The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-15 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIONS.

MlDDLESEX.—Yesterday, Siiain•ell held his
court at the New Globe Tavern, Mile end-road, for the fen
sion of the lists of the parishes of St. Anne, Limehoug;
AU Saints, Poplar ; Bromley ; St. Leonard, St. Katharine
St. George, Mile-end Old and New Towns; St. Mary, White:
chapel ; St. Mary, Stratford ; Bow ; St. Paul, Shadwell;
St. Botolph, Aidgate ; St. John, Ratcliffe; St. Peter Ad-
vincula; St. John, Wapping, Town Without; and Holy
Trinity, Minories—Mr. W. 11. James, who was in Olt
Monday's report erroneously described as the Conwnativs
agent, attended for the Liberal party, and Mr. Payne for the
Conservatives.—ln the precinct of St. Peter Advinettla,
the name of the Rev. H. Melville, described es chaplain of
the Tower and rector of St. Peter Advincola, was objected
to by Mr. James, on the ground that the qualification stated
wasinsufficient, as decided by the barrister in the case of
the Rev. Mr. Pizey and others on Monday.—Mr. Payne con-
tended that the description in this case was such that the
qualification might be fairly dealt with as freehold, sad
inasmuch as the claimant's name appeared on the
register for the same qualific Won previous to the parsing at
the Registration Act, there was no necessity for him to send
in a new claim in order to comply with the provisions of that
act in respect to qualification. The Barrister decided
that this case did not in effect differ from those he had pre-
viously decided, and expunged the name. Mr. Cotton, who
was objected to by the liberals on account of insufficient de-
scription (the name of the county in which the qualification
was situated being omitted), on his name being retained,
claimed costs: he had been twice before objected to, and
asserted that the objection was only made on the chance of
his not attending to support his vote. Mr. James having
stated that the objection was bond fide, the Barrister refused,
as the case had been called on out of its turn for the voter's
accommodation, to give costs; but hoped the objection
would not be repeated. In the All Saints Poplar list seven'
names objected to by the overseen were struck out, thoolii
the only ground of objection was change of residence, the
Barrister holding, that as the objections had been made ha
was bound to allow them if the pieties did not attend to
prove the qualification. Both the agents complained that
the list supplied to them did not mark the overseers' objet
tions, so that no opportunity had been afforded of commtusi-
catins with the parties with the view of defending their
claims, and on this ground the Parristcr refused the over-
seers' expenses. Several names were struck off for the omis-
sion of the word " freehold" from the description of the
qualification.
EAST SURRET.—The revising barrister sat again yea'
terday at the workhouse, Russell-street, Bermondsey, to revile
the list of voters in the only remaining parish, that of M.
George, Southwark. Forty-eight claims were sent in by
the members of a building society, in respect of four houses.
They were supported by Mr. Russell, the free-trade agent,
and the whole of the claimants were placed upon the list.—
On Tuesday an application was made to the barrister by Mr.
Drummond, the Conservative agent for the Croydon die-
trict, to grant him a case for the Common Pleas iu reference
to his decision with regard to the cases of several clergymen
whose tithes had been commuted to a rent-charge, and whom
he had held to be disqualified, on account of their not send-
ing in a fresh claim upon the altered qualification.—The
revising barrister refused to grant a ease. The following a
a return of the result of the revision ns given by the free-
trade agents:—Claims made, 613; fail,d, 61; sustained,
5.32. 633; -rithdrawa or 111;
amended, 460; sustained, '232. No return was made by the
Conservative agent.
PItOVINCIAL.—Sours LANCASIIIRE.—The Man-
chester district of this division of the county has terminated
in the following result, as claimed by the free-traders, the
only party represented in court : —Lpon claims, 96; upon
objections made by overseers' 6; upon objections made by
the free-traders, 188; total, 293. There are 217 names
struck out upon objections made by the free-traders, but 0
29 of these were double entries, i.e., either in the same town-
ship or some other township in the southern division, they
are deducted, which leaves a clear gain upon objections
of 168.
HASTINGS.—The liberals have gained twelve voted
on 'he recent registration.
BURT (Lancashire).—This reviiion was so little
impeded by the objections and oppositions to claims, that it
was completed, by P. A. Pickering, Esq., in the short space 01
twenty minutes. The total number of electors left on the
registry is 866.
