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THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY . EVENING, JUNE 12, 1855..

muted to the house for the pinkest of remtviast all doubts
cm the subject. He oaderstmod that it was desirable that
that mane shoeld be taken imil2s as asnila
passed thou members would abatis f takiniaare*
hogs of the house. Hs leave
r:::•4 bring is • bill for the eiew,
read a second time to-morrow.
Mr. ELLICE said be Odd AO4 afraid taking torniaM
Unity of impressing a hops thst 'hi' bowie *
half of the occasion to place thii difficult subject ea a Min
satisfactory footing than it was in at purest. He was see
of the mgmbers of the oommittet to whh bl=
referred, and looking to tiro difficulty ofproviding fury
se emergency as he was sore. to set take pines the abet
day, he thought it we. undeniable that no statute to embed
been passed placing the matter on a satisfutoey
A at stay of the datits of the Speaker were smedery,
and ethers were laid down by the orders of the house, relit
was damitabla that the question should be plated on a satin-
=tirs.masilitleaope.d the house
and would
taw sat the wheel:
eets
Ilseh
Eir a OUT observed that the hoe. member for MM.
lusi=ested that the emessittee should be re-appoints&
IMP the quintet, but he thought it was the goosed
VIEW that it would be desirable to appoint another ear
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Leave was there gives to bring in the bill.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Upon the order of the day for the second reading of the
ilaßill, No. 2,
DDEBLEY resumed the adjourned debate. He
elosurei that the consideration of this subject had beta site
peeled mow for nearly six weeks, having boon interrupted
whom the house was under the influence of a speech deli.
erred by the right boo. member for Oxfordshire, which was
tounikahlo for ably sustained argument, manly sentiments,
Ni religious feeling. But if the house had calmly
upon the matter, they would have come to very
dlilliouetwasielene from those to which the right here.
glatioeue (Ifir,, Haley) attempted to lead them. He was
appeshonolen hewer, lest the cheer with which the house
sombell thellsentrable maxim which the right hon. gentle
men memeleiek" that the fear of the Lord is the bagin-
=misltm:' should have obliterated from their retool-
the ruel has of the ease. They must remember how
merry East this satjut of education had bun brought
Wore both Mew or parliament, in every possible form, as
• wit or am • private bill, as a general or local measure,
bibs else • series of resolutions' or in reports of select
esuraffifee. Is every shape io which it cams forward it was
AMMOMIllied with adverse arguments. Sews years ago a
enelelly of the ratepayers ot Manchester petitioned
parlla-
met to be allowed to tax themselves for odorants, bat
*it request, was unfavourably received. If than the
Baia al Camases had made en its mind against the prie-
d* el the menenett, let that decision be plainly declared.
Me meat say Wig the government intended to recommend
that 1M them eiweation bills, which were placed in *mittens
upon the orders of the day, should he reed
mite"estatil time pge4rzes, and sent to be shaped in NM•
he sheet to that as a dangerous and eater
etitutiutel seep The pdasiple of•• measure could net
piers* be NNW is esemittee ; the sound readies wos
the thee he its disesedek_
_end all second readier profetwee
woos el‘eolienalin est didnet wee with the rulsu of time
Sim of Ceassous. Ea lessted the advocates of • bill te
fse ollesatiss iambi have to endure no more a
onbjealtilkilithatee,4lksiCrirhalir ts which
khan
something would eybe
le h
huea
toweedle *lasi esttleatent. He neat reviewed the stabs of
egiis the house upon this steatite. There was.
BwfelllBl.6.oalmod:brisswiso lakes
wit Sp :LIZ rightn hon. amber
sr;sksterm fel;
mbeentisa. The named proposition was embodied in twoo
bilk tee that of the sable lord the Secretary of State
Wasik/laimell), and the other that of the right
bmmetet the member for Droitwich. Those
two bib mere (outdid on the sass principle—
Mtge whin private resources failed public rates
shed* OM in, which should he distributed under the
detect of the religious bodies recognised by the country,
soya system had been in operation for the last 25 years or
Mese. The third proposition was that of the right hon.
the member for Manchester, agreeing with the
ememell as to the necessity of the public remoras being ap-
Oka Maid of oducation, but widely differing from them it
to is mode in which they should be distributed, for he was
la Melly sweeping away all the existing schools, mapping
eat the kingdom anew for the purpose of education, and
Melly ignoring religious Untrue:n fesot. With allrespect to
lightiben. gentleman (Er. Milner Gibson),
his scheme
tees me teat he (Mr. Adderley) did not feel
brink to take any notice of it. The principle
el it was enough to condemn it. Ile felt con-
timed that it bad no chance of adoptioa by the house,
sad would be distatefol to the whole country ; he, therefore,
deollowl to eater upon the consideration of that plan at all.
