The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

e, rarely return again to their original jto those who shall have exercised their functions OFFICIAL INQUIRY RELATIVE TO THE SUP-

lcations as cul

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sfaetorily for fifteen year

and, fou

PLY W

IS FOR LIVERPOOL,

schools shall be provided with the means of in-
Yesterday, Cuthbert Edward Ellison, Esq., barrister-
A the teachings of the political
structing the children frequenting them in various
onomist, who would leave all undertakings of a at-law, and George Lowe, civil engineer, presided at the
trades and industrial occupations, which, it was Sessions-house in this town, to examine witnesses and re-
argues—and, chdracter to private enterprise, and who
argued, would induce parents of families not to
mpoaritntiontperaerslitaimnelsrnlat,iye
,tvoastsuppl of
as a general rule, justly—that where
involved L. an applicationgas
withdraw their children at so early an age as at
that enterprise refuses to step in, there can be little
about to be made to pqarlirayment, by the Liverpool Guar-
- of the work to be done, present is the practice, and also encourage others
dian Gas Company, who propose to supply gasat a cheaper
to send their children to schools, in which they rate than the two existing companies, notwithstanding
would learn occupations calculated to be useful to their recent reductions in charges. Another advertise-
ment announced an intention of applying to parliament,
the Old Gar

the fa

in the int
whiA

.haract

result,

colds out a promise of any very profitabl

Vhen we regard the sub.}

iowever, with all

yi in atter life. The workhouse schools, t
marquis also intimated, are to be improved in

le no-

its con corn

antes, these obi(

ad it is not at all

-light Company, for powers to raise a fur-
ther sum of money for the extension 'of their works.
Both inquiries were under the provisions of an act passed
last session, for the purpose of making preliminary in-
.

the propolal of the noble lord may not be ultimately
by disnangionn+P nernrinn an MITA }ll.

Further than this mere improvement of the exist-
mg educational machinery, and to the establish-

ment of any really comprehensive system, of which

hall form a 'part

system, in 'fact,

vorthy of being called national,—her Majesty's
ilovernment express themselves afraid to go. Any
) establish such a system, the noble mar-

Old, or Original Dale-street Gas-light Company ; Mr.
J. B. Lloyd, for the New Gas and Coke Company ; Mr.
Evans, for the Guardian Society ; and Mr. Swift, for the
Guardian Gas Company
Mr
the G

representec

a large number cc

of objections and opponents

the inhabit

is of the town

Mr. LLOYD said tbaiOn'behalf of his clients he was

thrown of

t. We a
quire d to

rnotives w

h must be

—dieaded even

)ntact between persons of one religious persuasion and
rose of another. They carried their objections, certainl
a degree far beyond what he (Lord Lansdom
e should do, however confient he might be it
ess, the truth, or thu excellence of the religion with

The
COmmissioncrs having agreed that the case for the
old company should be first heard,
Mr, CARSON said the object of his clients was to raise
a fur

1 in th

) thought

her sum to en

which he might b(

advancement

But at the same time
i6ctions to such a de-

were many who felt these

in the isoeial seal

rrenuer hir

ystem which' would combine under the same roof, and
portion under the same system of instruction, persons of different

I for t

will the dr

a system

,nd they were not without power, or

years to come

ability, or authority in this country,—were those who ob-
jected to any interference of the Government at all with
the national education, and who considered that educa-
tion, into which subject they carried the same views which,
they entertained on the subject of religion, ought to be on
the voluntary system. They held that any interference
by the Government on a large scale would have the effect
na, of damping energies and discouraging exertions which

Ugh not to the ex-

;ht would

i Whe:

e the novelty of the statement of difficulty
ip exists we are utterly at a loss to discover.
There have always been religious differences im-
peding the establishment of a national system of
Education, from which religious teaching is not ex-
cluded ; and, as there always will be such differ-

, we must conclude, from his Lordship's own
premises, that a National system of Education,
of which teaching in Religion is a component part,
is to be indefinitely postponed—at
we-have a Government in the country vu
I

ch is honest

anti courageous enougt
tion

to act upon its own convic-

ind to brave the factious cries of hostile and
The deference of the Noble

,ending sects,

Marquis to opposition from such a source is inex-
cusable after the confession, in a subsec

whilst

he thus ihreui

at forwar

the people, is pre

has been

he au-

a 60,000 to 140,000 inh-abitants
r such a district were called a
nerely to look after the clergy,

hat•he shall visit the sick, give
know, and be known by, his
?. is it, to look for the per-
,,,.n a rector of Liverpool with
vicar of Whalley with its five-and