of the board of trade alone, with a salary of L5,000.
The most willing homage was paid to the great talents of Mr. Huskisson
by all parties in the house, together with the high value of his public
services; but the proposal was met by a decided opposition, on the
ground that the disjunction of the two offices was unnecessary, as
no active duty was attached to the treasurership of the navy. At
all events, it was urged, its duties might without inconvenience be
transferred to the paymaster, the real officer in that department;
that by adding L2,000 to the present salary of the treasurer, or giving
L2,000 additional as the salary of the presidency of the board of
trade., the same amount of remuneration to the individual holding
both offices would be made up at a smaller cost to the public. It was
insinuated that the scheme of disjoining the offices was merely a cloak
for the introduction of a new placeman into the house. On the other hand
it was contended by Mr. Huskisson and others that considerable anxiety
and hardship arose; out of the union of the two offices; and that
it was; altogether erroneous to suppose that the occupation of the
treasurer of the navy was merely to pay money. Opposition, however, was
so strong against the measure that in a discussion, when the report was
brought up, Mr. Canning said that he did not feel himself called upon to
press it. He viewed with regret the small support which had been given
to it; and though as a matter of principle he was ready to defend it,
yet he would abandon it on the ground of expediency.

CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION, ETC.

The question of Catholic emancipation, although not formally stirred
in either house during this session, was nevertheless kept alive
by petitions from different districts and bodies in Ireland. These
petitions were now especially directed to a disclaimer of the imputation
of owing a divided allegiance; manifestly on account of the weight
which the argument of the anti-Catholics on this point had carried with
it in the debate of the preceding session. The speeches delivered on
the presentation of them also characterized the imputation of a divided
allegiance as a false pretence, because the Catholics in all their
petitions declared, that, in the oaths which they took and were ready
to take, they swore allegiance to his majesty alone. But Lord Liverpool
rightly answered, that although he never doubted the sincerity of the
Catholics in disclaiming ci