyans of Slough to the same effect.
Lord NORTHLAND presented a petition from the
town of Southampton against the Maynooth grant.
Petitions against the grant were also presented by Mr.
Hastie, Mr. Turner, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Buckley, Sir
John Hanmer, Mr. Bright, Mr. Octavius Duncombe,
Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Shaw, Colonel Sibthorp, Mr. M. Gib-
son, and several other 11( nourable Members.
The Earl of MARCH presented a petition against the
Parochial Settlement Bill.
Petitions against the grant to Maynooth were pre-
sented by Mr. S. Crawford from Fifeshire and other
placcs, Mr. Stansfield, Mr. S. O'Brien, Mr. Blewitt, Dr.
Bowring, Mr. Williams, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Newde-
gate, Mr. Gisborne, Mr. Adderley, Mr. J. Neeld, Mr.
Wodehouse, and Mr. Duncombe.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the
colliers of Northumberland, complaining of the state
of the collieries in that county, and praying for inquiry.
Petitions against the grant to Maynooth were pre-
sented by Mr. Howard, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr.
Villiers Stewart, and other Hon. Members.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented several petitions against
the West Riding Junction Railway.
JUSTICES' CLERKS BILL.
Mr. T. EGERTON presented a petition against this
Bill by the justices of the county of Chester.
MAYNOOTH.
Lord HARRY VANE presented several petitions in
favour of the grant to Maynooth.
Mr. ENTWISLE peesented several against it.
Mr. HAWES presented seven petitions from places in
Surrey, against the grant to Maynooth.
Mr. TANCRED gave notice that, on going into Com-
mittee upon the Maynooth College Bill, he would move
that it be an instier4tion to the Committee to make
an assessment on the land in Ireland equivalent to the
reduction made by the Tithe Commissioners, and upon
any surplus in the hands of the Commissioners, for the
purposes of the Maynooth College Act.
SIR H. POTTING ER.
31.. HUME postponed to this day fortnight the mo-
tion of which he had given notice for this day respecting
the services of Sir H. Pottinger-
POOR-LAW (IRELAND).
Sir R. FERGUSON moved for a return, giving the
date of the formation of each union under the Poor
Relief Act in Ireland ; the date of the first admission of
the poor ; the expense (prepared from the audited ac
aunts) in each first and each subsequent half year for
which the accounts have been audited, with the sums
paid for maintenance and clothing in the first co-
lumn ; those paid for the proportion of establish-
ment charges, repayment of workhouse loan, collec-
tion, burial and all other expenses, in the second; and in
the third, the total expense, the number relieved in each
workhouse in each half-year, the average number re-
lieved half-yearly, the average cost per head per week
for maintenance and clothing in each half-year, and the
date at which each half-year ended, and marking the
half-years in which instalments of the workhouse loans
have been paid. Return, giving the names of the unions
in Ireland in which the provisions of the Act 6 and 7 Vic.
c. 92, have been acted on in respect of fever patients, spe-
cifying the cases in which the Poor Law Commissioners
have sanctioned, first, the appropriation of a part of the
workhouse for a fever hospital ; or, secondly, the build-
ing of a fever ward, its distance from the nearest point
cf the workhouse, the number it is calculated to contain,
the cost of it, and in what manner the money is ob-
tained ; or, thirdly, the hiring of a house, the number
it will contain, and the rent thereof. Also, a return o
the number of fever patients relieved under the 15th
and of those relieved under the 16th clause of the above.
named Act, and the average weekly cost
..01 each.-
Ordered.

