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Itvis announced that the squadron to convey ’ the Prince 43f “Vales to Canada on his forth- ". coming visit will consist of the screw steamer Hero. 91 guns; the Ariadne, screw, 26 guns; ' the Flying Fish, screw, 6 guns; and the roy- al paddle yacht Osborne. The Prince will * take‘his passage out and home in the Hero, "one of the finest vessels of her class in the {navy .The yacht Osborne will be retained tmu‘sernces on the coasts and rivers of Cana- The Duke pf Newcastle Opposed the motion, ' and argued that publicity is an essential ele- ment of freedom, and that the ballot adopted ‘ in America is not secret voting. . The motion was lost by a vote of 4 you to 539 nag a. ARRIVAL OF THE "KANGAR00.” At a meeting OE'ihe Red Sea Telegraph Co., the completion of the line to India was for mally announced. It was likewise stated that in the course of a couple of months the Mediterranean line is expected to be finished when London will be in direct communica- tion with Calcutta. TH]: mxcn or vuuts ADVISED TO VISIT THB UNITED STATES. The London Times of the 20th ult., after dtacuasing the comtemplated visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada, says: an the American Commonwealth, yet we feel sure that a journey through the United States and some assocxation with the people “'0le not be lost lab”. Of a kind and cour- teous reception the son of Queen Victoria maybe very sure. The interest of Ameri- cans in the descendants of the former ruler of their country is second onlv to that of Eng- ;‘lishmen themselves, and, whatever may :have been formerly the case, the feeling is now one of cod will and sympathy. The Prince of also might find both instruction and recreation in a visit to the Atlantic cities, whether it be New York in all its ambitious and spannew splendor or its more quiet rival. The (Session of Savoy Definitely Settled by France and Sardinia: It would he a matter of regret if the Prince of \Vales, satisfied with the homage of the Canadians, should neglect to visit the Repub- lie which now plays so great part in the world. We do not, of course, anticipate in any case that the Prince would return to Eng- land without having set foot on the United States territory; but there are differeent ways of visiting a country, and, as none re- pays attentive observation more than the A- merican Republic, so none is likely to be so ill understood by a mere flying tourist. A- merica is not a country of museums and pal- aces, to be “ done” in so many days with a Marty’s Handbook. Its interest consist in its people, in the phases of civilization through which they are passing. in the political and commercial activity which they they display, in their energy and restlessness, their great- ness and their weakness. THE KING OF SARDINIA EX- COMMUNICATBD BY THE POPE. ;uch high destinies, and who have such opportunities of directing the tastes of his countrymen, may advantageously study the progress in the arts of life by a ople thrown, as it were but yesterday, on t e shores of a new continent, a progress not less wonderful than their commercial prosperity. If the Prince of “’sles should further visit the Pres- dent of the United States at Washington, the courtesy will, we feel sure, be appreciated, and tend to draw closer the bonds which 11- 7:32! a: 123:: 93mm of WAfiii-E. Austria declines to renew diplomatic inter- course with Sardinia, owing to a flagrant Vio- alation to the treaty of Zurich. GRtAT BRITAIN. In the House of Lords on the 19th March, ,Lorcl Toynham moved a resolution declaring that it is expedient in the election of mem- bers of . Parliament that the votes of the elec-- ten be taken by secret ballot. Tho Kangaroo arrived this morning. The annexation of Savoy to F ranco has been definitely :e-‘tled by France and Sardin- ia, and the treaty signed. TheIroposition in favor of the ballot was to} cote by large majorities in both Houses of the English Parliament ,nite the two comm-ion. The Reform Bill being debated, but a:- ttacted little interest. A squadron of {our vessels, headed by the screw steamer Hero, is to convey the Prince of Wales to Canada. The London Times strongly recommends that he nuke a tour through the United States, and feels sure a visit to the President will be appreciated. Mrs. Jameson, the authoress. is dead. Florence Nightingale is seriously ill.- Prayers were offered up in the garrison chapels for her. -On the 20:}. in the House of Commons, Mr. H. Barkley made his annual motion for leave to bring in a bill providing for taking votes by ballot. After some debate the motion was rejected by a vote of 147 to 254. Although we cannot expect that a youth in his ninetemh year {110nm be abl‘e. to impreci- The commercial treaty between France and England is in full operation. Tile Municipal Council of N'ce voted against annexation of France, and sent a de- putation to Turin on the subject. There is much to be learnt from a few weeks of such travelâ€"more than a Royal personage may ever afterwards have an ap- portunity 9f l‘eamipg. 0:39 wlxo i? called to The Savoy deputation, corrupting of forty members, had arrived in Paris and had been received by the Emperor. 