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MI Mr. 0. 'MORGAN frequenty visited the library, and was ticlined to think that the number of visitors was much more than the ILm. Member fin. Reading supposed. The vo'._e was then agreed to. 31,2 ' , ./. to defray the expense of the new building in eon- Aezion with the British Museum.—Agreed to. 3,sr it )L. for purchases by the trustees during the Sear.— `St . sect to. EDUCATION. Oat 5 e vote of 150,0001. for public education in Great Bri tain belt g proposed. Lord I. RUSSELL said, in the absence of the Right Hon. Gentletn, an the Secretary of State for the Home Department, he thong ht it his duty to state to the Committee what the nature of the proposed vote was, and how it was to be ap ?lied. 7 'hey were aware that this vote began in 1833, when Was int ;re than 50,0001 In 1833, however, a change took Place in I the mode of distributing the sum voted. It was P r oposed in that year that a Committee of Council should be appointee 1 who were to have the distribution of the money to ted, an d who were from time to time to make minutes as to the me ele in which such money was disbursed. Very con siderable sums had since been vote.% In the early part of the 3b'ear he ad referred to there were 120,090/. voted for distri ntion b, • the Lords of the Treasury. Up to that time it ap peased by a re t urn pl ace d b e f ore th e H ouse th a t there were 80 ,0001 distributed fe- this purpose, and the Committee of C ouncil a xpended 611,512/ There was a balance remaining their h ands of 99,5801. The estimate for the present year rlt Was 18 6,3 801., but it was proposed to take only 150,e00/. " was th ought necessary to retain a considerable balance 4n hand ftpurpose of fulfilling the engagements which 'the littee of Council had entered into. It should be re- Bleilected a also that there were larger sums of money derived oot Ptivt .te resources fsr the promotion of the same objects. s e tit i larg awn had necessarily to be expended upon the i( hog o f schoolhouses throughout the country. Of late bears alert 3 had been a new plan adopted, which went far That th a original scheme, for the building of schools. "at Plan was founded upon what he believed to be a just b;' °asi derati on—namely, that the way in which these public ads migl et be made more available was not in increasing (4 e Ttanti ty, but in improving the quality of education..— ar, b e: ir ) For that purpose it was proposed to give in struction through pupil teachers; to augment in certain n" t he ialaries of masters and mistresses, to furnish maps I nd books of instruction, and to give annual grants at ex- There were no less than 6,700 persons annually receivinglsr payments from the sum voted by Parliament. So as thu sc h eme h a d b een trie d it had been found most gaining , especially the plan of paying their teachers and t he young men for schoolmasters. Many of the re ns mar by the inspectors show the value of this plan. he Rev. to Mr. Mosely, whose abilities were well known— M °lll., hear)—the Rev. Mr. Watkins, and Mr. rsss "rigs o ne of the inspectors, in their several reports bore testi 4 mon: rto this fact. When they considered the very ert ti me during which the labonriog classes were e nabled I .o send their children to school it was of the greatest ce to find this fact admitted. The number thildr an receiving education under the improved system V l ° tom ;h greater than under the former one. —(1 - iear. ) as e e ilad I liven th e re p or t s o f th e i ns p ec t ors b e lo ng i n g to the "sonal Sche,ols and the National Society, employed by o,l ; Cons --mittr i e of Council. He would now state the (The No f l'Ar. Murrell, the inspector of British Schools. l'iaes Lord here read the document referred to, but tlo et s 1 ° a tone of voice it was impossible to catch a dis lases-s?,,t once in the gallery. We understood it to be a re caesasu ng the complete success of the new system of edii aes;(llli/l Mr Marshall, the inspector of the Roman Catholic taw-T. 5 , gave similar evidence, as did also Dr. Woo , fort. ta w - T . oduction of those pupil teachers, and the rewar . ds effect ed " them, had not only an immediate beneficial co s , 21 - ion those young men, but gave them great en also "gel nent to persevere fir the future. The plan was as n 11 calculated to iuterest all the parents and rola lies,s' the parties in the great work of education. - (Hear, risenhis-Z, It was observed by all who had seen the work the new system that a great stimulus had been oth er the progress of education. With respect to the tis4r.lln ,salottes which he had mentioned—namely, the altera stest2,° the aries of the masters and mistresses, and the to e „'" grants at exhibitions, he thought it high'y desirable apt s '' s r ° l .rage ae far as possible those masters and mistresses rh o ;1 11 d distinguished themselves. He had often found that 4 1 7 ,' it appeared by the returns made to that House that Yet Y large number of children attended the public schools, fers or 'l l at the quality of education given them was very in their' hat little impression was consequently made upon te stis' ntl.erstandings, and that much money, time, and at. to b e ! nvere wasted to no purpose. There was, however, still rels ei ° / sserved that evil which, he feared, must for some time ten e ,„ 43 without a remedy in their great educational system %te r : e ly, the children being taken away from the schools at Ilee,„ -1 ' early age. There was no less than 35 per cent. under ags7,l. sears of age, and 62 per cent under ten years of pet the en away from these schools. There was only eight the‘' r t. above twelve years of age to be found remaining in so ear l chools. It was manifest that the children taken away the 3 y were not likely to benefit much by the education lets; eceived, and they would fail to find an educated popu itteei . although they might see a vast number of children Ors% ling these schools. He could not see any remedy at th see •it for this evil. It was natural and inevitable that atla s • child ren, w h en arr i v i ng at a cer t a i n age, wou ld b e able'. serviceable to their parents in augmenting their miser tllets W eekly earnings, and thus the benefits of education to Ilait were lost. At the same time he thought that there r 't be schools established in which less attendance would 'lttoNoised from boys about twelve years years of age. ffoit , e might be periods allowed for going to school which ate , Id allow some time to be devoted to ordinary labour ; tr ail; there could be small libraries formed in connexion e ke 1 these schools in which the habit of reading might be tesp Irr aged, which was likely to be kept up in after life. In a tdt ss e e L t to one po i nt o f t hi s gran d th eor y, there was a eon f°r i`i i , r hie Num required for the support of a training school, at ,34 *special training of masters of workhouses; that was t e , lor Hall. It had cost already a great deal of money; " able man was placed there, and there was every 1 to believe that the school would be considerably "ed. He could not leave this subject without repeat he u- 'hat he had often stated before in that House—namely, Lil% blight that they could not do too much as members of Tau House or as individuals in improving the condition 41 1/ "ohouriog the situations of schoolmasters.—(Hear.) to • 're Was no class of men employed that was more useful leg the country. He must say it was exceeding 'y painful to It - s eat small salaries paid to such a deserving and impor- ClaSs.—(llear, hear.) He (Lord John Russell) ) 1 1 s!.. t p only further state that there were several votes ::t• respect to similar su bj ec t s i n the estimate. 'e second vote after that now under notice re ! :arded education in Ireland ; and he was bound to state oat the training school in Dublin was one of a superior eha . r oter. He had been much struck with the quickne's of . ap- Prehension and readiness; of the m emory of the pupils when e was in that c it y . This vote was proposed to be increased Y 14,000/, over the vote of 1849, and 9,004. over that of 18 5.3. • The next vo t e was for the School of Design, of which Ztt Right Hon. Friend would give every requisite informa fts • There Were 300 schola rs in the head school in London, t atthe branches in the country contained no less than pupils. Considerable progress had been made, and mat anxiety was felt to obtai n the advantages of these srt,blishments. It was proposed to distribute th e d ra wings 4tte head scho o l s among th e country sc h oo l s, and great be nt Nail expected to be derived from it. A sum n e arly the stiZe ss as that granted the preceding year was proposed for ta te ,,Atuseum of Economic Geology, which, th oug h a new •i t t i ! 4ll tion was of the greatest practical benefit in a country , minerals were of such importances a England. Two li g e not in the present list, but connected with the ques the' were proposed—one of which was for the publication of bee translation of the cuneiform inscriptions. There had 11,! 1 a similar vote many years ago for the same purpose. h tvi t i i Whole amount of the estimate was 435,920 L, whic 4 40ne tho other sums referred to, would, perhaps, make tosii'M in all. No part of the estimates were more useful tak e ,Public. —(Hear.) That portion of the estimates bad fo rth ased largely within the last 20 •years. In . 1833 the vote „e Purpose of education was 30,0001., now it was 50,00 ~ tiekbut Whole estimate was increased in the same pro per l'ots Vevertheless, he considered it the most gratifying . I'l'o% l *t4e Whole series, seeing that it was calculated to ' 4 4 SS - Te hountry, and make it internally, as well as eater ; Peaceful and happy. 