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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

by comparing it with that of the church schools. (Hear,
hear.) But, low as it was, it was exaggerated—he did not
mean to say that they intended to deceive--hat they
gave the result of the inspection of 93 'cheek
by the head inspectors, Mr. Macready and Dr. Pause.'
The number of scholars on the rolls under Mr. Ilacread_re
inspection was 3,0b3, the number present 4,1146 ; under Dr.
Patten 2,750, present 1,319. The atnedanar, amnion,
was less than half the number on the roils ; whereas the
public was told that the average anodises was above half.
As to the numbers who were receiving permanent instruc-
tion, it did not amount to one-tenth of the whole.
The last point in the scheme of national education
was the union and co-operation of tbe wenn geaerally.
It appeared from the report of Mr. ICCreedy, Head In.
specter of Schools, that in 193 schools which he inspected,
the local aid given was 1931. and • fraction, being little
more than IL for each school. There were 4,676 schools in
Ireland; so that the amount of local aid given would pro-
&slily amount to 4,6934. Yet the local aid given to the
Church Education Society schools was 40,7001., and the aid
given to them and the other schools not under the National
Board could not be less than 64,0001. The local aid,
therefore, to these schools, as compared with the National
Schlola, was es 3 to 1 ; and he himself believed that it was
as 10 to 1. Did not this prove that the two systems were
held le very different estimation ? It was said that habits
of industry and order, respect for the law, and provident
economy, were the results of a good education. lie sawn
symptoms of then in Ireland. There was an absolute I.
crease of ignorance in the population of 31 to 43 sines
the establishment of the National Board, and com-
paring Munster, where the system was most in operation,
with Ulster the predominance of ignorance was as 46 to
33. Again, if he compared Limerick with Belfast, two
towns which were pretty limit aiy circumstanced with re-
spect to population and natural advantages, he found that
the number of persons receiving relief in the former was
17,551, and in the latter only 6,571. He mentioned this,
because it was supposed that industry and independence
were a consequence of education With respect to crime,
the proportion of criminals in Munster was to that of Ulster
as 3to 1. The number of committals in 1841 was 20,796,
and in 1851, with • population diminished by 1,500,004,
and with the national system of education in operation an
that time, the committals amounted to 24,684. It WO a
curious and significant fact, that in the reports of the
Society of Friends, who had endeavoured to effect so much
good for Ireland, no reference had been made in praise of
these schools. Too long had Ireland been the victim
of neglect, too lone had her energies been kept back
and repressed, till she became a bye-word of
disgrace to the English govevnment. He trusted
their lordships would at least liberate her from
an absurd and vicious policy, and no longer force people to
be educated together. Let them not attempt to bring the
protestant and the Rotuma catholic clergy to work in the
cause of education. They might as well try and unite oil
and water. The only effect v mild be that they would then
neither wash nor give light. Let the schools be conducted
separately, they would then bo rivals of each other, and oath
would probably improve under such a system. The prank
system was mischievous in the extreme. Ile had MIR PIO
marked to Roman catholic' that the people preened rise
under protestant and free governments and the arms ho
received "We live here under a tree govereseeMiset
give us a fair development andjws will not be
hand." Let them act upon this plan, and their lo
would confer a great benefit on the people of Ireland.
noble earl concluded by moving for the following rennet
"Copy of the returns furnished by the commissionseeof
editions] education in Ireland to his Excellency the Earl of
Eglinton, when Lord Lieutenant, 'of the number of chil-
dren attending each of the national schools in Ireland, and
of the religious denominations to which they belong,' as
referred to in the 14th page of the Eighteenth Report of
the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland : List
of the vested schools, stating-1. Parish in which situated'
2. Date of connexion with board; 3. Name and religiose(
teacher; 4. Amount of salary from board ; 6. Animists,
local aid given towards teacher's salary in the way of sobs
seriptions during the year referred toes the eighteenth
report; 6. Amount of school fees paid during same period;
7. Whether there is • residence provided for the teacher;
8. Name and religion of patron; 9. Number of children an
the roll of each such school ; distinguishing the number of
doe imtabliahed church, of presbyterians, of protestant die-
seaters, and of Roman catholic); 10. Whether the' Scrip-
ting Lessons' were habitually used during the hours of
united instruction for the same period. Similar returns
respecting the non-vested schools. Return from the clerk
of this house of the respective dates at which each of the
Annual Reports of the Commissioners of National Educa-
tion in Ireland have been laid upon the table of this
house, and of the dates at which they have been
respectively distributed to the members of this house."