'l'he deputation presented the address. The Emperor expreeeed his pleasure in receiving the deputation, and the following ie said to be the sense of His Majesty’s speech:â€" ‘1 The reunion of Savoy and Nice has been resolved on princi le. The assent of Pied- gnont and the popu ation has been obtained to the reconciliation of the frontiers, and the ne- gociations with the Powers who signed the treaty of 1815 permit the hope of a favorable pnminetion of the question by the greater HE BALLOT REJEC' TED IV BOTH .HOUSES OF THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT’ Foreign News. rm: sue? gunman. NEW YORK, April 6th. part of them. Friendship for Switzerland had almost a ceseion of territoryto be gprom- ised whipfi-fhe believe:l would not be contrary to the wishes of Savoy, but as it was known that the population refused that Savoy should be dismembered, Erancerenounced this ces- Iion,althmgh wishing to protect the interests of Siitz ’ and.” ., On Saturday the deputa- tion 'will "e at the Tuill'eries, A despatch trim Viennzlfiannouncea that Austria will pronounce againt any violation of the rights of Swiss neurality guaranteed by treaties. The treaty relative to the cession of Savoy is said to have been signed by France and Sardinia before issue of Thouvenal’s despatcb, 15th March. The Prussian? Cabinet has forwarded a note to Paris on the Savoy question. It dwells strongly on the danger of applying the theory of national frontiers, and insist that the cession of the slapes of the Alps serious- ly weakens the frontier of Switzerland and Germany. ‘ ‘ .. Another report from Vienna is, that the Neapolitan tronps will at once enter the Pa- paI‘States if the Sardinians take possession of the Romanga. We desire the comment of our exchanges, as by discussion the truth is most likely to be brought out. Tm: LITTLE PiLGRIM.-â€"â€"The current No. of this little serial is at hand. It is vastly sup~ etior to any other (child’s paper’ we know of. TERMS :«Siugle copies, per annum, 50cents ; 5 do. $2; 14 do. $5; 24 do. $8. Address, LEANDER K. LIPPINCOTT, 132 south third street, Philadelphia. ' The Paris Constitutional states that the Pope had addressed a monitory to King Vic- tor Emanuel, intimating that henceforth all relations between his Holiness and the Roy- al ’amily must be considered as broken off.â€" That his Majesty will understand that he has openly vioalated the laws of the Church, and is formally excommunicated. The Holy Fa- ther reserves to himself the duty of taking into consideration the interest of the Univer- sal Church and the good Catholics of Pied- mont before proceeding to severer measures. which in any event, weigh from henceforth upon the person of the King. Le Norde says, the moment the Popc’ ebull is fulminated the cities of Milan, Genoa,S Leg- horn, Turin, Bologna and F Forence have a- greed toiliuminate and give the character of a National celebration to gthe event. It urns said at Vienna that the French troops at Rome would retire to Civita Veechia if the Pope excommunicafed Vi_c_t_or Emanue]. By way of Gibraltar, we have some parti- culars of tne opening of the second campaign in Africa. In the last campaign the Span- iards lost '250 killed and wounded. There are some persons opposed to any change in our present School Laws, and who suppose that whatever is, is right ; but who, after an explanation of the system, its workâ€" ing, c., become extremely indignant at what they usually term “the atrocious injustice practised upon them,” and that without knowing it; for being deeply engrossed in business, they never gave a moment’s con- snleration to minor affairs. Nothing decisive has taken phce relative to the annexation of Tuscanv to Piedmont.â€" The Tuscan Assembly had dissolved. It was asserted tdat Piedmont would con- tract for 150,000,000 francs. Tangier was expected to be attacked in s few days. The whole of the Spanish fleet had left Gibraltar for Tctuan. panama: or THE FRENCH ARMY FROM lTALY. MILAN, March 2Lâ€"The French army has to-day' commenced its returning movement to France, and the 80th Regiment of the Line by way of Susa; one company per day. The 2nd Regiment of the Line by way of N ica,the battalions departing daily. \Ve bespeak for the Petition to the Logis- lature, which will be found in our colums of 10-day, a careful and patient perusal, which we are sure will be well repaid by the infor- mation conveyed. THE STANDARD. News: has been received of the death of the Shah of Persia. Tm: vasszs FARMBR.°â€"-Tll8 April numbet of this periodical is at hand. It contains a complete compendium of all that is useful and necessary for farming operations during this month. Being practical and truthful in its remarks, we heartiiy recommend it to the notice of our farmers. 3:}- Our Gravel Roads are in active progress. The work is as yet confined to the Garafraxa Road south of the Saugeen river. (:3- Continental beggers, having a printed petition, which sets forth that the holder has been overtaken by some dreadful calamity, by which he lost. several relatives, and many more thousand dollars. Those to . whom they make application will perform an act of charity by giving them 3 sound horse-Whipping. We have seen hundreds of those petitions, or bogging cards, all simular in purportâ€"that of a village having been inundated by flood, or sank by earthquake. The villages repre- sented have never been in existence, much less the flood or earthquake.â€"â€"Put the (1035 on the impostors if they present themselves. £1}- A lecture will be delivered m the Durham School House on Tuesday evening next at 7 pun. by Mr. Iohn Davidson, on the: Ilabitn,and Customs of, and their results up- on, the people of Cunada. Edward Wicklow has been sentenced :o be hung in Guelph, on the 16111 J une next. DURHAM. APRIL 13, 1860. