The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-25 00:00:00

MAYNOOTH.

Lord BROUGHAM, in presenting a petition against
the grant to Maynooth, took the opportunity of contra-
dicting as positively as words could do, the statement which
had been made in the other House of Parliament, that
an attack which had appeared in one of the French
papers was written by one of the Ministers of France.
That statement had given great pain to the individual
to whom it referred, and he was requested to give the
rumour the most unqualified contradiction.
The Earl of CLANCARTY complained that he had
asked a question to which he had received no answer.
`lle object of that question was to ascertain how her
Majesty's Ministers could reconcile this grant to May-
nooth with the terms of the oath of supremacy.
Lord MONTEAGLE said, that he conceived that not-
withstanding what had been said of the oath of supre-
macy and the Act of Settlement, he thought that
he would be a person of extraordinary ingenuity
who could discover, within the four corners of the oath of
lupremacy, anything which ..at all forbid the grant to
Maynooth, though perhaps the Noble Earl's ingenuity
was equal to the task.
The Earl of CLANCARTY complained that
the Noble Lord had attacked him ungene-
sous's, and stated that the object of the Bill
in 1795 was to provide education for the Roman Catho-
Ilea of Ive:and, aid he cone:-ive,l that this additional grant

would only tend to increase the spirit of insubordination,
which had been encouraged, if it bad not been altogther
elicited, by the proceedings at Maynooth.
Lord BEAUMONT said the Noble Earl had dis-
played the most deplorable ignorance of the Catholic
religion if he conceived that one tetet of that religion
had been altered. The object of the grant in 1795 had been
to furnish education for the Roman Catholics of
Ireland. The people of Ireland were dependent
upon their priests for their education, and the object
of this grant was to improve the education of the priests,
and conseciu,.ntly of the people. The very reasons which
justified the Bill of 1795 justified also the grant of this
year, Bat if the Noble Earl wished to make any state-
ment, a Noble I)uke wou►d present a petition to morrow,
and then, in accordance with the custom of the House,
he n;ight enter into a discussion of the principle.
RAILWAYS.

Lord BP.OUGHANI presented a petition from seve-
ral persons in Manchester, Nottingham, and other
places, largely interested in railways, complaining that
their property had been most materially injured by
the alterations made in the mode of management
by the directors, and he would take that opportunity of
stating that he entirely differed from the petitioners, for
he thought if they chose to risk their money in these
speculations, they should not complain if their trust was
abused.
Lord BROLTG HA NI also presented a petition from the
churchwardens of the parish of Hardwich in the county
of Berk, in favour of the grant to Maynooth.
CONSTABULARY FORCE OF IRELAND.
'The Marquis of NORMANBY said it would be
recollected that a short tine ago he brought
under the notiee, of the House the circumstance
of an officer of the constabulary force having re-
sponded to a forbidden toast, at a iinner by the High
Sheriff of Armagh. He believed that his Noble i,riend
the Secretary for the Colonies had some informaion to
communicate to the lions-.
Lord STANLEY' said he had made inquiry into
the subject, and found that after the late
ass'zes at Armagh, the High Sheriff sent an
invitation to dinner to the high constable of the
district, who was however unable to attend, and the
-.invtation was therefore extended to thr:e of his
officers. Two of these officers attended the dinner in
plain clothes, and the other in his uniform, and at
this dinner the latter officer certainly dud respond to
the toast of " the glorious and immortal memory of
William the Third." The Lord-Lieutenant of the
county therefore decided to remove this officer to an-
other part of the country. But at the same time they
were bound to admit, from communications which the
Government had had from Colonel 11PGregor and other
parties in Ireland, that the officer who had been guilty
of this breach of the regulations of the constabulary
force, had impartially discharged his duties, and always
kept himself aloof from politics.
The Marquis of NORMANBY expressed himself
satisfied
with the explanation, and the subject dropped.
THE BISHOPRICS OF ST. ASAP!' AND
BANGOR.
The Earl of POW IS brought in a Bill for repealing
the act uniting. these sees, and giving her Majesty power
to appoint a Bishop of Manchester.
The Bid was read a first, time, and ordered to be
read a second time on Friday, the 2d of
May.
Lord MON FEAG LE gave notice that at some future
ca rnenti,,ned in
stage of the Bill he should move, as a
counter-inot ion,
That the revenues of the Welsh Bishopr;,
the First R'port of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners
should be applied to the benefit of the
parochial clergy
instead of the Episcopal Fund.
, THE NIAYNOOTH GRANT.
The LORD CHANCF,LLOR presented a petition
from Dublin in favour of this grant.
Lord Ctunpbeil, Lord Denman, and Lord Hardwiele,
pre:en,til petitions against the grant.
Lord CANiPBEI.I. presented a petition from the
tradesmen and shopkeepers of Pontypool, against the
Bill passed last session, for abolishing imprisonment for
debt under 201.