The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-12 00:00:00

salter of joy or grief, one of the ventricles of the heart is niptured, and death almost immediately enemies. A " FRIGHT' , VL" P.tRAGRAPH. —Ass specimen of the verbal ezegerstions with which newspaper peragraghs are sometimes spiced up, with the view of giving to them • factitious interest, we extract the following from an evening — iCose'res , karamscaar Aertover. —As the express -cart which teeny. the newspaper. tram Mr. Moatley's, the entene/Ye publisher tbs &mod, tothe rewaya I. the morning, was standing aver its eybarn from the railway at Mr. Westley's door, between six and seven s'elotk am., yesterday. the home took fright, sad madeotat a furious rase game the leeway towards Temple-bur, when, as it neared Arundel-crew, the wheel et the cart caught is the gats.lamp post, idikh IL Aimed to pieces, slid the horse's leg fell into so opening of amide:eller, the mopper of which It broke through; yet, strange to sahwa 4.i.dir. 4 *. 1 sew isowed, and the rrpress.cort, /war, end hareess,a4lend KW. or so flionspr. Fraz.—Loss or LIFE. —On Saturday night, s h or tly after eight o'clock, considerable alarm was created in the Broadway, Blackfriars, by loud cries of " Fire !" pro cess:ling from the house numbered 5 in that thoroughfare. Mr. Inspector Boyce, and a young man named Cooper, in stantly entered the building, and upon getting into the first floor front, found a ietnale of the name of Maxwell, the wife of the occupier of the apartment referred to, on the floor, in the midst of a sheet of flame. After considerable difficulty the fire was extinguished ; and the poor creature, on being lifted up, was found burned about the face, neck, arms, and head as black as a coal ; in fact, the flesh was in several pieces horned from her head and face. The unfortunate woman had been left alone for a few minutes whilst her sister went to purchase something for supper at the top of the street, and upon her return she found, on opening the door, the deceamd lying will her head under the grate, and the upper portion of her dress in flames. INGE Ens, SATCRDAT.—SUDDEN DEATH Or A Sitititur's Orman. —Before Mr. Mills, at the Elephant and Castle, St. Pancras-road, on George Byte., a sheriff's officer. The jury, who proceeded to view the body in a house in Barham-street, were not a little horrified at behold ing deceased sitting In an arm-chair opposite the fire with his clothes and hat on, as if enjoying the warmth of the coal, being the position in which he died. Thomas Trotman abated that on Thursday afternoon the deceased was put into ' of his goods under an execution from the Sheriffs' . At night, after they had smoked a pipe together, he W the deceased to go into his (witness's) bed, which he refused to do, saying that he preferred sitting et the fire. Witness accordingly went cut, leaving deceased, who ep tritic' the best health and spirits, sitting at the fire. on awaking in the morning, he found deceased sitting in the same position, but quite dead. He instantly went to the sheriff's office, and related what occurred. The coroner expreased himself satisfied the alecened's death was purely natural; but as there were none in the room but the deceased and the witness, and as the circumstances connected with his death were peculiar, he would adjourn the inquest for a few hours to have the body opened for the saticaction of all parties. Mr. Cooper, the parish surgeon, accordingly opened the body, and found the deceased's death was natural.—MYSTEßlol.7B CASE OP DIOWIIING.—Before Mr. Baker, at the queen's Head, Poplar, on the body of Frederick Krudrup. On the morning of Thursday last, the deceased left the Castle Tavern, Whitachapel, to go to the West India Docks. He saw the =Y he wanted, who accompanied him back as far as eti-lane, Whitecbapel, and no one could be found who bakseen deceased alive afterwards. Between ten and eleven the same day he was found in some tarpauling floating in the waters of the Blackwell entrance of the West India Docks. How, or by what means he got lain the water it was impossible to tell. Life was extinct. In his pockets wen found a key, one hall'penny, and a watch-chain. The inquiry was eventually adjourned to obtain further evidence. —FATAL OMNIIICS ACCIDENT.—Before Mr. Waklev, at the White Bear, King-street, Hammersmith, on the body of Thomas Hatton, aged 68 years, who was killed on the evening of Wednesday last. Between five and six o'clock, the deceased, who was a recipient of the Latymer Charity, was crossing the road in a state of intoxication, and while in the act of placing his foot on the pavement, he suddenly fell backwards into the road. At that moment one of the Dam • meremith Conveyance Company's omnibuses was passing on its journey to town, and before the horses could be pulled up the wheels panned trensversely over the deceased's face, neck, and cheat. He was immediately conveyed to the sur nodf Mr. Griffith,,, close by, but it was then found that breathed his last. The evidence was most conclusive that no blame could be attached to the driver of the omni bus, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." --ACCIDENT AT TWICEENHAM.—Before Mr. Wakley, at the Prince Blucher'. Arms, Twickenham-common, on the body of Frederick Nicklewright, aged 60, bailiff to Sir • William Clay, Bart., M.P. The deceased had been in the service of that baronet for the last 20 yews. On Thursday morning last, about seven o'clock, deceased was attending to the machinery of a threshing machine, which is propelled by water, when a part of his dress became . entangled with it, and the unfortunate man was drawn in between two large wheels, which crushed him in a most hor rible manner, and severed his head from his body. A work man, who was in another part of the premises, heard the deceased cry out, end as quickly as possible stopped the machinery, but not until the deceased had been literally torn to pieces. His mangled remain. were extricated from the machinery with considerable difficulty. The jury re turned a verdict of " Accidental death." NIEETLNG ON EDUCATION AT BIRMINGHAM. On Friday night a meeting, convened by the mayor, in compliance with a requisition of the opponents of the go vernment educational scheme, was held in the Music-hall, at Birmingham. It was unquestionably the largest held in ' that town for several years; the building was crowded almost to suffocation, and many persons went away unable to obtain admission. Unfortunately for the character of the opposition, care had seemingly been taken to pack the hall with many uproarious persons, whose only business was apparently t o put down every speaker in favour of the measure. To such an extent were these disgraceful interruptions carried out, that Mr. O. Edmonds, an opponent of the measure, felt him self constrained to make the public confession that the meet ing afforded proof how much education was needed in Birmingham. The meeting having been opened by the mayor, the Rev. J. A.J.sst es, independent minister, said, the first objection he had to the government education plan was the tap-root prinoiple out of which the whole grew—that it was the business of the state to undertake the moral and religious .location of the people—that it was one of the functions of the government. This principle would produce less mis chief in our free country than in such countries as Prussia, Austria, and France ; but he maintained it was dangerous anywhere. If right anywhere, it was right everywhere. The government, whether popish or protestant, whether whip or tory, must, if that maxim were true, educate the people, arid then what would be the consequence ? Educa tion was the moulding of the national e ; and he would trust no state, nor any particular section of the reli gious world, with the lasing of the metal and the pouring it Liao the mould. He objected to the principle of the measure being introduced on the recommendation of an order in council. What was that ? The royal prerogative. It seemed to him that the council had forgotten its duty. He always looked upon it as an advisory rather than executive body, and that its duty was to give the queen advice when parliament was not sitting. Of its discharge of that duty, Englishmen had always been jealous; and he regarded the manner in which the measure was brought forward as one of the greatest in novations upon the customs of our country which had been made in modern times. The rev. gentleman next adverted to the Archbishop of Canterbury's opposition to the order in -council on education in 1830, and went on to remark that to carry the measure out, no less than two millions sterling would be required, and that there would be 80,000 persons in the pay of government. Why (he continued) Charles Fox's India Bill was • joke to that. Let them just picture to themselves a school of 100 boys, with four government officers over them—a muter, two pupil teachers, and a stipendiary monitor. The boys would ne doubt think it was a very nice thing to have government pay ; and, although he was no leveller, he was determined to set has face against this flood of government patronage coming through the land. It was not merely these 80,000 persons, bet their families and dependents, who would amount to some hundreds of thousands. Who could tell the amount -of government patronage and influence to which this mea sure would lead, if not checked ? The measure would aug ment the power of the clergy, while it would in the small towns root out the dissenters The clergy could not blame him for ' being attached to his own denomination as they were to theirs. It was very painful to him to be obliged thus to oppose men with whom it was the delight of his life to be on terms of friendship ; but he felt that the measure under con sideration would set up a minor religious establishment in the schools—a satellite, the light and splendour of which would be all for the advantage of the primary body round which it revolved—the Church of England. (n No, no.") It was said that the dissenters might have grants, too. He had no doubt hut the government would be very glad to buy them if they could—(" Oh !")