The Sun. — London, England, 1835-10-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is amusing enough that the Tory writers have not yet agreed among themselves whether Mr. O'Connell is a man of any importance or not. As Grizzle charges Tom Thumb with having made the giants be killed, so th e J o h n P u ll reproaces the Times with making the importance it assails in the person of Mr. O'Connell. The Times with its peculiar logic, re plies to this, that it shall prove Mr. O'Connell to be a man of very small consequence, " at the risk of being again charged by simpletons with giving the man un due importance by noticing him.' " The Times, in deed, admits that Mr. O'Connell has power in Ire land, but adds, that it is " to the disgrace of the law authorities." Let us ask whether Mr. O'Connell had less power in Ireland during the Wellington-Peel Ministry, and whether his power then was " a disgrace to the law authorities" under the Government so loved and landed by the Times? As for England, the Times denies that Mr. O'Connell has any power in it, except over his Majesty's Ministers, the Ministerial Press, and that part of the population called Destructives by the Times. The columns of our virtuous contemporary must there fore, by its showing, be daily filled with tirades against Mr. O'Connell, for the especial enlightenment of the Ministry, its friends in the Press, and the Destruc tives ? To whom else can the railings against Mr. O'Connell be addressed ? Not, certainly, to the peo ple of England, for the people of England, according to the Times, are already of the right way of thinking about him. The Times then proceeds to prove by the map, that Mr. O'Connell is of no importance in Eng land. This is demonstrated by the fact that Mr. O'Connell travelled through Hertfo?dshire, and that no mention was made of him in that county ; and that in passing through 180 miles of the fairest and richest part of England, no more notice was taken of the missionary' than if he had gone " encased in a beer barrel." The test of popularity, in the judgment of the Times, would have been a meeting or a dinner at every stage. When Sir Robert Peel is enter tained at Tamworth, does not an address and an ad miring multitude await him wherever he changes horses ? But Mr. O'Connell, says the Times, "never even saw the people of England." He has never been in Printing-house-square ; and what is the population of Manchester, Newcastle, and such nut shells ? The people of England are the folks who addressed Sir Robert Peel in the Times newspaper last December, and unfortunately so over-advertised them selves, so exhausted themselves in one grand puff, that they had no resources left for the saving of the country from all its present unseen horrors. 'We next come to a piece of exquisite wit, in the true style of the Times. Mr. O'Connell is said to have passed through Yorkshire as quietly "as a barrel of red herrings." In the Midland Counties no more notice was taken of him than if he had been " encased in a beer barrel." In the North he travels like " a barrel of red herrings." What delightful drollery is this—all upon the barrel. We next come to the history and mystery of Mr. O'Connell's invitation to Leeds, and the Times here discovers tilt extent and particularity of its information. A person calling himself Mr. Charles Young, arrived in Leeds (states the Times), called at the shop of Mrs. Mann, a ♦ender of cheap publications, and then and there, in concert with Mrs. Mann's son, aged 18, proposed a public reception and dinner to Mr. O'Connell, and got 1,100 signatures. The historian of Puddle-dock must now speak for himself " The invitation had to be presented. A deputation must present it. Manchester was forty miles off. Coach-fare was expensive, and the waggon too slow. At last, however, a penny subscription was raised to meet the expenses, and Mr. Charles Young, a person nobody knew, and the youth of 18, were selected out of the 1,100 as the fittest persons amongst the lot to represent the affluent town of Leeds on this impor tant occasion." What follows is rAn example of that curious and valuable information, with which the Times now treats its readers. The dignity of the daily historian is won derfully sustained in these details, which are of the truth and 'taste for which our contemporary is cele brated :—. " All was not over yet ; another hitch presented itself ; the iunior delegate had got his shoes cleaned and his coat brushed, and was quite ready for the start to Manchester ; but alas, Mr. Charles Young, the clearly political tourist,' found it neces sary to have a clean shirt before appearing in the presence of the great ' Agitator.' What was to be done? No one would lend the 'political tourist' a shirt ; time pressed : at last, how. ever, young Mann procured a shirt, and off they set to Man chester." The John Bull will surely go mad with chagrin, when he sees such a tribute to the consequence of Mr. O'Connell, as a passage in the leading article of the once self-dubbed leading journal, narrating the circum stances, important as connected with the tail of Mr. O'Connell, that his Leeds requisitionist had not a clean shirt till one was procured by young Mr. Mann, aged 18, the son of Mrs. Mann, &c. &c., for further par ticulars of whom we must refer to the Times. Mr. O'Connell's importance certainly loses nothing by this kind of treatment. When a man's followers are of such note, merely as his followers, that their linen is watched by publicists, and its state and the circum stances of change recorded in leading articles, what must be the consequence of the man himself ?-- Morning Chronicle. • There appears to be some doubt entertained whether the constitutional suavity of Lord Mulgrave did not rather blameably permit the blustering mouthpiece of the Dublin Corporation to disport himself too freely in the Viceregal presence on the late occasion of pre senting the Chief Magistrate of the City for the ap probation of Government. We are of opinion that if Lord Mulgrave erred, his error was on the side of pru dence. It is worth while, however to consider what is the meaning of this same ceremony of presenting the Lord Mayor elect to the Lord Lieutenant. It 'is "an imm emor i a l cus t om ," sa id th e vu l gar Recorder of Dublin. "Itis an immemorial custom," replied the accomplished Viceroy, in administering a mild rebuke to the obtrusive functionary, " for a pre cise object." This is the fact. The ceremony is one that does not properly admit of the impertinent dis play that was made upon this occasion, and which, in the opinion of many persons, should have been more pointedly reprehended. Let our readers conceive what a spectacle this ceremony must have been to those who understood it. On a given day the Dublin Corpora tion, a body consisting of the lowest and most despica ble class of the citizens, huddle themselves into hackney coaches (that is to say, such of them as having the handling of the public funds, are by accident in the enjoyment of a spare shilling), or in a pedestrian pro cession worthy of the mock military pageant in Bom bastes Furioso, betake themselves to the footpaths leading to the Castle of Dublin. The cavalcade, rein forced by auxiliary driblets from the various lanes and alleys adjoining, tramp to the Castle-yard, and rush into the Presence-Chamber. The Recorder, who never would