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we firmly believe, pressing forward rapidly and evenly to
the realisation of that scheme, the advocacy or which we
regard as one of our most sacred duties. Everything
shows that this under• stream is working, and that too
with indorcitable assiduity; the noise of its progression
occasionally bursts up through the silent superficies by
which it is otherwise concealed. In this manner, establish-
ments for the instruction of the destitute children of this
great capital have been organised with much sagacity,
and have already received considerable encouragement,
under the generic title of " The Ragged Schools." The
introduction of elementary works into the cells of such
institutions as the model prison at Pentonville, was an
indication of the same secret movement. Something of
a similar nature was apparent in the demonstra-
tions elicited by the Recorder of Birmingham, and
the City Solicitor, and an increase of influence
was imparted to those demonstrations by the
influential patronage which came forth like a necessary
sequence to each. Nor, indeed, could the adjournment
of the Honourable the House of Commons be per-

!bitted before the question of education in at least
two of the divisions of Great Britain had been mooted—
first, by the Member for Coventry with reference to Wales,
secondly, by Mr. WYSE, with reference to Ireland.
These facts of themselves would be, undoubtedly,
sufficient evidence that a large proportion of

the most powerful members of the community is
striving boldly and unswervingly in the proposed direc-
tion. Nor are the instances we have already adduced
all that can be enumerated : a spirit equally en-
lightened and benevolent has manifested itself in
other quarters deserving of especial attention, and if we
mistake not, such efforts are only the precursors of
others yet more strenuous, and extending to a somewhat
more comprehensive unaminity. Nobly has the Mar-
quis of WESTMINSTER pressed forward amongst the
foremost of these peaceful agitators to proclaim himself
the champion of his less elevated countrymen, and to
insist upon the excellence and feasibility of some ame-
liorative measures in their behalf. This grati-
fying announcement was repeated by the Noble
Marquis at the Dorset Quarter Sessions, on
Tuesday last. He introduced it unostentatiously enough,
as a mere appendix to a motion of local interest for
some modification of the plan adopted at the county
gaol ; nevertheless, the nobility of the cause then sup-
ported by the Marquis of WESTMINSTER cannot but
bruit a mere whisper in its favour like a trumpet-blast
over the land. There was something practical as well
as concise in the language uttered by the noble
speaker ; he seemed anxious to place the matter
in its most common-sense light, and while insensibly
engaging the hearts of his hearers, to arouse their co-
operation through the medium of their sound reason.
Thus he d.•monstrated how infinitely tardy the inhabi-
tants of this country were in the effectuation of this im-
provement, by reminding them that already the Parisians
had allotted a portion of their prisons to the
moral tuition of juvenile .culprits, and that so
admirably effectual was this arrangement in its opera-
tion, that " if a cnild was even about to fall into evil,
he was brought by his parent and immediately incar-
cerated." Thus again the Marquis appealed, we will
not say to the cupidity, but to the regard to economy by
which society is so wonderfully guided in the adoption
of any novel scheme :
" lie could give them one instance of sixteen children, at
Liverpool, that cost, from the frequency of their re-committals,
60/. a piece; whereas at an establishment ix the county of
Warwick, out of 77 children 64 had been returned to their
friends, and usefully and profitably employed fur many
years ; the expense of these children was only 251. a piece."
Let England, however, look to her sluggishness in this
instance, and become abashed into some concession to the
advancing spirit of the age ; let that Parliamentary
paper just issued, containing the tabular statistics in.
cident to education in British India, be generally exa-
mined : it comprises many incentives to our home
exertions, though we must acknowledge that yet
more might be expected from the prodigious wealth and
extraordinary area of our Oriental possessions. The
amount devoted to the purposes of native education
during 1843 by the Indian Government was 830,772 r.
1 la. Ip. ; and that for regions extending throughout the
several presidencies of Bengal, North-Western Pro.
vinces, Port St. George, and Bombay. But a very
competent authority has elsewhere calculated
the distance we are behind other countries
on the score of education. Mr. KAY, the Travelling
Bachelor to the University of Cambridge, in a very ex-
cellent work recently published, says :
" Unless the State steps forward to assist the Church
and the Dissenters in an efficient manner, so long must
we remain by far the worst educated country in Europe
—a country where towns of the importance of Oldham
' and Rochdale have only 1 in 150 of their inhabitants
receiving education, whilst in the cantons of Berne and
Vaud in Switvrland, the proportion is 1 in 4i."
Such is the opinion cf one whose ideas must be re-
ceived as in some measure authoritative as the mouth-
piece of one of our universities. In another portion of
his volume this gentleman has, if possible, a yet
more striking antithesis. He proves that, for the edu-
cation of England and Wales alone, forty normal
schools, at the very lowest computation, would be ne
cessary for the training of our schoolmasters, and then
expresses his mortification at our only possessing Jive
such establishments. The subject, however, is of such
paramount importance, and has been treated hitherto
with such egregious injustice, that it swells out to an al-
most interminable length. We must, nevertheless,
hope, and strive courageously for its definite settlement.

