The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-27 00:00:00

ttion in a question where her 'two allies are at. variance, and thus pushing things to an extreme, Turkey should make another attempt at a compromise by appealing to the three Powers who have made a special treaty to guarantee the integrity and independence of her empire. This a ppeal, if accepted by France and England, would go far to save appearances, and would tend to re establish the original position of the-Allies which has been oflate rather disturbed, without, on the other h and, endangering the question itself, for it ought Beareely to be supposed that the three Powers who oh„tought it necessary seven mont h s ago to con ude a special treaty for the guarantee of Turkey Iveuld now agree to anything which would be pre- Jucicial .to the latter. This arrangement is, of eonrse, based on the supp os iti on t h at h as b een hitherto maintained on all sides, namely, that t he differences which have arisen on this clues '4l4°T.l are differenc es of f orm on l y ; f or , if t h e con I .% r arY should be proved, and that England an d Rratic e have really come to a different conclusion t la the importance of Bolgrad, then this compro rise comes too late. From what I can ascertain, no positive answers 41 ,,,,1 1 Ve been as yet given t o th e proposa l o f t h e 'arte. The telegraph is, however, busy in Carrying questions and explanatory answers be tween and Paris and London.- By the aid of it a solution, one way or another, may be soon .exPected. ~ie:.6 dcd nos Yesterday morning, the American sailing cor vette Constellation, 21, came into the Golden coe, and exchanged her salute with the atteries of Topkhane. The appearance of a flan -of war not belonging to the allies, caused rather an excitement, especially as the first r eport had. . enlarged her into a sixty gun 'rigate, • for how could a Russian man-of-war be excluded from the Dardanelles if the straits were ot closed to an American ? but she belongs to the . e l i ass of smaller vessels which have a l wa y s rece i ve d f~e permi ss i on to come up even in times of peace ter an occasional visit. In the night cf Tuesday or Wednesday a large broke out in one of the back streets of Pera, lasted till the morning, and consumed he Iti'ean 400 and 500 houses, belonging mostly 1 0 the poorer classes. AlthouL.h engines were !-rought up very qnickly from all sid es it w an impossible to stop it, as there- was very li ttle water to be had, a n d th a t h a d t o ' b e -brought up from some distance. Although n oisy and active, the firemen do not seem to work tinder any general direction, and this . is the cause ' 9l their inefficiency. Besides this, the means !Placed at their disposal are never sufficient ; they lave nothing more than small pu m p s , w hi c h are, 1 1 is true, 'necessary for the narrow tortuous 'treets, but which ought not to preclude the use of .larger engines, which, stationed in the next e rauhtare, and provided with long h ose , ec 'eld alone be effective in larger fires ; nor ar ethere any tank s o r reservo i rs w hi c h cou ld su pply the necessary amount of water which, in a t o w n nearly enti r ely built o f woo d, oug ht cer -la'nlY not to fail. But did Constantinople even ~ (l aaess the most perfect fire brigade, and all the ,v , - leessary means to work, there will nev er be sa f et y , :, ri tit some measures are taken to enlarge the '''•reets There is an opportunity now for this t 'llieh ought not to be lost ; Lwo hills containing cle ar', of th e mos t wre t c h e d quarters o f P era are e ar, and surely means could be found to lay c ilt the streets on a new and better plan. What , tnt a Municipal Council named for, if it d o es not Tie up such a matter of primary importance? e great difficulty is this, as in every other im provement on this side of the water, is that 0 8t of the property is held by foreign proteges, e h °, sure of the protection of th e i r Mi n i sters, w i l l v er consent to sacrifice what they cons id er Ceir private interests for the benefit of all, ande Y are usually so s ho r t sighted, that th e y d o no t vv e . See clearly their own interests. AUSTRIA VIENNA, Nov. 23. Yesterday afternoon the electric telegraph is tliorrn e d the Vienna diplomatists that Asli Pasha ad only remained 24 hours in office, and a most „"Pleasant impression th e n ews a pp ears t o h ave 140-1 teased. It was believed that the appointment tPan Pasha to be Mini s t er f or F ore i gn Affairs ild satisfy all pa r ti es , an d it i s grea tly f eare d at bis sudden and unexpected withdrawal from ' l-14 e ti _e•will lead to fresh complications. It is related 14 .-44 t Aali Pasha resigned his portfolio because he .15 14 ha approve some part or parts of Redsehld's e r ' l itieal pr ogramme . Whe n ever anything unusual e e llra at Con s tantinople, the Austrians make Lord „ deliffe the ,Deus ex machina, and he is now t.Ke eu Esed of having given the Grand Vizier the 1• ut of his c ounse l s w h en th e p ro gramme in 11 , e ation was drawn up. .ti••!'he only Austrian news to be communicated is, ,41 . 94 , : tbere . are great festi v iti es a t T r i e ste in honour . Th .t uki Emperor and Empress. In the evening of 4,_ e 20 th there was theatre pare, and their Mai,esties wined until the end of the second act of that much !ttied: opera La Traviata. Early in the morning k,„,'•'Lle . 21st the Emperor reviewed the garrison, and '4, - Oterwards visited the different public establish tieats- Both the Emperor and Empress seemed '*hfl 3 rised to find that the " arsenal" (dockyard) of `al e Lloyd was on such a grand settle. On l b 4 ist the city and mole were to have been lighted tiro but the Bora was blowing with such violence 4 1 ' 1 : it was considered advisable to postpone illuminations until the " blustering railer" 3 4 .4 ceased. On the 22nd an excursion was to ki °o been made in a Lloyd steamer, but, as the was still high, their. Majesties preferred re eit,'llling on terra firma. At . 8 o'clock in the lit e. t i lll ng of the 22nd the Archduchess Sophia, (the i n oa ,e daughter of their . Majesties), reached Venice ',,,retV, having made the passage from Trieste 1 / 4 :te war steamer Elizabeth. Great preparations being made in Pole., where the whole of the 41f Itria n flo 1 Clig will be collected, for the reception i heir Majesties. 0&' l e Marquis Cantono Ceva, the Sardinian ji,C:,. /. .ge.d'Affaire,s, received no ticket for the theatre N yl ' l ' 3, which th ere was •h e r e some days ago, and ' tequently did not wait on the newly-married oettlUchess with the rest of the diplomatic corps he following day, It is, however, very probable Ni• de Ceva was not intentionally slighted. e„„ -° tcling to the strict etiquette of the Austrian Itt y "` l l, only Ambassadors, Ministers Plenipotenti t,' "kr Ministers Resident are to be invited to (t4Ort festivals, and we recollect that the Charge th at sires of the United States were greatly annoyed :oi tt t they never received an invitation if anything 4Gti of the common way was going on. Mr. Jack -4,1:,`u.e present representative of the United States, *l l 7 ,l 4 ister Resident, and consequently healtig, ' 4 '4 word means that he has a right to appear at ° .„ ll rt. • At • b''. raining to-day, after a very long drought. THE GERMAN DIET THE NO'hltigAN MES - _ ..,~ ....~ __~.