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tageous to the Roman Catholics
Mr. G. KNIGHT said that a section of the Esta
Church was as muoh opposed to the educational clauses as
were the dissenters. He thought the Government adopted
the golden mean between all parties, and he hoped the prin-
ciples on which the bill was founded would be extended to
the rural population of the country.

Mr. HAWrES said that in his opinion the more known the
educational clauses became the more decidedly would they
dby the dissenting portion of the community. On
the dissenters be protested against a scheme

be opp
ti

le part of

which vested in the Church of England power over a national
fund for the exclusive purpose of education, the effect of
which, he contended, must be to sharpen existing religious
animosities. _ _

Sir J. GRAHAM had entertained a hope that the second
reading would have passed without any discussion on the de-
tails of the measure, and he regretted much the tone of the
remarks of Mr. Hawes. Lord Arundel had done more jus-
tice to the government plan, and he believed the fears of the
noble lord on the part of the Roman Catholics, as well as
those of the dissenters, might be relieved by the reflection
thbt the schoolmaster was not intended to be a commentator
/in the Scriptures, but merely a communicator of ideas. The
object in view was certainly to promote the religious instruc-
tion of the young, and to rescue them from the practical in-
fidelity in which they were at present plunged. It was im-
possible to carry any extensive system of education into effect
without the assistance of the church; and looking at the riots
of last autumn, which were chiefly carried on by youths be-
tween eighteen and twenty-two years of age, be felt confident
that if such a project as the one before the house had been
carried out ten years ago, those scenes would never have
taken place. He was prepared to give all due weight to every
objection urged by the dissenters, and he hoped, therefore,
the house would not hazard the success of the bill by allow-
ing feelings of jealousy or anger to exhibit themselves in the
course of the discussion. . _

Sir G. GREY dil not entertain a doubt that the bill bad
been brought forward by the government in an honest spirit
towards all classes, and if they had failed in giving satisfac-
tion it was owing to the defectiveness of the details of the
measure. As one instance of this, he referred to the fact
that the bill in its present shape excluded all schoolmasters
who were not members of the established church. The clause
relating to the selection of books was also susceptible of
improvement, by giving a controlling power to the Privy
Council, or by some other means.

Sir RI INGl.;;Contended that the church of England had
the constitutional right of watching over and superintending
the instruction of the people, and his chief objection to the
bili was that it did not sufficiently recognise this right. He
could not see any reason for alarm on the part of the dissen-
ters respecting the management of the schools, for the trus-
tees of each union need not necessarily be members of the
Established church. He hOped that the house would make
no material alteration in this bill in deference to the threats
or taunts of the dissenters, whose zeal must he much less than
it was represented to be, or whose numbers must be consi-
derably smaller, for he found that the entire number who had
availed themselves of the right of being married otherwise
than by the rites of the church of England was only 8,248.
Mr. HUME said that government should not suffer itself
to be overawed by the church, for the pecuniary benefit of
which it appeared as if the people of England were born,
married, and buried. He did not think the people of this
country would submit to the thraldom imposed upon them
by this bill. Every person in the country had, he contended,
a right to education as well as food for the body, without
any reference to religious distinctions. The cost of such
education to the nation would be more than counterbalanced
by the decrease of immorality and crime.

Mr. ACLAND said that the success of a measure like this
must depend upon its being cordially supported by all par-
ties. He had no doubt but it would be honestly and zea-
lously carried out by the clergy of the established church ;
and be deprecated raising any questions which might give
occasion to feelings of dissatisfaction towards a bill, the
general principles of which he agieed in, and which he hoped
to see generally supported.

Mr.-F. BARING said that in the trustees of each union
there should be a representation of the rate-payers, who
ought to have some share of control over the expenditure of
the money which was drawn from their own pockets. It was
of great importance certainly in a large scheme such as this
for the government to carry with them the good wishes of
the Established Church, but it was also of vast importance
that it should be carried out also with the favourable wishes
of the ministers of the dissenting population throughout the
country.