The Madrid journals of the 4th inst. contain the hi:

tory of the late Ministerial crisis. It appears that EGANA
and PEZUELA, not being able to agree with I•Ts.avaEz,
Buncos, and ORLANDO, on the subject of the decree for
the regulation of the Stock Exchange, resigned, and
that their resignation was accepted. On the 3d of April
General MAZZEREDO, a strong parti,an of NARVAEZ,
was appointed in the room of PEZUELA, but on the same
lay GONZALES BRAVO, for whom NARVAEZ had des-
tined the portfolio of the Foreign• office, not only refused
to join the NARVAEZ Ministry, but resigned his post of
Ambassador to the Court of Lisbon, and announced his
determination to energetically support a liberal line
of policy. NARVAEZ being unable to fill up
the vacancies occasioned by the refusal of GONZALES
13RAvo and the retirement of EGANA, tendered his own
resignation on Saturday, which was accepted by the
QUEEN, who immediately sent for M. ISTURITZ (who was
Prime Minister at the period of the Revolution of
La Granja, and who under the MIRAFLORES Cabinet
was Minister of the Interior), and commissioned him to
form a Government. M. ISTURITZ, who at once acceded
to her MAJESTY'S desire, was immediately appointed
President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
General ARMERO, who remained with MoN, PIDAL,
and MAYANS, to the last in the MARTINEZ DE
LA Rosa Cabinet, was appointed Minister of
Marine. EGANA remained as Minister of Justice, and
there was every probability of MON resuming his portfolio
t, Minister of Finance, and of his friend TIDAL, who has
tlready afforded him great assistance in carrying out hi,
inancial reforms, also becoming a Member of the ISTURITZ
Cabinet. This is the most efficient Ministry that has
wen formed in Spain since the downfal of ESPARTERO.
ISTURITZ, although a Conservative Moderado, is a con-
ititutionalist and a statesman, and MON is certainly the
most honest, firm, and trustworthy financier that Spain
has yet produced. If the intrigues of NARVAEZ and
CHRISTINA. do not overrule the Cabinet (and M. ISTURITZ
is not the sort of man to submit to the dictation of a
Camarilla), the future prospects of Spain are brighter
han they have been for years past. For the sakt
of that unhappy country, it is to be desired that
the ISTURITZ Ministry should last, and that
its chief should acquire the confidence of Queen
ISABELLA, who cannot have a better tutor in the
art of reigning as a constitutional monarch tban M.
ISTURITZ. It appears from advices from Bayonne and
from the north of Spain that the movements of the In-
fante DON ENRIQUE are strictly watched, both by the
French and the Spanish authorities, as it was suspected
that his object in repairing to France was to place him-
self at the head of the discontented in Upper Artagon.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 3.—Three per Cents., 311 al
30 days ; Five per Cents., 201, for money ; Bank of St.
Ferdinand, 280 ; Bank of Isabella, 170 ; Company of
Iris, 125 ; Company of Probity, 185 ; General Assu
rances, 82 ; Alliance, 170 ; Anchor, 170 ; Gas, 160.
Exchanges—London, 31 ; Paris, 16.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The annual promenade of Longchamps commenced on
Wednesday, and although the weather was remarkably
tine, there were but few elegant equipages. Thursday
.ind Friday are, however, the grand days. On the
Thursday the weather was not quite so fine as it had
been on the preceding day, but the Champs Elysees
were crowded, and the number of carriages out was very
great.
Madame NARVAEZ, who is by birth a French lady,
had left Paris for Madrid, to join her husband. She
arrived at Bordeaux on the 6th.
The Moniteur contains a report of Marshal BUGZAUD
to the Minister of War, dated April the 2d, announcing,
on the authority of information received from General
MARCY, the retreat of ABD•EL•KADER to the country
of the Ouled Sidi Chikks, within two days' march of
the Morocco frontier. The march of the light column
of General JouSSOUF had been delayed several days, he
having b,..en obliged to wait for the arrival of the barley
and provisions which he had sent for to Boghar
Teniet-el-Ilaad the only points where he could procure