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London, England, 1850-05-15 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1850.

original stipends, its intended application was to be
governed by the original scheme.
Unfortunately, however, the administration of
the property of these cathedral establishments
was planed in the hands of their dean and
prebend/rise ; mod their visitation was, es nn-'
luckily, entrusted to their bishops. BOOM the
temptations of the former and the negli-
gence of the latter, the educational design, of their
royal founder bare almost disappeared. And now
that reform has reduoed the number el the preben-
daries, pared down mid fixed their stipends, and
tranifeered the surplus which they formerly divided
amongst themselves to the ecclesiastical commissioners
for parochial purposes, the difficulty in restoring those
educational designs is undoubtedly great. Happily,
however, it least inseparable. For, almost in anti-
cipation as it were of Mr. WHISTON'S disooverie.,
there is a stipulation in the Cathedral Reform Act
(3 & 4 Viet., c. 113) that nothing therein
shall be construed to affect the right of any
chapter, &media( to its statutes, " to make
due provision out of the divisible corporate revenues
for the maintenance of the fabric, the rapport of the
Grammar School, if any, and all other Lace:nary and
proper expenditure." The duty and the power of
efficiently supporting these schools ice, therefore, still
in the chapter of the new cathedral foundations ; and
it is most important that public opinion should be
(brought to bear on them :or the purpose of seeing
flourishing grammar schools arising in each cathedral
city.
The result of the clove investigation given by Mr.
Witisrom into this subject, is, that, with the
exception of the Dean and C..apter of Durham,
the educational obligations cf their statutes are grossly
neglected by every other chapter of the cathedrals of
the new foundations, to the mani'eet injury of the
middle classes of the kingdom. At Canterbury, at
Westminster, Worcester, Ely, Peterborough, Roches-
ter, Chester, Bristol, Carlisle, and at Gloucester, the
educational duties of their chapters are either evaded
or most impttlectly performed. And, though it is
quite possible that the particular form in which those
duties are by the statutes dirt clod to be carried oat,
may be somewhat unsuited to the adaptation and
wants of modern society, we cannot find, from Mr.
WHISTON'S statements, that the chapters have endea-
roared and efficiently to remodel their
grammar schools, so as to suit current necessities.
It was the object of the educational statutes of most
of these foundations to provide tuition and mainte-
nance fora certain number of boys at their grammar
schools ; in other words, wholly to relieve their pa-
rents of expense of education and support. It may
be doubted whether Hach an arrangement in our
times is calculated to protluoe so much good as the
establishment of a really good school in each cathe-
dral city, where the parents of all may
find for their lone a cound education at a
moderato cast ; and the application of a cer-
tain proportion of the cathedral income) to
that general purpose is, in these tines, preferable to
the strict fulbiment of the statutes. To effect the.,
however, legislation would be ntcessary ; and until
it interpose for their relict', there can be no moral,
and Mr. WIIIiTON, let it be hoped, will prove that
there is no legal, excuse for the chapters not carrying
out to the letter the statutes they have solemnly
sworn to obey.
Now to what extent the chapters of the new
foundations are performing the educational ob:iga-
teens of their statutes, Mr. WrtistoN'e elaborate and
laborious investigations inform us.
At Canterbury, the capitular statutes direct .73
boys, poor and destitute of the ail of friend., to be
maintained out cf the goods of the church until they
have obtained a moderate knowledge of grammar,
and have learned to write and speak Latin ; and
whilst these statutes assigned out of that property
40/. a year to each of the canons, they allowed 4/. a
year for the maii,tenarce of each of the boys. But,
though the income of the canons has swelled to
something like 900/. a year, the money allowance of
the 30 boys has declined from 4/. to 11. Bs. 4d.
At Worcester, it seems, that the 40, whose main-
tenanee and education are part of the obligations of
the chapter, are even in a worn plight. Fer in-
stead of getting the 2/. 11.. 4d., at which the cost of
their maintenance was estimated in the cathedral
scheme, they now, say. Mr. Wwirrore, only get
ss. 10d. each ; though the income of the late dean
tied risen from the statutable 100/. a year of HENRY
VIII. to 1,4'461. I Is. 91., and the stipends of the
prebendaries from 20/. to ii 26/. 31. Id. each.
So, too, the Dean and Chapter of Ely ; " who,
although their founder, in 1542, allowed for their
Grammar School, loth hrs. 4d., and for themselves
283/. 7s. 6d, actually from 11.27 to 1834 cut down
the grammar school allowances to 401. 19s. a year,
and raised their own amount to 6,4181. Bs. 7d."

