would not be unsatisfactory to their lord-| ships, if it were understood that on those days an adjournment should take place at four o'clock. The Earl of Donoughmore deprecated the idea, that even on such days there should be no House in that interval. He should think it was the duty of their lordships, particularly of the members of his Majesty's government, to attend regularly, and to preclude any complaints of a House not being kept. gentleman when he introduced this Bill a few days ago, that he congratulated the House upon the efficacy and success which had attended the operation of the Bill passed last session, for the internal tranquillity of Ireland; and that the government of Ireland had not found it necessary to call into action one of them (the Insurrection Act) at all; and the other (the Preservation of the Peace Bill) was only acted upon in one district, that of Middlethird. Now, for his own part, he was not convinced, by the course of reasoning which had been adopted by the right hon. gentleman opposite, nor could he bring himself to think, that the necessity for a measure was proved by its never having been put in force, or its utility established, by its never being called for. The hon. and learned gentleman proceeded to avow himself to be one of those who still remained unconvinced of the necessity of those coercive measures towards Ireland; indeed, he confessed that he was more strongly impressed than before with the ill effect of the bills which were enacted last session; and under this impression he would, at no distant period, propose an inquiry into the state of Ireland, provided no more competent and better informed person expressed himself prepared to undertake that task. The Lord Chancellor said a few words on the occasion, observing, that the remark of the difficulty of keeping a House together (which it did not depend upon him to do), did not apply to cause days alone, but to other days in the week, and seemed to deprecate the want of a better attendance. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Monday, November 21. MILITIA.] Sir Samuel Romilly gave notice, that on Monday next he would call the attention of the House to the continuance of the embodying of the militia after the termination of the war. Preparatory to this consideration, he would beg leave to move for returns of such militia regiments of the united kingdom as had been disembodied since last May; the times when, and the places where, they had been disembodied; and the numbers of those who remained embodied since that time: also of such regular regiments as were disbanded since May; the times when, where, &c.; with the amount of their present establishment.-The returns were ordered accordingly. IRISH SUPERINTENDING MAGISTRATES BILL.] Mr. Peel moved the second reading of the Bill to amend an Act passed in the last session of parliament, intituled, "An Act to provide for the better execution of the laws in Ireland, by appointing superintending magistrates and additional constables in counties, in certain cases." Mr. J. P. Grant said, he could not refrain from adverting to this subject, although a better opportunity would perhaps be afforded him for entering into its merits, in the event of his bringing forward the measure of which he gave notice at the close of last session, for an inquiry into the state of Ireland. It had been said, as he understood, by the right hon. Mr. Peel did not think it fair for the hon. and learned gentleman to confound the two Bills under one bead. He (Mr. Peel) had certainly stated on a former night, that the most beneficial consequences had flowed to the country from the enactment of the two Bills; but be could not concur with the hon. and learned gentleman, that the non-enforcement of one of them formed any reason to suppose that its enactment had been unnecessary. It was in the recollection of the House, that when he had moved for the introduction of those Acts, he had distinctly expressed his fervent hope that the Irish government would not be compelled, by the necessity of the case, to resort to their enforcement. He felt pleasure in stating, those hopes had been realized; and the Peace Preservation Bill had only been acted upon in the Barony of Middlethird, and then after a call for that purpose of the magistrates and gentry of that county, in a meeting of which lord Llandaff was chairman. He had not stated, however, that complete tranquillity prevailed in Ireland, and from thence argued the justification of the Bills; and whenever the hon. and learned gen tleman thought proper to introduce his motion, he should be prepared to prove their necessity when called for, and their efficacy in restraining violence and out rage in those parts where crime had usually predominated. