The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-09 00:00:00

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

The debate on Lord John Russell's resolutions on
the subject of education takes place to-morrow. It
is of the utmost contaminane that on a matter so im•
portant the attention ot members of parliament and
of person. in general should be directed to the beat
@cartes of information. It seems advisable, therefore,
to refer our readers to a moat masterly paper which
I how just appeared in a publication entitled, "The
Oxford Essays, contributed by the Members of 'he
lUniversity, 1868," and published by John W. Parker.
The paper to which we refer is written by the Rev.
Fredenck Temple, M.A., late Fellow ot Balliol
liege. This gentleman is not only a person distin-
guished for his ability at the University, but has had
perhaps u mach practical experience as any man
in England of the general working ot our edu-
cation system, and particularly of the system pursued
by the Privy Council. It is evident, indeed, that this
paper is no mere literary exercitat ion, but the genuine
oetponring of the thoughts of one who is absorbed
in t►e education question. The charac'er and experience
of the writer render his suggestions peculiarly valuable,
and whether the reader sArees or disagrees with his
conclueioon, it is impossible to avoid deriving very
ooesiderable advantage from the perusal of so able a
statement. Indeed the paper seems to embrace the
whole Tuition. It is impossible, of course, to give
anything like a complete analysis of it, but we may
quote with advantage his argument against the
voluntary party that party which insists that
state samstance toward education is a mistake. For
it is obvious that if the voluntary party is right the
diseussion of Lord John's resolutions is useless.

The great argument of the voluntaries is that in the 'da-
-1 cation of children the religious and civil teaching ere so
mined up together that they cannot be uperved, that the
state has no r ght to lay out the public money in giving
religions teaching. and ought no., thentre, to eive moos,
to promote edumtion at ail To this religious argument
others add a political—namely, that education forms the
opinions, and that tithe government endeavours to form
the opinions of the people it is a species of tyranny
The last argument is founded on the supposition of en
impossible abuse. The King of Naples nosy use his schools
to Inculcate political opinions, just as he easy make his
smuts of justice instruments of oppress ot. But it would
be as be to prevent the English government from
maistaining courts of justice on seen a plea u to prevent
it fr int aiding schools. No men can seriously fear that the
government will sake schools a polities' engine ; and those
who use the argument are playing with abstractions, and
not weighing practical name,.
The other argument is not logically sound. Granting, for
a moment, the denial of the state's right to give r.ligioos
teaching, the conclusion does not follow from the premises.
It may be quite impossible to separate religi• us from civil
Miscuing by hours of the day. It ploy be quite in possible
to say that the religious teaching shall be cos Ikea to the
hour between nine and ten, and that the state shall pay the
roaster for his work otter tin. without inquiries who pays
him for his work before tan, or whither he work. before ten
at all. Bat yet at is quite possible to diatieitoish the two
kinds of teachieg in their results. Ilan Englishman in
India were to enter a Mahomedan school, and promise the
master' at the sod of the year, ten rupee. for every
the arbool who could work decimal free:ions, e old it be
said that he was paring the man to teach blakomedanisse
Too state might e, say easmine into the effie eery of
the civil tssettiag, pay the master for th,t, and leave the
decominations to teke care of the religious teething.
It le tens that in this way the state would improve
the religiose teaching also, but (lily as •he result of
snakier; the children more or elligent, end procuring' more
efficient muter. It indeed, the echo 1 rught not tnly
to be a means of giving religion instruction, bet also of
makiag pr isely tee, there would be some force in the is-
forums of the mainstay party. If a Mabomedim school
were established hire for the purpose of converting English
children, any encouragement ,o the school, direct or indi•
veer, would be en enetu•agensat to the religious purposes
of the schoc 1. But that tots ought to be toe object of the
school neither Indepondente nor Baptists wouid allow—
and, indeed, the B..ptists would earnestly deny.
Bat, wbeihir the argument be logically sound, the prin-
ciple on which it rests do-s cot uprise the feeling cf this
country. England has never admitted the principle that
public mosey may not be spent for religious purposes. It
is natural that religious tommunitis, which are not esta-
blished should cessidir all religious establishments as
evil ; just as religious communities which are esta-
blished think some religions establishment a duty. Bat
the English Dna not disposed to commit themnelvee to
the ahstrsct propositions on either aide. They have sup-
ported an established "hutch for centuries; if they support
it lees heartily now, it is only because its resol ado not
seem so eosin aaaaaa .e with its c at. Asauredly they will
not be prevented from demur a groat public good if the way
be node choir, and the only obstacle be the abstract doe.
trice that the state ought not to spend money for religious
porposes.

la order to maintain their pr .and, the yolantrties mast
=absent that the work of odueolog tit. community can he
dose without state essistauce, and that the loads for the
parposo ctn, wed wilt, be supplied, either by the charity of
the wealthy or by the exertions of the partials._

