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lags so situated ? It sounds well to talk of givfng the
children of the poor the means of acquiring moral instruc-
tion ; and if this were done, it would be so far well : but
lir is not, nor can it be, on the principle and in the manna
in which the schools for their education are at present con-
ducted. That as much, or nearly as much, is done, as can
be done, we admit ; all that we except against is, the over-
rating: the benefit imparted to society, and while look-
ing to this u the means of kneeing crime, we neglect to
remove the real calms which daily and hcurly increase
it. We live in an artificial state of society, a state which
throws obstacles without end in the way of improvement,
both moral and political. In the schemes, whether of
wealth or poverty—and we have both—it is next to impos-
sible so to form those who move in either sphere, as that
they should answer rationally the end of their being, or
I make either themselves or others happy. Man is the
creature of circumstances ; he may commit doctrines and
rules, and principles to memory, but the poor, and the off-
spring of the poor, will be an easy prey to vice, from
the very necessities of their condition. But ought the pub-
it will be asked, to take no superintending care of the
people ? For the present we will only remark, that great
fallacy lurks in these terms, " the public," and " the
people," as connected with the question of the education of
the lower orders. But the question is an important one,
and we shall take an early opportunity of offering our sen-
timents fully upon it, convinced that there is no subject
upon which there is more, mistake afloat, and with refer-
ence to which our efforts, whether in Ireland or England,
have been hitherto more fatally misdirected.

Yesterday morning the Earl of Liverpool and Mr. Secre-
tary Canning arrived in London, front the seat of the for-
mer, at Coombe Wood, near Kingston, Surrey. Both
the Ministers were closely engaged in official business dur-
ing the clay.
Mr. Secretary Canning transacted business yesterday at
the Foreign Office.
Yesterday Mr. Hutted°, the Colombian Minister,
transacted business at the Foreign Office for a considera-
ble time.
Yesterdey-morning the Chancellor of the Exchequer ar-
rived in town from his visit to Emily Marchioness of lAM-
duntlcrry, at North Cray, Kent. The Chancellor trans-
acted business with Mr. Secretary Canning at the Foreign
Office :or some time. In the evenini the Right lion.
Gentleman left town to meet Lady Sara Robinson, on a
visit to Lady Buckinghamshire' near Charlton, Kent.
• L.tters from Italy say, that her Majesty the Duchess of
Parma arrived at Palermo on the 6th ult. and was received
with the honours due to her rank.
Yesterday we received the Frankfort Papers to the 29th
ult. One of them contains an Ordonnance of the Grand
Duchy of Batten, relative to the Clergy of the Evangelical,
Church, who are charged with neglecting the important
duties of Christianity, and even disputing them in their
sermons. They arc therefore charged in future to teach
the Gospel as it is to be deduced hem the Bible, and not
to impeach the credibility of the miracles in the New
'Testament.
A private letter from Madrid, dated July 26, says--
"We are here all military bustle. The Minister of War
leas given notice that Madrid will, in the course of a month,
be garrisoned by 10,000 Spanish troops ; anent is gene-
rally rumoured, that the French will speedily retire from
all the towns which they occupy in Spain, except Cadiz,
Pampeluna, Barcelona, and the other important fortresses.
The recruiting goes on everywhere with activity ; but such
is the dread that this levy it intended for South America,
that the recruits desert in considerable numbers. There
are several English and French speculators here, who are
endeavouritie, to manage a new Loan, and to persuade the
King to guarantee the Loans of the Cort•s. Ile declares
that he will never do this, whilst he can get bread and
water.
According to letters from Madrid, the negociationa with
the Spanish Ministry, for a new loan, had been broken off.
King Ferdinand, it is said, had acceded to the preliminary
of a iltiriliAol recognition of the loans in the Corte,. Hav-
ing gained this point, the capitalists suggested that his
Majesty should strengthen his credit still farther by ac-
knowledging the independence of the Spanish Americas ;
but as this would be to sacrifice the principal object for
which the money was wanted, there was of course an end
to the treaty. The report of the speiely re-establishment
of the Inquisition is revived at Madrid. New regulations
have been adopted with regard to medical practitioners, by
which those known for or suspected of Constitutional sen-
'
timents are be (seine!, el from the exercise of their profes-
sion and reduced to misery. By a decree of the 10th ult.
none of the suspected cmplaycr are to draw any portion of
their salaries until they have undergone the process of
purification, and obtained a certificate of their having done
so. The effect of this measure has been to consign many
families to absolute pauperism.
The letters from Malta by the Marquis of Salisbury
packet state, that the Marquis of Hastings had commenced
his administration by adding 50 per cent. to the duties on
foreign corn, and by ordering the Italian refugees to leave
the island. By the operation of the former measure, the
trade in corn will be entirely restricted to the produce of
Egypt. Several vessels with wheat from Sicily had re-
turned without breaking bulk. One of the letters says—
" This measure has shaken the popularity of our new Go-
vernor. It has been very hastily determined upon, with a
view to assist the landed proprietors, who have been loudly
complaining. 'The Cove 1111 l tent have in deposit more than
30,000 saints of' Egyptian wheat, which they will thus be
enabled to sell."

