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London, England, 1838-06-09 00:00:00

the ignorant peasantry should be convinced that Thom,
or COURTENAY was not endowed with that power to work
miracles which he claimed, and which is similar to that
in the former existence of which they gain immense
opulence by teaching ? It seems to us that their
doctrines predispose the mind to believe in such impos-
tures as THOM ; and where men have, from want of

time and opportunity, no means of acquiring any other
knowledge but that which they imbibe in the parish Church,
where the instruction of the paid priesthood is wholly un-
corrected by other information, it may be expected that they
should be prone to a belief in impossible things.

The Irish Poor-law Bill went through Committee in the
House of Lords last night, and was ordered to be reported
on Tuesday next. It will be seen by our report of the
proceedings in another column that several amendments,
though none of any.material importance, were agreed to by
the House. Lord ELLENBOROUGH succeeded in getting
a clause introduced relative to emigration, which appears
to us to be of very doubtful utility. In order to en-
courage emigration, we have the following roundabout
and apparently resultless process. The Guardians of
any electotal district are empowered to apply to the Com-
missioners, and the Commissioners, if they think fit, are em-
powered to convene a meeting of the rate-pa)-ers of the said
district, who arc in their turn empowered to assess them-
selves to an emigration rate, which rate the Commissioners
are empowered to confirm or annul as they may thi,lk
proper. The effect of this se enactment will, in
all probability, be to check instead of stimulating
emigration, by superseding the individual exertion
which is at present made to promote that object,
without substituting any thing of a public nature half so
effectual in -its stead. The poor man, who is desirous of
transferring his labour to a country where it may procure
him the necessaries of life, will be told, when he applies to
his friends for assistance, that he cannot expect them to
defray his expenses, now that the law has appointed the
means of raising a public fund for the purpose ; and the
ratepayers will think that they have quite enough to do in
providing for the maintenance of the poor at home, without
taxing themselves to send them abroad, and thus holding
out, as it were, a double premium to poverty.

It is not a little humiliating to England, so superior in
some respects to continental States, that she stands al-
most at the bottom of the scale as regards the general
education of the people. Holland and Prussia are in-
finitely superior in that respect ; France is superior,
and making every year rapid progress in rivalling these two
countries—nay, even more has been done for national edu-
cation in Ireland, divided by the antipathies and preju-
dices of two contending religious sects, than has been done
in Protestant England. It is true that the Bishop of
EXETER and the high Church party have done everything
in their power to arrest its progress, but, happily, with
little effect. According to the last report of the Com-
missioners, 1,300 schools are fully established in Ireland,
in which instruction is given to about 170,000 children,
more than two-thirds of whom are in the provinces of
Leinster and Ulster, where Protestants are most nume-
rous. This is the most important and most grati-
fying feature in the experiment, and holds out
the strongest encouragement to apply a similar
system to England, where fewer obstacles to the
amalgamation of all classes exist. We assert it with sor-
row, and with the fullest conviction of the truth, that to
the Established Church alone is to be attributed this hu-
miliating circumstance in our social condition. The
Bishops not onlyhave refrained from introducing measures
for the general education of the people, but they have inva-
riably thrown obstacles in the way of any rational plan, by
which the children of the two great parties in the country,
Churchmen and Protestant Dissenters, can be educated at
the same school. Though the Dissenters form such a vast
proportion of the population, no concessions are to be made
to them. The musters must belong to the Established
Church—the Established Clergy must be the superinten-
dents—every part of the system, in fact, must be tinged
with with some of the peculiarities of the Church,
else the Bishops, and their steady supporters, the high
Tories, rise in a body against the plan. This has
been the practice hitherto, and if we are to judge
of the hint thrown out by the Bishop of LONDON—the or-
gan of the Bishops—they will pursue the same course
when Lord BROUGHAM'S Bill is discussed. We do not despair,
however, of the cause. The sensation created throughout
the country by the late proof of the deplorable ignorance
of the Kentish peasantry will not be without its effect, even
on the heads of the Church. We have, besides, some
half dozen Liberal Bishops—a new feature in the mo-
dern history of the Church—and looking at the noble stand
which the Bishop of NORWICH made against the bigotry
of the men opposed to the system in Ireland, we may rest
assured he will not be backward in asserting the same
principles and advocating the same liberal system for the
people of this country. It will not fail for want of an ad-
vocate either in him or Lord BROUGHAM. The Govern-
ment, too, have a vital interest in the cause ; and if the
measure be rejected on account of the vain scruples of
Churchmen, or by their refusing to make any concessions
to the Dissenters, the public can only come to the conclu-
sio❑ that they are still determined to leave the people in
ignorance.

