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AYES-169.

Aciand, Sir T, Goulhurn, gOtway, A.
Atherton, W. Graham, Sir J. Paget, Lord A.
Gr.,enall,
Bailey, Sir J. Gilbert Paklngton, Sir I.
Baines, Rt. Hon. M. Gregson, Samuel Palmerston, Viscount
Ball, E. Grenfell, Charles Patten, J.
Berkeley. G. Grey. Rt. Hon. Sir G. Pecheli, Sir G.
Blair, Col. J. A. Hamilton, G. A. Peel, F.
B mham-Carter, I. Bankey, T. Pennant, Col. E.
Bowyer. G Hayes, Sir E. Peto. S.
Phinn,l'.
Herbert, S. Pollard-Urquhart W
BBroracnkd' e hH u
rßs t.. W. Henley, J.
Brotherton, J. Herbert, Slr T. Potter, R.
Bruce. Lord E Hervey, Lord A. Price W.
Buckley, Gen. andley, C. Pritchard, 3.
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Burrell, Sir C. M. Hotham, Lord Ramsden, Sir .T.
Byng, G. H. C. Howard, Fl.m. C. Ricardo, 0.
Cairns, H. Hume, W, Robartes, T.
Campbell, Sir A. L Hutt, W. Rumbold, C.
Cardwell. E. Johnstone,-.T. Russell, Lord J.
Cavendish, C. C. Johnstone, Sir J. Russell, F. C.
Carley, E. S. Jolliffe, Sir W. Sandara, G.
Child, Smith Jones, Capt. T. Bawls, C.
Christy, Samuel Keating, II Seymour, Lord
Clay, Sir W. Et. Kendall, N. Shelburne. Earl
Clinton, Lord R. R. P. Kennedy, T. Sheridsn, R.
Cobden, R. Keogh, W. Smith, J. A.
Cockb,lrn, Sir A. J. E. Klnnaird, A. Smith, R.
Cowan. C. Kirk, W. Smyth. J. G.
Cowper, W. Knatchbull, W. Somerset, Capt. E.
Dashwood, Sir G. IL Lacon, Sir E. Stafford, Marquis
Davie, Sir B R.F. Langston, J. IL Stanhope, J.
Denison, E. B, Langton, H. G. Starkie, Le G.
Denison, J. E. Lee, W. Strati. Hon. E.
Dering, Sir E. C. Leniox, Lord A. F. Talbot, C.
Disraeli, Rt. Ron. B. Lindsay Lt. .Col. J. Ta' lor, Col. T.
Duckworth, Sir J. T. Lindsay, W Thorn{ son, G.
G Duncan, G.
Littleton, E. Thornely, T
Duncornbe, lion. A. Lockhart, W. Tyler, Sir G.
Dundas, F. Loveden, P. Vernon, G.
Dunlop, A. Lowe, R. Vyvyau, Sir H:
Egerton, W. Luce T. Walmaley, Sir 3.
Elcho, Lord Macartney, G. WA:pole. S.
Ellice, E. Mackinnon, W. A. Waterpark, Lord
Ewart, W. MacGregor Jas. Wells, W.
Fagan, W. Mandeville, Viscount West, F.
Feilden, M. Miles, W. Whitbread, S.
Fellowes, E. Milligan, R. Wickham. H.
Ferguson, Sir H. Mills, T. Wilson, J.
Fitzgerald.Lt.-G.Sir J Molesworth, Sir W. Winnington, Sir T.
Fitzroy, Ron. il. Monck, Viscount Wool, Sir C.
Floyer, J. Moncrieff, J. Wo idd, B.
Foley, J. 3ionsell, W. 'Wyndham, W.
Forster J. Mowbray, J. Yowl& Sir J.
Fortescue, C. Naas, Lord
Fox, W. Napier, J.
Freestun, Col. North, F
Glyn, G. O'Connell, D.
Goodman. Sir G. O'Connell, J.

Hay ter. W.
Mulgrave, Earl of

NOES-48.
Adderley, C. Frewen C. Philippa, J.
A Alcock, I'. , Hadfield. George Phill more. 11.. r.
ndenson, Sir J. Hastie. Alex. Plikington, J.
Barnes, T. Hanle, Archd. Portal, M.
Bell, J. Heywood, J. Sadleir, James
Bentinck, G. Hey worth, L. Rebell, Capt. .
Brady, J. Higgins, G. 0. Scully, F.
Chambers, M. Kershaw, J. Stuart, Lord D.
Cheetharn, John King, L. Tomline, G.
Craufurd, E. .11. J. King, J. Vansittart, G.
Crossley, F. Locke, J. Wilkinson, W.
beecles W. Lovaine, Lord Williams, W.
Dod, J. W. Lucas, F. Willoughby, Sir H.
Drummond, H. Martin, J. Wise, A.
Evelyn, W. Niched, Dr. W. TELLEI3.
Filmer, Sir E. Morris. D. Spooner, R.
Forbes, W. Mudl.gs. :. Seymour, H.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1854.

