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engsgeti, that the Achill 12e was ibont to rater on - would appear dry and uninteresting. It was still leis duty to go into it, and he sheuld now pro ceed. It was now two years since this inquiry was first instituted ; and he must first of all return his warmest 'honks to the Clergy of the Esta blished Cherch, for the aid they had given on this occasiou, and without whose assistance the measure could never be rendered effectual. He would detail the assistance which he had received from them. The first measure the Committee adopted was, to address a circular to the elifferent "Clergy in the Kingdom, praying for certain re• turns, and in two days he received GOO. and be tore the end of a week, 2600 more ; and in a short time from the whole 11,000 Clergy, with l'he exception of 360, had been received, but it afterwards appeared that these 360 had also made returns, and that they were the most elaborate and important returns of the whole 11,400, and as such had been selected from over care, and mislaid, These 360 persons, however, were again written to, and chid for not making tbeir return, and the House would scarcely believe that every one of the gentlemen took the trouble of sending new returns, and, with the exception of two, without a murmur at the unjust charge made -against them. This was :4 proof of the good will existing in the minds of the Clergy towards. the education of the poor. The result of this con duct on the part of the Clergy was, that the di gest of his plan was now prepared, and in the hands of several Members, but to this there must •also he a key, which he must prepare, to enable the House to understand it. The Honourable tel then proceeded to describe the torture of his digest mud key, by which at one view the state of edocation in every town and village in the kingdom, and the means of cal-lying it ou, serodd clearly appear. When the late Mr. Whit bread brought forward his plan for the general education of the poor, Mr. Percival complained of Th e want of information, which the present digest %%mild supply. The Honourable Member them proceeded to advert to the err oeeous opinion which had existed on this te!lject. The late Mr. Cottle bout), in his Treatise, estimated the norriber of poor children wanting education in England and ‘Vales at 2,000,000. Now this could not be ; for tak ing the proportion of children at one in 10, of the population, this would fie. the number of in habitants at 20,000,000, and allowing every other to be a pauper, trere would be et least 2,000,000 more children who would have education, and 4 000,V00 of children would take the popalation at 40,000,000. Mr. Colquhnee having thus en umerated the number of poor in gross, recom mends a school should be established in every parish, end takes the poor at 800 io each parish ; whereas, the average did not, in fact, exceed 85 in each parish.—This instance would sisew how erroneous the general calculations on this sub ject were. The linnoureble Member then pro ceeded to trace the rise and progress of the schools since the year 1260, in Scotland, at Aber deen, and other places. Ile also adverted to a Statute passed by the States General in 1660, onnishiug parents fur not sending their children to school to learn grammar. He then proceeded to take a review of the different French schools front early periods, and particularly to one estab lished in France in 1729, to which the Pope gave Iris sanction. And at a later period, the Intend ant of the Police of Paris, speaking of the School for the Ignorant, established in Paris in 1723, says so good an effect had the Establishment bad 'on morals, that his Police had cost hint upwards of 30,000 francs a year leas than before their es tablishtnent. The Hon. Gentleman then proceed ed to quote other authorities in support of the Metrication of the Poor. The present Pope even et-commends the establishment of Schools for the education of poor children, and ignorant country persons ; and this he says can best be dune by providing Schools, where they will be taught what is good, and prevented learning whet was had. This opinion of the Pope was given in a letter written by his Holiness in September last. Ile trusted he should not be mistaken ; he bad no intention of teaching the poor languages, mathe matics or fluxions. To do so, would, indeed, take them from the cultivation of the land. But he had no such intention ; though he still thought that the poor might be taught something more than the first rudiments without danger. The brother of the immortal B u rns says, in a letter to a friend, " I can say from my own experience, that no avocation of the tarmiug life is inconsis tent with the refinements of the mind, threshing alone excepted." This lie acknowledges to be in consistent with refinement ; and declares his opi nion, that the man who invented the thrashing ma chine, ought to have a statue erected to his me mory. The Honourable Member then proceeded to detail the plan as appeared to the Committee, It appeared, that in the endowed and unendowed Schools of England, there were means of educat ing 655,000 children ; now this was one four teenth of the population ; but the number of