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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1845.

The House of Commons did not make a House.
The House of Lords met at Five o'clock.
The Public Nuisances Bill was read a second time.
Several petitions were presented on the subject of the
Maynooth BilL
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE explained that he had
made inquiries into the conduct of the Sheriffs in admit-
ting the public to the condemned sermon in the case of
locker, and had found that they had only followed the
example of their predecessors ; at the same time, he
thought the practice had better be discontinued.
After a complaint (founded on a petition) made by
Lord BROUGHAM of the inconvenience to which the in-
habitants of Newfoundland were subjected by having
their letters from England transmitted via Halifax, and
an explanation on the subject from Lord STANLEY,
Lord BEAUMONT moved for certain papers relating to
recent transactions in Greece, and made a lengthened
statement of the history of recent transactions in that
country.

The Earl of ABERDEEN shortly replied, after which
the Noble Lord (BEAumoNT) withdrew his motion.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved the second read-
ing of the Charitable Trusts Bill, and in so doing ex-
plained at some length the bearings of the measure.

After a short discussion, in which Lord COTTENHAM,
Lord CAMPBELL, Lord ASHBURTON, and Lord ABLN•
GER took part, the motion was agreed to, and the House
adj ourned.

"It is all very well," to use a familiar phrase, for the
Established Church of this country to transpire through
every pore, with a holy horror at the progress of hostile
innovations in the shape of increased grants for the pur-
poses of Roman Catholic education at Maynooth and the
building and endowment of new universities in Ireland
for the benefit and instruction of the seven-eighths'
Roman Catholic proportion of her whole people. It may
be that the more orthodox Protestants in both Houses
have reason for their alarms about the stability, not only
of the Established Church, bat of its established faith,
when they find that Unitarianism and Deism are emu-
lating, but with unequal energy or success, the ambitious
strides of Popery. " A voice of wailing," raised by
Sir ROBERT INGLIS in 'the House of Commons, not
unnaturally awakens the responsive echoes of Exeter-
hall to the denunciations of STOWELL, or the valedictory
apostrophes of Mr. PLUMPTRE. We have no doubt of
the sincerity of such apprehensions, however we may
dispute the assumptions on which they are founded. We
entertain every respect fur the conscientious expression
of hostility to these measures of relief and protection
and educational provision to be granted at the instance
of her MAJESTY'S Ministers to her MAJESTY'S Roman
Catholic subjects of the sister kingdom ; although not
even the extensive sympathy which this feeling of dis-
approbation and reluctance has awakened throughout
the length and breadth of the land, can shake our
opinion either as to the expediency of the enlarged
grant to Maynooth, or of the imperfect understand-
ing of the subject on which so much animosity
has proceeded. But giving the fullest measure of credit
for the honesty of these scruples, let us be allowed to
wonder at their inconsistency with the latitudinarian
indulgence extended to the lax deportment in some, and
the dereliction of duty in other, members of that Church
establishment, as well by the general body of the laity
as by its hierarchy and the inferior orders of its clergy.
Before the cry of " anathema" is raised against the cor-
ruptions and the pollution of the Church of Rome,
as the certain consequences that must follow in the train
of intended aid to Maynooth, and large foundations and
endowments of still more important establishments for
the teaching and diffusion of the doctrines of
Romanism ; why did not the " watchmen " of
the Protestant Church righteously and manfully
denounce the corruptions and deficiencies of their
own host ? Within the last few years have
there occurred no parallel examples of moral pravity to
make good company for that which has been so lately
the subject of examination before an ecclesiastically
approved commission of investigation? Do people ima-
gine that the Rev. Mr. MONCHTON'S case is one suigeneris
—singular and unmated ? It shall not be our invi-
dious task to open up recorded cases ; but we could well
evoke from the records of the Spiritual Courts in
Doctors' Commons, certain suits, in which clergymen of
the Establishment were the defendants, that would
somewhat still the cry, we suspect, about what the
morals of that other clergy must be who recognise
such class-books as " DEN'S Theology," or such
text authorities as SANCHEZ'S " Lex ntatrimonii."
But let these pass. We profoundly and sin-
cerely respect the Established Protestant Church, for
it has, in its day, done good service to the cause of civil
liberty and the rights of private judgment, in those evil
times when their integrity was most endangered in this
country. But whilst we would thus do full justice to the
constancy of the seven bishops who bravely and piously
withstood the tyrannous bigotry of the last of the
STUARTS, we can afford to do justice to their ancient
predecessors of the older faith, who as vigorously and
valiantly, like Archbishop LANFRANC, braved the me-
naces, and defeated the aggressions of sterner and more
determined despots of the blood of PLANTAGENET. And
when we; are thus unwittingly reminded of those haughty
ages of English chivalry, of " fierce wars and faithful
loves," in which the English peasantry, with all the oc-
casional suffering, spoliation, and even slaughter to
which the contests of feudal ambition and kingly rapa-
city from time to time exposed them, were yet that
stalwart race, whose good fare and varied sports and
pastimes procured the appellation of the " merry Eng-
land" for their native land—we are also reminded of the
English poor of the same ages. When we consider the
wealth of our nobles, then, the State which the Crown
maintained, and the large revenues of the Church, we
may well marvel at the extreme paucity and comparative
insignificance of the hostile risings on the part of our
poor.

