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• period of this year the number was 102,000. He could give his Hon. Friend the entire cost of the poor in Ire lend. The six months ending March, 1850, showed a diminution in the expense, as compared with the cor responding period of the previous year, of 319,4461. There had been also a great diminution in the mortality in the workhouses. Ho thought the House would act wisely in not agreeing to the first resolution; and with regard to that respecting the appointment of vice-guar dians, it was only duo to the gentlemen who filled those appointments, to say that the administration of th e p oor under their management was everywhere less expensive than they had been previous to their management, and when there was an apparent expense it arose from pro viding additional poor-law accommodation, yet this was the only point upon which the two gentlemen who pre , melt(' him relied, and at the present moment there was not a single vice-guardian in Ireland, nor did he consi der their appointment advisable. Then, with respect to the third resolution, as to the demoralizing effect of the workhouses, he thought the parties who furnished the information to the mover and seconder of this resolution had greatly exaggerated any evils that might exist. He hoped the House would not consider it necessary to affirm these resolutions. He thought they ought to al low the experiments they were making to take root before they drew any results from them. They should allow the present law to solidate itself before they made any alteration in it. They had every reason to hope the crisis had passed, and that there was a prospect of returning prosperity. He hoped, under these circum stances, they would not affirm these resolutions. Colonel DUNNE said that the lion. Member for Ros common had said truly, that the Irish poor-law was in tended to effect three objects; first, the amelioration of the poor of Ireland ; secondly, that the expenses of effecting this object should be paid for cut of the resources of Ireland; and thirdly, that no call shohld be made upon the resources of this country. Now in every one of these objects it had failed. The reople had suffered under it as well as the proprietors. The proof of this was to be seen in every direction. The debts of the unions had increased is spite of the best management. The condition of the people had not im proved since the introduction of these poor laws. This entire fatlure justified his Hoc. Friend the Member for Roscommon in bringing forward the resolutions he bad. , The proper means of feeding the people was by employ ment.—(Heata hear.) He thought he could lay down a plan, by which they could employ the pe ,ple, without •, any dauget. The rates were totally ineneguate for the out-dcior relief of the poor in Ireland. It they wished to support the poor on Irish resources, they must allow Ireland to use her own resources; but in no one instance was that done. He should vote for all the resolutions of his Hon. Friend the Member for Roscommon. The first was necessary for tee salvation of Ireland. The resolu tions of the Hon. Member were not founded upon any p coliar notions which he might entertain respecting this poor-law. He hoped the Irish Members would support these resolutions.—(ilear, hear.) Irish poverty should be supported by Irith reroureet. They mutt expend the . produce of Lath industry upon the amelioration of the condition or the people. Mr. SUARHs4jN CRAWFORD said that the first resolution called upon them to return to the law of , 1833. Any law that prohibited out-door rt lief was ab . surd end impracticable. They could I:107, therefore, re turn to the original poor law. He agreed that out-door relief should be strictly regulated. They should give the people security for the rewards of labour. - They should regulate the law of landlord sad tenant. The people thetewould have an interest in obtaining employ / mean anti, engaged in indutotial occupations, they would find happiaeen It was impassible ho could support these resolutions. Mr. POULETT SCROPE said the question was, • how could the poor be most effectually relieved— whether only in the workhouse, or by a combination of • in-door and out-door relief? Now, hew did the law which .prohibited out-door relief work? Men the people died by hundreds and thousands from famine. Under circumstances of pressure it was impossible to withhold out-door rrlief altogether.—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, the question came—could they withhold out-door relief under ordinary circumstances? Ile could name several unions iu which the poor had been starved. In one union they had been fed on turnips for weeks. Dr. itentlyne, in a report to the guardians of the union of Casilebar, dated the 13th May, 1850, stated that in the workhouse, which was calculated to contain 840 persons, no less than 1.428 persons were resident, many of whom we e dying of dysen tery. In one of the wards no lens than 138 persons were placed, allowing not more than two square feet to each person. And what seas the result of Dr. Ronaync's . report to the board of guardians? They passed a resolution not to place his report on the minutes, and soother in which they reduced his salary from 1001. to 701. for doing his duty.—(Hear, hear.) Ile mentioned that as an instance of the manner in which the board of guardians carried out the law; and he con tended that the Right Hon. Gsntleman failed in his duty, as a member of the Poor-law Commission, in not suspending such guardians. That being the condition of the workhouses, he would now inquire whether the re lief afforded was sufficient. The law provided that the due relief should be afforded to all classes of the poor, end especially the infirm poor. But such relief was not given. It would be far better to confine the relief given to the iu-door poor inclusively, than to afford such out , door relief as was given in many instances. Out-door relief had been given chit fly to the infirm poor. And in what shape? It had been confined to food alone. And • of what did that consist? At the utmost, in many cases, of one pound of meal per day, without any allowance for shelter, clothing. fuel, or cooking. And what lead • been the consequence? Why, that many who had been en the receipt of such relief for a your or two had, . through the inclemency of the weather, and the want of attention, died of starvetion.—(Hear ' hear.) And for these he contended the Poor-l a w Commissioners were responsible.—(Hear, hear.) The poor-law was intended to provide sufficient relief, end . also to he applied in such a manner as to improve the re resources of the country. But he contended that it had been so applied as to injure and detract from the re sources of the country—for instance, of adopting • the sell-supporting system, and of introducing employment among the able-bodied; they had acted upon the elee mosynary system of fteding the people, without enabling them to support themselves. If a correct system had been acted upon, more than half those who were now re ceiving relief wouli hare been able to support themselves, and the infirm poor would have been a much less burden upon the country. In the year 1830 he stated—" The curse of Ireland is a general want of employment for its inhabitants, and any poor-law that provides relief without finding productive work will be not only useless, but ruinously injurious to the country." And this asser tion had - been fully proved by the factt. Deaths were now occurring in great numbers in some of the anions, from the insufficiency of the relief afforded. In proof of this assertion he referred to a letter written by a Catholic priest in the Ennistimon Union, in the county of Clare, in which union inquests had been held, and verdicts returned of " Death by starvation." The writer of the letter stated that in consequence of being refused relief thousands of persons had been com pelled to subsist on weeds, a specimen of which he begged to hand to the Right Hon. Gentleman—(the Lieu. Mem ber having handed the specimen to the Secretary fortlree land)s—saiti that that was the rehetahle accon he believed it was called wild mustard, which had formed the miser able food of these people. lie had received similar stare meats from other quarters. Although he thought that the poor-law had been unwisely administered, and though relief hurl, been refused is so many cases, and had been iasuflicient in others, yet he could not agree to the resolutions of his Hon. Friend, for that would be to go Lack to the time when there was no poor-davv.—(No, tat.) At all events, it would be ts go back to the time when the poor-law was altogether insufficient for the re lief oi l the poor. Unless out-of-door relief was to be given when the in-door accommodation was insufficient, they would have only the shadow of a poor-law. Sir L. O'BRIEN said that the Hon. Member had g i ven them a very f a i r s p ec i men o f the stor i es that were every day told of, the working of the poo l - law in Ire land, but which were altogether mi s r e pr es entations. The H en , Member bad talk e d o f 136 persons b e i ng crowded into aspace of only two feet square for each person, Supposing that the Hon. Member meant cubic tans, he would ask the louse if. it . was possible for any one to ibelieve such ti c ?-i statemente assertion ?—( gear .) r.) of t The he nOn Member had also referrearteortuti°h gof that o r medi cal officer of He thought • that gentleman, , kno o w n i e n Such,things were going on, ought to have gone to the board a ;4 e guardians, er , as h e had the power, attended to th e was misrepresentations such as the:eat3 e that s f m e a s e t e l fd Ihlet beneficial working out of the poor-1 tr, and inflicted ht hardship on the poor themselves.—(Hear), A t rr e the system was entai lin g r u i n . on all classes. He s lad seen well-dressed perso ns co me for• relief, and he believed that others had actually hi red rag, wherewith to clothe t hemselves, that they , . might if e thought fit subjects for relief.