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PRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1330.

The correspondence which has recently taken place
between the Bishop of Exeter and Lord John Russell
is satisfactory in one respect, as adding, if possible, a

clearer proof than hitherto existed of the falsity of the
charge which represents the Church of England as
insisting upon retaining within the limits of her own
pale a monopoly of Education. We might be disposed

o say, that it is satisfactory also in another,—namely,
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as exhibiting the courteous tone and temper with
which the Colonial Secretary professes to speak of the
Establishment,—had we not pretty strong proof that
such language is extorted from the fears of his Lord-
ship, and in no degree flows from any feeling of attach-
ment on his part towards the interests of the Church.
The fact is, that Ministers, in their late attempt to
force thin ethane of,National Education upon the peo-
ple, had wholly miscalculated the force of the resistance

which would be offered to their plan. ' They fancied
that the alarm, if sounded at all, would be confined to
the voices of some few isolated individuals, whose zeal
would be considered gi eater than their knowledge ;
and that the specious boon, of Government school-
masters overspreading the country, and converting
every hamlet into an oasis of enlightened wisdom,

would be hailed with noisy gratitude, and bear down

any opposition which could proceed from a few vigi-
lant champions of the Church. They now feel that
they have made a false step, and that, in effectually
awakening the fears of the Establishment, they have
(lone more to endanger their .political existence than
by any other act during their long period of mis-
government. Their chief anxiety, therefore, is to avert
the consequences of this grand error; and hence the
hypocritical affectation of respect for the interests of
the Church, and earnest desire, if possible, to conci-
liate the Clergy. If the last Treasury minute which

issued from the Educational Board was so carefully
worded as almost to disarm criticism, and lull to sleep
any jealous suspicions of lurking hostility towards a
system of Scriptural instruction, who for a moment

doubts to what cause to attribute this contrast between
the former and present policy of Ministers ? They
have provoked a dangerous foe, and seek to appease it
by every art of cajolery and cunning. To believe that
such language proceeds from such men as the genuine
expression of their -real sentiments, is to exercise a
degree of charity of which we confess ourselves inca-
pable. No 1 the true motive is fear; and to attribute
the altered tone of Lord John Russell on this subject
to a higher principle, is to act as absurdly as those
" whO hang grapes on thorns, and then gather them
as the natural fruit of the branches."
But to the point with which we set out. The reck-

lessness with which our opponents avail themselves o:
the 'aid of " enormous lying," when other weapons o:
attack are not forthcoming, imposes upon us the ne•
cessity of wearying our readers with reiterated expo
sures of the calumnies with which the Conservative
party is assailed. It must be said, sung, and repeated,
until the poisoned arrow from the quiver of faction has
lost its power, that on no occasion, it no time, and by
no authoritative voice proceeding from herself, has the
Church of England wished to restrict the blessings of
Education to the members of her communion She
has never asserted that the State should expend the
public money solely upon her, and that the only
schools assisted by Government should be those in
which she could train up the minds of the young, and
exercise a superintending care. But she did insist—
and her voice' has prevailed—that in the conduct of
her own schools she should he left free and unfettered;
and that, whatever might be the system of instruction
which would please the somewhat coarse palate. of
Dissenters, and unite Unitarians, Deists, Muggleto-
nians, Huntingdonians, Anabaptists, and Papists in
harmonious co-operation, she at least should be called
upon to make no compromise of her principles, or
admit as intermeddlers with ha discipline and rules a
Committee of laymen in whose religious principles she
could place no confidence, and appointed by a Govern-
ment which might be hostile to her existence.
Indeed, the best proof of the falsehood of the charge
so emphatica'lly denied by the Bishop of Exeter, is the
fact, that no objection whatever has been raised by
Churchmen to the mode in which the Education Grant
has been disposed of since the period when Lord Al-
thorp made the first proposal in Parliament. The
National School Society has seen a portion of the
annual grant of £20,000 bestowed upon the British
and Foreign School Society without a murmur or
complaint. The Church of England received her
share of the public money appropriated to purposes of
instruction, and the Dissenters received theirs ; and
neither Bishop, Priest, nor Layman made the slightest
opposition to this just and equitable arrangement. It
is false, therefore, to assert that the Clergy have ever
called upon the State to lavish all its expenditure and
care upon that portion of the community only which
submitted to their guidance and control. • It is false
to assert that they have called upon the Government
" to withhold all public aid for the instruction of those

