and accordingly our good lady made at the public expense a journey, of which she reserved all the advantages and pleasures for herself."

GOVERNMENT EDUCATION MEASURE.
From the Spectator.

THE temper in which the educational clauses ed of by the leaders in the House of Commons of the Government Factory Bill have been talkis such as to suggest a hope that some of the details of the bill may be modified so as to enable both parties to support it.

The readers will not, perhaps, at once observe that the parties held up to ridicule or reprobation by the ex-prefect in hese extracts, are probably sufficiently pointed at for a Paris reader to identify by his descriptions, and thus the discarded police official in all probability pays his debts of spite by these details, which may or may not be true, but which must be fatal to the reputation of the parties, thus gratuitously, on such authority, branded with infamy institution supported by Government for the purthe eyes of the public.

The principle of compulsory education by the State, as is truly observed by Mr. Fox in his pamphlet on the Educational Clauses, "is new to some of their characteristic modes of thought." to the people of this country, and very offensive The remark applies only to secular education; for the Church is, properly speaking, a great in

pose of diffusing religious education. With re-
gard to secular education, however, the remark is
just; and Mr. Fox might have added, that the lazy
routine habits of the old stagers in Government
offices is an additional impediment in the way
of a national system of education. Keeping in
view the inveterate prejudices entertained in
this country by "practical men" of all classes
against any thing they are not accustomed to, it
is desirable that any step on the part of the
Civil Government to assume the care and re-
and encouraged.
sponsibility of education should be welcomed

But all parties began at last to be disgusted with him-popular hatred rose to fury-and he was obliged, in self-defence, to retire not only from office, but from the capital; yet nevertheless he makes his moan, at the close of his volumes, because his persecutions, as he calls them, extended even to those friends and relatives whom he had thrust into office! One would think him the most wronged of men. He fancies, too, after his retirement, with a delusion To the late Whig Ministry belongs the credit amusingly analogous to a case he ridicules of taking the first step in this direction. A Comin an early part of these volumes, that he mittee of the Privy Council on Education is, was subjected to espionage, and seeing of perhaps, but a poor substitute for a Minister of course his own former agents around his Public Instruction; but it is a great gain as a house, as they were everywhere, he be- beginning. By making the appointment of such a Committee a recognized part of the arrangelieves that his very motions are watched, ments of every new Administration, the Civil and complains, like another Rousseau, that Government recognizes a certain surveillance all men were in a plot against him! It is of education as part of its cares and responwith exquisite effrontery that, wearied, as sibilities. Every thing that the friends of eduit should seem, with virtuous efforts to jus- cation, in or out of Parliament, can henceforth tify himself, he exclaims at last-"Je ne education, will naturally be referred to this Cominduce Government to do for the promotion of veux pas céder à l'irritation de mes souve-mittee. In proportion as its business increases nirs je m'en rapporte à la sagacité de tous les hommes impartiaux!"

It is said that the mode Gisquet took to interrogate a man from whom he expected to elicit a fact of importance was to seize him by the hand, talk for some time on other matters, and then, putting the query vehemently and abruptly, squeeze his hand violently at the same moment-a mode of question which, it is stated, in many instances extracted the desired reply, when nothing else could have accomplished it.

in quantity, the importance of its Chairman (who, as usual, will be the Committee) will increase, and the public become familiarized with the interference of Government in educational matters. The prejudices alluded to by Mr. Fox Bureau of Education; but the Committee of would prevent the creation of a Minister and Education must necessarily grow into a Minister and Bureau.

The educational clauses of the Government Factory Bill are a step in this progress. It has been stated as an objection to them, that it is invidious to make education compulsory on the There is little, we repeat, to induce he factories, if it is not to be made compulsory on the whole nation. The answer is, you could reader to peruse this work-it will certain-not, in the present temper of the people and of ly not instruct him, and will, we think, scarcely amuse, beyond the passages we have extracted.

public men, carry a measure for compulsory national education; but the inquiries of the Čommissioners on Factories and the Employment of Children have convinced every body that something must be done in the manufacturing districts. If a system of compulsory education for the factory population under the control of the Committee of the Privy Council for Education can be made to work well, it will be an experimental demonstration of the possibility and ad

vantage of extending the system to every district, and embracing within it all classes of the population.

