A remarkable feature of this debate was that the Catholic
Peers voted against the grant to their own Church. It is to be regretted they have no very good spokesman in the House—indeed, they have a tendency to neglect public business, office hitherto having been sealed against thetn,—but Lord Denbigh made their case pretty clear. They thought the proposal good, but thought it -would endanger the Bill, and preferred the Bill to the proposal. Lord Denbigh entirely approved the proposal, and acknowledged cordially the good feeling of those who had supported it : but, like his far-away kinsman the Kaiser, last year, he yielded to con- siderations of policy. Ile mentioned, in the course of his speech, that he had recently presided at a meeting of 1,000 Irish work- men, who, on account of this Bill, expressed the kindliest feeling towards England.
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