The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

EDUCATION.

The opinions of our public men as regards educa-
tion are rapidly advancing. It took a long time to
teach them that the State had any responsibility in
the matter. But they have been " educated by
events." Only very recently Mr. Baines retracted his
expression as to " parental responsibility," as the
phrase was, and boldly declared that the State was
interested m and should provide for the education of
her children. Mr. Miall, too, is "marching on."
Not very long ago he opposed very strenuously the
suggestion that some of the schools of Con-
gregationalists should receive grants from the
Government. At Bradford the other day, followinc,
Mr. Forster, he said : " I confess that, after the
question had been settled that political power should
reside in the great majority of the people of this
country, my main objection to what is called State
education ceased. I have no objection to the people
organising themselves under the law for the promo-
tion of education. I have no objection, if they should
prefer it, that they should pay for the education of their
children through a rating system rather than by a
system of payment for education ; and under these cir-
cumstances I accept; and I thinkl am entitled to accept,
what my friend Mr. Forster has said on my behalf,
that if you return me to the House of Commons, so
far from having been disqualified on account of the
opinions I held upon the subject--opinions to which
I attach great importance—from legislating upon the
question now, I am rather better qualified, inasmuch
as I have studied the dangers on the one side, and
have been compelled by events to recognise the
advantages on the other."

THE PRIMACY•
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rernarics or -"mat Tournal as to the adilllrlrStratran
incapacity and blind partisanship" of Dr. Sumner,
the predecessor, of Dr. Longley in the see of Canter-
bury. He states that the former prelate retained all his
faculties at the age of 82, and attended to the affairs
of his province and diocese without any assistance.
We are reminded that the late archbishop, in
his primary- charge, bore testimony to the
literary and administrative abilities of his pre-
decessor in very strong terms of praise. Compa-
risons are odious. Still it is well known that
Archbishop Sumner had not the good fortune of
Archbishop Longley, who seems to have won the
affection and esteem of all. The daily papers have
chosen the first days of the Church's mourning to
bully her. All sorts of mysterious threats, warnings,
and prophecies are freely given, and they speak as if
the very eld.stence of the Church depended upon Mr.
Disraeli s action in filling up the vacant primacy.

THE CHURCH SE.UVICES.

Lord Ebury agrees with the Rev. Hemming Parr
that the three offices of the Church should not be
huddled together. lle cannot find any way of pre-
venting this without the arsistancc of legislation.
He refers to the commission at present sitting, to
which the eonsideration_of the disputed rubrics has
been referred, and he., would- have the terms
of the Cominfssion so enlarged as to allow all the
rubrics •to be considered and reported on by it.
Then should follow the' necessary legislation. The
unwary might suppose from this that an Act of Par-
liament is really necessary to enable clergymen to do
that which hundreds of them now do—separate the
services. Reading Lord Ebury's letter in the Times,
one sees much mere than thiS. There is it sentence
about " the alteration of a few words in the Prayer-
book," and there is nothing his lordship would enjoy
more than tinkering the Liturgy to suit his own
views. He finishes by saying: " I should much have
desired to touch upon one or two other topics closely
allied with this, and of deep interest to the welfare
of our Church,- but I have already trespassed at con-
siderable length, and must conclude in hopes,
possibly, of having another opportunity of adverting
to these subjects." Lord Ebury, on " things in
general," will be amusing, if not instructive.

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