The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-24 00:00:00

LOWER IWIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION.

A meeting of persona interested in middle-class
education was held yesterday in St. Paul's School, Knights-
bridge ; the Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell in the chsir.
Letters of regret for non-attendance and hearty amps*,
with the purposes of the meeting were read from Earl
Russell, Lord Morley, Lord Strathmore, Mr. Sykes,
Mr. Tite, M.P., Mr. Hubbard, H.P., and Mr. G. Hardy,
M.P. Amongst those present were 'Viscount Halifax. Sir
C. Trevelyan, Hon. H. Walpole, Hon. C. 1.. Wood, Mr.
Barnett, M.P., Lord R. Cavendish, Lord Scott, M.P. do.
The Chairman explained that the object of the meeting
was to promote the building of a large school for the educa-
tion of children of the lower middle class. As the children
of this country belonged to the church of England,
although from various unfortunate circumstances mazy of
them bad strayed away from her fold, it was their duty
to try and retail the wanderers to the church by simple
acts of attention, kindness and self-denial.—The
Rev. Mr. Woodward, provost of St. Nicholas College
(which was founded in 1848 for the special object of im-
proving middle-class education amongst church of England
children), detailed the scheme for which support was re-
quired. The proposition was to establish a boarding
school at Ardingly, Sussex, for the sons of small shop-
keepers, artisans, &c., who could afford 14 guineas per
year for board and lodging. Nearly 300 inch boys were
already being educated, but premises were required to
accommodate 1,000. The education was essentially that
of the church of England. The rev. gentleman insisted
that the church of England had suffered greatly from lack
of some inch educational provision, and instanced a dis-
trict where he said all the farmer, were detached
from the church of England, because the Wesleyan'
established a small school there, and sent down
• number of local preachers, who made friends with the
boys and married all the daughters.—The Dean of West-
minster moved a resolution declaring that the scheme was
worthy of public support—Viscount Halifax, in seconding
the motion, said he did not intend to introduce politics
into the meeting, but he could not help saying that as a
large number of persons were about to be introduced into
the political machinery of the country, and as clews were
about to be invested with political power who never pee-
'eased it before, it was highly essential for the political
safety of the country that the newly safranchised classes
she uld be educatel in such a way as to fit them for
the exercise of the vote. (Hear, hear.) He believed
further that the moral and religious training that would
be received in establishmentslike these would not only con-
tribute essentially to the religious and moral welfare of
the individual taught, but would tend to place the social
and political systems of the country at large upon eater
and broader foundations. (Hear, hear.) The resolution
as Bishop of Oxford moved • resolution
pledging the meeting to assist the College of St. Nicholas
in completing a lower middleohisa school for 1,000 boys
He had a strong conviction that this was a most important
movement towards the promotion of public education
amongst the people of this country. The great want of
the education of the lower middle class, reaching to •
considerable height into the middle-class itself, was
not direct pecuniary help, but the absolute and primary
means of education. Thew lower middle-class schools
were therefore not intended to bear an eleemosynary cha-
racter. The right rev. prelate then ridiculed and con-
demned the schools conducted on what be called the "self-
applaudintadvertiaement system,"and pointed out that the
schools the meeting was pledging itself to support would
be conducted on genuine principles. The remaining
speakers were Mr. Barnett, M.P., Mr. .1. A.S. Stewart, Lord
Henry Scott, and Mr. Walpole. Thanks were voted to the
incumbent for the we of the schoolroom at the close of
the meeting.

THE COMPOUND HOURZHOLDER QUISTION.—This
question formed a subject of discussion at the meeting of
the Msrylebone vestry yesterday. Mr. Greenwell, the
vestry clerk, said the parish would be injuriously affected
if the proposition that occupiers instead of owners of
houses should be rated were adopted. There were a great
many small houses which the landlords let to persons who
lived in one of the rooms and let the remainder to other
tenants. The occupiers of these houses might be weekly
or monthly tenants, whilst the rate made in the parish
was yearly, and before any rate could be levied upon them
the population would have changed, as they belonged to
the mtgmtary class. The matter gave rise to considerable
discussion, and ultimately a deputation was appointed to
wait upon Lord Derby in respect to it.
THE REFORM BILL FOR SCOTLAND.—The in-
habitants of Helenaburg assembled on Wednesday night,
in the King-street Hall of that town, under the presidency
of Provost Breingan, to consider,' and in fact to protest
against, the proposal made by Mr. Disraeli in his Scotch
Reform Bill, to clarify Helenaburg with the reconstructed
" Falkirk burghs," thus severing its natural connection
with Dumbartonshire, and, a• the wiley Chancellor of the
Exohequer doubtless intended, handing over the represen-
tation of the latter county into the hands of the tory party.
Addresses strongly deprecating the government proposal
were delivered by the chairman, Sir Jaunts Colquhoun,
Mr. Stephens, Mr. Baxter, end others, and ultimately the
meeting resolved, notwithstanding a feeble attempt at •
counter move, that • petition should be got up sad pre-
sented to parliament, praying that Hetensburg should
not be associated with the Falkirk burghs.—ZiortA Brffiak
Mail.

