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London, England, 1826-03-22 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, 111 A ItC 1826.

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, M.taccif el.

CII A RTE RED SCHOOLS.
The Bishop. of FERNS moved for Copies of all Letters
from the Catechists of Chartered Schools in Ireland.
Lord KING complained or the-conduct of the Directors and
other persons connected with the establishment of these schools.
Tite abuses existing in their administrittion and arrangeMent
had been pointed out in the Report of at l'arliamentary Com-
mittee.in I 815„ but had nut yet been corrected, -114 t also risked
why the Assistant-Master of. the schOol at etrajha. after
having been discharged for cruelty, had betniafterWkds pro-
moted to ahigher situation ?
• The Mishap of FERNS stated that the individual question
having been tried on three indictments and acquitted, it had
been thought only fair to employ him as an in rent wait. The
Right Rev. Prelate then vindicated the general adotinistration
and management of those schools, and showed ky. a case in
which he was personally engaged, how liptly,ehams were
made and taken up against establiAnnenta.ortiraliimC
Lord KIND tbouLrht that if the ItiglitlietThite wekso
Willing.and Cariable-of defending those wheat', he had Welter
give notice, and make a motion on the subject when the House
should be in possession of the evidence.
The !notion was then agreed to.
Lord .KING wished to - inquire of the Noble Earl opposite,
what information it was his intention to produce on the subject
of these school to the House.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL stated, that the same informa-
tion which had been laid before the Coranuins, should be sub.
ject to their Lordships.
The Marquis of LA NSDOWN, after alluding to the im-
portance of extending education to every part of Ireland, and
the necessity of inquiring into the state of the establishments
intended for that purpose, and vindicating the labours of the
Committee and the correctness of its Report on that subject,
moved for a Return of the number of Charter Schods in Ire-
land, distinguishing the number of the scholars ; and for a si-
milar Return of the number of Roman Catholic Schools and of
their Scholars.—Ordered.

On the motion of the Noble zs, a message was or-
dered to be sent to the Commons for a Copy of the Report of
their Committee on the state of" Tolls in Ireland.

