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large necessity , obvipus duty , - latory vacillation . This -week the Board of "Works has rescinded its old "B , " motion , and placed itself in the better position of " B , " there it stands . That is liteiaHjr ik . Q aaaount «|* progress which Las been made on the subject within the ¦ week , and it is more progress than we have witnessed for some time . In the meanwhile ^ those wiw > arc learned ift such subjects have been bringing forward various modes of doing the "work . ; amongst them there is the plan for deodorizing the refuse of towns and Saving it for agricultural purposes . This has been practised in Leicester with great advantage to the health of the town—a decrease from an
average ot 443 per quarter to 839 in the mortality , and an increase of 4000 in the population , during the last four years . There are objections to the plan , -which is as yet imperfect in its application to agricultural purposes ; but as to the healthiness find convenience , it appears to excel others ; and although tlie Leicester illustration is principally mentioned , the plan has been tried in many other places , we know , -with equal success . All this has been long ascertained ; the great want is to make a choice of several plans , each one of which might serve . . '¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' ' "' : - ¦ ' . ' : .. ... ' " " ¦ \ ' . - '' ¦ ' "¦¦ ¦ ' ¦
It is the same with education . The necessity for cultivating the minds of the young , and-furliishing th « m with the requisite amount of information to get through the world , is a , s clear as the necessity for cleansing our streets ; the necessity is ^ admitted by all parties of public men , with the exception of very few ; but they keep on boggling about the means . This week we have a report of a meeting in Newark , to lay the foundation-stone of the Christ Church Schools ; the Duke of J ^ ew-CASTiiE being the honorary mason—tlie Bishop of Lincoln- consecrating tLe occasion by his presence . Both spoke of the necessity 6 F establishing
Church schools . The Bishop in particular called upon the public to prosecute that work as a means of counteracting the opinion in favour of separate education ; an appeal which he accompanied by the admission that many men of eminence and of sound religious doctrine conscientiously believe that in o ~ ur sect-divided country the large want for education can only be met by giving it irrespectively of creed , and therefore of any specific religious teaching . It is interesting to mark the growth of this particular opinion , and the admission of that growth from a prelate so conscientious , and yet so ardent on the other side , as Dr . Jacklson .
A counterblast comes from Dr . Cullen , with a furious attack on the " godless Colleges" of Ireland , and on "the godless system of education" in the National schools . Not that he would surrender the State subsidy—oh no ! He claims a subsidy from the State for the Hqman Catholic children of Ireland ; but he denounces " mixed education , " and he would deprive the State , -which pays , of any control over the education . His object is to place education entirely under the Roman Catholic Church , which would teach history , law , morals , and science , strictly according to the pattern authorized at Rome , —and we know that pattern
well . The Ptolemaic system is the basis of its astronomy , it teaches a reverence to Caesar as a Mnd of god upon earth , and it perverts morals in inculcating a total submission to priestly dictation . Luckily , the Catholics of Ireland arc not the Catholics of Home ; they are not prepared to assist men of the Culled stamp . On the contrary , the number of children sont to the National schools is constantly increasing , and now amounts to considerably more than half a million . The il godless" Colleges subsist ; and the Roman Catholic college , which Dr . Cuiae ^ endeavoured to get up , has proved a total failure even in the early stage of first collecting subscriptions .
The Bishop of London has done more for his 6 " wh church by something which looks like a rebuff to church extension . In the chair , at the meeting of a Church Extension Society in Islington , ho told the church extensionists that there is » pt much use in building churches unless they provide , an 6 pon space in the building for the poor-rr-for those very people whom they wish to bring tnthitt the ministration of the national ctturcn . The . words WC ro simple , tho style plain , but the precept nas gono homo straight to the hearts of many m tho onco national church . The rising ngamst the Income-tax swells nnd eJxtonda . bouthwark , Ayleiibury , Reading , Ply
mouth , ami : other places ,. " continue to join in the movement Birmingham has put forward a remedy •—a prof « rty-tax j calculating that on a very fair 1 and by no means oppressive assessment of pro ' - , petty , m tax of one halfpenny in the pound woijUl radfipe fifteen milHom per annum , to the Exchequer , without the fa f u & tion , the Hnecjtitf . pressure the texatious wstrabtfs , and the temptation to fraud -wi | ich necewmrily . Mfcerid upon th * present . Income-tax , and wliidi increase ovevry year .
