The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-22 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1833.

THE proceedings in. the House ;of Lords on Tuesday
night in Committee upon the Irish Disturbance Suppres-
sion Bill were not of much interest. In the course of
a short discussion before the house vent into committee
on the Bill, Lord Cloncurry made some observations on
the MagiStrates of Ireland, and, among others, on those
of Carlow; upon which the Earl of Limerick observed,
" that the noble lord ought to be more cautious when he
received evidence from the Priests of Carlow." When
Lord.Cloncurry "denied that he had said he had any in-
formation from Priests." Whether his lordship said he
had any information from Priests is a matter about which
at this distance, can know nothing; and, by all the
rules of courtesy, we are bound to believe he did not
say so. Putting out of view for the moment, the. curious
events connected with the earlier period of his lordship's
life, We should wish, if we were near him, to ask the fol-
lowing questions
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Does v his lOrdship knew a residence in the County
Carlow knOwn by the name of Braganza ?
Has his lordship any intimate. acquaintance with a cer-
tain Right Rev. Priest who occupies that residence ?
Has his lordship been in the habit, as well at Braganza
as at his own mansion and elsewhere, of discussing
with that Right Rev. Gentleman •the state affairs of
Ireland, temporal and spiritual? •
Dues his lordship remember a period in the summer of
last year, when the distressed peasantry of
:Kildare,
Carlow,and• some other counties allowed the hay of
certain Protestant landholders to rot on the ground,
rather than accept high wages fur "saving" it
Does his lordship remember that the practice, so ori-
ginating -against the Protestant landholders of his
neighbourhood, shortly reached his own property; and,
finding the shoe pinch where it was not intended, whe-
ther he felt it to be his interest, if not his duty, to

Apply for measures of relief and protection to an illus-
trious person in Ireland?
Will his lordship be pleased to. state how much of the
relief which he obtained on that occasion was afforded
by the high temporal authorities, and how much by
the spiritual authorities ; and whether or not lie
believes that, without the interference of the latter
that of the former would have been unavailing ; and if
he has said so, or to that effect ?

If his lordship would deign to favour us with answers
to the foregoing questions, we should be inclined to trou-
ble him with a few more, which might carry back his re-
collection to circumstances occurring somewhat nearer to
Dublin Castle than the Counties of Kildare or Carlow.

Whilst we are asking questions we should like to put
two or three to His .Majesty's Ministers.
Ii is a little singular that the same week which brings
about a proposition for the destruction of the Protestant
.Church of 'II eland, furnishes us with intelligence of an
attack on the Hierarchy of France, precisely of the same
character. What we should like to know on this subject

Whether any, and which of the confidential agents of the
British ministry or the Citizen King of France, was
charged with the arrangement of these sudden and
siniultanpous movements in the legislatures of both
countries?

Permission to bring in the Irish Church Spoliation
Bill Wa S given on the 12th instant. That Bill is not yet
introduced. The Irish Disturbance Suppression Bill.was
first proposed, brought in, and read a. first timd on Fri-
day last—read a second time on Monday—passed through
Committee on Tuesday—Report ordered to be brought
up yesterday (Thursday)—and it will propably be read
a third time and passed in the Lords; sept to the Corn-
m Ons and read a first time there, this evening. Next week
this Bill is likely to be part of the Law. On this subject we
s:iould be glad to be informed—Why so long, so unusual, a
time is sabred to elapse bet Ween obtaining leave to

bring in the Church Spoliation Bill, and its presenta-

tion to the House ?
Has the Disturbance Suppression Bill been first brought
'forward as a tub, to 'divert the attention of the Pro-
testants of Ireland and England from the consideration

Of the Church Spoliation Bill ?
Are the details of the latter so strong that the Ministers
find it convenient to have the Disturbance Suppression
Bill ready to prevent any meetings for petitioning

against the Spoliation Bill, by the Protestants lin any
part of Ireland ?
In short--except for that purpose, and in cases of the

greatest atrocity, is it intended to enforce the provi-
sions of the Disturbanea. Suppression Bill in Ireland ?
We ask these questions for information—we may have
occasion to return to the subject. •

REPEAL OF THE UNION.—We have lately heard much
about the Repeat of the Union with Ireland. Upon a
calm and deliberate survey of the whole matter, the real
question, in our judgment, seems to be—whether we are
to have the Repeal of O'Connell or of the King's Minis-
ters...- We say the real question is this—Shall the Repeal
take place on the violation of the third, or on that of the
fourth and Nth articles of the Act of Union between
Great Britain and Ira,aud ? •

. In order to enable our readers to form their own judg-
ment,upon this most vital question, we will occupy rather
more of our space than we can conveniently.spare .in
:an abstract of the 40th GEO. 3rd, c. 67, com-
monly called the "ACT OF UNION."
This Act consists of eight articies, with two Schedules of
countervailing duties, and three supplementary articles.
•What we shall give here is really nothing more than
the heads of the different articles,: with the exception of
the third and fifth, which are tiVen entire, and such por-
tion of the fourth as, applies to ,our subject, in the body
of the act; with the first, and part of the second of the
supplementary articles.
AaTicLi FilCsT—Enacts the -Union of the two kingdoms from

the Ist January,
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Aa ricLE SECOND—Limits and s3ttles the succession to the

Crown same a& for Great Britain.
A tifICLE TI11111).—" Tina it be the third article of Union, that
sue said United Kingdom be represented sst tine and the lame