The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-12 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.

The fifty-eighth general meeting of this society
was held yesterday, in the large sehool.soone, Borough-road ;
Earl ROBSILL in the chair. The roes was crowded, end
mongol the principal parsons present we : Lard Dyer
den, Bir John Boileau, Mr. 8. Sunny, M.P. • Mr. A. Bar
0•11, M.P. ; Mr. Hanbury, U.P. ; Yr. J. P. Heywood, Pro.
tenor Tiller" the Dean of Dreams, the Rev. Mr. Arthur,
the Rev. W. Bevan, the Rev. Mr. Ryeroft, and Yr. Gurney
Hears.

The SSORITAIIT (Xc. E. J. Wilke) read the report, al
which the following is an abstract :
" The agencies of the society have unthread during the
year in active and semestul operation. Ia the training dr
pertinent provision is now mule far the netraction and re-
sidence of 200 students, at Stockwell far 100 young worsen,
and at the Borough-road for 100 you( men. Both institu-
tions are full. At the Christmas liAllii/111/011 for mati6eates
all were preseeted, sad all pared, the proportion in the list
class being largew, le the model schools at the Seraph-mad
619 boys have bees admitted in the pear, and 404 s • the
avenge
childrenattendance n vine he
receivedw schools
iri theB
elementsre 'tthan
of
a sound scriptural education. In the practising sehools
at Stockwell over three hundrd children are in daily
attendance, of whom 120 are in the infant achool.
The inspection of schools is systematically pursued, to the
advantage of both taming, and committees. Noises than
917 visits have been paid to. towns and villages, sad the
total number of virile paul to *hoc& b/ the
Yeats amounts to 1,189. Tb• hop .slat emu
that then is a great and steady buiroveneset bs&ilierilll:
hue and all the appliame for *angst teaching, and that an
ionesAng Wisest ia taken by parents in the education of
their children. ID addition to grams el ailed meterialunade
to schools at home and abroad, special mid its this form Ins
been rendered to eohoob estehlithed by rigid emineittees in
' the rominfaeturing districts of loacenhire and Cheshire. The
foreign operatioos of the society have bun continued, sad
canons communities' have been Nonni' from all quarters
of the world, applying interesting details of the urged of
scriptural echicatice. Aam minute of commit relating to
training schools will lead to a serious reduction is the amount
Tenneco! for the training department, and necomitate some
specific method of supplying that deficiency. From the
statement of finances it appeared that the total hems for
the year amounted to 16,2064 14s. 7d., and the total expen-
diture to 16,0901.198.5 d., leaving • bamboo of 114115 a. 24."
Lord LtrXDIX, in moving the &denies el the report,
congratulated the supporters of the sands pea the pacific
position which the education asendiso.acanow occepied after
the engin of last year, when were la fear that the
President of the Ocor.mittee of would have over-
thrown entirely the educatioul eyelets of the country. That
alarm had subsided, and it behoved them now to strengthen
their fortifications against any future bortllity.
The resolution was seconded by Hr. IiAIIIII7IIY, ILL, sad
carried unanimously.
The Rev. W. ARTHUR proposed • resolution, to theeffeet
that the peewt state and prospects of elementary mineation
were such ea greatly to and to rassulate to in-
creased efforts I. a work so evident ander the Mite
make and blessing, and so topmasts the social
and moral well-being of the poorer Mmes.
The Dean of Inborn; in seconding the reminders, re-
ferred to the very tatiefectory result at the gimbal°a
i which had taken place previous to the meeting, and ex.
pressed his delight that the children were not trained to
treat the Pentateuch u a system of algebra, and to plus
minus before one text and another till every verse of that
book, which was the granite foundation of the Bible, had
been swept away and obliterated. (Great cheering.)
The resolution was agreed to.
The meeting basing been further addressed * the Bev.
W. Bann, the Rev. lir. Rycroft, the Rev. A. Ransil, and
Mr. J. Heywood, and the following resolutions having been
also adopted—" That this meeting, while it reiaiess at the
Tarim educational agencies now in operation, would express
its sanest sympathy in the scriptural sad comprehensive
of this society, end feels awned that its growing
and consequently greater peonnory reguirments,
'meet with a corresponding support aad That the
thee& el this meeting be given to her maisity tha Queen,
for outinusom of- her royal patronise sad soppert,"
• Bart Bossard. said—Pei haps you will permit me, before
welting for the other resolution—to which I hops you will
mount, but which regards only myself—to be moved, to
shout myself on account of various pnsstng sagsgemente.
I have a shop at Whitehall—(laughter)—which must be
attended to, and there is also another society that mule in
Pshoopud whose meeting lam expected to attend this
afternooo. (Hear, hear.) I am compelled, therefore, to
take leave of you, and in doing so I have to thank you for
the support you have given me Is the chair. I Auld be
more loath to depart if, in fact, there wen any doubt
among us, or any fear among us, as to the principles we
have long adopted. Who is then now that questions that
the education of the whole country is a benefit to the whole
country? (Heir, bear.) Who is there now that questions
that in adopting a scriptural and religious education, sod
not merely a secular education, we have founded education
epos the right basis, sad that having all themaans—having
the greatest facility io this country from the general reli-
gious belief of the people, in amalgamating religion with
maim, education, we have been right to adopt the religions
basis which we have adopted? And who is there, after all,
that doubts that the education which we and other societies
have diffused throughout the country has bees a great
national benefit, and that in extension ad its conapro-
bending the whole kingdom would be of the greatest
advantage to the present and to future times. If you
look to the beginning of the century, when there were years
of scarcity nearly mounting to famine, you will find that
the tummies of that time win not ignorance merely of the
poorest ohms, but there was ignorance in the government
and ignorance ea the judicial bench, which leaded to ag-
gravate the evils of the scarcity from which the people were
suffering. If you look again to the years 1817 and Ibl9,
yea will And the working claim breaking out into Me of
violence, which we ascribe, sat to their being worse mu
than exist at presort, but to the ignorance in which they
lived of the laws which govern society, and by which their
wants were then inadequate supplied. (Hear, bear.)
Contrast with those periods of 1801,1817, and 1819, that
which we have seen at the present time—the severe
sufferings which all engaged in the cotton manufacture have
undergone, the patience with which they have borne those
privations, and the good sense they have shown in every
effort they have made, and the remarkable prudence
with which they have shown themselves to be endowed,
and you will see the good effects not of a
change of the character of the people of this country, but
tire good effects of their being more enlightened—of
the strength end the value of education among them.
(Cheers.) With three matters, therefore, upon which no
gentleman and no lady here present can have any doubt,
I thaak you for your kind reception of me ,• end, believe me,
my object, as it his hitherto been, will be for the remainder
of my life, to give my best support to this society, which 1
believe is one of the means of promoting the knowledge
of God and the good conduct of men towards use another.
The noble earl then left the room amidst loud and pro-

