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throughout the whole of its preamble and provision not a
word was said respocting either the clergyman or the
office he should hold.--( Hrar, hear.) There was, in-
deed, mention made of a very important officer, namely,
the overseer, but none whatever of the minister. The
next objection he had to the Bill was, that the substance
of all the obnoxious minutes of the Committee of the
Privy Council, which were the occasion of their Lordships'
address to her Majesty, exaggerated only by many
circumstances and extended in character in a manner not to
be found there, but not guarded by 'many of
the limitations in those minutes, were found in
the Noble and Learned Lord's Bill. The first
of those to which he would draw the attention of the
House, was the Commission itself. The Committee of
the Board of Privy Council was objected to, because it had
no ecclesiastical member in it. The Bill of the Noble and
Learned Lord proposed not only that the same thing
should take place, hut it proposed to plant in cities,
boroughs, towns, and villages Committees, who were
themselves to be vested with a considerable degree of
power. The second objection to the Committee of Coun-
cil, was he system of inspection. There the inspection was
to be confined to the construction of the buildings, but
here it was to take cognizance of the state and conduct of
the schools, and the branch Committees were to report
thereon to the Central Commission. By this Bill the
Clergy would be almost entirely excluded from the super-
intendance of the schools. The only reason for such a
strong measure must arise from the inadequate means of
education, to effect the great objects proposed ; and be
could not but believe that the Noble and Learned Lord
had underrated those means. The National Society, and
the schools in the parishes of the Clergy, were at present
under the superintendence of the Clergy. It had been
stated by the Right Reverend Prelate that there were
more than a million of children under the instruction
of the National Society. The Noble and Learned Lord had
questioned the accuracy of that statement, but there could
be no doubt that 1,100,000 of 1,200,000 children were
reaping the benefits of that Society ; and it was at present
making inquiries of all the Universities for a person the
best qualified to be a teacher in it, to whom it was pre-
pared to pay a salary of 4001. a year, and to supply with a
house. If they passed this Bill, the Clergy would be dis-
placed from the superintendence of the education of those
children ; and if there could be a severe blow struck at
the Established Church, it would be that of separating the
Clergy from the superintendance of that education. In
the last debate the Noble and Learned Lord objected to
the superintendence of the Clergy on the ground of their
incompetency for that office from want of time. To
this he (the Right Reverend Prelate) would say that
if the whole burthen of education were thrown on the
clergy they could repudiate the charge of inability. Upon
these grounds he should object to the Noble and Learned
Lord's Bill, and, with all due respect to him, he begged to
move as amendment that it be read a second time this
day six months.
Lord MELBOURNE said, that in all the discussions
he had heard on this question, and from all the opinions he
had heard delivered, he certainly had heard it generally
admitted that some more general system of education than
that which now existed was required and imperiously de-
manded by the state of the population, by the increased
intelligence of the country, and by the general feelings of
the puLlic. —( Hear, hear.) His Noble and Learned
Friend had brought forward this question in a very clear,
able, and distinct manner. He had ably stated all the grounds
on which the Bill was founded. He had lucidly likewise
stated what he meant to effect by it, and also his views of
the means which he conceived he had of accomplishing
that. He had expressly and candidly stated that his object
in having the Bill read a second time was that something
should be done for the purpose of having a better system of
education ; that all the details and objections would be open
to subsequent consideration in Committee for alteration
and amendment. Concurring then in the objects of this
Bill, concurring in much of the argument upon which his
Noble and Learned Friend had moved the second reading,
unquestionably if it should be pressed to a division, he did
not see how he could refuse his vote to his Noble and
Learned Friend, or do otherwise than take that step which
would be calculated to lead into a discussion of all that
which, by universal agreement, and by the voice of all
mankind, was admitted to require speedy and effectual con-
sideration. At the same time, when he heard the objec-
tions that were made to the Bill—when he considered the
period of the Session at which they were sitting, and when
he reflected that if their Lordships gave a second reading
to this Bill there would be but little probability that his
Noble and Learned Friend would be able to get a measure
on the subject passed into a law this Session, he could not
help putting it to his Noble and Learned Friend whether
it would not be wise, and whether it would not be for the
ultimate benefit of the object he had in view that he should
withdraw this Bill for the present, and bring it forward
again at a more convenient season, with such amendments
and such alterations as his great knowledge and great
abilities might enable him to suggest.

