The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-15 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

WARWICKSHIRE.
TER EDVCATIOX Movement iv HneltlNGßAll.—Another
meeting of the friends of the government educational scheme
warn held in Deritend and Bordaley,Birmingham, on Tuesday
night. The Rev. W. B. Smith, the chairman, drew a
picture of the geeeral in. fficieney of the schools now exist-
ing, and in explaining the minutes of mused he observed
that, whilst the Church of England was required to carry
out her instruction in its integrity, the pimis and creeds of
dissenters acknowledging as a common bond of union the
authorised version of the Holy Scriptures, was not interfered
with. After a lucid explanation of the proposed plan in
.id of the voluntary institutions now existing, the Rev.
J. P. Lee, headmaster of the Grammar-school of King
Edward VI. addressed the meeting; and exposed what he
termed a wicked misrepresentation of the minutes of coun-
cil, in the bold charge of the scheme being unconstitutional.
The rev. speaker enumerated the steps by which the sanction
of the tint constitution of the committee of privy council on
education was obtained by the House of Commons in 1839,
when the vote of money was maturely debated at almost
every stage of the Appropriation Act of that session, and
when the fullest opportunity was given for sifting it. That
the dissenters should, he said, object to this measure because
the grant was annual, and liable to annual debate, and
to be rescinded at any time, was surely captious, when the
same parties objected to the late
./daytooth Bill because the
annuargrant to that college was to be cow erted into a per-
manent charge. This was neither more nor Ism than blowing
hot and cold with the same mouth. To say, therefore, that
this was unconstitutional, was most false. If so, then every
grant embodied in the Appropriation Act was equally opento
ohjection, whether for the army, navy, or any other service.
The Rev. George Bull was the next speaker. Adverting to
the address of the last speaker, he said that Mr. Lee had a
special and peculiar position in the question, and it was one
of great disinterestedness. As the head of perhaps the
largest public establishment of the kind in the kingdom, he
was anxious not for the aggremlimment or exclusive supe-
riority of kis own schools, but was sealously bent on
promoting the general improvement of education.
Mr. Bull requested that any disseatienti who were
present would favour the meeting with their
reasons ; but no antagonist appearing, the rev. gentleman
promeded, with much point and humour, to comment on the
discreditable proceedings at the town meeting last Friday.
As to the grant being an annual am, it was an experiment
for which it was made, and it was fitting it should be
annual. With respect to the patronage which it was
said the measure would throw into the hands of government,
he asked whether it was not elfish in the middle chimes
to desire its denial to the children of the poor? Did
they want it all for their own children, that they
made so great an outcry atout a poor man's child
bring 'Awed in an honourable and useful post in some
branch of the public service ? So much (he said) for their
disinterestadneas and patriotism. Then the empty schools
was much talked about—who wondered at their emptiness
when many of them were so worthless? What was the state
of education in Birmingham, and what had it been? A
thing too ludicrous almmt to speak of. The rev. gentleman
related numerous anecdotes illustrative of the defects in the
existing aystsm, and of the greet want of education amongst
the lower classes.—Other gentlemen addressed the meeting,
and a memorial in favour of the scheme was afterwards
unanimously adopted.—Last evening a meeting was held in
the parish of Edgbaston, and with signior results.
UNC .LNSHIRe.. _

CH &ROE ILGAINOT Taa7i.;;;;;T—oa Tu..lay a com-
mission, consisting of the Ven. Arnimleoc su Bonney, the Rev.
J. Jarvis, It v. C. Neville, Rev. C. Narrne, and lie,. J. T.
Penrose, sat at the White Hart Hotel, Lincoln, to inquire into
certain charges against a rev. gentleman, one of the vicar's
choral of Lillo3lll Cathedral. The principal evidence was
chat of a female servant, who had been discharged front her
situation. The court sat tie boon., and, after hearing all the
witnesses, it was decided that there was no paima facie
radon, for proceeding farther with the affair.