The Earl of ABERDEEN said the noble earl had stated
that the system of national education in Ireland had entirely
failed, and that it was vicious in its very conception. Ile
(the Earl of Aberdeen) was ready to admit that it had not
tess so seseseshl as was expected when it was first pro-
pelled by the nth earl opposite (Derby). But if it had not
ben nestutel to the full extent, to what was that owing ?
Was it not owing to the noble earl and his friends ? (Hear,
hear.) He lamented that a large proportion of the clergy
of the established church of Ireland had from the first op-
posed the operation of this system. Wherever it had re-
ceived the support of the clergy it was uniformly successful,
and if they had but followed the example of the learned,
melons, and enlightened prelate who had been from the
Ant at the head of the board of national education, the
success of the system would have been commensurate with
szent. (Hear, hear.) But it was the misfortune of
bulami that every attempt made for its improvement had
bees also, always converted to purposes of sectarian
difiereeeine whether religious or political. (Hear, hear.)
As he so he mould understand the noble earl
he would penes to separate the protestant from the
limn at schools altogether. But was the noble
sari prepared to follow that principle and its consequences ?
The plan proposed by the noble sari was the plan approved
of by the most virulent of the Roman catholic party.
(Rear, heir.) He believed that some of their most distil-
swished prelates weld warmly support the proposal of the
edit earL (bar.) If they gave separate grants to
Ike Men Society, they must be prepared to
useleorepentemele grans to the Roman catholic*, who
In teener the population, or who, at all events,
Sneed an Jansen majority of the population. (Hear,
ben.) If they admen that system they would be recog-
nising through painginnt that system of separation, that
sectarian spirit, will& mos the bane of Ireland. (Hear,
hear.) There might be nem he improvement in some of
the rules of the Naked Heard. Ho did not know how
that was, but be non* think it the greatest misfortune
to Ireland if the poneiple of the system was not
preserved intact. (Hew, hear.) The noble earl opposite
who introduced this system had conferred • benefit on that
country of which he might reasonably feel proud ; and, not-
withstanding the eppesition which it met with from a large
portion of the insesseent clergy, he hoped that by a steady
adherence to the pthhige on which that system was formed
it would ultimately be die means of preening large adnn-
tascheeto the rank et Inland. (Hear.)
Earl of EGLINTON said that then could be but
eneginion am ino& hair lordships as to tbe desirableness
"fin the Ink people a liberal education. When he
Sent) that three-fon:taw of the clergy of Ireland, Including
the Primate, the Bishops of Ossory and Meath, and the
noble earl, who was sae of the best resident landlords in
Ireland, were append to the system of national
education, he .wined that he thought there must
be something wens is it, and he went to Ireland
with, Neuritis& • peoludiee against it. But after having
paid uaremitting attention to the subject, he came to the
wesehmion that though there was much which might in his
°pinks be altered with advantage, there was no way of
out the wishes of the party to which the noble earl
ebierlyoZi without running the risk—nay, incurring the cer-
tainty, of driving away the whole of the Roman catholic
body from the schools. (Hear, hear.) lie could not, there-
fore, propose any clangs which would have that most dan-
gerous tendency.
The Earl of CLARENDON said he trusted that their
lordship would not, by holding out any . expectations
of a change, prevent any one from co-operating in giving
the best effect to • system which he believed to be better
adapted than any other for supplying a good education to
the poorer classes of the people in IreLnd. (Hear, hear.)
The Bishop of LIMERICK said that the national system
had bcen much misrepresented and calumniated. He bad
been resident 32 years in Ireland, during which period be
bad occupied most neponsible situations. He had resided
nine years in Dublin; he had been 17 years rector of the
large and populous parish of Rostra, in Tipperary; he
was then appointed to the deanery of Limerick,
the see of which he now tilled ; he had had
ample time and opportunity to observe the working
of the system; and it was his sincere conviction that no
system of education was so well suited for Ireland as the
national system. (Hear, hear.)
