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now would not exceed 3,000,00 N.; but since it is the cornenut.e. The priest or priests of the parish have ' the purpose of concocting those preciotts specimens
certain that in the year 1798 the export of British the regular inspection of the schoolmaster, and are re- of legal exaction called " bills of costs." The in-
manufactured goods did not amount to 50,000,000/. quired by the government to see that be does his duty— crease in the numberof attorneys of late years in Lon-
it is manifest that in time year 182 b it must have while each priest, at the game time, sees that the children don is very great, and in country towns may be judged
fallen short of 1,500,0001.! Q. E. D., quoth the of his flock attend regulfarly. Afterb thei itchild
.has
from
of from some facts stated by the petitioner, who
tatofs
thooo
religion
ionre etioeswhrrh
worthy Alderman. And yet these are the men who thett.e asctinlinteadster
numberand of
years
ss
says that the increase in Liverpool for ten years was
vote for paper currency, and would revert to highfrom 93 to 153, in Manchester from 92 to 120, and
it belongs, a schoolmaster, and
without which it cannotg procure
prices, by way of tempting foreignere to purchase a em ,in Norwich from -10 to 77. Now, the question
plovment. To employ anv person under terentv-one,
al-reater quantity of our goods ! Mr. Sadler's speech without such a certificate, is illegal, and punished by a i comes, how do all those persons find employment
deserved particular notice, and Mr. Bating hit the fixed fine, as 13 almost every other offence in this part of and livelihood ? In this profession, as in every
read upon the head. He pronounced that the ma e'lrltliny ; and the fines are never remitted, which makes ' other, there are a certain proportion of respect-
onfacturing and commercial system was one whieli ' punishment always certain. The schoolmaster is paid I able practitioners, who are above the low arts and
implied of necessity an exposure to frequent floc- much in the seine way as in Scotland—by. a house, a dishonest contrivances on which their less scrupu•
roatione, and to all the distresses resulting from them. garden, and sometimes a field, and by a small salary lous brethren subsist—but a great number are
tf we have the principal, we must take the incident ' from the parish, and by fixed rates fo: the children. schemers and adventurers of the lowest dcserip-
" A second law, which is coeval with the schoolb llaw,
likewise. All talk about a medium as the cause of 1 tion. Attorneys of this class were mainly instrii-
I reendere
flit illegal for any young wan to marryt ise.lree is
that which exists iii the nature of things themselvesmental in getting tip the machinery of the abo-
any young wcinan before 5.., eighteen;
is, to the last degree, absurd and mischievousminable joint-stock frauds of the years 1825 and
1 antetnatYy-joiMeg, oi7l-ian, at whatever age he wishes to marry,
1826. Thereno was hardly one of those things
In ‘Vhat fell from Mr. Brougham on Friday night, , must show, to the police and the priest of the 'commune
which hadsecretary,
I where he resides, that he is able, and has the prospect, to
orinanthaettoriley asof a
salaried
reepecting Education, we wtre pleased to rind syrn- one or' moretßoard paid Directors, and
I provide for a wife and fill:lily."
Moms of an improvet', state of feeling in the Clergy Of the schools alluded to by Mr. Brougham the they were almost universally found among the ori-
of the ChtrsTh bf England regarding the people. most are of a very wretched description. No pains Igins' concoctors of those robbing inventions. When
I* ile arts tßappy in being able to say, that from the are taken to obtain suitable teachers. The qualification i the schemes fell with a crash to the ground, a rot
lire laesaidred Clergymen to whom lai had written of the teacher in Germany is not left to accident. There took place among this class of attorneys, and those
Wm ttais subject, he had not received six answers, are throughout that country colleges for the formation who did not fly were obliged to have recourse to
Vetich he could at tell conceive were unfavourable to of the masters. For instance, there is a College for other modes of picking people's pockets. In this
a taeneral ditfasion of education. Such had nor,, the Education of Schoolmasters in a village near the law allows them but too many facilities; but we
Ise vevers been the case in 1818, when a great num- Stuttgard, and every master must be found think it might be a great means of repressing the
leer 'or Clergymen had declared their opposition to a thoroughly qualified before he is allowed to take the proceedings of such persons if the Judges - would
"e4ntral system of education." It is no doubt pains direction of the most common school. The Go- always mark their sense of such actions as are evi-
LI to reflect that it should be necessary, in the pre< vernments of these countries are honest, and sin- dently concocted by attorneys on the speculation of
sent day, in a country like England, to argue the cerely desirous of the welfare of their people. The costs—a number of which actions form a consider-
question whether or not we should communicate in- ohject of Government in England hitherto has been able part of the increased litigation of the day. There
struction to the people. One should think that to thwart the wishes of the people for ameliorations is also, in general, too much lenity shown as to
those who volatile( for the expediency of withhold- —to leave to discharge themselves, as they best striking disreputable practitioners off the Roll. We
in g &one tire people the knowledge, much or little, can, what lire considered elsewhere among the hope this subject will not be lost sight of until somewhich 'they are able to acquire, would be equally moat essential functions of Government, and to wholesome enactment be passed to abate the nui-
isrePtsrel to maintain that the inlets to knowledge, consider the 'main business of ruling, the finding sance, or, at least, produce some mitigation of this
the tenses, ought if possible to be deteriorated, that pretexts for obtaining money and spending it. great public evil.—Morning Herald.
