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spondenco, and I reserve to myself the right of doing so should I consider it necessary. " I have the honour to be, my lord, your cbedient servant A. LAYARD. " The honourable gentleman then continued—lt had been said by an hon. gentleman opposite that there was a mix ture ef chances and fortune in army promotions. It was true there were chances, but he generally found that those chances fell te the lot of those officers who had least need of them — persons who had either high connections or party influence in their favour. That question he should shortly bring before the house in its most extended form. He believe.t the country was prepared for the discussion of that question. The ti me was past when the feelings of the public could b e t ampere d w i t h upon t h a t su bject. The system he reprobated extended to every branch of the public service, a n d h e s h ou ld s h ow i n a few days—whatta, he believed to be th e p u bli c f ee li ng o n the subject—that the public intere s t s were sacr ifi e d every the public servi ce t o p r i va t e an d party iefludepat department of influences. He ti had been told th a t th e ru l es w hi c h re gulated army Promotions were, inviolable. W e ll, take the case of a gentleman named Heneage, who had two re latives in that house. •He entered the army in Dec., 1853, and joined his regiment in Feb.. 1854, about two months a fterwards. He arrived in the Crimea in the autumn. He was not present either at the Alma or Inkerman, an d yet he got a captaincy with out purchase ten months after he entered the army. Now there was what had been termed an inviolable law to the effect that no man could be promoted to a captaincy under two years' service. (Hear, hear.) If C a pt a i n Heneage had distinguished himself, the rule in gees tion might properly have been departed from in his case; but when it was violated in favour of an officer who had never seen service nor anything else, then it might fairly be concludedthat the laws of the HorseGnards were not as irrevocably as the laws of the Modes and Persians. (H ea r, hear.) So with the case o f L or d E ustace cil. He entered the army in December, 1851, and having teen no service in the interval, was selected in December, 1854, for a lieutenancy and captaincy in the Guards. (Cries of '"question)') On the other hand Lieutenant Blackett, of the 93d Regiment, who had been present at the actions in the Crimea, who was recommended for good service to, the Government, was indeed transferred to the Guards, but although he had seen ten years' service, he was placed be neath Captain Heneage and Lord Eustace Cecil, one of whom had been in the army only some ten or eleven months and the other between two and three years. Here they had the laws of the Horse Guards constantly ,vio lated. He held himself responsible for these accusa tions. He had' already told Colonel Hardinge that he was not Prepared to retract them. Nor was he. He only wished that they . could go into a full dis mission o f th e question—that they could examine some offi cers whom he could name. For example, he wished Col. Crotnbie could tell them how he had been compelled to re- Sign, in order to make room for those beneath him—Lord Bnigherah and Lord Hardinge's son. It was a fact that Col. Crombie did not know he was on half-pay until he saw his-name in the Gazette. Se much for individual cases. He Would not detain the house much longer. A man in his position might be mistaken. If he had done wrong to any . Individual, he would be glad to rise in his place and ac knowledge it; buthe firmly believed that there was scarcely an appointment which the public did not find, on inquiry, to be connected in some way or other with private or party influences. What had happened three days ago ? He stw in the Gazette a colonel on the staff named a general officer in the Turkish contingent, with local rank. He turned to - the - Army List and other sources of information, and there he found that CoL Cunningham, of the staff, was married to a daughter of Lord Hardinge. (Cries of " Oh, oh," and laughter). The house might laugh, but when these things were of daily occurrence they justified the gravest suspi cions on the part of the public. (Hear.) He said moreover, that at such a moment as the present, when our army was in a critical position, when a disgrace had fallen upon the country, the people would no longer tolerate even an ap proximation to what he must call gross jobs. Such was his statement to the house. He would not retract what he had said, because he believed it to be true, and because he was convinced his opinion was shared by many who d red not stand up in that house and testify to the accuracy of his assertion. It was an almost universal impression, in deed, that party or family influences were the mainsprings of army promotions. He had only to add in conclusion that Col. Wilson was in no way to blame for what lied occurred. Mr. HARDINGE did not intend to add one word to the unanswerable statement of the hon. and gallant men: her for Huntingdon, or to that which had fallen from his .1 on ourable friend the Under Secretary for the War Dept rt ment. His only object in rising was to make one rem rk with respect to a near relative of his, the gallant officer to whom the hon. member for Ayle s b ur y had just alluded. The hon, member seemed to insinuate that the appointruE ot of Col. Cunningham to the Turkish contingent with the local rank of brigadier-general was more or less a job. :NO:a, all he had to say in reply to the hon. member was that N.;o1. Cunningham had served in China under Lord Gough, had been in every action in the Crimea, and if they appeale.i. to Lord Raglan or the Duke of Cambridge, they would :end that there was not a better or more meritorious officer in the army than his gallant relative. (Hear.) Yet thel'on. member for Aylesbury had not scrupled to cast in his teeth an appointment so justly and deservedly made. He had done with the hon. member. (Hear.) His inaccuracies were certainly of no common orde. (A. laugh.) With re gard to Major Ewart, he was a most excellent officer, and owed his promotion solely to his own merits, not to any in terest whatever ; but it was not true, as stated by the,hon. member for Aylesbury, that Major Ewart took a first Glass. He obtained a third class for military drawing, while of the members of the staff there were several who held :first class certificates. He would now leave the casein the l4ands of the house, satisfied that they would do justice between the bon. member for Aylesbury and those whom lie so rashly accused, and d ec id e w h o was "-scandalous,'" and who was not. (Hear.) Mi'. BYNG reminded the house that the responsileility for promotions in the threaregiments of the Guards dui not rest with the Commander-in-Chi e f, b u t w ith th e colonels of the regiments. Hewes authorised by Lord Strafford, the colonel of the Coldstreams, to state that he alone was re sponsible for the promotions that had taken place in that regiment, and that he was perfectly prepared, at all times and seasons, to justify them according to the existing mili tary regulations, as well as to all the precedents applicable to such matters. (Hear.) Colonel LINDSAY remarked that the hon. member for Aylesbury had carefully avoided addressing himself to the case in dispute, and had simply dealt in vague generalities. To the demand which had been made of him, either to re tract what he,. had stated against Lord Hardinge or to ex plain in what manner, in the specific case of Col. Wilson, his lordship had been guilty of maladministration, the hon. member replied that he would not retract, but he did not show in any one particular how Lord Hardinge exercised the'slightest influence on his son's promotion. • (Hear.) The hon. member had referred to Captain Heneage. Now, it was true that Captain ;Heneage was not at Inkerm an. Bat why? Because he was serving his country in the trenches or on picket, and since that time he had been con etantly under the fire of the enemy. (Hear.) Here was 'the way in which he came to be promoted. At the com , mencement of the war he was the junior ensign. By mor tality, brevet, and other causes, the whole of the ensigns were swept away, and Captain Heneage was left at the top of the list with one year's service. As he had been under the fire of the enemy, Lord Strafford obtained the neces sary sanction for his promotion, and he was promoted ac cording to the rules of the service. With regard to Lord Eustace Cecil, a gentleman called upon Lord Strafford and informed him that Lord Eustace was anxious to see service. He told him that when the 4:3d was engaged at the Cape of Good Hope Lord Eustace Cecil entered that regiment for the purpose of seeing service, but that, unfortunately for him, the war ended about the time he got there. The 431 was then sent to India, and when there the war broke out. Lord Eustace Cecil, still anxious to see service, immedi ately exchanged into the 88th, which had been ordered to proceed to the seat of war. All these things were consi l ered by Lord Strafford ; he thought them very meritorious in a young officer, and accordingly gave Lord Eustace Cecil a commission in his regiment of Guards. (Hear.) He had it from Lord Strafford to say that while he was certainly acquainted with Lord Eustace Cecil's father, the Marquis of Salisbury, having met him in the House of Lords, he was politically opposed to him, had nothing to do with him in regard to his son's commission, and gave that commission simply because he found Lord Eustace to be an officer anxi ous to see service, andto distinguish himself. (Hear.) In CO a elusion, he must say that he thought it somewhat unfaii— to use the mildest term—that an hon. gentleman should go down to the country and excite public indignation against the servants of the Crown by unfounded assertions and accusations. (Hear, hear.) Colonel NORTH regretted that the name of LoV ha ß t u o r t ,, , - . hersh had been introduced into the fi cer was present at Chillianwallah and discussion. and hail rendered good service te his country. Major j Alison owed his position on the staff to his own talents,. and not to his political services or family influence. Th hon.inember for Aylesbury should really be more . ca g u oo ti d ousinhis state meets, and if he wished to retain the. opinion of his countrymen, should evince their characteristic love of fair play. (Hear.) Colonel KNOX was sorry to say that the present was not the first time that the hon. member for Aylesbury had made unfair attacks upon hon. and gallant officers. Upon a former occasion he thought proper to traduce the cha racter of a gallant admiral, and his object now was to Ito the same towards the Commander-in-Chief. (Hear, hear.) These systematic attacks were not without a purpose, and yet nothing could be more derogatory to the respectability of the house than for an hon. member to pursue such a course of conduct. Ile begged to tell the hon. member ter Aylesbury that Colonel Cunningham was a personal friend of his, and that there was not a word of truth in his stet.