The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

TIIE SECTIONS.

We now continuo our reports .of the proceedings
of the sections

DEPARTMENT 1.-JURISPRUDENCE AND
AMENDMENT OP THE LAW.
TIIE BANKRUPTCY UM.

contributed by the Liver-
.
A v►riety of. papers was read on this subject,
Commerce, the former
and the latter advo•
amongst which wgehraeultbalco7
of which discussA the question& b ►ukrut,tcy admi-
as respects b tnlcr.upti
or d -ad, and recom-
mend assignees, and the
GatedListra tui oti
ihrtmvi
tayr i
tu.
rdaectlilas,
accountants, under the
employment
dlionzlerhneetn toasfv,)iown! ed
norsleinoymti
control of the trade assignees. After some discus-
sion Mr. fla.stinas; tho secretary of the association,
delivered an add.retss, in which he contended that
there was no course but assimilating the practice in
England to that of Scotian:. In the latter country
the estates aro administered at an average expense
of 8 per cent., while iu England the c ..et is from 30
to 50 per cent. This satisfactory result is attained
in the Scotch court by the jurisdiction being vested
in the Ateriffs of counties, who answer to our county
court judges, and by the estates being placed in the
hands of trustees nominated by the creditors in
each cam. He thought then) would never have
been a special bankruptcy court in this country had
county courts existed at the time of its institution,
and maintained that the latter were the only tribu-
nals in which the business could be cheaply and
satisfactorily performed.

At the conclusion of the discussion which fol-
lowed,
Lord J. RUSSELL preens led to review the argu-
ments used by the speaker- and the opinions ad-
vanced in the papers. He thought it clear, from
the unanimity of statements to 'that effect, that
change was required. But ho-queationed whether
gentlemen of the mercantile community had yet
made up their minds on several important matters
which lay at the root of the subject. He suggested
that a committee should be formed to examine the
papers and present a report to the section.
It was ultimately resolved, on the motion of
Mr. A. RYLAND, that the deputies of the various
chambers of commerce should be a committee for this
purpose ; that they
should endeavour to agree on
all the main points which had been the subject of
consideration, and should report their opinion to
the section before the close of the conference.

PARTMENT
paper on this sub.
The Rev. E.
DE
commercial,. 215
KING EDwann' II,—EDUCATION.
H. as SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM.
IFFoRD (Head-master) read a
n() choice between
pupils in the grammar
The present number of
; and
school is—classical, 250 ;
in the elementary sehools—
rs) 500 ; girls, 5 jtji
accommodation ; making a total of 1,465.
the two departments, viz., the
hclassical and the El
and commercial
but left entirely to tiflish, is not at all restrained,
in each depar;ment ble parents, the wholo number
thisw eing limited by the amount of
or 77 in
a class which
going statement it
" the building ; and from the fort.
ei
1/4appears that the professional
meat, of which azaes prefer the classical depart«.
their2so, The
sens• cons Auto nearly One-
third,The sons of manufacturers
in Birmingham includes persons of
the classical schoo_a
very different de of education and influence—
are about equinvgr(j'es
and •class,
between the two depart-
ments,together with the sous of
tradesmen and clerks,elass' make up nearly one-half of
gs
iaxg t 11' id ino f thean any
classical
English school, ,atid about six sevenths of the
ior business, among whom ~
Inatiy widows are • tided, amount to just one-
school, it is found
net at school
ha
er
ne
echo 1. By coni
that those whom ekneea
iwdli.o:see-twelftli of the English
upper acid
in do ail the average num- i
bers in the u
professionalie.Though there lower parts of the classical
found, might have been expected,
raised p theirldo ns:
biel sousparents
i tI, longeste
s
t ii
an
so:
hoot: engaged a
ng e.)dd i
flli n
cbuulst
yi
are not less than 12 different
religious denominations
or diBsatisfacliolslearppearatoarise. All are instructed
together in the
not
,urns rviittit thei sore exception
who well
that the Jews are
inorel
tnoi learn the New Tes-
tament. The Chuieli cx,Pteede's(
know that no desire is evinced top ma'ks,
an objection is
proselytes
of their children; and that their owne reaonable
wishes will be treated with duo regard, and I do
not know that during the 10 years I have held the
position of head ultster that guy
utnhreasonable re-
quest has been made to me upon e subject. I
believe that when the prebuiltdifficulty of dis-
cuss=ing the rules for the lel gigue •us instruction of a
school can be avoided or igsurmounted, a very small
share of candour and common sense will suffice to
remove all difficulties in practice. During the 10
years, ending at the conclusion ice.
have been admitted to the classical 0f1857, there will
school
600 boys,
or 60 annually, and to the English schoOl 720, or
72 annually ; since the reconstitution of the school
in 11834, under the new
Ac tof Parliament, not
fewer than 2,500 boys have passed through the two
depart meats of the grammar s' hools. The average
stay of boys in the classiell-'school is four year!,
and in the English school just three years. The
average age of leaving the classical school, 15i
years ; English, 14 year,.. o f the 600 boysswho
have left the classical 5e..00l
since the beginning
of 1848; cent,
65 or abt.ut ii per
to universities. The list have gone direct
of exhibitions
from the
commencement of the present century contains 106
names. Duriug the last 23 years from 1835 to 1857
the school has sent up to
Oxford
Cambridge ... 49 students.
''''''''
Dublin
Durham
1 "
..

. -
Total ..................129
Of the 49 sent to Oxfor.i, 12 are still undergra-
duates ; of the other 37 graduates 20 have taken
classical honours, 2 being in the first class, and 4
have tAken ma•hematical honours. There have
bgained at Oxford, since 1835, 18 college
scholarships and 6 fellowships. The Hertford
Latin scholarship, the Ireland and Craven clas-
sical scholarships, and the Boden Larent scholar-
ship, all open to tho whole university, were
gained by one and the same person who forms a
Cleionlarships
sort of link between the old and new generations
of the school. Of the 78 Who went to Cambridge
since 1835, 18 are still under-graduates, 29 have
gone out in classical honours, 19 being placed in
the first class, of whom 5 wore senior classics.
There have been gained at Cambridge by pupils of