The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1847,

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ELECTORAL HISTORY
81 OF ENGLAND.
NORTRAMONIIIIIO.
The county that occurs next in the scheme of
„"„,plag which we have adopted, offers, in almost every
;.-eatiet particular, a remarkable contrast to that which we
lot reviewed. Unlike Huntingdonshire, it is of considerable
and even ample extent; it has a large population; it contri-
butes • heavy quota to the fund raised under the poor re-
lief rate; it has several manufactures, and a numerous body
of its inhabitants employed in them—yet it is, in the fairest
sense of the designation, an " inland agricultural county ;"--
it is beautified and fertilised by many rivers, whilst it is
singularly wanting in the forest remains and beautiful
...vends which are the glory of some psrts of
Bunts ; its undulating surface is nowhere occupied by fens
except at that part of its confines where the Ncne bows by
the Isle of Ely, and commences the marshy tract which ex-
tends its dreary length to the Lincolnshire " Washes." On
the other twia, Northamptonshire has its points of striking
resemblance to Hunts in the history of its parliamentary.
election-fortunes once the passing of the Reform Bill. It
returned Lord Viwount Althorp in the first reformed par-
liament, but sines 1834 it has returned tory or conserva-
tive representatives, only. If we wanted any further solution
of the secret of this departure front the great reform princi-
ple it hod recognised by sending Lord Althorp to the
Boum of Commons, which he had done so much in assist-
* to restore to its ancient constitutional charecter, we should
fiad it in the contagion of the example we have so remedy
Foisted out, as being supplied and upheld by a knot of noble
oristoastie-commoner families, who always manage to re-
turn a conservative dust at least, for this fine county, as
they have dose for no many others
Northamptonshire is bounded on the north by Lincoln-
shire, on the north-west by Rutlandshire and Leicestershire,
as the west by Warwickshire, on the south-west and south
by Oxfordshire, on the south-east by Bucks and Beds, on
the east by Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. In its
greatest length it extends, north-east to south-west, from the
neighbourhood of Peterborough to that of Brackley, about
sixty-eight or sixg-nine miles. Its greatest breadth is to be
found bloom Daventry and Stoney Stratford, a reach of
=run miles; but the figure of this shire is so
that these are no measures at all of its
ewer breadth and length. From a mean of the sur-
veys d 1803 and the later ordnance formes and
nuktpal boundaries surveys, 1831 and 1834—the
biter being very important in supplying the " outlying"
limits, and intacks to be allowed for in measuring off the
ontlinee of counties thus irregularly projected—it results that
the area is about 1,010 square miles, comprising a superficies
of 680,400 arms. The measurement of its 20 hundreds,
however, is officially reported at only 640,000 urea These
kandreds, at the time of the Domesday aurvey, were thirty
in number. The county now ranks as the twenty-second in
England in point of size, the twenty-seventh in population,
the twenty-ninth in density of population. In the advan-
tages of a pure air, an excellent climate, fine soil, water
communication both by riven and canals, and high roads, it
is surpassed by very few ; end it is also traversedby some of
our moat important main lines of railway. It must be
hewed that the men of Northampsonshire have not been
wanting in the duty of improving the great natural resources
of their county by the appliances of art and the efforts of
wall-sustained labor and uatalligent enterprise. They have
long acquired a just celebrity as successful graziers, careful
agneulturists, and skilful fanners. Them pursuits have rather
tended to encourage, than to extinguish, among some classes
of them, the pursuit of particular trades and manufactures.
Throughout its 336 parishes, there is now probably, of
families respectively devoted to agricultural occupations and
to handicrafts, trades, and manufactures, a proportion of not
lees than two-thirds to one-third. This as a remarkable
'evolution in the social distribution and economy of a county
which, forty six years ago, only returned 34,126 families
under the latter class to 29,303 under the former. But the
Northamptonshire graziers have, for a long time put, taken
so conspicuous a lead in rearing fat stock, improving their
long-homed cattle, their sheep, and their draught horses,
that these and other objects of profitable husbandry, as wi 11
as the inducements of an excellent soil and capital postures
to extensive tillage and pasture-keeping, may well account
for a change so little common in other English counties.
Its briskest trade is, perhsm, that of boot and shoe
making, in which, at least, 4,000 men are very constantly
employed in Northampton and other market towns. It has
some iron-foundries in good work ; it carries on a consider-
able business also in leather-currying and in stocking-
making. Its lace-making his long been a declining affair,
and seems to have concentrated itself in the adjoining
county of Nottingham. Besides Northampton, this shire
includes the city of Peterborough, the ancient boroughs of
Brackley and Iligham-Ferrers, (now swept away by the
besom of schedule A) and other ten boroughs, which for-
merly were also market towns. Considered in reference to
all the usual tests supposed to qualify for parliamentary re-
presentation and to regulate its amount, Northamptonshire
seems to have been somewhat hardly dealt with by the
Reform Bill. It sends to Parliament but eight members
altogether two each, for each division of the county, for
the county town, and for Peterborough. Its population was
in 1801, 131,757 ; in 1811, it was 141,353 ; in 1121, it was
162,483 ; in 1831, it was 179,336. By the census of 1841 it had
increased to 199,061 ; the ratio of increase between the two
extreme periods as 52 per cent. on the year 1801. The rate levied
tor the poor at each of the same five decennial periods ad-
vanced in this progression, namely, 94,6071.; 139,6751.;
145,6931.; 160,8161.; and 101,5151. This is a gratifying state-
aunt, so far as it infers an improved condition of the labour-
ing community, and a more tennomical appropriation of the
monies levied for the poor. In this latter, the whole aggre-
gate increase is but ten and a half per cent., on forty years;
and this it the more o'iservable because the rate had ad-
vanced, from 1801 to 1803, only—that is in three years—to
the enormous sum of 120,5921., an increase of twenty-seven
and a half per cent in that short interval. But Northamp-
tonshire exhibits other ind:cations of progress and prosperity,
which, were not the poll-books for the county sow lying be-
ton us, might have suggested • hope that a people, thus
happily circumstanced, would have the leisure, the spirit,
and the means to do that which, we fear, it requires very
rattle sagacity to perceive that they do not, or cannot, or will
not do, namely, assert their free choice in the election of
members to represent them in parliament. With an
increasing population ,—a diminishing poor-rate and
• rapidly enlarging number of newly-built houses
go hand in hand. We cannot believe that a county
which, at this time, contains some 40,000 inhabited houses,
—which hu pushed its agricultural and farming and even trad-
ing enterprise with so much success,—and so greatly increased
the number of its families and the means of their accommoda-
tion,—can really desire to be made the sponsor for such doe.
trines of agricultural and commercial protection, and other
economic and political heresies as are openly avowed by
every one of the four now sitting county Conservative mem-
bee—very excellent individuals as, in all other relations, we
Were them to be. No; there is an influence which, if it
yielded to the high public chancier of the late Earl Spencer,
when it first returned him (as Lord Althorp) at the election
011806, has long since resumed its landlord allegiance, and is os
active now as ever it was under the auspices of the lamented
earl's colleague—in stock breeding—the Marquis of Exeter,
aid of other noble proprietors and patrons, in the
titled houses of Dorset, Northampton, Westmoreland, Fitz-
• Clifden, Radnor, St. John, Sondes, Cardigan, Lilford,
Pomfret, Montagu, &e., and the families of Denys, Dryden,
de. fie. If, on the one hand, whilst the county yet returned
bat two members, the late Earl Spencer was one of them
from 1812 to 1831 (and again from the opening of the first
reformed parliament till his going up to the House of Peers-
in 1824); we have, on the other, a consistent and almost an
brakes preponderanee of Toryism in the returns. That of
Lord Althorp himself wee neutralised in the successive elec.
time of 1806, 1807, 1812, 1818, 1820, 1826, and 1830, by
giving hint for a colleague, Mr. W. R. Cartwright, a very
racism and upright country gentleman, no doubt, and who
had eat for Northamptonshire ever since the year 1798 ; but
whose epitaph may be written in these days by quoting his
own eulogy of the corn-laws—" as the best ever passed." This
gentleman, it is true, was displaced by a young whig can-
didate, in the person of Viscount Milton, at the election of
1831. On the division of the county, the very first election
for the northern division did indeed return the same
whig lord, but with him, the tory, Lord Brudenell.
The other two candidate*, both of them whigs,
were defeated. In 1833, Lord Milton and Lord
Bradenell (now Earl of Cardigan), were again returned
without even • contest. The number of registered electors
foe the county was then 3,494. A premature death having
removed Viaeount Milton in 183-5, the vacant seat was con-
tested between Mr. Banbury (now Lord Sudeley), a wbig
geatleman of ancient family (and whose liberal and enlight-
ened political views had long been known to, and were very
favourably appreciated by, the public), and Colonel Maim-
ed], a very staunch conservative. The latter was returned.
The timber of freeholders on the registry had declined to
3.627. In 1837, another Lord Milton,-or course a whig,—
was a candidate for this division of the county, together w ith
Viscount Maidstone and Colonel Maunsell. Lord Milton
was rejected : the two tory candidates were returned. On
the registry the number of &cetera had declined to 3,148.
At the election of 1841, Colonel Maus:sell and Stafford
O'Brien, Eeq. (couservatives)' were returned without aeon-
tat; and it is to be ohs. rued that the constituency was now
actually improved in numerical strength, having 4.127 on the
'Vary. The registry of 1846 shows only 4,061, In
all this there is but little reason for expecting any
erring* in the exercise of the landlord-tethered elec-
ted franchise of North Northamptonshire. But the
southern division of this county hold* out no more
cheering prospect for those who would desire to witness its
emancipation from the same "conservative" spell. The
fact is to be regretted, perhaps, but it cannot be denied, and
must be fairly looked at. Sir Charles Knightley, who, in
1831, had failed, together with his veteran colleague, Mr.
Cartwright, in a contest for the county before its division,
elms in as the conservative co-member with that gentleman,
on the succession of Lord Althorp to the honours and the
Deems of his father, in 1834, and bait ever since retained
Its seat. Mr. Cartwright was returned with Lord Althorp
(the late Earl Spencer) fur this division' in 1832. The
electors then on the registry were 4,920. Mr. Cartwright
and Sir C. Knightley were returned again in 1837; no cnn-
ton ; registered electors, 4,620. Mr. Cartwright and Sir
Charles Knightley threw out, at the election of 1841, the
Earl of Burton, their whig opponent ; but the first-named
gentleman retiring from parliament in February, 1846. was
sueseeded by Mr. Vyse, as openy strong conservative. And

