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against infidelity in futuro. The existing condition
of education offering no bar to the promulgation of
non-religious views, we are threatened with the
danger of any attempt to improve that condition !
We gave proof last wed: of our disposition to in-
sist upon a fair trial for every scheme of education
that has any sort of tendency to lift us out cf our
present state. We are for receiving good from.
every quarter, for rejecting it in none. As we con-
demn the grudging and churlish criticism of the
Privy Council plan, we condemn the unfair treettnent
of Mr. Fox's Bill. It is pandering to a gross and
unfounded prejudice to call it irreligious. One (f
i•s clauses allows time for religious instruction out of
the common schools durit'.4g the week, as well as on
the Sunday, and it would be easy to strengthen this
provision by requiring certificates of attend-
ance on the respective religious instructors at
the times so appointed. In his -temperate and
judicious speech supporting the 1311', Mr. Mitnes
referred to the great public schools, and asked what
pioportion the religious part of instruction in these
pieces bore to the secular part. We shduld like to
have an authoritative answer to this question; for we
suspect the truth to be that much more satisfactory
provision even for religious training is made in the
Bill under discussion—infidel as it is called—than in
any of those orthodox establishments. Oa this and
other grounds we deny the infidel imputations alto-
gether. The provisions of the measure thus slan-
dered are no other than precisely those repeatedly
recommended by one of the most religious of men,
Dr. Chalmers, providing in the only possible way for
the .efficiay 'Of religious teadaing, by giving free scope
to the efforts of every 'religious sect.
We anfesi that its rejection will shake our confi-
dence not a little in the future progress of the Govern-
ment plan. If the Church argument is good so far,
Dr.Phillpotts and Mr. Denison have only to double their
exertions to make it good throughout. If the State
says that only the congregations of schools and chapels
in particular localities or with particular means shall
be educated, and the rest of the people. shall not be
allowed even the opportunity or means to educate
themselves, the end of the Church wedge has entered
sufficiently to admit the rest of it sooner or later.
Our only hope now is in the growing attention excited
to the subject, and in such meetings as have lately
been held in places so important as Manchester and
Leeds. The more discussion there is, the more it
will be made obvious that knowledge and religion can
have no separate or exclusive interests. The know-
ledge which indisposes a man to religion is as likely
to be false knowledge as the religion which indis-
poses a man to knowledge is certainly a false religion.
Each strengthens and elevates the other, nor can pro-
gress be made in either without advantage to both.
Some part of the opposition to •Mr. Fox's Bill is
founded on a misconception of this truth, and the rest
on a dread of admitting it.—Examiner.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

From the Yotes and Proceedings of the House cf Commont

WEDNESDAY; APRIL 24.

AFFIRMATION TILL.
Order for Committee read; Motion made,. and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " Tbat"
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this
(louse will, upon this day six months, resolve itself into the
said Committee," instead thereof: - Question put, "That the
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
The House divided :

MINORITY—AYES, 129.
Adair, Hugh E. Glyn, G. C. Pigott, Francis
Alcock, Thomas Grace, 0. D. Piiking-ton, Jame 3
Anderson, Arthur Grenfell, Charles W. Pinney, llllliam
Armstrong, It. B. Grey, Sir George Powei, Dr.
Bagshaw, Jolla r
Grosveno
Hart Frice, Sir R

