The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-08 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

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4 Red Pine SPAR PIECES 1
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570 Do DITTO, ex Capitol, from Do ,
879 Do.. DITTO, ex Annapolis, from Do.,
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281 East India TEAK BOARDS, ex Matilda,
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It would, therefore, be an act of charity to defeat
the motion for the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee to enquire into the propriety of violating the
rights of property. Lord PALMERSTON, we feel
assured, would venture to raise any man to the
Peerage for his natural life who would
guarantee to him that he should hear
nothing more about municipal plunder for
the remainder of his days. And the noble
Viscount's best friends, and constant supporters,
ought really to make an effort to release him from
the quagmire into which Mr. LOWE has so ably led
him. But what has the Royal Commission—on
whose report the Vice-President of the Board of
Trade says he concocted his bill for the " abolition"
of tolls and town dues—said ? Are we to have
the Crimean farce introduced into maritime
and mercantile legislation ? Are we to have
Commissioners sent out with a carte blanche, as
regards cost to the public, to investigate and
report, and then to have a Select Committee to sit
in judgment on the production of men who, the
Vice-President of the Board of Trade has stated,
were eminently qualified to discharge the duties
entrusted to them ? If the Government were
satisfied as to the ability of the Royal Com
missioners, and the impartiality of their report,
what need can there be for a special tribunal
to offer an opinion on their merits ?

The report has been used for its purpose, and
the measure founded on it would have been
rejected by a large majority of the House of
Commons, -if it had been suff
division. It is obvious,

meci to

therefore, that the appoint-
ment of the committee, to be moved for on Monday
night, is simply a clumsy attempt to get this bill
remodelled, or laid aside, till some more promising
opportunity of passing it presents itself. But we
cannot believe that Parliament will sanction any
such peddling with really great and vital ques-
tions. Mr. LowE has had ample time to concoct
his plans of spoliation ; and his measure, after a
full and fair discussion, was only saved from
sudden death by a most cruel infanticide. Ho
has been acquitted of all participation in the
murder, and yet he seems to ask for a coroner's
inquest, as if determined to satisfy himself and
the public as to the actual cause of death ; and to
fix the perpetration of the foul deed on the real
Parliamentary assassin. Let Mr. LowE have his
inquisition if he will; but let us be up and doing,
and endeavour to obtain a true verdict. Let the
Liverpool Corporation, and every man connected
with our trade and shipping, lose no time in
strengthening Sir FREDERICK TEIESIGER'S opposi-
tion to Mr. LowE's childish efforts, at the consum-
mation of a most dangerous design.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL is resolved not to be wholly
eclipsed among greater and lesser lights. What
there is of the noble Lord, is to be seen as large as
ever on the Parliamentary stage. For ethics he has
thrown aside politics, and having selected National

Education as his theme, does not hesitate to take
out of the mouths of the oldest veterans, and
youngest recruits in the cause, all they have said,
or may have to say, on their favourite topic. Lord

ITN RUSSELL twits Sir JOHN PAKINGTON with

respect to certain discrepancies in his statistics,
and yet employs his rivals figures to illustrate his
own arguments. Mr, ROEBUCK reminded the
noble Lord that he propounded a system of
National Education thirty years ago ; while Lord
PALMERSTON appeared to be remarkably anxious
that Lord John should occupy himself especially
with education, and not for the present, soar above
" the settlement of that question which would be
" alike honourable to himself and advantageous
"to his country." The noble Lord, how-
ever, alluded to the well ascertained
fact, that there were only one in eight
of our population, between the ages of five and
fifteen years, receiving any education at all. And
after alluding to the fact, that schoolmasters and
schoolmistresses who receive only Hs and 8s per
week, could not be competent to inculcate useful
instruction, he proceeded immediately to expound
the principles embodied in the resolutions he pro-
posed to the House.

While endeavouring to make the educational
system of the country complete, he was disposed
to retain all that which was now found to be work-

ing well, by which means he hoped to secure to
this country the advantages enjoyed by Switzer-
land, and the New England States, namely, that
one in five of the whole population should receive
a useful education at the cost of the Stote. To
complete the supervision of his national system of
education, the noble Lord would have a Vice-Pre-
sident of the Council of Education sitting in the
House of Commons. He, would also add
eighty sub-inspectors to the present staff, and
divide England and Wales into eighty educational
districts, and he would provide Roman Catholic
Wesleyan, and other schools in proportion to the
number of schools of the Established Church.
Lord JOHN would also extend the power of the
Trustees of Charities, and enable them to apply
the funds they now had lying idle for the purposes
of education. And in cases where parishes were
found to be without sufficient means to support
schools, he would confer upon them the power to
levy a rate, the amount of which was to be fixed
by Parliament. With regard to the readine, of
the Scriptures daily in schools, if parents objected.
the children were not to join in that part of the
instruction. In these few lines we have all the
leading features contained in Lord JOHN'S resolu-
tions ; but we cannot see how the public are to be
rated for education, where there are half a dozen
distinct sects, all of whom would be grasping after
the lion's share.

How could a rate be struck in Liverpool, or in
any other large town without leading to inter-
minable agitation? Would Mr. BROWN, the Pro-
testant, submit to pay one sixpence towards a
Roman Catholic school? or would Mr. JONES, the
Romanist, contribute one fraction to the support
of a heretic Seminary which was under the direction
of a good Wesleyan? The only way in which any
such idea could be carried out, would be to strike
a rate according to the population of the district,
and pay to each school a fixed sum per head, for
the number of children who were provided with
perfectly free and gratuitous instruction. A pre-
mium would then be indirectly offered to every
sect to increase the number of their scholars, and
we should lose sight of the weekly penny system
which shuts out such a vast number of the children
of the poorest classes, from the school of all re-
ligious sects alike. With the great bulk of
the working classes " the
system"andpenny free school
uponehild ar
es
na, mwohnos ter
would, i f imposition,tli
that
i a
thousandslooked ot.
system were abolished, be sent to school, are now
' left on the streets from morning to night. We are,
therefore, rejoiced to hear that Lord JOHN'S
resolutions aim at the reduction, or the abolition of
these school fees. It is also encouraginr, to hear
that where children are taken away from school at
the tender age of nine and. ten years, and sent out
to work, that the employers of all girls and boys
between the ages of twelve and fifteen years, will
be compelled to produce certificates half-yearly of