The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-21 00:00:00

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Zeeland will be made up on the evening of the 31st July.
The Weal ladle moils, including those for Mexico, Honcho., and
the Hormonal, will be made up on the morning of the 2nd August.
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LONDON,WEDNESDAY,JUL Y 21
Bust as is the recent minute issued by the Educa-
time! Committee of the Privy Council, it is one of
irest importance and significance, not merely because
t obviates all the reasonable objections made by
esthetics and other dissenters to the regulations
lido in the distribution of parliamentary grants,
let use it will encourage the establishment of
idleds for general education, irrespective of church
or sectarian interests. The late controversy on the
abject of education was, to a considerable extent,
invoked by over-zealous churchmen; when the dia-
meters had established a school, and created an
witty for instruction, then—but not till then—in
So many instances, some episoopalians set up a rival
atahlialiment, and were rather unscrupulous in the
se of means to abstract the scholars from the older
atsblishment. It is true that the best friends of
shastion might have had some reason to be
ratified at finding two schools established in-
Ma of one, but this was more than noun-
teteluteed by finding education made the sub.
itet of strife, emulation, and jealousy, by the suspi-
Ma infused into the minds of parents that the
Fracas of schools had some sinister and selfish object
seeking pupils, and by the temptation held out to
Itfillbit a large muster on the roll rather than to give
dint instruction in the class. Without denying
Leciating the great advantages which the
~ Na-
Society and the British and Foreign School
*NV have conferred upon the country, it must be
Welled that their antagonism has been productive
If moth mischief, and that in both restrictive mills-
61‘a have been introduced having reference to their
Pilliivalry rather than to the great object for the
of which both these bodies were pro-
instituted. The minute recently issued
Iles assistance to be given to schools ir-
TlPlxtivs of the religious instruction given to
Mals, and we sincerely hope that it will be
tltertr extended, so as to remove the entire ques-
tilt Of religion from the superintendence of the go-
lassat rs. The duty of citizens; is to see
yosth toned up as good the duty
~tharinisters of different denominations is to see
"it they are taught the principles of their respective
L 7114: and ministers of religion will perform this
oakxll the better when unaided by ministers of

Wears
glad to see that the new minute sets forth
..._"volls• Se an indispensable condition of state assist-
Many who were at first opposed to this system
itrremon have become its earnest supporters,
Lrill2lviag witnessed its beneficial effects. It has
effect of greatly raising the standard of edu-
throughoot the country, and it has directed the
'"•1101,_,.. of masters and patrons to the danger of
...7treg only the mechanical part of reading and
withotit inquiring whether there was • corre-
g development of intelligence to exercise and
by this mechanism. The character of the
:mews in the primary schools has been perceptibly
witsda_ since the system of inspection has been
i 7;, they feel that the importance of their class
Zxffnised by the government, and they begin to
Clis`: Pride in the adequate performance of their
.a_lism at say time contended that the system
by the Educational Committee of the Privy
eras Perfect ; on the contrary, we were not slow
'maw and lament many of its deficienoim. Bat

we supported it as the beet that could be attained
ander existing circumstances, and as possessing suffi-
cient elasticity to extend itself as occasion required.
We held it to be dangerous that the government
should be far in advance of the nation on a subject of 1
such a nature; we held it to be desirable that in edu-
cation, more than in anything else, the interference of
the state should be regulated not merely by the
wants, but also by the wishes of the nation.
It was a topic in which the people had got before
the government, and in which voluntary asso-
ciations had been formed to execute • task
which the state bad neglected. The committee of
council found the ground pre-occupied, and the parties
in possession firmly resolved to retain their position.
It was necessary that their minutes should be scowl-
modated to these exigencies, and it is not wonderful
that, in effecting each adjustments, the educational
committee imposed onerous restrictions on its own
freedom of action. It has now, for the that time,
recognised schools unconnected with either of the
great school societies, and it has thus, to some extent,
got rid of the necessity of justifying the conditions
and restrictions adopted by either of those associations.
Now that the educational committee has assumed
greater freedom of action, it may reasonably be
expected that attention will be directed to what the
French call " intermediate " instruction, that is, to
the establishment of institutions giving a larger
course of instruction than mere primary schools,
without taking so high a rank as classical academies.
To the want of such establishments must be ascribed
most of the difficulties which the report of the
committee of the School of Design points out as serious
impediments to the progress of that institution. The
pupils do not come to Somerset-house with such a
stock of general information as will enable them to
profit by special instruction ; and it has thus become
necessary to devote to what may be regarded as
general and elementary education a large proportion
of that time and attention which ought in strictness
to be devoted to the cultivation of art. Industrial
education is too little practised in England, and
while the resources of science are daily applied with
greater extent and efficiency to the improvement of
our manufactures and the development of our na-
tional resources, the training of our future manufac-
turers and operatives in the elements of those sciences
is ahamefully neglected. We know that the attention
of the council has been directed to this great national
deficiency, and we trust that at no distant date we
shall have the pleasure of announcing that they have
devised an efficient remedy.
The gratification we have derived from the recent
minute does not arise wholly from the extension of
the grant to the children of Catholics and of other
dissenters who are excluded by certain regulations
from the British and Foreign School Society—though,
even thus viewed, we hail it as an act of equal policy
and justice; oar chief pleasure arises from the com-
mittee having adopted a principle of independent
action, for so long as it recognised only those schools
which were in connexion with the National Society,
or the British and Foreign School Society, it was
bound and fettered by the regulations of those great
associations. The new minute asserts, indirectly, a
power of origination in the government, and this is a
power which we trust that they will not be slow to
exercise.

