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TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1816.

THE ARMY.
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chi's' circumstanced, rather to encourage than to sup-
press illegal modes of destioying it.
The expediency of the present restraints upon the
possessors of land appeari further to your Committee
extremely problematical. The game is maintained
by the produce of the land ; and your Committee is
not aware of any valid grounds for continuing to
withhold from the possessors of land the enjoyment
of that property, which has appeared by the Common
Law to belong to theta. The present system of
Game Laws produces the effect of encouraging its
illegal and irregular destruction by poachers, in
whom an interest is tilereby created to obtain a live-
lihood by systematic and habitual infractions of the
law. It can hardly be necessary for your Committee
to point out the mischievous infinence of such a :taw
upon the moral conduct isf those- who addict them-
selves to such practices; .:to them may be readily
traced many of the irregularities, and most of the
crimes, which are prevalent among the lower orders
in sitricultural districti.
Your Committee hesitate to recommend, at this
late period of the Session, the introduction of an im•
mediate measure, upon a subject which affects a
variety of interests ; but they cannot abstain from ex-
pressing a sanguine expectation; that by the future
adoption of some measure, founded upon the prin-
ciple recognised, as your Committee conceive, by
the Common Law; much of the evils originating in
the present system of the Game Laws may be ulti-
mately removed.

Upon mature consideration of the premises, your
Committee have come to the following resolution :
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee,
that all Gantt should be the properly of the person
upon whose lands such Game should be found.

EDUCATION OF THE LOWER ORDERS OF

THE METROPOLIi.

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE A COM-
MI ITEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

(Con:inaed front yesterday's Paper.)

Mr. R. B. POLLARD, Master of St. Margaret's Hos-
pital, Westminster, of the Royal Foundation of King
Charles I. commonly called the Green Coat School,
stated, that this establishment lodged, clothed, and
educated 24 boys—at the commencement of the
French Revolution there had been 20. The income was
about €7 00 a-year, partly from Government Stock
and partly from estates. The expenses were to the full
amount of the income. The building was very exten-
sive and much money expended in repairs. .There
was also a fund arising from a bequest of Sir J. CUT•
Lea, granting to c.tch boy £5 as an apprentice fee.
The Master's salary was 450, with house and coals
and candles; he was allowed to take some boarders
,and day scholars. There was a matron, who had R2O
salary, and £:8 for board, kc. The witness stated,
that by the Chartzr the Governors were confined to
board and educate as many boys as the funds Will
admit of. The children were presented by the Gover-
nors (who were 20 in number) in ;oration, and were
chosen from the children of poor and decayed house-
keepers, and others 11 tying a legal settlement. A copy
of the Charter is given, dated Nov. 15, the ninth year
of Charles I. It begins, " Charles, kc. Whereas divers
of our loving subjects dwelling in our City of West.
tr.inster have resolved to settle a certain house, in
which poor boy. and girls of tender years may not only
carefully be maintained with meat, drink, and appa-
rel, but also instructed ice Atreedaro," &c. " We will
and ordain that that house hereafter be an hospital,"&c.
E. WAKEFIELD, Esq. who had surveyed part of the
Covent-garden district, for the purposes of the West
London Lancasterian Society, delivered to the Com-
mittee two ReFrts which he had made to the Chair-
man of the Association, in which he confirmed the tes-
timony which had been given by Mr. Biggs, as to the
general filth and wretchedness in the district visited by
them, and the general willingnesi to assist the objects
of the Association among the lower classes. The
second Report related to the section N 0.4, comprising
the courts to the south of Long-acre, and other ad-
joining streets. Several of.the courts anal alleys in
that quarter were filled with people in a state of pecu.
liar wretchedness, though the outside of the houses
would have led a passing stranger to imagine that
they were respectably tenanted. ' On the whole, the
' examiners were received with great civility, particu-
larly by the class of persons likely to be benefited by
the Association. They no where held out the expec-
tation of forming charity schools, but stated that the
Association wished to afford instruction at the cheapest
possible rate, and this principle, if acted upon, would
nut reduce them to a state of obligation on any one.
Mr. W. stated to the Committee, that he found
amongst the persons who he had thought might have
become contributors to general schooling; an objet-.
tion to further that purpose. in consequence of their
subscribing to Sectarian Schools of their own belief
many of the common people, who were Irish Catho-.
lies, said their children went to the school of their no-
ligion. There was also a Methodist School, to which
some of the housekeepers stated that they subscribed
already. His own opinion decidedly was in favour of
mixing the children of all sects, and bringing them up
in intimacy and affection in a common school room.
If in. a small district, a school should be planted; from
which sectaries were excluded, a large *amber must
remain uneducated, if there were not sufficient funds
in the hands of the'Dissenters to erect another. Even
in a large district in which there were great numbers,
both of churchmen and sectaries, the tendency of dis-
tinct schools would be to perpetuate parties and reli-'
gious enmity. He was apprehensive, however, that
churchmen might not send their children to a school
established on a general principle. From his private
intercourse and his experience in-the West London
Association, he thought there. was no probability of
increasing the amount of the present yearly sum raised
for the purpose of educating the poor, as the West
London Society bad fallen to the round for want of
funds, notwithstanding all the pains taken to raise I
I them ; sobscsietioas were mach more easily obtained,