The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-11 00:00:00

Horses from the Fyfield Stable.

Bay filly (3 yrs) by Longbow out of Gentle Kitty
(Mr. Taylor) 43
Chesnut colt (2 yrs) by Lord of the Isles out of Frailty
(own sister to St. Albans, and Savernake)
(Mr. Christopher) 24
Lord Paramount (3 yrs), by Lord of the Isles out of
Intimidation (Mr. llog,g) 53
Pussy (3 yrs),
.by St. Albans out of Plush
( Mr. Rickards) 31
Staghound (4 yes), by Wiudbound out of Plush
(Mr. Christopher) 90
Pepper's Ghost (5 yes), by Fright out of Hypocrite
(Me. Dowling) 160
Dulcimer (5 yrs), by Trumpeter out of Taddingtunia
,Colonel Little) 200
Bradatuante (6 yes), by Voltigeur out of Doralico

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(Culouel Maude) 400
Overture (7 yrs), by TeJdiugton out of June
(Colonel Maude) 400

Grey gelding by Chanticleer, darn by Scharnyl
(Mr. Smith) 50

The Property of Alexander Cameron CAmpbell, Esq., of

Mumzie.

Crusader, b c by Rinaldo out of Rosabol (Mr. Toynbee) 131

SKIPPING INTELLIGENCS. —This ray

(By 'Telegraph.)
CiItATBSBND, Wednesday Mottling.

Arrivod.—Seiue, steamer, from Boulunge; Fled's,
steamer, from Ghent; ailtiquo, steamer, fro►u Dunkirk;
Madura, steamer, from Lisbiu ; Maus, steamer, from
Amsterdam.

Sailed.— Citiz !n, steamer, fur Bordeaux ; Sir Robert
Po )1, steamer, fur Dunkirk ; Alvardo, steamer, fur Bilbao.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

No arrivals,

MR. STANSFELD, M.P., ON NATION-4L

-ED UCATION.

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. Stansfeld 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
£20,000 to assist in 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
country and Parliament has now 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 school, 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 Lards by the Duke of
Marlborough, there were upwards of 300,000 chil-
dren in the rural parishes not reached at all by the
Government grants. But the case of the ruralparishes
was not the worst unfortunately. Iu 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 hi;
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 werthy of the country to
which they belonged. Mr. I. A. Leath= 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 had a vital interest in legisla-
tion that question must be taken up for a solution.
Some, like the Duke of Marlborough the other day,
might maintain th Lt the present system worked very
well, but the majority would not say so. It was, in
fact, inadequate for the perforulance of its gigantic
task.

The Marchioness of Salisbury's invitations for the
intended ball at Hatfield House have been countermanded,
iu consequence of the precarious health of the Countess
Delawarr.

At tho Bank of England there have been no gold
operations of importance.

Official returns from all the counties in New York
make the Democratic majority 49,869 in a total vote of
697,903, which is the largest vote ever east in the State
when the election of a govtruor or president was not in-
volved. The Democrats gained 101,126 on their vote in
1863, and gave the littlest vote ever polled by any political
party iu the State, being 5,163 greater than Lincoln's vote
iu 1664.