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London, England, 1845-05-06 00:00:00

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The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last
(Monday) Evening contained :
The Conclusion of the Day's Proceedings before the
different Railway Committees of the House of
Commons.
The Betting at Tattersalrs up to Six o'clock.
The Parliamentary Proceedings of the Evening,
being a fall Report of the Proceedings before both
Houses of Parliament up to a Quarter before Seven
o'clock.

demoralising and unproductive, and that therefore it
ought to be removed. _

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The Earl of MALMESBURY considered that the agri-
cultural interest had been injured by the measures of the
Government.

The Earl of WINCHILSEA, Lord BEAUMONT, and Lord
STANLEY supported the measure.
The Marquis of NORMANBY objected to the abolition
of the auction duty, because he considered that it would
make the income-tax perpetual.
On a division the numbers were—Content, 33 ; Non-
Contents, 15 ; Majority, 18. The Bill then went
through Committee, and wag ordered to be read a third
time.

The Customs Duty Bill passed through Committee,
and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to
morrow.
The Commons met at Four o'clock.
Mr. F. FRENCH moved that the Irish Great Western
(Dublin and Galway) Railway Bill be permitted to
proceed.
Mr. ESTCOTT opposed the motion.
The motion was opposed by several Members of the
Standing Orders Committee, but was eventually carried
by a majority of 16, the numbers being—For the Motion,
97 ; Against, 81 ; Majority, 16.
A long discussion ensued as to the attendance of
Members on Railway Committees, and it was suggested
by Mr. HUME and several other Hon. Members that a
call of the House ought to take place, in order to compel
the attendance of Irish Members.
On the order of the day for the bringing up of the
report on the Maynooth Bill being read,
Mr. SHAEMAN CRAWFORD moved an amendment,
that any provision for the separate or exclu-
sive education of any particular religious denomina-
tion, or for the support or endowment of any religious
sect or sects by State grants, or funds raised by com-
pulsory assessment, whether under the name of tithes,
rents, cesses, taxes, regium donum, or under any other
name or form whatever, is a violation of the rights of
conscience, detrimental to religious truth, and danger-
ous to civil and religious freedom, and that all such
establishments, grants, or endowments now in existence
in the United Kingdom ought to be discontinued with as
little delay as may be consistent with a due•regard to the
rights of those who have life interests in the same.
This :motion gave rise to a lengthened discussion,
which was terminated by a division in which Mr.
CRAWFORD'S motion was rejected by 139, and the Re-
port on the Maynooth Grant was received.
Lord PALMERSTON then rose to ask Sir R. PEEL a
question respecting the slave-trade, that led to an ani-
mated debate, terminating, however, in no immediate re-
sult ; and, after the other orders of the day were dis-
posed of, the House adjourned.

Fo- what are the Irish to be thankful ? For insults,
calumnies, and disappointed hopes. There is an excep-
tion-26,0001. to the College of Maynooth. This, say
their enemies, ought to satisfy all their cravings and

make them the most grateful and obedient people in
existence. But even this grant is not to be made with-
out a display most offensive to the nation and disgrace-
ful to humanity. A Tory Government proposes a heal-
ing measure. Any other Government might have tried
the experiment, but the experiment would have failed. The
Tories were blamed, and we blamed them among others, for
their harsh proceedings towards the Irish nation—for
withholding their just rights—for treating them as
slaves—for calumniating their religion, and making
them aliens and outcasts in the first empire of civilised
Europe, which they had ennobled by their deeds. A
Tory Government has admitted the grievous error—it
wishes to make atonement, and begins with a grant
about one-half in amount of what is given to the Pres-
byterians of the North. But the amount is nothing in
the question ; the principle is everything ; and in what
a miserable plight does principle appear. In the esti-
mates for the present year are the following grants :—For
the Professors of Oxford and Cambridge—the richest
Universities in the world-2,006/. ; Universities in Scot-
land, 7,380 Z ; University of London, 4,540/. ; Public

Education in Great Britain, 75,000/. ; British Museum,
100,277/. ; and other items of the same amount for ob-

jects of education to Catholics as well as Protestants,
but when a Tory Government proposes a grant, nct a
new grant, to Maynooth—simply an increase of 17,0001.

