The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-09 00:00:00

THE EASTER RECESS.

Lord PALMERSTON—It will be, perhaps, for the con-
ventions of the house, that I should state Unit we propose
to adjourn on Friday, the 18th inst., until the following
Monday fortnight, for the Festerrocese.

MR. H. B. SHERIDAN AND THE CHANCELLOR
OF THE EXCHEQUER.

Mr. H. 11. SHERIDAN—I wish to claim the indulgence
of the house while I make a brief statement of a personal
nature. (Hear, boar.) I have been reminded that I omitted
to reply last night to one point which was urged against me
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The right hon.
gentleman stated that some six years ago 1 was auditor of
one of the insurance companies to which he referred, and
t►at in my capacity of auditor, I presume the right hoe.
gentleman intended to ray I pared accounts that ought not
to have been paseed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQTTR—I beg to
call the hon. gentleman to order. 1 never made any inch
statement.

Mr. SHERIDAN—I am very glad to hear it. I beg to
explain that air years ago I twice acted u auditor to the
company in question, and that I subsequently withdrew
from the office of auditor. That company was then in •
position which enabled it to meet all its policy obliratioes.
(Hear, bear.) Up to this moment it has, I have ascertained,
met all its policy obligations, sod that all its policy -holders
are secured. Therefore, so far as m counezion with that
society six years ago is concerned, the functions which as
auditor I discharged, were not discharged with refsrence to
• 'moiety which was not able to meet Its financial obliga-
tions. (11w, heir.)
THE REVISED CODE.

Mr. ADDERLEY moved the following resolution :
"That grants made from the Treasury to schools for the
working cleanse should not in every case be reduced by the
whole amount of all endowments." After observing that
endowments bad always been looked upon as local contri-
butions, he proceeded to examine the reasons assigned by
the Treasury for adopting the principle of excluding en.
downbeats, under the minute of 1463, insisting upon the in.
justice of the principle. He next showed that the theory
of the Treasury broke down in practice, adducing examples ;
and then indiatted the results and cooseluences of the
minute as far as it could be carried out, contending that it
was in direct contravention of the original minute. la
oonclusion he expressed his own opinion as to what was the
right coulee to be adopted in dealiog with private endow-
ments, and suggested that before new minutes of council
on education were laid before the house their purpose should
be explained, after due notice given.
The motion was seconded by Mr. F. POWELL, who
argued at considerable length in condemnation of the
course of action taken by the goveriment, which be con-
tended was not only in contravention of the roles of general
policy, but opposed to the recommendations of the Charity
Commissioners.

Lord HENLEY supported the motion, urgiog the ill
effects of the minute upon the church schools, the managers,
masters, and scholars, in the runt districts, where educa-
tion in almost monopolised by the Church of England. If
the object of the miouta wu emmomy. it was, be said, bad
economy ; it would hare the *Wain effect of discouraging
endowments.

Mr. MIT}'ORD, u • manager of a school with a small
endowment, protested spinet the minute as tending to
alter and unsettle the arrangements under the revised
oode. to discourage rural echools throu‘bout the country,
and to confiscate present sod check future **dormant..
He suggested an alteration in the wordiog of the resolution.
Mr. BAINVi said the object of the government was to
prevent a weite al public money. and to bring the groats
to schools back to the original principle. which was sot
to supersede but to stimulate voluntary effort.. He reed s
lit of ewes of Imp mammas.. and Livernrosint grants,
where the entocriptiees wore small, and in some instassee

