The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-08 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

Loetwm—One of these inweta was caught in a garden in
the New Town of Tain last week, and is still living, baling
!,en kept in a bottle, and fed with clover and gr.w. It is
nearly the mime of a mute* Hager, with lung wings and lett
—Russ-shire Adrertiser.

1..t.1.t, autiNeription has been comniencid to erect
a suitable monument in the Necropolis to the late Alexander
Nudger.

WALES.

EI)LICATION IN WALES.—Sir,—I have every reason
to fond that the conversion in the advocatew ot state (Munition in ogitte
hopeless. They are detentoined, at all Inwards, to make alt n Cunt"
ltlanigh a very cotton mw; in lavour eof slate interlennoe with (slum-
filar. You, as editor of the I...rpee., appended u lute to my letter
which appears! in your paler for Saturday bud, to nauiu.i Me that the
statement of Mr. I Ism y (ocotillo% ot Inceon 1.•,,110ve, was mot so, hags
µcrated as I suppossl. Your !moot our nontialing is Mr. (witliths's
tali illation re.ts upon assoutuotion that the whole population
helivos,n five amt lilreu )eiiis 01 age slotoidol ha in schools. In your
Inver for Tucolay last, a •• Welsh po weeds on 11w some
nippositioom Without this extravaghoot notion Ilw state education
mnunu would Won ablate. My Way, at,ot reason have
we f..rsumasing it presible that such u or children can in
any ossuary and under any eireunislames alninl schools! Until thin
is clearly cloommistratosl, all the rt....coning hosed moon the atoresuid
supposition !most he quite worthless. With you and the •• It rWI
S.letlsslnor the statement of this number is intc,uhd as an ilidication
0: tin. work to be aelliniplidled, width I. 00 great, at-cording no sour
estimation, as to nosier its execution (sanely loopidesa • shoot
goveninient interference. I quote agree with you. No short of
a coercion boll, intoned by military power, c-all keep It,, whole popu-
lation of this eowiu-y between the age of five and tifto.ri at school.
In our present social and Mohr:trial einnuoutaniss, (lie du:idiom of
schooling for ten years is ultow the r imp rarticolote. I very much
question whether toe children of even the iniokile classes in Englund
call (Al r °total,' suet, u lengthened foerioil oft (duration. The "Jour-
nal of the statistical Swirly of litaidoo" for Mar 11. 7:1, as
quoted by Mr. Moines, say.: ••01 tleo children Who have left schook
sue-third uppo ar only to have nnemen there Mane nee year.; Wolof
the titlier tWo...llliril,, WllO hare remained less than five year. ut rehoul,
Gni...half were I hen' less than throe years." snub, losing the star of
things in this country, I u.sert, then, that all calculations bused on on
the afurosookl a.s pion oc extruvagunt and N7014(.0101. It to well
known that the inolsortion of the labouring classes in Wales to 11w
ottwr ela.ses is in. ric! ; w mush so, iudeed, that middle
classes can bunny be said to cubit. oshould the ten ears principle
hold dorsi in other count, it s, and under more luvouirable cireilin-
ntan es, :rosy person asaerting its applicability to Wales, might
be justl) divined • sere eligible nuidalate for tWallioni. Whilst wo
Rau the pngoruuu of children in day-School, in Awl rio a to be oioly I
Erussia ItoU. is lusEla I to Po, mai in roanve I to I I of
the wlssie ',min:anon, I Inuot I shall be esetissl to clesigliating Mr.
f ,rittlths's statement, tout one-tourth of the population of Wales
o.liould be in se1100:04, no absurd and highly extruvagant. lle, unit
other frienolsof tuitional illocution, must, in the first plate, prove the
(+wreath, of the aiodinird ion On Which their calculations ore Insect, as
a general rule, and then let them proned to show it. application In
particulao caws, As yet they hate dime neither the inn. litir
onher. Until then, their rldident appeals in favour of government
i4terferenee will, (Munition may he very sorely dispeascal ;lb,, :nod
their lucubration will be osonsiolored by thinking men ie. unliding
their authors to distinguished fame in (Ise annals of Unpin:on-no.
Itso.tina to your impurtmlity to insert themote entire o a honour Int
pr. old to my last) Ir. main, sue, yams sinter ly, A ind.i 0N
[Mr. Urittitits's expre. was that the population 'set Weer).
live and lifWern years of age oukint to he at Mow-
flier impracticattle, can •• A Bruconian" deny that this
ought to he the caw I]