have been heard of but for the Corporation, after a few knowing wipks and hems to his associates, toin timate that he is about to demonstrate how great a man he is, and how boldly he will speak to a Lord Lieute nant, then proceeds. This Recorder's mind is like the legs of a laborious tailor—it has been so long con tracted in the one position of thinking ill of the Ca tholics and reform, that it cannot accommodate itself to the a plomb of right thinking, or thinking at all, on more than his one stock-in-trade , subject. Accord ingly this product of a Corporation, as in duty bound to the manufacturers of his fortunes, beslabbers the n all with praise. This operation might be forgiven, al though it is irrelevant ; but not contented with this liberty, he next presumes to give a lecture having no more connection with the matter in hand than it had with the wanderings of the comet, intimating his notions of loyalty and municipal reform, and holding out to the Government an awful warning how far they might go n the work of improvement. It is here that some doubt has been expressed whether Lord Mulgrave should not have at once intimated to the presumptuous gentleman who ventured, without authority, to force his opinions upon the King's representative, that his demeanour was offensive, and that his absence would be agreeable until he should have learned manners. We are free to admit that much might be said in recommendation of such a course ; but, on the other hand, considering the material of which this Dublin Corporation is composed—remembering that this body is low, prejudiced, uneducated,_ and ignorant —we think, under all the circumstances, Lord Mut, grave adopted the more judicious course, and that lie octed a wiser part in holding the conference which ttlok . . place with the Corporation, than in unceremoniously ordering their mouth-piece to be led to that part of the Presence Chamber in which the door was situated. What a practical satire upon the present system, after all, was the presentation of the new civic officers of Dublin to the Lord-Lieutenant ! Do the municipal usurpers imagine that Lord Mulgrave is so inobservant a man as to have contemplated the extent, the wealth, the rank, the intelligence of the city of Dublin, and to have looked upon the nominees of the Corporation without asking this one question—" Are these men, are such men, the choice of the citizens of Dublin?— Morning Chronicle. Some of the Ministerial prints publish an account of a dinner given by certain electors of the eastern dis trict of Perthshire, to Mr. Fox Maule, their repre sentative, who is also an Under-Secretary of State. The thing would not be worth notice, except as fur nishing another amusing instance of the means by which the friends and retainers of Ministers attempt to whitewash the dirty conduct of the Whig-Radical faction. Mr. Fox Maule addressed his audience aftr: dinner, thus :—" At the meeting of Parlia:;, ent more members attended the House tlin nad ever done so before ; but from first to lust, from the election of Speaker to the intrecuction of the Irish Church Bill, the Ministry wlio had grasped at power, and seized the reins of Government were left in perpetual mino- No doubt they were : but how and by whom ? Why, by a party who so hungered and thirsted after office that they sacrificed all their former principles, abandoned their most solemnly recorded professions, and had recourse to the meanest shifts and the paltriest de vices for the attainment of their selfish ends. We will confine ourselves to the two instances mentioned by l‘lr. Fox Maule himself—the election of the Speaker, and the introduction of the Irish Church Bill. How was the election of Speaker carried ? It was by foully slandering Sir C. M. Sutton in private letters, and by articles in the base Whig press. These were the honourable means resorted to for the purpose of ob taining promises from members to vote against the late Speaker. The calumniators were exposed, and Sir C. M. Sutton was vindicated from the charges that had been so artfully urged against him : but the pledged majority wanted the courage or the honesty to make him amends by defeating the intrigues of his detrac tors. A sudden thought occurred to a leading trickster of the faction : " the Speaker ought to represent the opinions of the majority of the House," said he ; the faction, who were ready to accept any excuse for the injustice they meditated, adopted the novel doctrine, and Sir C. M. Sutton lost his election by a majority principally composed of those very men who had voted him to the chair in the first reform Parliament, when he no more represented the opinion of the majority of the House than he did last February. And this, Mr. Fox Maule considers a feat to boast of ! Then, for the Irish Church Bill, what was the history of its intro duction ? Certain resolutions were moved upon the assumption that there was a surplus of church pro. perty, without waiting for the report of the commis sion appointed to ascertain that fact by the Whigs themselves. The report has proved that assumption to be false, yet having committed themselves by their resolutions, the majority of the House thought proper to proceed as though the assumption had been true, and they did this in the face of the clearest evidence to the contrary. Further, these resolutions supposed that the Bill founded upon it would content Ireland, and lead to a satisfactory and final adjustment of the tithe question in that country. Upon these grounds the Bill was urged through the House, although the leading Irish Members declared that it would have no such effects as those anticipated. It is not possible, therefore, to stretch one's charity so far as to give the authors of the measure credit for sincerity, when they so confidently anticipated these results from the Irish Church Bill ; but supposing them to have really be lieved what they said, still it must be admitted that they were wilfully blind to facts which were foretold them by the surest of all prophets—those who have the power to realize their predictions—events now in progress are manifesting so plainly, that no one can, for the future, pretend he sees them not. In the Irish Church Bill, then, and in its intro duction, we can discover as little ground for Minis terial congratulation as in the result of the election of the Speaker, or on the means by which that result was brought about. There is but one passage in this speech of Fox Manic that calls for notice. Speaking, of the re-election of the present Ministry on their ac ceptance of office, he says—" One member of the Government was rejected ; and, perhaps, it was fortu nate he chanced to be the best among the whole, as it proved how strong the influence of bribery and Tory intimidation is, when Devonshire, which had twice selocted Lord John Russell, at that time rejected him." Now, we beg to tell Mr. Fox Maule, that unbecoming and unpardonable as it would be in any one to charge, without evidence, without the shadow of proof, a con stituency like that of Devonshire with accepting bribes, it is positively indecent and offensive in him, who is a sort of Minister, and the Sub of Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for the Home Department, but most properly rejected by Devonshire, not through bribery, but in consequence of his own ill conduct. Mr. Parker will probably