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Mr. Dallas, The American Minister At Our...
only amounts to a declaration-of opinionhy the House of Commons , that in any modifications of the rules of th * National Schools Commission in Ireland , the fundamental Brjncipjgs of iiiejg & em must be adhered to , % ^ J SJ ^ JP gr ? MP *^ scholars of every denoteSmtiq ^ Wtom . lntwrer ^ Be with their religious tenets . * J -talue of " « £ **> solution as acou ^ erMiMigatof w * j 22 L Pdii , is measure d by . the ^ acjjf at Mr . WAwgfcpr himself declared tl # he ofltaMflM , an < r % 0 mcd resistOTin trut
for it 1 It could Be , n , omy Dy the most open , avowed , and rancorous opponents of the National system ; not by those who ,, like Mr . Wajgpoub , are compelled by their position to defer to public opinion and hope to tvrist the National systeno * not to pot it down . Lord PAtWEBsTOBr chose to consider the carrying this resolution as having rescinded Mr . Walpoxe ' s , which lad been practically carried out . It is quite clear that the majority of the Commons do not intend to give up the National system of erducation in Ireland—at present ; but , it is equally clear that Ministers would not head _ the
defence . They will follow the majority . No wonder , then , that they have no command over the House of Commons , or that the House again gave Mr . Spooner a victory on the second reading of his bill for abolishing the annual dffvaace of money to Maynooth College . Tbejl eadeavotrped to settle that question , by substitutSng * at" payment oui of the Consolidated Fund permanently settled by Act of Parliament , in lieu of the grant annually voted amongst the miscellaneous estimates . But the settlement is not t oermanent ; and Ministers feel so little confidence
hk tfee -subject , that they cannot arrest the progress of Mr . Spoonbk ' s bill j they put their trust m its iklling through during the session ; and Spooxres helped them—for he withdrew it , profeably under the mistaken notion that the adjournment by the clock on Wednesday , without the bills' being actually read a second time , was fatal . ' % & like nttLaner nobody expects the bill which Sip Richakd Betheu has in hand , to abolish the present antiquated testamentary jurisdiction , establishing a court and a central wills deposit in . London , with branch offices throughout the country ,
¦ w frere people could register , obtain information , fttf . The bill would be an immense improvement , giving a modern tribunal , administered on principles © f common law , and placing the whole busixteps on sqch a footing that it may be conducted "by an ordinary attorney in any country town . TO $ Solicitor-General has the bill in charge , but of course he cannot command a success , although a great majority of the House of Commpne and of the public agree with him , and would thankfully support any Minister that could tHfcke . them stand , by him . There is of course quite as little chance for the divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill—an exeeedingly poor measure , slightly improving the
present absurd law , but very slightly . Ministers seem , scarcely to know their _ own minds in such a question as appointing a Bishop —one of the lightest of all duties of a Ministry in bowel * . It -was first announced that the vacant Bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol had been given to the . Reverend Richard Chbnevix Trench , an ^ ai nent philologist and moralist , rather of the Sight Ghureh order . It ifr explained that that w « # a hasty interpretation of something which passed , and that there never was any intention of appointing Mr . Trench . How then are we to explain the assurance , somewhat formally put forth , that he accepted the bishopric subject to ^ l » e division of the two dioceses ? Whatever may feb the reason , the clergyman actually appointed iWlho Reverend Cuarlkb Babthg—a gentleman jo £ , thft Low Cburch . The Premier , lifco a good © Id J £ ngM « h gentleman and a practical philosopher , as , he is , belongs to "the Broad Church ; " but Sid Georgb Gret is decidedly Low .
The meeting of the Administrative Reformers " & V' 4 he London . Tavern , on Saturday , was a bucfeMMfal commencement of their appearance before ? hA public . JTrora Mr ; Robbuck ' s speech , we ipfcf ; $ iat ! they intend not only to grapple with j-efoym of departments , but with the evils which Have * reiftUteu ftrom the bad organization of depart ' ttiente . Thtp ititend to . act as an agency for the ijpMti ^ io , in opdw to control the official govern * xnenj ) * jn suelx muttere ,- fop example , « b a wanton dt otwbanca pf our friendly relwUQns with America . ¦ Iro ^ rrov boy s , ojc l and , young , have been "Fubecribing for a monument to those Harrovinna
who have ftUed * fd » tHe-war of the East ; and the first stone * £ f the" monument had to be laid . Sir WiiiMABlf or Kabs was the representative of modersiilKvalry whom the Harrow boj » -selected atrwmmn fcr the dajfi why , we d & m * know , exciBt th «| E he hadiEpen < joTnman « f | if oXMsr one HafP * w bogfc the he « iK * o / " £ urkish Asfo ^ -Colonel LaMr anJWolonel OwltfB wjfti present otfclfie occasjii as illftuice of | fr fac * Sir Wj £ UMMM «* e pro ( Mt 0 WKe facultijrwIKc ^ pe possessfeifcMHie faculty or being unablfe to make a set speech . He uttered a few phrases , fresh from his heart and straight to the marrow of the subject , each- as would in many minds hey the first idea , as well as the first stone , in connexion with that inonsment .