children should be taken at one ninth or one and here was only provision for one four teenth or fifteenth ; besides, from the 655,000 was to be deducted 33,000 children who were at Dante's Schools, where they learnt nothing ; this would reduce the number educated to one six teenth ; and even here, previous to 1802, none of the new Schools, those under the Bell and Lan caster system, were established. They educated 180,000 ; and therefore previous to 1802, there' was only education for one twentieth part. And in the Principality ut Wales, the proportion was one twenty-sixth ; whilst in Scotland, the propor tion was one-ninth. The proportion in France, at present, was one twenty•eighth ; at present there were 1,066,000 children educated ; whilst in 1817, there were only 866,000. Here was an extreordirotry improvement ; for in two years above 7000 Schools had been established by pri vate exertions only ; and in 10 years, if they went on improving, then there would not be an un educated person in France. In Switzerland there was not one person in sixty of ally rank, who -could not read writing. And in Holland there were 4451 schools and provisions for vine - grins one-tenth of the population. The lion. Member then proceeded to take a review of the Sunday Scbuols ; there were 400,000 in those schools, but 430 t more than,lo9,ooo of these &Aitken could be. added elgoijag to any otter school, end :Awe fore that would make the %bole tunther • educated • 700,000, leaving one-fifth of the population with- ; out education. He would next look to theretnru of the number of schools ? and it would appear front the returns that there - were 3300 parishes in England, in which there trete no schools, either endowed or unendowed ; whilst in Scotland there was an endowed school io catty parish. He would next look to the state of Middlesex ; and here, excluding the Dames schools and the New Schools, instead of one-fifteenth the proportion would be one-tort y-sixth only. The next county was Lancashire, and here the proportion was one 28th ; whilst the average of Dorliani, Cumberland, and Not thumberland, was one-tenth, arid of Westmorland one-eighth. In the six Midland Counties, the average was one-24th ; next the Eastern, Suffolk, Norfolk, and E•sex, the average was one-21st ; Somet set and Doom, was one -24:h. Now, taking into consideration the popu lation of the neighbourhood of the sea coast, and the avocations, it would be found, that crime kept pace with the want of education. In the four Northern Countiea, the proportion of - poor was ' as one in 15 ; in the other Comities the poor was as one in 11. In the whole kingdom the average of commitments for crime, was as one in 1400. Ie the four Noi them, iltey were as one in 4200; in the six Midland, the commianteuts were one in 2100. The Hop. Member went on to.state the proportions in other Counties. In the four Nor thern Counties, 37.000 children paid tot their edocntioo, whilst 16,00041 W riot pals In ?the six midland Counties, 16,000 paid, and 28,000 did not pay. 1 he proportion was equally di;adeau tageotis to the other Counties io England, com pared with the Northern ; and in Scotland, few indeed took education for nothing ; the peasant of Scotland would stint himself in necessaries, to give his child fond for the Mind. He wished he could see this spirit restored in England ; but that could not be tinder-the present system of Poor Laws. It existed in Scotland, but extend the Poor Laws to +hal country, and it would exist there no longer. In Scotland, the poor people made their Children work in the summer to earn 15 or 20a. with in which the winter they paid their schooling. And in polishes 15 or 20 miles long, and 6 or 8 broad, where there was but one School master in the parish, where the Poor had not money,- each family would take the Schoolmaster tnrn bed turn about for 10 or 12 days and feed him ; he in return, teaching their children to read. Such was the picture of this part of the kingdom, ie which the Clergy so loudly called on the Legis lature to do something for the education of the poor. The Clergy of that country, in which there was a certain Canal, the Caledonian Canal, and with half the money expended on that Canal, he would educate England and Scotlantl, together wi h the principality of ‘Vales, over and over again. He had taken a long time to frame his Bill, which would be found to agree with the Do cuments on the table. His plan was divisible into four branches. The first related to the founda tion of the schools ; the second to the appoint ment and the removal of the masters ; the third to the admission of scholars ; and the fourth had for its abject the improvement of the old educa tion endowments. With reference to the first branch, he proposed to give the initiative in the appointment of a School Master to four different classes. The first was the Grand Jury at the Eat-. ter Sessions, fishing or presenting Bill that t - he_ district was deficient in a school ; the second was the Clergyman of the parish ; the. third was two Justices of the Peace ; and the, fourth class would be formed by 5 householders in the district. Each of these four classes would have the power of preferring a complaint to the Quarter Sessions held at Easier, which complaint could be tried at the succeeding grarter Session,. Two parishes might also write avid prefer a joint cronplaint.