CLITHEROE.—Thirty-two new liberal votes have
been added to the lists of this borough. A question 0

e,pwi,M-------7--."''--7eesble importanft as raised before the Barrister,
Barden, Esq.: Whether the occupation of a piece of
J• W'
containing lime-stone, tot' the purpo=c chiefly of
1,4
ukisg the rock, and burning and afterwards selling it, is an
oconipen of land within the meaning of the 27th seetio• eir
th. kthon Act. After ergument, pro and curs., the Banker
deeided, that it was net such an occupation, and disallowed
the , end she another vote claimed under the same eft-
vote
tames; but 'ranted a cam for appeal to the Courts(
Common Pkgs.
Gritoroso.—An addition of eight liberal voters
bas been made by this revision to the borough of Guildford.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

TgE EDUCATION OF ALL CLAMES IN ENGLAND.
The }lenity of Arts for the session 1846-7 com-
meaw*d
terday, with an opening Lecture by Professor Tom
Taylor
A Bow of Trinity College, Cambridge, addressed
,
M It
very numerous auditory, comprising members of the
wune a
, the Tarim's pro:essors, and friends and students of
the college. Professor Taylor was
.warmly greeted on his en-
voi ce, and proceeded to deliver his Lecture, the subject of
which was "TREE DV CATIon OF ALL CLASSLII I N ENGLAND,"
M the following effect :
lie noelto
the
eggeety of the is:tunic
meatus widen may
bosom
the :sate tbe amen of this pias /sr the eamti s
malkaa
sem elo ea. utution wilds the alb of whit& ss aaa
eshislL ▪ to emir stersilia lo slag irons
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of sobs& issusedss. br Sissisita orb aro mi.
conned by seaseen lb bud= sal
ant ebbisidas aimijilirs era 1
ge to be
Mal
benotiolo striven fur the Cablepart of Ws*/
.so oer
tesonemm, mad be creation of new awy It is moorM or
yore nd of University (life, that vie am the
• yednnsstissul IsPioirsissners
published b Ws mown% The sumseter
wily furnished the Central Society of with its meat ribs
mum rest jow nal and the inissibes et that society, Uswasli
their Pnweak's', gave form and prewar, Illanting Win Word
okeeted and disseminated mks-main sasibsstionsi tapir;
discharged the inspectorial functions Won gswersoset isspolors
were aP9 • toil; Douai:wind the public aid with truths thsalltalk
" d but now generally admitted ,•
award neretwal and Kamen:Qs,
word, grub.bed up the
ic= the and. and
cd the reed for tie esli SIMI watt
" Pct to do. The society for the Mein of Useful Eradrigh,
opciadeet of the belief which
smorigissitiddiagallitingbbstitioll..isallebimi.mmos-
bsong many of our founders
waken, was the first aesociation d Y supply the growing
',daintier of the community Wan b/1/1/11/11WO anwheikoome ali-
t. On these, and maalfdialt but not less sub-
▪ grounds, University camp my aim a worthy place saxes
63.1 Dude~ when considered in relheeme to our own tone,
d must hold foremost rank In the °pinks et future generations
sad bra for the higher ranges of nonmetals, that f4Vlll.lr know-
ledge moo be inttorted eepurate from theological leaching, without
bee cevisit infidelity or atheism (applause); that discophile may
real without domiciliary control or morning chapels; that
men of opposing creeds may be brought together without tearing each
other to pierce: and has showed by a practical example that there
cysts • coonnin ground of opinion, which is not necessarily a battle-
feid. (Much applause.)
