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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 1.

AWOVOST the many unsatisfactory statements
of Lord DILIST on Friday that relative
to education occupies • plena He
leaves the great work of ncidemg absidau t dr
clergy ; though be knows it was became the meek
of education could not be carried am bT tlts
establishment that the committee of totteeil
for education was established. Lord 'mix Res-
MI., in his letter to Lmd LANSDOWNE communi-
ceting the intention of the (lyres to create the com-
mittee, stated, that "it was her MAJESTY'S wish
that the youth of this kingdom should be religiously
brought up," bag that the rights of conscience should
be respected." Because the respect due to the rights of
conscience interfered with the claims of the esta-
blished church, the committee was appointed to take
measure+ for overcoming the difficulty. There is •
large domain within the state, into which the church
ainiim carry its educational powers, and it is the
existence of this domain that constitutes the °iffy
difficulty in the way of the education of the whole
people. And yet Lord DERBY ignores or pooh poohs
this. " I trust I shall say nothing," said he, " which
could be oUensive to any ot those who belong to
ether communities when 'I say that, fur the promo-
tion of education and religious knowledge, I rest
mainly on the exertions -the able, and indefatiga-
ble, and enlightened exertions—of the parochial
clergy."
Now. how the parochial clergy may take this, if
considered as a compliment. it is impossible to say.
If, however, they arc to consider that these words
imply • total consignment of the education of the ,
°sentry to their hands, noes know so well as them- '
selves that the work is beyond their power. Arch-
deacon Deutimx himself makes no such claim. He
merely demands that the management of church
schools shall he absolutely and without any restrie-
tMa in the hands of the clergy of the establi.liment.
He tells you clearly enough that the church cannot
educate the whole of the nation. He says that the
church commits a sin whenever she attempts to do
it in the only way in which it could be practicable.
Perhaps Lord DERRY will allow Dr. How to be e.
competent authority on the right or capacity of the
church to educate the whole people. This high
church doctor, in a letter to the Bishop of St. DAVID a,
says •
t believe that all religious wets sad parties will combine
to resist any state education which is professedly religious ;
and I believe th..t it is because statesmen have supposed it
nceeesory, in motet to conciliate religions persons, which
they hate entirely foiti to do, by talking it their educa-
tion •Is bawd upon religion, that the strong opposition to
state Nlueation has been ezeited.

Wo recommend this passege strongly to the
"'limn consideration of Lord I)►aar, as it will en-
able him to judge of the probable effect of his clap-
trap appeal to the church. Statesmen have hitherto
nets; ely failed in such appeals! Again the rye.
doctor says:
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The mina is eoto croioded which wee prevailed that the
chunk of Ragland has an exclusive claim to pecut.iary
support on the ground of its being the establishment. The
chunk endowed and protected was once the church of the
whole nation: it was corrupted in the middle ages: it was I
reformed it remains mosg us to this day one of the great
oorpor.itions of the land. But it ceased to be the religion
of the whole nation when, many dimenfing from
it. a full toleration of all denominations of
Christianity was granted. • • • • • • • • •
And if the church of England claims an exelusive right
•se the education of the people, it bermes der duty to seek
.;egupply the deficiency of the funds required, by appro-
priating her property to this purpose. Our bishops are, on
this principle, bound to go down to **House of Lords
and seek powers from the legisiatare to sell their estates,
and their example should be followed by the more opulent
of the inferior clergy It would be better fur the church
to Lave a pauperised hien:thy than an uneducated
people. but though I shriek not from declaring
what must be, and ought to be, the consequence of
asserting the principle that the education of the people,
secular as well as religious, belongs to the church,
I admit that such a measure is not to he required,
teeny.e tke country will nut accept the edoeatton of
the door/ I, and for the religious education of those who
will receive education at our hands, we have at present
sufficient funds, though they are insufficient for that which
if is useless for the chore* to attempt—the general education
of the people.
Lord flume must remember that these are not the
words of radical reformers; they proceed from the
pen of one of the highest of high churchmen—a man
who has no superiors in the zeal, activity, and irate
ligence with which he has laboured fur the cause
of the establishment.
Here, then, we have the head of the government
confessedly far behind an Anglo-catholic in liberality
of sentiment with respect to education. What pros-
pect is there for the future settlement of those large
questions which are now agitating the public, when
be who is to guide the vessel of the state can see no
better plan than either leaving it to the mercy of the
winds and tides, or calling in the aid of officers who
have long ago confessed their incompetency ?
Lord Deese has surely heard of a place called
Lancashire. Is he aware that in that plum the
question of education, which he so complacently
leaves in the hands of the clergy, has been the sub-
ject of deep and earnest agitation for some years?
Is he aware that although the most distinguished of
the inhabitants, both for their piety and iutelligence,
have laboured with an eagerness proportionate to
the importance of the object to be attained, their en-
deavours have been so far from coming to a successful
termination that they have resulted in the establish-
ment of three rival plans, each numbering a large
body of influential supporters ? Is he aware that each
of theme plans distinctly recognises the truth
which Dr. Hoot enunciates, that to the present day
the church eamot educate the people? Does he know
that one of these plans is the subject of a bill before
the House of Commons, and that it has the sanction
of the bishop, the den, and a large body of the
clergy of Maneheeter ? Does he know that in this
last plan, which is most favourable to the claims of
the church, it is distinctly stated, that " Schools are
to be provided, in which no distinctive religious
creed or formulary is to be taught, and in none of
the schools are any of the children to be compelled
to learn a creed or formulary to which their parents
or lawful guirdian may object" Has be esse um-
sidered what the ciicumatances of the times must he
when honest and religious men, anxious he the wel-
fare of the rising generation, alter of thought,
consultation, and experiment, can dad no ether way
out of the difficulty than a compromise of this
nature ? If he has not, he has no %einem is speak
on the question of education at all. It he lea the
pretended solution that he puts forward cunviets hint
of incompetency or dishonest congealment.
The late ministry wasestly sendemnad became
it was not on a level with the rinjuireseents of the
age. It would not go forward. Thiewasbmienough,
but what are we to say of the present ministers, who
are not only not going forward, bat are backing
through had roads into the miserabie poeition out '
of which we emerged after half a century of
intense struggle and toil' The PREMIER is
the Ltoatias Atimpame of the ministry. He eta
call out nothing but " Prodigious!" and fortify
himself against attacks with the polemical
lumber of ancient dsys. The church has lee. Aar
ceased to he co-extensive with the relighting's**.
lions of the whole nation, and the legialsitme has
wisely recognised this as a great fact which than
was no gainsaying. What are the Pitt:glee%
thoughts un the subject it would be impossible to le-
henna.. What he says. however, is enough to jus-
tify us in the inference that he consider,' the church.
which is not inefficient for the religious training, is
quite sufficient for the education of the nation. The
frii nds of cOmeation will thus be left unaided by the
Flue
to fight the bottle with their opponents.
The old confret will have to he fought out again.
There is no fear of the result, but there is great Aar
that it w ill be delayed, and the delay will be owing
to the Cstr Omits of the protectionists, who, not
content with pinching the bellies of his countrymen.
, .is by an indirect proem doing all that ho can t•
stunt their minds.

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