—(Hear, hear.) T here were unions in Ireland, in which the rates and taxes amounted to 21s. 6d. in the pound. In the union, of lientuck a farm of the value of N.. an acre was taxed 255. an acre.—(Hear, hear.) How was it possible fir studs a state of things to go on? If the Hon: Member for Stroud would turn his thoughts to the actual value working of the poor-law he might produce some benefit, but no advantage could result from his attempts, day by ti day, to se t one class of the people of eland against another. • Mr. O'FLAHERTY agreed to a certain extent in the resolutions, but he thought that there were CaSOS where out-door relief she 44t1 be gagged, and be could not con- M to its abolitittan • . ' he Ho geeus thee divideB,, Wheit there appeafei— .or tesoladous - - ••• Against ... * • 93 . • MIRO G A IV anxious 2 5 • oQuirr \ opc . The name of Ai r . Ge te nhtt eg ' s C - faille% which was t o consist of hi 1 7 7 - Mr. HAMILTON _gave notao e • .rs•to tum that the name of Mr. P. W ood t shoold move be444ed. RAILWAYS ABANDONMENT BILL. On the report being brought up,- The SOLICITOR-GENERAL • RrepoSed to add two elan: es to this Bill, which would haye the effect of ex tending the winding-up provisions have, Scotland The Hon. and L earne d G ent l eman sa i l he pro as d • P .to have the Eli printed with the amendmente. _ "Mr. LOCKE said he hoped the:Bill would not be p ierwat dat th at h our, as the B i ll contained sevetraeels" i s portant clauses to w hi c h h e s h ou ld F ee l i t to be his t" duty to ride objections. Mr. SCULLY hoped the deba' , . would . not 'be 'su iered to vo on. The SOLICITOR -GENERAL said ho did not intend" to take the discussion then. He would have the'M B' aid acne edme:its pc_irGekt.to,., t. ether, .• the purpose cif the whole 1.1/63oUre hemg mg y thicudz, when tbey_liJr/.ld, be considered at the third reaMtk. _ Mr. LOCKE! said,' so !On ' • g a 3 no prejucace was sus tained by lien. Members who had amendments to move, be bad no objection to this course. - The report wai then received and agreed to. Mr. SCULLY wished to know whether at a future stage he might be permitted to add a clause giving the power of voting to a class of persons concerned in pro jected railways likely to be wound up, which were shut out by the present Bill? Tho class of persons he re ferred to were those who had not paid the last call, and who would be put in a worse situation by 'the pro posed measure than that in which they were now placed. They ought to have a power, in case of need, to refer the cases of these persons to the consideration of the Railway Commissioners. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the subject had already been carefully considered, and he could hold out no hopes of extending that privilege to the class of per sons referred to, which the Hou. and Learned Member wished to have embodied in the measure. After some discussion, the third reading of the Bill was understood to be fixed for Friday next. ENGLISH AND IRISH UNIVERSITIES BILL. The adjourned debate on the above Bill was post poned. TENEMENTS RECOVERY (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. FREWEN moved the second re iding cf this Bill. It only consisted of one clause, the object of which was to extend an English Act of Parliament to Ireland, which in_this country operated extremely well. _ _ Mr. P. SCROPE considered that the Bill would have the effect, and was, in fact, intended to facilitate and ren der more easy the process of evictions in Ireland. lie thoug e ht these were going on fast enough, without any additionql facilities being required for carrying them out. He would therefore move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. They had heard the other night of 600 ejoetments obtained at one quarter sessions against tenants on one single estate, and cer tainly that was going fast enough. Mr. O'FLAHEBTY said the obtainment of those evictions was not the act of an Irieh proprietor, but clan insurance company in Lcmdon.- . —(Llear, hear.) He did not, however, think that the present was a time for pass ing such a measure, and he would support the am* ndment. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for IRELAND also supported the amendment. There was already a court in Ireland—the Assistant-Barristers' Court—whereby evictions from small tenements could be obtained at very little expense. That he conceived was a tar better tri bunal than would be established under this Bill, and at the present time it would. be very improper to give the power to the magistrate at petty sessions to grant those evictions as proposed by this Bill. He would, therefore; suggest that the Hon. Member should not press the se cond reading of this Bill. Mr. G. HA MILTON said there was a great difficulty in ej , ciing tenants from the description of property the Bill referred to. Bufore proceeding in the As6istant-Bar riswr' Court it was'necessary to give twelve months' nod"; and cerzainly that was not giving much facility to evicting that description of tenant, holding from year b year. . . . . Mr. MONSELL said that might be the case with very small tenants, but it was not so in respect of the tenantry in general. This Bill would, however, deal with a large proportion of the tenantry of Ireland, and therefore he did not think the powers it conferred on the magistrates were such as ought to be conceded to them. Col. DUNNE-supported the Bill. He would not bind himself to all the details of it, but something of the kind %visa' necessary, and therefore he would support the se cond .readin7. Lord NAAS thought the amount of rent (201.) which was to be place:Lender the jurisdiction of the magistrates, in order to grant cjctment from such holdings, was too high, and he would suggest that the Bill at all events should not be proceeded with that evening. Mr. ROCIIE said as the majority of Irish Members had spoken a , ' einst the Bill he hoped that it would not be pressed. .But, at all events, if it was so, ho should give it all the opposition in his power. Mr. GROGAN supported the Bill, and Mr. SADLIER opposed it, as there wai nothing in it wiieh would hive the effect of improving the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland, which was a disgrace to the Legislature of ihis,country. Mr. ST. GEORGE considered that the fact of one year's n-nt being due by a tenant should be held sufficient cause for eviction; and were that bold to be the case it would save a great deal or expense. Mr. NAPIER hoped the Bill would not be pressed, as if so he must rote against it. The Bill was then withdrawn. THE PROCESS AND PRACTICE _(IRELAND) ACT AMENDMENT BILL: This Bill went into Committee. Mr. SADLIER considered that the Solicitor-Genc ral should look to the case of persons subjected to severe losses by this Bill, and should therefore oppose it. The Commioce then divided upon clause 2, when there appeared— For tie amendment Against it ... Majority The clause was then carried. Mr. NAPIER objected to the third Glance, on the ground that much injury would be inflicted on the people of Ireland, and that it was quite antagonistic to the profession to which he belonged, and also to the constitution, that such a clause should be allowed to pass in an English louse of Parliament, and therefore should say that it was the duty of the Government to re move the injustice under which the people of Ireland laboured. Aft , 'r some further discussion clause 3 was agreed to. Tho House then resumed, and the Bill was reported, read a third time, ind passed. The House adjiurne , t at Half-past One. ••• •• ... 39 ••• -24 THE SUN, LONDON, NAVAL 1 NTELLI6-ENCE. LISBON, May 28.—tier Majesty's steam-frigate the Dragon, Captain W. H. Hall, arrived here on the 23d instant from Malta, where she left Admiral Sir William Parker's squadron at anchor on the 13th. On Saturday, the 25th instant, the Dragon was to have sailed with dispatches and a mail for England, which were, however, transferred to the Odin steamer, the Hon. Captain Pelhsm. and she sailed for England that afternoon. The Dragon also sailed at the same time for Gibraltar, for provisions and stores for the Lisbon squadron, and, to the surprise of every person, returned to that port on the morning of the 28th luadfd with the required stores. We hear that thp: Dragon arrived at Gibraltar on Monday morning, the' 27th, immediately landed her shells, empty casks, &c., uompletei her own coals, water, and provisions; and afterwards the same day took on board for the use of Commodore Martin's squadron 1,800 bags of bread, 200 casks of rum. hnd other provisions, left, &c., Gibraltar at ten o'clock in the evening, and again arrived in the Tagus, and joined Commodore Martin on the morning of the 28th, having been absent only from the Tagus a little more than three days. This proves satisfactorily the value of Gibraltar as a ge neral depot for naval stores and provisions; and it also shows what can be done by steam when directed and controlled by activity and zeal. We hear that when the Dragon left Gibraltar, the Howe and Vengeance were reported by a steamer, arrived there, to be about 200 miles eastward of the ruck. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Fairy Royal yacht, Master Commander D. N. Welch, embarked her Royal Highness the. Duchess of Kent and suite at the Clarence yard, Gosport, this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, and conveyed them to Osborne, to visit hor Majesty. Her Royal High ness:was recuived with the usual demonstrations of re sp•Atc by the dignitaries of the pert and a guard of honour of the Royal Marines. The Ajax steainbleck ship, Captain Quin, averaged a speed at the measured mile yesterday of 6.545 knots; her draught of water was 21fc. 7in. forward and 23ft. a't. It was considered she would have obtained more speed had she been supplied with sufficient stokers to keep her steam up. The whole of her pro visions and stores were on board, except powder and shells, but she had heavy moorings and anch ors on board for Cork. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain the Right Hon. Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence, G.C.H.,lwill be ready to make her trip to Gibraltar on the 12th inst. The Asp, steam-surveying vessel, Second Master. Commander M'Farlane, tailed this afternoon for the river Dee. The Flamer steam-vessel has been removed from the dock to the basin, to be fitted out. APPOINTMENTS. to the Albion, 90, at Devonport. wooLwica, JUNE 4.—Chaplain H. W. Steel ( 1 8 42 ), Dolphin, 3, at Sheerness. Aseista3t-Surgeon• George I. Willes (1844), to the the N A av l a b l io l n n . structor Frederick H. Needham ( 1841 ), to shipof ordinary, lerk-Niilliam at D Ell e i v o o t, np t o o rt. the Agincourt, 72, depot Cl'erk's Assistant T. G. Kemp, to the Agincourt. The Right Hon. Si r F ranc i s T. B ar i ng , B a rt., held a levee at the Admiralty, Whitehall, to-day, and it was attended by the following officers:— , Rear. Admiral Hon. Sir Fleetwood renew, C. 8., K.C.H. Captains SaMuel Thornton (1827), George B. Martin (1828), Edward H. Scott (1838), Woodford J. Williams (fir 1841), Dighy Marsh (1842), William A. Willis (1844), George Graham Otway, Bart. (1846), and Arthur Farquhar (1849). CommAdera Thomas Greene (1833), Joseph M. Mott ley (1843), John Lunn (1844), Edward Collier (1845), (1846); Willi am G. Maude (b, 1846), Reginald eg F. inaßuridjo.e J. G. Macdonald (1848), and G. Hancock (1849). Lieutenants W. R. Davis (1815), R. D. Stu art (1840), Thomas llodgkinson (1841), and Hon. Oliver W. M. Lam hart (1844). Surgeons Gilbert King, M.D., inspector of hospitals; William Gunn, M.D. , oftlieNav p al oc l k lo y s ar pi d t a; l a ; n J a oh j n os A ep n h - Wilson. (b), Sheerness ONON ER'S INQUEST. - - Yesterday Mr. Lord Hill, North- It AL whharf inkliyl held an inquest at the eighteen road, Paddington , on the body of a child about ei f months old, which wa s so horribly mutilated that its could not be discovered. It appeared that on the 29th of aefoher, 18 48, a de al box, about fourteen inches square, and ten-and-a-half deep , . sewn up in a piece of canvass, and which bad the direction on it, " Mrs. Watson, passenger, Exeter, Devon," was found on the platform of the Slough station by one of the porters. As no one applied for it, after a few weeks it was brought up to London and placed in the lost property department. It was there till Saturday last, the la of.june, that being the annual day when lost property is,examined. Mr. Bailey, the superintendent of that de partment, opened the box, and then discovered the body of the deceased - , which was carefully folded up in a piece of calico. It had all the Appearance of a mummy, having been evidently pressed down in the box. A cambric handkerchief were entirely 414t1y round its throat. . The sexual structure was , y removed, as if by same Sharp instrument. There et I L l t , tout the a.-ins nod legs, showi,,g that there had , berr y, late its to sever the limbs from the !icily. Mr. Col- ' . 4 superintendent of police, and Mr. Seymour, manager petratsr of th 3' e. '- tc; the 'ati " Wilful murder hare' been arts nip ant tir discover the per m murder, but without effect. A verdict of was returned. against some person or persons unknown" ilt,;Frfj; C4 / 111 . t Ofi , SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes afzer Twelve o'clock in the new House. The attendance was not so large as on last Thursday, and as the novelty of.sitting is the new chamber had in some degree passed away, the Members appoired quite as much at ease as in the old House. Oa Thursday such a continual buzz of conversation was kept up that it was only with difficulty Members could be heard, but as more order prevailed to-day the capacity of the Hou,e for transmitting sound was more fairly tested, and we are gratified in stating that in this respect the fears which we at first entertained have in some degree sulmided. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Liverpool Corporation Waterworks (Extension of Time for Purchase of Land, Fie.) Bill was read a third time and passed. The Edinburgh Slaughter Houses Removal Bill as amended was agreed PETITIONS. Mr. FREWEN presented a petition in favour of 32ctl a.r education. _ _ _ Mr. YORKE presented a petition from the Isle of Ely, signed by 1,000 persons engaged in agricultural pursuits, complaining of the depressed state of agricul ture, dnd praying for relief. Mr. WYLD presented a petition from Bermondsey against the Metropolitan Internients Bill. Mr. MONCKTON MILNES presented a petition from Wakefield in favour of the enfranchisement of copyhold tenements ; also, a petition praying for a re peal of the react-tax. Mr. BAKES presented a petition from clergymen in Dorset against the admission of Jews into Parliament. Mr. FORSTER presented a petition in favour of the appointment of Government auditors for savings' banks. Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from Man chester preying that an address might be presented to her Zilojefty for the purpose of obtairdtsg more correct returns of the statistics of education in the differet.t cot to ties of the kingdom. SUPERANNUATION FUND FOR POOR-LAW IVIADNESD AY EVENING, JUNE principle were true, there was no reason why they should net extend it to the agricultural district. If there was such a superfluity of education in different parts of the country, it could not be supposed that the ratepayers would come together and lay a rate upon themselves to establish schools which were totally un necessary. He was ready to admit that much valuable and disinterested aid to educatiOn had been rendered by Churchmen as well as Dissenters, and he thought it wtis useless and beside the question to enter into a controversy as to who was first in the field in the cause of education.—(Hear, he=ar.) Ti=e Bill was ob jected to because it made no provision for religious in structi r, but it did not render that instruction less than at present, and it should be remembered that this coml• try spent twice as much as any other in the world to promote - the religicus ecluetition e f the people. According to the present system religious instruction was given et a separate and distinct period from secular education, and he ears no reason why the two should ba pursued at different times. What he wanted was, that the poor should have within their reach a bona fide system of secular educa tion, such as the middle classes now had; and if they had, he believed that, instead of doing away with religious teaching and moral traning, they would be pieced at least in a much better situation than at present, when there was neither religious nor secular education.—(Hear.) He could not understand the prin ciple that because they could net teach everything they should torch nothing. If the people had secular education, no doubt the zeal of the Church arid of miuiste ra of different denomieations would take care of their religious instruction. He never heard it was the duty ( f the Church to give secular instruction. It might be the duty of the Chinch to teach revealed religion, hut he denied that it was her province to give secular instruction. If it were her duty to give secular instruction, what a lamentable reproach it was to her that so many hundreds of adult persons ap peared at her altar who could neither read nor write. Mr. NA PIER had endeavoured 0 understand the principle of this Bill, which was, as he understood it, that it was the duty of the State to provide an education itw h w ic e h ald b compelled eha rd thehardly said i(l that exclusion it voifa as a religion religious obligation to exclude religion.—(Hear, hear.) It was enough, ll He thought he thought, to state the proposition to ensure its refutation. He would contend that a man was no more excused in starving his soul than his mind.— (Hear, hear.) lie would aver, whatever difference s might exist, that it had been the religious duty of the State is provide religion to the people. This Bill em bodied a principle antagonistic to the principle on which we had hitherto acted in this country, seeing that we lied made religion the basis of the education of our people. Ile me:ceded we could not serve two masters; we might choose between them, but we could not servo tl cm both at the same time ; and we were called upon to choose between a mere secular education end an education base l upon religion. He wanted to extend the blessings of education, but it was that impossible they) t a b , a c a c l e v d a e y t s o a th ci e tn ß o e b d e i e r d e the that House,Christianity se shoteld be the basis of education, and that the Bill made Christianity only to be taught casually nod not neces sarily. He asked who were the parties who called upon the House to pasts We measure? Only a small section of the community, who held somewhat lax reaiens ie:pecting education. He contended that with respect to education the State stood in the redetion of loco parentii to the child of parents who were unable to provide him with a suitable education. The authority of a parent was derived from God. and that authority was not e power but a trust. Instead ci making religion the necessary basis cf education, this Bill made it a mere castial consideration. Ile contended that the Bible would not necessarily be taught in the schools under this Bill. The great glory of the Reformation was that it opened the Word ef God to every man, and it ha 1 made this country great, happy, nod free.