Ma. Beesreese BualtaLse, M.P., aen Weer Glue-
CESTZIUIIIIIII3.—On Monday a touting of the electeas of •
West Gloucesteribire, or, rather, of that large portion of the
county within the limits of the Perris of Dean, was held st
the Speech House, Dean Forest, for the purpose of hearing •
certain explanations proposed to be made by the Hu.
Brantley F. Berkeley. The meeting was held in the centre
of the Forest of Dean. a wild, uncultivated country, and wee
attended by some SOO persons, chief*, miners and coal- •
master,. The proceedings, which were of rather a stirring
character, commenced at three o'clock, and did not terse.
note until Finely seven. The Hon. O. F. Berkeley, M.P.,
spoke for tame time in reply to various charges which, he
said, had been made optima his public conduct at the in-
stigation of his brother, Earl Fitshardinge. Thesubstanceof
these charges has already been before the public in this paper.
Mr. Berkeley addressed a few remarks to the meeting on the •
government p'an of education. He had had no com-
munication with the dissenting body on this subject, but his
opinion was, that the proposed plan would strengthen the
power of the dominant church, and he could not therefore
trust a government with a plan of popular education. As
long as a dominant church existed, they could not have a
government plan of education, and his intention therefore
VW to oppose the government plan with all his power. Be
strongly advocated an early repeal of the malt tax, and said
he would back • barleycorn against a tea.leaf any day.
He had been charged with not having thoroughly supported
the liberal party, and by venturing to dispute tho will
of the lord-lieutenant of the county, with having run a risk
of breaking up tke liberal party in the county, and haviug •
tory returned in his place. To this he answered, than
no power on earth should induce him to edit • '
single vote with Mr. Brantley Berkeley, or "al
other nominee of the castle, and therefore he hail looked
pretend foe some one to stand at his right hand. Ile had I
found a gentleman willing to support him in his hour of '
need—Mr. Clayton, of Bierley Hall, Yorkshire, whom b•
now introduteetto the meeting. Mr. Clayton was an iret
miner and coal muter, and therefore well acquainted with
their interests. if ever two Tories st ould be nominated.
Mr. Clayton would be ready te come forward and solicit
their suffrages.—Mr. Hunt (a quaker) then came forward •
and addressed the meeting. This gentleman, it will be re- •
muttered. was chairman of the meeting held at Gloucester,
when Mr. Brantley Berkeley bad the door locked against him.
He read to the meeting a note which he had received from
Mr. Brantley Berkeley, calling upon him to meet him there •
"if his courage, like Bob Acres, had not oozed out at -
his fingers' ends." Had it been known on the other side
iof the Severn, he said, that this had been any
ether than an aoti-education meeting, they would hen had
hundreds more of the electors present. Mr. Hunt then ad-
dressed himself at some length to the subject of the game-
laws, which he denounced as having been framed merely for
the purpose of pandering to the vitiated taste of the aristo-
cracy. He bore testimony to the increased and increasing
• dissatisfaction of the Dean foresters with the conduct of the
hon. member. He had canvassed the county on this subject,
and the result satisfied him that they should et the next
election have en anti-game-law candidate. He then re-
f-reed to the honourable members votes with • view of
showing that he had neglected his parliamentary duties.—
A
warm debate followed.—Mr. Orantley Berkeley replied,
sod with other speakers charged Mr. Hunt with being the
abettor of Earl I. itahardinge. In the course of his remarks,
Mr. Berkeley was interrupted by Mr. Trotter, a gentleman
of the neighbourhood, upon which Mr. Berkeley bald " I
won't be interrupted. Don't do it again, because I won't
stand it. If you interrupt me again, I'll have you out of
that carriage. '—Mr. Trotter subsequently raid he thought
Mr. Brantley Berkeley ought not to come out in that
" punch o' the head" sort of style. Ile (Mr. Trotter) would
be killed before he would be iutimidated.—Mr. Grantley
Berkeley 'Baleen's denied that he had threatened to strike
him, and the apology was accepted.—After some more per-
tonal matters, both parties getting rather warm, a resolution
condemning the government education plan was cam el. A
resolution expressing approval of Mr. Orasit:ey Berkeley's
explanation, was also carried by about three votes to two,
An amendment, expressing dissatisfaction at the hon. '
member's conduct, was lost by about the same proportion of
votes.

THE EDUCATION QUEATION IN LIETEIL—At a meeting
of the Unitarian congregation in George's Chapel, Batter,
on Sunday last, James Terrell, Esq., in the chair, it was
unanimously revolved to support the government measure of
education. In this congregation, Mr. Bishop, the minister,
is an active opponent of the measure, and the congregation
unanimously voted in its support. At a meeting of the sub-
scribers of the Paris-street school, attached to Georges
Chapel, held on Tuesday, it was unanimously resolved to
offer that school for inspection under the minutes of the
privy council, A correspondent says:—" Three dissenting
ministers, opponents of the government plan, 'dein:nal a
meeting of the Working Men's Association in Exeter, on
Wednesday last, but could make no impression on them.
They had previously intended to try a public meeting. They
passe., however, this ordeal, and on Sunday the town was
placarded with notices that a Mr. Gould, the Baptist minis-
ter, would give a lecture, and their songregationa was gathered
at the submeiption rooms. It was demanded if any discus- -
Mon was to be allowed, or any petition proposed. An answer
was refused, until they should be enabled to form their
judgment from the feelings of the meeting. After Mr.
Gould had harangued his audience for a time, and finding
there was no opposition, and that he had strength enough in
tke room, lie produced his petition."

