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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsnAy.

*A question was put to Mr. Hoeg by Lord JOCELYN,
as to the papers which the C.osuprot,,oill Ft.
producerec'orsu
etsipweeEtiansgt
India Comninv might feel d
the rec4ll of the Governor-General of India.
Mr. Hoop said; he was not the offical organ of the
Company. and had no authority to make any state
be
on the subject •, but he presumed the Directors would
invented by the coarse which might be pursued by her
Majesty's Ministers.
Mr. F. M AULE moved for leave to brine in a Bill to
rei:ulate the a !Ministration of oaths in the Universities of
Sc,or land. These oaths were er &ally intended to apply
to Episcopalians, but, they had long been allowed to fall
into de.nitude, and we e only now recivtd in order to be
enforced, tot against Episcopalians but Preshyrtrians,
owing to the recent schism in the Church of Scotland.
A s an illnstiatitn of the was in which the•e test oaths
were made tO'apply,, he stned, that when he was elected
Lord lltctor of the Uniy(rsitv of Glasrcw, tut ol jection
wss tal.en h'm net he lad joined the Free (hutch, al.
tht,ugh when Sir it. Peel west lected to the same honota-
hie positron. although kn-syti to he an Fpikopalian, no
test whatever was applied to hint. His °Wen was that
prorepsnrships might he told by qualified men without ti e
applicarinn of any illiberal test, with the exception of the-
ological professorships, with whit'', he did not propose to
interfere.

S r A. L. Hair seconded the motion.
Sir J. GRAHAM said, that the. Commivsion of 1830. 01,-
pointed to inquire into the s ate or the Universities In
Sc.:Cant!, had report.-d the necessity of a more e.trit4..ent
application of th- t. t. Eli e-p.diaits. it, w:is tt ne. hi.d
occasionally filled cffices in Ile, UniverAtes, hot no Pre:—
byteriatt Dis“ n'er had r heee alh;vird to fill ;env 0+
the proieesoe ships. A fact nI it it I.e witch rest et le (I, though
he rowel I e f -I, I,tetrt to tern o.r tit V eit the s;ift.p.ods of
the Clooell of Scot a ti win-et he -aw the orn-n Dort I ty to
it avowed by ti e edhip•iits of the Free Ctintet, and abet)
he r;(;Genibt red the jalpe:ruittee Lf the cow-

pact by which the Universities and the CLut.cii of Scotland
were declared t() be for ever united. The right hon. baro-
net condoled by declaring himself opposed to the intro-
duction of :he bill.

Mr. ItUTHERFURD said, it was a scandalous spectacle
to see these trips applied to a man like• Sir David-Brew-
st!,r. By maintaining the test, they were rendering the
Church of Scotland sectarian in the worst sense of the
term.

The LORD ADVOCATE contended for the necessity of
retaining the tests, which was the mire necessary because
of the !-xtentof the late secession in the. Scotch Church,
although h, did not admit that that. secession comprised
anything like two-thirds of the spopuhrion.
Sir (v. CLERK warned the Engrish gentlemen in the
lriuse that if this motion were carried they _would soon
have a similar afienipt—indeed the hon. member who had
last: spoken had already such a motion on the paper—to
abaish the oaths in the Universities of England.

Some discussion ensued, in which Mr..M'Kenzie, 'Mr.
Baon,rcnan, Mr. P. W. Stewart, Mr. Colquhoun, Mr.
Hume, and Mr. F,rbes took part; after which Mr. Pox
Made replied, and on a division his motion. was nega-
tived by a majority of 128 to 101.
The house adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY.

The Masters and Servants Bill went into committee.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved as an amendment that the
bill be considered in committee that day s'x months.
Sir J. GRAHAM thought its defects could be got rid of
in committee, and that when perfected it would be a use-
ful measure, he therefore supported . it. . .
97
After some further discussion a division took 'place,
when there arpeared—
For going into committee
Against it• The bill was lost amid considerable cheering.
The house was counted out soon after.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--THogsna.r.
Earl FITZWILLIAM gave notice that he would, on
Tuesday next, move an address to the crown, praying her
majesty to appoint a committee, with a view to the issuing
of a commission of inquiry as to the points of the country
it was desirable to connect by railways.
Lord CAMPBELL moved that the house should resolve
itself into committee upon his bill for allowing defendants,
in whose case a writ of error may he obtained, to put in
hail for their appearance to receive sentence, in the event
of the decision being unfavourable, instead of at once be-
coming subject to the punishment imposed by the court
appealed against.
The LORD CKA NCELLOR denounced the bill as a
scarcely disguised attempt to procure for Mr. O'Connell
and his co-traverser s a further exemption from the punish-
ment. which, in pursuance of its public duty, the court by
which they hsd been tried was about to impose upon
them, and vigorously resisted a measure which, even on
general grounds, be showed to be a means of defeating the
ends of justice.
In this view the house appeared to coincide, for after a
few remarks from several noble lords the bill was sum-
marily rejected.