Widnes Examiner. — 1887-09-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ACLAND, M.P. We have received a communication from the Secretaries, in which they say : We should be very much obliged to you if you could kindly give us the names of any persons in your town or district who are interested in Technical, Commercial, or Agricultural Education, and who would be willing (quite apart from any pledge of pecuniary support) to give us advice as to the work of the Association, and the means by which we may make it most useful in your neighbourhood. As we are also anxious to procure as complete information as possible of what is actually being done for technical education at the present time in the United Kingdom, could you give us the names of those who might be willing and able to give us such ,1 information in connection with your district? Instead of collecting the names ourselves and forwarding them, we have thought it better to I, let those who are interested put themselves in communication with Mr. ACLAND (35, Cadogan Terrace, London, S.W.), who is the acting secretary. It would be brtter still, of course, if some leading inhabitant in each town would take upon himself to convene a meeting of men of kindred views and character, with a view to forming a standing committee. There is much.to do in the matter of preparing the way before a system of technical education, such as is proposed. can be worked successfully in connection with the elementary education now being ' given in our national schools. Towns like Runcorn and Widnes would have to turn their attention morn especially to instructiofi in connection with the chemical trade; St. Helens and Prescot would, in addition, have to look to skilful training in the manufacture of glass and of watches; Earlestown would need to see to the best methods Df constructing • locomotives; while Warrington would require to direct its attention not only to glass land chemicals, but to acquiring special skill in producing iron, wire, leather, cotton, and 1 soap. There is a wide field, and the labourers lin it are as yet comparatively few. Those who get soonest to work are, it is hardly necessary to say. most likely to keep ahead; for a good start is a great advantage in the race for technical knowledge, as in every , other race.  PARLIAMENT has been occupied during the week with the discussion of the murderous conduct of the Irish police at Mit chelstown. It would seem, judging from the statement of Mr. LABOUCHERE, Mr. BRUNNER, Mr. ELLIS, and other credible persons who were present when the fatal conflict ensued, that the conduct of the constabulary was utterly indefensible, and that they ought to be put upon their trial for the murder of the people who were killed with shots from their rifles. The meeting, it should be remembered, was not a proclaimed meeting; it was a legal gathering, and was being peaceably conducted until the police broke in upon the assembly. Their object was, it appears, to force a reporter through the crowd, in order that he might take notes of the speeches; and the meeting not unnaturally resented this intrusion. Government reporters, as Mr. GLADSTONE stated in the House on Monday, have no rights beyond those of ordinary citizens; and, this being so, it follows that the police had no authority to try to find him a place by breaking through the meeting. They , were in a similar position to what a body of Liberals would be who sought to force , a way through a Tory meeting with the object of getting one of their number on the platform as a speaker. Those who were being pushed aside would have a right to resist—the natural right to resist aggression. Because, in the Mitchelstown case, the intruders were policemen, it does not justify their conduct; it rather aggravates it, seeing that they are drilled in some knowledge of the law and orderly behaviour. The policemen were pushed back, and then they began to use their staves. The people struck back, and the policemen ran off to the barracks. Here the matter should have ended, but the constabulary, thirsting for revenge, took up their rifles, and the result was that many innocent persons were injured, two