The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . e nnconti-adicted, had beenmet with abuse, and the imputation of selfishmotives. He now demanded inquiry into thecharacter of the books from which its teachingwas derived, and the effects of that teaching;and he proceeded to show from the text-booksthat were used, and from recent proceedings ofthe Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland, that thecollege had not corresjionded to the expectationsand intentions of the founders. The motion ofMr.
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . e nnconti-adicted, had beenmet with abuse, and the imputation of selfishmotives. He now demanded inquiry into thecharacter of the books from which its teachingwas derived, and the effects of that teaching;and he proceeded to show from the text-booksthat were used, and from recent proceedings ofthe Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland, that thecollege had not corresjionded to the expectationsand intentions of the founders. The motion ofMr. Spooner was met by an amendment of , in which he moved that the consi-deration of the committee should be extended toall enactments now in force, whei-eby the Ie-venue of the state is charged in aid of any eccle-siastical or religious purposes whatsoever, witha view to the repeal of such enactments. Thiscounter-proposal, like a wedge, split the Protes-tantism of the house into its two antagonist divi-sions of state church and dissenterism, fromwhose contention Popery had ere now derivedits strongest chance of safety. The debate was Vol. The Earl of Abekdeen.—From a portrait by Desmaisoiis. continued by adjournment over the 24th ofFebruary, and the 2d of INIarcli; and the damag-ing effect of the amendment was conspicuousthi-oughout, and resolved itself chiefly into thequestion whether churclies should be endowedor not. The original motion was defeated by adivision of 192 against 162, and the amendmentupon which the debate was continued was ne-gatived by 262 to 68. The subject, thus set to rest in the House ofCommons for a season, was taken up by the lordson the 18th of April, inconsequence of the Earlof Winchelsea movingfor a committee to in-quire into the .systemof education pursued -atMaynooth. His lord-ship traced the late Papalinsult to our sovereign,and indeed most of theevils of Popery, to thecanon law, according towhich the pope assumedtemporal as we
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