The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-12 00:00:00

AT, R. E. W. THOMAS'S BENEFIT,
.13/1 TO-NIGHT (TUESDAY).

MONEY TAKEN AT THE DOORS.

bm., Application for Tic.k, eto he -made early in the day atthe
'Philharmonic-office.
c._ See of Advertiseme

!nts and Programmes.
.1. B. COOPER, Hoti.7Sec

PROFESSIONAL .LITE ASSURANCE
,COMPANY,
Admitting, on equal terms, -persona of every class and degree
to all its benefitsend advantages.
CAPITAL,-4-1:250,000.
CH A I nmAN,—Major -1-1 EN la STONES.

DEPT7TY-CHAIRMAN —.JAMES ANDREW DURHAM., Esq,
With upwards of Fourteen limidred Shareholders.

There are two important-clauses in the deed of settlement;
ir; which the Directors havepowerto appropriate ONE-TEN'T•H
of the entire profits of the'Company

Ist.—For.the relief of aged and distressed parties assured
for.life, who havepaiddve years' premiums, their widows

_ _
and orphans.
2nd.—For the relief of aged and distressed original pro-
prietors. assured or •not, tbelrexidows and orphans, toge-
ther with 5 per cent. per aemum on the capital originally
invested by them. ----
All policies indisputable and Ere ,f stamp duty.
Rates of premium extremely jdoderate.
...

No extra charge for going treWing. at (in time of peace)
ustralasia, Bermuda, Maietra,- Cape of Good Hope, Mauri-
tius, and the British No isanericr.n Colonies.

Medical men in all sesreinunerated for their report.
Assurances grant against l'artfigslx, Blindness, Accidents,
Insanity, and e ry other afilictien, bodily and mental,
snoderate rate .
.A liberal commission allowed to A•rents.
Annual Premium for Assuring,6'loo, namely
Age-20 .t 1 10s. 9d. I Age-40

13s. 6d.
3 IS 6
Prospectuses, with tables and, fullest information, may be
bad at the Offices of the Company, or of any of their Agents.
_Applications for Agencies requestee.
EDWARD BA I'LIS. Resident Manager and Actuary.
,0-jices, 75, Cheapside, London.

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lESDAY

MORNING.

APRIL 13, 1853.

NATIONAL EDUCATION.
TSE important question of promoting and extend-
ing a system of National Education—which has
long;been one of the great difficulties of modern
legislation,—has been manfully grappled by Lord
JOHN RU.SSELL, and in a tone which may tend to

disarm much of the opposition naturally felt by
the religious public to his liberalising and latitudi-

narian principles. We cannot, however, lose sight
altogether ,of the character of his lordship, so gra-
phically pronounced by the late Rev. SIDNEY
SMITH, who said his self-confidence was so great,
that be would undertake the command of the
channel fleet ,or to perform an operation far the

stone at ten mirxtes' notice. We must, there-
fore, receive with some caution his promises
and professions, and delay any avowal of •ap.
probation until we have before us the actual de-
tails. In his statement to the House of Corn-
mons yesterday week, he gave some statistical
information as to the present state of Education
for the poor, which goes incontestably to prove
the immense exertions and vast superiority of the
Church of England, as distinguished from Dis-
senters, notwithstanding the vaunts of the latter
as to their doings in this respect. Out of a total of
1,281,077 scholars receiving instruction, the large
majority of 955,865, or fully three-fourths, were
taught in Church of England Schools. Out of a total
of 19,856 schools, no fewer than 17,015, or nearly
seven-eighths, were Church of England schools;
and out of a total income of £1,046,579, no less
or four-fifths, was expended in the
than £817,081,
maintenance of Church of England Schools. These
are gratifying proofs of what the Church has done,
and is doing, for the instruction of the humbler
classes, and should at least tend to allay that feel-
ing of jealous opposition to its exertions which
they have so often met from Non-Conformists.
Notwithstanding all that has been said and done in
Manchester and elsewhere by Radical advocateB of