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parliamentary proceedings and parliamentary speak-

contained in its last num-

Morpeth's

bill, and illustrative of the talent, or the reverse, ex-

hibited by those

Members who took a part in the dis-
cussion, we extract the following—those of Mr. Fre-
derick Shaw and Mr. Daniel O'Connell. The series

is extremely well written—written, too, on the spot,
and evidently the production of no ordinary pen."

TO CORRESPONDENTS

" A Constant Reader" may rest assured that we will not
lose sight of the subject to which he refers ; but we cannot

possibly find room for his letter.
We respectfully suggest to Mr. POTTER the propriety of in-
serting his letter as an advertisement.
We have very reluctantly deferred, until Tuesday, the ap-
pearance of the " Verses by a Non-resident Clergyman."
`• A Protestant" will see, from the state of our columns, that

we cannot find room for his highly important letter, but
we expect to do so on Tuesday.

ETA Lt pool

FRIDAY

MORNING, MARCH 5, 1841

The annual grant to the popish college of Maynooth
is small in amount, but immensely large on the score
of principle; and we feel therefore deeply indebted to
Mr. Colquhoun for having prepared himself in the
manner he has done to bring the question before Par-
liament and the country. The London Morning Chro-
nicle, acting on the principle invariably pursued by the
factious journals and party in Ireland, to pervert every
measure designed to restrain the corrupting influence
of the popish priesthood into a supposed evidence of
hostility to the people, argues that the proposition to
abolish this grant is a clear proof of the " hatred" of
the English towards Ireland.

" In a nation like this," says that journal, " where
riches and splendour are almost worshipped, those that
grudge the Irish people the few thousand pounds that
it costs to buy a few books and a few potatoes for the
youth intended for the national altar, are actuated by a
spirit of the last degree of contumely and,outrage."
Now if the sum annually granted to Maynoc,th could
be entered in the.national ledger simply thus—

" Item—To books and potatoes for sucking priests,

£B,OOO

and there were no

ng unconscientious in the expendi-
ture, there are few that would think it worth while to
raise a controversy on the subject. But this is the
sort of sham-fighting by which everything vitally im-
portant in Irish questions is gotten rid of. "Don't
meddle with this, and don't meddle with that, lest you
provoke the papists—a most irritable race. Don't vex

them, or you can't imagine what will happen." But it

The more or less in the Maynooth grant is not at all
the question ; but whether, in point of principle, it
would not be just as culpable to grant sd. as .£B,OOO

port of su.

The foundation of

ruits o.

!iency, and it is

time for the nation not only to repent of its folly, but
to undo the act—so far as it may now be possible.
Discontinuing the grant merely will indeed be but an
inadequate atonement for the wrong done to the Irish
people—not to speak of that which has been commit-

lost High—by the original device,
and the sustentation of it for so many years; but, as
an evidence of a , right change of mind, it will be of

against the 3

the utmost value and importance

To grant money for the support of a popish college
would be a consistent act in a popish legislature; but
for a Protestant parliament and Protestant nation to
grant it, is a gross and palpable dereliction of princi-
ple. How can we complain of the poor Irish papist
who forswears himself in courts of justice, shoots Pro-
testant parsons or landlords, or takes up the arms of
rebellion against hii

overeign, whilst he believeS that
Protestanti are heretics, in persecuting whom he does
God service, and is persuaded that in taking a false
oath, provided it he for the good of his church, he
commits no perjury whatever; how can we complain,
we say, of the poor and ignorant doing all this, when
the priests teach them so, and it is we who teach the
priests, or pay for their schooling at Maynooth Col-
lege, which is the same thing?. Nor do we this in ig-
norance; for we are, or ought to be perfectly aware,
that thus it is that the priests must instruct their fol-