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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1845.

The House of Lords met at Five o'clock.
The Mutiny Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill passed
shrongb Committee.
On the motion of the Earl of JERSEY, a return of the
member of bank notes in circulation in Scotland during
the tan years from 1834 to 1844, was orderel to be laid
pi the table.
locriniaouomaX then drew the ettention of the House

to the necessity of a greater stringency in the standing
orders on the subject of railway Bills. He proposed to
narrow considerably the power at present possessed by
railway companies of deviating from the line. He
thought they ought to be restricted to twenty yards on
each side, and if in consequence of accident they were
compelled to trespass on the property of the adjoining
landowners, he would leave them to make their own bar-
gain with the person on whose property they had en-
tered, without the intervention of a jury.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE complained of the
hostility manifested by the Noble and Learned Lord to
all railway schemes ; anti
The Earl of DALHOUSIE refused to go into the question
at present, and would content himself with saying that
some of the statements of the Noble and Learned Lord
were overcharged.
The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and
their Lordships adjourned.
The House of Commons met at Four.
The second reading of the Hemel Hempstead Small
Tenements Bill, on a division, was carried, the num •
hers being :—For the second readin, 69 ; Against it,
39 ; Majority in favour of ►t, no.
Various motions standing for this evening were pest-
poned, in order that the adjourned debate on Maynooth
might be resumed.
In answer to a question by Mr. F. FRENCH,

Sir T. FREMANTLE said that it was not the intention
of the Government to propose any alteration in the Iridi
poor-law. It had worked well hitherto, and the Govern-
ment were determined to give it a fair trial.
Sir J. GRAHAM fixed the second reading of the Medi-
cal Bill for Monday, and
Mr. WAKLEY gave notice of his motion on the subject
of the College of Surgeons' Charter for Tuesday.
Mr. FERRAND moved that the petition of the Dublin
Operative Conservative Association, praying for the im-
peachment of Sir R. PEEL, be printed.
The motion was seconded by Mr. HINDLEY and op
posed by Colonel RAWDON and Lord NORTHLAND.
The opposition was grounded on the fact that the peti-
tion was couched in language offensive to the Roman
Catholic subjects of her Majesty.
Mr. REDINGTON did not consider the expressions in
that petition as more offensive than those contained in
the coronation oath.

Sir R. Nous supported the motion.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that if the petition was to be
made the foundation of a motion respecting the allega-
tions against the First Minister of the Crown, no mem-
ber of the Government could offer the slightest opposi-
tion to the printing of the petition.
Mr. FERRAND said that on the third reading of the
Maynooth Bill he should bring forward a motion to the
following effect :—" That the Catholic Bequests Act
was a violation of the Act of Settlement, and a contra-
vention of the oath of supremacy."

Lord J. RUSSELL considered that the allegations in
the petition were frivolous, and should therefore oppose
the motion for printing it.

After a few words from Mr. S. CRAWFORD, Mr. LID
DELL, Mr. REDINGTON, and Mr. DUNCOMBE,
Mr. FERRAND said he did not intend to make a dis
tinct motion on the subject of the petition, and, amidst
the loud laughter of the House, withdrew his notion.

The adjourned debate on the subject of Maynooth
was then resumed by Major BERESFORD, who opposed
the Bill, on the ground that, as had been stated by the
Home Secretary on a former occasion, concession had
reached its limits.

Colonel VERNER opposed the grant, as mischievous
in tendency and unjust in practice. It would be ill re-
ceived by the Irish Catholics, and excite suspicion in the
minds of the Protestants.

Mr. HUME considered that the course adopted by the
Government was the only one calculated to put down
that agitation in Ireland which had arisen from the
refusal of that justice to which the Irish had a right,
and that this measure would remove some of those
grievances of which the Irish had a right to complain.
Mr. NEWDECATE opposed the proposition of the
Government.

Mr. PAKINGTON supported the measure, and denied
that the present Government had made the' No Popery"
cry a stepping-stone to office. They had only raised a
cry to defend th 4 Protestant religion when they really
thought it was in danger ; and he for one was ready to
take the same course again.
Mr. P. M. STEWART protested against the Govern-
ment throwing away the weapon by which they had ob-
tained power, viz., the No Popery" cry. He believed
that in consenting to this measure they were violating
the protest which this country had made against Popery.
Although he might be in a minority in the House, he
was in a majority in the nation, and he should certainly
record his vote against the measure.

