The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-26 00:00:00

MB EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1858.

MR. MACRBADY ON EDUCATION.

(From Übe Sherburne JournaL)

A very large party of both sexes assembled in the
Britith School•room on Tuesday evening, to withal. the
datribation of prises amongst the boys, on the breaking up
of the school during the autumnal renal. Some twelve
maths ti•ce a school of 60 boys wee opened in the apper
rooms of the Literary Imitation buildings, by Mr. Mae-
ready, at his sole sapsase. Applications for adraimion
became so numerous that the founder of the Khoo' en-
larged his plan of operation, but, after step, bad bees
taken to form • council, and to organise the school, he
wee met by objections to the prepaid schoolroon,—tbe
oaly conveathat available building—on the score that
it was cot a neutral ground on which churchmen and
disunion might co-operate. The tuition afforded within
the school is not of a character to suite jealousy of this
kind ; it may be termed " male: education," being cos-
need to nadiag, writing, and arithmetie, with, occuioaally,
a little Scripten geography. The objection to the room,
however, being to some an insuperable one, it was arranged
that the newly-orgsnised school (which was to be supported
by voluntary sonseriptions), should be continued at the
rooms of the institution. It wee soon found themes after
the outlay of • sum, considerable in comparison with the
amount of the subscriptions, the Institutna rooms could not
be made convenient ; and after • short trial Mr. Macready
removed to the rejected sehool-room, and wee followed by
most of the boys, sad here, with the aid of a paid muter
and the occesiosal services of some of the inhabitants, he
as three nights in every week, instincts the youth of our
poorer neighbours. Oa the three alienate nights, the
remnant of the school of the lassisaska assembles in Its

lecters-mare. We her visited beth gnosis, and trek
the rabies Is te be eel sow that after sem*
roadie amperear the set s Manna ei the Lass
sines seher, its freedom Les all sesteries spirit, sad the
pesaillonsen of Inn os those beads are apparent, we
hope sere reams may be devised ler Waging the schools
teenier Me see eenesedeme lesliding—of Wresting
:her Ear • Sews eskesi, add relievisig their gums@
toads. of pennon net whin nut be counderable
L beet. grime. payment of seater, to., but which he la
hither* Teems entirely, so far as the Loa, othod
ramemed. Of Mr. ilaeready's ramie( erg, Is the
dkgYH ef tie ereel—ot his amatent atteacires eight
after might —of the pars whir he harms I. hearse the
slaws, sad Is dketplialag the esholars—we have 100 fre-
eness eosin peons
" The good lass do, lives after them."
Lad se surely will this self-deayieg work radar to
prior • harvest of good to the esamsaity, after its
migrates hes sear to labour at it. This is sot a work
ter the up only. It is sot err that it plaks up iron
out the streets poor iguana% youths, and, eduatiog them,
sere them fns bad haunts and vicious habits; these boys
will benne mss, and soon of them fathers, and the in-
dorse for good epee them will become an rarer for
good os their dereadeate, and ia their families; ter,
although we have observed that the sharecter of the tallies;
is esulr .bustles, we mar sot omit to state that good
corms is required, Amens of virtue ars constantly leer-
sated, nal a Bible is glees to every sprier's.
The tireatediap crammer wits am rezporad larder.
Two of W a Nye Merced, and or of then read
aa address, amillias promated to Mr. hiaready a ,
geld peen sees, pennon by • submarines set as feet by
the boys themselves.
Mr. Unman Add be was quite unprepared for this.
He highly appreertai it; but he felt mere than he had
tows' So ikons; Re tessothimelog ibe nanny, said--
Ladies sad Gesdenes,--The ineneested iatroduera to
the berm= of the Maim has takes sr by super, ad
may pessibly eselsee tin sanest of my nem, ead if, there-
fore, I grid set be es dear ea I desire, you will
impute Si le the little slink yes have jut twittered, sad
extend yew iadulgenee le re ea &resat of it. You may
probably ger ember, is the math of April last, I addressed
to dam bird(' to Ohs rehmselles of the ineetrial slums aa
appeal es the proposed eallonsles of the ening school,
organised one Ave needs holm anbe lestitetios rooms.
