The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-14 00:00:00

THE BISHOPRIC OF EXETER.

The excitement occasioned by the proposed nominatia
of Dr. Temple to the Bishopric of Exeter continues
increase. The Chapter are supported in their opposition
by a large number of the clergy in the diocese
who are now signing a memorial against the appointment,
Several of the bishops have also expressed their approval
of the course which the Chapter propose to adopt. Both
High and Low Church are equally opposed to the
appointment, and for once Dr. Pusey and Lord Shaftesburi.
are able to act in concert. Exeter is notorious for eccleal"
astical energy, and in this case the Chapter will leave 11°
means untried to protect themselves from a bishop who would
not be acceptable to them.
The Guardian declares that a man of Dr. Temple's mark
and usefulness could not long be passed over by a Liberal
Government. "It is quite intelligible that very str°l
objections should be felt to his appointment; some 0:
them we feel strongly ourselves, though we also feeel
that there are compensations in his self-devotion, his
manly straightforwardness, his honesty and fairness of mind'
qualities which would be still mere recognised than tbeY
are if they were accompanied by a greater and more patleAs
appreciation of the views of others, their position, that
difficulties, and their objects."

THE NATIONAL EDUCATION LEAGUA

On the assembling of the Congress on Wednesday morn
ing, the Rev. ROWLAND WILLIAMS, D.D., Vicar of Brest'
chalk, Wilts, read a paper on " The Legislative Enforcelneult
of Compulsory Attendance, particularly in Rural Schools.
Although he should prefer the lively presence of the
religious element in any system of teaching, yet, if intei';
lectual differences, or social organisations, which had
arisen as their embodiments, should impede the
introduction into their schools of theological start'
dards, he still desired the schools to be preserved'
and those objects of school teaching on which they
could agree promoted, even at the price of settia
aside whatever became an entanglement. The life of the
agricultural labourer was hard. Supposing his weekli
nine shillings stretched by piecework and allowances t°
thirteen, it barely covered the first necessaries of life, an;
if the family were numerous hardly gave them bresn'
Other necessaries were to be got. The question ail°,
did these people live ? " was answered by the discovery that
they lived in part by the aid of their children's labnlir"
In view of these facts, the question they had to ask wae'
" Are we justified in asking the Legislature to interfere
not only between parent and child, but between the
children and their bread; or in desiring to remove into
a sphere of bookwork these poor children of the PI
who are at present more usefully employed ? " NC°II4A
there not be some cruelty in such removal—nay, even 50"
danger of so narrowing the possibilities of subsistence
as to bring the parental and self-preserving instincts int°
collision ? Ho proposed that the Legislature be asked °..it
fix an age—his own suggestion would be ten—within ichtt":.
field labour and stable labour should be restricted eh
forbidden. Let there be a second limit of age—say Well.
—within which the employment of boys should onll bat
permitted upon the production of satisfactory proof til.„3
schooling for three or four years had secured satisfact°'

results.
Alderman RE3fIsTEY, of Manchester, also read a paps
on " The remedy for the national ignorance." Some I°°l
for this remedy to the Factory Acts. The speaker erg°
that the Factory Acts had failed in the matter of educe;
tion. He pleaded in favour of compulsion as the °°".
solution of the question. The Conscience Clause was
degradation to those who accepted it.
Mr. E. POTTER, M.P., Carlisle, supported the views ea,
pressed by Alderman Rumney.
The Rev. C. CLARKE, Birmingham, censured the Brit
school managers for departing from their trust, in intrei:
ducing a sectarian teaching into their schools founded °

the Westminster Confession.
Mr. JESSE COLLINGS said that the reading of the Vibif
in schools, but in all cases without theological CO
would be left, under the plan of the League, to local bog'
of management.
Mr. A. J. MLNDELLA, M.P., Sheffield, gave an exPsitil
of what compulsory education had done on the Contill!nl.‘
As an employer of labour on the Continent he could 51%
experimentally on the point. In Switzerland, Ijei
and Prussia the results are so marvellous, that he belies,
his audience would be incredulous. In quality of cdu°r
cation the children in Saxony were immensely hetto
taught and better learned. He never found one of twelci
years of age who could not read and write well. The ecil°°.ll
inspectors had told him he would seek in vain for a
of twelve who could not read or write. There was
espionage and no policeman in the case, Every child
registered, just as every voter was in England, and c''-13
child at six years must go to school, and compulsio°

not end till fourteen.
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Lcrd CAMFBEIL and STRATHEDEN strongly sitlVrao
comp-OF:cry education. Neglected children bccara°
orphans of the State. 'Until they introduced the c°l
pulsory system, they had no guarantee that any s'-'l'°°

