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      master * of Preston offered tbe same prices as at Bolton . This show d that the men were rather right in the demand ttwy had made . ( Hear , bear . ) But the masters thought proper t » connect a condition with those prices , \ is ., that if tbe men returned to their work , none of them should belong to a trtdes union or confederacy of working men . The men , iaa manner he thought honourable to themselves , would not succumb to the masters on this point . There was no law against combina tions , either of masters or men . The masters often combined to reduce w » gf « , and the men saw no reason why they should not combine to raise than when tbey «»« ^"" l And yet this was quoted as an instance of the *™ , of the working classes ! »***^ **^ . ! 52 Council , that in quoting this instance th . y ™« J ™ of which tbey were l * " ™* - ™ ™* * ¦ " to

      on a subject on »« uujcwt „ .,.... -, ; -- .- „„ recourse to cbvses were not now ^ ignorant as h » tbe us less strikes **; ujed to have .. ^ . fecUyweUthatin those strikes tbey w « en ^ s ^ flrjK ss < ^ J ^ veste « w materials of trade , and by em . %£ F * Z £ ™ in reproductive labour in Se * own workshops , it would be a m . tUrot no con-« auenceto the « whether the masters took them back again or not . In tbe case of local injustice being inflirted on any of the trades , this association wonld bring the whole weight of its influence to bear upon it , and so interposs an efficient barrier against tbe commission of those acts of oppression whieh were endured by working

      men when powerless to res-ist . This was a new scheme , vrfclc ' i did honour to the working men , and showed they had more enlightened views than tbey got credit for . He found that it had worked admirably so far as it bad gone . When at Nottingham , last week , he had been informed by the frame-work knitters that tbey had successfully resisted no less tbsn 18 reductions of wages . They were now experiencing practically the advantages 6 f the new system . He therefore repeated , when the government alleged ignorance against tbe working classes , they did not know what was going on in the country among that class . The rffect of the measure would be Wincrease the influence of the crown and the patronage of government . If the house would but consider the measure which bad recently passed they most say that this influence and p atronage was likely to be greatly extended .

      They had lately given a seat to a member of the house as commissioner of railways . That gentleman was , he supposed , to go out and come in with the government of the day . thus creating a new seat connected with government . let them look also to the patronage of the local courts , and the number of judges already , or speedily to be appointed , and tbey would see that patronage of immense extent was al eadyin their bands . There was also to be a ne w board of health ia towns , aud inspectors to be appointed under government Mora patronage apaio . They were about to make four new bishops More patronage again . And as each of the vacancies in the house was to be filled up by one of them , contrary to the principle laid down by government in the Bishops ' Actthey were also dependent oa the government of the

      , d . iy . There , too , were tbe gratuities of the Privy Council among the schoolmasters and teachers . At the end of fifteen years each of them are to receive a pension . There wis many a deserving curate at the end of twenty years service wbo received no such pension ; but one of these schoolmasters , who began at twenty years ' ot age , coold be placed on a pention at tbe end of fifteen jears , while he was yet young . This was an ewetmous amount of patronage . It would , as be believed , create great co rruption ; and he wanted to know what reason there was why tbe house , which certainly was competent to tbe task , should not appoint a comxnittee to inquire into the ultimate good of tbe scheme . As be h * d Wlready said , no one cotda tell bim within half a million what the cost of the measure would be

      in a ft w years to come . The noma lord stated there were many objections to the plan , some of which had great force . "Why , then , were tbey not to be examined by a committee , and if unreasonable , declared to be sol It tbey did not give a fair hearing to tbe opponents of the measure , a very bad impression would be created abroad as to their conduct . Why , he asked again , should they fTnch from the appointment of a fair and impartial committee ? All he knew was that if they shrunk from applying a probe which wonld search this measure thoroughly , he , and others along with him , wouW come to tbe conclusion that there was something in it which could not bear tbe light of day , and that their real object was to increase and augment their own power , noder the influence of the Crown , rather than to instruct the people , and the result would be that , instead of being well educated , tbe people wonld become an enslaved and

      corrupted people . ( Hear , hear . ) With these remarks be begged to move the motion of which be bad given notice : — " Thar , previous to any grant of any public money being assented to by this House for tbe purpose of carrying out the scheme of national education , as developed in tbe minutes of the Committee of Council on Education in August and December last ( which minutes have bien presented to both Houses of Parliament b y command of her Majesty ) , a select committee be appointed , to Inquire into the justice and expediency of such scheme , and i * s probable annual cost . Also , to inquire whether tbe regnlations attached thereto do not unduly increase the influence of the Crown , invade the constitutional functions of Parliament , and interfere with the religious convictions , and ths civil rights of ber May sty's subjects . " Viscount Dckcax seconded the motion .

      Sir R . Isotis supported the government plan as tbe best which he could expect from the bouse as now con , ititntei . Hr UtciXtAT observed that , at tbe first act which be bad performed as a member of the Privy Council was to give his assent to this minute , he felt hi-nself particularly called upon to come forward on this occasion to defend it . He did not intend to follow Mr Duncombe closely through bis speech ; for , notwithstanding all tbe local anecdotes , all the personal anecdetts . ^ nd all the collateral questions into which he had entered , be could not discover whit Mr Duncombe ' * opinion was on the main Question of that evening—namely , whether the education of the people was something to which tbe state ought to attend ! He ( Mr Macaulay ) was prepared to argue th > t it was the right and the duty of the state to

      provide for the education of tbe common people . Tbe first object of every government was to take effectual means for securing the property of persons of Us sub . jeets ; and tbe most effectual means for accomplishing that object was education . As an Illustration of the danger which existed to persons and property from the ignorance of tbe common people , tbe right bon . gentleman alluded to tbe riots of 1780 , which were perpetrated by " heathens in tbe midst of Christianity , and by savages in the midst of civilization . " 100 , 000 ignorant men rose up in London at tbe mere call of a madman . For a week , London was in the power of a mob , and th ' rty-iix fires in one day were blazing indifferent parts of it . To tbe same cause might be attributed the Nottingham riots , the Bristol riots , the Swing fires , the incendiarism and destruction of machinery which occurred some years a : o

      in different parts of the country . Such outrages could not bave taken place bad the labouring population been taught to revers their Maker , to fear their king , to love their neighbour , and to seek redress of wrongs by peaceful and constitutional means . He showed that the duty of educating the people had been advocated by tbe political legislators and philosophers of all ages—by all the champions of civil aad religious liberty in all countries , and more especially by the nonconformists of England , who resisted tbe ecclesiastical tyranny of Land in tbe seventeenth century . " Educate the people" was tbe constant language of Washington and JiflVrson to their countrymen in America ; and those who maintained the contrary must consider government as a great hangman , and must be prepared to make those whom education xni'ht elevate into theoroamenti , the victims of society .

