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I Leader Office , Saturday , April 17 th . I LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . I HOUSE OF LORDS . I The Customs Duties Bill , was read a second time , I and the House adjourned at a quarter past five . I HOUSE OF COMMONS . I COMMUNICATION WITH IKELA'SD . In answer to Mr . Dkasv , Mr . G . A . Hamilton said that the improved postal and general communication between England and Ireland required the junction of the London and North Western , and Chester and Holyhead Railways , and the Dublin Steam Packet Company ; and last year an arrangement was made with those companies with that view . The contract was sent to the companies last February , but had not been returned to the Post-office . In a few days , however , it would be concluded , and the object would be accomplished . THE CAGXIARI . In answer to Mr . IIkadlaji , Mr . Disuaeu said that the Government had rece ived the opinion of the law officers of the Crown , to the effect that the detention of Park and Watt , the engineers of -the Cagliari , was illegal , and a despatch had been I addressed to Naples , demanding compensation for the injuries that Park and Watt had sustained . With regard to the international question of the seizure of the vessel , the opinions of the law officers had not been received . COMPENSATION TO PROCTORS . la answer to Mr . IIaukield , Mr . Disuaeu . said that claims for compensation to the amount of 250 , 000 / . per annum had been made by the Proctors of Doctors ' Commons , under the late act for the abolition of the Ecclesiastical Courts . NETI . KY HOSPITAL . In answer to Mr . VVeguei . in , General Feki . said that the reports of persons appointed to inquire into the probable advantages of Netlcy Hospital were very contradictory , and ho had ordered further inquiry . The works had been stopped . THB BKFORM BI 1 X OF THE I . ATR GOVEHNMKXT . In answer to Mr . Uuscomiik , Lord Palmkisston said that last Session the la ^ e Government did pledge themselves to propose a Reform Bill in the present year , and it was their intention to reileeni the pledge , but , considering the question of the Government of India was the most pressing subject , ft bill with reference to that matter was brought in 5 the Reform Bill was not actually pr epared when the Government went out of oflice , ami it would not be in his power to lay it on tho table . We did not think it would be proper that such a measure should bo brought forward by any one but tho responsible advisers of thu Crown , llo thought , from certain indications , that tho present Government would lu'iiur in such a Bill next year . —Mr . Locke Kin < i hoped that , na no measure for Parliamentary Reform was before tho House , his two Bills to equalize tho franchiao and to abolish the property qualification would bo tillowod to pass . PASSI'OKTS IN UICI . aiUM . Mr . Monckton M 11 . NUS drow attention to tho state of tho paesport ayatoin in Bolgiuin , complaining of its stringency and inaonvonioneo . — Mr . . Skymouu I- 'it / .-oerai . u said it was true that In the last two <> r three £ ayB tho system had boon roiulured moro utringout in ' ~^^ BolglUrny'KrrirdiaTjo"f t ~ cimfto "" so ~ mirclrii ) convonioneoas-Was represented by Mr . Milnou . Ho referred to tho statement of Lord Walmosbury on tho previous evening , sh owing tho increased facilUieu of obtaining paasporta from our liWoigu-ofllco . NATIONAL . 1 TV OV miQONlCltH AT l'OIACK-0 WICKS . In a nswer to Lord Kojmsrt Ckuii ,, Mr . Harpy sold tnat ho would cause Arrangements to bo lnmlo by which " > 0 nationality of prisoners at polioe-olUcon would bo ascertained .
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A CARD FOR MR . EDWIN JAMES . A-correspondent suggests an important qu-estion with reference to the charge against M . Simon Bernard . " Supposing him to have sent the grenades to Paris , with a view to kill Louis Napoleon . Could lie know that the grenades would be thrown when the Emperor was in the midst of a crowd ? Could he have known that they would not be thrown at the Emperor when his imperial Majesty was taking an unescorted ride ? If not , how can it be argued that M . Simon Bernard is responsible for the deaths in the RueLepelletier ? If he sent the grenades knowing they woutd be hurled into a pop ular concourse , he is guilty of murder ; but has it been even attempted to prove so much ? " According to Lord Campbell , the law holds a man responsible for a murder which he has not intended to commit , when it is the natural consequence of another murder designed by him but not perpetrated ; but if M . Simon Bernard sent the grenades to Paris to assassinate Louis Napoleon , was it demonstrably . ' natural' that , instead of attacking the Emperor only , Grsini should of necessity attack a multitude at the doors of the Opera ?"