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RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIA-
MENT.— Yesterday, in the House of Lords in Lord
Rodeadale's committee, the following bills passed through,
and were ordered to be reported: The Newry andGreenore
Railway, Sheffield Water (Amendment), Sheffield
Water (New Works), Norwich Local Board of Health,
Provident Clerks and General Guarantee Association, Sal-
ford Borough, Gateshead Improvement, and Fulham Rail-
way. The Ramsden's Etate, Peters6eld and Bishop's
Waltham Railway, and the Rathkesle and Newcastle
Junction Railway Bills were adjourned. In Room C th. it
lordships pissed the Southport Water Bill and ordered it
to be reported and adjourned; and the Metropolitan Railway
and the North Metropolitan Railway Bills to be further
adjourned until this day (Friday). In Room D, the
Welland River Outten Bill was ordered to wait report.
The same committee adjourned the further consideration
of the Witham Drainage, Dundee New Gas, and the Du odes
Gas Bills. In the Painted Chamber, their lordships passed
the Great Eastern Railway Bill, which wu ordered to
be reported. The Birkenhead Improvement Commissionen
Bill was adjourned until this day (Friday). Mr. Frere
(one of the examiners, held • court, and declared the
standing orders to have been complied with in the oases of
the Weymouth Consumers' Gas Bill, the Bingloy Exten-
sion and Improvement Bill, and the Solway Junction
Railway Bill. No further standing orders were applicable
' in the case of the Greenwich and South Eastern Docks
Bill. In the House of Commons, in Mr. Dodson's um.
mittee, the following bills passed through :—The Towns
Drainage and Sewage Utilisation, Hs ton and Roby Gas,
Devon and Cornwall Railway, Central Cornwall Railway
(No. 2), Richmond Gas, Athena and Koala Junction
Railway, Glasgow (City) Union Railway, Bristol Port
Railway and Pier, and Dublin Trunk Connecting Railway.
Iu Group R, the Dublin Port Bill was opened and pro- ,
ceeded with. In Group 7, the Midland end Glasgow and
South Western Railway Companies Bill was further pro-
ceeded with, and again adjourned to Monday. In Croup
12, the appearances were taken, and the came proceeded
with of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Bill,and
the same company's bills, N.A. 3,2, and 4, respectively.
SUICIDE BY A CLEROYMAN. —A painful sensation
has been created in the village and surrounding district of
Bucknell, Shropshire, by the determined suicide of the
Rev. J. R. Coope, the respected vicar of the parish. From
the evidence adduced at the corooer's inquest it appears
that the rev. gentleman, after spending the evening with
his family, retired to the bathroom, where he remained so
long a time that the family and servants went to her,. At
midnight, however, his son, becoming alarmed at his eon.
tinnel seclusion, went to the bathroom door and knocked,
but received no answer. He then attempted to enter, but
found the door was locked, and ultimately, with the
assistance of the butler, he broke open the door, and found
his father lying on the Door with a fearful gull in his
throat, and • razor covered with blood underneath hie
dead body. The rev. gentleman had for some months pact
appeared to be in unusually low spirits, but the cause of
his depression was not known to his family. The jury re.
turned • verdict to the effect that the deceased destroyed
himself while labouring under a fit of temporary insanity.
The Rev. Mr. Coops was in his 64th year, and had been
connected with the parish of Bucknell for upwards of 30
years, during which time he bad gained the esteem and
affection of all his parishioners.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The great flower show of the
season will take place to-morrow. The entries are more
than usually numeireus.

THE NEW VACCINATION BILL.

