The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-28 00:00:00

THE REVISED CODE OP EDUCATION AND THE

HOUSE OF LORDS.

On Tuesday the Bishop of Oxford will present
petitions to the Rouse of Lords against the revised code of
education, and call the attention of the house to the pro-
posed alterations.
Qn Friday next Lord Lyttelton will move the following
resolutions I. the chamber of the Lords:

"1. That certificated teachers and Queen's scholars have
an equitable claim upon the government for the no.
diminished payment of the allowances hitherto granted to
them on certain conditions as long as those conditions are
fulfilled.

" 2. That this house approves of the principle of public
aid being given to elementary schools according to their
soccer is performing their work, and also of the principle
of paid assistants in schools being engaged according to the
market value of their set vices from time to time ; but that
it considers that the manner in which it is proposed in the
revised code to give effect to those principles is in some
respects objectionable.
" 3. That the provisions of the Article 40, according to
which the proposed capitation grant is to he paid in respect
of the attainments of the children in reading, writing, and
arithmetse, are not satisfactory.
" 4. That any system of public aid to schools ought to in-
clude some specific advantage to schools in which the
branches of instruction above the elements are successfully
taught. . . .

"5. That the provision in section (A) article 41, is not
satisfactory.
" 6. That the diary and log book described in Articles
50.57, if required at all, ought to be more simply and
fully explained.
"7. That in the event of the government abandoning the
direct coneerioo which it has hitherto maintained with
pupil teachers and other assistant teachers in schools, it
ought to be left without prejudice to the managers of
schools to decide whether or not they will have such pupil
teachers or unietants."

On Tuesday Mr. Arthur Mills will call the atten-
tion of the House of Commons to the report of the
select committee of last session on Colonial Military Expen-
diture, and move the following resolution That this
hon./ (while fully reooguisiog the claims of all portions of
the British Empire to imperial aid in their protection
against perils arising from the conaequenom of imperial
policy) is of opinion that colonies exercising the rights of
self-government ought to undertake the main responsi-
bility of providing for their own internal order and se-
curity.*
The army estimates will be moved by Sir G. C.
Lewis in committee of supply on Monday next.
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On Monday Mr. Wentworth Beaumont will ask
the First. Commissioner of Works, whether, with the view

of relieving the crowded state of Park-lane, there will be
any objection to open Hyde-perk between Stanhope•gata
and Areley-pte for the passage of cabs while the Inter-
national Exhibition is open.
Mr. Griffith ou Monday will ask the Under-
tlearstary of State for Foreign Affair, whether information
has beam received that the captain of the Sunder has bees
arrested at Tangiers, at the instance of the American consul
at Gibraltar and the captain of the Timmons ; and, if so,
whether it is supposed that any pressure has been put on
the Moorish government by the American officials, or any
infringement of the independence of the territory of
Marmon has taken place in such transaction.