children of the poor whose parents conscientiously
object to allow their children to be taught the Church
Catechism, or to be compelled, as the price of their
instruction, to attend to divine service in other than
their own places of worship." We quote the words
of the Bishop of Exeter, and we cordially concur
in his emphatic disavowal of any such wish or
design on the part of that Church of which he is
one of the most distinguished members. Sic utere tuo
ut alienum non lmdas is a maxim of the common law,
and we only ask for an equally fair principle to be ap-
plied in this controversy between us and the Liberals.
Let the Government adhere to the old principle of dis-
tribution, and grant money to the two Societies in pro-
portions adapted to the efforts made respectively by
each. We well know that the Church will obtain the

lion's share, but it will be an honourable competition—
a noble rivalry—and however much we may lament
that her sound system of Education is rejected by so
many of our fellow-countrymen, we will not begrudge
them pecuniary assistance in their attempts to amend
their intellectual condition according to their own fa-
shion. The former plan worked well—why was it de-
parted from ? To bring the schools more directly un-
der the care of the Establishment within the influence
of the Executive, and thus afford an opportunity of
tampering with the minds of the young by a process
which was intended hereafter to tell with powerful
effect in favour of the Liberals.
Indeed the Edinburgh Review makes this very ac-
quiescence on the part of Churchmen, in the former
principle of distribution, a ground of attack against
the Conservatives now. The writer of the article
headed " Ministerial Plan of Education—Church and
Tory Misrepresentations" argues that we are incon-
sistent in repudiating- the offer of a boon which we
previously accepted with thankfulness ; and the lan-
guage of Lord Stanley, in which he declared that the
previous plan " had the unanimous assent of the House
of Commons, the almost unanimous assent of the peo-
p'e of this country, and the entire approbation of the
people of the community," is cited as a proof that fac-
tious motives are the cause of the present opposition.
But what gross " misrepresentation" is it to attempt to
identify the proposition of Lord Althorp in 1832 with
the scheme originally brought forward by Lord John
Russell in 1839 ? In the former there was no model
school for adult Teachers, in which were to be admit-
ted the holders of the most opposite opinions on the
most momentous of all subjects—whom it would be
impossible to qualify for the task of imparting religi-
ous instruction, however learned they might have be-
come in various departments of secular knowledge—
and who, consequently, Would soon look upon the for-
mer as useless or altogether subordidate to the latter,;—
there was no Treasury Committee of Laymen who,
like the Board of Poor Law Guardians in Somerset

House, were to set in motion and regulate the whole
machinery of national schools ;—there was no system
of Government inspection and interference with the
kind of instruction which the Church might think it
most needful to impart. There was all the difference
between the acceptance of a free gift and one clogged
with an odious condition. The great body of Church-
•men thankfully received the former, and turned it to
he best advantage. They rejected and denounced the
atter ; and for this they are exposed to the charge of
,nconsstency and bigotry, and whatever else the Li-
Jerals think will make our cause most unpopular with
;he nation. But these epithets are recoiling on them-
The people have unequivocally declared them-
selves in this matter upon the side of the Church ;
and the Whig-Radicals now find to their confusion,

selves.

that her " name is a tower of strength, which they
upon the adverse faction want." Hence these reite-
rated attempts to distort the real facts of the case, and
blacken the motives of her strenuous and partially
successful opposition to the scheme of Ministers.

We have been favoured with a sight of a copy of the
Bombay Times of a recent date—the 11th of Septem-
ber, containing news of great interest to this country,
in relation to our possessions in India, including the
dethronement of the Raja of Sattara.
The intelligence is not only important, but will ex-
cite a strong feeling of satisfaction throughout England.
The series of triumphs which the army of the Indus
has achieved lays this nation under the deepest grati-
tude to the officers and men, and especially to Sir John
Keane, the distinguished commander of the army, who
has proved himself worthy of the highest praise.

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the dispersion of the Afghan army, and the entry of
the Sooljar and the British into Cabool. After stating
that the report in the Dehi Gazette that the army of
the Indus had been engaged with that of Dost Ma-
homed, says:—" All the beneficial results that could
possibly have arisen from the most brilliant victory

have been secured without the effusion of blood, and
long ere this Shah Sooja 00l Moolk has been peaceably
established in the throne of Cabocl."
Sir John Keane, with the first column of the army,
marched from Ghiznee en route to Cabool on the 30th
of July. lie was followed on the succeeding day by
his Majesty Shah Soojah, with the second column,
consisting of the Shah's own troops, and a portion of
the British force, under the command of Major-General
Wilshire. On the arrival of the Commander-in-chief,
with the first column, at Hyder Khail, on the Ist
ultimo, (August,) he received information that Post
Mahomed, with his army and artillery, were advancing
from Cabool, and would probably take up a position
either at Urgnundee or Midan, (the former of which is
24 and the latter 36 miles from Cabool.