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A Marital Fact from France . —Statistical returns , the Paris Union asserts , have just revealed the fact that there are now in France 1 , 800 , 000 young females of a marriageable age , who are on the look-out for husbands ! The Prince of Waives ( says the Dublin Evening Mail ) will not visit the Irish capital during his stay in Ireland . Tiik Continent . — Madame Orsiui , with her two daughters , has , it appears , gone to Nice , and not to England , as was announced . She will probably reside in Florence , her native town , where her mother is living . — Ferukh Khan , the Persiau envoy in Paris , has left for Marseilles on his return to the Ivist . — " There is a prospect , " says the Morning Star , " of settling the dispute about the Cngliari by arbitration , tho King " Holland being spoken of as " tho arbitrator . The application of the principle to the settlement of international quarrels may prove a valuable precedent . "—The French Emperor hits left Paris for his estate of Mothc-Beuvron , in the Sologne .
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THE DUTY OF THE LIBERAL . PARTY IN IM 5 PERENCE TO TIIH IRISH NATIONAL EDUCATION QUESTION . rj o t / w Editor of the Lender . ) SiR )—Ireland lias often been pronounced the battle-Hold of tomjlisli political parties , and thero are not wanting indications tliatit will maintain its character < luring-tUo _ pi : Q 8 on . t ^ a ] ija 8 l . « HA . ^ i > oj »« w Gover nment lias already boon interpellated'in both irousWWT < r its policy upon the important question of Irish national education . A combination of tho aristocratic Whig with tho Irish priest party , but aided by the Liberals , may yofc defeat tha Government upon this very question . As an English Liberal , rosident for tho last row years in Ireland , with opportunities of comparing tha public opinion of this country with that of my own ,
I am anxious that the party with" WMctt I sympathizeshould not foe misled by false impressions , and the erroneous though positively expressed statements which will probably be made ia Parliament and elsewhere . I am anxious , I repeat , that that party should not be induced , through a fear of siding with Tory ascendancy , practically to arrest the development of ft healthy national education in this country , though as a result of ' Conservative' measures . Well were it for Ireland , no doubt , and well for England , if public opinion had advanced to a perception of the injustice and political folly of Church establishments , and of a state religion . National education would not be the only popular question to be simplified and promoted thereby . But as even amongst themselves Liberals are not agreed upon this subject , we must accept existing institutions , and be careful , in our wish to deal possible justice to all , not to underrate the claims of the established sect to fair play , or still worse , in seeking to show our abhorrence of Tory principles not to wrong the people of Ireland . With your permission I will enter somewhat at large into the present state of national education in Ireland , after which I will venture to give my impression on the duty of reformers in legislating upon the subject . The recommendation of the Commissioners of Education , in 1812 , was to establish a system of schools in Ireland , to be conducted on independentprinciples , and to supplement tlie existing Protestant parish schools , which were also to be maintained and increased with a view of encouraging a generous rivalry between the two , whereby the education administered in both , it was thought , would be improved . In 1831 , however , a national system was established upon the principle of compromise . The parochial schools were entirely thrown aside , and the Board of Commissioners composed of Protestants and Roman Catholics agreed upon a common scheme of education , which while it embraced the elements of useful secular instruction , included so much ol the religious element as was common to the two creeds . Tins latter was embodied in lessons on ' the proofs of Christianity , ' ' sacred poetry , ' and « extracts from the Scriptures , ' compiled from various versions . These lessons received the formal though ( as it afterwards proved ) the insincere sanction of the late R . C . Archbishop Murray , one of the Commissioners under the Privy Council , and were reported to have received also the sanction of the jfope . „ u The Board strongly recommended the use of these religious and moral lessons during school hours , and it was thought that the basis of a mixed system of education for the rival sects had at last been found . Why has that mixed system , promising so much , not succeeded ? "l < br three reasons : —The non-adhesion of the Ulster Presbyterians ; the nonadhesion of a large nia ° my of the -Established Church ; and the departure of the Board from their primary rules in favour of th e Presbyterians and the Roman Catholic