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which the anti-Sabbatarians (for such, as Lord Brougham
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both in custody on a charge of murder, committed immedi-
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the spot they had done so ! As they stand committed for
trial, we refrain from entering upon the circumstances further
than to say that we understand the affray commenced with-
out any provocation being offered to them by the deceased, who
was an unoffending young man, quietly going home with
his sweetheart, to whom he was about to be married; and
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 17.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
EDUCATION BILL.
Mr. W.. 7. FOX moved the second reading cf the
Eduction Bill.

Mr. A. STAFFORD rose, pursuant to notice, to move
that the Bill be read a second time that day six
months. He believed that there was no person in
that House, and few in the country, who did
not acknowledge the importance of the subject involved
in the Bill of the Honourable Member fir Olahara. All
would admit the ability with which the Bill was intro-
duced, but it must be recollected that the House, in
slowing the first reading, had not recognised the prin-
ciple upon which it was founded, but simply
pledged itself to consider the merit of it. On
the second reading of the Bill, the House was called
upon to adopt the principle and to sanction it, and he
therefore felt bound to come forward and record his ob-
jection to the measure. In the parishes in his immedi-
ate neighbourhood the children were educated generally
at the expense of the landowners, but in the re-
turns to the House with respect_ to educa-
tion in the country, no mention was made eith-e
of the number of scholars, or of the parties who had the
expense of theireducation. He mentioned that not to
controvert the proposition of the Hon. Member for
Oldham, that the state of education in England was
lamentably deficient, but to show that the House
was not in possession of full information on the
subject. In considering the question of educa-
tion the House would have to be cautious
not to violate -the religious opinions of the public, and
in the second place-not to found a system of centraliza-
tion in educating the people. The measure now before
the House proposed to disregard the religious opinions
of a large section of the community, and in the next*
place to form a system of centralization of the most oh-
jectionabte character. There was a strong feeling in the-
country against merely secular education, to the exclusion
of religious teaching combined with secular education, and
,he belieitd that no Hon. Member in that House would,
stand up and contradict that assertion. Not only was
the National Society for Education against the Bill, but
the correspondence which had taken place upon the sub-
ject by the members of the British and Foreign School
Society tended to show that that society was opposed
to the Bill of the Honourable . Gentleman. He
looked upon the Bill as an invasion of the
right of civil and religious liberty, because it proposed
to abandon the principle that prevailed in the country,
that religion should form part of every system of edu-
cation, and thereby set at naught the religious feelings
of a large majority of the people of this country. The
Hon. Gentleman, after making a most searching ana-
lysis of the provisions of the Bill, for the purpose
of showing that it was founded upon a fallacious
principle, and upon incorrect details, concluded by
moving that it be read a second time this day six
months.—(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY seconded the
amendment amid loud cheering. He believed that eo
man but an infidel would maintain that that education
was the best for man that was irrespective
of religion.--(Hear, hear.) He was a member
of a church that had alwaysi maintained that education
should be accompanied and upheld by the ministers of
religion.—(Hear, hear.) All experience told them that
secular education could not lead to religion. He might
be told that in England religion' was too firmly based
to be in any way endangered by secular education,
but he believed that the introduction of a system
of secular education alone would go tar to endanger the
moral and religious feelings of the country.—( Hear.)
In conclusion the Noble Lord called upon the Go-
vernment and the House of Commons to reject a mea-
sure that substituted secular for religious education,
which could alone improve the morals and save the souls
of all. The two contending armies were drawing
near to each other, and the House had to decide which
they would choose—heaven or hell.
Mr. ROEBUCK considered that secular education
was a species of fashioning the human mind fur the per-
formance of duties in this world, and fitting man for that
which was to come. and whatever tended to so desirable
a result was entitled to the approbation of all well-think-
ing men; and as the measure now under the considera-
tion of the House tended to that desirable end, he would
give it his support. The education of the people came
clearly within the duty and prerogative of Government,
and even putting it on the lowest foundation, that of a
mater of police, it was the duty of the Government to
give encouragement to all that would improve the mind of
the young, that they might be better qualified to die-
charge the duty of citiz-ns when they were advanced in
years. In his opinion it was a mockery to talk of sal-
vation of souls when they allowed the mind to remain in
ignorance 'acid darkness. lie denied that the measure was
an. attack upon tender consciences or upon religious
toleration or liberty. The language of religious liberty
and tender conscience was ,misplaced in the mouth of
tho Hun. Gentleman who moved the amendment, when
he refused to free the Dissenters from church-rates for
the support of a religious establishment which
they did not approve of. He did not expect
that this Bill would be allowed to peas, but
they might depend upon it that the strong and
growing feeling out of doors upon this subject would
very shortly manifest itself in such a shape as to compel
the House ore long. t.) pass a measure for the general and
unrestricted education of the people of this country.—
(Cries of " near, bear.") The time of exclusive
ministries and schools was fast passing away, and that
period was rapidly advancing when the people at
large must be benefited by education, and its services
not be limited to a sect or a part).—(Hear, hear.)