The subject of this introductory lecture has been chosen at once
from a profound conviction of its importance, and a belief that this is
...wag wee for urging it upon public attention. A few years ago
the lecturer would have begun by proving that the education of all
dames was a good thing. The lecturer of the present day may assume
that it is not only good, bat necessary for the well-being, prvbsops even
for the existence, of mociety. lie need epemi no time in showing that
the moral end intellectual culture of all, is the only radical meson of
correcting the material inequalities of social life. By its aid our start-
ling contrasts of unbounded luxury and craving want, of 'Rational
wealth and iudivid at pauperism, of wise enlightenment and darken
goorance, cannot mooned be removed, but most be materially dimi-
nished . It is admitted that education, adequately conceived, implies
Mooned forosight, more BliPtainCtl industry, more cheerful content-
ment. All these, political economy admits to be of matcria' and mea-
surable value. We have reached the etage at which in this country
we are perwied in expectine that something may be dose. The atoll
small ro.ces of ioolated wisdom have swelled into the note that roaches
the public ear; the peers has taken up the cry • societies are active;
differences dinoppear; blue books thicken; public money is granted ;
the minister has dropped a hint ; expectation stands on tiptoe. Some-
thing must be el me tic education. There is one thing, however, to
be remarked: the education of which we hear so much goes under the
nameof whom/ eduattion. But we must not understand by tide teem
"education of the nation." It means only the education of a part
of this nation—its lower and lowest classes. It answers to what nt
called " primary nitoution " in other countries. It does not con-
template the instruction of the middle and higher class amongst no.
Ttl'ul is tacitly supposed to be already provided for. But before we
consent to limit our efforts to what are technically ended " the
masses," we must be certain that those above them stand in no need
of our interterence. Is this the came! To suggest an anewer to this
question is the principal aim of the present lecture.
What are the provisions for education of the higher, middle, and
lower chases, in England 1
The training of the higher class begins with the nursery governess,
posensto the private tutor, or fashionable private school. This is its
penury stage. The secondary stage is reached at one of the great
endowed or public schools - Eton holding the nest rank, followed by
Winchester. Westminster, Harrow, and Rugby. In this portion of
his career, the noble or wealthy youth is still generally aided by
private tuition. This part of his education may be said to close at
eighteen or nineteen.
Ile now parses to Oxford or Cambridge, and, if a nobleman or
tanquam nobilis," obtains hie degree of Master of Arts in his eighth
tram of actual residence; if neither noble nor "toinquam" noble, that
of bachelor in his eleventh. Thus the formal educatoon of this clam
doses generally at 21 or 22, and is by far the most expensive course of
me class of any country in the world. What is embraced in this long
red costly prusess of Instruction, imparted to those who are to form
the landed sentry, the magistracy, and the legislators of the empire!
The nursery governess toys the foundation of reading and writing,
ad, alien she poen:sees that unfemanoic accomplishment, of arith-
metic. Parents oil the higher dims are often too much occupied by the
movements or hotness of their Use., such as it is, to devote much
stenti.n to their °tearing. They are consigned to the private tutor
• emaping Iron the discipline of the nursery, and the mysteries of
saino," I fore, and "vin vess" laughter), are graduallyopened
*them, with more or less skill in the preceptor and reeistancc in the
pipit. In many eases this is the sole business of private tuition. In
rionsiderable, and we hope an increaeing, number of Instances, it Is
imompenied by ton introduction to the literature of our own and even
saw others of the living languages, and a certain instructon in
dewy. Instances, have even been known of private tutors who have
marital, corrieti forward the arithmetical instructionu of the go-
sernms, and anti:nest Weir youthful charges into the elements of geo-
metry and olsebra.
We appo head, however, that the experience of the public rehools
minors the subjects of Woe daring experiments to a very small noun.
gr. The perpiratory private rebook• may be said to perform much
the same work as the private tutor, with such srklitional effect as is
derived from the stimulus of birch, We wholesome humiliations of
the Ewing system, and other peculiar internal useree re-inflated by
the schoolboy role of discipline, and the vagaries of schoolboy morality.
lappione.) Eton or Winchester receives a young gentleman more or
km hardened by previous training, with a high-airited horror of
telling a ne, or giving up in a tight, a rooted detestation of the school
i• has ex,tolerableflueney in reading, the impel feet command of
'cramped, iiiformed handwriting, and often, a very limited know.
ledge ot wile goal* ; unable in many cares to work n sum in com-
pact(' division or the rode of three; with perhaps a smattering of
French; a power of construing an easy Latin or Greek author, with
the previous aid of a " crib" or translation, Into ludicrously bad
Loeb* and considerable readiness at " longs and shorts, ' correct in
noontide., but.ruther deficient in coherence and meaning. (Laughter.)
