The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-03 00:00:00

VOLUNTARY EDUCATION.

Leg night the hien& of VeittailMF enbettleksit held 1
• menlifig Is Crosby Hall, for the posisee ei elseldwki
the eineellisel masers at the grioremost, sod Lord S.
Barite Ihe propriety of adopting peal
me maw in pebbles lbws's. The meeting wan name-1
* Minded.
Bantam, M.P., who presided, said that there Will
Mrs distiott mossares connoted with education now
MBn poilmeent—the noun» for the creation of a ape-
d tiso taut" Bail Granville's Masan on educe-
J. ilinmelf•• resolutious, wbieh he believed
were to he sendimel os the 10th of the mon h. He
evaded Me seseiwttose of Lord J. Russell IS as attempt to
'end the poen» system, and to that he objected. If
Ms »ileum of the inspectors of schools wet to
ha rand on, that system was a falai» (Hem, bear.)
With rrussspse@stf to the pupil teachers Mr. Watkine, en Wive-
tor, ataMitbat one.third:of the bod after beteg edenatell
et
the of the country, sssgbt other sod men hies-
Ore ats. (Hear, Mar.) Taro woe large end
W
besselei somber, he said. whir &Id slot Mew :SO
ftrasehilltrilliSS,l rival:get
NW, t (Haar, er.) The hem geotlemes referred to
the sigma of Whir_ pestere Mike same Abet. nil ma
denthenhe eertMefted mashers wee 37SL
Yolthero was no guarantee that they wield le ow the pro-
Maim if teachers for twelve menthe dim they had been
liebsel end ideated et so mash east, (Heir, hear.) Mr.
WAY. aloe mid that the leashiaery used is the @sheik
uses es It for the purpose es a perk of artillery was to Ms-
parss a leek of sparrows. (Hear, hoer.) la every ether
dmpartmsat, :latest. in ;he Isms wa misapplied
the muses mita d . Yet it was titer this eiposere
that Lord J. ma* to Wool tie system by a Meg
string of reesistlese. The vest dlllogty in the way ef
adseattee wee the isdilfeseeme of paseete. (Hoir, heat)
The nest Maw sad rompiste Monet mimed es thie
tent point In Lord Johns resistless. Set the so=
wee not satisfied with more silence, for he took the buries
of adulation. from As Madden of thou where it naturally
road, sanely, the intents, sad pistol it ea the &Wats
of the employers of children. (Hear, Yeas.) fled woe Mae
los than a violation of • divine law. The saki Med mil
that the operation of the Factory lot Is yelped Si Mum-
Um had hese beeelicial. He did not believe Os fan ems
so, and for this ream, that the halt-liven" were very la-
diffmnt to mashing, end same to school half asleep dist
their half day's work, whilst they disregarded the Wenn
tteles also, Pomp it was ilmeed on them by the law. (Rear,
beer.) It had bona said thes peephr wen criminal because
they were not odneeled. Tied ehmellen venue dreekes-
eels t Was there no mime In AmeliOns where they had a
state edatatim f nog might imam Minas as thick ma gin
palaces, bat they new weld moist arise as long as there
were so many thole's', who sese every monied witboall
knowing where to got a breakfast. (Hem, hear.) Heim
the voluntary system In this seestry 11. every b. 3 of Ilhe
populetios was able le read sod write, whereas is !Mn
whero there was a Mete 'dosages, only 1 is 9 wee die te
reed or write. (Hoer. hoar.) With these facts eami 1111111,
before him, he mast oppose army attempt to metal bete
ohm Won in this emiany. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Beti.x, H.P., proposed the fir.t resolution, to dm=
that Lord J. Russell's resolutioss would impede and
rue voluntary efforts at oducatim, and were swan emit
called for. Ho was deadelly of cpiniou that tk. WM&
ranee of the State la eduational mation was mewls, elid
prejudicial t, education itself. (Hear, hear.) ft a
tread of the voluntary principle, because it woe Ohs 'sly
pristicable ono. He hoped that religios would sever be
esparand from education. (Hear, hear.) Yet, if they had
• etas education, they most do injustice by »patio( one
religious system to the exclusion of all others. or they mast
Maas all sects iedifforeatly, which would lead to the for-
emitting.' of ell distinctive religion. He denied that • Stets
education would prevent aim*. Lord J. Rama said that
the voluntary system had been in practise for 130 years sad
had failed. He did not wish to see any huh language.
but that statement was simply untrue. (Lumina.)
It was a libel os the efforts of the voluntaries.
The voluntary system, sines it had bus in facie, had hoes
esehiently successful. (dear.) He banned that the mal
notice to education was to give people an 'Mena Is Meng
0114061.1 (tt...)
Mr. Z. BMWS' sold that no pantos were more friendly
to adoration, even to navenal education, than the volunta-
rist. Tlia.esiressw. bed to whisk he be showed tow
frismllp were te ashes they subscribed no
issa Mils de odsitilik Bet though he
Wed desalt' met, be hued heels= more. (Herr)
Ida eter elm/ Beet the examples of saient Rom,
Mee. Morse, and Deemark, and other countries, that
papist might be 'damned and yet remain slaves. He was
sure that education would be the result of trade m. The
lose prom and the cheap literature of this estuary wars
SAIIISSIO of the progress of oduestion. The social &dron-
es., Mallestioo were so great that they might rely on it
se a ethanius to education. (Hear.) Thee was
also the natural inttmt of the parents, the self.
lotenst of testhen, the benevolence of individuals
and the cluspetition of educational societies as so many edu-
cational stimuli, and they might be safely relied on for its
extension. Y.t notentbstandiag those natural arid sell-
cleat or tins, Lord J. Russell brought forward a sang of
noolutioss, the result of which would be to »drew Ps
control of the government ova the sematims of the sousegy.
(Hear) He Well opposed to their hoeing soy seek mistreL
Was It not the goveramsat that impend esoseoship es the
prom that plated a stamp on se re, end • lox on the
transmission of letters through the PM.efiisae and was it
sot in spits of the government thotieme fetters had has
relaxed ? (Hear.) On the 44114 W heol, was it not the
people that created Suaday sebesis, faint schools, and day
schools? (Hear.) Gamma. was always a slog, and not
• motive power ; end edmelleemesld nimbi prom ted by
tying it to the wheels of t. (Hoar.) He laid at
down broadly tbst it was ble to prevent the odour
Son of the people of the esestry, and they might »tip of
its provers in the Men by its progress in the past. He
had user mad overspla stated, on the anthcrity of official
ihsesseeMo..the of in regard to attendance
el Illis siessis Ink to sand literature, there bad
busol4llllolllll tad by the Biblesoeleties. 1 he
=Lilet Imemsl sixfold to else and sevenfold in
•Os pois IWO. It wan also a singular fast
lbellibine sue rime Mee 412,000 perms mimed in the
bulb= of odsielhee Is Zeeland and Wales. He cot-
toned Ibsl Isilhol ty mot mosteast anfavoarably with
Soot ps so sue= ednemiso. Referring to the
issigsksgy plod* Is J. ismirs sebum in mud
I. make ed swim to asses their
ersa, he preleeted M M MM. If they tweed educa-
tion, why set ter vellides en
_pee* ake. Thera am
pies ter in is VA assent. Bat be put
ii lewM i tie issod Imam mble solossi Is this el -
Si. The people were the hest Meet whnt they would
Ives and whet they woad trash; sad he Muted that
they would set elm up the liberty of ,allowed ossoblas
ssffismei pristine whisk had less Si ebssestly eta-
Masai kr toe essinries ago. (Cher)
The eseeleent wee pat end ended ememtmeudy.
Me. IL Seem ie pespoWeg the east emeinsien.itesteeded
that stets edgewise would be en Amide sensalas. The
state hag hew likestiog religion is this mousey Sae eight
bunked rue, end tlie remelt was that the state religion was
at Wet Is salsority. (Harr, hear.) The state she at-
tempted band 'Rusts», and in pupation to its meted
liairateselmmme debased and impure. (Hear, heir.) He
did set believe that the state was honestly desirous of er-
tion. banes* it always exhibited the greatest
Vsf adiaulissimmelsrs an literary men.
kw. Assesw RBIS 'evaded no »solution. He
mid that the espies* of edeestles ardor the British
subset system was only 12a. a head per year,
whilst under the goveremeat system the
was now 31e. or 112 t. a Md. (lissr,:fre
Time WOTO SO atimmte emir le Justify this
ask He has, that the teachers dessisolves were Mr
melded with the spetent and felt most sattely the slavery
of tear pukka. Lord J. Rusell himself admitted that W
rognott of the oohed inspeeton were latterly of a deeps&
leg tee., Haase Hall turned out 49 teachers at the
entemmo esM .f 6001 etch. (Che.ra.) It was perhaps
felt OM tap schools would turn oat like Mueller Hall

