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tition, but he could not refrain from saying that it was
most respectably signed.
Mr. Alderman HUMPTIERY and Capt. PECHELL
presented petitions against the Government scheme.
WESLEYANS.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from a
meeting of Wesleyans repudiating the compromise en-
tered into with the Government by some of their own
body.
GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION.
Sir W. CLAY moved, on the motion that the Speaker
do leave the chair on going into Committee of Supply,
with a view to the grant for the promotion of education,
that it is expedient that in any plan for promoting
the education of the people by pecuniary assistance from
the State, provision should be made that in schools re-
ceiving such assistance, the opportunity for participating
in all instruction other than religious should be afforded
to children whose parents may object to the religious doc-
trines taught in such schools. Having stated the reasons
which induced him to withhold his support, he should be
enabled to comprise his observations in a very short space
The House had thought fit to affirm by a very large
majority the plans brought forward by the Government;
he bowed to that decision; but he deeply regretted
it. The House, instead of endeavouring to form a plan
of national education, placed itself at the head of a vast
sectarian scheme. As far as he was concerned he should
offer no further opposition to that plan in its general cha-
racter; but he should by his motion endeavour to alter a
portion of it so defective, that he thought that his Noble
Friend would hardly oppose the remedy he proposed.
The part of the plan to which he alluded, was that which
took from the children of those persons who differed from
the Church of England all power of sharing in the edu-
tion which was furnished at the expense of the State with.
out becoming parties to a religion which they did not own.
The present measure would operate most unjustly against
the Nonconformists. In every parish in the kingdom
there would be a school established in connexion with
the Church, and they would be enabled to comply with
the conditions laid down in the Minutes of Education,
so as participate in the grant. On the other hand, in
ther toural districts the Nonconformists would rarely be
able to comply with the conditions for a separate school,
and they would either be obliged to send their children
to the Church school, or go without altogether. The
Hon. Member here read an extract from a petition of
the London Auxiliary School Union, respecting the in-
vidious distinction. The petition was entitled to great
consideration, representing ninety-seven schools. Ile
thought the injustic of which he spoke ought to be re-
medied, and therefore he proposed the present motion.
If it were agreed to, and the Minute altered in ac-
cordance with it, then there would be difficulty in
educating the children of both parties together.
Now he directed his observations solely to the case, that
those who were in the minority, either in numbers or in
wealth, had no right to complain—firstly, because he
believed that they would meet with the sympathy of the
House ; and secondly, because it was asserted that the
children of Dissenters might obtain their education in
the schools of the Church of England. Of course, where
the Church of England was in the minority, the converse
of this position would take place. He should therefore
move, that in all schools which might be established
through the aid of the Government grant, provision
should be made for giving to the children of Dissenters
all the instruction afforded other than religious.
On the motion that the order of the day be now read,
Mr. CHRISTIE said that it was with great pain he
refused to accede to the request of his constituents, to
oppose the motion of the Government, and instead of op-
posing it, he felt bound to give, not a cold and heart-
less, but a cordial and earnest support to the plan.
He had made many ineffectual attempts to catch the
Speaker's eye during the last debate ; had he succeeded
in doing so, it was his intention to have stated the
grounds upon which he was prepared to give his most
cordial assent to the measure proposed by the Govern •
merit. With respect to the amendment just proposed to
the House, he thought that the proposed plan of the
Government for considering such cases as those referred
to by the Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets (Sir W.
Clay) as special cases, and treating them as such, would
sufficiently meet all the difficulties referred to by the
Hon. Member. He considered that the proposed
minutes had been treated rather unfairly by the
opponents to the measure.—(Hear.) In the year 1832 a
law was passed, placing the Catholics and the Jews upon
precisely the same footing as the various sects of the
Protestant Dissenters, and he hoped that as tho claims
of the Catholics were promised to be attended to by the
Government, that the claims of the Jews would not be
overlooked. The Hon. Member for Kent (Mr. Plumptre)
had stated that the House would, by giving assistance to
the Roman Catholics, bring upon itself the charge of in-
fidelity. Upon such a subject ho (Mr. Christie) could
not quote a higher authority than that of the late Ed-
mund Burke, who stated, in his correspondence which
had been recently published, that a system of full, fair,
and perfect toleration would be in perfect accordance
with his own opinions, and that his views of toleration
were even more universal than the ideas entertained upon
that subject by the Di,ssenters themselves. In the com-
mittee of supply they would be called upon to vote nu-
merous sums for the cause of education. Among others
there would be a vote for the London University, to the
benefits and scholarships of vi hich the sons of Dissenters
showed not the slightest objection to participate in the
advantages conferred by the State, and shared equally
with themselves by the Roman Catholics, and he would
ask the Wesleyans, who had shown such a decided anti-
pathy to allow the Roman Catholics to have any share
of the Government funds for the purpose of education,
how it was that they could reconcile the fact of their
allowing their sons to mingle in that University with the
Roman Catholics ?

Mr. VILLIERS did not think that the charges of incon-
sistency brought forward by the Honourable Member for
Weymouth (Mr. Christie) could at all dispose of the
objections urged by the Honourable Member for the
Tower Hamlets, which was the duty of affording extended
education to the children of the Dissenters. The Dis-
!enters were, it appeared, resolved to refuse the assistance of
the Government, and this he thought would be a lesson to the
Government not to leave the subject of the education of the
people in the hands of any religious societies. Should the
Dissenters refuse the aid of the Government, the consequence
would be that a great number of the children of this country
would be left without education, and the efforts of tbe Govern-
anent to educate the people would eventually be made, through
one religious society alone. He thought it most desirable that
there should be a general system of education, in the benefits
of which all could equally pertake, and this could only be
done by separating the secular and religious education of the
people. He quite agreed in the opinion of Dr. Vaughan, that
in all schools connected with the Government provision should
be made for the religious education of the children, who
might thus be allowed the benefit of such education in such
cases as their parents might think desirable. He thought
such a system was the only practicable one that could be carried
out. He was quite ready to admit that they were at present
only in the infancy of the cause of education, and
he was happy to hear the Noble Lord at the head of the Go-
vernment, say that the present measure was not a final one
and that his wishes lay in the direction of a more extensive plan
of education. The Noble Lord had done all that he could do
in the cause, and he thought that for such a cause he was de-
serving of praise. He could not, therefore, join in the oppo-
sition which had been raised (he must say most unexpectedly
to him) to the proposition of the Government. If he under-
stood his Noble Friend, the Noble Lord at the head of the
Government, in the two speeches which had been delivered by
him on the subject, he said that he had been anxious to attend
to the wish of this country to extend the benefits of education to
the poor, that he had done as much as was possible with the mate-
rials which were at hand, that he did not dispair for the future
but that the system for the time being was not complete. But
he (Mr. Villiers) did not join with those who objected to the
plan. He thought that the Dissenters in the objections which
they had taken had rather taken their friends by surprise. Consi-
dering the subject before the House merely in the view of a
money vote, he could have no objection to the manner in
which the discussion had been introduced into the House.
But he was sorry that such a subject should have been dis-
cussed as an item in the miscellaneous, and that no time had
been given for the discussion of any amendments that might
have been introduced upon it. He knew that the Noble Lord
at the head of the Government had stated that no
more sums of money would be voted for this purpose.
except by Bills brought before Parliament. (Lord J. Russell
—No, not by Bills.) He certainly expected that the same
order which had always ruled in that llouse on religious mat-
ters, should have been observed on that. They know that no-
thing affecting either religion or commerce could be brought in
unless in a Committee of the whole House. That made him
think the amendment moved by the Hon. Member for Fins-
bury (Mr. Duncombe) somewhat appropriate, and therefore he
Oid not vote against it. At the same time, he thought the
Government had met with great difficulties, and they had con-
tended with them to the utmost; they had done all that they
could. Therefore he hoped that the words of the Right
Honourable Baronet the Member for Tamworth in
the House last night, would be pondered over throughout
the country when he in effect said that that was not the time
of day when they ought to exclude the children of the poor
from the benefits of education by squabbling upon religion,
which if pursued must necessarily retain the country hopelessly
in the same situation as it was at the present moment in regard
to education.

