The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-03 00:00:00

THE CASE OF MR. MEYER.

Mr. HUME said he wished to put a question to the Right
Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment with respect to the case of Mr. Meyer, who was com-
mitted for trial for an assault, and for whom Mr. Twy-
ford, one of the magistrates at Bow-street, refused bail.
Mr. Meyer was a most respectable man, and his case hid
excited much attention on account of the peculiar circumstances
connected with it. Now he ( Mr. Hume) wished to ask if the
Right Hon. Baronet had inquired int• the circumstances, and
what steps he had taken to prevent a repetition of such con-
duct on the part of Mr. Twyford ?
Sir JAMES GRAHAM, who spoke in so low a tone
that he was' at times scarcely audible in the gallery, said
that his attention had been drawn to the case by the
vestry of Marylebone. Mr. Meyer it appeared had
been committed to prison and subsequently liberated, and
the grand jury had ignored the bill on its coming before them.
He had, therefore, called on Mr. Twyford for an explanation
of the reasons which had induced him to commit %Ir. Meyer
for trial. ILs explanation (so we understood) satisfied him
( Sir James Graham) that Mr. Twyiord had acted consi:tently.
The remainder of the Right Hon. Baronet's statement was
lost in the noise which prevailed in the House, and from the
low tone of his voice.
MEMBERS' DAYS.

Mr. WARD said; that seeing the Right Hon, Member for
Taunton (Mr. Labouchere) in his place, he would beg to a;k
him whether he would have any objection to postpone the
motion which he had on the paper for to-morrow. He had
himself a notice on the paper, which he had postponed for
several days, and as there was now only one day in the week
which was appropriated to private business, unless ho could
obtain this favour he should have no opportunity of bringing his
motion on at all. _

Mr. LAIsOUCHERE said, that though anxious to bring
his motion before the House, yet in consideration of the notice
of his lion. Friend he would heg to postpone his motion till a
future day.
BITABLE BEQUESTS' BILL.
Mr. ROSS said he was anxious to correct a misrepresenta-
tion which hsd arisen in Ireland, respecting what he had
stated concerning Mr. O'Connell. He did not say that Mr.
O'Connell did not possess the confidence of the Irish pe, ple,
but that what Mr. O'Connell had said was nut in accordance
with the sentiments of the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland.

MR. O'DRISCOLL.
Sir T. FREAIANTLE, in ireply to an Hon. Member,
said that he had heard to-day, from the Lord Chancellor,
that he had felt it his duty to issue a supersedeas to remove
Mr. O'Driscoll from the commission of the peace.
CHRISTCHURCH COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Mr. BLACKBURN said, that before the order of the day
was read for the Academical Institutions in Ireland Bill, he was
anxious to correct an insinuation which had been thrown out by
the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department
against the College of Christchurch at Oxford, in which he
said that the students at that college were not required to attend
any divinity lectures to: obtain a degree. He would state from the
rules of the College that there Were divinity lectures on Mon-
day, Wednesday, and Friday in every week, immediately after
chapel time, and he knew, of his own knowledge that many able
men had been refused their degrees because they were unable
to pass the divinity examination.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that the Hon. Member was
a much younger member of the University than himself. What
he had said was that when at Oxford he had been
neither advised nor compelled to attend divinity
lectures during the two first years of his attendance, that was
from 1810 to 1812. In the third year, however, he had been
required to attend them, and that was the first year when those
lectures were delivered.

ACADEMICAL INSTITUTIONS—IRELAND.
On the order of the day being read,
Mr. M. MILNES said that though labouring under severe!
indisposition, he would as briefly as possible state his
opinions to the House. The Bill before the House
was opposed upon two very different and distinct grounds, and
with two very different and distinct objects. For one of them
he entertained every respect, but he could not say so much
for the other. The first was, the opposition of his Hon.
Friends the Members for Oxford and Cambridge, which he
might call the Protestant opposition. Now he could not help
observing that this opposition came very ungraciously from
those Hon. Gentlemen, after their opposition to the Bill for
the endowment of Mavnooth. They refused to give any
education to the Catholics of Ireland, and now they ob-
jected to a Bill for educating the laity of Ireland. There
was another line of objection ; his Hon. Friend said
that this education ought not to be given unless it was founded
on religion. He thought that if they were to examine the
matter they would find that they did not use the word religion
in the proper sense. They did not use the word religion in
the sense in which the Roman Catholics would use it. They
desired that that religion should be peculiarly and especially
Protestant. They said that the Government must either
establish colleges in Catholic Ireland on Protestant principles,
or they will not consent to the colleges at all. His Right Hon.
Friend the Member for Cambridge said that no education was
sufficient unless founded on a religious basis; but he would
not allow them that intellectual education, unless they should
reserve to themselves the right of founding it on
their own domestic and religious instruction, with
which the Government did not think it proper to interfere.
They must trust the academical education of the youth of Ire-
land to the Roman Catholic clergy of that country.—( Hear. )
They might make some restrictions in the system, but it would
end in that. He appealed to what he had said both within and
without that House that he hal always considered the Roman
Catholic clergy of Ireland able and devoted men, and that their
only faults arose from their historical condition ; but they had
been too long occupied in what he might term practical mat-
ters, than to promote the cultivation of literature and of sci-
ence. If the youths in the west or in the south were members
of the Roman Catholic faith, it was only just that the professors
should be Roman Catholics. With respect to an observation
of the Hon. Baronet the Member for Oxford, he could say that
during the whole time he waa at that University he had never
heard the subject of divinity mentioned. He would rejoice
when Trinity College was placed on a wider field of competition.
He thought that the course which the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land had taken with respect to this measure was one which was
not calculated to advance the object they had in view. Let the
Roman Catholic Church of Ireland exercise as it did its legiti-
mate, fair, and independent influence over the country. Let
it extend over them its parental care—a care becoming the age
and time they found it existing in—a care becoming the period
of life to which this academical education was to be applied,
and they might depend upon it the sad results anticipated by
his Right Hon. Friend the Member for Oxford would never
come to pass.
Lord J. RUSSELL quite agreed in one observation made
by the Hon. Gentleman oho hail just sat down. Tbat Hon.
Gentleman had said that the measure made no pretence to
perfection. lie agreed with him in this, but he owned he did
not think it a merit in the Bill. He owned it would have been
better if the measure now brought before them had been less
carelessly prepared, and bad led, as he thought it would have
led, to the establishment of a complete system of education
in Ireland. He said this because he acknowledged that the
motives which had induced the bringing forward of this
measure was to provide for the happiness of the people of Ire-
land. He agreed that the object was praiseworthy, and he
differed widely from his Hon. Friend the Member for the
University of Oxford, who was one of the strongest objectors
to this Bill, but at the same time, on a revision of the different
provisions of the Bill, he could not but think that it still re-
quired much alteration and improvement to fit it for
the objects for which it was intended. He did not
consider the scheme recommended by her Majesty's
Government would avail for the purposes to which it was ap-
propriated. As respected Ireland he thought that the Ron,ati