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LONDON, PRIDE Y, SEPT. 27.

TO OUR READERS.
•
SPORTLXO INTELLIGENCE.

A bite edition of the Express it published every
eveni.g during the racing 11C44011, containing the
results of the day's races.

Tue discussion as to the new Education
Minute has MAMMA a now phase. It has been
announces!, apparently on authority, that it is
absolutely suspended until the :;Ist !starch, 1862.
According to the resolution of the l'rivy Council,
that is certainly the date at which most of the
new provisions would take effect ; but according
to one clause, it was declared that no new ap-
prenticeship should be agreed to except upon
the term of the revised code ; and as many pupil
teachers would certainly have been apprenticed
before the 31st March of next year, it is clear
that the new code would practically have come
into operation before that period. This was
probably an oversight, for the practice no doubt
has been that Minutes issued by the Privy
Council in such matters should be submitted to
Parbanuent before they are acted upon. And
the practice is obviously both just and
convenient. The Education Department dual
with an annual Parliamentary grant approaching
• million. There is no other government depart-
ment which possesses • power so extraordinary.
There is DO specific appropriation of the money ;
but Parliament entrusts it to the administrative

discretion of the particular department. That dis-
cretion, however, must be subject to certain rules;
and Parliament is entitled to know what
those rules are. They are to be found in the
Minutes passed from time to time by the Privy
Council, and hitherto, we believe, before any Mi-
nute has been acted upon it has been laid before
bore Houses. There is no doubt an additional
reason in this particular case why the old practice
should be adhered to. The system of education
bas been in vigorous operation for fifteen years,
and • very large body of persona are more or less
affected by it. The managers of schools are
not only iiiterested in its success, but they
have involved themselves in pecuniary liabi-
lities of which they annot at once rid themselves.
The teachers have in many owes been induced to
join their present profession by the substantial
prospect which the Education Department opened
to them, and in almost all cues are dependent
upon the State for a continuance of the advantages
which they now enjoy. It is clear, therefore, that
if in any case the proposed Minutes of the Privy
Council ought to be laid before the public in order
to be canvassed, a new Minute by which the
system of administering the grant voted by Par-
liament is seriously altered, required the utmost
deliberation, and the amplest notice should have
been given of it. Thee* Minutes, in fact, have the
effect of an apprepriation bill ; or, to state the
matter differently, they contain the offers upon
which the Government is willing to meet the
voluntary friends of education, or to assist those
who are willing to devote their lives to the
duties of • schoolmaster. The largo amount
of the annual grant shows the interest felt
by Parliament and the country in the subject,
and therefore it is only right that the fullest notice
should have been given of any proposed alteration
before any attempt was made to carry it into
effect. It is tolerably clear that Lord GRANVILLE
never could have intended to break through the
wholesome custom which has hitherto prevailed.
The clause as to new apprenticeships was probably
inserted inadvertently. This matter is now set at
rest, and there will be ample time to discuss
calmly the bearings of the proposed changes.
Now it seems to be admitted upon all hands
that the principle of the new Minute ia correct.
It is absurd to say that the essential part of educa-
tion does not consist in reading, writing, and
arithmetic. Without these even religious know-
ledge is a practical impossibility. And to
insist that • boy or girl who cannot
read a chapter in the New Testament,
spell the days in the week or the months in the
year, and write a few words from dictation, is in
any sense educated, would require the obstinate
audacity of Lord ROBIZT CECIL or Mr. BAILLIZ
COCHILA:ir. Now, it is established upon the most
conclusive evidence that, although these simple
acquirements are possessed by some of the best
scholars in the beet schools, they are anything but
universaL According to the Report of the Com-
missioners, there is • tendency to neglect both the
elementary education and the younger children;
and these children are capable of receiving • far
better teaching in reading, writing, and arithmetic
than has hitherto been given them. To remedy
those defects, after they were pointed out,
wee absolutely essential, and no other remedy
has been @emitted than that of giving a certain
sum of money in proportion to the number of chg.
dren who attain a certain proficiency in these
elementary subjects. It is easy no doubt to say
that the standard of examination fixed by the new
Code will tint bring in as much money to the
school as the former system. It is, indeed, im-
possible to predict the precise results, but it is
fact within our knowledge that persons of great
experience are of opinion that by care and energy
• schoolmaster may earn as much, if not more,
under the new system as under the old.
Objecti,n hill been taken to that part of the
Code winch excludes children of above eleven
years who have once passed. The meaning, how-
ever, of this provision is obvious. The National
or British School is specially intended for the
labouring theses. It is not intended that these in-
stitutions tiled by the State should furnish educa-
tion to the_.! who can supply it to themselves.
Any boy or girl shove 11 who has been able to