khe distance between the high and low might However, a better spirit begins to actuate public Ti) THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS F THE
be as great .as possible. That Clergymen should mesa, and it would be inju-oice to deny to the pre- La; LTDEI?sIa Vajila,tl3)&9ral. ATE BRITAINiED. AND IRE.be found tnamtaining that the great body of the sent Administration a disposition to countenance THE HUMBLE PETITION OF ROBERT BROWNE, OF
people tatillOt too much resemble the brutes improvement. Whether, however, it Will dare to MARGARET-STREET, CAvENDisH-SQUARE, IN THE
that ptolish, and sharing in the horror expressed by depart so far from established usage as to seek to COUNTY OF MIDDLESEE, GENTLEMAN,
the Archbishop of Dublin (Magee) at over-educa- introduce a general system of education, or to make Showeth,
4:-tis,—that this way of thinking should even at one religion something more than a pretext for obtain- That our petitioner is an attorney and solicitor, ad-1
mitred and practising in his Majesty's superior Courts at
time have been common to Clergymen,—that the ing a certain share of the property of the nation,
teachers of religion should deem the ignorance of remains to be seen. Before, however, placing
That Westminster.a petitioner his read the Report of the Com-
their flocks the best preparation for the reception of the ministers of religion at the head of any system
inissione)re u
appointed try hie Maje,ty to inquire into the
its principlese—will be believed, we trust, in the of education, it would be necessary to afford some course of proceedings in actions and other civil remedies;
security to the country that this would not be the and he has next generation, a gross libel on human nature.— also considered the propositions suggested by
What a state of intellect must that man have, and blind leading the blind ; for even if we had not the them, for the alteration, amendment, and improvement in
how vitiated his feelings, who can wish to lower valuable testimony of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, an to the practice, and for the despatch of general business in
and degrade any of his fellow-creatures ! Mr. the low intellectual condition of the Clergy, the his Majesty's superior Courts of Common Law.
Brots,harn said, "he had repeatedly been asked late fanatical exhibitions afford but too decisive a That your petitioner feels it his duty, as a Member of
the Profession, to assist by his opinions the means of
•WileV fie had abandoned the Bill for a general system proof that little benefit is to be expected from
giving effect to the important national benefit contem-
tee education ? He would now shortly state his them.—Morning Chronicle, plated by his Gracious Majesty in this and other inquiries
reasons for so doing. When he brought forward his The Bill for the regulating Schools of Anatomy connected with the practice of the Law.
propositions, he thought that no general system of &c., was withdrawn on Friday night in the House of That your petitioner respectfully calls the attention of
education could be proposed, with any chance of creased. House to the circumstance of the lare goredeuccess, which was independent of the Established Lords, on an understanding that another, freed from
nutnber of practieing attorneys and solic com-
Church. He was of the same opinion still, and any some of the objections urged against the present puted to amount at the present time to 2,000 and upwards
thing which he had heard or read on the subject would be brought forward next Session. The Duke in the metropolis, and upward, of 6,000 in the country,
tended to tohvince him of the correctness of it.— of Wellington, in his usual straightforward and and the average number of applicants annually for admis-
The taaasure had been greatly opposed in con- manly way, observed, "he approved so strongly of •sion at 500. .
sequence of this opinion, by several reli- time object of the Bill, and of the principle on That this increase must continue under the present con-
gious sects, and it was principally owing to which it proceeded, that if this measure had come stitution of the prafes-ion, and while the privi'ege of every
this opposition that the measure had been with- under discussion it should have had his full interest practising attorney and solicitor is permitted, of taking
drawn. He entertained a very high degree of re- in support of its second reading, and he would have ft atronarticledo ic.s lerks at one and thie saute time, without
or td. re-
spect for the Protestant Dissenters, who had always done every thing in his power to amend it in the rewandcienitted to standing
ande witilte the rightvuof is)uruch tersonsextrh
slim!' themselves the warm anal steady friends of Committee. The reason he was glad it was post- tics accrues immediately oni the expiration of such serviceP
civil and religious liberty ; and it wee principally pored was, that he was aware of the opposition, and and their being of age.