Ze (Mr. Adderley) did not agree with the right hon. baro-
nets that portion of his plan which provided for a,sr
eibitele. Re thought the two new school clauses were unite-
aeemrys lessaaas the religious bodies which were now row*.
ORE a 41011•110tOn in the country, if only they had titration
sum provided for thus, would never leave such a vacuum
es to require the operation of those clauses. The same I
alg=weal and Josamler. ~mowwar..,mowtip treat
is say system being adopted, would serve,
els it was once in operation, to ustain its
elkissey and supply whatever was want*. Those two
dw ems were incongruous with the rest of the bill, and
would tapasa it to cavils which it otherwise could not in-
cur; and the bill was more complete without them than
with them. But be protested against the assumption of
Mr. Henley that the proposals of the right hon. baronet and
of Use noble lord would supersede the existing system or
suspend its operations. They would do so more than sup-
plement its deficiencies. In places where the bounty of
the squires or other patrons 'sustained the schools, or
where the clergy successfully wasted half their time and
lost half their influents, in Wiring for funds, time
bill
would never be adopted at all. The effect of the bill would
be to stimulate, assist, and direct private charity, as the
poor-law had done. Thu right hon. member for Oxfordshire
would depend exclusively on private patronage, or what he
alibi individual action ; but his argument of " let well
aloes " would have told just as much against the improve-
ments which Dr. Bell introduced, or any other changes, at
any time. The present system could not be fairly called
self- upporting and voluntary; for if so, why were grants
repaired of parliament ? besides, what might be called
farad loans—be meant the condition of • certain amount
being waited by the managers of schools to mains them to
any grant from the Privy Council. In plates where the
will was wanting in the unit" and clergy, or where they
were themselves opponents of education—as in some MSS
within his own neighbourhood be (Mr. Adderley) knew, to
his grief and shame, they were—in such cuss the will of the
public should supply the deficiency. It had been said that
mach a system would pauperism 'dui:snot ; but that remark
emelt' only arise from a confusion of mind, regarding all local
rates as poor rates. The local rates for paving and lighting,
for public libraries and museums, could not he regarded as
poor rates; then, why should an education rats be so re-
gardal ? After retorting to the municipal provision
tor education in Canada, on which Lord Elgin had
justly prided himself, the honourable gentledise turned
to another objection, and said he was confident
the religions disposition of the ratepayers would
he security for religions instruction not being neglected.
Whatever theoretical advantages the existing system might
have, the question was, how did it perform its work?
He allowed that great results came from it in some in-
stances—(hear, bear)—that from many a dams school sup-
ported by some religions and charitable lady, and from
many a noble foundation of some wealthy landowner or
manufacturer, children had contemn so well educated as to
be qualified to raise themselves to high plates is society;
but the clue whose benefit was to be contomplatid by •
general system of education was the poorest class,
sad for them sufficient provision had not been made.
If they had Daly one-eighth of the population at school
instead of one-ninth, then he was authorised to say that in
that fraction there was a proof that they had not the foun-
dation of a national system. That fraction was to be found
in ragged schools and in prison schools. V.' right hon.
gentleman (Mr. Henley) might say that he was satisfied
with this system, but that was a blind admiration which
did net art whether the system was in its head or its heels.
In that particular he contended the present system was
wholly incompleto and it required a supplement, sad they
scald only provide a supplement by local taxation. In
another respect also he said the protest system was inane-
plata, and that was it its affect on the adult population,
whose sympathies they had not succeeded in enlisting in its
behalf. But he was told by the right hon. gentlemanthat
if he were able to carry out Isis proposition for a supplemental
resource by local rates, that he should be driven perforce
into &system similar to that of Austria, which he cried down.