      Those , th . refore , wbo raised a clamour in 1846 against state education in this country , condemned the memories which they -were wont to reverence , and condemned themselves also , their conduct now not being in strict conformity with whatit was previous to that period . What was contended for now , by tbe opponents of the government scheme of education was , that tbe , matter should be left , to free competition . That principle might be practicable aad excellent in regard to trade , bnt it was utterly impracticable so far as education was concerned . As to the comparative merits of the two systems—that of free competition , and that of state interference—tbey h « d only to look , in deciding between them , to what free competition bad done for England . The former principle had been tried for centuries ia this , one of the richest countries under heaven , and failed . But tbey were still

      told to wait whb patience , and that the voluntsry principle , or that of free competition , would do everything . TJiey had been waiting with patience ever since tbe Hep . tarcby , and what bad tbey . gained by it ! The country hf i applied tbe principle of free competition to a subject to which it was inapplicable . For nearly the last two centuries tbe rival principles had been well tested in England and Scotland . The latter country had become completely revolutionized in its social , moral , political , intellectual , and material condition since the year 1696 , when tbe Parliament of Scotland passed an act for the establishment of a state education , and its progress furnished an irrefragable argument in favour of the state interfering for the purpose of promoting the education of £ he common people . To descend from higher considera . tions , the state bad everything to gain , even in a financial point of view , from properly educating tbe people . Some parties affected to be alarmed at the administration of

      the proposed expenditure fur education ; but be ceuld assure them that the proposed expenditure was placed under every check . Nor did tbe proposed scheme confer any oadue power upon the government . Government could not appoint the schoolmasters—the government ouldsot dismiss them ; whilst tbey could be dismissed independently of the government . As to the objection founded upon the allegation of religious persecution . it was met £ y the c <> aater . ttatement , which could easily be sustained , that the proposed scheme was one of perfeet fairness . So advantage was intended to be given to schools connected with the church , which was not to be equally conferred upon the schools of Dissenters . This being to , he confidently appealed to the country , to which they would all , ere long , have to render an account of their stewardship , to support the government , and to posterity , which would reflect with astonishment that the opposition to such a scheme of education was effcred in the same of civil and religious liberty .

      Mr aoEBocs ; agreed with all the premises ef the right honoorablsgentlemaa , bat disagreed with his conclusions . Ifo one doubtsdbnttbaUt was fie duty oftneSUU liberally to provids f « the education of tbepeople , But

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      It was the duty of the Government , in undertaking the weat task of public education , not to throw any unnecessary obstacles in tbe way of eatrying out its first great and acknowledged duty . What he charged tbe Government with , in tbe present instance , was throwing such obstacle * in the way of their own scheme . With liberal professions in favour of education , the scheme they now proposed was of a narrow and sectarian character , It was narrow becansei . ot disconnected with iect i an ( j 8 CC . ta rian because it sided with the majority of those who carried the principles < f sectarianism into all warfare of this kind . Where was the necessity of connecting

      education with tbe Church at all * What was tbe Church for t For what was it paid and supported by tbe State , but to provideforthe religions wants of tbe country ! ' Ifwehad a church to provide for our religious wants , why should we not have schools to provide us with education , inde . pendently of the Church . We were now very near a general election , and with that event before them Government had made an attempt to conciliate parties that were Irreconcileable , and bed thus exasperated those wbo before were not very friendl y to each other . So long as Government mixed up national with religious education , its endeavours would fail , and would produce nothing but cavilling and collision out of the house . At the same

      time he confessed bis conviction , that all the argument about tbe increase of patronage attendant on this scheme was idle and fallacious , and unworthy of a n oment ' s serious consideration . The right honourable gentleman spoke of Lord George Gordon ' s mob and of the Bristol riots ; but what , be would ask , was tbe Gordon mob but an snti-Cafholic mob , and what also was tbe right hon . gentleman ' s plan but an anti-Catholic plan . ( Hear , hear . ) He thought the government had thrown away most unfortunately a great opportunity for giving a decisive blow to bigotry and sectarian intolerance . The petitions which had been laid on the table that day showed that there were as many bating sects as there wen religious denominations in the country . The right honourable gentleman appealed to posterity , but he would also do so , and he bad no doubt but that the time would come when

      people would say that an administration with civil and religious liberty on their lips , had , when tbey came to power , halted in their career of improvement , trembled when th * y ought to have been brave , anabad at the moment , when their courage should bave been aroused , turned tail and fled from the encounter . If en would read his appeal , and tbey would frame an answer to it themselves . Tor himself , though be was no prophet , he would venture to ioretel what asuredly would happen . Some one would step before this so-called liberal administration , and , seeing the great fault they bad committed , would " do the deed" upon which they had halted . The day was not far distant , he fancied , when this prophecy

      wonld berealized ; and if tbe past was a sort of index to the fa ! urc , tbe same band which struck down tbe cornlaw would erect a really liberal system of education . ( Cheers . ) He had guarded himself , completely he thought , in tbe vote be was about to give . He agreed it was the duty of government to educate tbe people ; but the right honourable gentleman had not made out the plan to be based upon that principle ; for it had a narrow , sectarian , unworthy mode of attempting to gain a great end , when , if tbe government bad bad the courage to adopt the right means , tbey might bave assumed , not only tbatit » as their duty to teach the people , but hare really fulfilled their mission .

      Mr Ewast moved tbe adjournment of the debate ; and it was accordingly adjourned . The other orders of the day were then disposed of , and the house adjourned at a quarter-past twelve . TUESDAY , Atmi . 20 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Mount Bin , ( TranspoEta . tion ) . —On the motion for the third reading of the Matiny Bill , Earl GeeI moved the third reading of the ' Mntiny Bill , and stated , in reply to a question of tbe Earl of EUinborongb , that it was notintended to substitute imprisonment instead of transportation for offences committed by soldiers in India .

      LordBsoCQHAM flew off , at tbe mention of transportation , into a vehement protest against the new doctrine promulgated by tbe government with regard to that punishment . Is was monstrous , too monstrous to suppose that tbe Government possessed tbe power of aller-Ingjthe criminal law of tbe country , and that tbey should , when a judge sentenced a prisoner to be transported for fourteen years , claim tbe right to imprison him for the same period . The fact was , that transportation could not be suspended except by act of Parliament , and their lordships would see , when he presented tbe report of tbe Committee on Criminal Law , that the 24 judges of England , Ireland , and Scotland were unanimous on the subject . When that report was presented he should consider it his duty to bring the whole question prominently before tho house .

      Earl Gket said that tbe nobis lord was terrified at a chimera raised np by an effort of bis imagination ; for there was no foundation in fact for a single word that he had uttered . So one had ever claimed tor the govern , ment tbe right to alter tbe criminal law ; tbe question before tbe house was the transportation of military convicts , and tbe noble lord bad stepped beyond it in order to state his particular opinion on transportation in general . He could account for the noble and learned lord ' s speech from no other reason hut his extreme anxiety , in season and out of season , with reason or without reason , whether worth their lordship ' s attention or not worth it , under all circumstances and on all occasions , to hear bis own voice in that house . ( Laughter . ) Lord Bsoccnak said , if that were tbe case , be was un . fortunately now speaking in a place where it was not very easy to bear either bis own or any one else ' s voice . The Earl of So * folk rose to order .