pass the examination in reading, writing, and
arithmetic proposed by the new Code ought either
to be earning his living or placed at a anperior
school. At all events, be ought not to be
allowed to pass an annual examination before the
Inspector for an indefinite number of years, in
order to obtain a curtain sum of public money for
the school. The test of examination obviously
requires smile limit such as that adopted by the
new Code, but it has nothing whatever to do with
encouraging or discouraging the continuance of
children at school.
Objection has also of course been taken to the
examination being restricted to the three R's, and
it has been asserted that this will have the effect of
withdrawing attention from religious knowledge.
It has been already conclusirdy shown that as the
system is denominational, those managers of schools
who attach great importance to such knowledge
will of COMM, continue to insist upon due attention
being paid to it. Nor is it very complimentary to
the self-denying zeal which is supposed to animate
the promoter of schools to hear it alleged that the
grant of money will carry everything
before it, and that the real exertion
will be not to communicate a knowledge of
Scripture, which must be comparatively barren,
but a knowledge of such subjects as will obtain a
pecuniary return. Happily, however, this objec-
tion has been set at rest. The Bishop of Licu•
EMU. has candidly confessed that the examination
need not exclude religion. Seeing that the pupil
teachers--the future masters and mistresses—are
obliged to study their Bible as part of their pro-
fessional training, it would have been strange if it
had. Aud the same prelate has insured his clergy
that the public grant will still depend, so far as the
managers desire it, upon proficiency in religious
instruction.

But setting aside these objections, it is admitted
on all hands that the effect of applying the prin-
ciple of individual examination will have the effect
not only of compelling the teachers, but also the
Inspectors, to do their duty more efficiently. It
is needless to recur to the allegation that the
certificate carries with it a money value, for
the allegation is the merest fallacy. It is true
that a certificated master in charge of a school is
entitled to a certain sum of money if he performs
Lis duty to the satisfaction of an Inspector. But
the Inspector must do his duty, and if the Govern-
ment finds, as it has found, that neither the mas-
ters nor the Inspectors bare been performing their
duties in • satisfactory manner, is the Govern-
ment precluded from adopting a test which shall
compel those who have failed in their duty to
perform it more efficiently T To do this is the
precise purpose of the individual examination.
The amount of knowledge thus ascertained to be
possessed by the children is to be the teat applied
by the Inspector in order to estimate the master's
work.

The revised Code, iu which this principle is
adopted, may require modification, but undoubtedly
its principle is perfectly just, and ought to be
maintained.

Tits RUGBY ROMA/MIL—In many of the report"
which have been published with this heading, it
has been stated that Mrs. Guinness Hill is a
granddaughter of the late Sir Francis Burnett.
This is incorrect. The lady is a daughter of the
late Mr. William Jones Burdett, and be mother,
thtrefore, is not Lady Burdett. It is equally un-
true that Mrs. Hill wiui adopted by Miss Burdett
Cout ts.

gin Court.

BALMORAL, Serums= 25.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of
Holtenlobo, Prince., Alice, Princess Helena, and Princess
Louise, and attended by Lady Churchill, drove to Alt•na-
(lnitbc.aek yesterday morning, and rode up to the head of
Loch Mulch, where, her Majesty lunched. The Quests,
Princess Alice, Princess Helena, and Lady Churchill, rode
hack to Belsmond in the evening.
The Prince Cowart sod Prince Louis of Here, accom-
puled by Load Stanley of Alderley, went cut deer stalking.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphin.tone, went
to Loch tkillater yesterday morning, and returned in the
&Somme.