which they erected would be filled.
Mr. GEORGE HOWELL, who filled the office of seeret,;lo
of the late Reform League, strongly supported unseetsl„
and compulsory education. Even the introduction of "1-0
Bible as a text-book would be a matter of censidersb,
difficulty. In Ireland it would be a serious 0101%
(Hear, hear.) From the largest knowledge of the else
of working men, ho testified that the working classes ice,
as a body, in favour of compulsory and unsectarian edgy;
tion. Ministers of religion and farmers wore its °II
opponents. OCT
Dr. HODGSON (London), Mr. PAGET (NOttingllari')'
others engaged in the discussion, and the race

adjourned.
In the afternoon, Mr. ALFRED FIELD, ex-chairman of
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, opened the discall:o-
by reading a paper on Unsectarian Education. 11° qC
jat
sated the American system.—The Rev. F. Paunag Zi u°
vicar of Wharstead, and chaplain in ordinary to tb°
read a paper on the same subject. Our present clea°.-ii '
lt
tional, and, as it was called, voluntary system-----th°llghaa
would be nearer the truth to call it eleemosYnerli else'
failed simply because it was denominational eau
mosynary. It was a system that did not aim at edaedgoiss
the nation, and would not succeed if it did aire at
it. It had been tried and found wanting, and he wasas °
Ole
persuaded that nothing could do the work except
of
system, and that nothing else would befit the diga'" 000
free
and proud people. A public system, of course' ca be
only be supported by public funds, and therefore raa the
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unsectarian ; for everyone who contributed either t
oula
local rates or the general taxation of the count*" °id Dot
have grounds for insisting that his contributions 0110.1-11011
be used for the purpose of teaching what he conseielw-atri-
objected to.—The Hon. AUBERON HERBERT also e°"o6
bitted to the discussion. He denied that moraiiil 7(as,n desl
special province of the clergy. The State bad t 0 the
with the relations of man to man—the Church Iv' is 03
relations of man to God. The hon. gentleman dlt: rise
length on the religious and moral tendency of unaec-oile
teaching. If all existing denominative schools Were ocl
enough to accept a satisfactory conscience eat's° life
Government inspection, probably there was a 1001 pg,
before them, as long as their own vitality 5h0u1d...," 10
Mr, G. J. HOLYOAKE defined secular instruction 'a the
which tended to the efficiency of the workman aAn,
duties of the citizen. Secular instruction et°°'sabcli'
from theological instruction, without assailing it. ola
vision of labour was the true system in education,
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mechanical work. He deprecated the undue tellety
with the reputed things of God, which robbed di
its divineness. n6°ll
Captain MAXSE, Southampton, touched on the el obi
of Bible reading. This speaker raised a storm ef disseo 16
stating that he believed the Bible, until a hiltsethscli
th
years of age, would not do a child any good,
WaChit Paa
harm. Was it right to teach a child that God n 110
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world in six days and was tired on the seveutillv_r.
speaker finished his paper amid some confugo,
eget
EDMOND BEALES, President of the late Reform %old
said tho principles of the Education League had his h igh°V
the
support. He held Christian morality to he
- derstsa
morality; but he could not for the life of him citiSel:
goeGiboiefea
that to teach a child to read, write, and °
could make him less likely to be a Christian. t restO
the
all truth was holy. He augured the high° °f
to follow from the establishment of the Olie/31
de
League.
The Hon. GEORGE BRODERICK and others Conti°
discussion.
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At a meeting the Court of Common
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nincidentally stated that, after the opening °f f r ''°
ridge London Bridge would bo closed (a° : for
the traffic of vehicles is concerned) f rtfligli
for a 0
repairs. iota°
Tom K 1 - INh.—lt gives us the greatest joy to Lon
ad
the American world that Torn King, late of On I)teaci
that leg Ø if'
P.R., is now the Rev. Thomas King, of "%Vales ; Cotalpe;ov
of pounding he now preaches, and that he only wres :pas
prayer. Notice is given in one of the Welsh ne'sgsrpoge:
of Thomas's exhortations, and, as WO 8110111 a Preslest•
his style is stated to be "very forcible, held? °id 10 set
He will, hereafter, engage only ink flockng dosialt.,"s riew
ting the head of the devil into chancery, letting S i thto
fly at iniquity, and his left at hardness of Ilew "0061
keeping the ring against all ovilclovro, and n$ 0061
generally to grass, It is pleasant to road a this boy it 14
ending of an ill-spent life ; and for a rotirea Pue4-of o°4
decidedly more ereditahle than. the ppual resorancl ",,, 0
iNf it‘l.' Wel . qi, kg@ping .. pia • ! 1 lotlgn fir '''
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