The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-05 00:00:00

THE SALISBURY* DIOCESAN BOARD OF

NDUCATION.

The annual meeting of the above amociation wee held
on Wednesday last, in. fb• Town-hall. Devises. and, in
spite of the unfavourable Mete of the weather at the
time, there was a very numerous and highly respectable
attendance. The Marquis of Ailestsury presided, and
amongst others present were this Lord Bisticm of the
Diocese, the vat. Arelstitiame Harris, Mr. B. P. Long,
Kr. Charles Itallms, the Be.. Prebendary Willrin.
son (eearetary of the smodiation), the Bev. Prebendary
Marries, ha _ .
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•oesediap were opined with an appropriate
prayer by the nabom meter wbith the Chairman made
woe introdoetory remarks.

The Rev. Prebendary- lrtUttenal read the report of
the Board for the past year.
The Manor of Sal.talMirr moved its utopia& The
society eve formed in 1839, when it was set forth that
the provision for edgeatioe wade this direr wee
inadequate, and resolved that reerures be adopted to
provide well.quelified terlitere for schools of all deserip-
tits., and to institute an edieinit system of ia
In accordance with the terms and went, el thelratila
alic
Society. The moiety bad indeed from that day to the
premed most earnestly indenter& to rear lb. peat
ends which were Una Paned to be its Anne, and bad
had, by God'. blessing, a greet measure of sorer
His lordship then nolo of the admirable service
Lord Sheftesbery reader& to Church einerion Is the
year 1838, and referred to the Marquis of Aileebory as
one who het at heart the cease of stead isligioue oder.
lion, and who sympathised strewn in the diMeelties
Which the Church had la arecap&hing that objer
(hear, bier, and applause). He wee ware the Orgy
would soy that the sample as his lordship'. property
were models to the rest of the dieser both as to the
state of the echo& sad the try in &Joh tines ease&
were supported—(bear, hear). As early as 1811 the
Natioad Society elated that If they Wele to do their
work efficiently it most be dose throewb dirge= boards,
but it did not meet meek errant till 111613. his pre.
decrier was redly the founder of the N &end Seekety,
and was asmeoially the originator of the Training School
in carrying ant the latter of obeli the Comes of
Salisbury bad the training of sehoolmirresese, arid the
direr of Winchester of rhoolmaatere. They bad
already seat out from the Salisbury Training School 630
teachers, and the character of most of them troweled
to their 'Breda. His lordship peened a high tro=
authe seeeseeine mistresses of the Training
Touchlag the dread board of inspeetioe, he observed
It was very heteneting to me from the repors of the
rural deans bow entirely the work of &ace.
lion was being dor by eburele-peooe, and in
=eh • toleraat considerate way that it did
not excite in one single ease, as far as the
inspector went, the jealousy or &pond= of diameters.
In renter to middle-are schools their work, generally
speedo& had felled, but the National Society wore
going to take that work in hand, and be wee quite
tertian they would try to so-operate with them. The
prise saner had been of great bap Ia stirring up both
muter, and the clergy to terry forward the work of
reprice. Then they sided to securing entitled&
Warn, sad it was found that so satisfied were both
slargy and laity with the psiecipi., that after. • year or
two they provided the funds themselves. Thee WO
reined in providing limbo& with Mums, fcc., maker
grants to evening niece's and school monitors, •DA they
also &Deleted school monitors in their trataing. Those
were all the works which the Diocesan Beard had been
endeavouring I. earn forward, which be believed thy
did in & religions spirit, with very tocciderable =sena
and with an general approval of the Giorgi and the
laity of the direr. His lordship then thanked all who
had been owned& with the werk, and armoured Mr.
Balks. r treasurer, in the room of Mr. Hinzman
resigned. With regard to the future, be felt
pereuaded that U they tried to do their duty earefully,
thoughtfully, se loyal churchmen, and ins tolerant spirit
their works mould not be disturbed, and that very likely
at the rind of the art twenty years Dior who were kit
would have similar costae for thaakfulnese that the same
dining had rested upon it which it had had in the
now peat. At the mate time, of erne, they ea.ld sot
Ignore fare, arid It wee • patent far to them all,
whether they were churchmen or whether they were
direntere, that there was an mionsone mar of our
people still snedeeeted. He believed there were 11,000
parishes, foreerting 6,000,000 of people who were at
this moment utterly untoseleed by anything which the
Government did for the great care of edeettice, ad
the questiou &show they were to be made partaken of
that good which all desired to premed to the& seemly,
a good Christen educetiou, so that their poverty slight
not boa hindrance to them, but &odd be merely • Ada
upon &ray and consideration. He referred to the
report of the select committee on education with far
John Palawan as chairmen. He thought the se.