____~_.._ ___. ..... __ __ ti~ 'WOW able bbdtaelo to this deekion i and THE ( consequently things remain in suspense " Such is the sense of this circular'' 'IIIIROII 014' ENtRAND ED.tiCATIO • SOCIETY`. • A letter dated St. Petersburg,Nov. 16, says : " The fact of a shot having been fired from the fort at Yenikale upon an English vessel of war has caused some sensation . in our cffleibl world ; the heads of our commercial houses; who have branch establishments, in the towns of the Sea of Azoff, after the experience of the sad events which oc curred there in 1855, show some anxiety respecting the many commercial interests engaged there since the peace. No one here doubts that the Russian Commander was perfectly justified in preventing the English vessel from entering the Sea of Azoff to prevent the capture of ships engaged in smug gling." On the invitation of -the Church of England Education Society, a number of gentlemen assembled at a public breakfast at the Adel* Hotel, at nine o'clock yesterday morning, to hear J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., who consented to'visit Liverpool for the purpose of addressing the friends of education on that all-important subject. The chair was taken by Edward Crop.. per, Esq., and among the clergymen and gentlemen present, we noticed Archdeacon Jones, Dr. M'Neile, Dr. Taylor, Dr,, 13:Mee, the Revs. J. C Ryle, Charles Hesketh, rector, North Meols ; W. Falloon, T. C. Cowan, J. B. Lowe, C. W. LaW.. rence, D. T. Barry, B. S. Clark, Sluthport ; Rorke, J. A. Wilson, Woolton ; J. Herbert Jones, J. R Caner, W. 11. Wrieht, A. Knox, S. Minton, W. Pollock, J. Bardsley; Major General Lawrence, Captain M'Neile, Captain G re i g, Hon J. Cunard ; Messrs. Adam Hodgson, Ed ward Cropper, W. .Gregson, John Tarr, Alfred Castellain, Hilton flathead,- J. W. Cropper, Charles Liman, C. W. Newman, Charles Parker, James Sterdns, R. L. Jones, W. J. Tomlinson, M. W. Collett, B. Hall, John Eden, Christopher Bushell, W. Jones, E. Batty, and J. K. Rounthwaite. After breakfast had been partaken of, the Chairman, in a few brief observations, introduced Mr. Colqulioun and the Rev. Mr. Ryle, who, he said, would address the assembly on the subject of education, in connection with , the Church of England Society. NAPLES A letter from Berlin, dated November 20, in the Hamburg Gazette, says "It is affirmed that the Neapolitan Govern ment has addressed to Prussia (in reply to repre sentations made by the . Prussian AmbasSador at Naples, with a view to a reconciliation) a memo randum, which has also been communicated to the other Cabinets, and which is looked upon by the Cabinets of Paris and of London as a step toward concession. Mr. Colquhoim then rose and said : I am sure Mr. Rvle and myself ought to return our thanks to you for your kind. ness in, by no means a genial morning, coming out to meet us. We take it as a testimony of the interest you feel in the cause in which we ought to be all interested—the cause of education. ([sear, hear.) I will not make any preface, but proceed, at once; to the business, as many of you are business men, and have other duties to attend to. You will have remarked two speeches lately delivered on the subject of education, both by members of tho House of Commons, and men of eminence and high position. I allude to Sir John Pakington and Lard Robert Cecil. (Hear, hear.) Lord Robert Cecil says, and• says truly, that the cause of education at this moment is in a critical position, and is in a state of trial. He says, and I think too truly, that you have no choice but either to ke' p the system you have—that is the system of religious education generally, tinder the ministers of the various religions bodies in the country, onto establish a system pf thoroughly seenG education. He sees clearly that all the different plans of education reduce themselves to these two; and he says his conviction is that the cause of religious education established in the country will come well out of the trial. (Hear, hear.) Sir John Pakington, on the other hand, at Manchester, and apparently with the assent of a very large audience, took a different view. Sir John Pakington says that the cause of education in this country, or the system that has been estab lished, I should rather say, has been tried and found wanting, and that the sooner we change it the better ; and he points to various other systems which, in his judgment, ought to have the preference. He takes the system of the United States, and he says that has been most effectual, that is, the general system of distribution into districts, with rates levied in those districts, and the schools placed under tho management of district bodies, who are somewhat like our vestries. That is, in general, he secular system of education in America. He says that has been very effectual in America, but without troubling you with details, I will remark that we have full information on that subject, information which has beets fully delivered in the House of Commons, and from which we learn that America labours very much under the same difficulties and evils that we do ourselves. There is a vast population in its large towns and cities—take the city of New York as an example,, here is a large proportion of its popula• tion who do not enter schools at all, Therefore, it does not remedy the great evils of which Sir John Pakington complains. It rather adds to this enormous evil ; and, according to the testimony of the American ministers of almost all ir . rsuasions, it is most injurious in its tendency upon morals and religions faith. (Hear, hear.) Sir John Pakington referred to another system, which I know well, but it is somewhat singular that it should be presented to us as one to be adopted in the same breath with that of America. He takes the system of education established in Scotland. Now, certainly, some of my friends here know well what that system is ; but, I think, he would be a bold man who would propose to introduce into England. the system established in Scotland. No doubt there is a levy of rates, of school rates upon the land for the support of the schools ; no doubt the landed proprietors, as we call them in the north, the " heritors," have power over the schools, hut the schools are virtually placed under the direct supervision and control of the ministers of the established church, who watch over their religious education. To talk of that in the same breath as America is merely to say that the established church is excellent, and that voluntaryism is excellent They aro opposite systems altogether. (Hear, hear.) No doubt the Scotch system might have done well two centuries ago, but to talk of the Scotch system as a system to be intredeced into England nqw is altogether visionary, But turning from these p)'nt ,en which I cannot help thinking Sir John Pakington is in error, I come to one point, and it is a very important one—it forms the ground of our appeal to you to-day —on which I think Sir John Pakington perfectly correct. He sums tip his statement of the condition of education in England at the presentmoment, and he takes it most trully and fairly from the reports of the government inspectors. He quotes many of these reports. I will give yon in a few words, far I do not wish to trouble yen with quotations, a summary of the report w hi c h i s g i veh by one inspect or , ar. Norr 4 s, a man of great competence, of great fairness and great influence. here is the view which he gives of the condition of education in gnglanit, and he takes portion of this district, almost your own district, for his report includes Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire—here is the summary of Isis report as inspector of this district, as to the educational condition of the country :—" Btight spots there are, but how few and far between ! In driving from one school to another, what a breadth of distance the • insp;ctor has to traverse. What a mass of neglected population lie on his right and on his left !" 'I he other. inspectors give you very much somewhat the same aspect of things, They tell Lis that the educational darkness of England is great, and there is one fact I will give you, for I think it is an indication of one pars tion of the evil—they mention that.even as regards the best schools which are inspected in England, out of every 100 children that enter them, 65 leave school within the twelve months. (Hear, hear.) S.) that 0 out of every 100 children iaie less than a month's education. (Heir; 'hear.) In the great county of Yorkshire, great in intelligynce and "The Neapolitan Government endea.vours to decline the responsibility of the conflict by proving that it is not the Naples Cabicet-which is unwilling to a reconciliation, but that it arises from the conditions hitherto asked not being equitable. " The memoranduM dwells particularly upon the moderation and conciliato'•y sentiments of the King, and mentions as a proof that his Majesty thinks the moment has arrived when the Neapolitan Government, without compromising► its dignity, may consent to equitable demands of the Western Powers." THE ROMAN STATES BRIGAND CONFLICTS. ROME, Nov. 20 For want of warfare on a larger scale to talk about, since the allied powers seem to limit their operations in Italy to telescopic observations of King Bomba's attitude, we continue in this part of the peninsula to take interest in the movements of the hands of