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1 // `, EVENING E,DITION. - WORNING SUN.-ADVERTISE MENTS inserted in the MORNING SUN will also annear in the EVENING EDITION without any EXTRA CHA RUE. lON. SUN OFFICE, 112 STRAND. L ONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this COM PANY will be held pursuant to the Act of Incorpora tion, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on TIMIS kv, the 18th July 1839, at One o'Clock precisely, at which Meeting the Min u t es o f th e B OARD o f D IRECTO RS, under date of 6th December 1838, and 28th March 1839, declaring forfeited all Shares on which the second and third calls of 31. per Share each, due on the sth June, and the 17th October 1838, had not then, or since that date, been paid, will be sub mitted for confirmation. The Transfer Books are now closed, and will remain shut until Friday, the 19th day of July, next. JOHN HARMAN, Chairman, THOS. WOOD, Secretary. Under the provision of the Act, no person can vote at the said Meeting who shall not have previously paid all calls due, (clause 154). N. B.—Parties who have executed Transfers of Sale, are ear nestly recommended to ascertain that they have been duly re gistered ; and purchasers whose Transfers are not registered, will be precluded from attending, and taking a n y part i n t h e proceedings of the General Meeting. London and Brighton Railway Office, 10, Angel Court, Throgmorton-street, June 25, 1839. • EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND. THE DIRECTPRS of the NEW ZEA LAND LAND COMPANY hereby give notice that they are ready to receive applications for a Free Passage to their FIRST and PRINCIPAL SETTLEMENT, from Mechanics, Gardeners, and Agricultural Labourers, being mar ried, and not exceeding 30 years of age. Strict inquiry will be made as to qualifications and character. The Company's Emigrant Ships will sail from England early in August next. Further particulars and printed forms of application may be obtained at the Company's Offices. By order of the Directors, JOHN WARD, Secretary. No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, June 15, 1839. NEW ZEALAND GovERNOR—The: DEPUTY-GOVERNOR-J DIRE( _ _ Lord Petre Hon. Francis Baring, M.P. John Ellerker Itoulcott, Esq. John William Buckle, Esq. Russell Ellice, Esq. James Brodie Gordon, Esq. Thomas Alers Hankey, Esq. William Hutt, EN., M.P. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. FIRST COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND. COMMITTEE, With power to add to their number. GEORGE SAMUEL EVANS, D.C.L., Chairman. Hon. Henry Petre E. B. Hopper, Esq. Captain Daniell George Duppa, Esq. Dudley Sinclair, Esq. Wm. Swainson, Esq., F.R.S, Francis Molesworth, Esq. Robt. Henry Wood, Esq. The Directors of the NEW ZEALAND LAND COM PANY hereby give notice, that Purchasers of Land Orders desiring to claim from the Emigration Fund a Free Passage for themselves, their families, and servants, to the extent of 75 per cent. of•their purchase monies respectively, are to make their applications, in writing►, to the Secretary, on or before the 15th day of July instant, or their claims will be considered as waived. Persons intending to emigrate with the First Colony on the 15th of Augus, are advised that, in consequence of the very rapid sale of the lands (nearly four-fifths of the selected acres being• already disposed of) immediate application will be neces sary in order to secure town sections in the first and principal settlement. • By Order of the Directors, JOHN WARD, Secretary. No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, July 2, 1839. Under the designation of the First Colony, a Society has been formed, consisting exclusively of heads of families and others about to settle permanently in New Zealand, on lands purchased from the Company. The Society already numbers a considerable body of gentle men, others, who may entertain similar views, are invited to join them. Qualification of a member of the Society, the purchase of one hundred acres of land ; including, in both cases, part of the first town. Members admitted by ballot only. The Colony will depart in a body on the 15th of August next, so 'as to reach their destination about Midsummer ( Southern Hemisphere), when the site of the first town will have been de termined and prepared for their reception, by a prelimi nary ex pedition now on its way to New Zealand. The Committee meets daily at the offices of the New Zealand !And Company, No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, where further information may be obtained, on application (if by letter, post paid), to the Chairman of the Society. COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON. CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS, In Two Thousand Shares of 1,0001. each. Fifty per Cent. to be paid up by Instalments, and a reserved power of enlarging the Capital if required. • DIRECrOns. Edward Baines, Esq., M.P. Edward Oxenford, Esq. Edward S. Cayley, Esq. M.P. John Ramsb , ,ttom, Esq., M.P. Sir James Gambier. George Rennie, Jun., Esq. Thos. Crimsditch, Esq M.P. John Shewell, Esq. Mark Gambier, Esq. John Tailor, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. A. J. Valpy, Esq. Thos. Hawker, Esq., M.P. IIL Walker, Esq., M.P. Arthur Todd Holrovd, Esq. 'B. B. Williams, Esq. Jonathan Hopkinson. Esq. , Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. G. B. Matthew, Esq., M.P. SOLICITOR..—SamueI Amory, Esq. It is unnecessary to advance arguments as to the expediency of establishing this great National Bank. Existing circum stances will suggest the strongest. The object is to unite all that is sound in the system of Joint-stock Banking , with all that is respectabl e i n t h e system of private ßankin g, and at the same time to avoid the errors and evils of both. Shares of One Thousand Pounds each, with 5001. to be paid up, will prevent an admixture of speculative adventures with opulent capitalists. The Joint-stock system of Banking to be sound as a whole should be sound in each of its parts. The Royal Bank of Liverpool hasbeen formed upon the same principle —in the brief period of three years its shares have art i ved at a premium ofabout 50 per cent. London must be t better field for such a system than Liverpool. The Commercial Bank of London is capable of being the focus of the Joint-stock Banks of the whole kingdom. The Commercial Bank of London combines three important advautiges--vis., a large capital, permanent responsibility, and uniformity in the system of management ; thus securing that acknowledged desideratum, a guarantee that the capital of the Bank shall not be withdrawn, nor its efficient action impaired by the death or retirement of co-partners. The Commercial Bank of London has been founded as a Bank of Deposit for making advances by loan or otherwise, and more especially as a point of concentration for such Provincial Joint-stock and other country Bank.; as conduct their business on sound banking principles. Three Managers syill be appointed. The qualification of each to be a long previous experience in the banking or discounting of London, by which the knowledge, decision, and secrecy of a private bank will be added to the superior solidity of a sound joint-stock system. Interests on deposits will he allowed on special agreement only, no Bank not having the advantage of issuin g its own paper an be expected to grant interest on floating deposits or on current accounts; but while recognising security as the legiti mate basis of every banking transaction, the Directors will be desirous at all times, but,especially in periods of financial pre,- sure, to meet the just demands of every class of society, com mercial, manufacturing, and agricultural. Ten per cent. will be required to be paid on the allotment of the Shares, and such further calls made as may be necessary, by instalments no' exceeding 10 per cent., of which three months' notice will be given by public advertisement, but not more than 50 per cent. of the subscribed capital will be called for without the concurrence of three-fourths in value of the Proprietors at a General Meeting to be held for that purpose. In order to limit the responsibility of the Subscribers, it is intended to provide by the deed of settlement, that in the event of one-third of the paid up capital being lost, it shall be cora- Pulsory on the Board of Directors to convene a meeting of the Proprietors, and with the concurrence of a majority in value, to dissolve'the Company. It is intended to establish a Branch at the West-end of the Metropolis, but at no other place. A General Meeting of Proprietors will be held annually, When a statement of the affairs of the Bank will be laid before them. Applications for Shares and Prospectuses, addressed to the Directors, to be made to the Solicitor, at 25, Throgmorton street ; at Birmingham--James Scott, Waterloo-street; Dublin—Messrs. Boyle, Low, Pvm, and Co. Rdinburgh —Messrs. Smith and Kinnear, George-street; Glasgow—Messrs. Buchanan and Aitkin ; Leeds—Messrs. J. H. and G. Ridsdale ; Leeds--Messrs. R. B. 