      Lord Bkougham continued : If tbe noble earl had observed more clofely tbe proceedings of their lordships ' house he would know that there was no one which was so little attended to as the orders of that house . ( Laughter . ) He would teach tbe noble earl one short lesson , which would save bim tbe trouble of calling order in future . He would beg to explain to tbe noble earl that there was nothing more clear than this , namely , that no noble lord should speak whin there was no question before tbe bouse , and yet bs would appeal to their lordships—not to tbe noble earl , but to all their lordships who were in the habit of attending in their placeswhether there was anything more common than for noble lords to speak , not once , but half-a-dozen times , when no question whatever was before them ? He should , of course , except himself . ( Laughter . ) He

      should beg also to inform the noble earl wbo had interrupted him , as well as the noble earl before him , that he would en all occasions discharge bis duty as long as he had the faculty of making himself heard ; but when tbeir lordships ceased to pay attention to bim then be would know that it was time , for Mm to cease speaking on any subject . He had been sitting in that house for fifteen or sixteen years or upwards , and he never yet , until that moment , heard such—he would not call it a sneer , for that implied something clever , something that sank , that embalmed itself in the memory , by having an epigrammatic sting attached to it , as that of the noble earl , and he should , therefore , leave it with the most perfect and entire complacency without farther notice . The bill was then read a third time and passed .

      The Marine Mutiny Bill , tbe Indemnity Bill , and the Exchequer-bills Bill , were also severally read a third time and passed . Waste Lands , he . ( Ixexand ) Bill . —The Marquis of Webtmeath , in moving the second reading of this bill , said that its object was to prevent ths waste of lands by cottiers and small tenants , and to place some restraint upon the subdivision of holdings . It was neither more nor less than a new bill copied word tor word from the Act 9 Geo . IV ., c . 56 , aud its object was to extend to Ireland the same protection which existed in England and Scotland . In Scotland , if any injury to land were apprehended , a remedy was easily obtained by application to the sheriff , who immediately restrained the party suspected to be about to effect the injury , but no such law or practice existed in Ireland . The only remedy was to be obtained

      through the Court of Chancery , But if a man , possessing anything like an extensive estate in that country , were to hope to obtain a remedy in the Court of Chancery , it would be soon found that the expenses of tbe proceedings , where the holdings were small and numerous , would eat up tbe whole value of the estate . In Great Britain there was as easy a remedy . In Scotland there was tbe same ; but in Ireland a remedy not only did not exist , but bad been hitherto refused , because such a measure would interfere with the privileges of the Court of Chancery , and with the fees of those who derived their living under it . Under such a system , property might be made dusks and drakes of before the landlord could interfere . The rule appeared to be'' Law enough if you please in Ireland , but no justice " If such a measure were necessary in England it would be passed through Parliament in five minutes .

      The Loss Chahcello * opposed the bill , which he con . tended was badly framed , and the provisions of which would be totally inadequate to ensure justice to all the parties . It would exaggerate existing evils , and confer powers not possessed by either English or Irish landlords . That many evils in tbe relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland existed be admitted , and if a bill that wonld remedy them should be proposed he would be ready to support it . Loras Campbell , Beaumont , and Monteagle , having briefly spoken on the subject , the Marquis was persuaded , though very reluctantly , to withdraw his bill , and the house adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Lord 3 . Rdbsem , obtained leave to bring in a bill for amending several Acts for the appointment of Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England .

      Leave was given to Mr Waxlet to bring in a bill for the registration ef legally qualified practitioners in medicine , and to amend the laws relating to the practice of medicine In Great Britain and Ireland . Mr Labodcheie again postponed his motion to bring in a bill for the reclamation of waste lands in Ireland until Tuesday next . Mr Booyxiie then moved for and obtained leave to bring in a bill for amending the acts for the erection of onnty buildings . Metropolitan Bdildinos Act . —Lord Morpeth gave notice that he would move for leave to bring in a bill in order to make som « amendments in ths Metropolitan Buildings Act .

      Mr T . Ddncohbb said , that in consequence of what had fallen from the noble lord , he would postpone to Thursday wsek the following motion , of which he had g iven notice—That a teltct committee be appointed to inquire into the operation of the Metropolitan Buildings Act , sad that thepetition of John Todd Merrick , paper , stainerand manufacturer , which was presented upon

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      tbe 29 th day of March last , be referred to the said committee , to report their opinion , with the evidence , to the home . Tbero was little doubt that no bill had ever worked so ill as that which the noble lord was about to amend . Sir G , G » et gave notice for the 20 th Instant to move fur leave to bring in a bill to provide for tbe better administration of the laws relating to tbe poor in England and Wales . Education-awocsned Dabati—The adjourned debate on Education was then resumed by

      MrEwABT , who gave in his adhesion to various parts of the government scheme , but objected toothers . He objected , in the first place , to making the schoolmaster a teacher of religion , which was tbe " main general objection" which he had to the educational plan now before the house . His " special objection" was that , whilst he wished to do all that was practicable and advisable to elevate the condition of tbe schoolmaster , he did not think that the proper way in which to effect so desirable an end was to grant retiring pensions , or to give occasional gratuities to schoolmasters . Thatfeature of the schime was also objectionable , in his opinion , which provided for appointments under government for unsuccessful candidates for exhibitions in the normal

      schools alone , which appointment , he maintained , should be thrown open to general free competition , on the principle of impartial examination . Such were the grounds on which he objected to tbe scheme in part , his opposition not extending to the entire plan , in s » me portions of which he " traced tbe simple elements of progress . " His objections to the scheme were embodied in the amendments which stood in his name on the paper , and which he wonld more if it were competent for bim to do so , simply as amendments to the scheme of tbe government . Viewing some portions of that scheme with favour , he could not vote for the motion presented by Mr Duncombe . Sir C . Napier could not conscientiously vote for any plan of education from the benefits of which Roman Catholics and Dissenters would be practically excluded .

