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London, England, 1828-05-14 00:00:00

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Canning's talent at sarcasm. With respect to
another gentleman, also, who opposed the measure,
we should tay that we wish he had always been as
delitate in appropriating to himself theresOurces of
foreign countries, as ht is backward in conferring on
another the funds of his own. Ah Joseph l Joseph!
the creek Loan was the Potiphar's wife that spread
her charms, and net in rain, bef6re Our Caledonian
Joseph. Mr. Huskison spoke with just feeling, and
Mr. Peet-with-candour and generosity, on the sub-
Jtect: The grant was carried by a majority of about
three to one : there being 161 for it, and 51 against
it.—lbid.

The proposal last n ght Y.--‘1 a pV.:.usioil of 3,0€10/. for
. the fan* of the LAO:: Mr. Courting, experienced eon-
.sidirable
.opposition. The -numbers. were .161 to
54., Lord Althorp asked, " Are Hon. Members
prepared to impose fresh taxes on the country ?. If
they-are not, I can tell thtii that the state Of nut
finances •is •sileh, that Ministers will have to look
abbot them in order to ascertain how our public esta-
blishments are to be kept up; and it will be a
question- with theist and with Parliathent to eon,
Sider Which of cur tervirje mist lie be allowed to
fall to deeay, in order that those most essentially
necessary may be kept up." We cannot say we
admire the-tone of the friends of -Mr. Canning.on
this occasion. It is so easy to be generous at the ex-
pellee of the public, and so invidious a task to oppose
• a grant, espeially to , the . family of a Statesman
whd died in the enjoyment of great popularity
both in this country and • the rest of Europe, and
who, from his utter indifference to money, has
left that family very poorly provided for, that
it must have been inexpressibly painful to Lord
Althorp, and 'those who voted With him, to
oppose the grant. Yet Mr. Stratford Carmine. and
Lord George Bentinck almost approached the*Ut-
' guage of insult in characterizing the Opposition.
WbEther Ministers be or be not adequately 'renames
rated for their services is one question,
.and the
voting extraordinary grants for their families is ob-
viously another. We wish it could be understood,
that the rule for remuneration of public men should
never be departed front. In the present day, Mr.
Pitt's debts would not have been paid; but we were
then intoxicated with the idea that our resources
were boundless. It is one of the mischievous con-
sequences resulting 'from the immense estates. pos-
sessed by our. Aristocracy, that nothing is regarded
in this country but the,display of wealth. Ministers
are necessarily peor men, because, with few excep-
tions, men born to estates, being without the
stimulus to exertion, can seldom acquire habits of
business, and hardly ever possess either energy or
talents, Ministers, therefore, though their income
are far larger than the incomes of public servants in
other countries, being. forced to measure their expen-
diture according to the scale of the most extraya-
gant Aristocracy in the world, cannot, like profes-
sional
men, save money for their familieS ; and hence
no prudent man with a family would ever think of
being a Minister in a country like ours.--11.1Orning
Chronicle.

,When the Repot t of the Resolution on the sub-
ject of.,the Catholie:. Claims was brought up last
night, it was stated by Sir Francis Burdett that he
had a Resolution in his hand, which went to say,
that the Resolution of the preceding evening should
be communicated to the House of Lords, and a
conferenet requested, with a view to obtaining their
LOrdShiPs' concurrence. Mr. Peel thought it might
be a subject• of consideration whether the better
&Ruse would Hot be to counnunica. ate the decision of
the :House to the Lordt in the shape of a Bill. At
the request of Mr. Peel, the discussion of the way
in which the Resolution ought to be communicated
of Lords, was postponed to Friday
next. It is generally understood, that from the late-
ness of the period of the Session, no Bill will be
introduced this year. A bare list of the names of
the speakers on Monday night, on the respective
sides, is decisiye of the- low-etib to which " No
Popery" has buck
tun t,or.
mit. CHARLES 'RANT

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cEssION.
MR. WALLACE
SLR. BLILER CL.tithE
IMR. HUSKISSON
MR. 13RUIJGHAM.