The Bishop of LONDON said that the sys-
tem upon which the existing schools were based
might be excellent in theory, but in practice
it had entirely failed. It was impossible to carry out a
system of combined education upon the mixed principle in a
country like Ireland, which was antagonism between two
great sections of the people ; it was, in fact, impossible to
unite Roman Catholics and Protestants in schools where re-
ligious instruction was to be afforded, and the consequence
was that wherever these so-called national schools had becu
established, the religions element has been entirely 'hom-
inid.
The Bishop of NORWICH having resided much in be-
hold, and having always taken a warm and active interest
ha the subject, was reluctant to allow the discussion to
lON without saying a few words upon it. He believed they
ware all agreed to this, that no private or national system
ofeclacation could be considered at all perfect if it did not
embrace the religious element, but to apply. the religious
element to schools open to different denominations was a
difficult if not an impossible task, nor was the difficulty at
all removed, as some noble lords seemed to fancy, if in the
country where the schools existed there was • vast dispro-
portion between protestaats and Roman catholic'. He
thought the noble lord at the head of the late go-
yernment did well in directing the commissioners to
make supplementary grants to protestant schools ; and if
the plan was carried out upon that principle, there was
lido doubt that the blessings of religious education would
soon work • wonderful change in the social and moral con-
dition of the people of Ireland. (Cheers.)
The Earl of HARROWBY thought that instead
of indulging in • such uncalled-for censures, they ought
Ito busy themselves in ascertaining, through the nige.,,,en_
I tality of a committee of inquiry, what had %teen the effect of
the mixt 4 system of education in Ireland. (Hear.)
, The Hirt of DERBY tally concurred with the noble earl
who hail just sat down. It was high time that they had
some fra.ts of the working of the system, and until they
had some positive evidence of the working of the system, it
was most unjust and most ungenerous to be continually
laying its failure at the door of the protestant clergy of

HOUSE OF LORDS.—HONDAY, MARCII 7.
Tim LORD Cita:imam' took his mat at 5 o'clock.
PETI ['IONS PRESENTED.

111•71100111.-By th. Earl of EOLLNTON, from • place
in Scotland, against.
PARLI Pars:Kn.—By Lord LYTTELTON,
from Redditeh, in Worerstenbire, and other places; the
Earl of CARLISLE. from Portsra. Plymouth, and many
other places; and the Earl of CARDIGAN, from the Royal
Institution of BJuth Wales, prayinf for the fres distribu-
tion of their lordships' palms to literary and scientific in-
stitutions. _ .

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ADYIIIIOX OF TIME Jaws TO P•HLIAMSNT.—By the
Earl of CLANCARTY, from places in St. Asaph, Cork,
Lincoln, Armagh, Stafford, York, Lancashire, and Berke ;
and the Earl of SHAIL'ESIICILY, tram Brotherton and
other places, against.
M. DIAZZINI.
The Earl of lIALMESBURY wished to put a question
to the noble earl opposite as to • paragraph which had ap-
peared in that day's newspapers, and m some French
Journals, to the effect that M. Musini having es-
caped from Lombardy had repaired to Genoa, and bad
there been taken on board her Majesty's ship,
Retribution, and conveyed to Malta. He did not
wish to be misunderstood as to his reason for asking the
question hi was about to put. When his noble friend be-
hind him was at the head of the government, both his noble
friend awl himself had taken care to state that they should
consider the privileges which foreigners enjoyed in this
country to be inviolable. He had not in the least degree
altered his feelings from that moment to this, and be felt
certain that no English minister, let him bo imbued with
what sentiments be might, would have the wish, and if he
had, he would not have the power, to induce parliament to
alter the con luct of the country towards foreigners. (Hear,
hear.) But 'opposing the re;.ort to which he had referred
to be true, and considering the deck of an English man-of-
war the same as British sod, he thought if the agitator to
whom he referred had been received on board of one of her
Majesty's ship when he was in no personal danger, it bad
been, to say the lead of it, a most id-judged act
of humanity on the part of her captaiu. He felt
certain that in Sardinia, where he was happy to
say that • constitutional government existed, M. Mu-
alai, or any other refugee, would not be in dan-
ger of his life. He probably would have received an
order to quit the country, because the position of Sardinia
being very different to that of England, she could hardly
maintain • number of refugees hostile to her neighbours.
