The Statesman.
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rather bestowing their; feeds its meanly iedatetiug a ' island, ever since the lanes part- of the sereeteesith
larger number. _than in- gitiee finiViestrvciitio end' center', and upon which many important details- will
other assistance to a tqore confined number of child he found in the Appendix. ~
ren. As the management of those excellent eats- ' The modifications trill be dictated principally4sy
blishments Is neeessarily placi.d beyond the 'llinttrriel the necessity of attending to the distinction, already
iof the Legislasore. it is only by the, effecteraimich pe lutledoet,- between:districts where private thatite
candid disconnects that itapeovainetsts .101,..ilesekcas4 be may he ea peeled to furnish the means of Fsdacation9
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and those where 049 such resource can be looked to;
Since thersqeiries..of Jew Committee have bites anitiha.ltiblessobjoined to thie Report, will affor
extended to the *bole Island, they have liarrepson. important lights ow this sohject. ;t appears farther
to concludee,iitat the means of edecati4 ',brier In your Committee, that it may be fair and expedient
are eteadityllicressier iti- all crotaiderable tie n 1 as teetteiet the 10.490L10 -Melte 0449 echeehheeses are
well es in-the Metropolis. Ato ruler letwartbas tepee erected, with the means of providing them., so as only
' addressed to all the Civray in Ettglanrk, Scotland, to throw open the inhabitants the burdea -of paving
and Wallsa, reqacringaristeers to gaieties., of whiCh a the school-master's salary, which ought certainly not
enPt will be fauhd in-. the Acrieirdie. ll is inipoti- to exceed 441. a year. It appears to yeti totemittee,
'le to bestow trio myth comsneudat ion epop 1 • ttreelhalemteggpphy of school-masters may be pro-
alacrity shown by shies. Reverend persons in com- cured for. this sent, .alloeing them the benefits of
plying with this reosiit!itisiti; anti the honest seal taking scholars who can afford to pay, and per-
which trey diaplared to promote the great object of witting the* of course to occupy their leisure hears
eniverast Education, is irbiy worthy of the pintoes in other pursuits. The eapence attending this in.
of tiorPeople, and the-teachers of that Gospel which valuable system ie Scotland, is found to be ats were!
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ores• preached to the'prwir. . trifling, test it is never made the sabiect of complaint
1 Yoor Committee have lost no time in dieecting by sloe of the Isadholders. .
and superintending the work, of digesting the role. tour Committee forbear to enquire minutely in
able information contained in the returns; according 'what manner this system ought to be connected with
to a convenient plan, which will put the House in the ahtrrth Establishment. That such a connection
possession of all this information in a tabular form. ought to be termed appears manifest; it is dictated',
They hate vireeieetimporeant *militant* in this sod by a regard to the prosperity and stability of both
the ether eltiecia of their etellairy, from two Leupeii Iltsfailn. and le It Oollelle She tee-see ailluloilf taw
Barristers, Mr. Parry and Mr. Kne, cif the Court of ueoted together, .fiat a difficulty arises in Etightail,
Chancery, who have devoted much of their time to which is slop() be found there. The great body of
the subject. the Dissenters from the Scottish Church differ little,
It tinvet rs clearly from the returns. at well as from if at all, in doctrine from the Establishment ; they
other snercre' that a *Pry Brest deficiency masts in are separated oily by certaic opinions of a political
the means of educating the Poor, wherever the pope- rather than a religious nature, respecting the right of
latices is thin and seettered over country districts.— patronage, and by some shades of distiuction as to
The off -its of individuals coinisined in societies are church discipline; so that they may coriscientiouly
5ti0,..,, whop', rot-fitted to populous places. send their children to parish schools connected with
Anottior I,oiot to which it is material to direct the the Establishment, and teaching its catechists. Is
attention of Parrot 'Went, records the two opposite-twin. F,ogtoed the COOP ii widely different ; and it appears
eildee, of -fosterling schools for children of all sorts, to sour Committee essentially tincorsary that this
and fn. three 01,4 who belonged to the Established circumetancelieoarefolly coesideted in thedevisieg ar-
Churrh. Where the means esist of erecting two rangements of the system. To place the choice et
schools, one upon each princ;ple, Education is not the schoolmaster in the parish vestry, subject to lb*
checked by the ei'clusive plan being adopted in one approbation of the parson, and the visitation of the
of ihent, herself.* the other may comprehend the diocessn ; bat to provide that thechildren of sect.-
children of sectaries. In places where only one rians chbll not be compelled to learn an) Catechism,
school finite sepported, it is manifest that any re- or attend any church, other than those of their pa.