At Chester, the chapter has illegally reduced the
ratotable number of boys to be taught at their cost
from twenty-nor to twelve. At Petertmoogh the
boys are still only allowed the 2/. 13s. 4d.
assigned them by their statutes ; wh.:st every
one ease connected with the Cathedral has
been allowed to participate in the growth of the value
of its property. At Culisle, a series cf ccmomical
tracks have been played by the chapter on the grammar
eehools ; "on the appointment of the late nearer,
seven years ego," says Mr. WHISTON, Caere was
not a single scaolar in the school, and the chapter
tton pAid a s;ngirg man to teach the choristers;
when the school began to flourish, they ja-
rred on the master teaching the !cholera for
nothing, remonstrance was in vain, and he
resigned." And at Rochester, our readers know
I that when Mr. WHISTON appealed to ihe chapter to
fulfil their educational duties, they refused to admit
the principles on which his application was made ;
when he appealed to the Bishop of ROCHESTER that
palate considerately referred him to the Court of
Chancery ; when he stated the case to the public the
ohapte r dismissed him ; and to his application to the
Queen's Bench for a mandamus to restore him, the
chapter has returned an answer that the bishop who,
a few months preciously, bad stated that he was not
the proper person to entertain the complaint, is their
only judge!
Now, for such an abuse of power as these state-
ments exhibit, neither episcopal visitation nor litiga-
tion can, it is obvious, afford a proper remedy.
What is necessary to correct and to adapt them
to modern wants., is the intervention of the
parliament and legislature. In these cathedral
statutes there is the germ of a good
grammar school in every cathedral city in the king-
dom ; and in an age when the necessities of education
are affected to be so acutely felt, aid when the want
of means to furnish it is so universally lamented, it
will be discreditable to the legislature to overlook both
the opportunity, and the means which, thanks to Mr.
Willsros are now known to exist in the cathedral
trusts and property of the new foundation.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. A meeting of the
Bethnal-green Reform Society wes held on Monusy evening
at the Norlulk Arms, William-street, Bethnal-green, which
was numerously attended ; Mr. Joseph Dean in the chair.
Mr 'Jackman, one of the delegates to Use National Reform
Conference, made his report, which was approved and
adopted. The meeting then proceeded to take into conside-
ration the principal objects of the society, which were to ob-
tain the elective franchise fur all persons living in houses for
which the lanZord pays the rates and taxes, wi.hout the
necessity of claiming to be rated to every rate made during
the four quarters of the year. The Chairman stated that a
bill bed been prepared by Sir William Clay to remedy the
evil, who was now in communicsetion with the government
and the law cfficare of the crown on the subject. Mr.
Wickham urged upon the meeting the impertar.ce of watch-
ing most closely the prcgress of this bid, which there was too
much reason to fear would be rendered nugatory by the
government officials. The meeting resolved to act upon Mc.
'Wickham's suggestion.

A MUNSTER PLITItAusT.—In the fourth edition
of Mr. Whiston's pamphlet, " Cathedral Trusts and their
Fulfilment," just
_published, he 'rive'', at page 80, the fol-
lowing list of axlesisetical Moome, tithes and benefice!, held
by a single clergyman :—Pritbendal income, 1,0001.; tithes
of Doddiagton, 3474 100. ; ditto of Myths West, 124 ;
ditto of Lysapne, 6031.; ditto of Leynham, 76.1. 122. tad. ;
ditto of Stows, 2181. 3s. 6d. ; Rectory of Saltwood, 6961. ;
cam Myth*, 961. 18s. ; Rectory of Cliffs, 11 ',cheater,
1,3911. 10a. 100. ; glebe of ditto, 20 acres, 361. ; total,
6.0531 14 1014. "To look," says the author of "Ecelesia
" at Cliffs church, and thank of —is one of the
most painful sights and mosses of home travel whiett a
°bristle's men can witness suit weep over." Mr. Whiston
notes too that " The canonical rector his not moved from
his cathedral orbit to Cliffs more than once in the lam 12
yean." And in his preface Mr. Whiston mates that to the
sum of 6,0631 14e. 101 d. " are to b• added, great tithes of
Limited, 6271. 13e. 100. ; gnat tithes of !wade,
;.,351. 16a. 3d. ; total, 1,1631. 10e. lid.; Maim the real
total of 6,2171 be ; to which report gives something more.
Neither Mr. Whiston, ;um the writer of Eccksiti Dri,"
adds the nom• of this unfortunate churchman. M, how-
ever, we have before r. ;waked on the Ca" without any
such false di heacy, we may now repeat that he is the Rev.
Archdeacon Crofts.