thus, with 4,607 freeholders on the region, of its southern
Northamptonshire,—with minething of impartial
consistency, at leut,—mates her two tory "knights of the
shire" in the north, with her two others in the south!
We aa no entries relative to elections for Northampton-
shire in any respect worth tranKvibing from the parlia-
mentary journals. X.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Aram G.
The Temporary. Relief Act, or rather the rating
then•under, is causing some alarm, even among the
well-intentioned proprietors. There is none so im-
patient of taxation as an Irish landlord, because he
has been so long exempt from the screw---and this
feeling prevails even with tho bountiful co-operation
of the government. Mr. Grey Porter has addressed
the Carrick-on-Shannon relief committee, urging
them not to place themselves under what he has
pleased to call the " Soup-kitchen Act." He states
truly enough that much of the rate and the treasury
advance will be spent on the working staff—that
farmers will afford less employment, and the labourers
practise more imposition. All this sounds well,
but what is the substitute ? a voluntary rate of one
shilling in the pound, on all property—individual
exertions—private charities, &c. We fear much, if
the poor of Carrick-on-Shannon were abandoned to
Mr. Porter's substitute, next winter weld show a
population not increased in numbers or condition.
A barrister returned from the Munster circuit in-
formed me that Tralce, the chief town of Kerry, far
exceeded in destitution anything he had seen in
Clare, Cork, or Limerick. The streets were a moving
Ima of supplicating mendicancy. The last proceed-
ings of the Tralee Union confirm this account. The
number of paupers in the house amount to 1,290, and
the debt of the guardians nearly 4,0001. A new rate
was struck, but the collector declared that it could
not be collected. The proceedings terminated with
the following painful resolution:
That Mini deg sine log in vain solicited the poor-low caostin•
ammo So @Mai that meheame to We board to effecting • lain for
the of milling then to milaraln this house, orer-
whrlmea se It la ell* Mt; that Ming la vain applied to the
goverment. and Is WM UMW hem which the board
could Marally eqmat assammadedum. as may appear
trim the several romblime beim the membilemers to
that Neat, which ammehed *am ebb board ; barb. rated
the stake is bit so em medieleotly de imam its prime sla-
nder—Ms bawd, eattertembrallog the memo open ass be relie4
as maim mans apes to them osier amt' deemodemies than
to mil* the poariast ammbeimere Mem to adbot dm Om Lne-
=Let MIX, ea is criers be ebb mint hum the relief
; or, et ratther at these om be aliels4 awl gown
an melbme marmimlestr lo ble_ dump at Os hew, mid& must,
la the Gobi= at thee based. be When& domed.
As a counterpoise to this severe pressure, Lord
Robert Clinton, on the part of the British Relief As-
sociation, is about to store large quantities of provi-
sions in Tralee, whams the various local committees
of the county will be supplied on the most advanta-
geous terms.
There is a stir among the directors of railway com-
panies, as if some movement were to be made on the
part of the government. Mr. Labouchere keeps close
the intentions of the ministry, whatever they may be.
He has been on various occasions submitted to the
process of the " pump," but as yet there is no palpable
sign. However, the interested parties look forward
with mach confidence, and it is said the government
will advance about 2,000,0001. The state of the labour
market during the summer mouths, when the crops
have all been laid down, and the sole employment
will consist in haymaking, most necessitate some
mode of absorption, and none more profitable than
railway construction, to a certain extent, offers to the
government. There will be some difficulty with the
contractors, who must have men competent to the
work, instead of idlers and skeletons, but the state will
see that a fair equivalent be given for the favour con-
ferred.

