LORD BROUGHAMpresented a petition from Robert Owen, late of New Lanark, in Scotland, but now of the United States of America, in which was set forth the peculiar opinions he has so long professed, and praying for the establishment of a State education founded upon them. After eulogising Mr. Owen for his moral qualities, the noble and learned Lord said the opinions of that gentleman were not merely theoretical—he had reduced them to practice, for he informed him that during the twenty years he was proprietor of New Lanark, he employed nearly 2,500 persons, who, together with their wives and families, resided there. In those thirty years thousands must have been in his employment; still never once, during the whole period, had he had occasion to apply to the magistrates to settle any civil disputes between them, nor any one single time had to call their notice to any criminal conduct on their part. Mr. Owen was also the founder of infant schools in this country. He (Lord Brougham), associated with the late Mr. John Smith, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Mr. Fowell Buxton, and others, had been the first to take another and a most important step, that of transferring the system from agricultural and manufacturing establishments, and planting infant schools in towns. He could appeal to his noble Friend (Lord Lansdowne) for the confirmation of all he had stated. He had been with him (Lord Brougham) for three mornings early, receiving the children into their school at Brewer's Green, near that House, in the month of November, 1818, long before Mr. Wilderspin was so engaged in Spitalfields; and all this he (Lord Brougham) had stated in the House of Commons, in December, 1819, and his statement had been confirmed by Mr. J. Smith and others.