The Press.
London, England, 1856-06-21 00:00:00

TO THE PROTESTANT CONSTITUENCIES OF

THE UNITED KINGDOM.
IN England separate Educational Grants are
I made to Roman Catholic schools for Secular Instruction,
the patrons being left free to regulate the Religious Instruction
therein. The patrons also of Jewish Schools in England are
left at perfect liberty to teach the doctrines of the Jewish faith.
In the British possessions iu India patrone of schools, aided by
public educational grants, may, under British sanction, teach
Idshomedan and Hindoo children their respective systems of
Religion, without interference, provided they give good Secular
Education.

In Ireland, while there are more than 3,000 National Schools
under the patronage and control of Homan Catholic priests,
supported principally by the grants of Parliament, and with un-
restricted power of excluding the Bible wholly from their schools,
there are Scriptural Schools, which are refused all assistance
from the State, except on conditions which restrict the patrons
from requiring the children its attendance to be instructed daily
in the Holy Bible. So that the freedom which is conceded to
Roman Catholics and Jews in England, and to Maliomedsns and
liitidoos in India, to teach error, and to the Roman Catholic
patrons in Ireland to exclude the Bible, is altogether denied in
Ireland to the patrons who claim to be free in the use of the
pure Word of God.
Mr Walpole pr ,posed, on Tuesday last, that this grievous
wrong and injustice should be remedied wholly without preju-
dice to the existing arrangements.
It was shown by Mr. Walpole that Lord Derby, the founder
of the National System, after having eat upon the Lords Com•
mittee of :BS4, now fully approved of his proposition.
After an attempt made unsuccessfully to adjourn the debate
—Lord Palmerston and his followers having voted AGAINST the
adjournment—the House of Commons AFFIRMED Mr. Walpole's
proposal on a division of 113 to 103, and ordered an address to
the Crown accordingly.
It is now sought by the opponents of Scriptural Education to
RESCIND the resolution; and on Monday next it is threatened
that a proposition to that effect will be submitted to the House.
There is little time for action, but the NATIONAL Cum feel
it their duty to cull the attention of the Protestant Constitu-
encies to this matter; and to urge them, as they value the
great Protestant principle of the free use of the Bible in
National Education, to APPLY INDIVIDUALLY BY THE NEXT POST
(there is no time for any combined action) TO THEIR REPRESEN-
TATIVES, and to press upon them the duty of RESISTING any
attempt open or insiduous to rescind Mr. Walpole's resolution
so deliberately passed by the House of Commons.
By order of the Parliamentary Committee,
G. RICH, Secretary.

National Club, 1, Whiteh
June 20th, 18 O.

TU RAL MINERAL WA I'ERS of VICHY.
.11 The French Government having granted the sole right to
THE VICHY WATERS COMPANY,
they have opened a Depot in London for the sale of the Vichy
Waters, and the Salts and Paatils prepared from them, at 27,
MARGARET•STREET, CAVENDISII-SQUARE.

OLURIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA,
acknowledged for the last thirty years to be the most effee-
tual remedy produced for restoring the hair and promoting the
growth of whiskers and moustaches, has received recently most
.fistinguished patronage from the Ladies for the feature it pos-
sesses in not soiling the must delicate headdress or bonnet. For
children it is invaluable, forming the basis of a beautiful head of
hair. In bottles, 3s. 6d., 65., and 112. Wholesale and retail, 13,
Wellington-street North ,Strand.

JJEDSTEADS, BEDDING, and FURNI-
TURE.--A,ILLIAM S. BURTON'S Stock on show of Iron
and Brass Bedsteads and Childrens' Cots stands unrivalled
either for extent, beauty of design, or moderateness of prices.
He also supplies Bedding and Bed Hangings of guaranteed
quality and workmanship.
Common Iron Bedsteads, from 16s. ; Portable Folding Bed-
steads. from 12s. 6d.; Patent Iron Bedsteads, fitted with dove-
tail joints and patent seeking, from 17s. ; and Cots, from 20s.
each. Handsome Ornamental Iron and 3rass Bedsteads, in
great variety, from £2 7s. 6d. to 11:5 15s.
A Hall Tester Patent Iron Bedstead, three feet wide, with
Bedding, .tc., complete--
Bedstead £l 4 6
Chintz furniture

Paillasse, wool mattress, bolster, and pillow 1 13 0
A pair of cotton sheets, three blankets, and a
coloured counterpane

Si 19 6

A double bedstead, earns A 6 15 9
If without Halt-Tester and Furniture—
Single bed, complete 3 13 9
Double bed, complete
BA T HS rind TOILETTE WARE.
WILLIAM S. BURTON has ONE LARGE SHOW-BOOM
devoted exclusively to the display of BATHS and TOILETTE
WARE. The stock of each is at once the largest, rewest. and
most varied ever submitted to the Public', aad marked at prices
proportionate with those that have tended to make this establish-
ment the most distinguished in this cow try. Portable Showers,
8. 6.1. ; Pillar Showers, 31. to 31. ; Nursery, 158. to 323. ;
Sponging, 14e. to 325.; Hip, Its. to .11s. 6d. A largo assort-
ment of Gas Furnace, Hot and Cold Plunge, Vapour, and Camp
shower Baths. Toilette Ware In great variety, from lbs. td. to
455. the ret of three.
The late additions to these extensive premises (already by far
the largest in Europe), are of such a character that the entire of
EIGHT HOUSES is devoted to thedisplay of the most magnit.•
cent stock of GENERAL !lOUS E IRONMONGERY (including
Cutlery, Nickel Silver, Plated Goode, Baths, Brushes, Turnery,
Lamps, Gaseliers, Iron and Brass Bedsteads, and Bedding), so
arranged in Sixteen Large Showrooms as to afford to parties fur
nishlng facilities in the selection of goods that cannot be
hoped for elsewhere.
Illuatrated catalogues sent (per post) free.
No. 39, OXFORD-STREET; 1, lA, 2, and 9, NEWMAN-
S ritE ET ; 4,5, and 6, PERRY'S-PLACE. Established 1820.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. —ln cases of Tic
Doloreux these Pills are a certain Cure. Mr. Benjamin
Simmonde, of Upper Arley, near Bewdley, informs Professor
Holloway that for five years he had been a perfect martyr to tie
doloreux, and during that time he had sought relief in every
direction from the most eminent medical men in the neighbour-
hood, but in vain ; and had expended several pounds in other
ways without obtaining relief. About a month since he was in-
duced to try Holloway's Pills, and by these alone he is per-
fectly cured.
Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world; at
Professor Holloway's Establislitnente. 244, Strand, London, and
60, Malden-lane, New York; uy A. Stamm Constantinople; A.
Ouidioy, bmyraa ; and E. Muir, Malta.