The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-18 00:00:00

CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES
of tht CHEST, Victoria Park.
Special APPEAL for the NEW WING.
Amount still required, £4,000.
Number of beds now occupied, 120.
Number of beds available with proposed addition, 164.
The Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support.
Bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street.
HENRY SEWELL, lion. Sec.
Offices, 24, Finsbury-circus. RICHARD P. SLATER, Sec.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (hate Dreadnoisughtow).—
Notice is hereby given, that HOSPITAL n RE-
MOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green-
wich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will
be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in-
moved
troducti
from the on or recomity to inend
theasame builtion. The Society's offices are re-
Cding.
KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary.

WEST LONDON HOSPITAL, Hammersmith,
W,—FUNDS are urgently needed, and the Committee
earnestly appeal to the benevolent to assist them in carrying on
their useful work. T. ALEXANDER, Sec. and Sup.

JUNE 18, 1870.

SKETCHES' IN PARLIAMENT,

FRIDAY.

In the stifling heat of the hottest day of the year, some
five or six hundred of our legislators assembled yesterday
afternoon to solve the great problem of educating the
people. Every bench downstairs was full, and something
more. On the Treasury bench Mr. Glyn was sitting on
the knees of two Cabinet Ministers. Members sat on
the gangway steps. They stood about the door
sweltering. They lined the gallery opposite the
Treasury bench, and being all armed with
notice papers, white waistcoats, and white hats
they presented a very patchy and magpie appearance.
In the Strangers', Speaker's, and Peers' Galleries there
was a very large attendance of visitors ; there were not
many peers, however, for they were occupied with the
Land Bill in their own house. Their places were filled
by clergy and Nonconformist ministers. After Mr.
Gladstone had made a statement about the order of pub-
lic business, and sundry questions had been asked and
answered, a number of members rose in succession
to announce petitions referring to the Education
Bill. It was at ten minutes past five that
the cheers of the House told us that somebody important
had arisen. We had expected it would be Mr. Vernon
Harcourt, but the applause came from above the gang-
way. It was Mr. Gladstone who had risen, and it was
soon clear that we were in for a regular oration. His first
explanations elicited approval from the Conservative side.
Satisfaction was particularly marked when the Premier
said that Ministers could not undertake to for-
bid denominational teaching, because in order to
enforce the prohibition it would be necessary to
define this teaching, in fact to draw up a parliamentary
code of religion. He then went on at great, and, indeed,
excessive length, but not with his usual clearness, to
explain the alterations which he proposed to make in the
bill. When he announced that he would no longer make
the school boards decide upon the religious teaching, there
were cheers from the Liberal side, and even the Radicals
applauded when he admitted that the possible discord
which would arise at the boards, if they had to determine
this matter was an objection, too strong for him to resist.
The cheers were general when he asserted that all
parties agreed in admitting that education in England
should be religious. He next dwelt upon the
general concurrence of opinion that the bill
should be passed this year, and the shortness of the time
which there was for doing this. He urged upon members
that they should concede their preferences as far as pos-
sible, and for the express benefit of the Radicals, made a
very effective quotation from one of Cobden's speeches, in
which that statesman declared his willingness to make
almost any sacrifice on the religious question, if only an
education bill could be passed at once. The peroration
spoke of the widespread wish that religion should not be
separated from education, and at 6.20 the Premier sat
down.

Mr. Harcourt rose, but so also did Mr. Disraeli, and of

course the latter got the parole. He began by referring
to the Premier's request that there should be no unneces-
sary expenditure of time, and said that certainly
Mr. Gladstone had no reason to complain of
the conduct of the Opposition on that ground.
The Premier nodded assent. Mr. Disraeli was then very
witty upon the entire change of front which, he said, had
been effected by the Government. They were, he affirmed,
going to solve the religious difficulty by adopting an
amendment (Mr. Cowper-Temple's) which could not be
put. He really did not understand that amendment.
Thereupon Mr. Collins, amid much cheering,