2°X said the formation of a few schools of a high of .)31 4 e - h —r Was much more advantageous than the formation s °,tie s - e - Lof a contrary character. The present was, however, th y'vten a further change was necessary. It seemed to t eeter me Some other mode of distributing the grant was ne th' Itt Y• The sum it was intended eo expend was 55,000/. L ts y ea si kt ron school building. He thought, however, the time tooo l f ree to check this expense. There was already school teatteet More than twice the number of pupils that at- He also thought there was too much exclu vt 84 88 41 the distribution of the grant, and that the classes 'aft the l3 excluded should be embraced. One of these classes ors i secular to olsscho, which were so popular with the As s ri . s g classes as be self-supporting. Another class ` 4O Se schools which were disqualified by their 11 144 ° !elusiveness--such as schools und er c h ar i ty trus t s . A sent , ass was the ragged schools. This class was at pre kels m°slelnded from the grant, though they mi g ht j us tl y b e Iseehoed in it. A fourth class was schools connected with tie s , °Talcs' institutes in manufacturing towns. Another tek oe ;!vas the Jew schools. He considered the training thQres wete in a condition to train more schoolmasters than kd w as a dema n d f or — t h ey were now 6,000 i n number, to r .t alr eady bore a c ons id era bl e disproportion to th e need 10• heir services, He should have been glad to h ave his Ilp s ',7 of a -natiorfat system of education realised, and to l oo k at t his arrangeme n t as merely prev isional. Vic t rtd JOHN RUSSELL-4 certainly do look forward t a ." l hope to the establishment of a system of national edu 40n j At present, however, we are doing all that I ra do in the m atter. as7r• I gWART applauded th e f ormat i on o f v ill age libraries, th e urged the promotion of evening schools. He tras• ed ti a l Would be able in some future year to expand . the . educa - tfir y system, and hav e an annual statement, as m tne case army and navy est i mates. sea r , ,W .INLILES thought th a t the teaching of the Bible' t 0 be the foundation of their educational system. He tS e Nlat the H ouse and the Noble Lord to insist on making 17_1se h ools rudimentally Ch r i st i an. t tl * T • a llMEasked se s the Hon. Member what he would do Isi,..aseiostart if he made the Bible and Christianity an indis to4le Part of education? What he regretted in the sys tabajts, that it did not reach those poor districts where no tli s Z eh l P_tin , n could be raised. Until schools - were established tates e r vulage, he despaired of seeing education effectually kle --- "et- Government ought to refuse employment to 0i,44113.!,,,w,h0_c_0u1d net read and write. "In 1: I BELL begged to ask the Noble Lord upon what tasttrEtat47-4 Was -that so small a sum as 154,000/. should be ed a lb ' . the education of a population of 16,000,000 in p oly , and 134,5601. for Ireland, where the population was too, ,0002 e H EN LEY said the Noble Lord had announced his in %tee 4 to establish a national system of education, and this, th e ked With t s e the statement of the Hon. Member for Oldham, s er of lookedte teachers, forward with alarm to the time when a num- Is is, who had received a high degree of moral and w lth a ' 44 l education, should be thrown upon the world 41 4 1 employment, „ to filled him with some apprehension, tote s is to know how they could be assured that kessimeeduals would be safe members of society ? With at eirs religioai foundation laid he should not be alarmed 41 (42 tittension of education - (Hear, hear)—nor did he ttAi-theT:hetileaat°rf any schemes, whether they should come from ilheGovernment or elsewhere; because he well people of tbis country would never consent to - atetia ,Pos, is of national education which was not based on re :l!te p sot e l - 5 7. offered the Government would not listen to SP es sre ee tt s b i e Hon. Member for Oldham against building I,g.,erly availed .houses. The manufacturing districts had be ‘o get as many themselves of those grants, and now that they re presentatives schools as they wanted, it was too bad for Of °I their _spresentatives to throw difficulties in the way .he rural IS°lllasiobeervTdttcts obtaining similar advantages. It was t abor that one -sixth or one-seventh of the whole °M e s . that had received grants from the National Society of th receiv e conditioends imposed, and the Privy Council on account k 4 that th and they had just reason to com io naa° were not placed in so liberal a position as the g s sn , C athol ics, It was a departure from the understand- L ° to It de 1 understand- TT nb ottd t ic- 1 was, that the fund was to e Lore, a b all Christians alike.—(Hear, hear.' The ores ratan x,0001,d lie that there was a surplus of somewhat Lie did not object to this, but thought H F it would be convenient to place before the House an annual statement of the sums actually expended.—( Hear.) Mr. W. J FOX said the Hon. Member had misunderstood hint. He had merely expressed his regret at the prospect of educated men being placed in a situation in which they would receive less remunerati,n than the lowest menial. Mr. GLADSTONE concurred generally in the sentiments expressed by the Hon. Member for Oxford ; and with refer epee to the unhappy differences between the Committee of Privy Council and the National Society, were he the founder of a school he should certainly not be disposed to adopt the constitution to which the Committee of Privy Council had taken objection; but, on the other hand, he did not think that those who adopted that constitution should be excluded altogether from part:cipation in the public grant; and if it were true that one-seventh of the schools which had applied for a share in the grant were excluded from it on account of their adherence to that constitution of school, he must ex press regret that the Committee of Council should adhere so strictly to its rules; and he trusted that before the subject was again brought before the House, the wisdom and conci liatory temper of the GJvernment would discover some means of remedying so serious a mischief. So much on the general question. He now wished to have a particular point cleared up. There was a rumour prevalent that in the case of a particular school, which he had not heard named, the founders, it being strictly a school of the Church of Eng land, applied for a grant, it being proposed by them at the same time that the master and mistress should be communi cants of the Church of England, and the rumour proceeded to say that upon that account the founders of the school were excluded from a share in the grant. After a few words from Mr. SLANEY and Mr. CAREW, Lord J. RUSSELL wished to make some remarks on ac count of what had fallen from the lion. Member for Oxford. The Hon. Member for Oldham had expressed a hope that they did not intend to give up the expectation of being able to establish a general national system of education, and he (Lord J. Russell) had at once replied that he did not give up the hope, but that they meant to keep it in view. From that the Hon. Member for Oxford most strangely concluded that the scheme which the Government meant to adopt was that of the lion. Member for 0 idham. There was nothing in what he said to justify such an interference. When the scheme of the Hon. Member for Oldham was before the House, be (Lord J. Russell) stated his objections to it. He differed from the Hon. Member for Oldham then and now. He thought there were two essential requisites to be observed in a general national system of e ducation—one was, that se • cular education should not be separated from religious educa tion, the other, that no child bra tight up at the cost of the public funds should be compelled to attend to any reli gious instruction to which his ;parents conscientiously ob jected. With respect to the diffe.-ences between the National Society and the Committee of Privy Council, the latter had always carried on its correspond ence with the society, with a view to coming to an agreement on those counts of differ , ence. It was always insisted on by the Committee of Council that there should be lay members on the committees of ' management of the schools, and when the National Society said that the lay members should be communicants of the Church of England the Committee of Council agreed to it. There remained, however, one point of difference—the Com mittee of Council were not prepared to afford aid to schools where the secular instruction was entirely placed under the direction of clerical persons, so that where the clergy differed from all the lay members of the c onmittee of management of a school, and appealed to the bishop, and the bishop should go with the clergy against the lsty members, that decision should not govern the conduct of the committee. It appea-ed to the Committee of Council that such a course was fraught with injurious consequences, and he ( Lord J. Russell), feeling jealous of any increase of power accruing to the clergy, whe ther belonging to the Establishment or any other communion, entertained a great objection to the proposal of the society in the matter; and he did not think that the confidence of the clergy had been lost by that decision. Looking, at least to the proportion of the funds granted to each communion, there was no ground to suppose that it had ; for nearly 79 per cent, was granted to the National Society's schools; 9 per cent. to the British and Foreign schools, 1, per cent, to the Wesleyans, and * per cent. to the Roman Catholics. With respect to the q ,eetion of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Gladstone), it appeared it was proposed that the master and mistress should be communicants of the Church of Eng land, whereas the terms of the union with the National So ciety were that the masters and mistresses should be members of the Church of England, and the Committee of Council thought it was better to adhere strictly to the terms of the National Society. Mr. GLADSTONE, in that case, hoped the decision would be re• considered. The vote was then agreed to. The next vote, of 134.5601. to defray the expenses of the Commission of National Education in Ireland, was agreed to after a short conversation. A vote of 15,0551. for schools of design, &c., was agreed to. The following votes were also agreed to :- 2,006/ for professors in Oxford and Cambridge. 3,9201. for the Univarsity of London. 7.P , 1 0/. for universities in Scotland. 3091. for the Royal Irish Academy. 3001. for the Royal Hibernian Academy. 6,260/. for the Royal Dublin Society. 3,0001. for the theological professors of the Belfast Acade mical Institution. 1,620/. for the Queen's University in Ireland. 1,7001. for the National Gallery. 15,6231. for the Museum of Practical Geology, and the geological survey of Great Britain and Ireland. 2,4211. for the magnetic observations abroad. 10,0001. for the erection of a national gallery in Edin burgh. The House then resumed. The Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill passed through Com mittee. The Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill passed through Com mittee. The Turnpike Road (Ireland) Bill passed through Com mittee. The Private Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Bill, the Turnpikes Acts Continuance Bill, and the Marriages (India) Bill passed through Committee. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Mr. STAFFORD then moved that an address should be presented to her Majesty for a copy of the warrant under her Majesty's sign manual, authorising the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 to enter upon a piece of ground in Hyde-park, and to erect buildings thereupon for the purposes of the Exhibition. And for a deed of covenant from the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, to observe and perform certain terms and conditions mentioned in the said warrant, and to reinstate and yield up the site granted for the purposes of the Exhi bition. The motion was agreed to. Lord SEYMOUR then obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend two several Acts of her Majesty's reign, enabling the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests to pur chase land to form Victoria Park ; and to indemnify the trustees of copyhold land held in trust for her Majesty; and also a Bill to amend the Act for regulating the con struction and use of buildings in the metropolis and its neigh bourhood. Both Bills were then brought in and read a first time. The House then adjourned at One o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 11. