The Sun. — 1839-07-26 (London, England)

WADE. Bishop PHILPOTTek, the pastor of the poor, one of the direct successors of the lowly JESUS, would be more in character preaching peace, charity, and long-suffering in the Convention, than in fanning the flames of bigotry and persecution in the House of Peers.  The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in presenting a petition from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, embracing a majority of the Clergy of the Church, for the promotion of the Church Establishment in the Colonies, said that the wickedness in the Colonies was so great, that it was almost too shocking to speak of ; the only proof of which given by the Most Reverend Prelate was, that for fifty or sixty miles there was not one Church. What monsters those people must be, by this rule, who have only mosques. What an unholy earth, too, ours must be, for only a very small part of it is yet blessed with Anglican churches. The Marquis of NORMANBY and the Archbishop mutually flattered each other on their zeal for church-building, and the Bishop of LONDON laid it down as a rule that the Government was bound to meet the wants of the people in the colonies for churches and parsons. Heaven, in its mercy, help the Colonists, for should the parsons get firm hold of their broad lands they will turn society there as they have turned it here, into a den of strife. Lord MELaounNE, in answer to a question, admitted that the Turkish army had been discomfitted. Lord BROUGHAM asserted that it had been totally defeated. On the Order of the Day for going into a Committee on the Irish Municipal Bill, an instruction to the Committee was agreed to, for removing Galway from Schedule A. to Schedule B. The House then went into a Committee, and the alien Lord immediately went into a long statement of the mutilations he wished made in the Bill, and his reasons for making them. He first proposed to raise the franchise to 10/., next to appoint the Sheriffs by the Lord Lieutenant, and objected to the clauses transferring the power of raising money from grand to petty juries. He proposed that those towns only should have Charters which asked for them. His Lordship declared, in conclusion, that if his amendments were adopted he should support the Bill ; if they were not he should oppose it with all his power on the third reading. Lord BROUGHAM opposed Lord LYNDHURST, and was, in so doing, appropriately employed. After a comparatively brief discussion a division was taken on Lord LyNciiitinsT's amendment to raise the franchise to 10/., which was carried by 93 to 50. That destroys the merit of the Bill, and of course the House of Commons will not pass it. We are to have another mocking of the people therefore, but they arc getting tired of this ridiculous game of do nothing, if the Lords are not ashamed of it. The Bill, with other amendments, went through the Committee, and was ordered to be printed. The Church Discipline Bill was read a third time after some opposition on the part of the Bishop of EXETER, and a division, on which the motion was carried by 21 to H. After some preliminary matter of little interest and a brief dispute as to the order and mode of proceeding, the House of Commons went into a Committee on the Bank of Ireland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER entered into a very long history of the Bank of Ireland and of Irish banking. The Right Hon. Gentleman denied that the Bank of Ireland was a monopoly, and repudiated the principle of free trade in banking. Singularly enough the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER made the great demand which had occasionally taken place for gold in Ireland, deranging the circulation, while no such demand had been made in Scotland, with its system of banking, a reason why Ireland should not have the Scotch system. He went at great length into the evidence given before the Committee, and stated that he proposed to leave the exclusive privileges of the Bank within the same circle as at present, to continue the engagement with it till the engagement with the Bank of England expired. The interest now paid to the Bank of Ireland is 41. 7s. 6d. per cent., and this the CHANCELLOR proposes to reduce to3i-percent.,which will give the Bank of Ireland 23,000/. annually less than at present of the public money. He made it out that the Bank pays the dividend on the National Debt and other services, which put it to some few thousand pounds expense, and that seems to be all that it does for the power which the improvident CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is disposed to give it to tax the community to a considerable extent every year. As a bonus to the public, the Right Honourable Gentletleman proposes to relieve it of some of the existing bad laws as to banking. He called on the House, as the guardians of the people, not to allow them to injure themselves by trusting bankers ; or not to allow them, like the frogs, to commit suicide to save themselves from slaughter. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving his resolutions. Mr. HUME then made his exordium, and gave his view of the Bank of Ireland, which we have no time now to analyze, and concluded by moving a resolution to put an end to the privileges of the Bank. Mr. CLAY opposed Mr. HUME'S motion, and made a long speech on banking, which wanted the merit of being applicable to the question before the House. Mr. O'CONNELL opposed the CHANCELLOR of the ,  EXCHEQUER, and moved that the Chairman leave the chair. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON supported the