iFmr ens.
HOUSI OF -LOAM.
The new House of Lords, in the new Houses of
Parliament, opens this afternoon. This is an event of
chnsequence in the history of the building, and we congra-
tulate he architect on the thus far successful completion of
his labours. Much, however, remains to be done. The House
ut Commons is cull in a very unfinished state; the cluck-
tower is almost undesigned, and the great Victoria-taws r, in
Abingdon-street, has as ytt been carried up barely a third of
its intended height. The palace (lor so it still condones to
be called) coven, it is said, an area of nine acres, and it in
dot very long since the works were commenced. The old ,
houses were burnt down on toe 16th October, 1834, the de-
signs exhibited in March, 1836, and Mr. Barry selected ae
the successful competing architect in the spring of that year.
We remember his design : it was very different, and in some
respects better than the altered and existing structure. The
bridge-end of the building wore a csateilati d or palatial
character. It is now almost ecclesiastical, and the bold
ashlar work of the deign has been changed into the panelled
compartments of • sacred edifice. There is reason to
Lament this change; yet, viewed as a whole, the New
Houses of Parliament may be unhesitatingly pronounced
I noble etnicture, and, after St. Paul's, the only
edifice erected by a government in any way worthy of our
national character and resources Much that was valuable
as lost to us in the tire which destroyed the two houses ;
ware sorry to lose St. Stephen's Chapel, the Painted
!Umber, the Star Chamber, the cellar of Guy Faux: and the ,
Armada hangings ;yet the destruction ot ths hovers .
effected a real good. The great fire ot 1666 called into
action the architect of St. Paul's ; and the fire of 1834, the
resources of the greatest muter in his art our country bee
produced since Sir Christopher Wren.
As yet but three portions of the building may be called in
any way complete—the lobby of the lords, the House of
Lords, and the Victoria hall, the House of Lords forming the
ceutre ot the three.. The approach to the lobby is by • tern- •
porary structure, which may have something to do with the
surprise one feels at entering an apartment which carries one
hack to the period of the middle ages and brings the descrip-
tions of Frei/wart and Mosistrelet fresh to the recollect on. All
is medieval—wells, floor, and ceiling —you tread on herniate .
tiles, and see strinreourves of heraldy above contoining the
arms of the first peers that constituted a parliament. Alt has .
bees done by rule. There is a precedent for almost every '
thing. The very carving on the stone-work is gilt and
coloured ; pert of the floor, encircling the heraldic rose is
the centre of the lobby, is of metal inlaid, and the folding doors
areol burnished braes. By these doors we enter the House of
Lords, a noble room r 0 feet by US, and 40feet in height. There
is no describing in detail the gorgeous hall you are in. It is
the House of the Cloth of Gold. At the upper end of the house
is the throne, a mass of tabernacle work and gilding more •
like a airiest for St. Themes it Beckett, ar at least our Led.,
et Walsingham, end just that kind agent where fancy would
place Eamund the Martyr or Edward the Confessor, not
William IV. or Queen Victoria. Immediately above the
throne is Mr. Dyce's fresco "The Baptism of lEthelbert,"
too high to be seen to advantage. end on either side of the
fresco rich sad draperies powdered with stars, and clowns, ,
and lions, in yellow, 'upended to conceal the re-
cesses left vacant for future frees:tee At the lower
tad of the house is the reporters' gallery, and imme-
diately above that three more vacant audio for frescoes;
resigned to Messy,. Idealisms iirweley sad Cope. Nothing,
however, has as yet bestrides* to them. The eve ascending
beholds • flat panelled ceding filled with abrade, devices,
and legends, which puzzle and fatigue attention. Ranging ,
lower you observe that the house is lighted with twelve ,
windows, ix on either side, and that one of the windows is r
filled with painted glees, coetaieing full-length figures of t
early kings end !peens, made by Mr. Hardman, of Burning—,
ham, in the *rue medieval art—out of drawing in every
line, and every one with hands likegiove-stretchers. Throe •
aro done as a .. pattern " fOr Messrs. Ballentyne and Allan,
who have the commission for the stained aims, to work by.
Between the windows and at either end of the hones are
plebes, eighteen in number, for statues of the magnet liana
batons, but two alone have as yet been erected—lonigton,
Archbish .p of Canterbury, and Robert Fitzwalter, " Marshal
of the army of Ood and the holy church." These are by
Mr. Tkonsu, the able sculptor of the whole of the statues
throughout the building. Immediately beneath the win- '
dows runs a light and elegant gallery of brow-work, filled
in compartments with coloured mastic in imitation of
enamel. On the soffits of the gallery (or cornice immediately
beneath the gallery), are the arms of the sovereigns and
chancellors of England, from the reign of Edward 111. to
the present time, and below these are the seats of the peers,
Eye on either side, covered leith red morocco, and luxurious
to sit down upon. The body of the house is occupied by
a large table of oak (plain fur a wonder), and the red wool
sack of the chancellor. The carpet is blue. powdered with
stars, in the old star-chamber fashion, and the carpet of the
throne is red, spotted with heraldic lions and roue. After •
this eeneral description ot the house, we may turn to some
of the details.