owing to their opposition, that he had given way to of the quarter from which it would come, and of the That persons are thereby induced to enter the profession
what he could only consider the prejudices of these influence that opposition was likely to have on the with means very incompetent, and, in point of education,
people. Whether the members of the Church would opinions of the people of this country, and how de- with attainments very unequal to the exercise of their pro-
have supported his proposal, he was unable to say." sirable it was to have some means of preventing its fessional duties, upon those principles of conduct which
However, the consequence of the attention drawn to effect. Although he would not take upon him-
are inseparable from honourable practice, and the welfare
the subject has been, that the number of unendowed self the responsibility of bringing forward any and security of their clients.
petitionerbeiifthat th
whateveree mostta strongly, iinpressed
schools in 300 parishes, in 1318, was only 1,400 ; measure next Session, he would co-operate with I
with our
mayoti in) •
originating
te Ind_
foreiasdv
whereas, now, there were 3,200 schools in the same any Noble Lord who might think fit to introduce
plated by giving facilities to the means of
parishes. Butt still, out of the 1,200 parishes of any measure founded on the principle of this Bill, conducting suits, the only remedy to secure fairs aingd shuo-
Ltegiand, there were vet 2,000 without schools of in order to get rid of the evils of the present sys- pourable practice, and the protection of the ptiblic against
.ittl• sort. Mr. Brougham said, "he now doubted tern. He would not enter into ti statement of those abuses arising from a desire on business, and the devices of
whether it would not be better to leave the subject evils, with a view to show that they most affected needy practitioners, whose only object is to delay the
to the feelings of the people of the various districts." the poor, on whom they principally fell, nor would course of justice, will be found in constituting the prat-i
There is another reason for remaining inactive a he now attempt to show time benefit they would de- tising attorneys and solicitors a Corporate Collegiate.Botly,
little lot4er. The notions of the people of Eng- rive from time encouragement of science. There was placing the regulation for the adiniseion of fit nil proper
land) respecting education, are yet too low to allow no remedy for these evils except that of increasing persons as 31einbers, and the protection of their rights and
then to adopt such a measure as would be really the number of subjects liable for dissection ; with- privileges as practitioners, under the controul and Govern-
beneficial to the people. The teachers themselves out that they do nothing; and their object must be
certainmentof a limited nutnberof experienced practiti!hersf
require to be taught. Reading and writing do to find out how they do it in a way the least objet- , standing, to be, constituted a. I:resident, Council,d
arid Fellows of the Society of Practising Attorneys an
not of themselves constitute education ; though a tionable to the feelings arid prejudices of the peo-
Solicitors.
• number of people seem to think that enough is ple." With respect to the prejudices of time people, Your petitioner therefore humbly prays, that your
done when a boy is taught to read and write. The notwithstanding the attempts which have been lion. House will take the premises into your eon-
loivett of the people might be taught many branches made to excite and encourage them, we do not be- sideration, and adopt such measures for placing the
of knowledge which would render them both more lieve that there is much to be apprehended on that
practising attornies and solicitors upon an equal
valuable and more respectable members of society ; account. Whatever is proposed in a country like footing with other Learned professions as to your
and we do trot despair of seeing the degrading funa- this, will be opposed by some, especially if they lion. House shall seem meet.
tieism) which is so prominent a feature in the cha- can thereby make themselves of importances, -There And your petitioner will ever pray, &C.
racier Of the Englishman of the present day, yield to has been not a little opposition to this measure of a Wilson's Estate Bill is "progressing" (a Yankee
more enlightened notions. If England is now very questionable description; bnt we have no fears word) through the House, as reglar as the " most
nearly at time bottom of the scale respecting educa- for the result.—lbid. reg'larish" coach (vide Cruikshank). This Bill has,
tion, time example of those States where education In the discussion on the Police Bill en Friday eight we understand, reference to that most beautiful of
has been more attended to will not be lost on her. in the House of Lords, it was observed by Lord ur- all spots round London, Hampstead Heath. If this
What has been done in the short space of ten ham, " that if this Bill was adviseable for any thing Pass, the effect, in all probability, will be that
yearsjustifies this expectation. Time indefatigable Hampstead Heath will be covered with houses. if
it was for its uniformity of enactments. The preen-111e
Mr. Loudon, the Editor ofj" The Gardener's Maga- of the Bill set forth this, arid yet the Bill was the inhabitants of Hampstead will get up a petition,
zinc, and the Magazine of Natural History," and and send it to us, we will insert it ; but, we rearm-
limited to particular districts, and excluding from
the author of many valuable publications on Horti- mend them not to employ an attorney to pen it;
its operation one-half of the metropolis. The city
culture and Agriculture, has lately communicated for in that case the petition will be so wordy arid
and the Bow-street jurisdictions were discrepant.
