The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-15 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.

Mr. HUGGESON, in reply to Mr. Cartwright, said it
was proposed to extend to Scutland the inquiry now going
on as to the expediency of applying the principles of the
Factory Act to the regulation of the employment of chil-
dren and young persons and women in agriculture.
BANKRUPTCY (IRELAND).
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BE VE It LEY E •
LECTION.
The short hand writer's notes,of the hearing of the
petition presented against the last return for Beverley was
ordered to be laid upon the table of the house.
CONSOLIDATED FUND _ BILL.
Consolidated Fund £(8,406,27) Bill was read a
The
third time and passed.
ENDOWED SCHOOLS BILL.
Mr FORSTER moved thesecond readingof this bill,the
object of which was to improve and remodel the endowed
schools throughout the country. The right hon. gentle-
man said it was absolutely necessary some active means
should be taken to carry out the intention of the founders,
and no longer allow them to go on in the state to which
they had fa'len. The right hon. gentleman read extracts
from the report of the assistant commissioner who examined
into the state of the endowed schools at present in exist-
ence. In most cases it appeared that most of the masters
were in the receipt of salaries from £2OO to £3OO per
annum, and that the number of pupils averaged from one
to six. In some cases the master was absent
but for a vary few minutes during the day, and in
one a portion of the school was turned into a
coach-house, and the large dormitory of the building was
used as a billiard-room. (Laughter.) In one part of the
country the masters in six of the schools were totally in-
capacitated by bodily infirmity of conducting the schools
properly. Ot course nearly all the masters were opposed
to any new system- (laughter) - but he had to say that it
was only those who had failed, or who did not now carry on
the duties of a schoolmaster in a proper way, that need
have any fear of the provisions of the bill. (Hear, hear.)
Those who carried on good schools would find their
position stiengthened by it. (Hear, hear.) He thought the
best way to make schoolmasters efficient was to give them
a small salary, but to make the ultimate amount of the
income deend upon the success, the efficiency, and the
number eft scholars who attended. (Hear, hear.) He
believed it was only the way that the funds left by bene-
v,lent persons for educational purposes were at present
administered that prevent persons now abstaining from
devoting a portion of their wealth to purposes of educa-
tion. If a good and efficient system was organised he
believed lorge sums would again flow in. He thought it
very desirable to encourage day schools—(hear)—and also
to give girls theia proper share of educational teaching.
It was also, in his opinion, that the rich should not be
allowed to go and receive all the benefits, but to obviate
that he proposed that free admission to those endowed
schools should be by merit, not by payment. He thought
it quite possible so as to arrange matters that the clever,
but poor boy, might mount to the highest point of educa-
tion. (Rear, hear.)
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