The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-12 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

The Metropolitan Handicap of 10 soya each, 3 ft (to the
fund), with 100 added; winners after December 2 (at
6 p.m.) of the value of 50 soya 51b, or two of 100 sous
101 b extra.; weights not accumulative; three miles.
Age st lb
Comberton ... a 12 10
Bonazet ... a 12 8
Daisy ... a 12 8
Fan ... 5 11 6
Sir Bobby ... a 11 6
Musketeer... 6 11 4
King Alfred 6 11 4
Patience ... a 11 2
Bishopten 5 11 2
Foxholes ... ... 5 11 0
Spatchcock ... a it 0
Arlescott ... a 10 12
Helico ... 610 12
Pensioner ... 6 10 10
Cabin 80y... a 10 8
Wings of the Wind 5 10 6
Northern Light ... a 10 6
Vindicator... 5 10 6
Monitress ... 4 10 6
Corkscrew... ... 5 10 6
a 10 6

.Age st lb
Portland ... a 10 4
The Lamb... ... 5 10 4
Clansman ... 5 10 4
Greenland... 6 10 2
Fairy Mount ... 510 2
Harcourt ... 6 10 2
Ilippolyte ... a 10 2
Jassy ... ... 510 0
Faustus ... 6 10 0
Polestar ... 5 10 0
Topthorne... ... a 10 0
Sylph ... 5 10 0
Nabocklish a 10 0
Lawrence ... a 10 0
Love in a Mist a 10 0
Baudoline a 10 0
Captain Crosstree... a 10 0
Elsie Penner ... a 10 0
Badminton 5 (paid)
Mother of Pearl ... 4 (paid)

The Hyde Plate (Handicap) of 40 soya; the winner of the
Kingsbury Cup or Metropolitan Handicap 101 b, or of
any other race 71b extra ; about two miles and a half.
Age st lb Age st lb
Flyfisher ... a 13 0 Camillus ... 5 10 4
Sir Bobby ... a 12 0 Savannah ... a 10 2
Patience (h a 11 7 Vellesley ... 4 10 0
Red Rose ... 5 11 0 Rick ... 5 10 0
Stiff ... 6 11 0 Signal ... ... 6 10 0
The Guide... 5 11 0 Sylph ... ... 5 10 0
Helice 6 11 0 Love in a Mkt a 10 0
Gorsehawk a 11 0 Faint Heart ... 4 10 0
Peignoir ... ... a 10 4 Marmon, 10 0
Wedding Peal ... 5 10 4 Torpedo ... 5 10 0
Kronberg 5 10 4
The Hunters' Steeplechase Stakes of 3 soya each, with
30 added ; foar year olds list 715, five 12st 11b, six and
aged 12st 71b; mares allowed 31b, and maidens haying
run twice 71b ; winners of a flat race, hurdle race, or
steeplechase, in the present year once 61b, twice 101 b
extra ; professional jockeys 51b extra. About three
miles. 20 subs.
Kennet 6 yrs, Bedlamite 3, The Bell 6, Tom Bowline
aged, Goosertep 6, Reginald aged, Waterperry aged,
Fleetwing (11 b) 6, Badminton 5, King Tom aged, Morris
Dancer (la b) aged, Bicester (h b) aged, Father O'Leary
aged, Sensation. 6, Nell Gwynne, Waterstown (h b) 5,
Italia 4, b g by Stockwell out of Waverley's dam 4, Laura
(h b), 6, and Corkscrew (h b) 5.
A Selling Steeplechase Stakes of 3 soya each, with 25
added ; four year olds lOst 71b, five list 31b, six and
Aged list 71b; tale willuer to bo sold for 54 130113 if

entered for 30 sous allowed 71b. About two miles, not
over the brook.

A Selling Plate of 25 sovs, added to a Handicap of 3 sovs
each, for three year olds and upwards; the winner to be
sold for 30 soya ; winners after publication of the weights
61b extra ; about two miles.

PROGRAMME OF ST. ALBANS STEEPLECHASES.

THURSDAT, DEC. 10.
The Selling Steeplechase Stakes of 3 sons each, 1 ft, with
20 added; three year oils 10st 71h, -four list 711), five,
six and aged list 1211); the winner to be sold for 50 sew
(if 30 sovs allowed 711)); about two miles.
The Harpenden Plato (Handicap) of 40 sors ; winners of
any stceplechas3 after Nov. 29 (at 11 a.m.) 71b extra;
about two miles.

