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agree with the Hon. Member in his statement that there were
no Protestants in these schools ; he believed the Protestants had
a very fair proportion to the [lonian Catholics. Under these
circumstances, he did believe that the National School formed;
the best system of education that could be devised for Ire-I
land.—k Hear, hear )
Sir W. SOMERVILLE was del ghted to havti had the op-,
portunity of hearing the speech which l:ad just fallen from the,
lips of the Noble 1 ord opposite.—( Hear, hear.) What was
meant by raising the Catholics of Inland from their present
state of degradation, was, really, the !eduction of the Catholics,
to their iwmer degraded state, during which it was a crime to
give the Catholics any education at all.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON defended the character of the
Kildare-street Society, and referred to the Reports of several
Commissions, iorhow that the Society had faith:ully discharged
its trust.

Lord ELIOT said his 1 earned Friend had misunderstood
him, if he suiposed that he meant to depreciate the services of
the clop of the Protestant Church. _ _ .

.iir. 1-Al-101..JCHERE said he had an anxious hope that
the Not;lc Lord the Secretary for Ireland, had been a more
faithful expositor of the views of her Majesty's Government
• than the Solicitor-General. He thought the speech of the
Noble Lord was equally creditable to his head and to his heart.
—( Hear, hear,) It was clear that he thou _ht the plan es-
taleished by the late Government worked beneficially.
He trusted every Member (in his lido of the House would sup-
port the Government in every liberal system of education.
Lord STANLEY said her Majesty's Goverment had care-
fully and deliberately considered the question, and the re-
suit of that co,sideration was their determination to support
. the present system of education in Ireland, believing it to be
best adapted to give spiritual education to the great mass
of the population of that country.-Hear, hear.) He
trusted the Committee would not be divided on this vote.
He could say that he had not changed his opinion, and he
should therefore give the vote his cordial assent
Mr. WYSE thought the arguments of the Solicitor-General
for lrelsnd were more worthy his talents as a lawyer, than his
etaracter at a statesman. The objection to the present system
of education seemed to be that the Scriptures were not read in
the sehords, but the fact was that the Scriptures were read, and
a cheap edition had been published under the patronage of the
heads of school establishments.

Lord SANDON had opposed this measure from its very
commencement, because be did not think that the attempt to
bring together people of such different views as these schools
brought to;ether could be attended with happy results. This
stem had, however, gone on for a considerable time, and had
given pretty general satisfaction ; at tie same time he thought
►t would be advisable to allow two grants ; one fur the national
schools and the other for the Protestants; this he believed
had been the case in England, where one grant was given fur
the national schools and the other for the British and Foreign
School Societe, which latter he considered to answer to the
national schools in Ireland.

Mr. J. O'CONNELL complained of an expression of the
Learned Solicitor-General for Ireland in speaking of Mr.
Blake, "a Roman Catholic, buts highly respectable gentle man."
Sergeant JACKSON explained.
Mr. WA ltD, ailudingtothe Right Hon. Baronet, the Mem-
ber for the Liiiiver,ity of Oxford, said that he had skulked away.
Lord STANLEY rose to order. Ho thought the Hon.
Gentlern,tu must himself be seneibie that he hid used an im-
proper expression.
Mr. WARD said, if the we.rds were offensive, he would
sub-titute the words " walked nut of the House."

Lord CLEMENTS said, the speech of the Learned So-
licitor-General would excite great nisquisfiction in Ireland.
He looked upon the grant as eneof the greatest possible benefits
to Ireland.

Sergeant Al URPHY supported the vote.
St, augers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, v. hen there appeared,
For the rote
Against it .... 0
The announcement of the numbers was received with loud
chi ering.
On our admission into the gallery we found
Air. LEFROY, on his legs, stating that he had never given
a vote with more satisfaction in his life. lie however must
say that he thought the course that had been pursued by the
other side a most unworthy one.
Mr. WA RD said his attempt had ended just as he ex-
pected.—( Hear.)
Air. PLUAIPT RE said he had voted in favour of the grant,
because he was determined not to be forced by the attempt of
the Hon. Member for Sheffield; he, however, begged to give
him notice that he should resist the grant on the bringing u;i of
the Report.—( Great cheering.)
The Chairman thsn reported progress, and obtained leave to
sit again on Monday, as we understood.
PARISH CONSTABLES BILL.

On the order of the day being read for the reception of the
Report on the Parish Constables Bill,
air. PAKINGTON hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet
at the head of the Home Department would not press the con-
sideration of the Report that night.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM felt it to be his duty to press the
consideration of the Report, but if the Hon. Gentleman wished
a discussion upon the Bill, he would name a day for the third
reading, to suit the convenience of the Hon. Member.
Mr. CHILDERS expressed his concurrence in the sugges-
tion of the Hon. Member for Droitwich.

