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eburation.

MR. CHARLES CHARLES BARBER'S CL ES, at the
ROYAL INSTITUTION, me t the usual hours;
in addition to which, he is for -ig CLASSES for
SKETCHING from NATURE. he Terms and Time
may he known on application at his Residence, Waver-
tree, or at the Royal Institution.

LESSONS ON THE PIANO-FORTE AN
SINGING.
MR. H. V. LEWIS (PROFESSOR OF 'SIC, from
the Royal Academy, London) be, . to inform the
Gentry and his Friends of Liverpool its Vicinity that
he has REMOVED from 14, 'rton-street, to 3,
KNIGHT-STREET, WEST DE' Y-ROAD, where he
continues to give LESSONS on the PIANO-FORTE,
ITALIAN and ENGLISH SINGING.

For Terms apply to Mr. LEWIS, at his Residence, 3,
Knight-street, West Derby-road, and at the Principal
Music Shops.

SINGING.
MR. RYALLS, PROFESSOR OF GING,
82, CHATHAM-STREET, respectful announces to
the Nobility and Gentry of Liverpool its Vicinity he
has now made arrangements for rece. ng a limited num-
ber of PUPILS.
Terms may be known at his Residence, as above.

MRS. ELLISTON begs to announce to her Fri.
the Nobility and Gentry of Liverpool and
nity, that her ACADEMY-will REOPEN on,
the 14th August,- at her Rooms, the ROI"
Rooms, 17, Great George-street.
Mrs. ELLISTON, in addition to hieC4LISTHENIC,
will this Season introduce the GRE AN EXERCISES,
which have received the approval and recommendation of
the Faculty in London, together with some entirely new
PARISIAN STEPS.
Paris, July 29th, 1843.-
Hotel de Richelieu.

ONDAY,
ASSEMBLY

PARISIAN SYSTEM
FOR DANCING, CA LIS I'HENICS, &c., &c.
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From the Royal Opera, Paris, and Her .Majesty's
Theatre, Italian Opera House, London,
MOST respectfully announces to the Nobility, Gentry,
and the Public of Liverpool and its Environs, that
(Mons. CHAP having retired from business) he is now at
liberty, and has commenced giving INSTRUCTIONS ia.
DANCING, Calisthenic, Classical Gyi
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of the body. In order to forward a accelerate the in-
struction of the Pupils, (now retarded by the present
narrow and monopolising custom,) Mons. SIMON will
follow the Parisian System, (pursued at the Schools of
et
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and Public Pensionnats,) giving Lessons Three times a
Week. The advantage the Pupils will receive from this
liberal method of instruction, needs no comment.
Mons. SIMON begs leave to announce, that his ACA-
DEMY (on the above liberal system, " e. i.," 36 Lessons
in the Quarter, instead of 2.1, as heretofore,) IS NOW
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HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY.

The Duke of CLEVEI,A ND presented a petition, praying
for the establishment of a new see of Manchester.

IRISH CHURCH.

Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition of which he had
given notice, upon the subject of the Irish church.
This gave rise to a conversation, in which the Earl of
Wicittow and the Marquis of CLA NRICARDE expressed
themselves favourable to the payment of the catholic
clergy by the state.

CORONERS BILL.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved, that this bill be read a
third time.
Agreed to. Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY.