call the Under Secretary to account in the next session for this calumny upon his constituents. Mr. Fox Maule proceeds thus :—" This having occurred, the Tories imagined Lord John Russell could not be otherwise returned than by a rotten borough." Here .is an admission for a Whig and a Reformer I Rotten boroughs still exist, notwithstanding the Reform Act and Lord John Russell—at least, so says Mr. Under- Secretary Fox Maule. And as though this were not indiscretion enough for one sitting, lie goes on with the narrative of his patron's progress in search of a seat. " The event," he says, " was otherwise ; for Stroud, a borough containing 30,000 inhabitants, of whom 1,300 are electors, received his Lordship with open arms." Now, considering how this was accomplished, who went out that Lord John Russell might come in, and that something more valuable than the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds was conferred as a reward upon the accommodating gentleman for making way for the Minister—we think that Mr. Fox Maule— (Maul Fox would here be a more appropriate name for him) would have shown more wisdom if he had held his tongue upon the subject. As soon should we have expected to find the Under Secretary of Lord Pal merston detailing the circumstances of the Tiverton turn-out, and of his Lordship's turn-in for the bo rough Mr. Kennedy turned ov e r to hi m . V er ily suc h people should be very cautious how they prate about Tory bribery, and Electors bought and sold.—Times. In one of the recent speeches delivered by the Po pish missionary of the British Cabinet, since his re turn to the " emerald isle," he is reported to have said to his " hereditary bondsmen"—the bondsmen of the most bigotted and intolerant spiritual despotism that the world ever saw—" I went as a missionary from the people of Ireland to England and Scotland, where I preached the doctrine of peace and conciliation, and firmness in our struggles for national liberty. I talked to them of the necessity of lessening their burdens and increasing their franchises. I talked to them in the spirit of charity, and advocated perfect freedom of c.',Yuscience to every human be g. I told them t i lia.t the people of Ireland knew no! the distinc tion of sect or creed ; that they were a calumniated and persecuted people ; that they had suffered ages of misrule, and that the common practice of Govern ment hitherto had been to allow them to continue in a deplorable state of poverty and distress, even in the land of plenty." If, among the qualifications of a mob-orator and a demagogue, a regard to truth were one, how would his resources of agitation be crippled, and the stock in trade of sedition be diminished ? The Irish agitator knows that it would be as difficult to keep up his turbulent influence over the passions of his ignorant hearers, without dealing largely in fiction, as it would be for the most ingenious engineer to keep up the moving power of steam without supplies of coal. Still there are cer tain bounds which e'en political lying ought not to transgress, becaus e , by passing those bounds, false hood may become so absurd and incredible as to cease to be of any use to the purposes of him who has been at the pains of inventing it. For instance, what pur- ' pose can it serve that the Irish agitator should so out rageously violate veracity as to say that in his late in flammatory and disgusting harangues in England and Scotland, he preached the doctrines of peace and con- SUN, LONDON, MiDAY, OCTOBIIR 9,183 b, ciliation ? Just as well might the democratic Robe spierre—the popular champion of the " hereditary bondsmen" of France—when chopping oil heads by dozens, and covered with the blood-sprinkled glory of patriotic" massacre; declare to the aseltnibled sans culottes, dancing MUM the guillotine, that ho Was teaching the doctrines of mercy and humanity ! What does a demagogue who goes on a mission to the :iorth of England and Scotland expressly to peach a crusade of extermination against the Hoe of Loiks— who advises the people to send the " 170 tyrants' - ' on their travels as James 11., who was not long AO the object of his warmest eulogy ; was Sent—does such a de magogue dare to come forward now and say he h4ci been preaching the doctrines of peace and conciliation ? In the cases of David Murphy and Counsellor' Hudson the agitator showed his matchless intrepidi . tti tion ; but we did not think that even his enterprising assurance mild have tarried him to such extravagant lengths. It is quite certain that without a bloody rtrY tear the House of Lords cannot lot put down, and yet he wl.o calls upon the inoh to put down the House of Lord tkt SU Many tyrants, preaches the doctrines of peace and conciliation ! Surely, surely " the kitchen maid and her broom" (queere Brougham) has a modest assurance that surpasses that of all other kitchenmaids since the world began. Dan also told the mob that the people were still allowed by the Go vernment to continue in a state of deplorabfe poverty and distress in a land of plenty ; but he did not re mind them that out of that deplorable poverty and dis tress he contrived to squeeze 14,0001. a-year in pay ment of his own disinterested exertions. He did not remind them that he allowed the last Session to pass away, without making a single effort for a public provi sion for the starving poor, whom his Irish Secretary, Lord Morpeth, so humanely threw overboard ! Ah I Dan, the Irish are indeed " a deluded and defrauded people."—Morning Herald. Perhaps it may have escaped our attention, but if it has, it must be deemed a singular clemency of the Mohawks, that the charge of being " old," to which we yesterday referred, as being the gist and sting of the articles of impeachment brought in a Conser vative morning print against Mr. Coke, has not been brought against Lord Brougham. But, courage l— if it has not, we feel assured that it soon will. Mr. O'Connell was lately—bore/bile dictu—desCribed as an " old gentleman" in a green cap, and the serious im putation of being an " old gentleman ,, was again re peated against Mr. Coke in the same print yesterday, in the scolding phraseology of an overgrown school-girl, by whom all persons, young and old, are pronounced to be " old frights" who are not sufficiently prompt in gratifying their love of admiration. It will be miraculous if Mr. Coke ever recover from this "un kindest cut of all ;" and sure we are that Lord Brougham, whatever he may hitherto have done, can scarcely hope to escape eventually from total and irrepa rable perdition under the destructive title of " old gen tleman." But, however, the inditer of this over whelming accusation shows a laudable anxiety to make up for the omission in Lord Brough a m's case, by in sinuating that superannuation of mind against one of the strongest minds in Europe, which is generally sup posed to accompany superannuation of body. The same two scribes=the arcades ambo f—of a morning and evening paper, to whom we have before adverted as his chief assailants, show a wonderful sympathy upon this point ; although one of the duumvirate yesterday morning was so uncomplimentary to his colleague, and so ungrateful for his co-operation, as to insinuate, that if he made an attack upon " the old Gentleman" himself, the evening scribe would immediately take up the cudgels in Belzebub's fa vour. Now, we considered