Atter a short conversation the Report was ordered to be re-
ceived on Tuesday next.
Wide Streets (Dublin) Bill went through Committee.
Testimony. Preparatory Bill was read a third time and passed.
ELECTION PETITIONS TRIAL BILL.
This Bill was read a second time.
'I he other Orders of the Day were disposedof, and the House
adjourned at Three o'clock.

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A few weeks •ago, whilst quitting Bath, I had occasion for
money, and on applying at the City Bank of that place, re-
ceived "Notes,' i.mongst others of 51., two, whose numbers
were" E 7,328, E 7.357."
Judge of my surprise on attempting to pass one of the Notes
at the Railway Office in London, to fi..cl it wholly refused. More-
ever, judge also of my astonishment, on presenting the Bills at
lkleFsrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., the Agents of the Bath City
Bank in Londoo, to have them all refused. I next applied to
the Bank whence they were issued, and received a line as
__

To Alm, s Barclay, Bevan, and Co.,
• Gentlemen.—We request you will give the tearer cash for
two of our local five pound notes.
" GEORGE MOGER & SON.
_

" Bath City Falk, 2Sth June, 1842.';-7
Thus it seems that this Bank issues two kinds of notes—the
one local (only), the other redeemable in London. I wish to
arrest attention, under these circumstances, if such kind of
noes as the former can be tolerated—in fact, if they can be
termed the repre-entative of bullion? The oke.:t of issuing
"local notes" is to gain a large paper circulation in the
neighbourhood where they are issued—when the credit of
the Bank may be good—and by " palming them off" to per-
sons about to travel to a distant part of the country, the Bank
gains a month's interest, and the holding trader, &c., suffers—
by having to sell them at a discount to the mosey-trafficers.
The public cannot be too much on their guard with respect
to such -- " notes," and trickery at all ;the pro-
vincial BANKS for as railways quickly take indivi-
duals to too ns far distant from the place of issue
before they are aware of the system, the interest of
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dai s. I may as well add, that, so far as the face of the notes
which I hold indicate, the Bath City Bank may, with as much
justice, refuse the notes of " the Commercial Bank of Eng-
land, the circulation of whose notes, in my opinion, are based
on the same system cif fraud.

Should—or rather, when—the Government of England, etc.,
becomes (under Allegiance to the People's Voice) responsible for
every Note in circulation, paper money will be as good as gold
—but not before—and then all notes must be Exchequer Notes
(guaranteed as in America) sooner or later, any one who exa-
mines the effects of Rail-way rapidity upon the country cannot
doubt for a single moment. In the meantime—of two evils
choose the least—refuse all local notes of Provincial Bankers.
CHARLES HENRY ACKERLEY,
Author of " the LAMP" Apparatus, for the Liquefication
of the internal Fluids of the Body's fabric by Dry Het
Air, in all cases of " Morbid Action."
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HAMBURGH, JULY, 1842.
HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR: of
AUSTRIA,
AND HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA,
having AUTHORISED and GUAttASTEED several DIS-
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coin when offered to him. in tr.011„11r. GouLnunN's

proclamation; v. hich 'had Mr. C. 117oon's approbatior,
except that he said that it Was rather hurried, requires
us at all time: to weigh every sovereign we receive or
pay aWH:Y. It places us in a far worse position than if
her 41,TESTY'S Government abstained from troubling
itself about the coinage, and allowed the people to use
lumps of precious metal, weighirg five ounces, one
ounce, half, or quarter of an ounce, so that they might be
at once brought to the. balance and their value ascer-
tained. The object of the Government in coining money
is to save the people the
.trouble of weighing it, and Mr.
GouLnunN:s proclamation requiring them to weigh it
really destroys that utility fur which the nation pays a
large sum every year to the Mint. If the sovereigns
cannot circulate without being weighed, they ought to be
called in, and the Government ought to give up the task
of regulating the coinage.

The appendices B to F to the eighth Annual Report
of the Poor-law Commissioners has just been issued by
the House Of Commons, and they contain some informa-
tion concerning the pauperism of England, which we
slnll lay before our readers. It will not be said that
this is the exaggeration of the Anti-Corn-law League,
that these .statements have been got up to make out a
c:,se; and that they are not worthy of credit. The Poor-
law Commissioners report only facts, and they do not
make the matter worse than it actually exists.

At page 350 is an account of the number of in and
outdoor paupers relieved in 577 Unions, and an esti-
mate of the number of paupers relieved exclusive of these
unions, in the years ending Lady-day 1840 and 1841.
The total number of in and outdoor paupers actuagy
relieved in these 577 unions was, in the year ending
Lady-day 1840, 992,768 ; in 1841, 1,072,978, being in the
latter year nine per cent, of the population, the expense of
relieving whom
.was 4 per cent. more in the year ending
Lady-day -1841 than 1840. These are actual facts.
The estimated number of paupers for all England and
Wales, including these unions, was, in the year ending
Lady-day 1840, 1,199.529 ; and in 1841, 1,300,928 L, or
9 per cent of the whole population. One person out of
every eleven in England and Wales re,ceiveLt relief in the
year ending Lad) -day 1841.
The amount expended for their relief was, in 1640
3,739,414/. ; and, in 1841, 3,884,585/.