Mr. FORBES felt it necessary, after all that took place in
that House, not to vote on the measure without some
explanation. He understood that it had always been con-
sidered, in the country as well as in the House,
that the authorised version of the Scriptures should be
made use of in the Government schools, and inculcated there
as a part of the education. But after the motion of the Hon.
Baronet, the Member for Surrey, and after the speeches of the
two Right Hon. Baronets last night, he felt it necessary to
give any vote associated with such an opinion as he had heard,
his most decided opposition.
Mr. MUNTZ said that he had endeavoured, throughout the
discussion, to hear wherefore he should vote for the Government.
He had suffered too much from the interference of secular and
religious questions with liberty, not to have thought seriously
on every such question coming before the House. But he ob-
jected to the proposition of the Government. The proposal
was not to educate the people, but the poor. He did not object
to the amount to be levied for that object ; but he objected to
the principle. That principle was to tax the whole in order
to give it to a section of the nation. That
was the principle which he always objected to in all measures,
and he therefore felt the more inclined to support the motion
of the Hen. Member for Surrey. The benefit of a rood edu-
cation on all classes, and especially the labouring classes, was
clearly evident to him, after the long experience he had had
of the employment of workmen. But it had been said that a
secular education was necessarily a godless one. That did
not follow, for the children were left to their parents, who
were at liberty to give thorn what spiritual instruction they
thought proper. He had long thought that a secular educa-
tion, founded on a general national system, ought to be that
adopted. He thought so still, and he would therefore vote
for the proposition of the Government.
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN regretted that such a qt!es-
r tien as a vote for education should, on every occasion, be im-
peded by religious differences. He did not see how they could
ever progress out of their pres€nt condition, if each individual
Member in that House stood up, advocated his own scheme,
and professed his determination to follow that. What was very
singular in the history of the agitation on this question, was
that among the opponents to the Government plan, an entirely
different grade of opinions and principles existed out of doors
from those which had been expressed in the House.
All the communications which had been addressed
to him from the northern division of Northamptonshire
in opposition to the scheme, founded their opposition to it on
the objections urged in Crosby Hall, and net on those which
he had heard advocated in that House, either by the Hon.
Member for Nottingham, or the Hon. Member for Durham. 1
If the Nonconformists who bound themselves up with no

liturgy be thought to be in a state of permanence as regarded
theology, so far might they be regarded as in a state of per-
manence in political opinion. Therefore the Hon. Member
for Wolverhampton had no right to be surprised at what fell
from the Hon. Member for Durham. Those who petitioned
at Crosby Hall were not to be met with statistics of crime,
and then asked, was such a state of things to exist ?
For they said that they regretted such facts as much
as they did lust. They believed that the course
pursued by the Government, would not ameliorate, but would
rather do harm than anything else. He wished some Hon.
Member would get up in that House, and show that the Mem-
bers for Durham and Nottingham, -and the meeting at Crosby
Hall, had pursued a course inconsistent with their own prin-
ciples. Such a statement had not been as yet made, and
therefore he considered that the destitute condition of the
people had been unfairly pressed as an answer to their objec-
tions. The object of education ought to be to secure the in-
stitutions of the country, and to render life and property more
secure than hitherto. This did not appear to him capable of
being effected without pious, religious, and secular instruction.
BOWRING said that he felt it a shame and an oppro-
brium to the country in which they lived that the people should
have been left in the condition in which they now found them.
Switzerland, Germany, and the Continent excelled them. He
must acknowledge that the voluntary principle had failed to
convey instruction to the great masses. He only regretted
that the project of her Majesty's Government was so framed
that it could not dispense the blessings of education. It had
never succeeded anywhere, and it never would. He always
believed that secular instruction was eminently religious ; it
taught Christian charity, and the duties which one man owed
to another. Was not this religious ? But what was generally
meant by religion ? Why he found that the dis-
tinctions of creed were those which were understood.
As far as he could see his way in this question, there was only
one solution of it. lie desired to see religions education
extended, but he did not wish to see that religion enforced by
one class over the consciences of other classes. In order that
religious instruction might be effectual, they ought to let that
instruction be given by the clergymen of the sect to which the
parents belonged—by t'.e parents and by the guardians of the
children themselves. There was no such thing recognised on
the continent as a religious education. He had visited con-
tinental schools, and he had asked the masters what was the
religion of the parents of the scholars, and the utmost astonish-
ment was expressed that he should have asked such a question.
He grieved to think that into this great field of national bene-
volence so much religious acrimony—so many antipathies—so
much bitter animosity—should have penetrated. He, perhaps,
did not know like these opponents, what was charity, and he
held that on the side of animosity was error, and on the side of
truth was charity.
Mr. TRELAWNY said, that if he were disposed to oppose
the grant of her Majesty's Government he should not do so on
the ground that the grant was unconstitutional. Nor did he
object to the grant because it was different from the former
grants. He sincerely believed that this was essentially the
same with the grant of 1839. Neither did he object to it on
account of its amount, for he thought it was a trifle when com-
pared to the importance of its object • but he did object to it
that it excluded the Roman Catholics from its advantages.
Neither would he object to it on the ground that it remunerated
young men who were fitted for the offices of monitors and
teachers. He, however, objected on principle to schools in
which religious tests obtained, because, as was proved by Dr.
Vaughan, they would engender continual quarrels and
jealousies from the conflicting sectarian interests. He
thought it was a great hardship that Dissenters should
be obliged to receive religious instruction at Church
schools, because, while the Churchman alleged that
the Dissenters taught what was true, but that they did
not teach the whole truth, the Dissenters again said that
the Churchmen taught more than the truth; therefore,
although the former might receive instruction from the latter,
the latter, on every principle of justice, could not be compelled
to receive instruction from the former ; but in a matter of
education, he thought that the Dissenters had nothing to com-
plain of, because, although they might with justice complain of
the inculcation of doctrinal points, that objection could not
hold in a matter of secular instruction. He should give his
cordial support to the measure of the Government.
Mr. BROTHERTON said to fit a man fur his duties in
time and eternity, there must be a higher: than mere secular
education. He might perhaps admit that this measure would
enhance the power of the Church, while it restraiued that of the
Dissenters; but that was not the main question. The question
was, would it be for the good of the people? He thought it
would, and therefore he should vote for it, inasmuch as he
thought that in so doing he was assisting the cause of the peo-
ple. The Hon, Member then proceeded to quote from the sta-
tistics of Manchester to show, that in the last few years the
proportion of those who could neither read nor write was in-
creased instead of diminished, and this, he thought, furnished
sufficient proof that the voluntary system did not meet the exi-
gencies of the country. He concluded that the rights of con-
science ought to be respected. He recollected that our be-
loved Queen had recommended that the rights of conscience
ought to be respected ; but how were those rights to be res-
pected if there were not opportunities given for the education
of the children of Dissenters. He had many letters at the pre-
sent moment in his pocket, from Wesleyan Ministers, who com-
plained that there was no opportunity for the educa-
tion of their children under the agency of clergymen ; and
he was therefore ready to vote for any measure which
would have the effect of reducing this evil. They had taken
many measures for the punishment and for the correction of
criminals, but they had grievously neglected the prevention of
crime. He could not forget that they spent 2,500,000/. for
the punishment of crime. He recollected that they had spent
16,000,000/. in the army arid navy, and yet they grudged the
money that was necessary for the improvement of the educa-
tion of the people, and he believed that if they meant to ob-
viate the evil they mnst make education on the basis of that
improvement. He could not forget that there were 20,000
churches, while there were 120,000 public-houses, and until
they soberised the people they could not possibly expect that
crime should be at all reduced. He had none of the preju-
dices against a dominant church which had been so loudly
proclaimed for if they were to look at the voluntary system
below the surface, they would see that there was much of
compulsion in it, for so long as the principle prevailed that the
lower classes depended upon the rich for their subsistence, there
must be a liability of the poor and labouring classes to be
oppressed by their more wealthy neighbours. He had voted in
the minority last night, but on a reconsideration of the cir-
cumstances he felt assured that many of the difficulties would
be obviated, and so long as the Commons of England had a
yearly power of controlling the principle by an annual vote,
they would have the means of exercising a judicious manage-
ment over the education which would be provided for the
I people. With these views then he had no hesitation whatever
in supporting the plan of the Government.—( Cheers. )
Mr. ACLAND said that it was with great diffidence he
expressed his opinions on the present occasion, but a sense of
duty alone had compelled him to state his feelings.
He had to-day received a letter from a clergyman whose name
if mentioned would command instant respect, but which he
should not state, because it was probable that if published it
might possibly lead to a breach of the harmony that
now existed between him and his dissenting brethren.—
( Hear, hear.) That clergyman had established five schools
in his parish, in which there were 1,130 schools, 351 of whom
alone were the children of members of the Church of England,
so that only one third of the whole of the scholars were the
offspring of those who were likely to accede, without hesitation,
to the plan of the Government. In the whole of his course of
instruction, he had adopted the principle of uniform education,
and when it was put to the parents whether they would con-
tinue their children or not, but a very small number had been
inclined to withdraw their children. From another source he
had received a communication. It came from a clergyman who
had established, not day schools, but Sunday schools, and is
those schools he had adopted one uniform system of tuition, and
when it was put to the parents, they had, without hesitation,
declined from withdrawing their children from the school, so
that he was convinced that it was not because the Dissenters
objected to any system of education which might be adopted hy
the Church, but because he believed thatlther were indisposed
to hand over the souls of their children to the care of the
Church that they opposed the plan. But the plan
of the Government proposed nothing of the sort,
and the question then arose whether there was to be
any education adopted or not, and if the plan was to
be opposed, it was really to be considered whether it was ad-
visable to occasion an opposition from the clergy of the estab-
lished church, instead of a willing co-operation on a matter of
so much importance. Truly and sincerely did he thank the
Government for the minutes, for he believed that the plan was
likely to be of the greatest advantage to the country. Ile thought
that now the jealousy arising from the inspection of the State,
was entirely removed. Ile had entertained very serious ap-
prehensions as to the ultimate designs of the Committee of
Council on Education, but he now felt bound to say that the
Council had removed those apprehensions, and he for one
begged to express his admiration of the practical nature of
had
details, and the fairness of manner in which those minutes df
been drawn up. He thought that really the Sunday-schoolsc
this country were not deserving of the obloquy
devoted their time and attention to those
selves, n indeed,
greatth that
trouble the teachers et
hiL-)see been
the greatest praise. He
admit that the schools established
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throughout this country, were not altogether what
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schools,o,
issetlB3c° schools who,rd voluntarilyellsecr vti h.nho thought,
they ougbt to be, and in some cases the present minutes of
the Council would not reach the case of those schools, and he
hoped that on some future occasion the Committee of Council
might be enabled to prepare the minutes in such a manner as
to afford that advantage. He did not think that the present
Government were deserving of the charge which had been
brought against them, of not bringing the situation of the
Catholics, with respect to this measure, fully and fairly before
the House. He gave his most cordial thanks to the Govern-
ment for the measure they had introduced, and trusted that
the measure would fulfill the most sanguine expectations of its
promoters. The Dissenters had taken a great objection to an
expression used by a Right Rev. Prelate, with respect to the
ordination of the schoolmasters. He (Mr. Acland) must say
that he should most decidedly object to the money, to be paid
to the schoolmasters, going to the support of ordained deacons.
He hoped that such a question would not again be disturbed by
a party spirit.
AIESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