Shall we be told of our ultra-Churchmen, our most
inveterate anti-Romanists, our Maynooth-grant-execra-
tors, that that older Church was more exacting than the
present Reformed Establishment in the amount of con-
tributions demanded from the laity ? Let us
admit the fact. But how, then, did she disburse
the larger funds thus surrendered to her ?
Long before any general statute was passed
for the compulsory relief and maintenance of the poor,
she provided munificently, if not universally, fur their
support. Her tithes she appropriated to this charity, to
the poor, to the education of youth, and to the repairs of
the chancels of churches. Well, the poor are now
maintained by a tax levied on the whole people ; and to
some considerable.extent popular education is provided
for in a similar manner. Pro tanto the income of the hie-
rarchy and clergy of the Established Church are relieved
from two heavy charges ; and the third is legally one to
which the parochial community may be readily made liable,
according to the modern reading of our Ecclesiastical
lawyers, where you find a well-beneficed dean disin-
clined to discharge this sacred trust towards a sacred
edifice, in the manner of his Romish predecessors in the
same dignity. What is the case brought before
the House of Lords by the Marquis of NORMANBY?
A disgraceful one, we must say, to a high functionary of
the Established Church. In a petition which he presents
from the parishioners of Wokingham, in Berkshire, they
complain that whereas the population of their parish
(extending over 8,000 acres) is 4,000, are prevented
from attending divine service in the parish church by
reason of its dilapidated condition, especially as to the
chancel ; and yet that they are singularly prevented
from levying a rate upon themselves, for the purpose of
repairing the church, by a functionary who is inhisow
person the Rector, Patron, and Ordinary of the church,n
and likewise Dean of Salisbury. The tithes of his
in-
cumbency had been commuted for the modest sum of

1,6001. a year only ; and at the last renewal, he received
a sum of 2,0001., although the annual rental in the King's
Books appeared as 261. only. His curate's salary is 1501.
only. Out of this, 40/ is contributed out of Queen
Anne's Bounty. Owing to the circumstance of the
Dean being the Ordinary also (that is, the incumbent
being his own visitor), years had rolled on withuut any

visitation being made, and the church had become so
dangerously out of repair that the parishioners were
afraid to assemble in it. (One would have thought the
" Ordinary" must have been the very 'Venerable the
Dean GIBBS of Walbrook I) A vestry, by unanimous
vote, addressed the Dean, Ordinary, Patron, Rector of
Wokingham Church, to cause the necessary reparations
to be made. Mr. Ordinary referred them to his own
lessee ; the lessee sent the case to his own architect,
who, of course, reported the reparations to be not
necessary, or at least not indispensable. Learned civilians
were then applied to ; and they subscribed an opinion
that the parishioners might repair the nave, the Rector-
dean the chancel, and that there might be a rate levied
for these purposes with the consent of the parishioners,
but not without it. The Dean was again applied to for
his consent to this arrangement, but then it was found
the lessee could only preserve the fabric "in its present
state." On the strength of this quibble, the parishioners,
disgusted with the Dean, were anxious to repair the
nave ; but this object could not be accomplished,
it was found, without tumbling down the remainder
of the edifice. And so the 4,000 parishioners of
Wokingham are without a church to assemble in, because
they are blessed with this multiform parson, whose many
offices and large income cannot expand his sense of duty
to a level with that which was doubtless entertained by
the now most despised of those among his predecessors,
who were of the faith and the church which this very
Dean and his pharisaical friends would, if they could,
commit Maynooth "ad inferos," for nurturing and up-
holding !

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 15th inst. On
that day the Senate was engaged in discussing the
budget, and the other Chamber did not meet. The
Bourse was closed on account of the feast of St. Isidore.
The following paragraph appears in the Gibraltar paper
of the 7th inst. :

"We are happy to announce, that the treaty between
Spain and Morocco was signed on the 6th inst., at Larache,
by Sidi-Ben-Salem Ali, by M. Boramendi, Consul of Spain,
and Mr. John Drummond Hay, the Consul-General of Eng-
land, in his capacity of mediator. The ratification of the
treaty by the Emperor had been previously received."

