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London, England, 1869-11-13 00:00:00

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same radical defects. Constructed for "workhouses,"
they are as little adapted to the requirements of a
large hospital as can well be imagined, yet any one
who walks down the long rows of narrow beds, with
the scanty appliances for comfort, and sees the
pinched anxious faces watching eagerly the rough care-
less pauper nurse, may well question whether any hos-
pitalcould present more mournful sights. The vitiated
atmosphere of the St. Pancras workhouse was due, it
was said, to unavoidable overcrowding, as the officials
were bound to take in all sick paupers who applied.
Yet this is the very parish in which the erection of a
large and airy infirmary has been so fiercely opposed.
Even on the low ground of economy, it were
wiser for the guardians to give the sick man every
chance of recovery and independence instead of being
burdened for years with the maintenance of his
children, but surely the richest nation in the world
can afford to give its sick poor at least the care, the
accommodation, and the kindness which it gives to
its criminals and convicts.

THOUGH the name of the LORD PRESIDENT of the
COUNCIL takes precedence in all educational minutes
and reports, it is upon the VICE-PRESIDENT that the
labour of the Education Department really falls.
Mr. LOWE, whilst Vice-President under Earl
GRANVILLE, was the author of the famous
Revised Code which created such consterna-
tion amongst schoolmasters ; Mr. BRUCE is chiefly
responsible for the changes introduced under his
administration; and Mr. FORSTER is now universally
regarded as the exponent of Ministerial views on the
great question which is now coming forward
so prominently. At present it is particu-
larly fortunate that the PRESIDENT is only
the " bogus," and the VICE-PRESIDENT the real,
Minister of Education. The capacity of Earl DE GREY
and RIPON for accomplishing a decisive change in
the most important department of our social system
has yet to be proven ; of Mr. FORSTER'S competence
there can be no doubt whatever. Without being
too precipitate, he is fully alive to the necessity for
trenchant reforms. He is more likely to face exten-
sive changes, when necessary, than Mr. BRUCE would
be ; and though not more able than Mr. LowE, he is
free from the doctrine which seems to have inspired
the Revised Code—that to save expense is the sole
function of the Government. It is especially to be
deplored at this juncture that Mr. FORSTER
has not a seat in the Cabinet. Of course
it was not to be expected that the able
speech of the VICE-PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL
at Liverpool would foreshadow anything ; but Mr.
FORSTER threw out—or rather hinted at—a sugges-
tion of very great importance. Opposite thinkers on
the educational question are now settling down into
two parties. There is the class which desires to
extend only the present denominational system, and
to preserve religious teaching under any circumstances;
there is another class which seeks to establish com-
pulsory education, and to supplement, if not sup-
plant, the present schools by sectarian teaching sup-
ported by rates. Between these two parties a battle
is looming in the distance—a struggle in which, there
is too much reason to fear, the interests of dogma may
receive much more attention than the interests
of the many thousands of British subjects
whom no intellectual light has yet reached.
" Education is nothing without religion " say the one
party; " a national, free, unsectarian, and compulsory
education for the people " is the cry of the other.
Mr. FORSTER is evidently in doubt whether it
would not be possible to combine the two
systems : to leave the denominational schools
for those who prefer them, and to provide
free and unsectarian teaching for the masses of the
population whom the voluntary system clearly fails
to reach. The one great difficulty in the way
of such a solution is that it concedes
pretty nearly all that the one party strive
to gain, and the other to avoid. The Birming-
ham League do not wish to abolish the denomina-
tional schools, but only to add the "free and
compulsory " establishinents, and therefore Mr.
FORSTER'S hint, in its bare form, is likely to suit them;
the National Union declare that free education would
drive the denominational system out of the field, and

therefore Mr. FORSTER'S suggestion is scarcely calcu-
lated to meet all their scruples. But the necessity
for conciliation is so great that mutual concession of
some kind appears to be the only basis on which this
difficulty can be settled. It would be in the highest
degree unjust to deprive the religious denominations
of the fruit of their long and arduous labours in the
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equally unjust to the poor to leave things as they are.
Mr. FORSTER'S views of education in its wider
sense are a grateful relief to the peddling,
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The VICE-PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL is not
disposed to only give what he cannot help
giving. He seeks to establish a system which
is in some degree in advance of his age. He
hopes the time may come when there will be a com-
plete course of instruction, higher and lower, open to
all who may deserve it. For everyone, rich
or poor, there may be, first, the primary
school, then the advanced school, and then
tho university. To achieve this the great
centres of learning must be made national and avail-
able for poor as well as rich. The endowments of
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not. Mr. FORSTER would attach exhibitions
out of endowment funds to primary schools,
so that the most deserving
of the poor
children might have a perfectly free education
in higher establishments; and would so popularise the
universities that the learning begun in the
free national school by the humblest sub-
ject might be finished at Oxford or Cam-
bridge. Between the conception and realisation
of such a plan there is a wide interval. But we are
progressing. A very few years ago a man with such
views would have been rusticating on the cross
benches.

COSTS OF ELECTION PETITIONS.