— At the time when the complaint was preferred ars estimate was to be made of the yearly expence of the School, which was not less than 201. nor more than 301. a•year. But the inhabitants of the district would have the power of assessing them selves if they chose to increase the salary of the schoolmaster, to the amount of 201, and'uot more. An order from the Justices would be a warrant to the Treasurer of the county, for the advance of money to build the School. No country Gentle man could complain of the payment of a few shilliugs to add to the salary of the schoolmaster ; and the expence of building the School ought to devolve upon the commercial and matiutactitring class, who, unless they were also landed proprie tors, knew nothing of the Poor-rates but by name. The money so advanced was to be replaced from the Consolidated Fund, it the sum did not exceed 2001. The schoolmaster might be a married man, and would have a garden, but would be ailoveed to take no boarders, though he might eke out his' salary by land-surveying and Conveyancing. No Parish-officer was to be employed in building the school, that there might be no riik of its being made a job. Schools %vele not founded on count of the salary, but the outfit. The next branch of the subject referred to the appointmeot and the removal of the schoolmaster. The first qualification would be that he should have a cer tificate from-the Clergyman of time district whete he had last resided, and three householdets. The second was, that his age should not be less titan 24, nor more than 40 years. Lie most be of the Established Church, and must have taken the Sa crament a month befOre his appointment. The +-Parish Clerk was to be eligible to the office of Schoolmaster, and that circumstance might help to restore his character to part of its former re spectability, as he had at one time been regarded as a kind of Assistant to the Clergyman. The next question related to the election of a School master. For that purpose a meeting of the inha bitants, who paid the salary, was to tie held by no lice, a month before the election. He was of opinion that the system of education should be connected as closely as possible with the Church of England, as established by law ; though, at a former period, be had not been disposed to go so far. The Chute!) was in law the teacher of the people generally; and the Parson might be termed a Clerical Schoolmaster, and. the School master-a Lay Parson. He was bound to state, that the Clergy had come forward most zealously toleod their aid on time present occasion. As to the mode by which the Schoolmaster was to be elected, Rae Parsuu of time place might, on examivation, reject him if he found he was incompetent. in the next place, a visitation was to take place of the Ordinary, the Archdeacon, the Dean, or the Chan cellor of the diocese; with the power of appeal to the Metropolitan. As to the terms of admis sion, the children of those who received parish relief were to pay nut more than 2d. or, at the utmost, 4d. per week ; and no distinction was to he made betwixt those children and theothers.— At the saute time Parish Officers and their Asses sors might direct some children to be taught gratis. The hours of teaching were to be fixed by the Parson ; no other religious books were to be taught but the Bible, and no other forms but tke Lord's Player, or some passages from Scripture. While nothing but the Bible was taught; no Dis senter could have any objection to send his children to the schools. The children were to attend Church once each bunday, and the Dissenters might, if they chose, take their children to their repec tire pieces of worship. A school-meeting was to be held each Sunday evening s reading, writing, and arithmetic were to be taught in all the schools. The last point referred to the mode of improving the means of education. All the üb servatiot's he had made, applied to all Charities, of whatever nature. His first object was to pro. videfor a deficiency, either partial or general, of Trustees ; the second was to enable Trustees to improve the administrations and the disposal of the funds ; the third, to make provision for the failure of the object of the trust, and the last was to provide checks for the whole arrangement. He was at the sante time bound in candour to state, that he thmight more favourably of trustees than he had formerly done. On the first head he ptoposed that trustees should he allowed to fill up their number. 