to the commissioners when the assessment for the year
was made on a larger sum than his profits amounted
to, in order to meet the wishes generally expressed to
that effect.—Col. SIBTHORP (who had given notice of
an amendment to the same effect) called upon the house,
amidst cheers and laughter, to joy over the repentant
sinner.—Mr. DISRAELI thought his honourable and
gallant friend deserved great credit for his ability and
perseverance on this subject, and that the Chancellor of
the Exchequer had also manifested great good sense and
good feeling in acceding to the proposal.—After some
conversation the clause was brought up and agreed to.
The bill, as amended, was agreed to, and ordered to be
read a third time on Monday.

On the motion that the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption
Bill be committed, Mr. URQUHART moved, as an
amendment, the following resolution:—"That the act
of the Pope, in dividing England into dioceses, and
appointing bishops thereto, was encouraged by the
conduct and declarations of her Majesty's government."
The hon. member said he did not mean this as a vote
of want of confidence in her Majesty's government,
though the conduct they had pursued might well justify
the house in expressing its censure on them; and he
challenged them to show that they had not by their
measures encouraged the Pope to take those steps of
which the people of this country now complained. His
object in making the motion was to get rid of this
bill altogether, which must be regarded either as a
nullity or a persecution—a nullity if it were not
intended to be put in operation, or a persecution if it
were. A debate of considerable length was followed by
a division, whereby Mr. Urquhart's resolution was
negatived by 280 to 201.

On Monday, the 12th, the discussion was renewed as to
the mode of proceeding with the Ecclesiastical Titles
Bill. Mr. Moore raised a technical objection to the
course adopted; contending that, as a bill relating
to religious matters, it ought to have been founded on
resolutions of a committee of the whole house—The
SPEAKER gave his opinion that the bill did not require
this formality.—Mr. REYNOLDS moved an adjournment
of the debate, which was negatived by 179 to 53.—Mr.
LAWLESS then moved an adjournment of the house, and
this motion was rejected by 145 to 36.—Mr. M. J.
O'CONNELL then spoke in opposition to the bill on its
general merits.—He was followed by Mr. KEOGH, who
traversed again a considerable portion of the argumentative
field which had been passed over at previous stages.
Recurring to the point of the encouragement given by our
government to the step of the holy see which they now call
an insult, he stated a new fact which occurred under his
own eye at Rome, where he happened to be when all this
mischief occurred. He did not know whether Lord
Palmerston was aware of the fact. When Cardinal Wiseman
was created Archbishop of Westminster there was great
rejoicing at Rome, and a general illumination. We have a
consul there, and over the doors of his mansion are the
British arms. That dwelling Mr. Keogh saw brilliantly
illuminated in honour of the appointment. " A British
subject, the British consul, the representative of the
British government at Rome, illuminated his mansion
in honour of the appointment of a Bishop of Westminster!"
Was the see of Rome to be under the impression
that nothing would be so distasteful to the British
government as that appointment for which the British
consul had illuminated his mansion? He would warn
Lord John Russell, that by this bill he may arouse
again in the people of Ireland, who are just emerging
from the consequences of pestilence and famine, and
perhaps just reaching the shore on a frail plank, the
fanatical spirit of sectarian animosity, and may involve
them again in another twenty years' struggle. If indeed
that struggle should come, the result will be, as it was
before, victorious to the people of Ireland; for never
will they sheathe the sword until they deprive those,
who oppressed them of the power of oppression.—
Lord John RUSSELL replied to Mr. Keogh; that
gentleman had in strong language threatened the house
with the anger which would be excited in Ireland if the
bill passed; had threatened that it would be resented,
and the sword never sheathed till they had got the
better of their oppressors. "I am exceedingly sorry,"
said Lord John, "that members of this house, representing,
no doubt, a feeling that exists in Ireland upon this
subject, should consider this bill any violation of religious
liberty; but I do not think we are bound on that
account to part with a single particle of that authority
which is inherent in the crown of England, or of that
independence which is inherent in the people of the
United Kingdom. I know not what might be the
consequence if we were to give way to these notions—if
we do not preserve that sovereignty and that
independence." Lord John dealt with the legal arguments
advanced by Mr. Keogh, and answered his imputation
that the government is playing fast and loose, and will
never enforce the bill as a law, by saying that if the law
shall be infringed it would be the duty of the Crown to
enforce its penalties. Mr. Keogh had on a former
occasion expressed an honourable indignation at the
supposition of any such persecution as was directed
against the minister of Sardinia on account of the part
which he took in the Sardinian Parliament: "he seems
now to think that he has been misled with respect to the
facts; let him be sure, that if those doctrines of the See
of Rome—not the doctrines of the Roman Catholic
religion, not the doctrines which have ever prevailed in
France, but those political doctrines which Rome has
endeavoured to extend over Europe, and which are
totally different from anything belonging to the doctrines
and opinions of Roman Catholics—let him depend upon
it, that if such maxims were to prevail in this country,
he, Roman Catholic as he is, would not enjoy half the
freedom, half the power of expressing his opinion, half
the liberty of coming forward in this house to argue in
any cause which he thought it his duty to argue, that
he now does under a Protestant constitution." Lord
John concluded:—"I must again aver that this is a
political measure, directed against a political
encroachment; and that we will not suffer that the name of
religious liberty should be prostituted for the purpose of
covering foreign aggression."—Mr. BRIGHT retraced
the history of the agitation from the Mansion House
dinner downwards. After all the speeches made, however,
whether in the house or out of it, there had been
no clear definition of the wound said to have been
inflicted on this country, or of the remedy which should
be applied. The language of the Papal rescript was
such as had been used by the See of Rome since the
days of Hildebrand, and was rather of form than
substance. The Pope had always ignored the existence
of the Church of England, and necessarily so, taking the
same view as the Church of England did of dissenting
sects. He contended that the creation of bishops would
really do much to relieve the Roman Catholics from
that ultramontane influence of which so much had been
said. He looked on the danger as purely imaginary, and
the whole matter as one of sentiment. He proceeded to
point out the evil effects of this bill, which he anticipated
would be felt for years to come.—Mr. SCULLY moved
the adjournment of the debate.—The house divided,
for the adjournment, 54; against it, 365; majority
against, 311.—Mr. O'FLAHERTY again moved the
adjournment of the debate.—Lord John RUSSELL
thought the house might have been allowed to get into
committee on the bill, after the debates which had taken
up so many nights; but rather than keep the house
constantly dividing, he would assent to the adjournment.
—The debate was then adjourned to Thursday.

On Tuesday, the 13th, the members did not assemble
in numbers sufficient to form a house.

On Wednesday, the 14th, the "No House" of the
preceding evening, when Mr. Hume's motion on the
Suffrage was to have been brought furward, was noticed
by Mr. CHRISTOPHER, who taunted the supporters of
parliamentary reform and organic change with their
want of zeal and sincerity, as evinced by the fact of only
twenty-one members having been present at four o'clock
on the previous day, and of these, six only Radical
reformers.—Mr. HUME exculpated himself from any
charge of inattention or neglect. He had been engaged
all day on a committee, which broke up on being informed
that the Speaker was at prayers; but the room
in which they had been sitting was so remote that he
could not reach the doors of the house in time to assist
in making up the tale of members.—Mr. REYNOLDS was