The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

THE EDUCATIOIVAL MINUTE.

During the present month the questions raised by the re.
• ised Code of the Committee of Council have made consi-
derable, and we may add, very gratifying progress. To the
first outbreak of unnecessary panic and the first undisguised
apprehension of pecuniary loss has succeeded a calmer mood,
which is willing to hear and to examine, to suspend a con-
demnation too hastily and rashly pronounced, and to look
forward with confidence to the decision which Parliament,
enlightened by preliminary discussion, may finally see fit to
form. It is no exaggeration to say that for the first month
of the controversy those who met together to denounce the
Education Minute treated it as a purely wanton and gratui-
tous piece of mischief—the act of an official Puck, who, for
the love of confusion and disorder, had disarranged a state
of things which was working to the entire satisfaction of
everybody. We are glad to see that the controversy is pass-
ing into other hands, and is being conducted in another
spirit. The men who now come forward to speak on edu-
cation are members of Parliament, and others holding posi-
tions which make them responsible for what they say,
Hence the controversy has lost much of its recklessness, and
is every day more and more restricted within the bounds of
reason and candour. Those who have already expressed
opinions when called upon to express them again do so with
much more moderation and much more fairness. We may
particularise as an instance Lord Lyttelton. He is of
opinion " that the danger lies in saying too much ;" that
it is not advisable " to treat the subject in violent or exag-
gerated terms. He regrets that:the interests of individuals
should be mixed up with an abstract question." He thinks
" that when Government found that one-half of the report
that relating to the question of putting some part of the
education of the county on the county rates, could not be
dealt with at all, it was not surprising that they should
have done what they have done."
This is very different from the bitter denunciations of a
few weeks ago from the same high authority. The state-
ments of Lord Lyttelton seem to imply that upon full con-
sideration he thinks the principle of the minute a good
one, since he regrets that it is connected with personal
interests ; that he disapproves the violence of the language
that has been used, and that Government was placed
in a position in which it was forced to do something,
and something very like what it has actually done. We
are sorry to see even Lord Lyttelton envenom the discussion
by the charge that it was intended to withdraw the question
from the consideration of Parliament, which we aro not sur-
prised to find re-echoed by Sir J, Pakington. Whatever
may be thought of the merits of the minute, such a charge
cannot be maintained. It was not in the power of
the Committee of Council to withdraw this subject from
tile conSlUcLauuu of r afiiittu ea G. It - mane,
Parliament in estimates framed to meet the charge. It
involved the interests of the Church of England, the Dis-
senters, the Roman Catholics. 7,000 teachers, and 16,000
pupil-teachers, besides that of all managers of schools in
the country. It cast a new and doubtless unwelcome bur-
den on the shoulders of the inspectors of schools, a class
naturally of great power in the creation and direction of
opinion on educational subjects. To suppose that such
persons, so numerous and so influential, would not obtain
the:fullest and fairest hearing from Parliament on any
question affecting their interests is simply ridiculous. Even
if the minute had not been suspended, no irremediable step
could have been taken under it, for the simple reason that
it contained a clause almost entirely suspending itself, ex-
cept with reference to the creation of new vested interests
in the shape of new pupil-teachers. We are not asserting
that this was a judicious way of giving effect to the inten-
tions of the Privy Council—the result has proved the con-
trary—but only negativing any imputation of bad faith.
The argument that the minute came into effect immediately
would have great weight if the first provision of the
minute had not bean to suspend its agency, by requiring
that every school should receive a payment on the old sys-
tem before the new ono was introduced.