the " agreement" be tween them, as Puff' says of the managers, in their attacks upon Lord Brougham, was " wonderful." It is unusual, but wonderful, " when they do agree." Notwithstanding the awkward insinuations about Belzebub, they certainly did " cotton together," as the exquisites call it, in accusing Lord Brougham of steal ing the " thread" of his Lectures. This charge we rebutted ; but the 7 have soon returned to the joint " labour of love' with another imputation equally groundless, viz., that his Lordship is the author of the new law of patents, which a writer in the last Sa turday's Magazine alleges, and with some truth, to be invalidated by some defects. Of course, as there are defects in this law, a jump is immediately made at the very satisfactory conclusion, that all defects in any given law are ascribable to Lord Brougham ; and his Lordship is invested with all the honour of the law's demerits accordingly. It would be hardly worth our while to reply to this party-coloured non sequitur, or, in plain language, argumentative impertinence— were it not for the obvious drift of this and the pre ceding attack. The object is to depreciate Lord Brougham in the influential part of his public cha racter—that of a friend and patron of science and the arts, and of the peaceful, but mighty and beneficent spirit of scientific discovery. The secret of the attack is possibly the same in both cases—to pander to the eager and greedy envy of the aristocratical and exclu sive caste, by depreciating Lord Brougham in his more democratic character of a champion of that which they fear and dread—the equality of mind. The present charge, as in the former case, is without the slightest foundation. We have been surprised, on looking to the Mechanics' Magazine, which is pleaded as its autho rity, to find that no such charge is made therein, either of Lord Brougham as the author of the defects of the Bill, or of the Bill itself in which those defects are contained. Nor is he. The charge is perfectly false. The Bill was brought into the Commons by the Attorney-General. We noticed it at the time as containing several improvements on the previously existing state of the anomalous law of patents. It has also some deficiencies which we are ready to admit with the Editor of the Mechanic's Magazine ; but that is neither our fault while approving it, nor Lord Brougham's while supporting it in the Lords. His Lordship, probably, like ourselves, and like all persons of common sense, was glad to take an instalment of ten shillings in the pound--in a matter which deeply concerned the improvements and comforts of society-- where twenty shillings were not all at once to be ob tained. And this, we apprehend, is all we need say on this trumpery charge ; unless we may be permitted to brand this, as well as the former, before turning it adrift, with Mr. Burchell's expressive and characte ristic monosyllable of " Fudge !"—Morn. Advertiser. THE FIRE AT THE PENITENTIARY, MILLBANK. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) The origin of the fire at the Penitentiary has not yet been accurately ascertained ; various rumours are afloat upon the subject, and the matter is altogether kept in a state of mystery in consequence of all communication being cut off between the inmates and parties desirous to inspect the scene of devastation. Our reporter, after making four applications, was told that the Governor of the prison had given strict directions that no stranger should be admitted until he had made his report to the Secretary of State. It was not until after four o'clock in the morning that the flames were extinguished, and great praise is due to the fire men and the police for their exertions upon the occasion. It appears that the infirmary, and a whole range of build ings connected with it, are completely destroyed. One sub ject should not escape observation. Upon an order being given to cut away a certain part of the premises, a fireman, No. 12 C, of the London Fire Establishment, was applied to for pickaxes and other tools he had in his possession, but he refused to give them up without some party would be come responsible for their safety. All this occasioned great delay. It is worthy of remark that a new tread-mill, which has been in preparation for some time at the prison, and scarcely finished, has been destroyed. The van usually em ployed to convey prisoners from Queen-square police-office was immediately sent by Mr. White, the sitting magistrate, in the evening, in case it should be required to convey the inmates of the prison to another place of confinement. At three o'clock in the morning, when the alarm had in some measure subsided, the female prisoners labouring under disease, who had, in the first instance, been taken from the infirmary to the chapel, in the centre of the building, for safety, were removed to another part of the prison, in order that they might retire to rest. Yesterday, at half-past twelve o'clock, information was sent to the station-houses of the A and B divisions for a further supply of police, in consequence of the fire having broken out again near to the spot where it is supposed that it originated. The engines were again brought into play, but in a short time all danger h4 :l ceased. at h „ whic LAWS —Wheat has now fallen to half the price the ' Legislature considered that the farmer • ^d for the charge of growing it. could be remunetiq,.. IRISH EDUCATION. 620,0 Ni) ttEvaaT Oi TEM COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, irtgLAND. IT fLEASE:ronii AVe ; thy Conlniissinners appointed Under yOutr Majesty's Commission, bearing date the 15th day of Atigitst, the fifth year of your Majesty's reign, whose names are hereunto subscribed, beg humbly to submit to your Majesty this our second report, comprising the results or our inquiry respva , ing the schools now bkisiing• in Ireland: OH directed to ascertain " the st a te bt ea c h parislik *ith re . fcireti,o6 to the Means of editcatidn i the nilifiber and description of schools, the kind of instruction afforded therein : the average attend ance at each, and the sources from which they are supported ; and to Mute generally whether the ntinilors attending the §dthe Mt' the la St five )'ent,§ have been increasing', stationary, fii ditninishing. 