The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1865.

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Education—The " Conscience Clause."

The annual meeting of the Worcester Archidiaconal
Board of Education was held at Worcester on Tuesday,
and was very fully attended, notice having been given by
Sir J. Paldngton of his intention to move a resolution in
reference to the Conscience Clause recently introduced by
the Committee of Council on Education. The Bishop of
Worcester took the chair, and among those present were
Lord Redesdale, Lord Lyttelton, Hon. F. Lygon, M.P.,
Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakington, M.P., Mr. Vernon, M.P.
Sir E. A. H. Lechmere, Yen. Archdeacon Sanford, Yen.
Archdeacon Hone, Rev. Canon Wood, and a large number
of clergy and influential laity.
The Rev. H. J. HASTINGS read the annual report, which
noticed that at a special meeting of the Board held in Octo-
ber a memorial against the Conscience Clause had been
adopted. The grants made in the last year by the Board
had amounted to £220, and the total grants since the
Board was established to £4,650.
Lord LYTTELTON moved the adoption of the report, and
said the delay in the completion of the arrangement for
uniting the dioceses of Lichfield and Hereford in the manage-
ment of the Training College had arisen from some unex-
pected requirements of the Charity Commissioners.
The secretaries were reappointed on the motion of Lord
Redesdale, seconded by Archdeacon Hone, and thanks hav-
ing been voted to the Dean and Chapter of Worcester for
the use of the Chapter-house,

Sir J. PAKINGTON rose to bring forward the motion of
which he had given notice in reference to the Conscience
Clause. He said he moved this resolution with feelings of
great pain, because he felt impelled by a sense of public
duty to take a course which he had reason to believe was
opposed to the views of a large body of the clergy of the
diocese, for whose character and ability he had the highest
respect, and whose motives he warmly appreciated. The
question before them, as he viewed it, was this—ln those
localities where only one national school could be established
and in that school the doctrines of the Church of England
and no other were to be taught, the question arose what was

to be the position of the dissenting minority. Were the
Dissenters to feel that they were protected by a Cohscience
Clause—that they who contributed their share to the revenue,
from which grants are made to those schools,were to have the
advantage of their teaching, and that they were at liberty
to call on the manager of the school to relieve their children
from being taught doctrines to which they (the parents) ob-
jected, the parents taking the responsibility of that to which
they objected? Was that, he asked, to be their position, or
were they to be a proscribed class, not standing on an
equality with their neighbours, and not receiving a fair
share of the benefit of the grants which were made from the
revenues to which they contributed ? (Hear, hear.) Was it
to be considered that the education of the children of Dis-

senters was a matter, not of right and justice, but of
favour on the part of the clergymen of the parish in

which the school was ? And above all, were the Dissenters
to feel that a different measure was dealt out in different
parishes, in one parish the clergyman by grace and favour
admitting the dissenting child to the school, while in the
adjoining ono perhaps he was excluded ? That was the
definition which he made of the question ; and he thought
they could not hesitate as to which of the alternatives they
should choose. His'(Sir John's) conscience told him that
as a matter of charity, as a matter of justice, as a matter of
policy in reference to the interests of the country, they
were bound to take the side which he had chosen. He had
been asked why he, as a member of the Established Church,
appeared as champion of those who differed from him in
religion, and his answer was an easy and simple one. Irre-
spective of the grounds of abstract Justice and right, by
which the conduct of every public man ought to be regu-

