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London, England, 1845-04-18 00:00:00

THE RUN, LONDON, FRTDAV MORNING, APRIL 18, lAA

He could not but congratulate the Right Honourable
B .tenet and his Honourable Friend on their obtaining a
new ally in the Honourable Member for Durham,- but be
did not think that the Honourable Gentleman was
paying any very distinguished compliment to Ireland, when he
derided the Protestant clergy of England ; and he conceived that
the R-roan Catholic clergy themselves would not feel inclined
to accept this boon as hush money ; and he thought nothing
would be reit as more insulting than that this should be thrown
to them as a sop, and as bush money to abate their agitation.
He bad, indeed, no hesitation in asserting that this hush money
would act neither as a bribe nor as a reason
to induce them to forsake that which they felt to
be their duty. What he would ask on this point, what
was really the case, and what bad been the cause of the foun-
daton of the College of Maynooth. It was notorious that it
had been projected and established for the purpose of prevent-
ing the increase of democratical principles. It was hoped that
at the establishment of a Roman Catholic College that the stu-
dents for the priesthood would provide them wi.h all the fa-
cilities which they required and thus l revent that tendency to-
wards foreign connection which bad always been felt as a weak-
ness by England. But what, he would ask, had been the expe-
rience of the list fifty years of Maynooth ? Had that demo-
cratic feeling subsided, or was it not notorious that it had
very largely increased ? Was it not notorious that the whole
of the Roman Catholic clergy were at this moment in a
decided and open opposition to the Government ? Let the
Roman Catholic and the Protestant clergy be com-
pared in their allegiance to the throne, and the inquisition
would soon show the difference of their principles, and he was
led to believe that if their claims were not satisfied that the
principles of the Roman Catholic clergy would be still more
evident. He might ate the opinions of the Hun. Member for
Waterford, of whom it was impassible to speak without senti-
ments of the deepest respect, and whom he believed to be one
of the most useful Members in that House, and in saying this
he intended no disrespect to the Hon. Member for Dungarvon,
and he desired to speak 31 that he should not offend the
moll sensitive feelings. He told them that the course pur •
stied at the College, and the consequences of that course, were
alike calculated to foster feelings of t he most earnest affection and
delicate regard for the Establishment to which then were attached.
It was known that the members of the Catholic Church would
stop at nothing in propagating their faith. This measure
would have the effect of establishing two Churches, and a
bulltan inlestinum of the most ferocious description would be
the result. Let them remember the words of a great man in
his dying moments—the words which he (Mr. Maclean)
had heard the Right Hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary
himself quote—let them remember the words of Lord William
Russell when on the scaffold—" I do believe that Popery is
making great strides in this kingdom, and those who wish to
forward it will hesitate at no step for its advancement, and I
lament that many Protestants lend their helping hand to it."
Mr. S. CRAWFORD then moved the adjournment of the
debate, which was immediately agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned shortly atter Twelve o'Clock.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16.
The North Wiles Railway Bill was brought in and read a
first time.
London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Railway.
(Dudley and Sedgley Branch),—Report from Select C( m-
mittee on Standing Orders read ; Bill ordered to be brought
in by Mr. Robert Clive, Mr. Tancred, and Mr. Benbow.
Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmunds Railway (No. 2),—
Petition for Bill reported. and Bill ordered to be brought in
by Captain Gladstone and Mr. Lane Fox.
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway,—Peti-
tion for Bill reported ; report referred to the Select Committee
on Standing Orders.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Whitehaven and Furness Railway,—Committee on petition,
Monday, April 28.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (No. 2),—Second read-
ing. Monday, April 21.
Glasgow Harbour Union Railway,—Committee on petition,
postponed from Monday 21st till Thursday, April 24
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment,—
Committee on petition, adjourned till Tuesday, April 22.
London and Greenwich Railway,—Second reading, Mon-
day, April 21.
lily and Huntingdon Railway,—Second reading, Monday,
April 21.
London and Brighton (Horsham Branch) Railway,—Com-
mittee on petition, Monday, April 28.
Liverpool and Bury Railway ( Bolton and Wigan and
Liverpool and Bury Extension),—Second reading, Monday,
April 21.

Staines and Richmond Railway,—Committee on petition,
postponed from Friday 18th till Monday, April 21.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

Committee No. 3, consisting of Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Thornely,
Mr. Buller, Captain Jones, and Mr. Standish, assembled yes-
terday morning in room No. 13.
EAST DEREHAM AND NORWICH RAILWAY.

The Committee proceeded with this case.
An objection had been raised that the plans in the private
Bill-office were not correct. An error of forty feet appeared
in one point of the plans.
For the promoters evidence was produced to show that
when the plans were deposited they were correct.
The room was cleared : on our return,
The Committee decided that the standing order had not
been complied with.