The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-13 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13 1869.

hers, sr wadies to repitale, or r orates he holy orders.
firmondly, the brim aims, on leaving gimerally at the end
of the seeped sags of atheatise, go eft Is the finher's farm or
briar& Thirdly, the working ekes, leav6a4 mostly at the
end of the first Wage of education, go to Mow. la each
ore, I mean, many Go so • often, practically, is otherwise,
cp., the whole class of I;oys rent as uffiaers is the navy or
army begin apprenticethip bet ors the sad of the second
step ; nanny children of mechanics postpone apprenticeship
beyond the sad of the first siege. Self-ednestion grandly
bogies rib the period of apprenticeship to work, sad its
rapid and satisfactory exterion in this country I. proved by
the Werra. of libraries, cheep journal., and popular lite-
rature of • healthy red. To review this programme there
need sr be mock disonsios in this seetion on the third
ergs of genteel retries, which only the richer claw, sad
ar very meaty ern cd theca, enjoy, oar object bathe; beds-
non. The universithe prottably need nu more legislative
reform at present. The late reform his given vigour to
their own government, as wells. liberalised their organise.
den. It hr not, however, anconded mach m extending
their numbers, whir are statioi.ary, whale the population
is brewing. The gentry seeking an entrance to his, end
M proirsioa only, are lusted thew fee the rower of •
degree, and oonautste the balk of their students. They
hare however, the meant of correcting this, and show every
=Prof vigorous intention to new the demands of
e, sad nationalise their we. One groat object
should be to cheapen their proems, and that manly try
putting doers debt, and credit, and extravagance. Review-
tag the eared stage of grad oration, that of boyhood
from 10 to 18, we led • good supply of rabbit' schools. For
the richer airs and libe al periodos. in Eton, Hume, end
Rugby, lad theft teem. tsaitetore, Illeribereneh, Oblehearer,
and many ear; • geed sagely, setting ea evidently maw
tieweed. Olds= we will oily may dry reeneed
teuedellees whim tee els" sad obese If titr;t2
be of mural re to the greet berets of the oioatry. Pro-
prietary wheels have Ibie weffiltseee, that the dares belsg4 •
eateehie they her so tendency to weals autornsents
ter tbesseivee. IX the High School, legsbargly
we have the Weft illustration present be on,
preelieet. It solves the problem in this coustry
of LOS peed bility of reenting all dames together, and 11
ea example of the day-wheel system for the upper themes,
uniting the adnintsges of wheel with the sustained inflames
of home daring the whole term of boyhood—probably the
best of all recedes. For the bears. and mareantile
dares we have grammar schools and foundation, besides
private schools. The former are much locked up sad we-
re, or perverted and waded ; the latter are much in-
jured, if aot stresded, by the parliamentary patronage
of ermastary schools. For the brow there is a re.
medial irchniery, as yet imperfectly provided, by Lord
Bremeglaia'a Act, in the Charitable Inlets Comrade'. The
mond stage of education, so tar as the working clamor came
regallarly within Its rope st all, to provided for them in the
wet forms of primary school.. On the much mooted points
of inducing hthonrieg peterts to retain their children
' • year or two longer from work for general education, I or
cry say each totheirance will certainly repay Its ...entice, et
W rues time I moat state my cooviction that such po 4pone-
mere of apticaship should not be forced too fee. If
aseaterßy locoed it would only displace labour 01 one sort,
cad mks another 'redundantly supplied. Night schools so
for as pilacipally intended for the poorer labourers, are legid-
mate ondamate on the pailiamentary great. in aid, se • most
important part of ow system of natiensi education. We come,
at but, to the fret stage or rudiments of rearm belonging
alike to all closes of society the chief deposit of our 810,0001.
annual education tax. To this small fragment of our whole
subject we all natatelly turn as the social subject of the day.
The claims of labour are the paramount domestic subject of
all pabllc thought and *Wailes now. All the home quire-
, tuna of the day are mammd up is how the great
mare of population are fed, clothed, and taught.
What is our national system of eduestion for
the working dries r We alone, of all nations, rest on
the voluntary undertaking of private individuals or so-
defies for it* brie, and we support au& *gooey by large
eatuidea sad co-operation Iron the national treasury. In
20 years we have provided schools and teachers for one-third
of the children depeadent on ouch schooling, and we are
rapidly advancing lora& adequacy both of demand and
supply. It will be the chief subject of this section's drea-
mer whether game deice In this particular department of
editeentus ere copal. of amendment. Feasibly we may
leant sonereffing from other countries—from the United
States, Canada, sad other European stares free as ouredver,
Switherleed and Holland; not much from the elaborate
organisauon of Frame, nor from the late Inipmed patent of
Vienna, nor the Prussian gradation of officers up to the
bishops of the state religion. Oor democratic tendencies Iced
as away from paternity of government and pupillage
of weir. The hon. gentleman then proceeded to point out
the dieerencee between the ednenional system in the countries
referred to and our own, and concluded by sayiog that our
own regress in the care of education wee indicated by the
milder aseracter assumed by the social struggles inseparable
Gana Les cemenualty. The late builders stnke appealed ro
roma red sot to nos'. teeelese, trotted the dignity of '
wiper before principle, whether rightly or wroesly, and not
the blind impeteary of tourers. The people had waited
long and prierbly for great ref *MP, and, on the other
hand, the deers WOO have to concede had yielded and were
yielding this with • good gram, and if the tree may be
judged by its traits, these are not the fruits of an uneducated
nation. (Applause.)

