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Lord Mahon, having expressed hia determination not to follow Sir W. Molesworth rata the questionwhich lift had raised imnn f.lm ovr.i...:___lt;* 3man Catholics from the benefit of this grant, calledupon the opponents of the Government scheme tot x±\ IV ’ ^ QVUUIUO Vmsay what they would propose in case they defeated it. Could the house allow things to remain as they were after the statements which had been male to it respecting the ignorance and crime prevailing in many parts of t he country ? The tenth report of tho Inspector of the Prisons gave a dreadful illustration ot tho connexion between ignorance and crime as did also the last Factory ltcport presented by Mr. Leonard Horner in Docembcr last. Having read extracts of considerable length from both thesedocuments, 110 contended that it would be disgraceful to tho house to let things remain in their presentlamentable condition. The only alternative, therefore, was to adopt some plan of assisting in some manner secular and religious instruction. Though he objected to several details of the plan proposodby the Government, still ho was prepared to give his ready acquiescence to it as a wholo, believing it to bo the most practicable measure that could be devised in existing circumstances, lie concluded by lamenting that this scheme liad been propounded to the house in a minute of tho Privy Council, and not, us it ought, to have been, in an act of Parliament.
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London Monthly Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Apr 24, 1847
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