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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FNIDAY.

The speaker took the chair at three o'clock, and the house
was occupied for a considerable time in receiving petitions on
a great variety of subjects, but generally of no particular in-
terest or importance.

MAYNoOTH COLLEGE.

Mr. JACKSON presented a petition from the city of Cork,
signed by 700 respectable individuals, praying the house not to
make any further grant fur Maynooth college. The petitioners
stated that the grant had been originally made on the principle
that out of evil good might come; but the result had been the
production of unqualified evil. They stated that the priests
sent forth from Maynooth were most hostile to the protestant
doctrine and most violent in their efforts to propagate their own.
They also complained that those priests made themselves con-
spicuous at elections, and on all other political occasions. They
suggested that the cat holies of Ireland might very well support
Maynooth College themselves, as they were rich enough to do
so. The hon. member said he would reserve the observations
he had to make on the subject until the question of the grant
was before the house.
Mr. O'Dwysa said there scarcely occurred an election in
Ireland at which the protestant clergy were not distinguished
fur their violence and activity. Possessing, too, as they did,
the right of voting out of their benefices, they uniformly sup-
ported the anti-popular candidates.
Mr. SHAW said that no fair comparison could be made be-
tween the conduct of the protestant clergy exercising their legal
right to vote at elections and the violent proceedings of the
catholic priests on such occasions. They had only to look at
what was going on in Carlow to see what was the conduct of the
catholic clergy. (Hear.) Long and violent speeches weie
there made bx catholic priests, exciting the population to vio-
lence and outrage. Priests, too, were seen dragging freeholders
to the hustings. There was no such conduct ever exhibited' on
the part of the protestant ciergy;. indeed, if there were, it
would be most disgraceful. It was infinitely disgraceful to the
catholic priests. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL said he was sure the house would be glad to
bear that the information upon which the hon. member had
`made that statement was totally false. (Hear.) There were
catholic clergy certainly present at the Carlow election; he
supposed it would not be denied that they had a right to be
there, and one catholic priest seconded the nomination of that
most respectable protestant candidate, Mr. \rigors.' But there
was not a word in the speeches made by them, as reported in the
newspapers, that deserved the character given to them by the
correspondents of the hon. geutlemau. If they did say or do
anything to excite to violence and outrage, there were plenty of
persons in Ireland who would be most ready to prosecute a
priest for doing so. As men and citizens the catholic clergy
had a right to'come forward and take part in that election, par-
ticularly ss in the county of Carlow at that moment the Orange
landlords were carryin„e_on a most fiendish persecution against
the peasantry. But as to the protestant clergy, they interfered
in every election. (" No, no.") He would ask where was the
county in Ireland where they did not? He could name one
who was most active in his own county, Kerry. (‘• Name,
name.") He meant the Rev. Mahony, of Dromore.
(Hear.)
Mr. SHAw.—As the hon. and learned gentleman has thought
.proper to assert that my information on this subject is false, I
would call to the recollection of the house a recent occasion
when the hon. and learned gentleman made a similar statement,
and I would remind him and the house of the result of the in-
quiry that was made on that subject. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELI..—I would be glad to know to what the hon.
member alludes?
Mr. SHAW.—To the case of David Mu;phy. (Hear.)
BOROUGH OF STAFFORD.

Mr. DIVETT moved that the writ for the borough of Stafford
be suspended until the 3d of August.—Agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. E. J. Stanley, a new wilt was ordered
to be issued for Bury St. Edmund's, in the room of Lord C.
Fitzroy.