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sons who knew nothing about it; and little did those
persons think, that if they succeeded in destttoying
that Church, their property, when its. Clergy wcte
once withdrawn, would never besecure or safe. Many
interests were intermixed and bound tip with the
Established Church of the Sister Itingdom. W:th
respect to tithes, mote particularly in the North of
Ireland, he knew that the Clergy did not receive one
twentieth of the rental which the landlords got.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN was certain that the
Noble Earl opposite would have no objection to
tnodify the Bill.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL could assure their Lord:
ships, that he entertained no prejudice on either side.
He had neither favour nor partiality for'the present
Bill ; and he left it entirely in their Lordships' hands.
Viscount CLIFDEN was opposed to the Bill. It
provided for the raising of taxes, for such were
Church-rates, among a population not friendly wale
Church ; it was, therefore, a matter not to be touched
but with great tenderness, and never to be run upon
in this way. It would be curious to reckon the com-
pal ative number of Protestants to Catholics, and
how many of even the former went to chutch at all.
Lord REDESDALE was convinced, that as the
taw stood, the parishes in Ireland were bound to re-
pair their Churches when in decay. If these hap-
pened to be no parochial Church, they were, in like
manner, bound to build one.

The third reading of the Bill was then agreed to
be•postponed to Monday next.

LIMERICK CITY REICLATIaN.
The Earl of CLARE moved the third reading of
the City of Limerick Local Regulation and Titra-
tion Bill. He hoped that their Lordships would begin
the happy work cf reformation in Ireland, by pro-
ceeding to pass the present Bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR was apprehensive,
as far only as his knowledge of one portion of the
Bill enabled him to judge, that if he were required
to give his opinion, he must say non-content to it.
He, besides, had not received she printed evidence till
the middle of the day, when, exhausted with speak-
ing on an appeal (Daff v. Fife), he was unable to
read it over so as to satis.-.), himself a; to the neces-
sity for passing the present Bill. From some clauses
in it, however, there was not a single Corporation in
the United Kingdom that might not apply to Parlia-
ment for a similar Bill without consulting the Char-
ters first granted by the Crown. Was any kind of
misapplication of the Corporate Funds sufficient to
warrant the.passing of such a Bill ? Suppose an alter-
ation of a Charter to be wanted, it was not until the
Crown had refused to amend the same without suffi;•
cient reasons, that a
.Corporation could call for the -
interposition of Parliament. He therefore moved
that the Bill be read a third time oir Monday next.
Lord REDESDALE took the present to be in
reality a Private Bill, and he believed it was the very
first application of the kind which' called on their
Lordships to pars an entirely'new la* for the pur-
pose of altering the Charter as granted by the CroWn.
The Marquis of I, A NSDOWN objected to 'the
postponement of the Bill. It appeared that all the
evidence was upon the table of the House ye:,terslay,.
with the exception of the two last sheets, and it was
expressly on this account. that bis Noble Friend had
consented to defer his motion to this der, on the well
Lrounded assumption, as it wasunderstood, that their
ordships would "be preparedtodiscass the Bili now.
When -he-looked at the present state of the SesaiOn;
and the situation of the other House, he eould not
willingly.be induced to risk the passing of. the
by yielding to the motion far eostponargif. Al tq
tho newness of the subject and the want of. inforstta-
tion with respect to it. there we:e reports from the
Commons s•h:ch might have supplied much tf the
information now asked for. An interei most intense,
an excitation of 80,000 persons prevailed On this subs'
jest; for all the people of Limerick, all excepting the
Corporation there—who wished for no supervision
in their latitude of rower for laying on tares iOr the
making and repairs of roads—all else, without ex-
ception, were anxious and earnest that the present
Bill should immediately pass into a law. Nothijr
could be more unfounded than the assertion that (hi
Bill contemplated the alteration of the Char ter of the
City of Lime:ick. It was wished, on the contrary,
to recover those chartered"tights, the Corporation
books relatin to then) having been subtracted, or,
as the Scottisi lawyers night say, abstracted, by the
Corporation themselves; s.i that only four corpora.
tive books remained out of five; the fifth, of course,
being the one presumed to favour those who possessed
it ; the four others have either been mislaid or •
destroyed. Thus, in this state of irresponsibility r n
one side, and irremediabl-sness on the other side, had
the inhabitants of Limetick, for the last twenty cr
thirty years, been sti uggling to wrest from the Cor-
poration the performance of their proper duties. But,
as he had observed, the fifth book could be found, and
had been produced ; and for this reason, that Wit had
not, after all, been forthcoming, the Corporation must
have for feited their own right to act. But he hoped
that their- Lordships would never lend their counte-
nance to the furtherance of a system so pregnant with
abuses, whose accounts had bcen audited by a public
Idefaulter' and that defaulter, too, entrusted with those
accounts for a year after his defalcation was known.
Was, then, Parliament to sit idle, and give no remedy.
susof their Lordships
: llin
protecting the inhabitants of
adpr sayLde forin t b
eyre tsltris in Bil
pl
iMelitic, and ail Noble Lords, he hoped, were in-
chit-tette redress their grievances. - It was upon these
grditicii he pressed the passing of the Bill; and hoped
their. Lordships world not interpose the delay, if
avoidable of even a single day.
The LORD CHANCELLOR -hire repeated • the
'assurance at to his not having seen the evidence till
"two o'clock this day 'He owed a duty to the Croliti•
as it respected hit Charters ; and all he asked %Vas
Merely time pa read both the Bill and the eviderrie,
`were .it even :at the sacrifice of Sebbatie req". If
the present Bill passed, there was no knowing where

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