outlaws that infest the patrimony of St. Peter and the southern provinces of the eccle siastical dominions. Signor Arringa, so lately a prisoner in the hands of one of these marauding detachments, has just returned from Velletri with the satisfactory intellgence that two of his aggressors on' that memorabte occasion were slain in an engagement with his Holiness's gendarmes in the beginning of last week, in the neighbouring province of Frosinone. A landed proprietor of Anagni, whilst returning from hi; country residence on the evening of the 11th, was captured by five brigands, who were apparently fully aware of the fact that their victim was a man of substance, for they detained him in durance vile with the • usual pleasing accompaniment of impending death in case of non-payment of the ransom demanded by them, which, in the present instance, was limited to a thousand scudi (X 210). Having recovered his liberty at this modest !mice, the mulcted proprietor roused the authorities to active exertions, and the few gendarmes stationed around being united into a flying column, and reinforced by a small number of gardes chempetres, the whole party set out in pursuit of the brigands, whom they succeeded, after a laborious forced march, in tracking to a walled cabin. Under cover of this impromptu redoubt, the bandits accepted battle, and a lively fusillade was carried on until, two of their number having bitten the dust, the remaining three fled, and left the allied gendarmes and guardiani masters of the field and fortress, although not in a condition to pursue the flying enemy, one of whom is supposed to have been badly wounded, as he mysteriously dis appeared during the headlong retreat, whilst the remaining two were observed to scale a distant and (to gendarmes) inaccessible emi nence. This important fait dames took place between Anagni and Guercino. The casualties amongst the detective forces were limited to two men wounded, the gendarmes Rinaldo Raitnondi and Vicenzo Calvalenesi, to whom, as well as to the rest of the party, and their (tom mander, vioe-brigadier Angelo Marchiafane, the Government has ordered due rewards to be allotted, On examination of the brigands' corpses they were judged to be inhabitants of the kingdZmi of Naples, and to have crossed the frontier into the Papal States. probably from Calvieri ; and on subsequent public exhibition of the bodies, they were recognised as having taken part in similar enormities both in the province of Frosinone and that of Velletri. Among other individuals able to throw some light upon their identity was Signor Arringa's coaehman, who was sent for from Velletri to inepeet the defunct marauders, one of whom he instantly recognised as having played the part of the sham fewer patient who attracted Arringa's attention by trembling and shaking, as if in an ague fit, on the road side, just before the remainder of the band sprung out and stopped the earriage, We had rather art audacious feat performed by a gang of city robbers two nights ago upon the rev. person of the Padre Procuratore of the Barnabite monks of San Carlo in Catinari. • This venerable su perior had just received about four thousand scudi, more or less, for accounts vary as usual, rand the robbers, determined to gain the prize, of which they had obtained intelligence, secreted themselves in the church adjoining the convent et the usual hour for closing. Towards midnight they pane ; .hated into the convent by the sacristy, marched up to the Padre's room, and made him give _up the money, threatening him with instant death if he cried out for help, and tying him down to his bed for greater security. They then returned to the church, hoping to escape, but the doors being locked, and not bolted, as they expected, they resolved to wait for the usual time of opening, so as to rush or slink mit s opportunity offered. the worthy Padre, however, obtained some means of corntrinnieatiOn with his venerable brethren, and intelligence being forwarded to the brigata, daylight found the robbers still prolonging their uncongenial visit to the church, with gendarmes guarding the entrances until permission could be obtained from the Cardinal Vicar to effect the malefactors' arrest within the consecrated , • premncts. activity, but great also in its manufacturing industry and labour—in the great county of Yorkshire, if you go to one door of the school and receive 100 children, you flod that' 88 of _ the 100 are gone in a twelvemonth, That is a sad case _ . (Hear, hear,) f do not agree in all that his been'said by Sir John Pakington, but I do agree with hint when he says, that the state of education in this country is not satisfActory— (hev, hear)—that the condition of the country in that respect is nearly deplorable, and do say that it is necessary for 'nu intelligent and earnest men, for you, as representatives - of this great commercial community, and possessing, as such, influence,' wealth, and power, to look in the face of this state of things. (Hear, hear.) Now, there are two facts which I sheuld like to bring before you before I proceed to suggest what appears to me the remedy, because there are two facts that throw light on the matter, and though in appearance in themselves foil of what is discouraging, yet 'they, in fact, act as fingerposts to point out to you the form, motive, and character of the remedy .required, One fact is, that egt of 25,000 schools connected with the Church of England in England,' there are only 4,000 which are in so good a condition that they are capable of receiving and do receive the insection and help p t' government. You are aware that government gives their assistance a n certain terms, They require a cot fain degree of instruction in the master and mistress, certain books and other necessaries— in a word, they require in fact what is absolutely essential for a good education. There is nothing, I am bound to say, unreasonable in the recinirements of government. (Hear, hear.) They only require what every clergyman will ask as a matter of necessity, for the good education of his school ; and, therefore, I do not pit the government re, quirements in this matter as extravagantthey are, on the contrary, most reasonable. But, yet, out of the 24,00 u schools, ther e a re on ly 5,000 which have reached that bare position that they eau receive government help. The ether fact to which r referred yetil4 this. take it from the report also o f o ne df the government inspectors, Kitchell. He has charge of a district whiCh one would say was not very poor or degitate, for it includes Essex and Middlesex, counties in which you would imagine assistance would be got as easily as in aqy part of England. (Hear, hear.) But yet he gives you the appeals of a dozen clergymen, and the number could be doubled if it were required, and they all say, "It is im possible for us to go on—we are overwhelmed with our school engagements—all the burthen and expense of our schools fall entirely on us." (Hear, hear.) Some are obliged to close the schools ; others keep them open with utmost difficulty, and say these things cannot go on. (Hear, • hear.) Now, I do not wonder that Sir qohn Pakington should lay his finger on sucks facts as these, and say to the people of Manchester, "Look at this 1 Is not this a state of things that cannot endure ? Should you not deal with it and put it down ?" (Hear, hear.) But I would suggest that we must take care in dealing with these evils not to adopt remedies which would merely maiie the disease worse. (Hear, hear.) No doubt we know that the Chartist' and the qacialist, vthen ire looks at the evils of society, says, "Look . at' the. misery of the people 1 Is not this intolerable ? Pull society to pieces! Down with all the evils of property, which is selfishness, and of manufacture mid trade, witich are grievances ; tet us pull them all down, and establish society op a new basis !" We should pursue a similar Course in education, if after we had got together the mass of evils which there are, and the mass of defects which there are, we should say-4 , Look how monstrous thiS is I Let us tear it to pieces "' (Hear, hear.) There are some evils in education in every community, with which it is impossible for us to deal. There will always remain— there remains in America, where the sYstem, winding to Sirjolin Pakington, is p b e 7 rf g e o e v t, cr w n h