Thoth who wool 1 rely on chsrity point to the history of
all the great movements for promoting education, both put
and present. First., the grammar sehrols were founded by
the same religion impulse as that which prodsood the Re-
formation. The fousdation of these schnoh lies nearly be-
tween the years 1600 and 1800, gad pr eseded meet saucily
about the middle of that period. The statutes of all these
schools best upon their face the evidence of the feeling from
which they sprung. The religiose teaching alwaysocespith
• prominent place aaarng their avowed objects. They were
latended to make (Militia Christians quite as much as to
make them learned. If the founder bad not been animated
by religiose seal, it seems improbable that the schools would
ever have been founded at all. Neat is order came the
oh.rity or blue -e- at eel o ils. The f. laudation of these too ole
mat Ins said to begin towerds the lett( r end of the seventeenth
sectary, and to heve come to its greatest activity towards
the end of the sighteeeth. Thew schools are also sequels-
tionably the fruits of religiose zeal. In all of themnU-
-sLoda s tomb's( occupies the Bret, If not the lauds*, place.
hose which have bens founded in ni-re modern times
are often distinctly maim:iced w,th rune teacloth solemn-
nig, and have not only • religiour, but • denosniaatiosel,
'bathetic. Lastly, slowit ththin it. present century has
commenthd the foundation of • third ease of schools the
elementary; and the impales which created these is cer-
tainly not yet *shinned. This impulse, tou, is argues.
tithably religious, se is proved by the immense number of
dinoseineefonal schools. Under this impulse. betides the
few schools intended hr civil teschiog only, 12 708 distinctly
religiose schools had come ley° existence by the let of
March, 1851, and out of these 4,604 were founded between
1841 and 1861. These schools were then educating
1.188,788 scholars of both teeth, while the highest e..mpu-
tstion would only give 3,015,405 as the amber of children
who ought to have their names on school-books. If reli-
gious zeal has founded the great ma.a of ail the institutions
for education in the caitiff —if religious zeal is so active
that half a oratory has provided the means of educating
more them half the children that need it—it seams not
unreasonable to eat ett that a lit le patience would enable
the same seal to Isiah the work.
But the answer to ell this is supplied by the'vet7 facto
sd aced. The grammar schools were founded byreligiou
nal, and were left to religious seal to manage. More them
seven hundred of these echo Is an now in eateseoth. What
is the see of them ? It would rot be too much to say that
at lent three-fourths of the number are uselers. It is rot
easy to drew the line above which efficiency may be said to
begin. But It is assuredly under the mark to anthem that if
Bye hundred were abolished to-mortise, not the slightest ill
effect would be produced en the education of the country.
1 heir intone from endowments (end this does not include
the public nor the cataedral school.) mouths to more than
160,00 W. It is notorious that in umbers of instances the re-
sources have bean wasted by nettled and mai- .dministra-
don. Good msnagem.ut might oouble tre income—would
surely iththase it by holy. The increase that mibt be ob.
Woad, aced at lout h elf of what ni w remain., ere entirely
wasted. They do not teach the upper clams; • few of the
larger among them and the p Arlie schools have mot opolbod
that. They do not teach the middle classes ; the teething
which they hare to offer has prevented that. They are mere
thesnabrancee. And why ? For want of organisation ; for
went of that orpnisetion which the state, or some equivalent
centre, alone eeuld have supplied. These schools--esch
working Independently of all the rest, shut out from the in-
dium, of public opinion, with no power to eapt their
statutes to the changing requirement' of the time—at Ist
lotion &flattener of peep me, and became useless, not from
bad manor meat, but from want of management. The few
that have remitted their •,bie ss places of eitucation have
retained it by the are;dect of pasturing scholershipe or ex-
hibitions which affiliated them to th, universities. To them
the sosiversities supried, though in an imperfect manner,
the d,fidaare. of aim which was assents' to their
life. The rest, founded at • time when Greek
and Latin included •il possible edema:au, and last-
ing into a time who. Greek and Latin are thaws
to all who cahoot go to Oef:rd or Cambridge, have
almost plumbed, really for want of sornethirg to do. And
haviog almost perished bemuse they were made quite tido•
pendent of the state, they the pow looking to the inter-
feesnce of the side toe their only chance of revival..

The charity schools, with an. Biome still nmsining of
141,3861., bare suffered the sane fate, and for the rea-
son. They WWI .sea i• • • 01"80 tt as the grammar
schools. The muter of a {crammer oohed, e.eo it act
dimity emaciated with the nniveraitier, yet looked
to shims as the authority to guide his labours.
Liter a mho )I bad ea sled to .and boys to Oven! or
Cherabridge, the boys were still tier t as if they were
to go there. The object, if net worth at ainmeet, yet
for • long time remained suficiestly defined. Bat the
seater of a charity wheel had so such eject defined
bloom his eyes. Th• rules of lb. reload might, puttee',
prescribe vaguely what be was to teach. But he bad no
pattern to show how he was to teach it. no staaderd by
which could test whether he was teaching it. Semen in
life is always a vague test of the preparations a ale for it ;
bat is ',luckily segue when applied to a school, ince it
depends oa so mach with worth • mhsol hes aott.ing to do.
The regular visits of an examiner, th• eassaipation of his
school, sad a Fulda report cm ft, competition with other

wheels for pthae, would hare given bim a precise sins. Bat
he had it not. And a Tart number of these reboot. are now
useless, end wore* than toeless, because tbe y offer elothiag
to the 'dialers, and thus attract within their walls many who
might ken sontettiog elsewhere, std will learn nothing
thin•