The Right Hoe. Jobs Readlam, M.P., the Judge-Advo-
cate-General, arrived st the Castle yesterday morning, and
transacted badness with her Majesty.
The royal diaper party includA lord ritenley of Alderley,
the Right Hon. John Ileadiam, Baron Westerweller, Dr.
Zenner, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-oft3os
frees the GOVNIKIV of Yalta.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Mauritius.
Ceylon, Hong Kong, Libman, the Australian Colonies, sea
Gibraltar.

The Queen has forwarded a large ow containing
• valuable present from her Majesty to Lord Castleman,
to evince her royal appreciation of hie lordship's princely
hospitality during her recent visit to Kenmore Hone,
Manley.

Their Ro)al Highnesses the Prince and Princees
Leopold of gobassollemAigmaringen and Pli/1611 Chilies,
accompanied by their Royal Haglmams the Duke of Oporto
and Prince Doe Jaen, have left Claridge's HeMil for Graves-
end, to embark cm board the Portuguese stems corvette
Bertholane° Diaz, for Antwerp. Their royal highneeses
were attended by his Excellency the Count Lavradio, Por-
tuguese Weider at the court of St. Jansen

The Prince de Radsiwill has arrived at Fenton's
MAIL

Their Highnesses Prince Constantine and Prince
Yawl Czartoryski arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn•
street, last night, the former from Vienna, and the latter
from Paris.

The Duke of Newcastle has arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley square, from Balmoral.
The Duke of Gramout has arrived at Fenton's
Hasa

Viscount Monck has arrival at Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-squire, from Carriarrille.

Lord and LdySearridale have leftthe Burlington
Helot for Keddlastest Hall, seer Derby.
Lord and Lady Hathecton have arrived at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, front Germany.
Yesterday afternoon the Earl of Stradbroke,
Lord•Lieateeaat of Suffolk, was preceded with his portrait,
painted by Mr. Grant, R.A. The presentation, which was
made in the cionacil-chamber at the Town-hall, Ipswich,
originated with the members of the Suffolk Agricultural
Association, of which the noble earl has been president fur
Dearly thirty years.

The Right Rev. Dr. Turton, Bishop of Ely, has
been suffering of late from extreme debility. Duriog his
newt confirmations he had to be supported on both sides
while 'Meg through the ceremony of laying on of hands on
the candidates. Dr. Tartan is one of the oldest of our
bishops. He graduated at Cambridge in Ifos, when he was
maior wrangler, being then about 22 years of age. He was
suoeessively Regina Professor of Divinity at Cimbridge,
Dean of Peterborough, and Dean of Westminster, and was
raised to the bishopric of Ely in 1845.

Wu (Patriot) regret to learn that Dr. Andrew
Reed, ie oonsequisece of advancing years and continua
indisposition, resulting from a serious fall during the winter
of last year, has intimated to his church at Wycliffe Chapel,
London, his intention of resigning his paatorate east No.
ember. On the 27th of that month, Dr. Read will close •
period of fifty years, during which he has had the oversight
of the same church, havieg been ordained to the work of
the ministry in 1811.

Oue of the vemela belonging to the Channel fleet,
the Trafalgar, 91, Captain Dickyon, darted from the fleet
in &gale of wind off Lough Bwilly, and anchored off Bun-
crane last Saturday to repair various damages reeeived ;
port waist hammock netting washed away, a unantity of
water on lower deck, and two men killed. This ship was
one of the vessels anchored off Kingstown during her
Majesty's visit.

AMERICA.

[VIA CAPE RACE]
NEW YORE, ItErr.

Thb Fedond entrenchments at Cheat Mountain
have been attacked by General Lee, who was, how-
ever, repulsed with heavy less.
It is reports! that General Roaencranz is ad-
vancing against the Confederates, and that Generals
Floyd and Wise are retreating.

The Governor of Kentucky has isaied a procla-
mation ordering the unconditional withdrawal of
the Confederate troops from that state.
Active preparations for a fresh naval expedition
are still going on.