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his Beaton the Wool sack at Five o'clock. BURGESSES AND FREEkIEN'S ENFRANCHISE- ANENT BILL. Lord BE AUMONT postponed the committal of this Bill until Monday. PRIVATE BILLS. On the motion of Lord RE DESDALE, several private Bills were forwarded a atage. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition in favour of the preservation of the Crystal Palace, and praying that it might be made a shot-up winter garden; also petitions from various places against the Papal ag gression. CRYSTAL PALACE. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a most excellent and worthy and clever man, Mr. Joseph Pax ton, of Chatsworth, against the taking down of the Crystal Palace.—(Hear.) He had, when Mr. Paxton asked him to present the petition said he was the last person who should be asked to present the petition, be cause be had always been against placing the Exhibition in Hyde-park—not against the Exhibition itself, because he had always expressed his approval of the Exhibition itself as a work of not only British but European utility—but he had opposed the Exhibition taking place in Hyde-parka because the erection of that building and the taking it down would be a nuisance. And he had also been of opinion that the erection of it would encroach upon the Park, and would be illegal; and he still felt that his Hon. and Learned Friend, the now Master of the Rolls, ought not to have interfered to pre vent the question, as to the legality or illegality of that erection, from being discussed in a court of law; and if the same thing were to go over again, he should probably argue as he had done, and be of pre cisely the same opinion that he had been; he therefore would not go into the question but let Mr. Paxton state his own case in his own words. There was a great difference between being opposed to the placing the Palace in Hyde-park and the consenting to its removal. ,(The Noble Lord then proceeded to read portions of the petition of Mr. Paxton, in which he stated that had the duty on glass continued no such building as the Crystal Palace could have been constructed. The existence, therefore, of the Crystal Palace was due to the measures of Sir Robert Peel.) Mr. Paxton said that nothing could be more useful to this metropolis than to retain that vast space as a winter garden for the re creation of the people during the six months of winter. Such a building so maintained would not only tend to the amusement but to the useful instruction of the'paople by the transfer to that building from the over-crowded rooms of Th t e he op ß in ri i t o ish noy Museumi. Paxton f t o t h n e w N a a s t e u n r t a i l t l H e d i s t t o o r b y e c o l r l e e s c p t i e c o n t .. f u lly heard and to a certain degree deferred to, and he had no doubt bat that for a less amount than the funds at the disposal of the Commissioners it might be trans ferred into a winter garden and museum, and that from the annual income derived from admission, the whole of the - expenses of its maintenance might be pro vided for, and he prayed their Lordships 'to pre-'' vent the Crystal Palace from being removed or destroyed, He hoped that before the great building should be re moved the fullest investigation would take plaee into the allegations of the petition , a nd that due consideration should be given to the reasonss on the one side and on the other. He ventured to say that the people of this country were decidedly of opinion against its removal. For after this Exhibition had succeeded in a manner which exceeded the expectations of its most sanguine supporters, if they were to destroy the building they would be giv ing to the world, after an Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, an unparalleled exhibition of the folly and vacillation of this nation; and therefore he believed that the people of this country were opposed to the destruction of the Crystal Palace.—(Hear.) The great benefit of the Exhibition had not, however, been without alloy.—(Hear.) That success had inflicted great suffer ing on the shopkeepers, but that suffering would not be occasioned by the change of it into a winter garden. He was convinced that without lir. Paxton that Exhi bition would never have taken place. If the building had not been erected according to his plan of glass and iron, that Exhibition would not have taken place. Mr. Pax ton had consulted him on the subject, and he had ad vised him to submit his plan, and it was infinitely to the credit of the committee, whose conduct throughout had been admirable, and nothing was more entitled to ap proval than their immediate adoption of the plan of Mr. Paxton. What he wished them now to do was to pause , be fare consenting to its destruction. He had the honour of ! being chairman of a well-known society—that of Useful i Knowledge; and he knew that they were about to petition in favour of maintaining the Crystal Palace, as they be lieved it would be a great support of their ally, the school- Mager, 40 A grot opport agaiagt their riyal, or rather ad • ~ . SUN , LO SZ*I)ON, versary, the gin palace.—(Hear.) He bad been told that already 2,56 ),tOO of people had passed through the buildirg, of which ab tut 250,000 only hol come from the country, the rest being people of the metropolis and its neighbourhood. Recollecting how small a portion of the humblest class had been able to visit the Exhibition, he was inclined to say, on learning that the receipts from shillings had been as much a 3 2,5001. a day, would it had rather been 2007. from pence.— (Hear, hear,) He had to entreat their Lordships to give a favourable consideration to the petition. Lord CAMPBELL said, in his humble opinion, the Crystal Palace was a wonderfui work, but it had fulfilled its mission, and the public could not be accused of fickleness if they al lowed it to be removed. He admitted that Mr. Paxton was an honourable man, a talented man, and an honour to his country. The edifice he had erected was a wonderful edifice and had been very successful. Bat the question after all to decide was, what was to be done with the Crystal Palace? He had seen Mr. Paxton's pamphlet on the subject; but he must say his opinion was that the Crystal Palace itself was the most striking feature of the Exhibition. But was the Exhibtion to be rendered perpetual? That was the ques tion. He did not coincide with Mr. Paxton's views, nor did he think it was advisable to let all the world into the Crys tal Palace free, and to have a grant from Government for the necessary expenses. Some doubt had been expressed of the stability of the materials with which the palace was constructed. There arose, also, the question, what was the palace to be devoted to ? Some said a museum, but Mr. Paxton declared it was not adapted for that purpose. Others thought it would serve for a menagerie, but this was out of the question. Some were in favour of its being made a receptacle for small models (we understood) of all improvements in foreign and other machinery. He would read from Mr. Paxton's petition the grounds on which that gentleman conceived it would be advisable to turn the palace into a permanent winter garden. (The Noble Lord here read an extract from the petition in question, in which Mr. Paxton set forth this view respecting the future destination of the Crystal Palace.) Their Lordships would also perceive from this petition that Mr. Paxton was a great poet as well as a great architect. Mr. Paxton said if the building was converted into a winter garden " multi tudes might come to the place in the depth of the winter, and recline among groves, enjoying the climate of Southern Italy, and admiring works of art and nature, regardless of the biting winds and drenching snow."—(Laughter.) The climate of Southern Italy was to be here enjoyed in winter, and in the midst of snow. But how were the parties who were to enjoy this sunny climate to get to and from the building without experiencing " biting winds and drifting snow ?" These, he conceived, were the dreams of an es.- thusiast, who was unable to discover the drift or the difficulties of his own conceptions. There were other difficulties in the way of Mr. Paxton's plan. Did he specu late on a gift of 100,000/. and a grant of 20,0001. a year? No; the plan was to be self-supporting; the expenses were to be defrayed by money taken at the doors. There were also other difficulties to be considered and overcome. If Mr. Paxton's plan were carried out, it would be necessary to have a considerable number of the police constantly watching the Palace throughout the year; and this would be another ex pense and another difficulty. There would be a large per manent building in Byde-park —that park hitherto so zea lously guarded from encroachment that, a few years ago, a small portion was even refused for building a church upon. He would also remind their Lordships of the inconvenience of caving large masses drawn to this spot. He would remind their Lordships of the inconvenience to the residents near the palace, and the solemn compact with them that the Crystal Palace should not be permanent. If the Crystal Palace was to be made permanent it could only be done by Act of Parli ament. An Act of Parliament might render that lawful which was not so, but it could not destroy a previous obli gation, nor cancel a previous compact. He said, " Let by gones be bygones;" but then he protested against an injury being repeated or perpetuated. Earl GRA,NVILLE would not have addressed their Lord ships, had he not been entrusted with a petition to present on the subject. Now, he was one of the worst persons pos sible to be entrusted with such a duty, because the fact was the Commissioners had no discretion in the matter. They werelbound by stringent clauses to put Hyde-park by a certain time in the same state as t'sey found it. The subject had, theref re , never been discussed at the meetings of the Royal Commissioners, and he was only accidentally aware of the private feelings of some of its members, who were so unani mous in their opinion on this question. It was gratifying to him not to have to vote on thiS question. He had weighed the arguments oA both sides as to the advantages and dis c dvantages to the public which would accrue by not re moving the palace. The advantages, according to his in iividual opinion, would be, that means of luxury would be afforded to a large proportion of the inhabitants of the metropolis. With reference to the feelings of gentlemen oc cupying houses near the palace, he would touch lightly on that point. Nor would he enter upon the question of the safety of the building. He certainly concurred with what had been said about the great obligations they were under to Mr. Mayne and the police force, but at the same time it must be borne in mind the police had more than ordinary facilities given to them for the due discharge of their duties. With regard to Mr. Paxton it was satisfactory to hear both the Noble and Learned Lords concur is praising him. There was, however, one point in the Noble and Learned Lord's (Lord Campbell) remarks to which he could not give entire credit—namely, when the Noble and Learned Lord attributed to Mr. Paxton a large amount of poetical talent. He really must concede to the Noble and Learned Lord a superiority over Mr. Paxton in the poetic qualification, which superiority had been deve loped by the noble and Learned Lord when he spoke of the fragility of the structure of the building and the expense of keeping it up permanently.