The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-15 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1847. melt dung, they were merely a means of •en preemie gate= of education. They did not NNW or Nebular, but offered aid and encourage- Igm e l e P s i thee already reefing. How was this intended 01 1 .,` By taking advantage of the voluntary " Mee hem.) Thousands mud be raised by the orN ss • .31 . " ste m ' before government came dews with its 0 7 pttanee to eke out the remainder ? He would ask, .. ti ty n ionrary system answered its pewee, He believed • that even its supporters would admit that it had sat ' as tably abort of all than it wee designed to effect. at il t ) In the congteeptional " Yeanbee - k." a great dun aver,) el e ariee he Coned it stated, that " the tonging*. leafing Jed to themselves the power or pur tisab'tiafed se ver tine all tbr neglected children in the ei ties, tow me, u • es " of ilia country." Very humble and becoming. •— i ti ateg government did propose to themselves that task. ) They declared that it was their purpose and isms to d o nate all the neglected children in our cities, • and villages. (Cheers.) He would alai e those who :;;;,a that great design to go to one of their own schools tTa-studyter fedi, of the " in the Manger," and when thcrelt.Tllo4l • mbued with the moral, more benefit would he 'defiled from their exertions, than tram all the anti speeches that m i ght be delivered from Leede to Crosby-hal l . Dv fro* not cont at with as inning ta-gative - tr ots to thegueernment minutes. Ile asserted that they would ▪ a m positive neselics to pr sent and future generatioss. hey would tend to raise the character of the educator, t ad provide that the situation cf "eh eolcaaater or mitre „. A m id sot be looked upon so a sort of almshouse for the engird and ignorant. (Hear, hear.) They all knew the isnomee of a teacher in his school, that he woo himself the peentilimetiou of the school; and it was their they to take ere Mat he was fit for . his important aline. lie maintained a m ine a great henelit would be 'preferred on the working does ia inducing them to bring up at least one of their • as a Mole r. Above all, he thought it a great benefit * A i gorarlinient at Lest were acting the apostolic spirit, *wag that hey were sent nut only fur the punishment of • evil doer., bat fur the praise of them that did 'eel. r'eal Were they to be deterred from their course by , a nion that the benefice to be conferred would be au esbansi at so expense of two millions ? He did not f„;jj - aa , may would cost so much, but it they did they could ▪ ,s two millions in a scent tter way. (Laud cries of Hoer, me.' Why they pe much more annually in the of emote and Mould they, who in the pre ata, year had beta ready to spent huudrs ds of millions on t assos, thee oppose the dispeition of so patty a sum to what ought to he the highest end of a christian people tAßear, bear.) They would do so such thing, a m "ea sot fu low up a day of humiliation for national by we greater than all the test. The people meet not i ts lan is their meat condition. Our lanes and alley., our yg gia g ag highways, must be swept and nitrite of all ;;;;.1 gag pestieel pollution. (Hear, hear.) Every man r ep halved in the rudiments of the Christian faith mutt jais Lathe wink. The evil in all its magnitude had been Moneyed before them, and a partial remedy had been pro- ClThe pec n i of duty vas open to view, and with the ag of God they would humbly seed heartily pursue it, (Lend cheers ) Tlie Bishop of None:len, in ri , ing to move the first resolution, expensed his great s Idaction at seeing no vast as asemblage. With respect to the minute , of the privy ameocil, his only regret was that the government had net goss farther. No doubt they had their reasons for bring wawa% and lie could only thank) them fur what they had dose. Ev eything was acceptable to hi it which advnnced tin great object art the education of the people. (Hear.) He had never heard a snore injudicious opposition rya that which Tres Difered to the educational measures dipeerement. It eva....)9ected to them first of all that the March was to have the lion's share. Ile denied that, and he could quote the authority of dissenters in support of his opinion. If ever there was an impartial measure, it was that contains , i ice the government mmutes. It d. alt equally with all, from the respectable Presbyterian or Independent down to the moat ignorant and fanatical Ranter. (Laugh ter.) The church might have some advantage; but why ? Because it happened to be the moot numerous portion of t his community. ( Meer, hear.) If the uissenters were ID that petition, if they were the mist numerous class, they would not hesitate to accept the largest proportion of the gmemmeut boon. (Hear, beer.) Another objection to the wastes was, that !key interfered with the voluntary system. lie knew that system tot well. He had the min• tune to be what was culled , a Libre ral, and in his awn diocese subscribed to many dissenting achoule as well as their of the Church of England. Whet we-the fact with respect to chow ache la ? Why, that all of them were in debt in consequence en the failure of the voluntary system? (Hear, hear.) The next objection was the cost. It was alleged that the coat would be enormous—upwards of a million. Be it so; he alleged that it would be ere:Bebe in government to expend the money for eueh a purpose. Were not schools cheaper than prison' ? Beth an **client had emanated from he diameters ;he wished them joy of it, and was glad 't had not come from churchmen. The dissenters also objected to government interference. He would warn them, its homely phrase, that they never played • worse card in their lite. Thee, was no government interference intended, nor could it be pointed out in the minutes. Having quoted one or two letters from dissenters in horour of the government plan, the right rev. prelate concluded by moving— That this meeting deeply sympathises with the condition of the pager Mimeo of the community as regards the inadequacy of the morfaion madefir agarding a sound Wm ectsptural eotwation to their children. and mammies the paramount importance of making the met earnest 'unions to remedy the existing evil. Mr. JOHN Lawn - entice seconded the resolution. Ile said that his chief re a son for doing so was, that government proposed that in every school an authorised version of the KTipturea should be used. The resolution was unanimously weed to. The Bishop of ST. Rowell proposed the next resolution as follows : That although the deficiency of education In this country has been kit and acknowledged fur some year. pug, experience has proved that all voluntrry efforts have signally failed to meet the nada of the rapidly-inert asing pupulatials ; and it hos, therefore, manifestly be come the duty of a paternal gevernment to provide that instruftion Lathe people without which uo nation can be peronmently haw or proaperous. Orlin deficiency of education he could himself opeak, seeing that he hod been engaged in the cause all hie life. Of this be was cure, that that deficiency was the source of moot of oar social veils. Next, as to the voluntary system having failed be had not much to say . against the voluntary system. It bud proved a great bleatnet to England, but it was not enough. (Hear, hear.) He had once thought it would effect everything, but twenty years' expe ritece had convinced him of its inadequacy. It sou then net because the voluntery system was wrong. hut because it was inadequate, that he objected to it. (Hear, hear.) Ile laid the greatest value on education, and he was 'axioms that every man in the laud should enjoy its bless ings it had produced him many temporal advantages; one, certainly not the least, of which was that of having been college-tutor to the noble lord who occupied the chair. (Cheers.) Believing that the plan of the government would ntand the blessings of education, he should give it his Mention' and hearty support. The Rev. H. HUGHES seconded the resolution. MT. J. J. CI. ‘llllNel moved, and the Rev. R. BURGESS wended, the next resolution, which was : That the rractital wisdom by which the committee of council on elestico, in their recent minutes, have rineeteetted in devising rule. oiL g ch t l n njurtis slily as to be applicable alike to members of the Church and to dissenters ;Tom It, without violent* dune to the eamiences of any, strongly commends the goverment mime to the Wade acceptance of all classes in the Cale. The Rev. Dr. CraIMINO (of the Church d Beethind) saved: Rut thia meeting deeply empathises with the (godlie dths more enema the community so regards the Madeemegy of the moriatoa made far affording a sound and scriptural educelma to their children, and recreant-we the paramount importance of radar de mat earnest exertions to remedy the existing evil. That although the deficiency of education in this country has been tilt and llllCEartedered for souse years past, experience he proved that all was beery Idiom have sign elly failed tome*, the wanted the rapidly la ermine population, and it haatberefore manifestly bases thedisyet a eternal government to proelde that instruction far the mope without which no nation can be permanently happy or prosperous. Mates prattled wisdom by which the committee of council on eda. ode, lit their recent minutes, have mioceeded in devising rules of sea imputudity es to be appleele alike to members of the Church M Fooled and to diameters from i. without violence done to the coo deuces of any, strusney commends the government scheme to the WNW% *sentence' of all chasms in the state. That the manner in IMAM, under the Proposed scheme, voluntary effort. in behalf of edu cation are assisted seas menuraged, without being in any way super seded or rendered uaaaltaary, afford' the surest ground fur the ex pectance that Moe efforts coil he seinnuated and increased to a e ndgree nknown in the put history of the country. The reeolution was seconded by the Rev. E. ACITIOL. The filth It whitioll, moved by the Bishop of ADELAIDE, J and seconded by Mr. OMEPH PAYNE, was.: that the petition to the Bonne of Commons now read, praying them la pee retry facility in dr it power to her Majesty's government to drl into effect the measure they have announced, be adopted and sired by that meeting, and that the Right Mon. ford John Russell be "711rto meant the tame. d petition was then read and adopted. Thanks were 'toted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. biRETLNGS OF OPPONENTS TO GOVERN- MENT EDUCATION. GENEBAL CONFERENCE.