Lord ASHLEY opposed the second reading of the
Bill, and stated it to be his solemn conviction that upon
the decision of the House on this measure would depend
the future history of the British .empire. He believed
that secular education would be pernicious without it
was accompanied by the salutary and control-
ling influence of religious instruction. He had no doubt
that in England more attention was paid by parents and
' relatives of children to their education than in any other
country on the face of the globe, and it was, in his opinion,
a fallacy to suppose that in Prussia or America education
of the young was attended to more than it was in Eng-
land. He believed that the Hon. Member for Oldham was
now perfectly convinced that he had not the Church of
England with him, or the Methodists, or any religious body
who held the principles that religion was essential as a
part of the education of the young. Such being the
tact, how, he would ask, could he expect to carry
on the measure to a successful issue? His
opposition to the Bill was baser! upon the ground
that no measure of education would be effectual, whether
undertaken by the State or not, unless it was founded
upon religion, and based upon that Eternal rock which
no storms could shake or uproot. He trusted that her
Majesty's Government, who did not discountenance the
introduction of the Bill, would state upon what grounds
they thought it could be supported.—(Hear, hear.)
Members were called upon to support a measure, which,
it it became law, would exclude alt thoughts of religion.
Tithes and church-rates were unobjectionable even to
Dissenters, compared with the rates which would be im-
posed by this Bill. By this measure they were telling
the people that in a state education religion was not ne-
cesrary. The object of the state must be to make the
people moral and good members of society, and he could
not see how that could be done without religion accom-
panying educatior.
Mr. MONCKTON MILNES supported the second
reading of the Bill, considering its objects to be to sup-
ply the deficiencies that at present existed in the moral
and religious education of the people of this country.
He trusted that the Government would take this question
into their serious consideration, and carry it through to
a successful issue.
The Kidderminster Election ;Committee was here
sworn, consisting of the following Hon. Members:—
Viscount Enfield, Mr. A. Stafford, Mr. Morris, Sir W.
Jolliffe, and Mr. Bouverie.
The debate was then continued.

Lord J. RUSSELL—Sir, I should be very glad that
any Bill brought forward for the purpose of promoting
education should be such that I could fairly give it my
support on its second reading; and in treating of this
Bill I will endeavour to avoid as much as possible
everything that may savour of passion or intemperance
in stating my objections to it, and I will endeavour to
make every admission which I think is fairly due to the
author of the Bill and to the Bill itself. In the first
place, therefore, I must say, notwithstanding some al-
legations that have been made, that I think there is
still a lamentable want of education for the poorer
classes of this country, and that it still remains a desi-
rable object of Parliament to promote and further the
edu, ation of those classos.—(Hear, hear.) In the next
place, I must say that I think an unjust inference would
be drawn from the words used by my Noble
Friend vdlo seconded the motion fur the second
reading of the Bill this day six months, if
it were to be contended that even if we
were to establish schools where none but secular
teaching could be admitted, it should follow by a necm-
sary consequence that these opinions would be inculcatei
by authority, or that those writings, some part of which
we have heard read, would beat all prevalent among the
teachers there. I very much doubt whether, even if
Parliament were to declare that certain schools should
be established, and that secular education only should
be permitted in those school, giving the ordinary edu-
cation, teaching reading, writing, grammar, geography,
and history, you would find that with the prevailing
habits and opinions of the people there would be any in-
clination to adopt these authors as the standard of their
creed and belief. I very much doubt whether they
would not go, either to the clergyman of the Estab-
lished Church, or to the minister of any Dissenting body
to whom they had been accustomed to look, and obtain
from them their religion, and not from such authors as
my Noble Friend has cited.—(Elear, bear.) But, in
making this admission, it doe?, I think, remain a very
grave question for this House to consider, whether they
will declare that there shall be schools established upon
this principle of giving secular education. and secular
education only.—(Hear, hear.) I own I cannot but
think that any education on such a basis must be lament-
ably insufficient.—(Cheers.) I cannot but think that
nothing but the most absolute necessity should oblige
Parliament to come to such a conclusion, and establisb,
by preference as it were sad ass natter of choice, an