I was Ward to de se Me the seureatatioa of smears
treads that may perm he the town were sailor to st-
omata in Ike work to Bohol el their power. I have bed ru-
ses to regret the step. Bet barbs tree it, she being aware
that serial have esenelbsted thetsobserhslaes he the ter.
tureen and ealugement et that IMadesl sebsol, I have
thought it dee te sett dm* simians N Mewls be levee
them to this evesis4issolion is gone Its sign Ibsen the
oppertesity of j bew fig nee wens be,. bees
responded to—bow the departure hen my denim hes
bees poling is Itself or beeelsial to the Lunn of our
poorer neighbours. The nen hes bees epee nese signs
la the week for 21 writs, under a eminent goonstissel
tearer, with the voleatary sad valuable neinesee el
treads, wham charity bee shows Itself irrespeuthe of pine
—net camped up ultra the narrow firer of esetarre pre-
Jodie% bat spestesens, retiesel, sad canon; the Harr-
ier sal disseente have bees her sibeerful sneerer le
=• Cludethe week. • very few words will be
es
be mils W tasesinge elfin tattles sad the unmet
rash ef its yoolonsigesi non ere limited to improvement
and prefinagy le reading, wring, sad arithesetio—thu
putties la orb ber's power the seam of self-cults,.
to wastovn oaks; providing him with the worklag
issplansato, as they may be ealLd, for removes all the
impediments of intones to his sinews la life. The
renfog Wens give some insight late porticos ed history
mein an peolue, geography, sad eratide subjects,
whin ere stedisuoly takes avenge of to inundate the
mean on Winn el the noises, en quires their
appetite be holm infeemetion The Bible is set read
L sends but osenionel essiensdee is made is Scrip-
ture inlay, seed • Bible is gives to every bey se ors
as be mm ISM suflickatly wail to use it Order
✓amie lOW n the mute of writ. Eesh by is
s ensiled te send the Sunday &heel of the
e=nl.lll whisk be may being; sad ?Awash kayos a
eleatisialmsdsolly taught, yet its best spirit has bees le
bnit is what has Ur road ad written by the
pa" Se geese seinen of this slew te rood toyets IMO Of the noesing whisk they have takes dews
frets ibeatioe, Le eopyiag whisk they have bees
employed at their own Uses. (Mr. Maeready then
read, is his impersone and 'loosest style, • poem
*elided Preeteme, tad radars.) Prom this yes
may form some ore len os the tendesey of the farmr-
dos imparted, sad bow far such lestructkis can be
vitiated,. seenoweeted by the atmosphere of this apart-
men. (Obtaine )ne Ing. will sow proceed to Ow panatela,
banana of tin
Tbe pine Wag bras distributed, Mr. Xeready sold
—Plea what hes heat submitted to your rues. 1 trast
yes will he gadded list your kin hotestless with repast
to the proposed ledbeesets te applicatior, es the part of
the boys have es ben snail land. Bet es my seeden
has bees milled is inswise es this matter, sad CU been L
wow suor-re sot very wrartornaly niloot:d spas, I rut
bog you will flash's we web your patina, whilst I lay
halos you a era, savarairod statement of the hots es they
have reared. I meet beg to premise star streams
with the reeratir that I have always regarded
eduatima r the warm tight of every 'abject
freer whets the state Nelms allegisnee or wets
neap m% Whoa the state, frees whatever cause,
nimulleil te postpone the discharge of this duty,
tt bermes, set merely a model or a patriotic, but •
Marines obligation is Christian men to supply to their
fellow-oreittures, without dietnetioe, the arum of rut-
whir eultirtioa, rob he hie seven' way, sad to the
beet of his power. (Cheer.) It is very little that orb,
the beet of as, or do • bat this searideratims sherd sot
diesonrege our least eaderour, whoa we sell to mind
the sage &seta p,overb—" Missy little' mak' • muffle."
