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INDIA. " " The Indian mail brings papers...
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WEST INDIES. The news by the Pacific and...
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Partiamjent. The Motion For Going Into C...
Mr . Sharman Crawford briefly opposed the motion , objecting to return to the principle of in-door relief . Mr . Poulett Scrope could not agree to the resolutions , because their effect was to pledge the House to go back to the time when there was either no poorlaw in Ireland , or an inadequate one . The House divided , the numbers
were—For the resolutions , 65—against them , 90 . Majority against Mr . French , 25 . The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Education Bill was resumed by Mr . Anstey , on Wednesday evening , who Bupporterl the measure , without pledging himself to all the details . He warned those who opposed the bill on the ground that the House had no right to withdraw social duties from the sphere of religious action , that they might , by carrying out this principle overmuch , degenerate into violent and ridiculous heresy . Those who would so act must be prepared to convert society into one great , wide-spread , universal Agapemone . Mr . Henry Duummokd endeavoured to show
the difference between instruction and education . Learning was a luxury . A man ' s happiness was not made by it . It might increase his irritability and his self-sufficiency , but it gave him no increased means of happiness . It did not improve his morals . There was no connection between intellectual power and moral improvement . It was altogether different with education , which is simply the drawing forth what is good , and repressing what is evil . This work ought to be wholly carried on by the parents when the child is young , and by the church afterwards . Without the power of the church to do what is right , they could do nothing at all ; and yet they were daily destroying the church , and substituting this theory of universal instruction in its stead . Such a system was utterly fallacious .
Mr . P . Wood , after bearing testimony to the calm and temperate manner in which Mr . Fox had introduced the measure , tried to show that the work of education was going on at such a rate as to require no new stimulus from the adoption of a national scheme . Far too much stress was laid upon the objections made to religious tests in schools . Some of his friends established a school in which the Catechism was taught , but they stated that it would not be taught to any child whose parents objected . About 500 scholars came , and out of all that number , only five objected to the Catechism .
Mr . Gijjsok said he had attended several public meetings , composed chiefly of working men , where the most enthusiastic feeling was displayed in favour of a national system of unsecturian education : — " The position of the people of Lancaster in regard to this question was most peculiar , and showed that it fell most peculiarly on the Legislature to provide an unsecular education for the people . What did the law now do ? It declared that no child should gain its bread in
any factory where flax , cotton , silk , and wool , or any of them , were the materials to be wrought with , unless he attended a school ; but no step was taken by the Legislature to provide a school for such child . If the Legislature made it a condition that a child should attend a school , in order that he might labour to earn his daily bread , then , if there was any meaning in the words , * religious liberty , ' that Legislature was bound by a solemn obligation to provide an unsectarian school for that child at the expense of the public . "
He could not understand why they should be jealous of the proposal of Mr . Fox ; or how they could suppose it would check the valuable labours now going on in support of education . It was alleged that those who supported this bill were indifferent to religious education , because they wished to promote a system of secular instruction . To this he would simply reply , that they would leave the means for
the religious instruction of the people more efhcient than they were at present , because the teachers of religion would be able to direct their whole attention to that which was their special duty . The sum annually spent on the teachers of religion in Great Britain is about £ 10 , 000 , 000 a-year . No one proposed to take away any of those funds in order to provide secular instruction for the people , so that there was surely no want of funds for that purpose .