      The Earl of Sobset bad not made up his mind as to his vote without a painful struggle . On the one side , he found that , from this greatgront for education at tha expense of the State , the Roman Catholics were excluded . How then could Lord J . Russell expect the support of Roman Catholic members if his lordship had correctly chalked out the course to be taken by the Committee ot Privy Council ! How could Roman Catholic members shrink from coming forward in support of the other friends of religious freedom t Ha . therefore ; thanked Mr T . Duncombe , Sir C . Kapler , and others , for tbe opposition which they had given lo that part of tbe government scheme . It was true that Lord J . Russell had said that be did not consider himself precluded fh > m proposing hereafter a minute in favour of tbe Boman Catholics ; but ho had refrained from saying when ho would do so , and be ( the Earl of Surrey ) knew well

      that , if his lordship proposed it separately , it would be exposed to the hostility of every other class of Dissenters . That was one side of the question . On the other , he saw tbe country to a deplorable condition of Ignorance , and the gaols full of criminals ignorant of the very name of God . The Roman Catholics , whose missionaries had been so successful in spreading religious truth in every quarter of the globs , were excluded by this scheme from contributing their efforts to emancipate their fellowcountrymen from ignorance . But though such was the case , they would gain nothing by excluding others from such a task . He should not , therefore , stand in the way of education to others , though education was refused to the members of bis own creed . He would throw over every jealousy and would grant his support tothe scheme now propounded by government . ( Great cheering from all sides of the bouse . )

      Mr Sxihee supported the Ministerial scheme , and in the course ofhis speech gave the following defcription of pupils and teachers in the rural districts : in the poorlaw unions of Norfolk and Suffolk , which were fair specimens ot agricultural districts , one-half of the inmates above 16 , could neither read nor write at all , or could only do so imperfectly—and more especially when he remembered what was meant by reading and writing " impsrfectiy . " When the term * ' tea * imperfectly " was used , it meant that reading was always a trouble and a task to the person , and that he was obliged to spell almost every word . And as for " writing imperfectly , " —bad hon , gentlemen ever seen a labouring man sign his name 1 First he looked at the pen , then he looked at the ink , then at the paper , and at length after sundry ponderous

      groans , he made some extraordinary hi « roglyphic , worthy the attention of M . Champollioa or Sir Gardiner Wilkinson ( cheers and langbter ) . Hon gentlemen who were acquainted with the rural districts would know that the boys , on leaving school , were generally employed , in tbe dignified occupation of bird-keeping . There they sat the greater part of tbe day under a hedge , passing their lives in a state of dreamy existence . They saw a rook , and tbey apostrophised him as a "black rascal ; " and that was their occupation ; or if they were of a more active temperament , they employed themselvs , like a Transatlantic senator , with bis whittling knife , in cutting notches on a post ( great laughter ) . Those were the pupils . Next he came to the masters . Men were generally made schoolmasters because tbey were unfit for

      anything else . If a man Ion a leg or an arm , tbe first thing he did was to look for a turnpike ; or failing an empty turnpike , be next applied for the situation of village schoolmaster , and very often with success . He did not mean to say that such a man would be employed in spite of a bad moral character ; but he certainly would in spite of the absence of those intellectual qualifications which should fit him for his office . And he did not blame those who employed him much , for tbere was little competition for the place , and they were glad to relieve the parish from the burthen of a large family , because somehow or other such men always bad large families ( a laugh ) . ' Hon . gentlemen might say tbat he was making a bad case for himself , for that be was now describing schools in the agricultural districts , whieh for the most

      part belonged to the Church of England , That was true ; but be did not at all wish to blink tbe truth with regard to those schools . He was tired ot friendly reports drawn up by friendly secretaries , and read before friendly com . mittees . He was tired of all that . He wished to conceal nothing , but wanted a fair and impartial inspection by the government . ( Hear , bear . ) It he turned to town schools , however , be found that the same thing was the case . He held in his hand a short extract from a valuable publication of the Statistical Society , who appointed a committee to inquire into the subject . That report stated that tbe mistresses of common daily schools were sometimes persons unable to go to service from illness , ot lu consequence of being the mothers of large families , or from a desire to

      remain at home to nurse a sick parent . A large portion ef tho masters of common or middling daily schools were men in distressed circumstances , or bad failed in trade . andhai ? taken up the profession of a schoolmaster as a last resource . Tbe report added that the committee had scarcely ever entered into conversation with the proprietors of a common or middling day school , but th « y begun to talk of being better off , A question had been asked of tbe teacher in a dame ' s school with regard to the amount of remuneration which she received , and the amount of knowledge which she imparted , and her answer was , "It's little tbey pays us , and it ' s little we teach them . " ( Laughter . ) Such as he had described being the state of education in tbe country , and such being tbe condition of the schoolmasters , how were the

      government to meet the evil t By placing the schoolmasters in a better condition than that which they at present occupy , making their situation more honourable , and giving them a corresponding advantage after several years spentin the cervice of the country , for it was truly in the ssrrice of the country , ( Hear , bear . } Those wbo supported tbe measure of tbe government did not do so with a wish to fill the church by emptying the chapel , but with a wish to reclaim those parties who go neither to church nor chapel , and who were growing up in ignorance . At whose expense was it proposed to carry out this plan ! Not at tbe expense of the dis enters , but at the expense of vies and brutal ignorance in which millions were new plunged , and which led to practical Atheism .

      Mr Aclionbe opposed the scheme , because be considered tbat whilst it positively excluded some from its benefits , it indirectly excluded others , and thus deprived large masses of the people of tbe advantages that a general state education professed to afford . Lord Sandon , although he objected to some portions of the government plan , hailed it , on the whole , as a great step in the right direction . It did nst treat religion with disregard , though It conformed itself to ( he habits and feelings of tbe country . MrGissokNs argued that tbe state ought not to interfere in the promotion of education , and was proceeding in his remarks , when Mr Roebuck moved that the house be counted ; but forty members having been fouud present , the debate proceeded .

      Mr Gisbobme continued , in proof of his proposition that national education was not conducive to national benefits , tie in-lanced the case of Prussia , the educational system of which had left that country at a lower point iu tbe scale of morality than any o . her country in Germany . Nor could h agree with Mr . Macaulay , in the eulogy which he had passed upuu the Scotch and their national system of instruction . He was iu the habit of going to Greenock ana Glasgow twice a-year , and staying there for a fortnight at a time ; hut he had not seen anything tbat raised them iu his estimation as civilised towns , or showed that the Scotch had derived benefit from their ¦ ational education . He rather uought tbere might be found in parts of those towns and the neighbourhood a population that migkt very wed answer the description given by tbe noble lord ( Lord J . Russell ) on the authority of the Preston chaplain , He ( Mr Gisbetne ) bad

      seen places in those towns in which he should be quite as loath to trust himself as iu any in Manchester or Liverpool ; and he did believe that the English were h more civilized people than the Scotch . He was quite sure the English were superior to the Scotch in regard to their . dwelbngs , and in habits of cleanliness and in sobriety , though the latter would be found to be the better controversialists . ( A laugh . ) He was in the habit of spending several weeks in the year in a Highland glen , where there was * considerable population , and something up . proaching to a village . The clergyman said of tiv * t educated Highland population , "As long as their money lasts , it is not that this man or that man Is drunk—the glen is drunk altogether . " ( Laughter ) He ( Mr Gisburne ) onco took occasion to tell bis own personal attendant there , when he was out with bim , "I am afraid , Donald , you are a sad fellow ; I hear that when I am