in e e re n;_ yoU th h e a re ve r v e e m r 4 y in li s tt i T but schools i America, as in England, two great, classes of evils. The one is the large class of the population who are oppressed by labour; who find it difileult to make the two ends of the week to meet; and who, the moment a phild can make anything, put that child into a factory, or into a forge, or in some other work. (Hear, hear.) That is an evil inci dent to labour, and the complications of society, and it is a t b l , e4e d i g n anther c ir e e i. a y n i d a r 4 g i e s c s 9 1 a l g a an evil which it i s i mpossible for us to dea l W i t h. Th e p ,Uatntecirly depraved, ;e wh ha o :l r t e s they do not care in their child ren f or that which they do not " va l ue or enjoy in themselves. It is quite clear that you will always In the northern pyovinces the safety of travellers by the public conveyances is now provided for by regublr escorts, and English visitors to the Eternal City, by the way of ologna and Ancona, are not a litile surprised to behold the diligence between those towns followed post by an open van, closely packed wall a detachment of Papal infantry, fearfully exposed, it would seer, to the enemy's fire, Should the brigands ever think of preparing an ambuscade._ Notwithstanding all these impediments, Rome is filling most rapidly, and by the way of Civita Vecchia especially, arrivals are extremely numerous. The circumstance of political events, rendering a visit to kiraples imprudent, at least for families, is favourable to the hotel keepers and tradesmen, not to mention the lovers of gaiety in Exchange on London, 471 f. Roman Consols, 89i. 44 4 , 4 the sitting of the 6,erman Diet of the 20th a v ll.t, the governments of Austria. Prussia, +ti ' r ttl, end Baden, notified to the Assembly that, ex o ttib.;eution of the resolution of the 6th instant, N v ; t r ,""e to the affair of Neufchatel, they had , 11 4 % ',Med instructions to their diplomatic agents .1 14, t i‘:tlited to the Swiss Confederation couched in e 'llae of that resolution. The Transatlantic Company's steamer Turin arrived at lanoa on the 19th, having made a most prosperons voyage from Portsmouth in eight days and 20 hours.—Corriere Mercantile. _ The ship Clara, a collier, left Southampton three weeks ago for Sunderland. Another collier Left Southamptcn afterwards, and had reached Sunderland, loaded, and wat on her return voyage, and had not fallen in with the Clara, and nothing had been heard of her. The relatives of the crew, seven in number, consequently became alarmed. On Tuesday last, however, news reached Southampton that the Clara was at 13rouvershaven, on the coast of Holland. She has no doubt been driven on that ooast by the recent prevailing high winds. -~-~--- RUSSIA Th • o a thi r eport that Prince GortschakofF had issued i t 7r cir cu l ar re l at i ve t o t h e p en di ng ques tions, 7 %ttt er , f aolte measure confirmed by the following ~,( l ated Berlin, Nov. 21, addressed to the ci 4 vurter Zeitung $ 1 111 ce Gortschakeff has sent a new circular to :'(ieih:Plornatic agents of Russia abroad. This, V4t alludes chiefly to the actual state of , I :4l,;,,',",dcritieises severely the attitude assumed th - "Pa and England as regards the execution *9'4 Treaty f Peace. Although the question as (1.111 ; the Island of Seipents shall belong in cad is at least doubtful, Russia is nevertheless 'I R IZ' Cede on this point to tiro demands of 5 T 4 s , .4gd Austria. h lAo; a re gards the posse.ssion of Bolgrad, the more t question of the two, .Russia declines pro 10'401'g a decision alone, [lnd on this point the . decisio n i n C om m on o f a ll who signed -al ltlei r a -tt L t Y , of Paris. IVore cannot be asiied of Aust br i u a . ;14 gnsiand have opposed THE LATE JOHN ARXault HERBERT..--Eng lish art has rece ntly sustained a severe los s i n the death of Mr. Oson of the R oya l Academ i c i an, uriac, in Fran ce , and was Jwohbinch A to r o t k hu p r la H ce e a rb t er s t i occa stoned by an attack of typhus fever. He was the author of "Phillip IV. of Spain Knighting Velasquea," one of the most admired pictures in the exhibition' at the Wational Gallery this year, and one which, by its genuine feeling and historic truth, attracted the special commendation of her Majesty and Prince Albert, who highly complimented Mr. Herbert on his son's success and promise of future distinction. The painting itself, we beliave, was pur chabed by the ex-Lord Mayor, being selected for his lord ship by an academician whom he had commissioned to purchase the best cabinet picture in the exhibition. Mr. Herbert, at the ' limo of hi s death, was only in his 22 nd year. He had be en e d ucate d a t Q spo tt College, under lnr Wiseman, and after leaving selidol had studie4 Paintigg under his father, with whom he had spent two years and a half in France. The bo_dy has been brought to;England , and buried at St. John's Wood. LIVIMPOOL riltritS DA v .3ik. it, 0 0 4i Aiiiisrivyaiao) , "Aft6 1 60; 60 5XiMiWigitgz4d=,A r ,t.. slitoselfiliieSO'i4iia ‘ k v 4, ; 4 a • Rdiaolis%troifshftveuliolii*okiitik'l4,lBt,Zock • ' have leer ffinlibeell Of the populattott of those t wo classes, hail all these titrinc s *eflt Nike, he should testify that theee that unless a man had Inese good health, Mid w a s, to 0 e el ., and with these I confess I do n o t think it i s p oss ibl e for I was the greatest possible difficulty in carrying on educa- in his time, s uc h t hi ngs 6 , uid us to deal. There are e v il s , h owever, w i t h wh i ch we can i tional work even in that parish. What, then, must it be not be done. He hop e d no taro extent, self-sacrificing w; however, thi ngs were looking deal ; and if you bear in m i n d t h e f acts w hi c h I h ave given , in parishes where there was no such landlord or schools, better in the town, and t h a t i n c rease d a tt ent i on had been you in regard to the 20,000 sc h oo l s so l ow i n t h e i r state— I or where the farmers were not at ail aware of the value of a state, recollect, produ ce d b y poverty—you• will f i nd the , education? (H ear , h ear .) Wh a t m ee t it b e i n th e case d given to the subjeet. Hinrev. friend, Mr. Pyle, h ad ~i ren cause and the remedy whi c h th e Ch urc h .o f E ng l an d Edu- of schools which consisted of four bare walls, with holes 115 s opinion on V of the capitation. fees. - He (Dr. Hume) differed entiie subject o , ' lcr;al taxes and the Increase cation Society suggest. My f r i en d (the cha i rman ) on my for windows; wh ere th ere were scarcely any books; right reminded me that I must t a k e care t o ma k e p l a i n where the children came and went as they pleased ; where from him; for he believed that education w o uld n ever go the subject by figure+ I entirely recogn i se th e j us ti ce o f th ey slept—(laughter)—er played, or learned, or did on as at ought t o d o w i thout local rates. It was necessary that claim, and I hotie to demonstrate to y j ou, according nothing, ust as the humour se:zed them ? Theight on ground of -p If had local to Cocker—(laughter)—that th ere i s a remedy within our imagi ne what sort of educatien was given in such y sch m ol os rates the for the puniehin g moral the child that did they wrong, then reach, if we will only apply it. But I make one provision, — , (hear, hear, —and y e t th a t was th e c on diti on of he entreated tLm to have them levied for the protection. and I hope you will grant it tome in return for the solution thousands of schools in the rural parishes of the country. of the child who did well. That they were bound to do,. of th e problem, and it is this —that you are not . to look The question then -arose, what was the remedy for that sounbtBchreibg2rrosu.ntdo othfemcoaruasleitye.fpaedrtuiceualtajorinty_esootwehaherem,nhwtehhaerey)n— it was to be regretted, with their means, ll that they did not everywhere on things of your own, but also on the things state of things ? and they had men of all classes, and of the very small number of gentlemen in the town who were of others—(hear, hear)—that yon are not merely to be all politics, coming forward with . one. It appeared to that man appended as foundan theyd ratified with your position in Liverpool, as a great corn- him that these remedies might be divided into three. bs er e i t b t e h further. evnerer s aw. One th e m li a a n m w e o o u f l d called that