The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

11 was of an extremely seri-

back ,y et

uses of their main-

the land

.p humanity that

most people ware exceeding)
money and their own advice

he bill was read a first time

ght of the poor to
poor man to be fed,

T, or even to find them work

ay of t

people finding work for

would not stop

L 4 latter had first bought shares ii
A wished to raise the price of them

at. all the milliOns they
mouths of those who were crying
it whatev.- their'lore-
maintenance of the 1-.

to be di

t taxis.

le ot

Earl FITZWILL

Less sor

dustry manifested b

'MEAT}

he town of 'Liverpool had a

is thou

aid it did not

)se laws which wer

hates, and

.t,-and that every facility ought to

exte

system of colonisation

ast any imputa-

M ON S.—MONDAY.
ed the order of the day for

mendmen

that all ' the
cedence, but

gestions which tt

41 were prepared, underexistir

ss of the potatoe

virtuous

.ather than sixteen ; and that

iontaet in these school

of a very large and influer

Government Zvi
Under these c

there was a nec

to offering sug

TUESDAY

ke schools had been atter
It was, therefore,

to carry out ti

festates to' avail theniselv

'ear. For this purr

intended to

Iraining

It was also st

iittee would report

most unexceptionable mode of

which were report
1 schoolmasters s

be chosen from t

feieiiee to the sugar bill, not yet
!xuressed Iga hope that it would

cent measure without the
illy and fairly considered

selection of the pup
it the patrons of tt

ed that full opportunity

E, in reply to a question
it was intended to remodel

t follow up the

ion, and that

was proposed one

;erving

to devote sixteen millions to the promotion of railways at
this time. He would not, however, oppose the bringing
in of the bill, but he wished the noble lord to understand
that it was not his opinion that it would be wise to
s, that there.' adopt the scheme.
.

Along debate followed, more or less acrimoniou

The house then went into committee of the whole house,

pro forma, for the purpose of voting a sum not exceeding
£300,000, on the security of the rates hereafter to be
levied, for the purposes of the Destitute Poor (Ireland) Bill.

HOUSE
,OF LORDS.--FRIDAY.
A conversation arose on the. propriety of granting aid
from the state for the construction of railways in Ireland,

which was commenced by
Lord STANLEY, who remarked that the object of Lord
George Bentinck in introducing the Railway Bill was not
to advance the value of railway shares, but -to facilitate
the employment of labour without laying a tax of one
r step on this country.
poor The Duke of RICHMOND expressed his great satisfac•
nd that they would not tion at the introduction of the measure. He was con-
,. ,Ars

1:1 George Bei-Alia must have

excited the admiration of the other house, and entitled
those who had prepared the measure to the gratitude of
the people of Ireland. In whatever hands the measure
might be when it reached their lordship? house, he
would give it his most undivided and strenuous support. ,

The Earl of WINCHILSEA said Lord George Bentinek's
measure was certainly of an extensive nature, but it
should be remembered that it would not drag
from the pockets of the people of England
tiered the population of Ireland

given to

LANSDOWNE laid upon the table the
n agreed upon by her Majesty's Privy

Council, and, in so doing, stated that it was not his in-
tention to ask their lordships to come to any conclusion
upon any particular plan, though he felt it to be his duty
_ _

ions of societ
3. There wer

objectors to any such system that

could be devised—the one composed of the most plow
Ind the most learned men of th
but who thought that persons of differ

) interference whatever on the part of
he education of the youth of the empire.

s the Government thong:

:o what ought to be done in the distribution-of the sum
vhich had been last year voted for the purpose of educa-
:ion. It had been found from the reports received, that

but they were by no m

number would be sufficient for that pur-
'ggested that in all those schools
to be well and ably conducted the

hould be allowed to take apprenti

ig pupils,.with the y

rentice. From these apprentices a selection should t
le of the best for exhibitions in the normal school

while those

respected their att

\ . _
though equally well qual
ments, but who might be in other respects unfitted for
teachers, would be provided for in the revenue departmen4.:
of the country. It was also proposed to elevate the stat&
and condition of the schoolmaster by giving small pen.
sions in old age to such schoolmasters and schoolmis•
tresses who can show that they conducted a school witl

period of fifteen year