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. ITALY. . That your Petitioners are inhabitants of Upper Canada, and are-faithful and true, loyaliandi ‘ dutiful subjects of our most graciou? Sovereign Lady, Queen Vic toria: That yoitr Petitionerswill 1 [yield to none in ardent and reSpecti‘ul loyaltv to Her Majesty, and firm attachinent to'the British: Constitution : That the present Common and Grammar Schools and Public Library Laws of Upper-d Canada, as they now exist, and which are usually called the Common School System of Upper Ca-j l nada, taken as a whole, are not promotive of the interest and welfare of your Petitioners; but are, i l on the contrary, a real grievance, and an intolerable burden to them; and that your Petitioners do ; verily believe they are so regarded by the generality of their fellow-subjects of said part of the said Province: That your Petitioners regard with much pleasure and satisfaction the warm desire evinc? ed by the Provincial Parliament to make provision for the necessary assistance for the diffusion j of useful knowledge amongst the inhabitants of the Province generally; but they feel bound to de- ; clare that the evils arising from some of the details and provisions of the said laws do, in the opinion i of your Petitioners, far more than counter-balance any good which may be derived therefrom, and l entirely prevent the intention of the Legislatureâ€"or at least what your Petitioners take to be such i intentionâ€"from being carried into effect in Upper Canada: That the said. laws do greatly oppress ; many of your Petitioners, and as your Petitioners believe, many other inhabitants of the Province, 'espeeially the poorer portion of the people, by obliging them to pay rates for Schools from which, if they were ever so desirous, they cannot, from the peculiarity of their circumstances, derive any be- nefit whatever as Parents or Guardians; while other richer persons who are honorable minded, and are able and willing to pay their debts-whether for educational assistance or other things-are, if they send their children to the Common School, in a great measure obliged, greatly to their disgust, to bear the character of paupers, to say nothing worse, inasmuch as they are obliged to participate, for l the payment of their school expenses, not only in the fund provided directly by the Legislature for ;the assistance of the poorer portion of the inhabitants; but also in that which is obtained by action of the said laws by unjustly depriving other individuals of their own property: That the said laws do also greatly Oppress your petitioners en masse, inasmuch as they hate virtually confiscated all the property of each individualâ€"liable to pay school ratesâ€"4n the Province, by taking the control there- ‘ of out of his hands and placing it in the hands of certain persons called School Trustees, and secur-_ ing it. to them for a certain purpose, thus creating a state tax upon the whole of the property to the full amount of the property, and only leaving to' the people for the subsistance of themselves and families that which the said trustees may think proper from time to time to leave them: That these called liberty of the peOple to elect such trustees, amounts to but little account, inasmuch as the peo- ple have no control over such trustees with respect to the amount or portion of the property which they (the trustees) shall take, or in the management of the school; that the chief. if not the only, in- ducement that many persons in each school scection can have to attend the election 0f and] 91151908 is a chance to get such persons elected as may be by some reasonable means most easily persuaded to take the least possible amount. of property; whilst other persons attend with an entirely opposite view, and thus the law breeds strifcs and contentions year by year in each neighborhood : That the amount of property taken by the trustees by the authority and in submission to the said laws, can- not possibly be said to be a tax upon the people of the PrOVince by their own voluntary act of self- assessment otherwise than the same may be said of any other tax imposed by the Legislature, inas- much as it is the Legislature which has invested the trustees With the power to levy and collect the tax; and which tax your Petiti'Oncrs do believe is generally more unwillingly paid by the people from to sense of injustice and arbitrary power connected with it, than any ether tax which is impose-'1 l by the Legislature of the Province : That the said laws are otherwisebeginn-ing toappear-what they really are, a clog upon industry, by reason of the uncertainty attending possession, and, consequently the use and benefit which may be derived from property when obtained, as persons naturally feel in- different. about obtaining that for their own use which they know they cannot hold, but must part with as soon as demanded of them, and this too especially when they expect that such demand will not be long delayed; that even a. Patent from the Crown for a parcel of land does not secure such parcel of land to the holder of the Patent from the rape. cious demands of the trustees, and that the holding of property by the sort of tenure imposed upon your Petitioners by the system, though it may be compatible to a state of serfdom, is odious to your Petitioners as British subjects: That your Peti- tioners do believe that the system is advocated but by a comparatively small portion» of the inhabi- tants of Upper Canada, and by thosedtiefly whose :moral preceptions are generally of a low order, some of whom it is admitted will not send their children to school if they have to pay even but. a small sum therefor, but who can he sometimes induced thereto by the privilege offered them. by the , system, acting as a bribe, of getting their school bill paid at their neighbor’s expense. Others are the paid officials of thesystem, who derive immediate pecuniary advantage, and who seem quite