If M. Menial had gone there, flying from Austria, he
might have used the common conveyances open to the public,
and there could not have been any positive obligation for
his making use of one of her Majesty's ships. Their lord-
ships must see the inconvenience that would arise if her
Majesty's ships were to be made mere passenger ships to
convey discomfited agitators and conspirators nz cost her
Majesty's allies to some other point of destination.- Viewing
the eirenrustences of the cue in this light, and not haying
altered his opinion as to the refuge which should be given
to refugewpliticiens in England, seeing, moreover, no
reason why M. Massini should have been received on board
one of her Majesty's ships, he wished to izquire whether
the report that had been so received was correct ?

The Earl of ABERDEEN said that as to the question
of refugees, haviog so recently expressed his opinion on
that subject, he need not repeat it • and with reference to
the question wLich the noble earl had put to him, he was
unable to give any reply to it, as her Majesty's govern-
ment bad not received any information oa the subject.
THE SYSTEM OF NATIONAL EDUCATION IN

The Earlof CLANCARTY nee, pursuant to notice, to
call attention to the operation of the natienal system of
education in Ireland, and to move for certain returns on the
subject. It was a topic which had occupied a place in the
speech of the noble earl at the head of the government when
he accepted office and also last year, when he was on the
opposition side of the hecee ; and having been treated by
the noble earl as a subject of paramount importenee, he
trusted their lordships would give him their attention, for
a short time, whilst he endeavoured to bring before them
some facts as to that system, which had now been
for 21 years in operation in Ireland. The returns for
which he was about to move, and which he was happy to
hear would not be opposed, would tend to show the nigher
the alleged great success of the national schools, and the rea-
sons f,r which they were established. They would at least
afford some official evidence of considerable value. The
Ist* and irregular periods at which such returns had here-
tofore been made altogether defeated the object for which
they were presented. The last report for 1051 was only
communicated to their lordships on the 15th of last month.
These reports ought, however, to be presented in time to
enable members of parliament to consider them before their
duties commenced. As to the operation of the system there
were various opinions, bat within the walls of parliament a
great deal was said in its favour; it had been jealously sup-
ported by every government sines it had been introdum
and no statesmen liked to shake the prestige of its jovial'.
batty. The commissioners were men of great talent, sad
their reports were brought forward with a greet show of
success. The public were also deluded by the visits of Leg&
Lieutenants to the model schools In Dublin, whit& ears
pointed out to them as samples of those whisk et!
spread the country, end thoee admirably managed
entities tended greatly to mislead the public. The want
Lord-Lieutenant, when Secretary for Ireland, visits' am
of the rural national schools whilst he was a_gmost Ifs
noble earl, a member of that house, at Clare. Hsi went la
the national school there, and admired everything and cow
plimented the muter. One of the effects of this national
system of education was said to be that it spread loyalty
and good feeling throughout the country ; but the 1111
book which the aoble lord opened presented to lila Ili
word., " Hurrah for repeal"—(laughter)--4hon one SIMI
seditious expression from a newspaper, awl the SOW mot
St. Patrick was a geatleman"—(renewed brassistse)--sei
whether it had refnence to religion or politiek to wad
that St. Patrick was a gentleman, and a proemial wigs
man too. (Much laughter.) One of the beet rdeundlatt
the system was the excellent schoolhouses, which ,s. Ma
best in the laud, and they taught the people to smokier
how largely the subject of education ought to occupy their
attention ; but those who visited the rural schools, and
looked for the moral and intellectual improvement
as the legitimate result of a system of national Ns.
cation which bad been is existence for twenty-am
Tears were cliespmiatod ; sad he believed it arse"
ball the rsetrietioa pat upon the reading of God's mid
by the poor people of Inland. The system did not week
as it was expected to do, and was altogether a failure. The
commissioners la their last report said that twenty mein
had elapsed since the introdastion d was fir sa.
