The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-14 00:00:00

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Any chang

must be one

the Church. and elevate the

rs of the

position of the dissenting cceryg, --
such alone would
people. It may, indeed, be—and
enable dissenters to agree to any one definite system—
enable -" spoken of are to be in
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that the "

material alterat

arcitng religious teaching

the direction of altogethe

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of providing m

from the factory schools
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Instruction" to the children, and

.aving religion, and
to be inculcated by

based upon religion,

43, we know,

morality as

the voluntar:

nt contended for by the

fforts of their pare

is the system at t

sunstit.ated for the existing

dissenting bodies, to b

n schools in our own
- •

scriptural system in the corpor4b.---
town ; and such is the systena of our mechanics' in-

',adorn But if any thing at

stitutes througlsout tb

ung so utterly unfitted for
of as rife in the

all approaching to it—any

manufac-

meeting the

)mpla

emphatically, the span-
.

turing distncts, and whic

tual destitution of the children of the poor—is contem-
plated by Sir James Graham, we do pray that he, and

,ember,

will at once

the government of which he

retire from the consideration of ,he question of educa-
tion, and leave it to be dealt with by other hands

We cannot believe, however, that anything so un-
worthy of a Christian statesman is meditated; but this
we do contend, that any step, the most trifling, in the
direction to which ministers are urged—any step taken
easing the clamour got
with the view of app up—(we
use the term advisedly )—against the proposed educa-
tional enactments of their present bill, will be a step
the most ill-judged and mischievous in its results, if it
be not almost fatal to the operation of the entire mea-
reopl
sure. We cannot, as a Church of
England
tional e—
the present government cannot, as a constitu go-
vernment—propose any educational measure which
ll satisf the dissenting bodies, without inflicting an
wi y

" a heavy blow and great discouragement--
upon the Established Church ; or, what is worse still,

insult—'

omitting altogether the consideratiohn of religious teach-
ing, as a portion of their system. They mast inevitably,
if such system is to have any distinctive features at all,
jar against the feelings of one party or the other—
the Church of England majority of the people, or the
dissenting majority ; and we can assure them (our fel-
low-townsmen require no assurance beyond their own
experience of the fact) that any attempt to conciliate
matter in
the latter, by concession, short of the whole
dispute, will be utterly hopeless
The merest glance at the resolutions, with which
Lord John Russell, as the organ--scl_
PerhaPs—of the dissenters, has purported to cut the
gordian knot of this question, will we are sure serve
better than any arguments to demonstrate the difficulty
of dealing with it upon any other than the broad rule
of constitutional principle. For see into what absurd
dilemmas the attt, - Principle, or to bend it

lf-constituted

to suit every description ot religionist, leads his lord-
ship I We will gothrough the resolutions seriatim,

npt to fritter t

adequate representation of
f
the ratepayers of the parish in each (local) board" o

The first provides for

same heartburnings

education. In other words, th.
and constant agitation which have