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education purported to be bestowed, was trot ender
II eccsesiaitical coatroul. .
Lord ELDON declared binsself not beadle to the
principle, but contended that the survireendence of
the Schools ought to be vested in the fitiasters of
the Established Church. With respeit to leaving
th • appointment to the decision of the majority of
the parishioners, he conceived it a fatal **dust
to the Bill. Of the evils resulting from Isiah é
power being vested in parishioners. he bad sees
many examples; and perhaps he could not give a
more striking illustration of the contention de-
duciiale from that right, than the pot litigation
which the eleffion of a Leet.trer to the parish of
Clerkenwell had so frequently created. •
The Archbishop of CAN CERHU KY coincided
in the opinion that a public education ought to be
placed under the controul o the Diocesan. It war,
and ought to be in a Proiestaut country. a parse
mount consideratioa, to place the education- and
moods of the lower classes of society atioder-chaami-
perintendence of the Clergy at the listahlishod
Churc i.
" Et east* risaneant in rel*es. Nernes." • 4
Earls CANrIOPE never could reconcile himself ;:r
to an opinion so detestable, that no person. miles: a
member of the Bstablishel Chore.., ought to receive
a public education. Maid the Noble and Lamas&
Lord assert, that the whole body of. Oisseaters, the-:111
Catholics. the Baptists, sad the Quakers. iisestant. to
to eiejoy the heneffs of national instruction r sesseu
she Noble and Learned L ird has said. that a pub* aid
mode of education ought ti be founded spooling to
narrow views of an established system. Would i,es
say, is following op that prin.opk, that been's', in ..4
Canada the establishment is Catholic, diereforeoissoilo
that ammtry the public education ought to be
:CaillifiNceontroul ? Wny have the Sewell prised nil
difterldwas superior even in all the minor degrees of we
arrisanthip ? rhe pre-eminence has ontandy AM'S -IS
from the general diffusion of knowledge anitsaget; ie
them. Nen who tears, to spell, and read, and mites.
soon begin to think, cad the result, eves with worlw ft
ing men. was, that they did mere work is a 111101004
time, and of a superior quality. With raspallsta •ad
tbe observation, that because the sight of elbiliesrait
to the Latino-440f Clacimawall beim =Met bell
the perieheeners, and that frees k Mash brigs.
Lion bad "med. therefore oars was a lama
,)bjoltioe to leaving the. palest appeasement so
the derision of a saajorisy d she parishioners I
web as ohjelbse was iasiiq no the err twee Me
analogs's Is theism of cleibeawsk ma* Chooses,
ry soils bad meant* 1 -Mg it was
ageism the pretrial= of the present 114 mesh lose • •
against its principle. Mete was as old siege. of all .
C.hancery snits; that the oyster wastlitheiedm
sad there +masochistic left for the elaimsetabot ids
sbell.—(.l lie h./ tie hulawrif aewid alesspilfp •
' their elves. In heir id he was Wong Maresetsid
in such a mit for a coarse of tarty yaws. arid is
England he was a party to one of bar anadrad
years standing. (A lead lotwir.) Wan *very ash-
siderauou, he thought die motion of the Noble do.
cretary of St ate ought It, be negatived.
The motion of Lend Hawkesbory was dim pep
aid carried A•thout a division, so toot the SW uf •
r Mr. Whitbread was lost for the baton.
IRISH ARMS [ALL.
Lord HAWK idU ItY moved the cothmittal of
the Irish Arms
Lord VVA:.,INOMIAM in the Chair.
Lord HOLLAND rose, and observed, that it was
bh intention to have oppo, d inc rnition for going
into a Committee art the present Ben, was he u. ,
at the moment of the quesuo i being put, in some
degree inattentive to too bunt ens pa,sing in the
House. However, he would take the advautage ut
the committal, of statnig inos. arguments *Ascii
weighed with him to osatiose the Pt inciple of the
rill. Scarcely had 44 hours expired since the
Noble Secretary of State. wh this night moved the
eammittal of a dies' tati.ig 801, h.sd, with his wonted
eloquence, powerfuny imp...seed the necessity of
arming for our defeuce the waole population of the
empire. Ye., this night. instead tit putting ..arch a
determination into execution, instead of locrea.ing
the resources of our sesurity instead of uniting Lie
who.e of our fellow-subjeas in one indissisiuble
bond of common safety and sum% their LatO-
ships were called upon to take out of the band, of
fellow-subjects, those weapons whicn a better policy
would have arrayed in our defence World ii not
proves more 'Aunty policy to have inquired into the
discootent, and correited the necessity ? On a tormei
period great dissatisfaCtion was expressed At the appli-
cation so our situation of the :elm, a olioteled people.
But if such violent remedies were necessary, and by
necessity they could only be justified, most certainly
the application was oared; and what a strange
speectacle did such conduff es!.ibit to the enemy and
to Europe, that at a moment when the natio was
proud of eviuci.ig is Unanihr.4ll Vint t.finelep nd-
epee ; when the Parliament were holding t.irth
She invincible power of the British people when
etianimou, ; then it was, that a dritih otinistry, in
the contemplation of a possible ,veat, were anal tray
proposing legislative measures for the purpose of
disarming a very large proportion of .cur imysical
force. 'Co this Bill there were objettions, which by
do !beans applied to that enaHment. (Inc lasurrec-
lion Bill), woose principle be supported *an the
'Strongest and most acute feelings ut regret. Yet,
is that Bill there was .:is prosper, that its powers
were vested in the highest Chi:atter, under the
most powerful impre.sio., ot respeekaunity, an • that
it would n,.t be acted upon. until the evil, waich it
was intended t repress,bael of ueuly manifested itself.
but here was a but, placing in the hinds at tne Ast-
gistrae), Oa the us 'smut alter its naltment, an un-
qualified power art e..tet tog tue houses of the lush
. rook, as welt by sight as by day. without say
proper or waive= power being vested in the Lush
.;overausene to Auard against abuse, or to check its
extension. He argued further, mat such a Esti would
deism its own intention, and that it t-ie.e persons

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