The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-21 00:00:00

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT

On Saturday night at the Greenock terminus of the
Greenock and Ayrshire Railway, Henry M'Culloch,
engine driver of a passenger train, stepped on the engine
buffers, for the purpose of uncoupling the carriages. He
lost his balance and fell on the rails, and the train which
was in motion passed over him, completely severing both
legs below the knee. He died in the hospital on Sunday
morning. Deceased was a native of Kilmarnock. He
leaves a widow and a child.

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER UPON
EDUCATION.

The Bishop of Manchester moved one of the resolutions
at the annual meeting of the Education Aid Society held
in his diocesan city yesterday. In the course of his speech
he criticised at some length the Government Education
Bill. It was, he said, one of the points that made him ap-
prehensive regarding the Government measure, that it
attempted to deal with the whole country, and with the
entire population, rural as well as urban, of which
circ =stances were as different as could well be conceived,
upon the same principle and upon one procrustean plan.
It was feared by some that the bill would extinguish
their organization, and others of its class. That was not
his opinion. The Education Aid Society, he thought,
had a great future before it, if it would only
do as it had done—if it would go forth and say,.
" Wherever I find a labouring school in the
midst of a destitute population, no matter to what
denomination it may belong, I will give that school a
share of my funds." The question of compulsion forced
itself upon them. If any system of compulsion, direct or
indirect, could be secured, which should be not merely
nominal, but real and effective, no one would rejoice at the
results of such a system more than he ; but
compulsion, it must be remembered, represented
a power that was most hateful to all English-
men : they would not stand the domiciliary visit.
of the policeman ; and it would be necessary to plant in
th e minds of parents that they must submit to the law
when it came to them in that form. A compulsory
prohibitory law, which was not effective, and
was constantly trampled under foot, was about
the most destructive thing to the social struc-
ture which could be put upon the statute book.
Unless comp ulsion became effective we should do better
without it. The Bishop was followed by Mr. Francis
Taylor, one of the sub-committee, which drew up the
Manchester Education Bill. Mr. Taylor replied to some
of his lordship's remarks. He (Mr. Taylor) was
not at all alarmed at the hobgoblin which
the Bishop had raised in the form of domiciliary visits.
The plan proposed had nothing whatever in the shape of
domiciliary visits. What he did fear was the proposal to
make compulsion permissive; that was to make an act a
crime in Manchester while it was not so in Salford. The
bill had been, in his opinion, so much improved by the
new amendments that he had now great hopes of its
success.

The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University notified yes-
terday that the Kennicott Hebrew Scholarship has been
awarded to Mr. J. R. Driver, Fellow of New College.
The Pusey and E. Merton Scholarship has been won by
H. J. Matthews, 8.A., Exeter College.
The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the two men,
Bradley and Parsons, who were killed by an explosion
of gas at a colliery at Ragland, near Chesterfield, was
concluded yesterday. The evidence went to shew that the
men bad no business where they were, and that whilst
they were at work they were frequently told to come
away. Bradley had a safety lamp, but Parsons only a
naked light, and from this latter light the gas took fire
and exploded. A verdict of " Accidental death" was
returned.