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London, England, 1856-04-12 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APR :L.4,

FfOM the London Gazette, of Last Night.

WAR DI7`,PARTAIENT, APRIL 10.
Lord PAnmure has this day received a Despatch and its
Enclosure, of which the following are copies, addressed to
his Lordship by Gen. Sir William Codrington, K.C.B. :
Sebastopol, March 25, 1856.
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havo the honour to transmit herewith, for
your Llraship's information, the 'weekly report of the
health of the Army.—l have, ke.,

W. 3, CODRINGTON, General Caninanding:
The Lord Panmure, &c. &c. -

• ' Enclosure.' , •
Tread-quarters, Camp, Crimea, March 24:
Sir,--I hive the honour to enclose Vier weekly return of
sick to the 22(1 instant, and it is gratifying to state that,
notwithstanding the recent arrival ,or several drafts of re-
cruits, and the cold winds which hive prevailed from the
N. an I N.E. (luring the whole or the past week, the in-
crease of admissions into hospital hay
,only been a small-
fra.etion higher than it was last week, and .the mortality
;has fallennear:y one-third. . r t
k Even' in
.the Land Transport :Corps the health of the
'men has bean more satisfactory; end although there has
'been no decrease in the number of.aclinissions during the
week, the mortality has fallen more than one-half.
Taking the. whole force in the Crimes,- including Land
Transport Calp4, Army Works Cur"
en& Medical Staff
Corps, the admissions to strength have only boonin• the
ratio of 2.41 p4i cent. ; deaths to streqtb, o'2 per cent. ;
and sick to well, 4,11 per cent. - Lastipek they were re-
spectively, 2'1.5; o'ol, 4'29.

Of the 16 deaths which occurred in ,thee whole force
serving. in the CtinNa. seven took.place in the Land. Tran-
sport alone ; and out of the 16. three, I am (Ohl to ole:
serve, were from the direct effects pf drtkekeilness.; And in:
how many other eases that vi pis may Tate boon the
exciting-eause,of_tiiaease,-- it is ihripossible to-say. Bat.
with all those defects and drawbacks, the health of the
airily, according to the ratios given above, may be fairly
said to be in a very satisfactory state.
The troops stationed at Kertch are equally healthy, and
no casualty had- occurred there during the week ending
14th March, Which is the latest date up to which I hare
received returns from the senior medic:Al officer there.

The cavalry. division in the Thsphortis is al4O very
healthy, and only , two deaths had cccurred in it during
the week ending nth Starch.
- Taking the sick of the whole British force in Turkey,
both in general and regimental. hopitals, the ratio of
death to strength has only been o'o3 per cent., and the
ratio of sick to well 6.09 per cent.--I have, kc.,
J. HALL,
Inspector-General of Hospitals.
General Sir William J. Codrington, K.C.B ,
Couitnanding-in-Chief.

Nrratiim in London Ga7ette of the sth October, 1855.]
301-1 Regiment of Foot-7ForLientanant Saunders, read
Lieutenant Sanders.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the oth day of
April, 1816—present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty
in council—her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the
right hon. Francis, Earl of Ellesmere, to be Lord Lieutenant
and Castos Rotuloruta of the county palatine of Lancas-
ter, his lordship this day took the oaths appointed to be
taken thereupon instead of the oaths of allegiance and su-
premacy.

.To be substituted for the Notice which appeared in the
Ocrette of April B.]
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAnca 10.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint George
Fagan, Eq., now Pail Attaché to lku. Majesty's Le4ation
at Naples, to be Saoretary_ to her Majesty's Legation to the
Argentine Confederation._ •
aALI-J, APRIL 9.
•

The Queen has beau pleasel to appoint George Skene
Daft; .Esq., to be Lieuten.nt and Sheriff Principal of the
shire of Elgin, in the roon of JA,11,34 D eff, Esq., resigned.

WHITEHALL, APRIL 11.
The Queen has been pleased -to present the Reverend
David Laudall to the church of the united parishes of
Auchtergaven and-Logiebride, in the presbytery of Dun-
kohl and shire of Forfar, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Edward Place Dewar, late Minister thereof.
CROWY-OFFICE, APRIL 10.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN TRIS PRESENT
' PARLIAMENT.