competent and ready to apply scurilous epithets to any who may oppose the system ; but in whose official services your Petitioners are utterly unable to discover any public benefit or advantage what- ever; yet,among the paid officials, some few are to be found who have given utterance to senti- ments so just and noble that your Petitioners feel bound in duty to request the ROUGE of them,-:-_ - HUMBLY SHEWETH, “ I must confess considerable astorfishment on. reading the opinion of many Local Superintendents, expressed in your last Annual Reporhthat education ought to be compulsory. While I despise most heartily the prevalent and modern idea of ‘libe'rality,’ I do not look with more favor on ancient or existing despotism, under whatever form it may present itself, or whatever pretence it may put forth. There is no reason why, if an individual be forced to receive secular, he should not also be forced to receive spiritual knowledge, the urgent founded on the generai good, is as cogent if. the latter, as in the former on se. The public idea of social freedom is, I believe, too strong and enhghtened to to- lerate for an instant, the insidious scheme of taking a shoot of seeming fairness, from the poisonous weed of continental tyranny, andengrafting it upon the nobieend majestic tree of English liberty. The interests ot‘education, I admit, are most materially affected by the narrow-minded pennriousness of parents who if charged (id or ls per month for a child, prefer hoardingtlae miserable sum, to send- ing their otI‘Spring to school. ‘ “ ‘ " He who receives a direct and present; advantage from education should,certainly,pa y more for it than he who only receives an indireetan-d- prOSpective benefit. The purely free school system, is socialistic in its tendencies, and subversive of that spirit of indepen- dence which is the characteristic and most enobling feature of him who has been formed and mould- ed by the genius of universal libertyâ€"Rev. John J. Morris, County of Carleton! School Report, ’56, page 132. - - - ‘A - ‘ A C ‘ C n A n. ‘V .' “ Yet. after all, What is learnt in sehool is but the alphabet of thought for the man, and we who speak the glcrious English language Have the privilege above all other peorileâ€"we learn to think, and live to act Mere school learning i333 poor thing without freedom of thought. The too much lauded Prussian system lea ms the boy to read and so forth, but it leaves him a boy 1n thought for ever; and as for mere instruction, taking number as a. da ta for that, the Chinese are the most universally edu- cated peOple the sun shines on, and what, as a people, are they worth ? abominable in private life, and vile in public life. Give me the man as ignorant of book learning as he is of mental slaveryâ€"he who thinks for himself and of himselfâ€"who knows his privileges as a man, and dare: to stand up for themâ€"that man, I contend, is worth a centenary of Prussinns, who, though taught to read by statecraft, are never allowed to think. Well it behoves then our free Government to aid by every judicious means, libraries for the young and Mechanics’ Institutes for the old.”-â€"fllcx. H’inram, County of ‘Haldimmzd School Reportfor ’57, PagefllBl. ‘ 1 .1, l _ 1--“ 11_-A 9- “_-_.A-J 1.- --_-__A___1- “I cannot look upon the oldiworld unimpressed with the conviction that even France, which is in possession of'all kinds of wisdom except the wisdom which 'Christ came down on earth to teach â€"-the country which has laid her slaughtered millions of human victims on the altar of liberty, and deified sensual reason, may clearly trace the cause of all her sorrowwthe fierceness of her contending factions-"tho atheistie tyranny under which she writhes, Speechless and bleedingwto the want of a standard of” moral truth which she can resyect for its purity, and of men of pure minds and honest aims to tea ch itâ€"â€"to the Fact that the instruction of her masses has devolved on men who, whether priests or professors, he re heenia‘greed in rejecting the council of God.-â€"Jahn Kirkland, £811., County of l-Vellington School Report for ’"52, page 112’. v, vrc-u : cl-‘(uao up uuuo ltcluu IDJUI ua, FUSE 11a. “ I am e minced that any scheme of education that 13 not based on the oracles of eternal truth will eventually prove itself to be false, vain: amd 1n noord‘inary measmc. mischievous, not only as 1espects the momentous concerns of eternity, but merely as regards the corriparativel; minor interests of time. ”-â€"-â€"Rcv. fllex. qun, g2. M. County- of Lunar]: School Report ’55, page :226. an. - â€" VII", ‘ VJ ---'vâ€"“" “ I consider it. extremely unjust. and oppressive, that. all the freedom that is granted to any peeple is to compel them to tax their property to an amount equal to the Legislative grant, whether they he re children or not ; but to put on the second property-tax to make up the deficiencies of educating the children of parents who are able to do it themselves, I consider it oppressive and extremely un- jiis_t_._"--Elish(LLdnflon, County _0f_ Leeds School {lepe-rtfor ’58, page 13-4. --_--_L1- 1.. _..-1 __-__-..