Twenty-one vessels are advertised to sail with emi•
grants from Cork to the States and British colonies
within a few weeks. Crowds flow in from all parts
of the county and of Kerry. A gentleman informed
me that the roads leading to the city are dense with
emigrants. I saw today about twenty families
coming in from Kildare—all apparently of the best
class of farmers; and with their wives and children
plainly but comfortably attired. The emigration is
exciting serious apprehensions in the country. The
kernel is extrasted—the husk remains.

The rate of mortality in the workhouse of Cork is
happily decreasing, though still it is very consider.
able. The number of deaths reported to the board
yesterday was 159, being 16 less than the number of
the previous week, or a decrease of 10 per cent. The
number of patients in the hospital of the house is 558,
and of externs 1,505, giving as the aggregate of sick,
2,061, or nearly one half of the entire pauperism in
the house.

Among the poor outside the house the mortality
seems not diminishing. In the portion of the cemetery
constructed by Father Mathew, which is appropriated
to the interment of persons unable to pay burial fees,
interments have increased so much that the reverend
gentleman has been obliged to employ two additional
hands in the grounds.
The demand for corn and flour was very dull on
'Change to-day, but no variation in prices can be
quoted. Indian corn was somewhat in advance for
good qualities, but this, I apprehend, arose from the
circumstance that a quantity of damaged Indian
meal was put on 'Change, which, however, did not
find purchasers. I have some reason to believe that
some considerable quantity of oar late importations,
having been brought over without the necessary care,
or properly prepared for shipment, has become heated,
and will, I am assured, be found little fitted for human
consumption.

ACCIDINT TO rue EARL OF Bacriva.—The Evening
Freeman says It is with much regret we have to state
that a serious accident occurred this morning to the Earl of
Elective. His lordship left the Bilton hotel at 12 o'clock for
the purpose of attending a hunt, and while proceeding
through Dorset-street the horse took fright and predpitated
his noble rider to the ground. The animal tell upon his
lordship, whose leg was broken. His lordship was conveyed
to the Hilton Hotel, and Dr. Adams was promptly in atti nd-
ance. The Hon. and Rev. E. Taylor, uncle to his lordship,
is with hint in the hotel."

SCOTLAND.
_ EDINBURGH, APaIL 6.

Dr. Chalmers is understood to be decidedly
favour-
able to the government scheme of education. When
Mr. Baines was in Edinburgh, he is reported to have
bad an interview with the venerable divine, with the
view of enlisting him as an ally, but found him in-
vulnerable.
There has for some time back been a movement for
the junction of two of the largest dissenting presby-
terian bodies in Scotland—the united secession and
relief churches ; and the time of amalgamation is
now definitively fixed for May 13. The united body
will muster about five hundred congregations, and the
effect will be a greater consolidation of the volnutary
interest in Scotland. But notwithstanding this prac-
tical evidence of Christian union, the Almanac shows
an increase of sectarian division in the northern part
of the empire, as, within the last five years, almost
every communion there has had offshoots more or
less extensive.
One of the Glasgow papers mentions that a malig-
nant fever has broken out among the railway
labourers employed on the Caledonian Railway at
the Cut, at Evanhi-ad. The mortality is said to have
been extensive, and to have extended to the sur-
rounding rural population, four deaths being specially
mentioned as having taken place in the family of a
shepherd, at a farm called Ilowcleuch. The labourers'
huts are described as very inferior; bat probably their
erection on marshy or otherwise insalubrious sites
has as much to do with the origin of the disease as
the wretchedness of the internal accommodation.
SeSPICIOVII Casa.—Thu night watchmen of the Glasg•ow
police usually return from their duties about tuff-put six
o'clock in the morning ; but at that hour on Sunday one of
them, whose station is in High-street, did not come in with
the rest, and was accordingly marked off as absent at roll-
call. About two hours afterwards he was found lying at the
foot of a stair in edam in High-street, and, presuming from
his &mama, that he wa' intoxicated, he was conveyed to
the pce•oflice, at which he arrived in a state of insensibi-
lity. The lieutenant immediately sent for the surgeon, who
ascertained that the man was suffering under a dangerous
ailment, which was likely to prove mortal. He was sent toe
the infirmary, but never rallied, and died between 12 and k
o'clock on Sunday afternoon. A postmortem examination
showed that the cause of death had been fracture of the
skull ; and we are informed
the wound is of such a nature as
strongly to countenance the belief that it must have been in-
flicted with an instrument, rather than by means of a fall or
blow of the fist.

Mutation. Mr. J. Heywood was called to the chair. There
were five resolutions proposed. Among the speaker were
Mr. R. H. Greg, the Rev. J. J. Tayler, Dr. Beard,
the Rev. rJ. Martineau, of Liverpool; the Res. Mr. Robin-
son, of Dukinfield. The tenor of the resolutions was, ap-
proval of the scheme proposed by the got% rnment, with
some modification in the details. It was determined 'that a
&potation should proc, ed to London to lay the readutions
before the govetorneut. A committee of fens gentlemen,
Mr. James Heywood, the Rev. J. J. Teyler, Mr. Dreg, and
Mr. Rayner Wood, was appointed to elect the deputation,
and to make the necessary arrangements for retrying out
the views of the meeting. The proceedings were protracted,
not ending until about 4 o'clock.

A MEETING TO OPPOII2 IIOVERNMENT SCHEME OP
EDUCATION AM also held at Manchester, on Tuesday even-
ing, by the Lancashire Congregational Uniou. Mr. T.
Blackburne, of Liverpool, preeidid, and the meeting was
addressed by the Rev. John Kelly, of Liverpool, Mr. Ald.
Kershaw, Dr. Vaughan, Dr. Halley, Mr. E. Dawson, of
Lancaster, Mr. C. Robertson, of Iffeerpoel, and Dr. Mamie.
A series of resolutions were adopt d, denying that it was the
duty of government to provide education, and asserting that
by the proposed plan, under the centralising influence of the
executive, and with the inability of many ardent friends of
education to co-operate in the measure from conscientious
difficulties, a dangerous amount of patronage would be
vetted in the government, an injurious sectarian ascendancy
secured to the established church, and the mind of the nation
would be trained to servility, and surrender its salt-reliance.
A deputation was appointed to wait upon the members of
the government in London, and to attend a conference there
on the 13th inst. It was strongly urged in all the speeches,
that if the government persisted in this measure, that the
congregationalists should separate themselves from the whig
party and form a political alliance, the object of which
should not merely stop at relieving themselves of this mea-
sure, by brining their influence to bear at elections, but
should have for its object the wresting of religion altogether
from the trammels of the state. This sentiment was
loudly ap_
plauded.
THE 00VERNMENT SCHEME OP EDUCATION. At a
meeting held yesterday in the Unitarian Chspel, Paradise-
street, Liverpool, the Rev. J. Martineau moved a resolution,'
declaratory of the right and duty of government to educate
the people. After a brief historical review of the progress of
education, the rev. gentleman expressed his high approval
of the government measure, of which he recited the leading
provisions. He apprehended that all who denied the right
of the state to educate the people, sasumed that that right
was vested in the parent of the child. But the state, in
affording aid, did not subvert that right. Did not our laws
require the parent to give the child a maintenance ? If so,
the abstract right to interfere was already conceded. The
interference of the state with education was not a novelty,
he contended ; seta for this purpose were palsied by the Soot-
tish legislature so early as the fifteenth century. In the New
England states of America, scarcely a citizen could be
found who would dream of disputing the undoubted right
of the state to see the children educated. When govern-
meat, he held, followed crime by punishment, it was hound
to do all it could to prevent crime, by furnishing adequate
instruction. Previous to a penal we should have an edu-
cational system. He proceeded to contend that the volun-
tary system had failed, and said, two years ago he was in-
strumental in procuring returns as to the mesas and state of
education in the borough of Liverpool. It was then found
that the total number of children between five and. 14 years
of age receiving instruction amounted to 36,789, whereas
the actual population between those ages was 64,820
children.

