The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-27 00:00:00

ANTI-EDUCATIONISTS.

At a niunerous meeting of the requisitors for the
Leeds Borough Meeting of Wednesday, the pith instant, to
oppose the government measure of Education, held on Mon-
day the 22nd inst., in the rotunda of the admixed Cloth-hall,
Edward Baines Esq., in the chair, resolved-
That this meeting hue area, with great surprise, the published re-
port of an interview between the president of the council and a depu-
tation from a meeting held in the Leeds Court-house on Monday, the
oth Gut., consisting alive Rev. Dr. Book and other gentlemen. The
deputation appear to have taken upon them to state, not their own
views, but the objections felt to the measure by those who disapprove
of it, and to have obtained from the prmidtnt of the collard replies
intended to remove such objections, and these statements and replies
are pohkohed both in the London and Leeds newspapers as the only
report of the deputation. The requisitorn protest ngain‘t the etat,
ments made by the deputation on perfectly inadequate reprecnta.
don of the view. entertained by the opponents of the government
'Demure. Theme pews are briefly and In part expressod in the rest,
turbo. and petition premed at the borough meeting. Toe objet tkons
of the requiaitors are net merely to the details of the minute, of
council of August and December, Is4G, but Mill more to the lined.-
renew of goverrinient In the education of the people—an intern", are
which they mold as a departure from the proper province
of government, an unnecessary—no intompstibk with the
freedom of education, and as shown by the present measure to
be dangerous to public liberty. They regard with the utmost chum
the proceedings of the committee of onincil on education, which
assumes, by its minute. of August nod December, taib, to revolu-
tionize the system of public elementary school. -taking the minters
and an Immense number of newly created assistants, Into the pay of
the state—dangermody extending the inllluenorof the CIIVYLIVO and

the elency ; prescribing a system of instruction for pupil-teachers and
stipendiary monitors, and otherwise interfering in such a manner
and to an an rxtent, as Unpins, ael dm and an intention to bring
the education of the country under the control of that conlmittee: and
all this without even coon.lting garlilament, except on the application
=trr:rfittbaemon.7i..mkk-e. cal only fcor a trin
Wm wirrlfe,tvortre of on
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education for the people, uncontrolled either by direct aut homy, or by
the equally eff dual and more corrupting influence of pecuniary
granb,

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MARCH 25.

The reduction of 20 per cent. hats created a very
strong feeling of uneasiness throughout the country,
without any more violent manifestation. One ease
alone is excepted, and that has occurred in (71are,
where 60,090 men have been employed on the public
works—very many of them comfortable farmers.
Two thousand labourers, dismissed at l)ungarvan,
were only restrained from violence by the presence of
the Scots Greys, and supplied with bread by the
bakers to prevent their shops from pillage. The
Waterford Freeman gives a different version of the
same affair. The numbers are acknowledged, but no
attempt at violence. " The workhouse bread was
being conveyed in carts to the establishment at the
time; it passed through the people, and not
a single hand from the vast multitude was raised
to grasp a loaf." Much commiseration is felt
for the condition of the numbers reduced, but a dis-
tinction should be taken between the worthy and un-
worthy. The uniformity of the rule might have
operated harshly in some districts, but generally it
has left the really destitute on the public works and
I cashiered the small farmers. The Kerry Eraminrr,
which represents the popular feeling of a very impor-
tant county, very fairly remarks—
Tbs orders of government are not only justifiable, but
perhaps necessary, and it is, in our opinion, unfair to blame
government for the act of disemployment merely, when such
disemployment is absolutely nixessary to force the spring
operations, and thereby prevent another year of famine. One-
fifth, or 20 per cent. of the labouring population is the very
least that should be required for the spring agriculture.
An sseociation, of which the Duchess of Leinster is
patroness, has been for some time engaged in pre-
paring for a bazaar, to be held about the 15th of next
month. The work is principally to consist of speci-
mens of Irish lace-work, embroidery, fine knitting
executed by oar female peasantry in schools and their
own poor cabins. The object is not only to afford
Srt relief, but to encourage habits of future in-
urtr;.
The arrivals of foreign corn and other provisions
augment every day. All our ports are crowded with
vessels corn-laden—all our granaries are groaning
under the burthen of the corn housed in them.

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, MANCH 25.

Some of the inhabitants of Glasgow are exhibiting
extreme shortsightedness in opposing additional hos-
pital accommodation for the increased and increasing
fever oases of that populous city. Although an
auxiliary hospital was lately opened, the in-door fever
patients are about equal is those out of doors; hence
all attempt at classification, or otherwise adequate
treatment, is rendered impracticable. Yet, while
matters are in this state, certain proprietors oppose
the conversion of a building in a suburban district
into a temporary infirmary, which, in two or three
weeks, would draw off some hundred patients from
the rank and crowded wards of the old establishments.

They have applied to the sheriff fur an interdict, but
no decision has yet been pronounced.
The general fast was, it appears, well observed.
This, in Edinburgh, was partly owing to a fall of
rain, " which," writes a correspondent, " prevented
country excursions."

Perms? Ikon COACH.—Mr. Aitken, of Aberdeen, has
taken out a patent for the manufacture of iron coaches. His
trial oeinffnu, carrying nineteen persons, Insides driver and
cad. weighs only ll cwt., and can be drawn by two ordinary
►ore at the rate of ten miles an hour.

PROVINCIAL.
YORKSHIRE.
INOOZPOILLTION OF BILtUVU/SO. —On ThurpOny lea;
Major Jebb, who bad been deputed by the 4untf.rthe •
Privy Council to visit Bradford to ascertain the Melia
inhabitant generally on the proposed grant of ..trno, of
incorporation, had an interview at the Sun Int oevanl
of the leading gentlemen of the town who angjokiaesur
the incorporation, and with lame of those whO mie nopohnd
to thu grunt. Major Jebb stated that the d
conacil had leen delayed from the 6th
time kw a counter petitico to be got up if though

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