The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-03 00:00:00

THE REVISED CODE.

TO Tat EInTOII O TIE MUM .
Sit,—May we beg the favour of your publishing
the following correspondence oe the auhject of the revised
eels 7—We are, Ac., C. R. ALFORD.
KEGINALU GUNNERY,
Honorary Secretaries to the Central Committee.
Metropolitan Training Institution, Highburypark,
Oct. I, ls6l.

(Copy No. L)
(ladling, Sept. 27, Ififil.
Sir,—l should be much obliged to you if you would in-
form me whether, 40 the minute of August will not come
into operation until the beginning of the financial year, the
committee ere still desirous of wading a deputation to MO.
U so, I shall of Lourse be glad to receive it, but it might be
more convenient to all parties that it should be later in the
year. -I ern, sir, your obedient servant, ORMIVILLZ.
To the Honorary Secretary, itc.
(Copy No. 2.)
Metropolitan Training !institution, Highbury.park,
Oct. I, 10451.
My Lord,—We have to acknowledge with our best
thanks your lordship's reply to the letter accompanying the
swaincirial of the Central Committee.

We beg, in the first place, to express our gratitude to
your lordship for the suspension of the revised code. We
further desire gratefully to avail ourselves of the noggin-
ties have been pleased to make, that the deputation
ehoali wafer with your lordship in reference to the Edu-
cational Code later in the year. The subject will then be
ripe fee discuesiee ; and we are sure that rainy gentlemen,
who yews have given their time and expended their
maser fee the eatirosiou of national allocation in accordance
tali the minutes of the Committee of Privy Council, will
be clad to avail themselves of such an opportunity.
With your lordship', permission we will communicate
with yea smile is the roome of two or three months, with
the view of obtidaing an interview.
We have the hammy to bet_ my lord, your obedient
sweats,CHARLIZ KICM•II.I3 AVOID,
RIGINALD Orarrar,
Hammy Secretaries to the Ototrel Committee.
To the Right Nos. Earl Grogram, LO., Lord Preeidest
of the Committee alOmmal on Edocidiuo.

THE BRITISH AND I'OBSION SCHOOL SOCIETY
AND THE NEW CODS.

The committee having had several iuquiriea
wade by school managers u to their views of the "Revised
aids; and whether they have taken any action upon it,
ce by forwarding a copy of the following resolutions,
whirl hove unanimously adopted and forwarded to
the Leal Resident, tba Vies-Pieuileat, and Secretary of
the Committee of Commit :

" I. That this committee, having given their best atWn•
Men to the revised code issued by the Committee of
Curial, feel themselves called upon to express their regret
that a change so reified sa that proposed should be
contemplated, and their conviction that its operation would
be to increaie, rather than remedy, any defects or ineousli-
, tem that nee attach to the present mode of administration.
2. net while recognizing the soundness of the principle of
a test of the state of elementary instruction in the school,
as efts basis of the pecuniary sid rendered by the Committee
et Council, this committee regard the proposal to make this
the only basis of such aid, coupled with the prescribed de-
tails of application, as most unsatisfactory to school mana-
gers ; they especially consider the classification by age to be
almond in principle, and virtually to nut off all infant
schools, while the restriction of a pecuniary claim to one
OZIDOSIItIOD of the same children above 11 years old, die.
sousteosaces whet has justly be,. deemed most important,
viz.. the lengthened reteatioo of children at school. 3. That
in the opinion of this committee the changes proposed in
Mathis to training colleges ere not only unjust to the
seven) claims affected by them, but are dike impolitic
and prejudicial to the true intonate of popular education.
4. That while this committee learn with satisfaction that
the operatics of the minute ..f July 29th, IA6I, is to be sus-
peeded until after the :fist of March, 1062. they are so cos-
vinoed of the wrong which, if carried out, it would inflict OD
teachers, of the position of uncertainty in which school
managers would be placed, and of the serious extent to
which it would retard the progress of elementary education,
that they resolve, without delay, by statistical and other
evidence, to endeavour to demonstrate these convictions to
the Committee of Council, and, if needful, to the Howe of
Commoos."
A circular and schedule of inquiries has also been amt to
every &utusb school wider government iuspoctiou, which
the committee bare urgently requested may be carefully
Sled up and released without delay.