- meet with regard to that gallant officer. Yet the hen. member had the temerity and the impudence te rise in his place— Mr. HADFIELD—I rise to order. Surely that is lan guage not suitable to this house. The SPEAKER—The hon. and gallant member must withdraw the word "impudence." Colonel KNO.X—I would be sorry to use any Parlia mentary, expression—great laughter)—l mean any expres e "en which may be deemed unparliaanentary ; but I cannot ` ln d language sufficiently strong to reprobate the conduct If th e h oe• member for Aylesbury. *ll ' re ady to withdraw expression which you may (Laughter.) Still, sir, , c ons i der any h ee.. ,...50 be improper ; but I really do think that the th o 0 7ter should n o t, w ith ou t acqua i n ting himself with to aspe n , gancee—to put it in the mildest wap—venture ill the any e c haracter and conduct of gallant officers both Lord PAlrtk.""Y* (Hear, hear.) the deeP resn e , t - --- -LON-1 cannot refrain from expressing taken bY th e ee e ., /ri l i ch feel, and which lam sure is per mberr ylesbury w hi c h t h e he ir majority of the house, at the position in (Hear, hear.) he has pl dh• lf his duty when memberrsTee sat full libert ae a e nd le l e m d se eL.e . s that liberty, to bring forward against public men aneyt-e.h founded, and which he thL r ft e s which fie believes to be Wl - t by The hon. member for A.yleeb u be °at ' doubt, perfect 'y justified, if his impressions we=e ia e proof. teiaisheatigcr clhegrhoaus nrla ,:hthe army. nut for hie charges, in making the aecust. vanced against the noble lord at the h liable emulation f or I think that, after the utter disprrnelf4.— demonstration that there is not &shadow f ra)—after t he any of these charges ; after every man roust , convinced that these charges were false an d calm more a • (Great cheering) — l think it would have be en ° ore con sistent-- Mr. PT WAY—I rise to order. Although a young member it does seem to me that the noble viscount be e made u s e of language which is not justified by th e uenesea of this house. (Cries of " No, no"). He has said th a t t ,_ •' 1 - member for Aylesbury made "false and calumni ou •" ' s "arges. I think, sir, you will agree with me that ti ble vis count ought to retract those words. (Renewed e —es of " No, nos') If I recollect right , I have heard ;in ~ k men: withd raw i n g words of similar import , and °Pe the coun noble vis t ° ill follow so exc e l lent an ex ample. (A lanai w The --"AR-E/2t The noble viscount sai d that the charges ma d e by the h o and calumnious— n. member for Aylesbury were fal o of order to nee a . a e le of expression which it was not out Lord PALMERSTON-4 I repeat what I was about to say t hat I should have expected that wh en it h a d been proved that the charges which had been made through the honourable member for Aylesbury—if he wishes it to be put in that way—and which were false and calumnious— !. should have expected that a due respect to himself would have led him to acknowledge that' he had been misled, and to offer an apology to Lord Hardinge. (Cheers.) Sir, the hon. member has brought charges against men and classes. He has brought charges against my noble friend at the head of the army which are unfounded and calumnious. (Cheers.) He has been made, no doubt, the mouthpiece of others, who wish to undermine and destroy the character of that distinguished man. Sir, my Lord Hardinge is not a man who has risen by favour or accident to the situation which he holds. Lord Hardinge is essentially a soldier. He has won his way to the honourable position he holds through many a long campaign, and many a hard-fought battle. Be has shed his blood in the field of action, and there is no man who, by his long experience and his distinguished services, is more prominently pointed out than he for the proud and honourable position in which he has been placed. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I can say so, because he was placed there by others, not by us, but the Government which conferred upon him the office of Commanding-in -Chief did themselves honour by their selection. (Hear.) Why, is it likely that a man who owes his position, as Lord Hardinge does, to merit and long service—who has passed his life with soldiers —who has seen them in every climate of the globe, and in every position, whether of camp, of fatigue, of battle, of march, or of danger from foe or disease—is it likely that such a man should have his feelings so perverted by the power he possesses, as to be induced, for some trumpery motives of personal affection or political influence, to undermine the efficiency of that army upon the glory of which his fame has been resting, and upon the efficiency of which his honour is to be maintained ? I say, again, that the charges against Lerd Hardinge are as unfounded as they are de void of any reasonable presumption in their favour. Then the honourable member brings a charge against classes. He says the army is filled with the sons and relatives of the aristocracy, and that it is a shame it should be so. I say to the contrary. I say it is an honour to the aristocracy of this country that they flock to the ranks of the army, and enrol themselves in the navy; that when the danger is to be encountered and honour won, they are ever to be found foremost in defend ing our interests and maintaining our dignity. (Hear.) Depend upon it when the day comes, if ever it should come, when the aristocracy of a 'great country shall ab stain from entering the ranki of its army and navy—when they shall seek the pleasures of private life and pass their days in luxury and idleness, instead of encountering the danger of battle, and submitting to the fatigues of cam paigns—l say, whenever you see a nation come to that state, then indeed you may predict its fall, then you may raise your voices in reproach against classes that would be so destitute of true patriotism; then you may say that abuses exist,and may raise popular odium against a degenerate aristocracy. I am proud to say that that reproach cannot be cast upon the upper classes of England, and instead of those acts to which the honourable member refers being acts which i inply any censure upon the aristocracy, I accept them as so many testimonies in favour of the public spirit and manlyifeeling which characterise the gentry of England. (Cheers.) THE INDIAN ARMY. income tax upon the poorer classes, and as one which bore with tenfold force upon those who had large families. Mr. MACGREGOR said thsa, finding that were so few members present, and such apathy on their part to pre vent a press of taxation, he should under the circumstances withdraw his motion. _ _ forego the liepe of such a measure, under which ::11 creeds might meet on common ground, free from every particle of religions dissension, iu order that the exclusive manage ment of the schools might melt with the Established Church of Scotland, which numbered less than one-third of the inhabitants ? It was, in fact, proposed by this bill that nineteen-twentieths of the inhabitants of many of the counties of Scotland should be placed under the instruc tion of persons from whom they differed in religious opinions, and who represented merely the opinions of a very small fraction of the people. The proposal was not only inconsistent with justice, but inimical to the success of the measure which was now proposed. (Hear, hear.) They had really some claims on the attention and consideration of the English members on this subject. He appealed to their generosity and just feelings, for it was not owing to any difference of religious opinions among the people that Scotland was split up into so many sec tions ; the secessions which had taken place wore, in reality, traceable to the conduct of the Parliament of this country, both at the time of the Union and subsequent to that event. He trusted that the House of Commons would not now, by its conduct, tend to perpetuate those divisions among the youth of Scotland, but would grant to the Scotch people at least the benefit of common schools. (Hear.) Mr. BAILLIE opposed the bill, on the ground that its clauses were not in accordance with the principle con tained in the preamble of the bill, which was that the people of Scotland should be provided with the means of religious education. The effect of the clauses would be to place the school under the management of the claairnian of the board, but there was no guarantee in the bill as to the religious character or opinions of the chairman, and the system of education might therefore be an entirely secular one. The Free Church of Scotland opposed the bill on the ground that the schoolmasters to be appointed were required to be of the Established Church of Scotland ; they also opposed it on the ground that the appointment of those schoolmasters rested with the heritors and clerks of sessions ; and a third ground of objection was the pro posed supervision of the Presbyters. He thought that a bill might be introduced which would remove a great many of the objections which he entertained against the bill, and would also obtain for it the support of the Free Church. The Synod of the Free Church of Glasgow had recently agreed to resolutions disapproving of the pro posed bill, and he felt it his duty to oppose the measure on the grounds stated in those resolutions, and which had already been referred to by hon. members in the course of the debate. The Government might, perhaps, be able to carry the bill through the House of Commons; but if they succeeded in doing so, he warned them not to ascribe their success to any change of public'opinion on the subject, and expressed his strong opinion that, even if passed through that house it would not pass through the ordeal of the other house. (Hear.) Mr. BAXTER said that the hon. member who hu,d just resumed his seat had said that this was a Free-Church measure. Now that was not a correct statement, for he believed that it was much more ardently desired by the Dissenters than the Free Church-- The house then went into committee on the bill. On clause 1, Dr. MICHELL said he thought the budget was as good a one as could have been produced under the circum stances, had it not been for the tax upon chicory. He com plained that the tax was proposed and explained, not by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but by the Secretary for the Treasury. He asserted that the tax was one of protec tion, but he did not see how it was to be collected. He thought some explanation ought to have been given before the tax was imposed. He complained that the tax was not alluded to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his finan cial statement, but that it had been placed on the resolu tions by the Secretary for the Treasury. He was not aware that this was the custom of the houe, and he hoped that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would withdraw it. Mr. WILSON said if the hon. member had paid atten tion to the question he would have found there was no duty upon raw chicory, and the duty placed upon ground chicory was merely to prevent coffee being imported from abroad under the guise of chicory. Dr. MICHELL said that the chicory must be ground before it could be used, and that there was then a duty upon it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there was no Customs duty upon raw chicory imported from abroad, still less any Excise duty upon that grown in the country. An objection to the present state of the law, which had been forcibly urged upon him by a most influ ential deputation, was, that there was not sufficient pro tection for those interested in coffee against the competi tion of chicory. Dr. MICHELL would be satisfied if the words "or ground" were left out. After a few words from Mr. MACGREGOR, several al terations in the clause were agreed to. On the motion that the clause as amended do stand part of the bill, Mr. GkEGSON proposed to add to the clause the fol lowing words :—" That the duties Le made payable on coffee, sugar, &c., until the sth day of April inclusive which shall first happen after the end of twelve months from the date of a definite treaty of peace with Russia ; from which last-mentioned date the same duties shall be paid as were payable previous to the passing of this act." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it seemed to him that the words proposed by the hon. mem ber would not have the effect which he had intended. If it were the wish of the committee that the additional sugar duty should be a war duty, it should be done by special enactment. It was better not to press the amend ment then, but to bring it up on the third rending. Mr. HANKEY ti acted that his honourable friend, after the observation of the right honourable gentleman, would withdraw his amendment. He considered that the colonial interest should have some hope held out to it that after the war it would be put on the same footing as before the war. Mr. BAILLIE said, that on the contrary, he had said that he did not think the Free Church desired this bill. Mr. BAXTER was sorry that he should have uninten tionally mistaken the purport of the hon. gentleman's re marks. The hen, gentleman had dwelt upon the fact that the Free Church Synod of Glasgow and Ayr had pronounced against this bill. But he did not tell the house that on the occasion when these resolutions were passed not mdre than 23 out of 300 members of the synod attended the meeting. Great stress bad been laid during the debate upon the be nefit conferred upon Scotland by these schools. He was not about to deny this, bat it did not follow that because these schools, under the direction of the Church, bad been of great advantage to the country, when that Church em braced the great mass of the people in its fold, they should be attended with equal advantages at a tithe when the Established Church did not comprise more than one-third of the people. It was admitted that the Church of Eng land could not substantiate a claim to the superintendence of the education of the people, and he could not under stand why they should give to the Church of Scotland powers which they refused to that of England. He be lieved that this was regarded by moderate men as a fair arrangement, and as one which would be likely to place this question on a satisfactory basis. Nor was this merely the opinion of the Free Church and the Dissenters, for he believed that a large body of the lay adherents of the Church of Scotland were highly favourable to the bill of his right hon. friend the Lord Advocate. He believed that if the house rejected this bill hon. gentlemen opposite would be the first to discover that they had made a serious mistake in taking that course. (Hear, hear.) Mr. JOHNSTONE objected to this bill, because, while it took away the existing securities for religious teaching in the schools, it substituted nose in their place. It was proposed to remove both from the schoolmaster and the in spector all those religious tests which had operated so bene ficially since the schools had been in operation, but it did not contain a single provision supplying their place with any other arrangement calculated to secure the same end. Mr. HILDYARD thought they should not be antici pating these questions ; but if they did, they should take as much care of the interests of the colonists as they did of foreigners. Mr. BLACKBURN suggested that the Government should undertake to introduce a clause on the subject to which the hon. member had referred. In reply to a question from Sir E. PERRY, Lord PATAIERSTON ssid lie would' consult with the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to when the discussion could be taken on the motion of the hon. gentleman, with respect to the constitution of the Indian army. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER undertook, as it was the wish of the house, to introduce a clause for the purpose suggested by the hon. member. Captain LAFFAN called attention to the fact that while uniform duties were levied upon tea and coffee, without any distinction of the different prices paid for those articles per pound, discriminating duties were levied upon sugars, which had caused great dissatisfaction. The colonists complained, that the discriminating duty was kept up for the benefit of the London refiners. It prevented the manufacture or a superior class of sugars in the West Indies, because the duty on such sugars under the discri minating system would amount to a prohibitive duty. The clause was then agreed to. Clause 2, which has reference to the Customs duties on spirits, was also agreed to. Clause 3 and 6 were likewise agreed to, the chairman was ordered to report the bill with amendments, and the house resumed. Lord DUNCAN said that this bill was intendel to be one for the general and not the partial education of the people of Scotland. Now, while one gentleman had opposed it on the ground that it was a Free-Church bill, another had opposed it, as he said, on the very grounds on which the Free Church were hostile to it. The objections which bad been raised to the bill were, as these rival objections might show, rather on matters of detail than of principle. Well, then, looking to the difficulty of legislating on such a sub ject, he must appeal to the house to pass the second read ing, and. allow the bill to go into committee, where such objections could be considered much better than in that stage. It was no doubt true that Scotland had long been favourably distinguished for the education of its people; bat the report of the commission for inquiry into the sani tary condition of the labouring classes of Scotland, shoved conclusively that there were serious edacational deficien cies' both in the agricultural districts and in the towns. Were they then justified in withholding from that country a measure of general education so obviously necessary ? It was sought by hon. gentlemen on the opposite side of the house to give the Established Church the entire control of the education of the people. But with what justice could that be done when her members did not include more than one third of the popul ttion ? The principles of the bill were so well known that he would not detain the house by en larging upon them. All parties were united in the deter mination to secure a truly national and comprehensive system of education ; such a system would be secured by the present bill, and he hoped therefore the second reading would be passed by a large intk ority. (Hear.) Sir J. PAKINGT')N said, that after giving the best at tention he could to the measure before the house, he failed to see in it anything which could justify its supporters in appealing to him to give it surpert. It varied in many re spects from the measure be had proposed for England. One leading feature of his scheme was to maintain and en courage every existing means of education. The bill of the Lord Advocate, on the other hand, was intended to destroy a system of schools. He proposed to give every school in England a religious ..haracter. The Lord Advo cate provided no guarantee in his bill for the continuance of religious teaching in the national schools. Nor did he give any security for the religious faith of the teacher. The present system of education in Scotland, as was proved by the late census, was supported by the great bulk of the people. There were more schools connected with the Established Church than with any other religious deno mination. Moreover, the paro , .thial schools were conducted on the broadest principles of toleration. They were open to Roman Catholics as well as Protestants. In fact, Scot land enjoyed a system of education as near that which he wished to establish in England as could possibly ibe ima gined. For what reason, therefore, was he asked to de stroy the existing system in Scotland? They were told that the present bill was supported by the Free Church. That was not a recommendation in its favour. The bill, if adopted, would have the effect of widening the breach between the Established and Free Churches, would in crease the religious animosities which prevailed in Scot land, and at the same time would not improve in any re spect whatever the existing system of education. New, r theless, he was indisposed to oppose the bill as a whole. He admitted that increased means of education were re quired in the larger towns and cities of Scotland, and if the Lord Advocate would introduce a measure for that purpose he should give it his cordial support. Further, if the hon. and learned lord could show that even is the rural districts of the country the means of education were deficient, he would be glad to support him in any measure which he might introduce for the supplemental schools, such as those which he had proposed with reference to England. (Hear.) The LORD ADVOCATE said he would ask the house to consider the questions of what was proposed to be done by the bill, how that was to be done, and what were the grounds on which it was proposed to throw out the bill on the second reading. The bill proposed to reform the parish schools, to ascertain the educational wants of the people, and to supply those wants as they arose. It was a great sub ject of congratulation and encouragement that on the last two of those objects, which wereby far the most important, the Scotch members of every caste were agreed. He had heard no proposal from the other side to supply those wants. He had heard expressions of strong conviction that something must be done, and he had been told in plain terms that if he would only allow the parish schools to remain as they were, hon. members on that side would be willing to accept the measure. (Hear, hear.) Now, Government had 4tevised a measure for the supply of the wants of the great towns and populous districts, in which the Scotch representatives on one side of the house ac quiesced, and to which those on the other agreed. Why, then, was it not to pass ? (Hear, hear.) He knew hon. members opposite would tell him that that was his own fault, asking him why he did not leave the parish schools as they were, and deal solely with the large towns, as to the remedy for which they were all agreed. He was asked why he did not apply the same roform tothe parish schools as he did to the town schools, and why he did not intro duce the popular element there. But the popular element was introduced there. Were there no parties interested in a parish schoolmaster being a proper person but the landholders, who did not send their children to his school? He was told that he was pulling down the parish schools. Nothing could be further from his wishes or intentions. (Cheers.) On the contrary, it was perfectly clear that the Government had done all that the right hon. member for Midhurst• and others had proposed should be done ; they had dealt separately with thegreat towns and the parochial