The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-01 00:00:00

SCHOOL INSPECTORS' REPORTS.

Lord PALMERSTON moved the nomination of the
Select Committee on Education (Inspectors' Reports), to
consist of 15 members

Mr CLAY moved, as an amendment, that it be referred
to the General Committee of Elections to nominate a select
committee of five members.

After a long discussion, in which Lord PALMERSTON
signified his readiness to adopt the amendment,
Mr HENNESSY moved that the debate be adjourned.
Upon a division this motion was negatived by 61 to 30.
The discussion was then resumed with some degree of
warmth, and ultimately the debate was adjourned.
The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house
adjourned at 25 minutes to 2 o'clock.

The National Colonial Emigration Society,

Yesterday afternoon a public meeting of the promoters
of this society, which was established in June, 1862, for the
encouragement of emigration generally to the British Cs..
lonics, was held at 'Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's,
and was presided over by the Right Hon. Lord Lyttelton,
president of the society.

The proceedings were commenced by Mr. Arthur Hodg-
son, the hon. secretary, reading a report from the council of
the society, which gave a detail of its operations during a
period of 19 months. From this document it appeared that
in the course of that period the society assisted in sending
104 emigrants to Canada, 3 to Vancouver's Island, 6 to New
South Wales, 81 to Victoria, 120 to South Australia, 85 to
Queensland, 17 to Tasmania, and 3 to Western Australia ;
while to the New Zealand Provinces they had sent 42 to
Auckland, 235 to Canterbury, 12 to Nelson, 6 to Wellington,
1 to Otago, 1 to Southland, and 10 to Hawke's Ba 3 , which,
with 2 sent to Natal, made a total of 731. It also appeared that
over and above this number, since the close of the society's
financial year in December last, 100 ether persons had been
assisted by the society to emigrate to the Canadian, Aus-
tralian, New Zealand, and Cape Colonies. A large number
of those assisted had come from the distressed districts of
Lancashire and Cheshire, and special donations ire aid of
that particular class of emigrants had been received to the
amount of £591 14s 10d, which included a grant of £661
made by the Mansion-house Relief Committee. Endeavours
were being made to pron.ote the formation of co-operative
committees in each colony for the purpose of affording to
newly-arrived emigrants the benefit of their advice and as-
sistance,as also of receiving and transmitting to this country
any moneys that colonists might wish to send to their friends
or relations about to emigrate. In order, however, to carry
out and render permanent the operations of the society, it
was necessary that the amount of donations and annual sub-
scriptions should be considerably increased, and an earnest
appeal was made to the public for funds in order that the
society might be enabled more effectually than had hitherto
been done to carry out its benevolent object,
From the balance-sheet it appeared that the total receipts
from June, 1862, to Jan. 31 last had been £3,339 4s 4d, and
the total expenditure £2,566 173 9d, of which £1,575 152 6d
was in the shape of grants to emigrants, while there was a
balance at the bankers of £772 68 Bd.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
stated that while there was at present no particular pressure
which rendered emigration on a large scale necessary, still
the effect of such a society was always needed to help on the
natural and healthy flow of emigration which would at all
times be more or less going on to the colonies. While there
was no particular reason in England, there was in the far
north of Scotland, in the Hebrichs, a large population suffer-
ing very severely, and to whom emigration to some of the