—The conference met, by adjournment, at ten o'clock yesterday morning, when Alder. mat, Kershaw again took the chair. The Rev. 3. H. Marron, chairman of the basin's.* coin mittee,sahl that two of yesterday's resolutions yet remained to be put to the meeting, and that other resolutions had been prepared by the committee. Mr. J. M. HALE was appointed one t,f the secretaries to the conference. AIN6LIE begged to make a kw observations before brines@ was commenced. Ile held in bis band the Daily Nesm of that morning, and, he did not know whether the reporter front the JMily Nemo was there, but he sever was so ashamed of the D aily gapers of his country Is he was then with the Daily News; it was a paper that was gassing an extensive circulation, and, in this sester, is they would see, by the grossest calumny and false hood. He hoped the reporters would take down what he was laying he then read the following extract from our paper of yesterday : "An amembly of divbaes has been collected for the special purpose the 'acted rights of ignorance and the constitutional Pohlrem. vice : the telf- ailed reprewnho ice. of the annum form ists ef PAM:III4 hare met to protest that the principles of the Pilgrim !ethers are women, arid them of the Jesuit Brothers the perfection of excellence ; men, culling theopehm liberals. here came tueether to Rahn that the loss .boil -I be held in Moulage to he easel charity of the superior claws. by being compelled to accept sea boon what they aboold auto si per.on. p,triors aver that fie moral depravity of their countrymen renders It unsafe totendcr to !hem the same Avantlps which are trodhred mother nation.; and advocates of Men anti religious liberty hare come together to rhow that taaarahou or rights is otaential to erdt freedom. and t h at anther' bag muraction iu the nature ototillgations will be fatal to relurion. mMterndenoe. strive 'days of Roliest.ierre there has been no such 1.41 attempt to identify lilierte with lrentinuorm. Pies of "Oh ' oh!" and hirem.)—(A voice, " It will do no hou.")—(Another, "Only to the D-rily News.") Mr. hoped, an an act of justice, all who bad any ju bilate in regard to the minds of persons who reed news- papers, would reoenusead then to read than only where thg would meet with the truth. Dr. HAKILTON.—I• 401111• eulLeet of amusement. Dr. GODWIX weld not say that WU amused, when hs air a madam mattering Ur-brands and death around it. anHe k trollied the peepeisheee. when dkey mew the effect of meek h% wadi pet • seep te thin. The Rev. J. Poona, et /abed, they mewl the following ratielnifea : . - Tot Ofe onnferrees serst zafra& inns egrawsiagl eatcaimb.. wit at the protoommt of Impertlskr pat lora Irr the perameen at thi goverment whew; prolloimnr 1t am mem Mimi ova thaabolaw al o foom Mot tie Mom lie to mita ilomit (Whole Moir: aid rolimign "Alf haw " valor no alimmamon any tool alm ate al lute pay to Um Moro omalentlons opinion ant Yawn to preadnit the empties at it, ame be Wear an Imager a metary. Mr. Poore ?hinted to the wording of the neckties as herdly becoming the gravity of the Sleeting. He considered the scheme en designed to destroy religious liberty. He had long had two ideas: the tint that all governments were averse to much liberty, and be thought that England had rather more than *as eonairtent with a comfortable working of the administration; and secondly, that the government of this country, whether whip or tory, were opposed to an evange lical religion, en inconsistent with the snbsernesey of religion to the state. The Rev. A. Mostar, of Hull, seconded the resoluefoo. He was the only one present who represented Hull, and he had been delegated by a general education committee, con sisting of all denominations, to give their tentimeats on the measure. Some of that committee were opposed to any interference of government with education ; others did not ge quite so far. He considered that government had so right to tax one man for the religion of 'nether. He was ready to entertain the question of an amendment ; but as it now stood, if religion were to be included in any form, he could cot but oppose it. It was an attack on the civil and religious liberties of the people. He would ask, too, whe ther the time had not come for them to concentrate their efforts spinet one great and crying grievance, which was the paying of church-rates ? T. RICHARDS, who stood there to represent the princi pality of Wales, said that, in that country, with a popula tion of one million, there were 2,000 dementing chapel.% erected chi, fly by voluntary contributions, and a large num ber of schools. The Bishop of St. David's hod been trying to raise en education fund In hie first charge he had said that it was obvious that the church had lost her hold of the adult population in that country, and they must therefore lay I hold of the infant mind. 40,0001. had been raised, which was to he laid out in ten years, at the rate of 4,0001. per annum, for building tschools. Now, altheugh the majority or the popu lation of Wales are dissenters, yet, as the squire-rehy art of the establish , . d church, this fund would 'necessarily be applied to the establishment of Church of Bngland schools. Thus the poor people would be bribed out of their dissenting prin ciples. lie then proceeded to vindicate the people of Wales from the imputations of degradation and tenimeMen, "Me I he contended had been falsely cut upon time %am km. petitions arose from inspectors having been sent Will assit sot understand a word of the language. He mateetidadl thee so like number of the population equalled them in earipturs keowledge. The rem elution was then unanimously carried. Dr. lemon, et Leicester, moved the second ressiation, which was: • That In the lute gmeet of lYs esafterense, the assadatallarr Yoe et the effutts Mash - sessawkw gemeumeses led mei la alma air patron geef awls WI 4swriswlsula b.. =to af= hr lisis eda rai aim lamilla atoll*, ` e ms prallsol seldom Is swan at kidwi Midi Yr rawswas adawalsa. awl Ilia Oa ialwia Mar ININIT are* la. taat Is ate vials tae maim K sayerwwws is gam* the people. Dr. Legge observed that this Resolution entirely set forth the sentiments of those he represented. Every government measure mot throw education iato the hands of the church, and he would ask what had the church done to justify such a course ? When the church seemed returning to the spirit of the dark ages, were they to take their children to Rem. ? Were they Calmucks, and did they grind their retirees out of s Mill ? Did they still worship an old coat 'made of rotten cloth ? The people must surely have lost their senses, and thrown around their free limbs the swaddling clothes of infancy. 'they would show that their spirit had merely slept, and that it only required this goading to bring it to life. The Rev. Dr. Koexthe, of Holmtletb, Yorkabire, who se, I cooled the resolution, said, he did not want facts and details to Ruppert his opposition. He contended that no government of the earth had any right to meddle, in any shape or form, with education. The great folly of government was inter meddling with what they had much better leave alone. Ito ligion should be left to the consciences of men, es entirely ea trade to the interests of men. He then ridiculed the forma of the English chusth, particularly baptism, amidst the boisterous laughter of the meeting. At this stage td the proceedings, Mr. Settee It Mated that Mr. Bright, who had at first thought he should he obliged to decline un account of other beehive, had yielded to their so. lieitations, and consented to preside at the aggregate con-' ference at Exeteehall this emaing. The Rev. Cities. SrOvelL considered the etiolation then before them as the one on which ad their interests hung. Ile then read the following extract from a letter by Dr. Vaughan, in the Morning Chronicle of Tuesday : The notion of mine of them (the dissenters) that government over. steps its province by aiding popular education Is any form or in any circumstances; and the further notion, that ale not porible to as. ;orate the general from the religious in school inetmetkne so ee to lease the tutu r optimal ; these ere both, according to my settled comietion, mistakes. and t am by no means alone among protestant diosentees in my views ht them points. But the avowed and co tailed religious character of the instruction t, be sustained by this scheme precludes all participation in it on the pert of intelligent mm, who are not at the saw, time prepared to recommend that all the pulpits of the land, in comet= with its school desks, should be brought under state pay. Were ell that is said about religious teaching in there minutes emitted, sad three lines inverted in their plan, mying, in ellect.