The House was subsequently addressed by the Earl of
LINCOLN, Lord WORSLEY, Mr. M. Mn.NES, Mr. Sergeant
MURPHY, Sir J. HANMER, and Mr. Ross ; after which
the debate was adjourned, on the motion of Mr.
HAMILTON.

The accounts from Ireland respecting the grant to
Maynooth are on the whole satisfactory. The measure
appears to give general satisfaction to the Catholics, but
the value of the boon is greatly diminished by the
strong feeling evinced against it in England, and the
revival of the " No Popery " cry, of which not a whis-
per has been heard for years till now, though Puseyism,
or Popery, has been making such fearful inroads on
the Protestant Establishment. At Oxford, one of the
great fountains of national education, the Catholic reli-
gion is prized far above the Protestant ; several of the
teachers of youth openly avow its tenets, others, with
more tender consciences, have gone over to the an-
cient faith, and not a few of the Bishops have
been exerting themselves to bring back the po•
pulation to the bosom of Mother Church ; but,
if we except the demonstrations exhibited in two
or three dioceses where the attempt has been made
prematurely, there has been little said against such
traitorous proceedings. Have not the Irish, therefore,
reason to complain that this religious zeal of the Eng-
lish and Scots is very partial, and that they submit with
wonderful composure to the spread of the Catholic reli-
gion in England and in all her colonies, and view
it with horror only when it is associated with the sister
country. Such a contradiction is quite inexplicable
here, but in Ireland, we regret to find, the cause is attri-
buted not so much to religion as to a hatred of the Irish
nation. That hatred unfortunately is too mani-
fest in many instances. Their priests are
reviled, and the system adopted at Maynooth
is described as tending only to evil, as preg-
nant with mischief to the community, and an en-
couragement to rebellion and immorality. So invete-
rate is this prejudice in some English minds, that the
only Government journal in London cannot defend the
grant without insulting the Irish. Was there ever such
a preposterous argument in support of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S policy, as the following put forth in the Morning
Herald ?—After adverting to the Charitable Bequests
Bill, the bewildered writer says :—" But next comes
the Maynooth Bili as necessary to complete the work of
permanent pacification. With the priests of the present
class—heated with politics, illiterate and unfitted for
habits of either restraint or economy by a long life of
coarse indulgence—rothing can be done having the least
promise of success ; and therefore it is necessary
to improve the education of the future priest_
hood." Well may Sir ROBERT PEE!, exclaim, " Save
me from my friends." Mr. O'CONNELL, at the Repeal
meeting on Monday,adverted to this uncharitable spirit
with great mildness—a quality for which he is not re-
markable—and spoke of it in sorrow rather than in anger,
He condescended to refute the calumnies raised against
the prelates and the inferior clergy educated at Maynooth.
" Our enemies," said he, " have been villifying Maynooth
in all manner of ways. Now, he could tell them on in•
disputable authority, that of upwards of 15,000 students
who went through the course of education at Maynooth
during the past fifty years, not a single one was ever
charged with a crime—not one was ever brought
before a magistrate charged with an offence. It
was a miracle that of 15,000 young men, with all the
weakness of manhood, not one was brought before
the authorities charged with a crime." Can Oxford
or Cambridge, or the Universities of the: North say as
much ? We will not furnish instances to the contrary,
because certain proceedings in our Ecclesiastical Courts,
and at the last assizes, are fresh in the memory of every
read.er. We mention the fact only to show how a
malignantisfPirtihe spirit
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thankful for it." These oeye are grateful, and
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and we confidently express a hope thethactNiltiL Bwords,.
tended by it will not he marred by the benefits.
tional antipathies. revival of na-

Mr. HUME has a notice on the paper, for the 17th (to-
morrow), of a character that demands our best atten-
tion. It is to the effect—" That this Rouse will, on the
day of April, resolve itself into a Committee of the
whole House, to consider the following resolution: That
an humble address be presented to her MAJESTY, pray-
ing that she will be graciously pleased to grant such a
pension as she shall think proper to the Right lion. Sir
HENRY P&TTINGER, Bart., K.C.8., as a reward for his
eminent public services, and especially for having, as her
MAJESTY'S Plenipotentiary in China, brought the war
in that country to a conclusion by a peace alike honour-

