The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-18 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY.

On Theinoii;iiof Sir H. FLEETWOOD the Preston and
Wise-Railway Bill was read a third time and passed.
On the motion of Mr. M. PHILIPS, the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway Bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. DILLON BROWN presented a petition from the
catholic archbishop and priesthood of the diocese of Tuam,
against the national system of education in Ireland. The
petitioners stated that they considered the education of the
people of that diocese was exclusively vested in the catholic
clergy, and that, such being the case, they could not give up
what they conscientiously believed to be their rights.
Mr. LAW moved that the petition be rejected. He thought
the hon. member stated that the petition was signed by a per-
son calling himself the Archbishop of Tuam, and thereby in-
curring penalties under the statute. Would the bon. mem-
bor be good enough to state if that were so ?
Mr. D. BROWNE : It is signed " John M`Hale."

Mr. LAW : How is it headed?
Mr. D. BROWNE : It is stated to be the petition of the
archbishop and clergy of the diocese of Tuam ; but it is not
signed by John M'Hale, describing himself as the Archbishop
of Tuam. . .

Mr. LAW : The objection arises upon a petition which is
described u that of the Archbishop of Tuam, some person
hiving falsely assumed to himself that title.
.31r. O'CONNELL rose, and exclaimed with great vehe-
nience, " The word falsely is inapplicable. It is false to say

-7Sir R. INGLIS called on the Speaker to protect the house
from the hon. and learned member. That hon. and learned
inember was unrestrained by any thing out of that house ;
but he had now dared to designate a statement made by his
hon. friend, the Recorder of the City of London, and member
fit the University of Cambridge, as false. He trusted the
illeaker would call on the hon. and learned member to with-
draw.the expression—to apologise to him—to apologise to his
lion. and learned friend—and to apologise to the house.
The SPEAKER said, that the hon. and learned gentleman,
iqk he understood him, had used an expression which was most
diiorderly ; and it was only necessary to state that, to induce
the hon. and learned member to retract the expression, and
to, apologise to the house.
Mr. O'CONNELL said, the moment the Speaker had of-
fered such an opinion, he should at once withdraw it in the
fullest manner.
A discussion ensued, in the course of which Lord JOHN
RUSSELL said, that there was the statement at the head of
the petition'that it was the petition of the Archbishop of
Tuam, and the hon. member for the county of Mayo had said
that he was not authorised by Dr. M'Hale, norby the clergy
signing the petition, to withdraw that designation ; and this
placed the house in a position of considerable difficulty—(hear,
hear)—for it was assuming a title before the house, which
title parliament could not recognise.—(Hear, hear.) How-
ever much he should regret so doing, yet, if the question
were pressed to a division, he (Lord J. Russell) must vote
against the reception of the petition.
The house divided, when there appeared—For receiving the
petition, $2 ; against it 165 ; majority against accepting the
petition, 83.