In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday, Mr.
Giffard, Q.C., moved for a rule to shew cause why the
taxation of costs by the Master should not be reviewed on
the following petitions :—Southampton: ex parte Mr.
Russell Gurney, Q.C., Recorder of London; Tamworth, ex
parte Sir It. Peel; and Penrhyn, ex parte R. N. Fowler
and Eastwick, Fags. The ground of application was
the refusal of the Master to allow the preliminary and
other expenses in the petitions in question, the learned
counsel especially contending that the principle adopted by
the Master of only allowing counsel 100 guineas as a maxi-
mum sum for jniefs was contrary to the statute recently
passed to enable the clients of successful attornies to
obtain the full costs. Their lordships granted the rule in
each case, the Lord Chief Justice observing that it was a
matter for consideration, and requesting the applicant to
give notice to the Master when the case should be agreed
upon between the counsel on both sides to be argued.

THE PROSECUTION OF BANK DIRECTORS.

The investigation into the charges against Mr. Charles
Mozeley and Mr. Lewin Earned Mozeley, formerly directors
of Barned's Banking Company (Limited), now in course of
liquidation, of issuing a false proscectus, and defrauding
the public to the extent of two millions sterling, was
resumed at the Justice Room of the Mansion House
ou Friday, before Alderman J. C. Lawrence, the late Lord
Mayor.

The case excited a good deal of interest. It will be re-
membered that the inquiry was opened on Thursday last
week, but no evidence was offered at that stage, as Mr.
Charles Mozeley, one of the defendants, was unable to ap-
pear, the explanation given by his counsel being that he
had just arrived from the Continent, and was suffer•
ing from lumbago. The firm of Isaac Earned and
Co., bankers, was formed in 1609, and it was
admitted that the business was highly remunerative for
many years, but latterly large loans were sustained, and in
July, 1865, the business was sold to a limited company by
the defendants, who were the partners of the firm, and who
also became the managing directors of the limited com-
pany. The purchase money was fixed at £160,000,
and in the prospectus that was issued reference was made
to " the large and increasing business" that bad been
done, and an opinion was expressed that, "considering the
profits shewn by Messrs. I. Barnard and Co. to have been
realised," the sum of £160,000 was a very moderate pay-
ment. The limited company was accordingly formed, but
in nine months afterwards it stopped payment, and many
of the shareholders were ruined.

Mr. George Lewis, instructed by Mr. Joel Emanuel,
again conducted the prosecution; Mr. Serjeant Parry, with
whom was Mr. Poland, appeared for the defence.

Both defendants having surrendered, the following evi-
dence was adduced :

Mr. Richard Spyer, a-clerk in the office of the Registrar
of Joint Stock Companies, produced the articles and
memorandum of association of Barncd's Banking Company
(limited). It was registered on the 27th June, 1865, and
the object stated was the purchase of the business of
Isaac Barnard, and C)., bankers, bill brokers, and general
agents, Liverpool. The capital was .£2,000,000, divided
into 40,000 shares of £5O each. Among the subscribers
were Mr. George A. Priscott, the banker, Mr. Beecroft,
M.P., and Mr. Rickson, of Cannon-street. Upon the petition
of the Governor and company of the Bank of England the
company was ordered to be wound up on the Bth of May.
1860.

Mr. Francis Lcvien, secretary of the committee of the
.stock Exchange, produced a statement shewing that the
number of shares applied for by tho public was 50,604, and
the number allotted unconditionally to the public 40,000.
A settlement on the Stock Exchange was asked for and

granted.
Mr. Samuel Michael Emmanuel said he was a private
gentleman, residing at Cumberland-place, West Park,
Portsmouth. lie saw a copy of the prospectus of Barned's
Bank, and applied for 100 shares. Only seventy-five were
allotted to him. When he applied for the shares he had no
knowledge of the affairs of the bank, except what appeared
hi the prospectus, and he believed the truth of representa-
tions therein contained.

Mr. Charles Fitch, accountant, Walbrook, said he was
the cfficial liquidator of the Contract Corporation Com-
'Any (Limited), which is being wound up in the Chambers
of the Master of the Rolls. The Contract Corporation was
a holder of shares in Barned's Banking Comrany
(Limited).

Mr. Kemp said he had not the list of shareholders of
Barned's Bank. lie continued to say that there had been
a call of £4O per share on the Contract Corporation on 380
shares. There had been a claim for a further sum of
£364,000 on the Contract Corporation. Witness was
directed by the Master of the Rolls to make an
investigation into the affairs of Barned's Bank,
and witness disputed his liability. From the
report male by his clerks he found that the

debt of Mr. C. Wilson to Earned's Bank in August, IS6'5,
was £391,070, of which £7,1,000 was transferred as an asset
to the limited company, the remainder, 1317,000, being
written off. There was a further liability on
1111 s. At the stoppage, his debt was £279,000.
The firm of Gillespie, Churchill, and Co. owed the bank
El 65,832, which was transferred as an asset to the limited
company, and at the failure of the company the debt was
increased to £253,000. The firm of James Baines and Co.
owed at the transfer £338,000, and at the stoppage
£413,000. H. Lafone owed at the transfer £208,000, of
which £35,000 was subsequently written off, and at the
time of the failure he owed £187,000.

The inquiry was then again adjourned, the defendants
being admitted to bail in the same amounts as before, viz.,
themselves in £2,000 each, and one surety in the like
amount.