—but if they took the money for their schoolmasters, they must lose their character ; if they did not, they were likely to lose their schools. The Act of Uniformity was so framed that those puri tans who accepted it should be bankrupts in character, while those who refused should be deprived of all the emo luments ; and this measure was of a similar nature. He objected to it because it was a step towards the endowment of all religious opinions, as being equally true, equally false, or equally indifferent. Although the committee of council at present confined their grants to schools which reed the authorised version of the bible, and that excluded Roman Catholic schools, that body had intimated that they " did not pledge themselves not to take into consideration the cue of the Roman Catholics." (Cries of, "And so they ought!" " Quite right !") It would be impossible to keep out Roman Catholics. If he did not now vote against the payment of Roman Catholic schoolmasters, he could not hereafter consistently vote against the payment of Roman Catholic priests. It would be supposed, from reading the public papers, that the tide of human enlightenment was turning, and that the night of ignorance was coming on ; but the fact was, that in the last twenty years the increase of population had been 74 per cent., while that of education had been 211 per cent. The speaker went on to refer generally to the exertions re cently made by his own and other denoniinaions, and quoted his own school as evidence that in Birmingham education is improving both in quantity and quality. In this town scarcely any of the daily schools supported b voluntary efforts were full. There was at present a supply for more than the present demand. (" No, no," and cheers.) Look at the cheap literature, the mechanics' institutes, &c., and say if they were signs of the English mind going back ; yet all then had been effected by voluntary efforts. He could not help expressing hie fears that the measure would pass ; and if us its working it should produce none of the evils which its opponents apprehended, he would be among the first to rejoice that it had been passed, and to confess his regret that he had ever opposed it. But believing, as he did, that k weld be attended witk very diesrest Moults. he must give the measure his determised, his rmeseepremising oppo- Erase The rev. =tea ermsbeded by sieving ibet ineselen 111111sikeall ihe peesemeet Men of ed.:o aks, of epbria tbsit easermitather laths manner M its in traisetlea, milk the dram Merestr to the people in Me eggiludea et On eraser atur=t il lit require; that it A aimpent„ la • seer Meer degree, tee pacers, Of government; that its imillery tete disarm an voluntary efforts In favour of free akeallan. and le interfere with the progress of civil and religious Iffseelg. The Rev. 8. Baca', a Unitarian, seconded the resolution. He condemned the measure on the ground that it was fraught with danger to civil and religious liberty. He denied the right of government to interfere with the moral and re ligious education of the people. He insisted that it was idle to increase the means for educating the people when they would not avail themselves of it, and it had nut (he said) yet been proved to him that poverty was not more the cause of crime then the want of education. The rev. gentleman concluded a long speech, delivered amidst one continued up rose, by observing that the best course for government to pursue was to remove restrictions, revise taxation, relieve the people from the burthens now east upon them, and they would be able to educate the poorer classes themselves by voluntary contributions. JAMES TAYLOR, Esq., of Moseley Hall, moved the follow iag amendment : That the proposal of her Majesty's government to assist voluntary efforts for the eduesUnn of the working claws., without any Inter ference in the management of the schools, or the religious privilege s of Use conductors, has on the whole, the approlattion of the meeting, and it is calculated to effect much good, prevent much evil, sod ooen a sew path for honourable and useful employment to many deserving ra nam proisoling this amendment, Mr. TAYLOR said he could not concur io the argument that government ought not to interfere with the education of the people. In his opinion there were far more important duties for government to per form than mere civil duties: they ought to base civil laws en religious principles; and that would be effected, to a con siderable extent, by the proposition which had been sub mitted by the council, and which the House of Commons was about to be called upon to support by a pecuniary vote. The main purpose of the measure seemed to be to assist voluntary efforts to provide better mestere and mistresses for the schools, and to hold out other inducements to the work ing classes: in this he perfectly coincided. He therefore heartily supported the scheme. The Rev. J. Geueerr, the rural dean, seconded the amendment. He supported the government measure (he said) because he thought that in its operation it was calcu• latest to promote the welfare, exalt the energies, heighten the character, and increase the happiness of the people. He denied that the scheme had been brought forward in any unconstitutional manner; if he understood the meaning of the word unconstitutional it meant something opposed to the practice and principles of the constitution. The British constitution entrusted to the House of Commons the dis posal of the resources of the nation, and from time items ' aerial that body had been in the habit of voting a sum of money on all subjects, and placing it in the hands of WM miesioners to dispose of in the way the house thought fit; such was the uniform and constitutional practice. He had not been an leaf tentive observer of what was going on ' • hr had read in 1839 the arguments which the Archbisho p of I Canterbury had urged, and that morning he had refreshed his 'memory as to the reply which the Marquis of Lansdowne had made, and in which be said that there was nothing uncon stitutional in the appointment of the committee of the I council, or inconsistent with the practice on all occasions. But while he maintained that the proceedings of the govern ment were not unconstitutional, he was not prepared to say that their scheme was the best mode of carrying out their objects; in fact, he wished to see that object so established that it should be free from future alteration and control, and the best way of effecting that would be by act of parliament. It had been said that the government was undertaking the religious education of the country. Now, oa every principle, he would say that the measure did not meditate any such thing, nor even attempt to undertake it inasmuch as the principle of the scheme set forth that the education of the country was in the hands of parties from whom they had no desire to remove it. It had been further urged that, whilst the government recognised clergymen of the established church, they treated the dissenting ministers with contempt. The contrary was the fact; for, whilst the parochial minister had no power, end his certifica tei of competency was value. less, staler approved of by the inspectors, the certificate of the minister of • diesenters' school was all-sufficient. Was it to be said that the state, which educated couvicts, ought to have nothing to do with that education which prevented their becoming convicts ?