-.3 -fL- - m- J“That-yourPetitioners 116561 bblieve that the said‘laws are agreeable to and approved of by a ma- jority of the inhabitants of Upper Canada ; but, even if that were the case, it would still be wrong in the Legislature to continue themin force as they at present exist, because by the said laws many per- sons are unjustly and contrary to their wills deprived of their educational liberty, and of that por- tion of property which it has pleased Divine Providence to grant them, and that without receiving any proportionate benefit in-return therefor, which is most. manifestily unjust and repugnant to the Divine Laws which are binding upon nations and peeples as well as individuals, and which are by the British nation, as well as many others, acknowledged to be the supreme rule of right: That your Petitioners do believe that any change in the said laws by which the people will be deprived of the small degree of liberty they now possess will only serve to make the system more odious and intoler- able than it now is : That your Pe‘titioners dare not invokkthe Divine Blessing upon the system, ex- cept as an affliction, which they humbly pray that. it may please the Almighty to give the Provin- cial Parliament grace speedily to remove: That your Petitioners believe that the secular as well as the religious education of the young, and providing them with necessary food and raiment, kc, c., is a duty which the Almighty Creator has imposed upon the reapective individual parents, or other guardians of children ; and that the right ot individual choice and liberty of action in the provid- in g, oversight, and control of such education belongs to such parents, or guardians, individually ;and that such parents, or guardians, should (and in all free countries do) of right have the individual li- berty to exercise such right in ordertothe proper discharge of such duty: That the said school lawsâ€"although they do not openly profess to ignore such educational right, and to prevent such 1i- bert y of individual choice and actionâ€"yet do in effect deprive the mass of the inhabitants of Upper Canada of such right and liberty, inasmuch as when the people are deprived of their property for the benefit of the Common School or section, they have no other means or power left to supply their children with the desired education, therefore, they are not only deprived of their property and edu- cational liberty, but also to that extent of their parental authority: That your Petitioners do be- lieve that many persons who send their children to the Common Schools, regard such sending as their only choice between two evils,--thus if we do not send them, we have no other means left to educate them : if we do send' them, we surrender our own and our childrens’ liberty to the de- mands of an unjust and odious system, but they may perhaps some day recover their liberty: That your Petitioners cannot regard such sending as a proof of approbation of the system onfthe part of such persons, but only of submission to it: That your petitioners do claim for themselves to be pos- sessed, by the mercy of God, of natural affection, ordinary sagacity, and common sense, and consi- der themselves competent [to manage their own ordinary afi'airs; and “LSD able, except for the the present systemâ€"and do desire to perform their duties to such children as ‘it may please Divine Pro- vidence to place in their charge : That your Petitioners do not see any just cause why they should be deprived of their property, and of the educational care of their children, as if they were so many lunatics : That some of your Peét‘pners have migrated fromdifi’erent parts of Great Britain and Ireland, and others are the immediate descendents of such ; and that your Petitioners do regard the prescription from the schools of the text books which havebeen in popular use in the Old Country, as a wanton and heartless outrage upon their sentiments and ieelings: That the said laws agree not, in the Opinion of your Petitioners, with the genius and principles of British Institutions : That your Pe- titioners cannot desire any greater‘degree of liberty than that which belongs. to them as British sub- jects, such as is enjoyed by_their fellow-subject‘s in .Great Ijritain and other parts of the Empire, an L ‘°___ AL-A LL21- _.__-- '_.;___ _- A 1 0. I “ I t is by the public libraries, accessible to all, that progress and mental development, started in the school rooms, can be continued in after life, and which will qualify all to discharge better their duties which humanity requires they should perform for individuals, their country, and their race. They seem to raise the general standard of intelligence, the certain percursor to moral improvement, to correct popular errors, to purify the moral atmosphere, and expel the prevailing vices, by awak- ening new wants, and atl‘ording the means for their gratification; to protect the country from the danger of having free institutions controlled by ignorance, which may end in anarchy, or in that im- mobile cc nse‘rvatism which pertiuaciously resists all change, defends whatever is. however inglorious in itself, and however incompatible with real progress. The eXperienee of the civilized portion of an n- ltlud bears testimony to the fact that people are rarely improved permanently by negations, and If an evil is ultimately overcome by these means it it superseded by another, and it is only when we sup- ply them with something really useful, to occupy that time which would otherwise be badly employed that any great and lasting improvement is effected, and any real progress made-â€".David Mills, County of Kent School Rc120rtfbr"57, page 19_8. _ Q I C A D “ ‘ A ’ 1‘ ‘ I CULD auuu 03 ID bu U vu v ulvu sv-su" vuu vvw :- v-vâ€"v â€"9-â€"â€"--â€"- â€"--â€"â€"â€"~ -â€"~ â€" -._- ...._ ..- W..