The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-10-02

dinusion. Nothing dauned by Sir Robert Peels re-
pay 70 the chamber OF Commerce of that place, It's
members have energetcaly been devoting their time
ana purses TO disseminate their currency notions
nat they are making an impression in the country
have no doubt but it is not one that is very powerful
~ felt or likely to have any Influence whatsoever at
the hustngs III Csil
Gen. Sir George Cockburn proposes for Govern
ment to take for the benefit of The nation the profits
of the banks of England Scotland and Ireland which
arise from the sovereign power delegated TO- or usurp
ed by them, of coming paper money to provide for
Great Britain and her colonies a circulating me um
sound ITSELF and readYat all times, in such quaint
ty as the community may dictate and with the i'm
mense profits TO pay The national debt and reduce the
taxes" hr0 efT
Ireland is in state of profound tranquility, il we
except the monster meetings for repeal OF the Union
and those have, in way, disturbed the general
peace Agitation proceeds and the cause prospers
The attendance at the large assemblies, has been
greater than the speeches delivered more, vio-
lent and the demands made, have been distinct and
determined. Mr.. O'Connell has put forth his pro-
missed plan for parliament; it is likely to please ms
supporters and fasten upon their credulity The
Government have cone nothing. The Agtator moves
on therefore, from step to STEP with success and Sc
curity, with great prudence and increasing power
every day growing holder, and every hour more po-
tent, either for good or evil. His next move will be
the assembling Of three hundred gentlemen IN Dub
I'm, and that number is to compose his Council OF
Cancellation. Already he has superseded the mag's-
trates of the land by the appointment Of arbrators
he will next usurp the powers of parliament by the
dongs of convention. AT present he has 1t all his
own way, and hard enough he is working at it (; but
whether it is all the pulling of rope with nothing
at the end of it, time must decide.
A great move is now making to advance the cause
Of education, and to emancipate the lower classes
from the mental slavery, which is now their distin-
gushing characteristic The scheme recently brought
forward by the Government in the House Of Com
mons, had for its main object the making education
compulsory upon all parents and giving the whole
supreme direction of that education to the bishops
and clergy Of the Protestant Church Establishment.
This spirit for aggrandizng the Church. and securing
to monopoly in the proposed system, called forth
the violent and powerful opposition Of every religious
sect and denomination, and finally compelled the
ministry to withdraw the measure. AS soon as the
defeat became KNOWN the National Society for the
education OF the poor the principles Of the Es-
tabshed Church, collected all their energies, and
with the Archbishops, the kQueen, and the Queen
Dowager at their head proceeded to lay plan be-
fore the public for carrying out so much OF the in
tended cabinet bill as could be effected without resort
to an of parliament The appeal has proved to be
most successful for the subscriptions already amount
to nearly seventy thousand pounds, and every week,
donations in from the country, that sum will
be considerably augmented. p
The British and Foreign School Society are on the
qui rire, and making preparations to extend the
plan Of that most admirable institution, whose object
is to give education to all classes without any dis
tlnction whatever. yfat4 -.s ~
Father Matthew is preparing the metropolis for
the benefits and blessings of education by prosecu-
ting his temperance movement. About seventy thou.
sand Londoners have taken the pledge.
The Anti-Corn Law League are to have magnif-
cent demonstration at Manchester about the 2lst
inst, and then they will again recommence agitatng
the metropolis. Covent Garden Theatre has been
taken for fifty nights. J. w. G.