The right hon. baronet the member for Droitwich rightly
I °Denuded that du example of Austria was an eaample of
great seal bathe muse of educatioa, and he was met by Mr.
Realty, who aid the results wen sot satisfactory, that the
anent? of Alibis was not sisal to the morality of Eng-
land, and, themisre, ha orubMled the system of Austria
was worse thee that of MoileaL Bat the right hoe. gentle-
st& (M. Heeler) did not am that the system of Austria
sarzezelem net patresage. Lit him tell him that the
insallusteue of any country were • much stronger
edsealbsel power than the schools of that country. It was
this desgesteis of Austria that debated the people of that
esuatsy. Nut was that any reason why they should not follow
the e. ale of Austria in its good part—why they should
set heeethe schools of Austria with the high spirit and the
morallep IdAll_psople of England ? His propositioa was
sot to be MealiMd with the American sesular tutus. The
bill of Shod& hon. baronet, and the bill of the noble lord
(lord Jobs Zusell) were based IS the sew principle; but
he *sip the noble Isla had Isobel too much to town
=22IZ vestries. Batumi those two bills there was
00untry wanted, and his hoped that the
two bills might be adopted, and that they
he referred to anion 'catmints, that they might get
%ioll unman between the two.
Mr. B. DENISON nid be Might it was undevatood
that eat ohs three bills should ho soisrred to a enlist eon-
mitts" t bat be did net think that was a good poolisamon
tary *awn. He wheal to poist out one swainfros~a whisk
was egniaes Se dl the Wile—dst there wee se pieviges to
indowitir leselheee sties/ewe M the wheels. la the late
disansiewe. velsseues was Noble Kr. Bassi tfana's book ;
and what did say in names Wilds webs ? He said
thowaet of attoadaare woovasjZs tea of sehteste, nor was
it sots of the bat it was Mut the ts-
ar mutat of the peeente, and be mid the @tau
amid Meese, se edema sielanderses at the sehook This
abate etunitteed six weeks see, end he the interims there
Ned bees eiessated the last mai of the ocennittom of
4ch Meese ea edseaties. The oubstattee of that report
".t tilde es the one bead they Wife IMMO* all

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the wisehlam4l.7 as impend sad WIS• 111114 eduation, sad MP lisibir•ds of **snail& Thin. wen "will'
la 4:4 . "Sr! V:. Vitt Liti. scoshottele Britititioaresookildrea who should be style:hoot, 17. ..
* wen
iwitiond tMe superior ends—than there ever ware before. This was ea odd bled
Biwa is inn& would Inds the paints of papaw :he called It retrogradstios. The real test wa,
le is than at Mini
is Inger but it had a *outran how many ireildrits aro uniestructed that *veld be W-
ale. thil lindhasd thiehildren could get all sainted ? sad their umber far exseeded the 900.000 of
ramth
nsiated. . aid thiseihre thoT kept them at Kr. Hones Mane's calculation; it woo mach seam two
11ygeMM.21111.111, Ri thiteitelf P. Home, the millions, if it did mot surpass that number, taking late as
Wig lit ilid being male oblige count the proper ego at which children ought to be alder,
*p illaWililikin whit worked Is was as en- iurrnotion. How different was that from the state of things
W. He thought if then wee to be say is Peens. la Mr. Joseph Kaye's admirable book on the
it. be much better that it should be is the steno( ediseatioa in Europe and in England, he gave this
maiwiledetsted than in the way reposidia the es bilk. &meat of Prods :—,. As I before stated, every child is
J. KANNER., objected te try ineellerenes With the Germany, Helloed, sad Switzerland, for the lest 20 or 30
ezisting system of education, and minion anima length year., bee been receiving a goad *dainties. Of the men and
someral of the practical details of the bill am presented. women ander 35 nine-tenths ate well educated. They
Oat of the three measures proposed he preferred that of Mr. can all read, write, cipher, sing, and chaunt. They all
laillses, as being the most direct and consintat in its pro- know the scripture history, and nearly all know the ent-
ailer'. ham of the history of their own country. Throughout all
Mr., W. J. PDX expressed disappointment that the noble parts of these construe thereat. many of the poorest people
1$ lA* bed lastt spoken, after condstaniag the bill before who have learnt more then this, and know something of
the his. ea various grounds, had not proposed any more the ;moral principles of science, or the principles of nose
ineeideas measure to accomplish the same or similar resets. particular science. Four years ago the Prussian govern.
