The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-12 00:00:00

MANSLAUGHTER.

Thomas Shepley, aged 37, was charged with killing and slay-
jug John Harrop, a child, at Manchester,
George Fidler, the first witness called, deposed to living at
Denton. On Thursday, the 28th of duly, between four
and
five o'clock in the afternoon, the child in question, which was
a little boy, was playing in the public lane near some rubbish.
The pris,ner was coming towards the child in a cart, he was sat
down with his back to the horse. He hollowed out to the pri-
soner to stop his horSes.as loud as he could when he saw him
going towards the child. The prisoner immediately jumped
up and used 411 his endeavours to stop the cart as soon as pus- 1,
Bible. The wheel went over the child before be could stop the •
cart. The prisoner expressed great sorrow fur what had oc-
curred.
Witham Turner depoied to residing near the place where the
.acciden' occurred. His attention was called to the accident.
lieb the prisoner had no reins to his cart.
Janeliatiop, them mother of the deceased, deposed to hear-
ing cart corning tin, and running out to take care of her
child. first thing she saw was the cart wheel going over
ran and got the child up, and sent some 000 for
dodo!. !e child died in consequence at eleven o'clock the
same nigh'. It was IS months old.
Jan‘cs Massey deposed to being a surgeon at Denton,• and

being called in to attend the child. He examined it both he-
ron! irnthafter -death Vi7hCn he arrived pulsation' Wad cewiel
.I.4l!ere was a little swelling on, the left side of the he,d. He
atilihnted the .cause of death to a fracture of the skill! aa a
•ropt!ire of the longitudinal sinus. Ile believed the cartwheel
to have i?.i.en the cause of this.
The pi i,oner had nothing to say in defence. He bare an
excelleut vhdraeter. The learned Judge summed up, and the
jury found the 'Prisoner guilty.
JUSTICE CoLEttincE, after severely commenting on the
carelessness of the prisoner in riding iu his cart without reins
and with his back to the horses, sentenced him to be imprison-
eci in the House of Correction for six inouths.

The court adjourned at 4 o'clock to 7'o'clock this morning.

THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.

. The following letter on this subject has been received
from Lord Stanley by Adam Hodgson, E:4]. It is a con-
cluSire.answer to the statement in the Council-room, that
his, lordship, when formerly in the government, was fa-
vourable to the adoption of the selections of the Irish
commissioners of education as applicable to.this coun-
try, and fully,bears out the conClusive reply to that state-
ment by the Rev. Rector BrOokS, at the meeting at
.the
Amphitheatre. Accompanying the letter was the hand-
some donation of £2O towards the funds of the. Church
of England School Society.

Knowsley, August Gth, 1836.
MY' DE to n,—M y hastY journey to and front town; the be-
t inning. of the week, prevented use from earlier thanking Sein
for the account you sent me of the proceedings at the is triphi-
theatre, on the subject of the,resi;linion adopted by' the Town=
council, with liefereuce to the Csirporation Schools ; in Which I
see.that more than one speaker did me the honour of ediferting
to my opinions, or supposed opinions, on the question at issue,
as having introduced into Ireland the system of education, Which
I see Wrined the " Irish system." I urn not vain enough to
suppose that these opinions will carry much weight with them;
but I can have no difficalty in saying, that, they appear to have
been very correctly expressed by the chait'tuan, and that the
system, which I did recommend as adapted to the peculiar state
of Ireland, I never should have thought of recommending as
in the least applicable to the very different state of England.
The objects of the plan, as applied to Ireland, were twofold,-
Ist, to diminish the violency of religious animosity, by the res-
toration of Protestant and Roman catholic children, in a sys-
tem of education, in which both might join, and in which the
large majority,,who were opposed to the religion of the state,
might practically see how much there was in that religion, &en-
mon to their own : and 2dly, to give to the great bulk of the Ro-
man catholic population as extensive a knowledge of Scripture
truth as they could be induced to receive: It never Was supported
as the best possible education for protestants taken separately;
but as the most protestant, because the most Scriptural education
which could Le givento protestants and Roman catholics jointly.
I will not now discuss the questions which I haVe so often' had
to discuss in parliament, of the mutilation of Scripture," nor
the various criticisms which have been Made on certain passages
of the published extracts; nor the exclusion of the Bibie itself 7
"during sehool-hours." I Will only say, that in my humble
judgment, all the circumstances which jus:ified and rendered
necessary the Irish arrangements for Ireland, are wholly want-.
ing, when the parrallel is attempted to be established in Bugs
land. We do notwant to establish schools for a large majority
of Roman catholies, and it is the Roman catholics only who ob-
ject to the unrestricted use of the Scriptures in schools. On this
point, the Church of England and the protestant disSenters are
agreed; and the regulation is not, therefore, called for, to meet
the seruples of the groat body of dissent in this country. Here,
therefore, the modification which, though ,liable no doubt to
grave objections, was indispensably necessai v in Ireland, if you
meant the bulk of the population to benefit be your system, is
called fir by no necessity; and if not so called for, .is, as I think,
indefensible. I regret, therefore, extremely, that tire corpora-
tion should have withdrawn their schools from their former ma-
nagement, for the purpose of introducing a system ,never in-
tended, except for the peculiar case of Ireland ; and 1 should be
very sorry that my opinion, however unimportant, should be liable
to be quoted infavour of the transfer. Perhaps the easiest mode
of obviating such a possibility would be to give you full power to
make what use you please of this letter, and to request you to
have the kindness to forward the enclosed, as asunall donation
from roe, in aid of the new schools, the establishment of which
has been rendered necessary by the course adupted by the cor-
poratiou.—Believe use, my dear Sir, very sincerely yours,
STANLE Y.
A. Hodgson, Esq., Everton.