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    ironical cheers and laughter from the Opposition benches . On the motion for the House resolving itself into a committee of supply , Mr . G . A . Hamilton , in a long speech , moved as an amendment , that an humble address be presented to her Majesty , praying that she will be graciously pleased to direct that such a modification of the national education in Ireland

    system of may be made as may remove the conscientious objections which a large proportion of the clergy and laity of the Established Church entertain to that system , as at present carried into operation , or that means may be otherwise taken to enable those of the clergy and laity of the Established Church who entertain such conscientious objections to extend the blessings of Scriptural education in Ireland .

    The motion was supported by Mr . " Walpole , Lord John Manners , Sir W . Verner , Mr . Heald , and Mr . Plumptre . Mr . E . H . Stanley could not assent to a course which would cripple the present system of Irish Education . He entered , into a brief history of previous educational attempts in Ireland , and contended that the present plan was a great improvement upon anything that had preceded it . He denied that the term " irreligious" could be properly applied to the existing system , and declared that at all events the latter was better than anything which was proposed to be substituted .

    Lord John Russell regretted the scruples which a certain portion of the clergy felt upon the subject , but he could not bring himself to consent to any interference with a system which was founded in common sense and good policy , and which seventeen years had shown to work exceedingly well . Sir James Graham spoke in strong terms of the uncompromising opposition which the clergy had j ^ iven to the system , and complained of the conduct of certain prelates in bestowing patronage exclusively upon the opponents of the national plan . That system was intended to effect by kindness and charity what our penal codes could not effect , and was succeeding signally . He paid a high compliment to Mr . Stanley for his speech of that evening .

    " He had heard with inexpressible pleasure the speech of the honourable member for King ' s Lynn ( Mr . Stanley ) . The honourable member had spoken to them in the manner—in the voice almost of his father { hear , hear)—and if he ( Sir J . Graham ) might address the honourable gentleman he would call on him to persevere in his course' Per genitorem oro ! per spem surgentis Iuli . ' ( Cheers . ) He would entreat honourable gentlemen on that ( the Opposition ) side of the House to be cautious how they lifted up their hands against , or took part in the destruction of that which he held to be the most lasting and honourable monument of the fame of Lord Stan-Icy in the administration of Ireland . " ( Cheers ) . Mr . Reynolds opposed the motion as an annual farce : —

    • ' Once a-year , about Easter , there was a gathering in the Rotunda in Dublin . It was a pocket edition of Exeter-hall , and was attended by eight or nine intolerant and bigoted Bishops , a certain number of expectant curates , a large amount of excited laymen , and a considerable number of hysterical old maids—the whole of whom the honourable member for Dublin University attended ex-nj / icio . ( Laughter . ) It was his misfortune to represent that city , where the seeds of religious discord were sown . And he stood there to impeach what , without meaning any personal offence to any one , he must term an annual humbug . " ( Laughter . ) Mr . Stanford rose to order : The honourable member for Dublin had used an unparliamentary phrase . " ( Laughter . )

    Mr . Reynolds : " In using the word * humbug he could assure the House he had not thought of the honourable member for Reading ( Mr . Stanford )—( much htiKjhler ) — and even if he had thought the honourable member deserved the name , still , being aware that the honourable mmnber was leading a life of single blessedness , he should not have liked to injure his character with the ladies of Reading . ( Much laughter at this allusion to the honourable member for Reading ' s heroic ] ilcd' } e to marru into his constituency . ) He trusted this parenthetical explanation would be perfectly satisfactory to the honourable member—( laughter )—and must again ask whether this annual farce and humbug was to be repeated year after year , merely out of deference to a discontented minority . " The House having divided the numbers

    were—For the motion , 142—against it , 22-5 Majority against it , 83 . Mr . Fkewrn obtained leave to bring in a bill to empower the Commissioners of Westminster-bridge to build a temporary bridge during the repairs of the present bridge .