his calls were so numerous that he could not, hear)—another seem very glad mercial community, and tell me, as I dare say you truly There were many who, seeing the position of things can, that your schools are adequate to your, opulation, respecting education, thought that nothing bat an educe and that you have overcome difficulties. I see some of tional rate could ever meet the necessities of the day. my friends shake' their heads and Se* that that is not There were those again who said that there shou'd be and a wood . done: q t p o e S a n r y very report glad in t 0 their see I i t y h e e s m --- ,, (he wouldar, accomplished; but, even if it were accomplished, I should more private benevolence, in order to meet the exigencies . be dissatietied if you stopped there. (Hear, hear.) I of the case. Both of these plans, he, for his .part, want you to do much more. I want the people of this believed were simply delusive. H e h a d very strong to think that they had -called, and would almost thank therm great and large town of Liverpool, possessing wealth and objections to anything like an educational rate. He for so doing, and for asking for the subscripti (Hear,, on, influence, to look also on th e di str i cts of England which believed that they wou ld i ntroduce the greatest possible hear.) But from such gentlemen he always r ece i ved the possess neither. It is utterly i m p oss ibl e that the remedy nuisance into the country, if th ey established an educe - we sugges t ca n b e applied if you are t o b e satisf i ed with tional rate amongst them .subscription with some reluctances, b ecause h e did not think (hear, hear), and he hoped that, *it was fair th a t suc h persons s h ou ld b e pressed by such calls. simply providing for you r own sc h ools , You must do as whatever might be the co nc l us i on o f the people in regard in all the great enterprises of English philanthropy—you to education, they would not have such a system. (Hear, He receiveil•of such men, melt who always expect e d to pay, must, aslrom a centre, distrib u t e th e w i lls of your benefi. hear.) It was well to bear i n m i n d h ow many were the in the expectation that the churlish man might, by an d b y, cence to the less favoured di s t r i cts of England. The objections to an educational rate. By it, t h ey would be comp e ll e d t o givein the like manner. But, strange to Church of England Education Society arose about three strike at the root of all private benevolence, because say, the print plea of local rates for such purposes; years ago. It is still in its infancy, hardly out of its where money was taken out of m en ' s poc k ets b y law, ex i sted at that moment in L verpool, for they h a d cradle, but it has the experi ence o f nearly three years, they would not give that voluntarily, which they were at the north - and south end of the • town the, and lam bound to say that the experience is satisfactory compelled to pay, willing or not (hear, hear) ; and the corporation schools, and if, in the place of one at the to the extent of this truth. It has received about £2,000 result would be, that the burthen would be too heavy f or nur th an d o n e a t th e south, they had three at the north and ghe the townot swo o n : i of f t t y ha_t i Liverpool w ' a s t a y ear , an d it has distributed that in the way ram going to the shoulders of the countrY*o bear. By it, they would three at the south, he believed that great good m o uld h e describe. Allow me to fix your attention on the fact that introduce into every parish, elements of discord. (Hear, the resun (hear, hear)--and he did hope that some of the there are at least 15,000 schools which are below the point hear.) They had sufficiently exciting topics at present, gentlemen present would not rdk l iu o n o pg s o e neft s ht i at which Government says they are fit to be handed over and if they had, in addition, such a rate to discuss at their But there was another point which appeared to him to oin. and inspected. I will take one of these schools. It comes Garishlooked districts,insteadof meetings, the cauldron of discord and confusion,b e to us; we are asked for assistance to maintain the seething and bubbling too much already, would boil over. school. We grant it; we give, say £lO, a small sum (Hear, hear.) He did hope that they would look this matter a t a that Practicala ift bolastiht e e wash hoard o g a d r r d i e d t n ai vticindu whole. f t d :o e n i li n d eo . o t t o n h e T I which has often produced great good. I take the last fairly in the face, and give it proper consideration before report, and could collect a dozen such cases from they consented to it. As to the pos •ibility of ever improving it, bearing testimony towhe value of our assistance. One their state of education by private benevolence, he should portion was St. Giles and the other St. James. The board says, "your grant has been the greatest assistance to me; say that whatever they might do in Liverpool, they could in London might, therefore, on an ap e p i l og ic e a tnh t t i el e e n wmoe f rnskeoimnf t t h h oeef it has enabled me to have a second master. I h a d 40 expect nothi n g f rom privat e benevolence in the rural die- clergy from Liv w er h p o o s ol e , bo g a i r v d e sa th t e i i a r grant to tShat.,,Gthileast working of children in the school, now I have 210." (H ear , h ear .) trots. He knew what burthens the rural clergymen had twooithrhroecildleittitfiryomdoSnt.e.Jaanmdes. be w H a e rn k ed ne ' w th , Another says, 4. I had a very inferior master—l have now to bear in matters of schools. (Hear, hear.) He had another society ono who has a certificate, and I have got Government heard of clergymen in large towns sometimes envying their assistance. I have a pupil teacher ; my school is im. brethren in rural parishes— Me ropolitan .Society if possible to guard against that proved. The people of the neighbourhood begin to take -0, fortunati nemium sua si bona norint an interest in the school, and it is in every way advanced." ' Agricolce. infection of the working of that society as in connection, Another says, " You have assisted me. I have put (Laughter.) But there were two sides to the picture, with Liverpool, and onnoluded by suggesting that such 4 myself as you desired, in connecti on w ith th e G overn _ T he rural livings had some pleasant things, but they had state of things mi g ht b e prevented by the formation of a coesecrate the meeting by asking God's blessing. local hoard in Liverpool. ment. I have got the capitation fee "—the rate paid by also some bitter things. (Hear, bear.) The rates which he wished to exolain what he thought would Government on the head of every child who attends the they there had to pay were fully one-tenth of their The Rev. Hugh M' hleile said the chairman had requested school a certain number of days—" and my school has income. The poor rates were heavier than were felt in him to. risen thom 30 to 100." But, best .of all, there is one case the town, and then there was, the last of all, the burthen Before cl. ing so in the report, and lam happy to hear from the secretary of their school. He had no idea of the Government treat be the feeling of all present, his sense, and, he it is not the only case, in which they say, "you have given ing the country like children, but he wished that the felt assured, their Prise, of the oblieation they us aid for two years —we now can dispense with it. . Government would come forward more liberally than they were under that morning to their friends who had ad (Hear, hear.) We have received Government assistance, had done in some cases. (Hear, hear,) He should like dressed them on behalf of the society. (Hear, hear.) He we have doubled our local subscriptions, we have got a to see the capitation fee system carried out further than capital mistress, and we have an independent working it was, but he thought that the government required the did not mean to invite any forrell vote upon the subject, school." (Hear, hear.) But I remember my friends child to attend too great a number of days to entitle the but merely. to give the meeting the opportunity of each. an admonition, and I must make my statement cleer by school to the fee. In those districts; children had to expression as they might convey of the value they attached demonstration, according to Wrecker ; only