At a soiree of the Leeds Mechanics' Institute, Lord Stan-
ley said that, "so far as the new Educational Code tends to
confine school teaching to simple elementary matters, and
to test the merits of the teachers by the plain standard of
what the pupils have learnt—in se far, without entering
into the question of pledges given or expectations disap-
appointed—it appeared to him a wise and rational mea-
sure." This view, in different words, seems pretty nearly
identical with that of Lord Lyttelton, and may, perhaps,
not unfairly be taken to represent the present stataof the
public mind on the question. Not very dissimilar is the
opinion of Mr. Dunlop, in a speech to his constituents
at Greenock. Tho object of the minute, he says, is to
connect the grants with the results attained in the
education given, which is a perfectly right and proper
object. lie then proceeds to blame the minute for not
throwing a portion of the expense on the county rates,
and for persevering in the extravagant expenditure on pupil-
teachers. The first is an impossibility, the second a mistake,
for the extravagant expenditure on pupil-teachers is put an
end to, and the managers aro left to engage them on any
terms they please, under pain of losing £lO from the grant
if a sufficient number are not provided. But the most hon-
ourable testimony to the true character of the minute has
been given by Mr. Adderloy. Instead of giving way to a
not unnatural spirit of rivalry, and using the knowledge
which he had acquired at the Education Board to foment
the discontent felt at the conduct of his successors, ho has
omitted no opportunity of expressing, with all due reserve
as to details, his approbation of the step which has been
taken. "I do not find,"'said Mr. Adderley, at Stoke-upon-
Trent, " that any one objection advanced really touches the
essential principle of the changes proposed by the Govern-
ment. The change was intended to increase the responsi-
bility of the managers on the spot, and to awaken the seal
and interest of the scholars by attaching the Government
aid to a necessary and tangible result, instead of granting
aid, broadcast as it were, without reaping anything like
adequate or satisfactory results. I say that in that sense,
and if such be the intention of the change, it is an impor-
tant and a good one." As to the question of vested inte-
rest in the teachers, to which public attention seems now
by the progress of the controversy to be directed, we may
remark that these teachers have ahnest universally been
taken from the very poorest class of society, that they have
been supported during their apprenticeship to a well .paid
and honourable calling at the public expense, and that at
the public expense they have received a subsequent train-
ing, the only complaint against which is that it is too high
and toe ambitious. The original intent of the augmentation
of their salaries was to raise them to a sum not less than £6O
a year, and wo are informed by the commissioners that the
average salary is now £97 a year ; so that if the augmen-
tation be withdrawn the original object of the grant will
still be obtained. The tendency of payment on results is
to raise the position of the teacher, since by his ability
alone can grants be obtained, and consequently in some de-
gree to raise his salary. The teacher with an excellent
education can, if he chooses to quit his profession, find em-
ployment remunerated fully in proportion to his ability and
industry, and no one has a right to demand !more. The
salary of teachers is already in the power of the Privy
Council. The Council might continue their payments in
augmentation of salary, but if they listened to the entreaties
of Training Colleges, and kept up the number of students
in them to the present amount, they would in a short
time so effectually glut the market with teachers that
salaries would fall far below the limit to which they may
be reduced by the withdrawal of augmentation. The
augmenting salaries by public grants is directly contrary to
the principle of payment on results, and it will be, we sus-
pect, found impossible to devise a system in which the two
shall efficiently w ork together. The commissioners report
against the existence of any such vested interest. The de-
mand of the masters is nothing less than just as the train-
ing colleges require that the interests of the masters should
be sacrificed to the interests of the training colleges, so the

system of educat ion throughout:the country should be sac• i
rificed to the protection of the existing class of masters.
Sir J. Pakington views the question as bearing on his
own claims to the prophetic character, and prognosticates
the speedy downfall of the privy council system. Mr. Adder-
ley and Mr. Dunlop announce that the minute of the Privy
Council will not be carried into effect. That its details will
undergo modifications we do not doubt, hut without pretend -
ing to the gift of prophecy, we think we can see that all the
principles involved in it which are really worth contending
for—payment by results, requiring all managers to make
their own terms with teachers and pupil-teachers, the
lowering the standard and extending more widely the area
and benefit of popular education—commend themselves to
enlightened public opinion, and will not be repudiated by
any Legislature in which that opinion predominates so de-
cidedly as in the House of Commons.

SPORTING IN TELLIGEN CE.