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      way , you arep « rpetually drunk ; " and the man s only answer was , "No , Sir , I am seldom drunk , except on Sabbattr ( a laugh ) , and perhaps a W at Jule , or at the Ufttf yeafV' These educated lllghlandsrs . capliai writers , readers , and equal to a good dial of arithmetic , were , in every other respect , most perfect barbarians . He ( Mr Gisborre ) had not a labourer who would Utter down his pig in one of their houses until be had cleared it out . ( A laugh , ) He believed the description he had given to be not of an exception , but tbe general character of the Scotch Highlanders . But they were great controversial Ists ( a laugh ) ; they & H know enough of divinity to solve the Free Church question . ( Hear . ) He was sorry tho member for Edinburgh was not in his seat , for he had a

      little complaint te make against him for bis ingratitude in speaking as be did of tbe Bristol and Nottingham riots which carried the Reform Bill . ( " Hear , " and a laugh . ) The right hon . gentleman had a very ample vocabulary , and he laid his hands on some ot tbe worst words in it to apply to certain of tbe poor patriots who assisted in carry , ing that bill . ( Mr Piotheroe here expressed dissent . ) Perhaps the hon . gentleman would deny that there were any riots at Bristol ( alaugh ); or if he meant to deny that tbey helped to carry the Reform Bill , nobody else would deny it . But this was beside tbe que * tion ( hear ) , except tbat he ( Mr Gisborne ) might observe , that if national education would prevent ebullitions of that sort on proper occasions , it would not be a recommendation of it in bis judgment . ( A laugh . )

      Mr P , BoBTBwic * said that it did not follow that the Scotch were uneducated because the man who carried the hon . member ' s gun in tbo Highlands got drank . He believed tbe present measure provided tbe best means of education for the people that it was possible for the government to provide . There was an admitted evil to be remedied . The gorernmentproposed a scheme which had in it some good . Theamendmentproposedaplanfor postponing that scheme indefinitely , He felt himself bound to support the scheme of the government . Tbe speech of the noble lord ( Lord J . Russell ) was worthy of the best days of England ' s statesmen . He wished the noble lord ' s measure had been equally bold .

      Lord Mobpith , after expressing his regret that he was obliged to oppose the wishes of many ofhis constituents , entered into a general defence of the Minutes of August and December last against the objections urged against them by Mr Duncombe and Mr Gisborne . Mr Gisborne , in the course of his ingenious and amusing speech , was especially severe on the Prussians and the 'scotch , and read an extract from the work of Mr Laing—a most ingenious and accomplished traveller—who gave an unfavourable account of « he results of the education in Prussia ; a majority of the writers who have viiited that country ghe , on the contrary , a very favourable impression of it .

      ( Hear , bear . ) The hon . member ( said his lordship ) was extremely severe on the Scotch . As I hare not had tbe good fortune—or bad fortune , as he , perhaps , -would esteem it—of having ever been on the other side of the Tweed , I do not feel myself qualified to defend that people , who are not usuall y backward in making good their own cause ; but he told us that the highland Scotch were a nation of savages . I must say tbat he gave , con . tillering tbey were savages , rather a classical account of them , for he told us that he bad attached to him as a personal attendant a man that was always drunk on Sundays and holidays . £ , ' ( Laughter . )

      " Ipse dies agitat festos , "which must hare often happened to him , — "fususque per herbam , " —for he held one ofhis festivities at Christmas , — " Ignis ubi in medio , et socii cratera coronant , To libaus , Lease , vocat . " I am only sorry that he attached so very reprobate a person as his personal attendant . ( Laughter . ) I must say I take a Very different view from the hon . member for Nottingham of tbs effect which the Bristol riots had in securing the ultimate success of the Reform Bill . But , whether the hon . member for Nottingham be right or wrong in attributing the success of the Reform Bill to these riots , at all events I do not wish to abstain from endeavouring to bring the machinery of the state to bear

      on the education of tbe people for tbe sake of such national ebullitions as these . ( Htar , hear . ) That hon . member is the only one | who has taken up tbe ground of denying the right of Parliament to educate the people . M y hon . friend who moved the amendment ( Mr Duncombe ) scarcely touktup tba ^ ground . His lordship weut on to say , that on the subject of education there were , as usu » l , three courses to be pursued . We might have adopted an exclusive system of educationfur instance , a fystem on the principles of the Church of England . To no such system could he have been a party . Or we might bave adopted what was called the uniformity system ; but that would not have met the consent of either Parliament or people . Then cnnie ihe co-operative system , which , built on the superstructure of

      popular effort , was the only course left to us . That course the government bad adopted , and he was willing to adopt it also , and to nork it , as far M he could , for tbo benefit of the people . It was , howevtr , impossible for him to hear , without emotion , the speech of Lord Surrey , with respect to the effect of their adherence to that version upon tbe Roman Catholics . When he first became a member of the Privy Council . be found certain minutes in force . They bad since been enlarged , as tbe house knew ; and when any fresh change was intended in them , it would be fair to give notice of it to Parliament . The admission of the Douay version , and the establishment ot Roman Catholic schools , would be a change of such importance as to require immediute notice of it to be given . Tho Roman Catholic applications to the Privy Council

      had not yet assumed a distinct form , aud be did not know bow far the Roman Catholic bishops would i . pprov * of any inspection of their schools by the government . But he must now add , in justice to himself and in tairness to his constituents , that of no committee of Privy Council , which should refuse Roman Catholic applications merely because they were Roman Catholic , could he remain or be a member . He then adverted to the deficient quantity of school education in England , and s « d tbat he would bave dwelt ou its dotails longer , only that they made him ashamed that the government was not doing more to improve it . The noble lord , in conclusion , regretted the opposition offered by Dissenters to tbe educational proposition of the government , but , however they might tinbluer the discussion ot the question , he promised them that their efforts would surely tail .

      Mr Baton ! opposed the minutes of education , as a zealous aud determined Nonconformist . The Established Church was , in bis opinion , hostile to the practice and principles ot liberty , and he strongh protested against any system which would enhance its power , enlarge its influence , ami promote its aggrandisement . Sir G . Gbet then entered into an elaborate vindication of the schvnse before tbe bouse . He could not regard Mr Bright as an authority as to the opinions of Nonconformists , when be recollected that many of the most eminent men and writers connected with the

      Noncontormist body had expressed opinions in reference to education utterly at war with those which had that evening been delivered by tbehon . member for Durham . Ho read extracts from several Nonconformist authors , to show how favourable many of them were to a system of state education , and from several petitions , some of which ban been presented by Mr Bright himself , whiek went to prove that the Nonconformist body were by no means united in their opposition to such a system . As to the exclusion oi Roman Catholics from the benefits of the grant , he was ready to admit ihat the complaints of that body were well founded . and he would be moat happy

      to lend his co-operation to the task of securing them a participation in the advantages which it was proposed to extend to their Protestant fellow-subjects . He was happy 10 find that the bouse entertained but one opinion as tt » tho injustice and impolicy of their exclusion , asd would gladly lend his aid , in deference to the public voice , in altering the minutes of council which operated so unjustly in reference to a large portion of their fellow-countrymen . He had every confidence in the good sense of the house and of the country , to which the government now appealed , in support of » n educational scheme , which , was admittedl y au impeifect one , but which was the best that could now be presented .