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    THE WRECK OF THE ORIO 3 ST . Some additional particulars relating to this melancholy affair are given in the papers of this morning . Twenty-three bodies have been discovered , of which only a few have been claimed by relatives . The bodies have been deposited in an empty tenement in the immediate vicinity of the harbour , and present a most ghastly and melancholy spectacle . One of the most providential of the escapes which occurred was made by a lady , who , for about three-quarters of an hour , hung on by a rope attached to the rigging till she was ultimately received on board one of the boats , in a state of great exhaustion . The following is the substance of the statement she makes : Shortly before the vessel struck she was on the main deck , and she is

    perfectly satisfied that at the time there was no appearance of any fog . Immediately after the rock , was struck she ran down to the cabin , and found the ladies leaping from their beds in a state of the greatest consternation . The panic which ensued it is impossible to describe ; and much more so was the scene which took place immediately afterwards on the deck . Some persons were praying , others utteiing imprecations , others screaming . 'Ahe lady in question succeeded in getting into the first boat that was launched , but it almost immediately _ swamped .

    By some means or other , she got hold of the helm of the steamer ; but she had the greatest difficulty in maintaining her position . The vessel was swayed from one side to the other by the people rushing in a body to secure a place in the boats ; the boiler , she thinks , now burst . ; but perhaps she has mistaken for this the noise occasioned by the escape of the pent-up air through the skylights . Ultimately , an end was put to the tumultuous arid painful scene by the vessel gradually sinking beneath the surface , namely , first forward and then in the utter part . Our informant was dragged repeatedly under with her exhaustion

    water , and this , combined previous , rendered her almost quite unconscious ; so that she has no idea of what for some time followed . However , when she again came to herself , she found that she had secured hold of a rope attached to the upper portion of the rigging , and fortunately also she observed a cushion floating past her , which she likewise seized hold" of . With this she experienced no great dimculty in supporting herself , and her usual composure returned . She remained hanging by the rope , as above stated , for about three-quarters of an hour , and at the end of that time she was picked up by one ot the boats .

    Among some of the melancholy cases one of the most touching is that of a young woman who , unknown to her family , had gone up to Liverpool to see a deariy-Ioyed brother , a sailor , previous to his proceeding on a foreign voyage . After accomplishing the object of her visit , she returned by the Orion , and was found to be among the drowned . Her brother came to Port-Patrick on 1 uesday , to ascertain , whether or not she was sale ; and his feelings , and those of his family , on hearing his sister s untimely end , may be imagined . ... , At the time the vessel sunk there was about 3 } hours flood . Had it been low-water it is probable that the loss of life would not have been nearly so great as those on board could have taken refuge on the paddle-boxes and either

    gangways , which would have been very near or above the surface of the water . From the description of the peculiar tearing sensation and sound produced when she struck , there is little doubt as to the nature of the injuries the ship sustained . ± he sunken rock must have had a sharp angular point on the face next the sea , which caught the Orion on her starboard side forward of the bilge , and literully tore her openlengthways , through the extent of probably two or mure of the compartments , including the midship one in which the engines are placed : and the probability is , that had the ship ' s course been ten feet farther seaward , the catastrophe would have been altogether averted . . Nor , on the other hand , would it have been at all so serious had she struck stern on , as in that case , the foremost compartment alone would have been damaged and filled , without impairing materially the buoyancy of the other divisions of the ship .

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    THE MINISTERIAL DEFEAT . Defeat without victory — those three words describe too truly the general course of public affairs the feeble wrecks of parties contend , but possess only the strength to baffle each other , and the conflict ends in negation on one side , without the fulfilment of principle on the other . In the hands of these feeble men , whose greatest vigour shows itself in combat against timid rivals , whose greatest audacity in trifling with the most important interests , the country moves onwards in its career , without rule , doing injury to smaller nations , disgracing itself in the face of the world , and unable to redeem

    its glory either by tyrannous strength or generous magnanimity . Lord Ashley can beat Ministers in the Commons on the subject of Sunday labour in the Post-office , but obtains no more than a perverse acquiescence in the letter of his motion meant to defeat its spirit . Lord Stanley beats Ministers in the House of Peers , but cannot assert a dignified foreign policy , nor , rescue this country from a disgraceful squabble with the paltry state of Greece .

