24 APRIL 1847, Page 2

The external turmoil on the Education question has passed its

climax. It has never been of a very real character. One sign of this is the mass of petitions which loads the table of the Commons, and fills the Votes with whole sheets of enumeration ; a display which we have always observed to indicate an agita- tion mechanically organized. Many of these petitions against education come from Wales, fertile in sects and ignorance. The agitation is in fact congregational, not truly public ; and it is documentary rather than oral or active.