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Baines, M. T. Hamner, Sir John Pusey, P.
Bass, Thomas • Hardcastie, J. A. itawdon, Colonel
Bellew, R. M. Harris, Richard Ricardo, Osman
Bernal, Ralph Hastie, Alexander Rice, E. R.
Blake, M. J. nestle, Archibald • Roberto, T. J.
Boyle, Colonel Headlam, Thomas Romilly, Colonel
Brockman. E. D. Henry, Alexander Romilly, Sir John
Brotherton, J. Heywoot.l, James Russell, E.
Brown, W. Ileyworth, Lawrence Rutherford, A.
Busfeild, W. Hill, Lord Marcus Scrope, G. P.
Buxton, Sir E. llobhouse, T. B. Seymour, Lord
Carter, John B. Hodges, T. Twisden Shafto, R. D.
Cavendish, C. C. Howard, C. W. Simeon, John
Cavendish, G. IL Howard, P. 11. Blaney, Robert A.
Cavendish, W. G. Kershaw, James Smith, M. Tucker
Cayley, Edward S. Langston, J. H. Smith, John B.
Clay, James Lascelles, W. S. Stanfield, W. R. C.
Clay, Sir W. Lennard, T. B. Stanton, W. H.
Clifford, 11. M. Lewis, George C. Strickland, Sir G.
Cobden, R. M•Gregor, John Thicknesse, Ralph
Cockburn, A. J. M`Taggart, Sir J. Thompson, Colonel
Collins, William . Marshall, J. G. Thornely, T.
Crawford, W. S. Marshall, William Tollemache, F..J.
Crowder, It. H. • Masterman, John Townley, It. G.
Da•rymple, Captain Matheson, Colonel Trelawny, J. S.
Davie, Sir,ll. Melgund, Viscount Verney Sir 11.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. Milner, W. M. Vivian, J. 11.
Duncan, George Milnes, R. H. Wall, C. B.
Ellice, Edward Mitchell, T. A. Watkins, Colonel
Ellis, John ' Moffatt, George Wawn, J. T.
Elliot, J. E. Morgan, 11. K. Willcox, Brodie
Evans, J. Morris, David Williams, John
Evans, William Mostyu, E. Wilson, James
Ewart, William Nugent, Lord Wilzon, Matthew
Fagan, William O'ilaherty, Anthony Wyvill, M.
Fordyce, A. D. Ogle, S. C. Young, Sir John
Forster, H. Osborne, Ralph TELLERS.
Fox, W. J. Oswald, Alexander Wood, W. P.
Gibson, T, H. Pechell, Sir G. Bouverie, E. P.

MAJORITY-NOES, 148.
Fitzroy, Henry Manners, Lord C.
Forbes, Wm. Manners, Lord G.
Forester, G. C. Manners, Lord J.
Frewen, C. 11. March, Earl of
Fuller, A. E. Meux, Sir 11.
Galway, Viscount Miles, P. W. S.
Gaskell, Miles, ;IV.;
Goddard, A. L. Morgan, 0.
Gore, W. R. 0. Mundy, William
Graham, Sir James Naas, Lord
Greenall, Gilbert Newport, Viscount
Greene, Thomas Packe, C. W.
Grogan. Edward Pakington, Sir J.
Guest, Sir J. Palmer, Robert
Gwyn, Ilowel Patten, J. W.
Hale, It. li. Peel, Colonel
Raiford, Sir Henry Peel, Frederick
Hall, Colonel Pennant, Colonel
Plalsey, T. I'. Perfect, R.
Hamilton, Lord C. Plowden, W. 11.
Harris, Captain Plumptre, J. P.
Hayes, Sir E. Portal, Melville
Henley, J. W. Powell, Col.
Herbert, Sidney Prime, Richard
Hildyard, It. C. Richards, Richard
llildyard,'P. B. Seymer, 11. K..
Ilill, Lord E. Sibthorp, Colonel
Hodgson, W. N. Smyth, John G.
Hood, Sir A. SQIII en:et, Captain
llornby, John Sotheron, T.
Hotham, Lord Stafford, Augustus
Houldsworth, T. Stanford, J. E.
Haase'', George Stanley, Edward
Jermyn, Earl Stanley, E. 11.
Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Stuart, 11.
Jones, Captain Stuart, J.
Kerrison, Sir,E. Tollemache, John
Knox, Colonel Trollope, Sir J.
Lacy, 11. C. Turner, George
Lascelles, B. Tyrell, Sir J.
Legit, G. C. Verner, Sir W.
Lennox, Lord A. Vyse, 11.
Lindsay, Colonel Waddington, H. S.
Lockhart, A. E. Walsh, Sir J.
Lockhart, W. 1 Walter, John
Lopes, Sir Ralph West, F. R.
Lowther, Colonel
Lygon, General
Mackenzie, W. F.
111`Naghten, Sir E.
Mahon, Viscount

Acland, Sir T. D.
Alexi-m(ler, N.
Lirkwright, George
Badge, W.
Bagot, William
Baillie, 11. J.

;aldock, E. 11.
lateson, T.

Bentwt, P.

Beresford, William
Berkeley, Henry F.
Bernard, Viscount
Blackstone, W.
Blair, Stephen
Booth, Sir It. G.
Bremridge, Richard
Bromley, Robert
Brooke, Sir A.

Back, Lewis W.
Buller, Sir Y.

Carew., IV. P.
Chichester, Lora J.
Cholmeley, Sir M.
Christopher, It.
Clive, Henry B.
Cocks, T. S.
Codrlngton, Sir W.
Cole, Hon; 11. A.
Coles, 11, 14,

Colvile, C. It.
Compton, 11. C.
Conolly, Thomas
Corry, 11.
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William
Deedes, W.

Denison, Edmund
Pod, J. W.
Dodd, G. '
Duckworth, Sir J.
Duneombe, A.
Duncombe, 0.
Duneuft, John
Dunne, Colonel
Do Pre, C. G.
East, Sir J.

