The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-28 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON
EDUCATION.

On Wednesday afternoon a public meeting was held in
the National School, Sparrow Hill, Rochdale, "to advo
cate the views of the Manchester Diocesan noard of Edu-
cation." Mr.W. W. Schofield presided, and there was a large
attendance. The Bishop of Manchester stated the objects
and consitution of the Board. Although the Board of Educa-
tion, through circumstances which had been inevitable,
had come into being just at a moment when the Legis-
lature had passed a scheme of education, it must not be
thought that the scheme propounded by the board was
in any way in rivalry with the Government measure.
The promoters of the diocesan board wished to give the
Government measure a true and loyal support. But the
objects of the Diocesan Board was to try and maintain
in schools, so far as possible, what was called the reli-
gious elements of education. At the meeting held
last week, at Preston, at which the Earl of Derby
took the chair, his Lordship, whom they would know
looked at matters with a practical eye, and who never
over-stated figures, said that he considered that the claims
that the Board was making to popular support in this
diocese, was not one whit beyond what was really
needed. Therefore, when he told them that Lord
Derby bad justified the Board in coming before the
diocese, and asking Churchmen to help it to raise
some £20,000 or £30,000, from which they might give
support to poor districts, to make up the deficiency of ac-
commodation tor 40,000 children, he thought that the
judgment of his' lordship would carry sufficient weight,
that they were not over-shooting the mark or ever-esti-
mating the case in asking for a subscription to that
amount. That sum they had to raise immediately,
within the next six weeks ; and, as a means of doing so,
he had been asked that day, at a meeting of the Board, to
issue a letter, as Bishop of the diocese, to the clergy,
asking them from their pulpits to bring this matter before
their congregations—not in all cases to ask for a collec-
tion, but at any rate to secure that all Church-
men in the diocese should understand what was
the work they had in hand, what it would cost,
and what would be the result if it was effectively done.
The rural deans had been asked by circular by himself to
call a meeting at an early date for the purpose of ascer-
taining what school destitution there was in their respec-
tive parishes, and for the purpose of distributing the
sympatny of persons within their diocese. His Lordship
concluded by moving the following resolution :
" That this meeting, having heard the objects and
constitution of the Manchester Diocesan Board of
Education, resolves to give to it its hearty support."
Mr. J. Nield seconded the resolution, which was supported
by the Rev. W. N. 'Molesworth, and carried unani-
mously.—Dr. Molesworth next moved : " That
much as a considerable expenditure annually will be re-
quired in order to give effective operation to the designs
of the Board, with a view to promote the greater efficiency
of Church schools in the diocese, this meeting pledges
itself to assist in raising the necessary income for this pur-
pose." This was seconded by the Hon. W. Egerton, sup-
ported by the Rev. Mr. Parker, and was carried.

LORD BUTE AND CATHOLIC EDUCATION.
The following is the Marquis of Bute's speech at Liver-
pool this week. He said the time was coming when every
Catholic child was to be more or less educated, and if they
were not educated in Catholic schools, they would be sent
to schools where the name of the faith was proscribed.
It might be said the Catholics ought to have provided
more schools long ago. Let that be ; the past was ir-
retrievable ; what they had to do was with the present,
and the present time meant practically two months, be-
cause if they did not get these schools started by Christmas
the whole expense of them would fall upon the
almost overstrained resources of Catholic charity. Al-
ready, however, Catholic charity in England had roused
herself to a final effort, and the answer had been the
Catholic Education Crisis Fund. The Catholics in Eng-
land had answered that they would educate the children
themselves, instead of having them sent to secular schools.
When he was in Liverpool what struck him very much
as a stranger was, not the miles of docks crowded with
shipping, not the wealth or magnificence of the town,
but being startled by being told that every second
man he met in the streets was a Catholic. He did not
know until then that there were twenty Catholic churches
in Liverpool with their successive congregations coming
in one after the other, and hardly able to let in all the
people who wanted to hear Mass. He did not
know, too, until then, of the schools and orphanages es-
tablished in Liverpool for the purpose of educating the
children. All that was very splendid, but there still
remained 8,000 Catholic children who had not the
means of being brought up as Catholics. What
would they do if they educated those children? They
would both preserve and propagate the faith. They would
preserve the faith for the children themselves. It seemed
to be agreed upon all hands that the children sent to these
secular schools would run the danger of losing the faith.
To many of those children the faith was their only pos-
session ; but whether the only possession or not, he sup-
posed they were all agreed it was the chief possession
which they or anyone else could possibly have. He would
not dilate upon what the loss of the faith was.
He should think it was a thing no one could
hardly do justice to, and that it almost trans-
cended the power of words. There was no greater
safeguard against the disasters which were devastating
other countries than the preservation of Catholic prin-
ciples among those children for whom he was asking
the means to teach religion. By teaching these chil-
dren the Catholic religion they would be propagating
the faith, for Catholic education was a most efficient
propaganda. It was in this way that those outside
saw the good works of Catholics, and were led to glorify
Him who was glorified in cloisters. It was from the
Catholic schools that went forth those zealous and practi-
cal Catholics who at this moment were carrying the faith
to the uttermost points of the earth. It was such men,
also, who introduced the faith into families and formed
the nucleus of new missions, which in time constituted
large Catholic populations, which made themselves felt,
until the time would come when it might be said of the
Church on the earth, as it was said of Israel in Canaan,
that its boughs had filled the land.—Considerable sums
were subscribed at this meeting.