After some observations from Mr. HARDY,

Mr. M. GIBSON said he could almost bring himself to op-
pose the second reading of the bill, there were so many ob-
jections to it. He feared that one of its effects would be to
displace labour, for as the bill applied only to silk and cotton
mills, the children would be sent to pin-making and other
manufactures to which the bill did not apply. The hon.
member also stated other objections to the bill, to which he
entreated the attention of the government.
Me. M. Surrox did not think that the effect would be to
drive the children from the cotton mills to other employ-
ments; on the contrary, lie thought the bill would hold out
a premium to parents to take their children from other em-
ployments in order that they might have the advantage of
the schools. _

Mr. COWPER was of opinion that, under all the circum-
stances, the proposed measure was the most practicable that
could be adopted.
Lord ASHLEY said that his not having called the attention
of the house to the condition of the agricultural population,
was not because he did not. think it required improvement as
regarded education, but because he had peculiarly directed
his attention to those places where there were vast masses of
people plunged in the lowest state of vice and ignorance.
He hoped that this bill would be discussed throughout with-
out crimination or recrimination. and he still further hoped
that the house would avail itself of the present most blessed
opportunity of removing a blot upon our character as a
civilised nation. They must expect to call down the Divine
ence upon their heads if they neglected to remove this

aboinination. from the land.
Mr. COBDEN was of opinion that the difficulties of laying
doWn a general plan of education were considerably increased
by giving a dominant power to the Church of England. He
contended that there was more vice, infidelity, and im-
morality of every description, in the parish in which that
house sat, than was to be foundin Manchester. This should
be known in justice to the dissenters, for Manchester should
not be singled out as a specimen of immorality when the
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very spot in which they were assembled, in which the Dean
to whom belonged a
employment; but they were pro-
and Chapter of Westminster exercised their functions, and
parish, was in a state than which nothing could be conceived
worse. By this bill it appeared they were providing for the
education of children in
viding no education for the thousands of children who had
no employment; and
gyre:ttt
of national education. What was the objection to giving
some instruction to those children who, having nothing to
do, were idling about the streets. The church did not run
after those children, but.the moment an attempt was made
to give them some education at the expense of the nation, at
once the church throws difficulties in the way by making
claims which ought not to be conceded. He would not ob-
ject to the second reading of the bill, because it would give
some additional education, and discarded for the first time
the use of the catechism ; but in the committee he would do
all he could to have those clauses altered which were so
execrable that they must interfere with its beneficial opera-
tion. _

WAJ Ll •
Mr. DARBY did not think a secular education any guaran-
tee for moral conduct.
After a few remarks from Mr. HOPE,
Lord J. RUSSELL thought that the good temper with
which the bill was discussed in that house would not be
withgoouvteritnsmbeenntefi amongst which was one for the establish-
ment effect upon the public. The noble lord
threw out a variety 4f suggestions for the consideration of
the
ment of a normal school for which he was sure the house
would readily grant an additional vote.
After a few words from Mr. Ross,
The bill was read a second time, and the committee was
appointed for Friday nest.
A discussion then took place upon the third reading of the
Dogs Bill, which was at length carried by a majority of
66 to 43.
Another division took place on a motion for the omission
of the second clause, which was carried by a majority of 57
to 30; and a third on the question that the bill do pass, which
was agreed to by 50 to 31.

EMIGRATION.—TabIes, showing the amount of emigration
from the United Kingdom, in 1842, have just reached us.
They give the number of emigrants who have embarked from
each of the three kingdoms, which is as follows :—Frotn
England 74,683; from Sootland, 13,108; from Ireland,
40,553: total, 128.344. The parts of the world to which
they went:were the following :—To the United States, 63,852;
Texas, Central America, and Buenos Ayres, 363; Canada,
41,375 ; New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's
Island, &c. 12,748; West Indies, 813; the Cape, 517 ; West-
ern Africa, Mauritius, and Falkland Isles, 72 ; Sydney,
1,450 ; Port Philip, 864 ; Van Diemaa's Laud, 2448 ; South
Australia, 145 ; Western Australia, 563 ; New Zealand,
3064: total, 128,344. Four-fifths of the Irish emigrants
went to the British North American colonies ; the largest
proportion of the Scotch went to Canada and Nova Scotia ;
and five-sevenths of the English to the United States. Of
the emigrants, 1058 were assisted from the poor-rates ; 2341
from funds supplied by the Commissioners of Colonial Lands
and Emigration ; and 982 from Bounties paid in New South
Wales and Van Dieman's Land. In 1841 the number of
emigrants was :—From England, 72.104; from Scotland,
14,060; from Ireland, 32,428: total, 118,592. The number
of emigrants in 1842 was greater than in 1841 by 10,000, and
exceeds in a much higher proportion that for any previous
year. Its extent is, indeed, unparalleled and astounding,
amounting to no less thai. 400 souls per diem, excluding Sun-
days. Its direction, also, has undergone a material change.
In 1841 the emigrants toAustralia and New Zealand amounted
to 32,500 ; in 1842 only to 8500. The removal of so great a
numbes of persons, most of them belonging to the working
classes, must have bad a considerable effect in lightening the
pressure on the market for labour; but the return does not
enable us to state what proportion the women and children
bore to the men.—Scotsman.