We have said that the throne is very like a ebriuo; we
may now add that it is not unlike an altar, and this similarity
is materially assisud by the use of angels as sopporters, by a
magnificent candelabrum of brass on either tide, tilled with
wan-candles, and by the three mews for the three, chair,.
of the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Albert.
which readily suggest the idea that they were originally de-
signed for the Commindinents the Creed, and the Lefirs
Prayer. This servile adherence to rcelmiastical detail,
is thowsleading defect of the whole edifice, both
within sad without. It is Vas it would be ddivelts

perhaps impomible, to find exit:epics of medinva architezture
sufficiently fitted for the purposes of the building ((as fixed by
the contaissioners) without seem very close sfiluity in parts
to sosholestieal details—but here the this that at psrates the
two styles has not been stains* observed—it is the chapel
raker than the senate-loolos sad the stranger will oftener
to beer Wenger Maw, thou 8.'4740 or Lord
Chet It is the thissms Wt piethpilly gives a religious
*hareem es the boo" bat the minor details assist, and if
ibe geose at Osmwses is _sited like the House of Lords,
went, leek Itr a elexed im's Chapel in something
awe 01.11des awe sum
These amperes, however, of the loess that differ from the
alike the building, awl suite pleased to escape from en
arthitatirmal display, set maths Outer in his coat, by turn-
ing to watt where gold bat and colour have dome nothing
bs dhiwrk the repose of what you see. The side
:Mof the house, both above and below the brain gal-
arred in compartme.tts, the lower tiers in what is
Balled the " linen pattern ; the upper tiers in enriched
arcades and ornaments, with legends of " Ood save the
Queen." The corridors running at the sides and without
the Lowe 'tattoo plain ; and here you find stone spandrels
and bssas snehoked by colour, and with the mark* of the
chisol still visible upon them. It is really • relief to get
here and escape from the splendour you have seen—the
multitude of lions " calming the terrors of their class is
gold," and the extreme bad taste of painting Langton and
Fitaraltor of a bronze colour, and introducing a lion and
unicorn with vanes within doom, were it is impossible that
a wind could be found to stir them.
DT two doom, one en eitner side of the throes, oxen is
obtained from the house to the Victoria Hall,a kind of with-
drawing room, answering to the lobby below the bar. Here
we have another Star Chamber carpet, two large oak tables,
and some eighteen or twenty red Russia leather claim, of
the Usthie pattern, studded (we suppose) with silver, and
admirable both in design and eeeee tan. This is a quires"
t then the house, but still not quiet, he time =gold leaf and oolour, simper work in isompartasenta,
armorial bearings upon string-courses (the arms of the as-
others of Queen Victoria), and Old English Was epos
early Reglish stroll work.
Ttfe WS must elapse, it is mid, before the How of
Commas is ready, sad live, it is supposed, before the whole
structure is complete. Toe chief features of the exterior
will be the frost towards the river—the Victoria Tower, awl
the Cloak Tower; of the interior, the two Howie of Parlia-
ment, the octagon or central hall, the Victoria Gallery, St.
Stephen's Hall, old Westminster Hall, and the aypt of the
ancient chapel of St. Stephen. The Westminster-bridge
and will contain the spatasents of the Speaker and the Ser-
Jesuit-a-Arms, and the Vauxhall-bridge end the apartments
alio Usher of the Bleak Rod and the lords' librarian. The
exterior is of hard nisgeelan limestone, from lialsorer, In
Nottlarrharoshire, and the interior of Caen stone. The
main beams and joists are of iron throughout, and do num-
ber of statues already about the building upwards, it is said,

Trees thick as madam stature thisk ss trees.
And yet, we are told, 200 more will be required to complete
the bulletin We may mention, among the more unusual
features of the exterior, the 35 shields of arms of the sove-
reigns of Roglat.d (somewhat notorious in character), and
the use of crest-tiles (a picturesque addition), as at Rotor
Cathedral. Two stem-esgmes are erecting to hoist the
MOMS OD the Vittoria Tower. Such is the nature and ex-
tent of the New Houses of Parliament, while the style em;
11%.may be beet described is the architects own words :
he been his aim to avoid the ecclesiastical, collegiate,
todellated, and domestic styles, and to select that which he
madden better waited to the peculiar appropriation of the
beiktili;The • htini of this national structure is on Faraday's
principle an since Dr. Reed's ejectment, the ventila-
tion km chiefly been entrusted to the same gentleman. We
may add that the clocks are Yulliamy's, and that, like the
a- as in the windows, they all wear medieval hands
and medweval fame.

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