.• _____ _
lated, he had two main grounds for taking the course he
had done. First, he was convinced that it was for the
interests of the Church to take the liberal and just course ;
and, secondly, he would say that he as a public man for
many years had done all that lay within his poor power
to aid in bringing about a state of things in England by
which the blessings of education should be brought to
every door, however humble or remote, and he:was con-
vinced that whatever they did to this end their labour
would be vain unless they could find some solution to the
religious differences which up to the present time had been
the great impediment to the progress of education. (Hear,
hear.) Sir John went on to explain that the question now
mooted by him was not the same as that on which a vote
was taken at the last meeting of the board,and reviewed the
arguments which he had then employed in discussing the
motion at that rime before it. At that time he heard a good
deal of apprehension expressed which he could not feel, and
of theory in which-he could not concur, and he met those ap-
prehensions and that theory by facts which, he ventured to
say, were much stronger than theories. He had heard an
argument advanced by the Rev. Mr. Seymour to which it
would be impossible for him not to attach great weight, were
that argument well founded. Mr. Seymour argued that the
admission of the Conscience Clause was opposed to ordination
vows. He, as a layman, would not pretend to argue that
question with a clergyman, but when he heard the Bishop
of the diocess express his concurrence with the Conscience
Clause, and say that any such argament about the ordina-
tion vow was exaggerated and fantastic—(hear)—then he
dismissed the argument altogether. (Hear,hear.) The argu-
ments which he (Sir John) made use of were these. He told
them of a parish within his own personal knowledge where
the clergyman was bound, as he thought, by the terms of his
union with the National Society to admit to his school none
but members of the Church of England. In that parish
were three families of Dissenters who would not send their
children to the school to be taught Church doctrines, and
the children of those three families were consequently un-
taught. How could they doubt, that such exclusion must
have inspired a feeling of hostility to the Church in the
minds of these three families ? He should like to say to
those who opposed his resolution, ivhat they would say, as
Church people, if those three families were to be called upon
either to violate their religious feelings or have their children
brought up in ignorance ? He ventured to say that one such
Con-
science Clause was introduced, instead of hostility being fact as this outweighed a thousand theories. Where the
ex-
cited a feeling of harmony and goodwill would be promoted,
and in numerous 'instances the children of Dissenters be-
came communicants of the Church. (Hear.) The question
now before the Board was whether if any of the schools in
the archdeaconry of Worcester accepted the Conscience
Clause, they were to punish them for having taken this little
step in a liberal direction by depriving
• it of any grant from
this board? That question had actually arisen. The school
of Barbourne in the archdeacon*. having
accepted the
clause, a grant had been made to it by this board, and he
had been told that it was an illegal grant, not authorised
by our position with the National Society. Sir John then
produced the correspondence on this subject laid on the
table of the House of Commons last session, and quoted the
opinion of Sir J. H. Coleridge as to the inconsistency of
the terms of union with the National Society in opposition
to the opinions of the National Society itself. He considered
the National Society had involved itself in a most difficult
position, and he moved—" That in the opinion of this
meeting the rules of the board ought to be revised so as to
enable all Church schools within the archdeaconry which '
are in need of assistance to benefit by its grants, whether
they have or have not accepted the Conscience Clause."
The Rev. M. LEA seconded the resolution. He thought
he might take the Conscience Clause as the law of the
land. (No, no.) He did not think the present Government
would disturb it, and the head of the Educational Depart-
ment under Lord Derby's Government was a supporter, if
not the promoter of it.
Lord LYTTELTON said he felt bound to consider this ques-
tion on the merits of the Conscience Clause itself. He did
not think they could simply content themselves by saying
that they could see no objection to the provision of this
Conscience Clause, he thought they should do more than
this. With reference to the Barbourne school which had
been alluded to, he much doubted whether the school had
unwillingly accepted the Conscience Clause. In replying to
the arguments of Sir John Pakington he would proceed
to consider what this Conscience Clause, as it was called,
really was, and he had to apologise for introducing in his
remarks subjects of pure theology. His views on this
subject had been before the public for some time in a
pamphlet, which, perhaps, however, few of his present
hearers had read, and he should have to repeat in substance
much that had been advanced in that pamphlet. He would
assume that the clause must be considered strictly as mean-
ing neither more nor less than what it said, and that it was
worked bona fide. The Conscience Clause permitted that
children orDissenters attending Church schools should not
more nor less than
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be required to attend Church, and that they should not be
toc school, with a Church teacher, a
taught the doctrines of the Church in certain specific formu-
laries. nothingh h
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therefore,
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children
a a clergyman at the head of it. What
cur
andwas taught in the school? The Bible was taught in it. He
hoped he should not hear in that place that the Bible, of all
books, was to be read in the school, but that not one word
of note or comment was to be offered on the text. (Hear,
hear.) The Bible was to be read and taught as they read
and taught history and geography ; in neither of these
were the managers restricted. The master of the schools,
therefore, were to read and explain the 'Bible and every
part of it ; and in what sense, he asked, could they teach it
except in the sense of the Church of England? (Hear, hear.)
What did they get the children of their schools to school
for ? The manager said to the parents, " I ask you to send
your children to me in order that I may be a fellow-worker
with you, that we may be fellow-workers in God in train-
of the next." And suppose he had a bad child in his school,
what was he to do with him ? He could not point out his
duty in the words of the Catechism, and could only talk to
him about the evil consequences in this world of his con-
duct. But that was not teaching in the sense in which
children should In taught, The Conscience clan would