Messenge;;;Vulttripseveial Bills from the Lords.
Mr. F. BERKELEY rose to oppose the proposition of the
Government. He considered the whole vote if devoted to
education would be most worthily deserved. He, however,
disapproved of the way in which the Government had brought
in the subject for if it had been introduced into the House in
the form of a Bill, althought they might for the most part have
acceded to the principle, they might have differed as to the details.
He felt it necessary to disapprove of the domination which
the scheme threw into the hands of certain parties named in-
spectors. "Who were these inspectors to be? Why, nine were
to be clergymen of the church of England, two of the church
of Scotland, two lay inspectors, and the remaining two were to
be dissenters. He did not wonder at the fears which had arisen
out of doors, when such a proposal was made to increase the
wealth of a church which already possessed that in abundance.
It was less a source of jealousy to the people than of serious
consideration to the Members of that House. He was afraid
whether this measure would not ultimately turn out as
great a failure in practice as the Small Debts Act, which
the Member for Dorchester had prevailed on the House to pass
some years ago. He felt it necessary to record his vote against
the measure, and those with whom he had been in the habit of
acting.
Mr. PAKINGTON rose to call the attention of the House
back to the subject before it, viz., the amendment of the Hon.
Member for the Tower Hamlets. He felt himself obliged
to vote in favour of the principle of the amendment.
give up the principle,
He was not prepared to
long held sacred in this country, of associating re-
ligious with secular education. Still he was not
ready at that moment to accede to any motion which would
make it compulsory on the schools in connexion with the
national system to adopt that as a part of their course. The
concel.sion would very soon have to be made in favour of the
voluntary efforts in religious matters.
Sir BENJAMIN HALL thought that the great object of
the Government, now that the House had assented to the
scheme of education, should be to render it as palatable as
possible to all classes of the people. Ile would therefore sup-
port the proposition of the Hon. Member for the Tower
Hamlets, and he was surprised to hear the course which the
Government were likely to pursue on this occasion. The Hon.
Gentleman was proceeding to enter into the general question,
when he was interrupted by Sir J. C. Hobhouse with the re-
mark that " Molesworth's motion came on on Monday." He
was aware that Molesworth's motion came on on Monday--
(Laughter)—but this was the twelfth time he had attempted
to address the House on this question, and he therefore thought
that he should now be permitted to express the opinions he Cll.

