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London, England, 1820-07-02 00:00:00

ME NATIONAL REGISTER.

changed his opinions and views. He now believed dial they
bad been trilled and played with ;—would they endure the
cusitinuance of such treatment t After the language of their
own resolution, after the vote to which they had come, he
thought they could not sanction any votejwhich would tend to
support she opinion that they thought enquiry could be pro-
moted without being derogatory to the Crowu and iiijuriour
to the hest iiiterests of the people.
Lord N UGEN (.said, if the Ministers were sincere in de-
precator.; the display of party feeling, they would nt least
silence those two London prints which were supposed to be
under their peculiar iiidnence. They had uttered libels which
deserved to he prosecuted by the Attoruey General.
Mr. HOHHOUSE declared it to be his opinion, that it
was impossible fur the House to sauct ion that enquiry whit
the Ministers had asked of them. The Ministeis themselves
were alarmed ■t their own acts—sthey knew not what to do
—and it they could but get the Queen oat of the country, not
Duty a ship, but a while fleet would be at her service.—
(cheers.)—Attu the green bag, however, where seas there
safety for the Queen—even fur her life, but in this conntr)
After remarks from Mr. Scarlett, Mr. Marryntt, &c. mid
oiw• explanatory observatious from Mr. Brougham, about
twelve k the (louse divided. The numbers were—
Fur the ialginul Motion 195
Fur the Amendment IVO
Majority in favour of the 4,4jourument
till Friday se'unight 05
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned.
TUESDAY, JUNIS 21.

Ali r. atil CODUISIio N.-- Sir It. FERGUSON give notice,
that on fluanaluy neat he should submit a mutiou ou the
subject of t he aid in Counnisse.u,—(Hear.)
Mr. OEN 11 AN prewined a Petition from Mr. R. G.
Butt, complaining of hays g bees committed to prison for
an alleged liweloto a Magistrate's warrant.
Pei it Mil read, and fostered to be primed.
The reinaiiiiie.. Older or the Day miring beep disposed of,
the Bum,- ititjuuineti.
licOhrsDAY, JUNZ 28.
Mr. I.Y T l' LE I'ON torinighi up toe Report of the Labour-
ere Wa,co ,lilt, w filch was rec:tved. read, and agreed to,
a te, smug regale), fr Mr. Baring, as to the limitation of
tile 11111, al.. L. amiss erisig tart it airs to continue for three
years. Ordered to he read a flood lone on Friday neat.
EDUCATION Or The POOK —Mr. IWOUGH A M looped-
the ;louse would allow him to bring fora and hit motion Os
item subject, fur hereafter he should be obliged, as it were,
,o reisre from Polo:wield, as si Hill of great importance was
about to he bra fight into the other House, which would
✓equire his COllllllOll attention.—(Hear.)—lie merely meant
to iiiii ve for leave to bong to a Bill on the subject ; and to
enante whets, who might not be lawyer-, to understand this
"itti:*ci, hr should have an abstract of the Bill put into the
hands of .Merriest. The subject was of great importance,
and would be remembered when the subjects which were
110 W miliapotly engagnig the general attention should be
fitt%Jiiteli.—( Hear, hear 1)---fie returned his thanks for the
al iention and co-operation which had teen experienced from
the Clergy of the Established Church. In one day he had
re-rived filoo answer. to ;he amebas of the Education
Critunai.tee ; the neat day he received 2600; aud 1111011 after-
wards nearly all the returia io 11,4470 persins were made.—
About Stia answers, sone of the best answers, were min :4W ;
but the repeated applis adorn were immediately complied
with, only two of them murmured, and those tall also sent
back the amplest mistier,. This was most praise-worthy,
fur they were co-operating in the promotion of MI great and
good object ; and us most of these penman retuning taus veers
were the working Clergymen, individuals who had the least
profits, the greater merit was disc. He memo 111 l ed these cir-
cumstances because on it lie built the greater hope of alit-
, mute success (0 the plan a hich he conteinplated. The digest
and tabular reports acre now prepared ; and those enquiries
had taken place which Mr. Percival had said slight to pre-
cede any proposition being made to Parliament. 'I bey had
now great light on statistical subjects; and the dm keess
whirl, hat heretofore deo acterised such enquiries urns re-
, nairkubly evident in the works of that lively and 1.1% "Ting I
writer, Dr. Colgulioun.—(Hear, hear.)—That writer I.oUllit
out tau millions of poor children alas were without the
meisiss of ;worming education, and added, that there ought
to he a bctiool-room erected its every parish capable of lood-
lag WO persons, a far greater number of children than acre
to be found in any wish. with few esceptious.—The
" lower orders" did not amount to any thing like such moo-
tiers; but using these terms he meant to give no Aimee.—
lle would Out abstain from them lb compitinent to those a ho
complained of the use of the words, nod the poorer classes
' would be" low" indeed if they followed advice coming from
11 such qua. tiers. That was called the " lower" House, to
distingunii it from the Peers; and the raw. teams a ere siiii:y
to distinguish the poorer who were undoubtedly tee most
important classes, looming, in truth, the basic of society.-- '
(Hear, hear.) The formation of iiistitutiosis to promote
edaraiiiiii amongs. the pour were of onsierit growth, they
had been early introduced into this country• At the time
whew Mandeville *rote his •. Fable of the Beers" disloyal
ti hoots sere cumplaiiied of ; similar complauits were now
urged regoi dist 4 some liChoOlt, patliC11111:ly i hose in Laill'a•
Aire • and it was tbeii said, what he would now 1i001( allele
those schools were opea—sv heti you hod them leaching dis •
loyalty, shut them up. Ile did not waist to teach the pour
Latin, Greek, arr.; he did not wish to take I licia from the
plini,lll lied mechames; and he denied that education tended
to disqualify men, and to make them uucomfortuble to
move in the " lower rooks," using the words to. Gilbert
Burns, the brother of the celebrated poet, Burns. Front the
Digest and Table it appeared that the weans of education, .
in ninny instances, were considerably deficient; the ave-
rage means of education in England and Wales were as
tile.-sixteealli, when it ought to be onedsitith or oile-tenth.
And but fur Lancesteriaii and Natiunal Schools the means
would be stia less. The means bad considerably in-
creased since 1803; and yet the power possessed was
obly as uise-sixtreu• h. Rehire that period the counts y was
111 it allUell worse comlition—it was as one tar iity -fit st.—
Now, iii Scotland, the condition was very dillerent and
illUbl favourable; it was as one-ninth. (Year.) In
Fiance it was as 011 e twenty-eighth; a statement %%Inch
he !winded 011 Ile teriiinoity of Dr. Sigel, Laborde, Ore.
ion this was much better than was the case a lew years
*lC:ii. 0411 almost a. bad as Middlesex had been, which was
Use waist educated of any with which he was acquainted
In Chi istentluni. But its Flatlets the eller!, made %vie
iiiiiiiiii.e, (01 111 ittl) years upwards of seven (11Unialid
trlioolli bad been wised; so that soon there would nut be
an uneducated person in France. llu Saitzerlaud great
attention was also paid to education, tar these was not
one ;micron iu sixty bet what was educated. la thistotia- 1

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