The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-21 00:00:00

THIS DAY.

A cumerously attended meeting of the Common
Council was held this day, at the Guildhall. the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor presiding, for the purpose of ce sideriog the
propriety of an address to the crown on the subject of the
papal aggression. The question was brought under the
notice of the court by Mr. J. Wood, who addressed the
meeting in a very temperate speech, which he concluded by
moving, "That en humble, dutiful, and loyal address be
presented to her most gracious Majesty on the recent pro-
ceedings of the Bishop of Rome with regard to this ocuotry,
' and expressive of the unshaken loyalty and attachment of
tha corporation to her Majesty's penon, authority, and go-
vernment."
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Mr. BLAKE seconded the resolution.
This meeting was eddre•eed by Mr. Carr, a Roman catholic
member of the imuncil, who . tiered &partial opposition to this
uso•ion. Mr. Alderman Lawrence, Mr. Stacey, Mr. Elliot,
Mr.Dekin, Mr. Taylor, bir.B.mnoch, Mr. Wire, Mr. Aldermen
Sydney and other members then addressed the meeting in
favour of the motion, which was carded, there being only
one dissentient. . . .

A couttatttee was then I:laminated for the purpose of
drawing up maddens* in contumacy with the resolution.

NATIONAL SECULAR EDUCATION.
A public meeting of the inhabitants cf Leeds was
held in the Court house an Tuesday evening, for the pur-
pose of receiving a deputation from the National ',men-
tion recently formed at Manchester, and also to form a
branch association in Lords. The meeting was not nu-
merously attended, the bulk of those present belonging prin-
cipally to the working clue's.
Peter Ryland, of Warrington, and the Rev..l. A.
Baynes, Baptist minister of Nottingham, attended as a
deputation. •
The MAYOR (George Goodman, Esq.) took the chair a
tile after seven o'clock, and upended the proceedings in a
ort speech. He regretted that the state of the weather
that evening was so unfavourable, for had it been otherwise
more would doubtless have availed themselves of the oppor-
tunity of attending and hearing what could be said on the
important subject of education. Wi•h regard to the par-
ticular object of the meeting, it was one which
it
the particular attention of all Englishmen; but in taking
the chair on this occasion, it was right to say that he did
not feel himself committed to the particular views to be ad-
vocated by the gentlemen who had convened them together.
At the same time it would afford him great pleasure to see
the cause of true education promoted. He sometimes
thought we were not sufficiently alive to the value of exist-
ing institutions, es for instance the Laneasterian School in
this town, which though a most valuable one, was not sup-
ported as it deserved to be.
Mr. R. 8. CHURCH proposed the first resolution.
Tbst, u a great deficiency in the amount and quality of
popular instruction is a fact now almost universally noon-
•id ; a-d as the scheme of the minutes of council (never
regarded by its authors as more than an instalment and
compromise) is eoultesedly incapable of remedying it,—this
meeting is of opinion that it is highly imperative that a
national system of education, adequate to the wants
of the country, should be immediately organised."
In the course of a very long speech, he reviewed what had
been done for education, both by the Voluntaries and Na.
Uontl Educationists, and pronounced all their efforts as
ing failed in this country to give that education which the
whole people are entitled to have. He also alluded to the
national systems of educe' ion in operation in Holland and
in America, showing that their operations had been attended
with the best result,. In conclusion, he expressed a qua-
lified opinion in favour of the Lancashire scheme, which
he thought the only one yet propounded which was likely
to receive the support of the people at large.
Mr. Wu. Banes, Jun., seconded the resolution.
Mr. RY LA NDS, of Warrington, supported it, in a very long
sad argumeatative speech, intended chiefly as • reply to ar-
ticles that had appeared in the Leeds Mercury. He contended
that the cost of gocd educational institivices for the whole
people would be not less than 2,500,0001. a year; a sum
which he contended it would be utterly impossible to rain
on the voluntary principle.
The resolution, on being put from the chair, wu carried
with only one dissentient.
Mr. G. Dario, of L-eds, proposed the next resolution,
w was seconded by Mr. Paamvica, also of Leeds.'
easelation was in the following words :—" That say
smiles of public schools, to be generally acceptable to the
people of this' country, must be confined to secular in-
Wk; and that the schools ought to be supported by
nates, and managed by local authorities specially
eiselied by the rate-pavers for that purpose."
The RSV. J. A. BAYNES, supported the neolutson in an
eloquent spuds, in which he contended that the much
abused voluntary principle had nothing whatever to do with
a
. but ought to bee confined to religion. He replied
raerimirlength to the arguments of the Lads Herein,
Isiah he said were as applicable to the maintenance of the
pow, the lighting and paving dense% as to education.
The resolution was carried uaanimously.
Mr. Virrudan Huron, of Leeds, moved, and Mr. JAMIS
Horn seconded, the next resolution ; which was in the fol-
towns words :—" That this meeting oonstinte itself into a
branch of the National Pablis School Association, for the
establishment by law, in England and Wales, of a general
system of secular instruction, to be maintained by local ram,
and under the management of local authorities, specially
sleeted by the ratepayers • and that the following gentlemen
be a provisionalcommittee to draw up Titles, enrol mensbess,
and organise the association, with power to add to the
number :—Mr. Hamer !Mansfield, Mr. Aldarmaa Cliff*, Mr.
Alderman Lama, Mr. H. Riehardoon, Kr. R. Chureb,
Mr. William Heaton, Mr. James Hole, Mr. William Bruns,
Brooke, Dr. smiles, Mr. J. Nllylor, Mr.
HCounsellor Barker,
Mr. T. L. Prude's, Mr. Oren.
the Rev. Mr. Tiundeliffe, 8. Green, J. es*, Yr. Coun-
cillor Cartes, Mr. Dfeli Mr. Pollock, Mr. William
This resolution wee ails serried neon. eon.
Thanks were then voted to
the deputation, and to the chair-
man, and the meeting.
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