timid education ; and after the meat MMoo "MA
bad had to eneonater, they were otevimed that it lad aneil
taken a deep root is the affeations of the people ; Mt
other plan mold have hoes devised whisk sines ham ma-
imed such issetionlio hisestazzialbselmicirs and
and
that the iatellealsil sad moral had
boon greatly monsted by it. He, however, dimwitted alto-
gether from the posesse which they said the eystom bad
made. There was its insismos, however, that the smart
expressed the opinion if Ma amminioners, for, wilasty
to all rule, it was only stood by the secretary. Now, what
was the value of what they had put forward ? They said
that, at the glom of 1851, the slumber of schools open was
LEM ; that there was an lionmos let the attendants In 1861
as compared with 1150; sad that the samba of attendants
was 530,092. There was, bowome, seas mason to
doubt the accuracy of this statement They mid that the
number of children who would re to be losught tato
Midi easels was about •Ge 04.911. of the wild,
Mos, tad sue half of whom INNS eligible. bMlaea
Tama 13 yossi .cage. Tim maim belantiMeLd,
*Mead tlikpopulatien hod d It
sommted, la 1561, to 4,880,0 M. Ihalgratios lad gone
on sime mass Ma_♦moot repidi7, and the population was
now sedum* be 5,118,800. Om-seventh of that amber
would be cleat 85,880, sad ens-kalf of whisk wail be
MON; mil It the smendoolinam wow mossia, the pietist
aushiidtho attandasts at their Rehab ossomisd that
number by alma 80,000. But, it moist be borne is mind,
that shoot the animal system of edoestlat bad beoi%sts-
UMW, the Church Education &eddy, whisk awn edu-
cated 100,000 children, the Trials Chula Mimics', sad the
Irish Societe—all veluable inseitatiess—had NM into
existence. The Roman emboli" primes oho educated some
children privately. Now he NM& use to all these
institutions as educating 150,000 eldkimo, and If be diet
that number to the ammo odd whisk the asemisimers
took credit for, it would make oso,olo. He theaait there
was some reason to doubt the mansey of this. The GNl-
zeisaimers themselves seemed to do se, for it appeased they
looked to the patrons of the schools for these returns, many
of wham put their signatures to them In liaglaad, the re-
turns being made in Ireland. In the report the sonnis-
Konen also deprecated inquiry into the subject; and said
that is future they would publish the average daily attend.
awe at the schools. How much more satisfactory it would
have Men if they had done so in the present instance. It
was taken down daily by the teachers, and why was it not
published ? They stated the average attendance to be more
than one-half of the number on the books; and if they re-
ferred to the fact of the attendance at the schools of
the Church Educational Society it was about four-sevenths.
They spoke highly of these schools, and justified the
low average attendance at their own bawls by
referring to the schools of this society. He wanted to
know, then, on what ground It was excluded from any par-
hantentary assistance ? He was ashamed to say that it
was because the Bible was read in these schools ; and that
was in a protestant state. (Hear, hear.) What right had
they to call their schools national from which they excluded
a great body of the church of Ireland? He understood by
the votes of the other house of parliament that this pnnei-
ple was to be extended. He would say, God forbid that
'his principle should ever prevail in Ragland,
.or in Scot-
land, the country of the noble earl, and which owed so
much to scripture reading ; and God grant that such a m-
um in Ireland might rapidly pass away. But to return to
the r•Port. The average of attendance at the scripture
schools was low, but it mast be remembered that they la.
Soured under many disac.iv."`;; they were placed
at cinsiderable distances horn each ether ;
bad the unmitigated oppositi,'n of the Roman Ca-
tholics ; and from a want of funde—there being •
total absence of all public grants. The re luisitcs necessary I
for carrying on the business of the schools e.iuld not always
be obtained. On the other hand, the nation. at school' and
had
I
ev-r) requisite—they had the: most commodios. ,schools
the best school.ho• se-. sad they hyl, or might I o have, the
e,,r,taid support of the Roman catholic clergy, is, theY had
of the presbyterian clergy, who formerly object.. tc the
system; but who, to promote the advantage of the tr
had separated themselves from then gat protestans. tom
musity of Ireland For these reasons the notional set oos
had no right to attempt tojeatdi a low average attend •

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1853.