We copy from the second edition of a Morning Contem-
porary the following important intelligence from South
America• We must await the arrival of a full account or
the affair before attempting to offer a word of commera
upon it :

"Falmouth, June 7,

" The bark Annabella, Captain Watt, has this afternoon arrived off
the port from Buenos Ayres, having left thence on the 30th of March.
At that time the port was under a state of blockade, and had been for
two days previous declared to be so by the French Admiral. The ori.
ginating cause of this step is alleged to be from the preponderance of
favour in point of commerce manifested by the Buenos A yrean Govern-
ment towards the British. All vessels were allowed until the 10th of
March to depart.
" Previous to the Annabella's departure from Buenos Ayres advices
had been received from Chili, stating that the British naval force had
placed Valparaiso under blockade, arising from a captain of a merchant
vessel being shot, and also from her Britannic Majesty's Consul, on his
representation of the affair to the Government, being treated with de.
cided indignity. tier Majesty's packet Spey, nearly due, with the next
mails will doubtless bring more particulars."

Madrid papers to the Ist inst. inclusive have been
received this morning. The Madrid Gazette of the 31st
ult. announces the dispersion of the Carlist Chief SA-
TURNING'S band in Galicia, the Commander himself
having been made prisoner. Sergeant GARCIA, who
played so distinguished a part at La Granja, in
causing the REGENT to proclaim the Constitution,
has been seized and imprisoned at Zamora, on a
charge of treason. The diligence had been robbed by the
Carlist Chief PALLILOS, between Valencia and Madrid.
Four of the passengers were made prisoners, and it was
reported that the ex-Minister LorEz was one of them. If
so, he stands but a poor chance of escaping with life.
On the evening of the 29th ult., Don CARLOS is re-
ported to have left Estella, after ordering the arrest of the
Bishop of LEON and M. BARRICARTI, Auditor-General of
the War Department. Tr.() hours after his arrest BAR-
RICAP.TI was shot by order of the Pretender. On the
31st Dor, CARLOS, after signing the sentence of death,
passed on. ZaltraTEGoz and EEto arrived at Tolosa,
where he was joined by General MAitoTo, who had es-
caped from his confinement at Bordeaux.
We have no other intelligence of any interest from Spain.
The question of M. MENDIZABAL'S prosecution for pub-
lishing secret documents connected with his "office was
under dismission in the Cortes on the 31st. The Funds
remained stationary.

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The Paris Papers of Thursday are filled with the deu.
in the Chamber of Deputies on the African Credit question,
We yesterday gave a summary of the able speech of M.
DovEnotEa against the African colonization scheme, and
noticed towards the conclusion of our article that M.
BRESSON, Civil Intendant of Algiers, had ascended the
Tribune to reply to it. M. BRESSON'S speech differed in
nothing from M. DUVERGIER'S, except that the orator, by
a process of reasoning incomprehensible to our poor under-
standing, drew opposite conclusions from the same array of
facts. lie admitted the inextinguishable hatred borne by
the natives to their French conquerors he acknowledged
that the Treaty of Tafna was not likel'y to he followed by
a lasting peace ; he even urged that such was the uto
genialness of the climate that one-fourth of the French
troop, were constantly in the hospital he did not contra-
dict a syllabia that had been uttered about the sterility of
the oil, and the w,ant of a necessary supply of wood and
water ; and hence inferred. that the army ought to be
increased, and the scheme of pailit4ry colonization recom-
mended by General 131.:QE4PD inaceediate'w entered
upon. This view of the qutstiop was pd.t rehshe4
by the president of the Council, u.,1:0 deemed it
the Chamber the conclusions of the
right to piae* beforP
Government upon tuz a.:4btect. The following extract from
his speech on Thursday, tieJ4:yeyo,
is ipttvesting. Count MOLE, it i.thout premeditation,
ieen, sanrine of
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