The elementary schools are springing up with marvellou
rapidity. This rapidity, though at porhapa just now a goal
0 what it hers been, is yet tar beyond the results of the early
efforts. Aud at what date did this accelerrion con mines?
Precisely when the g .rernment begm t . take attire mar
HIM SO stimulate and organise the seal of the religious CMS-
smuttier. Nearly, it not quite, half the elementary schools
nowve
bt 1:1°,1 ui
:fling fact,t t 4
ebto; "gbreuesuatc ille°1;;:t e1:839.; thsleoTni"haestkhr eei
behindiesit establishment
has
tt
the
Whence of the goverment has been at wo.k. When Sir
James Sbuttleworth maw nc .d her potations, be found (as
his failures in 1839 ann in 1843 world hare been enough to
prove, if proof had be-n rieedeo) that the time was
sot yet ripe for lonia itioe, nor even for indepen-
dent action by the "imam It was necessary to
lay held on some p polar impulse, to give it guidance,
and iaspire it with energy, and cow p.l it to labour
for the public good. No irrpulee, except religious zeal,
had the independent strength oecessary f r the purpose.
Bellies' seal was th 'Wore made the driving-wheel of the
saschlin. The government defined its own aim sou to be
la thorough lurecony with the tome on which it intended
to rely. No schco:s ware to be aidedwhicn did not embody
religious teaching as part of .heir system. Tne archbishop was
to have a veto on the ationiounent of inspectors of church
schools. The feelings of the dissenting communitier were to
be eossulted is tne eppott.tment of inspector. of dimpling
schools. Bibulous liberty woe to be anecruoulonaly respected
that the government was nnt to interfere, except indirectly,
with the maingement, discipline, or in•truction. Founders
of schools were, is fact, to be fettered by no audition' except
such as were neemery to secure permanent efficiency. Is
this way the g 00000 MOUS purchased the aid of the religions
commuseities, by inc. rdorating their ehjtct with its own.
One difficulty might rill hem appeared to remain. The
great incentive to private eflats on bet alt of education wea
the so eeeee a title need and the absence of all means to
supply it. This lac:nave would be entirely destroyed If
the government were to offer to supply deficiencies. Mush
that has been done, and has been dot e with ease, would
assuredly have been declared i porsible, if such a declara-
tion had been made a title to claim aid from tie state. Them
might seem re won to fear that, if the government had
offered to aid religi. Us communities in pr. port on to their
need, the popular impulse would be checked before the
government was strong enough to ant cone. How this
difficulty was ovelame has been already indicated. In-
stead of soaking its aid proportional to the needs of the
religious communities, the g remanent made it propor-
Vomit to their soccer". Toe more they would do, the
more the government er old help them. In this way the
grants from the Committee of G mac.' acted as • most power-
ful stimulus. For there ts nn great. r incentive to minion
than aid which ensure. a speedy attainment of what without
aid would hardly be atta tied at a I. 1 he government grants,
small se they sometime. were in comparison with the mitts
Lary sahocri' none were so mettle,. d es to convert the fair into
the good, end the good into the tsce Sent. For the govern..
went aid most not be d by mosey. The virernment
could give what no money vvid rave purchased—organisa-
tion. The visits of the lime tors, the publ .had report. the
immunities' and spuointotents pupil-ten. hen, the salmi-
nations and certificates of masts rs,—these give a concerted
action and a definite aim lochs whole work of alt the school',
which no power short of g.,verommt could have given. Is it
matter of wonder that, pu h.d by this powerful help, guided
by this steady emir A, the r. Ilion, communities should
have sprung forward in the rm. which hey had clown
with a rapidity which has astonished theme...yes 1 or can it
be maintained, that it the aid of the go.. roment were now
withdrawn,
diminution of results ? The fact is, that ev -11 echo Is which
have received no public aid in mosey have yet shared with
the rest in the fruits of that guidance which the action of
the government has impressed on the whole movement—
their standard of efficiency has been raised, their methods
hem been Improved, the zeal of their supporters has been
stbaulatei.