solve into apprehensions entertained by the Dissenters and liberal Churchmen that the measure may be perverted into a system of proselytism. In order to estimate the value of the objections The features of the measure regarded as most to the details of Sir James Graham's education- favorable to such abuse are-1. The constitual clauses, let us briefly enumerate their provi- tion of the Local Boards of Trustees: 2. The eions. They go to establish schools under the provision (section 55) which renders it necessamanagement of a Local Board of Trustees, sub-ry that the teachers shall belong to the Estabjected to the inspection of four lay Inspectors, with a staff of assistant Sub-Inspectors, and to the control of the Educational Committee of the Council. The Local Board is to consist of the Clergymen and the Churchwardens of the district, ex officio Trustees; and four other Trustees, two of whom must be occupiers of factories employing children, chosen by the district Justices of the Peace out of persons assessed at a certain sum to the poor, or out of those who have contributed a certain proportional sum to the entire cost of the school. Every person giving a site to a school shall be one of the Trustees during his whole life. This Board is tied down to certain regulations for insuring due respect to the religious persuasions of the parents of children attending the schools. The Bible, and "no other book of religion whatever," is to be taught to all the pupils; instruction in the peculiar doctrines of the Church of England," one hour in each day," is to be given; but scholars whose parents desire that they shall not be present at such instruction shall not be compelled to attend. The scholars are to attend the service of the Church once a day on Sundays, unless the parents desire them not to do so, on the ground of religious objections. And the Educational Committee of the Privy Regarding this measure, as it ought to be reCouncil are, through their Inspectors appointed garded, with a total absence of all partisan feelby the Queen, that is by her Ministers, to watching, and solely with a view to the effects it is over the observance of these regulations and enforce them.

lished Church: 3. The provisions by which attendance at church and at Sunday-schools is made compulsory, and attendance upon those of the Establishment made the rule; an express dispensation being required to permit attendance upon Dissenting places of worship. Two of these objections would be obviated by engrafting on the bill two of the recommendations embodied in Lord John Russell's resolutions—1. That the rate-payers of any district in which rates are collected for the erection and mainten ance of a school shall be adequately represented at the Local Board, and the Chairman be elected by the Board itself: 2. That in order to prevent the disqualifications of competent schoolmasters on religious grounds, the religious instruction given to children whose parents belong to the Established Church, or who may be desirous that their children should be so instructed shall be communicated by the clergyman of the parish. With respect to the third objection, Lord John proposes that the children shall have liberty to resort to any Sunday-school or place of religious worship their parents may approve: perhaps a still better method of obviating the objection would be, not to legislate at all upon the subject.

calculated to produce upon society at large, we see no reason why the most zealous Churchman These arrangements put the entire control of should object to Šir James Graham's bill, modithis partial system of national education in the fied to meet the amendments suggested in Lord hands of the Civil Government. A majority of John Russell's resolutions; or why, on the other the Local Trustees are appointed by the Justi- hand, the stanchest friend of civil and religious ces of the Peace, who are appointed and re- liberty should hesitate to support it. Nay, with movable at pleasure by Government. The In-regard to the objection urged against the conspectors are appointed by Government. The stitution of the Local Boards contemplated by Educational Committee of the Privy Council the original bill, it does appear, that with Minishave the power of checking every contravention ters so completely in the power of the House of of the regulations made to insure liberty of con- Commons as the Ministers of this country are science. Sir Robert Peel's Government are en--with constituencies in which the Dissenters deavoring to put into the hands of the Ministers of Education created by Lord Melbourne's Government the means of educating the people. The system of schools contemplated by the present Government bill must be worked in the sense of the Ministers of the day; and the Ministers of the day must conform to the sense of the House of Commons and its constituents. This, in the present advanced stage of public opinion, is no bad guarantee that the administration of the schools will not be tainted with a proselytizing or an intolerant spirit.

But this approbation of the broad outline of the measure is quite consistent with a desire that every thing in its details to which wellfounded objections can be urged should be amended. All the objections of any plausibility or weight that have been urged against the bill are in reality objections to details. They all re

are probably more powerful than they would be under a more extended franchise-with the growing feeling in favor of secular education, and an unfettered press-the control vested in the Committee of the Privy Council for Education would be found sufficient to counteract any danger from that source.

"THE CLUB."-The members of this longestablished literary club, founded by Dr Johnson, and of which Sir Joshua Reynolds, and most of the celebrites of their day, have belonged, dined together on Tuesday evening, at the Thatched House Tavern. The Right Hon. B. Macaulay, were the Marquess of Lansdowne, Viscount Mor M. P., president, and among the members present peth, Earl of Carnarvon, Hon Mountsturt Elphinstone, Rev. Sydney Smith, Rev. H. H. Milman, &c.-Court Journal.

THE MONOMANIAC.

