New-York tribune., 1870-11-15

further aiue TO II than ny the relation OF an aneedoe
at ON stace-eoaoh which the point
OF departure; by his side was, was miner miner whose
freHd haS the friends last words Of counsel these
Nov be good TO yourself Tom. Permit me In taking
HS.c HSy eayS JeTathan Don't consider John at all in the
matter and am quite sure the result VIII DO equally
satisfactory to both parties
THE GREAT REFORM.
The year will hereafter he regarded OF the
most important English history. Eight hundred years
had passed since the last Saxon King had dedicated
minister Abbey and laid his bones within its hallowed
precincts Eight hundred years before, the Norman
William had planted his foot English soil and on the
neck OF the AngloSaxon How slow is the growth
nations Eight hundred years Of wrestling with power
and privilege before the peope-the source OF all power
fairly admitted within the pale of the Constuon
Bright, Forster, sanfeld. Hughes and the Radicals OF
England after the most eloquent appeals and
Household Suffrage wrung from Tory Government
and a reluctant Parliament "NOw." said Mr.. Lowe,
What confession of neglected duty. what a heavy
eensre on the apathy of the ruling classes are Implied
England had not only received elements OF national
AT length aroused to senSe D of their social obgSon
The Keform biz of 1867 doubled the number OF electors
TN England and Wales When the and enlarged con
suencies appealed TO- National Compulsory Edu-
cation was one of the foremost demands OF me
mand. To borrow American simile it was
only one plank In the platform There were many Others
equally broad and weighty. Justice to Ireland was the
first irut Of the Acknowledgement OF Engund The abO
hton OF the Irish Church entire change IL the laws
relating to the Tenure Of the Land in Ireland were prom
inent In the legislative programme The abo-
o9 0f es TN the IeRea IN T 6e Sat @
Educational Endowments, new legislation for Factories
and Mines and host Of other remedial measures, were
pressed upon and accepted by the new Liberal party
SO great was the majority returned in favor or these
changes that Mr. Dsraeli did not venture TO meet the
Parliament. Wisely bending TO the storm. he re,
signed the reins of power and Government was formed
ssssed embracing the names Of John Bright. William
Edward Forster, James stanfeld and the Duke OF Ar
50 Herculean wasthe task tho Government had under
that even Mr.. Bright was obliged restrain the ardor
of his friends and TO remind them that six oibuses
could not be driven abreast through Temple Bar
PorULAR EDUCATION.
The education Of the people Of the questions
which occupied the first session OF the new Parliament
In England we have thousands OF educational endow
ments many Of them dating back from the Protestant
Reformation and some of much earlier date. In the
aggregate their value is enormous and being entirely
uncontrolled by the state the gOsses abuses had crppt
When the schools good, they monopolized
nothing, they were left to the poor In many in
stances nobody derived any benefit from them
the head master had turned the school into
a he ad rs m SeG wane into his hoase
FOrsers EndOwned schools bill the control and d
recon of these resources to the Council OF Education
and il expected that three years viii be occupied in IN
vestigaton and reorganization. The objects OF the BILL
stated by the Minister were u restore the schools IN
accordance with the spirit Of the intentions of the
founders, to render them accessible to the clever poor
schools thus stimulating the intellectual energies OF the
entire people and declaring 1 the words OL Napoleon
This measure has become law. and when the work Of
ganization is completed, these High, Grammar and
Classical Schools will form the apex OF the educational
The session Of the present wear was largely occupied by
the discussion Of OF National Elementary Edu
cation. The task euhtteTed rs II was ny seorin STRIFE
proved exceedingly difficult aud chiefly rendered
by ancient neglect and the piecemeal character OF mo-
dern legislation Your wise ancestors never founded "a
colony State without making provision for education
II
Penn Webster, whcl not associated with some trib
ute TO its value and Importance and some appeals ana
IuuctOns against It's neglect Yet II was not TIL the
year 1910 that shilling voted for this purpose from
local or national taxation in Britain The amount
Of the first grant was $4,000 reduced the following
year sl5oO In l43 Mr.. Leonard Horner one of our
OF eight miles by four comprising the large boroughs
of Oldham and Ashton, with population Of over
100000 there was not single pubic dayseno0 acces3De
the children Of the working classes After this date
however, education advanced with RAPID strides tne
thoughtful ana lnteilgent poruOh OF the com
munity - especially the clergy - made great eXer-
wols 0Is S NSt eF sFs' han nine ons sefipe it is ea
cuated been raised for this purpose by voluntary
adeed he grants by the State and the fees paid by the
children each amounting 10 IA like SUM Small a. this
appears in contrast with your magnificent provision II
was immense achievement as compared with our
previous experience ana great results io.Cweu dneo;
there 100000 children not attending school ana
yHer aeency could reach this mass Of Ignorance tie
fruitful mother Of weakness. misery pauperism' ana
crime. ----,--.,.
investigation goes to prove that the neglect g by the
this duty has been one or tnc Cle1
OF the dependence aud depravty OF our pauper
and criminal classes In 1896 ~ per cent OF all the males
contracting maTimOny signed the registers with their
marks. OF the criminals convicted during that year. less
than three per cent could read and write We'll ana Only one
In had received superior education The Outages per
petrated by the Brclnakers ana sawSrlndefs Unions
reported by the C1nns as manly que 10 lg
nOrance And the willing dependence o. one million OF
paupers largely attributable To the -Four
hundred thousand of this number children born and
bred pauperism. and are now realizing that the
only radical for this is 10 take them early rom
pauPer associations, give them an industrial training ana
in ntrgO or y
career This is the noble WORK when is Delng done
by your "Childrens Ala society ana on my return
shall urge upon my cOuntrymen that they should set
about following Its example on scale commensurate
with the magnitude of the evil.
THE SYSTEM.
The provisions Of our new scheme Of National Educa-
ton are somewhat complex and puzzng distant OBJ
servers have been often inquired OF respecting
them that will venture TO detain you for few mo
ments by describing them 1t may be assumed that at
the commencement Of present year there school
accommodation In England and Wales for something
ranging from One-haf to twO-tirds OF the population
Ths had been provided by religious bodies and private
state and annual grants per cdpttd for the children at
tending school IL roughly but very approximately
Estimated that onethird the OF maintenance has
been given from the national e1chequer onethrd 10y
private subscription aud the remaining thlrd Dy the
This You will say is clumsy machinery, and indeed
II is but has done excellent service, considering This
that need TO increase from onetird to one-baf
our educational appances, we oonla nsroly Degln Dy
had been brought into existence 1t was there
schools should he supplemented 10 the
needfu extent by national Schools TO be provided partly
from local and partly from national taxation, and that
school boards, resembling your own should be elected
to initiate and supervise them
Then came what is well known In England az the
Religions Difficulty" and we often fearful that
Education bill would he wrecked upon it, one party
claiming that the schools should be purely secular,
another that they should be unsectarian and third
that distinctive religious teaching should be given
Thirty years before sectaran anmOty had delayed and
defeated ali attempts to found national system, when
Charles Dickens who did not often write poetry found
vent bitterness Of his soul in satrca verses OF
| which these are the cOncusiOn: