The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-11 00:00:00

'ERIAL PARLIAMENT.

MOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEeexsesr, Jett W.
IN thelonic of COMMONS yesterday, after our 1
report left,
Mr. A. r.....Ferov seconded the second reading of
the Education of the Poor Bill. The real question,
be sod, was t, het her the voluntary system, supple-
Monied by goiereinent grants, was sufficient to
Lieut tho ihu people. Ile &Loved that it I
as not. ht .Ylan..liester, where there was a strong
desire no promote education, and which ho believed
would he the firm place to put this bill in force,
there were 3a.tiou children who did not attend
acho,d at all.
Alr. ! 1 Esttv said this bill would uproot the
whole of the existing system of education. He
did not say that all was being done that could or ,
ought to be done, but be required more informs-
thin than had been given them to-day before he
could come to the conclusion that the present
system ens a failure. To carry this hill would be
unjust to those who had contributed to the sup-
port of the existing system, and whose consciences
would not allow them to accept a farthing from the
rate. From the moment this bill passed all volun-
teer action would hoe at an end. If they pawed
this bill they would have, as the Americans had, to
eli eee i t late religions instruction from the schools,
and make them secular. He appealed to the house
not to pass such a measure as this, but rather to
maintain the present system.
Mr. W. E. Foitsree did not think that this bill need
be regarded with the alarm with which Mr. Henley
reeti, rded it, for it was merely a bill to enable the
inhabitants of a district who saw the evils of igno-
rance tistax themselves to give edecation. Looking
at it as an economical question, he remarked that
by the want of education our material prosperity
was in danger; and he road a letter from a Notting-
ham manufacturer, who has also an establishment
in Saxony, and who said there was no industrial
education in this country, nor could there be while
so many of our workmen could neither read nor
write, and that in Saxony he never met with a
workman who could not read and write well. The
conscience clause difficulty was rather theoretical
than practical, and, indeed, he believed the re-
ligious difficulty was rather political than religious.
He appealed to the house not at this time, when
they were giving a large extension of the franchise,
to refuse to sanction a bill which would have a great
effect in improving the education of the people.
Mr. G. tinnily said, when it was stated that only
one in twelve or thirteen of the population was at
school in Birmingham, Manchester, and other
large towns, he was driven to the conclusion that
in other parts of the country the proportion was
much larger, Localise, taking the country through-
out, the proportion was one in 72. There had
been several bills submitted to promote education
but the House of Cotuinons had steadily rusisteli
every plan of rating. It was unjust to throw the
expense of education on real property only. Then
on the committee there would probably be persons
of different religious persuasions, and that would
necessarily put an end to the denominational sys-
tem. Government were not prepared to assent to
the second reading of this bill, and he thought it
unreasonable, considering the short time they had
been in office, to call on them to bring in
a bill this or next year, though the subject was one
which had engaged his attention.
Mr. GLADSTOWN said the inequality of the pro-
portion of children at school had been alluded to,
and no doubt that inequality existed, but that was
the very reason why they should adopt a system of
local application to mitigate the evil. He pointed
out that, whereas in some counties in Scotland the
whole of the persons, and in others 3 per cent. of
those whomarried,signedtheir names, in Manchester
only 50 per cent., in Wolverhampton 47, and in
Stockport 42 per cent. could not sign their names,
and yet these persons would form the majority of
the constituencies who were to elect members of
parliament. Another point in which he considered
the present system had failed was the feebleness of
the religious impressions which it appeared to have
produced. lie denied that the committee under
this bill would destroy the denominational system,
inasmuch as they had no power to interfere in
religious matters. He lamented the persistent op-
position of the clergy to the conscience clause,
which afforded the only possible means of main-
taining the denominational system, and of com-
plying with the new demands of the country.
Mr. Bezter said he thought the bill would have
a most beneficial effect.

Mr. H I'ABARD WM addressing the house against
the hill, when, it being a quarter to 6 o'clock, the
debate stood adjourned.
The house adjourned at ten minutca to 6 o'clock.