Dr. Gibbon, in his fortnightly report on the
health of the Holborn district, dates his reasons against
the registration of vaccination ea follows :

I. Because such register, founded, as it is proposed, on
that of the births, would be inoomplets, sad delusive for
stathilsal purpose*. registration of births not being
compulsory is England and Wales is far from oomplete.
It is estimated in large towns that about 8 per cent. go iht
rsitstered. If tb• birth of a dal is registered in one aa-
triet it is very frequentlj mead into sootily helms it is
vaccinated, so that the Masalty.4B sass ding the /maim-
lion air months subsequently Ode by side with tbe birth
willamwmny cams prove iesuporable, 444•1•11y•ipbut it is
to 'be Waded by a certthaste passing Ikon liffuralit
hawk

2. Because such redder, if it quid be rendered com-
plete, wesid las of wo pewit/ea utility. It i. and sad ter
wise to smierasia wilather a person baa been vassinatild
by direct inspestlon of the area, than by calling for and
consulting certificates and registers the genuineness of
which may be doubtfuL

3. Beeauae such compulsory registration will amoursie
rather than promote vaccination. The penalties, the cer-
tificates, and thi trouble it indict' On parents sad prsaii-
tionera, will deter many from having anything te do with
the operation. The cue of the public vaccinator is, under
the present bill, as follows:—For performance of an ope-
ration requiring skill and time be will, if successful, re-
ceive is. fid., but in case he neglects " what he well knows
to be a useless piece of red-tripisin," to write two certifi-
cates and to send one of them to the right registrar
within twenty-one days, he will be subject to a fine of
20e.

4. Because the expense to the ratepayers—vim., the coat
of stationery and postage, and the fee of 4d. per use to
the registrar—will be considerable.

THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY AND HIS CLERGY.

The following is his lordship's reply to the protest of
the churchwardens of the deanery of Bridport against his
charge:

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" 1, Creech Grange, Wareham, May 21.
"My dear received yesterday the address which
you have forwarded to me from acme of the churchwardens
who heard that part of my charge which I delivered at
Bridport. lam bound to do 1111 can to help my clergy
to be faithful to their obligation• • to minister the doc-
trine and sacraments and the discipline of Christ, as the
Lord bath commanded, and as this church and realm path
received the earns,' and I am persuaded that I have
justified what I have said in the discharge of this duty by
the authority of the Prayer-book and other formularies of
the church of Kngland.—l remain, my dear air, yours
faithfully, " W. K. SALON.
" J. Pope, Esq."

• Ordination Pricid.—" Will you then give your faithful
diligence silvan so." &c.

Another protest bee been addreseed to the bishop by the
Rev. Isaac Smith Litchfield, for the past 26 years rector
of Beckland Ripen, Dorset. It is in these emphatic
farms:

"Hy Lerti,—Understanding from your charge that you
state that God has given to certain men supernatural
powers to work miracles, and to make ouch a change in
the element, of bread and wine in the Lord's Supper as is
equivalent to transubstantiation, I beg to say that I con-
sider such doctrines as absolutely blasphemous, and by im-
plication idolatrous ; equally at variance with Scripture
and natural reason, impossible in themselves (at least with
respect to the latter), and therefore impossible to be be-
lieved ; offensive in the highest degree to the enlightened
understandings and pious feelings both of protestant
churchmen and of ill simple-minded Bible Christiana ;
and that, however you may be blind to the fact or inno-
cent in your intentions, the propounding of them as you
have done is a daring insult to those whom you have ad-
dressed. Whatever steps may be taken in the quo ky thi
elerry of this disease, I cennolocerain frees orgdleg this
solemn declaration in the sight orGorl, and pulliAing it
in duty to otters. I declare it te be my Oath opinion.
that while you preach such doctrines as these. which are of
the very essence of itomaniain, you are unfit for your
office, and ought either to resign or to be deposedit Irsleed,
I do not know how, under such circumstances, I could ac-
knowledge you as coy legal superior."

