The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-27 00:00:00

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LONDON.WEDNESDAY.SEPT.27.

Navas certainly were eases brought for trimness
calculated to arouse tragic passions and eloquent lan-
Kluge, than those of the amateur traitor, who have
been playing their last fitful hour of importance at
the bar of the Central Criminal Court. Never cer-
tainly was anything dignified with the name of plot
so perfectly theatrical, and imitative, and unreal, and
absurd, as the series of meetings and combustibles

revealed in the dlnaleenree of the informer Powsu..
Here was a set of artisans, complaining of
no want of work, no act of oppression,
having plenty of money to spend in drink
and dagger., and having at the same time
no aim or enthusiasm, not even of a visionary kind,
in their proposed insurrection. They were neither
communists, nor chartists, nor indulged in any creed
load or political ; their whole aim and amusement
to imitate the French and emulate the Irish.bet
do not pretend to eay that men may not be
guilty of very great crimes with triviality of pur-
pose and lightness of head. But society at lent has
no reason to be greatly alarmed by such plots as
these. Here we have a confederate club laid
bare and anatomised to the public eye.
We see the stuff of which English disaffection and re-
publicanism are made. We see the conciliabules
at work, and rotatory committees toddling from
tap to tap. We me • paid spy of the police, not
coming to at the eleventh hour to discover the dan-
irerons plot, and avert the peril of its outburst, but we
see him presiding at its very birth. Pownt. in-
stalled himself a member of the treasonable com-
mittee on the memorable 10th of April, and
there he has remained ever since, iurnishing
gunpowder, and answering for his " fighting. men."
In him we see the origin of the various panics and
alerts which set the police on foot, and the commu-
nity in fright. Every resolve of the foolish com-
mittee was telegraphed to the police by its agent.
A word of his trebled the patrols, shook the funds,
and made the shopkeeper fling aside the scales for the
constable's staff. The junction of haffa-dozen egre-
gious fools, with one as egregious knave, has
frightened the entire land from its tranquillity, and
turned scores of our once liberal doctrinaires into red-
hot and rampant tories. We need instance bat the
writers of the Chronicle.
When so many and such grave members of' the
public and the press took this farce of a tap-room plot
for a chartist conspiracy, we are not to be surprised
that the bar and the bench should play int 3 the
✓ime delusion. As to Mr. KENEALY, it was
dearly his cue to do so; but for the AT-
TORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. Justice EaLe, their dis-
cretion is more doubtful. The first law officer
explained in court the reason for the recent change
in the law, this reason being to take from treason its
highground of sublimity, and to degrade it, in conside-
ration and in penalty, to the vulgar rank of common
felony. If such was the aim of the new law, the terms
of the prosecution were in direct contradiction to it ;
the levying of war, and the conspiracy to depose, being
jut as sublime and exaggerated under the new law as
under the old, and the ATTORNEY-GeNtuL's lan-
guage being just as vehement and grandiose, as if it was
sought to place the heads of the criminals on spikes
over Temple-bar. •
Mr. KENKALY humoured this view of the case,
and his purpose being evidently not so much to de-
fend his client as to magnify his importance, as well
as that of the trial and the advocate, we must say
that his ple4ding was able, and has virulence well simu-
lated. Mr. KENEALT spoke in" King Cambyses' vein,'
and not only so, but he induced Mr. Justice Emir
to put on the buskin too, and follow in the same style
▪ declamatory dialogue. Mr. Justice ERLE is a dis-
creet and a bland judge. How could he be persuaded
KO to descend from his dignity as to utter the sweep-
ing and personal accusation that all " who
sErtrei dierespectfully of the police were accom-
I • of criminals " ! Why this is hedging
police. round with greater sanctity than even
protects judges or prelates. And this sacro-
sanctity of the police is proclaimed at the very time,
when the whole affair of Powem, was naturally
exciting in every mind feelings very different
from respect. If an Englishman, according to
Mr. Justice EEL!, forgets his politeness to the
police, he is worthy of Botany Bay—he is an accom-
phos of crime. A dictum more despotic, more ex-
travagant, more false, more absurd, or more un-
English, never fell from the bench. Mr. Justice
EEL! mutt regret having been betrayed into it.
The police, in free country, employed to maintain
and execute he law, are worthy of all respect, but are
also amenable to public criticism and censure. Poli*-
men and magistrates are no more impeccable than
barristers and judges, and objections may be made to
their conduct, and censure thrown upon their acts, as
upon those of the first personages of the state,without
rendering the accusers liable to a sentence of trans-
portation from the mouth of Mr. Justice Eats.

