The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-30 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.

Yesterday, the annual meeting of the Nationa-
-1 Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of
the Ettablithed Church, was held at the antral school,
Westminster. The chair was occupied on the occasion by
the Archbishop of CA:47IIIMM ; and on the right and left
of Ilia grace we noticed the Archbishop of York; the Bishops
et Exeter, Oxford, Worcester, Liebfield, Balisbuty, St
Arsph, Chisholm?, Ohmmeter and Bristol; the Earl of
Harrowby, Lord Redesdair, Lord J. Manners, M.P., Mr.
Page Wood, If. ,P. Mr. Hope, M.P., &a. &e. The was a
very catmints body of the clergy of the March of Ragland
on the platform and in the rem. Several ladies were also
present.

The Right Rev. CHAIRMAN, having expressed •
hope, that in opening the business of the day he was
not deluding himself with the idea which he enter-
tithed, that the committee met their friends now under
more auspicious circumstances than was the case on the last
occasion of a limiter meeting. (" Hear," and cheers.)
They had at that time reason to apprehend that some of
the proceedings of the committee, by which the society's,
operations were carried on according to the rides of sae
catheter, would not be favourably rewired by IMMO
members of the society. He was happy to think
that ao such apprehension existed to day ; and he
wa glad on many amounts that this was the cue, because it
would enable the committee to cony on their proceedings in
• awful manner.
The SECRETARY said the report for the peat pun
This document went greatly into detail. The committee
commenced by observing " that they considered it an....
eery to make any statement of the principles and rupees el
the society, as, after the lapse of almost forty years sine les
first establbhment, these must be sufficiently undereteed by
all who take an interest in the prier's. of education. They
had been euabled, during • portion of the year, to make
pants out of the Queen's Letter Fund towards the building
and enlarging of schools, and the ereztion of teachers' reef.
deuces. The sum voted towards these objects had been
B,Bdll. They had also voted out of this fund towards the
building of training irstitutions in the diocese of Oxford,
5001 ; of Chichester, 2401 ; of Norwich 3001. ; of Gloucester
and Brietol, 3781.; cf li, :cluster' 3001.; lied towards the
enlargement of the Salisbury Female Training Institution
3001. During the same period the treasurer had been &alio.'
need to pay out of this fund the sum of 4,3741, voted at
various times by the committee, towards scLoole of which
the usual certificate of completion had been received.
Accommo fatioa for 15,863 scholars had been thereby pro-
vided, rind 80 teachers residences had bees built. Site* the
last annual report, het Majesty ha been graciously pleased le
issue the usual royal letter in behalf of the society, authoris-
ing collections towards its funds in every parish throughout
England and Wage. The special fund for the manufacturing
lad mining districts, set on foot in the year 1843, beipg now
wholly appropriated, the committer had no other resource bat
the pr.ieeds of the Queen's letter for meeting the many
pressing applications made to them for aid towards school
bailding. Most of these applications cams from poor pa-
rishes or districts hitherto unable to establish schools ; and
there was reason to fear that they will be unable to attain
their object without substantial help from the society. The
committee ventured to press upon the incumbent, of those
parishes from which returns under the Queen's letter had
not yet been received, the
.great importance of urging the
claims of the society oa their parishioners as soon as possible,
while they would call oa all the friends of church education
to come forward and supply the funds needed by the society.
No fresh pairs towards the building or maintenance of ele-
mentary schools hob been made from the specie! fend, 'gut
the following ;Weep this bend,
from nd, in ivattion to three
voted from the Queen's Letter Fund, hid been made to the
proposed training institutions is the undermentioned
dioceses: Ozford, 500/.; Gloucester and Bristol, 3751. ;
Norwich, 3001. ; and Rochester, 30W. ; and 2001, had bee*
panted towards the enlargement of the Warrington Train-
ing le.titution. Toe assistance afforded by the society
towards the maintenance of the Battersea Training Ins'ita
tie* had in the past, as in former years, been taken from
this fund. Outstanding pants from it to the amount of
3,9401. had also been paid, whereby 82 schools, affording
accocumodation for 11,053 scholars, lied been eitner butt or
enlarged, and 33 teachers' residences had been completed.
Schools ie 225 places had during the past year been
received into direct union with the society. The committee,
in their list weapon, announced that arrangements pad
been made for placing under the management and control of
separate canoed', St. Mark's College and the training insti-
tution at Whitelands, to each of which a certain theme
would be allotted out of the general fend of the soakty.
Those arrangements bad been since carried into effect with