Ireland. (Hear, hear.) The system of united education he
confessed be thought had been a failure. It was
not enough to say there were so many of the children
of catholic., presbyterians and pedestals ought
'to show what was the admidithe -fa the. t
schools. Mush mast be left to the dismays M the
individual patrons ; and where a parson bed put *seal( at
the head el a school, be lie lay Or clerked, if he was deter-
mined to work out the system. there he (the Earl of Derby)
was seaddent they would find a peed mesa) education
to be given to the children of both protest-
ants and catholic., and that sound religions edu-
cation would also be given to • both separately ;
and then, too, he hoped would be found MN improvement
in the moral habits of the people. (Hear, hear.) But let
the system be as bad as it was said to be by those meet
opposed to it, it had effected great good. (Hear, hear.) He
did not mean to say that the existing rules might not be
modified, but if they departed from the original intention
founded on the reports of a committee of inquiry of the
Home of Commons, end a body of moat eminent, pions,
and learned commissioners—if they did away with the
in
troduced
and principle of the system, so
and established, they would run the greatest
risk of sacrificing all the advantages which had
been gained by the 20 years practice of that system • and
they would incur the probability of introduciog much more
formidable difficulties, and not only diminish the amount of
education now actually given in Ireland, but they would
separate altogether the feelings and habits of the popula-
tion of both denominations in that country. They would
also run the risk of throwing that which they were most
desirous to keep oat of their hands—namely, the education
of the large bulk of the Catholic population—into the power
of the Roman Catholic clergy. (Hear, hear.) They must
then give their separate aid on the part of the State to all
separate denominations of Christians, leaving them to ma-
nage the religious portion of their schools, and exercising
no control of the government over the spiritual des-
potism of the Roman Catholic priesthood ; or they
must sacrifice something of the integrity of the principle
they were willing to introduce, and rely on the exertions of
the clergy for spiritual instruction. The habits of Ireland,
her position and circumstances, were so totally different
from those of England that they could not draw any sondu-
lion that whet would work well in the one country would
do for the other. He should deprecate any attempt to as-
troduce the Irish system of education into England ; sod
he felt that the amendment put on the votes of the other
house was not for the purpose of iatroducing that system
into England, but merely for the purpose of causing an in-
quiry into the working of the system. They might depend
on it that any attempt to introduce the Irish system into
England would be a failure—(hear, hear)—bnt he felt
desirous to meet even the religious prejudice of
the Irish clergy ; but he felt also that the total
subversion of this system, and the introduction
of separate grants accordiag to each denomination,
would produce more disadvantage than benefit; and in
endeavouring to avoid partial evils, they would inflict on
Ireland a great calamity, and sacrifice that which, even yin
its present working, was producing moat beneficial results.
(Hear, hear.)
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that so great a pre-
ponderance of the argument had been in favour of the na-
tional system of education, that it was not necessary for him
to add anything ; but as to the expediency of entering into
a large inquiry now on the subject, he would recommend
their lordships to pause, and seek fur all the information
they could obtain before they consented to such a course.
The Earl of CLANCARTY replied. lie said he felt
greatly relieved by what had fallen from the noble earl the
late prime minister, as it saved him the necessity of an-
swering the noble earl at the head of the government. The
noble earl (the Earl of Derby) had vindicated the course
taken by the protestant clergy, declaring that they were
not, in his view—and his view was to them very important
--chargeable with obstinacy in refusing to support the na-
tional system. As to the noble earl's (Aberdeen's) reflec-
tions upon himself, the indignation with which he was filled
at his observations, he confessed that this wee matter of in-
difference to him, seeing that the noble earl's observations
were made in implicit reliance on the report, which he
(the Earl of Clancarty) had taken to pieces from the mate-
rials presented by itself. The noble earl said the
national system superseded one which was highly
objectionable. He must have been thinking of the
hedge schools; whereas the national system superseded
one under which 300,000 children received a sound scrip-
tural education. As to the objection that he should follow
up his motion for returns with one for enquiry, he must re-
mark that, though he thought it advisable that an enquiry
should be instituted by the government, yet entertaining
the decided views that he did with regard to the whole
system, he was not the person from whom a proposal of that
kind should emanate.
The motion was then agreed to, and their lordships ad-
journed at 20 minutes to 10.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAT, Komi 7.
The house met at the usual hour.
NEW MEMBER. . .

Mr. BL/LII took the DachaT.ndl;U seat as member for
Galway borough.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
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The Copper Miners of England, Midland Railway
(Amendment of Acts, ite.), Scottish Midland Junction
Railway, and Shipley Gas, Bills, were severally read a
second time.
The English aid Australian Copper Company Bill wa
postponed until Friday unit.