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NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING—MONDAY.
A broad sheet, containing 72 events to come off during
the week (with power to add to their number. a town more
full of horses than even this metropolis of racing had
hitherto been known to be, and lodgings only to b 6 had at a
high premium, gave token of a most successful Hout;hton
meeting. The special trains of Sunday and Monday had inn
cargoes, and the card of the day, although slmewhatmeagro
in its other items, was replete with interest on account of
the character of the 2-yr-olds engaged in the Criterion, and
the Ante- Cambridgeshire Hand icap,with 25 horses coloured.
The attendance of the fashionable world was unusually
large, and the racing, which began before 1 o'clock, af-
forded plenty of sport until 4, Two slight ,showers fell dur-
ing the afternoon, but lasted notlong enough to make mat-
ters at all unpleasant. In the Criterion, which was the last
race but one, and produced a field of 10, Old Calabar kept
up the good name he had previously earned by winning
cleverly, and confirmed the opinion his friends had formed
of him when they backed at the small odds quoted below.
The winner of the Handicap, Acco, it will be remembered,
ran second to Henham Lass for the Nursery Stakes at this
meeting last year. Her jockey had drawn his weight so
finely before the race that he was unable to turn the scale
after winning until his bridle was brought in. Tho only
change we could notice in the betting on the Cambridge-
shire was in the price of Palestro, who advanced to 14 to 1,
with an upward tendency, in front of the rooms before din-
ner. The winner of the Maiden Plate was objected to as not
being maiden, because he had won the first race of the day.
Selling Handicap of 10 sovs each, for 2-yr-olds. The winner
to be sold for 150 soya, if demanded, &c. Ab. M. 9 subs.
Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's Picnic filly, 7st 41b (W. Bottom) 1
Count F. de Lagrange's Absinthe, Bst 41b (H Grimshaw) 2
Baron Rothschild's Molly filly, Bst 41b (Musgrove) 3
Lord Westmoreland's St. Lawrence, Bst 41b (J. Goater) 4
Mr. E. Hall's Otho, Bst 71b
Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Woodford, Bst 21b.. (G. Fordham)
Mr. Wybrow Robinson's Twinkle, Bst .... (Browty) 7
Mr. R. C. Naylor's Barricade, Bst 71b (J. Osborne) 8
Betting-7 to 2 agst the Picnic filly, sto 1 each agst Ab-
sinthe, Otho, and Barricade, and 6 to 1 agst St. Lawrence.
Woodford jumped away with a slight lead, whieh ho held
for a few strides, when ho was passed by the Molly filly, in
company with Absinthe, St. Lawrence, and Otho, the latter
running wide on the lower side. In this way they ran to
the cords, when the Molly filly increased her lead, and came
on two lengths in advance of Absinthe, the Picnic filly, and
St. Lawrence, the four being some lengths in advance of
the others. Half-way down the bill the Molly filly gave way
to Absinthe, who was immediately after joined by Mr.
Crawfurd's filly ; a fine race home ensued between the two
leaders, which was won cleverly by the Picnic filly by half
a length. Tho Molly filly finished an indifferent third,
St. Lawrence was fourth, the others beaten off.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each. Weights for age. Tho winner
to be sold for GO soya if demanded, &c. D.M. 4 subs.
Mr, R. M. Stephenson's Vulture, 5 yrs, Bst 81b (E. Sharpe) 1
Mr. Osborne's Lopcatcher, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Challoner) 2
Mr. Simon's Rhedycina filly, 3 yrs, 7st 61b .. (J. Daley) 3
Mr. Flutter's Plot, 3 yrs, 7st Glb. . (W. Cotton) 4
Betting—Even on Lopcatcher, and 3 to 1 agst any other.
Vulture made play at a good pace, waited upon by the
Rhedycina filly, Lopcatcher, and Plot, the lot running
nearly abreast until reaching the new ground, where Lop-
catcher took second place, but without having a chance of
reaching Vulture, who won in a canter by three lengths,
two lengths separating the second and third. Plot, who
appeared out-paced throughout, finished last, beaten off a
long way. The winner was claimed by Mr. J. Osborne.
Match—D.M., 100, h ft.:

Mr. E. Ten 13roeck's Maggiore, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b
(U. Fordham) 1
Mr. Savilo's Reveille, 3 yrs, Bst 51b (Aldcroft) 2
Betting-5 to 4on Maggiore, who waited upon the non-
favourite to half-way to the cords, where sho got up and
won in a canter by two lengths.
Selling Handicap of 10 sous each, for three-yr-olds and
upwards. The winner to bo sold for 100 sous if de-
manded, &c. T.Y.C. 4 subs.
Mr. R. Ten Brocck's Chiffonniero, 3 yrs Est 101 b (Bench) 1
Lord Chesterfield's Brother to Teddington, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b
(W. Bottom) 2

