The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 23.

THE meeting which was held • week or two ago
at the Mansion-house, at the suggestion of the
Rev. WILLIAM Roc ens, showed that the citizens of
London were fay alive to the necessity of provid-
ing additional schools for the poorer section of the
middle classes in this great city. Those who have
considered this important question are well aware
that there is no want of means in existence—if
they could only be made available for the purpose.
In amount the educational resources are enormous;
but at present the restrictions imposed by the wills
of founders and the narrow-minded obstinacy of
local trustees, prevent these resources being made
as useful as they might be.
The same evil exists in other parts of the coun-
try. In almost every town in England there are
foundation schools with ample resources and an
efficient staff of teachers, but for some reason or
other the inhabitants are precluded from deriving
from those institutions all the benefit to which they
are justly entitled. In such cases the trustees and
the inhabitants are in the habit of applying to the
Court of Chancery for some change in the scheme
according to which the charity has been hitherto
managed. Two cases have lately been brought
before Vice-Chancellor PAGE WOOD, and both seem
to show that, while somebody must be invested
with powers to alter the scheme from time to
time, the Court of Chancery has not power suf-
ficient for the purpose.
The Manchester Free Grammar School was
founded in the reign of HENRY VIII. by Hucu
OLDHAM, Bishop of Exeter, and endowed with
property then stated to be of the yearly value of
401., including the corn mills of the town. The
object of the founder was to establish a grammar
school, with a " high muter and usher," who
were to teach freely and indifferently every child
and scholar coming to the same school, "without 1
" any money or any rewards taken therefor." The I
chief part of the school income was derived from
" the monopoly of grinding malt for Man-
" cheater," so that in 1833 the annual
income had increased from 401. to 4,0001.
This prosperity, however, was not long-lived.
After 1833 the income gradually declined. The
mill monopoly, which at that time reached 2,5001.
e year, has now declined to 3721., and the whole
income, instead of 4,000/., only reaches 2,5001. It
ie obvious that the scheme which was framed foe
the larger income would not suit the smaller
one, and that some change must be made. Under
the existing scheme, the school provides an excel-
lent education, including English literature, I
modern languages, arts, and sciences. But
the benefits of the foundation were confined
to 250 free scholars. The proposal of the trustees,
which was supported by the Dean of Manchester,
the Head of Corpus Christi, Oxford, and many I
of the influential inhabitants, was to allow the
master to admit an additional number of boys,
who should pay a capitation fee of 12/. 12s. This
scheme the Vice-Chancellor has sanctioned, so
that the finances of the school will be considerably
increased ; but he added a clause, that the 250
boys should be admitted by competition.
The other case to which we alluded was that of
the school at Berkhampatead. That school was
founded in the reign of HENRY VIII., for 144
children ; but for some reuon or other it has
never succeeded. As late as 1857 a new TFIE COMMERCIAL TRF.ATT WITH ArSTRTA.
scheme of management was sanctioned by The 2,„4„ I. convinced that in effecting commercial
the Court of Chancery ; nevertheless, at treatise h contioeutal ooeuntries we
are e
Ifntering
believe
on a
present, instead of 144 boys, there are course full of trouble and mberraansent. we
only 61 boys-36 day boys and 25 boarders• that the nations with which we negotiate are convinced
of the mutual advantage of free trade, it is unneces-
Lord StomeLow, one of the governors, seeing the
saery to bindb them by.trreeatyheat all.tt if we
.do not,
failure of the school, proposed to give an endow-
we may quite
i,ing
as they wilt not
some other
ment of 4,0001. for the purpose of founding two
scholarships of 661. a year each, on condition that shape for that which ought to require no etuiva•
the trustees would establish out of the charity loot at all. In the first case a treaty mast be superfluous,
property two exhibitions of the same amount. The Wm nut it must inevitably be mischievous. If wa are
Vice Chancellor has sanctioned this appropsip. II obliged to make other thin nommerciitl commons in order
1 to obtain! tensity, those tattoos which admit oar goods at
tion of the charity property ; he has restricted the
ren withoutin any owe:lnert:ldt uct.hezesentlytehian. their goo
wall
free scholars to 50, and has permitted the muter !understoodP
to take a certain number of boarders, which will, ! ~
cei• epos is for otheir co ei to wh• in a aaadth°6 to
mix they will cater-
of course, increase the emoluments. ! ally thisk themselves quite as well entitled as those who
But the chief point to which public attention stipulated for them is the first Ilseteteee. An illWectioc of
the truth of this remark, is wee, the Times maintains, in the
ought to be directed is the fact that, in both cues,
..latter ezndoirroi
way is which the peeled. of a traty.of commerce between
a certain number of children have been admitted
Emgge ;LI
absolutely free of expense. Taking both schools at this asst l
wennerslat herselffiedisvaais thme
together, 300 boys will be educated free of charge. unwelcome opposition to knerilk oe all the great qualities
Now, is this privilege of any real benefit to the et *easy, but wishes, nevertheless, to bitter enamersial