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. TAXES.] Mr. Bennett, from the Exchequer, presented at the bar, the following Accounts: An ACCOUNT of the INCOME of, and CHARGE upon, the CONSOLIDATED FUND ;—for the Quarters ending the 5th of July and 10th of October, 1814. An ACCOUNT of the Net Receipt of the PERMANENT, ANNUAL, and WAR TAXES; for the Years ended the 10th October 1813 and 1814. were ROMAN CATHOLICS.] Sir J. C. Hippisley on the subject. Mr. Francis Plowden, moved for the production of copies of the who valued himself on being considered Resolutions of the Roman Catholic pre- as the historian of Ireland, but whose hisJates of Ireland, of the month of January, toric pages were more known by their 1799; and also for a copy of the letter of bulk than their accuracy, had written a Monseigneur Quarantotti, of February, very diffuse eulogy of the Order, in which 1814, addressed to Dr. Poynter. He ob- he had been educated. It was in Russia, served, that orders of the House had been he exclaims, that this pianta si cara' made on his prior motion, at the close of flourishes in all its vigour, where it has its the last session; but, by some accident, general, its professors, &c. Certain it the orders had not been complied with, was, that in Russia the Order did exist, though the motion was made with the and was now confirmed by the papal acquiescence of the noble viscount, to bull. But Mr. Plowden had suppressed whose office those documents had been the intimation of the real circumstances transmitted. Sir J. C. Hippisley observed, attendant upon it. The Jesuit colleges that he was the more anxious to renew the existed, and they were obliged to receive motion, as the papers were in themselves pupils, without distinction of religion; but highly interesting, and so much misrepre- a priest of the Greek church was also apsentation had obtained on the subject of pointed to each college, to instruct the them, and indeed on the general subject youth in the principles of the national rewhich had been so often before the House. ligion. The Jesuits were interdicted from He had to regret that a very valuable instructing the pupils, not of their own compilation, by W. Poven, of the Temple, communion, in the doctrines of the Roman on the subject of the ancient jurisdiction Catholic church. Examinations of the crown, was not to be obtained by held, at which the priests of the Greek the same means, though it was deposited church assisted; and no communication in the office of the secretary of state for with the see of Rome was permitted, withthe home department. He had the satis- out the express authority of the state. faction, however, to know that the report Sir J. C. Hippisley said, he could extend would shortly be published, and very this head of instruction to great detail, in valuable information thereby derived to opposition to what was so industriously the public, materially elucidating the propagated to mislead the lower and illquestion of Catholic claims. Another informed classes of the Catholics, esperescript, of no light import, had lately cially in Ireland, not only in reference to appeared, which he could much wish to the Jesuits, but to the whole subject, as have been able to put on record, in the far as it was connected with restrictions same manner, in the collection of docu- obtained by every state; such as he had ments upon this subject. He alluded to often noticed in that House, and such as the papal rescript, or bull, for the resto- it was the object of the committee he had ration of the Jesuits-a subject which, moved in a former session, to substantiate. when noticed by him only in prospective In adverting to the fate of that committee, on a former occasion, had been treated though it could not but excite his regret, with considerable levity; though at the it was unaccompanied with any other feelsame time a right hon. gentleman, now ing of a personal nature. The right hon. absent on a diplomatic mission, (Mr. Can- gentleman, whose great powers had been ning) admitted that the revival of the called forth to frustrate the motion, had order in England, after its abolition in since urged its renewal; but this sir J. C. every Catholic state, was of a very alarm- Hippisley had declined, for it was for miing nature, if substantiated. The impro- nisters only to assure the success of it. bability of such a revival, therefore, He was ready to assist, but not again to could be the only ground of its being so originate it. In whatever view the sublightly treated on that occasion. The ject of concession was to be considered, as fact, however, was now no longer to be to its extent or limitation, he was assured controverted. A bull had appeared, au- there was no other adequate means to thorizing the revival of the Order in every promote consistent legislation, but to restate, in the plenitude of its original in- sort to this preliminary measure of invesstitute. Sir J. C. Hippisley said, he wish-tigation. Before he sat down, he could ed to draw the attention of the House to this fact, more particularly in consequence of the misrepresentations that had gone forth not but in conscience submit to the consideration of his Majesty's ministers the distressing situation in which many fami |