At the annual meeting of the Sligo° and Ampthill
Labourers' Friend Society last week, Lord Weosleydide
made an excellent speech. Addressing them as his friends
and neighbours he said—lt was now, within three or four
days, twenty years since the society was established, and he
bad given it the utmost support in his power, convinced
that by so doing he had 'misted in accomplishing a con-
miderable amount of gond. (Applauds.) They all knew
that it had pleased the Almighty to make greet difference
in the distribution of wealth, talents, strength of
body and strength of mind, happiness, and com-
fort; but that these were not confined to any one
class, but belonged to all. Now, some or all of these
were obtainable by constant attention to their duties, by
unremitting industry, by exerting to the utmost their
talents, their bodily strength, and all the faculties of the
mind. This institution wan well calculated to assist them
in producing some of these results in several different
ways. Its objects were threefold. In the first
place, it encouraged industry as likely to lead to
a great increase of agricultural produce, tidily kept cot-
tages, and well cultivated gardens. Small allotments
properly attended to greatly contributed to the comfort
of families, and no man, if he liked, noel be without an
allotment in any one of the parishes within the union.
lie considered the cultivation of allotments as well as
gardens of the utmost importance. A great philosopher,
speaking of agriculture, said there was no pursuit more ho.
noumble, or that could be compared with the cultivation of
the soil ; for on it depended the production of food for man
and beast, and the welfare of the human race. The culti-
vation of the garden or allotment produced good in other
respects, for it enab:ed men to spend a few hours occasion-
ally when the ordinary labour for the day was disposed of in
healthy and profitable exercise, instead of at the alehouse,
which had been the ruin of the labouring classes of this coun-
try. Those few hours abstracted from the public-house bail
been and must continue tabs of immense importance, by giv-
ing a healthier tone to the mind of the labourers, making their
homes more comfortable, and from various causes improving
their chancter. He was happy to find that many of his
own parish had gained prizes, and that the judges had
expressed a most favourable opinion of their productima,
and these circumstances could not fail to produce
a considerable amount of comfort to themselves and
families. Another great object of the society was
to induce peruse to keep their houses tidy and clean.
It was of the greatest importance that the houses
of working-men should be kept in a comfortable
state, so that the men might be lod to feel more satis-
faction in spending their evenings with their families in-
stead of at those places to which he bad already suffi-
ciently alluded. The third object was to improve the
character of servants, farming servants as well as female
servants, by recognising those whose conduct awl length
of service entitled them to consideration ; for it was of
the greatest possible importance that servants should not
be continually going from plies to place, but remain
with their masters and unstressed', the latter doing everything
in their power to promote the welfare of their servants.
(Hear, hear.) With respect to male servants, all femme.
able men must acknowledge that it was the duty of the
masters to do what they could to educate sod improve
the young, and take care of the men if they were old. Ac-
cording to the system once prevailing in this country, the
masters bad entire control of the labourers ; but that had
long ego been abolished, and every man now had it in his
power to have an independent home. Now, it was of great
importance that masters should attend to the duties devolving
upon them ; for, although the agricultural labourers had
homes of their own, they were still under the stiperin-
teedence and control of the masters to a certain extent,
and the muter' would do well to look after the educe,.
tioo and improvement of the young, just the same as if
they still heed at their homes. He earnestly hoped
that the young might receive all the instruction which,
under the circumstances, it was possible to give
them ; be had remade to believe that the schools
in the district were being attended with the most beneficial
results. Thom who bad- the good fortune to obtain prizes
would reflect upon their past efforts with satisfaction, end
be strengthened to pursue a similar coons is future ; whilst
thou who had not gained prizes had the consolation of feel-
ing that their gardens and allotments were all the better for
their exertions, and so far were gainers, and that by steady
perseverance they might hope to be more successful on •
snare occasion. (Cheers.)