The minutes of the Committee of Council on Edu-
cation, just published, contain some data for the re-
solution of one of the most important questions
which can occupy the minds of Eillishmen, that,
namely, which goes to inquire what is likely to be
the standard of intellectual and moral cultivation ten
years hence of the great mass of the labouring
population ? In 10 or 15 years' time some millions
of those who are now as children witnesses of the
discontent prevalent among their grown-up friends,
and who listen with something, doubtless, of in-
terest to the reports of the successes obtained
by the working classes on the continent,
will be able and perhaps willing, unless
goad cause be shown to the contrary, to try their
hands at a revolution of their own. There are,
in fcct, vast masses of possible communists growing
up. What is doing to make the possibility an im-
probability ? What efforts are being made to elevate
the standard of education amongst the largest la-
bouring population in the world ? We have a giant
to educate. Is he to serve us in good stead, to do our
bidding gently like Fem.. Morgante, or batter our
houses about our ears like Morgante'e brethren ?
We cannot, however, say that the " Minutes" con-
tain very extensive material for forming a judgment
on this important question. It is quite clear that
eleven gentlemen, which is the number acting as in-
spectors, must have powers far exceeding those
granted to ordinary mortals to be able to inspect
the schools of England, Wales, and Scotland,
if the number of those schools bore any
adequate proportion to the wants of the nation. The
number of inspectors is itself decisive as to the defi-
ciency of schools. Again, of these eleven inspectors
eight are clergymen of the church of England, and
report on church schools exclusively. The schools in
connexion with the British and Foreign School So-
ciety, those with the Wesleyan church, and the Scotch
schools have an inspector each. Of the immense
number of children, therefore, who are not included
in the schools visited by the inspector, of those who
are taught in the union workhouses, and those who are
never taught at all, we have no account. Of this
gigantic heap of raw matter lying ready to hand, we
have no knowledge. The reports of the inspectors
tell Da what has been done, but give us no direct evi-
dence to tell us what remains to be clone. This is
only to be obtained by inference. For instance, Mr.
MOSELEY, one of the most intelligent of the inspectors,
states the total number of schools under inspection :
that of the southern district is 292, and of these he has
inspected only 134, containing 8,213 children. The
number then in the whole 292 may be possibly
14,000. The southern district comprises the counties
of Hants, Wilts, and Berks. The proportion of the
number of children educated to the enormous mass of
the uneducated must therefore be small indeed in
those populous counties. The same conclusions are
deducible from the other reports.
The most cheering feature of these minutes is the
evidence they discover of an abundance of practical
good sense and thorough knowledge of what is re-
quired of them on the part of the inspectors. Seldom
have we seen reports accompanied by a much ster-
ling good sense. There is a perfect knowledge of
what is to be done, and an eagerness to do it, which
stands in pleasing contrast with the conduct of many
officials. It is quite clearthat the government schemers
but preparatory to what must come at last—a national
system of education. All the various facts, which
are brought forward and commented on in the
reports of the inspectors, must be considered as so
many experiments which have their great value when
viewed as oonneeted parts of a lair inquiry. That
the schools visited should vary with respect to ma-
nagement is, therefore, in this preparatory stage, of
great importance. It is every way desirable that the
greatest amount of knowledge should be obtained as
to the merits of various points of detail before a coo-
prehenaive systemof national education is established.
The reports of the inspectors will form the most vela-
able collection of details with respect to English
education which has yet been got together.
One point of great value is to be especially re-
marked. The careful collation of numerous facts and
deductions from them, going on fromyear, toyear, will
at length wear away some of the most inveterate pre-
, indices which cling with persevering tenacity to
the minds of many. From a host of such prejudices
we will select one. Nothing but " constant dropping "