—of snetrretion reels is the schootsnoest by as rants, the cosnnotttee does not take any copra. es, except to retinue that a shalt be given at paelianiar hours. and that the attendance of the scholars a/ those hours shall be optional seals their parents and guardians. Were this done, the difficulty I have rotated out would be removed. Some dissenters would, perhaps, Hill objrct ; but m my Judgment they mast then object as cinema, not as retiree' , men. Surety to pray for thus mach is not to seek what is partial car onnimonshie. Will it be relissedt He also referred to a letter of Dr. Huppue is the Morning Chronicle of yesterday. Supposing the concession spoken of by Dr. Vaughan, in his letter, were mule, could they fall under it ? (No, no.) He could not stand coolly by, and allow such statements to be made, nor such positi ns to be assumed. He held that on many grounds such a statement was reprehensible, and calculated, not only in itself but in the manner and time of asserting it, to betray the brethren into the hands of the enemy. Mr Conine interrupted the speaker, and said he thought that Dr. Vaughan's letter ought not to be referred to. Mr. Amines differed from him. Dr. MASSIE said that Dr. Vaughan wrote the letter, and was perfectly entitled so to do, in his private character. No other member of the delegates was in any way committed by it; and Dr. Vaughan had a perfect right to give his opinion. Mr. 6701/ELL resumed, and thought that the terms of the letter might be taken as a basis an which to consider the principle. He thought it behoved them to consider the whole great question as it stands. He was glad to find that like great abstract principle of the non-alliance of church and state was gradually being ceded to them. The great ques tion to be considered was, where children, confessedly ear rupt, meld be placed for education ? Could they be educated by such a government as the present? Our government, unquestionebly, had their peculiar trusts; they had a pro. 'ince in which they could exercise their functions: and how have those trusts been used?—bow have those functions been fulfilled? Their rulers had already more than they coakl do, and they ought not to be burdened further. It had been mid that education would lessen crime ; anti that was the only ground on which it could be entertained for a moment. But would it do so (Here the speaker was interrupted by loud cries of " Time ! time!" and " Stein's, ;" but after a ' I, nathened and noisy dimension, Mr. ettovell resumed.) The main ground pleaded was, that thereby Mime would be dimi nished. His answer to this was: In the first place, is radar to prevent crime, education must be extended to the farms. Lion of the habits which operate on the oonscience ; and how can it do this without being religions ? In the second place, suppose it to be granted to Dr. Vaughan that the moment be so altered as not to interfere with religion. If no ogee *lnce be taken of religion by government, would it not be come a matter of competition between the church and the dissenters as to who should have the mastery ? None bat a godly education could prevent crime—an education bleated of providence. He would guppies a government priyine for the support and furtherance of providence in its works. Of its many conflicting measures, which would be bleeped ? They could not all be. The idea of government doing any thing towards a godly education was therefore absurd. If education would have the blessing of heaven, it must accord with men's hearts, and be free and pious. If Drs. Vaughan and Hoppus had not been schooled in the church, they would never have done white they had Stme. Id r. BLACK EVEN referred to the manner in which dissen ters had been treated. He bad told Lord John Russell that ever since they had supported him in the Reform Bill, they had been utterly trodden under foot; there was not a squire in the country who did not think he had a right to ill-treat I a dissenter. Dr. !Deem had thought that they came there, net entirely to oppose the measure, but that any one in partoppos ing It would be heard ; but the utter refusal of all aid, as set forth in the resolution, surprised him. Dr. Massie interrupted him to say that the resolution had been drawn up under the eyeof Dr. Vaughan. Mr. E. BANES said that it was true Dr. Vaughan TM present; but it was also true that Dr. Vaughan had been tho only member of the committee who had opposed it. Dr. Billets then went on to contend that a government might aid and meat education. (Cries of " No, no.") He came under the idea that it was a conference; hut he saw such a desire to call on those only who could make a good platform speech, that it was clear to him that it was not a conference. He was afraid the state of things wee such as to exclude all possibility of government aid ; and he grieved that it should be so. lie believed man to be specifically distinguished by the religious capacity. Bducatio' n without religion, therefore, ass ab surd ; but he could conceive a secular and religious educa tion Wing distinct, although not separate. He held that a weleregelated secular education would have a terdency to strengthen and improve the minds and habits of the people. The great feu% warn, they wile all so ferociously relepous (he meant it in goad humou r ) . Govern m ent says, "W . been trying ell we can, and we are obliged to do it in this manner." The religious feeling of the ceuntry prevcr.ts all possibility of secular instruction. He told Lord John Ras ed( that neither priest nor pnebyter ought to enter the schools ; government should have nothing to do with reli gion. But the minuted violated this principle ; ao bad said to Lord John Russell, objecting to the me.eursr, that what tie ought to look to was municipal st•if-,..presu went. His lordship said, "Ah ! that is the prin ciple, I know ; and Certainly, abstractedly, it is the beet ; but you know in America, where that is carried out, education is compulsory. " Well, my lord," he (Dr. Bionic) said, " I happen to be amens the few who, suppsMing government to be unable to do anything, would not diespprove of a wine compulsory act on the u'unicipal system." Government, he contended, should aid districts, but should know nothing of nli dr. illtriat, thought Dr. Binnie, doubtless nuinten• distally, was doing much harm by these opinions. Mr. HARBISON Of lads, Caine tO Akita that a report had I reached that place to the effect that the Wesleyan had i rouse to some compromise with gorsrument. But he was happy to team on coming to town, that they had not come to wry &vision on the matter. Mr. Bemuse thought that the mere fact of any such private negotiation being carried on by government with the Wes 'doyens, on a national subject like this, was so disgraceful, that if shown to be true it would explode the ministry. He we. Ajad that throughout Yorkshire the opinions of the Weelifyans were directly opposed to any such a compromise. Mr. WHITI proposed the following resolution Mutt this mnfaence, believing the government measure to be a deedly blew both to the civil liberties of the community, and to the valued institutions and interests of dissenters, will, together with Mom whom they represent, feel deeply sagrieved by the conduct of any member of the 'louse of Commons who may support it, and will amender that support as diequalifying curb member. to represent in parliament the friends of sled and religious liberty. This resolution, after much discussion, was carried, and the meeting adjourned until ten o'clock this morning. FINSBCRT.