*mid that the municipalities sad parishes would ant not meat node a general inquiry throughout the kingdom to
thiamine ; but in another part of his epee* he described discover how far the school education of the people had
them as overflowing with benevolence, whit* would supply been ginned, audit was then ascertained that out of all the
all that was necessary in the present condition of education young men in the kingdom who had attained the age of 21
is this country. Some localities were meet noires@ of rating only two in every hundred wars unable to read. This fact
themselves tot the purposes of education; • majority of the was toomatunica.ed to me by the inspector-general." What
ratepayers of Manchester bad been, for a mension • contrast with this country ! where we found that, oven of
of years, paining to be allowed to do se—(koar, our common soldiers, who had enjoyed the advantage of
Igo
bigier)—aaal those who were desirous of taking regimental schools, only one is five were able to read ; and
pen aseinges to he indulged, and every legal eine throughout the country, in every tso marriages one person
tin glees to efforts It was mooed the bill would signed with • mark, instead of writing his or her name.
have no offset la removing the objections of parents to send This was a subject which pressed upon the attention of the
their children to existing schools. It was said that mos legislature. (Hear.) It ersa eminently pressing at the
win too pea, sad that some were indifferent; bet this present moment. The state of our troops was one form of
hapertent absent was overlooked by the noble lord, that that pressure; and we should do immeasurable good to
apposing every locality to rats itself, and supposing ethics- future armies that might be sent forth if they were better
tics to be extended by this or any other musters, the popular qualified to take care of themselves—to say nothing of the
estimate of education would rise. (Hear, hear.) Those other tannage' of the development of their intellect. The
who teed themselves and thus became voluntary payers for question pressed also on account of the public feeling in the
the inanities of the children of their neighbours, would country. Who could doubt that the time was coming when
be milittens that their money should produce the desired the great mess of the population must and would bays a
bank; Per would give a tons to the peying clam in the more direct influence on the choice of members of that
ablisa which would extend itself to the non- bean ? Who could doubt that the time was coming when
sad would raise their appreciation of the there must and would be a tarp extension of the suffrage ?
ro bught within their reach. But it And was not that an inducement, and • most powerful one,
was sot a fact that education was despised on to raise the standard of that education by which they were
emesat of the smallness of the payment. As in se bo impend for the wise, and safe, and useful exercise of
Posts, if education were provided by the legit- their privileges ? He thought it would be no undesirable
het e, it would cease to be regarded as a charity ; thing if the eslarpment of the suffrage were made condi-
paw of @shook would no longer go begging poor people dons! on the attainment of a certain quantum of educe-
II Net *Mt 'Whew to the schools they patronised ; eds. tin, which might be raised as high as any one thought
Min MUM beitiae a public right, and as such would be MONISM for the purpose, and would still operate with the
"hard. (Hear, boar.) For the poor people of this beet effect, would still be a stimulus acting with
afeistry were maiht m forward to demand a right as they pianist forte and power upon the gnat body of the
INN M reject a been of charity, which they deemed de- +orating population. The suffrage was an object of their
phial. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord bad referred settle ambition, their constant aspiration ; it was what they sn-
ot church-sates; but one of the three bills beim deseemed to obtain by unwise means; end the hope and
ITllli sous was free from that objection ; and if the bills prespest of genie' it would induce them to practise mental
were seat to • committee he hoped that one would have the culture. This would be especially the ease at that period
nettle lord's support. Bat dissenting had spin and spin of life in which oar modern education modesty failed ;be
&daed, in their remonstrances against church-ratas, that meant that important period when the boy left school, and
they would be perfectly ready to pay them if they were an the young man was not able to avail himself of the advan-
namtion rate; and that cheap had bees many times pro- taps of tne institute. It was in that time that whatever
posed is the discussions on that question. There was had been learnt was forgotten. They continually found
nether ociasideration—the dissenters were, to a large those who had been two or three, or even four or five years
*Meat, true, earnest, zealous friends of emseatiou—(bar, at school, from whose minds every Mace of what they had
hoar)—tad he believed the time was come when all who gained there was obliterated, worn out for want of exercise
bunged to that description felt that some onapromise was and intellectual operation. But lot them have some such
asseasary in the cosilict of opinions that prevailed, and prospect as the franchise in view, and they would apply
that conserioa mut be made on one side as well as on the themselves to keep up their attainments; the infallible n-
ether ; sad that there was an earnest and general desire to salt of application would be to extend their knowledge ; and
have some great measure adopted which should redeem the thus they would become better members of the institute
country from its present condition. (Hoar, hoer.) He and of society, and better qualified for the exercise of
he rightly understood the noble lord to have re- political franchise. In every point of view the good
Donna the nitrites he formerly professed, which were that would thus be realised for the county was of
spies* education altogether ; his Utopia was the moot inestimable character ; and its extension had a
' Knowledge on them no lurid light hath shed ; moat saint claim upon the consideration of parliament.