TURKEY ♦ND TER CRETAN hrscanzermx.—We
read in the Indiperulance Bdge In order to give an
appearance of sincerity to its promises of reform in favour
of the Christian population of the island of Candle, the
Porte had caused a delegation of that population to p
to Constantinople for the purpose of making known the
grievances of the island, and of concerting a plan of re-
organisation with the Ottoman government. We know
by our Constantinople correspondence in what manner
this delegation was recruited, and how little calculated
it was to fulfil the pretended mission entrusted to it.
We now learn that a certain number of these delega.es
have admitted that they received no authority from the
populations they were supposed to represent, and that
they have left Constantinople, after addressing to all the
diplomatic agents accredited to the Porte an energetic
protest against the proceedings of the Turkish authori-
ties."

THR FRNI AN TRIAL& —Du BLIN,THURSDAY NIGHT.
—The warrant for the execution of Burke was placed in
the hands of the sheriffs this afternoon. At the Cork
Special Commission to-day Captain M'Clure withdrew the
plea of " Not Guilty," and said he had been duped into
taking part in the insurrection. The other prisoners,
Kelly, Joyce, and Bowyer, were convicted, but recom-
mended to mercy. Sentence was deferred.

CHARITABLE REQUEATA. —The late 31r. W. J. Hall,
of Trinity•squere, Tower-bill,whoee will was proved under
15,000 f. personalty, has left a large portion of his property
to charitable institutions. To the Londuu Hospital, Lock
Hospital, and the Seamen's Hospital, the Dreadnought,
each 2,0001. ; the Blind School, Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
London Orphan Asylum Merchant Seamen's Orphan
Asylum, Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead, Shipwrecked
Mariners' Society Ragged-school Union, Royal Na-
tional Lifeboat ICistitution, Metropolitan Free Drink-
ing Fountains Association, each 1,0001. ; Hospital
for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Victoria-
perk, 7501. ; Tower Hamlets Div/unary, 5001. ; and
2.101. to Mrs. Rich's fund for carrying out the philanthropic
idea of strewing gravel tosaaiat the horses in steep ascents.
The testator has left one-third of the residue of his estate
to Rothschild's, New Court, St. Sivithin's-lane, to distri-
bute amongst such Jewish charitable institutions as they
may think proper; one-third to be di,tributed hy two
of his executors, amongst the clerks, porters, and work-
men in his employ at the time when he quitted the
Custom-house Quay, and the remaining third to be re-
tained by his executors for their own le.e. There are
sevend annuities and legacies to the members of hie
family and to his domestic servant..—City Press.
THE STATE or M Zllt-0. —The following is an
extract from a private letter lately reorived from an
English resident in the city of Mexico. and dated April,
1867 :—" The plan now is to cite people before the prefect
and tell them theymust pay 10,000, 20,000.0r30.1100 dole. or
go to gaol. English. :ermsn, French—no exception. N. has
been called upon for 50,000 dollars. B. and othets have
been in the common gaol. We have no minister here.
Mr. Scarlett is in England, and the legation confided to a
gentleman who, when applied to for assistance, replies
'Nell, really I do not know what to recommend you to
do ; I will write to my government.' Thin tbe reprefien.
Wive of England ! Before he gets an ',newer from his
government we may all be ruined. Mr. Scarlett was very
wrong in going away, and the government ought either to
send him back or appoint another minister. In fact there
is no security of any kind here now. We arc at the mercy
of Marquez and his mynuidous, and he hiui full power to
rob right and left, es be is doing and every oiled,* may
do after him. I myself expect every moment to be cited.
Swigs ARMAMENT/.—A letter from Bence has
the subjoin. d :—" A singular phenomenon is now canna
ring in Switzerland. Last December, the Chamfers ;nth< •
rise! the Federal Council to contract a loan of 12 millions
for the omit of the national armament. In February. the
Council decided on iseuing the half of it by public sub-
scription in 4i per cent. scrip ; and the six millions re-
quired were furnished at Far. Since then the Council
has bees continually receiving offers fiom Swiss capi-
talists, who are ready to supply all the money wanted
on the same terms, that is to say, at par at 44
per cent. Yielding to these applications, the Counal
has decided on emitting the second portion of the scrip,
and has charged its finance department to take the neces-
sary steps. Naturally the emission will take place at par,
and will certainly be at once taken up. This measure has
been adopted poLzijtl to satisfy the general wish, end
partly to be pre to meet the cost nf the arma-
ment, which is ing pushed forward with great .
Ileeldell the toodarreaties of the old solooth•lemil
artillery into rifled, the existing muskets are being changed
into breech-loadeni, and 130,000 new rifles are being n ado,
loading st the breech and repeating, as the term is."