34 th obedience to these directions we have diligently investigated these several matters, and the result of such our investigations we now humbly submit to your 111/kjestys. set forth in 111 , 4 Sp@Cial reports of the visiting and niTang6d in the sumo oticcesoive order as in the first part. This our inquiry respecting schools in Ireland was conducted concurrently with that of which the results are exhibited in our first report ; and the mode in which it was conducted has been therein already described. We will, however, beg leave to repeat that portion of our previous statement in which we represented that, " As from time to time each benefice became ready to be visited, one or more of the Commissioners, furnished with all the returns which had been received with regard to such benefice, re paired to the spot, and held an inquiry in respect thereof, into the several matters directed by the Commission ;" that "in all cases the Commissioners, besides directing previous public notice to be given of the time and place of holding the inquiry, sent a special notice thereof to the several Clergy of the parish, to the enumerator, to the schoolmas ters, and others, whose personal attendance was requisite ;" and that " the Commissioners held their local investigation publicly, ascertaining on the evidence of the parties attend ing before them the several matters of fact comprised within the terms of the Commission." It will appear that this part of our inquiry is, like the preceding, of a statistical nature. We did not consider that it fell within the scope of our inquiry to investigate the character or competence of the teachers, their manner of impartinc , what they professed to teach, the treatment of the children, and their general proficiency, and such other minute inquiries as would alone enable us to pronounce an an opinion upon the comparative effectiveness of each school, and the manner in which it is administered. The due execution of such an inquiry into each of the 9,657 schools on which we have reported would have occupied many years ; and it was an inquiry into which (having received no special directions) we did not deem ourselves justified, by the terms of the Commission, to enter. Under such circumstances, we humbly deem that we shall be acting most strictly in conformity with the directions of the Com mission, if we abstain from offering any opinion upon the general character and administration of schools, or of par ticular classes of schools, in Ireland. Neither has it lain within the prescribed scope of our inquiry to investigate the character of the various associations having for their object the promotion of education. Such inquiries have been already made by the Commissioners of Education in Ireland, and the result is given in their several reports. With respect to the particulars into which we have been instructed to inquire, and which are exhibited in detail in the following special reports, we have attempted to show some of the condensed results in the summaries which we here subjoin. [We have no room for the tables.] We have thus exhibited for each diocese and province, and, finally, for the whole of Ireland, the number of daily schools, the number of children on the books of those schools, distinguishing, when it was possible, the number of each sex, and have adjoined the population for 1834, as stated in our first report, in order that it may appear to what proportion the means of education are afforded. In applying this proportion it must be borne in mind that probably about a seventh part of the whole population (or 14 per cent.) are of the age of from seven to fourteen in clusive, and that this may, therefore, be assumed to be the utmost number for the education of whom provision is re quired, and that the number possessing the means of educa tion (as collected from the entries in the books of the daily schools) must be deemed ample or deficient with reference to this proportion. But we must here observe, that ade quacy or inadequacy in the extent of education cannot safely be inferred from a comparison of population with numbers on the books in the case of any single parish, or even union of parishes, inasmuch as schools situated near the boundary of a parish may possibly be attended in a large proportion by children from an adjoining parish ; and thus, in the case of two parishes so situated, and of which the inhabitants are equally well provided with facilities for education, a comparison of the kind above mentioned would exhibit the erroneous appearances of excess in one case, and deficiency in the other. It is therefore only to large por tions of territory, such as are comprised within the limits of a diocese, that such comparison can be safely applied, and any inference drawn from it, which may not happen to be wholly fallacious. 'We must also beg leave to observe, that in some schools no books were kept, and the number of children was not reported. Our summaries, conse quently, will not exhibit the whole actual number of chil dren having the means of daily instruction, but those only whose names are on the books of 8,886 daily schools out of 9,657 existing in Ireland. We have, however, endea voured to show the probable number thus unavoidably omitted, taking as the basis of our calculation the average number in those schools in which lists had been produced. While the enumeration of children on the books of the daily schools shows the number who have the means of in struction, and occasionally attend, the statement of the ave rage daily attendance at each school will tend to show the proportion of those by whom instruction is actually re ceived. We have not, however, attempted to show the aggregate or total of the statements of average attendance, because such statements are records, not of an authenti cated fact, but only of the opinion of the parties giving evidence before the Commissioners, and also because the averages themselves vary greatly in summer and in winter, between which periods we could not take a mean with any certainty that it might not be delusive and remote from the truth. Such statements of average attendance are nevertheless useful, when compared in each particular in stance with the numbers on the books, in order to afford a better means of judging of the real effectiveness of the school. _ It will be found in some instances that the average at tendance stated exceeds the numbers on the books, a cir cumstance bearing at first the appearance of error, but which may be attributed to the average having been taken for the whole year, while the names on the books show only the diminished number who attend during the winter months, during which period the Commissioners severally held their inquiries. _ _ _ We have not shown either in the total for each benefice, in our special reports, or in the preceding summaries, the number of children on the books of the Sunday schools. We abstain from so doing because, since the same children frequently attend both the Sunday and week-day schools, many would have been repeated in the enumeration, and erro neous inferences would have been the consequent result. We here beg leave to observe that it must not not be inferred that there are no Sunday schools in any of those parishes wherein none have been reported. The practice of some of the visiting Commissioners has been to omit such schools, partly in consequence of a doubt on their part, whether they fell strictly within the scope of our inquiry, partly in conse quence of the indistinct character of many of them, and the difficulty of deciding which of them were entitled to be so denominated. On these accounts the Sunday schools, though accurately reported in some dioceses, have not been enumerated in the preceding summaries. We have distinguished the number of schools reported to receive no other support than payments from the children. from those which wholly or in part receive assistance and su pport from endowment or subscription. Of schools supported wholly by payments from the chil dren, amounting in number to 5,653, a small proportion, as w ill a ppear from our special reports, afford the means of classical education, and are not designed for the children of the poorer classes ; but the great majority, among which are many called "hedge schools," are intended for the edu cation of the poor. The instruction professedly afforded in them is usually confined to reading, writing, arithmetic ; and the payments from each