—that education which enlarged their faculties and made them goad and use ful members of society ? The rev. gentleman concluded an eloquent speech (but imperfectly heard amidst the interrup tion canoed by the masses in the body of the hall) by re marking that the were called upon to approve the minutes of the council as they now stood that those minutes would not advance grants to any schools where the authorised ver sion of the scriptures was not read ; and on that ground they had the support of the great body of the Wealeyans. The Rev. Mr. Bawl ALL, a baptist minister, next delivered a long harangue against the government scheme. He de nounced the measure as "pernicious," " hateful in its ten dency," an attempt to " gild the diamond of voluntaryism," " to rime crystal streams of civil and religious liberty," to " bring us back to the despotism of the middle ages, &c. This political babe had been smuggled into the world and the sooner it was strangled the better. Let it (he said) be sent hack to its nurses ; he would say unto it—" Monster, lie down and die." (Tremendous confusion and uproar.) The voluntaries regarded religion not as • matter of expe diency, but principle; and it WU on that ground that they refused to consent to allow religion to be endowed at all. To endow • good religion was like painting the lily ; it could stand of itself. To endow • bid one was to foster error. The speaker concluded by observing that this scheme would find a grave in the repentance of its framers, or in the contempt a the people. The Rev. G. S. Bum., of the establishment, supported the government scheme. He would be glad (he mid) if any man would *how hint bow, by this measure, the liberty, either civil or religious, of any man could or would be abridged by it. He should be glad also to find that any man could show, from the minutes of the council, that there was to be a religious education of the people, as they had been told there was. There was not a single passage in the whole document which could justify the assertion. Whatever moral, political, or social evils existed in the state, what could cure them but the exercise of popular influence? Hew was that to be exercised properly but by an efficient education ? Some complained that they were not fairly or properly represented. Was it ignorance to cure it ? It had been said that the schools in existence were not full ; the reason was, that the lac:ruction was not worth having. If they mended the instruction they would fill the schools. It was also stated that the Main why the schools were not well attended was, that in many instances the pareets were too peer to send their children. But what was the cause of that weeny 1 Sometimes it was criminality ; but would ignorance mend that, or would it mend oppression ? Would it mend loos hours or would it remedy any of the ills under which they laboured ? In his opinion, the government measure would give energy to education, and prove benefi cial to opening a way for bringing up the children of the working classes in an honourable profession. It had been said that nine tenths of the taxes were paid by the working classes; but it could not be better returned to them than by opening up . a provision for life for their children, without interfering in the smallest degree with their civil or reli gious liberty. (Hear) It had been averred that this measure would increase taxation. He advised them, however, to look narrowly at a statement which went to s how that this mea sure would cost annually two millions; but when the cri minal expenditure of the country cost annually two millions was it not fair te expect some diminution on that head b the spread of a sound and e ffi cient edu ca tion? Mr. Bull concluded a very powerful appeal in favour of the govern. meat scheme by rensiuding the meeting that, notwithstand ing the opposition offered by the dissenters to this measure, they had accepted money out of the grant of 1833, made to this very same council of education. Mr. J. &restos, in a long speech, declared his opposition to the government measure ; his main objection appeared to be thatit was an infringement upon the principle of civil and religious liberty. Mr. M. D. HILL, Q.C., the recorder of the borough, next spoke in favour of the government scheme. Of all the gentlemen (he rid) who had addressed the meeting in oppo sition to the new measure, it seemed to him that none of them were aware that the measure which they were seemingly apprehecsive was to be thrust on the people of England by the authority of the privy council, was not a measure in action, it was only a measure in proposal ; and It never could be passed, unless after • full debate in paella meet itshould appear to the House of Commons to be for the benefit of the people. He (Mr. Hill) was not there as the advocate of the government; it was very ardor the government seemed to know wether he existed at all, and when it did him the honour to notice his existence, it was not in • way peculiarly gratifying to his feelings. But what was individual interest, compared with the great question of national education He was olaced in a posi tion in which he had to make acquaintance, and had made acquaintance, with a large, too large, a class in this great country, who were net included in any congregation—wend to God they were. They were not included in the congre gations of the dissenting friends be law around him on the one side, nor in that of the pastors of the Church of Eng land whom lts slaw en the other. Could they be ignorant of the fact? He was confident many of them were not. There were vest mares of their fellow-countrymen, of their fellow-neen, in all the towns of the country, aye, and in the rural districts too, who never in their whole life had been inside of • pia* of worship—who had me admonition, no mligiceose retraction, and to whoa the uses of the Great Being t o him whim they owed their =Mum had n been mentioned ezmmtly those who used It der the purposes of bias pbemy. He nod beam them r the advende si g i trinerend miser able el sea. Be knew what the Beelety whisk was well represented by the gentlemen who spoke , did within their SIR pale and to de than jerlies be would say they even west fitorthir ; but with!. their eine pals they did take sosapiery nee of their own poor etenbere. This was egoelly toes drib, smothers of the Church efingland. But there was a trail shim who were neither dionden nor church men, wile belenned to no religion, whit wen not known by any deriednatke. because they , wife not connected with any. For them he begged to be allowed to ray one word. It had been said the government ought not to educate the people. Now it was his painful duty very frequently in the course of the year to consign to punishment children whom they knew ought to receive education. Was it to be and that the child was not to be instructed before he became tainted with crime? When he committed a rime, was it then only that his education was to begin ? When the child had qualified himself by crime it was only then they conferred the privilege of education upon him. He sa id, begin beforehand. ("Hear," and thews.) The present plan did not propose to do everything ; but it did not possess the disadvantage, as it had been said—and he fully admitted it would be a great disadvantage—of drying up the source of voluntary contribution.. Voluntary contribution was the exercise of a great charity, whether it came in the shape of donation of a sum of money, Si in the eill better and higher shape of cowributing personal exertion day by day for the education of the people. (Hear, hear.) He had the highest respect for all who were engaged in this laudable employment, and he would not wish that any measure should interfere in the slightest degree to injure the opera- Cons of this excellent system. (Hear, hear.) But he ap prehended that many who were listening to him were la bouring under a misconception with regard to the effects of this measure, (Hear, hear.) Recollect it is not proposed to put down those schools which are already established. I Recollect that it is not proposed to have at the expense of the state alone • set of state schools and schoolmasters. They had bren told that evening that the voluntary system would be dried up by the proposed government scheme being car ried into effect. They had been told, too, that for twenty years the voluntary system had been increasing with ra pidity, and that, consequently, no assistance on the part of the Norrroment was wanted. But was it not a fact that this increase had been goin; on coincidently for eighteen or I twenty years, with an snows! grant of money from the go- I seamen ? Why did not that annual g rant dry up I the source of the volu,,tary system ? What did it do? Why, it most assuredly gave a stimulus to the voluntary system because it was in aid of it. Was not the present scheme only the same principle carried to a greater extent? They had heard what was proposed to be done. It was proposed to pay out of the treasury • certain proportion of the salary of the schoo'muters; but there were to be no schoolmasters unless there were schools, and there would be no schools unless they were supported by voluatary contri bution. And what was to be done ? That which was done before, by supplying a portion of brick and mortar, by which the building itself was made fit for use, and now supply ing better minters. If they got • good school-house, why not have good masters? Talking as they all undoubtedly did on the subject of