-CORN LAWS.
Lord KING presented a Petition front the Pariah of St.
Luke, in London, praying tbr revision of the Corn Laws. The
Petitioners said they had much confidence in the good inten-
tions of his Majesty's Ministers. The Noble Lord had the
same confidence, anti was only afraid they would be prevented
front carrying their good intentions into execution by those who
had an undue interest in the question. lie had been considered
a most extraordinary person fbr taking his own view of the sub-
ject. Souse said be was a dead weight in that House; another
said he had a vicious propensity to inake corn cheap. He
had been told he attacked the Corn Bill, and the landed
interest like miscreants at the Old Bailey; that he called
it a job, alias the job of jobs, tubas the Landlord's tax. It
was true he used those terms, and he • did so, because he
thought the existing eorn Laws should be distinguished by
such names. The Noble Lord called upon the novermnent to
consider what would be the state of the country if the price of
coin was to rise. There was much less corn in the granaries
of this town than ever was known to be. If corn should get u_p
belbre the harvest, this country would be tinder worse difficul-
ties than in 1819. During seven years there had been no im-
portation from abroad. Did they think they could always get
a supply from abroad ? Ile understood they could not always
get a supply. The price of 80s. will a famine price.. The
Noble Lord had seen a statement made in the interior of France
respecting the present prices on the Continent. The price in
France was 27 francs ; at Amsterdam it was 12. The only place
where corn reached the price at which it. sold in England, was
under the government of Ferdinand in Spain. The only remedy
was the revision of the Corn Laws, and that could not be done
till the Noble lord swept away the cobwebs of the Cabinet—
till lie cleared away all the old lumber, anti sent it to King
Ferdinand. The Noble Lord would then have an opportunity
of discussing the question. lie did not, however, think that
could be done, therefore he should suggest that a etrentarlateer
be written at the Meeting of Parliament in the billowing terms :
—4, My Lords, I have to inform your Lordships that Padia-
silent will meet for the dispatch of business on the 1d of Fe.
binary, and as much important business is to come forward,
Your Lordships' absence will be necessary."—The Noble Lord
added, that the question must be considered without prejudice,
and he advised the House to do justice. What right had they
to make corn dear ? If it should appear that Parliament passed
laws to make corn dear, some great convulsion might occur,
and it might be said—begone, and make place for hottest men.
Lord CA LT HOR PE, though he did not approve of the
system of the Corn Laws, wished to do justice to the hones. y
of those by whom it had been frimed, who, he was convincer)
had in view at the time, not the advantage of the landed in-
terest alone, but the general good of the commtinity. , Serious
evils, however, would arise from leaving a question of that
kind in the situation in which it now stood.. The best way to
cure all delusions would be to submit it to the consideration of
a Committee of the House. The Noble Earl opposite had
acted very wisely on a recent occasion by following such a
course on another subject. Allten a disposition existed in
the two conflicting parties to entertain exaggerated opinions,
the only way to induce them to view the subject with calmness
and moderation, and to bring into play the immense mass of
information which pervaded the middle classes was to submit
the question to Parliamentary inquiry. Should his Majesty's
Ministers be debated in both Houses in an attempt to introduce
a measure of that kind, either defeat would only serve to raise
them in the public esteem. When he considered die degree of
respect which they had acquired in consequence of the measures
which they had adopted for the opening of trade, he felt that
they were doing an act of injustice to themselves, to Parlia-
ment, and to the country in abstaining from submitting the
subject to inquiry. That was an indispensable step in the wise
course of commercial policy which his 3lajeaty's Ministers
were pursuing.
The Earl of LIMERICK deprecated the continual discus-
sion of a question so calculated to agitate the public mind, anti
thought that the speech of the Noble Baron who lied presented
the Petition from the parish of St. Luke's was abundantly hn-
pregnatetl with the spirit which prevailed in that quarter. He
trusted, however, that the people would not suffer themselves
to be led by such assertions and invitations as those which hail
been made by the Noble Lord.
Viscount CI,IFDEN was glad that the question was not to
be brought forward this Session, and thought it wise in his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, after disposing of the great subject of the
Currency, to abstain this yeer feom a topic calculated to excite
so much discussion. lle hoped, however, that they would con- •
sitter it seriously, and would see the propriety of changing the,
systeinfroormtiale g(e7174. Laws,
and
subs! ituting for it moderate:
duty, sufficient to protect the agricultural interest. He had
heard Ilan abroad that there were not such
quantities of corn as would be likely to crush the home market,
if allowed to be imported. Indeed two kinds of gritin had been
imported, and no injury had been the result. Burley, since the-
importation or that grain, had been at fi2s..hl. per quarter. It '
bad since fallen to 325._; but that was in consequence of the
failure of country banks, and not of importation. It had also
been apprehended in-Ireland, that if foreign 0,101 were admit-
ted, native outs would fall to a quarter. The importation
had taken place, and the home price had nut been below 15s.
The petition was then laid on the table.
COUNTRY DANK NOTES.
The Marquis. of LANSDOWN wisiftd to call the atten-
tion of thellouse, and of the Noble Earl apposite, to the.neces-
eity of making a provision to render the notes of country banks
Payable at the places where they were issued. He was aware
that a clause somewhat to that effect was intreduced in the Bill
which was now waiting the Royal Assent ; bin it only ex-
tended to the notes issued by the Branch Banks to be esta-
blished. There were ac this period not leas tics fiety_ey,
country banks that issued notes only payable in !Aflame—
One of them was an Aberdeen Bank, notwithstanding the
distance of' that place from the metropolis. • As it Imo
of the mischief of this practices.. he had to state that the
notes of the Branch Banks, made Payable in Dublin, eh-milted
through the south of-Ireland at-a diseount,•and that one of those
notes could not be changed at Cork Without a •loss of four-pence
in the pound. It wits absolutely necessary that payments
should be connected with the I►romise'to pay. Tlf be- knew to
what office to apply, in order to make the return effeetnal, be-
should move for a list of- those -Banks which nettle, their notes
payable in Landon, iii order that the.publie should knoW the
names of those who carried on so injurious a practice. t