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part of the concern, must form its. true merits or
demerits ; and we conceive that the first duty
of the Legislature in such a case is, to ascertain
the sort of education which is meant to be pro-
iided by the proposed institution. We Confess
that the idea of making the establishment and
maintenance of a seat of learning to depend on
the price of shares, appears to us injudicious.—
There seems to be, a natural incongruity in the
two different obiects—pecuiliary speculation and
mental cultivation: and, upon► the proposed plan,
the Directors would have two duties to perform,
which might irreConcileably clash. As Trustees,
for the benefit of the ProprietorS, they should
look to theprofit -to be made.; whilst, as
guardians of the interest of the scholars, they
should'labout solely to promote sound and useful
!earning. Suppose two schemes submitted to the
Directors—one for teaching superficial know-
ledge at a cheap rate,. the other for engaging
eminent and learned professors of useful science
at adequate salaries—is it not to be feared. that,
in their capacity of speculating shareholders,
they would prefer the former scheme to the lat..'
ter ? We give 'Mr. Brougham abundant credit
for the liberal motives which have dictated his
proposed measure ; and we are very far from
supposing that considerations of pecuniary inte-
rest could at all influence his mind, or that of
any gentleman who would probably be joined
with him, in the first instance, as Director; but
when we look to an establishment as permanent,
we must try it by the common principles of hu-
man nature ; and upon those principles there is
a manifest incongruity between trading in shares
for profit, and directing public education for the
advancement of learning.

•
[MORNING CHRONICLE.)
Mr. lime gave notice last night that on the
14th of June he would move for a Select Com-
mittee to inquire into the state of the Church of
Ireland. By the exertion of the Member,
much valuable light has already been thron on
the state of this church ; and last night, in the
Upper House, Lord Clifden and Lord King
touched a little on the peculiarities of this most
perfect of Christian Churches, the preservation
of which, in all its purity and all its fat, is so es-
sential, according to the Bishop of Chester, to
the very existence
,of religious liberty in this
country. By the bye, the fathers of this
church have, we think, grievously mistaken their
interests, finely nosed as they are, when they
rejected so scornfully the late overtures of the
Catholics. The " u7lion of ten parishes into
one living to provide for ti;e son Ormephew of a
Bishop," and Bishop's Courts, "Intv Proctors,
&c., no doubt, place this churckst% a firmer rock
than that ott which St. Peter's is built, but it
might have been as well to neutralize the Catho-
lic Clergy if possible. However, the tables will
now lie turned. Mr. Plunkett having taken'his
leave of the Pope for the season, will now, be
found arm in arm with his friend Archbishop
Magee. This is the real battle. The Bishop of
Chester said he and his brethren. were ready,
once more, for martyrdom, in defence of the
Church. They would, no .doubt, die, in the last
ditch, fighting for. the Church Lands.

THE TI M ES.]
The money-market wore an improved appear-
ance yesterday. The "settlement of the account
in the foreign securities went off better than was
expected, and the scarcity of money which = had
been anticipated did not take place. Some of the
principal capitalists, 'partaking of the general
apprehension the previous fall had occasioned,
refused to lend money on foreign stock, bu; it
was liberally supplied frotn other quarters. The
market became firm as soon as this fact was as-
certained, and towards the conclusion of business
a very sudden advance occurred ire almost every
description of security. Such was the anxiety to
take advantage of the turn in the market, that
business was continued half an hour latter than
usual in the court adjoining the Stock-Exchange.
Consols left off at 90/, having improved full
per cent.

[MORNING HERALD.]
By some extracts which we gave float Parlia-
mentary Reports respecting the Slave Trade, lit,
would appear that traffic is carried on to as great
if not greater extent than ever, and under more
circumstances of cruelty ; and that the Acts of
Parliament, made at different periods to prevent
cruelty, have been almost wholly inoperative, so
far as foreign nations are concerned. With the ex-
ception of the Netherlands, it would appear that
the representations and remonstrances of our
,Mi-.
nisters are treated with the utmost contempt, es-
pecially by France. France in her correspondence
even proceeds on the principle of asking ques.
tions in rejoinder to our questions. Nothing can
be more taunting than this mode of replica-
tion to remonstrance. It is as much as to say to
our Ministers, " We care not one farthing for
your remonstrances ;. the slave trade answers our
purpose, and we will carryon that trade, whether
you are pleased or displeased. As for your Par.
liatnent, and Mr. Wilberforce, you may make
speeches, till you are tired, for what we care.
ZVe alit pot allow yOu.to search ships sailing ,1
i,Hicter our flag, arid, of .course, ships full of
slaves,•protected by our flag, may, and do :;ail
past your shilh of war, and l'and slaves at our's,
or any other PosseSsinits dispoied to: receive and
to pity the best price for them." Moreover,
the I4rttch say as much to out Ministers as
this, that you cannot stop this proceeding
c'eft /On go to war ;• and is to going to war,
.you no't so tong as your debt of
800,000,000/. is in existence. Besides, if You
•-filicitil4,veptu're on *Lie; Spain;and the rest
a the holy, Alliance, plroStitig ti'y the. Slifie
lTrade,.: would dispossess you of rfanOver, and
drive You" and, your goods,. as. much as in WS lies,'
from the. Continent altogether. This is the pur-
portOf the language held by. France; only ex.
iitessed in politer words, Whether the %vars, of
George In. and the 800,000,000/. debt COn,se-
tinent on those wars, have brought us into this
(111eiiitha, we leave to the consideration of
.those
who make speeches at Pitt Dinner Meetings. In
private .we see men pursuing their own in.
terest) while they are making all manner of petty