2dly. An appeal was ao lie to the Commissioners of the charity, and the name of the founder, together with the date of the foundation, were to be fixed in a conspicuous place. If there were no trustees, then the heir at law was to fill up the vacancy ; and in the event of there being no heir at law, then the visiter. The Trustees were also to be enabled to sell and buy, and no stamp to be requisite. No Trustee was to have any beneficial interest in the trust ; an opinion which no man who knew any thing of the law of the country could for a moment entertain. It had been truly said by the late Lord Kenyon, that in must of the Grammar Schools nothing was done but to receive the salary ; to which he would add, and to receive boarders. In cases where the salary was only 101. a-year ; the expeuces for taxes and re pairs came to 4001. The Master, in these cases, would teach nothing but Latin and Greek. But the Founder had assumed that the lower branches of learning were to be taught by the Ostiarins or Ushers. By the words of the foundation, parish paupers and the children of those who lived in Alins. houses, were to be taught at those schools. Those were to be taught Latin that they might understand the service of the church, which was performed in that language. Out of 200 of those Institutions there were eight in the County of Cumberland, at the average of SU boys for each ; and the whole expence for the education of each boy amounted to -11 s. - B'l. annually. In lb other of those schools the average was only six fur each ; and in one hundred others only two thousand received education, though at the Cumberland ratio, the numbets should have been 35,000. He objected : altogethei to the . establishment of hospital.' for children, as it did them no good, and much harm to the rest of the community. Nothing, itt fact, multiplied paupers so much as hospitals for children. In the case of a total failure of the object of the dimity, the funds ought to be applied to some other charitable pur poses. The revenue of the Tunbridge School, where in fact, there was no school, amounted to 40001. annually, while 5001. was amply .adequate tor every purpose for which the School.bad been endowed. But under the present system no up .plication could be made but by Act of Parliament. According to the ratio of the Schools in the coun ty of Devon, the total outfit would be 850,0001. But according to the ratio of Cumberland, the expence would only be 400,0001. giving an aver age of halt a million ; and the mutual expence would at an average amount to 100,0001. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving for leave to bring iu a Bill for the better Education of the Poor in England and Wales. Lord CASTLEREAGH complimented the Honour role Gentleman on his clear and luminous state ment. lie had no objection to the introduction of the Bill, though he thought it the best course that it should be printed, and lie over fur consi deration next Session. At the present time, he was incapable of forming an opinion as to its enactments, and should reserve himself to ano ther stage. Mr. BROUGHAM bad no wish to prrcipilate the measure and should be guided by the sense of the House, whether he should push lorward the mea sure this Session or wait till the next. Mr. IVILBERFORCE bore testimony to the merits of his Hon. Friend, in the attention and research he had displayed. Mr. V. FITZGERALD had not forgotten the pledge he gave the House on the subject of edu cation in Ireland; and his resolution was the more confirmed by what had falken from the Hon. Gentleman, though some of the views he had taken were inapplicable to Ireland. Sir J. NEWPORT complained that accurate re turns had nut been made, as to the population of Ireland. A great difficulty, on the subject of Educatios in that Country, necessarily arose from the great bulk of the population being of a diffe rent religion trout that of the State. Sir J. MACKINTOSH stated, as a fact from his own personal knowledge, that the knowledge of writing had been of the utmost advantage to many individuals. While in India, be had been the means of transmitting many letters from soldiers and sailors to this country, and inclosing, for the most part, some little money to their friends, — By that means the domestic chanties had been kept alive, and regard for opinion had beets pre served, and they still retained a fond recollection of that country which they had (pitted, and to which they hoped to ;volts. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. BERWICK ELECTION COMMITTEE. Mr. BENNErf brought up a Report from this Committee, stating that one of its Members (Mr. W. Roberts) had bees sr.ry cluch indispused, and was theurfore under the necessity 0 11 this day of absenting himself from that Committee. jc ll Committee met this day, but adjourned to to=morrow, be hoped Mr. Roberts would be able to attend. l i e P r& ed a certificate to that 'effect from Mr. Wilson, the ourg/f. who attended the Hors. Member. He moved, that Mr,: to Roberts be excused fur non-attendance this day on the utittee. The servant of Mr. W. Roberit• was then called in., if .0 spoke to the illness of his master, and to the authent the certificate. tl Ol Some conversation ensued, from which it appear the presence ... Of the surgeon was neieltary, in orde r to the certificate, and the motion was suspended until the' geun, who was sent for, should attend. GRAMPOUND ELECTION. Lord J. RUSSELL wished it were in his power to Pe" r pe an Hon. Member (Mr. Daly) to postpone the notice of O rd Lion which he bad for that night till to-morrow, i n °I Fe enable him (Lord J. Russell) to bring forward his motion spectiog Gratnpound at the present moment. Mr. DALY thought it was doubtful whether there Wig a House to-morrow, as there was a Drawing-Room• already put off his motion Eve times, and, as he concellc-oil to be of great importance, he was sorry he could not to the Noble Lord's wishes. After some further conversation between Lord SELL, Mr. DALY, and Sir J. NIACKiNTOSH, which ~10 carried on in a low tune of voice, the Noble Lord gee I. ' request. • • e (For the remainder of the Proceedings of the House o• - mons, see the Fourth Page.] EAST INDIES. MADRAS, Fez. s.