Many of the voluntary party, however, profess to look
upon the a lofts of the religious c iternuaitise se merely Tiro-
visional. The Baptis.s, in permit Cr, maintain that the duty
Meditation cannot permanently devolve on any bat the
parents, end anticiate a t me whoa, partly, perhaps, by a
✓ise in wages, but chiefly by greater self-denial, the parents
will be able to do the w'.o's work. They look upon a per-
lament ptovision for education as convening the laboartag
elm", pro tonto, into paupeas, end argue that it would break
dawn the strength of domestic t es.
Tbe argument founded on the danger of pauperising the
labourers is a mete mosteike: to give a man that which mo-
rally lowers him has a tendency t s pauperise him ; if he is
encouraged in idleness or in impr.videoce he is irjured.
But to give him what elevates hi. mind and osrseter can
mutinies any one. And there can be no question
that the whole family is imi,roved and raised by the real
education of the cbild,en. Education is one of the few
Charities that is perfectly rate. F, od and clothing may
often do es each harm as good. Money le f. to be given
away la bread Is almost invariably a sconce of reel mischief.
sad swab charities ouch, to be abolished by law For then
is nothing in the gift to lilt the recover above what he wee
before; it he hes obtained it by idldneu or lol'y, his idle-
ness or folly become, jesiefied by the treament. And not a
few district, might be indicated wi la have been positively
demoralised by such heroism. But no neighbourhood Mr
yet was demorelned by the patetismo( a well-managed free-
school. That it may sot be advssahle to rake .ff from the
parents all obligation to assist in the 'detection of their
children,'" another question. But to cep them to bear
the whole harden is to post pon: national enucation at leans
alt may, pltheps, be po Bible for those who are In
receipt of fifteen or eight.en oh:Liege a week la
wages to spars enough for the education of their children;
though thee" who have obtersed how very d.dleult it Lin
my class of society to re adjust rho ordinary details of ex-
geaditure will be sceptical in reeard t the possibility of
seek a result befog speedily stained. But a lerge part of
the pcpelation get no more ID weekly wage. than from
seven to twelve abrllirgs ; sad w.th them such a result
is hopeless. If tt e Woomera of this class are to educate
their own ebildreo, with eat help either from the govern-
Mont or from private chanty, they can only be enabled to
dem by • rise is wager.
Tlie boar couatim of Cornwell, Devon, Dorset, and So-
Menet, may serve as a specimen of toe reeds of education
among a rand populatior. in the sch. o's each r inspection
la these month s (et which, be it remeseb •ted, nut more than
Neer emit. are re ported to he saitiactory) t .s annual expen-
diture per potholer is 18.. 3fel ; the grants from government
average lie. lid. The total cot, eeeee tore, of educating a
shad is 29.. 60. 01 this sum the I tennis at preset pay
de. 81. If WO take the school year at 45 weeks, the school
lam would amount to little more on en erases they Id. a
auk. It is, so doubt, tomitle that this might by judid-
elms treatenest bee little lacerated, end we may suppose
it referd to 2d. a week, or is 61. • year. Tone still
remains 22e. to be provided, and as the average number
of children in a family is certanty above %W./ and pst-
haps three, we mutt seppae wages increased by 66e.
a-yser, or about Is 3i. a week. But such a rise in
wages would not do what is needed. Titers are many
most pressing demands which would take torte:demo
of th; inhaling. The wages are so close
Upon the imperative requirements of nature that any
increase would be largely end most justly absorbed
in better food, warmer clothing, esplciatly at night.
and more oorafortable dwellings. If, indeed, the parents
maid distinctly se the future welfare of their children to
depend on education, they might purchase it with intik
present self-dmeel. Bat though educatiol is vii bly a gals
it cannot be cared, in that clam, a neceas,.ry to life. Manual
labour does not sod cannot much depend on reading and
writing ; and the prat massed the children of the Inbooriog
dam will have to live by manual lab ur. l'areots of this
Moss rarely see an inetence of education •Illt ly sad unmis-
takeably inflir acing succae in life, and to a rem chance
they cannot bee spread to sacrifice much. Its' probably a
eery moderate computation that, in order to obtain fifteen-
ram a week from the parents in the natal di.tricts, their
wages mut rise half a-er iwe a week, anal 1111111 rice, of mum,
Must be asinine). To wait for this is to wait lode finitely.
The Deaa of Hereford. when at King's &whores, pro.
imeed to make his "churl aim. at, it nut quite, self-sup
molting. He merit ail the ilairen precisely alike, but
a'led upon the parent& to pay 'readier t their means.
lab
make
a
r er 'eat,
ocehmil
r pay fortwsouppenencesea.
sad a farmer one shilling. This was an admirable cape-
Tw Thu hbeawto l
ldadpsmritha a
pa .
dint for raising money, end a. a rovisiobel measure fcram
esceptionel cote, might be allows to pap. Bet, sonsi-
dared as a national plea, it will not bear live minutes' era-
u
minetion. It is really nothing but a WO ievsed on the
richer parents. If the &viol cows an amount equivalent to
sixpence a child, end Farmer Seodford a ealict oo to pity
one chilling for his boy in c rim that Labourer Strong may
get his taught far two p.nee, it is clear that a rate is levied
on
Farmer /landlord to pay fur the sicholing of little
Swoop. Now it may be quite Istr to call en Farman
Sandford, not only to enuate th. Ito le Sacdfords,
but to help in eduoatieg the little Stroup ;
but why are Fenner Tr mown sad Guam Web
bee, who are very well off, but have no children,
to be exempt ? A schoo.-ra•e, levied only on thus who
have children of their own to • demote, is the most tares
tomb's of propositions. To tax a mat in pi opori in to the
Rusher of his children, to let the lightly -hurdeeed go free
and lay • double toed rn the back of the loaned, is what
the most Idelihusien Chancellor of the Esc• cepa would
hardly venture to propose. The wonder ,a ti.et the farmers
of Kiss's &reborn, did act find oat the trick and
of the school to think about the juatice of thy pay.
com-
mas
plate. But they were too rai eh bewi.e.h..d by the good-
clients. And, moreover. joet or Ai t, the rate hems volun-
tary, could tot be emir ated from toe lucky t nee who had
no children, and so n one could l lead the iejuivice of not
Wrestle, it; but the some could not be acid of a com-
pulsory rate,
In short, it is not possible, within any r tssoashle time,
to make the po .r raise the resources requ r.d '0 educating
their daddies. Bu' if it were poicb'e to ram the racierces.
it still would not be ;rumble to eirpense with tbe thterfer-
enca of the rove romert. The guaranis. t, sad t. he to-
Termites% sloes, eau supply the necessity orgamsatien.
without which the elemeotery ech os, like the chanty
och Isis before them, wool I Utter know teen proper aim,
or 'mete their snorer mensgemeat.