—(llear, hear.) He submitted that it education was important with regard to the train ing of the whole man in his public duties and relations, and in the moral principles of private life, the merely extending the intellect, without giving it any principle to purify the affections and the heart, would go a very short way indeed to accomplish those ends. A distinguished man had said that the strength of the country was in the depth and purity of this religious feeling, and should they by such a Bill as this be called upon to lower that standard? He would conclude his remarks by hoping that the result of the division would be to establish still stronger in this country religion and piety. Mr. FOX rose to reply. He said that throughout the whole of this debate he had heard nothing which touched upon the precise effects which he hoped to ac complish by his Bill. He had been incited to bring lee ward this measure by the acknowledged and demon strated necessity that something should be done in this direction. He had no wish to demolish existing systems in order to reconstruct; but the cause of the great de ficiency he bad certainly assigned to the spirit of religious proselytism which had been too much mixed up with education. There was no want of proofs of the alarming deficiency in education. But one of the most alarming features in these proofs was that for the lastdozen years, which were years of magnificent exertion in the cause of education, if they looked at the records of clime they would find that the number of criminals who had received what indeed was called education, had increased to an alarming extent. What was the position of those great societies to whom the cause of education had been cerrenitted? All at war with ea eh other—the main springs of action in themselves broken by dissension. It had been assumed that if religion were not made a Fait of school teaching they were warranted in saying that religion was totally excluded. He denied that assumption altogether. Ile thought it was an im. pious assumption, that man could be led away from re -I;gion by a secular education. In such a country us this, weere religion was so closely interwoven with all the feelings of the people, such a result was impossible. It religion was to be a part and parcel of education, of course it must be the true religion, and who was to decide what. was the true religion ? Was it a majority of that House, or of the country ? Had they learnt their own religion so badly as to have forgotten to respect liberty of conscience ? Under the existing system the salaries paid to school masters were beggarly in the extreme. This was proved in some measure by the advertisements that are con stantly appearing in the daily prints, where it was not urfrequently announced that schoolmas ters and their wives were required for different parishes at salaries varying from 401. to 50/ per annum —(Hear, hear) Why, in'Americe, a young woman who had charge of an infant school received 70/. a year.—(Hear, hear.) Nor was the poverty of the salary all. The schoolmaster was often degraded and insulted by the manner in which the salary was paid. It nut unfrequently happened that the school master had to collect his own , remuneration from the subscribers to his school, while, by an order which had recently been issued by the National Society, he could be dismissed from his situation at a weelea no.. t co.—(llear, hear.) No wonder, then, that men of energy and talent treated the office of schoolmaster wilh con tempt, and lola their schools in disgust whenever they tl tt i r ) le b g i e a s regard d p a oa l t a rr o r ao i t t u c e h s r had an opportunity of bettering their condition, or tind• nti assured .w a — r c o dl ( u i would a ah b e r d, e s : House that the danger was education, d l e g ua cra)t dangerouso more`nv, a number of authorities in support of his opinion. He apprehended the separation of secular front religious instruction was is every way necessary in order to pro duce the whole amount of benefit., lie wanted to see au education which would not send children into the world unacquainted with the simplest objects, unacquainted with the number of ounces in a pound, with -the number of feet in a furlong, with the names of the month, unac quainted even with the name of the reigning sovereign, ignorant of the very elements of industry and art, without anything to guard them from becoming the prey of the demagogue or the fanatic, and ignorant of everything which affected the rise and fall a wages, and of what legislation could do or could not do in con nexion with their interests.—(Hear, hear.) The feeling of 'the working classes on this subject was strong. He knew that the genuineness of the report he had read to the House from a society of working men on a formier occasion had been questioned, but no reason had been given to impugn its genuineness. That report came from working men, and had not those working men spoken out on the subject at larger and more inte resting meetings that had been held since the more stirring political agitations had taken place. Again, he would call on the House to look at what those men were doing for the education of themselves and the sacrifices they made, • and at the schools which had been insti tuted at their instance in this metropolis. To those schools the working people paid and were content to pay. What was the fact as to the Prus sian schools? There was no absence of religion there, and religion was intermingled with the teaching. If there was an absence of religion, there was the presence of a larger amount of secular instruction. The Hon. Member proceeded,. amidst much impatience, and cries of " Oh," to advert to the system of education in the United States, which he said had been the means of diminishing crime to a very great extent. He did not mean to say that education would entirely counteract the fearful amount of ignorance, vice, crime, and misery watch ex; eel in this country, but education was an essOtial indition ' and would greatly tend to diminish those a ":". With it they would give the Sovereign the fairest chance of having an enlightened people, augment the glory of the nation, and give to the great masses that instruction p,hiois Brit humanised them and then Christianised thins. Mr. HUME rose tq support the motion, but having spoken at the former debate he was called to order by the Speaker. Mr. MUNTZ said, as he had been brought up in the faith of the Cnurch of tigland, he should have no ob jection to that Church 0 0 1 1 4.,0 g the education of the people, if he thought she cqt) sibly do so, but having many years' acquaintance f ,— the working classes, he considered that a syste -, . of education on such a plan would not be at all feasible. The working classes were decidedly opposed to the Church having the control , or superintendence of their education. The question was, whether it would be best to let the children of the poorer classes go alto gether without instruction, or wiotber they should have the advantage of a systeea of secular education, such as that proposed by the Hon. Member. He had employed a great number of men during his lifetime, and without fear of contradiction he would say that there was no comparison between the properly educated and those who were not edueetvd—the former were open to reason and much More easily managed. While he did not agree with some lion. M e mb ers t h at my m i see we t ted top to crone. 4:1,( t ;:I,,fe of e‘eiiic;3ti...ii n,c 43 .5,,,re1,.-aii I whether the present Dill was passed or aot, he hoped the Government would tike the subject into their serious consideration, with the view of giving the people every opportunity of improving themselves. 5, 1850.- The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading ... 58 k;ainEt it ... 287 Mtjority ... ... ... —229 The all was accordingly thrown out. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL. Sir J. DUCKWORTH moved that this Bill be corn miVed pro forma, for the purpoLe of introducing certain sawnclment-'. Sir G. PECHELL objected to their going into Com mine at all at that late hour. Mr. IiUME said the measure was one of national im portance, and he should therefore be glad to know if Government intend( d to support or oppose it. Sir G. GREY said so fdr as the general object of the Bill went he perfectly concurred with it, but there were clauses in it that were highly objectionable ; and it would, therefore, be his duty to move amendments when they got Into Committee.—(Hear, hear.) The simple object of the Bill was to repeal an old statute, and to make more effectual provisions for ascertaining the accuracy of weight; and measures.—(Hear, bear.) The Bill then went through Committee pro forma, and the House having resumed, the Bill was ordered to be printed; THE COPYHOLDS ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL. At the iustaLce of Mr. AGLIONBY, the second reading of this Bill was postponed until Friday night. ,The remaining orders of the day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at &x o'clock. NEWTON RACES. (THIS DAY.)" The Golborne Stakes. Sister to Wanola Black DJctor The Gold Cup. Duxbury ... ... ... Cla4mpion ... ... Lady Ilylcia ... ... . • ETON COLLEGE. Yesterday, the 4th cf June, was celebrated at Eton with more, than customary gaiety and splendour. Throughout the day the nobility and gentry, chic fly old Etonaris, with their families, were continually arriving from all parts of the kingdom, in oreer to be present at this time-honoured festival. At the accustomed time—shortly before seven o'clock —the regatta boats, being manned by their respective crews, dress° 1 in elegant and appropria• e costume, started from the Brocas for Surley Hall in the following order:— Monarch, 10 oar—Rohertson (captain of the boLts); Niud, Molesworth, Herbert, Coltman, Graham, Miles, Harford, Peyton, Welbr. Nevill, steerer. Victory—BlundeP, Powys, Harrison, Malcolm, Swan, Praed, Pemberton, Gore Booth. Lambton, mi., stcerer. Prince of Wales—Marshall (captain); Johnstone, Thompson, Snow, Watson, Warre, Barton, Arbizthnet. Fremantle, steerer. Britaania—Fiennes (captain of lower boats); Far quharson, Irvine, Mytton, Fletcher, Legge, Giles, Trc- I usis. Byng,steerer. Dreadriotight—Meade Piing (captain); Johnson, Clive, Piodey, me., ntrobus, Peach, Barton, Sheffield. Thompsen, Streret.. T (eriptain); Egerton, Prodgett Harding, Sparke, Lonsda!e, N ugent, Hennes. G vvynne Hulrotd, steerer. S. George-- . -. Clayton (captain) ; Pilcher, Viviafl, Tyssen; I 'yndht4n;' , Mynors, Chapman, Todd. Arbuth no►, s;eercr: • A fter doing ample justice to a sumptuous repaqt,which was Fpread out on - tables by the banks of the Thames, and drinking the accustomed loyal and also several standard college toasts, the Etonians again manned their boats a®d returned to Windsor. At nine o'clock a grand disp'ay of fireworks was dis charged from the Eyot, whilst the crews exhibited their ada irable dexterity in rowing before the numerous spectators who crowded the wharfs and every available The Rev. Dr. liawtrey, bead master cf the college, gave a grand banquet in the Upper School to upwards of 230 of the nobility and gentry. The Rev. Dr. Okes, Rev. E. Coleridge, Rev. Lux more, Rev. J. G. Cookesley, and other members of the college, alto entertained large and distinguished parties at their respective residences in the colic ;e. STATE OF TRADE (From the Manchester Gum dian of this day.) MA: CUESTER, TUESDAY.