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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-22 00:00:00

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In support of t
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would be dis
and those who

rom the petitio

saw that it would be quit(

consent of the hous

to this bill, they would be compelled to go still
d to withdraw from the people of Ireland that
they had now enjoyed for 50 years, and to
Lord Ast,ley
hat this mea-
-1 th D..

still attached gr--'
into a long ar

;ument to prov

,oy the Protestant r

urch establishment in Ireland. He contended
history did not in the slightest degree justify

tie took a rapid review of the observations of every mem-
ber of her Majesty's government upon that point, although
some of them had turned away from it, as if they had seen
a snake in the grass ; and he inferred from that review
that all their vague and indefinite phraseology was ren-
confidence in his own religion as to ben, dered perfectly clear by coming to the conclusion that,
be the more supported, the more the people were enlight- not perhaps this year, nor the next, but four or five years
ened by a sound and useful education. He considered hence it was the determination of her Majesty's Govern-
that this increased grant would soothe the feelings of rnent to propose a state endowment for the Roman Ca-
those educated at Maynooth, and that it would be a tholic Church of Ireland. Such a measure, according to
blessing not only to them, but to the country, of which a well written article in the Journal des Debals, would be
they were the religious teachers, as the harbinger of peace the greatest revolution in the policy of England which
and tranquillity. He regretted that Lord Ashley should had been made since the reformation. He fully concur-
have entirely neglected the merits of the bill, and should red in that assertion, and so did the petitioners against
have indulged so lavishly in the startling fancy that it was this measure. He then respectfully asked Sir R. Peel to
intended to endow the Roman Catholic, and to destroy answer before the close of this debate, whether this mea-
the Protestant church. The excellent Protestant states• sure was intended as an end, or as a beginning, and whe-
men who originally founded Maynooth bad never had any t'ber for the education of 500 priests for Ireland, or for the
nth gloomy forebodings. He could he no party to such endowment of the whole Roman Catholic Church? He
nVagiOn of the rights and property of the church as asked him further, whether, if such endowment was not
hich Mr. Ward intended to recommend ; and he immediately within his contemplation, it was consistent
"at there was no truth in the allegation that the with his principles that a Roman Catholic Church should
'he be endowed, as such, by a protestant state? The house
had been warned of the consequences of rejecting this

nent ; for it was not till the lights-of science
nation broke in upon the inhabitants of the

living lunr

that w

and monasteries, that they burst the cerecloths
ace in which tbey were buried, and became the
cries of the Christian world. He hid such
e that it would

it was prop,

sing a gran

iucation, was departir

ciples which it 1-)-a-df

appropriation of

t church of Ireland to

an Cathr

Already

of Lord As

t of the Ron

torious tha

uld not ac-

cept it
an inc(

inal not only to their own want

ley had alienated from diem the protestant
feeling of the country ; and by so doing had lost the
power of governing it with effect. Let them beware lest,
by losing the confidence of their subjects at home, they
impaired the source of their streLgr b abroad, and so sunk

Sir:R. PEEL would

ich, thot

review the cours

All fears, thet
and, as this roe
of the Protest

searded

yond the

of the de-

its evens

part of Ire
withuut delay

is the pres

ss of consequences iu the exercise of a conscien-
icb, tions duty. He honoured them for this, however he

one, was not protracted

f the subject

Many ()f the op.

use to adopt it