The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-21 00:00:00

NATIONAL EDUCATION (IRELAND).

On the motion for going into Supply,
Mr. HAMILTON rose to move, that an humble ad-
dress be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will
be graciously pleased to direct that such a modification
of the system of national education in Ireland may
be made as may remove the conscientious objec-
tions which a largo proportion of the clergy and
laity of the Established Church entertain to that sys-
tem as at present carried into operation; or otherwise,
that means may be taken to enable those of the clergy
and laity of the Established Church, who entertain such
conscientious objections, to extend the blessings of
Scriptural education in Ireland. He said he felt it ne-
cessary to apologise to the House for bringing
forward the subject on the occasion of going
into Supply, but it was of such importance that
he had felt himself compelled to take this course
He had no intention to throw out any insinuation against
the National Board of Education in Ireland. His object
was to state to the House the hardships and injustice
under which 1,730 out of 2,040 of the clergy of the Es-
tablished Church in that country. as well as 100,000 of
the laity of that Church, were suffering in consequence of
the present state of college education. The Church of
Ireland was placed in a very anomalous and objection-
able position in regard to education, and he was anxious
to press on her Majesty's Government the necessity of ap-
plying some remedy for the purpose of altering that posi-
tion. He was quite ready to acknowledge the question of
education in both countries was surrounded by diffi-
culties, but more particularly in Ireland; he appreciated
those difficulties, and was therefore ready to con-
cede as far as possible the views which had
been taken on this important subject by her
Majesty's Government. In consequence of those
difficulties very great concessions and sacrifices of opi-
nion had been made of late years. Formerly education
was considered to be in a great degree connected with
the Established Church. Now the system of State edu-
cation was of a denominational character; in England it
was almost entirely so, and in Ireland it was practically so.
No one could doubt that the 2,500 schools under the su-
perintendence of the Roman Catholic Church, and the
400 schools under the control of the Presbyterian clergy,
were conducted upon a Scriptural system. Well, then,
if that could not he disputed, was it strange that the pe-
culiar tenets taught in those schools were adverse to
those taught by the Established Church. The result of
this state of things was, then, that the members of the
Established Church were altogether excluded from par-
ticipating in the advantages of the national system.
The clergy of the Established Church in Ireland con.
sidered that they were peculiarly bound to main-
tain the principles of the Reformation ; and
they were of opinion that the present system of
national education was entirely at variance with
the principles of the Reformation. They claimed fhe
privilege of being treated in the same manner as their
brethren of the Established Church in this country.
They objected entirely to the rules and regulations of the
National Society for Education, and the means by which
it carried out its objects. He believed that a latitudin-
arian or secular system of education was as repugnant to
Roman Catholics as it was to Protestants; therefore any-1
thing tending to that end would be very objectionable.
Most of the clergymen of the Established Church
in Ireland, as well as many Roman Catholics, were
in favour of a national system of education, based on the
same principles as those on which the schools were now
in existence had been founded. Ho had no doubt that
the clergy and laity connected with the Established
Church in Ireland, on whose representations had been
induced to make the present motion, would be successful
in their appeal to the good sense and justice of the
House. The Hon. and Learned Member concluded by
proposing the motion which is given above.
Mr. WALPOLE said ho hal great pleasure in se-
conding the motion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman,
because he believed that no more reasonable proposition
cuuld he submitted to the House. He thought it was ir-
resistable on two grounds—on the ground of justice and
on that of policy.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

FRAN CE.

The Ripublique has the following on Lord Stanley's
resolution :

"In striking Greece at Athens, it is evident that
Lord Palmerston proposed to chastise the too zealous
allies of Russia, whose secret manoeuvres were under-
mining the Ottoman empire. He wished, by a severe
warning, to oblige Russia to evacuate the Danubian
principalities. This policy, which no Englishman will
accuse of being wanting in firmness or foresight, has
been travestied under ridiculous disguises, and has ap-
ired to place itself in the train of Don Pacifico's
apothecary-accounts. In the same way it was as regards
the French mediation. The eagerness of France to put
herself forward to save an awkward or suspicious hu-
miliation to Russia, and the repugnance of Lord Pal-
merston, his restrictions, his reservations, his chicanery,
show how much this intervention displeased him. Ile
accepted it whilst taking means to reader it nearly
illusive. The discussion of the House of Lords, a sur-
face-discussion, where not one of Lord Palmerston's
real motives have been even indicated, and the vote on
Lord Stanley's proposition, are the punishment of the
tendency of the Noble Lord to dissemble the grand
views of the statesman under artifices suited to an
attorney. It is not less true that the accession of a Tory
Ministry would be at present a calamitous event. Not
that a Tory Minister could countenance much more than
Lord Palmerston the projects of Russia, projects of
which Constantinople is the object, and the French
alliance the moans. There is there an English interest
with regard to which Lord Aberdeen would not be able
to attempt a compromise any more than his predecessor;
but within that extreme limit, it is incontestable that
European reaction would receive a deplorable impulse
and encouragement ; that the interests of liberty in
Switzerland, in Piedmont, in all Italy, and even ih Ger-
many, would be completely delivered up; and that the
absolutist principle, abandoned without counterpoise to
its odious follies, would, with frightful rapidity, pass
over the space which separates it from the shoal on
which it is to be dashed to pieces."

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, JUNE 21, 1850.
Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of the
repairs and alterations concocted with the hot air flues
in Windsor Castle, the state apartments will be closed
from the Ist of July next, until these works are com-
pleted, which will be duly announced.
At the Court at Illickingham Palace, the 19th day of
June, 1850, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Council. Her Majesty having constituted the Right
Honourable Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, the
Right Honourable Sir Launcelot Shadwell, Knight
Vice-Chancellor of England, and Sir Robert Mousey
Rolfe, Knight, one of the Barons of her Majesty's Court
of Exchequer, Lords Commissioners for the 'custody of
the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, was this day pleased in Council to de-
liver to them the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland; and the said Lords Com-
missioners did thereupon take the oaths appointed to be
taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy,
and also the oath as Lords Commissioners for the cus-
tody of the Great Seal.
DOWNING•STREET, JUNE 19.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Scot-
land, Esq.. to be Chief Justice for the island of St. Chris-
topher; Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke, Kt., Companion of
the most Honourable Order of the Bath, Chief Justice for
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Puisne Judge; Louis La Ooze, Esq., to be her Majesty's
Attorney-General; and Cyprien Mallet Paret, Esq.. to
her Majesty's Solicitor-General for that island. Her
Majesty has further been pletsed to appoint William
Whalley Billyard, Esq , to be Crown Solicitor fcr civil
business in the colony of New South Wales.
WAR OFFICE, JUNE
m 21.
2i Regiment of Dragoons—Coet and Adjutant
William Miller to have the rank of Lieutenant, June 20;
Cornet John Arthur Freeman to be Lieutenant. ty
purchase, vice Amphlett, who retires, June 21.
9th Light Dragoons—Captain Augustus Frederick
Steele, from the St. Helena Regiment, to be Captain, vice
Read, appointed to the 12th Foot, June 21.
7th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Mills to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Grant, who retires;
Lieutenant Dudley Persse, from the 34th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Mills, June 21.
12th Foot—Captain Edward Rudston Read, from the
9th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Storey, ap-
pointed to the St. Helena Regiment, June 21. •
16th Foot—Lieutenant George John Pea.cocke,_to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Colborne, promoted; Ensign
Frederick Wardell Buxton, to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Peacocke, June 21.
21st Eoot—Second Lieutenant John Thomas Dalyell
to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barnard, who
retires, Juno 21,