BOROUGH OF CHIPPENH,III.---Robert Parry Nisbet, of
Southbroomo House, in the county of Wilts, Esq., in the
room of Joseph Neeld, E 3 q., deceased.
BOROUGH OF ENNls.—John David Fitz Gerald, of Mer-
non-square in tba city of Dublin, Eiq., her Majesty's At-
torney-General for Irelard,
COMXIISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.

sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid
dlesex Militia—William Bell, Gant., late Lieutenant and
Adjutant 64th Regiment, to be Adjutant, from the 27th
February, 1856, vice Port, resigned. -

CONIMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.

County of Lincoln—The Lord Wordley to be Deputy
Lieutenunt.

Royal North Lincoln Militia—Richard :fames Carey
Elwes, Esq., to be Captain, vice Graburn, appointed to a
Cornetcy,2d Dragoons.

Royal Moummithibira Militia. —James Eyres Coward,
Gent , to be A. 33 istaut- -3 rg a
let or Westesru Regirneot of Militia.—Ensign Charles
Woodman Eiativool t.) be Lieutenant, vice Otlbitt, ap-
pointed to the sth Fusiliers.
fogiment of the Deka of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Henry Constantine Colgan, Esq., 3.1. D., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice B3any, resigned.
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal
Lancashire Militia—James Browne, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Campbell, promoted.
Gth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—John George
Dolier 31,nellin, Gent., to be Ensign.
Argyll and Bate Militia—Ensign George W. R. Camp-
bell to he Lieutenant, vice William Campbell, promoted.
Perthshire Militia—Oliver H, Machin, Gent., to be
Ensign.
_ .

Stirlingihire, Militia,, Highland Borderers Light
Infantry-- The reiignation of his Cxximission by Ensign
Thomas Baird, after 30th March, 1356, has been accepted.

Spirit Jourgals.

(Proles: t4e :;27,4-te4 of this day.).
• s Education, ,a,fter laskyipg.been Jon •teotehed and bun-
'gfed after the-fashion Of most new sebjecte, having fallen
.into theehantls of tiitterintolkeince tit one time and rash'
empuecisimeat another, is in a fair
.weyeat 14ist Of-being
better'understood, because men haVe undertaken to die-
cuee it wire can 'beat r under Stand an',l; who are also
better able to explain it. It se,nie.to haeo.heen assumed
hitherto that the method of edyeatingek nation must of
neceseitY-be uniforM, that what is true` of Austria and
Prussia. must be true of :Eeetsrd, antHhat Lemma the
State, Whicli is ever) thing-and does every-thing in those
countries, takes under its absolute coiitrel- the education
of the people, just as it does everything k Ise, therefore
the State in England. should also take -upon it‘elf the
entire management of schools, the entire direction of
.what is to be taught there, sho:uld compel the people to
contribute for their support, and f nen the whole educa-
tional body into one compact and well-organised hier-
archy, full of system, discipline, and subordination.
Such is. the plan of Lord Jcelan!Rtissell. and such is the
result of his five-and-thirty years' experience of the peo-
ple-and F"ariiament of this omintry.-
The first, and perhap? the, most :Conclusive objection
to this scheme, though the one least susceptible of ac-
curateand logical ettitemene, is that it is utterly ab-
horrent to the genius of the nation. It is our pride, and
probably a jlist pride, that we are not governed, but tied
we govern onrselvei—that the business of our central
authority consists much more in. aiding than in super-
Ledirig local effort,, and that it is the duty of our Govern-
inient rasher to co-operate with than to control es. What
weelo-for ourselves we generally do well ; what is done
for us by. our Government is as universally ill done.
These considerations point clearly to a conclusion of.
practical statesmanship.—that the man who would com-
pass any great end in this country must make the people
his coadjutors rather than his instruments, anti enable
them to work out his plans for thereselvee instead of
working out those plans for them. Lord John Russell,
though so many years a ruler in Israel, knows not these
things, and therefore Lsrd John Russell Las propounded
a scheme which has repelled all parties—Liberal, Tory,
and Conservative.

