The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-05 00:00:00

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. Doniton, who was introduced by Mr. Williams and
Mr. Layard, took the oaths and his seat on his election for
the borough of Lambeth, in the room of Mr. Roupell.
THE WAKEFIELD ELECTION PETITION.
The SPEAKER announced that the petition against
the return of Sir John Hay for the borough of Wakefield
was withdrawn.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed
Cromford and High Peak Railway (Lease,
North of Scotland Railway—Corwen and Bala Railway r
The Deaf and Dumb Poor Asylum Bill, Kent IVaLe
Bill, and Yentnor Harbour Bill were read a second tune.
PETITIONS. ecn.)i—Great
Several petitions wore presented against the.lawairnelsattitnhge
to the licensing public-houses (Scotland) g
parochial assessment bill ; from the inhabitantsßill;
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by Roman Catholics ;in favour the Shipping
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QUEEN ANN Y.
according to the Parliamentary Return
Act; against the Thames Emb,ankment bill Suce
Lord R. MONTA.GU. asked a return of all livings under
L2OO per annum (ace°
of 1833), which contribute to the Queen's Bounty ; and
•Ega.ve notice that on Thursday next ho
showing the amount.sciountriluEteßd
Iby;TeTaclhp.—PEOßrdAerßedi
quest!on of the Chief Secretary for Ireland,
would
SHaCsEkU LaLLAII;
whether he had received any official notification of the mur •
der that had been recently committed in Tipperary. He
observed that
wasinformed that the murder, which was
committed within three miles of one police station, was not
communicated to amlher police station in the neighbour-
hood until the following morning,

THE HOSTILITIES WITH PERSIA.
Mr. GRIFFITH gave notice that he would to-morrow
"Ica question as to whether any attempt had been made to
induce the Government of this country to take a part in
these hostilities.
COUNTY INFIRMARIES, &c. (IRELAND).
Capt. STACPOLE asked the Chief Secretary for Ire-
land when the returns relating to county infirmaries and
fever hospitals (Ireland), ordered on the 26th July, 1861,
and 28th Februaly, 1862, would be laid upon the table.
Sir E. PEEL was understood to say that the documents

in question were not yet completed, but they would shortly
be submitted to the house.
VOLUM EER cow's' DRILL INSTUCTORS.
Mr. GRIFFITH asked the Soeretary of State for War
whether he was aware that the drill instructors appointed
to volunteer corps by the War-office were not contented
with the pay they receive from the War-office, but required
pay in addition from the volunteers ' and whether such
proceeding was in accordance with the intention of the
War-office; and, if not, whether the Government would
prevent its occurrence, either by prohibiting the drill in-
structors from making any demand on the volunteers, or
in any other way,
Sir G. LEWIS said that those instructors who had pen-
sions received the same pay as sergeants of militia, namely,
2s. 4d. a day, and those who had not pensions received 2s.
7d. a day. With regard to the last question, the matter
rested entirely with the volunteers, and the War-office had
only a few communications on the subject.
THE REVISED CODE OF EDUCATION.
The house went into committee on the Revised Code.
Mr. WALPOLE said that he had to discharge a duty
which would be at once agreeable and painful. It was
agreeable, because he hoped that the present controversy
would be terminated to a considerable extent ; but it was
painful, because he believed that, however far the Govern-
ment would go in adopting alterations in the Re-
vised Code, they would disappoint some persons. The
Vice-President of the Board of Education had
in the n.ost frank, and he need not say in the most able
manner, announced the modifications which the Govern-
ment had determined on adopting in the Revised Code,
which were important in their character, very extensive in
their operation, and, he must add, highly. conciliatory to
the tone and temper of the house and country. He thought
the Government should be met in the same spirit, nadvised Parliament to accept the Revised Code with those
alterations, although some doubts might exist as to par-
ticular portions of the code even in its modified form. He
thought it right, however, while he abandoned opposition
to the code, in which some of his resolutions had been
introduced to make some observations which he thought
were not uncalled for. He had received some communica-
tions during the Easter recess relative to the principal points
of the Code. In the first place it appeared that the c,ertill.•
cated teachers did not think they were justly treated, and
strong objections were entertained respecting all the rants
under the existing system being converted into capitation
grants. Some of the masters in question contended that they
were badly treated, because, on the faith of the Government
grant, they had effected insurances on their lives, which
they would not be able to continue under the proposed
alteration which deprived them of all security. He
He did not think that in reality there would be any injus-
tice inflicted en the body alluded to. It was also said that
the Revised Code would be worse than the system it pro-
posed to supersede; but, as he did not take that
objection in the first instance, he was not prepared
to do so at present. The right honourable gentle-
man then went in detail through the alterations
which he had embodied in his resolutions, and which the
Government had virtually adopted, and he vindicated them
at some length. He contended that they ought not to
adopt as correct the objections to which he had adverted,
but at the same time he impressed on Government the ad-
visability of limiting the code to a period of two
years, when its operation would be sufficiently tested.
He could not accept the code as a final
settlement of the education question until it was amen
tained whether it met the requirements of the country.
The right hon. gentleman said that, of course, he would
not move his resolutions, but would merely move the first
as a matter of form, in order to enable hon. members to
express their opinions on this important subject,
Mr. PULLER asked whether it was intended by Go-
vernment that the managers of schools might present any
child under the standard for examination. He took ex.
ception to different points in the Code, and prticularly ob-
jected to the reduction in the number of teachers, which he
contended was not calculated to secure efficiency in the
national education.
Mr. HENLEY also objected to the Code in detail, and
said that the language used in that document, as
regarded the tabulated matter, realised what Tal-
leyrand had said as to language being intended
to conceal our thought, or it was unintelligible to any
1 otdinary Christian. (Laughter.) Had the code remained
as it originally stood, he should have felt bound to offer it
the strongest opposition, and he censured eery severely the
difference which had been made in it between religious and
secular education, but at the same time he gave the Govern-
ment credit for the course which they had pursued in refe-
rence to a subject of such gravity, and one on which such
diversity of opinion might be expected to exist, as that of
national education. (Hear, hear.)
[LEFT SPEAKING.]