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portion of the funds of the Irish church would 14 appropriated
to secular purposes, as such would be likely to endanger the
stability of the established religion in that country.
Mr. EDWARDS presented a petition from the hand-loom
weavers of Landithrow, Montgomery, comp'aining of distress.
Some other petitions were presented to the house.
EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
Mr. WYSE, in moving the second reading if the.bill which he
had had the honour to introduce about a week since, would not,
after the very lengthened exposition which he had then made,
trouble the house with many observations. He should reserve
until the-bill was in committee any discussion upon its several
clauses. But the preamble of the bill set forth its essential
character, which was, that all national education should repose
upon the moral and religious instruction of the people. That
principle had been recognised in every civilised state of Europe,
and its recognition in Ireland would, he hoped, put an end to
the various dissensions which had so long existed in that coun-
try. The preamble set forth that whenever education was to be
extended and secured to a country, that object could only be
obtained by the joint co-operation of the government and the
people, and it was not more essential that the government should
control the system of education, than that the people should co-
operate in every particular with the government. That princi-
ple he (Mr. W.) had endeavoured to carry into operation
throughout his bill. He trusted that the principles of the pre-
amble of the bill would be carried out, and that the local ener-
gies of the country would be controlled by public opinion. He
knew that there were many schools already in existence, but of
1610 schools MX) were confined to Ulster alone, and 600 were
scattered over other provinces.. As he had so recently troubled
the house with lengthened details on this subject, he should not
trespass further upon them at present.
Read a second time and ordered to be committed on Wednes-
day fortnight.

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL postponed the further considera-
tion of the report of the committee on this bill, to facilitate the
progress of the corporation bill.

MANURE TOLL EXEMPTION BILL.
Mr. BYNG moved that the report of the committee upon this
bill be received.
The report was read.

EXCHEQUER BILLS.
Col. PERCE.VAL wished to put a question to the Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of which he had given notice
yesterday, with reference to the unusual length of time the ex-
chequer bills had been kept in the Exchequer Office. It ap-
peared from the statements he had had forwarded to him that
exchequer bills received at that office on the 11th of June had
not been delivered till yesterday, the 23d, a circumstance he
believed most unusual. If such a circumstance had taken place
ten days previous to the 11th of June,, the most disastrous con-
gequatices -might have, ensued, as many tradesmen depended
upon the issuing of thOse bills, to raise money for carrying on
their trades. (Hear.) He trusted that government would ac-
count for the unusual length these bills had been kept ba'cir,v
and that they would order the issue of that property in as short,
a time as possible.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that in conse-
quence of the communication that had been made to him by the
gallant and Annourable Member, he had directed 'a reference
to be made to the whole'proceedings in the Exchequer office in
order, first, to ascertain the actual state of the fact, the next,
what particular circumstances had taken place that would
Account for the length of time the bills had been retained. He
held in his hand an account which had been prepared in conse-
quence, and he there found that the parties who had made the
communication to his hon. friend had misrepresented many im-
portant particulars. On various previous. ocrasions the delay
had equalled that to which the hon. and gallant member re-
ferred. In 1829, the time they had been detained was 12 days.
In 1831, it had been 11 days ; in August, 1830, it had been El
days; in August, 1833, it had been 11 days; and in May, 1834,
11 days. The cause of the delay was, that the time was propor-
tioned to the quantity of work to be done—the number of bills
to be exchanged. In 1829, when a delay of 12 days bad oc-
curred, the number of Excheqher Bills to be exchanged was
14,500.—(Left speaking.)