district; but there is no gentleman in the country feels himself in a state of security.  There is, however, one test, to which I wish to bring the noble Secretary of State.  I want to know this—­has he, in any one case, carried into execution the provisions of the Tithe Act?  Is there a single instance of any tithe having been collected by Government under that Act?  If the clergy are to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund, and that Act is not to be enforced, I must say that the noble Lord may make what boast he pleases as to the state of Ireland; but there is no man who will believe one word about the tranquillity of Ireland, until the noble Lord can produce evidence of the collection of some tithes under that Act.

What I want to see is, the affording of some security to property—­some protection to life; and that some assurance should be given to the peace of the country being established and preserved.

July 3, 1832.

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Necessity of conciliating the Protestants of Ireland.

I come now, my Lords, to that part of the subject which is certainly very painful to me, because I conceive it to be that in which I may say the Government has been much to blame; and that is, their treatment of the Protestant Church of Ireland.  My opinion is, that in the treatment of that Church they have certainly thrown the Protestants of Ireland entirely aside.  There is no doubt whatever that the Protestants, who, like other classes of men, were more or less divided amongst themselves, are now nearly unanimous in their opinions upon the subject of the Government.  They are nearly all of them, at the present moment, opposed to the Government—­irritated by a strong sense of the injury done to them, and the insecurity of their situation, which is certainly most painful to everybody who wishes well to the union between the two countries.

July 3, 1832.

The Church should Educate the People.

We have the Established Church—­we have the Established clergy; and the whole law of the country is, that the clergy of the Established Church should have the charge of the education of the people, particularly of Ireland.  But, under the proposed system, the schoolmaster is simply to teach the obligations which are due to society from every individual, and the pupil is not to refer to divine authority for those obligations—­he is not without permission to refer to that alone which can render those obligations binding.

July 3,1832.

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The Duke of Wellington’s Government opposed to the Appointment of Otho as King of Greece.