for the education of some 2,000 priests to administer the

consolation of religion to 7,000,000 of our fellow-sull

jects—many Protestants who bad been petitioning the
same Tory Governent for years to obtain a boon for
themselves, in the shape of a remission of church-rates,
exclaim in the most violent language against the measure,
as if it were a crime of unspeakable enormity. The
Irish Catholics remember, though others forget, the
circumstance, that the Protestants of the north of
Ireland, who are as good Christians, and hate establish-
ments as much as the Dissenters of Yorkshire and Lan-
cashire, are silent as death on the subject. Their
principles cause no compunction of conscience
in this instance; they are thankful for what
they receive, and let principles look to themselves. The
Church of Scotland, which receives a bounty of 10,0001.
a year, is equally silent, and both these classes of reli-
gionists would consider it a grievous insult if they were
denounced by any body of Christians as less consistent,
less holy, and less alive to the great principles of the
Reformed faith, than the Wesleyans, and Anabaptists,
and Independents. These are facts, and cannot be dis-
puted. They cannot escape the notice of Irish Catholics;
and when they leek to the ample provision made
for the Catholic:worship in everycolony belonging to the
British empire, have they any grounds to be thankful
for such a miserable pittance as this Maynooth grant,
accompanied, as it is, with every possible insult from
numerous bodies of Englishmen ? They are calum-
niated in Parliament and out of Parliament. The very
Government journals, or journals that assume the name,
brand them with infamy. English liberal journals, that
once advocated their cause, have turned against them
when there is a chance of success; and only two London
papers adhere to their principles, and prefer honourable
conduct to every consideration. For what then are the
Catholics of Ireland to be thankful ? The proposed
grant which has caused such violent denunciations
against Popery, and.almost everything Irish, is the most
insignificant trifle imaginable when compared with
their just demands. The Protestant Establishment
of course cannot be touched. Were a mea-
sure brought forward for destroying that mon-
ster grievance in a Catholic community, possibly the
Dissenters would be quiet; but would Sir ROBERT Isams
and his party, or the Church of England, show the same
forbearance? The present commotion convinces the Catho-
lics that they have no hopes from the great body of Eng-
lishmen, and that they must work out their own freedom.
This is the real ground of the dissatisfaction. On re-
ceiving the first intelligence of the favourable change
evinced in the minds of Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES
GRAHAM they expressed unbounded gratitude, and anti-
cipated that this was only a beginning of justice, but the
vile attacks upon their religion, and the unconquerable
enmity displayed towards them by Englishmen, have
blasted their hopes, and almost driven them to de-
spair. They wish to sea their beloved SOVEREIGN
among them, but they cannot repress their in-
dignation, and will not welcome her in chains. They
have the spirit of freemen, and, if they acted otherwise,
they would not deserve the name. Neither Scotsmen
nor Englishmen would have submitted to such oppres-
sion as the Irish have suffered for one year without
bloodshed, and the Irish have now submitted patiently
for half a century, praying, and petitioning, and 'egging,
for their rights in vain. When a paltry offer is
made by their old enemies, their old friends
rebel against it, and, because they resent the in-
sult, they are called ungrateful, and denounced
as men that deserve no favour. Can we
blame them for crying out for repeal? They show a
spirit which every impartial Englishman admires.
The universal shout raised for liberty in America
found a response in this country which scaled
the independence of the vigorous young colony, and
Ireland may rest assured that, notwithstanding the
present lowerings in the political and religious hories:d
Englishmen will yet be true to their char.-..eter,
and
side with the oppressed.

Madrid journals
On that day p. n!.. the 27th ult. have been received.
grand levee was held at the Palace, which
was r::.nerously attended. The concordat, it is said.
be signed on the 27 th at Rome, and on the same day
M. Casmto will officially present to the POPE his ere-
dentialt *a Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See.
Thus the relations between Spain and the Court of Rome
may be considered as entirely re-established.
The QUEEN was expected to leave Madrid for Barce-
lona about the 12th instant.

The Three per Cents were done on the Madrid Bourse
on the 26th ult. at 361, at sixty days; the Five per Cents.
at 251, at sixty days ; and the Debt without interest,
at 8 at sixty days.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with
li tjheteecearned-
monies observed on the occasion of the nin's
the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Jesuits.
The The POPE'S 'Nuncio, in the name of the Diplomatic
Body, presented an address to his Majesty, in which
he said :—" Your constant efforts, with those of other
Sovereigns for the maintenance of order and peace, will
continue to merit the benediction of Heaven." To
v%hich the KING replied :—"I receive with lively sa-
tisfaction the congratulations you bring to me in the
name of the .Diplomatic Body. I rejoice with you