schools. If those impediments were always to arise in the way of education; if they found that no concession- would produce conciliatory results ; if the landholders were to be for ever deaf to the voice of publio opinion and experience and blind to the course of events, the time might come when •it might be the duty of those who had in their hands measures of educational reform entirely and utterly to remodel the system which seemed now to be the only obstacle in the way of its own reform. (Cheers.) He would now state the three reasons why it seemed to him quite impossible to allow things to remain on their present footing. In the first place, he quite agreed with the right hon. gentleman that no partial or temporary cure need be tried. Reform must be applied upon a system or not at all. The right hon. gentleman said the voluntary system had failed, and so it had. He also said that the denominational system had placed schools in the rich districts, and left the poor unprovided, and so it had. Unless things were done on a system, they need not be attempted at all. Now, it was impossible to leave the schools on their present footing and do anything on a practical system. They could not afford the expense, and they could not adopt the machinery. The intention of the bill was that they should know from year to year where schools were required, and that by a uniform machinery those schools should come into existence. If the parish schools were to he taken out of that system the whole thing would be destroyed. But there was a second practical reason that appeared to hie. to be conclusive. There were between 700 an d 8 00 Free Ch urc h S chools in Scotland, all receiving d enom i national a i d from t h e Committee of Coun cil on Ed uca ti on ; and if the schools were to remain on their pres en t f oot i ng they must a ll rece i ve such aid. The result wee, that wh ere one sc h oo l wou ld b e quite sufficient they were k eep i ng up two, incurring a double expense, and squandering the public money. His object in the present bill was to supersede the denominational by a more com prehensive system; but it was his belief that if the house were not prepared to adopts rational system on that basis, then the denominational was the only system which could be taken instead. They could not have both the systems, 4 ' l-4 Vlrk SUN, LONDON, SATURI3AY EVENING, APRIL 28 1855 and, therefore, to mate the present scheme operative for the towns, and not fur the parishes, was impossible. Lut there was a third reason, and a convincing one. Shook! they settle the question by bringing in a bill solely for the great towns ? Should they settle the question by leaving the parish schools in their present state? Did any Scotch member believe that the constitution of the parish schools could remain as it was? A fresh agitation would be got up in favour of the parish schools, for their constitution was utterly d;ssonant to common sense. Let them look at the northern districts, where the census showed that of the people nine teen twentieths were Free Church, and but one-twentieth Churchmen. Was there any reason for saying that the parish schoolmaster must be a member of the Established Church when nineteen-twentieths of the children would not go to his school ? Now, if the present measure were rejected it was not because they refused to deal separately with a part of the subject ; it was because hon. gentlemen would not accept a measure which they admitted to be beneficial, for in two par ticulars only was it that the bill did not square exaetly'with the objects they had in view. With reference to the right hon. gentleman and the educational measure he proposed, he (the Lord Advocate) would say this much, that the right lion. gentleman frankly admitted the main point. If they « - ,a13 legislating for England, he (the Lord Advocate) would admit that there was a great deal in what the right hon. gentleman said. But the right hon. gentleman forgot they were legis lating, for Scotland—a country which would accept of nothing but a religious education. (Hear.) Accordingly the GoVern ment had it in tl:rAr power to do in Scotland what could not be done elsewhere— they could rely to a very great extent upon the religious feeling of the community. Had he mot known that the result of the passing of the bill he proposed would be that the Bible and Catechism would be taught in the schools just as before, he should not have brougiii for ward the measure. (Hear.) But the opposition of c stain Scotch members rested entirely on the ground that the aro chial schools should be left entirely in the hands of tea hers belonging to the Established Church. That was not at till in consonance with the opinions of the right hon. gentleman, who had said that he would respect the feelings of the majo rity of the people in a district, and support education in ac cordance with those feelings. Then, if it could be shown that in the parishes of Scotland the religion of a denomination was one way and the religion of the masses another, the right hon. gentleman could not refuse to give his assent to the me sure On no ground could honour a bl e gen tl emen o pp os ite! vote against the second reading of this bill except becausb the parochial schools were to be thrown open to persons of all denominations. They saw that these schools were part of an ecclesiastical establishment. What right had hon. gentlemen opposite to claim to represent the whole of the Church of Scotland, as though the two dissenting branches did not hold the doctrines of Knox and the other reformers ? The Presby terian citadel was strangely garrisoned with foreign troops, when Episcopalians were using their best to keep out the very men for whose protection it was designed. WhUt did this bill intend to do? The parish schools had done much for Scotland, not because they were administered in the best way, or the discipline was the purest, or the provision for the masters most lucrative, or the qualifications of the masters the highest. They had done what they had in spite of defi ciencies in these respects. What was proved was how'much might be done by not trustine , schools to optional volUntary efforts, but by the State discharging its duty and establishing schools where they were required. (Hear.) In spite of a great deal of mismanagement, of a pittance to the schoolmasters absolutely, contemptible, of supervision at many times most superficial, of discipline at many times most lax, these sbhools had done much for Scotland, and he now asked the hoUse to proceed on that principle, and t o ex t en d it s b oun d s , t 6 have a national system for the towns as well as for the country, to reform the parish schools, and to create new ones where they were required. (Cheers). The first things proposed to bh done in regard to the parochial schools were Co increase the salaries of the masters and to provide a ready mode of removing an improper master. To these honourable gentlemen opposite assented. Next it was proposed that they should be under in spection. That was a reform which had been recommended by the General Assembly, and the 'value of which was evi denced by the flourishing state of the schools in Banff and" Murray, to which the hon. member so frequently alluded. In one of the reports of the inspectors of these schools he found that when they first examined the masters of these schools only twenty-four out of eighty passed the examination. In the following year thirty more passed, but the large propor tion were unable to pass the examination. From the course of the debate it might be supposed that it was proposed to alter the mode of electing the schoolmasters, and to take the ma. nagement of the schools out of the hands in which it was now vested. All that was proposed, however, was that the minister and the heritors, who had been described as the props of the Established Church, should be allowed to elect the best man whom they could find, whether or not he be longed to the Church. They would be allowed to elect a schoolmaster from the Free Church, and was it not desirable that, where the majority of the inhabitants of a district held opinions which prevented their sending their children to an Established Church school, they should have a master whose opinions were consonant with their own. The Established Church, though still influential, did not include more than one-third of the population, and nothing could be more dan gerous to it than to endeavour to assume the attributes of a power without reality, and to maintain a supremacy 'which had long been destroyed. He believed that tile best thing for the interest of the Established Church of Scotland would be that this bill should pass, because it was impossible to say what heart-burnings would arise if it was longer delayed. With regard to the denominational clauses, the effect of passing the bill would be to de away with denominational grants to Presbyterian congregations. In large towns where there were such large masses of the Catholic population, liviug in ignorance, it would be a fair matter for the consideration of the Privy Council whether in such localities it might 'not be right to continue these grants for their education, hilt that was left for the decision of the Privy Council. What : would be the result of the division he could-n o t f oresee , b u t he hoped the house would assent to the second reading of the bill. If it did, it would be a victory, not over any denomination, or in favour of one party and against another—it would be a victory over a common enemy, the worst enemy a Statecould have—a victory purchased with no blood and watered with no tears, carrying desolation to no happy home, but one 'which would make tho heart of the widow and the fatherless re joice. They would build up for their country what might be truly called " the cheap defence of nations"—a barrier which would hold back the tide of ignorance and crime for years to come. (Cheers.) Mr. WAVOLE rose to oppose this measure, not because he was opposed to all reform, but because in this case the re form went too far. The system of education in Scotland had, according to the acts of Council, advanced the country " in godliness, and civility, learning, and knowledge ;" by it the people had been enabled to go from the rural districts to the colleges, and many of them had afterwards risen to the highest eminence and renown ; and by it the people generally had been trained morally, intellectually, and religiously to the dis charge of the great duties of life, The Lord-Advocate said that the people were tired of, or at least desired to change, this system. The returns of education showed that one in 74 of the population obtained education by means of ;this system ; 1,800 heritors had signed a petition praying that this system might be extended, but not subverted ; and of the 33 counties into which Scotland was divided 19 or 20 had, at their annual meetings, declared their opposition to this bill, and only four had given in their adhesion to it. These facts wire reasons why the existing system ought not to be subverted, although he was of opinion that it might be improved. What ought to be done, was not to subvert the existing system, but to extend and enlarge, to amend and improve it. The board was to consist of secular, official, and political people, and this was the sort