In compliance with what is practically a unani-
mous request by the City Council, Mr. J. Grave has con-
sented to fill the office of Mayor of Manchester for a third.
year. His Worship has won golden opinions from every-
body during his occupancy of the civic chair.

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THE PRESBYTERIAN SUSTENTATION FUND.—An
address to the ministers and congregations of the Presby-
terian Church in Ireland has been published, giving some
interesting statistics regarding the success of the susten-
tation fund at present being raised in lieu of the Itegium
Donum. It appears that 304 congregations have paid in
two quarterly instalments, and 51 one quarterly instal-
ment, the whole amounting to £10,212. At present there
are not more than thirty congregations which have not
subscribed, or which are not making preparations to sub-
scribe to the fund.
INTEMPERANCE IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND.
Official returns recently issued shew that in Ireland in
the year 1869, 88,878 persons were charged before magis-
trates with being drunk or drunk and disorderly ; the
number is above seven per cent. more than m the
preceding year. The return shews also that
in England and Wales in 1868, in a popu-
lation of like number with that of Ireland the
number of persons charged with drunkenness
(being drunk or drunk and disorderly) was but
28,581, or not a third of the number charged in Ireland
in 1869 ,- but the comparison would have been less un-
favourable for Ireland if it could have been made with
the English return for 1869, for that return, now issued,
shews in 1869 an increase of such charges over 1868,
amounting to nearly 10 per cent. A comparison of the
number convicted on' charges of drunkenness in the two
countries is more unfavourable for Ireland than a compa-
rison of the numbers charged, as the ratio of convictions to
charges is greater in Ireland than in England. The numbers
are these :—ln England and Wales in the year 1869 (year
ending at Michaelmas) 122,310 persons were charged
with drunkenness-89,859 men and 32,451 women; and
93,638 were convicted-72,869 men and 20,769 women. In
Ireland, with little more than a fourth of the population.
of England and Wales, there were, in 1869, 88,878 per-
sons charged with drunkenness-72,408 men and 16,460
women, and 78,693 were convicted-64,086 men and 13,707
women.
WORDSWORTH'S OONVERSATION.—The tone that
breathed through his conversation was one, not of poetry,
but of strong, plain, practical common sense. His views of
life, of men, and of manners were, except when his political
and other prejudices intervened, sound, and just, and alto-
gether his conversation flowed in a pleasing and placid
current, though both his sentences and his words were too
long and too high-flown to suit the subject he was discus-
sing. It is curious to observe that, both in his prose
writings and in his conversation, his style was essentially
the opposite of that which he adopted in his poems,
evidently proving that the latter style was the result
rather of theory than of his natural turn of mind. His
mode of talking sometimes resembled a moral declamation;
it was happily described by a remark which one of his little
grandsons, a clever child, once made. " Grandpapa," he
exclaimed, looking up in amazement, "is reading without
a book !" There was apparently very little humour or
sense of humour in the composition of his mind. There
is, I think, only one of his poems—" The Waggoner "
which breathes anythinc, of the spirit of fun, and his con-
versation was equally devoid of it. When, as sometimes
happened, it had the effect of producing humour in others,
this was owing to the absence of that feeling in himself, as
for example, when he used the most high-flown language
in speaking of the most common-place, ordinary affairs of
life. Only once did I hear him manifest appreciation of
humour, and that was when an amusing poem was read
out to him from a newspaper, which hecertainly seemed to
relish. There is one facetious story only which I recol-
lect his telling, but as that story is too good to be lost, I
will repeat it. When he was at school at Hawkshead, he
was even then distinguished above his fellows in verse
writing. One day a boy, much older than himself, asked
him to take a walk with him, which seemed an act of
great condescension, but it soon appeared that the boy had
au object in view, for lie presently addressed to him, in
his north country dialect, the following question : " How
is it, Bill, thee doest write with such good verses? Doest
thee invoke Muses?—Bev. E, Whatcy, in 1.44ur0410ur,

Am. CREASY WHELLAMS AND THE SICK
AND WOUNDED.