would have worn away the persuasion
so =vent, that the Scriptures must form the
element in the course of instruction in oath
schools. The whole evidence of the inspector,
directly or indirectly to prove the contrary. liog
but a perpetual fire of evidence would disabuse sus-
pumas of their pet prejudice on this head, miliord.
LIT says :
is sot lasi than 100 of these schools cut of I Wilt
Bed Ike children are taught to read mechanic
,11th foss
Beekpaneel; *emend volume itself being used to Mete.;
pass we pane extracted from it. I have nowhere fouler*.
elinetamt reading of the Scriptures associated with
scriptural knowledge, except where, in addition te
the Scriptures are made the subject of a sped coons ,g
'traction. It is a result, indeed, to which the las,
to read mechanically from the Scriptures does not .
asspeeTs
all to contribute—Sur the reverse. It is connuint With ".
own experience, and I believe with that of all other i,„Lss
tors, that there is most religions knowledge in those
where the reading of the Scriptures is united in *AC,:
portion with secular instruction, and where a diatineteei;
tween the functions of the day-school and the 8411446 f
being observed, ram,thing of that relation is elm •
the school between religious principles and secular pl*
which ought to obtain in the afterlife of the child 11,7 c,
a grave error which confounds religious knowledge egyk
religious education, and that no ordinary ego,:
which is made of the veneration due to fps
of God when it is constantly applied to a seegiail
i;
use. Looking at a religious eciucatioa as eo oms.
its largest sense the whole result for which we sea
ing it is impassible nut to lament that, by so
which hes no parallel in the education we give to ceee,„
children, we so emaciate the use of the Scriptoria egsk
years a labourer's child spends at school, so v., mg,
neglect of them a probable resuit when he ;leases 'keg
when the teaching of the school is so limited to tg. hew,
Scripture as to place the child by defect of secular me,d,a:
beyond the reach of that instruction which the t-71;
afterwards provided for him.
These remarks are from a conscientious sit
intelligent clergyman of the established cher*
and will have increased weight on :most 4
the position which he occupies. The opielons ehhh
he expresses are, by his own account, those Am
by his brother inspectors, in which case the
he combats will doubtless soon vanish. Let it
membered, however, that the friends of medals& sk,
cation, in its most extended sense, have for mg too
tended for the principle advocated by Mr. Monier
and have received their reward by being stigetehni
as schismatics, nay, as enemies to all religion.

WILL any one look into the report of the mkt
committee on the Stamford election and sly Mama
our representative system is not needed ? A
cial town of 7,000 inhabitants, in which the •
of EXETER possesses very large property,
575 electors. Up to 1830 it was the Mariairee der
borough, but in that year Mr. T. D'EvN coca; seed
the present members for Lambeth, faced the nil
patron on his own ground without success, &Mk%
following year was elected as one of thermals he
Stamford in defiance of the " Burghley iatseatt•
By the Reform Bill, the boundaries of the tie*
were extended into the rural district adjusk
thereby giving to the Maiquis even more on*
power over the representation of the place dna Is
had before possessed. Thus the then interned ob
ject of the authors of the Reform Act, "to give ape.
ponderance to the landed interest," was accomplished;
and the popular member for Stamford had to reds
from the field on which he had previously fought sad
defeated the lordly aristocrat Since thattime,usy
1847, the " Burghley interest" reigned supreme
Stamford. And probably so wild a notion as that d
choosing one of their own representatives would se
then have enter .el into the heads of the desks
had they not been goaded into hopeles re.
sistance—a grievous injury to their materiel
interests. Stamford has a considerable corn market,
and the inhabitants of the town very naturally de
aired the accommodation of a railway and a milieu
station, and the Great Northern Railway Compel
proposed to supply them with such advantages. The,
however, did not suit the views of their political p.
trop. Perhaps he thought a railway would disturb
his game or alarm his racing brood mares whoa
" interesting " condition. Possibly be imagied
Stamford might have too much trade, might bees
too rich and prosperous from extending its taxi
relations beyond the limits of the " Burghley" it
fluent*, and thereby become somewhat less maw
able politically.
At all events, in the exercise of his own lordly will,
for the working out of his own peculiar prejadiea
the Marquis opposed the proposed railway accommo-
dation to Stamford, which its inhabitants above ill
'things desired.

