§ The Report of the Resolution for granting the sum of one million sterling for the Arrear of Tithes (Ireland) was brought up.
§ On the Motion that it be read,
§ Mr. Humeprotested against this grant as a shameful charge upon the funds of this country, and as contrary to every promise held out in the commencement of the Session.
§ Mr. Littletonagreed, that the people of England ought not to be called upon to support the Irish clergy as a general rule; but the present money was granted under peculiar circumstances of distress on the part of that clergy; and, besides this, there was every prospect that the whole amount of the grant would be ultimately repaid into the Exchequer, and thus the country would suffer no loss.
§ Mr. Aglionbystrongly protested against the grant as most unjust, most impolitic, and most inexpedient. If the Irish clergy were so distressed as was described, let the over-fed portion of the clergy support their poorer brethren. The Irish Church Temporalities Bill had been in a great measure destroyed by the declaration that the Temporalities of the Church were to be dedicated solely to Ecclesiastical purposes; at any rate, let the support of these poor clergy be included in these Ecclesiastical purposes.
§ The House divided on the Question, that "The Report be read"—Ayes 34; Noes 15—Majority 19.
§ The Report was read; and a Bill according to the Resolution ordered to be brought in.
| List of the AYES. | |
| Agnew, Sir A. | Molyneux, Lord |
| Althorp, Viscount | Morpeth, Lord |
| Bentinck, Lord | Murray, J. A. |
| Campbell, Sir J. | O'Reilly, W. |
| Childers, J. | Penleaze, J. F. |
| Duncannon, Lord | Philpot, John |
| Ebrington, Lord | Plumptre, J. P. |
| Egerton, W. T. | Poyntz, W. S. |
| Ellice, Right Hon. E. | Shaw, E. |
| Evans, W. | Stanley, Rt. Hn. E. G. |
| Gordon, R. | Stewart, P. M. |
| Graham, Sir J. | Sullivan, P. |
| Hay, Colonel | Thomson, Rt. Hn. P. |
| Hyett, W. H. | Wood, C. |
| Inglis, Sir R. | Wood, G. W. |
| Johnstone, A. | TELLERS. |
| Kennedy, T. F. | Brougham, W. |
| Littleton, Rt. Hn. E. | Baring, Francis |
| Lowther, Lord |
| List of the NOES. | |
| ENGLAND. | SCOTLAND. |
| Beauclerk, Major | Wallace, R. |
| Blamire, W. | IRELAND. |
| Brotherton, J. | Blake, M. |
| Dykes, F. L. B. | O'Dwyer, A. C. |
| Evans, Col. | Ruthven, E. S. |
| Gisborne, T. | Ruthven, E. |
| Hall, B. | Vigors, N. A. |
| Hawes, B. | TELLERS. |
| James, W. | Aglionby, H. A. |
| Hume, J. |