The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

EDUCATIONAL MEETING AT SALE.

A pleasant and institutive meeting of the friends
of education took plasm on Wednesday evening at the little
town of Sale, near Manchester, when nearly three hundred
laity, gentlemen, and working peep's assembled together
at tea, and afterwards spent the evening together In declas-
sing the advantages of edueatioo ; the proceeding beieg,
alternated with music and singing. Sale is one of a number
of htte town.hips in Cheshire situated south-west of
Manchester, in the midst of what may be eated the
market garden of the manufacturing dietritts. It beg
beet brought into eloper prozirnity to Manchester during
the lest eight or tan years ►y the formation of • short line
terailway of nine miles out of Mancherter, called the Man-
°beater and Alt:imbue line; and like all the ctaer towns
ea that line, its growth has been exceedingly rapid. The
re lway has given facilities of transit, and many cf the
'sett, r dew of comm. Taal people, who era not eonfined t
the city by longboats, have bean temp ed t seek residences
there. Street' and terraces have accordingly sprung up
where • few years ago only farm houses sod gardener's
cottages were scattered absent; and while property has in-
creased in value, the agricultural popuistinn are gaining
maze little aivantage by comic: with their new
sae better educated neighhours. One of the fiat
obsarm time made by the new settlers we•, that there
were few echoolosa.tere in the neighbourl o d ; and hence
the establishment of a 8,11 nil, the sinnivers.ry ot which the
meetiog un Wedr.C.Cay assembled to eilebrllf. The yi.uog
•deflates of edaea•icnal prrgre►s had not fund. eh- rewith
t•. pay a echoolmaster, and in the autumn or 1854 they awe-
Caned tr emclves together r s teacl•ers, and rorelved to open
• night school, Meta,/ their own s reie, a gratuitously. They
have been more successful than m•ght have bet n ezeeettd,
and &mediae t, the event, reed b, the h,.norary secretary,
the number , f juvenile end adult pupCs that had joined in
the veer, between the ages of 16 end 50, num-
bered 75 reasons, who been icaruced i■
reading, writog, and arithmetic. Mr. Wes. Jnyeson
presided at tie meeting, sod nine, gt the mere in
fiteemiel gentlemen present were ih • Rev. B Mori.. Mr.
How•nh, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Buttertield, Mr. Homer, Mr.
Cenliffe, Mr. Ktnaedy, Mr. Kell, Mr. Lorene, Mr. B, 'o-
hmic, Mr. •tae^y, Mr. Franca, Mr. Hollinworth, Mr.
N. rhury, and Mr. Yam. Toe Chairman addressed the
meeting at some length, and in speakieg to the aericultural
1 ihriure re he panted out a of the adventagem which hi ey
could nb.ain from simile learning to read. Fortunately
s of the best books they could road were em ingot the
cheapist titit were published ; and etily think h• w north
more valuable the age cultural labourer must be who ac
gaited a knowledge how Md.rent kinds el land c uld be
boat loser 'vett and cultivated ; what sort art meauree scorn
best suited to them; how heroes and mettle might be best
fed and managed; sad the hest nodes of draining.
Yet all this knowledge might be easily acquired,
and trans the beet and most scieetific batiks OA the
subject, at little cost. A man well informed on
these subjecta would not only get better wages
but he would be sure art more constant employment, to sty
noiltag of the respect be acquired among his neighbour.
Rearing, *Title', and amounts were alga lath/erectable
now evr n to tt e carter, wbo, in the neighbutiriug town of
slancheeter„ would MA only 14.. re 15... per week without
these acquiremen.s, whilst with them the wages wort •
guinea. There were thnueands of arch men, and t f porter.,
empineed in Manchester, who must hese this amnnnt ot•
education, because in taking in mole it was requisite to
gm) • receipt lot them, and when dcivering goons at was
!quail, neceseary they should receive an acknowledgment
Werkiog men bad then fete a direct and pressing int. rest
in thus imprev.ng themselves. He pointed alio to the course
which goverenteet vete taking in this matter by (dialog ex
•m nations to act hole with the prolatee that sec's ululate
as ohteined ceit hew( s of merle shnul•l have the fi•a'. s ppoint-
meet to suitable situations in de far meats unm r the state.
It had bean ta'culated that (rim 2,000 to 3 000 of these
striations become v cent every Teter, and the nensinaVon to
thew, if fairly carried oar, must become a vest stimulus la
education among the waking aliases; and, in feet, it would
di far to do that whim. some thought could eel/ he effected
by seeking ettendarca at az' oils comselsory. Mr. Kelly,
Mr. Buttes field, Mr. Ceni,ffn Mr. Howsrth, Mr. Lowe.
and , tier genii men, addressed the meeting, sect a large
member of ho lee were then presented to the papilla as
prizes The income of oh, school dorm g the t sat year had
been 121. 12r. 61. in donetioer, and 31 18s. 111 t. in pennies
pens
week term vie pupil.; which, alter detriryieg the ez
pens e, left • halaece of 31 in band. Toe report Nabs,
stared that the establishment of teie had led to a
siteilar on. in the neighboiriog township of Litres-on
Mersey, whir, there was also • reading and news room
attached, mid the committee euegritod the desirability of
(trisecting with their own ielti'Utioll a reading and new*
room as an additional incentive is the ec-oirement of the
rudiments of education among the poptna,iie. The meet-
ing was interestlag, as shuwirg how much may be accom-
plished by small means, where there is estnestaess t f
Purvis, in those nedertaking such objects. It was at ded
that the progress made by the pupil., both young and old,
seder such tuition, wee surprising ; and too muds praise
cannot be given to the teachers wbuse seal and sel,-secrifice
is such work induce them to give up time which they must
have mAny temptations othetwito to employ.