Upset this priest* I have used my but efforts to risen
from the state in mien Is widish it bin fella the liana,
imetitaties of this tows to respectability mad eselalasse ;
sad, with Smiler views, have Mar esatineed say ozonises
is nobs a inetrusestal to the wrong ef odesaine.
(Chown) gneiss she ionise hie weaned the failure
twitbs ny= OMB lest nor I espied a salaried
the mope noes ef the iastitatise,
presided been and ail seasseriee—and as the tad of
Newnan, nosed a gebeel, with premise of re-
nege for silt ate, te SO bey*, three sights L re
w••=m)71111‘ille the aura a of the sot., os the
ether he ehe neap, members of the nelety. To
needy selhonsed my prides, It le necessary ter me to
negro% net the school wee eatirely my own, Its exposes,
its emmegnsest—the Isssldag, aided by the reraimeal, not
vety (regain attendees, dame members of the institute's
aommittes, ern carried es by the master ad myself. The
raw of the seperisset, after In soon he trial, prompted
me, es 1 hen said, la ansedasee with the wines el several
freak ee wiry the Arlo of its benefits, so as to receive
the Jraimate foe ahem there had aid previously bra
roes. Illy plena were completely formed. The °sly siker -
reamer nem that meld he end se such, eatable elf Indies
tun kail is two bemired beyr, wee Ude. las suet might
be sand sonleal. 11. peepeistore are set members of
the estabilimel earn; bet, is the same dm geen—du the
sank of mow sere—is the same el mange entity—
whet belong had that spin the Isestin of the parr
boys' besteustion ? (Cheers.) To earl • s-
ties. se waterly nameable as aa mere oar
etesurred. The room wee offered without any ow,
with the mad striate frescos from all reteNties, re-
trol, or leterfirres whatever; the book., mos. nose,
and wristlet implements of the beildiag below et ger
deposal, inn we and mien our ewe from the Omen
ef lidesetios : all was Tory to eater on, sad begin
or week immediately. (Chun.) I am lath to deter
you
it ierZ: bar,: Ih.ardeat Tr pr. sad haves thata sues
ese
seek Wog might not her bra adopted ; bet seek
es miss le, It teen only be effesteelly worked seder
the wenn superhnenrin go of the director, sad se
ether bulking bet the &Corn the meas. of @sib peens&
espristeedesee. (Hose hear) Os Nowa SWlSoiklo I
eepisisn all this—at lost I did ay beet to melee It due be'
my opposente—to titre who had never kw sod less nab
my esker—wit* had Rover tendered ISO WM of spin
pesky, sr stirred • Seger in aid of the usisslalibe
ektelt I bad bus sagged. But all no hesHeelm it
sepestelalese wee isavedieg. One the elesegn of as
expresses, teeny lag to my onus liereeptku «swell
nand meniep, as istrrolet wee laid apes this beildisg.
The demand mes me& fee antral green." Tile roost
ass rued seder Us, ea 'replies whirs appeared to sae
the mere sueneesiele, r • wrung how, be whisk •

dissenting congregation held their regular Sabbath worship,
bat without the remisameadatioas of this room, was ap-
proved of by the otjectiog parties, and I was authorised
in full committee to engage it, if possible, in order to fit it
up for the boys' echo d. That proposition wasters disposed
of, the anthems dectiabeg to negotiate. Let me not forget
to state that the return of the dissentients' subsoriptions was
prated on them repeatedly, bat without avail. After
much delay a compromise was agreed to, and the motel-
meat of the Imitation rooms was reamed, with additional
amommodation kr 60 more boys. This deviation from
my scheme was effected at the cost of two smiths'
teaching to my original 60 boys • of four months to 60
more ; end to 31, of total medians from the benefits
of the school. Stich was the e useqsesoe of resisting
the opening of this schoolroom as the demand for
neutral ground. (Hear, hear) Well, after two months
eadarence of the heated, close, and nswholosome atmo-
sphere of the old rooms, 1 was made mosibi• of the risk of
illness incurred by the boys and myself, and therefore
thought it my day to leave it to their decision, either to
remain under the masters there or join the 31 excluded
boys, for whom, through the liberality of the proprietors,
I had procured a reception here. Their choice was Merin-
taaeourly made, and fresh epplicatious soon increased our
numbers to their present amount. (Own.) With re-
spect to the apprehensions entertaised by some subscribers
as to the appropriation of their funds, my friend Mr. C.
