The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION.

We noticed last week a speech delivered by Lord Mor-
peth, at a meeting in York, from which we inferred that the
present ministry had in contemplation the introduction of
some comprehensive scheme of education for the masses of
the people, although its precise, or even probable, charac-
ter was difficult to be discovered, from the reserved man-
ner in which his lordship spoke. We have since heard,
on what we consider to be good authority, that a plan has
been submitted to them by Mr. J. Bramley-Moore, the
chairman of the Liverpool Dock Committee, which has
been received with great consideration, and which pos-
sesses the merit—a difficult one to be attained in treating
on so important a subject—of meeting the views of reli-
gionists of several and very conflicting opinions, to whom
it has been shown, whilst this is to be effected without
sacrificing teaching in the vital truths of religion, or pros-
trating the authority of the Established Church, to pro-
pitiate dissent. By one eminent dignitary of the Estab-
lishment, whose name, if we could mention it, would
satisfy our fellow-townsmen that no surrender of the
principle of religious education is contemplated under the
plan, it was received, we understand, with unqualified
approbation.

We trust most sincerely that this may be the plan
which Government proposes to introduce ; and that to
Mr. Bramley-Moore, in addition to his other claims to
the gratitude of his fellow-townsmen, will be awarded the
credit of having solved a difficulty, the existence of which
in the present awakened feeling of the
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Legislature.

The whole of the cabinet ministers are expected in
town on Thursday.

It is said tliat Lord Robert Grosvenor will come for-
ward as a candidate for Middlesex, in the place of the
venerable Mr. Byng, who retires.
The Earl of Elgin, Governor General of the Canada.%
left London yesterday for Liverpool, from which port he
willlabtakse his departure to-day for the scene of his future
our.

The Daily News of Saturday anticipated its contempo-
raries in the receipt of the Overland Mails from China.
Several of the other daily papers copied in second editions
the intelligence from the Daily News.
SOUTH CHESHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The
executive body of this association meet on Friday next,
at Crewe, for the special purpose of considering the pro-
priety of petitioning parliament for a repeal of the malt
tax. The motion to this effect will be opposed by a sec-
tion of the committee.

CAMBRIDGE, JANUARY 2.—THE HULSEAN PRIZE :
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College.--
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.n—awarded HULSEANto A. lkE
The Rev. Dr. C. Wordsworth, of Trinity College, and
canon of Westminster, has been elected for the ensuing
and academical year. reTMußoEoßre:,

The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere entertained at
dinner on Saturday evening the Duchess of Sutherland,
the Earl of Clare, Captain Eastwick, and a select circle.
The noble earl is expected to leave town on Tuesday, on .
a visit to the Earl and Countess De Grey, at Wrest Park,
Beds, from which he proceeds to Woburn Abbey. The
youthful members of the family leave town on Tuesday
for Hatchford, the family seat in Surrey.

MEMORIAL TO THE COUNCIL von. A REFORM OF fit°
POLICE COURT.—This memorial, of which we ga, a copY
in our last, has, during the week, been most numerously
and influentially signed. It still lies for signature at the
usual places ; and we beg to remind our fellow townsmen
who feel an interest in this important subject, that it will
be presented to the Council on Wednesday, '(to-morrow,)
when, in all probability, a decision will be come to. No
signature can be attached to the memorial after this even-
ing, as it must be in the hands of the Mayor early to-

morrow morning.
CASE OF DESTITVTION.-Yesterday, about noon, a
crowd of persons gathered round a female, opposite the
Waterloo Hotel, with two children, (one an infant and
the other four years old,) who had dropped down from
exhaustion, arising from want of food. A gentleman pre-
sent procured the assistance of a woman who was nassing.

and the sufferer and her children were taken intO'Whouse
in Lawton-street, where some warm ale was administered
to her. The same gentleman, and others, subscribed'a
small sum each. and- she was left in a fair way of re..