The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-31 00:00:00

OBITUABY.

The obituary of Saturday contains tfie name of one
around whom the storm of controversy has raged
most furiously. Sir Charles Darling, the late
Governor of Victoria, died on Tuesday night, in the
61st year of his age. It was about him that the
great contest between the Home Government and the
Legislative House of Victoria, and finally between the
Upper and the Lower Houses of the colony, took
place. Sir Charles was very popular in the colony,
and on his retirement a vote of 1;20,000 was passed
to him. The Government at home, deeminr, that a
Governor should be independent entirely of those
over whom he ruled, forbade him to take the money.
The Lower House of the Colonial Legislature then pro-
posed to t,),-ive the money to Lady Darling; but the Upper
House refused any such arrangement. Then com-
menced an ever memorable contest. The Assembly
tried every means to pass the grant. It was tacked
to the Money Bill in order that the Council
might pass it; but it was continually rejected in the
higher Chamber. Matters at last became really
serious—so sharp was the conflict between the two
bodies, and so determined was each. The controversy
was fully settled, however, by Sir Charles
Darling finally refusing the money. The
deceased was at one time in the army ; he entered it
in 1820, and retired from it in 1841. While still in
it, however, he held several diplomatic posts. Ho
gradually rose in the now line he had chosen, until
he became Lieutenant-Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope. From thence he went to take the government
of Newfoundland ; and shortly afterwards was
appointed Governor of Jamaica. He received the
order K.C.B. in 1862, and was next year appointed
Governor of Victoria. He was recalled in 1866.

MR. MORLI'Y, M.P., ON EDUCATION.

There has been no lack of opinion expressed
throughout the country on the education
question, and those to whom the nation looks as
authorities on the subject have differed only in their
ideas of the means to be employed for the attainment
of the great end—the education of every child in the
land. Mr. S. Morley, M.P., in a speech made at a
meeting of the Nottingham Ragged Schools, said that
he was not inclined to seek to produce any great changes
in the system which had brought education up
toits present point, lie did not wish to see the
question handed over merely to Act of Parliament.
His desire was to strengthen the conviction that
education was a parental duty, and with the
parents among the poor, as much as with
those among the better-to-do, lay the re-
sponsibility. The Legislature should prepare faci-
lities and present every opportunity to children, but
with regard to legislation, the less Government had
to do with the people in this respect the better.

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