tertained upon it even though Molesworth's motion—
( Laughter)—did come on on Monday. He objected to the I
exclusion, of the Roman Catholics from the grant, and he con-
-idered that any scheme having for its object the education
of the people, while at the same time it excluded
a large portion of the people from the benefits of it would never
give, and never should give, satisfaction to the country.—
( Hear, hear:, He thought that unless they passed some reso-
lution like that which was proposed by the Member for the
Tower Hamlets they would not give a fair encouragement to
the clergymen of those parishes to which he had before alluded.
He, as a landowner, was not prepared to set up schools where
the Dissenters would be excluded. He would not vote for any
system which comprehended a compulsory power;
he did not think that such a system could with
safety be applied to this country They were often
in the habit of hearing the Prussian system lauded, but what
was the fact, notwithstanding all this education in Prussia ?
The State was everything and the people were nothing. It
was true they had lately obtained some kind of a Liberal con-
stitution, but it could only be regarded as a step in the right
direction—(l-feer, Lear)—and nothing more. The Hon.
Baronet then read an extract from a letter written
by the Secretary for the Massachussets Board of Education,
which stated thaehe never saw a more vicious set of boys, and
evil passions more strongly developed in the countenances of
the people ; and he, the Hon. Baronet was yet to learn that the
people of Prussia, after three hundred years of a compulsory
system by her Government, were a better disposed people than
the English. Unless the Government gave some assurance
that they would carry some such proposition as that of the
Member for the Tower Hamlets, great dissatisfaction would
prevail. He voted against the Government because he
thought the measure would widen the present religious differ-
ences which existed in the country.
Mr. HENLEY said that he thought the Hon. Baronet was
very unfortunate, because many gentlemen who expressed
themselves in favour of his principles, yet were determined to
vote against him, indeed two Right Hon. Baronets on this
side of the House ( Sir R. Peel and Sir James Graham),
while professing themselves to be strongly in favour of the
measure, threw in a few observations which were as little
likely to facilitate its passing through the House as the
explosion of a barrel of gunpowder.—(Loud laughter.)
He warned the Noble Lord at the head of the Government,
and those who were with him, and who were acting under the
paetence of these Minutes of Council, that if they attempted
to give the Church of England, or any body in this country,
any sort of aid in consequence of what was said in that House
—if they attempted to force on the Church of England the
education of the people in a way which it conscientiously be-
lieved was not the right way—that they would meet with an
opposition which they had not calculated upon.—( Hear, hear.)
He should not have noticed this point so strongly had it not
been for the speech .f the Noble Lord at the head of the Go-
vernment. The Noble Lord did in that speech use very strong
expressions, and he (Mr. Henley) could tell him, that they had
been much noticed in the country. It had been well said by a
high authority the other night, that the Church had of late
years, by the course it had adopted, taken a considerable hold
of the people. He would ask if that fact arose from the Church
having sacrificed its destinctive principles, or by any system of
slip-slop religion? They knew that it was by their increased
zeal for the people's welfare. The Church stood more upon its
destinctive principles than it ever did, and honestly and stedfastly
refused to give up what he believed to be its right, and he
hoped that she would continue to stand fast upon her rights.
If, however, the Church was not to instruct the youth under
her charge in the religion she believed to be the true one, she
would not instruct them at all. Such had been the course
taken by her during the last ten years, and owing to the zeal
and good conduct of her members she had obtained that love of
the people which the Right Hon. Bart. had alluded to. Hold-
ing that opinion as he did, it was impossible for him not to
vote against the amendment of the Right Hon. Baronet op-
posite.
Sir GEORGE GREY said that he would call the attention
of the House to the fact, that from the time his Right Hon.
Friend made his motion, until the time when the Hon. Mem-
ber who had just spoken arose, not one word had been said
with reference to the particular motion. The debate had been
entirely upon the general question—it was in fact a continua-
tion of the debate of the three preceding nights. He for one
was unwilling to interrupt the present discussion upon the ge-
neral question, and if gentlemen desired to express their opi-
nions, they had a right to take the present opportunity of
stating their sentiments The Hon. Member who had just
sat down had confined himself to the particular motion, and he
was free to say had called the attention of the House to it. He
differed from the Hon. Member in some points, and especially
in his supposition that the Government was about to adopt the
system proposed. He hoped that although it was not the in-
tention of Government to attempt to force or impose, as a ne-
cessary condition, upon all schools receiving the Government
aid, that they should extend their education and instruction to
the children of those parents who objected to the religious in-
struction of the Church of England—that the practice
was becoming prevalent in many cases, of not enforcing the
instruction in the catechism and liturgy upon the children of
those parents who objected to their receiving such instructions.
He rejoiced to say that that liberal feeling and good sense was
becoming daily more prevalent. Some short time since, an
Hon. Gentleman said in that House, owing to a similar sen-
timent expressed by his Noble Friend at the head of the Go-
vernment, that it was the intention of the Government—their
avowed intention to enforce such instruction as a
necessary condition on receiving those Government grants,
and he ( Sir George Grey) had endeavoured to explain
a few nights since, that such an act would be totally inconsistent
with the course which the Government had in view. They
did not propose to establish a system, to impose any conditions
as to the kind of instruction to be given in those schools re-
ceiving Parliamentary aid, they only proposed to assist existing
institutions to increase their usefulness and efficiency relating
to secular instruction, subject only to the condition of inspec-
tion. He confessed that if the Government adopted the prin-
ciple of his Hon. Friend, it would be totally inconsistent with
the desire they had to increase the voluntary efforts of large
bodies. The National Society and the British School Society
would have to remodel their arrangements. Such a proceeding
would put a stop to many voluntary efforts, which the Govern-
ment did not want to supersede. He thought, therefore, that
the apprehensions expressed by the Hon. Member who had last
spoken, as to the conduct of the Government, were not well
founded. The Government wished, and it was quite consistent
to wish it, that perhaps by a voluntary arrangement these chil-
dren of different sects might be brought together—that children
of every denomination might be found in the same school
without in the least interfering with each others religious
opinions. Such a wish was different from enforcing this
school regulation in the arbitrary manner which the Hon.
lember had mentioned. He should, therefore, not feel at
liberty to support the motion of the Right Hon. Baronet.
Mr. ROEBUCK said that there was one thing very grati-
fying to all the friends of a liberal education in this
country, to see the very many attempts which were made to
forward this educational measure continued in the universal
feeling expressed by every person whose opinion was worth
having on this matter, as to the absolute nece ' 1: of some
education for the people, and also the discussio r t: to what
sort of education was most fit for her Majesty's slit ejects. He
wished even at that late hour if the house would permit him
to say a few words as to the principle which governed that
vote. It remained now to be admitted as a general principle
that it was the duty of the Government to provide, or attempt to
educate the people. The other question they had to consider
in spite of the intelligence out of doors, was the nature of the
education to be so bestowed. It had been admitted that the
Government was justified in attempting to educate the people,
and therefore he should not attempt to prove it. He would
assume also that it was the business of the Government to edu-
cate the largest number of the population that it was possible.
The Noble Lord the Member for London and the Right lion.
Member for Tanaworth stated together that it would be of no
use to give the people half an education. If the Government
objected to give half an education to the people, there
was certainly a difference between doing that and
giving an education to half of the people. He
would give the children in these schools knowledge on
which all parties were agreed. Whether it were geography.
mathematics, or any other branch of knowledge, it mattered
nothing, they all agreed as to the necessity of teaching it,
whether they were Roman Catholics, Bapti,ts, or Presby-
terians. He now came to the fashioning of the habits of the
rising generation. This consisted in the moral influence of the
family, the opinion of society, the law, and the influence of a
future state of reward for virtuous conduct. All these went to
form the character of the individual. Now, what lie would