- 2 J J J J r 7 they cannot be satisfied with less: That your Petitioners do believe that while some persons submit to send their children to the schools, thereare others who keep them away from motives which well deserve respect and approbation: That 1he said laws do also efi'ectualIyâ€"‘thoughunot With open profession~deprive many persons engaged in the employment of teaching yO’ith'I'of their just privi- leges of having opportunity to obtain such smolnment and reward as talent‘and good conduct might 0 THE HONORABLE THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE PROVINCE OF CA- NADA, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.. THE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED THE DURHAM STANDARD, DURHAM, APRIL 13, 1860. procure for them from the public; while at the same time they enable inferior persons, by-favor of trustees and others, to hold situa tions.which they could not if the people had. individually, that.un- restrained control over their own property which they of right should have: Thatethe money grant- ed by the Provincial Parliament‘for the purpose of creating Public Libraries, is subjecteddo unjust, arbitrary, and vexatious conditions, that it’igives undue power to comparatively rich municipalities, while it‘leaves fl“ Patter-ones proportionately destitute : That your Petitioners do believe that the said conditions It}: not approved of by the inhabitants of Upper Canada generally, from the fact that so very. many 9f.~the Municipalities have not complied with them, but on the contrary, have refused to have the habits gen the terms ofl‘ered, while at the same time Libraries are established in many places by private voluntaryaub’seriptions: Thatyonr Petitioners do believe that not only all the educati- onal good which issaid by some to .be derived from the system, but. also much more, might have and doubtles would have been far more readilv and easily obtained by the people in general if a system had been adapted which would have paid due regard to the just rights to inviduals as re- peCts both property and edumtional liberty: That the expenses to the public of working the machi- nery of the present System is most enormous, and your petitioners believe altogether unnecessary ; that your petitioners do believe that the people of U pper Canada generally were not aware of the principles and substance of the said laws before. or at, the time of their beingpasscd ; and therefore such laws were uncalled for by the people ; that. since the time they have been in force, the people generally, as they became more and more acquainted with them, have became more and more dis- satisfied with them -,--that the people of this Province generally have very many difficulties to con- tendwith in making for themselves a home in the wilderness ; and that. therefore they have not much time to spend in looking over Acts of Parliament ; and that it is chiefly by the painful experience of the operation of said laws during some years past that your petitioners became acquainted with the nature and principlesof them ; that the said laws have no hold upon the will and affections of your petitioners. but on the contrary, the said laws are looked upon by them with dislike and horror; that your petitioners have submitted to the said laws, not because they heartily and cordially approve of and wish to support them, but from conscience sake, and a sense if duty, as becomes good subjects ; but that, yet, during such time your petitioners have been watching with the most intense anxiety to see if any of those usually called ‘leading inen,’ either in or out. of Parliament, would bring the matter under the notice of the Provincial Parliament: and not. having observed any such movement (which your petitioners readily suppose is probably occasioned by the pressure of much other public business, and also that the same. circumsmnce was perhaps the cause that the said laws were allowed to pass in their present shape by the then existing Parliament.) your petitioners have resolved to depend up- on themselves to do their own work in the matter, and most respectfully to present to the Provincial Parliament their humble petition earnestly imploring that relief which is so most. urgently needed ; and that, if the present said laws shall be continued in force. as they are at present, many of your pe- titioners have before them only the horrid and- gloomy prospect of being driven from the land,through the deSpotism and tyranny of the System, involuntary exiles, despoiled of their property, and of their power and liberty to educate their children in the way and manner they feel it their duty to do; to seek in some other--perhaps a foreign-«land, an asylum where they will meet with that respect to private property and individual liberty to perform their duties which are now, through the Common School System, denied them in this Province; but that your petitioners do not and will not give way to any desponding apprehensions, having confidence that their petition to the Provincial Parliament will not be in vain ; that your petitioners believe that it is one-of the special duties of the said Parliament,acting under the authority of the Imperial Parliament, to guard and maintain all, and each, the inhabitants of this Province in the full possession and exercise of their undoubted indiâ€" vidual and collective rights and liberties as British Subjects ; and not to allow any individual person to be unjustly deprived of either; that your petitioners do confidentlyand’ cheerfully present their pc- titiou to your Honorable House from a full conviction that you are fully aware of yourexal'tedsâ€"twtion and corresponding duties, and of the responsibility resting upon you, both to the Empire at large, of which this Province now so happily forms a part, and whose most Gracious and Beloved Sovereign has expressed the desire that the. Laws of the- Proviuce shall be framed and administered in accord- ancc with the well understood wants and wishes. of the inhabitants -, and also to the