party . The Ulster Presbyterian Syn od > in 1832 , refused to countenance the national sche me > if tne Scriptures were to be excluded from the sc hools in any way . They were then—in defiance of the Commissioners ' own resolutions—allowed to draw up rules for themselves , which after receiving the sanction of the Board were to bo binding . National Schools upon this principle are established in Ulster to the number of about 600 , vested in local patrons . The first plan of the Commissioners was to establish none but schools vested in themselves , and over which they were to possess supreme control . Hayingconceded , however , so much to the Presbyterians , they were prepared to do the same for the Roman Catholics , and accordingly they admitted , and continue to admit , with provisions for a very modified control on their part , a vast number of convent and other Roman Catholic schools to share in tho advantages of tlic Government grant . The Established Church , rightly or wrongly , stood aloof , with a fewmarked exceptions , from the whole scheme as soon as the exclusion of the Scriptures was made a fundamental rule : and up to the present time it has not been treated with the same favour as the Ulster Presbyterians . Tho extent of tho National system , in 1855 , was i \ s follows : —Vested schools , 152 ( 5 ; noa J vested , 3 GGG —total , 5192—f . c tho Board ot Education could professedly carry out its normal system in 29 per cent , only of the schools connected with its management . In tho remaining 71 per cent , tho mixed 'National system' was and continues to bo virtually abandoned . 1 » this 71 per cent , are Included ID per cent , of Presbyterian schools in wnlcn the Scripture aro admitted without restriction—tuo remaining 5- » per cent , are sohoula either attached to every hour—to Uonmu Catholic churches iirprhfcH soctariun instruction is admittedly inmglod with . aooular—or schools in which Roman Catholics , cluoOjr priests , are Hie patrons , with Roman Catholic teacUera and discipline , and where it is manifest the mixed Bystein must b » at a discount . Accordingly , in 1853 , there were 1740 Roman Catholic uchoola out of 4704 In which there wub no admixture of the
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Norwich Cathedral . — The north side of this xjLdwd neit the episcopal palace , is about to be Swt orad by * Dean and Chapter in accordance with the original design . 11 b . John Frbdbeicic Foster , chairman of the Salford Quarter Sessions , died suddenly , on Friday week , while attending a meeting of the Moravian Missionary Society at Chorley Church , Alderley , Cheshire . H « ^ seized with a fit of apoplexy while playing a voluniTAiiY nuitiNQ the Middle Aoes . —A lecture on this interesting topic was delivered on Tuesday at the Royal Institution , Albewarle-street , by Signor J . P . Lacaita , an Italian gentleman connected with . England by marriage . The Signor spoke extempore , and exhibited great mastery over ^ the * language . Tho lecture was the first of a series , and was received with great applause . Mb . F . W . Cobdeit , a brother of the celebrated Richard Cobden , died at Dunford , Midhurst , a few days ago , after a painful aud protracted illness . He was in bis fifty-eighth year .
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Thore is no learned man but will confess no hath much proilted by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his j lulffruent sharpened . It , then , 1 be prorttnble for him to rend , why should it not , a least boLolerubLe forrusadveraary to write?—Milton
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THE GREJBIT PAKtC .- ^ lTA'tnt FOB P 1 NSBURT . Lord Elcho called attention to the alterations going on in the Green Pork , where it was supposed there would be ereeted two public conveniences ^ or two- shrubberies , either of which would spoil the park . —Mr . Cox inquired whether anything was to be done with regard to a park for Finsbury . —Lord John Manners said nothing had been done by him since he came into office in the Green Park , ami the matter was under consideration ; but he did not mean to have any shrubberies . With regard to 1 park for Finsbury , no steps had been taken by the Metropolitan Board of "Works to make such a park . THIS WESTERN BANK OF SCOTJ ^ ANU . Mr . Beady brought forward the case of the Western Bank of Scotland , and urged that the law should be set in motion against the directors The Lord Advocate stated that no steps had been taken to lay informations before the Government authorities . —A discuss ion followed before the subject dropped . THE NELSON MO . VOMENT . Admiral Walcot brought forward the subject of the state of tue Nelson Monument . —Mr . Disrakue said he would undertake that it should be completed . The House then went into Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 17, 1858, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2239/page/11/
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