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Amongst the benevolent institutions that are entitled to the highest praise may be ranked 4 i The Irish Society , for Education in the Irish Language . " It wa « formed in Dublin , in 1816 . Its
object is *« to instruct the Native Irish , who still use their vernacular language , how to employ it as a means for obtaining au accurate knowledge of the English / ' The plan of the Society is to use , in general , in its books , the Irish
character , as affording the greatest facilities for reading , but to accompany it by an Knglish translation , in parallel pages or columns , as adapted to further the acquisition of English . The school-masters must all be qualified to teach their pupils to translate Irish into English . The schools are both stationary and on the circulating plan , and are established or carried into the remotest and least
instructed parts of the country , where the Irish tongue prevails . By the laat accounts , it appear * that the Society has forty -seven stationary schools , containing 2 & 78 scholars , of whom 838 are adults : jwwideg th ^ e , sfer masters , on tfee
Ciraiwary system , inspect and controul ten * cbools « $ ach ; fottnkig a total of 107 » woote tm < ter Hue protection of the 80-«*«*• Sunday-schools ha * e been established ift ibe neighbourhood of each » o « station , and sahoofo are about t *> ibe
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formed In * on » e of die jaite . In the dfgtritmtito of the Scriptures , the Society is assisted by the British &od Foreign Bibte Society . The Scriptures in the Irish character are pubU&biag under ths eare of Mr . Thaddgm Ca&&e # an » r tfoe books of Genesis and Exodus Jbatfe appeared . —Several societies auxiliary to
this have been instituted . The Itiefe Society for London has circulated bm ad " dress , which states that of tbue 6 ^ 800 , 000 and upwards , ascertained by the late Parliamentary Census , to be the population of Ireland , the number who speak Irish alone is above 2 , 090 , 000 ; that all at * tempts to extirpate the Irish language
have failed ; that though six or seven centuries have elapsed ^ ince Hen ry ' s c ^ fiquest , Irish is now spoken by a numbfc * exceeding the population of his time ; and that Irish has spread among the E& ~ g \\ sh in proportion to their number , as
much as E&giifih has spread anumg the Irish . It is added , that where the Irish language is spoken , there is a strong prejudice against the English language , Bibie and type . Even where English is used , Irish is the language of social intercourse and fainilv communio n *
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PARLIAMENTARY . HOUSE of LORDS , June 21 . Catholic Peers Bill . ( See p . 389 , ) Lord Holland presented a petition from the Corporation of Nottingham , and the Earl of Albemarljb one from thft
parish of Clerk en well , praying tfeat the Bill might pass into a law . Some petitions were also presented on the other side . * ' Several of these petition * ( sfcys the Times' report ) purported to he from Protestant Dissenter ^ and one was , we understood , from Mr . Huntingtou , the son of the preacher of that name . " Earl
Grey , on one of the above petitions being presented , rose , not , as he said , ' Ux 6 ppose the receiving of such petitions , bat to point out the very little weight which could be attached to them , as none of them came from public bodies , or bad been agreed to at a public meeting , bat were all signed in a private and secret manner . Lord Rei > esi > auk thought that
the observation of the noble Earl , instead of being an objection , was a recommen dation to the petition's . Thep i # ere mars entitled to eomhderation than if thty kmd been carried amidst the clamour ofa pu& tie meeting . E&i&GbjsY could not agree with the noble and teamed Lorti in . his preference . The Lord Ch ^ ncsxlob concurred with his noble and learned frieftd in giving pre # er «« ed to petitions ^ Hv * t « ly
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Zntelligerw + ^ MifCeUungoutj ^ Parlkmentary . 451 by
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encotu ^ ged decided favourable opinions of the two eminent counsel before whom tte ease was laid . The course of argument adopted by these geotlemen , iu the proceedings wi * ich eusoed , was that which they deemed best calculated to attain my pbject ^—the permanent sup - pression of the book . It is not to be
regarded as a renewed statement , or defence on my part , of opinions which I had already withdrawn from the public , and the continued suppression of which , in conformity to my previous arrangement , was my only motive for incurring the trouble and expense of a Chancery suit . As to the charge of irreligion again hinted at in the Court of Chancery , i
beg to repeat what I have already expressed in my letter before alluded to , that I am fully impressed with the importance of religkm and morality to the welfare of mankind , that I am most sen * sible of the distinguishing excellencies of that pare religion which is unfolded in the New Testament , and most earnestly desirous to see its pure spirit universally diffused and acted on .
•' WILLIAM LAWRENCE . u Sir M . C . Qlynn r Bart ., " President 0 / Bride&ell and Bethlem"
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/59/
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