include Roman Catholics, but they would not accept it, and
Baptists and Quakers, who excluded the doctrine of sacra-
ments, and Unitarians. The Conscience Clause was only
part of a system—an insertion of the thin end of the wedge.
He should say " No " to the resolution.
The resolution was supported by Archdeacon Sanford.
the Rev. D. MELVILLE, and others, and opposed by the
Rev. H. A. WCODGATE, the Hon. F. LIGON, and
Lord REDESDALE, who replied to Sir J. Pakington's re-
marks generally. The Liberation Society, his lordship re-
marked, did not take any action in the matter. They were
very well content with the way in which the present Go-
vernment were aiding them, and they wisely kept quiet.
If a manager of a school felt that he could accept the Con-
science Clause, and that he got more from the Government
grant than he would from the local board, let him accept
it, but let him bear in mind that he was imposing a burden
on his successor which he might object to.
After a reply from Sir J. PAXIEGTON, a show of hands
was taken, when 16 were held up for the motion, and 49
against it.
The discussion lasted fivehours, and the audience thinned
rapidly towards its close.

Mr, Bright, X P , and Mr. Scholefield, M,P.,

on Commercial Matters.

BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.
The half-yearly meeting of the Chamber of Com-
merce was held this afternoon in the New Exchange,
and was very numerously attended. The chair was
taken by Mr. Scholefield, M.P. (who has succeeded
the late Mr. Spooner, M.P., in the presidency of the
body), and amongst the members of the Chamber
present were Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. J. S. Wright,
Mr. Alderman Thomas Lloyd, Mr. Sturge, &c.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, in opening the proceedings,
referred to the i ecent visit of -Mrs Herries (the Sec-
retary of Legation at Turin), and Mr. Ward (her
Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Hamburg), and ob-
served that it was a new feature in the proceedings
of the Government to send their officers down to
visit public bodies for the purpose of inquiring into
and redressing their grievances, and the commercial
world were greatly indebted to Mr. Forster (the
hon. member for Bradford) for the change which
had taken place in this respect both in the Board of
Trade and the Foreign Office ; and a friend of his
had recently assured him that now, on any matter
relating to the commerce of the country, he had
ready access to both these departments, which were
always prepared to listen to any representations that
were legitimately made. He would not enter into
any discussion on the subject of the patent law, be-
cause it would most probably come under discussion
in the next session on the report of the commission.
With respect to the extension of Government manu-
facturing establishments he thought it impossible to
view their increase without uneasiness. (Hear.) He
was not opposed to all Government establishments
of that description, but contended that the Govern-
ment ought not to establish any manufactory for
goods which they could obtain from the public at
large, except as a check on the manufacturer's prices.
(Hear.) Nothing could be more unfair than to use
public money for the purpose of competing with the
private trader ; but beyond that there was another
objection, and that was the opening which such a
system afforded for the digtribution of patronage. The
country owed a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Cob-
den for the manner in which he had brought the
subject before Parliament during the last session,
and he hoped that in the course of the next session
his hon. friend would again introduce the matter
with a view of putting an end to the Government
manufacturing establishments, which were not only
hostile to the manufacturer, but deeply hazardous
to our finances. (Cheers.) With regard to the
Partnership Law Ainendment Bill, he would only
say, that after carrying forward the measure as far
as he could in the last session, he had a consultation
with some of the influential members of her Ma-
jesty's Government, the result of which was that
Mr. Milner Gibson promised to introduce a bill on
the subject. That bill, which had been prepared,