—Last night, a meeting of the inhabitants of this borough was held at White Conduit House, to take into consideration the government scheme of education. Mt. R. BIaiLLY was called to the chair. The CRAIXWAN, in opening the business of the evening, said he was one of those who was prepared to make great morifices for the education of the people, and was ready to go as far as any one to secure national education, bat be was not prepared to pay the heavy penalty which the legis lature wan about to exact in carrying out their principle. Dr. Erre moved the first resolution, That this meeting protest against the scheme of government edu cation as put forth in the resent minutes of Council on Education ; and especially against the unawake. Wool practice thus introduced, of giving is mere minutes of council, not authorised by legislatiee ausetios, the faros of law. Every one agreed that education was a good thing, and they were all prepared to advocate it, when it was, strictly speaking, education itself; but this was the government' scheme, and its intention was to create a body of educa tional Officers to drill the young mind of the people of Hag land. The.. persons, before they wereeligible fur any of the offices, were to be furnished with certificates on points relat ing to religion and morals; and, by the regulations as they stood, this eligibility was confined to the Church of England, and the dissenters were practicady shut out from receiving any part of the government grant of money. It was an attempt to manufacture eoldien to fight the dirty battles of the state church. It was a cunningly-devised scheme to put the schools entirely in to the hands of the parochialclergy. It was the establishment of a second state church among the laity. Education had not originated with the government; hut among the people ; and now the government wished to take it out of their hands. It was a system merely for eduating the people in the principles of the Church of England, and they were about to pay another set of men to do that which the delay were already bound to perform. Mr. ELT, in Seconding the motion, urged that it was at tempted to be proved from etatistics that mime and igno rance were necessarily connected, but lie denied that crime had decreased in proportion to the increase of education. Mr. ROBERT TAYLOR then moved the following amend ment: Mut it a the opinions "of this meetiog, that to secure the greatest amount of individual. modal. and politico' good, n la necemmr that every human bring have► thorough secular educosion. and therefore It 1/1 the outy of government to tadpole such education: and that all schools supported wholly or in parr by rharitablr amtnbutions are wrong in principle, and in prsetite destructive of the independence of the lashing eaters; and that the opponents of the government mea sure are mostly persona who are desirous that the British youth should be educated in the dogmas of religion, thereby keeping alive sectarian strife and bitterness; and that the goveruutent have re frained from bringing forth a more liberal scheme because of the op position of a large portion at the ounoonformhs. He contended that whatever his nonconformist friends might say to the contrary, they protested against education alto gether ; else why was so much stress laid on the fact that crime had not decreased in proportion to education, and on its non-reformatory power? lo Judge fairly of the govern ment scheme, they ought to know waist was the scheme of those who advocated the voluntary principle. It was diffi cult to find one on which they all were agreed, but if there was soy, it was that of Mr. Edward Heiner, which be had stated In his twelve letters to Lord John Ru-sell. liis scheme app' aced to be not only a voluntary but a religious one, for the Scriptures were to be read and expounded in the schools. This was falling into the error which they said the Church of England hut adopted. That was the trammel and slavery which they said the go• veniment was about to inflict on the country, while they themselves were desirous of inflicting on it a species of re ligious dogmatism. Ile did not want to rear men to be material's ; what he wanted was to make them know their rights and dunce as rational being*, and to enable them to discharge the ditties which devolved upon them. If they warted the whole youth of England to be educated and to get rid of sectarianism, why did they not ask the govern ment to supply MOM] Only for secular education But this they opposed with all their might and main. The opponents of this measure dared nut mention their motives, but lie would lay them hare. It' was because the number of dis senters was diminishing, and because they found the Church of England was surpmelitg them in education. If they were sincere in saying that the people were not repre sented, let them go along with him for the eeperatioa of church and state and for the general enfranchisement of the People. -------- Mr. Moons seconded the amendment. He could not agree on this question with mtoy around him with whom he had laboured in the cause of political amelioration. The great abject of this scheme was to improve the quality of education for the people. He was ready to take the funds of the Church of England and apply them to the purposes of education : but, if that church had been sluggivh in this cause, that opprobrium applied equally to many of those who attacked her. It was mid that the voluntary principle was sufficient for the purposes of education, but it had not been found so yet, and the quality of the instruction in the sariols was of a very inferior description. De. Price and Mr. Alexander eh, n addressed the meeting against the amendment, and Mr. Campbell in favour of it. The amendment was then put end negatived, and the original resolution carried by a large majority. Mr. Mutt, in a short address, proposed the second re solut;oo : Mud thie meeting believe, that if, at any dine, a governmental system of edue dion can be kgdimate, it wl I be when the people are enabled to pronounce an opinion thereon by being really represented m the Commons House of Parliament : to the meantime ads meeting in struct their members to oppose the vote of money, , or educational pair Minn, proposed to be tams on the 19th of this month. It wits seconded by Mr. John Brown, and oppored by Mr. Ward, amidst much confasion andinterruption ; and having been carried by a large majority, the meeting separated. A numerously attended meeting of the opponents of this measure was held last evening at the Eastern Institu tion, Commercial-road. The chair was taken by Oeonoc THOntrtion, Esq., who opened the pro ce edings by stating that he would confine himself strictly to the duke of a chair. man, which he considered to be simply to state the objects of the meeting and preserve order and propriety. What then was the object that had brought them together ? It was to state emphatically their Ghjections to the government mut, sure of education. There was a peenharity about the meet. ing that they were every one within those walls the friends of the professed object of the scheme which they were met tegether to oppose. He was not prepared to say that he should always resist any and every measure for education, simply the ground that the state had something to do with it; but in the present eau he had no difficulty in mak ing up his mind, for the present was certainly not the hone to throw around the church a complicated and strong fortifi cation, which they might hereafter have to beat down s The Rev. J. Ftercitart, of Hanky, in moving the first resolution, declared that the unconstitutional manner in which themeasure had been introduced was alone a suffi cient reason for rejecting it, even supposing it to be u per fect as eras stated by some parties ; or a precedent would otherwise be established which would lead to the introduc tion of measures of a different character. Nor did he believe that the measare would have been brought forward in such a manner had it been a proper one; for attempts had been made again and again to establish similar systems, but par liament had never been able to effect the object ; and he be lieved that to be the reason why the present scheme was in troduced in such a manner. Then, with regard to the mea sure itself: it was called impartial, but where was its impar tiality ? It was not proposed to throw open the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to dissenters; neither did it touch the upper classes: but it sought to promote educ ttion among the poor—among the thousands and millions of their countrymen. Now, what the poor wanted, was not schools or teacher., but simply means to purchase their adrantages ; and, he asked, did the present measure supply those means? He thought not; and, therefore, instead el being a boon to the poor man, the measure would increase the pressure upon him, and hinder him from providing that education finds child which he might otherwise have done. After some ether arguments, he moved : That Ude meeting, after a mature consideration of the various statements sad arguments advanced in support of the government scheme alednerstion, as well by members ot the cabinet sad of the House of Ominous, as by the public preen, records its deliberate couilietion, that each measure invoices in principle a violation of melt and religious liberty, and will in practice prove an obstruction to the advance of amid and enlightened popular education ; and. that referring especially to its unconstitutional character, both in the music of its introduction, and the means by which it Is to be carried Into operation, this meeting regards the attempts made to defend it in this pa. terrier, as serving to confirm, rather- then to remove, the s.rong objection. already advanced against it; and it therefore urges upon the opponents of the measure to persevere in their determined and strenuous resistance. The Rev. A. lteLo, of Norwich, seconded the reaolutioo, rehearsing some of the initial arguments against the measure, The motion was then put and carried unanimously. • Mr. N. 0 burn s then moved: That, regarding the measure as thus weaned in prime* and as mischievous in its general provisions, this sneering clagnealet any modifications thereof as being uiterly resulScient to room the p ike objections with which it is regarded ; while the WM, with woke such modifications have been, sad may yet be, Intrados*. secretly, without kirtillUvie sanction, and by an almost trews 1a body, as justifying the ularm with which it regards en importune a deg ir. Tare from round constitutional principle. That the deimegnatlon expreaw I by the povernment to persevere in pressing thal nirvana', notwithstanding the Arringly rapeseed Natality of ennideruble 'Morn/ of the nonconformists of this country, who mist Gowen. timely Cavelier to participate in the advantages it offers, le a glaring sioisuotrof paiirleal jtorice, and r rulers it. basted eqearlity brit a -mockery, a delusion, :aid a snare.