      Mr Himblei claimed a ri ght to be heard even at that late , hour oi the night , as he had presented 74 1 ) petitions on the subject which was then before tbe house . He admitted that the dissenters bad not tttl > en tho most prudent course on this occasion , but contended that Lvrd J . Russell should have recollected tbe past services they had rendered to the great cause of religious liberty , and should not have castigated them with su . h merciless severity . He carefull y separated himself from the political dissenters of Mr Haines's school , and tonussed that whether it was owing to the opacity of his own intellect , or to some other cause , he had been unconvinced by all the sophistries and fallacies which had emanated from that quarter . He could not , however , concur iu these minutes . He thought that they ought to be modified in several important particulars , and above all he thought that th * voluntary principle , which had not yet failed , ought to have been tried for a year longer .

      On the motion of Sir W . Clay the debate was adjourned to Thursday . The house adjourned at a quarter past twelve o ' clock . WEDNESDAY , Apbii . 21 . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The second reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill was adjourned , until Weduesduy next , Hosiert Mancfactcbe Bat ,, —Mr Hone observed that as this bill was set down for a second reading this day , he wished to know whether it was the Intention to proceed with tbe debate upon it , and alto whether the government intended to oppose it ! Mr M . Gibsom replied that he beli * ved the honourable baronet ( Sir II . Ualford ) , who had the bill in charge , did not intend to proceed with it that day . With reference to the Other question put by tbe honourable gentleman , he begged to say that the government would find themselves called upon to oppose the bill .

      Sir ii , Halvduo said he had . no objection to postpone the secono reading for a fortnight , in deference to the expected debate upon the question of receiving the report on the Factories Bill ; it was his intention rnusi certainly to proceed » itb the bill on that day fortnight , and avail himself of the opportunity to make his statement . Mr Pekband expressed a hope that no unnecessary impediments would be thrown in the way of the bill . Sir J . Eastuofe thought tbat the honourable burouet had taken the proper course in postponing the jecoud reading , as it was desirable that every opportunity should be given to such ' members of the house as were desirous of fully considering both the prinoiplo aud details of such a measure , of doing so . He readily admitted that the poorpeople whose ease was embodied in tb « WH had many evils of whieh to complain , but he feared that the proposed measure , in seeking v « afford them redress , would only giva jjju > to other « ril < creartr

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      even than those which it was designed to remove ; in other words , he feared that the remedy would be worse tbfin t he disease . Ife was confident , however j that when the till came up tor consideration on the second * reading , it would undergo the most earnest scrutiny on the part oi the house . The second reading was then postponed fer a fortnight . Factomm Bur , . —On the motion that the report ou this bill bs received , Mr TaitAWHT gave it bis most decided opposition , on the ground that it was a perfect mockery to introduce such a bill unless the house was also prepared to fix the rate of wages and the price of provisions .

      Mr Home than moved that the report be brought up that day six months . Every hour for which the bill was delayed afforded fresh proof of its justice and im . policy , and he felt called upon to avail himself of every opportunity with which the forms of the house presented him , of giving it his most strenuous opposition . He could not refrain from again expressing his astonishment and regret at the extraordinary course which the government had thought proper to pursue in regard to the bill , Mr Bbown seconded the motion . Mr Home blamed the government for giving any sanction to this measure . The encroachments already made urjon us by tbe manufacturers of America were so great that it was nothing short of insanity to agree to it , He , therefore , moved that the report be received on that day six months ; Mr Bsowh seconded the amendment .

      After a few words from Mr M . Phillips , against the bill , Mr P . Howard and Mr S . Ckawfobd both supported it . Tbe latter gentleman denounced the opposition to it as unfair and vexations . No notice was on the paper of the day , and yet an attempt was made te defeat tbe bill by taking the friends of the measure by surprise , Mr B . Escort denied that the opposition to this bill had been unfair . He implored the house , in mercy to tho labouring classes , to reject tbe measure . Mr Febband taunted Mr B . Escort with the inconsistency ofhis proceedings on this bill . Formerly be had supported , now be opposed it . Mr Monti and Sir De L , Evans supported tbe bill ; Mr Tascmb opposed it .

      Lord J . Russell deprecated renewing the discussion upon the bill at this stage of it . He regretted that it bad been fashioned in committee into a Ten Hours' Bill , regarding the weight of experience as only in favour of an Eleven Hours' Bill , lie would , however , support the bill as it stood , although it might be necessary to reconsider , it during a future session . The noble lord briefly addressed himself to tbe argument that interference with the labour of young persons would tend to limit adult labour , in reference to which he thought that tho apprehensions of the opponents of the bill were not well founded . Mr Roebuck denounced the conduct of the noble lord , in reference to the bill , as very unstatesmanlike . The house then divided , when the numbers

      were—For Mr Hume ' s amendment 46 Against it 104 Majority against the amendment ... — -58 The report was then brought up and received . Mr . Brown then moved the amendment of which he had given notice , to the effect that any occupier of a mill , being a lessee , who , from the operation of the provisions of this bill , should be prevented from using his steam machinery or water power for as many hours during the day as he bad contemplated using them when he took the lease , should be entitled to a proportionate abatement of rent ; but , alter some conversation , in which Sir G . Grey , Mr T . Egerton , Mr . Brotherton , Mr Ferrand , Mr Roebuck , Mr Kewdegate , Mr Aglienby , Mr M . Phillips , Sir R . Pee ) , and Lord J . Manners joined , was induced to withdraw it .

      Mr Robbcck took the opportunity to assert that the Protectionists had threatened the manufacturers with a blister , in revenge for having assisted in repealing the Corn Laws and that this bill was the realisation of that threat . Lord J . Manners , aa the person to whom the expression of such a threat bad been attributed , emphatically denied that he had ever used such a threat , or even thought of it . Viscount Ebmnoion then moved tbat none of the provisions of tbe act , respecting the restriction of the hours of labour , should apply to adult women . This motion was negatived without a division .

