The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-10 00:00:00

(Translation.)

February 21.
Sir,—l advised his Excellency the Governor, on the
18th instant, of the arrival at this port of the Spanish
brig Emilio. with 79 persons saved from the wreck of the
English packet Tweed. His Excellency, informed of all,
commands me to take the necessary steps that the
Custom house of Sisal should freight the canoes neces-
sary to bring to Campeachy those who wish to come, to
afford them that aid and care which their case requires,
and humanity demands.

And I communicate it to you, that you may inform all
those wrecked in your vessel, and beg you will let me
know who wish to go to Campeachy.
And I have to-day addressed the Collector of Customs
in order that he may afford the necessary assistance, the
schooner Republican having anchored in this port for
that purpose.
I have the honour to be, &c.

JOSE M. COVIEN.
To Captain Parsons, of the British steamer Tweed.

Sisal, Feb. 22.

Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your communication of the 21st inst., enclosing the copy
of a note from his Excellency the Governor of the pro-
vince, intimating that he had been kindly pleased to
order up from Campeachy to Sisal a Mexican man•cf-
war vessel, for the express purpose of rendering any
assistance to the people rescued from the wreck of the
Tweed, and also to afford k passage to any of them to
Campeachy.
Having carefully noted all the contents of his Excel-
lency's communication, I have to express to him,
through 3 ou, on behalf of my officers, passengers, and
myself, our warmest thanks for the prompt assistance
rendered to us all; and also our heartfelt gratitude for
all the kindness vouchsafed to us in our present unfor-
tunate condition. _ _ .

I have also to observe, that as the owner of the brig
Emilio most handsomely placed his vessel at our dispo-
sal, we intend all availing ourselves of her to proceed to
Havannak on the 25th inst.
I hare the honour to be, &c.
GEORGE ?ARSONS.
Late Commander of the Tweed.
To Senor Don Jose M. Covien, isc.

(Translation.)
Sisal, F.•b. 24.
The undersigned officers and passengers wrecked in
the English Royal mail steamer, Tweed, cannot leave
Sisal without addressing to Senor Don Joaquim Morales,
Spanish Consul, these few lines, as the only return it is
iu their power to make for his generous exertions, in
concert with their preservers, for their rescue from the
wreck, and for the benevolent reception he has given
them since landing.
Without distinction of nation, they have received
through him most valuable assistance and much personal
kindness ; and they would beg him to accept their very
grateful thanks, with the assurance that the service he
has rendered will not be soon or readily forgotten.

WILLIAM ELLICE. GEORGE PARSONS.
ANTOINE PIERRuN. E J. L. ELLISON.
LEWIS R. PRICE. C. H. ONSLOW.
J. B. CAMERON. E. KNOTT.
F. CASTRO. J. P. ROWLATT.
J. DAVIES, Lieutenant R.N. S. B. LOWLAND.
JOSE M. EsPINO. J. BALLARD.
GEORGE JONES.

Sisal, Feb. 20.

Sir,—lndebted for the preservation of our lives "to the
noble and disinterested conduct of the captain and chief
officer of the Spanish brig Emilio, to whom we have pub-
licly joined with yourself in writing the letter of which
a copy is enclosed, we feel anxious that such services
should be made known to those wbo may be influential
enough to bestow some further gratifying mark of public
approval. Under these circumstances, being ignorant of
the course to be pursued, and wishing to avoid any
troublesome appeal, we would gladly depute to you, on
our behalf, the attempt to bring these circumstances
under the notice of her Britannic Majesty's Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.
_ _

If, in such cases, it is not unusual to take this step,
we feel sure that the present occasion is one which
would well deserve that mark of favour which we seek
to obtain fur it.

We need hardly say how gratified we should be were
our wish to be complied with on the part of the Foreign-
office, or how thankful we should feel that any other of
those public bodies which are in the habit of bestowing
their approbation upon cases similar to the present one
should be made acquainted with the circumstances.
We are Sir, your obedient servants,
C. A. LEDWARD. E. J. L. ELLISON.
T. F. KNox. C. H. ONSLOW.
GEORGE JONES. E. KNOTT.
LEWIS R. PRICE. J. P. ROWLATT.
J. B. CAMERON. S. B. ROWLAND.
GEORGE PARSONS. J. BALLARD.
To W. Ellice, Esq., late passenger in the Tweed, Sisal.

THE EDUCATION QUESTION.
SPEECH OF LORD MORPETH AT YORK.