—Thelerge aggregate amount of last week's business in 'yarns, nod the remarkable lightness of the stocks anywhere to be found, have given extreme 'firmness to the market, at the advanced rates cf Saturday, and, in some articles, a tendency to rise even a li tt l e higher. The- prices that have been paid to day for most eescriptions may be broadly stated at to id. above those of Tuesday last. The purchases have, in consequence. been of smaller extent than they were thee, both the merchants and the home con sumers naturally showing some hesitation about com plying' with the requirements of -the spinners, who, however, are more indifferent as tie orders than as to pricee. In goods the transactions have been limited, es cienpared with those of this day week, by the prices upon which manufacturers rake their stand with entire firmness; holding, as they do, but little stock in the duller fabrics, and none at all in those for which there is a demand. It remains to be seen what effect the commercial accounts from India will have upon our market; the merchants not having yet had tune to consider them. We conceive that they are, on the whole, pretty much what they were expected to be, and therefore are net likely, in any material degree, to influence the general state of thine's, one way or other. At Bombay there was an improved demand for the finer quititiee of grey fabrics, the stocks of which appear to he greatly reduced. In other staples, however, particularly 40-inch shirtings below a 56 reed, the stocks were in ex cess, having he ea much increase I by very re cent arrivals. The market was in a favourable state. for mule yarns of all counts except 20's. Of 20's water the accumulations were rather large, but somewhat reduced in No. 30's, while 40's were scarce in request. At Calcutta the operations in piece goods had been on an unusually limited scale, arid prices betrayed an inclination to give way. The value of 40-inch shirtings appears, however, to have been fairly maintained. In yarns prices had been on the whole well supported, and the market seemed healthy, although sales had fallen off. The advices from the United States do not appear to have exercised any sensible influence upon our Exchange. The reports of extensive injury done to the growing crop of cotton by cold weather in some districts, and by inundations in others, are still received with caution, as more or less exaggerated ; whilst against them ate placed the known fact that a considarabiy increased extent of land is ap propriated to this plant. But there continues to be the same general expectation, as before, that prices will re main high for some weeks at least. There is nothing here, therefore, ti weaken the general confidence in the prices of yarns and goods. ROCHDALE, MONDAY,--Thero has been a fair average market to-day in flannels, and prices have been much the same as last week's. In the wool market there is no change to report, either in price or demand. MACCLESFIELD, .TUESDAY.—We have to report a ra ther improved business doing in manufactured goods, several nuyers having lately paid us a visit, and al though they have purchased sparingly, it is certain that much more would kayo found sale, had the manu facturers be en able to accept tae prices offered ; but owing to the raw silk market having assumed a decideely firmer tone, with advances on some descriptions, amongst which we may mention Italians and first class Chinas, this could not consistently be done. In throwns a better feeling exists, with more business doing. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY. —We have this week to report a flatter market than last, both ,in the hail and warehouses. It is generally expected at this time of the year in consequence of its being between the seasons. In about a mouth the manufacturers expect to be brisk again for the winter markets. The wool market is de pressed. The weather continues fine and propitious for the season. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—AIthough there was not a very large amount of business done in the Piece-hull tc-day. yet ,here is a good steady trade, chiefly in fancygoods, carried on to order in the warehouse?, both for the home and the foreign markets, and the quotations continue Arm. The demand for yarn is .unniminished, and the rates IN main without alteration.. There is a little more inquiry for long wool, with an increasing confidence that prices will not i ecede. Short wool is also in better de mand, and the spinners are asking a small advance. OFFICERS. Captain FITZROY wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce this set sinn a Bill to provide a superannuation fund for poor-law officers. Mr. BAINES said the subject was one on which a gieat number of petitions bad been presented to the House in the course of the present session, and ho was anxious to take. that opportunity of stating what the Poor-law Beard had; done with respect to it. It, had appeared to him that the only principle which was likely to receive the sanctiln of the House vra-, that of forming a fund from deductions out of the salaries of the pour-law officers themselves, without resorting to the poor-rates or any other public tend, end, in order that no missrprehension *hould exist on that point, he ha .•1 ordered the draft of a Bill to be prepared, and had cir culated copies of it, among all the poor-low officers in the country, and although the Bill was approved by many there .rare a considerable number of dissentients, and net wishing to proceed on the principle of compul sory deductions of their salarit s against the opinion of the , majority, or without their general con currence, it appeared to him that the only re.talt he could arrive at after the pains he Lad taken to ase. , rtain the most expedient course to be pursued was not to proceed with the Bill; -therefore, in answer to the Hon. Gentle• man, he had to state that it was not the intention of the Poor-law Bt and to submit any measure on the subjtct to Par!iament this session. SPEAKING FROM ITI r, GALLERY IN THE NEW HOUSE. Mr. BANKES wished to put a question with ri fzrence to the construction of the new House. Oa the occasion when they last met there tin Hon. Member addressed toe hose from the gallery, and he wished to know whether it was in c.informity with the rules of the House to do so, as the gallery was *hoisted behind the bar? OPEAKER replied that, though the gallery was behiud th,i bar, it was within the House, and a Member had toererore a right to speak from it. EDUCA s lON BILL. Oa the question for resuming the adjourned debate on the second reeding of this Bill, Mr. C. ANSTEY, on behalf of the population of the United Kingdom, thanked the Hon. Umber for ad ham for having introduced the Bill, %and expressed his deep regret that a man like the Noble Lord the Mem ber for Arundehshould have fet himself called upon to oppose the liberal design which the promoter of tht measure contemplate 1, namely, conferring the blessings of education upon the great mass of the people .—(tlver, hear.) Whatever might he raid of the measure, or the motives of those who had brought it forward, it was the duty of all parties to discuss the Bill in a calm and dis passionate spirit.—(llear, hear.) It had been said that the great question at issue was between Christianity and Atheism between hzaven and hell, but he fa one did not accept that as a corn et definition of the matter in ci,pute between the promoters of the ' Bill and the supporters of the amendment. If, however, this discussion la ore really tantamount to a struggle be tween heaven and bell, all he ceuld say was that his toe at least would not be on that side which the Noble Lore the Member for Arundel had termed heaven.—(Hear and a laugh.) He had listened with much attention to this debate, in the vain hope of finding out what the objecti, ns to the me mure were. The House would remember that tht speech of the Hon. Member for Oldham, iu introducing the Bill, was at once explanatory of its object and of the machinery by which it was proposed to carry out that object; but the objections urged against the Bill did not seem to him to be quite so char. An Honourable Member, who represented the peculiar interests of the Established Church, had declared that the only objection he entertained to the Bill related to the dangers which lurked under it, and not to those that were apparent.—Gear, hear.) The Lion. Member was auspicious of evil because none appeared—( A laugh)— but when the second reading came, and the Bid was found to be precisely the same as that which the Hon. Member for Oldham had described in his introduction, then the cry , was raised that Christianity was in danger.—(Hear, hear.) He then fore became naturally anxious , to ascertain what reasons could be urged in favour of-that cry, but when he did ascertain what the objections really were, it seemed to him they were no objections at all.—(A laugh.) It sins said that in France the adoption of the system propounded in this Bill had proved injurious to the State, while other Honourable, Gentlemen who opposed the Bill, said they did so because it was nct in tended to mute education subservient to religion. Now thdse who entertained the latter opinion 'Might to be the strenuous supporters of the principle prevailing in France, for there the education commonly known as the University of France 63 stem, was based entirely on religion.