able and advantageous, and to assure her MAJESTY that
this House will make good the same.'"
There may or there may not be technical objection to
the form and wording of this roso'ution—a question into
which we do not feel ourselves qualified now to enter.
But there is no mistake, and can be no doubt, about the
truly public-spirited motive which has dictated the no-
tice. Mr. HUME has now been before the public for up-
wards of forty years in the character of a consistent,
jealous, and uncompromising guardian of the public
purse. In that capacity he has fearlessly pursued,
through good report and through evil report, the unbroken
tenor of his self-imposed but most important duty. The
exercise of functions such:as that duty supposes, often
invidious, always liable to misconstruction, and nt ver
secure of being duly appreciated by a contemporary ge-
neration, demands the rare union of sustained energy,
unsleeping vigilance, and uncompromising disinterested-
ness. The worst enemy of Mr. HUME—and he has
many more than might have been anticipated from the
admitted advantage which the public has realised from
his labours in the work of retrenching the public expen-
diture, and developing the resources of the public re-
venue—the worst enemy he has cannot dispute his dis-
interestedness. Had he sought office, there have fallen
out abundant occasions on which he could have com-
manded it. We can all of us remember come conjunc-
tures when the Ministerial succession has been " in

abeyance," as it were, for days and even weeks together,
to the great uneasiness of the public mind. It is certain
that had Mr. flumE, in these instances, sought to em-
barrass the free action of the constitutional choice of
the Sovereign, he was at the head of a section i❑ the
House of Commons whose support or opposition must
have made or marred the newly-formed Cabinet before
it could have concentrated its strength for active Par-
liamentary warfare. But Mr. IfttmF. was pledged to
measures—not to men ; and he fairly and honourably
gave opportunity to the new servants of the Crown to
make good their appeal, if they could, to the confidence
and favour of the nation. A general concurrence of
political opinions, and views of commercial as well as
fiscal policy, has not enabled us, on all occasions, to go
with him in some of his extreme notions connected with
such matters. We have found ourselves differing from
him widely at times, and have felt ourselves bound to
record that dissent in very unequivocal and emphatic
terms ; but we have always remained convinced of the
honesty of his prepossessions, even when we could not
coincide in them. In short, whether in consideration
of the vigilance to detect, and the energy to expose,
abuses, which his whole Parliamentary career has mani-
fested—of the disinterestedness with which he has main-
tained that career against open vituperation and secret
obloquy, only to be silenced by the invincible fact of his
voluminous efforts being unimpeached by any solicitation
for, and unrequited by any dispensation of, office, or
patronage, or emolument—or, of the millions by which
he has directly or consequentially reduced the public
expenditure—we hold that a very inadequate expression
of public favour and respect has yet been proffered to
him, in return for his almost innumerable services, in
a very various and extended sphere of usefulness.

We have dwelt on these facts the rather because th,y
singularly enhance the value and_significancy of a com-
pliment which even so meritorious and distinguished a
public servant as Sir H. POTTINGER may well feel gra-
tified to have elicited from Mr. HuitE. For Mr. FLUME
to take the initiative in proposing an address to her
MAJESTY to grant this eminent diplomatist such a pen-
sion as her MAJESTY shall think fit," without previous
suggestion or stipulation of any kind as to its amount,
-is a triumph less marked, indeed, by the splendour or
brilliancy of its accessories than festivals, and ban.
quilts, and balls in his honour in all the mercantile
capitals and emporia of the kingdom. But Sir HENRY
may feel assured that such a step, by such a man as
Mr. HOME, towards moving the Crown to so signal an
act of grace and recognition in his (Sir HENnv's) be
half, is a certain and unfailing assurance (if that indeed
be wanting) of the confirmation which the British public
is fully prepared to give to any, even the most impres-
sive and munificent testimony of appreciation and confi-
dence which the SOVEREIGN maybe advised to tender to
one of its most accomplished and successful servants.
We congratulate Sir H. POTTINGER most cordially on
this remarkable tribute to, and effect of, his rare abilities
and rarer fortune. Whatever may be the fate of Mr.
HOME'S motion, the object it purposes to achieve can-
not long remain unperfected ; but the manner in which
it has occurred to the most inflexible and unsparing
champion of economy in the disbursement of the public
money thus to originate an act of national respect and
bounty, without even preliminary conditions or limita
tions, is alike extraordinary, interesting, and honourable
to all parties concerned in it.