Betting-5 to 4on Brother to Teddirigton.
Brother to Teddington cut out the work to the entrance
to the cords, where Chiffonniere got up, and in a few strides
further obtained a slight lead and won.
Match-Bst 71b each. T.Y.C. 100, h ft.
(1. Snolva.7ll
Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt, 4 yrs
Betting.-6 to son Garbardine.
Gaberdine made play for the first 300 yards, when the
Miss Whip colt went to the fore, and carried on the running
into the cords, where he was once more headed by the favou-
rite, who won easily at last by two lengths.
Maiden Plato of 50 soya; for 2-yr-old colts, Bst 71b; fillies
and geldings, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for £300;
if for £2OO, allowed 71b. Last five furlongs of A.F.
Mr. W. S. Craufurd's Picnic filly, (£2OO
(W. Bottom) 1
Mr. R. Boyce's Carisbrook, Bst 71b
(W. Boyce) 2
Mr. Osborne's Steelpen colt, Bst 71b .. (J. Osborne) 3
The following also ran :—Crisis, Palmerin, Attaman
Tadmor, Lord Durham, Doctrine's dam colt, and Annette.
Betting.-5 to 2 agst Carisbrook, 3to 1 agst Steelpen
colt, 5 to 1 agst Annette, and 6 to 1 agst Picnic filly.
After several breaks away, in which many of the horses
ran to the foot of the hill, the flag was lowered to an excel-
lent start, Attaman, on the extreme right, having a slight
lead, followed by Crisis, the Steelpen colt, Annette, and the
Plunket colt, who ran nearly in a line, the others, headed
by the favourite, lying off. In this way they ran into the
bottom, where the leaders were joined by Carisbrook, the
Picnic filly at the same time taking a clear lead, and win-
ning very easily by two lengths, Cariabrook boating the
Steelpen colt by three lengths for second; Attaman was
fourth, Plunket colt fifth, Crisis sixth, and Annette next,
the others beaten off, the last of all being Lord Durham,
who broke a bloodvessel at the bushes hill, and was stopped.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, weights for ago. The win-
ner to be sold fur 300 soya if demanded, &c. Bretby
Stakes Course. 7 subs.
Mr. W. Nelson's King of the Forest, aged, Bst 81b
(J. Goater) 1
Sir J. Hawley's Gallus, 5 yrs, Bst 81b (Wells) 2
Mr. Osborne's Pardalote, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Challoner) 3
The following also ran : —Penalty, Memo, Wedding, and
Cantab.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Cantab, 4to 1 agst King of the
Forest, and 5 to 1 agst Wedding.
King of the Forest, with Gallus and Memo lying in close
attendance, made the running to half-way down the bill,
where they were joined by Pardalote, the three finishing a
good race home, King of the Forest winning cleverly by
half a length ; I'ardaloto was a bad third, Memo fourth,
Cantab fifth, and Wedding next.
The Criterion Stakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, for 2-yr-olds ;
colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b. Winners extra. From the
Turn of the Lands In. 51 subs.
Sir R. Bulkeley's Old Calabar, 61b extra, Bst 131 b
(W. Boyce) 1
Mr. R. Sutton's Nottingham, 7st 71b (Challoner) 2
Baron Rothsehild's Wingrave, 61b ex., Bst 131b(E. Sharp) 3
The following also ran :—Undcrhand's dam colt, Alve-
di:4m, St. Alexis, Feu-de-Joie, Zetland, Wandsworth, and
Bertha.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Old Calabar, 9to 2 agst Wingrave
7 to 1 each agst Alvediston and Zetland, 8 to 1 agst Bertha;
and 100 to 8 agst Nottingham.
After two failures,in which Alvediston remained at the
post, the lot were despatched on their journey. On settling
into their places, Zetland made the running, waited upon
by Feu-de-Joie, Nottingham, and Wingrave on the upper
ground, the favourite, with Bertha, headed the next divi-
sion some two or three lengths in the rear. On reaching
the site of the Old Duke's Stand Zetland was disposed of,
and the lead taken up by Feu-dc-Joie, who, with Notting-
ham, Wingrave, and St. Alexis closely laid up, came on
with the running to the foot of the hill, when ho hung out
signals of distress and dropped into the rear. Nottingham,
with Wingrave on the whip hand and Old Calabar on the
lower ground at the same time, singled themselves from
the rest and ran home together, Old Calabar waiting until
a few strides from the chair, then came with a rush and
won cleverly by half a length, a like distance separating the
second and third. Zetland was a bad fourth, Feu-de-Joie
fifth, Wandsworth sixth, and St. Alexis next.
Handicap Plato of 50 soya for 3-yr-olds and upwards.
Cambridgeshire course.
Mr. Flerning's Acco, 3 prs, sst 71b (J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's Capt. Fortibus, 3 yrs, Est (Doyle) 2
Mr. Prince's Flirtation, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (J. Covey) 3
The following also ran :—Cosmopolite, Claire, King of
Diamonds, Aurelian, Lustre, Bevis, Maid of the Mist
Suburban, Boabdil, Moorhen, Little Dick, Makeless
Stanton, Guilder, and Rook.
Betting-4 to 1 agat Lustre, 6to 1 agst Cosmopolite, 7to
1 agat Stanton, 8 to 1 agst Capt. Fortibus, 8 to 1 agst King
of Diamonds, 10 to 1 agst Guilder.
With little loss of time the flag fell, and the 18 competi •
tors left the post in a line widely spread. Acco, in company
with Capt. Fortibus, Flirtation, Lustre, King of Diamonds,
and Bevis, came on in advance, closely followed by the ruck
headed by Moorhen, Stanton, and Guilder. On reaching
the Duke's Stand Cosmopolite joined the front lot, and ran
in company half way up the hill, where he was in trouble;
Acco at the same time, on the whip hand, came on with a
slight lead, waited on by Capt. Fortibus, Cosmopolite, and
Lustre, to the brow of the hill, when the two leaders drew
away and finished a close race home, Acre, running longest,
winning cleverly by half a length ; bad third, Cosmopolite
Will, Lustre fifth aide by side by side close up, Moorhen