YORK FRIDAY -Yesterday, an influential meet-
ing of the subscribers and friends to the York Yeo-
man School was held, when Lord Morpeth, who
presided on the occasion, delivered the following
speech, the major part of which is a reply to the
principal objections that had been raised to the edu-
cational measure proposed by the Government ;
Lord Morn-Ella, on rising, said—Ladies and gen
den:len, the report having been read, perhaps you will
all )w me to address a few observations to you with
reference to the matter on which it treats.—(Applause).
I am always glad to avail myself of any opportunity,
however far between,or of any notice, however short,
to pay attention to the business and to the furtherance
of the York Yeoman School. With the continued
support of the public,
I do trust we shall make this
institution, however small in its beginning, com-
mensurate with the wealth and importance of the
county to which we belong. I do not know that
I need allude to any other topic touching the affairs
of the York Yeoman School, or that I have anything
myself to offer beyond what will be fully supplied to
you by the report which has been read. Ins case
any further information should be necessary, our ex-
cellent secretary, Mr. Reed, will be able to furnish
all that is required.—(Applause.) With respect to
the subject of education on a yet wider scale, con-
sidering the definite proposals which have been put
forward by her Majesty's Government, considering
the degree of excitement, and I am sorry to say of
difference which they have produced, it will,hardly be
considered out of time and place if I trouble this
meeting with a few observations.—(Applause.) I
admit that the matter does not strictly pertain to our
proper business. Ours is a purely voluntary under-
taking ; it has proceeded thus far by voluntary con-
tributions and voluntary efforts, and I certainly do
not see how, in the nature of things, it can ever ex-
pect to be supported or extended otherwise. I am in
hopes that, on that account, we, the founders and
friends of the York Yeoman School, do not grudge
any assistance which the national liberality may fur-
nish to those portions of the community whose desti-
tution of the means of education is more hopeless
and more unfriended.—(Applause.) I do not pre-
tend that the scheme in question is perfect either in
its principles or in its details. If I had myself the
power, which some seem almost disposed to at-
tribute to the Privy Council, of issuing an
arbitrary edict, without reference either to Par-
liament or people, I believe I should prefer
a scheme which both did more and did less;
which, on the one hand, would have carried edu-
cation more extensively into all our towns and
villages ; and, on the other hand, would have ab-
stained more completely from any religious inter-
ference. I think it is not a time to shrink from pos-
sible misconception in the plain avowal of opinion,
but I confess that increasing experience induces me
to think that the State had better do more for
secular, and less for religious education. In the one
I think it clearly in its element, in the other it risks
getting out of it. But are not individuals bound to
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act upon their individual opinions ? Certainly, if
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whether the proposal that the State should give its
attention exclusively to secular, without any regard
to religious education, would have found acceptance
in this room. I am sure it would not with the
country at large.—(Applause.) Indeed, it is easy to
imagine a few of the soft things which would have
been said about us if we had produced such a plan.
We have then proposed a scheme which, if it is dis
tinguished by anything, it is by an anxious, scrupulous,
I think almost an exaggerated deference for the reli-
gious convictions and susceptibilities of all the parties
with whom it can be brought into contact ; it
respects the liberty of religious conscience with a
strictness which is not even to be found in the educa-
tional systems of the United States. It takes what it
finds—it invents no regulation, it imposes no check
of its own, though I may myself regret that it does not
prevent others from doing so. But then we hear,
that though there is no professed, and even no in-
tended favouritism, yet virtually and practically there
will be a good deal. Now I have a very sincere
respect—and more, I have a real affection—for many
of the objectors. They have, in their day, done very
much for education, and no one would regret more
sincerely than I should if any single means of use•
fulness in their hands should be stunted or crippled.
I own I have little fear of it. Where I differ with
them mainly is, in being satisfied with the education
we have amongst us—with its quantity or its quality.
_(Applause.) I believe (differing from them) that
its quantity is miserably deficient—perhaps not in
their own neighbourhoods—perhaps not, compara-
tively, over our own broad Yorkshire, but over the
width of England, and that a great part of its
quality is insufferably bad.--(Applause.) I believe
this to be the impression of enlightened and im-
partial travellers who have passed through the
country and examined this subject with an in-
telligent and inquiring eye. Can any one read a
book like that of Mr. Horace Mann's educational tour
through Europe without a humiliating sense of
shame ? What is there in our England which
should make us inferior in this respect to the United
eSotmateesiietroeSwaixtohnoyo,t to Holland, ;
they toey may compute the Scotland ? I have
numbers receiving education, though I believe that
would not make out their case, but I am content with
the evidence of what I see and hear. I am content
with what passes at every petty sessions, where the
far greater part of the fine grown-
up young men and
mass of our working
women can none of them write their own names. I
am content with the details made out by chaplains and