Another table shoes the number of adult abl -bodied
paupers receiving relief in the the two years. The actual
number in the 57'7 unions was, in 1840, 245,772, and in
1841, 285,090. The estimated number in all England.
including these unions, was, in 1840, 297,693 ; and, 'in
1841, 345,656,. showing in the latter year an increase
in the number of adult able-bodied .paupers relieved of
48,961.

But these amounts, large as they are, only come down
to Lady-day, 1841, and since that period pauperism has
made frightful strides in the country. Thus, in Stock-
port, though We cannot take it as an example for the whole
country, the increase in the quarter ending December,
1841, as compared to the • quarter ending December,
1840; was, of persons relieved, from 3,946 to 6,871, and
money expended, from 2,9801. to 5,1201.. Leeds, Man-
chester, Nottingham, and other great towns show an
increase nearly as great as in Stockport, so that, large and
increasing as the amount of paupe- sm was in 1841, it is
now considerably greater.

It must also be remembered that the increase of
pauperism and expense is taking place under our new and
tnvut,gent system of -poor-laws, which does everything
vxts.tole to keep down the expense and prevent persons
up, ling for relief. So stringent is the law, so disagree-
able, in fact, do the people find its enactments, that a
great number submit to the utmost extremity of want
rather than apply for parish relief, and many, we be-
lieve, have actually perished rather than go into the
workhouse. Yet, in spite of a rigid administration of a
rigid law, nine per cent. of the people were paupers in
1841, and in 1842 it is probable that thfl number has
augmented to twelve per cent. When such is the case,
with such a stringent law, how vast must be the misery
of the people I
This great anti growing plague; however, is not con-
fined to the manufacturing districts. Opulent as is the
county of Middlesex, and little as it has beenatrected by
thegeneral distress, the number of paupers in it increased
from 49,841 in 1840, t 9 73,815 in 1841, and we have good
reason to believe that in 1842 the number is still further in-
creased. The number of able-bodied adult paupers in
creased in Middlesex, from 15,290 in 1840, to 26,122 in
1841. •: n Surrey, the number of able-bodied paupers
in 1840 was ' 8,893, and in 1841, 12,271 ; so in Kent,
;9,737, and 12,892 ; in Essex, 9,540, and 12,493. The '
agricultural counties with the exception perhaps of
Devon, all exhibit their share of increase in able-bodied
paupers, and in persons relieved, as well as Lancashire
and Warwickshire. There are only five counties—Derby,
Norfolk, Northumberland, Suffolk, and the North Riding
of Yorkshire—in which there was any dimintitioo of ex-
pense in 1841 as compared to 1840, and in every one of
these the number of paupers had increased. Thus the
plague, which is now so touch more severe than in 1841,
spares no place and smites the agricultural nearly as
heavily as the manufacturing districts.
Is there no mural to ne drawn from the extraordinary
and lamentable fact, that every eleventh person in
England and Wales is a pauper, and that the number of
paupers, and the amount of distress, are increasing?
Without now adverting to what we aro well convinced is
the specific cause of this condition, let us remind the
reader that to this time the laws have been, and, even yet,
continue to bt made expressly to protect native industry.
It is to keep our hardy labourers from being too rudely vi-
sited by the breath of foreign competition that the paternal
Legislature has hedged them round with restrictive and
protective laws. To provide the labourer with plenty
of work anl high wages is the reason assigned for all
the laws which are said to protect native industry, and
the documents we have just quoted show that those laws
have been most complete and disastrous failures.
The prOtected industry is impoverished, pauperised,
and degraded. : What other proof can possibly
be brought that the laws have not accomplished the
purpose for which they 'were deSigned ? There is no
body •of labourers on the round earth at once so in-
genious, so skilful, so industrious, and so poor, as the la-
bourers of England, whose industry, we are daily told by
the Tory Journals it is the great object of the laws to
protect. We do not ask the lawmaker to be honest
or just, we know that is not in his nature; but
we ask him not to be silly, not to be weak, not
to make himself the laughing-stock of mankind, by
accomplishing objects the very reverse of those he pro-
fesses to aim at. Ile would be little better than a
demon if he designed and willed the horrible degrada-
tion of the industrious classes to which his protecting
laws have doomed them. lie does not will the mischief
he causes ; but, a greater bungler thaU the Irishman,
• who, in spearing a fish, is said to have cut off his own
head, the lawmaker desires to promote the welfare of
the people, and he steeps them to the chin in misery and
degradation.