^ li e believed that the system proposed was not one of national education, but one of national pedantry and national bribery. The Rev. T. Darters, of Colchester, seconded the resolu- lion. The resolution having been alao carried unanimou.ly, with the t emotion of two diaentients, The Rev. Dr. hi ARDIE. of Ma telleater, moved : That ibis mating view•, in the measure now under consideration, an emphatic warning to nonoordormiata of the danger of affording even a tacit awaits to any interference of the civil power with eldest the =or the education at the people, and as demonanting the nee t Cn y ' of much a thethve cower of melon at the coming deo bon as will seethe the return to carileincat or the eta and Oath i*ent sdrocathe al a coander end more enlightened mecca. He cou,d not avoid °epee-sing alarm at the principles of the measure proposed, for he baleeved that if they conceded to the government the right of interference in the education of , the people upon a minute of csnricil, they would concede to I them not only the liberty of education, but the liberty of religion throughout the !and. Mr. W. D11E111,40 briefly amnded the resolution; alter which Mr. Hens begged to say a few words with regard to some observations which had then made by Dr. Mamie, on the course pursued by the body of Wesleyan, in neglecting to take any part in, or come to any decision on, the prevent question. He p r oceeded to state his belief hat that body had acted wisely in not riving an opini in before hearing suf ficient evidence of the merits or demerits of the measure. For his part, he was most grateful to the government for the assistance which they proposed to render to the cause of education. The speaker's sentiments, howev,-r ' were received with disapprobation by the meeting, and the resolution was carried with his single dissent. The Rev. Huns Season then proposed thanks to the chairman, hoping that the nest election raisin secure hint a place in the legislature as a representative of their borough. Mr. Wittians eeconded the resolution, which wall carried with acclamation; and the chairman having returned thanks, the meeting separated. THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE NEW SCHUOL ON THE BILIIISH BYETISS, situated near Olengall place, Old Rout-road, was held last evening. There is no part of Lotdon where schools are more required, and we were, therefore, the more sorry to find that some of the pro meters of this institution took an unwarrantable advantage of the oemion, by proditutiug the meeting to a party and factious purpose. Mr. Tennyson D'Eyncourt and Mr. Christie had been invited to attend, but excused themselves. Mr. B. Hawes, however, was prevailed upon to take the chair. Atter the report had been read, Mr. Hawes opened the proceedings by congratulating the promoters on the success of the school, end stating the nn ces sity which existed for it. He was glad to understand that they had met upon a neutral ground, and that the discus ' lions that night on the merits of education, would not be marred by any debate upon the now oat ch agitated questions connected with it. Mr. Cann (a member of the Society of Friends) moved the adoption of the report in a temoerste speech, and the motion having been seconded, was unanimoeoly carried. At this time Mr. E. Babies, jun., unexpectedly entered the room, accompanied by some friends. The Rev. R. AINSLIE, who it appeared had been invited, moved the second resolution, which in general terms recog uised the desirability of promoting education. The rev. speaker commenced Ito speech by strongly inveighing against the government Irian. Mr. &UHL'S followed. He reviewed all that bad been done for education is this country since 1804, thawing the inference that most had been accomplished when the state had least interfered. A great deal more was done for edu cation new than people generally supprd, and still more would be done if they " left well alone. A _gent:cones, who stated that he was a member of the Middle Temple, and a stranger to the schoole, to which he had been attracted by aceideut, replied to these speeches, sed taunted Mr. Baines with coming from Leeds, which he had represented as an educational El Dorado, to one of the least educated localities in. el England, to tell the inhabi tants of it that no more education was needed! The parioh of St. George's, Southwark, in which they thin stood, only provided daily education for 1 in 66 of the total number of children for whom education was re quired, and tleamondsey, which was the adjacent parish, only educated lin 34. Having briefly explained the government measure, he denied teat it would militate against the sup port of schools, or that the appointment of inspectors would be in any greater degree vested in the authorities of the church than in the British and Foreign Soho.' com mittee. Both had an equal extent of power and influence. Re urged the vital importance of elevating the character of the school teacher, and implored them as school support er themselves, not to risk, for the stke of private pique or factious motive, the loss of the immense advantages which the government offered to extend to them. Tne resolution was swirled, as were the others upon the paper, none of them touching on the question at issue. Tne conclusion of the meeting, however, was not so harmonic no as the chairman had anticipated its proceedings would prove, and the managers ore likely to gain nothing by , making chat ought to have been an harmonious meeting an opportunity of introducing the Leeds agitators to the LAMBETH PENSION SOCIsTY.—A special general meeting of this society, whose object is to grant small weekly allowances to aged and decayed householders of the district, who shall have paid rates for nut lase than 10 years, and their widows, was held last evening, for the purpose of con sidering certain alterations in the rules and regulations rela tive to the election of directors and officers, and other details of management, and 6,r limiting the relief to persons whose income is under 201. a-year, all of which had been at a pre vious meetiin,, unanimously agreed to by the directors. The proposed changes were confirmed by the subscribers, and the meeting 'operated. THE EDUCATION QUESTION is doubtless the ab sorbing topic of the day ; and the clues* which the united Wesleyan committees are about to take in relation to it is, as certainly, the point on which very many of our reader' will, with the utmost solicitude, look for information in our columns. We must say, however, that we are not yet in a position to speak as distinctly and definitely on this subject as might be gratifying both to ourselves and to three whose reasonable anxieties we desire to satisfy ; but we will state, so far as we feel at liberty to do so, the present condition of the matter. In our last, we gave a succinct historical outline of the steps takes by the united committees, up to their reassembling on the 31st of March, and of the change which was necessarily effected in the nature and tone of their delihenitions, by the important information then commu nicated to them from a high source—and communicated. we desire to repeat most emphatically, without any solici tation or ne•otiation on their part. Under these totally altered circumstances, it wes judged expedient to open a direct iotercoune with the committee I f council, that there might be no misundenumding on either aide. The decided objections felt by the Wesleyan Committees to the Minutes of Council were stated in strong though respectful and temperate language. An official reply was received which contained explanations so extensive in their bearings e to present the measure in a new aspect altogether, and, We feel bound to say, to remove In a great degree some of the most grave and insuperable objections which, as consistent Wealeyans, the committees urged. Still, however, points remain that greatly require expla nation, and whish—(without entertaining any notion so absurd as that we ran get a scheme of national education in sleety detail adapted to the views of the Wesleyan or any other single section of the church)—may, we trust, be yet brought into a more satistavory position. On Friday and Saturday last, the United Committees were engaged in deliberation is Manchester ; and we believe that their conclusion on the whole matter is fairly expressed,—or at least implied in what we have written in the precedini sentences. It was judged right to set before the cimmithee of council the difficulties yet unremoved. The Wesleyan committer adjourned to London, and the evening of Mon day, and most part of yesterday, were devoted by them to the inset serious consideration of the various ints included in the great and comprehensive subject. A f u,l meeting of the gtuerel commi• tee will he held on Friday next, at the Centenary Hall, and then, as we expect, the final condition will be reached.