Stokes will satiety them that so far as this school or I am
ooneerned, they Toombs Latin. (Hear, beer) I trust,
therefore, that I shall stead exonerated from blame in the
course I have felt myself compelled to pursue.
The question for me to answer was simply this—" Were a
certain number of boys to incur the risk of
sickes,s from their nightly work, and were thirty more to
be left altogether untaught, rather than that they should
receive instraetio• in this room I" for between this and the
stipulation for " neutral ground" there was no alternative.
(Cheer.. I confess my ignorance of the amok gof " neu-
tral ground" thus applied, kuowiog no one who would
eject to u episcopalism schoolroom, with equal conveni-
moss foe each a purpose ; and having always cherished the
antivenin that difference of opinion does not coastitute
hostility, sad should not create division, it is with pain that
I hoar such "tickle points of sioness" urged to the bin-
dreoee of a public benefit. Neutral ground I All ground is
neutral to good intent. (Loud cheers.) All sectarian ob-
jection should be neutralised for the benefit of our fellow
men. Is the lead of his despiser, and persecutors the Sa-
maritan did not hesitate about neutral ground when assisting
the hiltless victim who bad fallen among thieves. He aid
sot wait until he got beyond the coofiaes of Jul ea to obey
the charitable impalas' of his heart. Where work adept.
able to God is done the ground is smetified in the
doles, and is made not neutral, but holy, by the act.
(Cheers.) Thew aim sat:options, which seem to be as
captious as they are unnameable, me snob to be deplored.
They but perpetuate among Christian mm an unchristian
spirit of animosity, by an unaistborbed assumption of sops.
ridrity in memo, milling up the just and indignant denial
of it In others. Religion should be a bead to unite, end not
a brand to dimmer. (Hear, hear.) Let us hope it may
yet be so, sad that when our opinions differ, our prayer
may be, that whilst on: own perceptions may guide se right,
they who copilot altogether ors • with matey not be wrong.
In regard to this school, I have ne hesitation in saying that
I do not bellows that so good and extielleut a man as Mr.
Digby would think of building we in epportion to it, 1107
I that he would, mit has been publicly insinuated, *spend
his well-employed messy uselessly is the erection of a
building the want of which was cot clearly ascertained.
This his answered its purpose fully; it wilt eonvenieotly
I accommodate about 200 boys; and whilst the proprietors
I are willing to apply It to such a use it shall be open to the
Madre* of the poor, whether worshipping God in church or
in chapel. (Cheers.) From those who take lateral ia this
attempt I shall be happy to receive n cootisuance of their
friendly support, 'along, as I do, the beside of their co-
operation and sympathy; for whilst I have the strength and
means to cony on the undertaking, I will set relax my
endeavours is it. I should be greatly wanting in
an important duty on this occasion, if I omitted to ma-
ths the debt of obligation under which I have been
laid by the liberality of the proprietors of this bandies, for
the grataltons use of it, which they have so readily end
generously affurded. Noe must I forget to express my
grateful muse of the services condoned by the 'mks' oo-
operation of those who have felt with me, and hays bees
aides in assisting me, without whom aid I do at sample to
say the work of the school could not have bees carried on
To Mr. Avery, Dr. Williams, Mr. Dia/ley—l should my,
the Messrs. Heasley—Mr. Res', Mr. C. Stokes, and to
those other friends to wham I ma so much iadebted, and
whom I al:Loot at ones enumerate, I beg to return my most
cordial sad grateful thanks; and to yes, lad asd gentle,
men,for your obliging atteadasos, and the interest you bate
shown in our proceedings, I beg to norms my earnest and
einem seknowledgmost. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. Avant and the BAIT. Mr. HZII/111,10 afterwards ad-
dressed the meeting sad the company then separated.