Mr . Naviek contended that it was in a religious point of view that the state acknowledged its obligation to educate the people , and in no other respect . Mr . Fox accused the opposers of the bill of misrepresenting its nature and object . lie did not seek to exclude religion ; he sought to extend instruction , founding his measure on the demonstrated principle , that something could be done , not in demolishing the existing educational institutions and reconstructing them , but in improving the agency
now at "work , and milking it so harmonize with tho new that a greater amount of good might bo accomplished . Ho ropeutod some of the facts ho hud touted on introducing tho bill , showing the deficiency of education in the country , which innnUil , ho thought , to some ilaw in the exiting by . stcm . Theological teaching , unaccompanied by expansion of the intellect and amelioration of the heart , took no root and produced no harvest . Tho divisions prevailing amongst educational bodies proved that something more was
requisite to keep education from retrograding , as it was really doing in some districts . He denied that the terms " secular" and " religious" were antithetically opposed . It was a mon > -trous , an almost impious , assumption tha studying the works of our Maker led the mind away from religion . He regarded religious and secular instruction as auxiliary to each other ; they could not be combined whilst so many diversities of opinion existed in matters of religion . The Church of England had a higher mission than secular education ; its clergy were not meant to be schoolmasters . Moreover , whilst limiting its own teaching , it required an outlay of the public money , and Dissenters would not submit to be taxed for secular teaching if the money was to be handed over to the church , the deficiency of whose schools was denoted by the low standard of its schoolmasters . There were authorities , as well as precedents , for a separate agency for secular and religious instruction , which was indispensable to the attainment of the full amount of good—of an education that should not leave children ignorant of the most important earthly matters connected with their daily interests . He did not propose education as a panacea ; but it was an essential condition , without which the best efforts to subdue or mitigate social crime and misery would lose their efficacy . Mr . Muntz supported the bill . He did not object to church education , but he knew that the working classes were decidedly against the interference of the church in the matter . The question then was , whether their children should go altogether without education , or have such an education as this bill proposed . The House having divided , the numbers For the second reading , 58—against it , 287-Majority against , 229 . The Marquis of Lansdowne appealed to Lord Stanley , on Thursday evening , to postpone his motion on the affairs of Greece , lest its discussion might interfere with the negociations now going on with France . Lord Stanley consented to postpone his motion till Monday week , but on that day , settlement or no settlement , he should bring it on . The * econd reading of the Irish Parliamentary Electors' Bill was moved by the Marquis of Lansdownk , who , in supporting it , said it was absolutely necessary for the preservation of constitutional government that our representative institutions should be really popular . Lord Stanley had given way to the opinion of some of his friends , who thought that this bill might be materially mended in committee , or ho should have gone to a division on the present stage , but he would certainly divide on the third reading . The operation of the bill would be to create a low-class constituency , who would return one-sixth of our whole representation . He prophesied that a similar constituency would soon be demanded for England , with a similar result as regarded the representation . Earl Gkcy defended the bill . It was absolutely necessary to make voting a popular institution , and to induce the people to look up to Parliament ior the redress of grievances , instead of looking to out-door agitation . The bill was read a second time without a division . The House of Commons having gone into committee on the Factories Bill , on Thursday evening , Mr . Ei / liot moved an amendment for the purpose of legalizing tho relay system under certain restrictions , on the ground that in various districts the mills were worked by water power , which failed in dry weather ; and , therefore , the owners ought to be enabled to do extra work , while that power was plentiful . Sir Gkouqr Grey opposed the amendment , as being opposed to the spirit of the act . The physical effects of the relay system were unobjectionable , but they operated badly in a moral point of view , Lord Ashley said he had been accused of deserting the operatives , by concurring with the Government proposition . He declared , before God , that he had done whnt ho thought best ; and , in addition to the sacrifices he had made , in advocating this subject , he was now about to conclude by sacrificing his reputation . He also opposed the amendment , which was ultimately negatived by 24 G to 45 . Lord Ashley then moved words the effect of which was to give children of tender years the same protection as that enjoyed by adult females and young persons , namely , that they were to work only from six to six o ' clock . Mr . \ Vai . tkr supported the amendment , thinking the limitation of tho hours of children ' s labour a necessary consequence of the limitation of that of young persons and females . The amendment was also negatived by 102 to 72 . The bill , after considerable discussion , went through committee , and the House resumed . The House then went into committee on the Metropolitan Interments Bill , beginning at the 19 th clause , and the discussion engaged the House until midnight , when , clause 23 haying been agreed to , tho House again resumed .
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India. " " The Indian Mail Brings Papers...