entreating you come three and four miles to school, and the same punctual to the statement of Mr. Colquhonn, as well as to that 'atthe to remember that, though those figures may be dry, yet attendance could not be required from them as in the case of Mr. Ryle. (Hear,. hear, and • applause.) The o p orations immediate of e that ''n s i s l o e a . r i a e t t i y ° , . that they are figures upon which de end the happiness of of other children. (Hear, hear.) Ti l e r ev . gentl eman would bear with him while he added that it appeared thousands of children, and the well-being of the country at then combated the idea that the education of the country Ifto point th h ey im had th a e rrived, in t f l , 2 , e r large. I take ag a i n Sir John Pakington's statement, because should be chiefly conducted bY the clergymen. He men - what Mr• Arlan Hodgson had touched in his short address. take coming froM him, if I can satisfactorily deal with it, I tioned that Mr. Cobden once urged that on him, at the take the worst view of the ease for myself, and the best table of Sir John Shuttleworth, but he dented that it right principle, in the present state - of the question in that for him. He says you want as much as 6 1-a week to should be so. It was the duty of clergymen to preach the country, the details would find their educate a chill. The educational year is certainly not Gospel—(hear, hear)—and never was there e rim© which more than 46 weeks, so that, according to Sir John required that it should be preached continually, zealously, were vsoree out. It appearel to him that the very sug- Pakington, you require 23s a year to educate the child. and well, than the present. (Hear, hear.) On that . gestions which came from their friends, who looked forward It is put by some, however, as high as 30s, a point at account he regretted to see by the reported speech of the to and asked for ulterior aid, contained in themselves the which, I fear, we will not . ar r i ve for some years, and, Bishop of Sodor and Man, in the Times, at a meeting in Proll that the society, so far as it we n t, h a d therefore, stake the cost at 265, because, in thus dealing the diocese of Litchfield, that that dignitary entertained done much good, for it was the measure ofgood with it, I wish to take the worst view I can of it. To somewhat the same view, but it was an erroneous view of which invited the consideration of more. He th t g ght solve the problem, thee, I must find 26s for the good their position and the requirements of the times, which there was self-evidence of the soc'et hentk o 1- a nig a en a st . ep education of the child; but in the inferior schools, with could not be sustained. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, the in the right direction, in the fact that iy the considerati which we deal, the cost is nothing like that. In my rev. gentleman eloquently appealed to the assembly to I now entertained was whether they on could do all. The parish, in Kent, there is a very respectable school not in adequately support. the society, and sat down amid . , objections or difficulties which suggested themselves to connection with government, and I find that there the cost enthusiastic applause. Mr. Cowan's mind hero internal testimony to his mind of each educational child is about 17s 6d. In the inferior The Yen. Archdeacon Jones wished to know if the of the true step which the society had taken, SG schools, in those below that, I put the cost at 16s each government gave assistance only to those schools in far as it want. The very field which was now oecu child. Eight shillings is easily provided. It is provided which certified mestere and mistresses were engaged. He , the society, in which they found so hue d by the parent ; for the inspectors say there is no diffi- believed that such was the case, and if it was so, he con- school s requiring assistance in order to be lifted a eulty on that point. The parents unfortunately take shiered it a hardship. up within the reach of the government be their children away early, but while they leave theta at Mr. Colquhoun replied that such was the case, and was owing to neglect. There Ives nothin n' •'. s go. the kind school, they do not grudge a certain payment. How is said he considered it a prudential and wise requirement. done by the National Society, That the other 8s to be got ?In poor schools it is got out of The , Rev. Mr. Cowan observed that, according to the employed in supplying valuable was the schools,and ' society buildings. , the the pocket of the clergyman, or from a few who assist statement made by the chairman, there were 15,000 Had it been differently ma - ed had the details f • nag „ o its him, and so the school continues floundering on in this schools which required help to bring them up to the management been satisfactory to the whole church, had miserable state, with one half of the burthen borne government standard, so that., taking each school at 410, it not become the organ of noparticular part of the church by the clergyman, and the other half supplied they would require £150,000 to accomplish that object. rather than of the whole church, this society might not by the parents. ' Now enters on the step the He would ask' wae there any hives !al the Church of have been in exist Church of England Education Society. We give a rant, England Society being able to raise anything like that of a rival, this enc i e,. at least in their times. Instead say of Xl°, and the school having, say 50 children, we are sum ? If it could nen, would it not be rather desirable to the field - whieh e° ;; a e d Y ecame an ally. Taking up thus giving es for each child; Bs, observe, is supplied by point mit sense other course, En saying that much, he not intere:rin at been all neglected by the _other with the other, but the parent without difficulty. We then give 4s, but on spoke as a friend of the society, and as a member of the supplementing its work—that , was the business of this the condition that the school is improved, and that it is committee, He could not help expressing his be:ief that soc kt v an d b h placed in connection with government. Witat arises ? after all their struegles, they would at last be driven e, l ' ' a d. t A ought it was the source of great thanke i ness to o ( ppleuse.) Tet appeared to him a quesAion The government assistance is at present high, and if Mr, back, either to have an educatiottal roll; as was his Baines will permit me, I hope it will be higher. (Hear, opinion, or they would he compelled to receive larger which deserved ' their most, serious consideration, now, hear.) But the government assistance is now lis 4d. Let assistance frera novernthent than they now obtained. whether they should net manifest before the country and alreaus call it, for clearness sake, lls; observe, you have Mr. Colquhoun reminded the rev. gentleman that all the Governmeet, their determination to caul %AA illif"l7 dy 12s; add to it, the 1 Is. and you have 2. = ,s 1 000 the it,....nt, ..—.... —O, -_-,•, ~$ . ... .......___-_, ..e. ry cl c ati ti ' - - ---- .i - - ---- . -. ...1 •• `,.. •.‘,,... 0. , .t.