ALAI:NINO ACCIDENT ON TIM ChATHAM

:AND DOVER RAILWAY.

Yesterday afternoon an accident of an alarming
nature ()marred near the signal post at Battersea-bridge,
on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, a train
being separated, a carriage turned over. and sixteen of the
passengers injured. The train, consisting of the usual
number of carriage,, eight or ten, left the Victoria station
at' .5 p.m. on the ,lown line. It proceeded on its journey
till it arrived at the other side of Battersea-bridge, when,
by some unknown circumstance, the hindmost portion
of, the train divided from the foremost, and one carriage
was thrown over upon its aide on the level of the lower
line. The engine, with amp or four carriages, kept
on the line, but the following carriages, running
off, dashed against the parapet' wall, and on
the strain of the engine to pull them forward the
oonpling-ehain broke. Several of the °Moen of the
company were in the train, and on the accident taking
place they at once proceeded to assist the passengers in
the overturned and other carriages, and rendered every
possible assistance. The train consisted of let, 2nd, and
3,1 elan carriages, the latter class being behind. It was
found that about sixteen of the passengers were injured,
and they were at once conveyed back to the Victoria-
station, where they were medically attended. The tele-
graph was then set to work with the order to "Stop ell
up and down," while the overturned carriage and those
off the line were again put upon the metals. Considerable
delay to the traffic was thereby occasioned at every
station on the line, but on the arrival of several
of the company's men from the Battersea works,
who are kept in reserve in ease of aecidents,
the line was co soon cleared that the 4.20 train passed
through ou the same metals. Fortunately at present no
loss of life has occurred, and most of the passengers who
were injured were sent home. Dr. Duncan Smith, of 32,
Upper Lelgrave-place, accompanied by his moisten!, Mr.
Wilson. was immediately on the spot on the arrival of
the sufferers, as was also Mr. Solley, the surgeon attached
to the comp my. One lady was conveyed to the Grosvenor
Hotel and was placed in bed, sod two other passengers
were conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where they remain
under the care of Mr. F. M. Sims, the house surgeon.
The following is a list of the passengers by the train who
sustained injury :—Miss Ludlow, staying at the Grosvenor
Motel, wound on arm from broken glass. Henry Green,
167, Maryleliono-road, contusion of forehead and crown.
Inward Ashdown., 155, Portlantl-road, Notting-hill,
injury to spine. Henry King, 30, James-street, 'luckier
Isuu-gate, contused head. Mm King (wife of the pre.
oedirg sufferer), contused elbow. W. C. Barber, 2,1
Corinthian-villas, Notting-hill, severely bruised ; he was
going to Ramsgate. Mary Parkinson, 31, Kensington-
square, contueion of left leg and left elbow. Martha
Dalton, West-street, Ossery-town, Oxford, injury to
right thigh. A lady unknown, bruised knee. Emily
Capps, 2, Stratheden-villas, Shepherd's Bush, contused hip
joint. Ann Bridge, St. George's-place, Canterbury, bruised
thigh bone ; wife of a private soldier proceeding to Cu. I
terbury barracks. the husband's furlough having closed.
F. Hammond. wife of a private in the 11th Hussars, who
we. proceeding to her husband at Canterbury, bruised
tibia. John Abrah .m, of Vantage, Berkshire, on his
way to Margate, contused elbow. At St. George's Hoe.
pital two persona were received ;—Robert Wallis, nearly
SO years of age, severely bruised, and a woman unknown,
injury to hip. In the 11'4 two cases the stirgeon said
he could not give an opinion as to the result of the in-
juries received, as both patients had received a severe
shock, and were chilly.

Tuz CArrcz PIACI:E.—For the week ending the
6th July one fresh outbreak has been reported—viz., at
Hackney, in the Tower Hamlets district. Two cam of
cattle plague are reported to have occurred during the
week, being a decrease of nine on the previous return.
One of the diseased animals was killed, and one died.

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