The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-26 00:00:00

THE EDUCATION CONTROVERSY.

In a recent speech at Newton Abbot, Lord Devon said,
by making duo provision for an education the basis of
which should be religious teaching in accordance with the
Church of England, they were accomplishing a great cause
for the future prosperity of any community where the
schools might be located. He was not sure, in what he
was about to observe, that he was speaking in accordance
with the views of all, but ho was bound to admit that free-
dom of teaching was that to which they looked—freedom
on the part of the teacher to teach whatever was deemed
necessary and right by the managers of the school, and
freedom on the part of the parents of any children who
might differ from such religious teaching to withdraw them
if need be. He thought that those who clamoured for
freedom on the one side should be prepared to give free-
dom on the other.

On Wednesday night Mr. Baker Greene, of the Inner
Temple (a candidate at the last election to represent
Leicester in Parliament), addressed an audience of some
3,000 persons in the Temperance Hall, Leicester,
on " National Education." Mr. Greene explained at
length the proposals of the National Education League
and the National Educational Union, observing that, in
his opinion, compulsory education would not answer in
England, unless the same system of control over citizens
prevailed as in Prussia. He did not object to the right of the
State to compel if absolutely necessary, but thought before
that was tried schools ought to be built and experiments put
in force to see if the working classes then failed to send
their children. A purely secular education ho did not
think would answer because, rightly or wrongly there wore
numbers of people in this country who would, if religious
education were debarred their children, consider liberty of
conscience was taken from them.

The English Churchman says that his Grace the
Archbishop of janterbury is suffering from an attack of
epilepsy.

The Liverpool papers say that Mr. G. Shaw
Dievre, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of
Trade, is now in Liverpool "gathering information and
opinions to guide the Ministry in framing the new Mercan-
tile Marine Bill."

A vt ry gross case of employing a cab for the pur-
pose of conveying a fever patient to the workhouse came
before the Liverpool magistrates on Wednesday. The
magistrates inflicted a comparatively small penalty, in con-
sideration of the defendant being a poor man.

A strike which was threatened by the South York-
slCre ironworkers has been averted. Tlo,'einployers have
agreed to grant an adv.inee of wages eq.ur.l in amount to that
obtained by men in the trade in Stafftirdshire and other dis-
tricts. Just now the trade is unusually active.

A meeting on the land question was held at the
num, Mausion-bouse on Wedneslay the Lord Mayor in the
chair. Mr. Pim, Sir John Gray, M.P., Sir Dominic
Corrigan, A r,l Mr. Dix Hutton ,spoke in favour of securing
to the 'tenant the right of occupancy as long as he pays
1.4
rent.
The death is announced of Herr Overbcck, the
well-known German historical painter, at the age of eighty.
Herr Overbeck had resided uninterruptedly at Rome since
1810. The death is also announced of Herr George, who dis-
charged the functions of Minister of Justice in the Cabinet
which was formed in Saxony after the revolutionary move-
ment of IAB.

The Marquis of Bute, although a Roman Catholic,
is not debarred from the exercise of ecclesiastical patronage
in Scotland, as h 3 would be in England. Several churches
to Ivhich ho li.ts the right of presentation have become
vacant since his lord.hip attained his majority, and in every
case ho has left it with the parishioners, greatly to their
delight, to choose their own minister.
A fresh illustration has been furnished of the
dangers to which the public are exposed through the negli-
gence of railway servants. On Tuesday night a number of
goods waggons broke looso from Woodley station, near
Stockport, and rushing down a steep incline ran into a cattle
train which was on its way from Liverpool to Yorkshire. No
one was killod, but one or two drovers were injured, and a
good deal of property was damaged.

Mr. W. 11. Gladstone has been speaking at Mold
on the Welsh Church question. Ile is "disposed to take a
hopeful view of the Church in Wales," but he admits "the
possible danger" of disestablishment. Something must be
done to make this "possible danger" impossible, and with
this view he urges more frequent opportunities of counsel
and co-operation between the clergy and the laity. If, said
the hon. gentleman, "they pulled together in this matter,
and availed themselves of the opportunities in their reach,
the Church of England might recover a considerable portion
of the ground she had lost in Wales."
At the Kingston Borough Petty Sessions on Wed-
nesday, a dealer in petroleum was fined £ll ss. and costs,
making a total of £l3 55., for keeping for sale a spirit which
ignited at a less temperature than 100 degrees, and also for
selling the same without the prescribed label. It was stated
by the inspector that there was sufficient oil stored in a
shod close to the Town Hall to have destroyed half the
Market-place. The defence was that the oil was purchased
with a certificate f :om a respectable firm. In another
case a vendor of petroleum was fined £5 and costs for
selling oil to stall keepers in the fair without labelling the
vessels.

The double-screw gun-vessel Rocket, 2, Com-
mander Wright, left Plymouth Sound on Wednes-
day for the West Coast of Africa.
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The iron store-ship Megan's, 6, Staff Commander
Jabez Loane, having been refitted, is now in
Plymouth Sound, waiting orders to proceed to
Ascension.

Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. M'Leod, commanding
the 42d (Royal Highland, the Black Watch) Regi-
ment at Aldershot, has been granted leave of ab-
hence from the 25th November, 1869, to the 14th
of January, 1870.
Sales of autographs tell in a quaint way the esti-
mation in which the great names both of the living and
of the dead are held. There was a sale on the sth and 6th
inst. in New York, when an official letter signed Geo. Wash-
ington, and
.dated from Headquarters, Fredericksburg,
1778, sold for $3 50 ; another from Morristown, 1780, $3; a
soldier's discharge, indorsed by Washington, 1783, $1 75;
and another, $3. The following were the prices received
for other valuable autographs : Adams, 1796, $2 12 ;
Jackson, $2 ; Jefferson, 1779, $1; Madison, 1793, $1 12;
Monroe, 1789, Tyler, 1808, Dallas, 1839, each 50 cents ;
Polk, $1; John B. Floyd, $l. 75 ; John P. Kennedy, 60
cents; John Jay, 1781, $1 25; John Marshall, $1 ; J.
K. Paulding, $5 75 ; Reverdy Johnson, 10 cents ; Roger
B. Taney, 10c. ; Bulwer, $2 75 ; Dickens, $2 ; Allan Cun-
ningham, $1 37 ; Leigh Hunt, $1 75 ; and Hawthorne,
Hook, Lever, Longfellow, James, Lockhardt, and Dugald
Stewart, from 50c. to 51 12. One of lrving's letters
brought $4, and another $3 75. Three of Landor's sold
for SG. Murray, the London publisher, brought $2 25,
and Maeready, the actor, and Mitferd, the writer, $3 25
each. A letter written and signed by Poe brought $5, a
Rosseau $2 50, a Southey $3, a Walter Scott $5, and a
John Wilkes $2.

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last amounted to 139,836 roubles, against 94,747 roubles
for October, 1868, showing an increase of 45,089 roubles.
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