New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-01

forth sav0ry fruit Any :cnOohni',,ce "Ho "' '
the alphabet would feel dEhohoied 70 nav, .; On DC.
door plate any other inscription but Es,loAshtnent
for Young LADIES'" wbat pupil the daughter OF re-
sp,,;obE parents. would condescend to frequent
"Scbool for girls" Prince Arthur SAID:
"Yct remember when wss IN France;
Only for wantopue'';"
but in England they are 50 only Tor gchtIty' L
heard Young gent Of seven years, to whom MS
qoverness had told the history Of Albiades, express
m the strongest terms his contempt OF the Armenian
worthy "who had been vulgar enough to play IN
the streets" Truly, no better advice could be given
than that of the great English poet: BE thou tamil
" lar, but BY no means vulgar UnhaPply' our
children have grown go wise and genteel that they
reject familiarity as well as vs'garty
The matter is serious, and We call upon European
mothers to think of it. Everywhere III ihe oid
World the standard Of scholarship has been o"ereu
and study brought 10 an inferior level. In rance,
tho Minister of Public Instruction was compelled to
shorten considerably the programme for The degree
of Bachelor Of Arts (b0chtiiereSb-nT6S, an exanl-
nation which every student must pass before he 10
formally received in any one OF the i've faculties u
theology law, medicine, letters or scien-e). Ana
vet in spite Of that alienation, as many As TWO
thirds of the candidates have this year been refused
at Paris alone The teachers and professors II
nublic establishments are, however, distinguished
and devoted men, and more learned than their
predecessors were some years ago; the fault does
not therefore lie with them.
In England, the system is 50 bad that the staff OF
instructors seems to be composed Oi none out
UazetiDcg You remember, perhaps, that the
examiners for the civil service had to refuse about
two.thirds Of the candidates because they spelled
lT,djf,rranaH in fourteen different manners none
or which was right. have he ard young mdShlp-
man. one who was sucCeSjul.in his examination be-
Gre the Board Of Admiralty, complain O the strc,-
ness of examiners, VINO had been cruei enough 10
ask him to write down " Van Dlcmens Land. lie
had actually spelled it Dtdmm. y boy OF ~, who
received the prize for general proficiency in FIRST
rate grammar school connected with Kings College,
London boldly spoke Of Alexander the Great as the
first Roman Emperor Without exaggeratOn, there
| are pupils in English establishments who, after
studying Euclid for years are yet unable TO tell the
| difference between an angle and a triangle; they
learn like parrots, and know like parrots believe
| me, hazard no statement which could not con-
| firm by nnumcrable individual cases.
II is sad state Of things, for which the teachers
are not alone to be blamed. The fault, we believe,
lies mostly with mothers: good, or rather fond mothers
are the principal cause OF tins bad educat0li Ne
highest, the purest OF all KINDS OF love mas Almost ny
IFS mismanagencnt, become a social evil. NeWsys-
TENS Of teaching the clements of learning are preya-
lent methods have been made perfect that chill
3ren learn without trouble, while PLAYING. Their
mothers teach them 10 read in fortnight to write
in two months to calculate in three weeks, to play
the piano in less than year-al this without pain,
without effort, without wearlsomeness. Whatever
NAV fatigue the brains is suppressed, and sus there
is no impression left the brain. The consequence
is that these prtcoc0us children arrive at school
Without knowing how to work or how to study
They learnt reading and writing before they were
four Yeas Of age but at fourteen they are literally
VI able to read q psge in comprehensive manner
or to write sentence without awful plumbers IN
spelling To learn without trouble is the same
,,, ~ IA lparn "a all, what "A child learns
this light manner is quickly forgotten, but it viii re-
member forever what il finds out by It's own eXer-
tons. To remove every obstacle out OF the way Oi
a child will render il incapable of energetic thought
or action. Life is struggle, and even mere boy
must struggle to master his lessons. Horace al
ready expressed that sentiment, and we are con-
WINGED that if the youths Of generation are such
terrible gnoramuses it is because their indugent
mothers made elementary learning so easy Tor them
that they never thought Of studying seriously when
at school Reflect o kind mothers, that overn.
diligence is hut another form of selfconcet and 1t
You lnv aside every annoyance, every labor m the
way Of your sons, you will deprive them "i true
energy Just as they would never learn how t. walk
straight if they had not stumbled over many
stones.
Children are what they are made Sir Moses
Moneiorc the Jewish millionaire, has brought with
him Young Offspring Of the Niceroy OF Egypt
LADY Moses lately went out in her carriage with
" His IIghuess the Pacha, a. she calls him, and
the young prince (Uho has not yet coached his
fourth year) was Greatly annoyed by the gazing
crowd which followed them. lie asked her lady
ship to send the fellows" to prison his nurse Is
an Ensshwoman) and when she endeavOred to
explain to him that this impossible, he told her
buntly that he would cause her head to be cut oil,
making the gesture Of bcheadnS with as much
accuracy as the youthful Indians in Fenimore
Ccopers novels draw the line OF scalPng. rather
curious fact is that Sir Moses took care Of the young
Pacha in order 10 prove TO the inhabitants OF Egypt
that the Jews not fond OF eating little children
This idea s prevalent in the East and Greek
Consul XenOs who has published here a tedious
romance, The DcrH IN IUThcy, even speaks OF the
circumstance as founded on reality. Why did not
Sir Frederic Thesieer refer TO that report in his
yirulcnt speech against the Children of Israel
Beside the ROthschild bill, the House OF Com
mons bas been also much occupied with the
important Divorce bill Mr. Gladstone, who
opposes the measure, made long and eloquent
speech on the rights of women, arguing that
adultery on the part OF the man, proceeding
fem impulse aud sexual passion, was worse than
that of woman usually occasioed By the neglect or
cruelty OF the husband resulting from misplaced at
tacLment and therefore far less gnoble than the vice
of the man. Mr.. n. Drummond, who has, as Con
seryative clown, taken the place OF the late Col.
Sibthorp, abiding TO a declaration made BY another
speaker, that the act Of adultery itself dissolved
marriage said IN ven solemn manner, Ii that
abe 30, will demand how many married men we
"bave left in the House This bold declaration
was received BY the honorable members with roars
of laughter but rs the French say, Ia franchise eSt
la reriu dos SOiS.
From this bill to the Count de Morny, the transl-
ton is easy His youthful Countess has met with
great success in Parsian society, and the happy
couple have departed for their country seat III
Auyergne. In his travels on railways, Nj. Alorny,
the insovcnt OF lo5l uses special and magnificent
wagon, furnished like an elegant drawlng-room.
Other lucky fuancers have initiated his example,