came forward, and gave his chief a copy of
it. Then, in a passage worthy of the assistant-barrister's
paragraph in his speech on the Land Bill, Mr. Disraeli
went on to shew that the new educators of the country
were to be, not the clergy, but the schoolmasters, a new
and sacerdotal class, he added, amid vociferous Con-
servative cheering. Equally vociferous was the
laughter with which he spoke of the financial
proposals as so intricate that he thought he was
listening to a Budget speech, and he declared that not one
man out of the Cabinet, and probably not many in
it, understood these arrangements. It had taken
the First Minister an hour and a half (seventy minutes
was the real time), to explain all his amendments,
and he had not wasted a word. (Great laughter
at this fib.) " A man with more confidence
than I possess," added Mr. Disraeli, amid shouts of merri-
ment, " might possibly make out what is meant ; but
certainly I cannot." Mr. Disraeli knew only that this was
a new bill, and he called upon the House to move the ad-
journment of the debate.

Twenty-five minutes sufficed for Mr. Disraeli to
make his speech, and then Mr. Harcourt got up and ex-
pressed considerable dissatisfaction with the amendments,
especially with Mr. Cowper-Temple's. That forbade the
teaching of formulas, but it could not prevent the teaching
of the doctrines contained in the formulas. The Athanasi an
Creed might be forbidden, but supposing it were possible
to translate the document into intelligible lan-
guage, its dogmas might be inculcated. He
believed that it was quite possible to have
unsectarian religious teaching, and unless that were
obtained the country would very soon insist upon secular
teaching pure and simple. Certainly the bill as amended
was a new measure, and he must therefore join with
Mr. Disraeli in urging the adjournment of the debate. Mr
Dixon followed, evidently much irritated. He, too, urged
adjournment because he and his friends were not sufficiently
masters of their temper just then to discuss the Govern-
ment proposals. He was especially vehement against the
extension of denominational education. Lord Sandon
also thought the amended bill almost a new measure, but
intimated that he rather liked it than otherwise. Mr.
Cowper• Temple, who has the honour of having his
amendment accepted out of nearly 250, was of course
well pleased with the alterations, and made a speech
which, lam bound to say, no one listened to. While it
was going on negotiations were being carried forward
between the Government and the Radicals, and Mr.
Winterbotham kept passing to and fro, and at one time
sat on the Treasury bench, next to Mr. Forster and Mr.
Gladstone. Mr. Hardy and Mr. Beresford Hope rose
together, and at the cry for the first the second
gave way. Mr. Hardy also urged adjournment,
but spoke of the alterations in a very different
tone from that which had been adopted by Mr. Disraeli.
111 r. Forster then answered the appeal by assenting to it,
and the only discussions were as to whether the bill should
be printed, or whether the amendments should be laid
upon the table, and also as to whether the House
should not go into committee pro forma and ad-
journ. Mr. Liddell then spoke in favour of
the Ministerial proposal. Mr. Russell Gurney made
the House laugh by saying that, as the reprinting of the
bill would remove from the notice paper all the amend
ments of which members had given notice, that was a
strong reason why the bill should be reprinted. Sir John
Pakiagton expressed regret that it should be necessary to
postpone the committee until Monday. Eventually
Mr. Vernon Harcourt withdrew his motion
for the adjournment. Lord Charles Russell
walked up the floor of the House and removed the mace,
the Speaker left the chair, Mr. Dodson said a few
mystic words, Lord Charles restored the mace, the
Speaker reascended his throne, and members walked out
to dinner, while Sir Robert Collier, at 7.35, arose to
enlarge upon the merits of his Extradition Bill, just as
the thunder clouds began to peal forth their artillery.

The deaths of M. Adolphe Barrot and M. Corta
the Senator, are announced from Paris.

Mr. Baron Bramwell's decision about the costs in
the Bristol election petition is that each party shall pay
their own.

The Progres, of Rouen, says that M. Gustave
Flourens, who arrived recently at Athens, has been ex-
pelled from the Greek territory on the demand of the
French Ambassador.

A girl, aged fourteen, has been arrested at Clogher
(Ireland) on suspicion of having murdered her illegiti-
mate child. She has confessed that she burned its body,
but asserts that the child died a natural death.

The yacht race for the cup offered by his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, to be sailed for by English
and American yachts, has been postponed from the 24th
inst. until August next.

A. well-known and lively lady novelist of rank is
said to be about to publish a fresh book with the
amusing and decidedly novel title " Naughty, Naughty,
but So Nice "