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vered from its Whig-Radical mania, and a Conser-
vative Ministry shall once more be in power.

There is, however, a far greater difficulty to be
encountered before any system of National Educa-
tion can be made really efficacious in training the
children of the poor as Christians and good subjects.
The most that is now done is assistance in the
construction of school-houses, and the training and
payment of more efficient teachers ; but this, at the
best; is supplying a want which is the least felt.
By far the greatest difficulty is experienced in ob-
taining scholars, to obviate which there is but a
choice of evils. The poor care little or nothing for
the instruction of their children ; and the only
attempt which has yet been made, as to a remedy,
is to hold out inducements of a questionable cha-
racter, but which only can be justified on the
ground of anything being better than leaving the
poor children to grow up as heathens, in ignorance
of everything but what they may pick up in the
streets. The parents refuse to contribute even
the small pittance of a penny a week ; and, to
overcome this repugnance, the children are
taught accomplishments equal to those of far
higher station in society, and adapted to a
condition of life much superior to that which
the children can be expected to occupy. What is
wanted is the inculcation of the first principles of
the Christian religion, and for this purpose there
is no lack of schools and competent teachers. The
children only are needed, and to obtain these more
stringent means must be used. We must go into
the highways, and the lanes, and the hedges, and
compel them to come in, or the alternative will be
the growing up of our youthful population in total
ignorance of their condition as immortal beings,
with the exception of those who are now becoming
discontented with their low estate by, being edu-
cated far above it. It is, perhaps, difficult to define
in what way a system of national instruction can
be made compulsory, without infringing too much
upon the liberty of the subject, which is so dear to
every Englishman. The difficulty, however, arises
chiefly in large towns, and not so much in rural
districts, where the children of the labouring
classes are sent more readily to parochial schools.
But in the densely populated manufacturing towns
there are more facilities for turning the labour of
children to some profitable amount, and far less
moral supervision, so that they suffer from the
cupidity of those who are their natural guardians.
The most feasible plan is to prohibit the employ-
ment of children in factories unless they can pro-
duce a certificate of their attendance at a national

school. Another step in the same direction would
be to make the parents responsible for the expenses
in all cases where children are convicted of petty
crimes ; and then, with the aid of Ragged Schools,
under efficient supervision, and the Industrial
Schools attached to Union Poor-houses, we may
hope to see some cheek to the spread of infidelity
and its 'concomitant superstition, which .are be-
coming the shame and disgrace of 'christian
England.
It may have been supposed that, with all the
recent exertions Tor the extension of National
Education, the increased grants by Parliament,
and the large amount of voluntary contributions,
that the necessity must now be less urgent than it
was half a century since. The fact, however, is
otherwise. Formerly the population was more
midely scattered, :and more under the supervision
of:parochial authorities. But the vast increase of
commerce and manufactures has drawn the labour-
ing 'classes together into large towns, where they
are beyond all efficient moral controul. The
growth of England's material wealth has been the
source of her moral weakness, and the evil demands
an active remedy, if we would not realize the pre-

diction of GOLDSMITH
" 11l fares the land, to hastening ills a prey.
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

The subject is one of far more real importance
-than the threatened Reform Bill, fOr 'which there
has been no demand, and which must result in
promoting the strife of political patties, without
the possibility of producing any good whatever.

THE French Government has made a show of
'advancing a step towards the encouragement of
increased trade with England by a !reduction of
.the import duty on iron and coals. By a decree
Which appears in the Moniteur of Wednesday last,
the French duty on 'the importation of Pig Iron is
reduced from about 565. Bd. to 445. per ton ; till
Ist January, 1855, and afterwards, to 355. 4d. ; on
bars and rails, from about £8 4s. 10d. and £6 12s,
to £7 Os. 10d. and £5 ss. 10d. per ton ; till Ist
January, 1855, and afterwards, to £6 3s. 4d. and
£4 Bs. ; on Sheet Iron, from £l7 12s. to £ll per
ton ; till Ist January, 1855, and afterwards, to
£Bl6s ; and on steel, 'in bars, from £26 Bs. cast,
and £52 16s. wrought, to a uniform duty of
£l7 12s. per ton, till Ist ilanuary, 1855, and after-
wards to £l3 4s. per ton. The duty on coals is
reduced in the Channel ports from 4s. 7d. to about
2s. 9d. per ton in French or English vessels ; and
a uniform duty of ls. 41-d. per ton in the Atlantic
and Mediterranean ports. It is said that these
reductions will give rise to a largely-increased de-
mand, and that about sixty vessels have already
been chartered at Bordeaux to bring both iron and
coals ; and the price of the former article has con-
siderably advanced in our markets. This circum-
stance will, no doubt, eagerly be seized upon as -an
instance of reciprocity corroborative of the wis-
dom of our present system of commercial policy,
and perhaps may form an excuse for its further
extension by reductions of our present rates of
import duties on French wines, spirits, and manu-
factured articles. It will be seen, however, that
the change presents but an infinitesimal dose of
advantage to our export trade with France ;
inasmuch as the benefit is almost.confined to the
raw materials of coal and pig iron, which may
tend to raise their value to consumers in this
country. Had France really intended to increase
its commercial relations with England, its ports
should have been opened to our numerous manu-
factures upon equal terms to those on which we
receive French silks, gloves, leather, and other
manufactures. But, to confine the reduction of
duty to such simple articles as the French people
require in order to enable them the better to com-
pete with the manufacturing superiority of Eng-
land, is a species of selfish policy which calls for
no concession on our part, and any attempt of the
kind ought to be firmly resisted.

IT is a grievous shame, in this age of boasted in-
telligence, a foul spot upon the escocheon of our
national morality, that the law has hitherto been
found altogether inadequate to protect our females
in humble life from the brutal and savage cruelty
of their husbands, from those who have
solemnly sworn to protect, love, honour, and
cherish them. It would seem that our law is
more regardful of the security of a pocket-hand-
a poor woman, who
khaerseMbeeefnthsano uenfveonrtuthneatelifasQ of
to link her fate with
that of a brute in human form ; for, until last
nearest approach to wilful murder was a fine of
Session of Parliament, the only penalty for the
£5, or two months' imprisonment. A paltry sum
of £5, or indeed a money value at all, for that
which SOLOMON has declared to have a price far
above rubies. Last session, however, the HOME
SECRETARY, finding that the crime had fright-
fully increased under such tacit encouragement.
attempted to legislate for its suppression ; and
accordingly obtained a law by which the magis-
trate* were authorised to extend the punishment