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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
ROUSE OF LORDS, April 25.
The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolfack at
r Me o'clock.

MA YNOOTH.
The Earl of CLANCAR i Y presented a number of yeti-
lions from Athlone, Kilmore, and several other places in Ire-
land, against the grant to Maynooth.
Lord DACRE presented several petitions from Birmingham,
Handsworth, and other places in the neighbourhood, to the
same effect.
Lord CAMPBELL said that, in the fulfilment of his public
duty, he had felt obliged to present several petitions against the
grant to Maynooth ; but he had now the pleasure of presenting
.one from Porto Bello and the neighbourood, in favour of that
grant.
Petitions see presented against the grant, also, by Lord
llonteagle, t.'ne Duke of Richmond, and by the Marquis of
Breadalbar,e, from a great number of the congregations of the
Free Church in Scotland to the same effect.

Thy.; Bishop of DURHAAI presented various petitions from
11113 Archdeacon and clergymen in the different parishes in his
diocese sxainst the grant to Maynooth.
Lord KENYON presented petitions against the union of
the secs of St. Asaph arid Bangor, and praying for returns of
what the clergy received in those dioceses from 1835 to 1845.
Lord NORMAN BY presented a petition from a parish in
Wilts a;ain.st the grant to Mayncoth, and also a petition from
Droitwich, in favour of the establishment of local courts for
the arrangement of small debts.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.

Lord COTTENHAM presented a Bill for the consolidation
,of the Juriidietion of the Ecclesiastical Courts in England and
Wales, in conformity with the reports of the Commissioners in

Tne Bill was read a first time.
INSOLVENCY ACT.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition in favour
of the revision of the Insolvency Act from the
traders and merchants in London. At all events,
there ought to be something done in the present sess-
ion of Parliament to relieve these tradesmen, and unless
somebody else came forward to do it he should feel it to be his
duty to apply the remedy. Ile would much rather, however,
that the remedy should come from a recommendation of their
Lordships' House.
Lord COTTENHAM did not think there was any necessity
to make any inquiry into the sul,ject, because it was suffi-
ciently plain that the operation of the 20/. clause--
Lord CAMPBELL had received numerous applications to
bring the subject before their Lordships, and he was glad at
what had fallen from his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord
Brougham). Still it would be much more satisfactory to him,
and, he thought, to the country, if the Government were to try
to propose a remedy.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said his N, We and Learned
Friend's Bill was sanctioned by a Committeo of their Lordships'
House, and he would suggest that the Bill itself should be re-
ferred back to that Committee for reconsideration.

Lord ASHBURTON said, that in legislating upon this
subject, the House had displayed a reckless want of considera-
tion for the chief sufferers under the law, viz., the unfortu-
nate creditors. He concurred that same remedy ought to be
introduced, but was not desirous of returning to the old system
of imprisonment for debt.
Lord BROUGHAM was understood to give notice that on
a future day he would move for a Committee to inquire into the
operation of the law pasted last session.
The LORD CHANCELLOR had no objection to the ap-
pointment of a Committee, and remarked that if it turned out
that they had gone too far, it would be necessary for them to
retrace their steps.—The subject then dropped.
IMAYNOOTH.

The Earl of WINCHILSEA presented petitions from Pat-
ton, and several other places in Northamptonshire, and from
Spittlegate, in the county of Lincoln, against the grant to
Maynoot h.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from
St. Leonard's, in Wilts, against any provision for the education
of the Catholic clergy. He also presented a petition to a
directly cone, ary effect from a considerable number of Protes-
tant Dissenting ministers presiding over the Presbyterian con-
gregations within and without the cities of Lendun and West-
minster.
The Duke of NORFOLK presented a petition from the
Roman Catholics of London, Liverpool, Cheltenham, and
iscveral other places in England, praying that the Legislature
would pass the Bill for making the grant to 11laynouth,
and thatiking the Government for the introduction of the
Measure. Not having signed the petition himself, he would
take that opportunity of thanking the Government for the
consideration it had shown for the necessities of his Roman
Catholic fellow-subjects in Ireland.
The Marquis of L ANSDOWNE said that since the

time:rhen be had the honour of introducing a measure

for the relief ol his Roman Catholic fellow-subjects from all
civil disabilities, same sixteen or seventeen years had elapsed.
During that time the Roman Catholics had been admitted
to seats in both Houses of Parhameat, and many other
offices in the State, and that, dnring the whole of that
time, not a shadow of blame or imputation had been brought
against them. What he would ask was the reason for this ?
for there was nothing in their peculiar education or social
position which could have placeal them in the honourable
position which they held in the country. It was their sense of
duty alone that could have secured it, and he now, on the plea
of this conduct, wished to extend the same advan-
tages to their co-religionists in Ireland. The great
portion of the population of Ireland must look for
religious instruction, and it was the interest of all that they
should receive the best religious instruction possible. Having
for many years been most anxious that a measure
of this na'ure should be adopted by her Majesty's
Cfovernmeiit, he was prepared—now that they had
adopted it upon their own responsibility, and
above all, when he perceived that by so adopting it, they had
incurred a certain portion of odium and responsibility—he was
prepared to say that he was ready to claim his full share of any
such odium and any such responsibility.—( Hear, hear.) He
not only agreed with the principles of this all, but
he thoroughly and entirely approved of the particular provisions
contained therein.— (Hear, hear.) He by no means under-
stood the objections of.those who were opposed to it on pecuniary
grounds. He did not stand there for the purpose of saying
that the Roman Catholic Establishment could never be matte
subject to the State ; but he would say that the
connexion of the maintenance of the Roman Catholic Church
with the reduction of the Established Church would give rise to
great inconvenience, inasmuch as any future want would give rise
to a corresponding reduction on the other side, as it would then
he considered the only fund from which it would be right to dray..
He considered that two objects would be attained by the Act,
or at all events by the other Acts which would follow it,
and he trusted there would be one for the intellectual im-
provement of the people of Ireland. In the first place, the
Bill would be doing an act of kindness in a way that would
be the most satisfactory to the Irish people; and in the
next place, it would have the effect of greatly diminishing
theological conflicts in both Houses of Parliament.
The Jlarquis of LONDONDERRY presen'ed a petition
from a parish in tl:e county of Durham, signed by the whole
of its adult population, consisting of thirty-five persons in favour
of the Bill, and two petitions from the county Down against it.
The Noble Alarquis concluded by saying that, if her Majesty
visited Ireland, she would meet with more cordiality than had
been shown her in any conntry that she had vet visited.
The Duke of WELLING I' ON—I will tell her so to-night.
The Earl of SHREWSBURY expressed his concurrence
with the measure, and his gratificati ,n with the manner in which
it had been received.—The House then adjourned.