CRISTAL PALACE.—ONE STIILLINO PAT, Tun.
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TEE CRIMEAN MILITARY INQUIRY.

FOURTH BI ITINO.-THIS DAY.

TIN Board of General ()Boers est again this morn-
i■g, in the Otte Hell of Chile iloepitel, whist% wu putty
well tilled lei h•pPeta• ore w bus the t r c. edible e naisasseit ;
a large aseaber o• fashionably attired ladies beat' mated at
thin reserved rad ; when the attendance was USCh larger
than on the pursuit days

The B•wrd took Unit wets at the table at twenty Riantes
peat ile•en. when
. . . .

Lord Loran, who appeared to be rattier ezeited, said ft
wee with very great reluctance that he brought anything
eatranrous to the inquiry b.( ire the court. His duty,
however, to himself sad other °Sera who alight be
easratned, unwind that he stsocld call attention to an
&thee wh.ch bed appeared is the Times of this morning,
and a‘le the wanton of the board es to how far that
article carried out the decision of the tosrd an the previous
day.

The Judge-A 'Jetta said he bad Ant t ask Lord Luria
one or tem questions ; ud, Ant, to whet did he attribute
time mmoolloo.t.l,ty of horns during the tine the esesby
division woe under its command.

Lord Liman—Those horses wars not under my unused
until they leaded in the Bast, sod I need sot, therefore,
refer to the hones toot oaths pangs. It is • very lantequa-
tin, tad tang n quire i very ling •aswer. I sunhats the
loss of hones first to the fact that, perhaps eaeoptieg
$ day or two they wore sever properly fed any
sae dsy wink they wets alder my care From defines!,
of food, and from the dregs:aril with whisk they got it,
they emulated to deteriorate hon 'he moment whoa they
landed at Scut wi or Varna, amid they got late that ems•
dated state that few of this isrvivod. 10re.., when ex-
posed to the treader, require•non Iced thee at any other
time. I would :rather not spook to what happasod at
Deus, houses I bane no perusal laforeacioa,
and was sot kept with informed by the brigadier•
My first duty after my arrival at Scutari waste be president
of a board to inquire Into rations for troop and Owego
horses. By that board it was arra god, with the approval
of Lord Ruda, that the cavalry horns timid have 12th..
of barley sad 101 be. of hay, or 16Ibs. of chopped straw. Tits
baggage hones were to have • quarter less barley, hat the
BIM quieten of hey sad chopped straw. Up'
to the fin at Varna* there was no diabase,
of barley, and we penally got hay; but instead of
10th.. of hay, until we went to the Crises we senor
had more tau elks., and when we got to tho Crimea
we neer bad more Olio Sibs., befog a defieiesey of 2lbs. is
the ore can, sad 1 be. is the other. After the firs at
V.,.. on Assad le, there war a great east of buoy
sad everything OWL Levin queen's bad been destroyed
by the fire, and ice h of the cousin were not ripen
as to sappy the low. 1 bad t 3 appoint Captain Walker
• I. sand to tho tongs works cf the cavalry rsgl•
meats ; to ride all over the coustry to take step to sewn
supplies. Bs did so with very great aesiduity and mesas
If there was sac thing which move than another allowed
the want of provision sad arnagoeust in the oonnissat
rat it war whea we were at Deena, whore the conatinariat
clears, Irks were misty young nes, were allowed to rids
stoat Ohs anstry in all directions, bidding aad sompoting
sg•leed ose mother. The offsets' horses were ae faddist
in supply so the other heroes, aid the deflciesay cot-
town all the while we wore in Bulgaria. I sidled pr•
guilty on Mr. Fader upas the surd-.t; sad althugh I
gave hie gnat credit for the way is which ha fad the nos,
1 was always sweaty dandified w:th the way is whish
ha fed the hones They were always my fltst we, sad I
scud sot he satisfied while tut, wan man*.
I told bin that the west if arrangement Is par
ehui•g supplies had doubled the pries of son, sad
I requited him to Chaste different pans of
the onstry te differeat commissariat Gann, r r to avoid
eonpotihaas ; but tow sever wr duo. Wenn' Bearlott
was very nark dwastalied with the foraging of two ol kis
minium We embarked for the Crimea es the Ist or
Yid of September, with 1,100 bonne is the Light Divides.
We had set been oat week at sea whoa the editors of the
Biala cane as bard sad told no tbat they bad lialo or sea
