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iimprrial parliament.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

MONDAY

:f-Sir H. DOUGLAS rose, purseant:to notice, and at con-
siderable length called the attention,of the house to the
case of medical officers, surgeons, arid paymasters of regi-
ments, who have not been included inthe warrant issued
in July, 1846, consequent upon theuxotion made in April,
-1845; for an improved retirement to a-limited number of
medical officers, and all officers efuteghnental staff, to ex-
tend .to them, in limited numbers, thehenefits conferred
by warrants dated 1840 to limited numbers of officers of
all other branches and arms of the service; which motion
appeared to receive the unanimous approbation and sup-
port ofthe committee, and was °My withdrawn on an ex-
press assurance that the proposition, for an improved re-
tirement-to all officers of regimental staff, would be taken
into favourable consideration. The hon. member con-
eluded his address by stating, that having called attention
to the subect he felt satisfied in leaving the result to the
consideration of the house and her Majesty's government.
,Mr...F.4lAutu said the question was 'flue of such vast
importancoin relation to the public semice,that he called
upon the house to pause before it agreedtto any motion of
the hon. member for Liverpool.
After a short conversation the subject dropped.
Mr.Wimitt intimated that it was intended—to limit the
time of service for ships on that station to two years.
The Houseo.aen went into Committee of ',Supply upon
the, nayy e.stunr.tes, whereupon Mr. WlLiAdosii called the
attention of the committee and Government to the in-
efficient state ekmany of the ships in the ,service, and in-
,veighed against the yearly increasing estimates for the
naval departments, which he mainly attributed to the
ogross, jobbing, wlrich took place in the dockyards., and to
rthe extravagant wienditure of which they were thescene.

Lord Its6EsTniz agreed with the honourableAnd gal-
lant gentleman; that in some instances our doOkyards had
.bean the _scene. of ;gross and wasteful expenditure,., and
conwhipented the, Oevernment on the efforts which they
,were making to put, an end to an extravagance which was
tirAin upon the, exchequer and a detriment to the ser-
vice. He then addnoEd several instances in which he
maintained that our naval architecture had been at fault,
And: poioted out the, necessity of having none but scientific
men:acting in the capacity of officers in our dockyards.
He concluded by suggesting to the Admiralty the pre-
priety of procuring a naval survey to be made of the
Islands ,composing .the colony of New Zealand, without
which, life,and property:l)6ll,2ot be safe upon its coast.
Mr. WAAL, would not ent. into the vexata guestio of
shipA3uilding, on which such .e diversity of opinion ap-
waxed to
,prewil, but intimated that the suggestions of
the nahle ,lord „embraced
.points which were already re-
ceiviaff the.a4,Niats attention of :tile Government.

.14OUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

Mr. WA,LPQLE attained leave to bei,az in a bill to amend
the law 4 r the registxation of persons entitled to vote for
the electian of merabeza to serve in parliament for England
and Wales,

Mr. Mmerz then moved for leave to bring in a bill to
enable retail brewers, in the midland counties, to keep
open their hoases till twelve o'clock at night, the me-
tropolitan brewers Are permitted to do.
Sir G. GREY did not see the necessity for such -a mea-
sure, and could not, therefore, assent to the motion. It
did not necessarily follow that the time for which zeta,ll
brewers in London were allowed to keep their houses
open would be a reasonable time to extend to those in
the country districts.

Mr. MUNTZ would not give way, and on pressing his
motion to a division, it was negatived by a vote of 77 to 4.
Mr. CHRISTIE then moved for leave to bring in a bill
to remove doubts as to Quakers' and Jews' marriages,
solemnised before the 2nd day of March 1837.
Leave was given.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

.-WEDNESDAY

On the order of the day for going into committee on
the Roman Catholic Relief Bill,

