The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-21 00:00:00

Ikea team may ether almonstames in their power to imagine.
Wan voluntary b souk op*. nobody. Umiak tax no toe
Ile tho suspect of that el dick they mid mat conecientt
-osslyasprowe. It oeslismi a banal apes *sae shim -
Sri* undions, cad Seth spa the pimisk of our Lord
Insesl4 that "ft k macs Hosea is inis than to receive."
ITlkgaimsnant piss mai the Lessminbe Public NM*
MWole=lidap=pieltirgesinia. There wmrtmet
inikes •it ft ldarousi is the mink el
Ma who was amps tie of arlyfsle Minh is be fatal to
bok of km pima, Ilse ism* to eismeitima with Ws
vaksteiry plea he this adasitles of
with
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Zogiund—they wino ibmgesbn with a Ask'
ties . at • then sights of emiesissoe. They hillt al
them WS& am Ines to do the, al whisk shas semi-
=needy ami they wrested them bum=
that el whisk minelestioally approve& With
to *Si_,—s Minion d`colleioas Unity
isammuk as It largo kiln el thogemannicy
pap kr relV ot mkt* they esariatisesir
mite mina of simendes Smiths mums
PsotLO's Insist k not is *Ms hum Hs
say be wail an sabseritss to kik a isonsi.
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sal asst minatimily to other secular Wilnosims. am
,IlLeiraitil LOAM" but ha wonlinot be annsillsi teak
lgs know there wen same parsons who said tams err
m5l mit ineis44 bum tist system. Than was ammo IS
VW* langlos nom am excluded. But on that plan,plan,bo
, -
stostl. saminnao woe to be farmed. of aloe Moose. b -
=lor aims kikent religious denominations, who hid
OP stint to anything being taught in the
sehools which net agree with hie ems peculiar tenet,. It
was like the old fable of a men wbo had two wives, an old
one and a young one. The young one bad a dislike to the
any hairs on his head, and so plucked them ail oat. The
old on., having a west veneration for old egsw, die- I
liked de black hairs, seal so, between them, they left
the poor gentleman completely bald. It would be precisely
the IMMO with the committee—there would be very little ree,
ligion left. (Applause and laughter.) It was not thought
advisable to fore them all into one kind of thumb, then Why
attempt to force them all into one kind of school. Milton
said in his day, " Having cast off the old and wrinkled skin
of our corruption, I outlive these pangs ander': young again,
entering into the glorious paths of truth and prosperous vir-
tue, destined to become great and humble in these latter
ages." And of all places in the kindgdom he would never
come tadancheater to learn to shuttle on again this" old and
wrinkled skin of corruption," and I. be compelled by a lave
dictated by Manchester, to abide by • system of uniformity
mach as centuries *go the people cast off and scattered to the
winds. (Applause.) It was objected that the voluntary
system was Ineffielent. Bat if time people maid not provide
a sufficient number of schools, the govezammat had not the
power to do so, because the government &rived 611 its funds
from the people. All must doer from the people, the vast
box, the great trunk, of their industrious efforts and accu-
mulation. (Loud applause.)
Dr. HALLEY was then called upon by the
chairman. He spoke at great length ail argued against goiter-
mental interference both in education and religion. Educa-
tion, he contended, ought to be carried on upon the pi inciole
of competition, and Adam Smith's doctrine, that the sehoil
master must depend upon the payment of his pupils and not
upon the public for support, he held to be the true founds-.
ton of excellence in secular educ..tion. A stipendiary
system woul I be a ruinous one ; and were it tried
in any ono county of the fifty-taro of which Engler 1
was composed, it would be found that in ten pais h
that empty would be morally and tocially infinitely lx low
all the rest. He illustrated his argument by siting the con-
dition of the educational institutions both in Great Britain
and America, where the stipendiary system was tried, and
quoted larg-ly in support of the opinions he advanced from
Ame ric in educational ?trolls.
The Roy. Mr. MORLEY, one of the deputation fr-m Lon-
don, addressed the meeting afterwards in a few brief nn-
terms; and, on the motion of Mr. UADPtILD, seconded by
the E. H. NOLLN, thanks were voted to the deputa-
tion and the chairman, and 'he prokeediop elated.