—(Herr, hear.) These then appeared to be the objections to the Bill. On the other hand, what ayes the object of the measure? Why it was to establish a system cf education which made the teaching cf religion its first principle, but denied the right of the State to (hetete to a parent the peculiar religious tenets with which he should i nocu l ate . his child. The .Honourable Member for Oldham had used The term education in its popular and vulgar sense, as' synonymous with instruction, but, for his pea, he should prefer the Bill better if " secular in struction" were substituted for the •term education, because religious teaching, which some Honourable Members seemed to think was the true definition of the term , education, was not all that was necessary to form the moral and in tellectual character of a child.—(Hear, hear.) The fifth clause enacted that the master and mistress of every free school should allow the children committed to their care sufficient time to receive religious instruction under their parents. • But there was', no provision in the Bill for giving those poor children religious instruction under the ministers of religion; under whose teaching they might desire to be brought up. , Instead of the machinery proposed by this Bill he should have preferred the mode of governing those free schools laid down in the report of the society for the establishment of free schools in Lancaster. ' If the House Meant to separate secular and religious education, they had better not have two sets of teachers, as was proposed by the Hon. Member for Oldham.: It was an infringement Of civil liberty for the State to' educate at all ; and it was even more objection able for the State to teach religion. There were five or six millions ;of your people, waiting• for secular educa tion, and at the same time it was confessed that the vo luntary system, though aided by Parliamentary greets, was totally unable to supply the want, of the population in this respect. The National Society was recognised by the bishops, ,and recognised the bishops too, so that they were convertible terms, and yet that society had con fessed that there were not sufficient means employed for the attainment of their object.' The voluntary principle bad nothing to do with secular education, and must be put out of view altog ether . All denominations concurred religious e the point at issue between the su pp orters and the o pposers dinuedarthioand,ng and it was in that distincti on t h at a distinction between s ecu l ar and of this Bill lay. If they were to throw out the Bill, and in doing so they would adopt the' principles of the op position, they would express their concurrence with the existing state of things, which admitted of no efficient control over public schools. In Scotland alone, there were 100,000 Roman Catholics, refugees from Ireland, who were in need of religious and Secular education, and who could not avail themselves of those schools or churches which were supported by the State. By the returns that .were already before them it would seem that in Liverpool alone there were 250,000 children in want of instruction, but that want could not be sup plied solely because the Educational Board of the Privy Council insisted that all instruction to be given in free schools should consist entirely of religious teaching. He concurred in the principles of the Church of Scot land, but he differed with them in the mode by which they proposed to carry them out. The machinery by which the principles would be put in opera tion would have the effect of making the Church of Scotland the be-ell of education, an evil which the plan contained in this Bill would avoid. He supported the principle of the Bill most heartily, but let it not be understood that in making this statement, he pledged himself to all its details.—(llear, hear.) Mr. H. DRUMMOND thought the speech of the 'Hon. Member for o!dhem in introducing this Bill had been received semewhat harshly on both sides of the House, for certalely if there was a question upon which Honoarable Members epeeaae I to be more unani mode than :Another, it wr,:s th7t the S'Att , ought to undertake the education of ehe - prople.-7(Bear, hear.) Now, when this subject was last befoee the 'House be ventured to remark that the e was a sad confusion pre vailing in the minds of Hon. Umbers as to the mean- ing of the words education and instruction. It was indeed remarkable that even the Honour able and Learned Member for Sheffiel,l, who was g' n rally pretty correct in his appli cation of terms, the other evening used the words education and instruction in one and the seine sense.— (Hear, hew.) It seemed, however, that in dealing with this question all agreed upon the substantive, but dis agie ed about the adjective.—(Hear, and a laugh.) All were for education of same sort, but some want secular—some biblical--some religious—some scriptural—in fact, all sorts of education, but still state education they would have.—(Hear, hear.) Now he held that state education was an impossibility.—(Cheese) No two things could be more distinct or unlike each other than education and instruction. — (Hear, hear.) Instruction was putting something into a person, education was drawing something out of him.—(A laugh) Instruction and education was divided into two classes, scientific and historical; now the necessary tendency of scientific education e. as to make sceptics.—(A laugh.) In science nothing wee taken for certain: the anatomist, in lecturing to his pupils upon tendons, joints, and sinehs, invariably told them that they must take nothing upon trust, and so it was with every other science; but in historical researches the case was different. — (Hear.) There you must trust entirely to the asser tions of others. It was too late to raise the question whether or no Hannibal ever lived; they must eb peed for that not upon experiment, but upon the assertion cf others.--(hear, hoar.) No new discoveries could be made in history, it could only le modified.— (Hear.) But education was a mater wholly different.—(llear.) It was taid in a blue book on the subject, that " the preponderance cf more intellect, unaccompanied with a corre,ponding amount of liveliness of the moral affec tions, would ever tend to boldness in religious rnittere, and ultimaeely to something worse still." Learning, was after all not an unmixed good. By lean ing, they inducel a boy's irritability, they in creased his tense of suffering, e geut they gave him no increased means of happiness.— (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) Nor did they elevate his morals, for there was no connexion whatever between intellec tual power and moral elevation. But education was a thing wholly different. Education was that which was carried on by the drawing forth of that a hich was good, and the non-lrawing forth of that which was evil. It was a work which could be carried on only by the parents when the children were young, for it was not sufficient merely to tell people What they ought to do, and what they should Rot do; they must have the power of the Church to convey the power to do that which was right; and they were day by nay disturbing that Church, and endeavour - ing to substitute the system of universal instruction in lieu of theperformance of moral and relic taus duty. It was wholly fellacions; it was the love of the mother, and nut the learning of the mother, which educated the infant; and it was the pastorship and the love of the Church, and not its theology or its teaching, that would ever melee religious and moral men.— (Hoer.) Mr. PAGE WOOD had always taken a very deep in terest in this question, as one in which our prosperity and happineas were involved. The Hon. idernher op posite (Mr. - Arista)) had described the National Socha y es bring in a great measure effete. Feeling us he (Mr. P. Weed) did, that religion was the handmaid of edace tiu he would proceed to demonstrate that by argument rather n' than by feeling. He said that elthoueli he was glad the Hon. Member who novel this Bill d some of the erroneous notions abroad on ethic etion. yet et the clone of his speech he read a report cf a society of working men, in which many of these erroneous nu tions were propounded. He (Mr. Pape Wood) knew enough of worki ng men to lerwev that Sat report sans not written by a working man, for the very first sen tence of that document made reference to the "plastic mind." and the neweent judgments" of child ren—(hear, hear.) Now, no working man ever tool language like the'.—(Hear, hear.) Men's minds were variously inform eil; and he doubted if any man had ever been happy enough to see truth wholly un adulterated with errnt; but there were mediums vete eusly coloured through which truth was conveyed. To begin at the:beginning, with the daeleneee. What education was there then seearated from religious ? He, like many other Hon. Members, had a debt of gratitude teeperlorm; he had heti the eclvantege orrkceiving an etincation in the oldest religious founda tion for education in the country. Could any one say ethat - William ,ot Wykehana was opposed to the intelh c ereal develnpinetit '; or that the other schools, such as Eton and Westminster, which were founded on the Eton_ this ; had ever neglected the development elditelleet? The Church had alto fostered throughout all ages the progress Of, intellectual development. In all times, even when there were plenty of philosophers who talked wisely of the destruction of secular and religious instruction, the great advancers of education were the clergy. At the time of the Restoration the most dis tinguished in the cause of education were the me. t distin guished in the Church. Stillinefidet, Tiilotion, nay, he would name even Baxter, for his argument was that the lergy were the most ardent promoters of education, and the Church merely the foremost. The Hon. Memter for Mane! other acid that the Church always came se eond, and he (Mr. Wood) was sorry that there was such en amount of ignorance oven in that place. Why, ' , who were the founders of _the Society for the Promotion cf Christian Knowledge, which had done so much for the advancement of knowledge in • this country ? He denied that the Church bad been backward in estab lishing rchools fof the education