A TALE.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.

TOWARDS the close of 1829 the gaming houses of the Palais Royal, in Paris, were nightly filled with an unusual number of players, from a report getting abroad that these sinks of iniquity were to be abolished in the succeeding year. One evening in summer there was a full attendance at a rouge-et-noir table in one of the largest of the houses. All went on quietly for some time. At last the silence was broken by a young man who exclaimed, "Confusion! Red again, and I have been doubling on black for the last five games. Four hundred louis? 'Tis well; this is the finale! So now as I am ruined-send me some brandy!"

"Fortune has frowned to-night, Folarte," said a person who was watching the game; "have you lost much?"

"A bagatelle of four hundred, simply; more, indeed, than I ever lost in one evening," returned the loser, retiring with his friend to a separate table.

"Nay, you forget the seven hundred on Thursday; it"

people had been asleep, dreaming of what their waking hours realized-happiness. They were not, like myself, gamesters; or if they were, they must all have come off winners. Minutely noting the expression of each face as it was turned towards me, I could read, with some accuracy, what passed within. Thus I enjoyed a sort of metaphysical panorama. Each one who caught sight of me no longer smiled, but frowned upon me as an intruder upon their joyousness. Had I been an adder lying across the path of a pleasure-party, they could not have regarded me with greater aversion. The men depressed their brows; for my appearance troubled them; and no wonder. I was unshorn and haggard, and my whole aspect must have plainly indicated a night in a gambling-house. My countenance doubtless betrayed the remorse then rankling in my heart. This was 'produced by recollections of the ruin 1 was bringing upon others whom it was my duty to cherish and to comfort. My mother was on the point of being dragged to prison for nonpayment of a bond, ten times the amount of which I had squandered, or lost at play. had sacrificed the trusting heart of my betrothed Lisette for the smiles of a co

promised a present which would cost fifty

Is not so much as the four hundred to-quette, to whom I had, on that very night, night." "So!" exclaimed Cornet; "you have pounds. To deepen the dye of my crimes, got rid of your arithmetic as well as your money ?"

"Psha! friend; a word in your ear. The ill luck of this day leaves me only fifty pounds richer than a pauper; they are my last. Come, pour out more brandy!"

Cornet looked me steadfastly in the face. "Folarte," said he, "you are a philosopher!"

"A philosopher? If you knew all, you would call me a hero. But my head burns. A turn in the gardens of the Thuilleries will cool me."

Lisette and her brother had travelled to Paris, and were in great distress, although a sum I borrowed of François, and which I had not repaid, would have rescued them

from want.

Maddened by these reflections, I rushed to my lodging. It was there that the malady, the consequences of which I am about to detail, first seized me. Accidentally looking into the dressing-glass, I beheld my face frightfully distorted by remorse and dissipation. That vision so horrified me, that the impression remained "You will join us again in the evening?" after I withdrew my eyes from the glass. "Of course; have I not fifty left?" My own form continually appeared standIt was early morning; the air, though ing beside me. I was the slave of ITS acfresh, was damp and chilling, laden with tions. I had lost my will, my identity. I dew; but the cold gray color of the sky was nothing but an unembodied appendage gradually dissolved into a more genial tint of my own form. I had become a shadow by the rays of the rising sun. Several milk-in continual attendance upon a seeming maids and laundresses passed me. Yes, substance which usurped my corporeal me; for the ruined, reckless gamester it frame: I did whatever Ir liked, and went is who now makes his confession. They wherever Ir chose.* seemed happy, for they laughed and chatted merrily. Groups of artisans also appeared, and let off several trite jokes and ready-made gallantries; for which the girls rewarded them; some with their lips, others with their smiling glad-looking eyes. These

In the Rue Richelieu-whither the form led me-Cornet, the professed gamester,

*However improbable it may seem for a person

of disordered mind to fancy he is haunted by his own form, yet the circumstance is perfectly true.Ed.

"Indeed, I shall be most happy," continued the imperturbable lawyer. "About twelve-perhaps five minutes later-we shall be with you. Permit me to hope that, provided the money shall not have been paid into court by that time, you will have made your out-door toilet. And now, madame, nothing remains for me but the Madame Folarte's whole frame was con-pleasure of wishing you good day." The vulsed with a sudden shudder; for the man, as he spoke, cast his eyes on the deed that lay on the table. "Then this is the last day!" she ejaculated.

