The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-06 00:00:00

IRISH EDUCATION.

The Bishop of EXETER pres. nted a petition from the
Archdeationry of Exeter against the Plan of Education in
Ireland. His Lordship took the opportunity, in reference
to a di-cussion which had taken place some time hack, of
denying that he had stat.d that the letter of a Noble Duke
opposi'e to his Majesty had appeared in the Newspapers.
What he said was, the allusions had be.en made to it in
the Newsp pers, and upon referring to the Mirror of
Parliament to day, which was the first time he had had
an opportunity of doing so, having been in the country, he
found that publication confirmed his statement.
The 31 trquess of LONDONDERRY said be had long been
desirous of having the opportunity which he would now
avail himself of, of bringing again before their Lordships
the circumst Inas which occurred to him on the oc-
casion of presenting an address to his Majesty from
the apprentice boys of Derry. Atter he had
returned from his Majesty, on reflection he considered that
it would give pain to the parties from whom he received
the address, if he returned the answer to them which l►e
had received from his Majesty, tirerefore he wrote to his
iiajesty's private secretary, to know if it was his Majesty's
pleasure or not th.t he should return the answer as be
had received it to Derry. The reply he received to that
letter was, that it would be referred to the Secretary of
State for the Hoine Department. It was on the 29th of
April that he presented the Address to his Majesty, and
as soon at he had returned home from the Levee,
he wrote his letter. On the Ist of May he received a
communication from the Noble Viscount opposite, and
on the Qd of M ,y an account of the whole of the circum-
stances containing the substance, both of what transpired
on the present .tion of the Address, the substance of his
letter, and of the Noble Viscount's reply, thr;ugh that
reply he had not received till late the preceding
evening, appeared in a morning paper. From the
manner itt which his Majesty's Government
had taken upon itself to deny all connec-
tion with the Times newspaper, probably some-
thing has taken place since this affair occurred, by
which the Government could explain how this pub-
lication appeared. He (the Noble Marquess) had
never mentioned it before it appeared in the newspapers,
and as it had been on!y known to himself and his Ma-
jesty's Private Secretary, and the Noble Viscount

oppomite, it wAs incontestably evident to him that there
must he some very extraordinary connexion be-
tween the Times and his Aldjesty's Government.

He was willing, it the House required it, to read the let-
ters which hail been written, if anything further was

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required to satisfy their minds, or if any one could say his
statement was incorrect. Probably the Noble Secretary
for the Home Department could now state how these facts
became public?
Lord MELBOURNE could say no more on the
subject than what he had stated before, that the
statement of the Noble Mirquess was correct, but be (Lord
M.) was totally unaware of how the faces had been com-
municated to the Press.
The Marquess of LONDONDERRY—The Noble Via.
count h•vine felt surprised at the circumstances when I
made toy form-r statement, I beg now to ask him if he
has taken any means of finding out how the disclotuies
took plat- ?
Lord MELBOURNE (emphivically)—No, I have not.
(A burst of laughter.)
The Alai qu ss of LONDONDERRY then entered into

a cony, rsatt;n with the Duke of Wellington, and the Earl of
Aber,e n, and Lord Melbuu' ne having immediately gone to
the Wools .ek to speak t•o the Lord Chancellor and the Duke
of Su•sex, t.otb of whom joined in the laugh, the subject
WAS dropped.