mitt.. bad come pretty penally to the erchisioe that
the present state of tinge could only be looked uponas
• provisional slats—they had some to the enactusion
that the present system of things wee too eimereired,
sod that in order to do something for reticular dark&
that old nor grunion of the Oonaslsoee Clare meet !
be reconsidered. The Coneeiree Or& to pet it is the
fairest way the way ia which he had pat it bef ore his whole
direr, was the principle of woreerieeed religious teach-
log and unrestricted power of withdrawn( from such
Tie ebetennee mid be sew it Meted that
seine was about to be proposed, when pretty this
great and &limes question might be settled to the
satiartion of both disasters sad ebureinnee ; ben let
lam remind them that pertain there is at the preseet
moment no reel difieelty la any Pert of the weary
with regard to it, sash was the toet way in whisk
°henbane were eeriestiog their sehosie,--(a..
hear.) Without eoeteeitling Memel! leeßy he era
not at present re how they churchmen seeld, without
esserifisiag the peat treat committed to them,, allow the
Commissars Oases to be hired's& Into their erode
—(heer, bear.) If the Oreelemee Clause were
ore inserted Into &Uri tout deeds, hie lordship

thought they meld soon Sod that the sleepy 1044=
VIII.
me lanist in the Wools. I. Atomise sad.
they took none now. The Boman Catholies is ameriee
would not aultatit to estrast their Maim to the
cosmos schools where there wan the omblevid or me
religions 'domino given. They were &ill, their very
utmost td establish ...oral whim's, and he was Mid media
very greet moms. Ho was I tlr,ly peremeded that
them woald be the ••••• loyalty MatrOff •lir meat
foolish ,lehrictims 'shish the Kassa Caibolies worn
p stom' tying in inerica—fhear, Lear, sad oftti:atee. I
Mr. B. P. Logo. it e., ia seconding the adoption of
the report, said he sheeld hem rem glad If the report
had given nom perimeters as to the mats at edmition
in the dioome, ant espoielly a. to bow far that eilue.•
tim was o entered with cod bated upon "berth
min/pies —(lam, hoar). Tb. laadownem, as • alee.m,
were, compared with the elemy •• • eisse, Coy In.
efficient is the discharge of that duty whit* :Fiaised
to them—the dety Mueslis, their poorer looms.
No moo regretted it move lb.. be did blame , be
thoeght that it the landowners as asla.sys 'simpered
with any Gahm alOar *men nh• dwie, that after.
would cot be foeod applieshie •(beart kter). He
suggested that some of the Madam 00 the part al thg
laity was, perhaps, really °Meg to the my mem of
exertion made by the item. H. saw with very meat
regret the Memo, of amass front the list of sabstriber,
to the moiety which hew.. unable MD •Iplan. Ty
total number of the subearibers to the •••i•t7 •••• 191;
and oat of that comber 119 we. Macon, and only
75 were landowners. He the Bithopm
had not told them more regretted
education of the
middle imam He tionsidered it • question inee nice•
dill cult than that Moot the Mounties of the poor —(oar,
hem). Anybody who how the stabs of Marti°ui which
misted In middle slogs embools would allow, he believed,
Mit it was even more defsetive from • religion point of
view, in He natant amdsharseter, than the Massaro at
the Mildew' of the 'Moeda' olottes—(bear, hem).
Nobadymould shot their eyes to the foot that mom
the middle dame the Church fogad lie sprothedo its
warmest, sod komost oneiniss—lhear, hear). —yd is
the most tolerant spirit toward" detect fully roomalip
ins the free right of every diserater to beton to what-
ever demonlnation he oboes, be desired to say that deb
as Churchmen, most desire most, meet hope svirntas/ly
to summed in brines' bosh to the tallish those who
stood aloof from it, end who wore isot roma mama t
with stmellag aloof, bet who ohm &Oohed it with
math mettestiasei—(bear, bear).
The motion was ematiossly envied.