At the Guildhall Police-court, Mr. Creasy Whellams
and David Holland appeared on bail and remand under
the following circumstances :—A few days since Mr.
Whellams and Holland appeared to answer a charge of
assaulting Mr. John Crutch, one of the managers of
Messrs. Stubbs' Trade Protection Society. Mr. Crutch
had had his attention directed to the issue of a number of
boxes in aid of the national fund for the relief of the sick and
wounded, and their firm had been pestered with sub-
scribers asking who was Mr. Whellams. On the boxes
it was stated that the money received was paid into
Coutts's Bank. In consequence of an inquiry at that
Bank, Mr. Crutch stated he went to the defendant's
office in Gracechurch-street, on the panel of the door of
which had been previously painted "O. Whellams and
Co., shipping and emigration agents ;" but the latter part had
been painted out, and the red cross signifying the Geneva
Convention for the Sick and Wounded appeared in its
stead. He subsequently again called on the defendant,
and asked him if he had not been living at Rosemary
Cottage, Formby, near Liverpool, and he said "yes," ira.
mediately adding, " Cannot a man be unfortunate and yet
be philanthrophic ?" There was a carpet bag on the table
full of pennies, and Mr. Whellams was counting them
into piles. Witness asked him what guarantee the public
had that the money would be applied to the fund, and he
replied that he himself was guarantee, and was surety
for himself and his clerks. After some further inquiries,
Whellams called witness an " impudent busybody,
eventually requesting Holland to kick him down stairs.
Holland did so, and hence the summons. Mr. Stocken,
wlio appeared for the defendant, said his client was a
gentleman of highly respectable character, and held a
commission in the 12th Lancashire Rifles ; he asked for a
remand to rebut the charges that had been made. This
was granted, and the case was now resumed.
Mr. Thorne Cole, who had taken the conduct of the
defendant's case in the place of Mr. Stocken, complained
of the manner in which the evidence had been imported
on the previous occasion, not at all affecting the charge of
assault, and he protested against this course being con-
tinued. Mr. Lewis drew the attention of the learned
counsel to the fact that when the charge of conspiracy and
fraud was made against Whellams,his solicitor applied for
a remand to enable him to rebut the charge. Mr. Cole
submitted that, no summons having been issued, there
was only the charge of assault before the
Court. Sir Robert Carden said there could
be no objection to the charge of assault
being proceeded with first and the other charge after-
wards. Additional evidence was produced corroborating
that previously given as to the nature of the alleged out-
rage. Mr. Cole, in reference to the aspersions that had
been made on his client, and in proof of his philanthropic
object, said in the first place it was his intention to have
applied the box system for the purpose of assisting emigra-
tion, and he wrote to the Commissioners on the subject.
They, however, thought the time was gone by, and the
matter was dropped. It then struck him to apply the
system iu aid of the sick and wounded, and he
addressed letters to the Times, Telegraph, the Lord
Mayor, and others, and had received. letters expressing
approbationi of his object. The learned counsel then de-
nounced the Stubbs' firm as a set of " sneaks," and stated
that Mr. Whellams, so far from making anything out of
the transaction, by the provision of boxes and other
expenses was actually £7B out of pocket. Sir Robert
Carden here observed that one gentleman stated on the
previous occasion that the boxes were not paid for.
(Applause and laughter.) Mr. Cole observed that there
were other expenses besides boxes, and his client was
prepared to shew that he was that amount out of pocket.
—Sir Robert Carden : All I can say is that if you believe
that, no other person in the country does. (Loud
applause.) The feeling expressed against Whellams
during the speech of his counsel was of the strongest
character.
Sir Robert Carden said the case of assault proved was a
very trivial one, but that which had arisen out of it was
one of the gravest public importance. He should dismiss
the summons against the defendant, and hear any
evidence that might be offered with regard to the other
case.