Several unopposed bills were advanced a stage (amongst
which was the Austrian Slave Trade Bill.)
The house ordered the committal to Newgate, in pur-
suance of the report of the Epworth petition, of Samuel
Potts, for forgery of petitions presented to the house.
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND BENEFICES BILL.
The second reading of the Church of Scotland Benefices
Bill was moved by Sir J. GRAHAM in a speech of great
length, in which he entered into an historical view of the
question, from the time of the reformation down to the
present time. In answer to the objection, that the bill
was " too late," he said that the government could not
interfere while the Church of Scotland was in opposition
to the law of the land; but, that objection having been
removed by the acts of the assembly, the present measure
was now introduced in the hope of securing and building
up a church which he believed still retained its place in
the hearts and affections of the people.
Mr. WALLACE opposed the second reading. He con-
sidered that the bill being brought in in the month of July,
so late in the session, was as great an affront to the peo-
ple of Scotland as the a,A of Anne, which had been passed
with such breathless haste. The bill, instead of removing,
would tend to create, doubts and litigation hitherto un-
known. There was no petition in favour of it; and, if it
passed, the majority of the inhabitants of Scotland would
secede from the church. He therefore moved that the
bill be read a second time that day six months.
Mr. B. COCHRANE opposed the bill.
Mr. RUTHERFORD also expressed his surprise at the
bill being brought in at this late period of the session.
Formerly Scotland was blessed with a church which had
the entire confidence of the nation ; now they were to be
cursed with a church which commanded the confidence of
none. He lauded the conduct of the ministers who had
seceded, and felt proud of his countrymen when he con-
sidered that for conscience sake 200 licentiates of the
church had renounced what would have been the highest
object of their ambition. If the bill were to be brought
forward at all, it should have been introduced before the
secession ; but, in the present temper of the people, it
would only aggravate the evils, and drive more of its mem-
bers from the established church.

Sir W. FOLLETT differed from the hon. gentleman
as to the propriety of introducing the bill before the seces-
sion. No government could sanction or satisfy the claims
of the non-intrusionists, as they sought the total abroga-
tion of patronage, and even taught that the church courts
could setat defiance the acts of the legislature. The present
measure, whose object was the removal of doubts, was ac-
ceptable to the general assembly, and those adhering to the
established church.

Lord J. RUSSELL complained of the House of Com-
mons, enacting a declaratory law contrary to the opinion
of Lord Cottenham and the highest legal authorities in
the land. According to this bill, a clergyman might now
preach, any body might object, but there was no power in
any one to come to a decision. This bill, then, by its
enacting part, gave a new and dangerous power to the
church. It gave a judgment to the church courts on the
objection of two or three persons, against the opinions of
all the rest of the congregation.
Sir G. CLERK believed the practical effect of the bill
would he to induce the patrons to use a greater degree of
care in the selection of their candidates. No petitions had
been presented against the bill, nor had any presbytery
expressed an opinion adverse to it.
Mr. F. MAULE thought this was not a measure calcu-
lated to aid the church of Scotland, but to further the
cause of that which he called the church, by creating
diflerences in the church established by law. The main
objection to the bill was that it gave power to the church
which ought not to be placed in their hands ; and it was
that objection which led those who had seceded to refuse it
in 1810. This bill would only prevent those from seceding
whom it was not worth while for the church to retain, or for
the seceders to accept.
Mr. A. CAMPBELL with great warmth opposed the bill
as most unconstitutional, and most unworthy of a conser-
vative government.

Mr. H. JOHNSTONE hailed the bill as a great boon to
the whole population of Scotland.
Sir R. PEEL had heard no objection to the bill on the
ground that it was at variance with the general usage of
the church, or the general principles of the law. His be-
lief was that the bill was acceptable to a very large portion
of the people of Scotland ; he believed that the secession
from the church would have been much larger, if her ma-
jesty's government had refused to interfere by legislation.
The impediment of the veto act had been removed, and he
trusted a large body of the house would support her ma •
jesty's government in their attempt to abate a tremendous
evil to Scotland and to the cause of religion.
The house then divided, when the second reading was
carried by a majority of 98 to 80.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY.
MORTMAIN.

Lord J. MANNERS called the attention of the house to
the restrictions imposed on private charity by the law of
mortmain, contending that they ought now no longer to
fetter the benevolence of individuals. Ile reviewed the
statutes on this subject, down to the 9th of George 11.,
and contended that they have become impolitic in a state
of things in which rebellion is rife throughout the land,
engendered by distress and ignorance, of which these laws
obstruct relief. It might, perhaps, be feared that undue
influences would be exercised over dying men; but there
might be a limitation, allowing them to dispose of only a
certain proportion—say a third—of their property. In-
stead, however, of requiring the grant to be made twelve
months, and to be enrolled six before the testator's death,
the law might shorten those respective periods to one
month and one week. There were some institutions
which had been made exceptions ; but why should Green-
wich Hospital or a particular charity at Bath be thus
permitted to receive donations which a testator was for-
bidden to bestow upon a school or hospital in a manufac •
turing district? He wished to see a restoration, in some
sort, of religious houses ; without some monastic institu-
tions, he could not hope that any adequate relief would
be given to the great masses now labouring under such
fearful privations. He happened to know that at this
moment an elderly lady was desirous to bestow £25,000
for the building of churches ; and this donation would or
would not he valid as the testatrix should or should not
live over the winter. Many more such instances might
be specified. Calling upon the house to sweep away the
cobwebs of ancient legislation, and open the way for the
bounty of charitable testators, he concluded by moving a
resolution that it is inexpedient to continue the existing
restrictions.