Almighty Being Whose Kingdom ruleth over all, and who has dcmounced‘ a Woe against them that dccrcc unrighteops decrees, and write grievances which they have prescribed ; to turn aside the need y from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor, and who hath also declared that, lie that rulcth over men- must be just, ruling in the Fear of God ; and also because your petitioners do fully believe that your Honorable House is anxiously desirous to deal justly with all men, and therefore you will not be in-- flueuced by the suggestions of any irresponsible person, whose only object, it may be, is simply perso- nal notoriety and self-aggrandizement, without any regard to the welfare of others ; that therefore, your petitioners d’o humbly and earnestly pray that you will be pleased to use your power and influ- ence to give to your petitioners that relief, by delivering them fully from the thin-Idiom and tyranny (of the said System, which your petitioners do so earnestly and justly implore : and that for such pur- pose a' Law may be passed? during the present Session of Parliament which shall restore to your p6-- titioners, each one individually, the right to the full possession and unincumbered disposal and use of his own property, and the full liberty to educate his children according to christian principles and the dictates of his own conscience, and in: unison with his own pecuniary circumstances ; and that the said Law may contain the following or similar provisions, viz :--- - n -- 1 . 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AVAIU IV nus UL DIIUIIIL'L 1" \" Sa‘KUI'IDr V In .â€" "Ehat the money which shall be granted from year to year by the Provincial Parliament to Up~ per Canada, for the encouragement and assistance of Secular Ed‘umtion, be divided as follows a- mongst the Township, Town and City Municipalities therein ; that. is, one half of said money to be divided by the Hon. the Receiver General of the hovince, according to the respective School popu- lations, and the other half thereof in- accordance with the respective amounts of the assessed actual value 01." the property of such Municipalities, said amounts to be determined by the then last erpializ- ed assessment Rolls of such places ; and that said moneys be paid direct by the Receiver General to the respective Treasurers of such Municipalities; and that such money shall, together with other mo- ney as hereinafter mentioned, form a Fund for the assistance of Secular Education in each such Mu»- nicipality respectivelyâ€"That it shall be the duty of each Municipal Council of each Municipality to levy and collect a tax to. form part of such Fund‘; which tax, in. townships, shall not. exceed cents in the dollar upon the actual assessed value ; and in Towns and: Cities shall not. exceed Cents in the dollar upon the yearly assesed value of 'the property therein, to be determined by the- Rolls as aforesaid. That any parent. or guardian in any such Municipality who shall require assist- anre to educate his or her child or children, the same being between the ages of 9‘ and it; years, shall’ apply to the Head of such Municipality before the day of ' in» each year ; and the Council of such Municipal Council shall, on or. before the day of in each year determine and apportion what sum shall be paid on account of such applicant. provided that no such money shall be paid di- rect to any such applicant, nor on his or her account unless such Council shall be satisfied that the child or children of such. applicant has attended some school for at. least months in and during the then current year; the Teacher whereof is approved of by the Council of such Municipality, and then the said money shall be paid to such Teacher, or his or her Order; provided always that a teacher who is engaged in teaching in any Municipality, and who has been apprd'vcd of by the Conn. oil of such Municipality, shall be taken to be a teacher approved of by the Council of any other Mn- nieipality in which any such parent or guardian applying for assistance may reside, and who shall choose to send his or her child or children to the school of such teacher. That the Assessor or A5- sessors of each such Municipality shall make due inquiry and shall set down in. his or their Roll or Rolls, the total number of children, both male and femaleâ€"but distinguishing the sexesâ€"residing in such Municipality, and being between the ages of 9 and 16 years; and that said children shall be taken to be the School population 01‘? such Municipality" and that the Clerk of such Municipality shall, before the day of in each- year, make a return of the number ofsaid children to the lieâ€" ceiver General. And that the money granted for Public Libraries shall also be divided and paid in like manner‘to that granted for Educational assistance to the said Municipality, but without requirâ€" - We think you will coincide with no in say- ing, that: System so expensive, and see-tr ed «if so many repugnant, obnbxioap «mm; Vâ€"v‘ ‘v \u-v v‘â€"-â€" ..â€".â€"â€"vâ€" mg any such Municipality to grant or apprOpriate any money in: addition theretoâ€"otherwise than for the necessary care of the books forming the libraryâ€"and that it. shall be the duty of the Council ofsuch Municipalities respectively, to make such provisions for the. care and use of the Library as may be from time to time required and directed by the Council of Public instruction of Upper Canada.