la the depmiment of Swig' Economy a very nnmeroue
auditory was meseribled to hear two apses announced to be
read by ladies with reference to female labour.
B essi tau eci (a young lady, who courageottely
mounted the rostrum sod sp. ke with decision end emphasis)
rad a paper on the market for educated female labour, in
which she celkd attention to the menage in which this im-
portant subject had been neglected by society. The con-
dition of woman in the lower clamors was, she contended, a
plague spot which it behoved society to medicate as soon as
possible. The education of boys was attended to more or
lees in every family, as it was said „they had their living to
get ;" while the girls were taught nothing but shitt-making.
It was all very well to say, "Ob, she will marry, and there-
fore it will be a bed speculation to lay out any mosey in
learning her • trade;" but it should be remembered that
many women did not marry, and that in the absence of any
respectable trade or calling they were often exposed to the
most trying privations and the most lamentable and deplora-
ble temptatious. Again, it should bereinembered 'het women,
although married, might bocoun widows, or be reduced to
distress by reason of the failure in Mothers of their latiehenilii,
in which care their condition wri, a thourenl tinier more dal-
Scull then that of men; for whom • thoueand ,Glatilltla of
employment were open. She therefore recommended that
girls in the humble and middle cinema ebteild be
mined or educated to some given calling or or-
egano:o. Why, she asked, might not young girls be
etineeted for telegrajilic clerk+, book-keepers, teachers in
nt schools, a'tendante in shape, and the like ?
however, who would not acknowledge the necessity
end desirability of training their daughters to pur
suits by which they could gain an honourable livelihood,
NM bound at resat, to set aside a small portion of
their whinge, and by life maniacs make some provision for
the day when, if the girl be not married or instructed in
saes special calling, she becomes a dependent upon the
sharpy of others, or worse. At all emote, let DO father risk
his daughter's future on the chance of &marriage which may
arm take place.
Is the nest paper, by Jesse Eumherette (read by the
Secretary of the section), the writer took a somewhat
simper view of the subject, and contended that the flue
arguments alleg.d spinet the employment of women in
shops were all failacione, except one. Them arguments were
—fleet, that women could nut beer the twister of standing
far so many bourn in a shop ; second, that they could not lift
heavy weight& ; thirdly, that ladies would dislike to be
served by them; fourth, that there could be no adequate
control over them after shop hours; and lastly, that they
could not be made sufficiently convergent with arithmetic.
She believed that four of these objections were groundlese,
and that so far am ignoramus of arithmetic was concerned,
that difficulty could be easily met by training the tieing
generation of women to a knowledge of figures. She could
ow no raison' why women should sot be substituted foe
shorans in all light a:nations ' • and she was happy to
find that Melees. Copeeteke and Cu., of Clietpaide, had set
an example by employing a large number of young &melee,
who were boarded and hided in a haw in the neigh-
bourhood.

In the dirctuision which seamed attention was called to the
ehaneels open fu• female labour in the United Susie., end a
confident hope was expressed that as trenustlantio example
in the respect would be followed in this counlry. With regard
to the introduction of sewing machined, Bessie Perk•a stated
that it was a popular error to suppose that their tendency
was to contract the market for female industry. She had
reason to believe that the contrary was the feat, and that the
machine in question was calculated, :f properly directed, to
develop rather than diminish female labour.
Several speakers eugereted whether the whole wick of
clothing the population ought not to devote exclusively on
women. It was sire urgtd that In the manufacture of
watches, paper-bangingo, and other ornamental leaden the
delicate manipulationa of female angers were calculated to
perdue° a better article than that new offered for sale.
In the department of puniehusint sad mformetion a very
interesting paper was read to•day by Kr. OSAHAM. "On
certain nausea tending to the Yaw of crime." Mr.
Graham strongly recommends dr separation of young
criminals. He would sitar:am them even in the dock. He
also bolds that the insdaquars payment of witeerea very
much retards the waking of Judea and observe. that the
state of the calends's at asoloaaall seesions affords but very
itoperfert evideam of the amasaat of crime la a county or
district.

Yesterday the introductory lecture on the opening
of the &WOO of the Faculty of Law and Arta, at University
College, wee delivered by Probes°, NEWNAN. The subject
T 11,1.tioes of Profraalottal to Liberal Knowledge.'
No SPARROWS TOR NEW ZRALAPID..—We regret
Ile soda that ell the eparrowa shipped by Kr. Brodie, who
hr hem Indefatigable la hie eadeavoars to lerrodace that
1111 meg bled isle Now Lalsad, win did,—Ardralian