In a speech at Maghull, near Liverpool, on Thursday, Mr.
A. B. Forwood, M.P., Secretary to the Board of Admiralty, gave the strongest assurances that in the proposed assistance to Education bywhich the Government hope next Session to get rid of the parents' fees, nothing will be done to injure the present position of the Voluntary or Denominational schools, or to increase the rates. The necessary revenue will be provided out of Imperial taxation. He also strongly deprecated the introduction of the Irish system of judicial rents into this country, to the agricultural condition of which it is in no way suited ; and pointed out that, if introduced, it would alto- gether revolutionise the relations between the landlord and the tenant, which in England have generally been so friendly and so productive of good, both material and social, to the tenant-farmer. On the new American tariff he spoke with great good sense. It would, of course, he intimated, injure the trade of the world ; but it would injure the United States relatively much more than it would injure any other country. Undoubtedly our manufacturers would at first lose American customers '; but they would soon gain more than an equivalent in other countries where American goods would find themselves displaced by the new policy, and replaced by English goods. The new American tariff is mischievous, but much the worst effects of its mischief will be felt in the United States.
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