—(Laughter.) Had the Noble and Learned Lord watched the construction of the building day by day he would have had no fear of its strength and solidity. Lord BROUGHAM said his Noble and Learned Friend had not quite stated the case fairly with respect to the al leged difficulties of Mr. Paxton's own plan. The financial difficulty, for instance, would be met by the large surplus which would be in hand. The other difficulties as to the servants and carriages outside the building is winter could also be got over in tee same way as they were got over by their Lordships in attending that House. He admitted that the police had done good service in keeping order were so many thousands were congregated under one roof; but he rather attributed the excellent order which had been pre served to the good demeanour of the people themselves. The conversation then dropped. CONVOCATION. Lord REDESDALE rose to move for a copy of a petition from the clergy and laity of the province of Canterbury, pre sented to both Houses of Convocationon the sth of February, 1851. The subject was one of great importance, and it also was absolutely necessary the public mind should be directed to it. In moving for this petition he had been desirous not to do anything that might pledge their Lordships to any particular line of action. He was only anxious to bring the subject fairly before their Lordships, in order to illicit what might be said for and against the propo sition. Four generations had elapsed, showing a period of 130 years, since convocations met to discharge active business. During that period the people were living under the impres sion that convocations were at an end. The subject was very little thought upon, and very little feeling was excited to wards it. But the present state of the Church and the posi tion of many important questions which had recently been raised rendered a convocation necessary. Things could not remain as they were—they could not be permitted to continue in their present unsatisfactory position ; some ting must be done, otherwise matters would become more unsettled, and danger to the Established Church would arise. The Church appeared to be govenaed—in fact was governed, by extreme parties. And this must be so, so long as Church affairs were not properly represented. Unless convocations were enabled to meet, he feared nothing would be done. Unless the Church itself spoke, unauthorised persons would speak, and speak loudly for her. Let their Lordships con sider the object to be gained by convocations: There was nothing contrary to the constitution or the habits of the people in convocations; on the contrary, they were not only legal, but they were essentially a part of the constitution, and they were also not contrary to the principles or the habits of the people.. There was no one thing more certain than the Church must refer and determine matters necessary for themselves. There was no religious community debarred from having communication with. Government on their own affairs except the Church of England. One alteration pro posed was the addition of a larger number of the clergy. to gether with some of the proctors, and a certain number of the representatives of the clergy, A constitution of that sort was essentially imperfect; the d'ifference between the two provinces formed an unsurmouu table objection. • At the same time, he repeated, that all through the country there was hardly any person who was not sensible to the ne cessity as well as the propriety of some change in the constitution of that body, in case it was called into action. He should not then enter into details on the subject; but he trusted that what was said would prepare people's minds for the reception of the principle. If the constitution of the convocation was • to be changed, it would be ne cessary for that body to meet • for the purpose; because it was impossible for other bodies to change it. An objec tion had been raised to the meeting of convocation, that it would result in nothing but disput es ; but that objection was too palpably false to be entertained for a moment. He be lieved that in all these matters the discussion would ulti-‘ mately be left in the hands of practical men, and that it would therefore be conducted in a. manner totally different from the discussions of partisans for particular objects, namely, on general grounds. Another objection was, the difference that convocation would create between the Church and Dissenters from her doctrines. He believed that though no convocation had taken place dining the whole time of the revolution, yet that there was no greater difference between that body and the Church than existed at present. In fact, at this moment there was quite as much bitterness of feeling on that point as at any former period of history. A further objection was that the movement: was made by the High Church party, and that its inevitable result would be the ascendency of what were called Romanising principles and practices in the Church of England. Of all the objections, however, made against convocation, he believed this to be the most entirely unfounded. The opponents of convocation were, as he said, to be found only among the extreme parties in the Church, while its supporters were to be found, on the contrary, among moderate people. Another objection urged was, that convocation would not be able to conclude any mat ter in dispute or settle points at issue. All assemblages of the same nature were, however, open to a similar objection. Those who urged it as an objection against convocation, however, should remember that the Council of Trent, which was assembled for a specific purpose, sat eighteen years, and left the chief points under its consideration undecided. There, was, however, one thing in which the Church of Eng land was especially strong in respect to this objection—she rested solely on the Word of Godi as her support. Again, nobody that could be entrusted with the solution of these ques tions was so safe as convocation. It was guarded on every point. Nothing could be discussed without the express au thority of the Crown; the lay element in the Church was, therefore, fully represented; and that guardianship would prevent all danger. Not only that, but convocation could not constitute canons without the consent of the Crown, and therefore nothing which would affect the laity could be done by its agency. In fact, it could militate in nothing against the prerogative of the Crown or the common law of the land, and therefore no safer agent in the decision of eccle siastical questions could be imagined. The first movement in the Church since the suspension of convocation was, no doubt, of great ultimate advantage to her, though it sepa rated from her many excellent persons. In the case of John Wesley, no man had more at heart the best interests of the Church ; and if any opening could then have been made by which his energy might be made available in her service, he throughout took would have b een preserved to her doctrines. The next great movement was th at o f the present day. It was one i n wh i ch conduct, certain andrso persons originallyted ounpthaatstbrao s n i g s _ C p h e u r r f c sa h l l y ineo sin cerely, he believed, even in the case of many who had sepa. rated from the communion. It was necessary for enthusias tic minds in matters of religious faith to have some guid ance; even the most extreme Dissenters made the greatest Popes of their favourite preachers. He believed those per sons to whom he had alluded were enthusiastic, and that it was therefore necessary for them to have some guidance. Nothing was more captivating to the mind of man, no doubt, than to be referred to the B ible and told to form his own re ligion, but that was not the doctrine of the Church of Eng land. She held the Bible to be the sole reference in matters of faith, but she also held that there were certain interpre tations of it against which she decidedly protested. He (Lord Redesdale) beileTed fit 14 1 3 7 hi the high, 411 d holy mitt. 'SAT V ft 1) A Y sion of the Church of Englam. He concluded by moving for the papers of which he her given notice. The Archbishop of CANTEZBURY then ro , e and said— Nu one who is acquainted wit: , the Noble Lord, and knows his attachment to the Church cf which he is a distinguished member, can doubt the purpose, with which he has brought before your Lordships the subjtcts ou which we are now en gazed. - (Hear, hear.) . He is sincerely of opinion that the divisiens :which unhappily exit in tha Church can only be closed through the agency of :onvocation. He is not sin gular in that opinion. Many p ;itisne have been addressed to me during the last year, bearing signatures well deserving of attention, urging me to use wistever influence my station gave me to promote:the assembling of convocation. I was obliged to answer the memoridists, that judging from the only grounds of judgment opm to ma—the experience of former convocations—l could mit agree with their opinion, and therefore: ceuld not comply with their petition.— (Hear, hear.) I still think tha same. I believe it is my duty. after the speech of the Noble Lord, to state the grounds on which I think that the assembling of convoca tion, with active powers, wont' tend to increase discord in the Church, and not to produce the harmony which he desires to restore.--( Hear.) I believe that there are formal and technical diflicultiet attending the revival of the powers of convocation, and the Noble Lord has ac knowledo•ed that before it can let it must be remodelled. Into the'e'o I will not enter. I will suppose that all such technicalities are overcome, al obstacles removed, her Majesty's advisers satisfied, her Majesty consenting, con vocation called together; what would follow? Great disap pointment, or great excitement.-(Hear.) What business is to be dispatched ? Some would ey the Liturgy requires revision. Some rubrics are inconsistent, and others unintel ligible. If the assembling of convocation were to end in the reconciliation of acme conflicting rubrics, or in supplying the deficiency of others, or in the- change of a few obsolete words or questionable phrases, the result would be little worth the cost of production.-(Bear, hear.) It would be justly," Quid dignem tanto feet hie prondssor hiatu."- (Hear.) Thus far, then, you disappoint; go farther and you excite. If more were attempted, and the doctrine of the Prayer Book were touched, even with the slightest hand, a flame would be lighted up from one end of the country to the other.-(Bear, hear.) Where we have now a smothered fire, hover perhaps than is agreeable, but still manageable, we should raise a conflagration which it would require all her Majesty's prerogative to extinguish.