forage It ft, although Lord Highs bad losasel as ardor that
as hone var. ort should have Is.. than Ni weeks' Minis
es beard. Then was • delitioac, of water, ef bay,
laid, I thlak, of sate, in all the Our ►tar trusperto
I emase speak very positively at thie sullen geserelly, bat
I ban that allor loves days I had to agree le ditheisat rea-
lism es beard the &Ws, and I 'Usk ea beard the ether
ships. The drub no as very eatisonlasary, beeps* it
woo Important that the s►ips, hung leaded the light
Idled% aboald p back aa fetc► the hooey brigade, width I
believe win pelf e•ly well f. rand as their purge est. As
sow New to the Crimea, warn the dioonbarkatioa of the
cud:, anspiod smarty throe day,. I loaded as the woad
day, whet I was rod that a considerable party had bees
east away seder lard Cerdiganon patrol. They wars art
Inn very sad, is the morals, till very lets at sight. The
basso ware very noel tetrad, and wen, I thief;
whitest water he 30 hoar% so I waited epos Sir a. Alsey,
lithe had 'styled usaned the posits,. if quarternagen-
gessral, lee Mere. Be told me to take all the onaley
seat day to • value lour wiles it lead is an newly dins-
ties. It nay appear striate, but shandy then our so
•cep to be got. There won some steam of something liks
My weenie, at the village, bat then was a total Masan of
all ears f sad I redo es to Mr. Alder, Pe toil Ids our
borne won Wrung Iron groat wait. He wailed no
they should be lad as the Tender, bet I de an With
they got say tom. Nest sac:aims, Wednesday, the day
of the betas of the /Oa, I think there was
• lath, sad only • little ; sad the =taut Lord Raglaa
CM* sus the Sad I redo up and told kin that both sass
aid horses ,sated le col. H. said I Would have asatiesed
It before; bit I told bin I had aes is hopes it woad ast
be secossary to do so. We stopped two days at the Ales, said
&Seine, of forage thawed itself still, although I awn
ray thus was a teal d-Aciossy of all cora. Oaths 20th Sept.
at Balaclava I wrote to Lord Bastin, complaining of deadest
supplies foe the lame, which I ropreseated es bolsi often
bordering ■pis etaavatiou, ad I dated also that I bad
often appled to Mr. Coninissary-Clesoral Felder ea the
subject, but w Went MOMS. I have, I thick, sold
enough foe the board to site that all along
there was a great deficiency of !trap. Previous
to the battle of Balaklava then was a great dig-
itally is watering the nee, at the water had to be tonight
iron wells a ginner of • mile distast ; and I hen always
thought the bones Wined as nub from want of wow I.
frau watt of rubes; aad star we left the valley we get
only about MU ef fodder. The artillery hones at that
tins were receiving 101 b•. I was told by the Conniasaiiat
that Ma reduction Is our anoint ins by eider of Lord
Begin, sad was foolish enough to Wien it, but I after-
wards diesovored that Lord Raglaa know nothing shoot it
In Honshu I was ordered to take my brigade to I•br-
mtes, and I remunerated, bemuse I kaur it would be
impossible properly to forage hones at so great • Canna.
Toe Light Brigade was thrts or four mum from my east
sad I thought it wee the den of the brigadier vet►er this
mite to look after the forage. Had I had, r I ought'
to have had, aa •sittant conninariat oleer to
look after the cavalry update, I should bans
knolls what was goiog oar; bat the essusinarist slaw
considered that the brigadier, and sot I, was his
cosniaiiimg oflin r. (The noble lord bore referred tbee
eossaittse to some lett. rs which had paned botwoos him-
self and Mr. Craikshsak, of the Comaissulit, upon this
subject) I hays always uadentood that in the Penient•,
soder the Duke of Wo.lingtoo, the cavalry bad to forego for
tituabilvre if required to to so by the Comeilnariat within •
daunts of three miles; that was • very sandiest cr.
rampant; but If the datums weeds the,. Win, the
duty becomes mist banning and destructive to Ik, hated,
sad, as the roads and weather were thew, It would have
hoes a fearful strata ulna the horses to seed then for
tho forage ; and kith' lut few days that tho hones of the
Light Brigade were at lettermen they won, se I have
already said before the Febasespol committee, too nut
reduced to soden° the truneadost eaortiou of • journey
to Selektive and bath, a distaste of dines s, to fetch
their ratios,.