pounds, shillings, and pence, let the question he would put be answered, if they did not pay their school masters well, how could they expect to have good ones ? The great object of the proposed system was effective education. lie was sure that it could not be supposed by those who knew him in his early youth to have laboured aa • Sunday-school teacher, that he would undervalue the exertions of those excellent men; but notwithstanding, he would, as an honest man, tell them that from the result of his inquiries, he was of opinion that the education of the country was not in an effective state. It hod been asked, why they did not refer to statistical tables ? He had referred to them on more occa sions than one, but he had little confidence in them. The statistics of education might give the number of schools, they might give the number of scholars, but could any sta tistics give what was learned by those scholars ? He (Mr. Hill) recollected hearing the late Mr. Cobbett say in the House of Commons that he would prefer having a I labourer who knew how to make a hurdle, than one who could talk Greek. And what was the answer made by Lord Althorp ? He said, " and so would I, because the labourer who can make a hurdle is n better-educated labourer than the one who talked Greek." He remembered reading an observation of an old Greek king, who being asked what a youth should learn, replied, " that which will be useful to him when he is • man." This was the dis covery that had lain quietly and silently for thousands of years, that was now dragged to light, and was about to be acted upon ; and for the future boys would be taught what would be useful to them in after-life, and for that purpose the government offered its assistance.--(At this point in the learned gentleman's speech a tremendous uproar arose, and he was compelled to resume his met without proceeding further.] Mr. G. EDMONDS, clerk of the peace, next delivered a long speech against the government scheme and in favour of the resolution ; after which, the mayor put the amendment and the original motion to the meeting; amidst much tumult he declared the latter to be carried, but the meeting seemed nearly equally divided ; and the majority could not have been • very considerable one. A petition against the measure was subsequently adopted. Another resolution ap pointed a deputation to wait upon the borough member*, and request their co-operation in parliament in opposing the measure. Mr. Spooner was present at this time, but he did not offer any observations, he is known, however, to be favourable to the measure. It wu nearly eleven o'clock at night when the proceedings terminated ; they having commenced shortly after six. "It is well known," says a correspondent, " that the great ma jority of the people of Birmingham are in favour of the mea sure ; and, had the matter been fairly discussed, it is probable that out of the eight or nine thousand persons in the hall, at least two-thirds would have held up their hands in favour of the amendment; perhaps, there never was witnessed, how ever, at a meeting assembled for a deliberative discussion on a grave question, racms ei t i limultuous proceedings. Every speaker in f sour of the ore wassystematically clamoured down." It iv said the the friends of the government mea sure contemplate another meeting. We have received the following letter and enclosure on the subject of this meeting : Sta,—The meeting at Birmingham last evening on the education question was professedly a town's meeting, but really a very snug well managed dissenter's meeting, and its history ought to be known, that its value may be appreciated. Early in last week the moving parties were first observed in 1111 effort togat up a.mm-sided meeting, not open to the discussion of, but to " oppose," the government plan of assisting voluntary education. They got about 300 signatures, and went to the mayor, whs is a unitarian, and supposed to be a fervent opponent of the minutes, to call this meeting, which he properly refused to do, unless the words "in opposition to" were altered to "in relation to." So much for the intent of the moven in this sgitation, and so much for their wish to have fair play. My information is from the mayor himself, and from the secretary to the parties, Mr. Morgan. The requisition, thus altered, then went forward, but in so snug and quiet a way that no one of the clergy, who were known to be is favour of the minutes, was presented with the requisition, nor was it ever made known as being left at any public place where it might be signed. The impression of those who heard of it was, that it was a one-sided affair, got up by the dissenters, and the resolution of the clergy tip to last Tuesday was not to go to the meeting at all. The requisition was not published till Monday, nor sent to the newspaper office for that purpose till a very late hour on Saturday evening. The dissenters, however, were all the while at work, organising their troops—working by means of their Sunday-school teachers, &c., and the lateness of the hour at which the requisition appeared, prevented any clergymen who might have esteemed the subject not unsuited to be mentioned in the Sunday schools, from giving any sufficient notice to their people, whilst many others would have declined to divert Sunday thought, into such a channel. The clergy, in five of the parishes. called parochial meetings, and explained the subject, but did not generally urge their people to attend till Wednesday. They saw that their liberal neighbours had completely out-gensealled them, and had resorted, as they too often do, to expedients which none but the un scrupulous can follow. The utmost they could hope for, was, that by the attendance of • few of their friends they might gain a hearing at the meeting, and, by a fair state. , went, expose the misrepresentations of the opponents. But this was also provided against by the dimenten, whs issued ' a number of tickets, 400 at the least, to admit their ad herents to the orchestra, from which the speakers at the Town-hall address the assembly, and which completely com mands the meeting. The clergy and their friends having, on Wednesday, determined to be at the meeting, and sup posing that a few tickets would be issued to secure places in front of the orchestra for speakers, applied to the mayor, who sent fifty tickets, to which twenty-five were afterwards added, and thus whilst the opponents had iasued to their friends 325, they allowed the supporters of the minutes but 75, or at the most they allowed us 1 to three. This was their " fair play ;" and thus do our liberal men in Birmingham pack their town's meetings. I went yesterday with the rural dean to the mayor, and to Mr. Morgan, the secretary. and stated these facts, and protested against such one-sided proceedings at a town's meeting, but was very coolly and civilly told, that we ought to have been requiattionists, and then we should have had a voice in the arrangements. The liberal secretary and the mayor both impressed upon us that the requisitionists who bore the expenses, possessed . a sort of property qualification to play these tricks, to point tickets without any signature or authorisation, which might be multiplied ad hbitesm, and to give them in three to one cases to their friends. The effect of all this fair and impartial ex clusiveness, was, that neither Mr. Taylor, the rural dean, nor the recorder himself, were allowed to be heard oat ; and Mr. Edmonds himself, one of the requisitore, declared, that the conduct of the meeting was such as painfully to show the want of education. The recorder also rebuked some of the chief opponents who stood near him for their ungentlemanly ! interruptions. It would have been easy enough to have ' retorted at the meeting, and to have interposed in a way that would have kept the assembly in one con. tinned confusion, but this is a course in which we cannot follow our antagonists ; and my counsel is, that, after the unfair and discourteous treatmeat we have thus andon previous occasions received, we refrain altogether, in future, from joining our unscrupulous dissenting brethren in any enterprise whatever; that we keep entirely aloof; that for peace -sake, and for our own and our people's respects- Miley, we leave these gentlemen to themselves, quietly take our own course, and leave them to theirs. If last evening is a specimen el the peace-working effects of the evangelical alliance, there is no great encouragement for a clergyman to join it. And if the government are told that this Birming ham meeting is • fair representation of the feelings of the people of Birmingham, they need not believe it. The oppo nents of the minutes have declined to go to the poll ; they have their misgivings as to petitions, and not without reason. —G. 8. BoiA.