Tax EDUCATION 4.111171101; IN BIRMINONAX.—The
agitation on this very important subject proceeds apace in
Birmingham. Our correspondent (writing last evening)
rye: " During the last three days various meetings, which
may be looked upon as preliminary to the town meeting,
have been held under the auspices of the clergy of the esta-
blishment, and at all of these resolutions have been passed
signifying approbation of the government scheme, and me-
morials to the House of Commove in the spirit of these have
been adopted. The meeting to take place on Friday excites
perhaps more interest than anything of the kind since the
days of the political union. The opponents to the govern-
ment scheme have placarded the town with all sorts of
anonymous handbills ; and it is understood they will make
an avempt on Friday to take the Town-hall by storm. Mr.
Bolan is to harangue the public to-morrow evening as a
sort of preliminary flourish to the subsequent day's pro-
' ceedings."

BOARD OP EDUCATlUSi;;ii;;Tiiioczni of ROCHES-
yeR.—The annual general meeting of the Herta division of
the Board of Education for the diocese of Rochester was
held in the Town-hall, St. Albans, yesterday. The attend-
ance was numerous and highly respectable, including many
of the clergy and gentry resident in the vicinity. Among
the persons present (besides the gentlemen who took part in
the proceedings), we observed the Rev. F. Sullivan, the
Rey. J. Bramston and the Rev. J. Eden (secretaries of the
Essex division of the Board of Education for the diocese),
Sir J. li. Seymour, Bart., Mr. C. S. Chesney, Mr. C. J.
Dimsdale, the Rev. F. T. Falthfull, Mr. H. B. Nicholson,
Mr. W. Franks, and the Hon. F. D. Ryder.
The chair was taken at 12 o'clock, by the Bishop of
RoCHESTER, who, having commenced the proceedings with
prayer, expressed hie gratification at being called upon to
preside at the annual meeting of the society. He hoped the
meeting would pass a resolution approving the measures pro-
posedby her Majesty's Government for promoting the
better
education of the people. He could certainly have
washed that those measures had been more favourable to the
Established Church, which was the proper teacher of the
people ; but being fully aware of the difficulties with which
this subject was surrounded, he thought they might very
safely accept the proposition of the ministers of the crown.
He trusted that, by an unity of action between the laity and
the clergy, they would be enabled to establish a better system
of education for the people. The right rev. prelate suggested
that the proposal to establish an industrial school for girls in
the northern division of the county of Hertford, which
would be brought before the meeting in the course of the
proceedings, should be submitted to a committee of the
board, who might consider the best mode of carrying out the
project.
The Rev. L. DEEDED, the secretary of the board for this
division, stated that letters had been received from Lord
Robert Grosvenor, the Rev. B. Bickerrteth, and other gen-
tlemen expressing their regret that they were unable to
attend the meeting. The rev. gentleman then proceeded
to read the report for the put year, which stated that the
board had recently been enabled to establish exhibitions of
801. a year at St. Mark's College, and of 601. a year at
Whiteleaurs, for the training of masters and mistresses
of schools in connexion with the Established Church. The
board, having recently hat under consideration the mi
notes of the Committee of Privy Council with reference to
education, had unanimously adopted a memorial expressive
of their grateful acceptance of the aid offered by the Go-
vernment to furtherance of education in Church of England
schools. They were anxious, also, to impress upon the clew
the importance of immediately availing themselves of the
advantages offered by the minutes of the Privy Council, not
because they thought the Government plan conferred any
particular boon upon the Church of England, as the
authorized instructor of the great maxi of the people,
but under the persuasion that the Government mea-
sure might be accepted by the clergy of that church without
any sacrifice of principle. The board wished to express their
sense of the benefits which had resulted from Government
inspection to the schools periodically visited by the in.
spector,. It was most gratifying to them to have the testi-
mony of Mr. Allen, the inspector for the district, in his
report, that the schools in connexion with the church in
this county had made most satisfactory :progrese. The
board expressed their regret that the connexion of
Mr. Allen with the Herts district bad ceased, that gentle-
man having relinquished the inspectorship to the Rev. F. C.
Cook. The report then stated that application for pecuniary
assistance had increased during the year, and that grants,
amounting to 1441., bad been made since the last report was
presented to the subscribers. The receipts of the board
during the last year had been 3541. 9s. ; which, with a
balance of 411. ss. 6d. from the preceding year, made the
total income of the society 3951. Its. 6d. The actual expen-
diture to the 31st of December last was 1051. 3e. 6d, • but
the board was pledged to the payment of 1191. in addition ;
which made the total expenditure 2241. 3s. 6d.
The Earl of VeaI:LAY moved the first resolution: " That
the report be adopted and printed, with other documents,
under the direction of the board, for circulation in the dio-
cese." The noble earl observed, that whatever might have
been the responsibilities of our ancestors with regard to
education, and however they might have fulfilled them, be
thought it was clear that the responsibility whisk devolved
upon the present generation was infinitely greater. If this
country was to fulfil its mission, if, as he firmly believed, it
was intended to propagate the gospel in all foreign countries,
they must take care that they had a staff of missionaries
capable of carrying out this great object. They must edu-
cate the people, and if they did this there would be no leek
of good and efficient ministers.
The Rev. G. B. BLonIIELD seconded the resolution;
which was unamiously adopted.
Mr. H. H BURCHELL, High Sheriff of the county of
Harts, moved the following resolution :—" That, although
the minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, of
August and December last, offer no peculiar advantages to
the Church of England, yet as the acceptance of them in-
volves no sacrifice of principle, this meeting cordially assents
to the proposals contained therein for the more frequent and
efficient inspection of the schools in connexion with the
beard; and gratefully acknowledges the impulse given to
the voluntary efforts of the friends of education by the
promise of extended assistance to all cleans without
infringement upon the rights of any." He need
not tell them that, although he believed the most per-
fect unanimity would exist in that meeting, a great di-
versity of opinion prevailed elsewhere with regard to the
recently published minutes of the Privy Council on the sub-
ject of education • and that a large proportion of the dis-
senters had declared their hostility to the government
scheme. The fact was, however, that their dissenting bre-
thren were offered assistance upon precisely the same
groluid on which aid was offered to the Church of
England, and if there was any advantage at all it
was in favour of the dissenters. (Hear, Inst.) The
schools of dissenters would he subjected to inspection ea well
as the schools in connexion with the Church of England ; hut
though the inspectors of church schools would be subject to
the approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury, his Grace
would have nothing to do with dissenting schools, and in
those schools no particular religious instruction would be
required beyond the reading of a portion of Scripture every
day. He had no doubt the opposition which had been
manifested to the government measure arose from the cer-
tainty that the schools in connexion with the Church of
England would receive the larger portion of the grant pro-
posed to be appropriated to educational purposes; but test
must of necessity be the ease if the grant was Impartially
distributed, for happily the greater proportion of the people
of this country were attached to the doctrine and discipline

of the Church of England. If any one had a right to com-
plain of the proposed measure it was not the dissenters bat
the churchmen ; because, for the general good, churchmen
were celled upon to submit to the violation of the principle
they had hitherto maintained, that funds ought not to be
afforded by the state to religious establishments which
were not in connection with the state. He would not enter
into this question, because, as they had submitted to the
endowment of Maynootb, he knew it might be said that
they ought tot to clamour against the proposed grant to di,-
senten. He hoped, however, that the meeting would give
their sanction to the resolution he had the honour to submit
to them,