Edwards, henry
Egerton, W. T.
Estcourt, J. B. B.
Evelyn, W. J.
Farnham, E. B.
Feßowes, E.

TELLER&
Goulburn, Henry
Newdegate, N.

HEALTH of LONDON during the WEEK.
(From the Return of the Registrar-General.)
It is gratifying to observe that the return for the
week ending last Siturday exhibits a further decrease
in the mortality. During the two previous weeks th e
deaths registered in the metropolitan districts werein
succession, 1,124 and 893; they have now declined
to 866. In the corresponding week of 10 previous
years (1840-9) the average number was 937, which
being raised in the ratio of probable increase of popu-
lation becomes 1,022 ; compared with which the num-
ber now returned shows a decrease of 156. In the
same week of last year, before cholera became predo-
minant, the deaths were 1,089 ; the mean temperature,
which:was then unusually depressed, was lower than in
last week by 12 deg. Last week the deaths of nine
children and two adults were registered from smallpox
(of which three occurred in the Smallpox Hospital,
Camden-town), indicating rather an increase in the
disease though it has not not yet quite attained the aver-
age ; 17 children died of measles, which is exactly
the average; 37 died of hooping cough, and 18 chil-
dren and one adult of scarlatina, both complaints
being less fatal than usual; 8 children died of croup,
about the usual number ; 35 persons died of typhus,
and 8 of erysipelas, both of which are near the average.
Ten women died after childbirth, to 7 of whom " pu-
erperal fever" is assigned as the cause of death ; 22
persons, of whom about half were chilien, died of
diarrhcea and dysentery ; this number is double the
average, and also exhibits an increase on each of the
three weeks immediately preceding. A woman died
of " purpura hmmorrhagica ;" and again, two persons
of chorea. The two cases in which the latter disease,
so seldom fatal, occurred, are thus recorded—" At 8,
Jeff's-place, St. John, Mary lebone, on the 13th April,
the daughter of a coachmaker, aged 16 years,
" chorea;' on the 17th April, at the London Hospital,
to which she had been brought from Stepney,
.a
female servant, aged 19, died of "chorea." It is
worthy of remark that nine deaths have been regis-
tered in London from this cause during the last 10
weeks, which is nearly double the number that usually
occur in a year. Amongst diseases of the respiratory
organs pneumonia and asthma now show a decrease ; i
bronchitis has also declined, f compared with the
amount of corresponding weeks in the last three years,
but is still in excess, in comparison with the mortality
of the seven previous years.

CHESTER. AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the Week ended April 21, ISSO:—C, and 11. Main Line,
1,952/. 88. 9d.; Mold, 97/. 13s. 3d. ; Steam-boats, 28E1
12s. Bd.—Total, 2,316/. 14s, Bd.

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INTELLIGENCE;
Captai °ratio T. Austin, C. 8., of the Resolute;
and C tain Ommanney, of the Assistance, were
entertained last evening at dinner et the Ad.t:iralty,
by. Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8., M.P., the
senior Naval Lord: Cap`tia Milnes,' J..H. Briggs
.itkc , met the gallant commanders of the Arctic ex-
pedition.
Lieutenant' John II Branch (1841), son of the
late gallant and distinguished Captain A. B. Branch,
of Greenwich Hospital, has been appointed to super-
sede Commander S. L. Crofton, on promotion, in
command of the screw-schooner Rifleman, cruising
against the slayc-tmde on the coast of Brazil. ()tit of
the twenty-four years Lieutenant Branch has been
in the navy, he has served afloat about twenty years.
He was Eight years a mate. As a lieutenant he
served in the . Lily, 12, on the coast of Mlle.!, and
has recently been invalided from that station, from the
Cyclops;•steam-rrigatc, cn board *of Which ship he
w first-lit ute.plk)t.

Tue Sharpshooier, 4, screw. schooner, Lieutenant-
Coninaand, r refit!ing ut Devonport, his had
her ilestin-a.ion altered. Instead of returning to the
M diterratnan,' she is ordered.toprocead to the coast
of Brazil station, to cruise against the slave trade.
The -Dauntless, screw•vearn-rrigate is codling,
midconvicting her stores with all dispatch at Ports-
mouth. _

The Petercl, 6, Lieutenant-Commander Creier,
will be paid wagei on Friday ; Sifter which .-611 e will
sail from Devonport for Falmouth, to be in readiness
to take out the next mail to Brazils.