After remarkiag urn • few la•euraoie sad Lamar
tears which, he alleged, appeared in the letter to which
ha referred, and experian a wish that the *riled biter
itself should i• o•e norm be prodred,
Lewd Leer wow addressed himself to the quadri of the
Heavy Brigade, whisk, he entered, bed rand
free deficireay and Driegelarity of retire ablest as reds
r the L;ght Brigade ; Sir of bay, with such weather sad
exposure as they had I. the Ceres, was little Ire then
Munro. At home the area* was 121 be., and la ere
frames It be. After the stern they did pretty well ter
My foe slime while, as there was • good dial boating
about the lather ; ►et It seem rued. Os the Mad ef
December be rat to Ore.Caarobart t• oak fir help,ead Ooh
Ca•ehet seld," It I. as °boot with re to preserve poor
ovary, as well as my ewe." H. rehired Lord Lem to

Coiled Msrtimprey, ',Marred to lead a quantity of hey
if Ai:said be nursed within thirty days; hat Mr. Felder
said he amid sot give sash as messemse. sad ***dm
Lord Loess could set avail limmell of Colossi Martin•
prey's offer. At Hadikoi Mr. Fader laid doves
a most outset sad improper rale; it was that
if the horses were kept without fatless for a welt se
amen whatever wire to be made good. He said teat it
was 'outran to the rates of the *erne, to supply sneers.
The Cluertermaster-Osseral decided that we were entitled
to anears, bet we sever got them.
_ . _ " '

General Rowan resselied that Mr. Pilau was right la
his c3astraet on of the rules of the service with regard to
amen of MIOCIP.

Lord Lama said the system was, at all events, a denser-
one and pernicious cum, and the sooner it was given up the
better; and went cm to say that, despite Mr. Filder's
orders, Mr. Cnuksbeak, after oar arrival at lindikoi, did
give ,he toren LI a few dais as mach se ever they could
sat ; and, being pretty sear the supplies, the horses were
pretty wet fed.

Lora. Liman dm stated generally tint be bad done DM
Dent at ell heel to usellorate the a:sedition' of tie home
fns fleet to lea' ; and was will speaking whew our mat
left.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
MORI IL /MICR CINOWiLL, AND tiLL /VMS 111101111011.
TRH UXBRIDGE MURDER.

Elisabeth Ansa Harris, 25, described as a 'plaster, was
plowed at the bar to take ber trial apse tbo ladletswata for
the warder of two lUegitissaw oldldraw, knows by the
Raises of Ella. sad Aiwa. _ _ _

The preciora, who le a very diaitaative weeaaa, had •
And is boo arm". Bra pleaded Not Gail*, to teeth Aeries,
and la sontequerae of her weak 'tradition. oho woe allowed
to be grated daring the loud.
The Ilvt cue praseeded with was the ladletoleat which
ramped the prisoner with the wilial murder of hat child

Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution;
the whom was defended by Mr. Sleigh.
Mr. Bodkin, is spicing the ewe, said that the primmer
wee *barged with me of ta. sat serious crimes known
to the law—that of wilfal murder, weassitted epos the
bidy of hey owe child ; and al illough eke was (sly epos her
trial urn oat sharp, it would be usher to oedema, to
owed the feet Wetter* children were destroyed by the pri-
wan et the mew tinwesd probably by theism. set. Hs then
p►oteeded to give a sanative of the fate. The prisoner it
will be remembered bad three children, Agnes end PAW
sad a baby, all of whom were illegitimate, and it appeared
that the father of the licit child wen brie( at Portamouth
sad at the lime of the fetal wanness. he was muskies that
the rinser should join him with the baby. The rimier
sad her three diadems had bean ia this Valerie* workhouse,
but es the 16. h lebraary she left, taking with her ell the
children, at the same time wpreinieg has ialeatos
of proceeding to Partusooth with these. Oho was
MU by ewe of her relations, who reside is
the neighbourhood of Uxbridge, at different periods
of the day, and townie the *wales the pekoes/ ma-
seamed her Jemmies to peewee' by the train fleet the
West :Drayton wallas so kw way to Pietism*. About
balf•psst sews o'elook is Me male( she wee sees with
t►e two elder children sear a bridge ever the Greed
lentos Canal celled Yewaley &Mr, end a very hew
Wawa afterwards she well OM mule, away from
the meal without the &Urea. In about haLf-aa-
hour ham Ws time the bodies of the two un-
happy ebiWres were sees la the easel by a labouring
ass, aad es their Wag takes oat they were head to be
quite dead. Beepialea, of AMU, latmediately fell es the
primmer, and eke wee takes into cestody the same eventing
at s publi►bosse I. the seighb-Nwhood ; sad oa her beteg
WU that the bodies of two children had bees takes est of
the easel, est that she answered the deerriptios of the per
ms who was last sees with them, she made se reply. Too
coastable Wen took the primmer to the public-
hoses whew the bodies of the &Alarm were
ly-
tag, aad whoa the Wieser saw Wm she west
up to Wm es/ kiwi/ them, and said they 'we
her skildren. sad that We had brought them oat
the weshkesse that morals,. The primes wee this tam
to the polies. mades, cad while the women employed for
tie pmpoes was swells, her, she said he her, "Oh deer,
Ili Nei i Mre kww what you wee. le». aerie r"
whisk the prisoner replied, " 1 knew wry well what 1 haw
bees dents;" sad apes meths, pews who wee peewit
obassiviag that it was a weeder she had see dimmed the
baby as well as We ether Mildew, the Flown exclaimed.
" The baby km get s Weer, bat t►e other chairs. had
set"