THE MURDER OF DR. MARTIN.—MALTA, MARCH 6.
A very dreadful event has happened here to-day. A little
after 12 o'clock we heard the report of a musket, but paid
no attention to it ; but presently my servant came into the
room and told me that Dr. Martin was shot ! The next
moment I found him lying on his back within the entrance
of Sir John Louis's house, and Captain Robinson near him.
Captain Robinson had already called to the Hecate, lying
close by, and the surgeon of that ship was with us immedi-
ately ; he examined the wound, and saw at once that it was
mortal. Poor Martin asked what had happened to him ;
and the surgeon said it was his duty to tell him that the ball
had passed through the intestines and that nothing could be
done to save his life. The poor sufferer said he knew it well.
I sent in all directions for other doctors, and for the chap-
lain of the Monarch. Sir John Louis had a bed directly
predared in his house, and Dr. Martin carried up to it; as
I assisted in moving him, he said, " Gently, gently !" and
these are all the words I heard him speak. The chaplain of
the Monarch then came, and with him Drs. Watt and Whit-
marsh, and Dr. Martin's son (an assistant-surgeon). The
sufferer was sensible, but speechless, while the clergyman
prayed. He died within the hour. This frightful murder
was committed by the sentry at Sir John Louis's door as
Dr. Martin was passing from the house to the admiral's
steps. Had his visit been a little earlier his life would have
been saved, for the sentinels were changed at 12 o'clock.
The soldier was not two yards from Dr. Martin when he
fired. The ball went in at the lower part of the back and
came out near or at the naval. I have examined all the sol-
. diers of the guard, and it appears by what they say that the
man did not know Dr. Martin ; he had never been on duty
at -the hospital, he was not drunk nor mad, but is an ill-
conditioned turbulent man. He has been 11 years in the
regiment, and they now say he has been always doing mis-
chief and exciting others to do it. As soon as he had done
this fatal deed he walked quietly to the guard-room, where
all the soldiers of the guard were, put down his musket and
took off his belts. The serjeant asked him what had induced
him to do such a thing, anp his answer was, " It's a good
job it was not for you. Another man heurd him say, "He

nob,"

meant it for some meaning a gentleman ; as if it had
been the sudden working of the devil, who prompted him to
slay the first person having the appearance of a gentleman
who came in his way.

THEA.TRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

UNPRECEDENTED COMBINATION OF FIRST-
RATE DRAMATIC TALENT.

The Public is respectfully informed that arrang9i'nents have

heen made with

MADAME VESTRIS and Mr. CHARLEVMATIIEWS

FOR FIVE NIGHTS ONLY;
And, in order to give every possible effect to the Dramas in
which they will perform, a re-engagesvint has been con-
cluded with ic/1

Mr. WILLIAM FARIfEN

for the same period, being positively the only Nights these
distinguished Artists can appear in Liverpool, previous to
the commencement of their engagement at the Theatre.
Royal, Haymarket, on Easter Monday.

'THIS present TUESDAY, March 28, the Entertainments
will commence with the Operetta of

After which, a new Farce, written by Charles Dance, Esq.,

called
NANA', ENGAGEMENTS.
Admiral Kingston
Lieutenant Kingston ..
Miss Mortimer
As originally performed by them in London.
To which will be added,_ the favourite Drama, written by

Mr. Charles Mathews, called
PATTER VERSUS CLATTER.
Captain Patter.. (his original character) .. Mr. C. Mathews.
To conclude with the Musical Drama of a
LOAN OF A LOVER. -
Peter Spyk Mr. Charles Mathews.
Gertrude.. (her original character).. Maclaine Vestris.
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