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London, England, 1845-06-03 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 2.
MAYNOOTH GRANT.
The Duke of WELLINGTON then rose and said that it
was his duty to reqaest the attention of their Lordships to an
important subject—to explain the principles and the nature of
the provisions of the Bill which he would submit
to their Lordships, and entreat them to carry it into
execution—namely the maintenance of that institution.
That institution was founded fifty years ago by the Irish Par-
liament, and that Bill contained a recital of the provisions of the
Acts by which it seas originally founded. It was regulated, he
found, in the year 1800, and subsequently in 1808. It could
not be denied—and he did not stand there to deny that those
Acts were inconsistent with the code of laws by which the Re-
formation was established in tt at country and in Ireland. But
although this inconsistency did exist with regard to the enact-
ment of these laws, he considered that he should be able to
show that, as respected religious principles, these laws
had not been complained of since the time when these
laws had been first enacted, fifty years before, or in
1800 or in 1808, to the present moment. In order
clearly to understand the principle on which this law was
founded he should call their attention to the state of affairs at
the Reformation. The necessity for this institution was occa-
sioned by the failure of the means for the spread of the esta-
blished reformed religion. The laws which had been passed
then had been found altogether incompetent, for from the
period he had referred to rebellion had succeeded to rebellion,
forfeiture of property had succeeded to forfeiture of property,
until this country had become, so to speak, the centre of opera-
tions of foreign and civil war, in contest for the possession of
its own—
The Duke of NEWCASTLE rose to order. He wished to
ask a preliminary question before entering in' o this discussion
—whether the Noble Duke had received her Majesty's sanction
for the introduction of this measure?
Lord BROUGHAM said that this was a most disorderly
proceeding. The speech of the Noble Duke was not to order.
It was an interruption which ought not to be tolerated by the
House.—( Hear, hear, and cheers, and great confusion.)
The Duke of NEWCASTLE thought the sanction of the
Crown was necessaris.—( Cries of " Order, order," from both
aides of the House. in the midst of which)
Lord BROUGHAM again rose, and said that he never
would sit in tha: House and allow any man to deny that they
had a perfect and undoubted right to open, to continue, and to
close, any ‘siscussion upon any measure. The leave of the
Crown was required in one caso only, and that was where the
revenues patrimonial interests of the Crown were concerned.
The J.lsalces of WELLINGTON and NEWCASTLE here rose
together itsvt there being unanimous and loud cries for the
former, tt Duke of Newcastle slave way.
The Duke of WELLINGTON continued—lt was either
from is own infirmity, or a want of clearness in the Noble
Duke s trl'io interrupted him, that he had not heard the question ;
other- Ass, he should, wit hout the:slightest hesitation, have replied.
1f,1,0v,-eassr, their Lordships wished, disorderly as had been
ti .e interruption, he would—(Loud cries of " No, no; go
Al.") He had sai 1 that this measure was carrying out the
•• „ 'li Irish Parliament in 1795.. After a long period
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