ilko sabotquatry, after haying b.. esatioasd that all
oho said maid be inn is triages 'mime Me, made s
Patents; whisk s steamed to.. satin scalemlas. that she
had them the shildres bate the water. sad that ski had
Esse it Masan sh• maid sot take than with kit to Ports-
mouth ; sad the she stated that she wee lam het baby
was sot la Heaves it well es the other olablrea, sad she
Wad that she had pas through so malt trouble that she
hod se damn to Use.

The ahem beta were ehtlertly mooed by the mime
*Masse, sad at the deem et the ems for the prosseatise,
Mr. Sleigh made a not emus* appeal to the sympathy of
the jury es behalf el the tialiappy Rheum., sad be urged
that they 'sight ultierately seam M the esseleales that
the eat was somsaitted wader the bidoemes of nem media
bow, or that the ehildms might have Mee aosideatally
late the water.

no limed Judie baying saaust4 up,
flu Joey, attar a very Wort cussaltatioa, Maned a yer
did of Osegliy.

Mr. Jodie, Cteeswell paned matinee el death is the
=eel fees.

The unhappy primate shrieked eat—u I ame laseveat—l
ale loosest 1 Have sem oa MI" aatt she wee essayed
heft the has in an ahead last* stale.

THE POLICE COURTS.
THIS DST.

111P•IBINCI MT • WOMAN.

May Dorian a ropata---;:loo itta;worasa, midis' at No.
Ab►ypleer, Little Conaatioey Dessawlekocasso,
was plaired at the bar sari eba►ged bile,. Mr. Tyrwhitt
with violently sainaltiag Aaa Carron, by elabbiag bet i•
ibe meth with a bane.

Whey tlie ear wr riled co. the Merry certificate
yea headed is to the registrar :

"April 9, 1856.
" I entity that I lase this sondes dressed a slight fa-
cies& wooed la as lip of Ars Carroll.

-"
G. OiSTALVIVI NOTION, 111101C011.
.80, Judd stns.. Brasiwkk-eqsan."

It appeared heat the evidesse of the teseplalusitt, the/
this monism seat alas o'cleek, es she was rennin
dews stain, the primmer, who resides la the lower pert of
the ease hew, aims sot late the passage, sad after links
wens min wade with her. in her late her parker. and
then stabbed her twigs is the mean. She also kinked her
dews, sad pallid sem hair from ha ken.

. _
The rimier, who did wet desy the slaw, wee madded
ler the athiedawn of a seeeeeety whew.

THAMES.
MOIL /0111111T.-Tll TWO 1110T111/.

_ - ---.--.
Patrick Clifford, • la ours', who he. bees repeatodly
ander remand, weans?* brought before Vr. Yardley thb
day, at 12 o'd•et, •far the night charges were dispesed of,
Aeegsd wit► stealing 1101. front the dwell*: of Ws brother
Mahal Clifford, a wow, of No. 4, Bll•aatreey Back
Chartb-laae. Whlteshepl.
0a t►e prisoner Wag plated la oho dock, Nr. Yardley
addressed Dasawsy, No. 124 11 , who had •barge of the
case, sad said " Have you f•t trued the 1001. au% Melia
frost this poor was the prosesaior 1"
Daaaway.—No sir, 1 hats bres as•ble to tree. the
mac

Mr. Yudlq.—l s very sorry fat it. I dull OMlBit thb
sass for teal.

• narrative of the eels lately appeared to ear walmeac
She deposlttoss bane` been cosplated by Mr. Pm, the
able/ clerk, the printer woe committal for trial.

U Nord states that a flotilla is being equipped at
lit. Pawning' for t►e pup,. of ceadeeting the Empress
Dowager to Stettin, frost whence her Majesty will ge to
the bathe ef ReWhat. Tie Boerne Neater will pro-
bably awls' et the eereeetwe Jet.. at Mweew, awl it steels
eessiwsks ism M Petwoo.