It was consequently arranged that his Majesty Shah
Scojah, with the second column, should join the com-
mander-in-chief at Hyde°. Khail, and that the united
columns should proceed to attack Dost Mahomed,
whose son, Mahomed Akhbar, had been recalled from
Jellalabad, and who, accompanied by the troops pre-
viously employed in guarding the Khybo pass, had
effected a junction with his father. Those united forces
were about 13,000 men."
The Times then goes , on to describe the proceedings
of the combined army, and the final victory obtained
on the 2d of August, which annihilated all the hopes
of Dost Mahomed, and placed Cabool in possession
of his rightful throne, and of which a synopsis will be
found in the following subsequent article from the

same paper :
" The Packet to be despatched from this on Thursday nex
will contain the most important intelligence, that has ever
been conveyed, from Bombay to England, since the establish-
ment of steam communication. The following is a retros-
pect of the intelligence which we have from time to time
published in our columns since the departure of the Zenobia,
on the 2d of August up to the present time. The latest in-
telligence received from the army of the Indus at the time of
closing the last packet was, by letters from Candahar, dated
the 18th June. The army remained at that city, until the
last week in June, for the purpose of recruiting the strength
both of men-and horses, who were exhausted by a long and
tedious march, during which they had suffered extreme pri-
vation from the scarcity of provisions, and the hostility of
the Predatory, tribes who infested their route, and who,
though they never attempted to offer serious opposition, were
always on the alert, to cut off small detachments, and to
plunder the cattle and provisions committed to their charge.
This delay was also requisite for the purpose of enabling the
commissariat to collect the necessary supplies. On the 24th
June a large convoy of grain arrived at Candahar, and pre-
parations were made for an immediate advance on Cabool.
The army broke into four divisions, the first of which quitted
Candahar on the 27th, the 2nd on the 28th. the 3rd on the
29th, and the 4th on the 30th June. On the 16th July the
army reached Mookeer, four days' march on the Candahar
side of Ghixni : no event worthy of notice occurred up to
this date, with the exception of a skirmish between the
troops of his majesty Shah Sooja and the followers of the
rebellious chieftain of the Takhee tribe. In this rencontre
the Shah's troops were victorious, having taken the chief's
standard, and killed 30 or 40 of his followers. On the 20th
the army was concentrated at Nanee, a distance of twelve
miles from Ghizni, towards which it marched on the morn-
ing of the 21st. Large bodies of Afghans were -now known
to be moving in the immediate vicinity of the line of march,
and the proper dispositions were made, on the part of the
British troops, to enable them to repulse any attack the
enemy might think fit to make.
" On coming within range of the guns of Ghizni, a sharp
cannonade together with a heavy fire of musketry opened on
the leading column, which was returned by the British artil-
lery for a short time, after which, the firing was ordered to
cease, and the troops placed in bivouac. The 22d was spent
in reconnoitering the place and preparing to take it by storm.
At twelve o'clock that night the artillery moved into position,
followed at a short interval by the infantry. A few minutes
before three o'clock on the morning of the 23d, the gates
were blown open by the engineers. The bugles sounded the
advance, on which the artillery opened a tremendous fire,
under cover of which, in spite of a most determined resist-
ance, the infantry forced a passage through the gateway, and
at five o'clock in the morning, the colours of her Majesty's
13th and 17th regiments were planted on the citadel of Ghiz-