Lord AsHBCinsosr , too , has been saying some sensible things at the annual meeting of the Society of Arts , most especially on the deficiency of the means afforded by our school machinery for carrying out any education at all . That point is engaging the attention of all who have the different branches of the subject under reflection . Miss Burdett Coxjxts , for example has been distributing prizes to the pupils at Whitelanid ' s Training Institution , for the special purpose of making
them turn their attention to the teaching of " common things "—the most « # coinmon things which are taught at the present day . And the Reverend Sydney Tubnbb has been expounding to the Law Amendment Society , how difficult he finds it to procure men who can teach young boys ; the reason being , he says , that teachers are sought more for their intellectual attainments or parts than for their capacity in working or their aptitude to sympathize with their pupils , and be their guides in life as well as their teachers in school .
Thk Site fob the New National Gallery . —Mr . Edgar A . Bowing , writing on behalf of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 , and addressing the Secretary of the Treasury ,, for the information of the Lords of the Traasury , says " her Majesty ' s Commissioners are prepared , in conformity with their Lordships ' proposal , to give up so much of the Kensington-gore estate as may be required for the site or the new National Galleryr with suitable approaches and a sufficient surrounding space , to the intent that it may be vested in the Commissioners of Public Works in trust for the proposed object , such portion ? of the estate to b « taken from the main block lying within the great boundary roads . " The National Orphan School . —After the Duke of Cambridge has laid the first stone of the new
buildings of » he National Orphan Schools at Ham Common , on Wednesday next , there will be a difeAner in the grounds of the institution . The " Home" already shelters upwards of seventy girls . It is anticipated that the assemblage on this occasion -will be very influential . Ah American Compliment . —It has been proposed by Mr . Mason , in the American Senate , to purchase the remains of the British barque Resolute , which was abandoned by her crew , and found derelict in the Arctic Ocean by an American whaler , to refit the vessel , and send it back as a present to the English Government , which has relinquished all claim in favour of the salvors . This was agreed to , and it is to be hoped that the present will be considered as equivalent to " the pipe of peace . " _ . _ .... , - Persian letters of
Persia and Herat . —The speak nothing but Herat . A large Persian force entered the Herat territory some time ago , in understanding with Mirza Youasuf Khan . Letters lately received from Teheran bring the news that a messenger had arrived from the army with the intelligence that Herat was in the hands of the Persians by capitulation . This news , which was considered as official at Teheran , is now again contradicted ; but it is rendored probable by letters from the bost eources .. —Times Turkish Correspondent . Election of Shkhiffh . —Mr . Mcchi and Mr . Keats were on Tuesday elected Sheriffs for London and Middlesex , respectively , for the ensuing year . Sir John Koy was re-elected Chamberlain of tbo City , and the other officers appointed by the livery were also reelected .
Carlisls CATHKi > BAL .---Thia venerable edifice , which the Ecclesiastical Commiesionors during tlio ^ last three years have been endeavouring to roatoro to its ancient splendour , Was reopened for public worship last Sunday morning . India . —The last mails from the East state that publio works in India are stopped . The Santuls nro again unqutot . An insurrection is on foot near Vizagapatatn . The King of Oude has arrived at Calcutta . A band of rebel * was approaching Foochow , in China , eighty miles distant from Shanghai .
Kviot-iianpeij Justice . —A gamokoopsr at Iindonend , in Essex , has been shot in the lega by a spring-gun which ho had hinwelf laid and charged with deadly oxplosivea , for the purpose of protecting a neat of pheasants' eggfl . The man ' s legs . wore amputated , but mortification ensued , and he died . Tub Frknoh Isjundationh . —The Court of Common Council has agreed to a vote of 5001 . for tuo relief of the suffiurera by the late inundations .
