The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

JUNE 28, 1853.

were agreed that whatever education was given must be
a religious education. The sense of England had been
taken, and he believed they were of one mind on that
subject—that men should not be taught merely how to
live but how to die. There were at this moment no fewer
than 380,000 children receiving no education at all ; and
in 172 parishes in this country no daily education was
given in connexion with the Church of England. And as
to the character of the education—in many of the schools
it was a mere apology for education ; the teachers, though
they did their best, were inadequate to the work, and
good teachers could not be obtained, more than anything
else, unless a proper remuneration were offered.
But who should undertake to provide education ? There
was no difficulty in answering that question, and of all
bodies there was none so proper as the Church of Eng-
land. There was no church which had such opportunities
of doing good as that church ; and where the gospel was
preached and the principles of the church carried out and
properly administered, it was eminently successful in
taking a hold of the people. He could not now support
the education of the National Society, because he believed
it had forfeited the confidence of all sound, true-hearted
members of the Church of England. It was quite true,
after what had been shown to be the state of the National
Society, that a new society should be formed. (Hear,
hear.) Mr. Colquhoun, a gentleman who had laboured
six years to put the society on a better footing, had
found, after all his efforts, that there was no alternative
but the course which the meeting was recommended to
adopt,—the formation of a new society, like that which
was now before them. The speaker referred to some of
the Romish practices which he said had been for some
time creeping into the church, and said it was now come to
this,—they were to decide whether they were to have a
real Protestant Church, or change its character and send
word to the Pope to forward us half-a-dozen Cardinals in
addition to the one we had already, and be the real sub-
jects of the Pope once more. (Hear, hear.) But he had
no doubt the people of this country were sound at heart,
and thoroughly protestant and evangelical, and he wished
to see them taking the lead in the movement which had
been brought before them, and support that which was
protestant and evangelical. (Hear, hear.)—The resolution
was carried unanimously.

On the motion of Mr. CARSON, seconded by Mr. J.
C. DUNCAN, it was agreed that an auxiliary be formed
far the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool, and that
the following gentlemen be appointed officers for the ensu.
ing year :—Edward Cropper, Esq., president ; Revs. Dr.
M'Neile, Will!am Rawson, Alexander Knox, Adam Hodg-
son, Esq., T. B. Horsfall, Esq., G. C. Arbuthnot, Esq.,
vice-presidents. Committee : Revs. W. Barker, W. Pol-
lock, W. 31. Path:pan, J. B. Lowe, S. Minton, W. Parry,
H. Carpenter, T. C. Cowan. Charles Inman, Esq., Wm.
J. Tomlinson, Esq., Geo. Marsden, Esq., Thos. Carson,
Esq., Arthur Steains, Esq., James C. Duncan. Esq.,
Richard A. Payne, Esq., Henry Woodfall, Esq. ; William
Jones, Esq., treasurer ; Rev. W. H. Wright. and John
alen, secretaries.

Thanks having been voted to the chairman, on the
motion of Mr. JOHN EDEN, seconded by the Rev. Dr.
M'NEILE, the meeting broke up at ten minutes before
four, having lasted nearly four hours.

THE ELECTION.-WARD MEETINGS.