The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-06-10 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SATURDAY. JUNE 10. 1816.  LORD SANDON'S EDUCATION BILL. The subject of a truly national education is becoming more and more wide-spread popular. VarioWi hv ell the effort made daring the last hundred years to afford the great mass ot the  people the advantages of a sound, and elt uientary acquaintance with the simple rudiments of a . .  scientific training. Joseph Lgneaster, Mr. Dale, of Lanark, and Robert Owen deserve hunourable mention for the efforts they put forth, and the  schemes they propounded to -bring a -g-oOti t-t;ii thorough education within the reach of every child throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. The late Earl Derby, when he was known as Lord Stanley, did a great deal for popular education in the sister country. A growing interest, especially ____ . _ ........„ during the last fifty years, has been felt both by The suicide of the late Sultan of Turkey, and social reformers and political patriots in the clues- the accession of his successor to the sovereignty of tion of" Training the young idea bow to shoot." the Ottoman Porte, or the dominions of the Sir James Graham, when he was one of our aluasulman, has catised a ;great and vital change Cabinet Ministers propounded a scheme for uni- in the situation of t Mugs. The Eastern difficulty Tarsal inatruetion ; but it was shattered as it were is somewhat lessened, and there are not want* b,v one fell-blow from the Dissenting bodies, and signs of a return to a pedreful solution of tht Radical reformers, for it aimed at placing the care burning Esters •inestioa. Tile late Monarch ~.f and supervision of schools in the bands of the Constantinople was a vacillating man. He soli local State clergy. They, by that bill—it Wag be- fond of lavish expeui.ture, and too much inch!, ad lieved if it had become 4aw—would have mono- to imitate the W, stern Potentates of Europe in polised for their own ecclesiastical purposes the their costly armaments—their expensive ironclad tuition of the children both in town and in eon, I fleets—and the lates inventions of meters wartry. The struggle between the Voluntioa ists and ' fare. To this he wide.; a fondness bertlering on the founders of tl e British School Society then frank; for Eastern modes of barbaric magnificence followed. Mr. Edward Barnes, then M.P. I•r in his exorbitantly expensive L'aram, or Seraglio, Leeds, took a very leading stud promiaent part in i where his hundreds of wives and concubines, witli 1 that fierce and prolonged debate, and eventually I their eunuehs and ittiter officials were feasted at the British School became an extensive and aCColll- / fabulous cost. Whilst ho sass thus holding one P dished Cwt. Earl—ties Lord—John Russell perpetual lascivious and abominable carnival, ire took special and hearty interest in that noble and Government was hopeless:e sinking into debt ant excellent institution. It doubtless paved the way decay. His provinces had brtlea sit into epe t ' far Mr. Forster's, of Bradford, great Parliamentary and relentleas revolt. His all het eutpis treasury measure. There was then in England two large was hopelessly taxed to pay for the support of the and popular school institutions growing ami in- large armies 11;•: was compelled to beud into creasing side by side, namely, the Church of t the fiald in order to quell the hardy, and England, or the plesumptuously styled, I intrepid mountaineers who at last believed :hat " National Schools," and the British Schools I they saw the prospect either of getting Milo under the festering care of the Nonconformist . pletely away from the guides Turkish yoke, or at ilenoininstious. kinongs' the latter there remained all events of lighteoing it and making it mere a strong body of those who believed that where 1 endurable. • His Miuisters of State felt as last any religious instruction was given in schools I that they had no other alternative but to depose there ahould be no State aid received. They felt I him and raise his nephew, his immediate and conthat the acceptance of Government grants for ' stitutioual heir, to the throne. His compulsory education, where this was done, was a tacit though I abdication was, it is presumed, too much for his nnintentional acknowledgement cf the claim of ; weak and emwcuitt, - ,ttutd, and he resorted to the Church of England to receive grants for the i the fearful arid fidgil, I . al seeer of perpetratteaching of her religious formulas and her the°. I lag self-shinghi er. the way i... time paved for logical doctrines. It at last became irresistibly : those Promised ref"r"ic which it has long bees evident that a bill should be passed so as to secure : the custom of the Turkish Government to make, the- education of every luvenile in the United ; whose promises, true to the accuracy of the old  THE OMENi PE'