of persons who were to be introduced to the people of Scotland, contrary to their wishes, and to the desires of the heritors, The Lord-Advocate had said that the real secret of the opposition was, Vie endeavour to maintain a u'e less test, and to secure the superintendence of the presbytery. It was asked why should not they do away with tests ? Be cause they gave the only guarantee that could be had in Scot land that the masters would maintain the religious creed and doctrine consonant with those held by the people of that country. The arguments with respect to tests did not apply to Scotland in the same way as they applied to England. The Lord-Advocate knew that he only two years ago had to consider the question of tests in reference to the professors in the Scotch universities, and in that case the Lord-Advo cate's test was applied in a similar manner to that which applies to the schoolmasters. Then came the other argument, of doing away with the superintendence• of the presbytery; and on that he might remind the Lard-Advocate that last year he told the house that of late years, owing to the 'conflict that had been going on, increased vigilance had taken place in the management of schools, and he said that the people might get back to their old lethargy, and that they should he roused. (Hear.) But the Lord-Advocate would have the house reform not only what was bad, but what was good reform not only institutions which had failed, but institutions which had worked well, This was what the Lord-Advocate , was attempting to do by this bill. (Hear, bear.) He (Me. Walpole) agreed with the Lord-Advocate that it was wise to increase the salaries of schoolmasters. He also agreed with him that it was just to provide for their retired allowances. He agreed likewise that it was well to extend the system to those places where a deficiency existed. He especially agreed with him on the necessity of establishing reformatory schools in Scotland and elsewhere, though he thought that in doing this the charge should be made national and not local. (Hear.) Agreeing thus in many of tile objects of the bill, he entreated the Lord-Advocate to divide the bill into parts, the one con taining the provisions to which so many agreed, and the other the provisions upon which so many diffe:ed. He could tell the Lord-Advocate that he would never succeed in reconciling he house to the objectionable parts of the measure, and that he would only aggravate dissensions by persisting in it. If he felt confident that the object of the bill was simply to sup ply the deficiency of education, and not to subvert the system now in existence, he *ould give it his support ; but he be lieved that it was intended to effect the total subversion of a system that had done more for the religious and moral instruc tion of the people of that country than any other system ever established in any other country ever effected, and therefore he was compelled to vote against it. (Cheers.) Mr. HADFIELD said that no provision having been made in the bill for the Catholics, who were one-fifth of the popu lation of Scotland, they were virtually excluded, and that exclusion, he contended, was fatal to the measure. It was an unnecessary bill on every side, and by adopting it they would be doing injury to the cause of education in Scotland. He advised the house to allow the people of Scotland to educate themselves, and they would do it cheaper and better than it would be done under this bill. The house then divided. Tho numbers were— For the second reading Against it Majority for the second reading......... 39 The bill was then ordered to be committed. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. 210 ...4 171 This bill was recommitted, and several verbal amendments were agreed to. On. clause 39, Mr, SCHOLEFIELD proposed to leave out the proviso at the end of the clause. Mr. WILSON objected to the proposition, on the ground that building and other societies had so extended their ope rations that they were no longer legitimate exceptions, and that under their operations the revenue suffered consider ably. The committee Bien divided, when the numbers were— For the proviso Against Majority ... 2G ... -11 • The clause was then agreed to. Lord EBRINGTON moved the addition of a clause to exempt militiamen, in certain cases, from forfeiture of their interest in a benefit society. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objected to the clause. After some discussion, in which Mr. Atherton, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Sotheron, and Sir G. Grey took part. Lord PALMERSTON observed that the object of the clause was to protect friendly societies at the expense of the militia men. It was a mistake to suppose that when a man entered the militia he bound himself to go and serve in such cam paigns as the Crimean. All that a militiaman could be called upon to do was to serve, at his own option, at Such places as Gibraltar, Corfu, and garrisons in the Mediterranean, where the prospects of health were just as good as at home. Mr. HENLEY doubted whether the chances of health were as good in the Places named by the noblo lord as at home, and he therefore hoped some time would be given for considering the proposal contained in this clause. Mr. MOWBRAY cited the case of an assurance office, which would not insure the life of a militiaman, who was liable to be called upon to serve in the tropics or at the seat of war, NEWS FROM THE CRIMEA. Mr. WARNER wished to know whether by means of the telegraph there had been received any news from the Crimea in the course of that day or the day before. If there were ne news at that moment, he should feel inclined to move that the house meet at 12 to-morrow (this day), in order that such news might be communicated. Sir C. WOOD said that the Government were not in possession of any news. LOAN BILL. The house then resolved itself into committee on the Loan Bill. On clause 1, Mr. JOHN - MACGREGOR said he considered the'right hon. gentleman had fallen into a great error in proposing a loan according to the terms of the bill. The right hon. gentleman might have raised a loan of twenty millions at par, for an annual rate of interest not greatly exceeding that now proposed to be•given. He would propose now to substitute in the bill the words "twenty millions," in stead of " sixteen millions." The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES (Mr. Fitzroy) ruled that no motion could be made in that way. Mr. MACGREGOR would move in that case that the chairman report progress and ask leave to sit again. Mr. FITZ ttOY said the hon. member was not in order in making that motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER regretted that the hon. gentleman could not, consistently with the forms of the house, make the motion he wished to make, and carry it with the consent of the house. The only practical difficulty which occurred to him in the way of giving effect to such a resolution was, that it was not improbable that the contractors for the loan would makesome objection to paying the Government 20,000,00()1. when they had only contracted to give interest for 16,000,000/. (A laugh.) He hoped the hon. member, having recorded his protest, would not further oppose the motion. Mr. MACGREGOR withdrew his motion. /dr. WILKINSON remarked that a Chancellor of the Exchequer very often could only do what it was in his power to do, and not what it would be most advisable to do. Mr. GLADSTONE said that undoubtedly the main ob jects of free trade had been accomplished, and the duties most adverse to free trade got rid of. He entirely agreed with what had often bees said, that it was not unreasonable that all high duties upon articles of import into the country should be likewise got rid of. But, besides the matter of pro tective duties, there were various other subjects of great importance to which the principle of free trade would un doubtedly apply—for instance, to a gradual reduction of the taxes laid upon articles produced at home by way of Excise. Another description of legislation to which they had also lately taken with great advantage was the total abolition of low nominal duties, which were unproductive in point of fact. Duties had in that way lately been taken off from 1,000 to 1,300 articles. But he could not altoge ther dismiss from his mind the apprehension that should the burden of the war continue and the existing inconve nience be increased (and he had no doubt, for his ownpart, that it would be increased), Parliament would End itself —he would not say under the necessity, for he could sot undertake to say what constituted a political necessity— but Parliament would, whether reasonably or unreasona bly, return to the free imposition of protective duties. He hoped that the day would not soon arrive ; it would not be a happy day for the country; but the possibility of its arrival was a contingency he could not altogether dismiss from his mind. Mr. HEYWORTU thought it quite likely the country would be obliged to return to the imposition of protective duties. On clause 7, Mr. MACGREGOR wished to know why the dividends were made payable on the Ist day of January, instead of at a term calculated from the day on which payments were made to the Government? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was customary to pay the dividends on Consols in January and and as the Loan was contracted for in Consols it had not been thought advisable to depart from that custom. On clause 22, relative to the sinking fund, Sir F. KELLY said it was a very important principle of the financial administration of the country that the house or the committee should have an opportunity of determin ing the question whether—he would not say in the present loan, but whether in any future loans that might be ef fected for the prosecution of the war the system was to be adopted of charging posterity for a limited period with the annual payment of a very large sum. He wished to give notice that upon the bringing up of the report, or upon the third reading, he should move the rejection of the clause. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was the intention of the Government to introduce words into the clause which would bring it more in unison with the hon. and learnedgentleman's ideas. Those words would be found in the copy of the bill in the hands of the chair man. With respect to the general policy of the clause, he would go into that question on the occasion of the motion of which the hon gentleman had given notice. The bill then passed through committee. CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL. On the motion that the house should go into committee on this bill, Mr. MACGREGOR said he thought he should fail in his dutyif he did not oppose the intended increase of the duties upon tea, coffee, and sugar. C ons id er i ng the high duties to which those articles were alre a dy su bjected, he looked with alarm on the consequences of the measure proposed. Had the right hon. gentleman raised 20 millions on terminable annuities and three millions on Exchequer-bills, there would have been no necessity for increasing the duties upon articles of daily and universal consumption. Had 14s. been put upon Muscovado sugar, the desired object would have been attained ; but as they had made the maximum duty 10s., and now altered that amount, everything was disarranged, to the great inconvenience of commerce and of the public generally. Then as to coffee, there was no trade that had been in a more suffering condition. He concluded by moving that the house resolve itself into committee ou that bill this day six months. Mr. - DAVIES thought that the Chancellor of the Exche quer had exercised a wise discretion in so equally dividing the burdens of taxation. Although he felt the greatest sympathy for the lower classes, still he thought it was not fair to exempt one class from direct taxation and throw all the burden of that taxation upon another. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished to ask the hon. member for Glasgow, who, as he understood, proposed to raise twenty millione by terminable annuities, how he proposed to pay the interest upon them. Any gentleman who could solve that problem would be justly considered a financial minister. He found that the objections in the house to any sort of taxation were so inconsistent that they an swered one another ; but if they were acted up to, there would be no revenue at all. He wished also to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for some information with respect to the increase which was made in the malt tax last year. The late Chancellor of the Exchequer estimated that by a certain increase of the malt duty there would be an addition to the revenue of 1,600,0001. He wished to , know if that estimate had been realised. He did not like 1 duties on articles of general consumption, but he could not conceive how Government could propose a tax of 150,0001. on coffee whilst at the same time they were taking off 190,0001. on newspapers. He did not see the necessity for taking off this amount. Nobody complained , c 1 of the impost ; and , for his part, he confessed thought this d he the luxury of a good newspaper, and n he e was a direct violation of the principles which had pre vailed of late. He wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer also if he was aware that large quantities of tea had been recently taken out of bond ? He could not agree that a tax levied for general purposes should be turned to private advantage, to the injury of public com petition. He did not know whether this was true, but it bad been recently reported. He, however, trusted that the right hon. baronet would be able to contradict it. i The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the right hon. gentleman tho member for Oxford had last session proposed additional duties upon sugar, malt, and Spirits. With respect to sugar and spirits, there had been an increased consumption notwithstanding the additional had ‘ St; but with respect to malt, the result at present The u e. ee s n, as far as he was able to state, less favour ible. possible nuts atpresent were in that state that it was ilia- tainly a ascertain the result with accuracy, but it cer- . mat e . tP ea red that it was less favourable than the esti of barl© l ' ai - eeei ls o of that u n d ou bt e dl y was the high price the estimateeo t3, Vast harvest. However that might be, taxation had heen ie tight hon oura bl e friend of the year's million sterlin g . exc eeded by th e p ro d uce b y a b ou t a Mr. HEYWORTR 5 , 1 , 1 • formed on the subject of tl i e t the People had been l would have preferred the i,"ese changes, he was sure they He protested against a systeTan'o; tax to indirect taxation. thr•xation which not only deprived the poorer ?leases of , nislied the sinurces fnim which theiThrerneingi'' but dimi k fib ible. He objected to the inju s ti b—r was made pro ce of this tax aa an EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion being made for the second reading of this bill, several petitions were presented in favour of and against the measure. - Mr. BLACKIiUEN moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. The people of Scotland were fortunate in already possessing a sys tem of education that was supposed to work well, and they should be cautions how they attempted to disturb it. The system was first proposed by John Knox 300 years ago, and by those men who were called the fathers of the Church of Scotland. They did not at once procure its adoption by the State, but in the year 1600 a number of parochial schools were established by the Church itself, and in 1616 the schools - were recognised by the Privy Council. In the year 1613 an act was passed by the Parlia ment of Scotland in reference to them, and although that act was repealed at the Restoration, it was renewed in 1696, and the measure passed in that year was the funda mental charter of the schools of Scotland. The silica tion to be given in the schools was to be a religious educa. tion under the charge of the Church of Scotland, but the principle onewhich they were established was proposed to be entirely overthrown by the bill now submitted for the consideration of the house. The schools had worked re markably well, and had done a great deal to raise the cha racter of the Scotch people. (Hear, hear.) In support of his assertion respectinc , the utility of the system he would quote the opinions of two persons to whose views the hon. gentleman opposite would be inclined, he thought, to at tach importance. The first was the right hon. gentleman the member for the city of Edinburgh, who stated that, owing to the operation of the system, improvements such as the world had never seen had taken place in the moral and intellectual character of the people. The second per son to whose opinion he would refer was the Marquis of Lansdowne, who stated in the House of Lords that he would very much regret to see any system of education adopted in Scotian,' the basis of which would not be founded upon the principle of the parochial schools. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Blackburn) did not deny that those schools had their faults, but a bill had been brought iu by the hon. member for Perthshire to correct those faults; but nothing could be so distinct as Lord Lansdowne's testi mony in favour of the principle of the schools, which was founded upon their connection with the Church. (Hear.) He bad another witness to name in support of the system, and that was the learned gentleman who introduced the bill, and who told them that the present schools were more efficient than they had ever been before. (Hear, hear.) It was admitted by the preamble of the bill itself that for 200 years the schools had given instruction in religious matters to the great body of the people, and had given secular instruction to those who dissented from that religious teaching. (Hear, hear.) The bill did not, it must be ad mitted, continue the present principle, because it would sever the existing connection between the Church of Scot land and the schools. Therefore it would destroy the principle that had produced so many good results up to the present time, and would substitute another principle for it. (Hear, hear.) Why had such a bill been brought in, when it was admitted that the schools were working so well? He should not like to give an answer himself to that question, but he would quote the reason given for it by a distinguished Scotchman in the House of Lords. That individual said he need hardly say that the agitation that had been raised to overthrow the parochial system was caused by the feeling which all Dissenters bore to all esta blished churches, and especially to those they had lately left. The individual who gave that opinion was no less a person than a member of the present Cabinet, his Grace the Duke of Argyll, who, on the 22d of March, 1850, as signed that as the reason for the agitation on which the measure now before the house was founded. (Hear, hear.) He thought the present proposal of those who had gone oat of the Established Church was against their own prin ciples. It had always been an admitted principle that schools should be attached to the Established Church. Yet now it was proposed to take them all away, because they no longer regarded that Church with approbation. The whole principle of the bill was to transfer the manage ment of all the schools in Scotland to a board. The first point to be looked to was, if the board was a proper au thority for such a purpose. He much doubted that, and would prefer seeing the inspector of schools report to a mi nister of - education in London, or to some functionary more particularly conversant with Scottish business. The con stitution of the proposed board was the most extraordinary ho had over seen, consisting of seventeen members, eight of whom were nominees r , f Government, four philosophers, representing the four universities of Scotland, and four provosts from the municipalities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, and Aberdeen. To set such a board over the whole educational institutions of the country appeared to him. one Of the most monstrous proposals he bad ever heard. The people of Scotland, members of the Free Church and others, who were petitioning in favour of this bill, had not the least idea of what they were asking for, and thought it sufficient in order to stigmatise anything as abominable to call it Erastian. The board was invested with arbitrary powers of dismissing schoolmasters, which would reduce them to a servile condition. He maintained that the new measure would act very ill indeed, and thought he had at all events shown reasons for the house to pause before assenting to it. It was not as an exclusive test, but as a test of qualification, that the advocates of the present system wished the religious test to be maintained. Again, it was said that the defenders of the present schools wished to maintain a monopoly, but they were perfectly ready, provided their own schools were let alone, to join the learned Lord Advocate in establishing the most perfect system of education that could be devised, and to support any other schools that might be deemed requisite. There were also fears that the schools might be sectarian; but the fact was that the parochial schools of Scotland had never been sectarian, and he had the testimony of a late member well known and highly respected in that house (Mr. Fiume), to the fact of their exemption from sectarian character, and of the utter absence of class distinctions or prejudices. By the Act of Union the schools were to be secured in the management of the presbyteries, and he thought it would be admitted, that, as in the case of the Act of 'Uniformity in England, the greatest caution shonild be used in altering such a statute. He denied that the mass of sound public opinion in Scotland was in favour of the measure. He found that 117 petitions with 5,570 signatures had been presented against the bill, and six petitions with but six signatures in its favour. The denominational clause was left out, and the learned lord took credit for having done so in deference to the opinions of the Scottish members ; but if they turned to the 45th clause, they would find the same principle in another form. Under this the Committee of Council might continue their grants to denominational schools ; and was the only body that was to be excluded from the benefits of public grants hereafter to be the Esta blished Church of Scotland? He called on English mem bers to lend their aid to the representatives of Scotland in