The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-23 00:00:00

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IoY, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28.

Trig French ministry. however bungling, has con-
trived to come to as seeped with the French clergy,
however arrogant, on the vexed question of education.
In this the cabinet of the Elyse' has been sore fortu-
nate than ours, whilst the Freneh prelates have shown
themselves more tolerant than those of oar chore's,
who here acquired the direction of the Society for
National Schools.
The French elergy.admit, that although they may
not have the exclueive control of edueslion, will in-
struction be philosophers is better than no instruction
at all. Aid they also admit, that it is necessary for
the zealous believer and the indifferent layman to
unite their efforts, in order to combat the prevalence
of anti-social doctrines by means of education.
Disputes about education are rendered mach more
perplexing by the different senses in which the word
is taken, and the different ends for which it is pro-

With same, education is limited to meaning those
mere elements, which facilitate, or which indeed ,
alone render possible, the acquirement of knowledge,
such as reading, writing, grammar, resuming.
With other, this is nothing, if it be not accom-
panied with the instilment of certain principles and
certain views, moral, religions, speculative, and even
political, by which one generation seeks to stereotype
its ideas and impress them on its successor. An
orator in the late French debate avowed that this was
his aim, and that be supported education in order to
allow the present French generation, with its ideas
and habit*, to be continued in the future. Oa this,
another member rose, and declared that after such an
explanation he should decidedly oppose the bill, as
what he most hoped was to see the next generation
the exact contrary of the present.
Another, and quite a different use of education, is
that of making the moat of the talents of a people,
and lining ;hem for civic or for public functions,
all wing the cream of their intellect and fitness to b,-
taken by the date,which would thusbe wisely governed
17 the moat intelligent of its members. The Prus-
sian system does this, the French attempts it, whilst
in England the preparation of public talent is left to
the individual himself, and the sifting of it to the

public.
In Prussia and in France, therefore, education is a
much more serious thing than in England—so serious,
that it almost alarms one, and creates some doubts as
to the advisability of our imitating such systems.
Education, in fact, systematical and centralized, is so
powerful and so convenient an engine, that there will
Inevitably be a struggle to lay hold upon it. A re-
ligious hierarchy at une time, the chief of a great
military establishment at another, will infallibly grasp
at it, whilst the state itself, representing the great
civilian, and lay interests, may not be powerful
enough to keep or protect it.
The University in France ie, in fact, looked upon
by all parties as a mine, out of which political
eipital is to be raised and coined. When the socialists
were in power, and M. CARNor minister, education
IVY twined one way; M. FALLOCI, as the chief of
public instruction, twisted it another. LOUIS NA-
POLEON, if he live'', and thrives, may convert colleges
into Bonapartist lyceums. We have, therefore, ercat
doubts of this unfortunate university surviving. Like
Italy, in Fdicaids lament, it is too beautiful to be let
alone.
Nothing can be more remarkable than the utter
failure of states, possessed of the power of systematic
and general education, to perpetuate their ideas. In-
deed their influence has always shown itself produc-
tive of contrary results. The revolutionists of 1792
were the product of the old clerical and universitarian
institutions of the monarchy. The tolerance of mo-
narchy and religion, manifested from 1803 to 1823,
was shown by a generation, who witnessed Hones-
TIMM'S worship of the goddess Liberty. Toe
Jesuits then set to work, and produced the generation
el 1831), and of 1848. In England we have had no
state education ; and the result has been a regular
affiliation of ideas, a continuance and development of
knowledge, progress without stumbling, or leaping, or
walking backwards one bistreim to take a hop, step,
and leap the next. And in speaking of English
institutions we make no allusion to our universities,
which congregate youth, bat do not educate them,
employing their minds academically on matters which
even if digested, do not enter into the formation
of either our principles or views or knowledge.
The debate in the French Assembly was a very re-
markable one. The spathes of Bt. HILAIRE, SION-
TALEMBIRT, the Bishop of LANGRES, VICTOR HUGO,
and Tams, are all first-rats specimens of oratory,
rendered still more piquant by the interlarding of M.
Du PIN'S spay interruptions. Bet how short of the
aint and how broad of the WIG French society is
menaced by socialism, a creed avowedly gaining
ground even amongst the rustic classes. And it is pro-
to combat it by giving the priest more power to
Milsdoence the ideas of the generate= which is to have
inflame in twenty years. When will France be in
twenty years? Will all the laws of public instruction
in 18W prevent the spree of socialism in the risen ge-
neration of 1831 ? Bad and expensive government, in-
glorious and retrograde foreign policy, immoral con-
duct and character of those in power, prodigal expen-
diture, with taxation of the first necessaries of life to
meet it, local oppression and rigour by the authori-
ties, a system of keeping down society, partly by the
gendarme and partly by the priest, making the latter
a spy and a functionary instead of a minister of rr
and of peace—all this makes men socialists,
makes the government of the upper classes mis-
trusted and hated by the lower the most dangerous
result or phenomenon of any social or political state.
This is an evil that demands immediate cure, imme-
diate probing. To establish • system of education
directed by clergymen and prefects to combat it, is as
wise as to greet forts and batteries in an enemy's
country, without the force to man them, it being
certain that the enemy can any day take possession
of them, and turn them against the very powers that
have vainly displayed such science and precaution.
To discuss a law of education in France at present
is mere puerility. The idea of a people that has not
a system of either government, or religion, or social
rights for itself, seeking to indoctrioate future genera-
tions with its own profound incapacity and ignorance.
otters a ciectaele worthy of the pencil of LUCIAN or
RABELAIS. Never nation was, certainly, more pro-
found in noth=and more eloquent in the mere
wordiness of

Mr. HUDSON hu at last broken silence. For now
more than eight months he has borne with calm im-
perturbability7uay, with 1 athern insensiSility—the
pelting of as pitiless a storm of denunciation and re-
proach, acorn and contempt, u ever swept away any
human being : be less seen his character blasted, his
fortune wrecked, his family ruined in reputation, and
his estates sold without uttering a word: he has
witnessed his political annihilation, and his social de-
elution, without an effort to avert them ; and now,
when the enormity of his misdeeds has lost its
freshness, when the sharpness of the injury and the
rain he has worked is somewhat blunted; when his
dupes are busily occupied in rectifying Os far as pos-
sible) the wrong he has perpetrated, ?dr. Hub:rote
speaks; and speaks, too, as an Injured innocent—as
martyrthe of railroad speculation—as an expiatory
sacrifice for reduced dividends. If this be not adding
insult to injury, then Mr. HUDSON must be a very '
honest man.
'faking shares that did not belong to him—manu-
facturing scrip for shares that were not allotted to
him—selling shares at enornieur premiums for his
own advantage that were the property of his coned-
toents—pocketting and mime propriating cheques for
large soma of =lacy intended to pay landowners--