Lard R. CECIL Awed that the hoooe ought to look
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:originally made. The objects were two ; parliament desired
to assist education in districts where the population was
poor, and to draw out voluntary contributions. He pro-
ceeded to woe that the minute in question was directly
Mto heath the objects which parliament had In view.
ild, he said, besides, • special objeetion— that the
educatioo-allice kept the subject in a state of perpetual
revolution. These changes, if made at all, ought to be made
openly, and not introduced secretly and in silence.
Camel STILLS and Mr. C. Bacot supported the motion,
which WU opposed by Mr. HADFIrLD.
Mr. LOW after some remarks in self.jitatification, sea
minded the house of the original object of these grants—
namely, to aid voluntary local exertions. The question
seised by Mr. Adderley, be observed, was whether endow-
meets should sot be regarded as voluntary local oontribu.
tioss. The rule complaised of was not adopted by the Corn-
mittee of Council without greet coesideratioe or without
reason. They cam* to the emaciation that endowments
were not to be considered as local voluntary contributions.
They were not local in their nature ; they might be in stock
'or in the funds. The government was bound to
look to the interests of the taxpayers. He must
say, for himself, that he did not desire to see
, money devoted by will or deed to the foundation of
schools for the working poor. At the same time, he
(Mr. Lowe) thought be bad gathered from the details
that there was a strong feeling in the house that something
ought to be done for the
npo:?r classes achools. (fleiefi;
• bear.) He had therefore eying that if
right boo, friend *hose to press his motion be (Mr. Lowe)
was willing to accept it. ("Hear, bear," and a laugh.)
He could not pretend to say that in doing so he was rushing
any great sacrifice ; hot, at the same time, be did
not mean to accept the resolution in any mere illusory
manner. (Hear. hoar.) He would lay it before the Com.
mitten; of Council on Education, and endeavour to arrive at
some arrangement which should prove satisfactory. He
did not gather from the debate that he was desired to treat
theme endowments exactly as local oontributioes. The chief
complaint seemed to be that the committee dealt with en-
dowment. too exclusively as such, without taking col-
lateral circumstaocee sufficiently into oonsideratioe . (Hear.)
What it struck him they should do was this : he thought
they might add together the endowments, and apply to
that the principle of the maximum. He thought that was
the principle which they might embody in the minute, and
althonght it might not satisfy all, it would prove the de-
sire of the government to meet all reasonable objections.
He hoped that is the course of the week he would be
prepared to lay on the table the new minute, which he
trusted would give satisfaction to the house.
Mr. G. HARDY mid the right hon. gentleman had an-
pounced his inteetion of issuing a new minute. He trusted
that before hedid so the right hon. gentleman would have
his instructions from his superior officers, and that when it
was laid on the table of the house it would be the result of
their deliberate judgment.
The motion was then put and agreed to.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK (:1 RCM. —Norm( AMTTON, MARCH 8.
Lord Mot Justice Oockburo aid Mr. Justice Orsesples
came from Leicester yesterday.

The case that has of late excited so much attention hal
pee off. It was a charge of wilful =ado' against Williams
Wm:deg Ball, a man 47 years of age, and described me a
butcher.

Mr. Serjeant Tozer, Mr. Douglas Brows, mid the Hos.
O. C. Verona, appeared for the prosecution • end Mr.
Q.C., Mr. Keene, Q.C., end Mr. Mete-site for the
prisoner.

In the veer 1830 the deceased and supposed murdered
woman, Lydia Atley, was lining at the village of itiugstead,
in this county, obere also resided the prisoner. For some
time an adulterous intercourse had been carried on between
them, the prisoner being a married man, and in July of the
year abovementioned the woman was near her Mafial.
meet. Oo the twenty-..cod of the month she was last
seen alive at about nine at night, in company with the pri-
soner. They were heard talking in h:s orchard, the wit.
moms who beard the talk saying that she was refusing to
charge any one else with being the father of the child. Shortly '
after poem were beard proceeding from the direction
where the talking bad been going on, but no one seems to
have attempted any interference, or to have attached im-
portance to the circumstance. As we have before said. front
that moment she was never again seen alive. Search was
made, but in a few days a letter arrived in the village from
• man &Of orthamptou, saying that he had seen her walking
with a men in that town a day or two after the 22nd of
July. This being made public had the effect of
1 to some extant lulling the suspicions of the villli ens, and
ultimately, although then, was a very strong f ' that
there had been foul play, the matter was at rest. n the
meantime the prisoner removed to Thrapstoc, established
himself as • butcher, and at the time of his arrest was carry-
ing on agood and thriving trade. So many years had now
pealed that he might well have imegieed himself safe from
any accusation in reference to Lydia Atley • but in the
' month of February last some labourers were digging& piece
of waste land by the roadside, near the orchard before men-
tioned, and about 18 inches below the surface they came
upon the skeleton of a woman. It was lying face down-
wards. The bones were collected, and on ex-
amining the jaw a tooth was miring from the
back of the mouth ; a remarkable circumstance, for
but • few days before she disappeared, • labourer, the
villseedentist, had extracted one at her request. No sign of
any child could be discovered. The man who wrote the
letter before mentioned now comes forward, and says he
wrote it at the request of the prisoner, sod the story as to
seeing the deceased in Northampton was utterly untrue.
It will be Nee that the case is still only One of great sus-
picion, for beyond the tooth no farther identification of
the skeleton can be arrived at. It low appears that where
the bones were found Gipsies have bees in the habit of
burying and, as if further to embarrass the case for the pro-
secution, lest Saturday, in the same piece of ground, a few
feet below where the *appeased remains of the woman were
found, another skeleton, that of a man, was foiled, and
fyesterday two more were discovered. These are the short
acts of the cal.; and au investigation having taken place
before the magistrates, the prisoner was committed for trial
To-day • bill was prepared for the consideration of tbe.
grand jury, but before it was sent to them,
Mr. Serjeant Toser stated that he hod consulted with the
solicitor for the prosecution ad the counsel with him in
the case, and the result was that, seeing how incomplete the
ease was at present against the prisoner, he should ask that
the recognizences of the witnesses be discharged and no bill
prepared. The effect of this would be that, in the event of
any fresh evidence coming to light the prisoner could spin
be apprehended.
Mr. Justice Crompton thought the course proposed • safe
and wise one, and made an order accordingly.