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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-10 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.--WEDNESDAY.

The Bishop of CASHEL alluded to ihe representations
of Lord Normanby the previous evening as to his (the
prelate's) charge and laid a copy of that charge on the
table to prove that he bad not said what was attributed to
him.

The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that about an hour
before the right rev, prelate had done him the honour of
sending him a copy of his Charge, and having read it he
must say it did not contain one word to which the noble
marquis had referred that evening, and which he had men-
tioned on a former evening. (Loud cheers.) It appeared
to him to be a regular eccesiastical Charge, such as a per-
son in the situation of the right rev. prelate ought to
deliver to his clergy. It did not contain one word that
was injurious to anybody, and he was convinced that
nobody could read it without receiving from it the high-
est satisfaction, and conceiving the greatest respect for
the right rev. prelate. (Cheers.)
Lord NORMANIIr refused to' withdraw what he had
said.

The adjourned debate on the Maynooth Bill was then
resumed, and after the Duke of Cleveland, the Earls of
Hardwicke, Spencer, and Charleville, Lerd Monteagle,
and the Bishops of Norwich and Sr. Davids had spoken
in favour of the Bill, and the Earl of Clancarty and Lord
Colchester against it,
Lord STANLEY, in a speech of some length, replied to
the various objections that had been urged against the
Bill. If students at Maynooth had been admitted to the
society of the Jesuits they were amenable to the law ; and
if the noble Earl who asserted this was cognisant of the
fact, and desirous of proceeding against them, they were
open to prosecution for misdemeanour, and liable to
banishment. For this purpose ►nquiry was not necessary ;
inquiry would be shop tiler useless ; but it would he more
than useless—it would produce an incessant and daily in-
creasing acerbity of religious animosities among different
c!a-ses of the Irish people. If he believed this measure
likely to injure the Irish Protestant Church either in its
temporalities or spiritual influence, he would not only
have refused his assent to it, but have been the first to
denounce and resit it to the uttermost. Ho did not
thi-Inittr.--Tre—utru hien asked whether the permanent
endowment of Maynooth would lead to the endowment
of the Roman Catholic Church. He said that was no
necessary or even probable consequence of this measure.
The permanent endowment of Maynooth would no more
lead to the permanent endowment of the Roman Catholic
Church than the annual endowment of Maynooth led to
the annual endowment of that Church. lie saw serious
obstacles to the endowment of the Romau Catholic
Church in the opinions, the feelings, and the prejudices
of the people of this country, and in the avowed opposi-
tion of the Roman Catholic clergy themselves ; hut reli-
gious scruples would not be a serious obstacle with him
on such a question. He believed if this measure had any
effect at all on the religion of the Roman Catholics, it
would not be to make more, but better, Catholics. No
new principle was involved in this Bill, and the sum they
were called on to pay was inconsiderable in comparison
with the magnitude of the objects to be gained. The
government wished the measure to be received in Ireland,
not as the harbinger of future measures, but as an indi-
cation of their determination to treat with kindness, con-
ciliation, and favour, the Roman Catholics, as they did all
their other fellow-citizens in Ireland. He believed it
would be so received ; he rejoiced to say it had been so
received in that country. It might not produce the
gratitude of those fanatical firebrands of the Church
whom no justice can conciliate, or of those political agi-
tators who, from mercenary motives, preyed on the dis-
tresses of their country. but it would secure the gratitude
of those through whom was our nearest road to the hearts
and affections of the people. lie had too high a sense of
the wisdom, justice, and patriotism of their Lordships to
doubt the issue.
Their Lordships then divided, when the second reading
was carried by a majority of 226 to 69. We give the
names of the peers who voted in another column.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TRVRSDAY.
Lord COTTENIIAM moved the second reading of the
Ecclesiastical Courts Bill.
The Bishop of EXETER moved that it be read a second
time that day six months.
A. discussion ensued, which terminated in a reference of
the bill to a select committee.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY.
The reports on the following railway bills were brought
up :—The Newcastle and Darlington (Brandling June-
Con), the Newcastle and Berwick, the Taw Railway and
Dock, the North Union and Ribble Navigation Branch
Railway, the Preston and Wyre Railway, the Blackburn
and Preston Railway, the Londonderry and Coleraine
Railway, and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway.
The Ely and Huntingdon Railway Bill, the Kendall
and Windermere Railway Bill, and the Guildford Junc-
tion Railway Bill, were read a third time and passed.
Lord SANDON presented a petition with 36,000 signa-
tures in favor of the Liverpool and Bury Railway Bill.
A discussion of some length took place on a resolution
of Mr. Labouchere, that a select committee be appointed
to consider whether the House could adopt, in the next
session of Parliament, any measures for preventing the
promoters of railway bills which it will be impossible for
the House to pass into law during the present session,
owing to their unusual number and other causes which he
specified, from being subjected to any unnecessary ex-
pense and trouble. It was terminated, however, by Mr.
',Aston C HERE withdrawing his resolution, and by Sir G.
CLERK proposing another, which the House subsequently
adopted, that a select committee be appointed to inquire
into the state and progress of the various railway bills
then before the House, and to report to the House what
measured it might be expedient to adopt in the next ses-
sion of Parliament to facilitate the reintroduction of such
railway bills as it may be found impossible to carry
through the two Houses of Parliament in the present
session.