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Th.,.,A.„:‘. :: ' , A, ~,.- + PRICE sd. greatest respect for religious Dissenters, to whom this re mark applied, although he conscientiously felt what he stated. As for political Dissenters he had no respect what ever for them.—(Laughter and Hear, hear.) A measure such as the present which proposed the religious instruc tion of the people, should be discussed and considered by the united wisdom of the two Houses of Parliament— ( Hear, hear.) He would conclude by moving the first Resolution—the Resolution had been already laid on their Lordship's table—which was to the effect " That this House has had under its consideration the various docu ments laid before it by her Majesty's command, in eon. nexion with public education; including the application made last year for the building of school-houses in con nexion with the National Societyand the British and Foreign School Society, and also the letter of the Secretary of State, and the papers of the Privy Council of the 4'h, sth, and 9th of February ; the Order in Council of the sth of April, appointing the Committee ; the minute of the Council of the 13th of May; the Report of the Committee, and the approbation of the report of that Committee, dated the 3d of June." The Most Reverend Prelate sat down amidst loud applause from the Noble Lords oppo site him. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that as he was one of the Committee alluded to by the Most Reverend Prelate, he felt bound to obtrude himself upon their Lord ships at this early stage of the debate. He was sure that in the appointment of that Committee there was nothing meant in the least degree offensive towards the clergy, but his appointment referred to his political position as Presi dent of the Council. He had listened to the speech of the Most Reverend Prelate with the greatest anxiety, not an mixed, however, with satisfaction. He was concerned to bear that the Most Reverend Prelate differed from the pro position that had been approved of by their Lordships ; but his satisfaction arose from hearing the Most Reverend Prelate state his objections to the measure in a manner entirely free from the exaggerated lan guage—the unexampled licence of misrepresentation which in which this question had been spot en of out of doors ( Hear.) Still there remained much misapprehension in that speech, as he would presently show. The Most Rev. Prelate seemed to concur in a great degree with those opinions held oat of doom, as to the connexion which ought to exist between education and the Church. He would state, that while he differed greatly from the opinions circulated out of doors, he concurred in a good deal of what had fallen from the Most Rev. Prelate. No man believed more sincerely than he (the Noble Lord) did, that the Established Church should make the religious education of the people its chief care ; he trusted that that care would become general, that it would be rigorously exerted, and he sincerely hoped that it might be success ful.—( Hear.) But when he saw it stated elsewhere— when he found it asserted at public meetings—that the Church of England in this country had the charge, and should have the charge, of the religious education of the people at large, he bad a right to ask an explanation from the Most Reverend Prelate, whether the Church of England had a right to exercise a control over the re ligious education of the people at large, including that portion—which unfortunately was no inconsiderable portion, for it amounted to millions, which were not mem bers of that Church ?—( Hear, hear.) This claim had been put forward with emphatic prominence elsewhere, and before they proceeded to the pecuniary part of the ques tion, it was indispensable that they should have a clear and distinct understanding on this point. Did then the Church of England churn the right of instructing that portion of the people of tale country which was without the pale of the Church itself? He wanted a distinct an swer from the Most Rev. Prelate on this point. There was another most essential point, upon which he de manded a distinct answer. It had been said elsewhere by a Right Rev. Prelate, a Member of that House, that the Church of England claimed of right the controul, not ' only over the religious education, but also over the secular education of the people at large. This was a most im portant point, and he was most anxious to hear what the Church had done, and could do, for the secular education of the people, if the State were not to undertake, as he conceived it was bound to do, to supply them with education of the best quality adapted for their advancement and cultivation. And if the Church did not propose to educate that large mass of the people which was without its pale, he begged leave to ask the Most Rev. Prelate whether he did not consider it to be lawful, becoming, and useful for the State to exert itself to provide and supply to those people that kind of educa tion best adapted to their condition ? He had already heard from one Right Rev. Prelate that he had no opinion to give on this important subject.—( Hear, hear.) Their opinions mustbe distinctly proclaimed by Parliament, because although an individual Legislator might say he would give no opinion on the subject, the Legislature it self' must give an opinion—( Hear, hear)—had given an opinion--( Hear, hear)—had acted on that opinion ; and he would show their Lordships, if they entertained the opinion which hal the countenance of the Most Reverend Prelate, namely, that it might be proper to make such grants under special circumstances, that they might then proceed on that opinion ; but if, on the contray, they were prerared to lay down the maxim, that having, what he had heard in some places called, " a state conscience" on the subject of religion—having chosen and selected from the conflicts of different religious opinions one particular rule of faith, they thought it reconcilable with their duty, hay. ing pronounced that particular rale to be the best, to grant aid or assistance under any circumstances to those por tions of their fellow-subjects who entertained what they might conceive to be more or less grave errors on the sub ject of religion, but who were nevertheless members of a great Christian Church—if they were prepared to withdraw from them all countenance he undoubtedly admitted, not only that they must not proceed with that limited amount of assistance to be granted to those persons under the pro ceeding that had met with the sanction of the Privy Coun cil, but that there was not one year in the course of the last twenty, in which they would not have votes of Parlia ment under the responsibility of various administrations, to recall votes which have been passed on no other basis than this, that it was the duty of a State—first, to take care of its own Establishment, but not to overlook the interest of particular classes, who might be good subjects of the State. —( Hear, hear.) Before he sat down he would show that every Government had acted on that principle, and, if he was not mistaken, would continue to act upon it. If they determined to act upon a contrary principle, they had only then to place in the hands of the Prelates of the Church of England so much as they might think proper to allot for the improvement of education, but confining it to the Established Church, and to relieve themselves from all care as to the education of the remainder of her Majesty's subjects. But he had a right, until all these votes were recalled, to assume that such was the principle on which Parliament was acting. The Most Rev. Pre late had referred to certain statements, for the purpose of showing that, in his opinion, education was in a more sa tisfactory condition than was supposed by many. But the Must Rev. Prelate had not st-ted that education was in a satisfactory eonditi eti.