In the French Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday
the discussion on the Great Northern Line was resumed,
when the 13th clause was unanimously adopted. It is
as follows:—" The Minister of Public Works is autho-
rised to open a credit of 13,000,000 f. for 1845, and
of 6,000,000 f. for 1846, to cover the advance which the
State may yet have to make for the completion of the
road and the settlement of accounts." Three divisions
took place on the question as to the time during
which the concession of this line to a company
Was to be limited. One Member proposed
twenty-five years, another thirty-three, but both
were negatived. The Chamber finally adopted
forty-one years as the greatest length of time for which
the concession of the Northern Railroad can be adjudi-
cated to a company ; it also fixed seventy-five years for
the Creil and St. Quentin Railroad, and for the branch
line from Fampoux to llazebrouck, adopted the preceding
day. In the Chamber of Peers the President read five
royal ordonnances raising to the dignity of Peers of
France MM. DE RULIIIERE, LE SERGENT DE MONNE-
COVE, LECLERE, VINCENS ST. LAURENT, and the Mar-
quis LE RASCONO. According to the Constitutionnel,
the Duke DE BROGLIE and Dr. LUSHINGTON have agreed
on the terms of the new treaty for checking the slave
trade. That journal says :—" It is stated that the Go
vernment have just received by Capt. BOUET the news
of the conclusion of the negotiations between the Duke
DE BROGLIE and Dr. LUSHINGTON. The principal sti-
pulations of the convention that have been agreed to
have for object, as we have already said, to substitute
for the right of search, in its present form, the crea-
tion of two squadrons on the coast of Africa, to exercise
an active and combined surveillance over the vessels of
their respective nations and the slave markets held by
the negro kings on different points of the coast. M.
GUIZOT is to present a Bill on this subject to the Cham-
ber in a few days. After the session M. GUIZOT will
again take a two months' leave of absence. It is said
that on that occasion he will not have any one to take
charge of his portfolio." The Commerce announces
that a serious difference exists between the Prince
DE JOINVILLE and Admiral MAcKAu, relative to the
management of the navy. The Presse confirms
the statement in these words; and adds that the Prince
proposes to publish another essay on the navy, but
chiefly on the steam war-ships.
The New Gazette of Zurich states that the case of
Dr. STEIGER was heard by the Superior Tribunal at
' Lucerne on the 17th. Dr. STEIGER made an eloquent
defence, but the tribunal confirmed the sentence of death
that had been pronounced upon him.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed-
nesday at 86f. 25c. ; the New Loan, at 86f. 60c. ; the Five
per Cents. at 121 f. 70c.; Orleans Shares, 1,247 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 1,132 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 822 f. 50c. ; Havre, 921 f. 25c ;
Avignon, 1,072 f. 50c.; Basle, 273 f. 75c.; Spanish Three
per Cents., 41k.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:—

Orleans and Bordeaux, 235 f. premium ; Boulogne, 130 f.
ditto; Troyes and Montereau, 72f. 50c; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 22f. 50c. ; ditto (Calon), lf. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron),
10f. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel), 13f.
75c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. 50c. ; ditto ( Drouil-
lard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 12f. 50c ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre),
par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 25f. ; ditto (Talabot),
35f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 12f. 50c. ; Bordeaux
and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 3f. 75c; ditto and Cette (Espe-
leta), 18E 75c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, lf. 50c. ; Paris and
Strasburg (Ganneron), 15f. 25c. ; Dijon and Mulhouse, 4f. 25c.

THE MAYNOOTH BILL.—The Morning Advertiser is
sadly chop fallen at the unexpected result of the final
division on this Bill, and well it may, after having spent
so much labour in the cause. All its splendid leading
articles have been thrown away. The blind, bigoted
House of Commons would not listen to its charming, but
perversely adhered to their first convictions. We do not
wonder, therefore, that our respected Contemporary is
driven to madness ; but, really, it is not fair to attack
The Sun, which has been successful and con-
sistent in writing on this measure, which cannot
be said of certain journals. At all events,
something like fair play should be observed, and we
should not be charged with assertions which we never
made./ That journal says :—" Justice," according to
The Sun, has been done to Ireland," while it gives a
quotation from The Sun, immediately before this un-
tounded accusation, in these words We gladly re-
ceive this measure for its own sake, but above all we
hail it as the harbinger of better things." Our respected
Contemporary evidently does not know what harbinger
means, for, throughout the whole of the article, we have
neither stated, nor imputed in the most remote degree,
that justice has been done to Ireland. It is a hopeless
task to argue with a writer who does not understand
English.