The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDA Y, DEC. 13.

THE Jesuits are not the only religious body claim-
ing a right of exclusive control over the education of i
the laity. We may have to go to Lucerne or the
Valais to find this right acknowledged, but for the
assertion of it we need not cross the channel. There
is a party among the clergy of the church of England
which, not content with asserting this right over
church of England schools, are doing their best to
usurp it. They would fain have laymen, however
zealous, pious, and devoted, excluded altogether from
the management of parochial schools. Where tin-1
able, as they have been in most instances, to effect
this by direct means, they have attempted to set up a
clerical despotism by getting an absolute right of
veto and final decision vested in the bishop of the!
diocese, not only on questions of religious instruction,
but on all questions relating, in any way, to the ma-
nagement of the school.
It is hardly necessary to say that these attempts at
clerical usurpation have met with no encouragement
from the Committee of Council. We printed en Satar-
day an official letter from their secretary to the Lich-
field diocesan board of education, relating to this sub-
ject. A minute of the Committee of Council, dated
June 28, 1847 sets forth four management clauses,
recommended tor adoption to all applicants for aid
from the parliamentary grant. These clauses are
adapted to different classes of school districts : the
first, to those of populous towns with many intelli-
gent
and wealthy inhabitants ; the second, to those of
towns and villages in which the well-educated
and wealthy classes are less numerous, and to
rural parishes with not Ices than 500 inhabit-
ants, including three or more resident gentle-
men, or intelligent yeomen, manufacturers, or
tradesmen ; the third, to rural parishes with fewer
than 500 inhabitants, and all districts in which, from
poverty and ignorance, the number of subscribers is
small ; and the fourth, to very small rural parishes,
in which the resident inhabitants are all illiterate and
indifferent to the education of the poor. Each of
these clauses differs in its provisions for the govern-
ment of the school. In schools adopting the first
clause, the committee of management consists of the
clergyman of the parish, with his curate or curates,
if he choose to appoint them ; the churchwardens for
the time being, if members of the church of England ;
and a certain number of resident laymen, members of
the church of England, and subscribers of at least
twenty shillings annually to the school, to be elected
by the other subscribers of a certain fixed amount an-
nually. The clergyman is to be ex ofcio chairman of this
committee, and is tohave the exclusive superintendence
of the moral and religious instruction given in the
school. Any difference between him and the com-
mittee respecting religious instruction is to be re-
ferred to the bishop of the diocese, for final settlement.
In schools adopting the second clause, the clergyman
and bishop are to enjoy the same privileges ; but the
laymen of the committee are named in the school