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No. 11,136.

PENRYN ELECTION.

PRICE 7D.

is a fundamental Article of that Act of Union, guaranteed
and supported by the Government of this country, that the
capacity for civil and religious liberty, or what in England
is called political power; is not to belong to any religious
distinction, and no difference is to be made between any of
the different Members of the State on account nf different
religious opinions, My Lords, Holland is a country essen-
tially Protestant—the politicali and civil, and religious
liberties of which resemble out own ; and that Country won
its freedom through many perils by our assistance. That
country was afterwards upheld by us, and it was redeemed
by us when tyranny had nearly overwhelmed the world.
After that contest, to the sneer:as of whieh the Noble Duke
so largely contributed, he sanctioned, for our security, the
Protestant State, which, as I have said, is regarded as an
outwork of defence to this country, in adopting a law by 1
which no disqualification is to be itnpoeed on any of its sub-
jects on account of their religious- opinions.—(llear.)-1
thought it necessary, my LOrdei to state thus Much on pre-
senting this petition ; on entailer ocesteion I shall be pre-
pared to go further into the question, but I could riot help
now calling your Lordships' attention to the subject;, that
you may think of it maturely before you come to the dis-
cussion of the question of which a little time age notice
was given. .After this I shall feel it extraordinary If lam
still told that that equality Which the Ministers of this
country sanctioned in the Netherlands cannot he accorded
to the Catholics of this country without danger to the
safety of the subject and the power of the Throne.—(Hear.)
—This, my Lords, is a petition from the Roman Catholics
of England, praying for a restitution of thole rights which,
unless a necessity can be proved for withholding them,
they say, and I say with them, ought no longer to be with-
held. The difference between the situations of the Roman
Catholics of England and the Roman Catholics! of Ireland
is too familiar to your Lordships to render it necessary for
me to enter into an enumeration of its causes, The
Roman Catholics of Ireland complain with that spirit
and feeling which, if they did not manifest it, would
show them to be unworthy of their rights--,worthy of their
exclusion from many benefits enjoyed by their Protestant
brethren. But the Roman Catholics of Ireland iij Com-
pared with the Roman Catholics of England, are in a
situation of great comparative advantage. The English
Roman Catholics are still excluded from many privileges
which the Legislature have thought proper to grant to
the Irish Roman Catholics. Although it certainly would
not content the former to he placed only in the sante situation
as that in which the Irish Roman Catholics are placed, it is
nevertheless a great aggravation of their case—it is a cia-
i cumstance of peculiar hardship, that they are still excluded
from benefits in which the Irish Roman Catholics are al-
lowed to participate. This petition, my Lords is most
numerously and respectably signed. It is signed by the
Duke of Norfolk, Premier Duke and Hereditary Earl Mar-
shal of England. It is also signed by the other Roman
Catholic Peers of the kingdom--men boasting titles of the
highest antiquity—and many of them descending from an-
cestors whose public services have immortalized them in
our history. It is likewise signed by the great body of
respectable gentry professing the Catholic religion in this
country. And it is further signed by no fewer than thir-
teen thousand Catholics of all descriptions. They allcom-
plain, my Lords, of the hardships which they suffer ; and
they all possess the claims which men who have fulfilled in
the most meritorious end exemplary manner the various
duties of their different situations in life can possibly pos-
sess, to be admitted to the full enjoyment of all the benefits
of the Constitution. They have the further claim which
arises from the exemplary moderation which they have
shown in this, as in the other petitions of a similar nature
which I have had the honour to present from them to 3 our
Lordships. They come to your Lordships in the present
instance, as they uniformly came to your Lordships in
former instances, in the genuine spirit of conciliation and
peace. They have shown no perverseness or wrong-bead-
edness.—(Hear, hear.)—They have manifested no disposi-
tion to cavil on the grounds upon which the Legislature, if
disposed to extend to them its consideration, may determine
to proceed. They have manifested at once the spirit of
men who know the value of the rights which they seek to
obtain, and the forbearance of men who are desirous of
urging their claims with irreproachable temper and mo-
deration. My Lords, much has been said in the various
discussions upon this subject respecting securities, for my-
self, my firm belief is, that in the concession of the claims
your Lordships would find the best security for the good
conduct of the Catholics._(Hear, hear.)—At the same
time I am prepared to state to your Lordships (and I do
not state it without authority), that the petitioners are not
disposed to object to such securities as might be considered
satisfactory by your Lordships, and might not be incon-
sistent with the rules and discipline of the Church to which
they belong. Any other securities than securities of such
a character ought not to be required. I repeat, my Lords,
that I myself think all securities unnecessary. But to such
securities as I have described, for myself, and for the peti-
tioners, I declare that there exists no objection. My Lords,
while the petitioners maintain the tone which they have
hitherto so creditably to themselves maintained—while
they manifest a spirit of conciliation and peace, they shall
always find in me a zealous, though a feeble advocate.
Hitherto, the efforts of the friends of Emancipation have
been unavailing. There appear to me to be greater grounds
at present for confidence ; since the petitioners declare it to
be their wish to obtain religious freedom and political rights
only by such arrangements as may be found mutually satis-
factory and beneficial—(Hear, hear. )—I now beg leave, my
Lords, to present the petition.

As tbc Noble Earl was about to hand the petition to the
Clerk, he discovered that the petition intended for the
Rouse of Commons had been sent to him instead of that
intended for their Lordships. The announcement of the
mistake occasioned some merriment in the Honse.
Earl GREY observed, that until the error could be recti-
fied, hehad several minor petitions to present. His Lord-
ship then presented petitions to the same effect from the
Roman Catholics of Holderness, in the county of York; of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Bridgtown, ke.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a number of similar
petitions from the Roman Catholics of Sunderlaid, York,
Whitby, Etc. Sze.

STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY.
Lord FEVERSHAM moved the Third Reading of the
Stockton and Darlington Railway Bill.
Lord WHAANCLIFFE opposed the Bill, and moved as
an Amendment, that it be read a third time on that day
three months.

After eeme observations from the Marquis of LONDON-
nanny and the Earl of Ecnorz, the original motion was
agreed to, and the 13111 was read a third time and passed.
CONTESTED ELECTIONS.

The Bill fur Consolidating the Laws relating to Con..
tested Elections went through a Committee, and was or-
dered for a third reading (as we understood) on Wednesday.

Couusel were then called in—Mr. Harrison was heard at
the Bar on the part of the inhabitants of the Borough against
the Bill. The Learned Counsel, in the course of his ad-
dress, stated that it was his own opinion that further evi.
deuce on the past of the Borough was not necessary, but
that the inhabitants were desirous and ready to go into fur-
ther evidence against the Bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that the Learned
Counsel might take further time to consider the expediency
of calling further witnesses. Further proceeding in the
Bill was postponed until to-morrow (this day).
The House adjourned at Half-past Nine o'Clock.