to both the French and English publics an account The judgments in the city were not only the subject obscure, that no person of common understanding
of the state of education in Bavaria, Wurtemberg, will be able to make out its meaning. Most peti-
of reprobation, but they were absolutely ridiculous.
and Baden, the results of his eb,ervations in these Those who sat in Guildhall were unfitted by their ti ins are penned by attorneys or barristers, and that
countries. The French are behind us, but we are, is the reason they are, take them in general, such
education, or rather by their want of education, to
it seems, an immeasurable distance behind the peo- abusiness andwordy, rigmarole, strange all-alike things that what
superintend the of the Police; an they
pie of the South of Germany. were, in fact in the hands of the Clerk." What !
is done commonly with them is, merely to read the
,
" In no part of Europe (says Mr. Loudon) have we
the Aldermen of the city of London not fit to be title, and down they go under time House of Com.
seen, or thought we have seen, enjoyments so generally
But, molts or Lords' tables.—/bid.
diffused as in the countries we have recently passed through, o
a Justicesf Peace from want of education !
.---
and more especially Wurtemberg. We entered on those really, is the education of the Unpaid throughout
Eeuntries, expecting to find the people not much better off the country so very finished ? We are glad to hear
than in France; but we could not resist the conviction, that they are so superior to Aldermen. 1 here can
produced by constant observation, and time result of vari- be no doubt, however, that it is most absurd to ea-
u= enquiry, that comfort and happiness exist to a much cept the city from the plan. Lord Malmesbury
greater degree among the labouring classes of society in observed, that "if the law were carried into effect
the south of Germany than they do in Britain. The (he ought to have said effective), it would be ad_
people, at first sight, have a milder and more civilized as- mirably calculated to drive all the rogues into the
pert. The dress of the country labourers, male and fe- . city " The Duke of Wellington said there was art
male, does not consist of such tine materials as in Eng-
understanding that the city of London would be in-
land ; but one part of the dress is of a qua'ity consistent •de I tf the Bill were found efficacious.—lbid.
with the- others, and the whole is in a superior style, corn- ' rlu- ( ' _
pared with the dress of the other classes of society. There We observe that a petition has been presented to
is no such thing, in this part of Germany, as a man or the House of Commons, from Mr. Robert Browne,
woman in rags, or with a coat or gown of the best qua- man attorney, of Welbeck-street, representing the
lity and the hat or. stockings in tatters, as is frequently the great evil of having so many attorneys, and praying
ease not only among the labourers, but even among me- that a limitation be put to their number, and other
citanics in England. In short, the dress in Germany is in •
regulations enacted wit regard to
• hthat branch' of the
much better keeping. Both men and women of the la-
legal profession, among which he recommends a
bouring class here are more intelligent in their aipect,
Law Institution, for the examination of clerks before
much more civil and polite on a first acquaintance, and
much better furnished with conversation, than the British admission. 'We agree with the petitioner in think-
labourers. What struck us particularly were, the great ing it necessary that some check should be given to
rarity of exceptions to this general description, the general the increase of attorneys in this country, whose num-
uniformity of manner and character throughout the whole hers have already grown to an alarming extent. We
country, and the total absence of public beggars. On in- often hear of priest-ridden countries, and the misery
quiry, we found that there were few or no poor supported which clerical domination produces. Englishmen
publicly, though every parish is obliged to support its poor are apt to turn up the whites of their eyes in asto-
when unable to work ; and also, that there were very nishment' when they hear of the swarms of Monks
few people in prison, either for debt or for crime of any
kind. and Friars, and all sorts of holy vagabonds, who, in
some Popish countries, overrun the land like
" This state of things more particularly applies to Wur-
temberg ; and time causes, we think, may be very easily locusts, and fatten upon the destitution of a
traced. The first and principal cause is a law respecting blind and superstitious people; but a plague nearly
schools, which has existed, more or less, in the States of equal to this is being ridden by lawyers—
the South of Germany for above a century, but which has and, if eveelhere was a lawyer-ridden country, it is
been greatly improved within the last thirty years. By England. Other professions and trades suffer more
this law parents are compelled to send their children to or less of contraction on account of the contracted
school from the age Maier to fourteen years, where they resources of the country, but the profession of law
must be taught reading, writing, anti arithmetic, but where flourishes in proportion as the wealth of the nation
they may acquire as much additional instruction in other decays. Attorneys and solicitors are the first movers
branches as their parents choose to pay for. To many of •
of litigation, and must live by it. If they do not
the schools of Bavaria large gardens are attached, in which
the boys are taught the principal operations of agriculture find people quarrelling, it is theirinterest to set them
and gardening in their hours of play ; and in all the by the ears. They put the first wheels of the law
schools of the three States, the girls in addition to the same in motion; and if they do not sow disserition among
instruction as the boys, are taught knitting, sewing, ern. men, how can they reap the golden harvest of bills
broidery, Sec. &c. It is the duty of the police and priest iof costs ? We admit that, while men arc governed
(which may be considered equivalent to our parish yes- by laws, there must be lawyers to manage and con-1 TREACHERS AT ST. MARY'S.