child vary from 6d. to 7s. a quarter. We have shown the number of schools which receive as sistance from, or are in connection respectively with, the " National Board," the " Association for Discountenancing Vice," " Erasmus Smith's Fund," the " Kildare-street So ciety," and the " London Hibernian Society," in which latter the " London Ladies' Hibernian Society" is included. Among these are enumerated schools which have been re ported to be "in connection with" some one of the foregoing Societies, but which do not, nevertheless, appear to receive from such Society any pecuniary aid. It appears to be the present practice of the Kildare-street Society to give assistance, not in money, but in grants of books and other school requisites. Some schools are found to be in connec tion with, or supported by more than one Society ; and, ac cordingly, the number stated in the summaries, of schools in connection with or supported by various Societies res pectively, are not exclusive each of the other ; but the same school, if supported by two Societies, is enumerated alike under the head of each. We have included in our sum maries only the foregoing Board and Societies, because they are those which have, in connection with them, the g reatest number of schools, and of which the operations are least confined to any particular part of Ireland. There are, however, others which we have not therein mentioned ; either because the schools assisted by them are comparatively few, or their operations confined to a particular district, Such are the " Incorporated Stitietty fur Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland," established by charter in 1733 (once having in connection with it numerous schads, hut nosy very few, and no longer receiving support from the State), the " Afdzigh Dipeegan Society," the " Irish So ciety," " the Baptist Soddy," the E. Anabaptist Society," the " Wesleyan Methodist Society," and " Itobinson's Be faction." It appears Oat there are many benefices in which there is no evidence of the existence df gtith parochial school as was p rov id e d to he kent under the Acts Hairy VIII. and 7 William 111, We must at the same time state that the pdrochiai odiiddi§ he br no means a distinct charac ter ; many which are so called being hi connection with various societies, and the correctness of the designation be ing frequently uncertain. Wherever the incumbent is found to contribute pecuniary aid in support of a school, to the amount of not less than 2/. per annum, it may be presumed that such school is a parochial school, under the meaning of the above-mentioned Acts ; but this is by no means sufficiently certain to enable us to enumerate such schools with the requisite accuracy in our summaries. We cannot refrain from adverting with satisfaction to the numerous instances of contribution's from individuals in support of schools, of which evidence is afforded in our spe cial reports, It is our less gratifying duty to advert to the result of a comparison of the number of daily schools with the total population in the several dioceses in Ireland ; from whence it appears that, while in the diocese of Down there is one school to .594 persons, in the diocese of Ardfert and Agha doe there is only one school to 1,342 persons ; and in the diocesses of Emly, Limerick, Killala, and Clonfert the pro portion is scarcely more favourable. It also appears, on a comparison of the number of children on the books of the daily schools, and the computed number not reported, with the total population of the several dioceses, that there is considerable diversity (a diversity which we deplore) in the extent to which, in various parts of Ireland, the benefits of daily instruction arc received ; and that, compared with the number having the means of instruction in the dioceses of Leighlin, Kilmore, Down, and Ardagh, the proportion in the dioceses of Emly, Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe, and Killalla, appears to be deficient. We must also advert to the Table appended to our spe cial reports, showing the population for 1834 (as given in our first report) of each parish in Ireland, in which, as ap pears from this our second report, there is no school. From this Table it will appear that there are 449 such parishes, containing, in 1834, an aggregate population of 342,198 persons, and that although many of these parishes are small, there are among them 122, containing each a popu lation of not less than 1,000. In conclusion, we, the Commissioners of Public Instruc tion, Ireland, whose names are hereunto subscribed, beg leave humbly to submit to your Majesty, together with an appendix to our first report, this our second report, con taining the results of our inquiry respecting the schools now existing in Ireland. BROUGHAM W. T. HAMILTON DUNCANNON A. LYLE HATHERTON D. G. LUBE T. D'OYLY J. F. STRANGWAYS T. H. LISTER J. GIBSON W. H. CURRAN A. AUSTIN G. B. LENNARD W. M'DERMOTT E. C. TUFFNELL J. MOODY D. MAUDE W. G. CRAIG G. C. LEWIS A. WILLS. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday, Henry Hutchinson, the chief mate of the Argyle East Indiaman, attended for the third time before Mr. Alderman ATKINS, to answer a charge of misusage towards a Lascar, on the voyage from Calcutta to China. The evidence was heard at great length on the first day, the accusation being, that the man was injured by being lifted by an arm and a leg, and thrown on a chain-cable ; and the defence, that he died of cold from being insuffi. ciently clad. 'On the second day, the MAGISTRATE said he would not voluntarily send the mate to trial ; but he would require him to find bail if the complaining parties could find suffi cient surety that they would prosecute. Yesterday, accordingly, Mr. Cooke, the solicitor for the prosecution, tendered, as surety that the Lascars should prosecute, a Mr. Bailey, a person of respectable appear ance, who said he had been a householder in St. George's in-the-East for twelve years. Mr. Alderman ATKINS asked Mr. Bailey whether he knew the nature of the case, and how he knew it ? Mr. Bailey said it was a case of hardship which was the talk of his neighbourhood, and he had also seen the case in the newspapers. Mr. Alderman ATKINS said it was strange that he should take up a case on such grounds. His bail would not satisfy him. Would he destroy the chief mate for ever because he had heard gossiping in his neighbourhood ? Mr. Cooke submitted that the bail he produced was sufficient. He was a respectable man. Mr. Alderman ATKINS said he did not believe there was a better foundation for the charge against the mate than if it were made against him (Mr. Cooke). Mr. Simpson, the defendant's solicitor, said a prosecution could not be really contemplated. Who would support the lascar witnesses till the sessions ? The witnesses would be gone. Mr. Cooke said he would be content if the mate entered into his own recognizances to appear at the sessions. Mr. Alderman ATKINS said—No. His ship was ready to sail, and before he did anything to prevent his sailing with her, he would ascertain whether this charge had not been sifted and discharged at the Thames Police-office, for persons could not be allowed to go all round the metro polis, from Magistrate to Magistrate, till one was found to do what was wished. He had no wish to screen the man, but he would not detain him till the sessions, unless he had good security that he would then be prosecuted. Some private conversation ensued between the solicitors ; after which they applied to have a further postponement of the case. Mr. Alderman ATKINS, however, would not consent to that, and Mr. Cooke not being prepared with satisfactory security that the mate would be prosecuted, the matter fell to the ground, and the parties retired. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday, an Officer engaged in procuring soldiers for the war in Spain, came before Mr. Chambers to ask if he could have an individual taken into custody on a charge of embezzlement ? The person referred to acted in the capa city of recruiting sergeant, and a sum of money had been given to him to defray the bounty and expenses of enlist ment, which it was suspected he had to a considerable ex tent improperly appropriated. Mr. CHAMBERS replied, that a charge of embezzlement could only be brought against a servant or a clerk, in neither of which capacities he presumed the sergeant could be con sidered. He supposed the sergeant had been some jovial fellow, and selected on that account because more likely to obtain a sort of half-drunken consent from idle young men, frequenters of public-houses, that they would become re cruits. In the British army such a system was not to lerated, for the recruits had to be sworn before a Justice on a subsequent day, and if he had enlisted through a drunken freak he was not compelled to become a soldier. In the present case he did not see how he could at all assist the applicant. WORSHIP-STREET. Mr. Henry Goodson, baker, of Old-street, was summoned by a discharged workman, Joseph Williams, for not having paid him his wages. The complainant stated that on the 7th of August the de fendant sent word to him that he wanted to speak to him. Complainant called, when the defendant observed that as a strike among the men was about to take place, he wished to know if he (complainant) intended to co-operate with the Union. Finding that he did not, the defendant engaged him as forehand, at a salary of 235. per week, with flour and bread for his family, an understanding existing, that in case of a discharge on either part, a month's warning or a month's wages should be allowed. He had been at work about three weeks, when defendant called him into the parlour, and while they were talking in apparently a jocular manner about Treveld, the Secretary to the Union, running away with the Union money, he began suddenly to find fault. The defendant denied that any notice was agreed to, and that, if any were required, the usual agreement was a week's warning or a week's wages. But the fact was, that the complainant was so bad a manufacturer of bread as to do him a serious injury, losing several customers ; and when he spoke to him in the parlour, it was to state, that if he did not make better bread he would discharge him ; and he then gave him another week's trial. Mr. TWYFORD observed that that notice in law was good, as applied to a week's warning. Two witnesses supported the defendant's statement, as to the incompetency of the complainant. The complainant remarked, that since he left the de fendant's service, he had a forehand's situation within a stone's throw of his shop.—Summons discharged. THAMES- OFFICE. Yesterday William Johnson, the Captain of a fishing smack, was charged by one of his men, named Brown, with committing a violent assault upon him. The complainant said that the Captain was in a public house in Greenwich, and he went to him respecting his al lowance of salt fish, when some words ensued, and the Cap tain, finding he got the worst of the "jaw," said he would make a flat fish of him if he did not bold his jaw. Witness said he was nothing but a Pope, when he placed such a dab on his face that he made his eye as black as a stale mac kerel—( Laughter)--and knocked him down. After he had been regularly " floundered" with the blows, he kicked him so violently that for EOTIV: time he thought he should mast a subject for the Coroner's Jury. Mr. BALLANTINE said the complainant was full o f meta : phot, nod asked him why lie called his Captain a pope' Complainant-4 am sure I don't know. Mr. BALLANTINE—Mh yes, you do. You must hav e some particular reason for using that particular term. 147,n. did you not call him a Cardinal ?—(A laugh.) Come la' ant-Cause you see Pope is most aggravating. i n to The Captain in defence said the complainant came the public-house drunk, and asked him if he h ad left his salt ills out. He told him he must look after it himself, a n which he made a disturbance and called him a -- a nd a gallows old Pope lie told lam to leave the room , but he refused, and on repeating the offemive terms he certainly did strike him, but did not kick him. Richard Reed said Brown began to abuse Johnson far not saving him some salt fish, and called him a and an old Pope, on which Johnson struck him. Witnes s Mr. COMBE—What do you mean by a Pope? —I don't know, but I believe he's an old fool that do'ot eat meat when he can get it.—(Much laughter.) id Two other witnesses deposed to the same effec t, and Sa the offensive epithet, and the term of derision " Old P o p e' were both used. Mr. COMBE asked the witnesses to explain what a Pop e was? The witnesses held down their heads, and said they shoula not like to be called Popes, for they never wore petticoats in their lives and the Pope did.—(Great laughter.) Mr. Comsli—You are too modest to explain what $ Pope is. Mr. BALLANTINE—IS there a fish called a Pope? P e. fendant—l never heard of one, Sir ; there may be. Mr. BALL ANTINE—WeII can make nothing of the the& logical metaphor ; but the other term is rather too di' graceful for a man to put up with. The Captain has broken the law, but he has broken no bones. I The case was then dismissed. OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT• Major Ross, before we make any comment on your el duct at the Hibernian Hotel, on Saturday night , w e dew° of you to answer the following questions : Did you not, accompanied by the Hon. Lieutenant Grel; brother to Lord Howick and son to Earl Grey , in trude r l a late hour on Saturday night into the bar-room o f the n bernian Hotel, where Mrs. Walshe and some fe male set" vants were at the time ? At that hour had not Mr. Walshe, proprietor o f the o°. tel, and the lodgers, retired to their beds ? Did not you, and the insolent scion of Aristocracy Ich° accompanied you, call for grog, obtain it, and drink it ? Did you not then and there inquire of Lieutenant 011ie about the Orange toast—" The Pope in the pillory* t pillory in hell, and the devil pelting him with priests ! he And did not both of you then sing a wretched song , _ . _ chorus of which was— " 'Water, water, holy water To sprinkle the Catholics every one," &c. &c. ? In ' • Did not Mrs. Walshe ask you why you came thus to ° suit her your first visit to her house, and did she not Ids beg of you to leave that and retire to the public roore?