But faith stands e'er in education's stead." When they spoke of the present plan SS a System, they
(Laughter.) If the noble lord maintained that opinion, was gave it a name to which it was not entitled. They should
then so difference between faith associated with knowledge not talk of its permanence; for it was a thing not of a na-
sal faith associated with ignorant:* ? (Hear, hear.) He tin to be permanent. We were in a transition state as to
Intend to hear the objections of Mr. Adderloy to sending education, • state which limited its own duration by the
the three bills to a select committee. All the bills were very n 04410114 ()lite olislowoo• How had this great mow
founded on the same principle so far as to warrant their meat of popular education begun? With private beauty-
being subjected to a common treatment, and, if practicable, linos ;in the form of Sunday schools,—fleet by that expel-
,to an amalgamation. They all went on the principle lent usas, Bake., cf Gloucester. From the individual it
,if localities rating themselves. They all provided extended to the religious body with which ha was con-
ha local authority in the management of the anted. That was the first step, the approach towards
ellhais. They all endeavoured to furnish • check and a organisation; there was association, combination, union.
iptintes for that local authority by the intervention of a Prom single or isolated congregations, or churches, it ex-
eland authority in some farm or other. They all either tended itself to sects, and to those large amociatiou which
adietail the direct inculcation of religion, or provided, as had been, from their permanence, taken to represent
anemia of the third bill, facilities for its being given, so the natation of this country. It was only another
SS to extend the dentines of the instruction to that form step is
the same progress that was now sought
of religion which the friends and parents of the children to be made. The princtple of organisation and con
thought most desirable. And they all admitted, either to a binatioa whichled to the action of the church
re 'ster or less extent, the principle of free schools—a prin. and the association were still et work ; and if pro-
cipii, which wan mint important. With such an amount of gross was to exist at all in education, it would be found
'grummet, the difference was necessarily one comparatively in that direction. These combinations must go on till it
of detail, a difference which might be adjusted by • cos- became strictly and properly a national concern, and till,
mitts.; and those portions etch* measures which should be is the view of all ranks of society in all their grades, we had
deemed the lent obnoxious might be severed from the rest, arrived at the conclusion that universal education was •
and put. lora in toe form of i national measure, national institution. (Hear.)
1 which night be expected to ieelise the most ten- Se JOHN PAKINGTON said that he never rose t*
portant results. Indeed, the very circumstance of there address the home with greater anxiety, for his tontines'
being these three bills before the house indicated that of the importance of the question to be decided by the vote
we had arrived at a species of trigs in this of that sight were sincere and deep. He addressed the
1 *donation question. Each class of thinkers on the house under disadvantsges to which no member of the
subject had given its lucabrations • definite and tangible house ought to be exposed. He cut no blame on the
Stem ; each told the way in which it would legislate for the government, from whom he had received every fairness and
satire country. There was only one other mode—adhesion courtesy, but there must be something wrong in the pro-
le the prompt mixed system of public grants and voluntary medinp of an assembly like that when • debate on a
exertion ; and we had arrived at • moment when the contest subject of this nature being adjourned, an interval of six
might be fairly tried between the present mongrel system, weeks elapsed before any reply could be made to the sign
the present combination in which one part seemed bacon- meats then used. Under those disadvantages he took ea
mous with another part, and the adoption of some general early opportunity of reply to a speech of his right hen
and comprehensive scheme. He knew that some objected friend the member for Oxfordshire, delivered, six
altogether to the interference of the state in this matter. weeks ago, whin, he admitted, was a speech of ' groat
But he would ask them—Where is the duty of education ? ability and research, and which had created, as it deserved
where has Provideace devolved that duty ? On the parent, to create, a great impression in the house and the country.