ni. Thus in little more than two hours one of the strongest
fortresses in Asia, garrisoned by 3500 Afghans, (a far braver
race than any which had previously been opposed to an An-
glo-Indian army), and commanded by a son of the ex-King
of Cabool, was completely in the possession of the British.
Five hundred of the garrison were slain, and the remaining
3000 with their commander taken prisoners, whilst the total
number of casualties amongst the victors does not exceed 191
in killed, wounded, and missing. The moral effect produced
by the capture of Ghizni, has been such as to cause the dis-
persion of Dost Mahomed's army, and to secure the peace-
able entrance of Shah Soojah, into the capital of his domin-
ions. Lord Auckland's policy now fairly entitles him to be
crowned with those never-fading laurels, which the world
accords to none, but the promoters of successful projects.
The military movements of the past month have not been
confined to the army of the Indus. Two field forces have
been directed to assemble ; one composed of troops on the
Bengal establishment, is ordered to rendezvous at Nusseera-
bad, for the purpose of attacking Joudpore. It consists of
four squadrons of native cavalry, one troop of horse, and two
and a half companies of foot artillery, with six regiments of
native infantry, two companies of sappers and miners ; the
whole being commanded by Major-General R. Hopton. The
other is commanded by Malor-General Wilson, and consists
of one cavalry and two infantry brigades, with proportionate
details of artillery and engineers. The force is drawn from
the Madras establishment, and will assemble at Adoni, for
the reduction of Kurnool. Government appears determined
to chastise the insolence of the native. Princess. Our suc-
cess in Afghanistan, the preparations against Joudpoor and
Kurnool, and the recent deposition of the Sattara Rajah, will
probably induce even the most refractory to succumb. The
replltts circulated during the 'past month relative to Ava
and Nepaul are rather contradictory. On the whole it
would appear that the Nepalese will choose their own
time to make an attack upon us, whilst, at the same time,
the orders which have been issued to the General Service
corps in Bengal, as well as the detention of the Jupiter, and
his majesty's 61st Regiment in Ceylon,. would induce us to
believe that the supreme government intends to take the
first favourable opportunity for chastising the insolence of
the Burmese monarch.

" We have just heard that there is likely to be some prize
money from Ghiznee. From the general poverty of the
country, in the precious metals, and the plain habits of the
woo abound not, like the 1-11nuut, naps, In uaroarn:
pearl and gold," we should not have looked for any large
capture of treasure or valuables in this quarter. There may,
however, be horses and shawls, and perhaps some valuable
diamond of the kindred of the Kooh-i-noor. Some of the
money, too, of Mr. Vickovitch scattered in Afghanistan may
have found its way into the Ghiznee citadel : if so, its falling
into the hands of the British army would be a fitting and
amusing retribution."

The Bombay Times next notices the dethronement
of the Raja of Sattara, who, it appears, though re-
leased from captivity by the British government, and
placed in one of the most splendid principalities of the
Deccan, persisted in preferring the most vexatious
claims to an extension of territory and other prero-
gatives injurious to our tenure of India; and who,
moreover, corresponded with other native powers, in-
culcating disaffectiOn, in which he was encouraged by
the late disturbed state of the country.
The paper before us, on this subject says :

" The Rajah of Sattara has at length met his well-merited
fate. A little before day-break on Wednesday last, the time
allowed him for the acceptance of the terms having expired
without his compliance, the Resident, supported by the Bth
Regiment of Native Infantry and other troops proceeded to
the palace of the Rajah, and arrested his Highness, who sur-
rendered himself at once, and was sent under an escort to
the village of Nimbgaum, about seven miles from Sattara, and
about eight o'clock the same morning, Appa Sahib, the ex-
Rajah's brother was proclaimed his successor, under the style
and title of SHREEMUNT MAJERAJ SHAJEE RAJAH
CHUTTERPUTTY, of SATTARA.'
" Bala Sahib, a member of the Royal Family, and about
twenty adherents followed the palankeens of the dethroned
prince from Sattara. The present Rajah has no children,
and is not to be permitted to adopt ; so that the Sattara
territory will, at his death, be annexed to the dominions of
the East India Company.
" We are glad to be able to state in correction of a passage,
which occurred in our account of the 4th instant, that
although the Rajah was told the British Government was
fully satisfied, that his guilt had been conclusively established,
he was not required to make any acknowledgment of his
criminality. This measure would have been harsh ; it might
have clouded the otherwise unsullied justice of the cause,
and afforded to generous minds a justification of the Rajah's
resistance.

" Every effort was, on the contrary, made to save his high-
ness but the usual fatuity of those whom destiny has aban-
doned, hurried him to his doom, and, trusting to the various
agencies he had established in England and India, and on
which he has squandered large sums of money, he would not
be saved. What must now be the reflections of those who
have reduced him to his present fallen estate ? Their bit-
terest regrets will probably be, not for the fate of their vic-
tim, but for the cessation of their own gains."
At the conclusion of the same article, the writer
aftpr nathwinir gayeral 'won& of the hp2.44rancr.
and dangerous conduct of the Rajah :

" The partizans of the late Rajah in Bombay, whether be-
lieving him innocent, or believing him merely rich, and, as
such, a fitting carcase for the vultures to gather on, little
knew the mass of conclusive evidence of his guilt, oral and
documentary, which is now in possession of government.
The title which he had assumed in his own court, and by
which he bad latterly been addressed by his agents, ' HINDU
PUD PADSHAH SIRKAR,' or, ' EMPEROR OF THE HINDU'S,'

is in itself a sufficient index to the insane pretensions which
his miserable deluders had led him to entertain."
Thus, after the lapse of 22 years, the Rajah of
Suttara has followed the example, and met the fate of
his former enemy, the Peishwau Bojei Row,