INDIA . " " The Indian mail brings papers and letters from Bombay to May 1 , and Calcutta to April 20 ; but their contents are not important . The chiefs of the Afreedees have waited on Colonel Lawrence , and begged to be allowed to make peace with the British Government . It was at first suspected that their object was to while away the season for reaping their crops within the Kohat Pass , and that , this effected ,
they would renew their hostile operations . It has since appeared that they are sincere in their solicitations : and a correspondent at Peshawur states that the military authorities are anxious to agree to any terms , but that Colonel Lawrence , " who appears to understand the natives well , advises punishment first —forgiveness afterwards . " - It is said that the Afreedee chiefs deny all knowledge of the murder of Dr . Healey .
The papers give further details of the reverse at Oude , mentioned in the previous mail . It seems that the fort of Bettiah , occupied by the Oude insurgents , was invested on the 29 th of March , and fire opened on the walls ( composed of mud ) . This had no effect whatever , and the enemy , evidently with the view of entrapping our men , made a sortie . They were repulsed , and followed inside by our troops ; but , instead of the latter finding themselves masters of the place , they discovered that they were literally blocked up in an inner square , commanded by the citadel ,
which was loopholed all round . No foe could be seen , but the invisible enemy kept up an incessant and deadly fire on the devoted party , who , of course , had not the means of retaliating . Lieutenant Elderton ( a fiae young man and a promising soldier , ) was here killed , together with many of our men ; the gun-ammunition failed , and the remainder of the troops were compelled to retire in disorder , leaving a gun behind them , which impeded their return , some of the bullocks having been shot . The enemy abandoned the fort in the night . It is now being destroyed , and the neighbouring jungle cut down .
Dost Mahomed is said to be doing everything in his power to provoke and annoy us—his latest act being the interruption of some rafts of wood floating down the Cabool river to Peshawur for building purposes . The Overland Bombay Times says : — " The Supreme Government have passed an act enabling the managers of charity-schools to apprentice the children , and magistrates of police to bind those that fall into their hands to learn trades and professions . The latter clause has been introduced by suggestions frojn . Bombay , where schools of industry have long been in and for the
preparation for the reception of the destitute , instruction in the improved practice of arts and handicrafts of all who care to resort to them . Government , for the past eight years , have been spending thousands of rupees monthly in endeavouring to instruct cotton cultivators in cleaning and picking cotton , by sending teachers to the districts . The Bombay plan is to open a school for all comers , and hundrpds are expected to resort to it . In January the Court of Directors granted a superintendent for the schools — all they have for a long time past been waiting for . The moment the Board of Control gives their sanction , the schools will be openedmoney , material , ground , tools , and work having already been secured . "
The abominable postage system of India , which has so long been complained of by the local press , is about to undergo a thorough reform . The Indian Times announces authoritatively , that " a Post-oflice commission has been definitively fixed . " There is still a great deal of Cholera among the natives . It also appeared in a regiment of artillery stationed in Fort George Barracks , but by the timely removal of the men to tents , pitched on the Esplanade , the spread of the disease has been completely arrested . An extract from a letter in the Agra Gazette , from Rawul Pindee , says : —
" The weather here now is delicious : we have showers almost daily , and the air is soft and cool all day long . The country around is one mass of verdure , and as yet there is no appearance of the hot weather : there is no station like this in India . The officers have all got seeds from Saharunpore , and are planting their compounds with apple , mulberry , apricot , and plum trees , which thrive wonderfully , and the men of the 53 d are mad about gardening , every one having a bit of ground ; the d da
quarter-master is consequently besieged night an y with applications for spades , hoes , and rakes , which they are getting made as fast as they can , tho men paying half , and the canteen fund half . One man got a bit ot ground , which came to the officer ' s knowledge quite accidentally , when they went to inspect the wells : the man kept it quite a secret even from his comrades ; but when it became known , it turned the whole regiment into gardeners . They grow cabbage , potatoes , lettuce , onions , & c . —A great blessing this is for the men . "
West Indies. The News By The Pacific And...
WEST INDIES . The news by the Pacific and " \ Vest Indian mruls arc but scanty . Bolivia continues in an unsettled state . Cobija , the only port of tho ltepublic , is entirely shunned , in consequence of the vexatious regulations enforced there by the Government , which had ordered all vessels to be searched for ammunition and fire-arms . Arrests and imprisonments had also taken
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Leader (1850-1860), June 8, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08061850/page/4/
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