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enlarged form which we promised at the beginning of
the Session. The delay arose entirely from unavoid-
able circumstances which we could not ontemplate,
and the disappointment of the public cannot have been
greater than our own.
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the paper affords, together with new type and superior
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party, but to the public at large.
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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1834.

We trust the House of Commons will this evening
come to a resolution which may dispel any doubt in
the Royal mind, or in the minds of any of his Majesty's
subjects as to the principles on which the affairs of the
country can be carried on. A certain portion of the
members have acted a most inconsistent part, but hav-
ing seen and admitted the error of their ways,
they have no other resource left but to second
resolutions which may yet preserve to the king-
dom the blessings of a Reform Ministry. The
liberal members who were absent from the House
on the divisions of Monday night must feel no small
regret, that owing to their negligence, and the junction
of the ultra-liberal party with the bitterest enemies of
reform, the Government of the country had become
paralysed, and the management of affairs all but
thrown into the hands of men, who have for the
last four years been opposing all those very mea-
sures for the advancement of which their con-
stituents sent them to the House of Commons.
In case of a dissolution of Parliament we know not
indeed what answer they could give, when charged
with having neglected to support an administration that
had done so much good for the country, and was ad-
vancing every day towards a still more liberal system,
but had become so disgusted by the bitter hostility
of the extreme parties, and the lukewarmness of their
friends, as to throw up the reins of Government
and retard, if not endanger the completion of measures
necessary for the prosperity and peace of the country.
It would I.‘e impossible to justify such conduct, and
many of their constituents would not be inclined to
again trust men who, either from want of energy, or
from preferring their own private affairs and interests
to the public weal, and thereby neglecting their public
duty, had mainly contributed not only to stop improve-
ment, but almost to throw the country into the most dan-
gerous state of confusion. The only means now in their
power of making amends, is to rally round the liberal
Members of the late government, and express their
firm and unalterable resolution to support them in car-
rying into effect the great principle of the Grey Ad-
ministration—peace, retrenchment, and reform. No
man ever did so much for a country in the same space
of time ; and Earl GREY, and his more liberal colleagues
will have the more credit when the public now know from
the explosion of the Cabinet, that in addition to the
opposition of Ultra-Tories and Ultra-Radicals, they
were thwarted and annoyed at every step by men, who,
in place of being their coadjutors, were doing every-
thing in their power to alienate the affections of the
more liberal part of the community, and encourage the
attacks of the enemies of all Reform. In place of
being surprised that Earl GREY'S Government
has not done more, the country, on a fuller
inquiry into all the circumstances of the se-
cession of Mr. STANLEY, will be only the more
grateful for what they have done, and the more dis-
posed to visit with their displeasure those who, from
caprice, or negligence, or disappointed ambition, have
endangered their best interests. In every department
of the State—in the Church—in the law—in mu-
nicipal corporations—in the administration of the
poor laws—in our foreign commerc, and in all
our foreign as well as our domestic policy—
they were preparing vast improvements ; while by their
humane and just government they had restored Great
Britain to profound peace, and were prevented from
conferring the same blessing on Ireland only by the
machinations of their enemies. While the trade of the
country was brought to a more healthy state than it
had ever been in the memory of man, its financial
credit raised twenty per cent. since their
accession to office ; and our foreign relations placed
on a footing in perfect accordance with the general
feelings of the country ; yet all these blessings are to
be endangered by the negligence of one party, and
the perverse obstinacy of another. The conduct of

17, and tho-,e Who united hilit i back-
ing ttp the is utterly ir.comprchenc-.
They have some reason to repent of their conduct ;
and if they do not take the first opportunity of making
ample amends for deserting the Government, we can
only wish them a speedy meeting with their con-
stituents.

Yesterday Lord MELBOURNE went to Windsor, from
whence he returned late last night. Nothing positive has
transpired, but his Lordship immediately visited Lord
ALTHORP, and of course the LORD CHANCELLOR,
whose co-operation is at all times important, but never
more so than on the prevent occasion. It is indeed plain,
from appearances, that Lord MELBOURNE now has the
Royal authority for consulting his late colleagues, and es-
pecially the above-mentioned, upon the means of re-con-
structing the Cabinet on the principles of the Adminis-
tration ofEarl GREY. Unfortunately Lord GREY himself
will never be prevailed on to resume his station in the
Council, but, with his usual generosity, he will
lend his powerful assistance, and give his use-
ful advice as to the manner of reconstructing
the edifice of which he was so long both the key-stone
and the ornament. This may, and, we doubt not,
will, assist to secure a good Government. At
any rate, public men will escape the dis-
grace of a hollow coalition of parties, and the
country will be rescued from the danger of a Tory
Government—from dissolution, disaffection, or the re-
newal of political confederacies at home, and from
distrusts and jealousies, and, perhaps war, abroad.
Mr. STANLEY, though he retains his opinions on the
Church Commission, has declined and dissuaded all
compromise with the Tories. He is disposed to give
to a liberal and reforming Ministry his cordial support
on matters foreign and domestic which do not affect
the Irish Church, and to afford every facility for the
resumption of office by the late Cabinet. We congra-
tulate him. He is an able debater, and may yet be
very useful to his country.