—( Hear, hear.) He had admitted the fact, that there was a deficiency , n the education of the people, which called for the attention of ever) religious man, and especially the attention of the Government and the State. The opinion he (the Marquis of Lansdowne) had stated, would find confirmation in the progressive condition of other parts of the world, more especially the central states of Europe. During the twenty or thirty years that had elapsed since the peace, there was not an enlightened Government in Europe that have not made the general education of the people the chief object of its care. It had been done by all Govern ments, Monarchical, Constitutional, and Republican. It was undoubtedly difficult to obtain an accurate account of the actual state of education, but at this moment he be lieved England, in point of education, was behind Ger many, Switzerland, he was almost inclined to believe, be hind France, but especially behind Holland. England, as she now stood, would be last in the scale as to the quantity, and still more as to the quality, of secular instruction given to children of other States.—(Hear, hear.) As to quantity he would observe that in Wirtemburg there were educated about one in six, in Hol land one in six or seven, in England one in eleven or twelve. Then the quality of instruction in this country was inferior, for in the countries to which he had referred large provi sion was made for securing a good schoolmaster for every school in the country. Scarcely a year had elapsed since, in a part of the country near to London, where schools were supposed to exist—described in the returns as existing, within reach of those influences which it might be expected would be most salutary—in some parts of Kent there had been an exhibition of folly—of absence of all instruction—of ignorance of all true religion—of want of all knowledge—dupes of one of the most absurd and ignorant fanatics that ever sought to practise on *the passions and absurdity of the multitude. The fanatic Thom actually succeeded in the course of a short time in inducing those persons to receive him first in the character of Rothschild —then in the character of the King of Jerusalem, then as the Earl of Devon.— ( Laughter)—and then in the sacred character of the Saviour of mankind, which he was implicitly believed to be by a considerable portion of the population.—( Hear, hear.) One of his devoted followers was the mistress of one school; another was the husband of the mistress who suc ceeded her, and the third the mistress of another school— t was in such hands the education of the people was en. .rusted.—( Hear, hear.) It would be in vain to say that . _ , ... ....___ was a single or peculiar cas e . H e _ believed thrre were facts within the reach of his own immediate observation in which nothing would be wanting but the appearance of another Thom to call out 1h same degree of credulity and perhaps the same disord er , f rom 'he want of a more im proved system of ed u c a ti on .—( H •ar, hear.) But w h en he stated his belief that, natwitht•tanding the efforts of ti it clergy, and of many enlightened and benevolent inch diduals, that such wastbe state of the agricultural districts, with how much more apt r:hension did be look at l the situation of those great manufacturi ng whom it was the nature o f their social` system masses' masses to accumulate, but for whom i t had not heen,unhappily, been hitherto the nature of their social system to provide in ii.enm a n compelled eh e t s o t, d r c i p e L k i d v corn s tr u et i o n . Here again they were But y st o a r t k is , tic t a h l er d e et h a a il d . vFaled kti amount of ignorance and of deficiency, not p irn oo p l e , rl a e n c d t only in the means of pro curing the comforts of life, but ' in the means of bettering the most pitiful instruction far most desponding , exceeding a n y thi ng t h e person would expect. It had been shown that in four or five only of th ose manu f actur i ng towns, 80,000 c hi ldren were growing up without the shadow of education. I one-fourth only ' In Manchester and some ot h er towns write—the remainder beingin of the inhabit an t s cou ld e i t h er read or der less ignorance I which prepared the way for those ebullitions of • • passion which were the result of ignorance and whi • ch threatened h t Q very peace of society. rickee. events of the last year or two contained fearful evidence of this. In those 80.000 uneducated persons they bad the rising Chartists of a future age, and Parliament would not have done its duty if it neglected to train them in the way they should go, and making them useful members of so ciety. He admitted the Church had a right to look after the religious educations of it. own body, but he could cot admit it bad any such right to sup.einteird the igious edu cation of those not belonging to its own body. There were in this country min ions of persons, unhappily not members of the Church, but who submitted te taxation, and were represented hi the other House of Parliament, and he was led to the conclusion—first, that it was the duty of Parliament and of the Government to interfere en behalf of education ; and secondly, that it was their duty to interfere in such a way, that leaving to the Church undisturbed the whole religious instruction of its own flocks, yet nevertheless the rights of con science on the part of hthers should be respected— ( Hear)—so as to secure to them the whole benefit of any improvement they might introduce in school education. The Most Rev. Prelate had stated something—and most gracefully it came from his lips—in favour of the Protes tant Dissenter. He bad, however, made a distir,ction between what he conceived to be a religious and a political Dissenter. But had their Lordships a right, or had the Most Rev. Prelate a right, to tell any man that his opinions were political, and not religious ?—( Hear, hear.) They had no more right to do that than any Dissenter had a right to come into that House, and lock found the benches and say, I see so many poli ' deal and so many religious Churchmen.—( Hear, hear.) He claimed the right of every subject of her Majesty giving expression to their conscientioutnopinions without motives being imputed to them by persons of any other religion. He trusted that, upon reconsideration, the Most Reverend Prelate would retract that one expression he had used, and having done so, it was his (the Marquis of Lansdowne's) opinion that his sentiments did honour to his high character and to his lips. He, would say, therefore, that they were agreed upon many points in the consideration of the subject —subject unquestionably to the particular means to be em ployed in applying public funds appropriated for that pur pose to the education of the people, and which was impe ratively required at the present time. And that led him to the consideration of the motion made by the Most Rev. Prelate with reference to the Orders in Council which had been the subject of so much animadversion elsewhere. In collecting the observations and objections made by the ' Mest Rev. Prelate, he must, with the utmost respect, beg leave to borrow the Most Reverend Prelate's mag nifying glass, in order to see these objections in the strong point of view in which he had beheld them. In the first place, even the.motion of the Most R ev . P re l ate, al though it professed to be drawn from the proceedings in another place, were not correctly stated. In the second resolution he found it stated, " That it appears from the documents last mentioned, that a Committee of Council has been appointed, consisting exclusively of Members of her Majesty's Government, fur the purpose of considering all matters affecting the education of the people." Now, he would venture to ask, where did the Most Rev. Prelate find that stated ?—( Hear, hear.) Not in the minutes of the Committee of Council —they were not there —( Hear, hear.) He would tell their Lordships where they were to be found, or where they had been found for him; these, or words ana!agous to them were to be found in a letter of Lord John Russell, which had been laid upon their Lord snips' table, and the Most Rev. Prelate had transferred the words from that letter, and had affirmed them to be in the Order of Council.—( Cries of " No, no.") It was so stated in the Most Rev. Prelate's resolution.—( The Noble Marquis here read the resolution again,) He asked the Must Rev. Prelate, whether it was meant to be asserted that these words were embodied in the Order in Council ? _.