meat by her Majesty's Ministers. His votes in Parliament would
prove that " There are those who consider education as the giant steam•engine in the point ! but at the same time, it was only justice to state, that the Ministry had hands of the child. They are those who look forward with alarm to every suc- Ineen actuated by the best intentions; and he also believed that they were the cessive enlargement of the domain of intelligence—who declare it is serutioizing be-t Ministry which the present circumstances of the country would allow us into the ways of Providence to consider a single dispensation of his mighty still to have. There were some people calling themselves Radicals, but whose real —who consider a balloon in the heavens as a trespass upon the domain of characters he could only explain by entering into a consideration of human Ahnighty power—who believe geometry is an enemy of religion, who regard nitre in the abstract, who seemed to imagine that the country would gain astronomy as impiety, and treat all natural philosophy as but another shape of son.ethin; if they could turn the present Administration out and let a Tory error and infidelity. But when I speak of these men, or when I talk of such Administration in. He entertained DO such opinion. He utterly repudiated impiety, or such persons, I would rather say, not what, but who are they ells any such idea. It would be the height of madness to turn out the present oppose education! Is it the people who oppose education? Is it they who Administration and let in the Tories. He was firmly of this opinion, holding have bought what they have by struggle and exertion—who catch each glimpse tha welfare of his country as his polar Star, and he would not allow any thing that comes upon them and chelish it with tenfold affection, even the most dims else to occupy his mind ;hut, holding this opinion, he would give his suppolt tent ray ? Is it the men from whom we derive our strength, and who ask in to that Ministry which was the best calculated to promote the happiness and return for that strength what we can give them by way of instruction? What prosperity of the country. The Whigs—and he hoped they were going to be, is education to them? Why, what is it but to allow them to make use of the es an honourable friend of his had said the other night, practical Radicals— mind, to move the aim, to stir the muscle, to exercise the thought? Why would vire the People a dividend of five shillings in the pound ; but lie had should any portion of the common family of man he kept from reaching meet y-t heaid of a Tory offering more than half-a-crown. Would they advise the height of any one amongst us? Why should there be any Bralinainical
from the charge of hostility to the Church, and pleaded their cause as Several speeches followed. Mr. Mark Phillips alluded to his oppo.
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