The Sun. — 1849-07-11 (London, England)

SHERIFFS (WESTMORELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a second time and passed through Committee. The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-part One o'clock.  Mr. REYNOLDS expressed his regret at the speec' of the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, for unt that moment he had thought that the Hon. Gentleman was for relieving the people of Ireland of the members of the Established Church, instead of being an advocate for tinkering the temporatities of the Establishment. Ile had often heard that St. Patrick was an Irishman— that he carne of decent people—that in point of fact he was a gentleman ; but until that evening he certainly was not aware of his having been a Protestant.—(Laughter.) He should not say a word, God forbid, of his Protestant friends and neighbours, but an illustrious countryman of his, namely, Dean Swift, had spoken of the Bishops appointed in his time in the following terms: —" No blame rests with the Court for their asp ,intwants, and excellent and moral men were selected for all vacancies, when they occurred, but it unfortunately hap petted, that as the worthy divines crossed Hounslow heath, they were robbed and murdered on the highway, and those who did a seized on their robes, and patents of appointment. came over to Ireland, and were consecrated in their stead."—(Roars of laughter.) Thest, were the lineal descendanta of St. Patrick. Let thtm now see how the rest got on down to their own time. ['he Hon. Member for the University of Dublin (Mr. Hamilton) talked of averages, and asserted that the Church was not so rich as it was thought, for the clergy, on an average, had only 1721. 19s. lip. per annum. But some had only 501. And as to averages, when the corn-law was about to be repeal'-d, it was asserted that on an average every man, woman, and child in England consumed a certain quantity of beef and mutton daily. whereas in point of fact it was well known that thousands of these same people never ate a morsel of one or the other from year's end to year's end.—(Laughter.) It was precisely the same with the parsons. Well, there was another view of the case, showing how these aver-1 ages told. The following summary was taken from a paper called the Daily Reporter, giving an account of the sums of money paid to the Established Church of Ireland:—Archbishops, 151,1271. 12s. 4d.; Deans, 22,6241. ss. 6d. ; ministers' money, 10,0001.; making altogether, with glebe lands, an aggregate sum of 807 5331. 12s. 4d. to which should be added 75 0001. a year paid to Trinity College.—(Hear.) Then, again, those lineal descendants of St. Patrick— (A laugh)—paid the common dent of nature, and then came the probate duty paid by their heirs, which he found in. another public d mument, up to July, 1832, as follows: Fowler, Archbishop of Dublin, 150,0001.; Beresford, Bishop of 'foam, 250,0001.; Agar, Bishop of Cashel, 400,0001.; Stoptord, Bishop of Cork, 250,0001.; Bernard, Bishop of Limerick, 250,000/. ; Hawkins, Bish tp of Raphost, 250 0001.; and several others, making in ail a.suna of 1,575,000/. as probate duty. He did not mean to insinuate .that those Bishops were substituted for the persons robbed on Hounslow-heath, but they certainly feathered their nests very well. The Right Honourable. Gentliman the Secretary of State for the Rome Department made a speech of which he did not approve. Now, as regarded the appropriation of revenues, he repudiated the idea of appropriating to Catholie purposes any portion of it. His religion was not to be sustained by the mammon of iniquity. The Hon. Gentleman, after reading an extract of a speech of Earl Fortescue, pointing out the grievances of the Established Church in Irelai,d, concluded by thanking the Honour. able Member for Middlesex for the able manner in which he brought the question forward. Major BERESFORD denied that the sum attributed to the Archbishop of Tuam, on which probate duty was paid, amounted to 250 0001. When the statement was first made, he applied to his relatives, and received the most distinct refutation, for it only amounted to 40,000 L, and not 250,0001,, as had. been, asserted. Mr. REYNOLDS explained. The document to which he referred was a public one, and as to the amount of probate duty, it was to be had at the Stamp-office. Mr. J. O'CONNELL denied that the people of Ireland were indifferent to the monster grievance of the. Established Church, and protested against any endowment being made to the Catholic Church. Mr.