wish to know was, whether any difference existed among
all these parties as to the teaching of them.
No, they all agreed in the obligations of the
moral law, and in inculcating a belief in a future state of re-
wards and punishments as beneficial to the habits and conduct
of the children who were to be taught. Whether they dis-
puted about consubstantiation or transubstantiation, the Douay
version or the authorised version of the Scriptures, they all
agreed as to the teaching of the moral principles to which he
had referred. It was only when they introduced their fantastic
dogmata, supported by prejudice, passion, and ignorance, but
not by virtue, that they differed and disputed. It was by these
dogmata, these peculiar theological opinions, that disturbances
were created, and a noise made about the necessity of a reli-
gious system of education. Let them avoid such causes of dis-
pute as these, and in their education admit only of such religi-
ous teaching as was permanent and common to all, and which
did not raise the phantom of religious hatred and enmity
throughout the kingdom. What he would ask on the present
occasion was, did the Government not introduce into their
scheme that religion about which there was no difference,
and that religion about which so much difference
prevailed? Take the Roman Catholics. Among them there
were many men who were good fathers, brothers, citizens, and
Christians, in spite of their religious prejudices. The same
might be said of all the other religious sects, in spite of all
their differences. What, then, did the Noble Lord mean by
this teaching of religion which he proposed? He (Mr. Roe-
buck) did not object to their teaching the moral duties of life,
and to a state of reward for virtue hereafter; but he objected
to their laying down any standard by which other men were
to be judged on religious matters. The Hon. Member (Mr.
Plumptre) had endeavoured to lay down such a standard,
and had said as much as that all who would not
with him would be doomed. (Hear, hear. )
Ifrtehee Hon. Member had substituted a for o perhaps he
would have much better expressed his real meaning.—(Loud
laughter.) He objected to this setting up of authority. The
Wesleyans had come in, and they had objected to the Roman
Catholics participating in any of the grant in a document they
had recently issued ; and they, fainting with a glorification
that they hoped ere long to have full religious toleration. Such
toleration with them, however, meant, that it be only tolera-
tion of their own sect. They wished to exalt themselves as
the standard of all virtue. He, however, had no faith In
such toleration.—Hear, hear.) It would appear that the
Wesloyans had entertained some doubt as to the
minutes of council, because it appeared to favour the suppo-
sition that the Roman Catholics would be allowed to partici-
pate in the grant ; but now, it would appear, after sending
applications to the Government, their minds, it would seem
had been partially satisfied. The Roman Catholics were to be
excluded. There satisfaction was in proportion to the exclusion
of the other party. He must say the conduct of the Govern-
ment, in this matter, had exhibited anything but fair dealing,
and had it not been for the honest and manly expres-
sion of feeling, the hallucination produced by this
tortuous policy, would have continued in those
who had put faith in the minutes of council.
In a country like theirs, full of religious opinions and dogmas,
it was impossible to create one system which could be taught
under one roof, and, therefore, they would require either to
have a multitudinous number of schools, or, throwing away
religious dogmas, permit the teachers of each sect to educate
the children who were the offspring of parents holding parti-
cular opinions. He had great confidence, however, in the ex-
panding qualities of a Minister's conscience.—( Laughter.) It
was of an India-rubber texture, and, ere many Sears expired
' --before the year 1848, probably—they would see the Catholics
clasped to the bosom of the Premier,and included in the vote of
the Government. The Noble Lord, in reality, at present said,
" I will teach every sect in its own school-room," but this he could
assure the Noble Lord was exceedingly offensive to the Wes-
'evens. They would not take the money of the Government
to propagate what the Noble Lord conceived to be error, but
they took it in order to rescue the people from the deep degra-
Jation in which they were plunged. They took it as a matter
of policy ; they took it for the purpose of repressing vice and
removing error, and it was only by steps like these that the
people could be elevated ; it was only by a course like this that
they could, in part, dispel the darkness which had gathered
round them, and only when the Government increased in
knowledge would the period arrive when all the people of the
country would be educated and enlightened. Thus they would
advance day by day in knowledge, in wisdom, and in Christian
charity.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL was really exceedingly sorry to
trouble the House with many observations on this subject, and
after the statement which he had himself made last night, and
after the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet, the Alember
for Tamworth, he should, but for the seech which had just
been made, have considered that it wasp totally unnecessary to
enter into any explanation of the views of Government on the
subject of education. He did think that the statement which
had been made by the Marquis of Lansdowne, on the introdu
tion of the measure, would have entirely set the matter at rest;
at least so far as the Wesleyans were concerned. But the Hen.
Member for Bath (Mr. Roebuck) had raised a creature of his',
own imagination. He seemed to suppose that the WosloYans'
had come to a decision, that the Government had never con-,
templated the granting any assistance to,the Roman Catholicl
and had represented that its several members had evince
an elastic conscience in the proceeding which o°l.
had now adopted. But without the least reference
to the transactions of tit: present year, he might refer to the
year 1839, when he had put forth the principle that liouitn:,
-Catholic schools ought to be established. The principle ba".:
indeed, been adopted in 1833, and the assertion, therefore, thT'
they had never contemplated the establishment of such schools.
was a perfect absurdity. In 1839 he saw that endeavoured,_
was opposed to him on this subject, and he had Evy,,
overcome it, but in this he was mistaken, and had determined.
therefore to wait until a revulsion of feeling should occur, ant.
the time should come when the measure could be carried scaltl,
effect. lie had raid that public opinion would come round,
that the opportunity would occur when the schools would d
Fve.
established. He had repeated this opinion last night, ante,
did conceive that the whole question had been settled by then
division to which the House had come last night. The note
which he had read were, he conceived, amplY sufficieh:
to prove that he had always contemplated the establis
ment of Roman Catholic schools.—( Loud cheers.) It
it had been represented that he had first seen a Bsinl.
Catholic Bishop, and then had refused to act upon the decisioin_
at which he had then arrived. He had certainly seen a biffh4
respectable Roman Catholic Bishop, and had stated to him hi
in the event of the question being raised, that nothing. sucluii
be done without having a consultation with him. But in rel'h4
to the observations, that he had refused to meet Dissenters,o;
might remark, that he had lately seen two deputations fr
Leeds, and that he had, in addition, seen a great number ofdei
putations, but these deputations occupied a great quantity of firm
—( Loud and continued cheers)—and the affairs to which t
was obliged to attend, necessarily called for his consideratio.nea
—(Loud cheers.) The motion of his Hon. Friend dere°l s
upon a point on which a very small portion of the debate nit
turned. And he regretted this, for if it had been otherso"
the House would have more rapidly come to a aecisinut;
—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) In 1833, he had proposed grants
the National Society, and the British and Foreign School
ciety, and he believed that the Right Hon. Baronet the Nietile
-
ber for Tamworth was quite right in stating last night, the be
Wesleyans had no objection to the diffusion of education aul°,ll
the Roman Catholics. But stripping this question of all `"-,„ •
difficulties by which it was surrounded, he could never agree,-4,-
the assertion, that the instruction was to be altogether 4.o'i--
secular character. He had hoped that this measure would
put an end to religious disputes.—( Cheers.) He had for so°s-/
years been a member of the British and Foreign School
on 't;
ciety, and that society had never permitted any instructi.;
be given except that which was founded on the filble'be
(Cheers.) As his friend, William Allen, had stated, ' "
British and Foreign schools were the schools for 6'oo
for he believed that no man desired in'ttnneible.
who did not wish to be taught the principles of the ,"'„,,,er
Therefore if his Hon. Friend the Member for the 'l'°_„t,
Hamlets persisted in his motion he would deprive the disso
ing body of a grant of 100,000/. per annum.
After a few words from Mr. HARRIS, t the
Mr. HOWARD complained that the Noble Lora 1 t„,y
head of the Government had been guilty of a want of eourt'ao
to the Roman Catholics, inasmuch as he had refused tog, silsore-
interview to Bishop Griffiths, and other Catholic bishollrerody
vious to the 19th inst., while at the same time he had s,
granted an interview to Mr. Jabez Bunting and the Weslelautbe
He should most certainly vote in favour of the motion dto
Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets, because he wished