The Mad,id Gazette of the Bth publishes a decree
giving the royal assent to the following resolution
adopted by the Cortes :—" The property of the secular
clergy that is unsold, and the selling of which was sus •
pended by the royal ordinance of the 26th of July, 1844,
shall be restored to the clergy." The Chamber of De-
puties met on the Bth. All the Ministers were present,
and previous to the commencement of the discussion on
the budget, General NARVAEZ, amidst general attention,
rose and read the following decree relative to the mar-
riage of the QUEEN-MOTHER with Don FERNANDO
SIDN.22

"Considering the powerful reasons submitted to me by
my august mother, Donna Maria Christina de Bourbon,
and after hearing my Council of Ministers, I authorise her
to contract marriage with Don Fernando Munoz, Duke de
Rianzares ; and I declare that, by contracting that mar-
riage of conscience with a person inferior in rank, she
has forfeited nothing in my heart and tenderness, that she
shall retain all the honours and prerogatives belonging to her
as Queen-Mother; but that her husband shall enjoy only the
honours, prerogatives, and distinctions belonging to his
rank, and retain his armorials and name; the children that
shall issue from this marriage shall be subjected to the pro-
visions of article 12 of the ninth law, title the 2d, book the
10th, of the New Collection of Laws, and shall be enabled to
inherit the free property of their parents, in conformity to
the provisions of those laws.

"Given at the Palace on the 11th of October, :1844.
(Signed) " THE QUEEN."
The QUEEN'S Civil List was then voted unanimously,
and the pension to Queen CHRISTINA of 30,000/. was car-
ried by a majority of 116 to 9.
The funds rose considerably on the Bth, and conside-
rable transactions took place in the Three per Cents.,
which closed at 354 cash, and 35:1 at 60 days. Five
per Cents., 26 at 60 days. Passive Debt, 81, at 60
days. Vales Reales, 104 at 60 days.

The Paris papers bring no intelligence of importance'
On Monday, at nine in the morning, the lima left the
Tuileries for the Chateau d'Eu, where he will remain, it
is said, till Friday. The Presse states, that previous to
his departure, his MAJESTY signed five ordonnances,
raising the following persons to the Chamter of Peers
—The Duke of TREVISO, M. BERLIN DE VAUX, M.
VICTOR I-Brae, General ACRARD, and M. LE TILLEY.
The Jo►,rnal des Debats has a long article on the grant
to Maynooth, in which it gives long extracts from SYD-
NEY SMITH'S "Fragment on the Irish Church," an outline
of the discussions in the Commons, and other particu-
lars, which may render the subject intelligible to fo-
reigners, but possesses little interest for the English
reader.

These journals contain an account of the proceedings
in the extraordinary Diet, which met at Zurich, on the
toth. M. KERN, Deputy of Thurgau, read the report
of the Committee appointed to investigate the late un-
fortunate cccurrences at Lucerne, which may be thus
summed up:—

" The Committee commenced by obtaining accurate no-
tions of the state of facts. It first of all heard the Federal
Commissioners. These expresscd a fear that some capital
executions might take place at Lucerne in the course of the
week. The accounts of the state of the prisoners were not
very favourable. Huddling them together in a way to en-
gender sickness was particularly complained of; the wounded
were better treated. After having heard the Federal Com-
missioners, the Committee sent for two of the Deputies of
Lucerne, MM. Siegwart and Attenhofer, who declared that
it was impossible that executions or even judgments could
take place during the week ; that the proceedings and their
consequences would demand several weeks. The Deputies
of Lucerne took this occasion to express a desire that the
Diet should not adopt any measures likely to attack the can-
tonal sovereignty. This circumstance engaged the Commit-
tee to examine the question of the amnesty in all points of
view, and it came to the decision that the most efficient means
of arriving at favourable ground for this question was to pro-
pose measures in completion of the decree of the 20th of
March respecting the free corps, and to order the political
refugees to be removed from the Lucerne frontier."

M. KERN'S report was listened to with the utmost in-
terest, and after it came very long discussions (from
nine in the morning until five in the evening) on the two
p opositions first presented by the Committee. That of
the free corps met with hut little oppoLition, even on
the part of the states which rejected it three weeks
back, but it called forth violent recriminations between
the deputies of Lucerne and Argau, on the part taken by
the volunteers in the last troubles. In this discussion,
the exultation of the victors wasmanifested without con-
cealment. The proposed decree did not please them, be-
cause, in their opinion, it did not go far enough, in not
placing a direct responsibility of a character sufficiently
strong on the cantonal governments which might tolerate
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to the Jesuits, therefore, all demanded modifications of a
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