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public view, because the VOA de Atoyed their c..lonr.
'With respect to t'Ae classOf Mammaha. the honourable
Member was cunsidei ably mist.tken. The fact was, that
it had consiste I of 1,800 animals, or polls of animals;
and the parts hid been in tl,e pro, o tion of fifty to one,
ThC Honourable Baronet then adverted to the collection bequeathed
to the Museum by the late Sir Joseph Banks, and to meet the facts
alleged by the Honourable Member for Shrewsbury, togetbet with
many other statements of the same nature, which were Gibe found
in that article of the Edinkirgh Review from whence the Hon. Gen-
tleman had derived the greatest part of his statement, he read the
answers given to those assertions, upon an inquiry which he himself
instituted, by Mr. Henry Ellis, a very valuable officer of the Mu-
seum. and Mr. Bullock, whose name was also brought into question;
which answers amounted to positive denials of the substantive part
of the Edinburgh Reviewer's charges against the establishment.v-
Tire Hon. Gentleman wished him to say something upon Mr. Bus.
chell's collection, though the lion. Gentleman had left that topic
out- of his own argument. (The lion: Baronet then read a Report
of the Committee of Trustees on Mr. Burchelrs collection of abet°.
gical specimens from South Africa, and the directions given by Mr.
Borchelt for preserving them; in which the Committee, after suit-
able thanks and praises to the collector for his gift, decide against
vnaking the preparations required by him in the present state of
their means, both as to room and money, and confine the expense
of preparations to the smaller and rarer collections of Captains Ross
and Parry, and that of the Hudson's Bay Company-, the whole charge
being taken at £93. its. 61. whereat those dirccted by. Mr. Bor-
chelt could not be effected under £500). After a shon allusion to
the works going on for the reception of the munificent gift of a
Royal Library from the King, he concluded by declaring, that
the Honourable Member had shewn no good grounds for his at-
tack on the Museum.
Mr. H. GURNEY was happy to hear of the pew arrangement
that was in contemplation as is the Museum.
Mr. W. BANK ES praised the liberality‘of Mr. Salt, who had
given, for a sum of about £5,000, one of the most valuable Egyptian
remains in the world. Mr. Salt was not a man of any consider-
able private fortune, he only receiving his salary as Consul-General
in Egypt.
Mr. II UAIE had never disputed the propriety of cororlboting at
the public expense; but he wished the Museum to be placed nodes'
different management. Ile wished that personi distinguished in
science should be selected as Trustees.
Mr. CROK ER complained that the Catalogne of Book WM
most enormous expense, as much as eight or nine guineas, and
therefore was inaccessible to the poor scholar, for whose use all
public libraries ought to be prepared. He, therefore, wished that
the Trustees should be authorised to publish a new, and a cheaper
Catalogue. He wished also, that the works of art should be sepa-
rated from works of science. The former ought to be plomid in
the gangway of society.
Mr. BA NKES said, there was another Catalogue printing,which
would be more expensive than the first, it being a very handsome
volume in folio. Io the last year there had been above 100,000 vi-
sitors; and when it was known that the new quadtangle. would be
as large as flanover-square, it could not be supposed that there
would not be room enough for the collection.
Sir C. LONG wished the Cataoguil was cheaper.
• Mr. W. SMITH said, that notwithstanding the Catalogue, he
had often gone to the British Museum without finding the book de-
scribed in it, and whieh be wanted.
Mr. CROKER said, that without a good Catalogue it was en-
tirely useless.
Mr. G. BEMNET laid, there were somemost respectable Bi.
shops among the Trustees • but if they polled the whole metropolis
they would not receive a ;Ingle vote. Sir liumpbry Davy was a
great chemist, and that was all.

&r C. LONG said, that with reference to the pnrchaae of the
collection from Mr. Salt, the state of the case was, that that Gen-
tleman bad asked fur the sarcophagus the sum of-3,0001. The Trus-
tees hadoffered 2,0001. and finally offered 2,5001. with which Mr.
Salt was satisfied. For his (Sir C. Long's) part, he was sorry that
Mr. Salt was satisfied with that sum, as he thought he was entitkd
to mere.—The Resolution was then agreed to.
Mr. GOULBURN moved a suns of 447:1. for the Society for
the Suppression of Vice in Ireland.—Agreed to.
He then moved a sum of 18001. fur the Society fat Educating of
the Poor in Ireland.
.Mr. HUME said, that though it was desirable to educate Pro-
testant and Catholic children in the same school, be believed it
would be found impossible, as the Catholic parents would not al-
low their children to go to such schools.
Mr. L. FOSTER was pleased to have heard the great princi-
ples laid down for the inquiry of the Committee, as to the Kate
of public education in Ireland. Nothing could be better than edu-
eating the children of both sects in the same schools, and giving
them a knowledge of the Scriptures, without note or comment.—
He was happy that a commission was on its way to IreLvd,and he
sincerely hoped it would first inquire into the conduct of the Kil-
dare-street Society. One half of the schoolmasters under the Society
were Roman Catholics, and almost three-fourths of the children
were of the same persuasion ; although not a question was asked as
to the faith of either master or scholar on their reception into the
Society. In 1812 there were 229 scriptural schools in Ireland,and
now there were above 4,000 of them. Ireland must he soon satu-
rated with such schools; and in supporting the Kiklate-street Society.
they were supporting all the other societies for the purposes of edu-
cation in Ireland.
Sir J. NEWPORT had hoped that the House would have ab-
stained from all discussion on the question of education in isel.sad
until the Commission had made its Report en this important ques-
tion. He implored the House not to go into discussion on this sub-
ject until the Commission had made its Report.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON agreed with the Right Honourable
Baronet, and hoped it‘would be the object "of the Utintnissioners
now going te Ireland to conciliate parents of both religions, in order
that the children might be educated.
Mr. NORTH could not agree to the recommendation not to dis-
cuss this subject. If be knew his countrymen rightly, they should be
open and candid with them; far there was not a more open or
candid people on the face of the earth than the Irish nation.
After some further observations, the vote was agreed to; and that
other grants being also agreed to, the House adjourned.

THE EVEN LNG STA it.

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The proceedings in the House of Commons last night
were rather of a literary and scientific than of a political
nature, Mr. Secretary PEEL. in answer to a question
of Mr. W.Wll4.lasts, stated that a work by our immor-
tal poet Mtvrotr, in defence of the Christian Religion,
had been discovered among the State Papers, in the-
' hand-writing of his nephew PHILIPS. The Right
Honour able Gentleman further stated, that on Ole MS.
being sliewn to the KING, his MaJzsry immediately ac-.
claimed," A wo: k of MlLroN:s moo be m4depubli;:`