—Birminghem, April 10. TO ROBERT MARTI/MD, EMI.. MAYOR Of BIRMINGHAM. Si., —As • burger of this borough, attending a Ocervis sesstbz k imder maw authority, I her to add the Mowing I am psemitdM Is meetly rem, isid mlldt an be pred s"" re be Ina It , la order QM saran ai seetlag. be= at mid gernatert pra kr Waft W. nerd rely eagrediaL re rearle. etry i l l :7-, .1, mada m = aloe do do s r te . Privy Ceara get up • ht • swift ftithisa ll = same, sad aid le ant uselbg. Tel dls arb ad very 1 dried ad waif as ages railiatzzx end Mr Ihredier druid bed year tlid dabindmilen d yeamilnadtheeares at lbeartgladrateigraid. ad dry gmaterd r malavar task Moab Mr egsa art au twat dr erred that ragaldilsayen amplid adaderd. It, 11=,&Sr hat ruaddlra ler es era Idallf. de Pled Sada pie as wiestemill I • • tbe Oaf ur tans se Jed laliXey env as metre &at It we rabid, god lbw elgreares ray Mg sot edruirle dr the rant am re the bid al the bad airgy, sr be. ad rosy alba* arab' bad *Pad B. ad= as be printed ad paallabel to Mrtir as Ms • isy hr the roe. bet sot take M to that olio lal • dry late hear, se est no aeries at =a as tatareetrg algra aid be gbal r Ibrt •ahratry trim of earsdaser. or le o kibm dee awe art MeV ft Id • deep Ir. lead in aid • id se ire ad Id le aped la Ihe pude thews* the pod dl tee ley him re I ales call ( yam attention the bat, that tbeimmesillmeil ji g = deride I. thelr agent) have aimed fall liebal• aidnke le be printed, to seture Macs cc the platform sr srebsim kmc the commuid of the meellorri, for their bid* ad altrad, aid that but SO of these bane been cent to the Sillrgy. ad IBM ad use they had applied for tickets—that MOM err Ma by 'OMSK Ml= THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1847. me applied to, and that you had 30 ware, which yea would eve ge nerally to the &wavers se the Man or government, so that we are here this day with two to one at the least, of our opponents on this platform. That tit m tickets were liable to ha muaterfetted, haring no authoriwition or signature, and that thee the fairnes4, equity, and freedom of a loon's n feting have bern endangered. That all these circumstances dearly show in what rake-it:on a disprolonste mind must and might to view either • victory or • defeut.—l am, Sir. yours man respeethally, Gnome S. Beta., Minister n(&, Matthew's Church, April 9, 1841. A VOICE FOR SECULAR EDUCATION. TO E. BAINES, JUN., ESQ., ON lilt VISIT TO BRISTOL. Sir,—l very much regret that the short and limited notice of your intention to visit the neighbourhood of Bristol, deprived me of the power of making arrangements to devote the esening of yesterday to the hearing of all you had to offer at the meeting assembled to receive you at Hope Chapel, in Clifton. As it was, florin:, another engagement, I was only enabled to hear you in a part of your address, and was precluded from the opportunity of offering some remarks to your candid consideration. and that of the small, though respectable, as semblage before which you app. ared. Had circumstances permitted, I should have felt a strong desire to entreat of you to reconsider some portions of the ground on which you ' have raised your opposition to the educational measure now before the country. With you, air, I should have joined my voice in desiring that the educational measure founded on the minutes of the committee of council should be withdrawn. But there our concurrence must have ended ; so far as may be judged from the line of opposition you have hitherto taken. Eat why should that line be unalterable ? You have changed your impressions before—why should your present impressions be indelible? You have not always been of opinion that the state had "1.0 duty to discharge," in regard to the education of the people; or that its interference in a way that could not be prejudicial to our religious liberties would be a policy pregnant with dancer to our civil interests —a diuigerso menacing that no limitation by the necessary co-operation of voluntary and local agency—no control from parliamentary vigilance , could render ouch policy other than one of pure and unmixed evil. I cannot, even now, imagine you seriously to maintain such ground. Sir, in this pro posed measure of the government, it is—while rightfully jea lous of church doctrine—far more of church feeling and ' church power that I entertain a very serious apprehension. Remove this element from the measure, and we stand on fair and free ground. You object to agitate as op. position on this ground from attachment to the vo• tenter) , principle. But, in the first place, no contemplated system of state lid excludes the volun• tory principle. On the contrary, it cannot exist with out it. You do not sufficiently remind your readers and hearers of this important circumstance. In the next place, however indispensable, however energetic, the voluntary principle, it cannot of itself do the nation's work. It will not continuously maintain an efficient system of instruction. It will not pay the schoolmaster. It never has sue:Wendy done so yet. And it was a significant symptom of the truth of this fact, that two British teachers in this city were, I be lieve, the only opponents you had last night. Sir, I have known of a school, on the committee of which were six ministers, who for a series of years never subscribed one farthing to the funds of the school. In apology, I have heard it maintained that they were themselves in pecuniary circumstances which did not admit of such benevolent sacrifices. Then why are not those circumstances better? In one place or another the voluntary principle fails to do its required work. Either the school and schoolmaster are net sufficiently maintained, or the ministers are not. But to pus on —in the last place, the voluntary principle left to deal alone with the education of the people, has a tendency to assume that complexion of evil, which I charge se its chief and deadliest fault upon the plan of the committee of council —and that is iueectarianism—its principle of isolation—its . . spirit of un-charity. In no other way than under the auspices, and by the encouragement, of the state, can you get the two great divisions of the community the Church and Dissent, to act together in the cause o f common good. Leave them to work apart, and they will go to the work with all their separate eaginery of pride, prejudice, and parry—religions and political, The Dissenters of this countryhave committed a vast mistake. And men of pure end elevated minds like you, whose influ ence could have been put to such noble use, have hitherto lost an opportunity of advocating and strengthening • right principle, which we know not what lottery of political emergency may place again in their hands. May not some thing be done, even is this eleventh hour, to retrieve the mistake ? The Church has taken its ground on the principle explicitly declared by Lord Lansdowne, of " dreadieg even the contact of the children of ove religious denomination with those of another." And the Church is strong in her terrific bigotry, because so few as yet have " pro nounced" is a tone of an apposite, healing, and smiling character: In the name of humanity, In the name of Gospel charity, in the name of our ignorant, neglected, and too divided people, do you, sir, assume this tone, and occupy this ground in your remaining and future efforts to defeat a policy whose inevitable result must be to give knowledge at the cruel price of streagthen ins and perpetuating our mutual aversions; and tumbril, tianixing the land, by teaching its youth to grow up in tke cherished remembrance of the things wherein they differ, rather than of the many and holy things wherein they agree. Let us go for a secular system of instruction, which all should receive is common ; leaving religion under its various aspects of doctrine to be taught by separate agency. Let us go for a system whose foundation should be "assistance to ell—injustice to none." The government itself feels that this is the true and right system. Let there be good men and true to show them that there is a feeling in the country sound enough and strong enough to sustain them in a struggle with the organised forces of " envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness." From these, " good Lord, de liver us."—Youcs,&c., 060R01 AILMSTRONO, A. 8., Minister of the Goopel.