Sir J. GRAHAM could not consent, at so late a period
of the session, and in so thin a house, to disturb one of
the great arrangements of the law of real property. Nor
could he agree in the expediency of establishing, in these
times, religious houses or monastic institutions. In such
a matter, too, it would have been more fitting that the
noble lord should have proposed a hill than a mere ab-

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stract resolution. Therefore, with all respect for the
motives and intentions of the mover, he must resist this
proposition.

- Mr. C. BULLER supported Lord J. Manners.
Sir R. INGLis could not join in the views of the mover,
least of all in his wish to revive monastic institutions.
Though there were restrictions as to land, personalty was
unrestricted ; and this kind of property had grown in
modern times to a bulk undreamt of by the makers of the
mortmain acts.
Lord JOHN MANNERS replied, consenting to wave a
division.
The motion was thereupon withdrawn.
IRISH CHURCH.

Mr. WARD then brought on his motion for an address
to the Queen, affirming the Church of Ireland to be among
the most prominent grievances of her people, and pledg-
ing the house to co-operate with her Majesty in a new
settlement of the.property of that church. The clear re-
venue of the Protestant Church was about £552,753,
being at the rate of about 15s. a head for each communi-
cant of the Establishment ; while the Regium donum to
the Presbyterians made provision only at the rate of about
Is. a head ; and for the Roman Catholics there was not a
farthing,. The existence of such a church was regarded
by the Irish not only as an injury, but as an insult. Being
men, they must be governed, and they could not be go-
verned thus. You could not thus govern 8,000,000 of
people, living in the midst of you, and knit together by
the bond of a common justice. He would propose alto-
gether to break up the present establishment of bishops
and archbishops in Ireland, and would look only to the
working clergy. He would legalize the titles of the Roman
Catholic Bishops, and restore the churches which had
been anciently taken from Roman Catholic congregations.
Some thought that the best course would be to transfer
the whole establishment to the Roman Catholics. That
might have been done at the Union ; nay, as late as 1825,
the priests were willing to accept remuneration from the
state; but this willingness had ceased. Some thought a
provision should be made for the Catholic clergy from the
consolidated fund ; but the objection to that was simply
that it would be impossible; the English and Scotch peo-
ple would never consent to it. As to the funds of the
church, he would place them, subject to existing interests,
in the hands of commissioners, and distribute them
among the members of the Establishment, the Presby-
terians, and the Roman Catholics, according to the num-
bers of each denomination.
Lord ELIOT said that Mr. Ward had admitted that no
man who voted for this address could stop there; and it
was, therefore, for gentlemen to consider whether they
were prepared to vote for the total destruction of the
Protestant Church. The question of a Protestant Esta-
blishment was also the question of a Protestant Sovereign ;
certainly, until the throne should be opened to the Catho-
lics, they had not the complete equality demanded on their
behalf. The total reveuue of the Irish Church, which Mr.
Ward had put at upwards of £552,000, was, in fact,
£432,123 ; and this sum, when distributed among 1396
beneficed clergymen, and 744 curates, gave an average
income of little more than £2Ol to each. Gentlemen
talked•of the Roman Catholics as if they were the whole
people of Ireland—treating the entire body of the Pro-

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testant proprietors as no part of that people. Mr. Ward
had said that the English and Scotch nations would never
consent to tax themselves for the maintenance of the
Roman Catholic clergy. Did he suppose those two na-
tions would ever consent to the abolition of the Protestant
Church ? The language now employed was strangely at
variance with the assurances given when the emancipation
was carried. There was then, on the subject of the
Church, a distinct understanding and compact, which it
would be a plain breach of faith in the government now
to violate.
The debate was then adjourned.