SHERIFFS—SCOTLAND.
Mr. HUME then moved for a return of the number of
days in the years 1842. 1843, and 1844, on which each
sheriff, in Scotland (excepting those f r the counties of
Lanark and Mid-Lothian), officiated as judge in his
county Court, and whether the nature of the business
was civil or criminal, or both, each day. Similar separate
return fur each of the counties respectively of Lanark
and Mid-Lothian.—Ordered.
THE MAYNOOTH GRANT.
Colonel SIBTHORP moved that there be laid before
this House a return of the numbers of petitions that
have been presented for and against the present pro-
posal on the part of her Majesty's Government, of an
increased grant out of the Consolidated Fund to the Col-
lege of Maynooth in Ireland, with the number of signatures
annexed thereto ; distinguishing, where possible, Ist,
those petitions which object in toto to all endowment of
any religious worship ; 2d, those petitions which obtect
to any grant of any kind to Maynooth ; 3d, those peti-
tions which object to the mersure of her Majesty's Go-
vernment. The above return to be made up to Friday,
the 18th day of Apra—Ordered.
Mr. THORNELY said that, as Chairman of the
Committee to whom petitions were referred, he begged
to inform the Hon. and Gallant Colonel that reports
were made twice a week to the House of the number of
petitions and the number of signatures attached to them.
On Tuesday last the Committee made its last report, and the
number of petitions up to that date presented against the
Maynooth grant were 671, to which there were attached
88,378 signatures. A further rt►port would be made at
the proper period, but it would be perfectly impracticable
to comply with the Hon. and Gallant Member's motion
before that time arrived.
Colonel SIBIITORP—What can't be done can't be
done.—(Laughter.) The Hon. and Gallant Officer then
withdrew his motion.

CALICO PRINT WORKS BILL.
Lord ASHLEY, on going into Committee on Calico
Print Works Bill, moved that it be an instruction to
the Committee, that they have power to extend the pro-
visions of the Bill to the regulation of the labour of
young persons and women, and to all print works, and
to the processes incidental to the labour in print works.
—Agreed to.
The Bill was then re-committed to Wednesday next,
and ordered to be printed.

Petitions against the BiIIMAYNOOTIL were presented by Mr.
Protheroe, Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Henley.
THE ADJOURNED DEBATE.
The question having been put by the Speaker,
Mr. C. BRUCE said that when the question was first
introduced to the House, he felt it his duty, in com-
pliance with the feelings of his constituents to express
his own convictions regarding the measure. Ile op.
Fused this Bill on that occasion both on principle
and on the ground of expediency. He would ever sup-
port to the utmost of his power the Protestant religion.
The title to the British Crown rested upon it. The
rights of liberty rested upon it ; and under its protection
our national greatness—witness our prospects and our
pre-eminence in learning, in the arts and sciences, in ma-
nufactures and commerce—had been created. Under
its protection this country had attained its present glo-
rious position. Its roots were imbedded in the firm soil
of English hearts, and in the consciences and convictions
of the Scottish people. Like the oak of England, the
storm passed over it and harmed it not. It might echo
through its branches, and scatter its green leaves to the
winds, but after the storm had passed over, it stood aloft
in the glory of its position and the magnificence of its
strength. Like the meteor flag of England, its banner
had braved fur upwards of 300 years " the battle and the
breez'." Because the favour of God was upon
it. He who alone governed the destinies of nations,
and who was greater than all the world in arms.
He feared that the Right Hon. Gentleman had forgotten
the principles which were inculcated in their common
Alma Mater. The course" of his Right Hon. Friend's
vision seemed to be dimmed. Time was when he (Mr.
C. Bruce) had learned from him that the principle the
Government was now advocating was wholly visionary.
The seminary of Mayusoth would be a thorn in the
side of this country, as long as it continued. Such bad
been the dictum of the Right Hon. Gentleman and his
arguments and reasoning had convinced many ; but his
Right Hon. Friend had now made the discovery that the
principle was only vicious because it had not been prac-
tically carried out, and they were now given to under-
stand that it only wanted the endowment of the Catholic
clergy of Ireland to effect that improvement.
Mr. GLADSTONE—No, no.

Mr. C. BRUCE was glad to hear that his Right Hon.
Ffiend did not hold the doctrine of venial and mortal
sin as propounded by the Church of Rome. The Raman
Catholics had it that if they stole 9,000 L from a rich
man, that was a moderate sin ; but if they stele 30,0001,
that would be a mortal sin. But the Right Hon. Gentle-
man thought differently. With him 9,900/. was a mortal sin,
but 30,0001. was no sin at all. His Right Hon. Friend
ascribed the practical failure of the College of Maynooth
to their not carrying out the intentions of William Pitt,
to their not endowing the Catholic clergy of Ireland in
giving up his former principles, the Right Hon. Gentle-
man had fallen in with others which would not meet
vvvsliliierhausledequhaav,lv.eeartpehporo,,bation from the people of England—
principles which, to use a homely and common
from his habits of the
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