The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

HAT AND STRAW.

Trade dull, at late rates. Meadow hay, 55s to BGs ;
clover, 50s to 100 s ; straw, 30s to 3Gs per load.

COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 25.—Tho market opens firm. Sales
probably 12,000 bales.

COAL A
Price per Tor

'A RK ET.
at the Close,

s d
Holly well Main—. 15 6
East Hartlepool ...... 17 9
Hetton
Hetton Lyons 16 0
Tunstall l6 0
Heugh Hall

s
Wylam l5 9
Braneepeth Cauuel lB 6
Haswell lB 6
South Kelloe
Walker Primrose l3 6

SPECIAL CONSTABLES.—ST. PAUL'S, COVENT-GAR-
DEN.—Last evening Henry White and J. G. Stil-
well, Esqs., for the 18th time again sat at the vestry
offices, Old liummums, Covent-garden, from 4 a.m. to 6
p.m., for the purpose of swearing in special constables,
when over 50 gentlemen were sworn in, and will sit
again on Wednesday next, the 29th inst., from 4 to 7
p.m. Lieutenant-Colonel Mayne still continues in con-
stant attendance at the head-quarters, and Mr. 11. New,
the vestry clerk, is gradually recovering from his severe
indisposition, occasioned by over-exertion and anxiety, and
was allowed to leave his room for the first time to-day.
Drilling is carried on actively every evening.
THE DUPLICATE BISHOP OF NATAL. It is
stated that Sir Roundell Palmer has given an opinion
that the consecration of a new bishop for Natal, as pro-
posed for to-day, cannot be held in England without a vio-
lation of the law.

MR. DODSON, M.P., AND MR. BRAND, M.P., ON
EDUCATION.—CoIoneI Cavendish presided on
,Thurs-
day evening at a meeting for promoting a company
for the creation of a college for the education of the
sons of gentlemen. Mr. Dodson, M.P., remarked
that it appeared to him that we are now entering on
something like an educational crisis. We had of
late been awakened to the fact that if this
country is to maintain its industrial position as
compared with foreign nations, if we would
not see the power in this country transferred from
the more educated to the comparatively uneducated
classes, and if, from higher motives, we do not do our
duty to our fellow-countrymen, we must provide for
and stimulate the education of the lower classes ; but,
at the same time, if the superior classes of this
country would maintain their position as compared
with similar classes in foreign countries, if they would
preserve their position at home with respect to the
lower classes—who, it is hoped, will make strides in
education—they must look to their own education
also. They must look to it that their education
is not only zealously pursued, but that it be di-
rected to the most useful objects, that it be
carried on by the best method calculated to save
time and labour, and that they turn to the best ac-
count the time and labour both of those who teach
and those who are taught. He, therefore, concurred
in the terms of the resolution which had just been
read, "That it is desirable to provide increased
facilities for the education of the sons of gentlemen."
If he turned to the programme put forth by the East-
bourne College, of the course of education it offered,
it appeared to him to be one well calculated to meet
the requirements of the day ; it offered instruction,
among other things, in mathematics, modern language,
English literature, history, and composition ; it
did not fall into what is the error of some
educational establishments, of treating the classes
as the sole branch of education for youth.
At the same time, the system of this college did not
rush into the opposite error, into which-some seem in-
clined to fall, of sweeping away classical education as
obsolete. He might venture to say, speaking as a
public school and a university man, that classical lite-
rature should be dealt with as an important branch of
education, but no longer as the sole branch. We
must consider the immense progress of and the
stimulus given to human research and the accu-
mulation of thought and expression in other
directions. We must study modern languages.
He thought in these days no system of education could
be held to be complete which principally forwards
the study of dead languages and does not recognise
that modern languages form a necessary ingredient in
the education of youth. Having expressed gratifica-
tion at the fact that the Eastbourne College proposed to
prepare youth for the universities and military and
civil service examinations, the hon. gentleman re-
marked that it had been said by the great Napo-
leon that " Power in war lies as much in the
strength of a man's legs as in the strength of his arms."
Now, he thought in these more modern days of war-
fare, when arms of precision were used, that the art
of waging successful warfare in future would lie as much
in the head as in the muscular power ; at all events,
those who are entrusted with command in the army
must receivesa careful, trained, and scientific educa-
tion. It was proposed that Eastbourne College shall
eventually become a great public school. It had
been said that the large public schools of England are
the only true republics that ever existed in the world,
and he was inclined to think there was a deal of truth
in it. A large school is a society in which nothing is
conceded to rank, wealth, or other advantages ; it has
its own standard of merit—it may not be the best or
the highest, but it judges strictly by that standard of
merit in its awards of esteem and popularity. The
Right Hon. H. Brand said he could not conceive any
situation better adapted for a college of this kind
than that which had been selected, and when he
thought of the number of colleges and schools, he
could not help entertaining a sentiment of compassion
for the boys who were cribbed, cabined, and confined
in densely crowded cities. He referred especially to
Westminster, the Charterhouse, and Christ's Hospital,
and remarked what an excellent thing it would be if
the boys could be removed to a healthy situation at
the seaside, at the foot of the bieezy downs. Having
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