â€" And that the said Municipalities respectively shall be atliberty to purchase the Books for their respec- tive Libraries where the Municipal Councils thereof shall deem proper. Tint when required by the Provincial Government, each such Municipality shall make return of the expenditure of the said Grants. That of the Common and Grammar School properties at present existingâ€"those in Towns, Cities, and Counties, which have been obtained or created by the general funds of such places, or Mu- nicipalities, shall be the property thereof rcs‘pectivcly, and may be. sold or leased as the respective Municipal Councils shall deem best, and the proceeds thereof shall form part of the general funds of such Municipalities respectively; and those in rural school Section-s shall be sold pcrcmptnzHy, and. the proceeds of such sale distributed. as equitably as may be amongSt those persons, or their assigns, in the said sections respectively, who were taxed for such school propertyâ€"And that the A ct 9th Vic- tor ia, chap. 18: may “PP’Y: if desfi‘ed, to the purchasers of any such Common or Grammar School real property.â€"-Tltat the present Normai School at Toronto be continued under reasonable regain- tions, for the purpose of affording assistance to persons desirous thereof to become better quaiiti‘ed for the office or employment of school teacher ; but that any person, being a British Subject, who ma y 0130059 50 (0 d0, may engage in such employment for and with any person or persons who may choose to employ him or her for that purpose, and upon such terms as they,--the employer and employed, -â€"may agree; and that. if any such teacher be refused, or cannot obtain his or her pay or remuneraâ€" tion for his or her services, he or she may and shall, if he or she please, be entitled to and receive the advantages and benefits of the provisions of the Act 10 8: ll Vic, c. 23-, or he or she may sue for such pay or remuneration in any competent court. That the choice of text books to be used in any school, he, as of right it should, a matter to be determined on by the teacher and his employers, pm- vided that no such books he used therein as are really objectionable, on account of their being detri- mental to Public Morals. That all the Institutions, or Corpora tions, at present existing, and com- monly known as Common School Sections, and all the offices or Corporations of Common School Trustees, and the office of Local Superintendent of Common Schools, and of Grammar Schools, and the office of County Board of Pubiic Instruction, and the office of Chief Superintendent of Sclmols for Upper Canada, be forthwith and totally abolished, as the same are altogether useless and uncall- ed for, and of no Public advantage whatever, but being rather a great humhug, and an imposition upon the people of Upper Canada in general, and your petitioners especiallyâ€"And the said School laws of 1850, 1853, and 1855, be amended by the repeal of all those parts of the said laws which are contrary to and inconsistent with the prayer of your petitioners, and your petitioners, as in Duty bound, will ever pray, are. We are convinced that much of the strife and diseention existing throughout the coun- try at large may be justly attributed to this Law, whch is one of many proo‘e, of its in- adequacy to the intellectual wants of the peo- ple of Canada ; and notwithstanding the enor- mous local taxation, the sum of $441,616 50, has been taken from tho Public Treasury for that purpose, during the past. year; and yet a great proportion 01:. the children at our country ‘1'! I To the Ratepayers of Upper Ca- nada. , In consequence of the ty- rannical authority vested in, and arbitrary exactions of, the Common School and Library Law of Upper Canada. we are con-trained to} solicit your cmperation in petitioning the Le- gislature to amend or remodel that System, in consonance with the laws of Individual. Liberty, which we as British Subjectsmxpect, and have a right to enjoy; but of which, in many respects, we are deprived, in maters of vital importance, as parents and British Freo- men. :fe, aécokling to the publiahed Returns of this Chief Superintendent for 1857, uneducated. Of the Common and Grammar School and Public Library Law Reform Association of {he townships of Egremout and Norman- an'ruzun : ADDRESS The monks of the rich monsstor of Mount Atto- have just procured a comp 011: print- ing establishment. They intend to print sn- enl manuscripts which have nm been pub- lished hnhonb, and also to establish I relig' ious joumal. - ” * ’ We hope it will not be considered presump- tuous in the few, persons who compose this Association. to address the public on a qua-s- tion of so great magnitude ; but the seventy of the yoke laid upon us renders our condition so unendurable, that we cannot longer re- strain our feelings, surcharged with intollorl- ble wrongs. without proporfionate redeeming qualities, calls for immediate abolition ; and the intro- duction of a System more equitable to all, in the erection of which we may be materially assisted by our maturerjudgme'u and experi- ence. Each individual is earnestly solicited to compare the present School Laws with what their judgment and conscience considers RIGHT ; alsoa careful perusal of the Reports of the various Local Superintendents, and they will there see that the Law given uni- versal dissatisfaction. APRIL 4, 1860. [The Petition will appear in our nextâ€"En. B. ROGERS, Secretary. We are, Gentleman, Respectfully yours. 8. L. M. LUKE, President The f the Con. likely tc and inc‘ the qua the Ann H. ted in I stead 01 Reeve Counci IV. of a tow wards, shall b live is Inge in en plat expnrat divide 1 prescril that lh‘ then-m guy “’11 the Rec Munici but the tions in shail b4 We es of! comm repeal An A otf. sa. the 4 of hi cqih mm “’id IO 04 by C '(JI' a 130a ing. and she Mi ed a] i! cl m III "I I.