The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 25.

A MEETING was held at Knightsbridge on Thurs-
day to promote a scheme for giving a public school
education to boys for 141. a year. The scheme
has been at work some time—clerks, small shop-
keepers, and artisans sending their sons, some of
them from distant parts of the country. It is
proposed to raise the present number from 300 to
1,000. A correspondent who has read our report of
the meeting writes, with a little too much warmth,
to point out the sectarian character of the school,
against which he would warn parents. Let this
conaideration have all the importance it de-
serves, but no more. Mr. WOODWARD,
the promoter of the school, who claimed
all the children of this country as
belonging to the Church of England, although
from various unfortunate circumstances many of
them had strayed from her fold, will learn in good
time that these children belong to GOD, to their
parents, and their consciences, and that no
priesthood can establish a prescription against
them. It is further objected that the reli-
gious teaching of these schools is too much
like that of the Bishop of SALISBURY'S charge.
This fact ought to be known to parents, but
it is for them to decide what weight should
be 'given to it. With these admitted drawbacks,
these schools will do a great work if they should
bring under the freer and nobler training and more
liberal teaching of a public school, thousands
of boys who might otherwise be left
to the wretched " academies" which are often the
only places of instruction available for the class
from which they are drawn. They will render
a still greater service if they demonstrate, as we
believe they will, that good, sound instruc-
tion, with board and lodging, can be sup-
plied at a price which has until lately seemed
chimerical. If these schools succeed, there
is no reason why others differing from them in
the type of their religious instruction should
not be established in different parts of the country,
and we would suggest this policy to those of the
Evangelical party and the Nonconformist bodies
who have hitherto been most anxiously
warning parents against Mr. WOODWARD'S
designs. If confession and absolution can be
taught with EUCLID and V moil. for 141. a year,
justification by faith surely can be taught for the
same money, if our Protestant friends will only
be as active as they are vigilant. It is certain
that the boys of the aspiring classes will by some
means get an education, and great negligence and
indifference must exist somewhere if an undue pro-
portion of them are trained by the High Church
clergy.

Tax rumour of the last few days that the
Government mean to make a demonstration of
" firmness " by executing the Felli&El BURK 1--
provided that Nature concurs, and preserves the
man for the fate of the gallows---seems to be
confirmed by the telegram which conveys Lord
AIIERCORN'S answer to a deputation which waited
on him yesterday at Dublin Castle. This is a
matter in which the Government must act on its
own responsibility. It knows all that the public
knows, and probably much more besides. Of
course it has calculated the probable effect of the
proposed measure on the mind of the Irish people.
If it believe. that Buzurs's execution will do more
to calm and tranquillize Ireland than his prolonged
imprisonment, there is not much more to be
said. There are some things, however,
to be considered before such a conclu-
sion is reached. It will strike most persons