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London, England, 1821-03-02 00:00:00

CORN AVERAGES.

Mr. F. ROBINSON broogitlll a. Bill for repeal-
ing the Acts 31. t, 33d, 44th, cud 45th George 111.
and for regulating the mode of taking the averages
of corn ; which was read a that lime, and ordered
to be read a second time on Friday, the 9th instant.
The House went into a Committee on the Indigo
and Cochineal Acts, and the Salvage Acts, the
Reports of which were ordered to be brought up
to-morrow (this day).

TRANSFERS OF STOCK.
Mr. CURWEN snored fur Atcoiiiits of all Stock
transferred at the Bank of England, within ten
years preceding the 31st December, 1810, except-
ing only stock transferred to the Commissioners fur
the Reduction of the Nati:mid Debt, shewing the
total amount of each kind of stock transferred iu
each %eat.
After a few worths from the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER and Mr. CUEWEN , tl.r footom Mai
withdrawn, and notice given of it for Monday twit.

ENGLISH AND IRISH TRADE.
Lord STANLEY brggrd to cid) the attention of
the Right Huts. the Chincellor of the Eschttoer
to a Petition he held in his hand, which he hoped
%%amid hare some rtlect towards removing the rlrlu-
►iun under which hr laboured, concerning the feel-
ings of the mantifocitirers of obis country, with
stspect to what were celled the Protecting Dirt'''.
oil Trade between Great Britain and Ireland. It
was the Petition of the Manufacturers and "Crider•,

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aerobes' tithe Clamber tif emeiteetikaft.llo,
of Masseheine, nod Salford, and stated it to r them
opinion. that air subserropted trade beaten the
two moaned would be far their install advan-
tage ; ant! prayed. for the removal of all defies oo
goods the pfridnee a; Stanufieetore of eitliiitiog-
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dos imported into the lather. i
Mteta few ward' fro" the Citation. . -441.41),
EXCHEQUIS and Sir 11. PAIIXIILL, the .
was read. sod ordered to be aimed.
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The Coattail.** of the rzcissevez ge4iiii.
' tice of bid imitates. iu a few dip 10 for
leave to tariewiso Bill to tlloi, the digs,
if -
issorivek
land to pay Misr oast in cash M an twilit,-
- - iimat awe by law, wid ant be
--'•-•11—. idiom,* to prepaii,r

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the batik
Sit H. PAIIIIILL. in emt.equence of the notice
just given 'by the Right Hon. Oentletiasn, poet.
potted his motion respecting the reams' of the
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Bank of 'lreland to receive Sovereigns.
Mr. ELLICE, with reference to the me ruse of
which Notice had been give., by the Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, moved for ec.
counts of the :nsinther of Stamps, of vinous kinds
fur Bills of t schemer and Promissory Notes.
issued from the Stamp Office during the last five
years.
EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
Mr. MAURICI FITZOIMALD in rising to make
the motion of which he hod given notice, requested
the attention of the House while he explaiued the
groUnds on which it was founded. Two Commis-
sions had been instituted to inquire ibto the state
of the several institutions for the purposes of edu-
cation established lit-Ireland. The first of which,
consisting of persons of the first rank. character,
and'ability; Made fourteen Reports relative to the
subject of their inquiry ; out of which, although
they were most ably rewired and digested, no
measure of any kind had proceeded. Another
Comati•sion was afterwards formed under the 33d of
George 111. which made seven Reports. Thus
there had been in all 21 Reports made to Parlia-
ment on this most important subject, and yet no mea-
sure had been adopted for the purpose of promot.
lug, regulating, or improving the ethicstion of the
people of Ireland. • Although there were many
schools, of various kinds, of public and private
iustitution, yet no adequate oysters of a gene-
ral nature had hitherto been adopted. There
were in Ireland, as appeared by the Report
of the Commissioners, schools of Royal footed:mon
seven in number, whose waited endowments
amounted to 8,800/. per annum. and the number
of iseholars educated therein was 360. The chi.-
skit veheoto wader Enemies Smith were four in
number, with f Is amounting to 1,0001. and
educating (277 scholars. The diucestio schools were
twenty in number, their funds 8201. and their
scholars 428. There were also fifteen classical
schools of private foundation, of the funds of
which§ or the number of scholars educated no them,
nu return had been made. There wee two schools,
one at Navas, and the.other at Ballymena, a single
fact relating to which would perhaps suffice to show
the importance of bestowing some more particular
attention to this subject thou had hitherto been
given to it. These two schools had between them
hinds amounting to 1,4651. aanuaily, and the
number of scholars educated in them was, lite at
Naven, and fifty at Ballyroon. There were also
reported on, a number of schools, called English
school.., which were for the purpose of teschiug the
English language, having among them an amount
of funds vastly dispropurtioned to the number of
persons taught in them. A circumstance relating
to the funds of some of these establishments was
mentioned in the Report of the Commissioners, of
which some further notice ehould be taken. The
Commissioners stated, •• the money belonging to
them is too often vested in private securities, to the
evident hazard of its entire loss, and we have fuuud
also that when such money has been invested in
Government securities the names of individuals
have been used instead of those of the several
trusts or corporations to which the properties be-
longed." Besides the schools which he had enu-
merated there were others, which were more partfr
cularly intended for the education of the lower
classes. The first of these were the Incorporated
Charter Schools, which were thirty-utile iu num-
ber ; .they received from the public purse. by a
Tote of Parliament, 29,2831. annually, which,
with other funds belougeng to them in Le-
land, mole their annual income to amount to
40,183/. The Right Honourable Gentleman
then proceeded to remade upon the disproportion
of the number of scholars educated at these schools,
to the amount of their means, which lie traced to se- '
vend causes, but chiefly to the system of proselytism
on which the Protestant chartered school* proceed-
ed, which naturally operated to impede every effort
to promote the education of the children of the Lowe*
orders, the far greater number of which were Ro-
man Catholics. Nu man, he said, could doubt
that 40.0001. a year, if applied ou liberal and ra-
tional principles, would afford the means of educe-
tam to nearly the entire population of Ireland. The
Blue Coat School educated 130 scholars, at an ex-
pense of 241. each scholar per annum. The num-
ber of children received into the Foundling Hos-
pital averaged 2,000 annually, of which the pro-
porno's educated was about 400, the funds of the
'Hospital amounting to 32,1,254 annually. Wilson's
Hospital supported some old men, and educated
107 buys, the annual income being 3,0001.
The !nutrition School for soldiers' chit-doers had au
anima I revenue of 9,0654., and the cioldren amount-
ed to boo. The Hiberutan Amine School had funds
to the amount of 2,1971. In addition to these there
were 33 endowed Classical Schools, whose united
income was 9,0001., which educated 1,000 whirlers.
Exclusive of the parish schools iu the city of Dublin,
and of the other schools in diffirent pl.rcrs, sup-
ported by private endowment, there were 44 public ,
establishments for the education of the lower classes,
in which upward. of 4,200 (+Athos were tuainteimd,