The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION IN YORKSHIRE.

In August, last year, the Central Committee of the York-
shire Union of Hochman,' Institutes—en association esta-
blished in 1837 to promote the educational well-being of
those societies, and now numbering 130 upon its muster-roll,
instituted an inquiry into the state of scientific instruc-
tion in Yorkshire, and authorised Mr. Henry H. Sales, the
agent of the union, and honorary secretary to the York-
shire Board of Education, to conduct the inquiry. Upon
the suggestions contained in the report presented by that
gentleman the central committee of the 'on have
resolved to hold public meetings throughout the county,
in order to direct the attention of the manual-labour popu-
lation to the means of instruction that may at once be
placed within their reach through the assistant)e of the
Department of Science and Art, and to organise classes
for artisans and mechanics in various branches of ele-
mentary science. The most • want is a sufficient
number of qualified teachers to con uct the classes that
may be organised. The council of the Yorkshire Board of
Education having had the subject under consideration,
and feeling that no help is so valuable VA self-help, have
arranged for special clam to be formed in
the principal towns, in which scientific instruc-
tion shall be given to schoolmasters and their
assistants, in order that they may be qualified
to meet the requirements of the Department of
Science and Art. In addition to the action of these county
organizations, special local efforts are being made to
meet local wants. At Bradford a new mechanics' insti-
tution is about to be erected, at a cost of 25,00 W., and
the directors hope that "it will rise to rank as a
people's college for Bradford, worthy of the town, and
ready to do its part in that advanced education upon
which, happily, the nation has set its heart." From the
of the late exhibition at Wakefield an Indite-
Fri 21 Fine Art Institution is in course of organization.
The rising town of Keighley is building a new Me-
chanics' Institution and School of Art, while the smaller
towns of Otley, Eocleshill, Bothwell, and others are
erecting mechanics' institutes for the direct purpose of
advanced education. In every direction in tins county is
there a movement that promises to bring the means of
scientific instruction within reach of all who desire it.

TIIE SUNDAY FISH TRAWL—For 80M8 time
peat the majority of the fish merchants and smack owners
of Hull here proposed the entire stoppage of the fish
traffic on Sundays. A petition signed by 106 of the
pi incipal fish merchants and smack owners was forwarded
through the mayor to the directors of the North Eastern
and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railways,
and the first-named company in its reply states that the
directors are happy to accede to the request of the memo-
rialists, and will run no fish trains on Sundays after the
23rd instant. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire Company points out that the eriland remedy rest with
the memorialists. There are only a few connected with
the trade who wish for a continuance of it on Sundays, and
if the Dock Company do not interfere in the matter, the
magistrates will be memorialised.

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SINGULAR BEQUEST.—By the will of the late
Commander Rogers, who died on the sth of May last, a
sum of 2,10 W., in the Three per Cents., has been be-
queathed to the poor of the parish of Lymingtom Hants.
The sum lain trust to the minister and churchwardens of
the parish, who are on the 21st of October in each year to
give twenty good strong overcoats of the value of thirty
shillings each to twenty poor men of the parish or its im-
mediate neighbourhood, and twenty good strong cloaks of
the same value to twenty poor women. A sermon is also
to be preached on the 21st of October in each year from
the 103rd Psalm or the 14th John. "To excite the rich
and the poor to meditate on the mercies of God their
Saviour."

DITNVILLE aad Co. Belfast, are the largest
holders a Whisky in the world. Their Their Old Isiah Whisky le realm-
mended by the medical prolknion in preterenee tones& Brandy
ihrprlied i mists and eine for hoses am or exportation. Quotas
dons on areartatianb Mem& Dunes nal_ ildhat; fa 4,
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