(e No, no.") No Committee in those terms had been appointed. Now, he would tell the House frankly, why these words were not, and were never likely to be, ifr the Order in Council. They were contained in a letter written long before the Order in Council was made, hut in tile in terval it struck him as being of too large a character, and too wide a scope; and, therefore, in the a ivice he had the honour to give her Majesty, he had confined the au thority of the Ministers of the Crown to the mere superin tendence of the grants made by Parliament. It was not therefore quite fair in the Most Rev. Prelate to introduce that passage, for the purpose of founding an argument against the Orders in Council, and which, it turned out, was not contained in the Orders in Council at ell. Confining the Order in Council to that which it really was —namely, Ministersamely,the appointment of three or f our o f h er elsjesty far the purpose of superintending public grants for educa tion, he asked whether there was anything in that power of dispensing and dividing the Parliamentary grants which would call upon their Lordships to pass these resolutions. Was it not a most preposterous thing to dwell upon the selection of her Majesty's servants, who were responsible to Parliament, for such a purpose ? It; indeed, it was in tended to appoint a Board, there might be some objection to the proposition, although there were many circum stances which induced him to think that a Board would be a much more useful establishment; but if that had been the proposition of the Government, the first thing would have been to appoint one or two Right Rev. Prelates upon the Board; but their Lordships would recollect that the moment that was done it would have raised a claim for putting a Dissenter upon the Board.— ( Hear, bear.) Would such a measure have advanced the cause of education ? Would it not rather have introduced a principle of litigation, disunion, and division? There was, then, nothing to do but to revert to the resoensibility of the Crown, and instead of leaving the :nailer in the hands of one Minister, to place it in that oc,, three responsible , Ministers, and who, so far from be:mg entrusted as the expression of the Most Reve;,.nd Prelate was, with the permanent settlement of the education of the people, and the dietribution of the public funds for that purpose, it was competent upon any in dividual to raise nn objection to the vote in Parlia ment, and destroy a permanent settlement by a single vote. Nothing, therefore, could be less like an attempt to take the education of the people, and the public funds for that purpose, out of the hands of Parliament. On the contrary, if there was any thing he considered more than another, as a recommendatiou of that plan, or rather pro ceeding, it was its being of a temporary nature, recallable, capable of being modified and revised, and as he trusted, capable of being enlarged hereafter, when it had been found to work for the general benefit of the public. Then there came another objection, that certain words were found in the grant for the present year, which were not introduced in the previous ones. In what did that difference consist ? First, in the declara tion that the parties who bad the distribution of the grant were favourable to the establishment of normal schools ; and then it went on to state that the greet should not exclusively, as heretofore, be given to the National School and British and Foreign School Society, that they were to get a preference, but that in certain especial cases, and where there was great poverty io the district, grants might be made to schools not in ceonection with these Societies. The great objection of t'ne Most Rev. Prelate was, that that aid was to be giesen irrespective of religious opinion. The Most Rev., Prelate complained that that vote had been carried without enabling their Lordships to come to any vote, upon it. If there was anything more established the:a another in the practice of Parliament, it was that resolutions of that nature were passed in the ' other House of Parliament, and carried upon the responsi bility of the Minister of the Crown. The Most Rev. Prelate complained that the principle was a new one ; but the first time the vote of 20,0001. was introduced for the purposes of education, it was as novel a principle as could well be introduced in Parliamentary legislation. Did the , Most Rev. Prelate, or any other Right Rev. Prelate—did any voice oppose that grant year after year iii the House of Commons? and yet nosy for the first tirne they were told. that it was a novel proceeding. The Right Rem. rend Prelate would not pretend that there was any intention of withdrawing aid from the Church, which would make it incumbent upon Parliament to put it in the shape of a Bill. He could assure the Most Rev. Prelate that precedents and high authorities were cot wanting for the present proceeding. He would remind their Lord ships, that in 1829 the whole grant for education and the establishment of charter schools in Ireland was placed at the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant, to be distributed without limitation at his pleasure. The ',erne principle was applied to the colonial possessions. Their Lordships would find en their table a most able, despatch from Sir John Frankland, statieg the diffienlties he had found in establishing a system of education, in the colony, in which he commanded, and pointing out the beneficial results which were likely to follow from a joint system of instruction among the convicts. World to God that these unhappy men had received proper instruction at home in time, and they might never have been sent out, and they would per haps never have had occasion to send them, out of the country. When their Lordships recollected the vast amount of crime in the Metropolis, Manchester, Liverr,ool, Birmingham, Bury, Salford, and other large town' s , th ey must be impressed with the conviction, that if those per sons had received a religious instruction, whether it was that of the Established Church or any other religious de nomination, they might never have been sent out of their native country. In the East India Charter their Lord ships would find asp articular provision `. or affording i n . struction to the vrious sects.—( Heor, hear.) L et him not, then, be told that it was a, "ye, principle,tar that they should abstain ,fre,m including all sects e e len s t e of y n s him e e change d n g i n e f in their scheme of national eoucatioreewnatr'sr:lshtteedhnotnt o that had been made ;n forttnheorygNcreenrtes the funds being entrusted to the Chancellor of the Ex the Council, the Lord rreference to the National' So. cfc c i u:e h erti e tui jyv y riyie u an e ttesi r hdteeka t y ' t o inh : ievia, distribution, oniputdhlrdittthhigsoehiv Hieaitroi President as i cretary. And although in particular cases a d Foreign Society, they meant in to admit of exeptions. One s f p ur e t c h t e o r rs p f o o i r nt was, that the Committee of Coun cil assumed the to purposeitself seeingright the of publicsend i n nieny was usefully expended. Now ha would appeal to the Noble Lords who had set with him on the Committee upon Irish Education, whether at every step of that in quiry the importance of an inspection of the schools on behalf of the public, did not strike them as indispensable to the success of any system of education. He had the authorities of the Secretaries of the British and Foreign, and the National School Societies, men of great respec tability and experience, who both concurred in stating that inspection was at the root of any good system of instruction.—( Hear, hear.) He could state, upon the authority of an individual occupying a high station in this country, and who bad devoted great attention to the subject, that the state of education iu • the schools was most unsatisfactory—that the insteuction, if correct iu form, was in substance very deficient that though there were many good books in the schools, scarcely a single child knew the meaning of those words which it was most essential that they should understand in reference to religion—and that in some cases the Trea sury grants had been misapplied.---( Hear, hear,) But the Most Rev. Prelate seemed to apprehend that there was lurking—under this proposition of inspectors to We the regulations properly enforced. —au intention to interfere with the ecclesiastical instructiot of the children. Would the Most Rev. 