The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-03 00:00:00

children (under 13 y

stead a 8

, the forenoon or the afternoon of the day be-

ing left available for educational purposes. The ma-
nagement of these schools, and the appointment of the
master, will be placed in the hands of trustees, who
are to consist of the clergyman of the parish in which
the school is situated, the two churchwardens, and
four other persons nominated by the magistrates.
The system of education to be pursued we can con-
vey most faithfully to the reader by quoting a portion
of the clauses by which it is proposed by Sir James
Graham to be regulated. They are as follows :

" And be it enacted that every master of a school to
be provided for the education of children as aforesaid,
shall be required to teach the Holy Scriptures, in the
version appointed by law to be used in churches, to such
scholars as shall be old enough to learn the same, and
shall teach from no other book of religion whatsoever
(except as hereinafter provided); but nothing herein
contained shall prevent the use of any part of the
liturgy of the Church of England in the said school by
the clerical trustee, or by any person whom he may
appoint on Sunday or on Christmas-day, Good Friday,
or any of the usual fasts and festivals of the Church
which may be school holidays, provided that no scho-
lar shall be required to attend at such divine service,
whose parent, guardian, or other person having the
legal custody of hirn, shall object to such attendanCe."

" And be it enacted, that the Catechism of the
Church of England," ?cc., shall be taught the children
during certain hours in the week days, and for three
hours on Sundays, together with other religiouS in-

such religious Instruction being deter-
mined, and the selection of books for the purpose being
made, by the clerical trustee alone," &c.

struction,

Then as to the religious teaching of the children of
dissenters, the clause enacts that such children shall
not be compjlied to be present during• these hours of
religious instruction, and proceeds to declare that " it
shall not be lawful for the trustees or master of the

said school, or any other per

)n, to give, or permit to
be given, in the .said school, any religious instruction
to such scholar, except the reading of the Holy Scrip-
tures, as hereinhefore appointed, provided that such
child shall at such periods be instructed in some other
branch of knowledge taught in the school."

In substance we have here, in the fullest sense of
the word, a system of Scriptural Education, and of
teaching in the principles of the Church of England,
provided for at the national expense, and conducted
under the guidance of the Clergy of the Establish-
ment ; and it is truly gratifying to observe, that, not-
withstanding the sectarian rancour with which a sys-
tem precisely similar, if indeed so strictly in unison
With the feelings of Churchmen, is attacked by a party
in our own town, the intimation by Government of

their purpose to introduce a measure upon the subject
founded upon these principles during the present ses-
sion, was received with almost unanimous approval by

the House of Commons

In addition, however, to a measure for the promo-
tion of education, we learn that the Government has a
measure in preparation, founded upon the able report
of Mr. Edwin Chadwick, to which we have more than
once called attention, for improving the sanatory con-
dition of the dwellings of the poor. Sure this at length
is legislation in the right direc

Our contemporary, the Mane/tester Guardian, of
Wednesday, attempts a reel}, after his own tricky
fashion, to the remarks which we addressed to him on
Friday last. There is really, however, somewhat too
much of the " tuquoque" style of argumentation in
the Guardian's article to render it worthy of serious

notice. There is, withal, a
spice of insolent assump-
tion of superior honesty
and virtue which, in a journal

so notoriously shifty and venal as our contemporary,
is rather indiscreet. We shall not pause, however, to
remind the world of the twenty times turned coat, and
more than Chameleon's variety of political hue, which
this virtuous personage has exhibited during the twenty

' labour
.to_NiidLzbe, joints with such apparent
self-satisfaction ; but proceed to notice the little that
we can discover worthy of remark in his Wednesday's