—Clifton, April 5. IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL 11. Some of the country papers greatly exaggerate the consequences of the late reduction. That it has operated injuriously in some districts cannot be de nied, but everywhere the rule was sought to be carried into effect with the kindliest regard to the wants of the local community. The capability of the landlords and occupiers to afford employment was considered, as well as the period during which it ought to have continued, before the maximum reduc tion was effected in any district; and in every case these elements were taken into consideration, the reduction being proportioned to the agricultural wants of each locality: more than 20 per cent. in some dis tricts allowed—a diminished scale in others. Generally the excitement has subsided, though dissatisfaction still remains in districts where the dregs of turbulence, even in the most prosperous times, still continued to operate. In Limerick whole flocks of sheep are swept away, for outrage there never died. In Youghal, a more tranquil community, but suffering dreadfully, the reduction has produced a repetition of the vio- lence which some months ago accompanied the want of employment. The reduced labourers forced the employed to join them, and all made a combined attack on the bread shops of the town. In some other ' places disorder has appeared, but as rapidly subsided. It is some consolation to discover symptoms of • better condition in oar present gloomy state. The potato still ie an object of solicitude, and its progress has been looked forward to with much anxiety. Winter planting has been tried on rather an exten sive scale, and the young shoots are in the most healthful state, free from the least symptom of disease. The wheat, too, looks well, and the early-sown oats are brsirding beautifully. Of the potato proat the Cork Southern Reporter observes that the farmers have taken courage from the present ap pearance of the early planting, and hasten to increase their potato tillage. " Seed-sowing, says the Leinster P,:press to-day, " is much brisker than was anticipated :" addutir that the result is owing principally to the exertionsd the landlords : of these several are enumerated whose names have already appeared in the Express, but to that list they add those of Mr. Horace Darby, and Mr. F. H. Toone; the former, who manages his bro ther's estates, gives seed, not only to the tenantry, but to all other tenantry in his neighbourhood, and the latter, who is usually an absentee, in addition to the distribution of seeds, feeds, at his own expense, 160 persons daily. The district represented by the Leinster Express comprises several of the Midland Counties. . . . . . A principle of some importance in the administra tion of the temporary relief act has been decided in the case of the North Dublin Union. A reeeletin to make a rate was passed by the committee, in width the inspector refused to issue the neciessery monlosie pursuant to the act, on which the government greet would be obtained on the order of Martinet commie eioners. The inspector insisted that something more than a resolution to make a rate at some future time was needed ; and the committee stood on the language of the act that.the inspector was bound to certify, end the commissioners empowered to grant the loan cm the credit, not of rate; made, but - about to be made. The necessity of absolutely levying a rate before any assistance could be afforded would postpone relief in half the electoral divisions of Ireland to the Greek Salends. To solve the difficulty, which was under the somideration of the crown officers, a deputation of the committee waited on Sir John Burgoyne, who agreed w ith the guardians that the conditions of the act were fulfilled by a resolution to make a rate, and he bad accordingly written to London for the money. This decides settles a question which otherwise eltste b. crests& much confusion and embarrassment oat the sanntry. Pima44w STATlBTlCH.—Ceilichmacroas 111i011, any Moenlsan,lnaintains 802 paupers, the expense being . each pauper fora week's support; Dundalk, Louth, soda tains M paupers, 21. 31d. each pauper; and Neeagb, 1,407, at an expense of 2a. each per week. The deaths in the first. named union ins week wen 22 ; in the second, Si; and in the third-named union, 31. The collectors at Carrick macros complain that they cannot collect the rate from the landlords—they instance Mr. Shirley. The guardians of this union have petitioned against the es officio clause in the new poor-la v net. Pt , sl.lC Wutt.ss.—The following important circular, carrying out the reduction principle, has just been Leaned from the Board of Works to the district engineers : °Mix of Public Work% April 10, 1317.—Air,-1 ma directed by the commia..i.oters to desire that on the ..4th inst.—being more than one mouth le n the period when the reduction of 20 per cent. of the numbers employed was made—you wd. on that dsy make a further reduction or 10 per cent., and on the Ist of May neat cl.ne the entire of the wor► In your district, oldest you rewire from this board in. airsietknas to the contrary—l sza, sir, youroibedient servant, (Signed) Jos. C. Mamma, Seervtary. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Fever continues to rage in the country districts of Cork. Capt. llpary, R.N., government officer at Kinsale, has fallen a victim to the disease, and at llunmanway two men were found dj ing of disease who had crawled into a dyke, whence the purlieus, a. they returned from the workhouse, DA them renewed to the hoagital. At Innishannon the lady of the doctor had died of fever; and the Cork Constitution, remarking that fever was "filling the graveyards" of the county. illustrates the truth of its statem,•nt by siding that one gentleman in Kilmore lost "seven tenants in one day." Ise the vity of Cork, on Tuesday evening, three children of one Cloudy died within an hour of each other, and the only remaining members, father and soother, are in the same disease, and considered hopeless. In a parish in the county of Itoscemmon, Rosalsey, the priest, in a litter to a weekly p.per, the Register, states that a townland in his cure, on which seventy families resided a brief time since, is no v entirely desolate, and not a house remains. The poop', had either drooped under disease and famine, or had fled tr rough fright. The rev. gentleman complains also that a system of proselytising his dock had been put into opera tion, , end 41 of them who, on Sunday last, had attended at the service of the established church, were, he says, rewarded with a snit of clothes each on the succeeding day. The master of the workhouse at Parsons-town had fallen a victim to fever, and the clerk of the union lay sick of the disease. In Castlebar, the Rev. Mr. McManus, a Roman Catholic clef gym an, had died of fever caught in the gaol while attending on the prisoners. At Belturbet, in Cavan, several " respect able inhabitants" have fallen victims to fever and dysentery. Tie system of plunder has again commenced in the cou.,try, and some of them we regret to find of a very heart lew cha ra cter. In Westmeath, the hoarse of one man was brolten into, and robbed by a large armed party, and 5 cwt. of oatmeal, together with some articles of clothing and linen yar 1, were taken away ; while in another instance in the lame county, 1 cwt. of oatmeal was forcibly taken out of a' poor man's house, and a RUM of 245. which he had gathered to purchase seed oats for his land. In Yongbal, co. Cork, on Welnesday, an organised attack was made upon the bakers' thous, but little mischief was done—yet it is a farther proof of the frightful progre sof disorganisation. Another fact I may mention which I find stated in a Cork paper. A man in that city committed three deliberate crimes this week, in order to get himself maintained at the public expense. Twice he escaped from disinclination of the parties aggrieved to prosecute; but he said "He was det Trained he would not starve." There see ter d cases of death by starvation recorded in the local journals ; in one of these cases, at Maryborough, the aur:.• agreed to the following epode) resolution, which they p; ended to the verdict: "That vast numbers have lost their Beth from destitution, more or less prolonged, and many ethers because they could not procure food suited to their state of health." Of 2,800 paupers in the North Dublin workhouse, 1,400 are not natives of, or have had any claims from residence upot the union ; the relief eommittee have decided upon tasking the rating under the new act uniform, a resolution strenuously opposed by those having property in the rural divi•ions of the union. Tie police inspectors have got instructions to report on the quantity of arms held by the peasantry in Ireland, and on the characters of those who generally possess arms. This would seem to point towards renewed legislation against their indiscriminate possession. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Aram 9. A semi-official article, explanatory of the Marriage Bill, was recently inserted in the Oiledoniun Mercury, sad ns it is grad ually being copied by the provincial journ de, mac of the illusion prevalent with respect to that measure will be dispelled. The Inverness parocMal board has petitioned against the bill, and apparently impressed with the idea that the whole count' is oblivious to the national danger involved in its provisions, they directed that copies of their re solati(ms be sent to all the conveners of counties in Scotland, to be laid before the county meetings to be held on the 30th inst.; and also to the provosts of all the royal burghs in Scotland, with a request that they lay the same before the town councils and parochial boards in these burghs. The Inverness Courier mentions, on authority derived from a private source: That a stringent measure is to be adopted with respect to the poor on the estates of Colonel Gordon, of Cluny, in the West Highlands. The Board of Supervision in Edinburgh are m appoint a commissioner to proceed to the islands of Borsa. &ate Vist, and Benbecula, for the purpose of taking amalgams of the state of the inhabitants. His object will bete place upon the poor's roll such persons so are entitled S. temporary or permanent relief; and, along witk the com missioner, will be sent a supply of meal and provisions fur lioldinition among the paupers. The supplies judged ne mesis/7 by the commissioner, and the additional burden Impend by the operation of the poor-law, will be laid upon Me proprietor. According to the statute, the commissioner In ass ems a must be a member of the Scottish bar, and it is expected that a gentleman will be selected who will arbi trate fairly between the owner and the people of those islands—between tho duties and the rights of property. It is said that certain merchants in London, de sirous of promoting the cultivation of the potato, have arranged with several fanners in Perthshire, that they (the merchants) will furnish the seed on condition that the farmer furnish the ground, manure, labour, and the crop, if any, to be equally divided between the two parties. As Scotland is sometimes spoken of as a well educated nation, which probably it is, comparatively, the following table, e from a " Plan for Ragged Schools," by the Rev. Thomas Guthrie, may be opportunely quoted at the present juncture: State of Edueatioa of Criminal Mermen committed (in Edinburgh) in the Mersa Yeses ending Deoember, 1644. 1642. 1643. 1644. weed 3,371 ... 5,731 ... 5,361 Immird as to Wends' 3,013 ... 3,263 ... 3,043 Coma read . ...... ...... Zed a little 1,673 1,3 .:1 3 ?.!!! Reed well i3B3 i,214 C 48804 write Write • little Write Education, beyond reading sad writing • 6 2 1 The Ayr Adrertiaer states that disease has broken out among the workmen in the neighbourhood of the Lugar Iron Works. In addition to a few cases of fever, there is amongst them a very serious type of land-scurvy, supposed to be induced by salt diet and bad ventilation, in damp and unhealthy dwell ings. Their food, in the absence of the potato, has been chiefly bread, salt butter, ham, herrings, and coffee. The disease affects the limbs in spots, usually succeeding catarrhal fever, or influenza, and dis abling the patient, from lameness in the knees and aucles. The disease is said to yield readily to proper diet, some vegetable acid, and quinine. EDUCATION.—FM PaItaBYTIRT OF SCOTIAN.) —The followi is Dr. Candlish's speech in the Free Presbytery of Sootla d, alluded to in our paper of Saturday: Dr. Celli ealwaltied tie urea of eh, h he be ewe seer, he the melsame at a senates to asowider the examesse dedes re It was be gm Is the minutes at mesh se Ye te aerlise the loaallawi wesh helm gelled by the ameelt. twat the sithrem de* seYwtte, ang ewe* teeeder ha whits are as It esel at pew* awl to reset M age ro wee irelleg et Fethery, Is be all seal • ask; ssiwle~, Y fist Mee% am ley hymn the des. meremere Webb Mime to the peseie gemwese same e eireles. the we Sealer Melt Is he the thee et Ile aura to teeth ear pummel see the eerie= as Wes hey wet to dime the peels the hie; mile Mg nee thaleily awl shaft he ressemetelbeell te see the Meer ewe la Oa sarselsa Os gem the hies the pesemples was. the the AMIE 'gait FF melee of the seem& Me Mee that *ay mail he thesethly ipso af ash he whet the pear l ' lie rre wpm( =ow twee se heir edeeplik ha ism wry pre almthes Or we ender the met eitseralks elosish the veers . rl home lets eospeallew irthe Om. We the pee et the Nes mar =the agerdas el the seise, eleerither Irretheethe at le sled segh sehisthe Queer er& I seie. rase le the sheath et the tee we th be dewed from the e Ogee by the deem of opted the seed fi the emery. gag aii=re an egrathe serely mem Seth sew la the way wesarbleg get else; ha t ethess . them ellailks tbs. PLAl Nl Zl:l== law the dig eat areal Ze niflinum weemen sliver resesswe alweles ems et the the deemben was • amileable ethaele le the sew ham the esteem Ile r to Ils= v ek li o deo& et* .rile.rilelee nee et • paeweese as se hat. leg a edam :we the ege wit . Thee tee thee Os rhel. he yeathellsa Os We= ye mew Whim, et Os sthelamet. Vele mestame gas en leellsg as le sotheesle Ida eat the Awls 4 present simple therglist hey eel oat say maths mime is The alesithe et the hew we. to ea meq a fey lee et the Cher dec din& It via wet as af Its tsealleea. Miss en the e the Gomel eat Ss thremslaa lath mew dew meg wow hamese. Ohs NOM elf Mr smeithey fir teethe; be she le we theases the they la Ohs ems asishelsel = 7: shah thedisehe the tbsty at purling Ss er tha Maedhere awl theshre. teeth he ehlebs h • limemla elate bin let le the ha meg sot se yards elle It Is ert was amid he hh orethersel hasikes. yet he ewe le peths. ea a tree their" Imatele. a ~el hr ersposeea with Ihe pew r=il le Ss eger et Os meth the sielM eel so t Ille=lll=s himg, prim Arra ger =Zs ft= of therm& =ow.= edreiga. ssakelasil. eh the It male gma asty et Or dale% agres Or hathe—steme. ellealrh y :M es = dtba he eerie. to that a Cheese esesemee. • trey Mein erisslise. Moth ye ern sheet era Is OM ism my ewer Oa tiseres aleseks be ethaileg Ihe =,:d lb the sat em =t vas bet lie lei a Wog PROFINCIAL. • CONTLRIMCII OF ELltyrolta or LEllles WITH WILLIAM ALDAM, Est., M.P.—On Friday, a body of voters, headed by Mr. E. Baines, waited upon their representative, Mr. Aldan., for the purpose of presenting a memorial requesting him to oppose the government plan of education. Having listened to the explanations of the gentlemen present, Mr. Aldam said, it ls always with extreme regret that t differ with tome of my constituent. to whom I owe the honour of the seat which I have in parliament. My feePng r the mere painful whenever the difference is on a point which can be made, and a con sidered, a poist of ['ancients.. I do not think it would be his ocerdng in me now to enter at length into this question. I think I have come here rather to bear the opinions of others than to avow any opinion. I may entertain myself on the subject but It would 4uncan.lid in me to say that I have not been able to *mince myself of the truth of the argu ments which have been so only advanced, and which are surnoiled by facts collected with great abt.ity, in favour of the purely voluntorg support of ea hook The opinion. which I held are those which I tsprewed at the election, and which I held strongly then, and have eld strongly since. I should have preferred a scheme very coned derabiy different from this that *A been put forward by the go- vernment. I should have preferred the scheme whirl the liberal government put forward in 1839-echo - .M in which persons of different religious denominations hare hero brought to- gether ; school', in which the Bible could be toed, leaving religion to be taught by the mini.;ere of the different sects; yet' even though I may not altogether approto of the sperm now ad vanced by the government, I cannot pledge myself it, if it should turn out that it is the snly one practicable. " There are some thing, in the minutes of mono which I eamedingly regret to use, and which I disapprove of, especially that portion of them to which the inspector is made to conduct an examination in the Church Caton:Won and the doctrines of the church. That has made .s differ ence in the church schools, as compared with dissenters, which 1 m ince W are. I would have left the religious 'der:anon entirely in the ham* of the managers of the school, with which the inspector or the privernromn ought not to have interfered. Supposing bee dcu-ity'a government should persevere with their plan, I hope and raped it will receive condishls modifleationn. I cannot expect, front the ex pressicesZesia I have hoard today, that those modifications will make it to the majority of smattlemen here presort. The ground w they have taken is ma which admit. of no compromise whatever. I regret that extremely, inasmuch co having • stmscropinion that ssillmedsmielance Is nrcensary for the efficient SIMMS& of the wodifog dames. I am extremely sorry that that pukka Ms los tam. I ass as lamely oppred "ss an ea is to goraosmoltlikeholoo Is the management of schools. I I think the millisormirt at seboelsoisibt to be entirely Independent of govaenmmt-millako regret loses any system in which the go. verwerst rsis= 7 more than contribute the national forme lowaide slsels, the sobstre for the purpose of seeing that the gamsrat resesitime yes at there sehools wee oidiciently sad *MOM ce entitled le mertan, without intorfer racc74in any arm with the management of the reboots themselves Inot ha begrethatainintesof council ronaident bay moditicd.llems ars some other Lana which I think obretiona. Me. Government have papn.ag to confer offlors—encurenten's offices, I Mind—upon students our dlatiuguish themerlres. I think it was unneassmry her the geriesmsat to take any such part. I think that the amobiloo pupil teachers to receive a good sound education was ansig siient, and that bolding nut any indo ement of the kind margined In the minutes was objectionable. I do not anticipate, front wltabsis hem rated by government, that this plan, supposing it to be Santa WM oiled at all, will be carried into effect fur some years. The putwktik papoose,' to take this year in the grant of 110,1001, *mom as woo Was hot year. I see no Prospect of any coreiderrible pant bibs mho Oar moo time to come ; and it in my conviction that, balm Yr peat Is wok so very large no to produce the greet rails expels& hem Itot orrsiderable modification of the eystsm wall take pima Allhoork these are view, w hich are comislost with thesplikilis I moramed at the election, and :Zch rel i have bees always toady Is sapesae, I cannot ripen that they will meet with the apprised= of the maihanty of the gentlemen here. It is the more painful Is no kanfogloia elected by the suffrages of the gentlemen present, sad VIM of them having exerted them selves strenuously la ay beat; NM I ha ono regret in differing with them in opinions • Marie of our Importoose. I shall VIVO this memorial my but salooliso; and estreorty that can. not hold out the hope el paw to the lint of the principles which are expressed in IL DEFEAT OF THE ANTI-EDUCATION PARTY.