The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-12 00:00:00

for the education of the rising geseratioi, the most san-
guine results bad been anticipated. In no. sago,
could there have been found a mole numerous body of

enlightened men disposed to co-operate in an" plan
that was calculated to effect the ends professed. The ex-
pected measure was proposed; but, with a fatality that

could not have been conceived, and cannot be too
deplored, possessed upon its face those features which bad
an immediate tendency to disgnst and alarm the very
people who would otherwise have been the most likely
to promote the professed object of the plan. Amidst
the contending prejudices and parties through which
Mr. BROUGHAM had to steer his course, we are aware
he must have had to ,eneounter innumerable diffi-
culties. He, no doubt, 'aimed at securing the concur-
rence of that party and of that body which be believed
would have theigreatest influence in accomplishing dot
end in view. In Scotland he had found that the
Ministers of the established church were of India-
pensible use in carrying on the admirable system of pa-
rochial schools that boarish in that part of the United
Kingdom. lie appearespsowever, to forget the differ-
ence not only between the characters and habits of the
Ministers in that country, and the Clergy in this, but
between the religicnis feelfisgs and opinions that pre-
dominate in each. He forgot that in England a vast
proportion of Dissenters are widely separated from
the doctrine and discipline of the established church,
while in Scotland the Seceders, though they differ
from the Members of the Kirk on points of Church
Government, concur in matters of faith. The con-
sequence has been that the measure he had framed be-
cause obnoxious to a very numerons and respectable
portion of the nation, by the exclusion of them which
it threatened from the management of the plan.—
The interests of religious liberty were found to be
endangered by it; and the Bill, after all the pains
bestowed upon it, is suspended in its progress,
and is expected to be withdrawn. The third great
object of improvement aimed at, by a third dis-
tinguished member of the legal profession—the amend-
ment of the Poor Laws, our limit% will not allow us
at present to notice. Its nature and tendencies, how-
ever, we shall endeavour to review on a future and

The rumour which we noticed more than once
live to sortie meditated shiftings among the member.
of Administration, has not yet suhsided. A cautious
and respectable paper of this morning, vrbich we
quoted on the last occasion says, " We have avoided
all notice of the reports in circulation with respect to
a partial change of Ministers, because we could not
give any information to our readers upon authority
that could be relied on. The return of Mr. Canning
from Paris, who was sent for expressly by Ministers,
leaves no doubt of the negotiation which is afoot for a
change, and in which it is proposed to recal that Gen-
tleman to the Cabinet, with an increase of considera-
tion. It is not,ive believe. esally settled, whether Ise
shall take the situation of First lord of the Admi-
ralty, or that of Secretary for the Home Department.
In case of the former arrangement, `..ortl Melville re-
moves to the Hume Department ; and at any rate, L'rd
S.dmourit retires. Report says, that Mr. Canning
desires to have the nomination of one frie;ol in the Ca-
binet, and that this will be conceded to him."
The Cattails:Moue!, one of the liberal Journals ofl
Paris, contains the following article:—" A j.rurnal
has announced that the King's Attorney-Oeneral at
London, at the instance of the Ministers of Russia,
Austria, and Prussia, is about to prosecute the Editor
of a paper, who compared the Alliance of Alexander
1., Francis 11., and Frederic William 111., to the tri-
umvirate of (ktavius, Lepirlits, and Nlarc-Antony."—
A ministerial paper of this morning says, " We do
not understand that there is any foundation for this
statement." It may then be asked, would an attempt
of that kind be extraordinary or unprecedented ? Dur-
ing the peace of Amiens, it will be remembered, a
prosecution took place, at the instance of the ministers
of Buonaparte, against a London Editor for a libel.
Advices of the 28th of February were received yes-
terday from Chili. °emend San Martin appears to
have induced the secession from the cause of Spain of
all the principal ports on the Pacific, together with
many of the towns and dims icts of the interior ; thus
drawing a cordon of insurrection on the land side of
Lima, while the harbour of Callao is blockaded by

Lord Cochrane.
The English vessels captured by Lord Cochrane, on
the ground that they had Spanish property on booed,
have all arrived at Valparaiso for adjudication. The
Captain of the Edward Ellice, considers his Loyd-
ship's Intention to have been to detain him with the
Lord Suffield and the Indian, till Litna should sur•
render, for adjudication there. The instant the l'om-
minder of the Andromache heard of the circumstance,
however, he insisted on their being sent to Valparaiso.
It is believed that the cargoes will be condemned, but
that the vessels will be released. Two French ships
of war, the Colosse, 74, and the Galatea frigate, ar-
rived off Lima the beginning of February; and pro-
ceeded a few days after to the port of 'Nacho.
A fact of very considerable importance is communi-
cated in letters received from Cadis of the lbtls
►t is, that the two Commissioners sent by Bolivar from
the Spanish Main (by him directed to treat with the
Spanish Government), on their arrival at that port were
detained, and informed by the Authorities of the place,
that they could not be allowed to proceed further with-
out instructions from the King. This circumstance
has given rise to much surmise.
Ills Eseellency Don Luis Otis, Minister from
Spaiu to this Court, arrived in London on Saturday

evening.
Nswenuirs' LATE WATERFORD BANIE.--LESt Tues-
day the Chancellor dismissed the Petition of a Debtor
of the Bask fur leave to pay his engagement in bank
securities pursuant to the recownsendition of a Meet-
ing of Creditors at Waterford and of another at Dublin.
The Petition was dismissed without prejudice to the
Debtors or the Assignees seeking redress is course of
law. On Thursday, a nseeting of suck Debtors was
held in this city, and Resolutions were entered into
for a Committee and subscription to sapport their in-
Wrest.--(Weterford 'Mirror)

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