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London, England, 1845-04-26 00:00:00

Sub-Committee (No. 2).

The Sub Committee, of which Sir. J. Y. Buller is chairman, re,
assembled this morning, and proceeded with the allegation in the
case of the Birmingham and Gloucester Cofrpany, who seek for
power to make a branch from some point in their main line to the
ancient city of Worcester, as well as to extend the branch running
into Cheltenham.
Mr. H. Venables, the Parliamentary Agent, appeared for a peti.
tioner named Lawrence, through whose property one of the exten.
sions would pass; but up to the hour of going to press he had
failed to substantiate any of his allegations. He had, however,
when the Committee rose yesterday, proved about nine, but none
of them presented any feature of interest, and in point of import.
ance, the whole of them were of a minor character.
The Committee afterwards adjourned till Monday.

(Committee S.)

The Committee re-assembled at two o'clock this day ; present
Mr. Stuart Wortley, Chairman ; Mr. Swart, Mr. B. Hughes, Mr.
Ainsworth, and Mr. Wrightson.
The Committee proceeded with the Corporation protective
clause in the
BELFAST AND BALLYMENA RAILWAY.
Mr. GREGG submitted this clause. The effect is to bind the
Railway Company not to carry goods landed between Whitehead
and Carrickfergus to any point nearer to the town of Belfast than
one mile, under a penalty of 20/. for every breach of such clause.

The clause was agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN said that the next clause for consideration was
that referring to the tolls and charges.
Mr. M. SMITH, for the promoters, would rather postpone enter-
ing on that clause for the present, as his clients were not yet pre-
pared to submit a rate in unison with the feeling of the House on
such matters expressed on the previous evening.
Mr. GREGG woted submit one more point for the consideration
of the Committee. The railway would affect part of the harbour
of the port of Belfast, and he trusted that a deviation of 100 yards
on the outside of the embankment of the line, touching that part of
the port, would be agreed to by the promoters.
Mr. Walker, the Admiralty engineer, was examined on behalf
of the opponents, to prove the necessity of the railway company
binding themselves not to take more than 100 yards on both sides
of the embankment.
The further consideration of this point was about to be adjourned
to Monday, when, at the recommendation of the Committee, it was
left to the engineers to agree upon the distance.
Mr. Walker said that, subject to the approval of the Admiralty,
he would allow the promoters sufficient spsice on each side
of the line for the slopes and embankments.
The CHAIRMAN said the remaining clauses would be considered
on Monday.
The Committee rose at four o'clock.

THE MAYNOOTH BILL.
ADJOURNED AGGREGATE PROTESTANT MEETING
Tuesday a meeting was held in the large room of Exeter-
hall, being an adjournment of the one lately held in Covent-
garden Theatre. The principal object of the meeting was to
decide upon what steps it was necessary to take in con-
sequence of the second reading of the Maynooth Bill being
carried in the House of Commons.
• On the motion of Mr. Loan, secretary to the Anti-May-
nooth Committee, the Most Noble the Marquis of Breadalbane

was called to the chair.
The muting was opened by the Rev. Dr. HOLLOWAY
offering up a prayer ; after which the Rev. Mr. MELVILLE
read the 2d Psalm.
The Marquis of BREADALI3ANE, Wit° was received with
loud cheers, said—Ladies and gentlemen, it is with very
great diffidence I have undertaken the duties of the chair.
I have bad very little time to consider the important ques-
tion upon which you are assembled to deliver your opinions.
I was anxious rather to follow than to lead on this question,
and to have confined my exertions more especially to that
place in which I hold a seat. I thought perhaps in doing so
I might be serving the Protestant cause in a more efficient
manner—(Hear, bear, and cheers)—but as I was requested
most earnestly on this occasion to take the chair, I resisted
my own scruples, and gave way to those who are so anxious
that I should attend here.—(Cheers.) Having said thus
much, I shall address to you very few words upon the im-
portant subject on which we are assembled. We are called
here to deliver our opinions in a firm, but, I trust, a tempe-
rate manner—(Cheers)—upon a great principle, affecting the
best interests of our country, and especially the interests of
our Protestant religion.—( Loud cheers.) A measure has
lately been introduced by her Majesty's Government to give an
additional grant to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth,
to perpetuate that grant by law, and to take the money from
the public funds of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Thus the
members of the Protestant Church of this country, and
those Protestant Christians who dissentfrom that Establish
ment ; the Presbyterians of Scotland, and those who secede
from the Presbyterian Establishment, will be called upon
to contribute to that which is contrary to their scruples, and
contrary to the spirit of Protestantism.—(Loud cheers.)
'They will be called upon by law to contribute to this Catho-
lic endowed college—a college of priests to sow the seeds of
Catholicism—to instruct the people of Ireland in the Roman
Catholic religion—a measure which appears to me much more
objectionable in its principles than even if we were called
upon to endow the whole Roman Catholic priesthood of Ire-
land. But the measure now introduced is based on such
arguments and principles, that its supporters even confess
that the endowment of a Roman Catholic establishment must
be the necessary consequence. It appears to me that
this measure—although emanating from a man who is at the
head of her Majesty's Government, and for whom I have a
very great respect—(Cheers)—a man who in many instances, T