see justice done to ail classes of the country.
Mr. ACLAND explained. a ale
Strangers were then ordered to leave the gallery, a°
House divided, when there appeared—
For the motion ,2,10
For the amendment . ........................... 74136
Majority for goinCommit Committee.------'e was
1
The Howe then went intotee, and the vote
agreed to—to be reported on Monday.
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL. ,
The Earl of MARCH objected to the funds for this "'to e
being taken from the county rate. He would not c !iliettla
oppose such a course ; and he thought that the expenfie
fall upon the consolidated fund.
Mr. MILES supported this view of the question• ved by
Mr. FINCH thought that much mote would be sa a the
the Right Hon. Gentleman taking the discussion ligCtOs
second reading of this Bill ; there were so many ouret. the
to the Bill, which he thought would by no means OS fi
purpose for which it was intended. ° (' one n
Mr. t
HENLEY trusted that the Government Membersit
was
Were
to the postponement of this measure until the
better informed as to its nature, and the way in which
proposed that it should operate.
The Bill was then postponed.
The Highways Bill was then read a second time. xt.
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received.

LUNATICS' ASYLUNIS BILL.
The report on this Bill was brought up, and after several
clauses had been added to it, it was agreed to.
tbe
Captain PECHELL moved for a r?turn, showing
particulars of the several disbursements constituting the
difference between the sums of 1,152/. 18s. Md. be
166/. 14s. Ild., paid as the net proceed of we
slave vessels Jehovah and Diana, intor the Vice-
Admiralty Court at the Cape of Good Hone, on the 12th day
of December, 1842, and the Bth day of Deternber 1846, r
sictively, and the sums of 1,202!. 63d. and 2;51. 3'.:1,'
being the gross proceeds of sale of those vessels resPect've'''
ltehses the
us
tunm
presented 76/. loBrts. t)Eide. alnsdth '7d3aly. 17s
of 'April, 1847'--
Agreed to.
Captain PECHELL postponed till Thursday next the
motion for a return of all fees payable in the several
Admiralty Courts Courts at the Cape of Good hope and St. Helena ;
with a return ofallofficers mentioned in
in the said Courts, with the nature of the duty performed, end
_ntaa
the amount of salary received by each, and, if paid by fees,
annual amount received by each since the let .tan" 184 y oh
a"
WAN LEY moved that the petition of George .1° n
stop, presented April 22d, be printed with the votes.
Agreed to.
Mr. BRIGHT moved that the petition of chairman e_f.,st
meeting at Croslq Hall. London, against the Govern7t7e
educational plan, presented April 20th, be printed with
votes.—Agreed to. Bill to
Sir GEORG GREY obtained leave to bring in a !roil
amend the laws relating to the removal of poor persons
England and Scotland.
PASSENGERS' ACT. wool
Mr. HAWES gave notice that he would, on Mond*
fur the introduction of a Bill to amend the Passengers' .11.e'
LAW OF SETTLEMENT. Dill to
Sir GEORGE GREY moved for leave to bring ins
amend the law of settlement.
The Bill was read a first time.
The House then adjourned at One o'clock.

STATE OF MR. O'CONNELL S
HEALTH. ,ell as the :le'
Private letters received in London, as
O'Conrell,
counts which appear in the Continental
confirmatory of the apprehension that Mr. ,eriyed
since his departure from Paris has not as yet ' eon.
any material b,nefit from his tour, but that, on the he
weather,
trary, owing to the extreme severity of the
" journals, are
Letters
is sinking under the malady which afflicts him.
received within the last two days represent the inv,lS,
condition at Lyons as peculiarly distressing. Ilis
P",ls,
sical vigour, for which Mr. O'Connell was once so
die
thwuished, is statf d to be very much shattered, and "4
is afflicted periodically with a mental depres,ion whic
it is painful fur his friends and companions to concern'
plate. The inclement weather prevailing in the
south of France since the opcning of the mon"
ess
has had a sad effect on him, and rendered the progr
from La Palisse to Lyons exceedingly trying on
the Honourable and Learned Gentk.man. On
arrival, in company with his chaplain, the Rev. hr,.
e
Miley, and his son, the Member for Dundalk, st
lintel l'Univers in Lyons, a few days, since the Catholic
of
upon
nhe city assembled in large numbers, and resi'lve.t.
presenting him with an address, expressive of thel
admiration and condolence, thus following the exall3ll„ne
of the Catholic party in Paris, whose address, drawn ";
by the eloquent pen of the Comte de Montalembert, and
already obtained publicity in almost every French $7,
British newspaper. The Lyonese deputation, b° hem.
were denied the gratification they had promised to
fitir
selves; for, in reply to a personal applienti" °fliel
interview, they received a letter from Mr. Da
O'Connell, jun., expressive of his regret that his f_tt.ale.ol
was in such a state of health as to be wholly unabeisesci
give them an audience. The letter, which is addr
e
to the head of the deputation, and bears date the
April, is as follows: s to ieti
Sir,--I am directed by my father to expres the
his deep regret, that his physicians having et,join‘: tie
strictest repose, it will be out of his power to give
audience to the Catholic deputation of Lyons.
"Your faithful and obliged servant,
"DANIEL O'CONNELL,
"Hotel de l'Univers." Ale
• n-
al
Doctors Bonnet and Voricel, the two first rhea
men in Lyons, were in daily attendance on Mr. O°--I.e
nel during his sojourn in the city. The same le
unt
which convey this intelligence, give a deplorable ace and
of the state of the weather in the south of France' !I%
attribute to it the aggravation of the patriot's inallerlifd
The rain has been incessant, and the cold intenseiejost
the Rhine is represented as being swollen to as
unprecedented degree, and inundated whole
IPthone)
Talking of Mr. O'Connell, a Lyons paper (l' t nor
observes, The illustrious invalid never stirs ou
Pe does he receive visitors. Many of the highest Pe been
in Lyons have called at his hotel, but they. ?ay ~,b0
ysimans,
invairiably received by his son."
held a consultation as to the advisability of of extreme
patient continuing the journey in
bis
sta
t Lyons until
weakness, recommended further sojourn a
the weather becomes more genial their Irish

BIRTS.
la
a the 19th 'On the 18th
jiteissst.e,, at
aMsaeinsoH
On .nette, Ingateatone, Essex, the
inst ~ at Great Malvern,
J. Hamilton Forsyth, of a son. ado
On the 20th inst., at Cadogan-place, the lady of Sir CIA
de C. de Crespigny, Bart., of a son and heir. cVlbcrt
On the 20th inst., at Maida-vale, the lady of ...1
Brandon, Esq., of a son. the Wife of the Ref,
#..outli
On the 21st in , the wife of Joseph Bullock, Esq., °' '-'-
Lambeth, of a son..
On the 21st inst., Mrs. Sampson Samuel,
ings, Finsbury-circa., of a daughter.
MARRIED. vjOrt
On the 22d inst.. at St. Marv's, Islington, Charles Ta., ..,-.
Esq., of the Clapham-road, to Maria, widow of the late C. 0'
Judge, Esq., of Liverpool.
DIED. beta
nar
On the 21st inst., at East Farleigh Vicarage,
Anne, relict of the late William Wilberforce, Esq., 31. r.. ,
of North-build-
On the 22c1 of January, on board the ship Virellcsill
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Codrington, 49th Dent
Native Infantry, Assistant Quartermaster-General, aged '
On the ith inst., at Naples, Edward, Lord Ilokeby.
On the 12th inst. near Dublin John Ord Owen, Es(l'
youngest son of the ;ate Rev. John wen, of Fulhana.
112;
London: Printed and Published by 2,111ND0 YOLTNG, 0, --p-'cios
Strand, Printer, at The Sun °nice No 112. Strand' in re
24'
of tue Savoy, in the County oiMiciUloos, Saturday, -ili
1847,

