The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-24 00:00:00

jobi, corrected misUaeagement, and prevented wute.
Bat even if Lord Cnteitzsrea were endowed with
higher administrative abilities than he is, his appoint-
ment as first and paid crown commissioner would be
objectionable, and on two grounds. He is devotedly
attached to one of the great parties into which the
church is separated; and is, of c urea, an object of
suspicion and of dislike to the other party. This,
however, is a minor objection; the greater is, that
Lord CHICHESTER is not in the House of Commons.
It is not indispensable that the first crown cone-1
missioner should bee member of the Lower House of
parliament ; but it was never for one moment sup-
posed in discussing the bill that he would not ; and
we are in a position to assert, without fear of contra-
dirion, that a grfat object of the bill as it was ac-
os;ded by the liberal party was that the paid commis.
goner representing the public should be in the House
of C. mmuns, there to be questioned and held respon-
sible for the proceedings of the board, as Mr. RAINES
is fur the Poor-law Board. To substitute, then, in
the House of Commons the paid church for the paid
crown commissioner—and he Mr. GOULBURN of all
men—is substantially to neutralist and to defeat that
object, for the church commissioner therecan be under
no emh responsibility as the crown commissioner ; he
is appointed wanting the con fidence el the house, and be
will be continued without enjoying it ; he will be
looked on as the representative of episcopal interests
only ; be regarded aa the bishops' month-piece ; be
accepted as the paid advocate and defender oft c:leei-
erical jobs. Moreover, Mr. GOULBERN has by his
conduct and ranscrupulneness, offended and disgusted
all thole liberal members who take an active part in
the discussion of eeclesiasticel affairs; they cannot,
therefore, bold that ir.disperuble private and confi-
dential intercourse with him which is requisite, and,
instead of ecclesiastical business being pleasantly con-
ducted, the bishups' paid agent in the house will be-
come the cbjoct art contempt and of annoyance.
It is, moreover, diszreclitab;e to a man who has held
the high offices Mr. GM:Li:URN has held, and who,
though needy, has a pn-blic pension of 2,0001.,
to accept such a paid agency. It has not
hitherto been the practice for statesmen in
this country to descend in the scale of
public employment; and for the ex-Chancellor of the
Exchequer of such a l'recuier as Sir ROBERT PEEL to
greedily grasp under any circumatanoss at 1,0001. a
year as a paid commissioner of a minor administrative
acrd, is to degrade the general character of public
men; while to receive it as the reward of past ser-
vices dace the bishops in the House of Commons, and
as the retaining fee of future advocacy, must utterly
destroy every shred of reputation that Mr. GOVLBURN
tad left Repainted by the protectionists, he is
about to become a ripendiary of the bishops.
The Ecclesiastical Commission needed no represen-
tative in the House of Lords; for there it is repre-
sented by the whole bench of bishops. And the
bishups required no representative in the House of
Commons ; for there it is the custom to transact busi-
ness only with functionaries responsible to the crown,
and so amenable to its confidence. And the whole I
prutiee and theory of our coostitation will be of-
fended if the paid public commissioner be not a mem-
ber of the House of Commons.

Had Mr. J. G. LuEvrts been a member, he is by
ability, by business habits, and by previous study and
acquaintance with the affairs of the Commission, ex-
actly the person to have represented the Board io
that house. Instead, he is appointed third and un-
paid commissioner ; and for the duties of that office,
his avocations in the House of Lords will leave him
no time during oae half the year; and during three
months at least of the other half, it has not been the
cu,tom of the Ecclesiastical Commission to meet.
On these grounds alone, it is to be hoped oar low
church contemporary has, in making this announce-
ment, been misinformed.

Tug report of Mr. CARLETON TUFNELL On Paro-
chial Union Schools contains the following passage :

There is often, in my opinion, much to complain of in
the insufficiency of the intellectual education imparted to
workhouse girls, and this defect in thi it training ban an en-
trinwely iujarious effect on their moral career. This evil
mainly uses from the difficulty of obtaining women ads-
' gamely qualified to give morel and religious instruction.
The few normal insticutions that exist for the prep iration
of female teachers cannot supply a tenth pert of the de.
wand, and boards of guardians often advertise in vain for sp-
' pliant' to fill vacant schoolmietremes' places. The labours ex-
isted from the occupants of such situations is not particu-
larly Lard or dissoreesble; a competent salary is offered
besides board and lodging, the latter tingly consisting of a
comfortably Tarnished private room. . . . Amongst
the numerous widows, the destitute young women, members
of families respottaley ',fought up, and suddenly turned
penniless on the world, whose bard curs of poverty and star-
satino cane never ending appeals to the charitable, it mess
astonishing that so few tea be found competent to till Use
tient and honourable post of teachers.

It is strange that it did not strike the clear-headed
writer of the report from which this extract is taken
that there can be nothing at all wonderful in the
fact that a profession which holds its doors wide
open to the influx of the thousands who belong to
the classes he enumerates, should not appear in
very attractive colours to those who may be
hesitating before they enter. A profession which,
as the writer himsilf tells us afterward., requires but
little intellectual preparation, the standard of acquire-
ments being ridiculously low, which takes recruits
from the humblest as well as from the unfortunate
part of the middle class of society, whioh in fact is,
acc9rding to the above quotation, • " refuge for the
destitute,' is not likely to have its ranks filled by very
eager volunteers. A first-rate needlewoman or •
clever shopwoman, a good cook or housekeeper—nay,
a thorough housemaid, have certain endowments
that it is well known are act possessed by
the numerous undistinguished female rabble whom