MR. HENRY GRAIXAN
LOA ENNISMORE
MR. C. IigNISoV

MR. NORM

AGAINST ti

INCESSION.

MR. GEORgE BANICES

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

Dl,f/RAt ADS

There was, besides, Colonel Davies, who hardly
seems to have known himself what he wished; he
wonld.have-liad no objection to a Select Committee,
shut he objected to a Committee of the whole
Muss; in *liars, lie -was hard pushed for it reason
for not voting for the motion. lf,the house had not
become impatient for the vote, a number of Speakers
would have folloWed on the side of concession ; but
the opponents were filli fairly out; they had pro-
deiced their whole stock; and they could only
have ifianaged to obtain a share in the discussion by
producing Admiral tVallE, or some such great gun,
a second time, under the pretext of explaining.—
The advocates were worthy of the cause, and the
cause of the -advocates! 'lt is impossible, surely,
to' kohl Out much - longer against the feeling of
contempt which a manifestation of such sheer
imbecility .is calculated to excite., Mere dogged
obstinacy, a determination to persist to the
last, in- refusing what 'has -been once refused, will
never, surely, be able to keep, their ground much
lcnger,.in an age like the present. Mr. Brougham
hinted that the march of intellect bad stopped short
it the lobby of the House. We are rather disposed
to believe that. enough has found its way in to im-
pair the Nigour of folly ; for the puerilities and .ab-
surdities uttered in the course of this discussion were
not recommended by the confident tone of satisfac-
tion of former 'days.- It is a jest—as-was truly ob-
served by• Mr. Brougham—to call this a Catholic
Question. It is, hi fact, more a Protestant- than a
Catholic Question, inasmuch 'as the Protestants are
more numerous in the empire, and have a deeper
stake in it than the Catholics, and are therefore
more interested in the removal of this grand ob-
stacle hi the way of tranquillity., We'Protestants
arc entitled to demand Of the. Government that we
should reap the advantages for which men enter into
social union, that. the question should be settled one
. way or other. Let us: not .be: kept in a constant
state of turmoil, in constant insecurity. We are
entitled to say—decide on one-course or other; dis-
pose of the (;atholics'in such a way 'as may allow us
'to enjoy the advantages to which we have a
right. Put one danger against another—•the danger
from concession and the danger from excltsion; if
you believe the danger from the latter to be the
,
least,
tefi, nation embrace it at once, arid give peace to a dis-
if you believe concession to
.be most
retrace
Oatixerfous,
verities your steps, and try.*hat the
ofse-
penal law will do for you Mr. Husk;
son Yiowed the Catholics religion In prop. er
I am no advocate
hostility
it‘s‘ fionrsttiltiuetiConasthaorliide
religion; I view with y
be
directions. This m i
a prejudice of early educa-
tionall I can say is, that it is a pre-
; but if it is,
judice which I have sulinnitted to the most rigorous
self-examination. I do not inean to say that the
Christianity of the Roman Catholic Church,
taken apart from its institutions, contrives and de-
vices; is not a good system of Christianity; but
in. the . dark and barbarous ages, in
the times
esigs nsg
of superstition and bigotry, artful and" ts • •
worst passions of
men, profiting by the worst nature,
did, by contrivance and by cunning devices, connect
witir•that religion many, of the most dangerous and
mischievous institutions. No Protestant can think
otherwise. But the Catholic religion is the religion
of one third of our population, and the question is
' not whether the Catholic or Protestant religion be
the kit, but how we can dispose of the Catholi'c
religion ;so as not to disturb the tranquillity of-the
Empire, If -the dangerous, peculiarities of,,the
Catholic religion be best corrected by the diffusion
of intelligence, how can we better promote, that ob-
ject than by removing the disabilities which are now.
a constant cause of irritation. We cannot uncatho-