Upwards a month has elapsed since the trans-
mission from Vienna of that demand on the part
of the Austrian and Prussian Governments for the
immediate evacuation of the Principalities by the
army of the Northern AUTOCRAT—With the Im-
perial reply to which we have only just now been
made acquainted by a few incoherent syllables
Sashed across the channel by electric telegraph.
The despatch now answered on the 7th or Bth
July, set out as long ago as the 2d of June on its
way to St. Petersburg. It was couched in terms
sufficiently guarded and courteous to have propi-
tiated even the arrogance of a Czar as haughty and
domineering as the Emperor NICHOLAS. Neverthe-
less, more than five weeks have sped past before this
courtly document has been responded to—and now
that the reply has actually been received, it is
found to be one tantamount to a distinct refusal
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their possession. The frontiers of Bessarabia are
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the French and English soldiers be simultaneously
withdrawn through the B
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nelles into the Mediterranean.
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of the kind specified by the Vienna despatch
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the tiouthat
—being one, assuredly, altogether beyond the
control of the Austrian Government. Where-
fore the reply at last given by the CZAR is
unfavourable—is a refusal—is to all intents
and purposes so distinctly a refusal, that, sup-
posing the German Powers to be sincere in
their avowed intentions, it must at length com-
pel Austria at the very least (we say nothing at
all about Prussia) to take an active part with the
Allies in the war against Russia. We shall see.
We may now look for the result in eager expec-
tation.

At the very time when the CZAR accords this
' insensate reply to the demands made by Austria
and Prussia for the evacuation of the Principali-
ties, the fleets and armies of his antagonists are
rapidly closing
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upon the frontiers Of his =pin,

A brief interval, and the world may behold the
recompense of his lawless ambition by the avenging
arms of the champions of the rights of Chris-
tendom.

The Divine Founder of our faith complained,
while fulfilling his mission, that in whatever way
the heavenly message was presented, its hearers
were dissatisfied; His austere predecessor was
charged with having a devil, while He himself
was denounced as a gluttonous man and a wine-
bibber. The sects of that day were discon-
tented, and worse, with anything which did
not strengthen their favourite creed. Much the
same has been the fate of education in these
sectarian days of ours. All profound interest
in educating the humbler classes has spun
from the bosom of Christianity, and, like Chris-
tianity as preached by our LORD, it can shape
itself in no form which will suit all the sects ; and
simply because their zeal for sectarian distinctions
is stronger than their zeal for their common faith,
and much stronger than for that which would be
a substantial gain to every Christian denomina-
tion, as well as to the community viewed socially,
—the thorough education of the masses. We
by no means intend to denounce all this
denominational zeal as hypocrisy ; it is for
the more part sincere, but it is blind sincerity
assuredly. Allowing to each denomination, for
argument's sake, all the merits it can reasonably
claim for its distinctive features, we would ear-
nestly inquire of all cool-thinking men belonging
to it, whether those peculiarities really ought to
stand in the way of a truly national system of
education. Let them remember that it is
the peculiarities alone which are the hin-
drance. The facts of the Apostles' Creed, or
of the Gospel at least, and the precepts
of the Decalogue with their summary in two Chris-
tian precepts, no Christian denomination dreams
of objecting to ; it is the debated matters of
Church government chiefly, or of the efficacy of
ceremonies, or of the correctness of some meta-
physical theses, on which Christians differ ; it is
these, therefore, and not the essentials of our
faith that are the real obstacle to union in a sub-
stantially religious education. Yet if the attempt
is made to teach religion at different hours to
those appropriated to reading, writing, and
arithmetic, and that, too, in order to enable the
denominations to unite the teaching of peculiari-
ties with essentials, forthwith the absurd cry is
raised of " Godless Education." Neither united
education in essentials, nor separate education in
peculiarities will do. We are confident such vio-
lation of all common sense could not long survive
full public discussion. Our descendants, on the
other side the Atlantic, have, indeed, discussed
and settled the question most wisely years ago.
We are glad, therefore, that the various possi-
ble modes of national education are more likely
to become the subject of Parliamentary discussion
and examination than hitherto ; and we are in-
clined to think with Mr. COEDEN in his remark
during the debate on the education vote demanded
forthe Committee of Privy Council, that if the sub-
ject be fully and fairly discussed in Parliament, a
common-sense solution of the difficulties must
force itself upon the public. This year, we suppose
on account of the magnitude of the vote, the Lord
President of the Privy Council felt constrained
to offer some remarks upon it; 343,0001., being
an addition of 83,0001. to the vote of last year,
was too large an amount to be slipped through,
like last year's grant, without a word. It would
seem, from Lord JOHN'S statements, that the
great increase was required to pay the ever-aug-
menting demand for pupil teachers, who receive
about 181. a-year each, and amount in number to
6,912, representing, it is stated, some 280,000
children instructed by them. Lord JOHN con-
siders this to be a great step towards im-
proving the quality of the education. Of this,
however, we are by no means confident, and we
see with pleasure that Mr. MIALL'S amendment to
reduce the vote to the amount of last year resulted
in the consent of Lord JOHN RUSSELL to the ap-
pointment next session of a committee of investi-
gation. The Member for Rochdale had, as several
Members confessed, a strong case, in objecting to
the unconstitutional mode of voting this grant
with n 9, estimate whatever laid before the
House, and to a body which could change
the application of the money by its own
self-authorised minutes. There is no reason
why Sir JOHN KAY SHUTTLEIVORTH, who is, in
fact, the Education Committee of Privy Council,
should administer the third of a million of the
public money without exposing his demands in
detail before our Financial as well as our Educa-
tional Reformers. We do not grudge the
amount, or a very much larger, if well applied,
but we want full proof that it is well applied.
It would seem, from the Ins ,ectors' reports,
that the new plans have failed to keep the children
longer at school, and so to improve the education,
and that great numbers of the pupil teachers are
dissatisfied at not finding Government or other
situations. These things show how reasonable i

