The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-26 00:00:00

TATTERSALL'S,-MONDAY.

The betting this afternoon was dull, flat, and uninteresting,
notwithstanding the near approach of Goodwood Races. The
only change worth alluding to was in the Lord Mayor, who
was backed rather freely at 5 to 1; the odds, however, were
offered at the close. A decline is perceptible in Miss Eliza
and Wee Willie. The cup betting was so indefinite as to
puzzle us in ascertaining the prices of some of the favourites.
In the early part of the afternoon, Harkaway stood at 7 to 4,
Galewood at 6 to 1 (taken to about £200), and Richard Roe
at about the same figure (not taken) ; 2 to 1 was afterwards
betted against the Irish horse, and 8 to 1 laid against each of
the others in one bet. The subsequent offers against the
last-mentioned pair will not justify us in quoting them at
more:than 6 to 1 ; but, in doing sc,, we cannot pledge our-
selves that they are exactly correct. 13 to 2 and afterwards
6 to 1 (taken) about Deception, and two or three tens to one
about the Doctor. No change of any consequence in the St.
Leger.

GOODWOOD STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Lord Mayor
10 to 1 ~ Col. Peel's I-am-not-aware
12 to 1 „ Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie—t
12 to 1 „ Mr. Bell's Miss Eliza—t
14 to 1 ~ Duke of Richmond's Confusion&
14 to 1 „ Mr. Hornsby's Romania
15 to 1 ~ Lord's Eglinton's St. Bennett
35 to 1 ~ Mr. Wetherell's Rachael—t
35 to 1 „ Col. Anson's Nickleby—t
50 to 1 ~ Mr. Bleecck's Bristolian—t
50 to 1 „ Mr. Coleman's Chemist—t
25 to 1 each against Morella and Merganser (offered in one
bet.-10 to 1 against Nickleby, Albemarle, Caroline Elvina,
and Prizeflower—t.

It was stated in the room, that Miss Eliza arrived in town
to-day. GOODWOOD CUP.
2 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway (tk)
6to 1 ~ Mr. F. Craven's Deception (tk)
6to 1 „ Mr. H. St. Paul's Galewood (tk)
6to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Richard Roe
10 to 1 „ Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor (tk.)
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
7 to 2 agst Mr. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury
4to 1 „ Major Yarburgh's Charles XII. (tk 9to 2)
16 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Hetman Platoff.
30 to 1 was betted against The Lord Mayor winning this
and the Goodwood Stakes.

THE GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF NATIONAL
EDUCATION,
(From the Church of England Quarterly Review.)
The last blow levelled at the church has been the scheme of
national education. This is the more especially designed to
aid the cause of popery, to give facilities to the popish priests,
to seduce the children of Protestants from their faith, to cir-
culate the popish version of the Scriptures, and make the
ministers of parishes nonentities, is too manifest to require
an elaborate proof. Here the archbishop and the clergy have
vigourously acted, and presented a front which alarmed the
puny ministers of the crown. But the evil is still imminent :
the bill may be modified, but its modifications will he only
disguises ; its venom will not be extracted, its deleterious
composition will notbe corrected. We must not only watch,
but oppose it : we must not only build up what our party
spirit has pulled down, but, like those who erected the walls
of Jerusalem, gird on our armour, quit ourselves like men,
and be strong.

It is very obvious that either this bill may be rendered of
no effect by our prudence, or that it will violate the principles
of the constitution, and thus, even though it should be made
a law, will be on higher grounds illegal. For unless it takes
away the right of parents over children, which is the law of
God and nature, a remedy is apparent ; but if is the law to
infringe that right, that law both natural and Divine, it will
not only exceed the powers of any legislature, but will cer-
tainly encounter the resistance of physical strength. This
right, therefore, being inalienable, sacredly invested in pa-
rentage, our course is plain.
Where the inducements are similar, parents would prefer
the instruction of their children in their own faith, to one in
a faith diametrically opposite ; and if the church provides
schools all over the country, and those schools be properly
supported and endowed, the rising generation may yet be
saved from the effects of this ministerial project. Since then,
funds have, with a remarkable facility, been collected for
various societies, and £90,000 per annum for the Bible So-
ciety alone—since immense sums have been expended on
foreign missions, assuredly the true friends to the church,
and to the Protestant cause in general, should make these
suggested schools the first consideration, and delay not to
raise munificient contributions for their establishment and
support. If so much be expended to send the Bible out of
the country, how much more should be expended to keep it
in it? Whether, therefore, the clergy belong to the society
in Lincoln's Inn-fields, or to that in Earl-street, the interest
is the same ; and the latter are especially bound to execute
the cry of " The Bible, and nothing but the Bible !" which
years ago they exulted in interchanging with the dissenters.
For unless they exert themselves in time, they will have in
some places much less, and in others much more than the
Bible, and at last no Bible at all for experience shows that
the popish version is only permitted to meet actual exigences;
and that, if the Papists should preponderate, by the aid of
the government, as in other places, they will quickly either
destroy or remove it, and burn all others, leaving to the care
of this society in lieu Joachim on his ass, and other equally
attractive legends and pictures.
We again urge that these schools should be most liberally
conducted, that the teachers should be approved persons, that
the rewards for merit should be great and good • in fact, that
every inducement should be devised to keep the children of
Protestants from the bearish hugs of Papists. It has been
shown that the legislature cannot contravene this plan without
violating a right over which the law has no controul ; because
it flows from a higher source ; in such a case we may justly
refuse obedience. But we affirm that in a day of agitation,
distrust, and hatred, like this, they will not dare to infringe
that right ; so that, whilst it is inviolable, it gives to us the
means of repelling the threatened evil.