of the people. It had been said t! ey had never thought of laming national schools until the Weeleyans and the Dissenters had set the example; but the truth was, that Dr. Bell establi, a school at St. Betolph, Altigate, in 1789, at which time Mr. Lancaster, the celebrated founder of the Lancasterian schools, was only eighteen years of ego. The question was whether the Church had done her duty to the people. If not, he was quite ready to admit that all she had hitherto done went for nothing; but the facts were otherwise. The National Society was first established in 1811, and from that time up to 1838 it had expended 104,000/. to promote the education ef the people, and from 1838, when the voluntary exertions of the society were stimulated by the Government grants, up to 1840, the sum it an nually expended was increased to 183,0001 That te s tem was producing great and valuable results, and, it properly carried out, would complete the education of the people throughout the country. The number of day schools connected with the Church was 'lOB,OOO in 1537, and 170,000 in 1847, and the number of scholars attending them was, in the former period 588,000, and in the latter 955,000, the increase in those few years being 6,200 schools and 400,000 scholars. Facts of that kind ought to guide them more than declamation and fanciful theories. Now, he thought he had established three points—that the education of the people had up to the present time been con ducted on religious principles, that the Church had throughout borne her share of the duty, and taken the lead in the movement, and that the existing system of education, combined with religious instruction, was ample for the wants of the times, as well as sufficient to meet futtire exigencies. The annual sum spent by the Church from 1833 to 1838, to promote education, amounted to 87,400/. ; and since 1838, it had been increased to 720,000/ But he had a correction of some importance to make. There were some contributions of a pleasing character that had been received from the scholars, and he found that out of the total, 199,000/, expended by the Council of Education, no less than 80,000/. bad been contri buted by the children. Still making all tie se feductione, the Church expended half a million of money in promoting education. But. there was another mode by which the Church .was proinoting education. In Lancashire, in Middlesex. ig,Surrey, and other parts of the country, training schools had been established for preparing masters, •upon which no less than 90,000/. had been spent, and from • which as . many as 1,050 masters had' been sent out:—(Hear, bear.) Theee masters were most efficient indeed, since, a little while ago, the knowledge they had attained would have entitled them to a common degree at Cambridge, fully proving the admirable system upon which the training schools were conducted.—(Hear.) It was a mistake to suppose that the crime and immorality aro se from an y defect in the mode of education now is op eration, it re sulted froth the iacompeteney of the parties who were entrusted with the cure of schools; and therefore, if the Masse or the Government -wished the country improved , in that respect, they would proniote the establishment of these training schools, and help the masters in obtaining ample remuneration for their s ervices.—(hear, hear.) Settee allusions bad been 'made to the dispute going o n the educational orders, ;but the principle involvedbetween Government and the Church on the su b ject of is that dispute was so trifling that he entertained a confident h o p e o f a .. speedy settlement.—(Hear,hear.) At all eve nt s; there could be no doubt of the fact. that the working of the' existing system had kept Pace with • the increase in the poPu'atioh, and as the .• principle -. contained in this Bill ha d been tried, and to a certain extent f o il e d, it was the duty of th e House nut to support it. There w as no necessity for it— nay, it would p rove hi g hly injurious to the state , because it must inevit a bly obstruct the progress of a system which had produced, and was producing, th e most satisfactory ' results.---(11"0 The age was too far advanced in civilization to admit o f the state neglecting the education of children. The mind of a child in its early condition was like a blank book, and if the Government did not write upon it they might depend upon it some one else would. But in educating children Govern ment should be eyeful not to encourage the exclusive s y stem proposed leimedeis Bill. At present there were schools eno ugh in all the larg e towns f or eve ry sect, and the pewee w h o did not lik e to sen d hi s child to a school where the principles of the Church of England were • taught, could select some other where they were excluded. Under the present system of training they would have et e ll et t teachers whose feelings came not from any selfish mo tive-, but direct from the inmost heart —(Cheers.) wwhhci)cwh was s e s s o h should just deliver Mr. M. GIBSON wished to say a few words before never have he bad used in the speech he had he gave a vote on this Bill. With reference to the Hon. Member for Oxford, forward a question able to bring much better and abler arguments. If an in dividual expected from of such great importance, pray when would the question ever be brought before the House ? The great masses of the working classes in the manufacturing districts Member had no right to bring gentleman who were almost unanimously in favour of the principle of secular education. He did not think there was soy prin ciple in which the working classes took a greater in-rest than in this; amid he toomght that the working classes in those districts, since the passing of the Bill by which all children employed in mine were obliged to attend schools, were placed in a very peculiar position. For if school attendance were made a condition of earni ng bread, and if re ligioue fheedone were eny thirds he e 11-T., he i.i,t "v: Wiliite the children would not be exposed to pt .- mere:it - 3g influences: They ought licit' tb - lifac *teetlVoikiug classes in the position of having to choose- be tween their religion and their breads Why; if the RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WORCESTER SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The adjourned meeting of the shareholders of this company was' held on Tuesday at their offices in Guildhall Chambers, Ba sit2ghall-street, Mr. Alston in the chair: The report of the directors stated that the taxation of the bill of costs of Mr. J. A. J. Macgregor, late solicitor of the East and West Junction Railway Company, amalgamated with this company, had been closed, and that from the amount of the bill delivered (2,1161. 165.) there had been " taxed off" 1,386/. 15s. sd. The taxation of the numerous bills of costs of their late solicitor, Mr. William Arnold Bainbrigge, had also terminated, so far as regards the charges therein objected to by the directorF, and the amount of cash paid to and for him had also been proved] to the satisfaction of the taxing master. The total amount of such I bills of costs as deliverzd in was 9 3,900/. O. 7d., from which there had been " taxed otr -15,691/. 6s: 7d., leaving a balance of 8,208/. 14s. due to Mr. Bainbrigge. As there had been 10,568/. 93. 2d. cash paid to him, there remained a balance due to the company of 2,3591. 15s. 2d. The report concluded with an assurance that every exertion would be made to realise, as soon as possible, this amount. Mr. G. Leger moved the adoption of the report; and the chairman in putting it, took occasion to observe that the meeting though small was regularly consti tuted, and therefore justified in conducting the pro forma business of the day. He commented on the principal facts of the report, and on the difference between the company's bills before and after their taxation, as affording a lesson to other railways to find some person able and willing, as his friend and colleague Mr. Harris had been, to put such things on their proper footing. The usual complimentary votes olf Monday, -the 31 insttlut, a gV"e'ral n'ectibg a the shareholders in this company took place at the• office in atrlington, for the purpose of considering a Bill ,• • I (as amended by the Committee thereon in the 11. itY.„, of Commons), intituled, "An Act to amend Ac t, Great North of England Railway Purchase .„ 1846,' and to enable the York, Newcastle,of wick Railway Company, to complete the purchs o f the said railway." There was a large attendant shareholders present, Mr. Flews, the chairman a. b e board of directors, • presiding. A letter from Al' G. Hubbard, the chairman of the special comma appointed to arrange the purchase with the Y( Newcastle, and Berwick Company, having been re A e pointing out a modification of the Bill to which a committee had assented, a resolution approving of !Bill was unanimously carried, and the meeting 5e ,P l rated with a vote of thanks to the London con3in'" and to the chairman. 0„„ I' SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAYS AND CA NAL y PANY.—SHREWSHURY 7 TUESDAY.—An extraordioll y general meeting of the shareholders in this coinpo was held at the Lion Hotel, this day, for the 1) 33 pose of considering and approving or disappr oving'. a Bill now pending in the House of Lords, entiti'ecc, " An Act to authorise the abandonment of par t ' the undertaking of the Shropshire Union Railwaysl Canal Company, and for other purposes." At meeting of the company the directors laid a Bill be e the shareholders, which was sanctioned, on the Coi l . 0 , dition that the calls should be limited to 6/. 1 05 . the Committee of the House of Commons, howeve the promoters of the Act increased the calls to 1 ( A —the London and North-Western CompnY D i ; Y. guaranteeing any dividend on the acl-litional 31. lv Earl Powis, the chairman of the board of dircc t l e presided ; and after a report had been read t directors, setting forth that the Bill wonld not be 1).r1 ceeded with if it were found to compromise the 01 , 5 ( ing agreement between this company and the Lona' and North-Western, a three hours' discussion t°(l. place, which resulted in a motion approving of t o " Bill subject to such alterations as may b e lila therein by Parliament being carried by a major it y 59 against 21, the number of shareholders present. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JUNE 3. to-( l °. i STOCK EXCH 4 NOE.—The market was very fio n with a cconsiderable amount of business doing. The fa ar - °ar d t i ll shares are those of the Great Western CompanY.; 1,7-- r only alteration in price we have t o noti ce is in Great ,0 Quarter Shares, which were done, and finally closed , at LIVERPOOL, JUNE 3. As) STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was depressed t i o r . and prices lower. The transactions were as follow :-19; shire and Yorkshire, Consol., Fifths, 91. 1 ls. 3 d. e ,'„ Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 5 dis. Lon die' North-Western, I 03 11 , c, —Ditto, New Quarters, pia( : —Ditto, Quarters (C), % p. Midland, 37 3 % Halves, 26 1 / 8 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 15 o at. Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 p er till 18:0, 6),', dis.—Dutch Rhenish, 11. i la. 3d. dig. MANCHESTER, JUNE 3. ba in° STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was but a moderate -- i yi ere done to-day, and prices were lower. The transacticT.6rece, as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 40—Ditto, Prei;2l6. 6 per cent., 12—East Anglian, Preference, 6 per c,e ll l.terSt —London and North-Western, 107—Ditto, New (4 , ll „ li a rteil ii die. Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Q l . e • (C),% p.—Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, ,0;03. Ditto, Preference, 8 - North Staffordshire, 9% rfAs t Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Stuck (No. 4) , Lancashire, 8. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 3. a sit ° STOCK EXCHINGE.—Our share market was . lower than when it closed at noon on SaturdaY , , o rar: however, rallied in a considerable degree from the tel. ' clll. depression it experienced on the evening of W i t s , gd• Shrewsbury and Eirmingham (A) were done at 8 1 . and 8 . % dis. London and North-Western closed , l o g 01 106, sellers 107. There was little alteration in th e Pr other stock. YORK, JUNE 1. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to•daY 14 %.0e) , r o follow.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. p ar % i 11. 11s. 3d. North British, 71. 6s. 3d.—York and `. Midland, Preference, 71. 7s. Bd. The Earl of Carl4lehadsiiinner party on Satoos. at his residence in Grosvenor-place. The cool l3 clin:ed the Marquis and Marchioness of K 1163 ' 8 '0(1 count Ehrington, Lord Dufferin, Lady Morga n ' )J r ' Talbot - , Mrs. Drummond, Sir William Scrwrsi";,,,tho M'Cullum, Mr. • Shiel, Mr. Norman Macdovalooor O'Gorman IV ahon, Lady and Miss Campbell, the,..opelft teas of Carlisle, and Lady Mary Howard, Mr. X 1 Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Hon. F. and Lady E. Grei' io =The Building Committee of the Royal Con3o'sfilloat the Exhibition. of 1851, met on Monday in the Ne w i c hoi r of Westminster. There were present Mr. Cobi s hert ii l man), Mr. liarry, Mr Brunel, Mr. C. R. 'r o of) Mr. T. L. Danaldson, and Colonel Reid, as Che'f t, . t P if NAY the. Executive Committee. Mr. Digby Owen Jones, and Mr. Charles Heard Wild, ea° o' A deputation upon the Metropolitan latertne n s e t9 If; consisting of the Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman , the Of!: Oakeley, Mr. Sergeant Shee, the Earl of Ani l ': Wt Surrey, and Mr. H. Bagshawe, had an intersle, Sir George Grey on Monday at the Home-offic e " tile r dver, StLMON Perthshire - A .„„,, says:—" We Itave still to report salmon fishing a s es`' hind what it should be at this advanced period of none On Saturday there were some good takes on the s ' A 0 ; low the Bridge; and on Monday twelve A ape,. pal; ' brought ashore at the North Inch, and eight a"goy - &c.; but since then very little has been doing. DE the run of grilse is now beginning to set i n - onell °z- o n taken on the NA :ender station last week, and anothe r :bs Gray's fishings —so that more luck may reasona b ,•:, o oes pected in a short, time. The retail price still con e! ! at • Cd. per lb. .Trout, of which few are taken , 5 ' per lb." hi et, elf The commercial advices from Nes , York 0 0 Niagara describe continued firmness in the stoqs, /( 01 with a sudden rise in all speculative investments. cotsieyo nothing later frt California. The Cuba invasion oAisostr,'3'6if little anxiety 'among the mercantile classes , a,' termination 'booing generally predicted, althooP„f ic.s ar f;ea Orleans and other cities in the south the prospe Ct 000, e cess seems to ;be entertained. Advices had hom ey ! of of (mono Hayti tol the 2d of May, announcing the reP: vet agrol poly law from the Ist of July next. The G,u„,,, 0 „ the state of Maine is his inaugural message b l 'bro , the expediency of bestowing the agricultural P an ard gratuitously upon actual settlers. At New Tork erloir,:ta had been estate fished by the Lafayette Insurance '-'-ofdt" of Indiana whicl t proposed to include the insuraned ,„ as part of its bui iness. , Oltstse,, MURDER .O F A CRIED BY ITS Thursday last a i.frightful occurrence took place i n "L i aa'; of Tushingham,,', near Malpas, in Cheshire. A n1 „ - hildr e ,: e i oct Taylor, who liv eo in that place, killed one of hi s the la' boy about sever t years of age, by striking him l o riP with an axe. [t is supposed that the wretched O bourieg under i saauity. A Oilr ae o t The aviary of the Liverpool ZoologiT h ioO t i e 4 - was burnt to 0: a ground on Monday night throo,g,dref r ' i joa the fireworks w Bich were displayed on that even ing s ee on the thatched.lroof, Several of the birds w et " to death. [ADVERT'S E NIENT.] —Extraordinary Cures- prwo, matic Fever by :Holloway's Pills in Van Diemen at a t V e Margaret AP Com iigan, nineteen years of age, resid i t t gfet of town, had been suffering from a violent rhearoa t ! e e cl Inbt, upwards of two m:oaths, which had entirely der l. o - 0(le` the use of her lira bs. During this period she w as Too', care of the moat minent raeoical men in Hobart d vie r, by them her case; was considered hopeless. A fries',A t at/ 00 upon them to try Holloway's celebrated Pills, W' . ..,'"; PI, seated to do, anti in an incredible short space of t'"; bet ~si° cure was efii,e':e d. This case is copied from thell°oollar Courier. —Sold.qay all Druggists, and at Profeasur Establishment, :it44, Strand, London. i OO O. ; ~,I g v( DUNDRY.- -A BRIDEGROOM AT •:- 11 Monday last a; would-be happy couple(the son s ° - boon t ot ter of two fa rmers residing in the neighb c t,b itkoes' DUndry) press rated themselves at the parish cpuro-5, bri g t o village, accom,panied by th e b r id esma ids and as I tts vi sto I 'o l men ; and airier, being interrogated by the clergYot be 4 to the object of their visit, the young man replied t re gai te diel come to get narried by license. Upon being lien ~ produce the macessary documents, the asPiV il d t ssiw e jo , seemed thunder+-stricken, and scratching his be thought I could! get 'un here." The party being 1 00 13 1 , 0 their mistake, W ere obliged to return home Wi t tliet ,ll ,7o s neal rites uncorisummated. The expectant 1 3 e n 'one satisfaction of Ir taking all things right just lc' e E jG married on Tues day.— Somerset County ma v LAet • A C ur ette- .z.faol, INDIRECT A lURDER.—The official oro relates the follovc Mg singular attempt at indirect, inte rc,_°A One Philip Agrati had since 18463 had criMi o° ' with Felicita ~Picozzi, the wife of Constantly° th e 10' Agrati being a widower, Lombardi alone was to° 1 0 his union withi,Felicita. With her connivance, P i - ar 0 ,0 6 vantage of the severe laws on the z oncealnien t ,„ ° oli's h b a ° s r ! introduce two p istols and ammunition into Loinii - fac t l' o iC , and then inform ed the military authorities of the cos aao .bo tt anonymous lett, er. Lombardi was brought ill, being before a council. of war, and was in danger ' A fl i o CO I L SP ar 4 : f but fortunately an inquiry was set on foat, nce,;pre discovered. At.,:rati has been condemned to " t !'d of fr eight years, and. his accomplice to the same Peri° re , i sunment fo be s t i t' ot t The Trident, which left on Sunday f tersburgh, took 200,0001. in specie for accou nt o Government. BIRTHS. OF A SON. A f el l'Or si On the Ist insf 4, at the Grove, Stratford, Ain'••...4%on , On the Ist ii tat., at Canonbury-square, Is' l W ' Pei W. H. Coote. -r of 0 )' On the 2d ins t., at Clapham-park, the w i fe t el. Laurence, Esq. . r 1 41° On the Sd inst., ;at Croom's-hill, Greenwich, a-irs' . OF A DAUGHTER . ritlth °' On the Ist inst., at Sarisbury Parsonage, near d wv 11Y of . 01 to h n, te of tho Rev. G Morris. On the wife 2d inst., in Inverness-road, Baysw ater, the Augustus Roots, Esq. ' • o son• On the 2d inst. at Alderley, Mrs. H. B. niggi MARRIED. 'IcC "th ' el On the Ist inst., at St. Paul's, Hamme r ti bia d Cox, Esq., of Ham-common Surrey, to Mary 130„d bu of the late J. T. Smith. M D., of Stevenage , of daughter of the late W. Whitehorse Lawrence, f t Ann's, Jamaica. ItO e On the Ist inst., at St. George's, Hanover-sclu'l.retile S e' t ; G. Bassett , Esq., of Southampton, youngest son 0 , o f A. Bassett, of Great Cheverell-house, Westbury, " Ellen, youngest daughter of the late E. B. Acla ni ' Smallbridge, Suffolk. I , g a y. !.. , DIED On the 31st ult., at the Vica Dodington, t h rtldi " Radcliffe, M.A., rector of St. Anne, rage, Limehouse 0'1" and vicar of Dodington and eynham, Kent, ac;ed 86 ' firr i ve l i :)n the ed inst., at llaldon, Surrey, the RejGeorge 01') yan, M.A., vicar of Malden-cum.dhessingten, i n , county, aged 48. 3 1 ° i' ~Aeo t n s t ht .e , 2 cl inst., in the Avenue-road, R e gent's - P arl' ' 0 f ti l La wife of 11,1 r. A. South, aged 75 tidier's, Jersey, ' aged 5; Ann L. Bill. rel ict ° late W. Cumin gE. Paymaster .'and ‘,B•S' v 64 , q , On the 1.3 t inst., Katherine, wife of Mr. John P' ~.--- .1,9 ,., '!"1f. 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