The electors of Liverpool have this day a most im-
portant duty to perform. The period has arrived for
the annual election of Town-councillors, and there
never was a time which called more loudly for zeal
and exertion on behalf of the conservative interest. It

is necessary to the continuance of the prosperity of
this, the second port in the kingdom, that we have a
majority of right-minded men in the Council Chamber.
If a termination is to be made of the gross jobbing
and perversion to political purposes exhibited in that
Chamber, the burgesses have it now in their power to
do so. The claims of the candidates may be placed on
two grounds—their attachment or objection to the Es-
tablished Church; and their knowledge or ignorance of
local affairs: the electors will not be long in making the
choice. We hope on Tuesday to congratulate the
town on the election of twelve good men and true in
the conservative interest.

Yesterday evening, in St. Jude's Church, the Rev. Hugh
M`Neile gave notice, that on Tuesday next, the sth of No-
vember, he intended to read the service appointed for that
day in the Book of Common Prayer, and afterwards to preach,
a sermon in aid of the Protestant Association. He said, at
the same time, that it would be truly delightful to see the
circumstances of the country such as to justify the wisdom,
or even the safety, of discontinuing all such commemorations,
and forgetting, if possible, all such atrocities as the Gun-
powder Plot : but it was his conviction, that, under existing
circumstances, the practical remembrance of such facts in
our history is as painfully necessary, and their public com-
memoration as nationally wise, as on the year next after their
occurrence.

Cordially agreeing as we'do in these sentiments of the rev.
gentleman, and feeling, with the writer in the London Times
of last Tuesday, how deeply the country is indebted to the
seasonable labours of the Protestant Associations, we ven-
ture most respectfully to suggest to all our clerical readers
whd are members of our Liverpool Protestant Association,
the desirableness of combining a collection for that excellent
institution with their commemoration of the sth of Novem-
ber.—We perceive that the Rev. Hugh Stowell is to preach
in London, on Nov. sth, in aid of the London Protestant
Association.

FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.—This protestant anniversary will
be commemorated by the Protestant Association, by church
services and sermons, in the. following places. We trust the
example will be generally followed throughout England:—
London—St. Clement Danes, in the Strand ; morning, at
11, with sermon, by the Rev. Dr. Croly • evening, at half-
past six, sermon by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester.
Southwark, St. Saviour's—Rev. W. Curling. Gosport—
Rev. A. S. Thelwall. Sydenham—Rev. T. P. Hutton.
South Lambeth—Rev. Robert Eden. Iver, Bucks—Rev.
Dr. Cuthbert. Streatham—Rev.:Robert Monro. Willion—
Rev. W. W. Pym. Titchmar.h, Northamptonshire—Hon.
and Rev. L. Powys. Launceston—Rev. E. B. Gibbens.
Saffron Walden—Rev. Mr. Bull. Remenham, near Henley-
on-Thames—Rev. T. Maynard. Gwinean, near Camborne,
Cornwall—Rev. J. G. Wolff. Penzance—Rev. Thomas
Vyvyan. Clare, Suffolk—Rev. G. Ingram. Stanbourne,
Essex—Rev. J. Hopkins. These will speedily be followed
(D. V.) by great protestant meetings, at Norwich, Yarmouth,
Sheffield, Gosport, Stafford, Worcester, Brighton, Whit-
church in Salop, Birmingham, and many other places.
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION, COLQUITT-STREET.—We re-
joice to state that the interest excited towards this Institution
is rapidly on the increase, and trust that it will receive com-
mensurate support. The rooms appropriated to whatever is
curious in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdom, are
well worthy of a visit. By a resolution of the committee, the
public have been admitted gratuitously for some months past,
on the first Monday in each month. The first open day was
on'the 7th of January in the present year, the day succeeding
the night of the great storm, and itself so boisterous that
comparatively few persons attended. The attendance of
visitors has since, however, greatly and rapidly increased, as
will be found from the following statement, politely afforded
us by the Curator :
lstMonday in January.. 120 Ist Monday in June ... 3280
February. 350 „ July.... 5335
March... 300 „ August. 4656
f! April.... 2500 „ Sept. .. 4620
May .... 3130 ~ 0ct.... 7060
Mr. M. G. Dowling, the Commissioner of Police of this
town, is a candidate for the same situation in London. He
is opposed by five other gentlemen, among whom is Mr.
Daniel Whittle Harvey. The election was fixed for yesterday.