The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-01 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

THE LIVERPOOL BA;HINO7OIIIPART.—Yesterday
afternoon, a special ffeneral meeting of the shareholders is
this bank, which, it will be remembered, suspended payment
about five weeks ago, wee held in the Clarendon Rooms, at
Liverpool, and was pretty numerously attended. Alfred
W. Fowles, the chairman of the director*, presided, and at
MOB called upon Mr. Wilson, the manager, to read an
address, or report. The report stated that events familiar
to all had mated a revolution in monetary affairs, which
would account for the present position of the bank. Te
resume business there could be no doubt would promote the
interests of all concerned. As the first step in that direction,
the directors had made a call of 21. per share. The capital
of the bank was too small, and the directors were of opinion
that powers must be asked for ate general meeting to be duly
convened, to increase the capital. The best mode to effect
this, in the opinion of the directors, would be the creation
of 12,000 preferential shares of 201. each—to call up 121. per
share by instalments, that they may equal those already
created—to exempt them from all liability for transactions of
the bank previous to their creation—to secure to them a
dividend of 6 per cent, per annum, by the guarantee of pre-
ferential payment, and allowing en equal participation with
the original shares in any advantage which might he I( ilium,'
above 6 per cent. This would make the capital 400,0001., of
which 240,0001. would be paid up. A statement of the
amounts was in the hands of every shareholder.
Pram this it appeared that the liabilities on bills at the
time of the stoppage amounted to 320,0001., but of this
100,0001. had run off. No large accounts were outstanding,
and all were secured. The present amount in hand, how-
ever, was only 12,0001.; whilst 36,0001. was owing on
deposits. Various questions upon items of detail were asked
by Mr. Hatton and Mr. Cookson, and the report, on the
motion of Mr. Mawdsley, was adopted.—Mr. Ward moved
" That the proprietors present should express their entire
confidence in the directors, and request them to continuo
their exertions to carry out the views expressed in their
report."—This was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Dixon,
and carried with but two dissentients.