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CONTRACT for WELSH COALS for the
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COAST of AitICA. '
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Department of the Storekeeper Geller:11 of the Navy, , 1,7---A: ' "''' "4.81% ; ..
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~ i - -,, _-cp .0,-1 1' 41 , '-..."‘ ~, .10 -Z. 11. 1,- 1 ',/ - - I\\h, J _ --,'<e ~., ,
Of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby givo . dis ri, A. -IF ;'ltAf""ri',.... ''' ~,,,,‘ 14 '.."--,,,, .. . ;1, ,• • DROTT-(-•:'W * • \---- - • .
notice, that on THURSDAY, the 20th May next, at One o'Clock, they • _ az, \ ~ __--•
Will be ready ,C,--

-.3' to treat with such Person; as may be willing to Con-
tract for
Plates supplying and delivering
Vice of her Ma into Store, at the undermentioned
the following quantities of WELSH 'COALS, fit for the ser-
jesty's steam vessels.
Sierra Leone .• ..... . • • . 2,000 tens.
Ascension .. 2,000 „
Fernando Po .. ...... 2,000 ~

St. Paul de Loando • • ....-. 2,000 „
limn of the tender may be seen at the said office. No tender
_1'1,1,1.1.A be received after one o'clock, on the day of treaty, nor any
tleed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him, duly autho-
rised in writing.
„., Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Coals,"
and 5150 must be delivered at Somerset place, accompanied by a
;her signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound
h the person tendering, in the sum of 3,0001. for the slue per-
formanceof the contract.

IMPORTANT AND UNPRECEDENTED
SALE AT HOLMES', REGENT-STREET.
Messrs. HOLMES hare taken several housa id pounds' worth
SHAWLS (at an immense sacrifice), in liquidation of a debt due
.17eetbeir firm by an eminent French manufacturer, the whole having
a n expressly produced for the present season. The patterns are of
the
most elaborate and recherche description ; and in consevence of
immense quantity, they are compelled to sell Ahem at a sa-
'4..Fce unprecedented.
This vast additional amount of stock hare induced Messrs. Holmes
"
th_,:c-Mark (at a great discount:from their original cost) the whole of
ir extensive and valuable assortment of MANTILLAS and FURS.
"" their unrivalled collection of INDIA, BRITISH, and FRENCH
SHA4,
w,
• 41, " .48, to be included in this Sale, and to facilitate which,
SY article is marked in Plain Figures.
• 17r1tEIGN and BRITISH SHAWL EMPORIUM, 171, 173, and
REGENT-ST RE ET.

. •
AST INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.—
=Notice Is hereby given, that the DEED of SETTLEMENT
• rbeth„ejast Indian Railway Company LIES for SIGNATURE at
14Z...tires, 8, Broad-street-buildings, and the Proprietors of Scrip
tke-7,11 numbered from 1 to 80,000 are hem eby required to transmit
th. ;•onle to the Secretary for registration on or before SATURDAY,
• 4 ' at dam. May next, in default wkereof the shares will be sub-
.K et to forfeiture.
' %les of the report, with printed forms to accompany the Scrip,
• 11
341 be
...._ . obtained on application at the oftice s of the Company, 8,
,:flo • , street-buildings; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Royal Ex-
.. icaveri.rthziobniUleldvlrng.issn;e. and Messrs. Laurence, Cazenove, and Pearce,
h.'" 1. 'lke registered share certificates will be issued In the order
'", WM ch the deed is executed, and the priority regulated by the date
ei execution
So so„ as' will admit, a notice will be issued calling
tniroevh°ldere f If anrg3Tripnttgopresent the same for registration.
IL TON ON THAMES.
' ost„, Notice is hereby given that a SPEr,IAL MEETING of the
one -141ISSIONERS of the ROYAL TERRACE PIER, MILTON
tre..--'. AMES, will be held et the Literary Institution, Harmer-
'boo—, on MONDAY, the 3d day of May next, at Twelve o'clock at
Penn PrftiselY, to receive and determine on TENDERS for an Iron
' WerVsn„„ the Gardens, and an Iron Barrier at the Pier, and other
plan.- connected therewith, and to consider and determine on the
, proye-ndeSpecfficatlons to be then submitted for Rebuilding or Ina-
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By order of the Commissioners,
_Milton on 7.l,,arnes, April
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Wls.
lire t• t— On the rapper of each Bottle of the Genuine Article
- ese 'words. in Two lines,
.., field b " ROWLANDS' MACCASSAR OIL."
kbetni_ Y the Proprietors, at 20 Batton-garden, London; and by all
.04 and Perfumers.
,dr,.
Urt-iLD, SILVER, DIAMONDS, PEARLS, and
ptrfee„ all the most precious and costly gems, are imitated to such
piste rn, that but very few uninitiated persons can positively tell a
' 'itititettorh°°°ll or a ring from a diamond, the real pearl from the
. ' tha hAtta: °r German Silver from the genuine put them into
_e att,„-: °I the connoisseur, how soon the delusion vanishes when
,most s,--„'" they are but vile and' base imitations. So it is with the
the 1111;7:able inventions as well as stones and metals. None but
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be f 1 n os'u Ri er (the best connoisseur) attempts to use them, how soon
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the last ',,,(1 SAUNDERS has been the target for imitation for
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o pro-
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is simply
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BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
&n Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 17th day of April, 1847.
ISSUE DTPARTMENT. _

X.
Notes issued .... • • .. 22,801,100

£22,801,100

Dated the 22d day of April. 184;

BANKING Dl
X.
Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest • • • • • • • • 3,397,077
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-

ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts).. 3,011,032
Other deposits •-•• • • 10,004,699
Seven day and other
bills • • • . 910,068

4 31,875,876

Dated the 22d day orApril,lB47-.

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 7,365,424
Silver bullion 1,435,676

22,801,100
'. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

,EPAILTMEN T.

Government seettri-

ties (Including Lead

Weight Annuity).. 11,677,819
Other securities .. • • 17,111,001
Notes •.••••• • • • • • • . 2,558,315
Gold and silver coin.. 528,741

£31,875,876
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of April 23.)
Svcan.—To-day, although the importers of raw Sugar
were willing to allow the trade 6 per cent discount, still this
event did not cause any improvement in the demand; and
prices again .went down, and the various public sales pro-
ceeded with heaviness.
REFINED.—To-day a fair amount of business was trans-
acted in Refined goods by the home trade, but there was an
evident desire on the part of the Refiners to sell at 63s 6d
for standard lumps, and 62s 6d to 63s for brown grocery.
Bonded Crushed sugar is offered upon further reduced terms
.—still meeting with much attention, and 34s to 35s per cwt
is the value.
eumus.—This afternoon there was little desire evinced
to operate in Mauritius Sugar, and of 9,478 bags at public
sale, not above a third part ound buyers, although holders
submitted to a reduction on former rates of Is., making the
decline for the week ls. 6d. to 2s. per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the quantity of Bengal Sugar
offered at auction amounted to the large quantity of 7,969
bags. Merchants were anxious sellers, and submitting to a
reduction on former rates of is to 2s per cwt, caused nearly
the whole to be disposed of.
FOP.EIGN. —This afternoon there was no public sale of any
kind of Foreign Sugar ; but privately two floating cargoes of
white Havannah were sold, supposed to be at low prices.
MOLASSES.—The purchases made in all sorts of West India
have been to a small extent, and there is a desire to sell at
20s to 235, and fine quality at 24s to 255. At auction 330
casks of Porto Rico were taken in at 26s for good quality,
which is above the value. For Bengal Treacle the demand
has been limited, and 22s to 24s is the value of low to fine.
For lloney prices arc moving downwards.
COCOA.—There has been little desire evinced to operate in
West India, and prices have still a downward tendency—red
being obtainable at 53s to 63s for common to fine, and grey
at 503 to 56s per cwt. Foreign is dull of sale, and easier
to buy.
COFFEE.—This afternoon there was little desire evinced to
operate in Coffee. The public sales of 628 bags of Planta-
tion Ceylon, 52 bales of N 1 oche, 240 bags East India, and
27 barrels of-Jamaica were all postponed, in consequence of
the trade insisting upon a discount of 6 per cent. The ten-
dency of prices is evidently downwards.
TEA.—None has been submitted to public sale since this
day week; but privately the market is plentifully supplied
with black and green. Holders do not appear disposed to
submit to any further decline in prices ; but the purchases
made in all sorts have been to a small extent only.

