, 1876-12-16

tendency to strengthen the mind for
s~oieAee, by teaching the intellectual viz
tue Of simplicity.
Major Bond, Superintendent Of Police
at Birmingham, has resolved 10 put down
quiet drunkards' by resortiDg TO trade.
union tactics, He has every such person
followed by the police to his own home
and proRecuted next morning. This inno-
TRti0n has created some excitement in Man
chester, greatly increased by the fact that
the police have usde many mistakes, arrest
ing one man for example, because he totter-
cd, whereas he averrsd, and the magistrates
believed, thot he tottered from corns.
Mr.. Alderman Chamberlain has rebuked
Major Bond for over zeal, but the Super
intendent, If we understand biz letter on
she subject, considers himself strictly with
in bis duty. We do not quite see why, if
be is right, his police should not follow
every person who has had COO much dinner,
and has therefore put his digestion out OF
order. He 10 injuring himself, and the
quiet drunkard is doing no more but the
true objection to such o~ficiousnesS ia this,
tho greatest injury the police can do to
society is to ally the spirit of freedom to
the spirit Of vice, ond enable avery drunk
ard to assert that he takes too much 10 the
cause Of liberty.
The Byron monument does not prosper
very well. The $4,000 proposed have
barely been raised, and though $1,000
more have been offered for an architectural
canopy by Ar. Fitzwilliam Dick, NIP, it
is not felt that the $4,000 raised for the
statue itself is sufficient. Moreover, She
designs sent in do not come up to the mark.
The best of the forty, which is said to be
by an American sculptoT,-rumour points
apparently to Mr.. Storey,-is not thoughtup
to wh8t 10 needed, and it is said that what
weuld be fitting could not be achieved for
so small a sUm as $4,000. &10, 900 or
$4,000 would be necessary, aud as it
seems, the $4,000 or 912,0 900 are
not forthcoming. There is to be O
new competition next May, when the best
of the competitors of this year ore to be
requested to sond in designs again.
Mr.. Grant D~uflpresided on Wednesday
(Nov. s. ct the annual distribution of the
prizes ofthe Liverpool Institute, and deliv-
cred an address Oh the wants in our higher
and secondary education. He maintained
that the right plan in education was to
aim at making young people familiar with
the best things men have said, and the
knowledge that men have, or think they
have, about the things by which they are
surrounded. This, he said, was the old
idea, and was applied, at the revival Of
learning, by teaching the best works Of she
classical authors; but now that so much
more is known about che universe than che
great classics knew, classical instruction
is given on a totally different ground,-
the ground of an Observation-Disclosures
though classical teaching Is not the best
way to advance real knowledge, it is the
best mode Of ~disciplining the intellect of
the learner. This view Mr.. Grant Duff
criticised sharply, evidently holding that
there is no distinction between the best
studies for training the capacity to learn
and the best studies for their own sake.
We believe he is wrong. In the first place
the appetite for real knowledge is often
practical, and not purely intellectual, and
therefore ripens late, and not till long
after the intellect ought to have acquired
its bent for accuracy and its facnItv of