—Another Pretender tcs Throne ot Kandy had appeared in Bintonne had collected the wild Vedahs there, who are sli'v ed to have committeil some aces ot vioiente ° ; - r e peaceable inhabitants—they had seized the p is lupitia Vidahu of Welaisee, and commanded,i"er, to raise his people in favour of that Prete s t who followed them, coveted from head t°,: e go with a white cloth, and who asserted he bad "1101 appointed King ; his career, however, vol b si short, he having been captured in the Proelo c ; Bintonne, on the 12th ;he alleges that t i ll of a former Kandyan Royal Family—his follo/ are stated not to have exceeded 50 wild Vetioll9.. (Government Gazette.) ( 6I ,ort- Ifis t 0 t o • PENANG.— e are ,appy to rep , •- epidemic is now considered by protession' to have entirely quitted us ; that the boast u en d pied as a temporary hospital has in conseq u t ot o M been given up, that the Government ~ n i t il pleased to express to the Gentlemen of the C'l"%er Committee, its approbation of their zealot s tions.—(Gazette, Jan. 1.) „o 0 By the Dauntless we have received acconll- which we can depend—that the expedition j a r out from Batavia on a grand scale for . the t e s 0 ), lion of Palembang, had arrived in the ri/t r i made an attack on the batteries and defen c l e b eto the Sultan on the 21st October last, but ha' t ic , beaten off with an immense loss—our inforn' i ll e i 0 states, of one thousand Europeans. We ' lO eA tli our possession a plan of the attack, but 00 113 d i do not admit of our giving a copy of it 1° , 1 ,0 0 subscribers. The following is a list of the vessels employed on this occasion:— \Vilheltnina, Arinus Marines; Ajax , -c l iff' Prince Blucher, Waterbrak, Endrughot, curve. Irene, brig ; Emma, schooner ; 2 gun -b°Bt prows and junks with howitzers. 0 11 The force which the Malays had to 01W ° 4 i these consisted of three strong battel'il, the banks of the river, anti one on time ;0° of Gonibera ; one large fl oating battery, °n o ir , 1 , ship battery; strong piles were driren eel; fit main stream . ; serveral itnmense rafts of (ifi',":ov tire were also floated down the smaller upon the shipping with great effect. ha rl 4 ' We are also informed, that some (Bite" - having taken place on the Island of 158 14* ,,,' Dutch Resident who went out to quell 414- 0/ A been made prisoner by the insurgents, %/W i l ke wards cut off his head, and sent it in a D s a present to the Sultan of Palembang. 1 4 0 11# Resistance bad also been made ege• Dutch authority at Rhio, and when tbe Va", °- d i lr left Malacca, it was supposed that they'; obliged to quit Bintang altogether.. iz - of h‘C"il NATIONAL SOCIIITY.—At a Meeting l4O t', J neral Committee of the National Social %A I; ' Education of Ilse Poor in the Principle ` t Established Church, held June 28, ISO' Martin's Vestry-room, present— P r • l e The Bishop of Oxford Sir James Langb B l 4 o 4 I, Lord Kenyon Rev. Archdeacos ~D,Ol i t Hun. Mr. Justice Park Rt. Hon. Sir Jobs) N7,.. e ie 1, tr Some fresh Schools were united to the i oa il t and some grants of Money were tuft(le It r e building School-rooms ; at this Meeting lef t o notified that a Legacy of 5.001. h a d bee% o l.o the National Society by NATHANISG Esq., of Manchester. 01. 0 $ IMPORTANT INPORMATIOII.-From C 514 40 , i by the College of Physicians, no less Ibldiali; die annually in Great Britain ot C 0115(1 0 11 : 1 and at least 10,000 in London_ The - 1514 0 5 "/ Tornbull, Esq. a very ingenious SurgecToretli? tained that every 20ili person was r u P i efiit° These complaints are truly alarming t o it i f r i fi dividual who uses the least cxertion• 0 01 1 0 incredible the number that suffer from 11 it fr Disease, by being improperly trestea7 t o Olt those circumstances induced Dr. CoorSs 1 019 eminent Physicians and Surgeons, of *t jet/ years' experience, to form a Medical O n °2 o Oo / since the establishment upwards of 51 ",; 0 13.0 /1 firms have been cured without co l T" many of them after hospitals bad Nile' d ite, 4 7 Messrs. COOPER and Co., are C o i ng at Woodstock -street, Oxford-street ; a n ts lotte House, Great Charlotte-strcet , Rev. Rowland from eig ht ;jig, i If Mechanics have advice gratis every ev e°. 'f el l six till eight ; and on Sunday asoluil l g i o'clock. • r° *** RUPTURBS of 30 years steo ging cured without confinement. *4.* There are , private doors at tact' 11°. private rooms for Females. 10 r`c N. B. The Afflicted would do w e t ot/ 0 ,1 Messrs. COOPBR and Co.'s Lectures 01 1 i iliti$'0 0 railing Diseases, published at one Thei Mr. liartelor, 22, Blackfriais-roa d • also prove cascara( to young Practitiotter". 4111 It is rather remarkable, that four 0 ho t in the Court of Exchequer, Sco(10(I'Loril s within the last twelve months, viz• kist 0 ,0 Baron DUNDAB, Sir Gaunca ANAliCti/ Bart. the Hon. Baron NORTON, 11 °' ESI. 1 4