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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1862,

If the Education Debates go on in the style of
last night, the issue must be one very different from
what the Government contemplated, in proposing
the Revised Code, and the forty thousand benefi-
ciaries under the Old System, in opposing it. Mr.
LOWE himself will soon be heard raising the cry of
" vested interest," on behalf of himself, and of all
expectant Vice-Presidents of the Committee of
Council on Education. We shall ba much surprised
if we find that the real impression, whatever
partisans may say, of last night's debate,
was not, that the whole system of grants
in aid has proved a failure. Not a failure
in one important sense. At a cost of four
millions and a half, it has done much towards in-
creasing the attention already awakened to educa-
tion. It has also done much towards improving
the standard required of teachers, though, it ap-
pears,with a heavy drawback on this account. But
its failure has been in paralysing the voluntary
exertions which it was designed to stimulate; and,
in creating a mcst unwholesome dependence on the
-cart of managers and schoolmastars upon Govern-
ment aid, where but for such aid, local energy and
interest in education would have done the work far
better.

After the eloquent Irish barrister had handled
his brief on religion with his well known ability,
two or three speeches followed, which will do more
to shake 'public confidence in " Treasury
aid to education, than all the efforts
of its advocates to sustain it. From Mr. BAINES,
though his vast information on the subject will
always carry the weight it deserves, we expect
conclusions pointing to voluntary education; and
an anticipated conclusion, ho Never ample the
grounds on which it rests, is naturally received
'with a deduction for the supposed bias of the
speaker. But no such discount need be made from
the speeches of either Mr. OSBORNE, or of Mr.
ADDERLt_
x, who had himself the advantage of
practical knowledge of the committee of council,
and might be presumed to speak rather with
the prejudices of
office. Remembering this,
his speech will probably tell, with many
readers, even
more than the powerful one
of Mr. OSBORNE, in favour of gradually with-
drawing Government aid from the support of edu-
cation, rather than pledging the country to the
performance of a system whithis
showna.. in so many
ways to enfeeble the energies 11 desire to

strengtnen.
We all rcmomber the cry at One time, that the
commons had voted £70,000 for Princ© ALBtit,r,s
stabit'..s, and only 130.000 for education. There
has bean a reaction, indeed, from that cry, no, that
nearly a m lion a year is - voted for the latter, with

that, at the loscPst, corn putation, two

an intimat

millions
millions will be wanted, and that five
annually may be requiied. But whatever
were the rival claims of Royal stables, and of
Education, the question has been too much
overlooked whether, after all, we can aid educa-
tion, as we can build stables; not to mention
that the stables once built are substantially done
with, but not so the education. A few of the far-