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that the effect of the poor-laws was to produce a diminution of the wages of labour . At the present time , the price of corn had fallen so low as to enable a man to support his family with the usual wages ; but he understood that in many counties the rate of wages had ibeeu lowered , because . they were paid out of the
poorrates . He understood , too , that : this practice was extending to other parts of the country , and that the labourers were compelled to receive as charity what they were entitled to in . the shape of wages . The honourable and learned gentleman
then observed , that he had not been actuated by any desire to obtain popularity in bringing forward this measure . He should despise himself if such had been the case . But . what had been said by an ancient comic writer could not be applied to his conduct with regard to this question : — ci Id sibi negotii credidit solum dari , Populo ut placerent , quas fecisset fabulas . "
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Papular Education . July 10 . Mr . S . Rick rose to move that the 14 th report of the Commissioners on Education in Ireland be reprinted . Since the union not less than £ 1 , 200 , 000 of the public money had been expended on
education in Ireland . On the ground of economy , therefore , as well as on other considerations , it was important to inquire into this subject . But if the Commissioners were right , this money had not only been vainly , but most mischievously expended . Three establishments
in Ireland had been the objects of very extravagant expenses . The Protestant Charter Schools had received £ 622 , 000 ; the Foundling Hospitals had received upwards of . £ 500 , 000 ; and the Association for the Discouragement of Vice , which he could tell the honourable
Member for Bramber ( Mr . Wilberforce ) was in Ireland an institution for the education of youth , had also received large grants . In every one of those establishments proselytisin was the great object . This excited a spirit of controversy and hostility most baneful to education and to peace and harmony . The very moment an exclusive Catholic establishment was put
» ip , the Protestants put up an exclusive - Protestant establishment . In thigvcontest the government had interfered mischievously for Ireland , aud extravagantly and expensive ly for this country . When the 5 * h Finance Report had bee , n made , £ 1 , 200 , 000 had been expended . t ^ his very year there had been ^ 100 ^ 000 expended . With the view of reniedySg this
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abuse , he novv move ^ L that the 14 th report of , the Comiiiissioners be tepruited . tM&M Mr . UuoaaHam said that he concurred entirely in the view wljich the honourable Member had taken of this subject . i | i § r principle could be more' sound thai ^ . that
recommended by the honourable M £ ml % j % namely , of founding schools upon a plaa which should obviate any suspicion o £ + jsk desire to proselyte , which necessarily created much jealousy in the minds olf those persons who were to benefit from the establishment of the schools . Ttfe
footing upon which the Established Church and the sectaries stood * with regard to schools in Ireland , was somewhat different from that on which they stood in this country . In Ireland the schools which
had been , established by the Catholics , i& _ ansvyer , he might say , to those established by the Protestants , from which Catholics were excluded , were not open to Protestants . In England , however , the Dissenters founded their , schools in such a
manner as to be equally open to the children , of persons belonging to the Church of England , as well as to the children of Dissenters from- the Establishment . This was a great advantage in favour of the Dissenting schools of England . He would
now , as hejiad given notice on a former evening , proceed to state the reasons which had induced him fo delay the bringing forward of his Binl for the promotion of education , and in doing so it would be necessary to occupy the time of the House for a few minutes . The cause
of that delay arose out of the cireumstance he had just alluded to , namely , the conflict between the - Established Church and the Dissenters . He could not now help considering that as an advantage which at the time he thought a misfortune , as it had prevented him from bringing hjs Bill before the Houserr ^ he
meant his necessary absence from Parkas meiit , to attend his professional duties . During the two months h , e was absent in the country , the controversy among the Dissenters , with regard to his Bill , made considerable progress . A vast number of publications met the eye of the country ,
which generally tended to make the principles of ttye measure understood . He had possessed an opportunity of attending to every one of the arguments brought forward by the enemies of the Bill . It would give him much pleasure to find himself able to state to the House that
lie could propose any course which would reconcile all the contending opinions on this subject . He greajtly feared that tbjfoe difference was top wide which sepa |^ fv 0 c | the cpfub ^ tauts . A great l part of , the ; ojfj-. positiqn ^ j ^ ade by tfee pissent ^ rg ^ pjtfs . Bill arose fr (^ n a belioif ^^ ix t )^ il ^ i || tt 9 ( that tjxe schools which it , prapqse ^ H ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1821, page 501, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2503/page/61/
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