The public squad carries him on in some of there branches and leaves
bin much as it finds ham in others.. Of course considerable differencce
exist In the systems of these ralicols. In some of them instruction
Ins been of late years very much improved and extended. At Eton,
for example, French, German, and Italian have encroached on ground
or.ee entirely on upied by " the Mail Latin and less Greek" of that
Revd foundation. The study of the living tongues has been stimu-
land be Royel reward, and, we believe, they are so arranged as to be
=duetot without interference with the regular busbies* of the
school. But, with bail exception, little is attended to except the coo-
-1 strung of certain Latin authors, the committing to memory n certain
I minder of lines from Ovid, Virgil, and Ilmoce, the elanimting of
singularly common-place Latin terms, and the spinning of monotonoue
Latin verses. More attention is now paid to Greek construing and
composition (Ilan traO teronerly the case ; and it is probable, from the
character of the masters of tote vans furnished by King's College,
tmetridge, that this study won be carried mill further, and with
striete an 1 mere comprehrioive scholarship. A boy may still, es has
been pithily written, " pass through the school without any disgrace,
land not hove the slightest knowledge of any rule of arithmetic—Nov
no penmen., of the distinction between the Tudor ano the Stuart cly-
nasties—faney that America was discovered be one Washington, and
tied one Co:embus I Acted a wicked and tiloody revolution mole-
' where in those tarts - and cherish indietinet notion that Were has
a di•pute whether the earth goes round the sun or the son round
eth." This nmount of 'ignorance is attatned at an expense fur
Aging, school fees, and privde tuition, not below an ace. age
- annum, and, in particular cases, of much more than
of debts, contracted in disobedience of rules and
the outhoritits. Eton, however, is not a
of the petite schools. The worst mischiefs
stem were in the case of Rugby diminished or
.0 efforts of the late Dr. Arnold, who has done more
isidual, or number of indicidunbs—(much applause) —to
ic ectool instruction and discipline in England. He had
•of working on a comparatively modern foundation, not
ith the rulesof a bygone period. Under his emperMotil-
school ewe ton celebrity and prosperity which seem to
' the higher dame-.% are not indifferent to the merits of the
ssol to th.iir children. In his system, besides the clang-
..iptural instruction, geography, history tooth ancient
itiometle, elementary geometry and algebra, French
nd their due anti •regular place. But of infinitely
v than the extension given by him to the scope of ha-
at itnebe reheat was the effect of hie noble nature on the
d practice of it+ scholars. The influence of a character sel-
ler' for dignity, honesty, And courage, was propagated
• sehool by constant and confidential intercourse of the
the
.higlnt fonn ; and by sermons preached in the school
-7 generally on mime point of emetic.] Import to, and
on, his youthful hearers. (Much applause.) His
ed by the present Head Master of Rugby while his
operation through some of his most distingniSlied pupils
se at Harrow, Winchester, and elsewhere.
iblie school comes the university. Oxford and Cam-
as two great clauses of students from theme
: those who have already learnt something and
more; thaw who have learnt nothing, and
far as In them lies, to keep up their
dam at Oxford are diligent attendants on
—iv at the "collections," or college examinations
"get up" their Aristotle with the aid of private
moniut to memory the contents of the histories of lierolotus
"Pliles. and a Deeade of Live, acquiring in the process some
of the bogunges in which these authors wrote; read up the
a r retain number of the poets and orators of antiquity ; ae-
trnitiarity with the forms of the scholastic logic and certain
of theology; and take a elms is tercels hanianioribrts. A
per.ue mathematical studies, for which, after a long and
is stmegle, aplomb-a-sheen, at last, procured in the University
and classes are conferred in "Disriplinis phriris et math,
' to the great tUsgust of the older members of Convocation.
n- course of instruction differs somewhat from this.