governors of prisons, and I cannot resist the convic-
tion that the education of the
men and women, and of that fearful multitude which
goes by the name of the poor, is glaringly, scanda-
lously deficient.—(Applause.) Then, when in such
a state of things the leaders and ornaments of deno-
minations and communities come forward and say—
" You are interfering with our labourers, you are
interrupting our progress, you are weakening our
influence, you are tractin h from our numbers"—
sorry as I should be—incredulous as am—yet when
schools will
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innegws arrangement; if so,
such things are put forth as argument, I am forced to
say I really cannot much care.—(Applause.) We
are Churchmen here. It is thought that Church
su g
it will be because they meet it with answer-
ing efforts—(Applause)—but I disclaim any such
grounds It is because I
know that out of the pale of the Church, beyond the
limits of the denominations, there
is a vast destitute,
neglected mass, festering in our streets and alleys,
with every sight and sound of contamination choking
the accesses to every sense, without any sense of duty
to earth or heaven—upon whom no word of instruc-
tion ever falls—upon whom no breath of love ever
settles—those unclaimed by Lambeth, unknown to
Geneva, unconverted by Rome, I would invite, I
almost wish I could compel to come in.—(Cheers.)
I do not so much care to which fold, so that there was
pfpolrau a se.)
moment Then
a hope of teaching them that man is their brother, and
that " God is love."—
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there is another class
allude to as specially connected with this proposal.
BHsides those who are to be taught, there are those
(e
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who teach. Both seem to me occasionally rather
overlooked in the heat of the competition which is
carried on between the supporters of opposing sys-
tems. Now I feel tempted sometimes to wish that
I could gather together the teachers themselves, the
oeudld a
actual schoolmasters of some of the most successful
and vaunted schools of the different denominations—
for it is, after all, upon them, and not upon the
wealthy patron or the resetable minister, that
the main part of the burden and of the glory
of the successfial tesehing must rest ; and
having them together, in a place apart, I should like
to put it to them whether they were so satisfied with
the amount of remuneration they at present receive,
with the place they hold in society, with the supe-
riority of the advantages it confers to what they might
obtain as a clerk in some opulent warehouse, or as a
superintendent at some railway station, that they
think the managers of the schools are altogether right
in rejecting the offer of additional remuneration, ad-
ditional help, additional distinction, which the State
is solicitous to offer them.—(Applause.) The wants
and deficiencies at which 1 have now imperfectly
hinted are those which I conceive the scheme of the
Government would go a great way, as far as it can, go
at present, to supply and remedy.—(Applause.)l
have not been able to refer to a speech which I made
in this city on one of these occasions, a year and a
half ago; but I remember that I mentioned, as de-
serving the immediate attention of the country, those
specific points—the insufficient number of schools, the
inadequate salaries of schoolmasters, and the pro-
priety of giving Thist_h was when I em some retiring pension in their
•
advanced age.was neither a mem-
ber of the Government or of the Legislature ; and as
they are the precise points embraced in the recent
minutes, I have the satisfaction of thinking that I
have only become a party, in company with my col-
leagues, to provisions for which I had been anxious
in an unofficial and private capacit...
I will just add
" thus much. I have more than once referred to
the manner in which those measures bear
upon the Church of Engl• and • Now, it has not
always been my happiness to concur in the courses
which the Church has thought it right to adopt
with reference to education. At times I have
thought it too exclusive, at times too timerous. I re-
joice to witness the attitude she has assumed during
the recent discussions. I presume not to sound all
the motives in which it may originate, nor to divine
all the results it may aim at ; but I see that she is
putting forward no exclusive, pretensions;ro that she is
, not seeking to keep back - others what she is
willing to compete for with them—and let the
best friends and most faithful children of the Church
feel well assured that she will not derive half the
credit from her long prescription, her wide posses-
' sions, her august architecture, no, not even from

those solemn and beautiful towers that rise im-
mediately above us, as she will do from her willing-
ness to descend into the equal arena of a generous
competition, to discard all mean jealousies and abso•
lute monopolies, to reserve her antagonism not mainly
for dissent, but for infidelity—to wage her warfare
not so much against errors of opinion as against
viciousness of life, and to accept the part which falls
to her in enlightening, elevating, evangelizing man-
kind.—(Loud applau-e.) I believe that such is the
spirit, and such the career, which will make the
Church of England strong and beloved, and perhaps
immortal—(Applause)—for her support will come
from a people whom she has shown no disposition to
distrust, but whom she has strained every nerve to
educate and improve.—(Renewed applause.) I have
now only further to remind you that all real liberality
and all real charity begins, though it does net end, at
home; and though you have borne patiently with
me while I have entered into this rather long digres-
sion into general matters, remember that we are met
here, and that it is our special business to forward
the utility rnd to increase the credit of the York
Yeoman School.—(Loud applause.)

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