and devolving that duty on the parent, it gave a correlative He should proceed to answer that speech, and he would in
right to the child to be educated. If • parent neglected that the outset frankly say what the substance of his reply would
duty, he committed a wrong—a wrong upon his own off- be. His right hon. friend spoke with a published copy of
spring, which the state had • full and competent right to his (Sir J. Pakington's) sue& in his hand, to which he
interpose end correct. Interference by the state to prevent said be would reply. His answer to his right hon. friend
the abuse of parental authority had been one of those great was that he had either omitted or evaded all the strongest
progressive measures which had tanked the advance points of his (Sir I. Pakington's) addrese. He would pro-
of civilisation. And if we kept the child secure from phy- con to supply the omissions of his right hon. friend. His
sical ill-treatment (as we did) at the bands of bis parent, we anxieties wars greatly increased by the line taken by his
surely had the right to protect him from that moral ill. right hon. friend, and which had been followed by his noble
treatment—that defrauding him of one of the best sad most friend the member for Colchester that night. His right hon.
valuable rights, which the parent committed who left him friend and his noble friend did not confine themselves to
sltoiether uninstructed. Them, society had • right of its criticising the measures proposed by the noble lord (J. Rum-
en. Its own self-preservation was among the flat laws sell), the member for Manchester (Mr. Gibson), and him-
that ought to guide its movements ; and the very existence self, bet they both boldly and broadly said that no change
of society—usuredly, its well-being at all times—was en- was required with regard te education—that we were doing
clangored, if ignorant and vicious parents might at their well as we were, and warned us to beware how we disturbed
pleasure turn forth one generation after another of semi. •system which had don so much good. His noble friend
savages, to disturb the order of society. to imperil the safety 'aid that night that the system had not failed, and wee not
and comfort of the honest and well disposed, and to bring failing. That proposition be intended to grapple with. If
confusion into that national existence which ought to be the his noble and right boa. frisads wore tight, it would be
bonded harmony, peace, and progress. (Chun.) It was said wasting the time of the house to go on with
that the present system had been very successful. He the noble lord's bill or his own. He meant, how-
looked in vain for evidences of that success. (Hoar, hear.) ever, to contravene sad deny that prepaid= ; and
He did not accept for success the number of schools Its would say that if parliament allowed things to
and scholars upon paper. (Hear, hear.) He asked soatiaue as they wen, it abandouti one of the first duties
for other evidence ; and be found other *vanes, of • legislature. Lit not his right bon. friend think that
both as to the extent and the quality of the *dentin such a question as this was to be decided by such paltry
given. An hon. member said go to the gaol.. He did ert, censideratins as this, that when he (Sir J. Pakingtoa) was
and found that the great bulk of those committed were quoting the Rork of Mr. Kaye he was led into an error with
those who had been at such schools as new stated. The regard to an Austrian table of crime. You would not
utterly untaught, who had bad no vestige of training at any decide that question on such a paltry issue, but it must be
school whatever, were a comparatively small number. The decided upon facts founded on evidence and truth, and in
well-taught were • Dumber so small that it was difficult to that only he relied. If the evidence he adduced could be
find • fraction or decimal low enough to express its proper- costumed, and he was shown to be wrong; if it could be
ton to the remainder. They had all been at such schools shown that we could go on as we are, and that
as now existed, and they bad been there to no such perms the state of education could be left as it is with-
in served to make them honest and useful members of out cuinge to our institution', he would tender
society. Take another class of evidences—ths mechanics' his thanks to his right hon. friend, or any one
and literary institutes, which were sprinting up latterly is who would convince him of that ; for it was with great
abundance all over the country. St hat was the uni- regret that he came to the conclusion he entertained on
venal complaint as to those institutes—a complaint *is question. After the length at which his right hon.