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By the nine-o'clock train a squad of the Metropolitan Police, under the command of Inspectors Partridge and Martin, arrived at the Railway station, where amnibusses were in readiness to convey them to the Public office. On reaching the office they were marched, three abreast, to the Bull Ring, with two Magistrates at their head. As soon as they reached the centre of the Ring they (most unprovokedly) commenced a simultaneous attack, right and left, upon all present—men, women, and children. The people, being unprepared for such an attack, gave way at first, and fled in all quarters. The triumph of the police was but momentary, as the men immediately ral lied, and in turn attacked the police, who were compelled to fly in all directions, but not before several fell weltering in their blood. Three have been dangerously wounded, and were car ried off in a hopeless state, one being stabbed in the abdomen. and another in the thigh. Several were slightly wounded. Dr. Taylor, unfortunately for himself, at this critical mo ment rushed to the rescue of two policemen whom the people were sacrificing to their fury, and would have effected their purpose but for the Doctor's interference. The military, with the Mayor at their head, and accompanied by Colonel Chatter ton, were promptly on the spot, and the Mayor read the Riot Act. Supported by the military, the police again charged the people, and immediately captured about twenty prisoners. I'he crowds were now exhibiting a most formidable appear ance, and the Magistrates, in order to divide them, ordered the troops to clear the streets, which they did most effectually, the Rifles leading the advance, supported by the Fourth Royal Irish Dragoons, with the Metropolitan police in the rear. De tachments were then placed at the corner of the following streets, which are in the vicinity of the Bull-ring, Moore street, Park-street, Spiceall-street, Bell-street, New-street, and High-street. The people were not allowed to pass those streets under any pretence. A cessation of hostilities between the military, police, and people, took place about half-past ten, but were shortly interrupted by the people, who evinced, by their shouts, and chaunting the Chartist anthem, " Fall, tyrants, fall," and their menaces, a determination to renew the attack. However, the movements of the soldiers discomfited all their ar rangements. The weapons used by the people were short clubs, batons wrested from the police, short daggers, or knives, and stones. Inspector Partridge suffered severely from the last missiles, being a regular mark for the people, from his being in full uniform and white trowsers. However, he was exceedingly remarkable for his forbearance, which, we are sorry cannot be said of all the men under him. Inspector Martin received a desperate wound under his right arm. Between 11 and 12 o'clock there was a general cry of " Hol loway, Holloway." The . people immediately marched off for Holloway Head. They then indulged in the most violent threats against the Metropolitan Police, whom they charged as being the authors of all the rioting and bloodshed that had taken place, and finally determined upon converting the iron palli eades of St. Thomas's Church into offensive and defensive arms. No sooner was the thought conceived than it was acted upon ; and inslantly 70 feet of this cast iron railing were, with all the masonry work, torn down, and the long rails converted into short weapons of about 3 feet long. The iron gate's sere wrested off, and the large blocks forming the pillars on which the gates were swung, were, as if by a convulsion of nature, twisted from their positions, giving an awful instance of the power of popular fury and undirected brute force. Thus armed, they were again rushing to the deadly conflict, when a friend to the Chartists hastened to the Convention and in. formed it of the fact. Drs. Taylor and .111‘Dowall hastened to meet them, and with the greatest difficulty persuaded the in furiated mob to throw down their weapons, which they had shouldered in regular military style. During all this time, the military were engaged in advancing on the people and gra dually driving them from the streets. At two o'clock Dr. Taylor returned to his hotel. Shortly after, a tall military-looking man, who was said to he an officer in the Rifle corps, but was then in coloured clothes,. entered the same hotel, on leaving which he entered into conversation with the metropolitan and some of the Birmingham police. A short time a few of the latter accompanied by three sergeants of the Metropolitan Police. rushed into Dr. Taylor's hotel, seized him, and in a very brutal manner actually dragged him out, although he repeatedly said that he would go quietly with them. .The Birmingham police acted with greater urbanity towards this gentleman. He was arrested without a warrant. On being brought before the ma gistrates, the latter, without specifying the exact charge against him, required bail for his appearance at ten o'clock, himself in 5001., and two sureties in 250/. each. On refusing to put in that bail, he was locked up, and was, with ten others, com mitted to Warwick gaol at an early hour, the magistrates hav ing taken depositions as early as six o'clock. The charge against Dr. Taylor is riot. The following are the names of the other prisoners : —Eleazer Hughes, assault on a constable ; Thomas King, riot ; J. Rhodes, riot ; J. Taylor, riot ; J. Neales, riot ; Storey, riot ; Sheares, riot ; Eads, riot ; Drankworth, riot ; palter, riot. All the melancholy occurrences are generally attributed to the unnecessary introduction of the Metropolitan Police, as there was more than a sufficient mil.tary force to meet any contingency. At three o'clock in the morning the military were withdrawn from the streets, but a strong force, both of military and police were retained at the Public Office. The military and police are out again, and are clearing the streets. They have arrested one person in the Bull-ring, and three others at Holloway Head. It is expected that Dr. Taylor will be bailed out this evening. When in the Public Office he was treated with the greatest kindness, ceteris paribus by the Magistrates and the officers. The town at this hour presents more the appearance of siege than a place where the industry of man has been worked to its acme. MEETING OF DELEGATES. At nine o'clock the Delegates assembled at the Golden Lion, Mr. RicnAung in the Chair. Each Delegate delivered his sentiments on the occurrence of the previous night. Their language was firm, but temperate ; and the late arrests, far from diverting them from their resolves, appear to have no other effect than that of strengtheninF them in their determination of standing or falling by the rational Petition. Their most determined opponents must admire their brave bearing and un daunted courage. Messrs. Neesom, Cardo, Pitkeithly, Collins, Marsden, Dr. Fletcher, Mr. James Taylor, and Mr. Deegan addressed the Convention, but confined their remarks to abide the result of all their former acts, and to an expression of sympathy with Dr. Taylor, and a determination to persevere in the struggle to the ast. Dr. 111‘DouALL moved the following resolutions, which were seconded by Mr. SMART, and were carried unanimously, and ordered to be printed for immediate circulation in Bir mingham. The walls will be placarded with them. " That the summary and despotic arrest of Dr. Taylor, our respected colleague, affords another convincing proof f all absence of justice in England, and clearly shows that there is no security for lives, liberty, or property, till the people have some control over the laws they are called upon to obey. " That this Convention is of opinion that a wanton, flagrant, and unjust outrage has been made upon the people of Birming ham, by a bloodthirsty and unconstitutional force from Lou don, acting under the authority of men who, when out of office, sanctioned and took part in the meetings of the people, and now when they share in the public plunder, seek to keep the people in social and political degradation. " That the people of Birmingham are the best judges of their own right to meet in the Bull Ring or elsewhere—have their own feelings to consult respecting the outrage given, and ARE THE BEST JUDGES OF THEIR OWN POWER AND RESOURCES TO OBTAIN JUSTICE. By Order, " W. LOVETT, Secretary." All the Delegates having requested leave to sign these reso utions, Mr. LovErr said that they could not spare victims, and that a sacrifice of one being sufficient, he would alone sign them. Mr. PITKEITHLEY moved that Messrs. Moir, Jame: Taylor, and Dr. Fletcher, the Committee about to depart for London, for the purpose of conferring on the subject of introducing the People's Charter into the House of Commons, be empowered to make such arrangements as may seem to Mr. Attwood and themselves best calculated to get a full attendance of the House, an the 12th, when 11r. Attwood introduces his motion on the National Petition. Mr. BURNS seconded it. The Committee leave here to-morrow for London. Ad journed. The Magistrates have offered 1001. reward, for such informa tion as may lead to the arrests of the persons who stabbed the two policemen in the Bull Ring. Mr. Richardson, a Delegate, and Mr. Guest, printer, Steel H o use-yard, offered to qualify themselves to bail out Dr. Taylor, but have Leen rejected. A Rei t tort is very prevalent that the policeman stabbed in the abdomen has just expira, and that the other policeman cannot survive long. The militazy have dispersed the people assembled at Holloway Head. Affairs wear a very threatening aspect. BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY NIZIIT, Military Law has been proelaimed. All business is at a stand. it is said that treason exists in the Convention ; and that there will be fresh arrests. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, .1177. r 5. Earl SHAFTESBURY sat as Deputy Speaker shortly be. fore Five o'Clock. Lord PORTMAN presented a petition from Shepton Mallet in favour of the Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill. Mr. BERNAL, and others from the Commons, brought up the Brick Duties Bill, the Paper Duties Bill, the Prisons (Scotland) Bill, the Borough Courts Proceedings Bill, and several other Bills. On the motion of Lord PORTMAN the Borough Watch Rates Bill was read a second time. The Bishop of BANGOR presented several petitions against the Government plan of national education. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented seve ral petitions to the same effect. The Earl of ROSEBE RY presented petitions from Edinburgh ; the Committee of Supply of Linlithgow; the Provost, Magistrates, 81c..0f Stirling; the Lord Provost, Magistrates, &c. of Edinhorr_rh and Linlithgow—in favour of the Prisons (Scotland) Bill. Petitions against the Government scheme of education were presented by the Duke of Rutland and Earl Devon. JAMAICA BILL. The Marquis of NOR.MANB Y, in moving the third reading of the Jamaica Bill, said he must repeat his regret that their Lordships had withdrawn from it those enactments ' which he and his col leagues bad thought absolutelynecessary. As it was, the Government would give such instructions to tho new Governor as, he trusted, would prove entirely conciliatory to the House of Assembly. The Bill was then read a third time, and passed. The Bills brought up from the House of Commons were severally read a first time. called an arrogating to themselves the conducting of the whole education of the country ; they had never advanced any pretensions of the kind ; he knew that injudicious language on this subject had been made use of, which might have been misconstrued, but such bad not been the language or the conduct of the Clergy generally. A large and liberal grant of 20,000/. had been given by the Government to the National Society and the Lan casterian Society. Had the Church ever objected to this grant to the Lancasterian Society? No 1 they had taken the share belonging to them with thankfulness, without making any minute enquiries as to how much each society might be entitled to. They were satisfied with that as a temporary expedient, and Lord Althorp, when he made the proposal, stated that it was merely an experiment. But when a permanent system was about to be established, they conceived that it ought to be referred to the full Parlia ment, and trusted that the wisdom of Parliameat would distribute the grant impartially between the different par ties who were entitled to it. But they viewed the present state of things with suspicion and jealousy, and the state in which the country now was had been produced by the ap pointment of the Committee of the Privy Council. This they considered as laying the foundation of a permanent eystern of education, without application to Parliament. They saw that the Board was exclusively composed of her Majesty's Ministers, who were invested with large discre tionary powers, and disposed to introduce many changes ; and this had been established by a proceeding which en tirely excluded their Lordships' House from all participa tion in the matter. These apprehensions had been greatly increased by other circumstances. It was impossible not to look at the wild and extravagant schemes of education which had been entertained in various quarters. In some of them religious education had been entirely excluded, and in others a system of general religious instruction had been proposed, by which the Creeds and the Catechisms would be banished. The method of carrying this scheme into execution, without the intervention of Parliament, had been proposed in a work from which he would read an extract, not with a view of implying that the Committee agreed in opinion with the propounders of this scheme, but merely to show that the plan which had then been proposed had been adopted by the Committee. The publication alluded to had emanated from one of the large Societies for the promotion of general education.—( The Most Rev. Prelate here read the extract alluded to, which stated that although it might be some years before a satisfactory Edu cation Bill would pass the House of Lords, the Ministers had it in their power by the help of a vote of the House of Commons to establish, by means of granting or withhold ing the necessary funds, a uniform system of superin tendence over the charity schools throughout the country. He hoped he should not be misunder stood as charging the Committee of the Privy Council with any designs of this nature; but he read the passage to show what extensive powers were by means of this grant vested in the Committee of the Privy Council. No doubt if this person had had the selection, he would not have selected the President of the Council and his colleagues to carry his scheme into execution ; but still the power was lodged in their hands, and such power might pass by a change of circumstances into other and more dangerous hands. He should now be obliged to go back a little into the history of grants for education, as it would be found in the papers before the House. When this grant was first moved for, Lord Althorp had stated that no portion of, it should be applied to any purpose except to the erection of school-houses, and no application should be enter tained unless one-half the funds had been raised by private subscription, and the case was reported as a fitting one for aid by the National Society, or by the British and Fo reign School Society. No misapplication of money had taken place under this plan. The next year it was re ported that 62 schools had been erected, giving instruction to 12,191 scholars, that the subscription had amounted to 19,0001., and from the Government grant 8,000/. So far these grants had produced great advantages, and the Report of the next year stated that there existed throughout Great Britain a desire to make the funds thus granted available to the utmost, and that private charity and liberality had greatly increased in consequence. The applications of these Societies had becsme so numerous for aid to schools, that they were obliged to add several new resolutions, and the total number of schools assisted by the Netional Society was 10,674, while those receiving aid from the British and Foreign School Society was 7,600. In 1834, the further sum of 20,0001. was granted by Par liament in their aid ; and it was continued on the same principle through several succeeding years. On the sth of July. 1838, the Chancellor of the Exchequer alluded to the necessity of receiving more precise information respecting those schools. The Right Hon. Gentleman also proposed the erection of a National School, for training teachers, provided that the principles which al ready governed the Board should be strictly adhered to. (In this part of his speech the Most Rev. Prelate was with great difficulty understood in the gallery.) The Board proposed by the Privy Council appeared to have been selected without any regard whatever to their fitness ; thoueli in saying this he did not mean to say that the gentlemen who were now proposed to constitute it were not fit for their duties. They seemed to have been chosen solely on account of their official station. It was strange, indeed, that while the two Archbishops and one Bishop were Members of the Privy Council, they were not consulted. Perhaps it was because it was known that they did not give their consent to the measure.