The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

NATIONAL EDUCATION.
(From Me Staffordshire Gazette.)
We regret to perceive the tone taken by the Times
newspaper on this important subject, and the more so
because of its vast influence, and of our general ac-
cordance with its principles, The Times observes, with
referenCe to the grant of £30,000 last year carried in
the Commons, by a majority of two, that., "a condition
was attached to it that ministers should appoint in-
spectors to attest the proper employment of the grant;
and never was a more foolish or petulant thing done than
the refusing of this grant, or their share of it, by the
members of the Church of England, which refusal left
government the power of lavishing it without restraint
on the school establishments of the political dissenters;
whereas, had the church members grasped their
of what had in a great degree come from their
own pockets in the shape of taxes, there would not
have been one dissenting school in five which would
have been found to have performed the conditions of
the grant, nor one in five of the Church of England
schools that had neglected them." Now this is not
stating the case fairly : the members of the Church of
England did not refuse to accept their share of the
grant simply because inspectors were to be appointed,
but on account of other conditions stipulated for, which
involved their conscience and consistency—they must
either have admitted a mutilated Bible and popish and
socinian inspectors, men of all creeds and men of no
creeds, to dictate the course of instruction in their
schools, or reject a grant to which such impudent con-
ditions were attached. The best supply, however, to
the mistakes of the Times, has been very seasonably
supplied by that excellent nobleman, the Earl of Win-
chilsea. At a meeting of the Protestant Association,
on Wednesday, assembled to discuss this subject, his
lordship delivered his sentiments as follows, and in
which we heartily coincide :—" We are assembled,"
said his lordship,
." upon this' occasion to protest
against the further continuance of that unscriptural
scheme of national education, against which we raised
our voices last year, and in favour of which only the
miserable majority of TWO could be obtained in the
lower house of parliament, while in the upper house an
immense majority of 111 opposed it, adopting an ad-
dress to the Throne, praying her Majesty to withhold
her royal assent to the measure. But notwithstanding
this declaration against that scheme of education by so
large a majority of the hereditary advisers of the
Crown, an incompetent and daring ministry have
dared, being compelled by their Popish masters, in
direct violation of.. the best feelings of the people,
to advise their Sovereign • to force that scheme
upon the country at large. We are assembled to sup-
port our opinion, which is founded on the whole
authority of Scripture, that no system of national edu-
cation can or ought to be acceptable to a Christian
country that does not take the Bible, and the whole
Bible, for its foundation, and all those religious prin-
ciples which the Bible inculcates. It is that religion
which can alone be of any service to man, and afford
him the slightest benefit in this life ; it is that religion
alone which can elevate the man and bring his heart
and life into subjection to the Almighty, Such a re-
ligion as that, indeed, is the only religion worth pos-
sessing ; it is a religion which makes a man happy
in himself and a blessing to the community to which
he belongs. The system of national education which
we stand forward to advocate is one which should re-
ceive the support of every Christian ruler ; for it has
for its object the moral improvement of the popula-
tion, the formation of upright character, and the in-
culcation of Christian conduct ; a system which will
be the best security of the public tranquility,
and the only safeguard of the peace of any coun-
try, a system which alone can maintain undis-
turbed and unpolluted the Throne and the Altar.
The true Christian is the true and genuine patriot ;
amidst the sneers and scorns he meets with from the
thoughtless and carelesss world, through evil and
through good report, he continues his even. consistent
course, his will ever regulated by the laws of God,
and his every action in unison with the motto, " Fear
God and honour the Sovereign," The true Christian
in his relative duties as a father, a husband, a son, a
brother, and a neighbour, as a master or a servant, as
a ruler or a subject, is invariably found pursuing a
just and honest course, supported and influenced by
those religious principles which he draws from the
Bible, and which can alone entitle him to the esteem
and respect of the community. This is the religion,
and these are the principles which, if generally taught
and difilised throughout the world, would convert this
earth, which sin and misery ina,ke a very hell, into a
very paradise. We are met to oppose that system of
national education, which whatever may be the declared
opinions of many who support it, we well know was
concocted at Rome, fraudulently to try to deprive Eng-
lis.hinen of the right of reading the Bible, and to for-
ward the ever-cherished design of Popery, to bring
this country under the domination of the Church of
Rome again.

A very large oblong cluster of dark spots are now to be
seen traversing the solar disc, not far from the sun's centre.
They present a most beautiful and elegant appearance through
a telescope.

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We regret to state that Mr. Horsinan has been
for Cockermouth. This result has been occasioned, returned
as we
learn from a person on the spot, by the fact
of General
Wyndham having declined, when he took possession of his
property at Coekerinouth, to comply with the urgent request
then made to him to become a candidate for the representa-
tion of the borough on the first vacancy. In consequence of
this refusal many of the electors, who would otherwise have
supported General Wyndham, became committed; but this
difficulty will not operate on a future occasion, so that we
may confidently add Cockermouth to the list of places which,
at a general election, will be rescued from the whig grasp.—
Brighton Gazette.
Two years ago Colonel Conolly, M.P., the owner of an
extensive tract of land in this parish, being desirous to im-
prove the condition of his tenants there, employed 12 sur-
veyors to equalise the size of the various farms, and to give
to each tenant a fair proportion from the river Gulbarrow to
the top of the mountain. He also built for them most com-
modious and most respectable-looking houses, each having
three chimnies and two sash-windows, with office-houses in
the
rear. They extend in a line along the road a distance of
14 miles, arid are as white as the driven snow. These im-
prov meats did not cost him less than X-1,000 sterling. The
colonel
also gave his tenants new carts to work, and draw
lime with, sledges, crowbars, and box and hand-harrows. If
all landlords wouldana do as the colonel has done, instead of
double-rentint, rowing down houses, as some of his
neighbours are doing,th the country would soon become new
instead of old Irelat Ball eh .y
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PENZANCE.—The mackarel fishery in this bay is still suc-
cessful. But the most
this, that the seine which had
part. of the business is
been bewitched at Newlyn, ap-
pears to have been thoroughly disenchanted'
which we last week describ, an i
since been blessed
with singular good luck!! Before it rasd undergone the sort
of exorcism practised upon it, it never e
now it seems never to miss them : so tilthautg
in the
any fish and
the course of
the week, it has talcen no less than X7O or £BO
shows how much better it is to smoke the evil worth.si This
tlt out of
any inanimate object into which he may haveinsinuated
himself, than to attack him in the person of a wite
bidding he may be supposed to have obeyed ; that beingw whose
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strong hold which he never relinquishes except in the last
a ie last
extremity.—Bristol Standard.