Sir R. INGLIS renewed his opposition to the measure,
On the ground that it had a direct tendency to un-Protes-
tantize England, and to degrade its church. He appealed
to the Attorney-General as the first law officer of the
Crown, and asked him to declare whether this bill did
not virtually endanger the security which the country
enjoyed for the maintenance of the Protestant character.
He wished to know how far the Bill of Rights would con-
tinue to bind the sovereign, when the whole of the act
containing the Protestant declaration, exacted from the
sovereign on tip first day of his meeting his parliament
after his accession to the throne, and framed in conformity
with that celebrated bill, was repealed ? 'The bill, as he
had formerly stated, carol for nobody but Roman Ca-
tholics ; it provided fully for their ease; but, so far as
others were concerned, it left tbem quite unnoticed. Be-
sides, it was one of a series of aggressive measures against
the Church of England, and was calgaated, though not
intended to strengthen the church of Rome, which for the
last three centuries had been its unchangeable foe. Hav-
ing entered into some historical details, to prove that the
pretensions of the Pope to absolve subjects from their al-
legiance to their sovereign had been asserted during the
last 50 years as broadly as in the time of Gregory VII., he
called attention to the civil disturbances which had been
recently created in France, Switzerland, and Germany by
the order of the Jesuits, which this bill sought to legalize,
and which the act of 1821 sought to suppress, in this
country. After calling upon Lord J. Russell to remem-
ber the dying words of his illustrious ancestor, and not
" to assist in the progress of Popery," he concluded by
moving " That the house resolve itself into committee on
his bill on that day six months." -
The Earl of ttratay, Mr. ATIEIL, and Lord JOHN
MANNERS spoke in favour of the bill.
_ _

Mr. GOUL-BURN observed, that having been one of the
parties who introduced the Emancipation Act of 1829, he
could not lightly consent to violate the compact which
was then made. At present there was no great and ma-
nifest grievance to be redressed, for every speaker had ad-
mitted that the restrictions of 1829 were inoperative. He
did not think that the state should part with all power of
interference with the religious orders, or that it should
entrust well-educated individuals, dependent on a foreign
power in respect to their conduct, with every privilege in
this kingdom. When no practical evil existed, even in
the imagination of the supporters of this bill, it was im-
prudent to agitate a question of this kind, as it begot ill-
will and hostility, which did not pass away with the dis-
cussion. It was more especially imprudent to agitate it
now, when Protestants and Roman Catholics were aiding
each other in their efforts to relieve the distresses of their
common countrymen. After statinc, his objedions in
detail to several clauses of the bill, he'de',l-"red his inten-
tion to support the amend---

Lora .3ANDONT could not oppose the motion for going
into committee with the view of doing away with these
inoperative enactments.

After Mr. Watson had replied, the house divided, when
there were—for going into committee, 119 ; against, 158 ;
majority against 89, and so the bill was lost.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TRURSDAY

The House to-night occupied their splendid new house
for the first time. We give a description of it in another
column. There was fortunately very little business, for
so great was the throng of visitors, that it was scarcely
possible for the few peers who did speak to make them-
selves heard.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY.
To questions put by Sir J. GRAHAM,
Lord J. RUSSELL replied, that no alteration had been
made by the education minutes of 1846, relative to grants
made to schools not in connection with the National and
British and Foreign Societies. Previous to 1839 the rule
was that aid should be given only to schools in connec-
tion with these two religious societies. in 1839 it was
laid down by the committee of council, that they were
ready to consider other applications, but that such were
to be considered as specific cases. With respect to the
use of the authorised version of the Scriptures being
made the condition of aid to Roman Catholic schools,
the Lord President of the Council did not think that he
was precluded from considering particular cases, in which
that condition might not be dispensed with. But no such
determination had as yet been arrived at. The minutes
of 1846 excluded schools not using the authorised version
of the Scriptures from aid, although the minutes of 1839
did not. Therefore, no part of the vote to be taken on
Monday would be applied to schools not using the autho-

rised version of the Scriptures. The question of the
Roman Catholic schools would be considered, and should
it hereafter be decided to give them aid, minutes to that
effect would be laid on the table.