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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL '22, 1845.

The house cf Lords met at Five o'clock.
A great number of petitions were presented against
the Maynooth Bill.
The Compensation for Deaths Bill was read a second
time, and their Lordships adjourned.

The House of Cummols met at Fuur o'clock.
New writs were moved for Derbyshire, in the room
of Sir W. W. Wv:INE ; and for Peebleshire, in the
room of Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE, who had accepted
office under her MAJESTY'S Government; and for Leu•
minstcr, in the room of Mr. GREENAWAY.

Several private Bills were forwarded a stege.
Mr. T. DUNcOMBE then moved to rescind the eleventh
Sfetion of standing order, No. 87, which requires Com-
mittees on Railway Bills to make a special report of the
reasons which induce the Committees to adopt or reject
the recommendation of the Board of Trade.
Sir G. CLEnK defended the conduct of the Railway
Department of the Board of Trade.
Mr. LABOUCLIERE thought the standing order had
been misunderstood by the Hon. Member for Finsbury.
A long discussion followed, in the course of which
Mr. BERNAL moved as an amendment that an address be
presented to her MAJESTY, that she be pleased that all
documents and statements relating to railway Bills be
laid before the House.

Mr. DuscomnE subsequently withdrew his motion,
and the amendment was agreed to without a division.
The order of the day for going into Committee on
the Maynooth grant was postponed till Wednesday; and
the other orders of the day having been disposed of, the
House adjourned at Twelve o'clock.

The whole British empire, India and the Colonies in-
hided, does not furniai such important and difficult topics
of discussion as Ireland alone. Independent of jarring in-
terests, caused by the mode in which English dominion in
that country was obtained, and her sway continued, the
Irish Established Church is sufficient, of itself, to cause an
annual debate, which must increase every year in in-
tensity till the anuroaly is finally removed. The appro-
priation clause, the Maynooth establishment, the py-
ment of the Catholic clergy, and a variety of other
elements of disunion, all spring out of a grievance
which is every day more felt, and which is with-
out a parall:2l in the history of Europe. Last
evening, on the motion that the House resolve itself
into a Committee upon the appropriation to be made
from the Consolidated Fund for the College of May-
nooth, Mr. WARD was to have moved—" That it is the
opinion of the House that any provision to be made for
the purposes of the present Bill ought to be taken from
the funds already applicable to Ecclesiastical purposes in
Ireland." This is a rational proposition, and, if carried
into effect, would make the grant to Maynooth even
more popular than it is with the whole of the Catholic
population; bat we see no prospect whatever that such a
just, necessary, and decisive measure will be adopted for
many years to come. When the list of the division is
made out somo curious transpositions of names will ap •
pear. Sir R. INGLIS'S party, of course, will retain their
original position, but the supporters of Sir R. PEEL'S
scheme must change sides, and separate themselves
from the Whigs and Liberals who voted with them on
Saturday morning. Then what is to become of those
Members who oppose the grant on religious grounds,
and especially on the ground that there should be no
endowment at all for any church establishment ? To be
consistent they must still cling to the skirts of Sir R.
INGLis, for they cannot, according to principle, vote any
money in support of an idolatrous faith, or of any faith
whatever. The result, of course, cannot for a moment
be doubtful, and the motion of Mr. WARD, unless it had
been preeeded by one of a more practicable character,
would only have added another insult to the Irish people.
and made them despair of justice from the Imperial Par-
liament. Thanks to the upright conduct, the sound judg-
ment, and the wise policy of the statesmen of all parties,
this great calamity has been averted, aed
one of the main grounds for a repeal of the union has
been undermined. True, it is hope deferred—but
still there is hope, the last consolation of the wretched--
and from the manly, statesmanlike, and conciliatory
speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as well as the discreet
silence of Sir ROBERT PEEL, on Friday night, Ireland,

and the friends of Ireland, may reckon with certainty
that the days of that unsightly fabric, so injurious to
Protestantism, and such a source of endless bitterness—

the Church of Orangemen—are numbered ; and, if not.
swept from the country, it will speedily be so modified
and curtailed, as to remove all just cause of com-
plaint. The.work has already begun ; the principle of
adapting the staff and chief officers of this Church-mili-
tant to the purposes for'which it was intended, has already
been admitted even by the most bigoted and obstinate
member of the Cabinet, and when the principle is
granted, and we have to deal with rational politicians,
the details are of less consequence. Time, the in-
crease of liberal opinions—and, above all, the
rapid change which has manifested itself ami. ng
the rising generation of Conservatives—will yet
complete this great work of justice and mercy. The
prospects of Ireland never were so bright. SLe Las
brought over all the statesmen of the day to her snle.
She will yet be placed on a footing with Scotland, ard,
to the honour of her leaders, and the spirit of the age,
she will, unlike Scotland, obtain her rights without
shedding a drop of blood.

We have accounts from Madrid to the 13th inst. The
Chamber of Deputies was still engaged in discussing
the estimates, most of which had been passed with little
opposition. A letter from CORTINA, who is in France,
was read, in which he called upon the Chamber to de-
cide on his return as Minister for Salamanca, and if
pronounced good he would present himself and take his
seat. The letter was referred to a Committee.
On the 12th the Three per Cents. closed at 35 11-16
at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 25f for cash, and 25i
at 60 days ; and tho Debt without Interest at 9 at
60 days.

The Paris papers state that M. GIIIZOT was seized
with sudden illness on Saturday. It was not, however,
of long continuance, as appears from:the following notice
in the Messager of that evening:—" The Minister or
Foreign Affairs was this morning seized with a slight
indisposition, a sharp pain suddenly rising in the region
of the liver, which yielded promptly to some slight re-
medies." In the Chamber of Deputies the Savings
Banks Bill was passed by a majority of 207 to 35. One
of the clauses enacts that the total amount of deposits by
one individual shall not exceed 1,500 f., but may be
allowed to accumulate with interest to 2,000 f. (800,
The interest is to remain the same, and also the time of
giving notice of withdrawal of deposits. Several of the
journals are still occupied with the Maynooth question
One of them, the Presse, has an article on the disputes
between England and America, and evidently would
rejoice if the English Government should be embar-
rassed with Irish discontent should a war take place
France, it says, would profit by a war. "We learn,'
says that journal, " from a certain source that the
British squadron recently fitted out at Portsmouth, and
placed under the orders of Admiral SEYMOUR, is in-
tended to act in the Pacific Ocean. The principal ob-
ject of this expedition is to be ready, in case of a rup-
ture between Great Britain and the United States, to
occupy, militarily, the ports and important positions of
the Oregon, and to capture the numerous Ame-
rican merchantmen and whalers. We are fe.r
from desiring a war, but it becomes us to
examine carefully the various chances which
either party has of success, although we would almost
dare to affirm that Great Britain will yield, as sbe has
always done, in presence of the menacing attitude of her
rival. But it is an historical fact that every time Great
Britain has yielded to America some advantage has
accrued to France. The treaty of 1783, by which the
Cabinet of St. James recognised the independence of
the United States, caused us to recover the possession
of Senegal, delivered us from an English Commissioner
residing at Dunkirk, and restored to Spain, our ally, the
Floridas and Port Mahon, which Great Britain retained
nearly a century. We trust that the example of the
treaty of Washington in 1842 will equally bear its
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