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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

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EDUCATION.—It is astonishing to observe the extent to
which this subject is dividing the press, as well as parties.
The Dissenters are told that they are afraid of their con-
gregations being churchified,—as one of the resulzs of the
extension of knowledge : this they deny ; contending that
inspectors, being paid by the State, will give a State in-
fluence to the machinery. It is said that ministers have
given way to a certain point on this question, and that
some sects will be at liberty to choose their own in..
cnprtors : thus lobbing away the public money in holes

and corners. the Wesleyans are rather split on the sub-
ject ; the Unitarians and Scotch Free Church going with
the Government measure. There is something question-
able in the whole proceeding ; parliament not having a
due control over the details. We do not exactly know
where this greatly improved class of new schoolmasters
are to he found,—where and when they are made, or
where educated. At present they can only be considered
as the pupils of the very demagogues denounced as in-
competent. Officering a new corps of recruits out of the
ranks, is appealing from the greater knowledge to the
less ; but the nation is to be made, one way or another,
more gramatically, geographically, and astronomically
virtuous. We rather doubt the fruits than grudge the
means.

DIFFERENT FATES OF MR. COBDEN AND MS POR-
TRAIT.—WhiIe 1-Ir. Cobden, M.P., the great apostle of
free trade, is in Rome, endeavouring, it may be, to per-
suade his holiness the Pope to drain and cultivate the
pestilential marshes of the Tiber—
"Where Campania's plain forsaken lies,
A weary waste expanding to the skies,"
the league portrait of Mr. Cobden is destined to play a
part in adventures in fields and courts nearer home.
About 2 o'clock on Monday week, one of the Leeds police-
men, while on duty in Pottery Field, Hunslet, found a
man lying prostrate on the ground, fast asleep, with the
portrait of Mr. Cobden, framed and glazed, under his
arm. With some difficulty the sleeper was awakened, but
as he was evidently not a commodity which the guardian
of the night could with propriety pass duty free, he placed
both him and the portrait in bond until eleven o'clock the
same morning. At that hour he was brought before the
magistrates at the court-house, when he said his name
was George Fowler, and that he was a glass blower. He
also stated that he had been at York on Sunday, and ac-
counted for his being found as described by saying that he
had got too much liquor. On being asked where he had
got the portrait, he said he had swopped something else
for it at the Mulberry Tree, Hunslet-lane. The police-
man informed the bench that the prisoner had given three
different accounts of the portrait. Mr. Markland ob-
served that he had perhaps such a great partiality for Mr.
Cobden that he had taken it without permission. A mes-
senger was then sent to make inquiry, and it was found
that the statement as to the swop was correct. The pri-
soner was therefore set •at liberty, and the portrait was
given up to him.