    There is more than foreign policy concerned in this deplorable condition of statesmanship amongst us . The nation is deprived of all its just expectations . For all its wealth , strength , and intelligence , its national activity is brought down to the low scale of mediocre intellect , to the ungenerous standard of meaD hearts , whose objects of ambition are to keep together the wrecks of degenerate parties , and to obey the shrunken traditions of Parliament . Or , if the statesmanship of our day ventures beyond the limits of that groundling ambition , it is to take its

    inspiration from the spirit of retail trade , or the wisdom of election-mongering . Through small men England must act and speak ; through their mouths must her sentiments be expressed to foreign nations ; and those sentiments take the shape of impudent asseverations to back the equivocal claims of still more equivocal Jews and adventurers ! All that the country might do to mantain its own glory , and thus to maintain a healthy generosity of spirit

    amongst its citizens—ail that it might do lor its own material improvement , even on subjects where public opinion is well matured—all that it might do for the welfare of its sons , physically and morally , is bated down to the puny measures which puny men can handle . The glory of England must now find voice in the small utterance of modern puppets : her appetite for improvement is to be fed from the dolls' cups of " Whig" and " Conservative "

    pigmies . As to the foreign policy , which has been carried to such an extreme of vulgar and vexatious trifling that even the apathetic Peers have obeyed a summons to protest against it , the mischief has been imputed to the secrecy of diplomatic etiquette ; and it is said that if the veil were torn off diplomacy , " Public Opinion" would compel a better behaviour . This is a popular delusion . The veil of mystery has been torn off other departments , and broad and

    we do not see that in a public sense there is much improvement . Under the administration of the Home-office , individual tyranny may be prevented , and individual tyranny has been rendered rather more difficult under the Colonial Department ; but the Home Administration is marked by the same difficulty in all great measures of public aspiration or necessity , and the Colonial Department is characterized by alternate tyranny and vacillation : Public Opinion does nothing to

    coerce either . Indeed , this Public Opinion is not the giant we have taken it for . It preserves a kind of traditional respect among public men j but it has no present force , it cannot compel them to do their duty . The value of publicity has become a mockery : it may help to restrain men from committing public wroncs , but it does not compel them

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    The sponsors for the young Prince are the Prince of Prussia and the Duke of Wellington . The Prussian Prince , it seems , was afraid that his political and family engagements at Warsaw would interfere with his being present at the ceremony ; the anxiety of his royal highnr ^ s , however , wan so great , that he has hastened from Warsaw , was to arrive at Dover last evening , and in London this morning , to perform in person the amicable junctions rrquested of him by her Majesty . The latest news relating to the Dotation Bill are that a member of the minority , M . de Fortoul , has proposed ,

    and is to support in the tribune , the following amendment : — " A credit of 2 , 160 . 000 f . is opened to the Minister of Finance on the budget of 1850 for extraordinary expenses of the Presidency of the Republic . " This is precisely the sum which the Ministers demand , after deducting the other sums fixed by the allowance , which have been hitherto charged on the budget . The Government expects a majority of 30 or 40 upon M . de Fortoul ' s amendment , which will be brought forward on Monday .

    It is currently reported that a person , connected in some manner with the household of the President of the Republic , was arrested on Thursday morning , charged with an intention or attempt to assassinate Louis Napoleon . The person in question was at once carried to the prefecture of police , where he is now a prisoner ; but neither his name nor the details of the charge have been allowed to transpire . In fact , the whole affair is kept as quiet as possible . A Socialist named Druy , formerly a journeyman tailor , but lately employed in the office of the Voix du Peuple , was sentenced by the police court of Paris , on Thursday , to imprisonment for two months , for having at an electoral meeting held at Chati ' . lon , near Paris , knocked down a farmer who cried " Vive Napoleon !" " Vive le President !"

    Hanover has officially announced a plan of a third German Bund , formed of itself , Oldenburgh , the Hanse Towns , and all the northern territory opposed by its material interests to the protective commercial policy of South Germany , which the Prussian Minister has given some indications of following .

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    June 22 , 1850 . ] arfje fteairrr . 299

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    J V" SATURDAY , JUNE 22 , 1850 .

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    There is npthing so revolutionary , because there 13 nothing so -unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law or its creation in its eternal progress . — Arnold .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 22, 1850, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1843/page/11/