Rtes.—To-day there was much desire evinced to operate
in East India Rice; at public sale 2,873 bags of Bengal were
offered, and all sold with spirit at an advance on former rates
of ls.

Species.—There are sellers of Pimento rather under pre-
vious rates. Holders of Black Pepper manifest more firm- '
uess, and have refrained from offering any at public sale
this week. White has been sparingly dealt in, although
low and middling can be obtained at -31-d to 4d, and better
quality 4id to 6d the supply is yet gootilln Cinnamon, good
and fine are held at former rates. Cassia Lignea is wanted,
and buyers are compelled to pay stiffer rates. Cassia Bads are
wanted, but the advanced rates required operate against the
.demand, and 16 chests at auction were taken in at 75s per
cwt for rather stalky. With Nutmegs the market has been
much better supplied, whereas the demand having been
limited prices suffered a depression of Id to 2d per lb.
Smurrs.—lmporters of all qualities of Jamaica Rum are
desirous to realise, and have submitted to further reduced
rates, snaking the fall from the highest point of the market
8d per gallon. There are sellers of Leeward Island at a fur-
ther decline in prices, yet the business done has been small.
Demerara has met with a dull sale this week, and the value
is 4* 4d to 4s 8d for 30 to 40 per cent. over proof. Brandy
dull of sale at former prices.
COCHINEAL is not much wanted, and prices are on the
decline. At public sale 28 bags of llonduras silvers were
sold at ld per lb under those of Friday last.
Otr.s.—The contracts concluded in Olive Oil this week by
exporters and the home trade have been to a small extent,
although there are sellers upon rather lower terms. Palm
has been only in limited request by the home trade, but
holders are firm. The stiff rates that are insisted upon for
Cocoa Nut causes the trade to operate with caution,'and only
small parcels have been disposed of at 48s to 50s for good to
fine. There are not many buyers of Rapeseed Oil, and the
Crushers are desirous to sell. Prices have ruled firm for
Linseed Oil on the spot this week. For forward delivery
however, few contracts have been concluded, although there
are sellers at 26s 3d to 26s 6d. A fair amount of business
has been transacted in Southern Oil, but holders have been
compelled to take previous rates for all qualities. For Cod
a good demand exists, but 271 to 271 108 are the rates taken.
In consequence of the scanty supply of Seal prices
remain high, but the trade operate with much caution. For
Sperm the demand is less active—still holders ask 92/. to
921 5s for fine British, and 891 to 911 for fair to fine
American. Lard Oil is little wanted, and can be obtained
at 43s to 48s per cwt.

DEPOT, 278, STRAND.
To wholesale purchasers a liberal discount will be made.

RAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH.
Price is. I%d. per box.
This excellent Family Pill is a medicine of long-tried efficacy for
Correcting all disorders of the stomach and bowels, the common
symptoms of which are costiveness, Ratnleney, spasms, loss of appe-
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of the eye., drowsiness, and pains in the stomach and bowels. In-
digestion, producing a torpid state of the liver, and a consequent inac-
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the frame, will, in this most excellent preparation, by a little perse-
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title afflicted of its salutary effects. The stomach will speedily regain
ta strength ; a healthy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys will
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',ulek result of taking this medicine, according to the directions ac-
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they quickly restore the system to its natural state of repose.
Persons of a full habit, who are subject to head-ache, giddiness,
tZsineas, and singing in the ears, arising from too great a flow of
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Ptlras will he entirely carried off by their immediate use.
otruP"
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Head-ache,lls are most truly excellent, removing all ob-
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otthe,
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Title bloom to the complexion.
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ai
•nt of diet or confinement during their use; and for Elderly
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par e
by T. Front, 229, Strand, London. Price, Is. d. and 2s. 9d.
a gdom and by the venders of medicines generally throughout the
.
It,sk for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and ohserve the
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PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND,
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Testimonials have been received from upwards of one hundred
Lmelans and Surgeons of the greatest eminence, as well as from
~.7,lteOffleers of both Army and Navy, and nearly one thousand
letters from the gentry in town and country, speaking In
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I..lnared by John Fox, in boxes at Is. 11,4 d., or three small boxes
itags re for is. 9d.; and to be had, with full directions for use, of C.
$4, Napier-street, Hoxton New-town, London; and all whole-
-117
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DR. CULYERWELL on HEALTH
LIFE. , lIALPPINEMS, and
LONG

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MARRIAGE and its MYSTERIES.
To:be, or not to be, that is the qacstion."—Shakspeare.
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" Cura ut ♦aleas"

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.rethra,
RY SAMUEL L VMERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,
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their functions structures, and secretions, proving that grea.,
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ithe
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[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A CURE OF A BAD LEG BY
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any general revival be yet intimated. The only manufac-
tures at all busy are those who are executing orders for the
army. In carpets the Brussels fabrics are in request, but
Scotch are getting even slacker than they have been. The
printworks are improving, and individual works are more
than usually busy. Masons and joiners, and other trades-
men, are in request, and receive high wages. Labourers of
all kinds readily find employment. Shoemakers and tailors
are suffering from slackness of demand in their depart-
ments, and it is expected that the wages of the latter will
be reduced.—Kilmarnock Journal.

BENJAMIN EDGINGTON, Marquee, Tent,
Flag. and Rick Cloth Manufacturer, 2, Duke-strict, South-
wark, foot of London-bridge. Rick Cloths, with poles, tulleys, and
lines complete.
" No farmer should be without a good rick cloth, for it 1s certainly
one of the most useful things he can have on his premis,s."—Gar-
dener's Gazette..
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PRICE SD.

FIFESEIIRE.—THE FISIIING.—ST. MONACE, APRIL
17..—This week our shallow-water fishing has been attended
with great success. Haddocks of an excellent quality have
been caught here this week. There has been, however, a
great destruction of lines, the tides being so rapid and the
ground rocky where the fishinghas been. The fish have been on
herring spawn. There has been a great body of herrings on our
shore this season, which have passed away without our
fishermen every trying. Our fishermen are generally too
premature in their movements. They tried the herring-
fishing before the fish were properly on the ground, and not
meeting the encouragement anticipated, they dropped before
the time. The weather has been good during the week;
wind prevailing from the eastward. Price, on Saturday,
is. 2d. per dozen.— Weekly Register.
A young woman, the only daughter of a rich shop-
keeper in the Rue des Lombards, threw herself into the Seine,
on Sunday, from Pont Marie, in order to avoid a marriage
which displeased her. She was carried rapidly down by the
current, and, the instinct of life prevailing, she seized a ring
hanging from the quay wall, and was soon atter resctieLby
some boatmen,—.Paris raper,

Rick Cloths, both new and secondhand, at a reasotiable cost.
Netting, Bunting, and Scrims for fruit trees.
Address, Benjamin Edgington, 2, Duke-street, Southistrk, A
Iya.rehouse, 208, Piccadilly.