The Ven.
Archdeacon BURNEY seconded the resolution,
and after expreming his regret that ill health prevented his
successor in the archdeationry of that district (Archdeacon
Grant) from attending the meeting, observed, that in his
opinion the as
opinion by the Committee of Privy
Council on Education afforded great advantages for effect-
ing an entire union in the operation of the two educational
boards of this diocese,—that established in Esser, and that
which had convened the present meeting. He (Archdeacon
Burney) would endeavour to point out to them the benefits
which he conceived would result from their acceptingthe offer
of the committee of Privy Council, and he would also endea-
vour to show that a very valuable impulse would be given to
the voluntary efforts of the members of the church in promot-
ing education, by the Government measure. He thought,
if he established his position, that they ought thankfully
and gratefully to accept the offer of her Majesty's Ministers,
for be was satisfied that their acceptance of that offer would
involve no sacrifice of principle. He considered that great
advantages would result from the extension of the system
of inspection contemplated by the minutes of the Privy
Council. The system of examination by government in-
spectors of schools had hitherto been extremely valuable;
and the feelings of prejudice—or, he might perhaps say, of
jealousy and suspicion—with which the clergy at one time
regarded such inspection, had, he thought, entirely vanished,
and they were now satisfied that the visits of the in-
spectors, instead of subjecting them to any injurious inter-
ference, had been generally most beneficial to the
schools under their superintendence. He believed the
great majority, perhaps the whole of the clergy.
would soon arrive at the conclusion that it would
be a great misfortune if their schools were deprived of the
advantage of inspection. An additional benefit which would
arise under the plan proposed by her Majesty', government
would be that the inspectors would be ulled upon to deter-
mine whether, among the pupils instructed in the schools,
there were any of such promise and aptitude sa to render it
likely that they might become good teachers. If any of
the scholars were approved by the inspectors, their names
would be submitted to the Committee of Privy Council, acd
those of higher attainments would be appointed pupil
teachers, while those of inferior attainments would act as
stip!ridiary monitors. The benefits of this system were se
obvious that it was scarcely necessary for him to point them
out. In the first place it would ensure an ample supply
of well educated masters and mistresses. It must lead to
an impressment in the competency of the masters, be-
cause, as the pupils would unclasp an annual examina-
tion on the plan laid down in the minute, of the
Privy Council, those meatus who were found wanting
in ability or diligence would Mew the disapproval of the in.
specters, and would forfeit those pecuniary advantages which
they would otherwise derive. The pupils intended for mas-
ters or mistresses, after undergoing a course of five years' ili-
um:Bon in the elementary schools, would be removed to
normal wheels • and the expense of their education would,
to a considerable extent, be defrayed by the Government.
Grants of money, in proportion to the number of pupils,
would be made for the establishment of normal schools;
and an annual allowance would be mule to pupil teachers,
commencing at 101., to be increased V. 10s. annually for
five yeas, and an allowance to stipendiary monitors, be-
ginning with 51. a year, and increasing annually. The
money thus granted would he an inducement to the parents
of children to forbear from withdrawing them from the
schools, either because they could not afford to keep
them there, or because they could not dispense with
the fruits of their labour. Another advantage would be that
the masters educated in these schools would carry into the
world an extremely good education; and he believed that
the proposed system would give an impulse to education
which it would be almost Impossible for the church, even
with the assistance of the laity, to afford without the
aid of the government. He considered that these advan-
tages would iaduce greater voluntary efforts for the pro-
motion of education on the part of the members of the
church. Scarcely any of the benefits he had mentioned
would be granted by :the committee of privy council
unless their offers were met by proportionate contributions
in the districts where their aid was required. When it
was considered that these contributions were to be made
chiefly by that class whose gifts, he must be allowed
to say, had not been at all proportioned to the means with
which God had blessed them, he thought the clergy were
justified in regarding the boon offered by the government
as one to which, as a body, they were fully entitled. (Hear,
hear.) Ile believed that if a tabular view of the parochial
schools throughout England were presented to the meet-
ing, it would be seen that the proportion supplied by the
clergy of the established church was such as to prove that
they were not insensible to their duties, while the inference
might be drawn that they had not been supported as he
thought they deserved to be by the wealth and intelligence
of the laity. (Hear, hear.) He hoped he had not made
this observation in an improper manner ; and he could
mare the meeting that he was far from undervaluing
the greatly improved feeling which had recently been
manifested by the laity with reference to the subject of edu-
cation. Many large contributions had been given by lay
members of the church for the promotion of education, and
these gifts showed an increasing desire on their ;art to pro-
vide for the instruction of the children of those who lived
upon their property and who laboured for their benefit. He
thought it scarcely necessary to say anything wi'h re-
ference to the objection that the church of England could
not receive the assistance now offered by the govern-
ment without a sacrifice of principle. That aid was
offered to the church unshackled by any restrictions;
the church was left in full possession of its own ordi-
nances; it was left to regulate the religious education of
the children committed to its are according to its own
will. The minutes of privy council went even further than
this, for they intimated as strongly as it was possible to
do without a direct requisition, which of course could not
be made, that the clergy of the established church would
be expected to take their part in the religions portion of
the examination of the stipendiary monitors and pupil
teachers throughout the whole course of their training.
(Hear.) 'This would keep the church in its proper position,
and would afford the clergy ample means of discharging
their duty to their neighbours and to God. He cones-
dered that the claims of the church of England to the
larger proportion of the proposed grant could not
be denied, for that church possessed a greet nume-
rical superiority in the country and a great supe-
riority of wealth—he referred to the share which the
members of the established church contributed to the great
national stock or fund from which the parliamentary vote
was to be taken. He considered that any objections which
might formerly have existed to the acceptance by the church
of such an offer as was now made by the government had
been removed. If they looked at the inspectors, they (mad
that they were,alincet without exception, ie believed, clergy-
men of thee own communion, who had been educated at the
universities, and who entertained the strongest regard for
the doctrines and discipline of the church of England. But
if any further securits were needed, it was found in the fact,
that these inspectors could not be appointed except by the
highest ecclesiastical authority in the church. It they re-
quired any assurance that the prelates of the church con-
curred in the propriety of their accepting the offer of the
privy commit, be thought it was afforded by the presence
among them to-day of their right rev, diocesan, who
had told them what his viers" were. Similar opinions had
been expressed by many right rev. prelates, and he (Arch-
deacon Burney, believed there was no b.sbop on the bench
who did not admit the immense advantages which must
accrue to the-whole population from the adoption et the pro-
rrof her Majesty's government. The church had
erto received a much larger proportion of the grant
appropriated to education than those schools which were
framed on the principle of the British and Foreign Society ;
but he attributed this not to any partiality in the distribution
of the grant, but simply to the fact that the church had
exercised infinitely more care to deserve support by the
larger number of its schools, and by its more strenuous efforts
for the general improvement of education. So it would he now,
if they only applied the yet unexhausted resources of that
church whose sure foundation, he believed, depended in no
alight degree on the religious education of the people.
hear.)—The resolution was then agreed to.
Mr. C. W. PULLER moved the third resolution ;—" That
this meeting especially recognises the benefit that is likely to
be derived to schools in agricultural districts by the encou-
ragement given in the said minutes to the elder and more
mtelligent scholars to remain in the schools beyond the usual
period of instruction ; as well as the system propounded in
the same minutes for raising up a supply of teschers, to be
carefully selected from all the schools throughout the
kingdom, and efficiently trained in the normal institutions."
Ho expressed his satisfaction at the proposal of her
Majesty's government, which he thought would be attended
with most beneficial results. It had been complained
that the measure did not go far slough—that it wu not a
sufficinat scheme of general national education; but in that
opinion he certainly did net concur, for he thought it would
have been a great misfortune if any system had been pro-
posed by the state which might have had the effect of damp-
ing or superseding thou exertions which had of late year
been made in the cause of education. (Hear, hear.) He
considered that the Government measure was eminently
calculated to meet the wants of the country; and he
believed that the system of appointing pupil teachers and
uipendiary monitors would have the effect of bringing lee-
ward
a large number of amiable and talented young poems
who might render good service to the camel of education,
but who would otherwise have passed their lives in inferior
pursuits.
The Rev. R. EDEN, in seconding the resolution,
observed, that great difficulty, if not en utter impossibility
was experienced, especially in the agricultural districts, in
keeping children in the schools when they arrived at 10 or 11
years of age. Their services then became available to their
parents, and just at the period when they were capable of
receiving a really useful education they were withdraw
from the 'chute. He believed, however, that this evil would
be in a great measure remedied by the proposal of the Privy
Council to afford grants for pupil teachers and stipendiary
monitors; for they would now be enabled to hold oat to the
parents of children of good talents and qualifications the
prospect, that if they were permitted te remain in the schools,
they might attain a respectable and honourable position.
' He (Mr. Eden) might observe, with reference to the esta-
blishment of normal schools, that it must not be supposed
that the instruction obtained by the pupil teachers and sti-
pendiary monitors in the parochial schools would be wash as
would qualify them to become school masters and raieereesss
without any further education. It was absolutely necessary,