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

JAMAICA.
Those who draw from negro excesses the it,
femme of iocurable negro barbarism, and who from the
violence that broke out in a single town for a single day
deduce the conclusion Mitt • whole race is inherently
savage, compel the Daily Bens to recall certain historical
facts. Have we forgotten the excesses of the French Be-
volutioa, or the slaughter, barely yet a hundred and fifty
years ago, of whole families, mothers and infants
together, in the name, it was said, of a royal order issued
for the extirpation of the tribe of Glencoe ; and whether so
issued or not, yet certainly executed by English aoldiers
and English officers! What shall we say to the peine forte
et dure, abolished only in recent times, which consisted in
pressing • prisoner slowly to death under a heavy weight,
if he refused to plead in a criminal court! Or to the
punishment of tresses in women by burning alive, and in
men by the penalty, enforced in 1746, and not abolished
till 1814, which decreed of the condemned that while they
were yet alive their bowels should be taken out and burnt
before their faces. Napier'saketch of the conduct of the
soldiery at Ciudad itodrigo, and at the later capture of
Badajos gives as frightful au idea of bow mon can
act when the restraints of law are for a moment withdrawn,
es any narrative in negro history. What was done at
Morant Bay was in no respect worse than what might have
been perpetrated by a European mob in like circumstances.
It is as if cur own corn laws had not been repealed when
the potato famine came, and a handful of volunteers had
fired upon a London mob bent on rescuing one of their body
from custody. In the vengeance which would have been
taken, the refuse of the Loudon population would not have
been the least active. Bat would • London mob have re-
spected the honour of women, have spared the lives of in.
fonts, and have let those escape who called out that they
were medical men, or strangers in the country!
The Herald is at a loss to understand the tremendou I
outcry which is being raised by its contemporaries of the
liberal press against the action of the civil and military
power in Jamaica. They are chagrined at the revulsion of 1
feeling which has taken place in regard to the negro, which
would make many now answer the world-renowned gees-
Um), "Am 1 not a man and • brother r with a fiat
oegative. As to Gordon, his treason was proved. The
Herald believes he was fairly and justly tried, and
righteously hung ; and it deplores, as a disgrace to the press
sod to the country, the fanaticism which, believing that the
black man can do no wrong, prefers to this admission of his
guilt the conclusion that the authorities in the island have
conspired to murder him.
The Star is rejoiced at the tone of the great body of the
Eoglish press on the subject of the events in Jamaica,
and it trusts to OM the example of Manchester in bolding
• meeting to demand an investigation into the circum-
stances, extensively followed. The letter from the Secre-
tary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society,
published this morning, calls attention to an nurepealed
penal act of William 111.. under the provisions of which be
believes Governor Eyre and General Nelson have brought
themselves. The subject pennon far too much gravity
to be dealt with in a hasty or superficial manner ; bat the
Star earnestly trusts that the Asti-Slavery Society will
adept measures to test the question which its representa-
tive has so properly raised.