LORD BROUGHAM*,in presenting a petition on Middle-class Education, said, that he had, last night, understated the number of petitions and signatures, as he only referred to the 120 which he had then presented. But, altogether, there have been presented to the two Houses, last Session and this, petitions on this subject signed by about 40,000 persons. He had further to state, as a considerable encouragement to the granting what the Petitioners prayed, and in justice to them and other friends of improved Middle-class Education, that the directors of some establishments, which took an interest in the subject, were willing to assist by making their seminaries subservient to training teachers. He particularly might mention the Brighton College, under the patronage of the Bishop of Chichester. Having rendered justice to these meritorious persons, t is fit, (he said,) that I do the same by others of a more exalted class and greater influence on the happiness of the world. When, five years ago, I illustrated the humanizing effects of instruction, it appeared that, taking the best educated country and the worst, the United States and Russia, it appeared that in the former (America) the proportion of crimes attended with violence to all offences was one in twelve; in the latter (Russia) three in five—more than one-half, instead of one-twelfth. But it is most gratifying to find that the Emperor of Russia is engaged, and has been for upwards of a year-and-a-half, in the great and good work of emancipating the serfs—a measure of which the difficulty cannot be denied, but there are sanguine hopes entertained that he will overcome all obstacles to this happy consummation. The Emperor of Austria has announced his resolution, now that the late lamentable war has ceased, to devote his efforts to the improvement of his domestic institutions. It is impossible too highly to commend the manly tone of his proclamation, the honesty as well as wisdom which pervades it, admitting fairly his having been worsted in the campaign, and announcing his resolution to make the institutions of his empire more in accordance with the enlightened spirit of the age. All the advocates of sound principles, the friends of human improvement, must feel great satisfaction at such tributes to their views of policy as are thus paid by Russia and Austria.