CHESHIRE
REPRESENTATION OF STOCKPORT.—Both parties
are now fairly in the field, and the committees of lifr. Ker-
shaw and Major Moreland have nightly meeting., preparing
for a hard stand-up fight, whenever the speaker shall name
the missive for that purpose. Mr. Kershaw, at the solicita-
tion of a body of upwards of GOO electors, has readily con
I mated to come forward again, and his address to a large body
of his friends on Tuesday night exhibited great confidence.
HAMPSHIRE.
INTERESTING EXPERIMENT IN NATIONAL EDUCA-
TION.—I am just returned (earl • correspondent of the
Atheruruni) front a visit to King's Soubourne, a village
near Stockbridge, to which I was led by a desire to see what
I Gould in so short a space as • single morning of the work-
lags of • national school opened just five years ago by the
Rev. Richard Dawes, the incumbent. I had had the
curiosity first to inquire into the parish statistics gi nerally,
and found they were pretty much on • level with a class of
agricultural parishes neither the best nor the worst that may
be found in England, but decidedly inclining to the latter.
The population may now be taken at about 1,125; the area
1 included in its boundaries being 7,500 acres—chiefly distri-
buted into large farms. About 800 of the inhabitants are
congregated in • village round the church—while the rest
are widely scattered abroad. There are no resident gentry
to assist or take an interest in education ; and the farmers
are so little inclined to co-operate, that Mr. Dawes declares
he has never known " an instance of one of that class encou-
raging a labourer to send his children for • longer period to
school, however trifling the work for which he might want
them." Knowing beforehand these rather discouraging facts,
I was curious to learn how the worthy incumbent of this pa-
rish had contrived to carry out his idea of establishing schools
uniting the employer and employed, which should be fit to
meet the wants of the occupying class of farmers, and there-
fore justify such a charge as might reasonably be made to
that class—while at the same time they enabled the child of
the labourer to obtain at small cost what he also requires—
no distinction being made in the school-room, and only that
in the end which is the necessary result of a position requir-
ing in the one cue the labour of the hands at much earlier
period than in the other, and therefore curtailing the time
given to education. Not to enter too minutely into detail, I
will briefly state what my companion and I saw at King's
Sonbourne. The buildings—comprising two large school-
rooms, a clam-room, and a dwelling for the master and his
wife—are handsome and convenient ; and were built from
the plans, and in part with the assistance, of the council of
educatioa. The site (an ancient palace of John of Gaunt)
was given by Lady Mildmay. We first visited the girls'
school-room. Here we found a number of tall, intelligent-
looking, neat and modest, well-mannered girls—ranging from
the ages of nine to fifteen. The ge age, we were told,
is from ten to ten and eight months ; which consioned us
some surprise, as it appeared to us below the stanched at
this particular period. About 174 pupils may be reckoned
as the numbers for the united schools; in addition to which
a dame school of forty children exists in the village, serving
in some degree as a practising school for the young pupa
teachers now under process of training. A clam of girls being
called up by Mr. Dawes, we had the pleasure of hearing good
English reading, such as in every grade of society is rare,
and among the lower orders scarcely to be met with. It
was distinct, intelligent—more free from provincialisms, we
suspect, than the reading of many young ladies' schools—
yet, with here and there an exception, not laboured and
pedantic. Great pains must have been taken to bring about
such a result. Poetry was well recited. Questions bearing
on the lesson were *eked by Mr. Dawes—both as to the
meaning of words, the grammatical construction of sentences,
and the subject of the lesson with its bearings. The answers
indicated thorough comprehension, and were given in an easy
yet respectful manner ; the tone of the whole striking us as
admirable. The writing from dictation which was going on
meantime in other parts of the school Appeared good.
Needlework, being the employment the afternoon, was
not produced ; but it is, I am assured, equally well taught
with the rest. There could be no doubt, in short, that the
general instruction was far superior to that which the daugh-
ters of small farmers and tradesmen can in general obtain in
the country—and that the superintendence of the excellent
clergyman and his lady must have • most beneficial effect on
the whole. We then passed on to the boys' side. Here also
we heard lessons given and questions satisfactorily answered.
We could not find that any single thing was taught - •
that there might be toe many things attempted is possible.
But the capital and leading fact about which we had
been anxious was fully ascertained : the employer and
employed are taught together. No evil appears to be
the result. The school is highly popular ; the state of
morals is improved ; many young people have already
been placed in situations of usefulness, and more are
under training. The expenses are brought within a
very moderate compass by means of the higher pay
of the richer class; and yet the poor are contributors
to a larger amount than is usual—purchaeing without
apparent difficulty all the clam books used in the school. For
my own part, I came away perfectly satisfied that similar
painstaking alone is required to produce the same, or a
better, result in many an obscure village. There will be
differences of opinion respecting the desirableness of commu-
nicating so much general and silent., knowledge—and some
will &drone** the introduction of more manual labour—but
the principle is established , and the multiplication of such
schools as Mr. Dawes's, uniting two different classes hitherto
I kept almost distinct in our educational arrangements, will do
more to civilise the people than any means that have yet
been ,„evised for their improvement."

RECENT DISCOVERIES AT EIVELL.—A paper, by
Mr. Diamond, was read at the Society of Antiquaries, Nov.
25, on some recent discoveries made at Ewell. They con-
aimed of a great variety of Roman pottery, excavated from
deep pits sunk in the chalk on a rising ground. The paper
was illustrated by numerous drawings, and by an exhibition
of the objects themselves. Among these was a glazed ribbed
Teem], which appeared to be of medieval work, but the posi-
tion in which it wee found, and the total absents of any-
, thing of undisputed middle-age date, seemed to justify Mr.
Diamond and others in considering it Roman, or Romano-
British. Mr. Diamond referred to similar pits discovered in
the vicinity of Roman towns and stations which had bees
considered ae mere rubbish holes. In the Ewell wells Mr.
Diamond noticed a degree of arrangement or order in the
deposits, which led him to conclude them to bo
of a sepulchral character, and that they were used
as receptacles for common people and foreigners
serving in the Roman army, whose remains had
been exported, the vessels used at their funerals being par.
pally brakes and they buried in these pita as memorials ;
none of the Semi= and Romano-British pottery he con-
sidered to be of an exclusively domestic character. From the
distance of Ewell from London he was disposed to suggest
its being the site of the Roman Novicsnagus. Mr. R. Smith
remarked that Noviomagtts was Laid down in the Itinerary
of Antonious on Avery different route, most of the other sta-
tism' in which bad been pretty satisfactorily determined, sad
that Ewell was on the line of a road leading to Chichester
(Regnum), which, although still traceable at intervals, was •
not mentioned in either the ancient itineraries. Mr. Pat-
trek, in a letter published in the Gentleman's Maruilse for
1841, had suggested that Ewell might be the site of the
Canoe of the anonymous geographer of Ravenna. He (Mr.
8.) was rather surprised that foundation, of the dwelling
houses of the people, whose remains were so abundant, had
not been discovered.

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