after they had been trained in the parochial or elementary
schools, that they should be placed in the normal schools
to receive a thoroughly good education ; and he was much
gratified that this subject was co fully provided for
by the minutes of the Privy Council. He mast protest
against the proposal of the Government being regarded as a
church measure. (Hear.) Though the member; cf the church
might approve of the proposal, and might avail themselves
of the aid which it was intended to afford, they must not be
led by the clamour which had been raised against the mea-
sure to entertain the notioa that it was in any degree a
church museum. True, it offered Willtalle• to the church,
but not as the established church of the:country. Assist-
ance was to be offered to the church of England merely be-
cause its members were members of the body politic, and
because they were thereby entitled to receive • certain
amount of that aid which the Government offered to all who
desired to promote the cause of education. He felt that
this charge, which was brought against the proposal of
the government by the dissenters, was altogether fallacious,
and was calculated to mislead many persons. He believed
sad hoped that the government would stand firm, and
would not yield to the clamour which had been raised against
their plan; and he trusted also that the church would he
prepared to resist any interference—if interference should
be attempt. d—with the religious instruction to be given in
church of England schools. (Hear, hear.)—The resolution
was then put by the chairman, and was carried unani-
mously.
The Rev. C. 15. PEARSON moved "That with the view
of efficiently completir.g the educatiou and training of pupil
teachers and other young persons for the situation of school-
mistresses, it is desirable that a normal indintrial school for
training female teachers should be established for the diocese
of Rochester, and that the bishop be requested to appoint a
committee, who may report as to the best method or setting
on foot such an institution, and as to the selection of a rite
most adapted to the convenience of the whole diocese."
The Rev. J. BRAMSTON seconded the resolution, and
stated that the object of the proposed normal school was to
train a class of teachers who, besides au ordinary education,
might be able te afford young girls in the agricultural die:
tricts such instruction in domestic matters u might fit them
for service in families. The motion was agreed to.
The Rev. Mr. PRRSTON wished to ask the right rev.
chairman whether he considered it advisable that those per-
sons in this diocese who approved of the Government plan of
education should petition Parliament in its favour ?
The Bishop of Rocuraren replied, that a petition in
favour of the measure had already been presented from the
Diocesan Board of Education, but he saw no reason to dis-
approve of petitions from any part of the diocese if it was
deemed advisable te forward them.
Archdeacon BURNES thought the suggestion of Mr.Prestan
would be met by • motion be would beg to submit to the
meeting .—" That • copy of the resolutions agreed upon at
this meeting be forwarded to the Lord President of the
Council, and that the resolutions be also advertised in the
public papers." This, he thought, considering the character
of that meeting, would be sufficient to show what was the
feeling entertained with reference to the Government mea-
sure by the clergy and laity of the established church in that
diooree, . .

Mr. PRESTON concurred is the suggestion of the vener-
able archdeacon, and seconded the resolution, which was at
once ad.cyted.
The Marquis of SALISBURT (who entered the hall during
the proceedings), in moving a vote of thanks to the right
rev. chairman, expressed his gratification that the
schools in connexion with the church of England in that
county bad recently increased very considerably in number
end efficienc7, and that the subject of education was new
receiving eo large a share of attention from the clergy and ,
IlentrY.
Mr. T. P. HALSEY, M.P., seconded the resolution, which
was carried by acclamation.
The Bishop of Rocxlll3lllt, in acknowledging the compli-
ment, observed, that he was much gratified at the entire
unanimity which had marked the proceedings of the day,
and that he would feel great pleasure in communicating to
the Lords of the Privy Council what was the feeling of SO
numerous and respectable a meeting.
The proceedings then terminated

TUB INCRISDIA KT FIRES AT 130HAX.—M11. Munson, who
was remanded some time back for setting fire to some pre-
mien at Soham, in the occupation of Mr. Cooper, of that
place, was on Saturday Let committed for trial at the next
assizes. During the examination, which was holden at
Soham, her son Josiah was anxionsly waiting outside the
room to hear the result. It was found, necessary, however,
to send for a witness from Mildenhall; in the interim, the
magistrates sent for Josiah, who came boldly into the room,
wondering, apparently, what they wanted him for; and his
surprise and mortification may be imagined when Mr. Wil.
kin, solicitor, said that he appeared to prefer a charge against
him of having in fire to a stack of straw, on Nov. 1. 1848,
the property of Mr. T. Peck, of Soham, whereby several
outbuildings were destroyed; upon which charge the pri-
soner stood remauded until Saturday, when he was heard at
the Crowa Inn, Soham, and was fully committed.