_... Did not you, notwithstanding her remonstrances , rein' for the purpose of insulting her and her religion? Did you not tell her that "Father Mulligan had turl' e A d o you into a goat," and did she not reply that had he "tu rn you into an ass (the one you ride, Major) he wou d have only given you that form for which your fitted you? - - Did you not ask Lieutenant Grey was he an O'Conn el l and on his replying truly in the negative, did you NE W i tt him that if he were, he would not be allowed to retnal° the regiment ? A aid Did you not continue to insult Mrs. Walshe, u re . she not reply spiritedly and cuttingly to your big ote marks, till at length she compelled you to quit the rooPi.,o Let Major Ross answer the above. To Lieut. Grey put the followinc , : Was not the bar-maid's collar-bone broken by a 0,1 mediately after you quitted the bar-room ? Who or _ broke How often have you gone sober to bed since you ca lpe to Kilkenny ? Have you not seized every opportunity of abusing O' C°°‘. nell, the Catholic religion, &c. Aid By what authority did you leave your station at C; If by the authority of Major Ross, why did he n ot reP lor you by another officer, and not leave your d e tachmen t 0 . two successive days and nights, to the care of a non'e° missioned officer uitl We call on the Commander-in-Chief to order a n en tio into the facts hinted at above, and if they be as we been told—if these gallant officers be proved delinquents e, we call on Lord Hill to act towards them as they desers:th The religion of the Irish people is not to be insulted impunity.—Waterford Chronicle. gre THE MOUNTAIN CORN HARVEST. -- " e t,'re sorry to hear that, in the higher districts of MonmouthsPhi., and Breconshire, and, indeed, in the northern part of t ; county, a considerable quantity of grain is still uril l ' A nbe The general harvest had been earlier than usual ; al l ' be mountain farmers, many of whom had cut their corn on t ee 7th, were surprised by the rain of Tuesday, the Bth, sj° „o which (till Thursday last) they have not had twelve without heavy showers.—Merthyr Guardian. , n Of MY NEIGHBOURHOOD, BY THE AUT H O R " THE COLLEGIANS. " —If these volumes meet witrir thing approaching their deserts, Mr. Griffin's Islejefbd, hood will have a most extensive circle. The m ingle' mour and pathos of this cento of tales, is exquisite side emphatically Irish, With our brethren on the other from of St. George's Channel, it is not so much " one Al lease the sublime to the ridiculous," as one step from the v 1 0" 7,0 of grief to the overfiowings of mirth. This cont rasts culiarity is beautifully pourtrayed in most of these taleo'..., CASTLE-DOUGLAS GREAT HORSE F Alit g ve , One fine animal sold for 751., and good work hop es 0. raged from 29/. to 30/., and some few sold so high 89 t he Notwithstanding the unfinished state of the harvest' o s turn-out of lads and lasses was fully as numerous 100 d any former fair, and hiring went on very briskly . * " 1 01 ploughmen's wages averaged from .5/. 10s. to 61.65. e ; for half-grown lads from 3/. to 4/.l o s. The average wagdsries servant girls were from 2!. 155., to 31. 35..---Dun'' Courier. fl LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, OCT. At 41 les have had a good demand for cotton to - day , the rt, amounting to 4,000 bags, of which 400 were for ell and about 500 on speculation. Prices remain tu__22t::,„/ (ADVERTISEMENT.) ~,,r ) o, KING'S PATTERN SILVER HAl — k ii i, t ''' CUTLERY. The durability of which is nearly double •_„ -a dlea ivory, is now offered at the following reduced price : Silver-10'100 Table Knives 3 Guineas per Dozen ; Dessert Knives `2l . Gil per Dozen ; Carvers 155., per pair. cl T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Goldsmith, Silvers h Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. Lo Octobe t ,gept. Jo The I Tez y in it the c G' At a th e oth NOrwici CHA Iz That Vantag e don, an( that the stre e t rnent th That mote th connect( forward W SfLB) SOLICI T APpli, Offices l iaP4 ta eH to 8: t. E As bit, bit N.B. ribbe d , .oendi d N o . 44 The d lo N and a co to t h e p Fire I Years ch; olteratio This Rates w two-thir a nY dedt PI Ag e. I "......... . co 1 —_______ C 449, , ......_ AT The uILI* the Bu; Verso; [ eland ] every th e fut The ul li c k s f i Gr eat `at C EquiN A " rerniu a urpF Th e ties efre, ti me th, The I n ad re m ; u ailo ; ani • bY Pir , n o des Lee n da , Th• i t ')'l ` l " 1. _epor 10, , BT. BIRTHS. 1011 of On the 6th inst., at Mathen Lodge, Great Malvern, the Benjamin Collett, Esq., of a daughter. g fl , I* On the sth inst., at Hersham, Surrey, the lady a - • Westby, Esq., Job° On the Bth inst., in John-street, Bedford-row f the lady.. Ward, Esq., of a son. da u g ht er On the Bth inst., the lady of Henry Down, Esq., of a pS' On the 2d inst., at Cobham, the lady of Edward Cal m ' East India Company's Civil Service, of a daughter. f Gm' On the Bth inst., the lady of the ' Rev. Thomas Myers, 0 berwell, of a son. On the 7th inst., Mrs. Robert Johnson, Circuit -place, ori4e street, of a son. ----.---".# MARRIED. ge ed On the Bth inst. at Trinity Church, Marylebone, Charle s i c ing Moore, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn-fields, to Eleanor, eldest su;:,,l a ce , daughter of the late Alexander Marsden, Esq , formerly Under Secretary of State for Ireland. ; ter , 0. 1 On the 7th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Peter Paxarose of Portlane r of Mereworth, to Maria Ann, eldest daughter of the late l‘l r ' Drewry, Esq. On the Bth inst., at All Souls' Church, St. Marylebo rlo o , l oos Edward Adcock, of Prince's. street, Cavendish-square, ' Beesley, of Noiwood. Eli sr On the Bth inst., at Mitcham, Surrey, William Fricker, teviithioti beth Jury, daughter of Mr. Samuel Weller, orßishops lateogatf s ~1410 At Clifton, Captain ,Matson, R.N., to Miss Yeo , Hall, Somersetshire. - f 5 ,:, ' On the 7th inst., at Brixion Church, Edm. J. Ga i r n e ; of ‘" surgeon, of Brixton-place, to Atom M ar ia, second daug C. Hooper, Esq., of Brixton-hill. DIED. i Jare aic , On the 24th of August, of llow fever, a t Port 11 0 Y ' m inis ° aged 25, Lieutenant Edward Grey, of his Majesty's ship e. l‘li a ss eldest son of the Lord Bishop of Hereford. On the 3d inst., in Chapel-street, Belgrave-sclnn,:pottgl"' Catherine Maxwell Douglas, daughter of the late Da' o f Esq., and sister of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas . e bter On the 6th inst ., Anne Catherine Knox, the infant (la 0 ~. el , Mr. Stafford, Smith-square, St. John's, Westminster• lic t of y On the 6th inst., in her 66th year, Mrs. Matthew, re" , , late Mr. David Matthew, of Upper Thames-street . On the 6th inst., at Camberwell, William Cassell, Esti" fir- .A t * _ fan formerly of the Navy Pay-office On the 6th inst., at Leamington, Thaddeus Stanislaus' the , tia cjv son of the Right Hon. Lord Dormer. Se° On the 7th inst., in her 65th year, Mrs. Witt, 04 het street, Manchester-square. We r th, i n On the 7th inst., at Plaistow, Essex, Elizabeth f, 72d year. Dl• v* On the 4th inst., at Aberystwith, William Henry Faet;ii.. 10' On the 6th inst., in Lower Grosvenor-place, Piellie e !,fgee. b Seville, for forty years Messenger of the Privy Councily.ll...l.er On the sth inst., at Brighton, Mary, the only child of ; da ys. o r Hall, of Savage-gardens, London, aged 12 months auclwl.,„ , late On the 4th inst., at Gravesend, Alexander Forbes , -'''''). to his Majesty's Customs, in his 75th year. ~„o b ter On the Ist inst., in her 27th year, Charlotte, ''''''" late Henry Smith, Esq., of Potion, Bedfordshire. l 4' ) ,_, Ti NGt 011 London : Printed and Published by MURDO ''' the 02 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand/ 0 ' , of Middlesex, ~:~ _i„ th 111344 Rt ira Ca, roads,