The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-17 00:00:00

PRINCESS LOUISE IN THE CITY.

Yesterday afternoon a bazaar for the benefit of the
building fund of the North-Eastern Hospital for Children
Hackney-road, was opened in the large room of the City
Terminus Hotel, Cannon - street. The Princess
Louise had accepted the invitation of the com-
mittee to open the bazaar, and her Royal High-
ness arrived shortly after twelve o'clock, accompanied by
Lady Churchill. She was received .by representatives of
the committee, and after visiting the stalls, took up a
position at the head of the room, where Mr. Charles Reed,
M.P., read an address, in which, while welcoming the
Princess, opportunity was taken for ably setting forth the
claims of the hospital upon the charity of the public. The
stalls, which were bountifully supplied, were presided
over by Baroness Meyer de Rothschild, Mrs. Alsop,
Mrs. A. Tylor, Miss Phillips, Mrs. Barclay,
Miss Paget, Mrs. Howard, and other ladies. Among
the contributors were their Royal Highnesses the Princess
of Prussia and Princess Christian. The ceremony of
reception over, Her Royal Highness made a second tour
of the stalls, and if the example of her liberal patronage
be followed by the large company which filled the rooms,
the addition to the funds of the institution will be a very
handsome one. A large crowd assembled outside
the hotel to witness the arrival and departure of the
Princess.

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON

EDUCATION.

The Bishop of Manchester preached on education in the
Cathedral on Sunday. He again expressed the opinion
that the religious difficulty was only formidable on
paper. Just when the State had awakened to a sense
of its responsibility in that matter, unhappily the ques-
tion got immediately plunged into a sea of polemical strife
All that most unnecessary " religious difficulty" that had
been raised, and, so to speak, scattered abroad all over the
land, was, undoubtedly, theoretically a formidable one ;
and he had never yet met with a clever thinker who had
been able to solve it upon paper. He had read statement
after statement, theory after theory, and bill after bill ;
and upon the face of all these there stood the so-called
" religious difficulty." Yet, practically, as they went
throughout the world and tried to find the spot where it
fully existed, it was, after all, so microscopically small
that it vanished into such thin attenuity, that he
defied any man to place his fingers upon it in
the formidable dimensions that were mostly given to
it. It was, in fact, so microscopic that statesmen, in
framing a national measure, had ventured almost to ig-
nore it and to pass it by. There were three days of solv-
ing the religious difficulty. First, they could carry on
the schools as at present, introducing, however, a con-
science clause ; second, bringing in such a wide and
comprehensive range of moral or religious teaching
as could be accepted by all classes ; or, thirdly,
eliminating the religious element altogether from
the national schools. He had had opportunities of con-
versing with the working-classes as well as with
manufacturers and other employers of labour, who had
had frequent means of becoming acquainted with their
wishes, andthe result of the inquiry was that the working
classes were not generally found in favour of putting re-
ligious teaching out of the schools. It was not a question
as had been stated in one of the local newspapers, as to
whether reading, writing, and arithmetic could be usefully
taught without religion : for no one could be so simple as
to deny it ; but the point was really whether those three
subjects alone constituted education.