      The noble lord then moved three additional clauses , to which no seconder being found , they were dropped . Mi ^ Leader then moved the following clause : — " And be it enacted , tbat if any accident happen to the steam-engine , water-wheei , or mill-gearing , in any factory , whereby any part of the manufacturing machinery thall be stopped during the usual hours of work allowed by this act , it shall be lawful to recover the time so lost in the following manner , that is to say , any child or young person , or any woman , may be employed one hour in each day , more than the time to which the ordinary daily labour of children and young persons and women respectively is restricted by law , until such lost time be recovered " The house after some conversation upon this clause divided , and the numbers

      were—For the clause 81 Against it 94 Majority against the clause ... ——C 3 Mr B . Escoti then suggested tbat the third reading of the bill beposiponed for some time , and that a call of the house should be made in order that the collective opinion of tbe whole house might be obtained upon the question of the third reading of the

      bill . Mr Fielder could not accept the suggestion , and wished , to have the third reading taken en Thursday or Friday . After some further conversation , it was ordered to be read a third time on Friday . There was , however , a geneial understanding that this arrangement was only made to enab . e the house to fix on that day another for the further discussion of the measure . The Naval Prisons Bill went through committee , but not witueut a discussion on the severity of the punishments inflicted in the navy . The other orders of the day were then disposed of , and the house adjourned . THUBSDAY , Ami 22 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —After tbe presentation of a number of petitions for and against the Government Scheme of Education , the Fever { Ireland ) Bill wont through committee , and tbe House adjourned .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —A number of petitions were presented for and against the Government Scheme of Education , the latter being the most numerous . Education . — adjtoubned Debate . — The adjourned debate on the motion to go into committee of supply on the Eilunatiou grant , aud Mr T . Duncombe ' * amendment theitsto , was resumed by Sir W . CtAT . The hon . Baiwiet opposed the plan as unjust , inexpedient , and inefficient . S . r J . Parkinoton supported the measure . Mr . Home supported Mr , Duncombe ' s amendment . Sir W . James and Sir J , Eastbok spoke in favour of the ministerial proposal . Mr S . CaAwroao opposed the minutes in Council , and blauitd Lord Arundel and Surrey for having , as tbe head of the Roman Catholics of England , accepted a proposal that was an insult to the ttoman Catholic community . Sir W . MotEswoSTB and Lord Mauon supported the measure .

      Sir James Giuiwm having to decide between the motion of the government to go into committee of supply to consider : > vote of £ 100 , 000 for the purposes of general education , and the amendment proposed by Mr Duncombe for the appointment of a committee of inquiry , could not hesitate to voteagainst an inquiry that , he beliuvtd to be altogether superfluous , and lor the motion to consider the education grant , Lor . l John Russell replied at considerable length to the ar 'unienti adduced by his opponents , after which Sir RoBEhT Veil spok « in favour of the government plan . Mr Duwcmbe asked leave of the house to withdraw tbat part of his motion which implied a censure on the Government . Lu-ttJ . Russell consented , and the house divided on tbe altered amendment : —

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      Mxjority against the amendment 3 ! 5 On the motion of Lord J . RussiLt , , the further proceeding was adjourned . The house rose at one o ' clock . { From our Third Editisn of last week . ) FRIDAY , Aran . 16 . i HOUSE OF LORUS . —A number of petitions in favour of and against the Government Education Measure were presented . The Army Service Bill was read a first time . Several Bills were advanced a stage , and their lordships adjourned . HOUSE OF COMMONS—After the presentation of an immense number of petitions , some of them tor , and others against the Government Measure of Education , the POOR LAW RELIEF ( IRELAND ; BILL was brought up to be read u third time .

      A lengthened discussion ennued in which Sir G , Grey , Lord G . Beutiuck , Mr Labouchere , Mr Goulburn , Lord J . Russell aud Mr Disraeli , took part . Tbe bill was then rwd a third time and passed . U pon the motion of Lord J . Rosatht the Lan . ieu Property ( Ireland ) Bill was read a third time . The remaining orders of the day wero then disposed of , and the house adjourned ,

      I * The Northern Star. April 24, 1847.

      I * THE NORTHERN STAR . April 24 , 1847 .

      Mr Layard, Who Stiil Continues His Resea...

      Mr Layard , who stiil continues his researches in Mesopotamia , ha-i discover * d , at about twelve league from Mosul , on tiio right , bank of the Tigris , at Calau-Chergat , a tumulus ten times the sise of that at Nunioil . lie has already brought to light a curious statue in black stone , of which the head is missing , Outrage to Frkdkmcu Docouss . —This trulynobleniinded man is said to have been much moved at the recent insult off « re > l to him on board the Cambria ttteam-packet . Raising his hands he exclaimed with deep dejection , " 1 urn going to the land of proserin tion . aiul have been turned back on the very threshold Ou ! if these things are done in the green tree , what will be done in the dry ' . " Emphatically do we call upon the nation to resent this disgrace to the English name .

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      MARLBOROr 7 G frW 8 Bfi 7 , I ^ w " ^ r ? i Lari ' Joho Du " ' * " <> bought ' before Mr Bingham , charged with having attem pted t ! rob Mr E . Simpson , licensed victualler , No . 231 , Oxford street . —T . Agness deposed tbat the prisoners ente rs * Mr Simpson ' s home and called for some beer . Th » were served , and were left alone In front of the bar On * of the prisoners then got upon a barrel , and with w ! stick , tbe top of which was daubed with tar , attem pted to reach a sovereign which was placed on a shelf within the bar , but in Us efforts to fix it to the stick the sovereign was knocked off the shelf , and the noise attracted the attention of the landlady wbo came out , WJtnes , immediately acquainted her with what had taken plsc *

      ana on looKing on the floor the sovereign was found with a portien of the tar adhering to it . While the lad wag busied in his a ' ttempt to get the money his corop anj 6-ht-Id him up and gave him all the assistance in his poner Mr Simpson corroborated the testimony of the last wi ' Il nets . —The prisoners were fully committed . MARYLEBONE .-BoEor . Aiir .-FrancHM 'Carthywas charged with having entered the premises of . Mr John Carter , of 22 , Mornington-road , and stolen therefrom jewellery and Other property . On Saturday night last about 12 o ' elock , as prostcutor was retiring to rest ha received such information as induced him to go up Into the attic , where he found that a patle 0 f glRM therein badbfen broken , and that the window was thrown no affording every facility for an entry Into the apartment * * He ascertained tbat a desk bad beta forced by some iu strument , a silver pencil case taken out ; and ou exstm * nlng the two rooms , on the second floor , he missed a kaleidescope , a gold brooch , and a gold ring ; l 0 me drawers had also been opened and rummaged . It was

      further shown , that during tbe absence of Mrs Blajney who lives two doors from where the robbery was coml mitted , the thieves effected an entrance by means of skeleton keys , and that they afterwards made their way along the leads to Mr Carter ' s dwelling . On Mrs Blay ^ ney ' s return home tho prisoner and another person rushed by her in the passage , and pushed her down the steps , when they made off . Prisoner was taken by Heoley , 227 S his companion escaped . On his berag stopped , a crow-bar , a kaleidoscope , an awl , « piecs of candle , and a box of lucifrrs , were found upon him . He was then conveyed to the station-house . At an earl y hour on the following morning a gentleman , named Lord , and his daughter , of Augusta- Cottage , Park Tillage , picked np in tbe garden at the back of their mw dence ( he pencil-case , the gold brooch , and the ring , which tbe prisoner must have thrown away while tbo police were in pursuit of him —The articles found in Dispossession were identified by Mr Curtir as bsiiig Lis pro . perty , —The prisoner , who had nothing to say , was fulljr committed for trial .