resisting the attempt now made to upset a system that was universally acknowledged to have worked well and con ferred benefits of the highest kind upon the country, in order to replace it by a new and quite untried plan. It was a fact well worthy the notice of the house, that already —in the towns of Glasgow and Edinburgh-82 p er cen t. of the children between the ages of 5 and 12 were at school, and he apprehended that it would be impossible to obtain a larger attendance than this, and that the expectation of h av i n g 100 per cent. at school under the new scheme was absolutely lie moved that o da ved as y aani xmouths. amendment mon that the bill be read e a li s c e a c l o ' nd time Mr. TNLOP deniedthatlhtehennpmubbleic; ojiin)eitoirtlioonfsSpcoret: Scot land was against the bill. f the t ito n measures againstw as 872, the d bill there were appended s with nte : 1 68 " 0 111p or t signatures,of the N i li n is c t ip t l o e the the constituencies whose representatives of 6‘i,651 only 42,3o1hasdrgannatpupreerst.ed bill of last year consisted of a population whilst those by whose representatives it wasotphpeo a population of only 23,878. The principle of nationalwa th that system they of should no o education, longer and,ha v e a therefore, denominational msetelagsuavree attempt at the exclusive control or monopoly of the educa that every_ but a tion of the country must be abandoned. Were they to . without his paying an additional premium. Why, V, en, should the same power be refused to a friendly society, which, if properly managed, should be regulated upon the same principles as an assurance office 7 After some further discussion, Lord EBRINGTON con-. sented to withdraw the clause, upon the understanding that he should have an opportunity of renewing it on bringing up the report. The clause was then withdrawn, and the bill passed through committee. The house resumed, and the bill as amended was orderel to be reprinted. The other orders were then disposed of, and the house ad journed shortly before two o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIYISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-•APRIL 27. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. Order for second reading read. Motion made, and question proposed, " That the bill be now - read a second time." Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words upon this day six months." Question put, " That the word now' stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 210 ; Noes, 171. AYES-210. Acton, J , ritzwilliam, G. ' Monck, Viscount Adair, R. Foley, J. Non creiff, J. Adcock, T. Forster, C. - Monsell, W. Anderson, Sir J. Forster, J. Morris, D. Antrobus, E. Fortescue, C. Mostyn, T. Atherton, W. Fox, W. murrough, J. Baines, Rt. Hon. M. Freestun, Col. Nerreys, Sir D. Baird, J. Gardner, R. North, F. B 11, J. Gaskell, J. Osborne, R. Bass, T. Gibson, T Otway, A. Baxter, W. Gladstone, W. Paget, Lord A. Beamish, F. Goderich, Vis. Palmerston, Visa. ' Beaumont, W. Goodnann, Sir G. Patten, J. Berkeley. C. Gordon, A. - Paxton, Sir J. Biggs, W. Grace, 0. Fechell, Sir G. Bonham-Carter, J Greene, John Peel, Sir R. tiouverie, Hon. E. P. Gregson, S. Peel, F. Brand, H. B. W. - Grey, Sir G. Perry, Sir T. Bright, J. Grey, R. Phillimore, J. G. Brocklehurst, J. Gurney, J. Phinn, T. Bfoekman, E.D. Hall, Sir B. Pollard-Urquhart, W. Brotherton, J. Hankey, T. Portman, W. Brown, W. El anmer, Sir J. Price, W. Bruce, Lord E. Harcourt, G. Ramstlen, Sir J. Buckley, Gen. Ilastie, Alex. ' Reed, J. 3ulkeley, Sir R. Hastie, Archd. Ricardo, 0. Byng, G. Heactlatn, T. Rice, E. Card.vell, E. ' Heard, J. Richardson, J. Castierosse, Viscount Herbert, S. Roebuck, J. Caulfield, Col. J. Hervey, Lord A. Rushout, Col. G. Cavendish, C. Heywood, J. Rassell, F. W. Cheetham, John Higgins, G. 0. Sawle, C. Clifford, Col. H. M. Hindley, C. •Scholelleld, W. Cobden, R. - Howard, C. Scobell, Capt. G. Cockburn, Sir A. J. E • Howard, Lord Scrope, G. Cogan, W. H. F. Hughes, W. Strictly, F. Jollier, R. P. Mutehins, E. Seymour, Lord Colville, C. R. Hutt, W. Se_tmour, H. Cowan, C. Ingham, R. l 4 eymour, W. D. Cowper, W. F. Jackson, W. Shafto, R. Craufurd, E. H. J. Jermyn, Earl Shee, Serjt. W. Dalrymple, Viscount Keating, H. S. ' Shelley, Sir J. Dashwood, SrG. H. Keogh, W. Smith, J. A. Davie, Sir H. R. F. Kershaw, J. Smith, J. B. Denison, J. E. King, P. Smith, M. Dent, J Kinnaird, A. Smith, R. De Vere, S. ' Kirk, W. Somerville, Sir W. Dillwyn, L. Labouchere,Et.Hon.H Steel, J. Drumltnrig, Iris. Laing, S. Sturt, H. Duff, G. Lang ton, H. IG. Talbot, C. Duff, J. Layard, A. H. Thompson, G. Duncan, Viscount Lee, W. Thornely, T. Duncan, G. Lewis, Sir G. C. Thornhill, W.. Dundas, F. Lindsay, W. Tr till, G. Dungatvan, Viscount Locke, J. Villiers, C. Dunlop, A. Lowe, R. ' Vivian, H. H. Eorington, Viscount Lushington, C. Walmsley, Sir J. Elcho, Lord Macaulay, T. B. Walter, J. Ellice, E. M`Cann, J. Warner, E. Elliot, J. , Macgregor, john Wells, W. Euston, Earl McTaggart, Sir J. Whatman, J. Ewart, W. Mangles, R. D. Whitbread, S. Ewart, J. Marjoribanks, D. Wilkinson, W. Fagan, W. Martin, J. Wilson, J. Feiiden, M. Matheson, A. ' Winnington, Sir T. Fenwick, H. ' Matheson, Sir J. Wood, Sir C. Fergus, J. Milnes, R. - Wortley, J. S. Ferguson, Sir R. Milton, Viscount Wyvill, M. Ferguson, J. Michell, W. TELLERS Fitz Gerald, J. Moffatt, G. Hityter, W. tritzwilliam, C. Molesworth, Sir W. Mulgrave, Earl of NOES-171. Annesley, Earl of Fuller. A. Mullings, J. Archdall, M. Galway, Viscount. Naas, Lord Ball, E. George, J. Newark, Viscount Baldock, E. Gilpin, Col. 11. Newport, Viscount, Barnes, T Goddard, A. North. Col. J. Barrow, W. ' Graham, Lord W. Noithcote, Sir S. Bateson, Capt T. Green*ll, G. Oakes, J. Bentinck, Lord H. Greene, Thomas Ossulston, Lord Bentinck, G. Grogan, Ed ward Pake nitam, T. 11. Bernard, Vis. Gwyn, H. Pakin g t on , Si r J . Bolder°, Col. H. G. Hadfield, G. Palk, L. Bowyer, G. . hale, It. Parker, R. Brainley-Moore, J. Hamilton, Lord C. Pellatt, A. Bramston, T. W. Hamilton, G. A. Pennant, Col. E. Bruce, C. L. C. llamilton, J. H. Percy, J. Burroughes, H. lianbury,Capt. Hon. C Pilking ton, J. Burrowes, H, Hayes, Sir E. Portal, M. Butt, O. Heathcote r Sir W. Repton, G. Campbell, Sir A. Henley, J. Robertson, P. Carnac, Sir J. Hihlyard, R. C. Rolt, P. Cayley, H. Hill, Lord A. E. Scott, F. Cecil, Lord R. Ho tham, Lord Seymer, H. . Child, Smith Hudson, G. Sibthorp, Col. Choimondeley, Lord Hume. W. Smijth, Sir W. Christopher, Robt. A. Irton, S.' Smith, W. Christie, Samuel Johnstone, J. Smollett, A. Clinton, Lord C. P. P. Jolliffe, Sir W. ' Sotheron, T. Clive, R. Jones, Capt. T. Spooner, R. Cobbold, J. C. Jones, D. Stafford, A. Cocks, T. S. Kelly. Sir F. " Stanhope, J. Codrington, Sir C. W Kendall, N. Stirling, W. Cole, H A Kerrison, Sir E. Stuart, W. Corry, H. T. L. King, J. Taylor, Col. Crossley, F. Knatchball, W. Thesiger, Sir F. Cubitt, W. Knight, F. Tollemache, J. Dalkeith, Earl Knightley, H. Tomlin 4, G. D..vies, J. L. Knox, Col. B. W. Tyler, Sir G. Deedes, W. Knox, W. S. Vance, J. Disraeli. B. ' Limon. Sir E. Vansittart, G. Dod, J. W. Langton, W. Veraer,Sir W. Duckwor It, Sir J. T. Laslett, W. Vernon, G. Duncembe, Hon. A. Liddell, H. G. Vernon, L. Duncombe, 0. Lind.say, Col. J. Vivian, J. E. Dunne, Col. Lisburne, Earl Vyse, Col. East, Sir J. Lockhart, A. E. Waddington, H. Egerton,Sir P. Lockhart, W. Walcott, Admiral Egerton, W. Lovaine, Lord Walpole, S. Egerton, E.C. Macartney, G. Walsh, Sir J. Elmley, Vis. Mackie, J. Whiteside, J. Emlyn, Vis. Macgregor, Jas. Whitmore, H. - Evelyn, W. Mandeville, Vis. Wigram, Loftus T. Farnham, E. March, Earl of V7yndham. IL Ferrer, J. Masterman, J. Wynn, Lient.-Col. redo wes, E. Maxwell, J. Yorke, E. Fitzgerald, W. Meux, Sir H. Floyer, J. Miles, W. TELLERS Follett; B. Montgomery, Sir G. Baillie, H. Forster, Sir G. Mowbray, I. . Blackburn, P. PAIRS ON THE SCOTCH EDUCATION BILL. FOR GOVERNMENT. - AGAINST GOVERNMENT. Sir William Clay General Wyndham Sir Francis Baling Mr. Buck Mr. H. Adair Mr. Long Mr. Dick , Mr. Packe Mr. G. Cavendish Mr. Mundy Lord Waterpark Mr. Miall Mr. Raikes Currie Lord Bective Mr. Wickham Mr. Moody Mr. Ricardo Sir H. Willoughby Mr. Horsman Mr. Greaves Sir J. Duke Mr. Cabbell Mr. Watson Mr. Malhis , Mr. Heyworth Mr. T. Baring Mr. Bagshaw Mr. H. Baring Mr. Muntz Lord Chelsea Mr. Sheridan Mr. Robert Palmer Mr. O'Flaherty Lord Blandfercl -Mr. H. Berkeley Mr. Beresford Sir R. Price Sir J. Bailey Mr. Glyn • Sir C. Burrell Mr. T. Duncombe Sir J. Berkeley Mr. Esmonde Lord Granby Lord Shelburn Lord A, Lennox • Mr. T. Chambers Mr. Woodd Mr. Divett Sir R. Vyvyan Mr. G. Heneage Colonel Forester Mr. M. Williams Mr. D. Waddington Captain Townshend General Hall Colonel Tynte Captain Gladstone Lord R. Grosvenor General Arbuthnott Sir De Lacy Evans Sir J. Trollope Lord Robert Clinton • Mr. Dupre Mr. Marshall Mr. Bennet Colonel Ferguson Sir R. Gore Booth Mr. Heathcoat Mr. Sturt, Colonel Biddulph Mr. Alexander MR. SHELL'S MEMOIRS AND SKETCHES are attracting no less attention in the literary and legal than in the political world. Among other distinguished persons who figure in them will be found :—The Dukes of Bed= ford, Leinster, Norfolk, Rutland, Sussex, Wellington— The Marquises of Anglesey, Cornwallis, Thornond— Lords Brougham, Carleton, Castlereagh, Chesterfield, Clare, Clarendon, Clonmell, Coke, Combermere, Darn ley, Downes, Eldon, Erskine, Essex, Fingall, French, Gormaliston, Francis Leveson Gower, Grey, Hardwioke, Killeen, , Kingston, M anners , Norbury, Plunk e t, R o d en, Ross, ohn Russell, Shrewsbury, Sidrnoutb, Teynham, Thurlow, Valentia, Wellesley, Winchelsea Judges Daly, Fletcher, Johnson, Mayne, Moore—Sirs Francis Burdett, Theobald Butler, John Doyle, Thos. Esmonde,. Frederick Flood, Henry Hardinge, Robert Inglis, James Mackintosh, John Newport, Boyle Roche—Drs. Doyle, Magee, Milner—Messieurs Burrower, Bushe, Charles Butler, Canning, Coke, John Wilson Croker,- Curran, Dawson, Duigenan, Leslie Foster, Fox, Ful ler, Goulburn, Gould, Grattan, Joseph Hume, Joy, John Kemble, Macaulay, O'Connell, M'Loghlen, Phil lips, Pitt, Ponsonby, Saurin, Scarlett, . Sheridan, Stan ley, &C. ADvERTISEMENT.I—Many thousand cures have been effected without medicine, by Du Barry's Delicious Revs, lenta &rabica Food, of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, paralysis, &c. We quote a few :—Cure No. 52,612.—Fr0m the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart.—" Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland:9th December, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in interest of suffering hu manity, to state that Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Ara. bica Food has cured her, after all medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervousness a nd i rr it a bili ty of many years' anding. This Food deserves the confidenc, e of all sufferers, and may be considered a real blessin g , Inquiries will be cheerfully answered." Cure No. 7 t, — Of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies.—" I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.—Stuart de Denies." Cure No. 32,836. —From the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross.- "Three years exceo sive nervousness, with painsin my neck and left arm, and ge. neral debility, which rendered my life very mi sera bl e, has been radically removed by D u Barry's health -restoring Food. —Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen." Cure No. 4,208.—" Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms and nausea, have been effee tually removed by Du Barry's deli c i ous Food in a very short time.—Rev. John W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." Cure No. 51,416.—" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervou sness, asthma, cough consti pafien, fl a t u l e n c y, s p asms , s i c k ness at the stomach , and vo. mitings, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent FoL-1. —Maria Jolly, Wortham, Ling, near Dies, Norfolk." Cure No. 3,9o6.—Thirteen years' oongh, indigestion, and gene. cal debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food.—James Potter, Athol-street, Perth."-7ln canis ters, suitably packed for all climates, and with full inatruc tions-11b., 2s. 9d.; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 51b. lls. ;121b., 225. ; super-refined, 11b., 6s. ; 21b., lls. ; 51b., 225. ; 101 b., 335. The e 10ord1b. and 121 b,, carriage freo, on r ece i p t of post officer. Barry du Barry and Co. 77, Regent street, London ; F ortnum, Mason, and CO. purveyors o her Majesty, 182 , Piccadilly ; also at 68, 'Cornhill 60, Gracechurch-st ree t ; 3 30 and 951, Strand ; 63 and ; 150, Oxford-street ; 55, Charing -cross ;4, Otleapside ;25 and 51, Upperßakevetreet. COUNTRY 1 11 R SETS. —_ 4) . -- LIVERPOOL—AVM 27. There was only a slender attendance ef 133 „, ii rtr: I dealers, and business was by no means active. 1 ,, „i c es: actions were at the following advance on Tuesd!lY 'triopel —2d to 3d per bushel on English and foreign will i, to - ) barrel on American ; ls.per sack on English ; W ig 0 li beans. Indian corn 3g to 33 6d per per s a ck on Spanish flour; Id per bushel on oats is 6 d per load on oatmeal and ls to 2s per clr 00 o s til i ' l day se'nnight. qr higher tbsa WAKEFIELD —APRIL 26. i m iller! To-day we have not,goodshoal of wheat, r o u t we elei s a being free buyers•an advance of 45 per cll . ' lIP°3 ' s ',l , s°ii i prices has been realised. Barley in better do r oe , 511 per qr. dearer. Beans is per qr., oats id pe r shelling fully is per lead higher. n oted II ao in CORN.—In our EmXmE•kTetEwith:alktrualtajyr4 b 2 e 6 4u d ig ' °ln 84 " 94 01 to Os 3d. Malting barley, 45 Od to 45 6d ; gri n 09 Od 0 Od to Os O. . Oats, 3s 6d to 35 Bd. neang' to 0 Od. Peas, 00s Od to 60s Od . do 51°1 FLOUR.—Fine, 54s Od to 51s Od ; 0 0 ° 11 ' 101° Od per sack. . ows i int rc• CATTLE.—Prime beef, 10s 0d per score ; c _ ib., re• oafr , 121. to 141. ; butchers' calves, 5d to score Pe r i obs , D o calves 00s to OOs each. Sheep, Rd to 601.„ 5 co b; ' t 0, Od per lb. Store hogs, !arge size 50s to J f d t, 3d P e 25s to 30s ; small, OOs to OOs. 'lpugh s Pork carcases from 8s Cod to 8s 9d per zcore, ------ CORN.—Wheat, white, per—tq1.rii.. , 2 645 81L vu .., 24 ;,0 66 3 1 : ) ' - w ,‘, 1 * r t° 21e8ys,Ocdh.evaoliaetro,,I22N;:ddRt:::885s800.,1; ditto, 0 ° 113111°14 „il , CO, MEAL.—Oatmeal, per imp. boll 22s to 2 8 , 35 i To b;;; second, OOs Od to Os Od ; barlerilsat 162/ 08 Sa t° o t ° peasemeal, 17s 6d. to Os Od; bran, pet ston e ! 4 6 ° al l Ist flour, per 2801 b, 50s Od to 565 Od; 2d d itt9 'eri 3l ) 0 (.: 0 0s os O o d d ; ; oatmeal, best, Opserodstot. osofod141; bariTottliy3eo,l3ll:ol4 to OOs Od ; peasemeal, is 10d to Os O d ' yd 6 3s 6d credit ; 2d ditto, 2s 6d cash, 20 Od °'''..- 27.0fd. OOP BRISTOL SUGAR—OW' , 4 wi io The alteration in the duties has had the v i e " oreO v i g te in our market to some extent. The sale" - ow' O s of 0 If have only amounted to about 200 hogshesal.so aes s 'Ol O i es, upon which the importers have rsad s b oo O ji 3r whole of the advance. In foreign there 1 1 , 0° ,, stes of importance. Refined goods still exPerl_Bl/,//e; wand, and have advanced from 25 to 3s Per . _..--,-frf- COAL MARKS Prices of Coal per ton at t 1 s. d. Middle W. Hartley . lB 6 Davison's West Hartley 18 6 Hasting's Hartley lB 6 Holywell 17 0: Howard's Nethteei West est Hartley 18 6: Hartlepool West Hartley 18 0 North Percy Hartley l7 Ravensworth Hartley _lB 6 Taufield Moor Butes l5 6 Townley l7 I Walker Primrose lO 3 Grey's West Hartley lB 3 ' West Pellion l5 t; Wylam 17 0 ET.—ArsiD 2' 'II soot. h e close of tile oisendt ..... ..041 Belmon t '••' ..... Brad 11 .......... ... 1); frainweligatle ' ........ Haswell ........ North iletton Eletton 1,10118 PlUniraer ...... cs S g t o a s atlhe Russell se. ................................................................ is Ca,radoe ...... ..••• Hartley •••l "•''..""..15 Hartlepoo ..... Hough Hag-. ... „,./1 5 Kelloe ......16 South Xellos..", Tees ..............jy Tritndon ........ ••• Whi tworth •" • ii;a4. l ' l ) 6 WestDerw elletuwoset.e.r....; WaMend, &e. Acorn Close • 18 0 Gibson l6 6 Gosforth . l7 0 Heaton Ships 16 6 Riddell l7 0 Eden Main 18 6 Lambton Primrose 18 6 1 ------------ TO Y ' V --- - D S .. O .' COURSE OF EXCJIANa". „, ,i °' Amsterdam-- _ _ .... 11 j 8 •14 Gibraltar • • •..„.• ~ Rotterdam ............ 12 rn .• '•• '' ••• / Ditto, three months .. 12 094 Leg .... ~, ~ at market -• " v...............:1 go d...... Antwerp .............. 25 474 Milan .• .° .. „.. ~, '. liA Brussels .......„. ... 25 474 ' yenice •• • ' ... ••:, ~ '', 1 ) 0 ilarriburgh .. „ ~, .. : ~ 13 8% Naple s ****** .•••• ,•• ~ 01 Altona ~........ ...: .. , Palermo ••• .......,,, :, Paris _ ..., .. ........ 25 22i! Messin a • ..... •• • ' ~... , / S.:Ditto, three months .. 25 50 ILisbon •• • ..,.....,, 0% Genoa • • ''.........,, ivi Marseilles ............. 25 50 ! Oporto • ; •;........,, ; i ', Bourdeaux ~ .. „.., „, . Rio Jalle A ll re s,..', , sii A Ft ankfort-on -Maine .• , 1194: Bu enos 11 , 6 d CPY'. , • i ' it t r , B V erlin „ ......... : l'iesy ' ° to "• • ; , '''l I ' 12 50 rin la6elP or OP 1!) rrieste.... _ .....• • : .. •12 52 ; " W old I ° •'' 0 Petersburg .... .. 354 ; Foreign 000 coil! .. 0 Madrid ...... • • ••• •.: :' 49 u i portagal DO/Ir a .. .6 . i C3LitZ ...... ••••••• • • 49% I MeXiCal)01101 ...:*, Barcelona ... .• I ev i ,: barii • Seville., ..., .::::: :L . : i Silver o. srAOS• SEABORNE -- a y O r 1 d tbe os_ 51 atclu ) (N signifies that the mails are sent . 1 " es ° P by the night—and Xi by the morning-- i, y0rt..06.4. leu Day virnia 0,0„,ti i n General . dr,a. . LOn COUNTRIES 3. r ,weri , v Nincrica(byßrit.pack)N ktnericrt by United Sts. packet) .... • . ..N knicrica (by U. States Every Fed 35 ierP° Ql ra ptooi too. . Ipo cier .• packet) ........N Australia (via South ampton) Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) ............N Africa (West Coast)..j. Alexandria.... .... ..N Alexandria ........ ..M Bahamas ........... M Belgium ............N Brazil ...... ........ Y. Buenos Ayres Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape of Good Hop'e ..N Cape de Verds ......N Ceylon (see India) 00 1 f ill° er P °l l - 0;;IPOollf 1) 0C 1 1 ;1 . 0 1;1 1; '1 SO U Thlfir:4 pr Ta r" O p 0 / E4ool' r.,fts illO P t c ; 0 41 S'ou N OP . So t ' frocf ; A ;?f °l ,f r ,goat' l paver , , ove r ;atlv u " 1,0,1" °; 0 ,9, S ut, I)o ve ,0 1 P So av ,o o plyl „ DO, d ' • DO , „0. , o p „i l ' eoiltptr,fr 'soti„ f t p oi Ic 4 c oo . " 1)0 aU 0 14 :0 , DO i ota 11 5 ' • 0 0511',.. A V 3rl 4 •••tou r po , t i os l o ol v e iso "itif ol ot ts, t '. 4 ° "..•)? cr 'o'o 3 l / Do t oo/ u r ns th ► ofr 2d&., 17tb,01 Wen ,111, tl , '„ A ot.. tjj e f When any of these dates fall. on a Sullt7 ce oi:/ / ii, d ipatched. on the f o ll ow i ng d a '" r Southampton). and th e mrdta;.both of vil l ` o preceding day, with the 1,7 •• " 'l3d of the mon,t 8,9, 24, 8; 30 4th & 20th,of °l' 17th of the In .. • • ,•„: • 9th of the moot v• 9th of the Inman.' 9th of tha month Ceylon Channel Isles ........N China ... Constantinople .... Constantinople wont. of Europe M & N Egypt (see India) 4 8 T O2 :1 i ni03c*7 8c: 1.1 .3 .8 : 7 ;0 t2u lahte:h;°:11.(0. Fiance • • .. Ei & N Gibraltar .......... 141 Greece (see India) Greytown ........ Ilamburgh Eiavannah ..... Holland 114 Honduras India (via Sou thampt.)M India (via Marseilles)M lonian Isles (See India)l Ireland & N Lisbon • • .. • .Y 1 Madeira. :..... • .... ladeira .... • . N Malta (see India) Malta Mauritius (see India) Mauritius Mexico ... Naples New Granada NI I New Zea1and...... .. Papal statbs N Peninsula Peru .. • Port Natal Sicily ..............N Tuscany Venezuela M Van Diemen'aLand (see Australia) ?rest Indies • Twice daily.• • • 4. 7, 17, 20, 27 °to 2nd & 17th of r0,° 11 ,, I Tuesday & Frit 2nd of the month •• Daily.... • • • • • 17th of the moo • 4th 'SD 20th of • 9i1.18c 25th ofil ion " 17, 17, &2 7 of W O v.r %vice daily •• 7,9, 17, it 2 7 t % 9th of the ra° 9 I 23d of month • • ••1 Is. is. &28 of voni nth 14th of the rtio, h 2nd of the illon"":1 btblsth2stho rnlo7 :_ , '2d Sc 17th of mon th ) By private sMiP _.! sthlstli2sthoi ltion . 7thl7th27tho tinort , id gz 27th of mO O By private shIP.;: sthlsll2,sthotino .. stlllsol2sthofittoP , 2d &47th el monlD: li i sioOfennoitfh,e4.2:7Gthraiy7tE.,scia.t (Iiii131°11AtP13:111:: r : i ti i : vtl'e , r s : : . h JA ° .he 2 7th inst, at 7, St• IllsrY 6- r,O l /' ,l'i De La R„ '' , Esq. sae #` 1 On the 21st inst , at Pendleton, n toll' / Herbert Blrley. • Mrs. On Georget he 26th W i u h s i t t ' , I Re On the 26th inst ,at Kenbertca l ' 54 ~itor /p p. 1 li'Charles Stokes. • ptop . OP A DAO00511; jf + - el , j , in Brook-stre et, On the 24th inst ,at Cheltenham, -1 1; Co' i iit weoucl O orrdn n e:t t t ; : le e i Ee 2 2 81 inst. q6i l t d .,hy.b •a t 87% HarleY'F'tree the iii the wife of Dr. Henryio'nro. ~parc : r ' v On the 26th o i a n if r s n e r j f t s . o 7: 3 - a , p i p t , B - : 1 ,A i r 2 5 . 1 5 4,3 11 .4 7 v0 :. 4 0_0 . 4' , AP .131Br i".\ wiooonwt.hoef 2 th 6 e th la i t n e at :l; a li t Slit.B.l-01C111''s" .1.-151°-$11°:111°°;;°111141S). r EP. f °. ) Soulb _0 n the Y E 2 8 6 c1 t . 11 ' o i t t : 'at p m. a ej t :Ph S na t "' John's e hf lrr s a i r °l ' I 5a s i e C t ' 51 ; : r. : fi c e lj 'l , ' ‘ 4P' ill r e eci :; a : j ir ' m- Potte r , eldesi son of Jate e l'b P o - 0 0' "I orougl4 Pf...rk, Brixton, to HeP ll° 7l4of/ i- `' 11,1 ter of onn Tab ..-., •ca sit e- . 1 , Talbot Tyler, Xi g q" ‘ ili er t° ray. , C'''' ley, Y 9r i the v 26th lust , at St. Giles s, DlOO, ~ ,,, , f 3-- Plows, "' S q.; of irOCkWeii-terrtee' n ithql ° a l k, Juncan, eldest daughter of IL o lli " drAl l ' pion-hill, Surrey. o o. yo, Iv I, OA SO i° On the 26th inst. at St. George ° r .b - 'sil'' Thomas, Esq., ofßayshill, ,Lien_ - ors, - only daughter of the late J. Natal') A I Northampton. PO 0 0 d .D 111 Di ifr rtallt VO On the 24th inst., at Blandon oor ' t ,,,i,,, Ca O d n 6g e a s t:he:2:s:tit age i d ns 44 t.,. ,at Vr eldrg'l4lll3' fil ie e ll' o sSk A ~, w ef Da ;9 1 0 1 4 TettShhe:( On .0 a n m .R n y,tua t h_ h vgses e esid2qa 4 4n. th inst., by the burw ri "biW : ' 1 4 of the Royal Engineers, ge 7 o On the 21s a t g i e n d at 8 ,vi . t St. 0 4012-517-eet' P . V' ' 4l' 24. construction works of at t bSaestbotenasryotofloteent:,..t..!ocleolveootor 3, At le pti t ICe ° ' ; b 0 0 0 aged 57. 24th inst., at Foot's -crap' w ' oo i o , o o l l o On the 25th inst., at Wood-street' i?,.'' ." Ratcliff e , E sq., Ratcliffe, Esq., R.N , aged 27. ortivi ge' , 0 0 , j r On the 26th inst., ' at FelmershaT g J ° ,,pb d ' ',/ Assistant Paymaster V' Is Thos. Abbott Gree, Esq., aged 4°. 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