The Voemrable Arademon Weds mooed: "That
the &Inhere Demme Board of ffilmation deserved,
lot iss ma; make, the medial sapped of the laity and
imp of the ffionine—fhelaa bowl. A. a melting
turhe spoke With gratitude of the help afforded
lferainiag &bog
Mr. C. Baleen seconded the motto, sad it WM
minis&
, The Bev, Boum. 0•1001ILY, of latabsis, sort all
dreamed the meeting al eonsidersle length on lit. roe...
webtoot of edommloa, giving memo isteresting detail
resreding the spread of education in the wintry. lo
IS! 9 he said tho proportion of children at school to the
population was 1 m 17j in 1/161, when the last Moil
was made it warn! in 7.7, or 4 is 32, so that Forissid
really stood now the sewed best of all the countrise It
Camps with reopeet to edmatios, the am most lammed
being Prussia, whom the proportion was 4 in 30, and it
'Prams it was 4fa fft. la lily mars there wars four
times the somber of "hitless at *shoal time *hers were
before, arbili the population had oaly doubled, It au
may justice to emplain with roped to the 11,000 perique
referred to by ths Mabop, that in most of those pontos
there were schools, and In many of them very 'Seism
schools, scramoted with the Marsh, thee, set in
maamotioo with lb. State. Ever sime the Government
had foisted apes the Consilium (Shame the amber of
applisations for the building pasta had steadily
illisinished, until thy saw by the last report of His
Privy Coastal that only 00W had been impended es
building schools coashostod with the ()merman t ia
inland and Scotland by the Church sod Dimanters,
whilst on the other head, the Natiosal return*
showed • stsody marked inanaes in the sumlbor of
askeols without the Consaime, Masa, for the aosisty
bad made a larger member of build* granta hat yeas
than they had dims for some tine previously. Repel.
agreed with Mr. Long that the.. was no greater tams
for the tailor, of their mertioas for the poorer clue
than that which arose from the theffideet education
eves to those of thesis., above them for ths farmers
mad shopkeepers of this mantry wes not educated op to.
I. the rank which they wore eallod upon to 511.
religions edneatioa of • great somber of the school. of
the middle close was pmfestly nil. They were making
a mistake by mammy they meld leaven 'misty by
'misusing M the bottom, for those above had more
ias upon those below them,
_theft Ohms below bad
ups.-L.. above—Gmer, hesa)--hei In Um metier 01
they had game upon • very differoot
The Lememlers. whoa bail Hair their iinalt always'
took sere to provide • school mammoth it, in large
towns Chards people virtually beaded omr
viducattion of the lower part of the middle imam
to dissenter', sad so eaablod Blum %import
their chapels, as the use buff emouraging
whim by having saitismatioi plasss of worship; and.
no the other permitting aka,. number of children
to he tripod op without any kaowbdee of reheat or
if they pined any, withoat any knowledge of the Marsh..
The time siented to have some, therefore, for tho
lefty of the °harsh to roooirobe their grad deity with
moppet to Hoses matters (hoar. beer). In esesiesba,
the rev. protleniaa moved tbc: following resteetioa
"That while this mooting thaaktelly aeknowlesips ths
samems which has attended efforts to Mmes. the ameba
and allimery of schools for the eilmation of the Milano.
of the labouring awes; it would at the mime time-
earnestly 'taproom on went, and employer, at labour
tb• necessity of orevetng sail efforts, in mho to soma,.
the great end in view.
lir. CHALON= Stifle briefly seconded the motion,.
which who unanimously adopted.
The Bishop of Berme:air next moved the re-appoint-
ment, of the members of the board and the various
officers, Mr. C. Balks taking the place of Mr. Waxman
as Creamer.
Mr. 0. Wayzir _scaled the motion and it was tarried!
NOR COW
Oa the motion cif tie Bay. W. H. Team thanks
were oordially voted to the Marquis of Ailesbury for his
kindness in taking the chair.
In reply, the NOBLII Cearanxit. otter ezpromier
that he had board
dowitbs. DU that bad
been said romped/lag the of the society
went on to ociatend that as bad Govorarmeat
sesistance and loci miss for the Poor. VARY
ought in the mem way to have local rates and Omen..
meat amistame for the edmatioa of the psoplia They
mast recollect that the poor people meld not help them'•
wilvem—(beer, beat)- that times poor people sontributed
through hidings* taxation very eonabder.hly inked I.
the funds that pissed into the bands ogthit Goveraineet
(apple:mi)—sad they resolved nothing in inc=r
that eseepting what was gives out in aid of ed
little or suffixing. He scald not ememive why the Stalei
should not provide Mansion for the people, and his
belief was that maw day or other the Stale would do as
It might not be In his day, but be we. conviamd that
younia.POOPl• present would ome It dons. It would be •
don* load be rates had ao doubt pertly, and partly
from tams of the soantry. That it meld sot to be •
supported by amity be woe
,per,sl.Z.gaatisSed. There •
warn • neoseity for reform Is • ocameted with
odesatioa, and be thought imolai' begin at
the eery top. He proposed that they should begin
with the Committee of Conseil, whisk be thought wae.