.tudies of that University more attention is paid to the
...recce and Rome than to the facts recorded by their
11., ethical lawns of their moralists. The object of the
•do,l vystem is rather philological than historical. In
sf tinder graduate", historical, testheticol, chew:m.l°,-
Ind philneophical knowledge is lumped under this
et "cram." The haul-reading classical student
is engaged in a constant struggle with the
e ()reek and Latin languages. His aim is
f;;e Ezglich on now -71.ra
nay be set before him In an
English extracts rapidly
preoe. His power of &Mg
caccording to the Cambridge
honours in that university must
al of the mathematics This
. vulgar estimation, the rho-
, ' though Its distinctione, both
least as-freely on clansind as on
mathematical school, Cambridge
denied, however we new
OR the sole instrument et
distinguished place in the
sustained induatty and much
- we highest Intellectual power. The
tram the public school to Cambridge aspiring
R has generally his work to b-gin from the
he can solve a quadratic equation, or write
• the fast two banks of Euclid ; unless he
of a preparatory private tutor between
dversoty, at an expeaoe ranging from
.elisSest both Oxforo and Comirldge, who come up
sad go down knowing that next to nothing which
degree, or falling shoot even of thin, are drafted
regiments, or secure small diplomatic appoint.

been a dispute whether the earth gore round the
the earth.' This amount of ignorance is attai
board, lodging, school fees, and privote tuition,
of lad. per annum, and, in particular eases,
. this, exclueive of debts, contracted in disobe
.ncealed Mon the authorities. Eton, h
.sir samp'r of the petite schools. Th
f melt a neon were in the eye, of E
• rrxted by the etterts of the late Dr. Avhold,
. • any individual, or number of individnaLa—
;., prove public setool instruction and discipline
.e advantage of working on a comparatively and
• reed with the ralts of a bygone period. 12
am Runty sc'aool nee to a celebrity and prml
. • • irate that the higher claw" are not indifferei
• thin offered to th.lr children. In his cysts
Iseguages, &natural instruction, geography
modern, oritianie, elementary geometry
German found their due and regular play
importune than the extension Karen by h
. ion at IleghT schen was the effect of hi,
ai and practice of its scholars. The indium
(nulled for dignity, honesty, and cour
ugh the wheel by constant and eenfidentl
' a ith the iti,thest fonn ; and by sermons,
• I, and turning generally on some point of p
•• influence on, his youthful hearers.
• k is continued by the present Head Master
• in operation Doornail some of ifs mm
admirers. at Marrow, Wincheeter, and else.
Ater the public whool comes the universitj
receive two great chasm of
e'aishments those who have already t
• to learn more; thaw who have
determined, as far as in them lies,
-meter. The former class at Oxford are dtliger
pass croltal,ty at the " collections," a
lectere subjects; "get up •' their Aristotle s
.1,7,; roman to memory the contents of the 1
rvt Thwerilles, and a Decade of Live, sequin.'
et. ledge of the languages in which these auth.
.Oa a certain number of the poets and ova
ct familiarity with the forme of the achob
• ,iitide of theeknv •, and take a class is liteJ
!cc few par-ue mathematical Audio", for whi
scaucao struggle, a place has been, at last, proc
, etre ; and claws are conferred in "Diocipi
't
Cambridge
' to the great disgust of the older mei
the course of instruction differs
• the. classical ..tudiet, of that University more ;
of Greece and Rome than to the Le
'means or t'..o ethical know, of their moo dh
"bridge ea,icil system Ls rather pltilologica:
1 " airy of under craduates,
• geographical, and philwophical knowledg
1 name of "cram." The hunt-read
Cmabridge is reneged in a constant
- • of the Oreek and Latin langu
' fe.r t7analatir.g Er_g:kh
my Greek or Latin author that may be
• tiontecvn, and for turning suitable En!
correctly into Greek or Latin verse or prose
is the-real test of scholarship, aceordir
But every candidate for cleanest honours it
to them through the Plateate portal of Om
lion has bull on Cambridge, in valga
er of " a mathematical university l• though
honour and profit, are bestowed at least
stir
• ithematical attainments. As a matheinatic
la` the highest rattle' of it cannot be der
cake the practical mine of these studies so t
• or education, that to bare won a
nisi
elan nical Is evidence of tiunaicd
•ntAl discipline, if not of the kighosa_M,M, 'lran ho cornea fresh from the MUM MC..." Mathematical bonoure, boa generally his in
nnat.ttrare that he can wive a quads
wn a
don from the lint two taroks
vu lideeneed the services of a preparatory
nubile abaci and the university, at an e.
, • to 2001. per annum.
Aa abma_..,_lstilt new, at both ()atom lan Caen
lalgsomi.......and go down knowing that ne
degree, Or falling meant en
Alkiii—ade regiments, or secure anon