The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-11-08 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SUICIDE AT MIDDLES. 60E01.011.—M MilidleSbOTOVlL on Sunday. Thomas William Brown, aged four years, we, muttered by Willi:tin Christopher Brown, 22 years old, his father, who then cat his own throat. Brown and his family lately lived at Guisborough, but on account of disagreements Mrs. Brown left him, and has lived with her parents in Henry-strect, Middlesborough. On Saturday, Brown, who was employed as a miner at Guishorough. scent to Middlesborough, and on Sunday morning went to the house of his wife, where they became so much reconciled that he took the child and went to bed, as he said, to sleep. Mrs. Brown went upstairs at noon, :Ind immediately called for help. Two neighbours went in, and it was found that the child's head was nearly severed from its body and quite dead, whilst the father had cut his own throat with a table knife. Medical help was procured, and the murderer was taken to the North Riding Infirmary, whore, it is believed, he will recover. It is supposed that jealousy has led to the crime.  Stu C. B. A UDE ItLE Y, NP., on RELIGIOUS INSTREE rION.—Sir Charles Adderley, in secluding a resolution at the meeting of the Worcester, Lichfield, and Saltley Training Coliege, on Friday in last week, said he eonld do no better than repeat what be said last year, namely, express his convictions, and the reasons for those convictions, that that and kindred institutions were of the highest importance in the country. The highest part of education, namely, moral di. cipline, formation of character, find mental culture was work chiefly in the hands of the masters, and was the duty of those who went out from that institution. That was a view distinctly antagonistic to that expressed by the body nicknamed the League. (Laughter.) They wished to have the religious part of the education of the country taken out of the hands of the Chords, which had done the most of the work. They had roe's. lessly shown themselves ready to screen a narrow preju. dice and jealousy behind the affected project of a great national interest. (Applause.) They were ready to throw over the most valuable part of the cargo, not to lighten the ship, but merely to get it into other hands. Mr. Bright, with his usual power, almcst epigrammatirally put their principle in words. He had said that ! the mistake of the Act of 1810 was that it attempted to supplement denominational schools, instead of superseding them, as it ought to have done. Sometimes it was the misfortune of people who had clever advocates that they stamped with epigram their most flagrant characteristics. It was laid down distinctly in the first letters from Lord Russell to Lord Landsdowne in 1839, that the objects of these schools should be-: first. religious instruction; second, general instruction; and third, good conduct and habits of industry. He hoped those who went out from that college to take charge of ulementary schools in every part of the kingdom would be the foremost to co-operate with the clergy to teach the principles of the Church, ignorance of which had led to a vast deal of division and separation, until ,very nian in the name of Christianity had boasted of separation itself. (Applause.)