sixth, Aurelian se veil: th, Claire eighth, the others beaten off.
Run in 2 minutes 61 seconds.

Sweepstakes (reduc u2d to a match) of 100 sous, h ft. First
half of Ab. M.

Mr. Greville's Tarrag, ma, Sst 71b (L. Snowden) w.o.

P.BD, es PIA NIS IL

TO OT RACE.

A foot race of four .tuilet.,, hi which the men were handi-
caped, took place at the, St. fielena-gardens, near Birming-
ham, yesterday afternoon, in thu presence of between 3,000
and 4,000 persons. The compett tors were Mills, celebrated
for his performances at; six miles, and who appeared at
"scratch;" Deerfoot at 50 yards, and Roberts and Richards
at 440 yards. The men were startod at a few minutes after
4, and ran round a broaCi path encircling a kind of green-
sward. Deerfoot passed ;Roberts and Richards when about
three-fourths of the ground was run over, and he main-
tained his lead. lie was e nee challenged for two or three
minutes by Mills, who approached within a few yards, but
never overtook the Indian, w ho seemed to run easily though
awkwardly. Deerfoot won; Mills lost a portion of the
ground ho had gained and fell out, though it was said that
he ran second when the four milcs had been completed, but
that there was a run over of 205 yards by the Indian, and
when the men stopped Richards wets in the second place.
Roberts had given up earlier. Tho feur miles were run in 21
minutes and 42 seconds. Betting between third and fourth
miles 3 to 1 on Deerfoot.

COUNTRY MARKRTS.
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GLOUCESTER-Our. 26.

A fairr supply of English wheat, which suet a steady de-
mand, at a reduction of fully is per quarter on last week's
rates. Foreign sorts less- inquired for, and same in value.
Oats, barley, beans, and peas very dull, and no change in
price.