golations which etrlude. Dissenters, deprive the poor rents, seems to your Committee the sagest path by
of that body of all means of Edocatien. which the letistatare can hope to obtain the de-
Tour Committee, hosteler, have the greatest sa. s:rable. objects of secoli:y to the Establishment on,
tisfartinn in observing, that in many schools where the one heed, and justice to the Dissenters on the
the National ftvstem is edepred, en increasing 40. 'Other.
me of liberality prevails, and that the Charch Ca:. The more extender) enquiries of year Comeittee
techism is oe,ly taught, ,sod attendance at the eats- this Session have amply confirmed the opinion which
Wished Ware of public worship only required, of move limited investigation had led them to form
those whose parents belong to the Establishment ; we years nen- open the neglect and abuse of char'.
due assurar.ce tieing obtained that the children of table fandsconuected with Edecation. They most
sectaries o'll-learn the irriviciples, and attend the refer to the Appendix and the Tables for the very
ordinances of, religion, according to the doctrioes important details of this breach of the subject ; but
and form to which their families are attached. they misst tild. that although in many cases those
It is with equal pleasure that your Committee have large funds appear to have been misapplied through
found reason to conclude, that the Roman Catholic ignorance, 'or mismanaged throogh nude-sines', yet
Petit' are millions to avail thetrotelves of those Pro- that s "me instaoces debase have preseoted themselves,
testant Schools established in their ste;ghbeerhood. in of sell) a nature as would have led them to recous. •
which no Catechism is taught; and they indulge a mend, at an earlier period of the Session, tbe in-
boph, that the Clergy of that, persuasion may offer stitution of- proceedings for more promptly checking,
no discooregesnent to their attendance, more espe. misappropriations, both in the particular cases, and.'
dully as they appear, in one instance, to have con. by the force of a salutary trample. From the' itr
tributed to the support of schools, provided that no vemigatioss of the Commission about to be• leased
Catechism was eanglet, and no religious obeerwances under the aotherity of an Act of Parlisrneat, owl)
exacted. •It is contrary to the dectrise as well as advantage may be expected; and though ,it woold-'
dtstiplitieof thaßeroish Church, to allow any Pre. not become your Committee to anticipate the mes-
testatit to interfere with those ,matters, and cone. sures which the wisdom of the Legislature may.
qeently it is impossible for Romaniats to send their adopt in consequence of those enquiries, with *view,
children to any school where they form part of to provide a speedy and cheaper remedy fat the all
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the plan. - than the smarmy tribouals of the country- mood;
- Year Committee unhappy in-being able to state, rot. year Committee cannot amid hoping, that
1 that in -ail the retiree, sod in all the ether Wenn. the mere report andpeblication of the existing abases'
Rios laid before them, there is the most etagnestioa will have a material effect in leading the parties cos.;
I able evideciseehat the anxiety of the row for Meta- 'muted to-coriect them, and that even the opprehee-.1
ition crowtheauss sot only *Debated, bat daily is- Mon of the enquiry about to be instituted may, Is
creasing; !bet it Wields toireery pert of the country, the Downtime perfume a similar effect.
and is to be found amity prevalent in those smaller . Ass the Unieersities, Peohlie Schools, and Charities
totoos sod onentry districts, wheal no cams of gra. with special sesame, age exempted fries the.iweilldit4l
tifyivig it are provided by the charitithie efforts ofthe tie, of the- Commissioners, your Committee hetet
richer classes. - - ' been occupied in esamining several of those Instite-
In humbly suggesting what is fit to be done-tor lions; the result of their enquiries will be Nand is
promoting ettieereel Education, your Committee do ehe Appeal/Is. It ungeestionabiy showy, that Imo,
not hesitate to state, that two different pleas are ad- 'adenoids leelledhelatodullficklissa hose-W*Bh "40*a id'
visible. adopted to the oppeeliesircemsteaces of the both Elam end Wiethesier, hex the etigistal plaits
town and country districts. Wherever the efforts elf Of the Joinders; that these &giallo'', have beett_.,dierl
1 itidivideals can support the requisite nulaher of tated move by a regard to the interests of the Ifni.
ICitniailis -It 'veld be etaweeestery sad Wiwi* ,te lolls thett-Of dee Scholl" who was the pais eteet

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