-We are invited to change the preient system of edu-
cation, and have a right to ask frOm our would-be guide-
' that he should show us something better. The theorist
may look down upon an educational /system such as OM
has grown into, but the man who knows his country-
`men is aware that it is doing all that Any Governinent
system can effect, that we have already reached the full
amount of interference that public opinion will bear, and
that "to go beyond this critical point is only to provoke a
recoil which may delay indefinitely further progress in
the path of national instruction. Such legislators as Lord
John Russell in their attempts to manage mankind are
apt to, overlook altogether the effccta.of the principle of
association. In their anxiety to work out a particular
formula they irverlook feelings which they oleht to re-
spect an i prejudices whieh they are bound to conciliate.
To them it is no-matter whether the education of the
peOple be accompanied .with those notions of re •traint
and compulsion, of State interference and dictation, so
odious to an English 'man, even when necessary, or whe-
ther he shall be led imperceptibly to regard it ELI the
work of his own hands, as the off,pring of his own mind,
as his pride,- his amusement, his occunatien. At first
people grumbled inueli at that State inspection, which a
moment's Consider itiop must have shown them to be
-absolutely neceesary to secure the proper application of
stew funds. They grumble still, hut nevertheless the
work alliances. No one no.w_ disputes the necessity of
education ; eery few seek to clog it with unreasonable
trammels. To promote- it is recogni ed by most peo•
ple as a duty, by the rest as a fashirn ; fur, short as
our teaching comes of our wishes, it is nevertheless
greater; we believe, than could be secured by any other
means than those now employed ; and it is by its pro-
bable state under a change of system, rather than by any
ideal standard, that our progress ought to be measured.
If we adopt a compulsory rate, we may be perfectly sure
that its first effect will be to destroy ail schools sup-
ported by private funds, though we are by no means so
sure that it would provide anything to rep'ace them.
We caa imagine no machinery so calculated to disgust
our people with education as that which first empowers
ratepayers to tax themselves, and, upon their refusal t..
do so, authorises a body with which they have little
sympathy and no connexion—the Court of Quarter
Sessions---to impose a tax instead, unless, indeed, it be
the plannf Sir John Pekington, which upon the refusal
of the ratepayers to tax themselves, requires them to
appoint a school committee to tax them, as if they would
be willing to do that by an agent which they refuse to
do as principals ; as if they would not take care to elect
a body whose views on taxation exactly coincided with
their own • as if powers of rating and election were not
mere insults when they are only meant as a means of
depriving the ratepayers and electors of that control over
their own concerns which those names Imply.
We have left out one consideretion--W-e religious part
of the question—though this presents difEcultieß of no
Ordinary magnitude. Whether the people of England
can ever bo brought to consent to a general education-
rate we do not know, but certain it is that they will
Dever be brought to such consent till they are prepared
to embrace a general system of secular education,—a
conclusion from which they at this moment appear very
far removed. It is to us perfectly inconceivable—we
will not say how Lord John Russell, but how any man
who witnesses the bitter oonflict about every farthing
that is paid out of the resources of the State for reli-
gious purposes, can suppose that he is forwarding the
interests of education by involving it in the same class
of difficulties which beset the question of Church rates,
of Ministers' Money, or of the Regium, Dexura. We are
so heavily rated already that the addition of any new
rata must be of itself unpopular. How much more un-
popular will it lee when it implies the violation of the vo-
luntary principle, and appropriates money taken under
an act of Parliament to rudimentary instruction in re-
ligion ! Strange, when we can now do almost all we
desire without ffence, we should find statesmen rash
enough to attempt it in the most offensive manner, and
for the sake of a slight and problematical improvement
to risk the whole of the vintage ground we have gained.
The result of last night's division will be a salutary
lesson to those who imagine that the people of this coun-
try are prepared to surrender their right of self-govern-
ment in educational matters into the hauls of a set of
schoolmasters and doctrinaires.