Tae Sprightly, steam-tender, Master-Commander
Allen, that sailed from Portsmouth with 60 supernu-
theraries for the Superb, 80, and Archer, screw-Sloop,
and some Plymouth men recently paid off from the
Bdlldog, steam-sloop, returned to Portsmouth on
Tuesday evening. She passed the Birkenhead, 'out-
side the Wight ; she also passed a large English deep-
laden ship, with the loss of foremast and maintopmast
to the westward of the •Needles. Two Cowes pilot-
smacks were in attendance on her; the Sprightly
could not make out her name. The Superb was
completed by the men the Sprightly took down, and
she was towed into the Sound by the Conftance on
Monday, was paid down on Tuesday, and sails for the
Mediterranean to-day.
Pt.Tmotrrn, TIIESDAY.—IIer Mljesty's ship Superb,
80, was yesterday towed from Hamoaze by the Con-
fiance and Avon steam-vessels, and continues in the
Sound, waiting a fair wind for the Mediterranean.
The Diligence transport sailed on Sunday with
stores for Sheerness.

A policeman has been mulcted two weeks' pay
(V.) for taking fees from visitors inspecting the
Arsenal.

WhO, south-west.
TUE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

WooLwxcu, APRIL 24 —The Resolute, Captain
H. T. Austin, C. 8., will leave 'Woolwich to-morrow,
at about 11 o'clock A.M., and will be towed to Green.
hithe by the Jasper steam-vessel to have her com-
passes-adjusted by Captain Johnson. The Assistance,
Captain Eramus Ommanney, and the Pioneer, Lieu-
tenant-Commander Sherard Osborn, will leave to-
morrow afternoon or on Friday, and the Intrepid,
Lieutenant-Commander John Bertie Cator, will be
taken out of dock on Friday afternoon, and leave on
Saturday for Gereenhithe. The Lords of the Admiralty
intend visiting the whole of the vessels now fitted for
-the Arctic expedition E.t Greenbithe on Monday next,
and they expect to leave the river on the following day
for the northern regions. The Stromboli steam-vessel,
Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, has been detained
longer at the Clyde tha❑ was expected; and the
Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander Petlay,
having been made ready for sea, she will proceed up
the river to-morrow, to tow the Emma Eugenia from
Deptford, laden with stores, to the edge of the ice.
The welcome giv, n to the gallant officers of the Arctic
expedition when they dined with the Royal Artillery
in their mess-room was most enthusiastic, and their
healths and success in the Enterprise in which they
were about to proCeed were drunk with the greatest
earnestness. The officers of the Ro.tal Marines of the
Woolwich division entertained the officers of the ex-
pedition yesterday evening in their mess-room, and
all the wealthy inhabitants of the town have vied with
each other in having fte honour of their company
previous to their departure. A very great number of
visitors have been on board the vessels to-day, amongst
others Captain Sir George Back, R.N., ; Captain
Greville, of the Ocean, 80, at Sheerness ; Captain
Beechy, Captain Butterfield, Captain Charles Ed-
munds, Captain Forbes, Captain Cuppage, Captain
Darley, Captain Kelly, and Captain Young, all
officers of the Royal Navy ; Mr. John Barrow, of the
Admiralty; and a number cf the officers of the Royal
Artillery and Royal Marines.
The Locust steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Nowell, is to be paid off at this port on Saturday, the
27th inst.

The Undine, Dover mail-steam packet, having had
her gefects made good, left Woolwich this morning
to resume her duties on the Dover station.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APIUL Convccatiuu holden this
day, the following de_recs were cont.( rrec.!:—
Ma,t?.rs of Arts—Christ ipher Cookson, Fellow f St.
John's; Rev. Henry Jeremiah Dyson. Fclhw of- All
Souls; Rev. I'. Boitles, Queen's; Rev. Frederick Henry
Hothsm, Christchurch.

litchelors of Arts—Fddvard James Bolling, Univer-
sity; Reginald William Cleave, Exeter; Ferdinand
Win. Becker, Exeter; James Allgood, Brasenose;
Thoma 3 Stedman Polehamptcn, scholar of Pen broke;
Arthur Knox. St. Mary Hall; Frederick John Coleridge,
St. Mary Hall; George PhiHipps, New Inn Hall.

ST. CATHARINE'S HALL.

CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 24.—Charlei Kirby Robinson,
13. N., has been elected a foundation Fellow of this college.

SEATONIAN PRIZE.

This prize, given under the will of the late Thomas
Seaton, M.A., Fellow of Clare Hall, to the Mailer Lf
Arts who write the best English poem on a sacred
suitject, has been adja 'ged to B. F. Westcott, M.A., of
Trinity CRege.