great success. An allowance of 2,1001. to St. Mark's Col-
lege, and of 1,5001. to Whitelands is the whole annual pay-
ment now made by the society to'these two institutions. St.
Mask's Coliege receives u heretofore 1,0001. per minus
granted by toe committee of council on education. Any
further sum repaired is made up by the exertion at sea
esuccil, assisted by grants made by the committee ad minm-
cil on education tor certificates of merit to the 'gem In
training. The residue cf the society's
_genets& fund had
been devoted to the support of the two Weetadnatu tnia-
irg institutions, to the antral school, and to the expenses of
the office. The two training Institutions at Westminster still
continue under the able superintendence of the Rev. Alex.
Wilson, and both the institutions entrusted to his charge con-
tinued to be as full as in former years. The institution for
masters in Manchater huildinge had during the last year
sent out 90 masters. The institution for mistresses
at Smith's-square still continued, under the manage-
ment of Mrs. Barber. Since the last report 80 mis-
tresses had been trained for the fall term of six
months, and sent out to various parts of the country,
while 37 more, who had been previously nominated
to schools, had received instructions for a shorter period.
The central schools continued in a high state of discipline.
The training institution at Battersea, which was originally
taken by the committee for supplying masters to the menu-
&inuring and mining districts, and was in consequence
wholly supported out of the special fund, had been placed
under a similar management:to that of St. Mark's College
led W hashed/. The surplus of the special fund was, how-
ever, so small, that the committee had been unable to make
ea allowance to this institution commensurate with that
Pun to the other two training institutions of this society.
The mmantittm had again to report the very flourishing
state if the society's depository. Daring the year 1849 the
receipts amounted to 7 .3581. 17e. 4d., being an emu of
1,0001. over these of the preceding year. The cironladom of
the satiety's monthly paper continued steadily to lameene.
The Welsh education consignee had been mainly e=
in conducting the Carmarthen Training lestitutiesh
education continues to make program in Wales. A model
school now exists in each uchdeuenry of Sou& Wales.
Church extension was also steadily advancing throughout the
country, and diocesan Inspection seemed to be
gaining ground." The report concluded as follows:
" Since the last annual meeting of the society, the commit-
tee ham concluded their correspondence with the committee
of council on education on the subject of management
chases. The reasons which induced the committee to de-
cline any longer to join in recommending the clauses in-
sisted on by the committee of council are so fully stated in
that correspondence as to render it unnecessary to repeat
them here. The whole of the correspondence, together
with the manapment clauses in their last mended shape,
were printed in the society's monthly paper of March last,
copies of which may still be had at the society's office. The
committee regret that the committee of council have per-
sisted in refuting aid from the grant voted by per
liament for the purpose of education towards the building
of church schools, in cases where the promoters decline
to Insert one of these clauses in the trust-deed. But they
will continue, according to their uniform practice, to make
building pent' out of the funds at their disposal for that
purpose to schools, whether misted by the committers of
council or not, the promoters of which are willing to abide
by the society's terms of union. To restore harmonious oo-
operation in the great work of church eduction will be the
anxious and unceasing endeavour of the committee ; and
they earnestly call upon all the members of the society to aid
them is this endeavour. and to offer up their payee to the
great head of the church that He would be plumed to make
all his faithful servants to be perfectly joined together, in
the same mind sad in the same judgment,' in providing a
sound and religious edumtion for their poorer brethren.'
The following were elected members of the:committee s
William Cotton, Fog ; William Davis, Esq.; Richard
Twining, Esq. • and Rev. Lord John Thyane.
It haying ban here announced by the right rev. chair-
man that the regular basins, tithe society was over, and
that he was ready to ham any one who had obeisreatst to
make,

The Rev. 0 E. DENISON rose and. begged to propose
the first of a series of resolutions which had been drawn up
by a committee, constituted on the day succeeding the last
general meeting of the so4sty, the 7th of June, 1849. That
committee had unanimously Gilt that the government clauses
were essentially vicious and unsound ; and he regretted
extremely that any churchmen should be found so blind to
consequences as to accept of clauses which in his Judgment wets
absolutely inconsistent with the terms on which the union
of the National Society had boon based. The terms of that
salon were, to maintain the doctrine and discipline of the
ostalgished church; sad he *gaits he iambi estistasiseily