The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-16 00:00:00

TBE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

with education, expresses a hope that that Inquiry
will be thorough and searching. "There must be no
mixing or lumping together of Schools, but each
class of schools must be distinctlyset out, whether
Church of England, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan,
British, Baptist, ragged, &c., and the scholars in them,
so that each religious denomination can test the
accuracy, of the figures, and detect either omissions
or duplicates. . . . The nere counting of
children who are in the streets betveen school hours
(as Mr. Melly's policemen did in tie twelve streets
in Liverpool), and then setting them down as unedu-
cated because not at school, is a falacy which ought
never again to enter into argument. Out of every
hundred children whose names are on school regis-
ters at least twenty-six:are absentees;but not chronic
absentees." Widows' schools must also be discovered
and visited, so that none shall be left out who are
receiving education.

What is called a blot on Mr. Forster's Endowed
Schools Bill is pointed out in the Star by the Head
Master of an Endowed School. There is no provi-
sion for the representation of the schoolmaster in the
new Educational Council. The council is to consist
of twelve members, six to be nominated by the Uni-
versities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, and
the remaining six by the Crown. The two
analogous bodies—the Medical Council and.
the Council of Legal, Education—which regu-
late the professions of medicine and law, and
which have doubtless suggested the idea of the
proposed Council of Education, are wholly composed
of professional men. "It is quite possible," writes
the correspondent, "that among the nominees of the
universities or of the Crown some persons profes-
sionally engaged in teaching may be included ; but
just as on a medical council medical men find a place,
not because they are members of this or that uni-
versity, but because they have attained to eminence
in their profession, so on an educational council, if
it is expected to secure the confidence of the great
body of the schoolmasters of the country, ought
teachers to be placed, avowedly and on principle, and
not by accident."

THE PREACHING REASON.
The London preaching season has set in. On Sun-
day the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops
of London, Lichfield, and Peterborough were among
the preachers. The last preached at Whitehall in
the afternoon, to an enormous congregation, among
whom was the Princess Mary. Bishop Magee chose
for his subject Prophecy, and described with his usual
clearness the difference between the two modes of
interpreting prophecy—that which expected certain
special events to happen at certain precise dates, and
that which saw in the history of the world a gradual,
though not the less sure, fulfilment of prophecy.
Bishop Selwyn preached at the well-known City
church, St. Lawrence, Jewry, in behalf of foreign
missions. Referring to the Holy Communion, ho
earnestly deprecated making it a ground of contro-
versy.
THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND MR. SEDOWICK.

The Bishop of Manchester has withdrawn his inhi-
bition against Mr. Sedgwick, of St. Alban's, Manchester,
and that gentleman accordingly officiated athis church
on Sunday. In his sermon he statedthat there had been
three charges made against him—the hearing of con-
fessions, the use of altar lights, and the use of altar
frontals and coloured stoles. The second was given
up directly the bishop desired it; the third would be
given up from henceforth. As for the first, that
would be continued in accordance with the directions
of the Prayer-book, as it always had been. The resi-
dents in the neighbourhood of the church lighted
a large bonfire on Saturday to express their
satisfaction at Mr. Sedgwick's restoration to his
cure.

returned to the Prussian capital, and that tne Austrian
Ambassador at Berlin has arrived at Vienna. It does
not appear that any real importance is to be attached to
these journeys, but they are undertaken at an unusual
period of the year, and it is not surprising that such very
general perambulation should give rise to comment. The
Times Florence correspondent telegraphs that Count
Brassier de St. Simon has been appointed Prtssiar
Minister in place of Count Usedom.