give would be a system of education. The debate having been again
adjourned, was resumed by Earl Spencer and the Bishop of Norwich. On
a division, Lord Roden's amendment was negatived by a majority of one
hundred and fifty-five to fifty-nine; and the house having again divided
on the original resolution, the second reading was carried by a majority
of two hundred and twenty-six against sixty-nine. Subsequently, a
discussion took place on the committal of the bill. On the motion for
the third reading another debate took place; and the Bishop of Llandaff
moved that the bill be read a third time that day six months; but on a
division this amendment was negatived by a majority of one hundred and
eighty-one against fifty. On the question that the bill do pass, the
Earl of Winchilsea moved another amendment to the effect that the
operation of the bill should be limited to a period of three years; but
tins also was negatived, and the bill then passed.

ACADEMICAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

Another scheme, emanating from government, for the improvement of the
Irish people, was a plan for the extension of academical education in
Ireland. This measure was developed by the secretary of state for the
home department. On moving for leave to bring in the bill, on the 9th of
May, Sir James Graham said that the object in bringing it forward was to
improve the social condition of Ireland. The difficulty of accomplishing
such an object, he said, would be discerned, when he stated that the
plan which he conceived to be the most essential was the diffusion
of the benefits of education among the higher classes of the people.
Religious differences formed the great obstacle to the adjustment of the
general question of education in Ireland. For a long series of years
the religion of the majority of the Irish people had been treated by the
state as hostile. That notion, however, had been gradually abandoned:
the penal laws had either been removed, or were in the course of
removal, although traces of them were still perceptible, and operating
most noxiously in their interference with the education of the people.
Sir James Graham next proceeded to discuss what was the best mode of
educating the people of Ireland, contending that it consisted in the
absence of all religious tests. It wras on this principle that the
bill he proposed was founded. Government recommended to the house the
establishment of three provincial institutions for education