-0E Thurs day afternoon, a electing, called by the anti-education party, wu held at the court-house, Barnsley, but at the hour ap pointed not more than fifty persons were present. The bseaine-s of the meeting, however, began by Mr. J. Wood ruff taking the chair.—Mr. Murphy, an operative weaver, rose and said the concoctors of the meeting had designedly appointed it at an hour when they knew that the working men would be at their employment, and he should, there fore, propose its adjournment until Monday evening, at seven o'elock.—Mr. B. Parker said he quite agreed with the proposition made, for the measure was one of such vital Importance to the country, especially to the working classes, that more time than what had been given the gentlemen opposing the government boon ought to be allowed, in eider that something like statistics connected with the town and district might be coma at.—Mr. Beddow, in answer, said, that so far from the meeting having been got up designedly, so as to prevent a full gathering of the work ing clause, the as would have been held on the Mon day, but Mr. Flint, of Leeds, could not be got, he being engaged in that quarter in giving lectures in opposition to the government measure.—Mr. Flint nue for the purpose or speaking ; but the operative portion of the meeting pre vented him by their repeated calls of "Get back to Leeds, and lecture there, we herant forgotten thee *beget corn law, and factory bill !" and he was compelled to sit down. The affair at last came to a division whether the meeting should be adjourned until Monday evening, at 7 o'clock, or that the meeting should go on. The adjournment was carried by an overwhelming majority. The anti-party, finding this, said that having invited Mr. Flint to coma all the way from Leeds, they hoped the meeting would agree to his giving them a lecture. This being allowed, Mr. Flint slid that he felt somewhat indignant at several espreesiona which had been made to him, but nevertheless he would comply with his friends' desire, and give them a lecture; but before doing so he begged to have ten minutes to himself, as his speech would be two hours long. (Cries of " Thou'et paid for talk ing, but we are not paid for standing.") Mr. Mint con tinued "That's my time ; but if anyone in the room can do the matter jostice in less time they are welcome to begin." The Leeds lestelligeneer says : " We are given to understand that the anti-education party, feeling the effects of their sad defeat, and fearing another, have wisely abandoned the idea of holding a meeting on Monday." APPREHENSION OP SUPPOSED MURDERERS OF MIL RILEV.—This unfortunate man, it will be remembered, was murdered on Jan. II last, wide on his road home from Sheffield to Grimeathorpe lase. On getting into his house he exclaimed to hia wife, " Mary, they have nearly murdered me ;" but he could not identify his murderers. The deceased was attacked on the Monday and died on the Saturday morning following. Early the next day his watch was found wrapped up in some cloth, in his garden, whither it had been placed during the night. From information re ceived by Mr. Raynor, superintendent of police, he caused two men, named Challiner and Bradley, of Grimesthorpe, to be apprehended on Saturday morning. It appears that a Sheffield man has been discovered who purchased Mr. Riley's watch of the prisoners, but who hearing of the murder had gone and placed the watch in Mr. Riley's gar den, ea before described. This man, it seems, had kept the secret until Friday last, when he admitted the facts of having purchased the watch, and placed it where it was found. The prisoners were taken before the mayor and remanded, ia order to complete the evidence against them. THE CONDEMNED MO11.161;;;;, FOOTER.—APPE iL TO THE QVIIIN TO !PARE HER Lien.—The most strenuous endeavonn are being made to obtain a remission of the sen tence passed on Catherine Foster, whose execution, for the poisoning of her husband, three weeks after marriage, is ordered to take place next Saturday: Three memorials on her behalf are in course of signature in the - county; one recognising the general principle of capital punishment as unchristianlike, the second praying for mercy in consequence of her age and sex, and the third address to her Majesty by the females of Suffolk, earnestly soliciting the Royal cle mency to the wretched convict. The three have been for warded to the Secretary of State. She has made two dif ferent confessions of her guilt. At • first she attempted to palliate the offence, by stating that she had been tempted by an offer from some person, who had given her a powder, the nature of which she did not know. By the entreaties, however, of several clergymen who have visited her, and Mr. M.cintyre, the governor of the jail, she declared her readiness to write the whole truth, and it is understood that a confession has been made or takes in writing, which she begged might not be published until after her decease. The purport of it has, however, trans pired. She stated that ebe alone committed the deed ; that the statement winch she previously made, of a p erson having induced her to go away with him, was utterly unfounded; and the rumours of her having been provoked by her has band giving her any cause of jealousy were equally so ; for, en dr contrary, he had been uniformly kind to her; but Nut As never had any love for his, sal bad Only married Mu Mille wish of her mother, wises New area constantly arg i ls r muds bar; sod tire eilkor *air the fee of dislike gm ikon eye. Me the ideeet Undid not emitorion the day on which she eemsnitted the deed, when she wowed the poison at a shop in Sudbury without any difficulty. It was white arsenic," and not a dark powder, as stated by her brother before the magistrates ; and it was not true that be ata any of that dumpling. The dislike she here mentions she had to her husband, does not reconcile with the evidence ohloced at her trial. It was there shown that from child hood they had been partial to each other. Their courtship sincere on both aides, and marriage was apparently by= re d both of them. In the confession, she aside, that ' her husband was most kind lad tender to her It all time*, and had never done or said anything that could give her un easiness. As before noticed, owing to her prepossessing ap pearance, she had a great many admirers. vnursinaz. Dmzu.—A meet dialsea;iniTinamaance has just oc curred in this neighboured. B. F. Colston, Sm., of Round way.park, wee found on Friday morning last drowned in a IlshpowL The water is not mote than a yard deep, but has vary Msep:bats as It wu q ls ite s gis d osed he had whey been in the wate r und. Deceased a sagletr•te of the cou, and pomemsd very extensive pro perty. He wee much s ad deservedly reapeotod. An inquiet held on the body. OXFORDSHIRE. 11.11 , 11.6 IMITATION 07611.0111 ClTT.—Rop•rta are still provelrat that the use. T. Stoner will be bm4ht forward at the met dories wt - this city, by as lewd *lectors. No podia re as yet taken pie" thew* all are on the Oa rim Ar a aremeindra wberarre nek • Ineeting shall he wile& His siiS i in a6 th. ikekkes et rt. abbe, fit. end beg en very simerrour. We POM Heralaryt, ffti the gestialun who pre sented Lord Candle *widest of plate thee the route* in will b• drinfts• . 0114. leseer's connidttee. HAMPIIIIII. Rerbtessrmicar or ilriseaurrea.—Wr .(HomprAire Otrosicli!) are andterbmil englidtlyto contradlin the rumour of Sir James Eases Isliallee le withdraw from the repre sentation of Winebrinee , New BLRRACIM—The Town Clerk of Portsmouth has announced that the statement in the Times of the 6th inst., representiag that the Admiralty had made an application for the purchase of the borough gaol se a site for new barracks, sad that the corporation were averse tat the same, is hew n*. No application hat been made to the corporation on the subject. I