— now you only want 3s to make up the requisite sum, the schools taken in hand at the same time. A. school would atrengthen the hands of their friends against the Where will you find it?' The clergyman will be very was take hep atid in two yeers or so it was rendered self- Plans which would be brought forward in Parliament to happy to compand for 3s instead of Bs, but he will have supporting, and then the grant wag withheld from that introduce the secular system. (Hear, hear.) They were no'difficultyin getting it from - subscriptions, so that by School and' transferred to smoother reuirin aid. For his •throatened with tha secular systeni. tw some of the the small gift of 4s the child, you rescue the scheol which part, he hoped the government would increase their assist- most forward men men of mark in .the movement party . haS been 40Ondering in its diftieUltieS,.its burthens over. awe, and that that increased assistance would be given in of that country, and these • ted 6 pointed .to the fail ere powering the clergyman--you raise it to the standard of accordance with the amount of good that it would be shown of all -t . * exis mg sys erns to strengthen their argumer,ats. If good education required by government, and in a word, could be accomplished. Since 1833 the Government assist- they would ward off that mischief, the mischief e'' you save it from destruction. (Applause.) That is the ance had raised from £300,000 to £l5OOOO and' he felt et a secular supported bycompulsory ' system, a rate ~t be believed, ground - of our appeal to you to-day, It is an appeal assured that the House of Commons would not withhold which we make very earnestly, and with the strongest its grantse—whatever Mr. Baines might say—if it was in the present state of the country, s • system supported by conviction of the good you are goine to do. I fear perhaps shown that it was required for a necessary object. They a emnpalsory rate must be seculenw(hear) —if they would our clerical friends will scold me for this; but I think we would give half a million, or a million, if necessary, and ward evil, let theta ;no the Gevernment they sometimes do not think enough o f th e goo d t h at we do. if it was shown that the money would he beneficially ap- approved off of that the present pla n of w helping those who that helped Really, in this busy day, jostled about by plied ; but they would not give any assistance until the themeelves, by brieging up 100, or any such number of various calls, we are glad to get rid of them almost schools had risen to the government standard; aod he schools, oat of their poverty, to the standard required by npoq • any terMs. Ask for aeslstance and the thought it was necessary that government should make Government, and then hand them over to Government for party perhaps says, "Oh, here is .e 3 or W 5, and begone, , that requirement, and should insist on the master b • being a government assistarce—and having done that then go back I have not time to deal with the question." (Hear, hear.) man capable of holding the position he should occupy. and brine up others. (Hear, a, he r.) Mr. Colquhoun had We really scatter our bounties until we forget what we Mr. Adam Hodgson said he thought no subject was '' • t the 'society's y's c operations very clearly. Be (Dr. are doing, but it is ray nrovince, thy duty, my privilege, attended with 'so many difficulties as the subject of described.Ni ee) aske r. olquhoun. the previous evening, to to bring before you today the good that you are doing. education, sad it would appear sometimes as if those n't l' agree with those who paint in the darkest colours the difficulties could never be solved; but he thought there i make very clear, that the operations of the society merely Present educational cotidition of England, but I have, was one solution of the problem, and that was, that were that they helped the schools up until they had reached with Lord Robert Cecil, the fullest conviction thee that which had been, proposed by Mr. Colquhoun, and that the point where the Government could 'help them. Mr. cause Seen. be dealt 'with, dealt wieh euceessfully and corn- was to adopt the plan he hed enlarged upon, and Celquhoun had more than answered the request he made, pletely, by the exertions of earnest and religious men. the system adopted by the Church of England Society. and conveyed to their minds such a graphic picture of the (Hear, hear.) I feel, sir, that with the blessing of God, Now, if they thought that that system was based on a operations of the society, that they must have the greatest there is nothing which we may not do, banded together sound peinciple, with regard to the education of the coun- satisfaction in giving it all the support he claimed for it. in God's cause, and uniting with strong hands and cordial try, they had no reason to fear but that support would (Hear, hear.) After some further observations, Dr, M'lsleile hearts for this object, and it is a great one, the well.being be accorded them. He (Mr. Hodgson) thought they had ' asking a blessing. of England. Only remember, if it were your privilege to at last got on sound principle. There were objections to ' concludede, byei The assem .age then separated. take one of the reral districts of Ifearkshire, and convert all systems s but if they could show to the Government it from the state in which' it now i s sunk - , debased in that they had at last got on a good principle, that would. ' misery arld ignorance, the children living the life qf their reconcile the large grant for the community, and they 'parents, and that life of the' most b r4 0,1 ignorance and would find that Government would give them all possible darkest sensuality--think that, Were y ou a li qwe d t o go assistance, commensurate with the wants of th e COMMU into that place, holy,from the narrow horizon of the nity. The proportion to be contributed, he looked upon Child, Which gets every day, as he approaches mantimd, as an ulterior questioq; the great question was—was the more contracted and darker with the mists and veils of principle which they had adopted a sound principle? He his deepening depravity, you would bring to that child . (Mr. Hodgson) belived it was; and, being so, it deserved, the glorious horizon of a truth boundless as eternity, and and he'hoped would receive, support. of a mercy free and infinite as the bosom of a generous The Rev, Dr. Hume begged to state that the principle God, and how, in doing that, you ' raise' him of the sootety was no doulw, an excellent one. They had from the depths of that feel and deadening got a rate.in-aid from portions of the rich districts and • te the hei • degrarletien .ghts of a philosophy with which applied it to the support of the poor cones. It reminded the sages t of Greece end 13 seeme had nothing to compare 1 them ofthe P accommodationin superabun6ut ehureh Wales if you do that hi one solitary district it is a consolation for yogi , future years —At is a com f ort for 'your sorrowing and the defiaient ac commo d at i on i n Bi rm i ng h am an d hours—it is for time of sickness a solace which will riot elsewhere. hey could not bring one to assist the ether ; fail; but if you are able not only in one district bet over but, iu societies of that kind, they could bring the super the whole of England to do that,. then, I ask you, what a abutulancv of money from the one place to assist the privilege is before you? Iteinember your position. lam other. He was greatly afraid that Mr. Colquhoun made Rot addressing here those who are confined within some one very unfortunate mistake respecting the position of small parish, a place of n o commerce ; b ut lam address- Liverpool, and it wag to state the facts he reference) to their ing those who possess influence all over England—whose own town that he (D r . H ume ) t h en rcse. M r. C olqu h one voice, whose power is f e lt i n all parts of the world. I had supposed that Li ver p oo l h a d a supera b un d ance of press pa you this d omest i c duty. I tell you that your send away into rural districts. But w h a t wou ld example may decide th e f ate of this question, and may money to ' that gentleman think wh en h e (D r. H ume ) to ld h i m that Solve . the probleth w hi c h puzzles statesmen and defies the wisdom of Parliament. I lay it at your feet to-day. Take in educational matters they were not paying their way— it, I conjure, to your hearts, Se one or those great and that they did not pay it by a very ecnegiderable sum, and beet causes_ 'OW)) welt deserves a ll Y our e nergy, your were much in the back ground at that m omen t, H e (D r. pains,atidyoer activity, and I feel persuaded that in Hume) had entered into a minute examination of the future hours it will be a comfort to you as it is a comfort educational accommodation in Liverpool, including the to me to have contributed something to so great and borough and the Liverp oo l di s t r i c t , or w h at was called the glorious a cause, omnibus district on the Lancashire side, and on the Cheshire Mr. Colquhoun resumed his seat amid general applause. side, those portions connected by the ferry boats. 