made by the Bishop of Manchester in Lancashire, friend dwelt on his supposed mistake about Austria, he could
by Professor Maurice in London, sad everywhere when not pass it over, but he would dispose of the matter in a
rood institutions existed ? That their benefits were few words. He had drawn a comparison between the
anted, their advantages crippled, by the want of amount of coavieted crime in Austria and this country es
a rudimentary training. That was the complaint in compared with their relative populations; but he only gave
every Cu.. Young men were not sufficiently quill. it for what it was worth, on general grounds. His right
fled beforehand ; even those who were so desirous of ho.. friend, having applied to that point his microscopic
intellectual improvement that they willingly joined this eye which he used so potently in matters of detail, disoo-
lastinates and enrolled themselves in the classes, were con- 'arid that the table did not include what he called
tingly tuned back for wont of that key of knowledge summary conviction.. He (Sir J. Pakington) had
wash enabled them to unlock even its outer courts. In the inquired of Mr. Kays, and he believed that his
Purple's College in London—that noble institution—Pro. right hon. friend was correct. But he (Sir J. Pakiagton)
him Maurice was obliged to establish • rudimentary bad made another mistake which was of importance, with
Waal, to prepare the young men for its advantages. What regard to his argument, for he stated that the summary cos-
ta that but a strong condemnation of the existing system 'lotions in England in the year to which he alined were
of education ? They might look abroad, if they would, at 60,000, whereas he found they amounted to 90,000, or one
best army—those brave and gallant fellows, who had plenty third more than he had stated. But he would dwell no
lithe censtitittienal English courage. Might not a moiety, longer on this point. Any calculations founded on convict
if sot more, of the misery which they suffered last winter Lions must be erroneous, because of the vast quantity of un-
I haw been averted, had their intelligence been • little more denoted erne in this country. He had got returns from
eattinted, had they been but able to do thou common two of the most highly educated countries in Estop*, Dea-
-1 metters the teaching of which was now to be introduced into mark and Holland, and in Denmark he found that the re-
oar schools, and which would not have left them the help- Min amount of convicted crime was less than in Eng-
less beings they were, the victim of their own ignorant*, land, and it was also less in Holland, though not in so
in not knowing how to make the most of the scanty large a ratio. Hie right hon. friend also accused
=stunk which were within their reach ? Look him of a mistake of greater importance namely, that the
I again at our charelise. Look at that census which proportion of number of children at schools in Austria was
I cold the extraordinary sad humbling fact that one-third of not se great as he bad stated. Now, his right hon. friend
the population of this country was not to be found within had quoted from • book in the library which contained a
the walls of either church or chapel. If rudimentary nos-official statement,whereu be bad got official documents
enestioa were bat better, that number must inevitably be with regard to Austria. The result wu that in 1847, in
degreased. Oa this point he would appeal to the United the whole of Austria, with the exception of Hungary, Ye-
States of America, so much condemned for it merely secular nice, and Lombardy, and including Gallic* where the rate
education. The statistic' of the American churches showed of education was very low, containing a population of 18
that almost the entire population was imbued with one million., thus were of young persons attending schools and
form of belief or another. That was the effect of know- unintritise, 2,130,000, and of adults 2,140,000, or
inn, imparted on merely secular principles. Their gaols about one in eight of the population. To put it
told the same tale against us es the churches. The gnat another way, it would be found that in this population of
bulk of the prisoners were not native", who had had this 18 millions there were 2,118,000 children between the ages
treinieg, but emigrants from Europe, eel unhappily too of 6 and 12, of whom there were attending schools 1,431,000,
many of them from this and the sister country. (Hear, leaving the number of 684,000 who did not attend schools.
bear.) He would try the question of success on the lowan Atone hearing his right hen. Mend would have supposed
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la II and a fraction were at school.
There was a node • mistake with regard to it. But all he meant
=acy in this way of stating the progress. It to show was that in this great question Ent
an increase in the number at school empend with hind was lagging behind the Tact of the world
the gross population; but what did it show ascent number with the szeeptioa of Russia, Span, and the
wilisrlitsiitl the canto slave states of America. Speaking broadly and generally,
istionefthet:n education
r °of ?chißldetenh" gene
who oeugres ete at school. he repeated that statement, and believed
it to be comet.
and who Were not at school, and found that it was a repo lie referred not wily to Austria, bat to Denmark, Holland,
WIT Imillisbis number; it wasted op by tom, and coons, pen of gnu% rim*, Baum and own all v 4 gwittio
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