-(Hear.) Sup pose, then, the Liturgy untouched, and nothing more attempted than what we know to be desired by many mem bers of the Church-the issuing a declaration which should contradict a recent decision of the Privy Council, and defining the effect of baptism more clearly than it is defined in our Articles. Would peace follow? Can we suppose that this would prove a healing measure? I cannot so interpret the spirit '.of the age as to believe that the great body of Churchmen, laity or clergy, are prepared to restrict the liberty of-opinion in matters hitherto undecided, which our forefathers have always enjoyed, and under which the Church has flourished for three hundred years. We may speak here with confidence, for the experiment has been tried. For obvious reasons I avoid all allusion to - any events which may have taken place at home. But the experiment has been tried in Australia.-(Hear, hear.) A declaration such as I have alluded to was drawn up in October last by the Bishop of Australia and clergy, assembled in synod; and the same ship' which brought home the particulars of the synod brought also the account of the effect which it had produced in one of the cities where it was first promulgated, which, in stead of concord, was dissension, where all had been previ ously peaceful. It had endangered the popularity of a bishop who was universally and deservedly esteemed; and the prin cipal laity of the city had met together, and unanimously pro tested against a measure which they treated as an infringe meat upon their liberty as Churchmen. - (Hear.) If I do not fear any such result here it is because I do not entertain any apprehension of the issuing of such a declaration.- (Hear.) My Lords, the Noble Lord has spoken of the convocation as part of the Constitution. In point of fact, the convocation was a very influential body for 100 years after the Reformation.-(Hear, hear.) But it is a mistake to suppose that we owe to that assembly the constitution and fabric of our Church. Convocation had little to do with the framing of our first Protestant services and articles. The first Protestant service, which has now been materially changed, was framed by a committee of bishops and the di vines, at the order of King Edward, in the year 1549. It was submitted to convocation, not to be formed, but to be approved. The Articles of the Church, three years after wards, were drawn up-not in convocation, but by Cranmer and Ridl sy, and they who assisted them. They were ratified, not debated, in convocation; and of so little importance was that authority esteemed, that no record of the transaction appears in the register of the proceedings; and it has been even made a question whether they ever did receive that sanction. Seven. years afterwards, at the accession of Elizabeth, the revision of the Prayer Book was entrusted to the divines. Their revision was sanctioned by both Houses of Parliament, and no mention is made of convocation. Ihe first occasion on which convocation bore an active part, be e 603 binding were upon it by Royal command. - (H ear, hear.) After the was in the revision of the Articles and Litur gy in 1562. But authority had been the great w ei g ht, and whoever reads the records of those times will pe rceive that convocation was entirely governed by the aut horit y of a few leadin g persons, and who were much more d is p osed to receive man dates never to issue to convocation,th e the nt declared canons to re volution matters were altered. Th e histor y of convocatio n during the reign of Queen Anne is a histor y of altercation s between the upper house a nd the lower. It soon ap in. Even b peared that a body so constituted was ill suited to the pur disputes were ended, as former disput es had been, by timely pose of solemn deliberation or wi se le g islation. The last prorogation ; and since the year 1717 it has never seemed expedient to the Government for the time being to advise the Sovereign to issue a licence for the dispatch of business in convocation. Now, what can we reason from but from what we know ? What grounds have we for believing that more advantage or less injury to the Church would result from the assembling of convocation now than in the reign of Queen Anne or George I. ? - (Hear, hear.) But'the Noble Lord who has brought on this debate has pleaded for convocation, on the ground that every religious body has such meetings ; and the argument at first sight seems rea sonable. There may, however, be privileges which are not advantages. There may be privileges which it is not desir able to claim.-(Hear, hear.) Between independent bodies of religionists and the Church of England no parallel can be established. They are not involved in the constitution of the country. They may meet, and deliberate, and resolve, without constituting that anomaly in government-an imperium in imperio. And, after all, is peace or harmony the result of those meetings? The conferences of the Wes leyan body, whenever they have led to a change in the mode of government, have ended in separations and secessions.- ( Hear, hear.) And I doubt whether the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which might be best compared with ours, though different in a very important particular- I doubt whether that is always a source of peace and har mony.-( Hear, hear.) In the diary of the late Dr. Chal mers I find these words-" May $. A meeting of presby tery. I dislike its atmosphere, though it is my duty to enter it, and, if possible to soften and transform it." And again, " May 9. A most tempestuous day in the presbytery." Cer tainly, my Lords, the General Assembly, if it did not con tribute to occasion so fatal an event, did not prevent a disruption of the Church in that country, the most se rious which has ever occurred in any church since the Reformation.-(Hear, hear.) At all events, the benefit which is expected of self-regulation and independent legislation would be dearly purchased if purchased at the cost of confidence on' the part of the people.- (Hear, hear.) And we must shut our eyes against all experience if we do not foresee this danger-if we believe that it would not rather foment than allay dissensions. No one can lament more than Ido the existence' of 'such divisions. No one would be more ready to concur in any measure that might seem likely to remove them. But, in spite of 'those divisions, and not withstanding its want of independent action, the Church of England enjoys the best of all privileges-the means of certain usefulness.-( Hear, hear.) During the last thirty years she has founded 1,000 new parishes at home. She has established 20 new episcopal sees in our colonies abroad. She is supporting schools-not indeed without assistance-for which we are'most grateful; but still, as the principal in strument in every village of the land, she is exerting her self, and successfully exerting herself, to supply the spiritual wants of her increasing population. That she might do more if all her sons were united together irithe same mind and in the same judgment, lam not prepared to deny. But I do not believe that the assembling of convocation would convocation..-( uo n aLbet v oel o enr edt Lord fL t eoo i yr o rNd n ro. the h - Tb al3 ( de Inrzeeooavot Lord advN , oa h nlo e eba intendedosr sfe. be the means of promoting such union, and therefore I can not agree with the Noble Lord in desiring the assembling of s observed that tv t oto h hc a mae t 3t o i vw t ne e. hadrae an address eo tbeenwas s grel preparedpat d o o r tt t ft e o d eer that motion. He could, not see any objection to the general principle of the clergy meeting together, whether in Exeter or Australia,' for the purpose of discuseim and mutual coun sel, as any other organic body, whether religious or other wise. The Archbishop of DUBLIN had formerly called the at tention of the House to the subject. It was now some 15 or 16 years since he had first mooted it, and be had since fre quently returned, butes his opinsons on the subject had been published, he would not now trouble their Lordships by a repetition. He had never advocated the restoration of the active government of convocation, for he was convinced the government of the Church by 'the clergy would not be tole rated in the present day. But it was a strange anomaly that the Church of England should be the only body that was governed by persons who were not necessarily members of it. He wished to protest against any attempt to govern the Church now by means of the clergy exclusively, as a matter that would be both inexpedient and unjust, but, at the same time, he would not approve of, any party taking a share in that governing body who were not regularly and properly chosen and appointed for that purpose.—(Hear.) The Duke of ARGYLL hoped. it would rot be deemed presumptuous in him tog take a part in that discussion even if reference had not been made in the course of it to himself personally. It was naturally the right of every organised state of society to meet for the appointment of its own rules, and in - the case of the Church it was more essential still that she should have the power of self-government. No doubt there were difficulties in the way of the Church of England -now which had not existed at any other time. With respect, however, to a comparison between the convocation of the Church of England and the General Assembly of the Church to ‘which he had the honour to belong, he could never hear such a comparison instituted without rising to protest against such a monstrous confusion of ideas. The old convocation was entirely a convocation of the Church. It had never changed its character; and to that might be attributed its loss of character.—(Hear.) Great complaints had lately been made against the constitution of some of the courts of this country to which ecclesiastical matters were re ferred, and against tribunals which had been ap pointed to try questions connected with the Church. Some parties asserted that the Arches' Court, in which a lay judge presided, was an ecclesiastical tribunal, and the Privy Council a lay tribunal. That was. a confusion of ideas which ought to be cleared up, he thought. Questions of doctrine seldom or ever came before the General As sembly of the Church of Scotland, but questions of dis cipline frequently came before them. He would ask those anxious for a representative system whether it was the case in the Church of England that questions of doc trine were so seldom raised? Unfortunately, great dif ferences of opinion existed in the Church of England amongst those who wished to establish the representative system of government. He feared if there were a convo cation upon the old constitution, questions would be raised , which would lead to great disruption in the. Church of Eng lead. He could not see any analogy whatsoever between the secession which had taken place in the Scottish Church and anything which had occurred in the Established Church of England. The Bishop of LONDON wished to say a word or two in reply to the arguments of the Noble Cuke who had just sat down. The Noble Duke thought that those who were against convocation were actuated by a desire to place power in the hands of the clergy, and that there was a wish on the part of the great body of the latter not to admit the laity to a share in the power. The Duke of ARGYLL briefly explained. The Bishop of LONDON then continued. In the Epis copal Church of America, questions were discussed, but no final decision could be come to against the opinion of the bishops, who had a veto upon every subject introduced. No . one was more sensible than he was to the great elifacelty of EVENING, the question before the House. But the difficulties now before them were nothing to what they would have unless their Lordships took some means of restoring to the Church its inherent right of deliberation.