Extract of a letter from Captain James Loader, of the
brig Turners, dated Cape Coast Roads, June 1, Is°4, ad-
dressed to his owners:—" The war we are waging against
the Ashantee nation has proved very disastrous. The
country round our forts is in a dreadful state fur want of
proyisions. Thousands have fallen from the sword, but
tens of thousands must perish from famine. Beef is now
sixteen guineas a tierce at Cape Coast; and flour or bread
is not to be had for mom y. We are as badly off as pos-
sible : the season is carrying oft' daily seven or tight of the
white troops, and there is not more than fifty, of upwards
of three hundred which I found here, remaining. The
enemy's camp is very near the town, and this day we ex-
pect an attack. IThat will become of this devoted place
God only knows."
Private letters from Calcutta mention, that a force, under
Colonel Bowen, in an attempt to storm a stockade, was
twice repulsed, and in the evening had to retire with the
loss of if.° killed and wounded. The following casualties
are int n timed :

Irrth Itegitneut (Native Infantry). Lieutenant Armatrontr. ;
Colonel Bowen, severely wounded ; Earign Harberto ditto, lust
121 Ditto, Captain Johnston, severely wounded.
The first importation of copper from Colombia has taken
glare at Liverpool within the last few days, a small parcel
of to tons having arrived there in the Sylph, from Puerto
Cabello.

Amongst the passengers on board the Stanmer packet,
which arrived yistoilay front Lisbon, were—The Right
Honourable Lord It.resford, Marcus It! resford, Esq. and
Lieutenant Thomas E. Iligge; Senors Francisco Diaz, and
Alonzo Maria liarrantes, also came as passrngers. The
arrival of Lord Iteresford was expect( Al by the packet, as
private letters .receivt di some days since Nt3fril that his
Lordship was about to leave Lisbon, being completely dis-
guestot at the proceedings there.
Prospectuses have be.-n ',soca by the Committee ap-
pointed by a meeting held at the Brit:sh Coffee-house, to
establish a joint stock company in London with 2,000,0001.
of capital, to pursue by means of branch establishments
the trade of banking in Ireland, which by an arrange-
ment made by the Jkotk of Ireland two or three years ago,
and by a !went act of Parlianunt, is permitted to such
companies.
A meeting of Lieutenancy was held at Omar on Tues-
dv, upon which occasion a dinner was given to the Earl
,of haw, tlw Lord Lieutenant, by the Dcputy Liente-
nants. This mark of respect was paid to his Lordship on
the occasion of his assuming the functii,us of his Majesty's
Lieutenant of the county, on his rec,iit elevation to that
high dignity. A subscription has been proceeded in to a
c,nsiderable ettent. for a portrait of his Lordship, to be
placed in the County