Lord BROUGHAM said that his Noble Friend and
himself were pretty well agreed upon the details ; at t!,e
same time he could not help feeling the weight of what
had just fallen from his Noble Friend; If their Lord-
ships were to read the Bill a second time, and go into a
Committee upon it, he certainly could not see that much
more progress could be made with the measure this Ses-
sion. His only difficulty in acceding to the proposition of
his Noble Friend was that in the event of his doing so it
might look to some persons like a trifling with the sub-
ject on his part, after having brought it furward no less
than three times already, but which he could assure them
would not be a fair interpretation of his motives.
After what his Noble Friend had said of the late period
of the Session, and the other suggestions that had been
made, he would withdraw the measure for the present
Session, but that withdrawal would be under the expecta-
tion that he should not be asked next Session to press it
to a division. He was greatly gratified by the statements
of the Noble Prelate ; he hoped be would reserve himself
to the next Session, as he was convinced that in principle
there was no difference between the Right Reverend Pre-
late and himself. There was one mistake, however, which
he wished to set right—he was not, as had been supposed,
desirous for removing the Clergy from the superintendence
of education; he thought they had done a great deal for
it, and he would sooner give up the measure altogether
than have such a provision inserted.
In conclusion the Noble and Learned Lord withdrew
the measure.

The amendment and the original motion were then
withdrawn.

The Bills on the Table were forwarded a stage, and
:he House adjourned at Eight o'Clock.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
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ST. LEGER.
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nE a IS r-1840.
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LIVERPOOL CUP.
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7 to I agst Lord Anglesey's Confusionee
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Very little betting.

39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. •-•.-•
DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION. The late melan-
elsoly occurrence of death by operation for deafness has
induced the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and
Opticians to the Royal Family, to lay before the public
the simplicity of their invention, by which it will be seen
that serious risk of torture by medical treatment is com-
pletely obviated by merely placing a small voice conductor
in the car, which is not more uncomfortable nor percepti-
ble than having a piece of wool in its place; it pours into
the ears the general conversation to such an extent that
most severe cases in company arc not the least perceptible.
The newly-invented Spectacle Lenses, immediately they
are placed before weak and imperfect eyesight, either by
day or candlelight, every object becomes clear and dis-
tinct, and the most minute particle is seen with exact dis-
tinctness. Those new inventions have met the sanction
and unqualified approbation of the principal members of the
medical profession, by the use of which both the sight and
hearing become much improved. No agents nor travellers
are employed.
The rapid improvement in the architecture of
the metropolis, as adapted to external and internal decora-
tions, together with the corresponding advancement in
public taste—added to a lavish expenditure in its attain-
ment--could not, perhaps, be better exemplified than in
the recent alterations which are attracting so much atten-
tion on the part of the artist-world and the beau monde to
the house of Colnaghi, the eminent print-publishers of
Cockspur-street. It is pleasing to notice such advance-
ment in the refinement of places like unto this ; indeed the
advantage to the public of examples of splendour and good
taste is much greater than one is at a first glance inclined
to suppose ; while it is the more gratifying to be assured
that men of education and experience, who with a liberal
feeling embark a large capital in bringing together under
a fitting roof, the most costly productions of art, reap be-
nefits equivalent to the magnitude of their outlay.
The following pretty little, loyal, and very
liberal ebullition in a Tory paper, rejoicing in the name of
Salisbury and Wilbhire Herald, will amuse such of our
readers as disgust may not deter from looking into the
tainted paragraph —" So, then I (exclaims the rebuked
hypocrites' scribe) in opposition to the voice of the country
—to the voice of the House of Lords—and to the voice of
the Protestant Commons of England, the Melbourne Mi-
nistry has resolved upon carrying through that scheme of
Anti-national Education indignantly and vehemently repro.
bated by all but its own Popish allies ; and with unprincipled
baseness make the Queen a party to the arbitrary in-
troduction of a system utterly incompatible not merely with
the principles for the maintenance of which her illustrious
ancestors were called to the throne of these realms, but
with the principles of that Church, the settlement of which,
as the settlement of the United Church of England and
Ireland,' her Majesty at her coronation bound herself, in
the presence of her people, and in the temple and the
presence of her God—bound herself by the most solemn
of human and of Christian obligations, to maintain and
preserve inviolably," and the doctrine, worship, discipline,
and government thereof.'" Here's a manifestation of
malice and all uncharitableness, of irreligion and disloyalty.
Truly, we now-a-days see fine specimens of Tory loyalty