is to inquire for what we are paying money on a
scheme, which if it goes on will certainly require
millions a-year. It may turn out that, at great
cost, we improve the quality of education for a
few, but not for the many, and that the large
numbers of children whose parents care nothing
about education never will be touched by our mil-
lions of public money.

Now, this is certainly not what we all desire.
Whenever we think of national education, the
pleasing vision is of a scheme which shall educate
the hitherto uneducated part of the nation. We
remember immediately the hundreds and thou-
sands of ragged, dirty, idle urchins who swarm in
all the back streets between our great thorough-
fares and in other districts abandoned
to the hopeless unwashed the offspring
of that third of the population which
attend no place of worship whatever. In regard
to these, it is more important by far that national
education should regard the quantity rather than
the quality of the education, great as was the stress
laid by Lord J. RUSSELL on the latter. It will
hardly do to go on voting immense sums to polish
up a comparatively few pupil teachers, while the
vast class which peoples our prisons and workshops
are left without education atall. We must own that
hitherto Sunday Schools, and, still more, Ragged
Schools, have accomplished far more for this class
than Sir J. K. SHIITTLEWORTH'S schools ; yet it
is just this class, the class to which the Govern.
meat stands most of all in loco parentis, which
ought to feel the benefit of national grants. For
these reasons we are well satisfied that the matter
is to be fairly examined next year.

The new Prussian Minister, Count Von Benssloff, on
his arrival from Berlin, which is hourly expected at the
Embassy, on Carlton House-terrace, will be presented
to the Queen, at the first Court after his Excellency's
arrival, by Lord Clarendon. The mansion has been
secured to the Prussian Government on a long lease, by
act of Parliament.
The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland and Mr. and Mrs.
Coore left town yesterday for Westfield House, Ryde,
Isle of Wight.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, although his
Grace is understood to have retired from the turf, will
display their annual splendid hospitalities to a dis-
tinguished circle at Goodwood-park during the forth-
coming races. Prince Edward, of Saxe Weimar, his
Grace's son-in-law, of the third battalion of Grenadier
Guards, just promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel by
brevet, is doing duty with his regiment at the seat of
war. Her Highness the Princess Edward is staying
with her noble parents during her gallant husband's
absence in the East.

AN INTERESTING INVALID.—The Kreuz Zeitung
(Russian organ in Berlin) cooly announces that at Kis-
Bingen, near the Rhine, a house has been taken for the
present bathing season for the Emperor of Russia, who
will drink the waters there for some weeks.
CREHORNE GARDENS.—Although " summer has set in
with its usual severity," these gardens, except on
decidedly wet evenings, are extremely well attended.
In no preceding season have they presented so tasteful
and brilliant an appearance, and the objects of attraction
are all but innumerable. As the majority of the visitors
do not arrive from town until nightfall, we would
suggest a later hour than half-past seven for the com-
mencement of the ballet, which is especially deserving
of being seen by all, and is, of itself, well worth a trip to
Cremorne. The manner in which the Bridal Morn is
put upon the stage is most creditable to the manage.
ment ; and the admirable dancing and pantomime of M.
Milano, and Madlles. Therese and Annie Cushine, the
comic exploits of Messrs. Seymour, Wright, and John-
son, the beauty of the scenery, and the excellence of the
music, justly command the warm expressions of admira-
tion and delight with which they are nightly regarded.
Some fetes of great brilliancy and of a peculiarly attrac•
tive character, Aro reported to be in contemplation,