      WESTMINSTER—ColHiKO . —John and Ellen M'Mo . nus were charged with coining . Serjeant Brennan , 20 G stated that in consequence of directions received from the-Kint authorities , he went , accompanied by a number of other officers of the G andB divisions , to 8 , Fear street . Westminster . They proceeded to a back room on th * second floor , the door of which they broke open with a sledge hammer and crow . bar . On entering the room tbey secured the male prisoner , who had , when the door was partially opened , endeavoured to close it again .. Immediately after they had gained access the femalo * prisoner opened the window and put her ri ght hand out .. On a table near the fire-place they found a great number of counterfeit sixpences quite warm , tho channel of a

      mould , a quantity of plaster of Paris , and hot whitsmetal on the hearth . Witne' 8 was about to bring the things away , when the male prisoner , who was hand , euffed , suddenly broke away from tbe officer who bad charge of bim , and endeavoured to destroy the channel : of tbe mould . The mole prisoner , on being asked whether he wished to say anything in reply to tbe charge ,, declared that a parcel came to bis house at about twelve o ' clock on Monday , and on his opening it he discovered that it contained the things subsequently found by theofficers , which he was destroying the moment the police entered . Tbe woman said that the things were brought to their house to get them into trouble . Mr Broderip said tbat tbe charge was one of a very serious nature , and remanded the prisoners for a week .

      HAMMERSMITH—Stabbing with a Pitcbfoik , —• George Tagg , under-hersekeeper to MrT . Klrby , omnibus proprietor , Turnham-green , was brought before the magistrate on a charge of having stabbed J . Tartar , J , Turner , who appeared in a very weak state , deposed : he was head horsekeepcr in Mr Kirby ' s service . On the erening of Saturday , the 10 th inst ., he was in bis muster ' s yard , when he and the prisoner bad some words about the latter having been a long time gone to his tea , and thereby neglecting his work . Witness was at the time ' dressing a horse in the yard , when the prisoner rushed out of the stable with a pitchfork , with which , after * struggle , he stabbed witness In the bead . He bled a great deal from tbe wounds he received , and , becoming very faint , he was taken to Mr Dodswonh ' s , a surgeon , who dressed the wounds . Witness had been ever since under-Mr Dodsworth ' s care , quite unable to do any work , and

      still suffering great pain in tbe head . The prisoner was sober , and witness gave him no provocation whatever . On tbe evening in question Letitia Morrell was standing at the door , which looks into the yard where Mr . Klrby ' s horses are kept , and saw the prisoner make a stab at the bead of the witness , James Turner , with a pitchfork ,-and then immediately strike him on the head with the iron part of the fork a violent blow . Witness saw the blood streaming from Turner ' s head . Mr Frederick C . Dodswortb examined Turnei ' s head , and found a wound nearly two inches long on the leftside near the top , and a severe punctured wound on the left-temple . The bone at the first wound was quite bare , and a blood-vowel was divided in the wound in the temple , Turner was in great danger for some'days . The prisoner , when called upon to answer the charge , handed in a written pap ; r , requesting that it might be read . Its contents were as f , llows :

      Honoured Sir , —I wish to state my case particularly to you in writing . On the evening of last Saturday week , I wtntto Hammersmith to buy myself a pair of boots with my little boy . When I went back the man Turner kicked up a row , and hit me in the face , and knocked me down , I up with a fork and struck him on the face , and before I was able to recover myself , ho struck me a second time In the face , and then I up with the fork and struck him on the head . But he said I stabbed him , but I did no such thing . There was no one there but our two selves , —Gsosoe Tacq . Turner , in answer to questions put to him by the magistrate , denied the truth of tbe prisoncr ' astatement . Mr Paynter said the charge was a very serious one , and it was bis duty to fully commit the prisoner to Newgate for trial on the capital charge .

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      Mark Lane, Monday, April 19. Though Ther...

      MARK LANE , Monday , April 19 . Though there was rather a better show of wheat at this morning ' s market , the supply was , on the wbele , small . For fine white 90 s , and for the best red , 8 Ss per quarter was made . MARK LAKE , Wednesday , April 21 . The arrival of English wheat since Monday has teen very small , and tho supply of that article of grain here this morning was unusually limited . All kinds met a very ready sale , at , in most instances , a further advance in the quotations of quite Is per qr , and at which most of the samples found buyers . The transactions in foreign wheat were small , owing to the want of supply , but prices must be considered quite Is per qr higher . The sale for all descriptions of barley was linn , but we can notice no further advance in the ' quotat'ons . Malt . was iu short supply and fair request , at last week ' s currencies . The oat trade was steady at extreme rates . Beans , peas , Indiau corn and flour , are held for more money .

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      PROVINCIAL MAKlvE'r ^ . Richmond ( Yobkshi « e ) , Saturday . — We had a fair supply of groin in our market this morning j tho priceswere much the same as last week . —Wheat sold from 10 s to I Is ; oats , 3 s 6 d to -Is Cd ; barley , 6 s to 6 s lid ; beans , 73 to 7 s 3 d per bushel . LiYEBrooi , Tuesday . —At our Com Exchange this morning there was a middling attendance of the trade , and good show of samples of all kinds of grain , Hour , Ac . There was a very limited demand for wheat at the advanced prices asked of < H to Sdper " olbs . on prices of this day week . Flour , too , met avej slow sale ; when the market opened 42 s 6 d was asked . Manchester , Saturdiiy . —We Jiavo had a good demand for wheat and flour during the week , at steadily advancing prices . The quantity of wheat and flour on offer , either English or foreign , is small , and both are held firmly , at an advance of lid per bushel on wheat , 2 s to &» per barrel on foreign , and 3 s to 4 s per iack ou English hour . Lkeds , Tuesday . —There is a better supplj of wheat for this day ' s market than of late . An advance of Bs per quarter from the rates of this day se ' nnight , and 4 s per qu rter over Friday ' s prices is freely paid . Barky Is teas dearer . Beans , Is burlier .

      State Of Trade. Rocndaw, April 19._Wo Ha...

      STATE OF TRADE . RocnDAW , April 19 . _ Wo have but little doing in the ic piece market , but prices arc much the same as last week . k . flio wool market continues dull at former ratos . Mills lis stopped , tour or five factories ceased working on Mon- > auay last , and it is feared that many more will bis obliged ed to adopt the same course , if there bo not it speedy change g * tor the batter . Many mills were standing before the com . in . moncemont of this week . J [ A " > April 17 . —The dulncss that has so long ng rested on tho worsted trade renmins unalleviated ; and nd there is no perceptible change either iu demand or in in prices . Tho slightly improved demand for yarn noted ted lust week still contiuues , accompanied by a small advance nee m pries ; though the spinners cannot vet obtainable « e remuneration for their outlay . There is no alteration in i in long wool . > HuDDKasnKi , D , April 21 ) . —The market has been very cry dull . There are a few buyers , but there is no inclination ion to speculate beyond their ttiunediiite wants ' . Leeds , April 20 . — There has been a good attendance at « at our cloth-halls to-dny , but the business done was very i « ry limited . Tho unfavourable state of tlio corn and moo « y iuej markets evidently nets too powerfully on tho spring * ;» commerce .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 24, 1847, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24041847/page/8/