Age st lb; Age st lb
Comberton ... al2 12 Shiite ... ... alO 7
Hornet ... ... al2 0' Pearl - ... ... 110 7
Laura. ... ... 6 11. 10: Port fire ... ... 610 6
Revolver ... ... all 9 ; Merry Horn (11 b) 410 6
Foxholes.... ... 511 5 St'lT ... ... 610 6
Trap ... ... ait 0 Dioineil ... ... 610 5
Vindicator ... a 11 0 Harbinger ... a 10 4
Ls Pique ... ... 511 0 Legerdemain ... 510 4
Harcourt ... ... 610 12 Caustic ... • ... 410 4
Serious Case ... alOl2 ; Rosebud ... ... 610 3
Dal kness (lib) .. alO 111 Robber ... ... alO 3
Helico ... ... 510 111Lcieester ... ... 610 2
Franciscan ... 6 10 10 Black Rock ... 6 10 2
The Guido ... 510 10 Signal ... ... 610 2
Btu byLeupold(h b) 610 9 Crafty ... ... 410 2
Arthur ... ... alO 9 Vici ... ... 310 0
Woodbury Hill (h. b) alO 8 Bess ... ... 510 0
Triumpher .. 6 10 8 Wedding Peal ... 5 10 0
AC,3 of Hearts ... alO 7 Faint Heart ... 410 0
Krouberg ... 5 10 7

The Aristocratic Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 sous each
3 ft, with 50 added ; winners after Nov. 29, at 11 a.m.,
7lb extra; gentlemen riders. About three miles. 22
subs.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE• —This Day

(By Telegraph.)

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morn!ng.

Arrived—James McQueen, from Iludiekswall; Ontario,
from Charlotte-town George Herbert, from Bahia ; Fairlie,
from Lysekolil ; Screpta, from Gothenburg ; William
Tap6eott, from New York ; Nine, from Stettin ; Star of
the West from Algoa BaY ; Thetis, from Sulina ; Posi-
choff, steamer, from Bordeaux ; Florence, steamer, from
Antwerp ; Lord John Russell, steamer, from Dunkirk ;
Waterloo, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Sephora, steamer,
from ;Bordeaux ; Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp ;
Concordia, steamer, from Boulogne;- Seire et Tamise,
stcamr, from Paris ; Thames, steamer, from New York.

MR. STANSFELD, M.P., ON NATIONAL

EDUCATION.

Last night the annual soiree of the Mechanics'
Institute, Dewsbury, took place in the Public Hall
of that town. There was a very large attendance.
The ex-Mayor (Mr. E. Day) presided; and amongst
those present were Mr. James Stansfeld, M.P., and
Mr. E. A. Leatham.—Mr. Stansfekl said it was at
this moment especially necessary that the people of
England should examine the system of national
education, as it was termed, as it at present
existed. The system of elementary schools, to
which he purposed to confine himself, dated from
the beginning of this century. The British
and Foreign School Society and the National
Society were the first institutions estab-
lished to promote elementary education among
the people, and though there had been
others formed since, they still kept the lead. In
1832 there was a grant from the Treasury of
£20,00u to assist iu the building of schools. This
grant was, after a time, increased to £30,000, and so
they went on till 1846, when it had risen to
£lOO,OOO, and now it was probably £BOO,OOO or
£900,000. In 1853 the system of capitation grants
began. The Privy Council undertook to make
contributions for individual excellence. In 1858
they had the Duke of Newcastle's Commission,
which reported in 1860. That report was bold and
sweeping ; and it was with that report, which, so
far, had only resulted in the Revised Code, that the
cuuutry and Parliament has LOW to deal. According
to the rules of the Committee of Council on Edu-
cation one-sixth of the children of the •

working classes ought to be at scho9l, but the
number was only about 870,000, being more than
1,000,000 less than the estimate. Out of 15,000
parishes in England only the schools in 4,000 re-
ceived Government aid. Taking the statement
lately made in the House. of Inrds by the Duke of
Marlborough, there were upwards of 300,00) chil-
dren in the rural parishes not reached at all by the
Government grants. But the case of the rural parishes
was not the worst unfortunately. In the centres of
population, whilst there was great intelligence and
wealth, there was also deep ignorance. The Man-
chester and Salford Education Aid Society found in
1865 that out of 11,086 children belonging to
working people, between the ages of three and
twelve years, 4,837 were at school, 762 at work,
while the enormous number of 5,787 were neither
at school nor work. There was another weakness
to their arrangements to which he would allude, the
want of a feeder. What was a feeder ? There was
a power of compulsion in respect to the pauper, the.
vagrant, and the factory child, but above those were
a large number, whose education becomes a matter
of the highest moment. Having completed hii
sketch, he would have others to say what ought to be
done to alter this wretched state of things. Address-
ing himself to the members of the mechanics' insti-
tutions of the country, he urged them to let their
voices be heard on this question ; to say to Government
that some combined effort ought to be made to raise
the masses of England in the intellectual and moral
scale, and make them worthy of the country to
which they belonged. Mr. T. A. Leatham said
that, so long as Parliament was the representative
of the upper and middle class, it was possible to
neglect the question
.of education in its fulness, but
now when the people hal a vital interest in legisla-
tion that question must be taken up for a solution.
Some, like the Dake of Marlb)rough the other day,
might maintain tint the present system worked very
well, but the majority would not sly so. It was, in
fact, inadequate for the performance of its gigantic
task.