'ln that The Rev . . Mr. Ryle then addressed the assembly. He district he found the educational aeoommodation demand to said he could not forg e t th a t th e i r t i me . was short, and that he spoke to men w h o , th e greater part of be for 93,000 children—that was that that 93,000 should them, had other busines s awa i t i ng t h eir attention. He be attendants at the nati o n a l sc h oo l s, b ut t h e e d ucat i on t could not also forg e t th a t i t was but three raise supplied was at that moment only fo r 52 , 000 , so that 41,000 ago, he had the honour and privilege of addressing a large children in Liverpool were at that moment receiving no meeting in behalf of thi s s oc i e ty in the'wmphitheatre, of education, or they were waiting their turns for the schools, Liverpool. He remembered the admirable exposition of or they were receiving their education in the streets amongst the whole subject giv e n at that meeting' by their friends, their vichme companions. That was their condition. the Rev. Mr. Pollock, and the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, and Now, what he thought was, that a very great effort although his friend, Mr. Colquhoun, had but just spoken should be made to further the object, and ob• very fully on it, yet he felt that, as a rural clergyman,''' t the, necessary amount of education, and be one coming from a district purely agricultural, coining to say that was most happy wishthat . r benevolence should from a dist r i c t w h ere t h e tall chimney smokewas neverthe subject had not been over looked. He did not might be permitt e d tq say a few not extend to distant places ; but wh a t h e did w i sh, was werds ou the great sub ject of education. (Hear, hear.) He desired to endorse that they should first look at their emdition at home. To With all hie heaik and soul, all that had been said about the first district of the town, in which the Exchange begs the exceedingly unsatisfactory §tate gf the education of and the Town H a ll stood, there was not any eehoools. the country. He spoke eepeolally with reference to the ' The ve r y dist r i ct on i ts north, separeted only half a' street rural dietricts. He'cante from the east part of England, f rom th e Exchange fligs, hed once a school in it, but that and frOM hi s e xperience, he could Rey that education in failed, because they could not get money to pay the rent of the rural districts had pp reality—it was merely a form. the hoes.. Then, in the ecclesiastical district, on the east The soh • hols were exceedingly small—the apparatus for of thet, ther was no s hoal in it; but the district on the giving education exceedingly defective. The time giveq h • - s d c school erected within it during the south of it, had he a to the education in them was exceedingly email, and the what he (Dr. Hume,) said, last three or four years. Now, result was, that though the children might have. passed through the sehool, yet, when they came to he eeatelued was the condition of the very heart of the town—p. Where at the ag es o f 14 and 16, they teem, to all iutents and pure merchants most do congregate.l But Mr. Colquhoun poaes, completely witliont edecation. (Hear, hear.) la might say, "Bat, in Liverpool, you do all things on a the parish where he lived, everything was dope for educe- 1 grand scale ; perhaps you go to the expense of £2 f or tion, be cause i t b elonged to ope single proprietor, who I educating each child ?" His (Dr. Humes) answer to that used the wealth and position which God gave him, to was, in the year 1854, he collected all the returns for 1853, enaite education what it should be, They had a large and he then added the gross amount expended, and divided and admireble school. They gave an exceedingly it by the gross number of children attending the schools ; high sal ary t o the master and mistress-8120 a nd hie believed, he was correct in saying, that the and a house, besides other advantag es in teaching average expenditure was 16s per annum fureachchild. or __ the school. They had two schools, an upper and a le'wele M Colquhoun had spoken of an education at more than Au In the lower, 130 childreo, gathered from' the whole • r* -- cent above that, and et they' ycould get nothing like district attended, while in the {leper school, the children per __ what he (flirt Colquhoun) required. lie would, state his of farrnere received' a superior education for lOs 6d a quarter. (Hear, bear s ) The labourers h e ld th e i r co tt ages own case : For eight years a eehool had been supported en `Under pain Of being turned out, if they did not send their his district, and the rincipal canvas had to be made by children o f a certa i n age to the school, and no excuse was himself, and he had never got a single donation for that received, unless that of sickness. And yet, though they school but by calling at the gterolutute ogees himself; so HANCOCK'S NEW SAFETY INKSTAND, we Can bear personal witness, secures to all claeaes one which will keep the ink alwars clean and good. Prioe Is. Bd., 2s. 61., 35., and 3s. 6.1. each.—.4dv.l. MESSRS. PELL AND RAYMOND. —The success of those minstrels is most unmistakeable, not only their evening con certs, be those they now give on every Monday motning, continue to be crowded with the elite of the metropolis; and so satisfactory has it proved, that we understand a re-engagement N has bean en t ere d i nto for ten weeks longe when thy quit 'London to fulfil their numerous provincial engagements.—Sunday Timeb March 29.—[We understand tlese gentlemen have been engaged by Mr. ]mans, of Upper , Dawson-street, and will appear nightly.] SoD rIIEPN AND TOXTETII HOSPITAL, WEEKLY REPORT, 34th Nov.—ln-patients Discharged : Cured, 16 ; relieved, 0 ; at own request, 0 ; irregular, 1 ; dead, 1 • entered, 22 ; under tre a tment, 63. O u t- pat i ents : Cured, 30 ; entered, 31 ; under treatment, 38. Treasurer : James Houghton, Esq. Visitnis : James Houghton, Esq., and B. Platt, Esq. Honorary Chaplain : Rev. D. T. Barry, B.A. Physicians and Surgeons for the Week : Dr. Cameron and Mr. Minshull. House Surgeons Mr. Edward C. Garland and Mr. William Townsend. _ A CLanGymAN 'Pi A Fut.—At a late sacrarnen!tai occasion a clergyman trona a distance came to a etetain town to discharge the principal clerical functions, f or a -rev. brother who. was indisposed. He resided with another rev. brother, with whom he w a s on iutinlatd t'Ams. On the sabbath morning every inmate, cloaltiorics ircluded, got ready for church, and the set - nuts, hearing the family leave the house, concluded that the rev, stranger had left along with them, and they carefully locked up the house, and followed the t roe family to church. Th e stranger c l erg y man, however, had, not yetquietly quitted his room , b ut si t quietly ruminating, no doubt, l nigh g o h v over run; g e o d u a t y to the door, great was his const;rnation at finding it securely zt locked. He called loud ...7. vainly for the servants, and at length, seeing he had no other alte r n a ti ve, h e leapt from a window into a sl.rubberv, awl, to th e great detriment of his best suit, aLd nearly at the expense of hi s coat tails, made day's their p r oceedings, aecustoea I chimes.ht church p bells ee ii h: n a a rather clumsy scramble over the wall, and reached the vestry, in a state of excitement, about fifteen minutes behind time, to find an anxious congregation waiting for him. Glasgow Mail. SHIPWRECK OFF 13r,AoRPoor..--About daybreak on mon. day morning, th e res i dents of South-shore, Biackpagi, were made cognis an t t h at a vessel was on shore about 900 yards sputh of the S tar Inn, The neighbourhood a.m., th ree men, was soon alarmed, and M. Sanceanphaeton, of the College Francai s, sallied out with hi s assistantsi , n a closed p , taking with them blank e t s and other requisites . The vessel proved t o , be the B r iti s h T oken, of D un dalk. for Preston. Ab o ut t en i n a very exhausted state, were taken from, her, and sa f e l y l an d e d ; but the vessel was a comple wrec k ,. and being laden with corn and meal, the coast s oon b ecame strewed, for a mile in length, with oars, broken masts, barrels, Baoks, &c. One boy is said to h ave b een washed overboard, who at four p.m. on Monday was still unfound. It is really a serious matter that no steps have hitherto been taken to provide alife-boat for the district. The danger of this coast is notorious, and the frequency of wrecks make it. incumbent on the residents to supply the want so much felt in a case of emergency ; and though, in the present case, perhaps, the lifeboat might have been obtained from Lytham to have released the men sooner than they were, we are astisaed that the sufferers on this occasion were in a most miserable and perilous condition for twice the length of time they needed to have been, had•proper succour been nearer at hand.