ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE. [From the Times, 28th June.]

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 143, 13 October 1847, Page 2

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE. [From the Times, 28th June.]

The Committee on Education of Her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council held a meeting on Saturday, which was attended by the Lord President of the Council) Lord John Russell, theEurl of Clarendon, the Earl of Minto, the Eail of Auckland, Viscount Morpeth, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macauley. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth was in attendance.

National Education. — 'Educate the people by means of State interference," was tbe last legacy of Washington to tbe people of tlie United States. "Educate the people," was the constant language of Jefferson. " Take away education, and what are your means? Military force, prisons, solitary cells, penitentiaries, gibbets ; all the other apparatus of penal law*. If, then, there be an end which a government is bound to attain — if there are two ways only of , attaining it— if one of those wajs is by elevating the moral und intellectual character of the people, and if the other way is by inflicting pain — | who can doubt winch way every Government , ought to take f" Tbis N last citation, is the autho- ! rity of Adam Smith, on the right and duty of the | State to provide for the education of the common > people.

Schoolmasters.— How many of these men are the refuse of other callings — discarded servants or ruined tradesmen ; who cannot do a sum in the rule of three, who would not be able to write a common letter, who do not know whether the earth is a cube or a spheie, and cannot tell whether Jerusalem is in Asia or America j whom no gentleman would trust with the key of his cellar, and no tradebtnan would send of a message. Yet such are the, men to whom you trust the mind of the rising generation, on whom the prosperity and the future eminences of the country will depend.— Thomas Bdbmgton Macauley.

Reverse of jjohtune.— Lady Morning (on, the once celebrated Miss Vane Tempest, the richest heiress in England, lately applied a» a casual pauper to the parish of St. George for relief.

Ualtic— .The Frankfort Journal announces the an ival at Elsinore of a Russian fleet, composed of six ships of the line, one frigate, one corvette, one brig, and one steam boat. Thoie were to be followed by several other ships of the line, and three frigates.

Large departure op Vessels from Liverpool. — On Tuesday last, a sight was witnessed at Liverpool which is rarely (o be seen. In one tide, no less than 123 vessels,-of which. 45 were coasters, and the lemainder bound to Foreign ports, went out to sea. The scene was one of lively interest. Many of the vessels were American, and others of large class.

Currency Movement in Scotland.-*. The Glasgow Herald mentions that a great and influential meeting in favor of granting a tem«porary permission to the various banks throughout the country to convert the specie at present held by them into government or other secuiities, has been begun in that place. It i* under* stood that upwards of £2,000,000 or gold are held by the Scotch banks alone, which are wholly useless in Scotland, no one ever wishing to see a sovereign in that country. In the Edinburgh Stock Exchange, a similar resolution has been come to, and petitions have been prepared for presentation to parliament on the subject. It is added, that all Scotland w ill be moving in this question in the coarse of a few da\s.

Italy. —Letters from Rome of the 18th June, bring an account of the festivities which took place on the pievious day, on the occasion of the anniversaiy of the Pope's elevation to the Pontifical see. The entire population of Rome, and deputations from the neighbouring towns assembled in the morning at the Campo Vacciuo, the ancient foium. The inhabitants of eacli town and ward had a separate banner. From thence the mass of people proceeded to the capital, where they were joined by the students of the university, and the civic guards, beating the colours offered to the latter by the inhabitants of Bologna. The procession then moved towards the Quirinal, singing patriotic h)tnns, and crying, " Long live Pius iX 1 Vivat Italy 1" Cicernacchio, the chief of the Transteverines, inarched at the head of the cortege, bearing a large flag. The Pope appeared at the balcony of ihe Palace, and bestowed his benediction on the crowd. In the evening the city was illuminated. A most diabolical plot to murder the Pope has qeen discovered. It was first found out by the French Ambassador, and he revealed the name of the conspirator! to the Pope. Their intention was to assassinate him whilst giving audience to one of them who was, by lot, to be appointed to. kill him. A Capuchin presented himself for an audience of the Pope. , His Holiness requested his name, — this he gave boldly, but before being admitted, the Pope looked over the list of the conspirators, and found the name of the Capuchin ibere. He immediately called for, nu concealed six carbineers, who, on the Capuchin*' entrance, seized him, and on searching him, found he bad a brace of loaded pistols, and a* poisoned dagger about his person. The Capuchin was conveyed to prison. Many arrests have taken place. This plot is no doubt a concoction.

The Late MR. O'CoNNELL.—The Journal dcs Debats gives an extract of a letter from Genoa, under date May 16, which slates that,— •• Mr. O'Connell spoke only a few words to his physician, and these were to make an earnest request that the coffln should not be closed too soon over his remains, because he was sure (he said), that he would have the appearance of being dead, before yielding up his last sigh. His most ardent wish wai to reach Rome, and to receive the benediction of Pius IX, and in the course of his journey he exposed a wish that, if he should die on the way, his heart would at least be sent to the capital of the Catholic world. This idea is said to have been suggested to him by the,

recollection of Robert Bruce, who before dying requested that liis heart might be deposited in the Holy Sepulchre. The wish of O'Comiell will be fulfilled, and in conformity also with his last wishei, his body will be carried to Ireland."

Emigratiok to Nova Scotia.— Sir John Harvey, the Governor of Nora Scotin, has addressed a despatch to Earl Grey, of great importunce at the present moment, in which lie states that there being reason to apprehend thai a large body of einigtanli will be induced to seek refuge in Nova Scotia during the present year, owing to the existing distress in Ireland and parts of Scotland, and to the groundless reports which have been industriously circulated that the proposed railroad between Halifax and Quebec will soon aflbrd work and high wages to thousands; he considers it his duty to inform Lord Grey that the province is in no respect prepared for* the reception of poor people of that description ; and that the landing, under present circumstances, of even a small numbir in the colony, suffering as it is under the scarcity produced by the failure in the potato and grain crops in the last two seasons, would be injmious to the province itself; while those resorting to it in the expectation of ameliorating their condition would be giievously disappointed. It is supposed Father Mathew will be honoured with the cruzicr and mitre— for two reasons — because he stands at the head of the candidates, which, unleis cause be shown, the Papal court recognises as a title to priority; and because of Pius IX's attachment to the temperance cause, which would be ineradicably confirmed in Ireland by the Episcopal prestige of its apostle -—Daily News.