longed cheering.
A vote of thanks was afterwards mcceded to the coble
earl for presiding on that occasion, and the meeting sepa-
rated.
Tim usual pubho examination of the boys' school took
place before the meeting, m the premiere of Tart linasell,
who congratulated the teachers andpupile upon the results
*Whited.

WORKING Mites CLUB AND INSTITUTE UNIQN.
A very numerous company of the nobility and gentry and
others interested in the subject of working men's clubs
attended, on the invitation of Lords Brougham and Lynette*
and the Dean of Chichester, at the Hanovezormare Rooms,
last evening, to listen to the statements; made by various;
apeakers in advocacy of the movement headed by the
Working Men's Club and Institute Union. Amery thou
present were—Lord Lyttelton (who presided in the absence
of Lord Brougham, unavoidably detained in Perla by bud-
Mel of importance), the Dean of Chiehaster, Mr. W. Pol.
lard• Urquhart, Mr. Akroyd, M,P., Mr. John Cliestlisim
Staleybridge), Mr. T. Taylor (of Wigan), Mr. G. A. Sala,
Dr. Drury, Mr. W. M. Neill (of Manchester), Mr. T. H. Baa-
tard, (of Charlton Meehan), Mr. Hoestendald, and the Bev.
E. B. Chalmer, jun. (of Salford), the Rev. John Garwood,
M.A., the Rev. Professor Reynolds. the Rev. hokum
Hoppus, Dr. Richardson, Dr. Rusell Reyseide, the Rev.
Dr. David Thomas, Mr. Hugh Owen, Mr. R. B. Litchfield,
8.A., Rev. Charles Prod (president ci the Wesleyan Con-
ference), Mr. Godfrey Lushington, Mr. Alfred Alone
Watts, Mr. Wes. Howitt. the Bev. W. Arthur, M.A., Mr.
Rumen Scott, Mr. Hugh Owes, Mr. Henry Roberts, Mts.
(SerMant) Manning. Captain Bayly, Bev. J. H. Bylaws,
Mr. E. G. Clarke, Rev. R. H. Kithek, M.A., the Rev.
Dr. Wagner, tsc. The Choral Sudety of the Working Men's
College attended, end, under the eonductonhip of Mr.
Litohneld, adenisably sang various part-songs and solos.
Addressee were given by the noble chairmen and the Dean
of Chichester, and by Mr. W. P. Urquhart, M.P., Mr-
Akroyd. M.P.. the Rev. E R. Chahner, M.A., the Rey.
Henry BeUy (seeretery of the society), and several other
gentlemen ; and the company separated, after a thorough
evening's enjoyment, shortly after 11 o'clock.
Ream 13CHOOL UNION.—The annual meeting of
this society was held last evening at Boeter-hall. the Earl of
Shaftesbury in the chair. me secretary teed the report,
which stated that the number of scholars now in the Sab-
bath and day schools in coonexion with the naltos was
49,650. The industrial schools sow number 2,8.40, the
voluntary teachers 2.700, the paid teachers 360, and the
paid monitors 41(0. There are now 26 bands of hops. with
4,200 members. The shoeblack societies motioned to Kee-
per they are eight in number, comprising 372 Inds, whom
asked eamMis for the past year amounted to 6,2221. The
rag brigade also went oe well. The refuges, pansy basks,
sod mothers' meetings were also going on prosperously. The
report was adopted.
GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Knia's-ciowe.--
Nombrr of patients for the week enM.g May 9, 1,063, of
which 400 were new COWL

Vie erprelHS.