Hence, at the last general election arose an oppl.
don to the " Burghley interest," a considerable
number of the electors having invited Mr. ROLL, d
the Chancery bar, a moderate conservative, to fight
the battle of their independence. The old wtyiis
tinctions of " Red" and "Blue," tory and Bad,
were sank in the question, whether one of. the reps
imitative, of Stamford in the House of Commas
should be sent there by the electors of Stamixd
or by the Marquis of EXETER. The lauded
interest of the patron had been made be
heavily " preponderant " to enable the pops
tar wish to be accom3liished, and Mr. ROLT WM
signally defeated, thong there is no doubt that ams
jority of the electors preferred him to the UMW!. of
the Marquis. Some few of the patron's tenants voted
for Mr. HOLT, either alone or in conjunction with me
of the nominees, and the result was numerous " dis
charges" of tenants shortly after the election.
Of this, 211 electors and 183 other inhabitants we
plained by petition to the House of Commons, and
select committee was appointed to inquire into the di
legations of their petition.
The report states that many of the cal&
allegations of the petition have not been proved;
but enough is shown to prove that there
is no freedom of election in &maxi
"It has not been proved," says the re,
port, that the Marquis of ExErta, being I
peer of parliament, has so interfered and encased
himself in the elections s to contravene the rads
tions of the house upon the subject." Bat, then, Si
auditor and solicitor, Mr. Trwiss WALFORD, inns
duces his lordship's nominees to the electors, sod ads
as their agent at the election ; while Mr. Moos, tbs
local agent, inflicts notices to quit on any of hie lid.
ship's tenants who are so insubordinate as to demo
of electing a member of their own choice. The as
port states that though none of the allegations of
the petition, except as regards the ejectment*, hers
been proved, " nevertheless, looking to the bid st
one.third of the constituency being tenants of the
Marquis of Exarzn, and looking also to Ys
discharges served on 14 tenants in 1830 of
16 in 1847, under the circumstances lbw
referred to, and under the impression and bid
which these circumstances were likely to probes
(and which your committee believe they did actusgl
produce) among the constituency ; and considering
also that the impression and beiief so produced Ens
been necessarily ikengthened and exaggerated bp!hs
warmth and nonfat of party opinion which 400
within the borough, your committee are led toss
elude that an undue influence has thereby been isai
to operate on the minds of a portion of the oar
stituency, and that they have been placed wider a
certain amount of bias and constraint in the exercise d
thier elective franchise." In this soft-spoken impmqk
ment the middle classes of this country will read the his
tory of half the boroughs in the rural districts, which
are nearly all in the hands of the whig or turf see
Lion of the " preponderant landed interast." flow
long will the intelligence and active industry of the
nation endure this wrong P
The following passage from the report relating
the ejectment', which were stubborn facts, is sings*
tarty suggestive :
The mode in which the notices were given, Mr. B
(the local steward) demribes to be as follows: He mods sai
• list of names of parties to be discharged, which be AM
mitred to the Marquis of Enter. He has not got the I!"
big
or any copy of it. He says it was destroyed by him as
useless after the notices bad been served, and the entre
nude in a book. He states that he had looked intothi
printed poll.books, and seen how parties had voted, belie
hi
made out the list. He does not say that the Lot saown ts
' Lord Exeter did not mention how the parties had loted,l2si
he think: it did not. His lordship then looked over too laik
and made any observations he thought fit. Mr. tam Soo
not recollect that the political views of the tenants were ever
named, but cannot state the contrary. It does notappt!
that Mr. Higgs communicated to any one of the panes
voted for Mr. Melt, end were discharged, any reasou for am
serving them with notice, except in the cue of Yorke, w ,
sub-tenant
This is our boasted freedom of election. Such ie
the system, the " manly " system, it would be " oikr
English" to put an end to by secret voting.
It should be mentioned teat one of the ejected
tenants was a widow, whose crime was that her
eon
not a tenant of the Marquis, voted against the
" Burghley interest."

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