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The scheme, in dwelling on the comprehensiveness of its plan, said that instruction should be given in general and special religion. --14TOw he (the Most Rev. Prelate) confessed that be was at a loss here. He could not if he were called upon explain the difference between general and special religious instruction. There was, however, a passage elsewhere, complaining that in the gaols many of the convicts were not instructed in the truths of natural religion, which, perhaps, threw some light upon this diffi culty. He thought that general religion meant natural religion, and that special religion meant special religion This was the best interpretation that he could put upon the passage. He should ask any Noble Lord what was meant by general instruction in the truths of revealed religion, but instruction in those peculiar truths of which Chris tianity was composed, but which were differently received by the various denominations of which that body consisted ? But, then, there could be no real instruction in Chris tianity without instruction at the same time in those pecu liar doctrines which had been communicated to the Church from on High. He found also that the scheme proposed that each school should be provided with a chaplain con nected with the Established Church, but that Dissenting parents and guardians might secure the attendance of cler gymen for the peculiar instruction of children of their re spective persuasions. This would create a confused system of instruction in several conflicting forms of faith. He had good authority for stating that such a system had been already given up in most of those foreign countries where it had been tried. He found yesterday a German work, which was not yet translated, tbat the system bad turned out most unsatisfactorily in Prussia, and had been given up. The schools were now separated in that country according to the religion of the scholars. The same writer (Seherz we understood) gave much valuable information confirma tory of the general failure in France and Germany of a system similar to that propos, d here. How could it be otherwise than a failure, when it permitted one clergyman to teach what he called the true doctrine to one child, and another clergyman to teach the companion of that child that those doctrines were false.—( Hear, hear.) And he would remind their Lordships that when a clergyman taught a child he addressed himself, not to its reason, but he spoke from authority, and the child implicity believed what he was told. But what must his feelings respecting religion be when he found one clergyman teaching another child to believe false that doctrine which his own clergyman had taught it to be true ? Let their Lordships imagine what must be the operation of such a system in this country, amongst a school containing children of five or six, or eight or ten different reli gious persuasions. The result must be, that th e children would grow up in scepticism as regarded reli gion altogether, or in indifference io any form.---( Hear, hear.) The Order in Council approved of the Iteport of the Committee ; the Committee recommended that out of the Parliamentary grant of 1835, 10.000/. be divided into equal partions between the National and the British and Foreign School Societies, and that the remainder of the grants of the years 1837 and 1838, and any for the present year yet unappropriated should be applied in aid of the subscriptions for building schools. This was a proof of the confidence that was reposed in the Societies. It was a great error to propose to remove the responsibility, under this measure, from the Lords of the Treasury and the members of the Committee appointed by the Privy Council. The discretion which was to he vested in the Committee was of an undifined extent. He would not say that it would be abused, but it might be abused, and the most grievous results must be the conse quence. Certainly he did not wonder at the alarm which this measure had excited amongst all the clergy —amongst a great number of Protestant Dissenters—and amongst the great body of the well-wishers - of the Church in connec tion with religion. The Committee recommended that no further grant be made now or hereafter to a national or other school unless it agreed to give the Committee the right of inspection and of insisting upon compliance with its regulations. This was a dangerous and extensive power which it was proposed to place in the hands of a Committee who were not Members of her Majesty's Go vernment.—( Hear, hear.) No one could foresee to what extent it might be abused from political prejudices and through partiality.-- (Hear, hear.) A most reptilsive cha racteristic of the scheme was that it proposed to exclude their Lordships from any controul over a system so inti mately connected with the best interests of the people._ ( Hear, hear.) Was not this a proper subject of Parlia mentary discussion in one branch of the Legislature as well as the other ?—( Hear, hear.) Was it just to exclude their Lordships spiritual and temporal from the discussion of a question so vitally connected with religion, by keep ing it out of that House, where alone the heads of the Church and the direct representatives of the Church could be heard ?—( Hear, hear)—and wheie they assem bled ready to vindicate and to explain their sacred duties and obligations.—( Hear, hear.) This was a very great impolicy, for the people were nowhere better instructed than by the ministers of the Established Church, and if the Church were not prepared t o g i ve t h e peop l e the best instruction in religion, and in every moral duty he advised their Lordships to cast of all connexion with it. And he would advise the Government not to undertake any measure calculated, as the present most diminish the influence of the Church, and to weaken that connexion which it should hold with the State. The Government should consider it to be its first duty to• maintain and defend the religion of the State.— ( Hear, hear.) The money which th e y p ro posed to give towards the edutration of Dissenters, would tend rather to promote Dissent, and Dissent was a great evil. He had the OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE." Mr. LEWIS, the SOLE INVENTOR of the NEW PROCESS of WRITING, engages to transform any scrawl, however bad, into a free and beautiful style (by a most inte resting and permanent operation, in a few days. So great has been the success of the Lewisian system, and so infallible are the principles on which it is founded, that if the public will but second Mr. L.'s endeavours, by a continuance of their pre sent liberal patronage, scarcely a bad hand shall, in a few years, be toimd in tondon. Those whose bands have been LEWIS-IZED cannot, by any possibility, relapse into their former bad habits. SHORT-HAND, as the Reporters write it. The new system of ARITHMETIC, by quick and easy mental opera tions. The modern method of BOOK-KEEPING, either by Single or Double-Entry. Bad SPELLING effectually corrected. READING, ELOCUTION, and COMPOSI TION taught on the most elegant and' approved principles. NATIONAL EDUCATION. The LORD CHANCELLoliha;itigtaken his seat on the Woolsack, the Order of the Day for the Debate upon the Resolutions respecting National Education was called for. It having been read, The Archbishop of CANTERBURY had had the honour of presenting numerous' petitions against the scheme of education proposed by her Majesty's Govern ment, in the prayer of which he cordially concurred. They prayed that their Lordships would avert the evils which threatened the Church, from the appointment of a Committee of the Privy Council, to superintend the ap ' plication of all money voted for the purposes of education. That concurrence and a sense of his duty, had placed him in a situation very distressing to himself, viz., in opposi tion to her Majesty's Government. He had never before been in a situation which gave him more pain or concern, but a sense of what he considered a oarairourt duty, compelled him to take it. Standing in the position in which he was placed, charged as he was with the care of the Church, with the guardianship of the rising generation, with their moral and religious educa tion, he could not help coming forward on the present Occasion. If he had had any hesitation upon his own part, he could not have resisted the call that had been made upon him. lie would not say by the Clergy, but by all the friends of the Church, not only so, but by a very numerous body of Dis senters. It might be said that the Clergy acted from interested motives; but could that charge apply to a body most highly respectable from the number of its mem. bers—from its piety and its freedom from political bias ? It was impossible that they could be actuated by any regard for the Church—it was against that principle called libe ral, which they were afraid would sacrifice the real inte rests of the people to political considerations that they pe titioned. In his opinion, and in that of the friends of the Church, that principle was one which affected the very foundations, not of the Church, but, of religion it self. Much had been said with r egard to the conduct of the Clergy upon this question. It was said they wished to retain the peopl -• in ignorance—that they were actuated by bigotry, and that they opposed this plan on interested motives. There was no foundation whatever for saying so. They were the friends of education, and were willing to go even further than those who reviled them—they were anxious to add to the moral and classical instruction of the people the great and high sanction of religion.