We trust that the committee will be induced to
revise the minute which makes the amount of their
grants dependent on the amount of local subscrip-
tions; there are many rural districts in England and
Wales where there is not each a number of resident
gentry as to procure the benefit of a school for the
neighbourhood, and there is: consequently no hope for
such neglected districts save in the consideration of
the Privy Council.

THE achievements of the statesman, although lay-
ing a more solid claim to immortality than those of
the military conqueror, are not so deeply graven on
the minds of contemporaries. Our generals have never
been forced to point in self-defence to Blenheim and
Vittoria. The civilian has to do with a more oblivious
world; and, however rich he may be in the struggles
and the triumphs of the pest, people are but too apt
to make small account of the past amidst the realities
of the present and the prospects of the future.
We must own that it was a painful eight to see
Lord JOHN RUSSELL before hie Loudon constituents
put as it were upon his defence, and forced in that
defence to bare his breast, and display its political
scars, thus appealing to past services to redeem the
less glorious attitude of the existing minister.
There are, however, some peculiar reasons for the
inveteracy of the City tories. But six weeks back,
they were lost in admiration of the whig premier;
they could not but applaud even the original abettor
of free-trade, and were willing to kneel in that joint
adoration of Rl:seem. and PEEL which is so sate a
political creed in times when no great question is
stirring, and when the risk and trouble of having an
opinion may conveniently be avoided. But the City
liberals would, it seems-, have no compromise,
no coalition whether wisely or not remains to
be seen; and now Alderman JOHNSON denounces
PEEL and Ititssem. for daring to approach each other
in opinion, and demands to came into parliament in
the hopes of " putting an end for ever to PEEL or
RUSSELL as leaders of the House of Commons." The
ex-Lord Mayor of London would prefer Lord G.
BENTINCK, the denouncer of the corn merchant, as
a register and forestaller, and the admirer of the
commercial policy of NADIR SHAH. Verily, such a
speech as that of Alderman JOHNSON is the best ex-
cuse for the liberals of London refusing to join in re-
turning any member so lamentably in arrear of his
age as this, we think, very unfair specimen of London
to ism.
Had Lord JOHN RUSSELL merely to reply to
such an assailant, his task would have been easy.
But, unfortunately, it was not tory hatred that he
had to meet, but liberal mistrust. Having spent
so many years of hie life in putting dissenters
on a par with members of the church of England,
Lord JOHN has undertaken a duty which is more
incumbent on the minister than on the independent
member of parliament, of rendering the church
more efficient in its spiritual working, and more
beneficial in its intellectual provision for the poor.
His education scheme was for the latter purpose. His
defence of that scheme on the present occasion was
sincere, but not so effective as might be desired. He
declared the discontent with it and him to be a
mistake, but did not stop to explain that mistake.
We are sorry that Lord JoHN did not boldly add,
that if there were a mistake he would not only ex-
plain, but rectify it; and that if the enforcement of
the Catechism or of any such exclusive teaching
in church schools was offensive to dissenters, and in-
jurious to the gathering together of children to be
taught, that he, as minister, would exert himself to
remove the cause of annoyance and separation.
There were many subjects on which Lord Joins
RUSSELL must have been tempted to enter, and which
the late manifesto of Sir ROBERT PEEL must have
suggested. The assumption of all the credit of re.
duced taxation by Sir ROBERT might have called forth,
if not a contradiction, at least • good-humoured
rebuke. But Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S object was evi-
dently to answer merely the gross calumnies of his
more vulgar and outrageous opponents ; and these
seem to be the only ones likely to give him trouble in
the City of London.

The Paris journals and our correspondence of
Monday have been received. The report of the com-
mittee of the chamber on the project of law for the
proposed loan of fourteen millions sterling has pre-
wed its reort, which is in favour of the project.
No period for issuing the stock is fixed, and the
Minister of Finance declines to say when it will be
issued.
MM. Guizot and Duchatel are both going to leave
Paris early next month—the former for Nal Richer,
and the latter for the baths of Ems.
M. Cubit'!res has paid the tine and expenses, and
has been liberated. M. Teste, on hearing the een-
tence of the court read, was so violently affected that
a coestiun of the brain was feared, and he was
placed during the night under the care of the physi-
cian of the prison. The contusion produced on the
side by the pistol ball has been so severe as to render
the application of leeches necessarylt was feared
that an abscess had formed on the spot. M. Teste
now, confined in the provisional prison attached to
the Luxembourg, is to be removed to the Conciergerie,
where an apartment is in preparation for him which,
by a melancholy coincidence, is situated immediately
under the civil chamber of the Court of Caseation in
which for the last three years he has presided as judge.
It is said that M. Pellapra has informed the chan-
cellor of his intention of immediately surrendering
himself, and that the peers are already summoned to
meet for his trial.