REPRESENTATION OF RAST Suessx.—The Surrey G -
tette says .—" Lord Cantilupe is Rot to be alone in the field.
From a confidential communication received only within
•

there few hours, it appears that there will yet be • another
' Richmond in the field,' who will enter the lista as a decided
supporter of liberal principles. The noble viscount calls upon
the electors net to pledge as yet their votes to any candidate.
We earnestly counsel a strict adherence to the course thus
recommended. We say this in no bar of the claims possessed
by the noble viscount. It would, indeed, at present be prema-
ture either to support or to oppose the noble candidate, for the
very sufficient reason that his lordship's address contains no
mannerof enunciation ef principles. The author of the address
to the electors of East Sussex may be an excellent free trader or
• determined protectionist—he may be an uncompromising
Whig or a decided Tory—a supporter of Lord John Russell,
• disciple of Sir Robert Peel, or (Heaven forefend !) an ad-
mirer of that " comprehensive" statesman, Lord George
Bentinck. Any or all of these may Viscount Cantilupe
be, for aught that the electors of East Sussex at present know
about the matter ; but while saying thus much, it would be
uncandid not to state that we have baud it positively maenad
that the noble lord is no longer a votary of protection, but
that on the contrary, he espouses the principles of free-trade,
asexemplified in the measures propounded by the late Premier.
In the present state of affairs, the electors of East Sussex
will hardly need the caution conveyed in Lord Cantilupe's
address. The extremely ill-judged—not to say unwarrantable
interference assumed by Mr. Frewea is scarcely likely to
induce the electors to pledge themselves to the gentleman
he has thought fit to nominate as his successor, while they
would naturally be equally aurae to give in that. adhesion
to a candidate who, like the noble lord in questi, a, however
estimable he may be in character, or however elevated in
position, has not as yet made any declaration of the principles
by which his political views are governed. Until that de-
claration shall be fairly and fully before the public, the
electors cannot possibly, to use the noble lord's own words,
" ascertain how fur he is justified in venturing to prefer a
claim to their support." In the mean while, however, unless
the noble lord speedily shine forth, there may arise a star in
the East whose known position is the political firmament
will leave no room for doubt, delay, or indecision."
ESSEX.

MEETING 07 THE ROYAL—AOHICULTERAL SOCIETY IN
1849.—A circular ha been addressed to the inhabitants of
Chelmsford, relative to the holding the great country meet-
ing of the Royal Agricultural Society for the eastern district
of the kingdom in this town in the year 1849; and the usual
list of inquiries is enclosed as to the accommodation that
could be afforded for that purpose. The place of the eastern
meeting will not be finally fixed by the society till May,
1848: the townsfolk and their friends may talk over the
ways 3nd means, and consider if something cannot bi done
at Chelmsford to uphold the agricultural fame of Else:.
RAM NH IRE.
_ _ .

ATTIMPTID MURDEI77I;;ii7CIISI.-At Forebear, yes-
terday, Charles Wolfe, a footman in the service of Mr. W.
Thrasher, .me of the county matistrates, was committed for
trial for ctempting to murder his fellow-servant, a young
woman named Elizabeth Ayling. The prisoner made no
defence. It appeared from the evidence that he fol-
lowed the provecutriz into her room, there streek her on
the head, and then attempted to kill her with a razor. She
had courage and atrength to straggle with him, and escaped,
aßer receiving some severe wounds in the hands. The pri-
soner then attempts dto cut his own throat. From one por-
tion of the evidence, it would appear he was incited by
jealousy.

LITERATURE.

The School in its Relatiane to the Statehe Church, and
the Congregation.. Murray.M Congregation.—London :

WE have already noticed this semi-official pamphlet,
and its temperate answers to the vehement attacks
made, either by undesigned misapprehension, or in-
tentional misrepresentation, on the ministerial toes-
sums for the improvement of education. The object
of the writer has been to show from a history of the
past efforts to effect an improvement of national edu-
cation in England, the mode in which the present
measure was necessarily moulded and framed. so as to
avoid shocking opinions, which experience had proved
to be equall powerful and prevalent. We quote the
the nature of the measure now prepomed,
samilmZ set add any roamed:
la war to ream the singlea 'ace wren memenemalet
loam step ormaria * Ms maspeens et al. mamas Is their
erassaine albs maimma tmeg entimeern the so=l.6emii
we hen demean ig seasetinaer. here areally
Oar Imenelemi age siesierstarie tie velloteme lamegelia sea
en ban one ell paler diameees edam set a the re-
gime gm remennale Waft lieren ammo
The welkin la
ameerree et Ma saga lhat ibey
emallel via la On et tho allsage bentatin
ova
Alhe awl et en ezemilign. While
an theas=
va _aw the illegaba mean Wend an ag gawp-
Ymy gml Is idlsbne leglanita 01l naiad ge=lir thMr
me teal demean erg on glides the -
prommentotar awry Imarmliemetthe= be
em amities may
at stn. rest a lbe ea/ow gf gob weir leannin. ale
Omahas et Osemil MB mei a as anita the et
Oren stagier node. Sado deans etanages=re
=a=ndiseweetatheistliCir dismid="abl lijel=hl krittalmgasiro.
east der gado an ads abed Is Nat the
Oa rhea erg amainhema et
teo par to made er the eagellem la their
eat no sena minglentemar P. tbas a and •
mast is yeah Imetroalsa la am astemblea sent liaggy Ingairei
area eit tbe eastees ; to mast loon use Wham to
amid• Ile the abed bdtheeragge midie=
Oga SY sma be Yr be
ire age& ail k Y baron seal be sirs, bat Ka added. It Wad
,better the isenamint se banal to gin gimmilem and be
lathe gala= rit semeen eb-
petga Oen ebilamoratragola eweleales gal laagy
Mae Ana Ikea abed esameNtee tea seaman a held be its
an boa the peen et Wenn edasardstrag 111. ;et de. the
le he illmasilen wine learegtho, sea
mane easeed is the gaga ; edgeties the
ben; divelmis pulifterse inerary agattes

