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rAcToitY EDUCATION BILL,

We take the following report of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S
leech last night from a third edition of the I

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After some remarks as to the importance of the bill, the I
right hon. hart. called attention to the provisions of the bill
respecting the establishment of schools, and contended that
so numerous were the checks provided, that, so far from the
bill, if passed; being likely to operate suddenly and simulta-
neously, his firm belief was that those checks were of a nature
to make it very gradual and slow. He had enumerated the
checks with regard to new schools. He would now state the
checks with regard to existpg schools under the management
of the Committee of National Education. The committee
of management must consent to the change,- and there must
also be the consent of the Committee of the Privy Council.
Having disposed of these preliminary points, he would now
address himself to the principal objections that had been
urged against the measure ; and. if he were to seek the objec-
tions that had been most prominently put forward, he would
turn to the-resolutions adopted by the Wesleyan body. He
was most certainly of opinion that the objections of the Dis-
senters generally were entitled to consideration, but when he
considered the Wesleyan body, either. as regarded their con-
duct on this subject of education, or the immense efforts
they had made, by the establishment of Sunday schools in
districts where education was most wanting, he would "say
that the objections of that body were entitled to the greatest
respect and deference. One objection which bad been very
generally urged, and which had met with great sympathy,
arose not so much from the intention of the clause relating
to Sunday schools as to the effect which had been described
as resulting from the wording of the clause. It had been de-
scribed as a clause directly infringing upon the rights of con-
science, and that by its provisions children employed in fac-
tories were of necessity to use the schools under this act, to
the exclusion of any other Sunday schools. He begged to
state that it was his intention to exclude from clauses 57
and
58 all the words relating to Sunday schools ; and also to
move that clause GO be altogether omitted, and in lieu of
clause 60 to insert a clause which he should now read to the
house. The clause was to the following effect:—" Be it
enacted that the master and such other person as the clerical
trustee may appoint, at such time and under such regula-
tions as the trustee may direct, shall open and attend such
school to afford religious instruction to the members of the
Church of England, according to the doctrines and princi-
ples thereof, and shall give such instruction to every young
person who may wish to attend at these times, and every
parents desire their attendance; and such