The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-08 00:00:00

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

A public meeting of clergy and laity was held yen
tuna, at Walt:. Bu me, Kieg-strt et, B'. James's," for the
pupate," as was stated in the notice, " of paring resolu-
tithe upon the present state and prospects of national educa-
tion, end of agreeing to a petition to her Majzity the C.Liefe,
and petitions to both Roams of Parliament.'
The trait was tithes at 12 o'clock by the Run. J. C.
Tatkot,Q.C. The room was densely crowded.
The I.4IAIEtIiAN said the °bite% of that meeting we. to
eventuate ea application to the legislature for the redress of
grievences—(Cheers)—and the reason why some one of the
wainent persons too o, while devoted to the interests ot the
Church, eccupted staiions in parliament., had abstained from
attending that nizeting sod taking the chair, was
that =any pen sis iu that vaition felt that they
wild serfs the common purpose better heresfter
if they deemed to occupy the cosi.ion filled by
himself. Ile rejoiced in being able to mike the de-
cimation lb et there was so elefiit between the veleta the
promoters of that me-ting and those of the committee of the
Nen mil Society ; and nothing could be further from the
inteatioas of the turner then to interrupt the existing
ao.ity. It was on that account that, a- a member of the
governing boo; hi the National fithiety, be had conceited
to eiccup) the chair. (Chem.) The meeting had been con-
niaed In connate the 'tuition in which the church was
pined with re poet to them titer of education in relation to
the cuestittee of the Privy otitiocil. Tiny were reuse that
a protracted correepoodewe had taken place between the
National Society (mach was the handmaiden of the church)
sad the committee of the Privy Council, the
object o. the firmer being to sees'' peace, end, if
?Gentile, hanntosiuue action. That cornispondeace was mow
at en end, and try ct.urcla, being now thrown upon her
iaien.al resource', was imperatively called upon to consider
in what position the stood with respect to the all-
bap., tun inhjee: .1 educe tor. (Hear, hear.) 11 any
twisty churchmen in that room contributed on: of their
funds icr the enneation of the children of the poor, regain
ins that the siperaneedence of that education should be
pieced in the hands at that spirituel pastor who was rapes-
stble to 04 fur the souls committed to his care, to deny
them a share in the puticipatiom of th,me funds, which
ewers raised inaisi:y by the donaticas ot churchmen, was,
in the words of a noble earl, woos* absence ou that occa-
sion he renatted, nothing more nor Mu than a gra-
tenon, insult to t,e church of Eng sal. (Cheers.)
Seth was the first nthject to writ', the attention of
the weed g would be invited. Bat, secondly, and
mat emilietically, their attention was to be milled
to the intentions of the committee of privy council wi k to.
spectto • s) stem of public iestruetiou in this eau. try. They saw
reiuseitatioo of • plea which had been formeny condemned,
and to which, in Its mewed form, they were bound to give
their mat strenonin opposition. Thos were moot words.
But way did hew them ? He wed them because he Sound
that it was prove" d to conritute a certain school to do that
which WU% withal' the especial wasince of the the-inlet,
church, namely vi provide tel the education of the children
• the poor, snot it was prupned toessetitito • cp.cial school
hs white tam wee not to be the smallest made or particle
et appease! to a church charieter,—(beer, heer,)—no con-
wawa with episcopal soperintendenee—(hear, leer)—too
of faith —( neen)—no creed—so catechism—bat a
ritla
ee beiagtag together, under the plea of giving
romprcheaste• *aunties, of every variety of dime%
in the tithe sad chilaul hope that that nice ot things would
ruin in something hotter thaa Walkman, and sot in beep-
not -m and infidelity. la ethianotian with this state of
thing*, sad of urgent moment, were the hisputoes, reaper
gild. oat, to the Coe mantes et Privy Council, with so re
linage whatever to the bisho es to any aniesianical
enthority. divas, bur.) Tie winds mope et the Maw.-
non, with its apparatus if wrominaLoa, and rewards, and
es tea, was elavested to the dimeniination of secular
know:edge rather than el Magian truth. (Bear, bur.)
'lke negations at Wee Wife truly gram sad mo-
meatous, sad be was. ossamted that upon their
sathastory wisdom depended the wintiasanco of
that hap, y maw between church and mate, which
to the state had bees productive of the beet
someepandoe—(beer, hear), and pontitily also to the
clues(. (' Ro, no.") He was the moat loyal abject, as
well se the train eon et the thatch, who leboured meet
zealously to bring the Institutions of the state into such •
kers that, wittiest the surrender of any principle, all perties
nicht pull together to seeking to promote the best intereets
of massy.
Tree Bishop of GLASGOW proposed the following resolu-
tion :
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That in the °platen of that tresedng the ;invent position sad dr.
emeraaece dinner, elesetten are et a critical 114, um, mad Gush es
Itieermi sedans Wm, on pentode both civil and religious.
MA arpeare4 them that day with a eniviction feuded
at hag obnnation, that thou with whom they had to con-
tend were resolved to further • latitudinarian system by
every means at their command, more especially with re-
!treat,' to the 0011Cati011 of the poor. (lieu, bear.) Ile
had still the pleasure of being an Baldish insure bent, his
diocesan being the Lord Bishop of Chichester, whom be re-
joiced to are on the platform. He was also • bishop of •
church whiiih, though independent of the Eaglieh couch,
was in perfect bunny with it ; and in that capacity he was
authorue d to repress the sympathy of the majority of the
episcopal college of the Church of Scotland. (Cheers.)
Hon particularly wan he authorird to express the aussuir-
peace of the bishops of the 'sew:opal body In
Bar loud. Twit aed principle were the sane on
both ',des of tie Tweed.
?dr. NAPIER. 111. P., seconded the resolution. He said It
was nem net ominous that • voice from Scotland end a
voice from Ireland-(3..m), and many thousand hearts in
both were with the meeting on that quirion. (Chi ere.)
The object of national education should be to bring the
minds and characters at the yang into harmony with the
mind and the will of Clod. (Hear) In these de, s there wet
much talk of eonsperebension, which meant doing what Lord
Bum tensed, "" making all colours alike in M. dark."
(Chests.) la the darkness which was threatened all e tloitre
would be alike ; but would the r. cult be each as they could
di sire ? (Hear, hear.) It was wooed that it was necessary
to overtake the growicg population of this emery with
sunder education. The advocates of the spreading system
did not openly avow their design to exclude scriptural
education ; but the design we. evident ; and in his opinion,
Clod could not iidlict a greater scourge upon a country than
by pouring upon it the fury of unsaactitted
(Cheers) What the church wanted was not (exult, but
justice, in t" is matter. The Na. conditions dil not place
all religious bodies in • simile, position. It was jut, boom*
our eburch was ineorporated with the rate, that cheeks
which it was necessary te impose upon other bo,ies ought
sot ;to be imposed upon the chunk.. The state had •
right to bird other religions bodiee, but none to bind
the church. Whits the Shag asked the shag to co-operate
in did using 'dumdum, it should ask ler aid whin was con-
formable to the constitution, prlntiplat, aid diatePtiott Of the
shank. (Hem, hear.)
A 021ITIANAN haw body Of OM rem bon OM de I