On Sir R. PEEL moving that the House resolve itself
into committee on the Scotch Banking Bill,
Mr. P. STEWART observed that, though this bill was
by no means so dangerous as had been originally antici-
pated, he could not refrain from expressing his regret that
Sir R. Peel had attacked an institution which had hitherto
been considered as one of the best in Scotland. He had
no hope of being able to arrest the progress of the bill,
and therefore %trusted that the energies of Scotch mem-
bers would be irected towards the amendment of is
details in committee. He believed that the ultimate aim
of Sir R. Peel in bringing it forward was the suppression
of all local issue, and the estahli‘hment of one national
bank of issue in Scotland. If that were so, it would be
very objectionable in a financial, but doubly objectionable
in a political point of view. He pointed out the mischiefs
which would arise from passing the present blighting bill
into law, and on the part of Scotland deprecated the
manner in which it interfered on very insufficient grounds
with a system under which that country had flourished
for a century and a half, and which had exalted it from a
very poor into a rich community.
Sir R. PEEL complained of Mr. P. Stewart's endea-
vour to create a prejudice against the bill by implying
that it was his opinion that there ought to be only one
national bank of issue in Scotland. He showed that the
present measure was not too stringent towards Scotland,

but eminently favourable to its best interests. It bad
now been published for some weeks, and be had not re-
ceived a single remonstrance from any meeting in Scot-
land against it. He admitted that the banking system of
Scotland bad been much superior to that which formerly
prevailed in England ; but be saw no reason on that ac-
count from abstaining frown(' attempts to improve it.
The House soon after resolved itself into committee,
and the seven first clauses were agreed to.
The Merchant Seamen' Fund Bill was read a second
time.

HOUSE OF .COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
The Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Bill, the Quin-
borowe Borough "Bill, the 'Great North of England and
Richmond hallway Bill,-the Lowestoft Railway and Har-
bour Bill, the North British Railway Bill, and the Yar-
mouth and Norwich Railway Bill, were severally read a
third time and passed.
Lord ASHLEY moved for leave to bring in two bills for
the regulation of the cure and treatment of insane per-
sons in England and Wales. Tile noble lord in an able
speech enforced the necessity for affording greater protec-
tion than now existed to the lunatics in all paits of the
country, those residing oat of as well as in lunatic
asylums, and hoped that hie bills would meet with no op-
position in their progress through parliament.
Sir J. GRAHAM, with great satisfaction, seconded the
motion. The speech of the noble lord last session would
not readily be forgotten by those who had heard it, and
bad con►inced the government that it was a subject their
attention to which should be no longer deferred ; and,
accordingly, during the recess he had, in conjunction with
the noble lord, considered the subject, and the result of
their labours was then before the house. The bills of the
noble lord were not exactly government bills, but they
were brought in with the sanction of the government,
which had resolved to support them.
Leave was given to bring in the bill.