based upon • owe bed primidpl•—(Mar. bear, aad
applaam)—though be 'bail be -Manned at present to
say one or two words in defame of cao or two things
they bad dom. Hs thought there ought to be •
Minister of Instruction, or rather a Mintier ef Muer
Lion, for as they 01l knew them was • aide differeace•
between the two words. The Nimbler ef Idneatien,
should be at the bend of everything mansebrd with
education, and should be mewed, !when amessary.
with Acts of Parhuneat, sad have all the repamitility,
mid might well form the "entre of • system elsinsatioe.
Bolos him, yin they mast have bond beside. It
was complahied that then was too mach esatralkaim ;
there was in one muse bat not enough in soother. TM
responsibility was not osnealisid enough, act axed.
upon one individual. whilst on the other hese Idle
board of the committee of 0056611 in point of fast Seer—
fered I. many distils which it had much better net to-
tellers in—(bear, boarkitierip there were Proper boa
boards in theootaitry. had been told that in the,
11,000 peril's. referred to wore schools, bat they
were not in soesoction with Government laspecitios. If
that were the am be *wept they ought yet to comer
Into conneetkei with the Government tummies. B.
believed them was either one of two things whoa that
was the came—either the school was had and the bispace-
tor. would not visit it, or them ma some jealousy on the
part of the gentionsen about the hapostioa of the
government. Now be was In favour of govenuneat
spootion, and ha thought thome 11,000 parishes might to
be FA Si some way or other. They were commonly
• died 'pinkie parishes, and he thought they ought to
be obliged to bare ag inspector, and the may way to do
that was y way of mile& At all meets if they did
not mom the 'Wires to go to the 'shod let them
insist upon having aim& for children to go to—(hem,
bear). Above all let theca compel people to pay be
schools. He did not expect any iteration wee going to
take plasm shortly, but the shoelli like every me to best
to mind that edmatioa Is this country ought sot to be
based upon voluntary sontribatioe, it ought to be dole
by the state. sad ought not to depend upon the
disposition of oat lemma or one sieepmes. It mag'6t
simply to be taken out of the Mods of both one sad the
other. He would not be misandenitood on this point—
ho would have Its religious edesatiom—(bear, bear,
sad apothems} Thee be tame to the delimits question
of the Conesisees Masa, and he felt groat Mdse.. I.
making any obsornitions upon Mutt He mould not help
sayi: however, that so far as be was aware of his owa
kno and them wadi • mush better authority
_t?
quote, for had soma it stated in the mikes. Milb
bad boos given on ths mu (most of white be bad
read) before Si, John sonimatime. 0664 in
groat number of schools the sloe did me in a most
liberal way with reaped to the children of diesetio—
(hear, hear). They did prosissly as the bishop Isd
inairal, sating yore mail in the spirit ef what woe
intended to he obtained from thstai by be Coondeeme
Moan Now if that were %estate of the Awn
were the' doing ot oaly what was b 1 but what
SO. num or less their date—be meld not Merin that
any tam mid °Meet to so leadmit, as toismat, sail so
liberal • spirit hely letrodused the law of the
lamd—( bear. bear. aad loud sesame.). He scald
not someive it, and Hamden •eamie Is, or other was
satisfied that that wrathd he brought about. In the
meaewhile ha deem* bored th• misty meld Prose',
and that the laity of the dimes would some forward
literally to mistll, for he was wee um had done
great good, if it wore only Is estaliffishing the Training
Thumb were the. voted to the Mayor for plating
the as. of the room, and the lisnedistion hay=
promanetd, the prosesdinp tenolnated, a
Wag made at lb. doors.

IT :I=k/ repelled the* ell Omensleetieee be
be ' The lthben." sag se. le 'ay individual
by am%
PIUPTID by Gies= Tower, sad Pabibbed lee We Per
imeeepeesbed ender " The Oempeeieb' Ask
ft:2,11;11,M Boiled %Mike. r "The OMB= 4mu
Damn Nrerserife 001ferri, Loam,* as their
Berldeeed Mee Obstelk-ebreel, Deferrer, by
Amur, W. Presort r• Pula el Yerrisee is
Ow Oven., a Dense, Mr Mew of said Osemesee.
Troday. irnary 5, 11/17.
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