think; since he took the helm of the Government; has evinced
a disposition to act for the best interests of the country, vet
who, I must say, in this case has not sufficiently considered
the great Protestant feeling which exists in this realm—has
not been introduced into Parliament with that deference to
the Protestant faith which ought ever to actuate the Go-
vernment of this great empire.—(Cheers.) I regret that in
the difficulty in which that Right Hon. Baronet was placed,
in relation to the circumstances by which the Government of
Ireland was surrounded, that in an hour of indiscretion—an
hour when wisdom certainly did not guide him—when that
Protestant spirit which should ever guide the Government of
this country, especially in all matters concerning religious
endowments—that in an hour of difficulty with regard to Ire-
land. the Government should have proposed a measure which
appears to me fraught with danger.—(Cheers.) It is for
us to raise our voices in a temperate, a firm, and a
constitutional manner against it.—(Cheers.) We are
assembled to resist this measure, and to make known our
opinions to her Majesty's Government and to the Legislature,
that we consider what they have dune is inconsistent with
our Protestant principles and with the best interests of the
country. The question is an extensive one; and there are
many -topics which might be dilated upon, but having
opened the proceedings, having stated the
great object for
srther
which we are assembled, and having stated to you that I
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at elfftu length, but ogo at length into
re-
quest those gentlemen who have given the subject considera-
tion now to move the resolutions.—(The Noble Marquis re-
sumed his seat amidst great cheering.)
The Rev. J. T. Ronisisoar, Rector of St. Andrew's, Hol-
born, moved the first resolution. Hitherto lie had stood
aloof from public meeting, but now, when danger was
threatening the cause of which he was a minister, he had, as
the pastor of a large and populous district, been induced
to come forward in vindication of the Protestant principles
in which he had been educated.—(Hear, and loud cheers.)
If there was one truth more firmly rooted in his mind than
another—(l this moment Mr. Fox Mettle made his ap-
pearance ell the platform, and was received with great
cheers)—if there was one truth more firmly rooted in his
mind than another, it was that Popery was damnable
idolatry.—(Loud cheers and hisisee4.) With this conviction
he had no hesitation as to the course he should pursue in re-
gard to any measure that might be proposed to support it.
—(Cheers.) It was said that the measure was for the better
education of the Roman Catholic priests. But what
that the
was
knowledge without principle ? He did not mean
Roman Catholic priests were necessarily bad men, but he did
say that in conjuction with such religious principles as they
professed, education would have the tendency of making them
worse instead of better men. The Rev. Gentleman then read the
resolution expressive of surprise and indignation that the
House of Commons, after the general expression of Proe
•
testant feeling throughout the country, should hav
agreed to the second reading of the Bill. lie
was prepared for the eutirse the House of Commons were
taking, of thrusting the measure through the House, heedless
of the wishes of the great body of the Protestant com-
munity. Lc,4onadituecatoonf Sir
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forward, might be aptly illustrated
by these words :
roluntas."—(Cheers.) ) coin, Sic jubeo; stet pro ratione
would tell the Right lion. Baronet
that he had aroused' a feeling
not aware of, for he
—(Laughter.) But the thoughtlieProtc Protestants
mesmerised the people.
give up their principles at the wish
were not prepared to
of any man, and they