3

is tact, et reprilseing to all 'styrene its affairs. In the
selection of the begthelbla win stay vital the nohool, the
government will *melt the Ettanatica Committee, or other
ventral authority ashat veer the intermits a the schools of
each religious costa--fen. The Inspetor will act ander innervations
restraining him test all latereorenee writ the daciplow and manage-
ment of the school Ife win barn so authority to direct, and will not
be permitted even to advise, Maim Invited to uo eo be the school conn.
mithee With these precanticas against thee:action. of authority, he
will not fail to be useful to all schools which he ntl v4oet, by shil
billy placing under the light of a .arching ex.:unbar kat, conducted is
the presence of the manager., the actual condition of the scbooL The
results of hie experience will be available for their instruction and
guidance. If they desire the assiatance of the government to enable
them to provide for the apprenticeship of pupil. teachers, hr will tea
come the organ of an impartial communication with the incimittee
'of Council. If the minter desire to prevent himself for eissininatiON
foe the oertifkate necessary to an aegmentatiea of bin salary, the
inspector will inform him what are the studies to be raratied, and
the wandard of requirements no be attained, In order to proture this
benefit for himself and for the reboot. If the sogn• (-Asians of entry
be granted, it will be withdrawn in any rear on old/. h the managers
return a certificate of their satisfaction in the conduct of the me,tee
and of his attention to Me duck& "'or a similar C. 1,0. the wipend
of the pupthteacher will awe. Yet the mower and has are
I described, by the objectors to this roe:sore, as solnernb at to the
authority of the executice, to a degree menacing the Ithertien of the
! country. UM, on the contrary, difficult to conceive any system by
which the sympathies of the religious coegegationn amid ho more
carefully consulted-by which their diwretion could be left more
completely unfettered—or which could afford effectual wevistanoe,
no Terme more conducive to the interests of civil And religious
liberty. Comiderable effort has beat made to produce 1/11 IMMO.
4041 that the Established Church of England will .Melly derive
advantage from the administration of the jorliamentary grant, accord-
ing to the minute. for August and December, 1040, yet in point of the
extent of the require:wpm, which aremelt liana of grans under those
minutes, the *drainage is certainly on the side Cl school, eat con-
nected with the tatabiished Church. to British and Dinner ting whoon,
the inspector will not examine the religious Ina:ln:Con. If the
manager. certify that they are wati.fieti w.th the ride of the religious
knowledge of the pupil-tsar:ism, the Committee of (Awned will not re-
quire further proof of proficiency, or that any exteettem Mail be tired,
or any par 'tutor form of reticents instnietum rdmiled, beyond the
daily reading de portion of the Seri Mares in the school When the
managers of British or Dies tinsrseltools certify, that the apprectice his
been attentive to his religiousdutko, no requirement is to be .wade ash
Ws attendanceocany partichler chime( thrust worship. It isobvious.
therefore, that the conditions of grants to Divsentiog wheels
! ere much las stringent than thooe unloose on whorls connected
I with the Church of Englanth It has also bees repreeented, that, by
these minutes, the Mew of the Eatablisited Ceurelt will enjoy a
large seleubt of Pnusinte and influence. The fact that they are
requited to waist the inspector in examining the religious lutowlealps
of the pupil-teachers in Church of Malawi school., and, at the close
of every year, to cenaty that the apprentices hare been attentive to
their religious duds, la been represented as conferrom en the
clergy an inordinale power, and a paronace so votenove an to
threaten religious_ Pre y. But the parochial minister has en
authority in thumb et MOM abeals, in Elms or any other par_
tichlar, which is a abied te the assingew in Petah or Dis-
senting schools. Itheither patrage a latisecoe is to be enjeyed
by the clergy he the son athi, in ethilered on the menzget, ia
the other. 'in the arraigned kat there in a prefect polarity.
We have ads these reserks, about questicatng „A bother
is it i 2 any apse faterereeerse this poser to award °Miriams of
the state of the ailyisth bayeilap 1 peryil-teachers, and of their
attendants:talk nada dabs, sea arms of dinpern.ing satrorilfre
and exercising bakesed lab • repieratioa Involves a charge of
corrupticet wise then preshill sod be inference
spoiled thinness= silltillithad 1.. the zeal by
the demand amithies et alai kr the instruction of the
Withrow d their aswirepdsw. Is, in the of a euntroversialist,
amnia Marthey k esek la lest may st e spiritual
palsy. Ber Way% alas base a dated that the prelnenn.
saybelby am the deem seal es men the managers of
Dirsmilog Winek. Imbibes etha &sire theta scholar...had bo-
sses Ihresughig is dis Antrim, precepts, end evidencen o.
dareheathelempateacewith the material
yea • idols Mb, a weapons with which to repel
INNIS; ; lathe they.ther atheisedad, that they wild resort to
• penalth et the aaiedlp masa to them, simply to bribe pose
eididata lobed dads thely, sae at bring of their faith. bit it
impurity dial lake lithe epporttaks for the exercise of the
tw seryseed depasas siebally, that add be attributed only to ore et
emeses,—thar le the Mt that the media of satiety in !ay-
had is ea that, by wthary smaxiietke, the bean
W bath the ma ea the win toast a appal mess itosehe
dna Se &alb. essamiess; or h Shelia at canon beat
et
Dana night, mathrier grab are petleipae the
aderapse anal be Ora by the lirralllmaL Mk
are Ma tiled ale et mak, a mire abliadabie be Ibe=
make; weakb. sad cat et amuse et the liotabliseed
thee to etil satiate a laded Mass, ix It wool
Wag aria' milk Id equitable peal*, a spates Whe
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miathee par that la sid of volution inertial.; k
della asteda thee the alma et the sothatery
ea aka da the amber a the dieisetsy of area rthl:
paw to any edam ethathlea dad bier say etha idea a
the ithaseze.reakbelbes at Sir apps arcs rhea=
wide Shan albase ale institution. as
Oa the sea Isar=lsysetty shooki arise from the datermi-
MUM d careerist le Ma the all of the government, this would
oats* be • eediallthad pada, by no 11111100 Inherent in the
mama such ea elation ha he cannel in the op.r.ions of these
pa::
*ton to any Yawnet ragas endowments, or rather to the
of rtlliOnse emiewenint b "source. in any degree
assn Tat • atherik alrmY mak for conseknee mike the do-
alga of its ally althea, se pas itself in a preition of pee.
was prated spirt beelialor named by experience
▪ impeard by the ky, set peal, be the inevitable
ma tha baba et salsa as sada Finite and public,
which is happily seat to lailvideek and aseueiations by the
English constatuties. Esesesnms he nab a minority is a question
of public convenience sal peeled etaameeldp. Few Are prepared
to appropriate to pwdy lathe the the tithes and other endowments
of the EntsibliaWd Church, la ea • ems as the prenent, the mi-
nority would limply deprive IS wthattarily of its share of the
means destined by the stets le saasent the rrnourom of private
charity. It in obviously aka the power of the minority to dorm
its attachment to its own principles, by the increased persoaal Caeri.
filXll of its members to fill the weld which its ejection has ocrwelotied.
But it in innwsnibe to admit, ow • salikient objection to the adoption
of soy manure which does tad .Mate the tat prindplos of juntice,
mid which the majority teenern tends to the gem ral advantage, the
fact that a protecting minority debit the Millen sanctions for the
scrupling which induced them to undergo privation, or submit to the
opaline of their good. for conscience eke.

Ott farts.
SCULPTURE FOR THE HOUSE OP LORDS.—Mr.
Haodyside Ritchie, of Edinburgh, has received instructions
to execute two of the bronze statues for the llowse of Lords.

ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS IN
Holiner the Pope has commissioned a number of artists from
amongst the first in Italy to execute, partly from original
portraits, partly from medals and coins, the likemessec of
all the sovereign pontiffs his preocci saws (258 in number),
that these may be copied is mosaic to adorn the Basilica of
St. Paul, where a similar series perished in the fire. The
*twee will afterwards be permanently placer)/ is the Vatican
llueetust.—Athewauss,_