mina the gmenmest tease forward to prop up a memo
*WM was already breaking up here and there from it+
isltenst retention (Cheeps.) Let them do a little thing
well and then @stead it, rather then do a great deal ill sad
try and mead it by doing more ill. (Hear, hear.) He
believed that If the r scheme were eiLTIM at, it
would give rise to religions dYaadaa in every dieleht. He
did sot believe time suolrelholion we a god Mis4.l
Chevalier Buses ambled OM It bad failed ea the mod-
cent, asd thee Ile hasten of logisad was owlet; to
her toed aid dillased *ear. (Haar, kat ) Moatalambert
made the seas name! la Wa resent week ea liegimiL
Ben is America, whisk had hem spelad ma Iduespiseet
sample of the adesseleges of a state silmatim, the psepio
were lads, their held el Miens, wahh Its believed was
wholly owing to the neater psiseyb of education there
adopted. (Hear, hen)
1 The resolation having hem emedeimalmeekly,
Mr. CZOISLIY. M.P., Wit wed! gins Ma gnat pin-
sure to rapport the prayer of the wines whitener the
omen= was istrodand is the Houle of COSMOS,. The
great fallacy vat in supposing that it was the duty of the
state to give edosatkn. H. believed thei• state education
would Mad to mother state religion to white be, as a dia-
meter wee wholly imposed. The lAsede of mieseery
to bonbons a spirit if federalism assure
the pee*. (Hear, lam.) It was crud Meir &Wes SO
education he ankh", hat to create ea Mews' emeart
wens in tamer of adeestion ; and whim the wean 1.
we saes to pay, they wen very glad Se me sad
sad
deem *einem Muir 'Andres. (Hem ham) Maw
ally oreekieg, mew vie esaleibuted fee shad pewee am