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[ *• ., ' : MPERIAL PARLIAMENT . . ¦ • ¦ —?—Monday , June 28 rd . OATH O " F ABJURATION BILL . In th * House op Lords , Lord Lyndhurst , in raovin / r tirSaettiad reading of this bill , argued that the takimr * f th . « j oaftt , in the present day , is a mere act of folly 'a « frflM | lft < frV > since the descendants of the Pretender % * foat whtnte it was levelled , are now all dead . The flfath waB originally framBdlto meet the case of the Roman Catholics j . but , since Ae passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act , no Papist is bound to take it and therefore the words " on the true faith of a Christian ' are practically abolished , as far as they are concerned . With respect to the Jews , he thought that no
nativeborn subject ought to be disfranchised unless by an express legislative provision . The opinion of Lord Somers , of Lord Chancellor Talbot , and of other eminent lawyers of former days , showed that in their time the Jews were in the same condition as other natives . As regards the common observation , that the country would be " un-Christianized , " he would ask if it could be said that Parliament during the reign of "William III ., or the pious King Edward , was less Christian than it is now ? The general demeanour of the Jews is quiet and inoffensive ; they are not proselyte-makers ; and they have never shown any desire to interfere with the national religion . He therefore thought their Lordships were not justified in repeatedly throwing oat bills which had reference merely to the composition of the other House .
Earl Stanhope still thought , as he always had thought , that , although Jews should be allowed to fill civil offices , and to administer the law , they should not be permitted to take part in framing the laws . True , the oath did not always exclude unbelievers in Christianity ; but it prevented them from openly avowing their opinions . They are obliged to adopt a decorous and reverent tone in speaking of the Christian faith , and are precluded from making any of those unseemly attacks upon it against which such an oath appears to be the only barrier . What would have happened if such a man as Tom Paine had become a member of the English legislature without swearing " on the true faitU of a Christian ? " That was certainly no extravagant supposition , inasmuch as he was an Englishman ; and could t be believed that in the absence of an oath he would
have been restrained from indulging m constant invectives against the doctrioes of Christianity and even the character of Christ ? There are already disqualifications on various grounds ; wh fyfth en , should there not be a religious disqualification T ^ Selieving that Jews ought to be excluded from the Legislature , he moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months . —The measure was further opposed by Lord Dungajmjnow , and was supported by the Marquis of Clankicabde , Lord Ravensworth ( who thought there might be inconveniences from admitting Jews to Parliament , but who conceived himself bound to aid in repealing an oath which is obsolete , and therefore impious ) , Earl St . Germtaus , and Lord Lanbdowne . —The House , on a division , rejected the second reading of the . bill by a majority of 32 ; the contents being 46 present , and 32 proxiestotal , 78 ; and the non-contents , 66 present , and 44 proxies—total , 110 .
IRISH NATIOKAL . EDUCATION . In the House op Commons , Mr . Fortescuk moved " That the House has observed with satisfaction the progress made in the instruction of the poorer classes of her Majesty ' s Irish subjects under the direction of the Commissioners of National Education , and is of opinion that in the administration of that system there should he maintained a strict and undeviating adherenco to its fundamental principles , by excluding all compulsory religious teaching , being convinced that no plan for the education of the Irish poor can be carried into effectual operation unless it be explicitly avowed and clearly understood that no attempt shall bo mado to influence or disturb the peculiar religious tenets of any sect or
denomination of Christians . " This motion was supported by Mr . Fortescuo in a long speech , in which ho urgucd that to carry out the principle embodied in Mr . Wal pole a recent motion ( the rescinding of which was the- object of tho presont resolution ) would bo to inflict great injustice on tho Itoman Catholics of Ireland , and to endanger a Bystem of education which had had tho vory best ellect . Mr Kirk cordially seconded tho motion , and observed that , if mixed education bad not succeeded in Iroland , it wan owing to the opposition of the Unircli Education Society . Tho carrying out of tho uddrea * would work inju
Cfoundcd on Mr . Walpolo's motion ) - riously to Protestants in those parts of Ireland where their children uro tho minority in tho sclioul » . -Mr . WAi . roLic contended that it -was very uiuimml , wIhui ' » address hus been voted to tlio Crown , for the JJoiiho i « recur to tho subject before receiving mi uiwwcr . " seemed to him that to do this wan very diHrcHpecti m w tlie Crown . Ho denied that his object wbh to hiiuvmi tlio National system of education in Ireland , un u contrary , it * was hifl object to Hupi . lomont •»' BVBtem . Equally incorrect wan it to « ny «'" ' , ' desired to Bubstituto for a rule of th « National Board another rulo of tho Church Eduootion boewjy , which would facilitate prosclytinni . Nothing u »
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Leader (1850-1860), June 28, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28061856/page/2/
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