—(Hear, hear.) On the whole, however, he was not satisfied with the present consti tution of convocation. He did not think the parochial clergy who had greatly increased of late years in numbers, and who had advanced in education and acquirements, were adequately represented.—(llear, hear.) There were only 4t representatives for about 15,000 clergy.—(Hear, hear. ) After all, however, he could not but think that great as the difficulties were, the want of a deliberative body was greater—(Hear, hear)—and, unless some such body were appointed, in which all classes might assemble and deli berate, he thought those who were really interested in the welfare of the Church would hardly know what way to turn.— (Hear, hear.) Earl NELSON expressed his regret that no member of the Government had thought proper to speak upon that which he considered a very important question. —(He sr, hear.) With respect to the Bishop of Australia, to whom some allusion had been made, all they had asked for was the benefit of synodical action, in which the laity would b 3 equally represented with the clergy. The greatest danger of all at the present time was the neglect of the Go vernment of this country of that great question for the security of the union of Church and State, which it was of the utmost consequence should be preserved. He believed the Church of England to be the greatest bulwark against both infidelity and aggressions from Rome, and he would warn their Lordships against doing anything that would de stroy her vitality. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE ( who was almost wholly inaudible), said that the Right Rev. Prelate, in his very able speech, had anticipated many of the observations which he should have addressed to their Lordships on this subject. He should therefore have remained altogether silent on the occasion, were it not that by so doing it might be imputed to him and to the Government that they were indifferent to the great importance of the question and to the change in the constitution—fur such a change it was—which the Noble Lord had suggested for their consideration. With respect to the subject before them he thought it would be found that convocations had not their origin in this country in the manner stated by the Noble Lord, but had arisen out of the necessity of regulating certain services of the Church, and that some of the most important acts for the govern ment and establishment of the Church had been effected without the slightest appeal or reference to any convocation, or any similar body. If their Lordships, therefore, were called on now to create a body to be entrusted with the task of deliberating on the doctrines of the Church, such a body would be essentially different from any convocation that had hitherto existed. He doubted whether the present was a proper time to call on Parliament to introduce so novel an element as that proposed into the constitution of the Church. If he saw any prospect by the creation of such a body of attaining unity and peace, he was not pre pared to say that he should' object merely on the ground of innovation to any plan which appeared to him calculated to effect so desirable an end. But when he looked to what the conduct of convocations of the ecclesiastical body had been, he found nothing to justify him in believing that unity and peace would be the result. It was said that the Crown would have a power of control, but he would ask whether the exercise of such a power would tend, when parties were nearly balanced, to the tranquillity which was so mach desired. He was certainly surprised when he heard the Noble Lord refer to the Council of Trent, for they all had the advantage of having detailed to them by its able historian the proceedings of that council, and of knowing that it had been not only ineffectual for security, unity, and peace, but that it had left the greater part of Europe in a state of greater agitation than that which it had met to tranquilise. He saw no hope of a more de sirable state of things from the adoption of the proposal of the Noble Lord. If he saw any better means than now existed for attaining objects which all members of the Church desired to attain to the fullest extent, he should be glad to embrace it, and to bring it to bear on the better government of the Church. But until better assured on that point he could not—and he believed he might also answer for the other members of the government—be a party to the making of an experiment so large, so novel, and so perilous as that proposed.—(Hear, hear.) The Bishop of OXFORD could not admit that the pro posal was of that novel kind which the Noble Marquis seemed to think it was. He believed that the great and fun damental objection to granting the Church of England syno dical action, lay deeper in the minds of those opposed to it than any objection which had that night been stated.— (Hear.) He believed it arose from an entire want of faith in the divine mission of that Church.— (Hear. ) He claimed for that Church the right to assemble when necessary, not merely because the Royal word had been pledged to grant such a liberty, but because that Church was the representa tive of the Apostolic Church which had assembled at Jeru salem. A statement had lately been put forth by a paper connected with a certain party in this country—(A cry of "Name")—he alluded to the Globe newspaper, in which the Church of England was spoken of as being emphatically the creature of this world—as an essential machine for embody ing the spiritual element of the public opinion of the day, and not as a contrivance for transmitting sacraments or defining creeds. (The Right Reverend Prelate read the - rest of the statement, the whole of which the Right Reverend Prelate stated appeared as a leading article in the newspaper referred to.) Now he thought that that article would not have been put forth if it had not been in unison with the opinions of the party which that paper was supposed to re present. Now it was quite natural, he contended, for those who believed the Church of England to be merely a conve nient instrument—a better kind of police under the civil go vernment for keeping down troublesome people, to say that she had no Divine truth for which to live—it might be for which to fall—and to object to her meeting in synod for the purpose of more effectually carrying out her, spiritual mission upon earth.—(Hear.) The Church of England was either what she professed to be, the representative of the Church of Christ, or else she was the creature of the State. If it was meant to make her the mere creature of the State, their Lordships might depend upon it they would be doing that which would give the Church of Rome absolute domi nion over her, spite of her connexion with the State.— (Hear, hear.) Allusion had been made to synods and councils as the sources of dissension and agitation. But how had the truths of Christianity been pre served to them except by synods and councils? What was the history of the Church but a strife against error. Again, it had been said that the profane would interfere with the peace of the Church. Now he would rather have truth than that which was called peace, but which was no peace. He only wished to have that peace which only could be got by striving for :truth against error. They had been taken back to the time of Elizabeth, when the Crown was the su preme lay head of the Church ; but power had since been wrested from the Crown, and the laity had a certain 'power over the Church. Measures were now discussed affecting the Church in the House of Commons, but were the parties there really the representatives of the laity of the Church of Eng land? They were not. The laity were wholly unrepre sented ; the great body of the laity had no means of making themselves heard in the affairs of their Church. The con sequence was, that all power was concentrated in spiritual hands, and most unconstitutionally in the hands of the heads of the Church. He and they who thought with him did not desire priestly domination or episcopal tyranny, for they were ready to part with a portion of the power they possessed to restore it to those who should wield it. It never had been the condition of the Church of Christ to have uniformity of opinion; and the office of the Church was not to extinguish these differences of opinion, but to make it possible that they should co-exist together. If they attempted to handle that which had come down from the time of the founding of Christianity as a theory of mere common device, they might promise themselves peace, but they would find death—they might hope for success, but they would find themselves incompetent to administer the great purposes of the Christian Church. _ _ The Marquis of LANSDO\VNE and the likihop of OXFORD mutually explained. Lord RE DESDALE replied. The motion was put and carried. The Bishop of 01FORD gave notice that he should move on Monday next for copies of the correspondence with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on the subject of the Horfield estate. Their Lordships then adjourned. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE: THE FLAG PROMOTIONS. With the death of Admiral the Hon. Sir John Talbot the new scheme of promotion commences, for although Sir John Ross, C. 8., the distinguished Arctic voyager of twenty-three years' service afloat in the Royal Navy, is the senior on the active list of captains for promotion, according to the new scheme or retirement ho is not eligible for promotion to the active list of fhg.oflicers, not having served a day under a commission as captain since his promotion to that rank. This gallant and dis tinguished officer, therefore, is the first to be placed on the reserved half-pay list of flag-officers, and the next captain to him in seniority being eligible by service as captain for promotion to the active flag list Sir James Stirling (Dec. 7, 1818) becomes Rear-Admiral of the Blue, vice Tucker, vice Loring, vice Talbot, deceased. Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling is the grandson of Captain Sir Walter Stirling, R.N., and nephew of the late distinguished Vice-Admiral Charles Stirling. Ho is in the 60th year of his age, and has served during 48 years' career in the service-24 years afloat in war and peace. The following sketch of his services is con densed from O'Byrne's " Biography:"—" This officer enterei the navy on the 12th of August, 1803, on board the Camel. store-ship, Captain John Apcough, fitting for the West Indies. In the Glory, 98, he fought in Sir Robert Calder's action under the flag of Rear-Admiral Charles Stirling, whom he followed into the Sampson and Diadem, 64's; and witnessing the fall of Monte Video he was received, about April, 1808, on board the Warspite, 74, Captain Hon. Henry Blackwood, stationed at first in the North Sea and Channel, and then in the Mediterranean. He obtained his first commission August 12, 1809; was appointed April 1 and Oct. 27, 1810, to the Hibernia, 120, and Armide, 38, home ser vice; became in November, 1811, flag lieutenant in the Arethusa, 38, to Admiral Stirling, on the Jamaica sta tion; was there Feb. 27, 1812, placed in acting command of the Moselle, 18; and on June 19 in the same year was confirmed a commander in the Brazen sloop, mount ing 28 guns. At the commencement of the war with America we find him cruising for four months off the Mississippi, where he succeeded in destroying a consi derable amount of the enemy's property. Although the Brazen was on one occasion dismasted in a hurricane ho maintained his station by cutting and framing masts and spars from the neighbouring forests at Pensacola. In 1813 ho was sent to Hudson's Bay for the purpose of affording protection to the settlements and shipping in that quarter. On the conclusion of hostilities he was nominated acting captain of the Cydnus, 38, owing to the death of her captain; but returning soon to the Brazen, and being re-appointed to her on the peace establishment he continued to serve in that vessel in the West Indies until paid off in Aug., 1818. Capt. Stirling's promotion to post rank took place on the 7th of December in the same year (1818). His next appointment was 23th of Ja nuary, 1826, to the Success, 28, and in this ship he was sent to form a settlement at Raffles Bay, in Torres Strait —a service which he accomplished in so able a manner as to cause his being highly complimented by the naval commander-in-chief and the Government of New South Wales. In October, 1828, nine months after he had left the Success, he was selected to take command of an ex pedition intended to form a colony in Western Australia, where he remained until induced in 1839 to tender his resignation, for the purpose of resuming the occupations attached to his profession, having during that period, surrounded a; he was with the difficulties inseparable from the establishment of a new settlement, evinced a degree of zeal and ability that procured him, April 3, 1833, the honour of knighthood, and ultimately the ac knowledgments of her Mejesty. On the prospect of a war with France Sir James Stirling was appointed, Oc tober 30, 1840, to the Was, 78. Ho continued in that .0 100 "' UL Y 12 1851. ship, in the Mediterranean, until paid off is June, 1844, and since April 28, 1847, ho has been in command of the Howe, 120, now on the same station. Sir James Stiffing is a lini;:ht Commander of the Orchr of the .IttNleetner of Gfeeco. He marri , .d, in 1823, Eden, daughter of ;he late James Itiangles, L'64., M.P. fov Guildf;aQ, by whom he has lama nine children." Sir James Stirling, is the Howe, conveyed her late Majesty the Queen Dowager to Madeira and tack, and paid off that ship last year at Sheerness. Sir (Tames Stirling was appointed one of the naval aides-1e- camp to . the Queen on March 9, 1849; but be sueceede :c1 to the paid list only a few weeks since. In addition to two good service pensions, the First Lord of the Adm 'malty has now iu his nomination an aide-de camp to ibe Queen. s s Idepe adently of what changes may have already been made in t he senior lists of captains by retirement, Capt. Edward I?nrcell (1828) comes within the first senior half pay list; :sod Capt. Rich (1838) within the second senior half-pay Tst. E XPEDrrxou - a EQUIPMENT.—Odin steam-frigate had her comp lases swung on Wednesday afternoon, and at nine o'clo k P.M. went out of P ortsmout h harbour: a:nd proceeded direct for Cork, with provisions in for 300 troops for three months, and two months' provisions fCT her crew. On Monday morning she had her guns in (which sia a landed); was without masts, or tanks, or stores on board; and thus within three days she has bean got ready for service by the untiring perseverance of the rear-admi r al-superintendent, the officers and men of the yard, and Captain Halstead, the officers and crew of the) Deuntlu.s.. All have worked early and late. Mr. Davis. the active, master-attendant of the Clarence-yard, ha; I also contributed much to the fitting out of this vessel bee the expedhtious way in which her tanks, provisions, , have been :sent to her from the Victualling -offic e . Mr. Mang and Capt. Halstead went out in her last :ni: and left ha r at Spithead, her engines working very sati:+- factorily. Caletioni an, 120, has been taken aleng. , dockyard jc ety to have defects made good, when she to take her place amongst the advanced ships at that por•ta Heroine, 8, Commander J. B. Marsh, went into Devon.- port harbour, on Wednesday morning, and will be pail off in the surly part of next week. PORTSMOUTH, THUaSDAY.—The American Congress s sailed this morning for New York. The Americas mail-steau ter from New York and Southampton, fat r Bremen, p assed through Spithead this morning. Mr. Pen Title, midshipman of the Orestes, 14, Com: - mender H:iwker, was unfortunately drowned at the Cap( by the ups , atting of a boat in which he with other officers ; was return Eng to his ship, after a visit to the Castor, 3t*, in Simon's Bay. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 11.—The Furious new steam, - frigate, ul ider command of Master end Command • Banes, flared with engines of 400. horse power (paddles) , by Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., arrived a: this port to join the steam reserve squadron this morning from the Thames. Her performances on the passage have been very satisfactory. At the measured mile oil Greenhithe the average speed of six trials was 10i- knots an hour, and her average speed in coming round was 10i to 11 kmots; the engines making 17 to 19& strokes per minute- She left Greenhithe at '2.40 P.M. yesterday, and arrived off the Nab here at 9.1 A.M. to-day. In her passage round she experienced a hard gale off Beach), head, and proved herself to be a good sea boat. She is a very handsome and formidable-looking war steamer. By a letter from Queenstown we learn that on her passage from this port to Cork to embark the troops for the Cape the Sidon burst her condenser in starting thn engines. Captain Henderson, in the Tiger steam-trigato started for the scene of the disaster on Saturday night last, taking with him Mr. Ward, the chief engineer of the Blenheim, and the repairs were completed on the 9th. (Wednesday). The Sidon will sail to-morrow (Satur day) or Sunday for the Cape. Mr. Ward, the former chief engineer of the Sidon, though in this harbour, was s not sent in her, but the engineers selected for her were a all strangers to the machinery of the vessel. Mr. Ward , is now, however (experience teaches wisdom), orderer to go in her to the Cape. Mirsden convict ship sailed froth Cowes roads las t evening to embark prisoners from Portland. Seaflower cutter sailed last night to resume her sta tion off Jersey. _ _ PEMBROKE, JULY 10.—The Ceptain•Superintenden of the Dockyard (Sir T. Pasley) has been absent any leave. A largo number of the men employed in the yard have availed themselves of the facilities afforded them for visiting the Exhibition. The following ships, now in course of building at this dockyard, are in an ad vanced state, and most of them could be finished and launched at a comparatively short notice:—The Windsor Castle, 120 guns; Victoria, 110 guns; Cm3ar, 90 guns; Brunswick, 80 guns; Melpomene, 60 guns; and Sutlej, 50 guns. It is currently reported that a company of tho Marine Artillery will be appointed to the Saturn guard ship at this establishment, there being no effective force afloat for the protection of the arsenal, APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JULY 11.—Lieutenant John N. Norman. (1842), who completed his coarse of study of steam at the Factory at Woolwich Dockyard on Saturday last, received his appointment here yesterday as a Lieutenant to the Trafalgar, 120, at Sheerness, and left the same day to join that ship, under orders for the Mediterranean. station. Assistant Engineers—William White, to the Inflexible steam-sloop, on the North America and West India sta tion; Thomas Anderson, to the Fitgard flag-ship at Woolwich; Charles Chamberlain, to the Arrogant, 46, steam-frigate, at Lisbon; John 'Thomas, to the Daunt less, 24, steam-frigate, at Lisbon; and Joseph Kent, to Imaum, 72, receiving-ship, at Jamaica, for service on the West India station. Clerk—W. E. Chown (1851), to the Trafalgar. Gunner—William R. Courtney, to the Myrmidon, steam -veJsel ,at Woolwich. PROMOTION. Lieutenant Roohfort Maguire (1840), First-Lieu tenant of the Herald. 22, surveying -vessel, during her arduous voyage to Behring's straits, to the rank of Com mander. Captain Edmund M. Lyons (1849) and Lieutenant Edward A. Blackett (1847) have been appointed to study steam at the Factory at Woolwich dockyard. The Trafalgar, 120, Captain Hon. Montagu Stopford, was towed from Sheerness to the Nore yesterday by the African and Avon steam-vessels, and had her ammuni tion put on board to-day, preparatory to her proceeding to-morrow for Spithead, where she is to be completed for the Mediterranean station. The Trafalgar has received nearly 200 bluejackets this week, a great proportion of them being petty officers and A.B.'s. _ _ The Loidun, 90, fl2g-ship of Vice-Admiral the Hor. Joceline Percy, C. 8., is being fitted, and the lower rig ging is now over her mastheads. The Sprightly steam vessel, tender to the Victory flag ship at Portsmouth, brought 98 seamen to Sheerness on Sunday last for the Trafalgar, and left egain for Ports mouth on the 9th inst., her services being required at that port. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Alice and Helena, and attended by the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieutenant Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, visited the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of ull Nations yesterday morning. Their Royal Hig,bnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Allred, attended by Mr. Birch, visited the Exhibition yesterday forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, the Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Cuuper, also paid a visit to the Exhibition yesterday morning. Her Majesty and Prince Albert remained about . an hour at the Exhibition, and then returned to Backing ham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal, Prince Arthur, and the Princess Louisa, took their usual exercise yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. The Queen bad a dinner party yesterday at Bucking ham Palace. The company included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Serene Highness the Prince Lowen stein, his Excellency the Count and Countess Walemska the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, Lady Augusta Bruce, the Baroness do Speth, the Earl of Westmoreland, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Major Biddulph, and Lord William Paulet. The band of the Grenadier Guards attended during dinner, and performed the following selection:— Grand March from " Gemma Vergi" Donizetti. Polka, " Ostereier" ..