tries) of each commune or parish, to see that the law is duct their legal affairs; and there will always be a Rev. Mr. Hinds, of St. Alban Hall, Sunday morning and
duly executed, the children sent regularly, and instructedof individualsin society dishonest I afternoon.
duly. 1 certain proportion
Whit Tuesday.
Rev. Mr. Percival, o_f_Wadham_Csollege, Whit Monday.
"If the parents are partially or wholly unable to pay and obstinate enough not to do justice but tinder
for their children, the commune makes up' the deficiency. the compulsory process of the Courts. WhatiCooke, of 'Magdalen, Latin Sermon, 10th inst.
Rev.o ‘Mr. Iltiglies, of Trinity College,
no regulation should exist . Rev.
'':r.
we complain of is, that
Religion is taught by the priest of the village or hamlet ; at nine.
and where, as is frequently the case in.Wurtemberg, there to protect society from being over-run by swarms Rev. Mr. Hopkins, of Pembroke College, St. Barnabas.
are two or three religions in one parish, each child is taught of ignorant, needy, and unprincipled practitioners, PRgACHERS AT CARFAX,
by the priests of its parents—all of which priests are, who make it their constant business to foment liti• Rev. Mr. Hyde, on Sunday morning.
from their office, niembeis of the committee or vestry of gatiun, and embroil man with man—and all this for Rev. G. Taunton, in the afternoon,

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CA3IBRIDGE, JUNE 1.-At a Congregation en
Wednesday last tire following Degrees were con-
ferred :

HONORARY MASTERS OF ARTS.
Lord Wrioth. Russell, Trinity, son of the Duke of Bedford.
Lord Norreys, Trinity, son of the Earl of Abingdon•
At the above Congregation the Rev. S. Smith,
M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, was admitted ad
eundem of this University.
OXFORD, JUNE s.—The following persons of
this University were ordained by-the Lord Bishop of
Norwich on the 24th ult.:—
DEACONS.—Wm. Bannerman, 8.A., Bravn-Nose Col-
lege ; John A. Blackett, B. A., Christ Church ; Kirby
Trimmer, 8.A., St. Alban Hall ; Benj. Wm. Salmon
Vallack, 8.A., Exeter.

Pitieszs.—Jonathan Blennian Cobham, M.A., Oriel ;
Thos. Dix, 8.A., Christ Church; John Savile Hillifax,
8.A., Trinity.
ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. Wm. Mellard, M.A., of Magdalen-ball,
has been instituted to the Vicarage of Caddington, in
Bedfordshire, on the presentation of the Dean and
Chapter of St. Paul's, London,
The Rev. G. W. Steward, 8.A., to the Rectory
of Caister St. Edmund and Trinity, Norfolk ; patron,
John Steward, Esq., of Norwich.
The Rev. J. E. Daniel, 8.A., to the Vicarage of
Weybread St. Mary, Suffolk, on his own petition.
The Rev. H. Linton, M.A., to the Vicarage of
Nassington with Yarwell, on the cession and presenta-
tion of Archdeacon Bonney, Prebendary of Lincoln.
On Sunday l►st the Rev. J. C. Prosser was or-
dained Priest, at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, by
the Lord Bishop of Llandaff; and on Monday was
instituted by his Lordship to the living of New-
church, Monmouthshire, on the presentation of his
Grace the Duke of Beaufort.
The 11ev. Octavius Mathias, B.A. to the Vicar-
age of Horsford and Perpetual Curtsey of Horsham
St. Faith's, Norfolk ; patron, Vice-Admiral Philip
1 Stevens.