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views and principles of Mr Hubbard and Mr Whalley,
he remarked that the plan of the former had not only
never been in operation, but had never obtained
the acceptance of any Ministry. His own ob-
jection to it was that it did not propose to get rid of any of
the anomalies of the existing tax, but to displace the present
system and introduce a scheme that had recommended itself
to his mind, but which was totally novel. Mr Hubbard
had obtained a committee last session on the subject of his
scheme, the judgment of which was adverse to him, and
he had now varied the form of his motion ; but he thought
that the house, recognizing the ill effects of an abstract
resolution, would not be disposed to adopt it. True, there
ware great inequalities in the operation of the income-tax,
but let not the house pass this resolution without having
before it some practical scheme.
Mr BOVILL supported the motion. He denied that this
was a mere abstract resolution. It declared the injustice
and ineqmlity of the present form of the tax ; and should
not an rattempt be made to remedy them and check the en-

couragement now given to unfair returns ? The Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer did not propose any remedy or suggest
any plan; he asked the house simply to reject this motion.
Sir S. NORTHCOTE observed that the Chancellor of
the Exchequer did not ask the house to adopt the income-
tax as a part of the permanent taxation of the country; if
he did, a motion of this kind might properly be made. The
house had had opportunities of considering this subject,
and propositions made for altering the system had never
met with its acceptance. The house should not commit
itself by condemning a tax in an abstract resolution.
After a few words from .111 r HUBBARD in reply, the
motion was negatived upon a division by 67 to 28.
NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
Sir H. CAIRNS moved a resolution, " That tha rules
sanctioned by the Commissioners of National Education
in Ireland on the 21st day of November, 1863, are so
far as regards their operation on the aid afforded to convent
and monastic schools, at variance with the principles of
the system of national education." The question, he ob-
served, was one the importance of which could not be over-
stated, the annual grant paid from the public purse amount-
ing to £315,000, and the number of children being 600,000,
and the rules referred to had been condemned by 80171 e of
the warmest friends of the system as fundamental raianges
in its principles, quite irrespective of religious, denomina-
tion, The model schools, which were interAted to provide
teachers, had been an object of hostility
'‘o the Roman
:-ad
Ca-
tholic clergy, who at the same time bad made a demand for
separate training for Roman CathrJlic teachers. The Board
of Education bad nominally rud this grant, but in sub-
stance they had granted it.% ana the consequence of this
was that if such a concr.ssion was made to oue denomina-
tion it must be made, to all, and this must lead to separate
education. He 'i,roceeded to narrate the proceedings of the
Board with rc,iation to the convent schools, and he read a
description of these schools in a report by Mr Sheridan, a
head inspector (a Roman Catholic), which he thought
should have called for a different kind of action from the
Board. Under the pressure of the Roman clergy, how-
ever, the Board, he contended, had violated the original
rules in rogard to the convent schools, and by the rules of
November the Commissioners had departed from the prin-
cipks of the national system, and sanctioned a separate
training establishment paid by the State, the amount given
to the convent schools being withdrawn from the model
schools. The Board had offered a defence of the rules
which he insisted was no justification, but was contra-
dictory and inconsistent with facts; and in their reply
to a letter of Sir R. Peel, complaining of the changes
made by them in the fundamental rules of the sys-
tem, the Commissioners claimed an uncontrolled power over
the public grant. If the house, he said in conclusion, de-
sired to maintain the system of national education in Ire-
land, he called upon it then to show the Commissioners
that the course they had pursued was not approved by the
house.

The motion was seconded by Mr DAWSON, who would
prefer to the present Board three paid Commissioners.
Mr O'HAGAN, as one of the Commissioners assailed by
Sir H. Cairns, replied to charges against them which he
declared he knew to be utterly unfounded. The real object
of the accusation was, he said, not the rules of the Board,
but to destroy a great institution and substitute a board of
paid commissioners. He would demonstrate that there had
been no fundamental change in the rules of the Board, or
any change that in any degree conflicted with the principles
of the Board or was at variance with their established prac-
tice. He proceeded to justify the acts of the Commissioners
from an early period in regard to convent schools, which
were known to be in connection with the Board in 1851.
The principle of the Board, which had adapted itself to the
peculiar circumstances of Ireland, without any departure
from the great principle of religious freedom, was to esta-
blish rules and regulations of such a character that there
should be no possibility of proselytism and no interference
with the religion of children. He read testimonies to the
character of the convent schools, and though he admitted
that the report of Mr Sheridan was not favourable to
them, he was encountered by a whole host of other in-
spectors. The model schools were not the sole establish-
ments for the training of teachers; the monitorial system
had been in operation 20 years, and was changed year after
year, and nobody supposed that these were fundamental
changes in the principles of the Board, nor was there
any pretence for such an allegation. As to the model
schools being training establishments for teachers, there
was no authority for this assertion. This was not contem-
plated ; they were intended, as the very name indicated, to
be models for other schools, not for training teachers. Upon
the whole, he contended that, whatever might be the real
object of the motion, the argument in support of it had

Mr 'WHITESIDE referred to the number of protests
(including that of Sir R. Peel) against what he termed an
act of arbitrary power, which had been justified by Mr
O'Hagan. He disputed the theory as to the model schools
propounded by Mr O'Hagan, and complained that these
schools were in process of destruction by the denunciation
of the Roman Catholic children to be withdrawn and trans-
ferred to the convent schools. He indicated what appeared,
to him to be the aim and the effect of these conventual
establishments, and appealed to evidence of their state and
condition. The true object of the Romish Church in Ire-
land was, he observed, to effect a complete separation be-
tween Roman Catholics and Protestants.
The debate was then adjourned.
The remaining business having been disposed of, the
house adjourned at twenty minutes to two o'clock.

Strange Suicide at London Bridge.

Yesterday morning Mr. William Payne, coroner
for the city of London and Southwark, held an in-
quiry respecting the death of Richard Barrett,
aged 45, who committed suicide at London-bridge.
John Barke, 6, Little Manchester street, Bethnal-
green, said that the deceased was a tailor by trade,
and lived with him. He had been living for twenty
years with a woman who left him seven weeks ago
and got married. He was much distressed in con-
sequence. At times he seemed to be out of his mind,
and he used to jump up in the middle of the night
and run out saying, " All the people in the house
are going to murder me." For some time past he
was out of work, and he was very poor, not even
having a table in his room, Last Sunday week he
went to see his sister, who was living in St. Pan-
cras, and of whom hs had lost sight for twelve
years. She " disacknowledged" him, and said, " I
do not know you. You are not my brother. My
brother has been dead some years." He returned
home in a most agitated state, and said to a little
girl, I will kill myself." He afterwards locked
upNhviis:atoram, Jones,
out, and witness never saw him
alive after. He was a man of very sober habits.
Thursday
ones, a working man, said that on last
morning he was on the steps at the City
side of Lendon-bridge, when he saw the deceased
lying on his faee, partly covered by the water.
a severe injury on the temple,
eTvhidereentwlyasca mark of
caused by a fall.
The deceased had ap-
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and found gas,
bridge into the river.
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is near the steps of
London bridge. No one, saw hint get into the
water. His friends were discovered by means of
advertising
in the newspapers.
The Coroner said that the case Via clearly one
of suicide, though there was no legal evidence of
the fact.

The Jury returned a verdict—" That deceased
was found dead in the Thames at London-bridge_
but how he came into the water there was no direct
evidence to prove."

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