The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

THE EDUCATION REPORTS.

Lad R. HEM rose to move that in the opinion of
the house the matilatise of the reverie of her Maiesty's
inspectors of Mach. and the axelusias from them of
statemeata mad °plains adverse to the educational views
entertained by the emmittee of amen, while matter
favourable to them was admitted, were violations of the
undeestanding under which the appoint/neat of the la-
ma:aces was originally sectioned by parliament. and tickled
entirely to destroy the Mae of their reports. The question
might, he said, appear to some as of mall importance, but
it involved the truth sad purity of the information apes
which the hones legislated in regard to large sums of money
derived from the taxes of the people. (Hear.) Could the
house trust to reports which the minister who presented
them had submitted to an expurgating proms by will& be
excluded all that was hostile to himself, and admitted all
that wee in his favour. What would the owner of a dieteat
estate think if his land steward kept back the reports of the
bailiff because they onatained °plaices with whisk he did
not agree. Perhaps the laid steward might be a person of
quaint, strange, and crotchetty opiakins—liaaahter)—apos
agricultural matters ; W°plaice might be that it was right
to put all the manure cm the rich UM and nose upon the
tral.. (Renewed laughter and cheers.) He asked say gen-
who was the possessor of property to say bow long
a men acting in such a meaner would retain his positiou.
The remedy wee in the beads of the house, sad in dealing
with a department mirested with aa seennons sum d
mousy, the administration of which am ad, as was usually
the casse,aelLeckbr. by sot Thames; they
mution, and towere bound to
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iafermation wish which amount of
were furnished was full sad
=lt atiodthey were not called upon to legislate upon no.

Mr. WA &ISE, in seconding the motion, ailed upon the
house to glen the inspectors the protection !bey mused,
sad to esconregs theca to state their opinions folly mid
sonostoily. (Hear, hew, and aims of " Divide.")

Mr. LOWE weeld at ours acknowledge to the male
lord there wee en andeodeading that these reports
should be !ski before parliament. But they were not
mods to that house they were made to the office for
the purples a being kid before parlienwat. It ens
neither the practice of ether breeches of the govern.
meat, nor wee it expedient that every quarrel, every eau-
Stormily, every i memo= Mould And it
way to the telde of the hems. (Hear, beer.)
Bat let the home exonerate the ofilee of its
remonsibility, and he bad not the slightest oldectioe
to the productios of ell the reports. The house so doubt
would add to its Balsams. There wee • report famished
by • Kr. Fletcher in 1849. It consisted of 200 octavo pages ;
it metalled loag criminal statistics, sad wee aseempeatrd
by shaded rasps, sheering the slate of crime is different
puts of the country. Now that he (Mr. Lowe) considered
to be an abate, remembering that this was all published at
the public expense. (Hear beer.) Bat there was no
delusion greater then that the Privy °mewl was
shad of any criticism in them matters. They
had undergone criticism from the whole of the
educated cla af the country, sod it wee open to
everyone of these geatlerase to publish what they liked
against the office in any review they phased. All they
were anxious far was the dieeiplises el the Gam and that
something should be dose to keep their Akers within the
limits of their instructioas. Then the home was asked
to lay that this tended to reduce the value of the reports ;
as though the only valuable portions of the suggestions
given by the iweebn were those la which they found
fault with thir saperker. The noble lord's been
idea of • government oaks soma to be that
the beads at the depsaiment were to be
eoutrolled by • sort of Aalle council of their own
condamaing lie dearer end regaletioas, and fund/Mai inns
to whomsoever ahead Week it. That might be the noble
lord's view of the ease, bat he (kir. Lowe) thought it would
only end in anarchy. (Beer, hear.) He was happy to say
that the policy of the dike that year bed been wholly
easomeful, every report heeling bees accepted. (Ironical
sheer..) No doubt the noble lord would say this was the
result of a reign of terror; but this we not so.
The inspectors were an extremely able body of men,
whose duties weighed heavily upon them, and men not al-
ways adequately rewarded. At preseet he (Mr. Lows) was
happy to say he saw so rock ahead— Dodd Beaty---the progeee
of matters was moot& and succeisful, and he trusted the
home would not mend to • mottos which only tended to
foment disputes between branches of the estehlishment.
(Rear, bear.)

Sir G. GREY said that his right bon. tried in the coons
of his speech had adverted to the practise of other depart-
ments. He felt bound to say, as the result of warhorse,
that it was absolutely nereseary that the had of a deport-
ment should exercise some degree of control over the
reports of their inspectors. (Hear' hear.) He had had
00010011 BOON time ago to ran the attention of a wain
clan of impectors connected with the Home-dace to the
character of their reports. If so caused an exercised
they would have inspectors writing nays at the public ex-
pense.

The house, after some farther dimension, divided—
For the motive lOl
Against it
The announcement of the numbers woe received with loud
cheering from the oppositios beeches.