The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-15 00:00:00

I MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORD&—PaisAir, MARCH 14.

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THE REVISED t t WE.
Lord .ST. LE' IN A HISS called the attention of:the house
t., et much of the Iteriyed Code of Education
as related to tbe greiriug of chadors foe ruminators. He
mid it. del not tied fault eeserally with the code- ou the
'door:tr. hr •j•proysl of much of it ; and be.agmed with the
.tv.rninciti that the bad arrived for puttiug a stop to
the gi ell...silt to which took place under the present
in quirt. It, thou.:hi that if ;solar inoildications were in.
D041,t hr very broeticial in it. operation.
lie the tat of wntieg Irmo dictatios should
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...de foundation for the gnat. Ile I
eh. I ,er to have • small great made for
t... which migtit be increased as they advanced
pea •to the delimiter/ broaches. Who would
.• ie educate their own edtddree upon such a systetu
•• it leilsosl liv the Privy Council He hoped foal
*foaled that ttie regulates as to grouping would be struck
ere. oeneeseasry sod isoperative for any parpose of good.
I - that iris the nost important point presented to their
11...•.-e by the revised code.
Lord KlNt;slittlAS said it appeored to him that the
5,1.11c111 ID- Yid peer with the greatest severity upon the
ea.., who wpm most a want of government aid. as in
art..yola recently established it would le, impossible to group
11. clitidrve actiorilseg to the revised plan.
The 'bebop of LONDON said that the government would
ao doubt be glad to hear the opintoos of those who were ou
the whole favourable to the code. tme attention to which
the sofas baron hail pointed waste. which everyone wiYholl
to see made—it was, that the grant "should be divided ia
dspeusatioa. Thi,t was the plan which, aa h. unilventooll,
was vropcovel by the conimiarion, namely, that there •hould he
*se omit for eyamination and another for attcalance. It
might bedeeirabie to introduce the trot of examination, bid it
was also iedispeemble that mese attention should be given to
the mere fact of attendance. sad that the money should to
• oumidereble degree depend on the latter. This point bad
already bees coaceded with respect to children under a ar-
ta,u age, and he believed that if government weft disposed
to make the C13110...1108 in the case of those of more
ad-
'mewl years, there would be • complete change in publio
Earl GRANVILLE expressed his satisfaction at the
tone awl temper of every speech that had been
altered that evening, but the right reverend prelate
we, the only speaker who had offered an tm.
gretiou remedy the defect of which all cum-
plainetL The government would, however, be greatly
assisted by the manner in which the subject had been ven-
tilated, but the evil. complaioeil of could hardly be re-
moved without an excluitive appeal to voluntary aid, or
that the government should take upon itself the whole en-
pease of the schools. There was perhape one way, that of
• rate, but government had determined upon not adopting
that principle, and not one single word had been advanced
in its favour. To the proposal of the right rev. prelate he
could only give one abort answer. The object of the re-
vised ends was to remedy ao acknowledged evil, as every
ens must admit that a school in which the pupils were not
taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, did sot deserve
fa. of the public money. What they wanted to provide
was a sufficient stimulus to the teachers, and he feared that
if the alteration of the right rev. prelate were adopted
that stimulus would be diminished to an almost iofinietaimal
amount. If so much of the grant were paid for mss at.
tsndance the mastery would rest satisfied, and the stimulus
of the remainder would be utterly useless. There was one
point to which he must allude. The noble and learned
opposite bed expressed his alarm on the ne
ground, although the right rev. prelate who had introduced
the subject on a former evening, and had alluded to every
topic relevant and irrelevant, had not once touched upon
that point. The senutiveoess therefore of the noble and
leaned lord on the religious question reminded him of the
Mon told by Dr. Goldsmith about the porter, the debtor,
and the soldier, who were discussing the probabilities of an
innsioo. The pmter exclaimed, " What will become of
ear liberty ?" the debtor said, "' We shall be plundered of
all oar property • " but the soldier, with an oath, which he
Earl Grime Mei' would sot repeat to their lordships, cried,
What's to oar relives I" le the seine way the
religious question, which bad escaped the notice of the right
rev. prelate, was the great cause of alarm with the
noble arid learned lord. The noble and learned lord
was a great lawyer, and hail been an eminent judge, but he
did not value his opinion in this matter so much SS Lord
Lyttletou'ii, who had been the first to raise
the voice of alarm against the revised code. and
who hail devoted his whole life to education.
The noble and learned lord had dwelt upon what he had
called the monstrous anomaly of teaching girls arithmetic,
and he said it would be of no use to them, and that if even
It would they could not lean it.
Lord ST. LEON ARDS was understood to say that he
objected to its being taught to the present extent.
Karl GRANVILLE cootieued-11 the girls knew nothing
of arithmetic it was time that thew shoWd be instructed in
that writul branch of leaning. he bun of no impedi-
ment to prevent any young woman from learning arithmetic,
Wed it was absolutely seeessary to wenn in mazy of their
oesepatioes of life that they should know something of it.
With roped tote duties of the inspectors be had no doubt
that a better arrangement would enable the Privy Council
to iseesomise their time in England as they had done is lee-
ks& The examisatioa of children wee an important part
el the sew swim. bet all the government would insist upon
was that there dionlii be a miuientim 'Loden!, in order to
jestily them in giving the adv AIWA of money to the school;
and re believed that parents would be induced to send their
children to school when they knew that they must come up
to certain standard of knowledge before they would he
entitled to rewards. This parliamentary grant ought to be
an instrument to remedy all the evils which existed, and he
thought it would be. At present it was found quite impos-
sible to keep children at school beyond a certain time, even
if it were desirable to do so, and the only chalice they had
was to give them sufficient instruction while they remaioed
at school. He woald, in conclusion, thank the noble and
leaned lord for the moderate .0130 of his ',pooch. and for the
sometime which be had utfereil in the course of it. (Hear.)
Altar • few woe& from Lord ST. LSO:4.II(W in esplana•
ties the subject dropped.
THE EXCHEQUER BILL'S BILL.

UM was read tkin7l time wed weed, awl the house
edjourced at a quarter pan 7 o'clock.

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