—The leakAirart. INQUESTS, YESTEBDAY.—MUEDETt OF AN INFANT. —By Mr. G. I. Mills, at the Elephant and Castle, King's r ed,Camden-town, on the bedy of a newly burn male lobed. On Saturday last, W. Lloyd, of 61, Auguatus-street, Re tent's-pansl, :I: u s i v e hile patoLtn . st i l i se banks on of t i t h e e a ß,stesse e e r the water, near the cork and Albany T n a g vern, wheu rfitoe n he is raediately gulled police constable 316 8 division, and the body was hauled in and conmed to the St. Pancras week house.—Mr. Cooper, the hoses surgeon, rid that deceased bad been born alive, and was a full grown child. It would doubtless have lived if it had had pro r assistance at its birth.—Other evidence, showing Hut deceased kad been most wilfully murdered, having been given, and in the absence of any clue to theguilty parties, a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or peronennknown" was record ed.—Atutozu ADES' IN 8 riPNlT.—Before Mr. Baker, at the Grave Maurice, Whitechapel-road, on the body of Wil liam Bridge, a painter, aged 64 years, who died in the Lon. dun Hospital, on Sunday night ler, from the alleged M onument he received from a woman, named Mary Burns. Mr. John Nash, the house surgeon Of the London Hospital, stated that he had made afloat "sorter examination of the body, and he attributed the death of the unfortunate man to a rupture of the bladder, which, in his opinion, was caused by a kick. The jury sdjoureed the inquiry for flusher evidence. THE EDUCATION MEETING AT BIR MINGHAM. Stit,—The letter which appears in your columns to-day, signed " G. S. Bull," calls for some explanation from me. 1. The "very mug, well-managed dissenters' meeting " in question was attended by at least 8,000 persons, including an unusually large proportion of the educated classes. 2. It was always intended to be open to full discussion on both sides. Its object, as stated in the requisition, was, "to consider a petition." Originally these words were followed by the words, " in opposition to the government pea of education ;" but the word " relation" was substituted a* " opposition" by the requisitionists themselves, two days be fore their f irst interview with the mayor. 3. It is contrary to universal practice (or persons originally moving in a matter of this kind to NO to their opponents ter assistance. Had the clergy, however, or any other party, been disposed to concur in the preliminary steps, they had ample opportunity of doing so, for a meeting of requisi tioniqs was conv..ned, by pub lic advertisemeot, and held at the public office on Thursday, April Ist, and the requisition was not presented to the mayor till the following Saturday. 4. Until wine proof is adduced that the dissenters were employed on the Sunday (April 4th) in " organising their troops, ' it is sufficient simply to deny Cm fact. Although on the previous Saturday I seat circulars to all the &smut me mi.:Asters with some printed g,pers containing the opi nions of Dr. Vaughan and others, for circulation, those circulars ceatained no reference to the intended meeting. ,gym not aware that any mention of the town's meeting was publicly made on that Sunday in any dissenting chapel ..r school in Birmingham. It did happen, however, that a gentleman from the Writ of England, who attended the ecreico at St. Martin's Church, informed rue the same aft, moon that the Rev. J. C. Miller had duly apprised his congregation of a meeting on the subject, and earnestly entreated their attendance. 6. With Um szooption of Um lecture by Mr. Bakes, at Graham-street Chapel, on Thursday evening, April Bth, I am out aware of a single meeting, convened by opponents of the government plan, having been held subsequently to the dect.ion to hold a town's meeting. On the other hand, your correspondent, the Rev. Mr. Bull, admits that the clergy convened five parochial meetings, and he will not dewy that ' they were attended by large numbers. 0. Mr. Bull alleges that the supporters of government ' ' had 75 orchestra tickets, end the opponents 325. The fact is that 400 tickets were printed, of which the requisitionists retained only 260, giving 100 to the mayor and 50 to other ofiicial persons, with a request that nearly the whole of the 150 should be distributed to the supporters of government not requisitionists. The requi sitioneds were about 900 in number, and many of them sp• proved of the minutes of cntneil. The 250 tickets were distributed to them without reference to their opinions. When the meeting assembled the opponents and supporters who actually occupied the orchestra were nearly balanced. Setting all this wide, I complain that Mr. Bull has not the candour to tell the public that when he and the rural dean did me the honour of a call on Thursday morning, the Bth instant, I offered to take the responsibdity either of aban doning the ticket plan altogether, or of adopting any other course which they might suggest for securing perfect impar tiality, it being, as I enured them, the anxious wish of the requisitionists that the supporters of government should have every opportunity afforded them to expert( their sentiments. And as a further proof of the sincerity wit`t which the committee endeavoured to arrange matters of detail, 6o that no disadvantage might &cruet° either side, I may mention that en the same occasion I stated to the rev. gentleman the nature of the resolutions which would be pro- posed, and the names of the speakers, for the express pur pose of enabling them to make their own arrangements. 7. To the allegations that due publicity was not given, and that even the ladies' galleries were puked, the facts already detailed furnish en answer. How could the requisition be published in the journal of Saturday morning when it was only presented to the mayor in the afternoon of that day ? As to the ladies, the committee endeavoured to avoid all chance of unfairness by sending to the rural dean a letter at noon, on Thursday, stating that the galleries wonld be re served, and giving the hour at which the doors would open. This letter woo despatched eight or ten hours before any announcement of the •rtangement wee made to the opponents. 8. The rev. gentleman makes use of a number of phrases sheet being " out-generalled,"—" expedients to which the unscrupulous resort," and other tisics to which I am unable , to reply, as I cannot discover their application. He concludes by a remarkable statement, that " the opponents of the . mintres have declined to go to the poll." Perham he will far ,ur your readers by some explanation when, where, and by whom, any proposal for a poll of the inhabitants of the borough on this subject has been suggested. We certainly anticipate that the question may become still more promn : nest, and that it may affect the state of the poll at the next general election. When that time arrives, I trust that the , 'principles enunciated on Friday last may tot be forgotten.— . I am, &C., WILLIAM MORGAN, Hon. Secretary to the Roe ; quisitiu. ists.—April 12. IRELAND. DUBLIN, &rem 13. Public opinion is beginning to settle on the colo nisation scheme, which looks more imposing than practicaole. With two classes it seems to find parti cular favour—the landlords and peasantry. You may be surprised at the union where the interests are so diverse ; but there can be little doubt that any scheme which would give the small farmer or independent labourer a free passage to the colonies, with the gua rantee of the state for the remunerative exercise of his labour, would be exceedingly popular. The Irish peasant loves home, but he is romantic and adventu rous in his disposition, and would fly anywhere from the evils which he feels will overtake him in this un happy country. The colonising committee, however, have not the confidence of that class on whose sup port the success of the project depends, and whose hostility is fatal. The Roman Catholic clergy " look with eyes askew " on the glowing picture of a perfect society in the depth of the forest, with its curates, chapels, &c. They do not bite at all, although an O'Connell be paraded as one of the secretaries. The first direct attack on the colonisers, including the entire landlord genus, has been made by the Roman Catho lic Bishop of Derry, the Right Rev. Dr. Maguire, in the Evening Freeman of to-day. He lays the lash on the landlords without measure or mercy; and, through the colonisation scheme, inflicts many a severe wound, charging them with motives the most selfish and impure. The landlords may be quite as bad as he represents them, but what are the hundreds of thousands to do, whose subsistence has been cut off, and whose labour is not likely to find a market at home? His grace thinks it good sport that "the carrion men " should still walk the earth to haunt their persecutors, or cling to their backs like the old man to Sinbad ; but the "carrion men" would far prefer to go where they could put on flesh. The idea of an income tax which is to go halves with a property-tax in securing the capitalist, has startled the mercantile and professional classes. They, too, are nut favourably disposed to the measure on your side of the channel. Also, the preponderance of popery on the confines of the Rocky Mountains has excited nOMO apprehensions about the permanence of Chris tianity itself. So multifarious are the elements of opposition, which threaten to destroy the project before it has well seen the Licht. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, APRIL 13. The revenue customs at Glasgow fur the year end ing the Sth inst. amount to 679,3261., being 103,4281. above the preceding year ; a great increase when the number of duty repeals is taken into account. The Edinburgh commissioners of police have agreed without a division to give access to their books to any party desirous of bringing out a correct City Direc tory. The commissioner who made the motion said that since he had given notice of it, the compilers of the Post-office Directory bad in some instances re funded their new charges for the insertion of re sidences. file Glasgow Courier of this day disowns a letter recently inserted in its pages, to the effect that the editors of Punch had received 211. for a paragraph on Free Church Sites. PROVINCIAL. WARWICKSHIRE. TER EDVCATIOX Movement iv HneltlNGßAll.—Another meeting of the friends of the government educational scheme warn held in Deritend and Bordaley,Birmingham, on Tuesday night. The Rev. W. B. Smith, the chairman, drew a picture of the geeeral in. fficieney of the schools now exist ing, and in explaining the minutes of mused he observed that, whilst the Church of England was required to carry out her instruction in its integrity, the pimis and creeds of dissenters acknowledging as a common bond of union the authorised version of the Holy Scriptures, was not interfered with. After a lucid explanation of the proposed plan in .id of the voluntary institutions now existing, the Rev. J. P. Lee, headmaster of the Grammar-school of King Edward VI. addressed the meeting ; and exposed what he termed a wi cked misrepresentation of the minutes of coun cil, in the bold charge of the scheme being unconstitutional. The rev. speaker enumerated the steps by which the sanction of the tint constitution of the committee of privy council on education was obtained by the House of Commons in 1839, when the vote of money was maturely debated at almost every stage of the Appropriation Act of that session, and when the fullest opportunity was given for sifting it. That the dissenters should, he said, object to this measure because the grant was annual, and liable to annual debate, and to be rescinded at any time, was surely captious, when the same parties objected to the late ./daytooth Bill because the annuargrant to that college was to be cow erted into a per manent charge. This was neither more nor Ism than blowing hot and cold with the same mouth. To say, therefore, that this was unconstitutional, was most false. If so, then every grant embodied in the Appropriation Act was equally opento ohjection, whether for the army, navy, or any other service. The Rev. George Bull was the next speaker. Adverting to the address of the last speaker, he said that Mr. Lee had a special and peculiar position in the question, and it was one of great disinterestedness. As the head of perhaps the largest public establishment of the kind in the kingdom, he was anxious not for the aggremlimment or exclusive supe riority of kis own schools, but was sealously bent on promoting the general improvement of education. Mr. Bull requested that any disseatienti who were present would favour the meeting with their reasons ; but no antagonist appearing, the rev. gentleman promeded, with much point and humour, to comment on the discreditable proceedings at the town meeting last Friday. As to the grant being an annual am, it was an experiment for which it was made, and it was fitting it should be annual. With respect to the patronage which it was said the measure would throw into the hands of government, he asked whether it was not elfish in the middle chimes to desire its denial to the children of the poor? Did they want it all for their own children, that they made so great an outcry atout a poor man's child bring 'Awed in an honourable and useful post in some branch of the public service ? So much (he said) for their disinterestadneas and patriotism. Then the empty schools was much talked about—who wondered at their emptiness when many of them were so worthless? What was the state of education in Birmingham, and what had it been? A thing too ludicrous almmt to speak of. The rev. gentleman related numerous anecdotes illustrative of the defects in the existing aystsm, and of the greet want of education amongst the lower classes.—Other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and a memorial in favour of the scheme was afterwards unanimously adopted.—Last evening a meeting was held in the parish of Edgbaston, and with signior results. UNC .LNSHIRe.. _ CH &ROE ILGAINOT Taa7i.;;;;;T—oa Tu..lay a com mission, consisting of the Ven. Arnimleoc su Bonney, the Rev. J. Jarvis, It v. C. Neville, Rev. C. Narrne, and lie,. J. T. Penrose, sat at the White Hart Hotel, Lincoln, to inquire into certain charges against a rev. gentleman, one of the vicar's choral of Lillo3lll Cathedral. The principal evidence was chat of a female servant, who had been discharged front her situation. The court sat tie boon., and, after hearing all the witnesses, it was decided that there was no paima facie radon, for proceeding farther with the affair. Ma. Beesreese BualtaLse, M.P., aen Weer Glue- CESTZIUIIIIIII3.—On Monday a touting of the electeas of • West Gloucesteribire, or, rather, of that large portion of the county within the limits of the Perris of Dean, was held st the Speech House, Dean Forest, for the purpose of hearing • certain explanations proposed to be made by the Hu. Brantley F. Berkeley. The meeting was held in the centre of the Forest of Dean. a wild, uncultivated country, and wee attended by some SOO persons, chief* , miners and coal- • master,. The proceedings, which were of rather a stirring character, commenced at three o'clock, and did not terse. note until Finely seven. The Hon. O. F. Berkeley, M.P., spoke for tame time in reply to various charges which, he said, had been made optima his public conduct at the in stigation of his brother, Earl Fitshardinge. Thesubstanceof these charges has already been before the public in this paper. Mr. Berkeley addressed a few remarks to the meeting on the • government p'an of education. He had had no com munication with the dissenting body on this subject, but his opinion was, that the proposed plan would strengthen the power of the dominant church, and he could not therefore trust a government with a plan of popular education. As long as a dominant church existed, they could not have a government plan of education, and his intention therefore VW to oppose the government plan with all his power. Be strongly advocated an early repeal of the malt tax, and said he would back • barleycorn against a tea.leaf any day. He had been charged with not having thoroughly supported the liberal party, and by venturing to dispute tho will of the lord-lieutenant of the county, with having run a risk of breaking up tke liberal party in the county, and haviug • tory returned in his place. To this he answered, than no power on earth should induce him to edit • ' single vote with Mr. Brantley Berkeley, or "al other nominee of the castle, and therefore he hail looked pretend foe some one to stand at his right hand. Ile had I found a gentleman willing to support him in his hour of ' need—Mr. Clayton, of Bierley Hall, Yorkshire, whom b• now introduteetto the meeting. Mr. Clayton was an iret miner and coal muter, and therefore well acquainted with their interests. if ever two Tories st ould be nominated. Mr. Clayton would be ready te come forward and solicit their suffrages.—Mr. Hunt (a quaker) then came forward • and addressed the meeting. This gentleman, it will be re- • muttered. was chairman of the meeting held at Gloucester, when Mr. Brantley Berkeley bad the door locked against him. He read to the meeting a note which he had received from Mr. Brantley Berkeley, calling upon him to meet him there • "if his courage, like Bob Acres, had not oozed out at - his fingers' ends." Had it been known on the other side iof the Severn, he said, that this had been any ether than an aoti-education meeting, they would hen had hundreds more of the electors present. Mr. Hunt then ad dressed himself at some length to the subject of the game laws, which he denounced as having been framed merely for the purpose of pandering to the vitiated taste of the aristo cracy. He bore testimony to the increased and increasing • dissatisfaction of the Dean foresters with the conduct of the hon. member. He had canvassed the county on this subject, and the result satisfied him that they should et the next election have en anti-game-law candidate. He then re f-reed to the honourable members votes with • view of showing that he had neglected his parliamentary duties.