New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-30

fa spfpud
cbu,c, rates carried IL tie House OF Commons y
=, strong msjority Of 263 to 'Y3, Is not the oaJ
y lately achieved IN that body by the dissenting
l''V'. They have sso succeeded IN carrying
.,h .coud reading bill IN relation to endowed
h1t'N, q, ,bject to which good deal OF a'tea
haor lately attracted. The endowed
..h.oI. ~ Erol,ro aud Wales-schoois supported
,r nord, l.ft 10 them ior rttatpurpo'e-are now ar
ward of three thousand id nSm'er, "nue tue" a.
mai income is estimated at two mil'ioos ana a. om
If dollars. The dissenters comPhNh ti'a' undef tas
,.w in relation 10 the mastership ana coh1rol Of
,bsss schools. as laid down By tue Court oi Chsa-
.,y ,hsv are IA danger Of being entirely excluded
from any participation in their management aaa
,rom any share in their benefits, except upon coz
a,;on Of allowing their children to receive religious
;a.,,u.,or according to the forms Of the Estab-
ished Church.
The Court of Chsncery assumes In the nfs' pi~e
that all educational charities founded oeforetheR Ne
formation must be exclusively confined, assotheirsd
,;,;s,rst;on TO members of the established cbuech.
Upon similar principle it has been held that Al
scncol. funded after the Reformation but before
the massage of the act Of liberation, must be ID
miuistered for the exclusive benefit OF memoersd Of
the Church of England, because duriag that perd
no other form of religious worship was permitted
A. most of the endowed schools date back for two
hundred years and upward, very large proportion
of them fall under the operation OF these TWO rules
As to schools of subsequent foundation, the doc
trr is set up that where an educational charity 70
established without anything being said about rel.
| ciou, instruction or when the Lature OF that To-
struction is not particularly indicated, the Court Of
Chancery will presume first that religious nstruc-
tion was intended, aad secondly, that it is to be in
conformity with the doctrines and forms Of the
| Church of England which the Court seems to rs-
osrd ss alone having any claim to its recognition.
The attention of the dissenters appears to have
been attracted to this subject by some recent pro.
ceedinps in the case of the minister School. There
was nothing sectarian IN the endowment OF that
school which was founded in the reign OF Edward
| VI. for tie benefit of the poor generally, who wee
in the terms of the endowment. to be given
yirtuous education, and taught their duty to God
| and the King. The trustees were to be " honest
men of the parish Of minister" and for lN
wears the school has been well administered BY
Trustees coming within that description, being
made up of churchmsn and dIssenters an varying
proportions, but the churchmen predominatlng.
The parish coming under q new vicar, he objected
IN the participation Of disorders in the trust.
Circumstances having rendered it necessary to
,pply TO the Court of ChaDcery to reconstruct tho
trust, the Master of the Rolls constituted board
| of twelve churchmen and six dssenters. But the
vicar objected to the six dissenters and on On
appeal. aid in conformity with the law doctrine
above stated, the six dissenters were struck on.
This de- cision aroused a good deal of feeling among
the d;tsenters. who represented it as practically
deciding that no dissenter could be an honest man.
They at once set on foot an agitation on the SUB
| iect, which bas resulted in the introduction and
second reading Of the bill above referred to. This
bill, which is intended to do away with the legal
presumptions on which the Court of Chaucery acts,
provides that no endowed school shall be deemed
to have been founded for the purpose of affordiog
religious instruction according to the doctrines OF
the Church of England exclusively, unless 1t should
appear from the language Of the Instrument found
ing or endowing it that such was the intention oil
the founder
A very strenuous opposition was made, on the
ground that in many cases the original deeds OF
foundation were lost, and that the Church would
be liable to be dspossessed of the control OF schools
which she had had had for a long course OF years
The advocates of the bill disclamed, however any
offensive intentions. They wished only to protect
the dissenters from sggressions like that in the IL
minister case The probability is that they will
finally carry their measure at least in the House o
Commons, though it may be defeated in the House
| Of Lords.