• .• • .•• Kuhner. Selection," La Muetto" •.• Auber. Mazurka, " Les Porcherons" Grisar. Divertissement, "it Barbiere" ... Rossini. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Mar quis of Clanricarde, and the Earl of Carlisle. The Council sat about an hour. A deputation from Belfast, consisting of the Mayor, Mr. Whitler, and Hr. Harrison, accompanied by Ur. Tennent, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing-street. Mr. Carrie had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office. The Cambridge University Commission had a meet ing yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—The Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir John Herschel, the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. H. Bate son (secretary). Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Dow ning-street. The Westminster-bridge Commission met yesterday at the offices of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place. There were present Lord Seymour, Lord Sudeley, the Earl of Loosdale, Lord R. Grosvenor, Sir R. Inglis, the Right Non. C. Tennyson D'Eyncourt, and Alderman Ilumpberp. Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial -office yes terday to the Governors of the North American Co lonies. LOUD RIITHERFORD.—A report gains currency and credit that this Learned Judge is about to be removed to London, in connexion with the proposed changes in the Court of Chancery, and especially, the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords. Wh en these ch anges were under discussion, Lord Brougham s uggested that w h en Scotch ap peals were being heard , t he presence of th e Judges of the Court of Session should be obtained. It is now asserted destined for Lord Rutherford, who shall with some degree of c onfidence that one of the Vice-Chan in London, and whose duty shall consist reside ll or's p e g r o m w a n n s en t y in assisting the Lords when sitting on Scotch appeals.— Scottish Press. Only twenty - one public Acts shave passed in the present session. . THE SCOTTIVIA , V 4 7.6.,_' -_____________ ______........." .0 Ja "" e, Yesterday's weather wes r 6:4;'irepilionai - tin; ra was never very bright, and eilee'l e elfo . lPE:? of,, , t 4 t l ,* 4 every never ve ry liri !!!an t, be Atte irif5,11 .31 1/' 1 :1 1 TIV:I i _vi - t temperature was pleasant an , -Wellr*lited for Pia': 1 door sports. Tee consequeate. Wits ea-large infitti... company, including several elPinguish&preiznltYs- Among the notal;ilities on thecelgistAwe tall Duke of A: le, the D u k e o f Montrose; ball slid. rquis of Douglas—great old names, which go well with a‘ft,cot- I tish gathering. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Marchioness of Ailsa were also present; while, as for the rank and file of spectators, the crowded stands presented a cheering contrast to the drippi ng na k e d ness o f t h e sloppy benches on the day before. The sports were of the sante general character as those which we described in our yesterday's paper. The weather heving become more akin to what poets any is the proper style of thing for the first day of merry May, Mr. Flexceore had his happy peasants duly rigged out in what is considered pastoral attire by the idealising costumiers of theatres —and a merry round they deuced among the garlands of the maypole, finishing off with the quaint mortis step—and, possibly, we do net say certainly—setting ttny followers of Mr. Disraeli who might have been pre sent philosophisiag upon the curious phenomenon of such merry doings having been invented so long before the contrivance of the sliding scale. As a contrast to the morris dance and the maypole round, he had plenty of reels and strethspeys performed with great vigour by the kilted figurantes, and inspiring the French gentlemen prcien: - ; with notions of the generous impetuosity of a mountain pus de quatre. The bagpipe of course afforded the music for the last-mentioned performances, and we may mention that, either to the credit of the artists, or the alterntions end improvements which in these inge nious days may be making in the instrument, we have rarely heard bag-pipes play less out of tune, or at a dis tance—a considerable distance—saund more tolerably. As to the pure llighland sports, the caber was tossed to the great apparent entertainment of the foreigners, who had nevsr probably associated the idsa of amusement with jerking about a fir tree—the hammers were flung, and many excellent casts made; the stone was " putted' l t sye; (which looks bad grammar, bat, more Scottie°, is ex cellent syntax); and there was more than one exciti ng foot-ra ce , in which the Highlanders got over the ground i n. famous match, in and more than one jumping which they shoved, to a certain degree, a wholesome contempt for the laws of gravitation. As before, the broad -sword exercise—blades represented by sticks—vas _tla r displayed by severa l o f t h e crack swords men th from Cornwallof r, e hand 'nd a a ncrCumberland mberof wr o e n stl th er e () s huggeo each other in fair and courteous rivalry. There was a seek Derby and a whe e lb arrow S t. L eger. Th e the on tx the one a 2; winner in the sack contest adopted different locomotive tactics from those V. his predecessor the day before, and jumped in such a masterly manner as almost to rival a kangaroo. The starters with the wheelbarrows were blindfolded, end occasioned greet fun by the devious courses which they pursued and the style in which they ran their chariots into each other. _ _ We were glail to see our French friends entering the lists. They competed—and the arrangement was pep haps the best amongst themselves. Their quarter-staff play was very clever and nimble, an d they hit each other as famous bangs with the staves as ever honest Garth dealt the roguish miller. Their single-stick was also very clever ; the players wore no sort of protection, but, according to the old ticoteh proverb, made their hands th,,ir heads. Only their hands once or twice failed, end a sound thwack proclaimed the defection. A mode of contest now to England was also introduced in what was called " French boxing, with heel and hand." In this species of pugilism, which Frenchmen would describe as to firer la savate, the antagonists hit with fists and kick with feet. The "ring" would pronounce the practice foul; but the French have got a notion— not unsupported by common sense —that if one gentle man wishes to belabour another, he may profitably, and without any detriment to his chivalry, call upon his feet to aid his hands. The French players were ad mired for their finish and neatness of style, and their great manual dexterity. - An interesting series of combats between the bayonet and target and claymore, resulted in the weapon of Ba yonne being routed by the sword-and-shield men. The great mistake, however, of all these contests consists in treating the bayonet—which is a secondary and subordi nate weapon—as a principal one. The sword-and buckler hero may demolish the bayonet hero, but what if the latter add to the weight of the former by the ad dition of an ounce of cold lead from the gun attached to the bayonet before hand? The enthusiastic gentlemen who argued that tho Highlanders should meet disci plined forces only with targets, pistols and claymores, torgot that there is such au order as—" Form square, and prepare to receive cavalry" not unfrequent, in real no-mistake warfare. We should imagine that the clay more and target would do but small service against the rush of a rattling charge of French cairassiers, which the bayonet would keep at bay as rocks keep out the surf. We ought not to omit to mention that Lord Holland with a large party was present, and that the hospitalities of Holland-house were liberally and gracefully extended to all the principal personages concerned in the fête. To-day, the games, at reduced prices of admission, will be resumed, and finally closed. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR. OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JULY 10. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. July 4. Coquette schooner, Lord Godolphin, from Exmouth; Merlin ditto, Colonel Markham, Plymouth. 5. Petrel cutter, Earl of Ilehester, Weymouth. 9. Luella ditto, Twiston Hodges, Esq., Southampton. SAILINGS. July 4. Dement schooner, Lord Londesborough, for London; Nautilus cutter, G. W. Bateson, Esq. , Guern sey and other ports. 7. Gipsey Queen schooner, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart,, Torquay. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Alarm, Capricorn, Petrel, Drift, , Edzabeth, Lavrock, Turquoise, Arrow, Aurora, Maritana, Merlin, Pl over , Ripple, Coquette, Magician, Laelie, Resolution. At the general meeting of the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, at the Squadron House, West Cowes, at 1 P.m. this day, the following members were pre cent:—Commodore the Right Hon. the Earl of Wilton, Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., Lord Godolphin, the Duke of Rutland, Spencer de Horsey, Esq., Almon Hill, Esq., Sir J. Rivett Carnack, Bart., Joseph Gee, I.q, Thomas Thornhill, Esq., James Manse Esq., James Lyon, Esq., Colonel Markham, Captain Ponsonby, Delme Ratcliff, Esq., Viscount Somerton, Le Merchant 'Thomas, Esq., Sir Hyde Parker. George Arkwright, Esq., was elected a member. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Yesterday, being the half-crown day, the attendance was not much more than half what it usually is on the shilling d,tys. L was rather above 30,009. The ro eeiptt, however, were greater than on any other day of the week. They were: — For season tickets At the doors Total £3,163 14 6 BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last nigh t's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth o 1 Vietoria,cap. 82 for the Week ending on Saturday, laA tur E d v ay 6 tt liT sth . day of July, 1851. X. Notes Issued.... • • • • 27,581,5ri0 Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities .. .. 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 13,548,145 Silver bullion • • •• • • 33,575 427,581,520 I £27,581,520 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 10th day of J u l y, 1851, RANKING DEPARTMENT. X. ProprietOrs'capltal 14,553,000 Rest - .•. • . 3x8,517 Public deposits (in clr.ding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav- Inge-banks, and Di vidend acconm,s).. 8,931,362 Other deposits • • 8,695,802 Seven day and other ,Government socuri. ties (including Dead I Weight Annuity) .. 13,5,1350 .other securities •• •• 14,251,192 I Notes • • • • • • • • • • • • 13,0',16,265 IGold and silver coin.. 631,195 Bills • 1,155,206 436,463,887 £36,46 3 p5 8 7 AWISHALL, chiorcashier. 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