— A warm debate followed.—Mr. Orantley Berkeley replied, sod with other speakers charged Mr. Hunt with being the abettor of Earl I. itahardinge. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Berkeley was interrupted by Mr. Trotter, a gentleman of the neighbourhood, upon which Mr. Berkeley bald " I won't be interrupted. Don't do it again, because I won't stand it. If you interrupt me again, I'll have you out of that carriage . '—Mr. Trotter subsequently raid he thought Mr. Brantley Berkeley ought not to come out in that " punch o' the head" sort of style. Ile (Mr. Trotter) would be killed before he would be iutimidated.—Mr. Grantley Berkeley 'Baleen's denied that he had threatened to strike him, and the apology was accepted.—After some more per tonal matters, both parties getting rather warm, a resolution condemning the government education plan was cam el. A resolution expressing approval of Mr. Orasit:ey Berkeley's explanation, was also carried by about three votes to two, An amendment, expressing dissatisfaction at the hon. ' member's conduct, was lost by about the same proportion of votes. THE EDUCATION QUEATION IN LIETEIL—At a meeting of the Unitarian congregation in George's Chapel, Batter, on Sunday last, James Terrell, Esq., in the chair, it was unanimously revolved to support the government measure of education. In this congregation, Mr. Bishop, the minister, is an active opponent of the measure, and the congregation unanimously voted in its support. At a meeting of the sub scribers of the Paris-street school, attached to Georges Chapel, held on Tuesday, it was unanimously resolved to offer that school for inspection under the minutes of the privy council, A correspondent says:—" Three dissenting ministers, opponents of the government plan, 'dein:nal a meeting of the Working Men's Association in Exeter, on Wednesday last, but could make no impression on them. They had previously intended to try a public meeting. They passe., however, this ordeal, and on Sunday the town was placarded with notices that a Mr. Gould, the Baptist minis ter, would give a lecture, and their songregationa was gathered at the submeiption rooms. It was demanded if any discus- - Mon was to be allowed, or any petition proposed. An answer was refused, until they should be enabled to form their judgment from the feelings of the meeting. After Mr. Gould had harangued his audience for a time, and finding there was no opposition, and that he had strength enough in tke room, lie produced his petition." iFmr ens. HOUSI OF - LOAM. The new House of Lords, in the new Houses of Parliament, opens this afternoon. This is an event of chnsequence in the history of the building, and we congra tulate he architect on the thus far successful completion of his labours. Much, however, remains to be done. The House ut Commons is cull in a very unfinished state; the cluck tower is almost undesigned, and the great Victoria-taws r, in Abingdon-street, has as ytt been carried up barely a third of its intended height. The palace (lor so it still condones to be called) coven, it is said, an area of nine acres, and it in dot very long since the works were commenced. The old , houses were burnt down on toe 16th October, 1834, the de signs exhibited in March, 1836, and Mr. Barry selected ae the successful competing architect in the spring of that year. We remember his design : it was very different, and in some respects better than the altered and existing structure. The bridge-end of the building wore a csateilati d or palatial character. It is now almost ecclesiastical, and the bold ashlar work of the deign has been changed into the panelled compartments of • sacred edifice. There is reason to Lament this change; yet, viewed as a whole, the New Houses of Parliament may be unhesitatingly pronounced I noble etnicture, and, after St. Paul's, the only edifice erected by a government in any way worthy of our national character and resources Much that was valuable as lost to us in the tire which destroyed the two houses ; ware sorry to lose St. Stephen's Chapel, the Painted !Umber, the Star Chamber, the cellar of Guy Faux: and the , Armada hangings ; yet the destruction ot th s hovers . effected a real good. The great fire ot 1666 called into action the architect of St. Paul's ; and the fire of 1834, the resources of the greatest muter in his art our country bee produced since Sir Christopher Wren. As yet but three portions of the building may be called in any way complete—the lobby of the lords, the House of Lords, and the Victoria hall, the House of Lords forming the ceutre ot the three.. The approach to the lobby is by • tern- • porary structure, which may have something to do with the surprise one feels at entering an apartment which carries one hack to the period of the middle ages and brings the descrip tions of Frei/wart and Mosistrelet fres h to the recollect on. All is medieval—wells, floor, and ceiling —you tread on herniate . tiles, and see strinreourves of heraldy above contoining the arms of the first peers that constituted a parliament. Alt has . bees done by rule. There is a precedent for almost every ' thing. The very carving on the stone-work is gilt and coloured ; pert of the floor, encircling the heraldic rose is the centre of the lobby, is of metal inlaid, and the folding doors areol burnished braes. By these doors we enter the House of Lords, a noble room r 0 feet by US, and 40feet in height. There is no describing in detail the gorgeous hall you are in. It is the House of the Cloth of Gold. At the upper end of the house is the throne, a mass of tabernacle work and gilding more • like a airiest for St. Themes it Beckett, ar at least our Led. , et Walsingham, end just that kind agent where fancy would place Eamund the Martyr or Edward the Confessor, not William IV. or Queen Victoria. Immediately above the throne is Mr. Dyce's fresco "The Baptism of lEthelbert," too high to be seen to advantage. end on either side of the fresco rich sad draperies powdered with stars, and clowns, , and lions, in yellow, 'upended to conceal the re cesses left vacant for future frees:tee At the lower tad of the house is the reporters' gallery, and imme diately above that three more vacant audio for frescoes; resigned to Messy,. Idealisms iirweley sad Cope. Nothing, however, has as yet bestrides* to them. The eve ascending beholds • flat panelled ceding filled with abrade, devices, and legends, which puzzle and fatigue attention. Ranging , lower you observe that the house is lighted with twelve , windows, ix on either side, and that one of the windows is r filled with painted glees, coetaieing full-length figures of t early kings end !peens, made by Mr. Hardman, of Burning— , ham, in the *rue medieval art—out of drawing in every line, and every one with hands likegiove-stretchers. Throe • aro done as a .. pattern " fOr Messrs. Ballentyne and Allan, who have the commission for the stained aims, to work by. Between the windows and at either end of the hones are plebes, eighteen in number, for statues of the magnet liana batons, but two alone have as yet been erected—lonigton, Archbish .p of Canterbury, and Robert Fitzwalter, " Marshal of the army of Ood and the holy church." These are by Mr. Tkonsu, the able sculptor of the whole of the statues throughout the building. Immediately beneath the win- ' dows runs a light and elegant gallery of brow-work, filled in compartments with coloured mastic in imitation of enamel. On the soffits of the gallery (or cornice immediately beneath the gallery), are the arms of the sovereigns and chancellors of England, from the reign of Edward 111. to the present time, and below these are the seats of the peers, Eye on either side, covered leith red morocco, and luxurious to sit down upon. The body of the house is occupied by a large table of oak (plain fur a wonder), and the red wool sack of the chancellor. The carpet is blue. powdered with stars, in the old star-chamber fashion, and the carpet of the throne is red, spotted with heraldic lions and roue. After • this eeneral description ot the house, we may turn to some of the details. We have said that the throne is very like a ebriuo; we may now add that it is not unlike an altar, and this similarity is materially assisud by the use of angels as sopporters, by a magnificent candelabrum of brass on either tide, tilled with wan-candles, and by the three mews for the three , chair,. of the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Albert. which readily suggest the idea that they were originally de signed for the Commindinents the Creed, and the Lefirs Prayer. This servile adherence to rcelmiastical detail, is thowsleading defect of the whole edifice, both within sad without. It is Vas it would be ddivelts •