—( Hear.) They were accused also of bigotry. If by this was meant a decided attachment to the Church, and all that was dear to it, he trusted they would plead guilty to the charge, for he apprehended that no man in his senses but would give them credit for the feeling of that kind. It was stated that they arrogated to themselves the power of instilling their own doctrines into the minds of the whole people; they did no such thing. All they wanted was, that the children of parents belonging to their own flocks should not be taken out of their hands, but that they should be their instructors in the high principles of re• s ligion—that they should be taught the same doctrines and religious faith as their parents professed. Before entering fully into the question he wished to give a short history of the education of the poor in this country. At the time of the Reformation, the ignorance existing in the land was most astonishing, and efforts were made to put an end to it, but those efforts were confined to the teaching and enlightening of the upper classes and grammar schools, for the purpose of teaching Latin, was all that was done at that time. It was not till the close of the 17th century, 1685 he believed was the year, in which the first charity school was erected by the friends of the Church. In the beginning of the last century it was found that there was great need of instruction, when a society of Churchmen came forward and established those charity schools in this great metropolis. That . boon vitas Knowledge, xll t i"g i; js e a°Cn c : l l iiesiudlcrdh! schools w een s e 7 r aa c b Au enl e i r d t ie e d st t h i u uy lh e c de fd a do e t e e w ri s e n o r p d P an:s : tr i i h i o r rn n i s e l g e : brntloc England n e i etandlualagts)sta:Croni almost tf cdh n hi e t r a c ah Nsi : s t p oe thereslaieat periodsen t S o o i s present O m th t Of course make Esta blished p centurytt eh a le tb the friendshd want C o f h o t u h f r e c education h C . l aawoTunf Their schoolsei Lrcvd auspices L a ,istl n woog c rei a kndr 7 s eees t . ehge3 neglected established, ntalseeh.schoolsi tsystemsnhhdeei gsdeducation deo u w wrt cahi e al nai rtet educatinghot f , h o we u ona n fsm d i tp08( imputation 1837, had i a heoow n ao,n d doip tolBhtenn7ho, under or reeffounda tion. clergy ua theirnschildren., dina nationalhaving p m y t tan i n o dt ts h • ew phrici`Vasprinciples itpntrlooe professed e snsf e et x dh p aa e t crteeldi Church that gio n eptrhuwre pure in iecnr its s d e d a y o c ac t in opposition in its morals, and d oor t calculated to meet the wants ct rriene s a members,s e o v u e i r i y d class would of oe t b e e n community th e Was o an, o worse e to sy system mexpected education, tbat they and educate children in principles in opposition to their Own ? Although they confined their instruction to the doctrines and precepts of their own Church, yet they were not ex clusive ; children of every description were admitted into these schools. But it had been said that they insisted on having these children taught in the principles of the Estab lished Church; and could it be said they were wrong in so doing? The boon had been thankfully accepted by many, and might have been conscientiously accepted by all Dissenters, as nothing but the doctrines of pure Christianity were taught in those schools. There was nothing taught in them that could be offensive to any deno mination of Christians ; and he co .Id see no reason why Dissenters should not allow their children to come to such schools, indeed, many of them did so, and the only corn• plaint made was some slight exception which was taken at some of the words of the Catechism. At most of these schools the children were obliged to attend the public wor ship of the Established Church ; but if the parents of the children chose to take them to other places of worship, per mission was granted to them to do so. In one school in Westminster there were forty Roman Catholic children attending, and he could not see why they should not do so, for if ever in our excellent Liturgy there had been found expressions insulting to the Roman Catholics, they did not exist now, but had been expunged by the good sense of those who had reviewed the Liturgy in after times. He trusted that what he bad said would be sufficient to im- press their Lordships with the importance of this subject, in which the State had no right to inferfere, and he trusted that what he had said would be sufficient to vindicate the clergy and the friends of the Church from the charge that they were desirous of keeping the people in ignorance or of withholding instruction from the children ofthe Dissenters. From the returns which had been made it appeared that since 1833 the exertions of the friends of the Church in the cause of education had exceeded those of the Dissenters as twenty to one; but it was not, there fore to be supposed that the children of Dissenters were absolutely without education, because many of these child ren had been educated in the schools connected with the Church. But still it could not be denied that there was a great deficiency even now in the means for providing for the education of the country. No people were more, VA are of this deficiency than the members of the Church, more particularly the members of that Society of which he had been speaking,and they were labouring to reduce de ficiency, and to introduce education still more extensively. Great exertions had bee n made b y them during the past and the present year, and b e trusted th ey would prove suc cessful. The friends of the Church h ad come forward in a manner which did the m the g r eatest credit, and he trusted that their hopes and ex p ectati ons would be real ize intended They d' to extend haedend devised aplan of e d ucat i on wh i ch was through the whole Kingdom. It was proposed to establish diocesian schools, for the put.. pose of training teachers, as the want of properly qualified teachers had been very seriously felt. He hoped a good effect would follow from this plan. It was also proposed, under the superintendence of the Bishops and the Chapters to establish schools in every district, under the care of the minister of the parish. This would give the agricultural population the means of obtaining religious and moral in struction, and the superintendence would tend to establish a uniformity of proceedings throughout these schools, and he hoped to see the syst em so succ essfully established, as that every clergyman should consider himself as responsible for the good conduct of his schools, as for the due perfor mance of his duties in the Church . It' to n eg l ect hi s duties f a clergyman were to neglect his duties in the Churc h , he would lose all cha racter among his honest b rethren, and he hoped the same h b e e n he consid ere d t h e re l at i on i n to the State the number of its of its doctrin es , w hi c h tende d to t h e to ensure ob e di ence to the l aws o f twhhi re gardingni e g h ‘v t te u h l e d c s t he a uh k ro e c oh p l s l s. a t c o e o ‘d i v f p m u e r t s n u b i e t r of s , v t i h r e t u e, purity a nd the State, he thought the Church could not be accused of arrogating too much to itself, if it looked up to the Go vernment for support. Ile thought its claims could hardly be resisted, and he would say,that the Government ought to have so much co nfidence in the Church as to entrust the re, and to refrain from in etadrufecraitniounvio.ifththite in peoplete execution He thought tl;at Where there was a grant o f pu b l i c mone y to its e of its d u ti es .—( Cheers. ) a the public had a right to kwy that that money had been properly applied, and the politic: wi,):44 be satisfied if the Government had the assurance that the schools iyou;4 by ek'clently conducted as far as secular learning was eon , eernad, Leaving the instruction in religion to be conducted by the Members pf the Church. But this could not be