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    should be a good education , wheresoever acquired : not the fact of having been educated at a certain place , least of all at a bad place . The certificates of Oxford and Cambridge should pass current only at their intrinsic value ; and those of every other place of education should do the same .

    Tn the debate last night , Mr . Ewart , of Liverpool , an active and valuable Member of Parliament , had the courage to say that the education of our higher ranks is below that of some other countries . This notorious truth having excited a murmur , Mr . Ewart defended himself by the instance of Germany , and by rather an unfortunate one , that of

    the United States . We have always understood that in America there is still less of sound literary and philosophical instruction than even here , and that the superiority of that country consists in the superior education of the poorer classes , not of the richer . Mr . Ewart might have said * Germany and France /

    If Mr . Ewart exhibited one kind of courage , two members for Universities exhibited another kind . Mr . Estcourt held up Oxford and Cambridge as the two great causes of the prevalence of Christianity in this kingdom . He would say , Do not disturb us ; allow us to go on as we have done , launching into the world young men perfectly capable of carrying that religion into every relation of life . ' Mr . Goulburn adjured every parent , who had sent his son to a University , to ' reflect

    what he ( the son ) might have been , had not his passions been subdued by daily and regular devotion . ' This is rather a bold offer to let the tree be judged by its fruits . Will Mr . Estcourt ' s and Mr . Goulburn ' s constituents bear out their representatives in this challenge ? Will they allow judgment to pass upon the Universities according to the practical regard paid by the majority of the pupils to Christianity , considered as enjoining them to subdue what Mr . Goulburn is complimentary enough to call their * passions ? Solvuntur risu tabulce . We admit that those

    venerable places succeed in inspiring the young men with highly friendly feelings towards religion , in common with the other institutions of the State , and a very proper respect for the Deity , as one of the constituted authorities .

    itk July . The Chancellor ' s Declaration against ( he Taoces on Political Information . —A good aim ( how often it has been remarked ) is seldom lost ; if the good object aimed at be not furthered , some other of perhaps equal value is so . Mr . O'Connell ' s motion for the Teform of the 'aw of libel will be the destruction of the taxes on knowledge . That question , after being discussed and apparently lost for the session , was referred to the Commi ttee on the Law of Li bel . Lord B roucrham attended

    that Committee as a witness , and said and unsaid all manner of liberal * nd ultra-liberal things on the libel question ; but when interrogated as to the taxes on newspjJJ ) ers and political tracts , he delivered a firm , steady , and welUrftaamied opinion in condemnation of them . Last night « e repeated this opinion in the House of Lords , and intimated his intenti

    on of bringing the subject before Parliament . There is little doubt that these taxes will be taken off at the beginning of the next session ; for this is one of the subjects on which there is reason to believe the Chancellor to be really in earnest ; and we see that He now considers "ie time to be come for carrying his opinion into effect . There will now , therefore , be vastly greater facilities than were ever

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    Taxes on Political Information . 593

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/63/