Mr. Lewis, in answer to a question as to what form of
charge he would prefer, said that of obtaining
money under false pretences. He was prepared to prove
that in 1863 the defendant carried on business as a boot-
maker in Finsbury, and became bankrupt, paying nothing
in the pound. He then went to Liverpool and adopted
the title of commission agent. He then again became
bankrupt, and paid nothing in the pound, and was still
an uncertificated bankrupt. In the beginning of August
last they found him taking an office at 8, .Gracechurch-
street, and calling himself an emigration agent, in which
capacity he applied to a carpet manufacturer for carpets
to ship with himself to America under his
scheme for. emigration. The carpet manufacturer
never, it was alleged, got paid for his carpets,
and several parties put executions into defendant's office
for those goods. The next thing they heard of him was
that he was collecting money in behalf of the National
Society in Aid of the Sick and Wounded, which had
resulted in the present charge.
Evidence was now adduced in support of the statement
of Mr. Lewis as to prisoner's acts of bankruptcy. The
Rev. Mr. Stevens, curate of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate-
street, proved paying the prisoner 55., thinking he was the
authorised agent of the National Society. Prisoner pro-
mised to acknowledge it in the Times, but had never done
done so. One of the cashiers from Messrs. Coutts'
Bank proved receiving £lB 15s. from the prisoner
in August, and that he had paid in none since.
Sir R. Carden said, in reply to an application for a
remand, that the evidence against the prisoner had been
materially increased since the last occasion, and he must
require an increase of bail—two sureties of AO each.
At this stage of the proceedings, an officer of the
Middlesex Volunteers, attended by order of his
commanding officer, to prefer a charge against
the defendant of having joined the company
while carrying on business as boot and shoemaker
in Finsbury, and after one drill going off without return-
ing hie rifle. He should be prepared to establish the charge
when the prisoner was next brought up.
Bail was not forthcoming at the rising of the court.

TTIFI FORTHCOMING ECCLESIASTIC AL
PROSECUTIONS.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has sufficiently recovered
from his late severe illness to enable him to undertake to
be present at the sitting of the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council on the 10th of November, in reference to
the appeal of the Rev. Charles Voysey, vicar of Healaugh,
who was condemned by the Chancellor of York on account
of heresy contained in a volume of sermons entitled " The
Sling and the Stone." In an ecclesiastical case a spiritual
member of the Judicial Committee must sit, and as pro-
ceedings were taken in the dioceses of York and London
against Mr. Voysey, the prelates of those dioceses were
disqualified from acting, and the Archbishop of Canter-
bury was the only other privy councillor who could sit.
This accounts for the long delay which has taken place.
In the case of "Sheppard v. the Rev. W. Bennett," ' vicar
of Frome Selwood ; "Hibbert v. Purchas," incumbent of
St. James's, Brighton ; " Martin v. Mackonochie," vicar
of St. Alban's, Holborn ; and " Martin v. Jackson,"
rector of Ledbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury will be
relieved from sitting by the other prelates.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. - Trinity has so far
broken through the routine of the past as to appoint a
Dissenting Senior Wrangler—Mr. W. S. Aldis—one of its
Mathematical Lecturers. Mr. W. S. Aldis is son of a
Dissenting minister at Plymouth.
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND TIIE BIBLE SO-
OIETT.—At a Bible Society meeting at Manchester, on
Tuesday night, the Rev. Donald Fraser who represented
the parent association, said that the Emperor Napoleon
" while he sat on the throne of France was certainly a
most cordial friend to all the agents of the society. In
the most remarkable way, and for whatever reason, he
facilitated their movements throughout France, protected
them from a number of small persecutions, and never shut
his ears against them."
THE INTERVIEW AT SEDAN.—Dr. Archibald Forbes
supplies some particulars respecting the famous interview
between the Emperor and Count Bismarck. 'We could
just hear the murmer of Bismarck's voice when he raised
it at those points where he thought it necessary to give
emphasis by the gesture of bringing the forefinger of the
left hand sharp down on the palm of the right. The con-
versation was in German. The occupant on the first floor
of the right-hand cottage was all the while overlooking the
pair out of his front window. When the party broke up I asked
him if he could remember anything he had heard. "No,"
said he, " I did not understand German. When the
monsieur in the white cap first spoke to the Emperor,
he addressed him In French, whereupon the Emperor,
interrupting him, said, 'Pardon, but I have heard your
Excellency has not the complete mastery of the French
language ; let us, if you please, use the language of Ger-
many l'" So it would appear that Napoleon could be
sarcastic, even when on his back. No doubt this was a
sly poke at Bismarck, founded on Benedetti's explanation
that the reason why the famous treaty was in his hand-
writing was because Bismarck had bidden him pen it,
since he (Bismarck) was not quite au fait with French.
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ATAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.-
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THIS EVENING, at 7, CHISELLING. Mr. David James.
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ROSES, by James Albery. To conclude with the successful
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