was simple and short, and he (Mr. Scholefield) pre-
ferred it to his own, and hoped it would be carried
to a successful issue. (Cheers.) With respect to
the law of bankruptcy he thought the less the Go-
vernthent and the lawyers had to do with the dis-
tribution of assets of bankrupts the better. (Cheers.)
That matter ought to remain mainly in the hands
of the creditors, and the Government ought, under
no circumstances to interfere, except where the cre-
ditors abandoned all attempts to recover the assets,
or where fraud existed. (Hear.) There was only
one other point on which he wished to make a re-
mark. We were now making great progress in com-
mercial prosperity, mainly through the efforts of
his hon. colleague and Mr. Cobden to remove the
sion of trade. (Cheers.) The country was from
day to day becoming richer and richer. He wished
impediments which formerly prevented the exten-
he could say that our commercial morality grew
with equal rapidity, but regretted to say that was
not the case. (Hear.) He did not mean to assert
that chambers of commerce could do much to en-
courage commercial morality, but it was their
bounden duty to recommend to the commercial
community a more complete adherence than they
had hitherto manifested to honesty and good faith.
(Cheers.) He did not mean to say that there were
not men as perfect in commercial morality as in
former days, but unfortunately there had crept in
amongst them a desire to achieve wealth by means
not consistent with honesty. Had it not been for
this the protection of trade marks would never have
been required. (Cheers.)
The report which was taken as read, was on the
motion of Mr. J. S. Wright (the vice-president),
and Mr, Wiggins (the mayor), received and
adopted.
Mr. BRIGHT apprehended that the subjects for
discussion would be a little monotonous. Happily
they were not only various but important, and on
one or two of them he wished to offer a few remarks.
He concurred with his hon. colleague as to the
change in the course of the proceedings of the
Foreign Office as indicated by the visit of the two
gentlemen connected with that department to whom
reference had been made, but he warned all present
not to be too confident in that matter. It took a
great deal to eradicate evil principles from the
human heart, and evil principles and practices from
a Government department. (Hear, hear, and
laughter.) He derived some little consolation from
what occurred respecting foreign affairs, during the
last session. We might hope that they would be-
come less complicated than they had been heretofore,
and that the statesman who in future should preside
at the Foreign Office would impress on the ambas-
sadors, ministers, charges d'affaires, and the whole
host of those gentlemen who enjoyed good salaries
abroad, that they should consider the trade of this
country and the trade of the world as very impor-
tant, and that it was necessary for them to under-
stand something respecting it, and not look upon
any question of commerce that was submitted to
their notice as if it were an unwelcome thing, with
which they would rather not soil their hands.
(Cheers and laughter.) The old Foreign Office
had been pulled down, and he had suggested that
all its traditions should be buried in its ruins. Lord
Palmerston had caused a new building to be erected,
and he hoped that as the exterior of the office had
been changed its interior principles and policy would
be changed also. (Cheers.) If the spirit of the
Foreign Office should be changed and recognise
the grandeur of the commercial interests of this
country, it would be able to do whatever was neces-
sary, just as if it were constituted in any other
manner. It was clear that the effect of the agita-
tion of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, of the
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, and of the
associated chambers, had been considerable, and
every member of those bodies must feel that he had
been doing good service to the country in trying to
bring the department of the Foreign Office to some
more clear sense of the magnitude and importance
of the commercial interests of the kingdom.
Another subject of great importance was the Factory
Act. lie gave W the first act all the opposition.