The . Conservatives have dined on white-bait at
Greenwich, which we hope they will often do, and
drank each others health in bumpers, which they are
always ready to do; but they have not been to Windsor
Castle ; for a very good reason, that they have not
been sent for. It is true that Lord MELBOURNE
was commanded by his Sovereign to transmit to their
leaders a communication in which it was desired to know
what they thought of a ministry made up of the
most able men of all parties, and to this they returned
a civil answer. But they do not pretend that they can
form a Government, and they know full well that they
and those members of the late Government, whom the
country confides in, can never act together. The latter
had, as we stated at the outset, an unconquerable aver-
sion to coalitions, and would much prefer an honest
Tory Government, bad as it must necessarily be, to
one made up of the odds and ends of all parties.

We have stated that at the last conservative meeting
at Apsley House, Mr. MANNERS SUTTON was of
opinion that a Tory Administration might yet be
formed. One great difficulty, however, we apprehend
to be the disposal of the Duke of CUMBERLAND and
his illustrious relative the Duke of GLOUCESTER.
Surely the last has enough of political sagacity to enable
him to outwit Mr. O'CONNELL, and he might, therefore,
be the Conservative Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; and
might not the former, as his manners are so dignified
and conciliating, and his moral character so free from
suspicion, be a good representative of the English
Tory character, if be were to go to India as Governor-
General ? Lord MUNSTER Aight go to Bombay in-
stead of Mr. ROBERT GRANT. In sober truth,
however, these illustrious persons are felt to be a great
mill-stone around the neck of the Tories.

We hail with much satisfaction a notice for next
session, given by Mr. S. MACKENZIE, to enquire into
the present state of the education of the people of
Scotland, and of the best means to promote and ex-
tend the same ; preparatory to which he has moved for
returns, Ist. from the several presbyteries of Scotland,
showing the name of each parish in each Presbytery,
with the population as ascertained in the year 1831 ;
whether the parish is entirely landward, or entirely a
burgh, or part of any burgh, or large town, or whether
it is partly landward, and partly a burgh or town, or in
any burgh or large town. 2. Showing how many
children of each sex, in each parish, under five
years of age, have been taught to read, or are
now learning to read ; how many children of each
sex between five and fifteen years of age have
been taught to read ; and how many of such children
have been taught to write, or are now learning to write.
3. Showing the number of parochial schools, and
the number of instructors in those schools ; the amount
of salary, of school fees, and of any other emoluments;
the least number of scholars, and the greatest number
of scholars of each sex who attended such parochial
schools in any part of the half year ending Michael-
mas, 1833, and the like of the half-year ending Lady-
day, 1834 ; what branches of education are directed
to be taught in those parochial schools ; what are
usually taught ; and whether any other branches of
education might be conveniently therein taught.-
4. Showing the number of schools not parochial,
(including boarding schools), and the number of
instructors in such schools ; the least number and the
greatest number of scholars, of each sex, who were under
instruction in such schools, in any part of the half-
year ending Michaelmas, 1833, and the like of the half-
year ending Lady-day, 1834 ; and what branches of
instruction are taught in the schools which may have
been included in the class of schools not parochial.
This is as it should be ; namely, to obtain the
information first, and to legislate upon its subject
matter afterwards. We beg leave to direct the
attention of the Hon. Member to Mr. SIMPSON'S tract
upon popular education, in which he will find many
useful suggestions with regard to infant schools ; we
mean for children of from three to five years of age,
and particularly that children should be taught the use
of things before they are taught the use of words.

We trust that a similar foundation will be laid for
the extension of general instruction in England, and
that while attention is paid to the education of the
lower orders, that of the middling and upper ranks
will not be neglected. Upon this subject we have
found much useful information in Mr. MUNDELL'S
last publication. A generation at least, however, must
pass away before much benefit can be derived from any
thing that can be don't-towards the general instruction
of the people, or any improvement that may be made
in existing establishments for the purposes of educa-
tion, or of extending the moral influence of education
and of religion. While, therefore, Mr. MUNDELL
begins by laying a foundation for all that is stable and
good, by insuring the benefits of sound information,

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, ,TLY 14, 1834.