While this scene was being enacted, I "Pardon me, madame, I shall have the was conducted by my second self into the honor to occupy your valuable time pre-shop of the jeweller of whom the tiara I cisely twenty minutes." The notary then intended to present to Estelle had been took a watch from his waistcoat pocket, ordered. The chief assistant stretched his and placed it beside him. long neck over the row of customers that "I know too well the object of your be-lined the counter, to say, "The tiara Moning here. In a word, you must tell the sieur ordered is ready. Monsieur shall be creditor-Monsieur Durand, I believe attended to as soon as it is possible." He that I have not been able to raise the money."

"Here are the jewels," said the man as to have left him a moment's comparative he approached; "they are of the finest happiness; he appeared to have sunk into water, and elegantly set. The price two obliviousness. Thrice miserable state, to thousand francs only." render forgetfulness a blessing!

For the first time IT spoke, and I heard Even this was denied for any length of my own voice as if from another's lips. time; a faint voice from a bed which stood I shuddered. The bargain was made. in a corner of the room awoke him to all Twenty-five louis were to be paid at once, the horrors of his lot. "Dear brother," it the rest in fifteen days. The shopman re- whispered, "you, too, are ill?" tired to pack up the purchase. Several "No, no; not ill," said the youth hurricarriages had stopped in the street on ac-edly, as he approached the bed; "not ill, count of some obstruction. Suddenly a dear Lisette, butshriek, loud, piercing, and to me familiar, entered my brain, and went straight to my heart! I saw a bitter smile pass over my companion's-my own countenance. A man, who had alighted from some vehicle, accosted us. He took off his hat. "I trust Monsieur will excuse a perfect stranger taking the liberty to address him; but a lady, whom I have the honor to escort to St. Pelagie, desired-before she fainted in my cab-to have the pleasure of speaking to Monsieur !"

That lady was my mother, arrested for a debt I had neglected to pay! She came tottering along the pavement to embrace me, but in the attempt sank on the ground. Not at all affected by the scene, my ever ready double said in the calmest accents to the little man-"Take her away," and the official did as he was bid!

"Faint, sinking, François ?" then suddenly recollecting herself, she exclaimed, "Alas! you have not tasted food for two days!" She fell on the pillow, and bathed it in tears.

"Lisette, Lisette, be of good heart," replied the brother. "Indeed I am not suffering on that account. Soon will these miseries be ended. Yes, yes," he continued, his eye brightening with a ray of hope, as he glanced towards the manuscript, "Monsieur Debit, the publisher, has promised-positively passed his word-that when complete, he will purchase my romance. Nay, the price is agreed on-two thousand francs. To-morrow evening we shall be possessed of two thousand francs! Think of that, sister."

"Would we had one franc now," interrupted Lisette mournfully. "But "But you A moment before, the jeweller's man have at last made known our wretched put forth the trinket in one hand, but in-state. Your letter to Folarte"stantly drew it back on seeing the transaction without. His thoughts were easily guessed to be these: "A person who can not afford to rescue his parent from prison, will hardly be able to pay a balance for jewellery."

"Name him not! He it is who has brought all these miseries upon us. All, all-my poverty, your illness. Oh, sister, he is unworthy of the sighs, the tears you have shed for him! Besides, his dishonesty to me, his attentions to the woman he calls Estelle, ought to"

"What, sir; do you doubt my honor ?" said, as I thought, my other self, with a su- "François, this must not be; you think preme assumption of indignation. Twenty-too hardly of our cousin. My heart is infive louis were thrown jingling on the counter, and the tradesman was conquered. The present for Estelle was gained.

deed breaking-not because he is lost to me, but because he is lost to himself. The terrible vice of gaming has for a time blackened his heart. But he will be here yet-I know he will. My own heart tells me so."

"Not while he has a louis left to gamble with. Let us not think of him. I will resume my task.

Meanwhile two other victims of my errors were suffering the pangs of poverty in their severest acuteness. In a miserable attic, in the most wretched quarter of Paris, a young man-his form attenuated, his visage wan-was earnestly engaged in François had scarcely uttered those words making alterations in a romance of his own before we entered his room. On beholding composition. He had pursued the task as what he thought to be me, he threw himself long as his fast-failing strength would per-into an attitude of defiance; the girl shriekmit but that was at length exhausted, and ed and hid her head under the bed-clothes. he covered his face with his thin starved- There was a pause. Lisette was the first to looking fingers, to rest upon them a head speak. "François, I, your sister, so dear to aching with mental anxiety and physical you, implore you to receive him with kindweakness. Poverty, the fiend whose gall-ness. He has come to relieve us to pay ing influence he bitterly bewailed, seemed you."