/ . 'At . ike . South-wok , mating , one member was conspicuously absent . It was Sir Chaih . esNapier , whose chief business 5 n life appears just now to be the procuring of testimonials from the Grand . Duke CoifSTA'NTisrE and other Russian authorities , in proof that he faithfully executed his duties as commander of the Baltic fleet . Whatever he may have done with respect to his awn countrymen , Chaui-et has won the affection of tlie Grand Duke
Constantutk . Imagine Nelson writing a letter to the French Admiral , asking for testimonials to prove that he had only exercised a wisei'discretion ; in not taking the French fleet at Aboukir , and in not winning the battle of the Nile ! Probably , if Nelson had been in a position to invite any such testimonial , the French Admiral would not have scrupled to address him u affectionately ;" and according to tlie present documentary evidence , proudly published by Sir Charles this
week , the British Premier would not have scrupled to add his testimonial to the discretion of the British Admiral in not rashly venturing between the French ships and the shore- —a course evidently fraught with danger , and certain to end in the destruction of the British ships Somehow or * other , Nelson had the temerity to take that manifestly impossible and destructive course , and he had no occasion to seek testimonials from the commander on the other side .
Another little personal event , not uninteresting to us , is the explosion of the--. Times , on the subject of John Arko wsmith . Mr . Cuyjlek , the president of the railway , and the British consul ^ Mr . JE . Molyneux , have both certified to the total fictitiousness of John JVrrowsmith ' s report of " Railways and Revolvers in Georgia : ' * and they firmly state that women—we may add of all ages and conditions of life—habitually travel on the railway with as much safety as the lady with gems ' ? rich and rare" wandered about Ireland . The Times has at
last discovered that the man who told the story must bring some testimonials to his veracity , or his sanity . We believe that Mr . Akrowsmith , whose respectability is not denied , imported that same story into Liverpool many years ago . But he did not get it into the Times . One question we have to ask the great journal , perhaps without getting aii answer . It is , who was that eminent person , competent to speak on
American affairs , that gave the voucher for John Arkowsmitii ' s respectability and credibility ? The name of that distinguished gentleman would be very interesting . We only desire to send it over for affectionate welcome by America . Some say it is a gentleman closely connected with Liverpool , high in commerce and in Parliament , who has hitherto been regarded as an authority on American matters—almost an American .
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PUBXIC MEETINGS . THE BISHOP OF I-ONDON O 3 * CHURCH EXTENSION . In consequence of tho want of additional church accommodation in Islington , a society has recently been formed under the title of tho Church Extension Society . This association , which proposes to build ten new churches in the district , was inaugurated at a public meeting , held in tho Parochial Schoolrooms , Liverpool-road , on Monday night ; and , it being- known that Dr , Tait , the recently appointed Bishop of London , would take the chair , the room was crowded to suffocation . The Bishop , in his opening address , said that , when 'first requested to preside , ho felt some ntixioty , because the erection or ten new churches , at a cost of 50 , 0 O 0 J ., in one- parish , seemed to him too great a task for any hope of success ;
besides which , ho thought—though lie was far from denying tho good whicli had been effected , in the metropolis nnd elsewhere , by church extension—that it was impossible to read the public papers without perceiving that tlicro is a groat doal of sense in the suggestion that tho further building of clmrchos had hotter be postponed for awhile . New churches might bo erected , nnd yet the people might not go to them ; so that it would be wrong to take the erection of places of worship jih an evidence of tho spread of the Gospel . " They should bo very careful to mo every means to bring tlie poor especially into tho houso of God , for no one who had paid tho slightest attention to tho subject could doubt for a moment that it was tho upper and middle classes chiefly who formed tho church-goera throughout tho country
and that there was a vast mass of the pcmulati ™ T vrefe unfortunately estranged not only ( Ka * ? of EngtanA , but from the Gospel itself , ife reli , ^ say tbr tthe Gospel of Christ was . optS ^ SS ^ throu & tut the length and breadth of the laL f was vain to-conceal that both in our crowded clL , ^ in our remote country districts there wasaw 11 ine » owa body , principally composed of the Tm ^ T " could not , and another numerous body who i nulri T \ ° « ter the churches . " His Lordship nevertheless S , ' that new chmches reaMy were wa 1 nted £ " * ? fj ^ t he had received the mW satWacto ^ s l ^ ^ the services , & c , in connexion with the nroM Jd J ? of worship . j' ^ onl y was the present * S ^ 00 ? raodation made available to its fullest extent h « t V was the desire of the people for additional churches S a cattle-shed had been actually used as a . , iace 0 ^^ bly , and the walla of a garden in the locality ha . iiT raised and covered in for the same purpoi * ( £ ? W . ) This had been effected by the instrumentality of ¦ the' Home Mission , of whose exertions and object BiSmn Blo . nf . eld entirely approved . Ho ( the IUshopof I ndon ) rejoiced also to hear that Sunday gatherings were held man omnibus-yard in the districtand had been
, attende d , according to the report of the Rev Mr Thomas , with the happiest effects . Then , with restect to the necessity of increased church accommodation it could not lie better proved than by a reference to the report of the Home Mission , -which stilted that the mighty empire of France had bat four cities , including its capital , of which the population was larger than this district of London ; Belgium , Holland , Bohemia Hungary , Denmark , Poland , and Turkey , but one ; even the first-class powers of Austria and Prussia had no more and Russia itself , the largest European empire , but two ! Here there could not be less than 30 , 000 people living ' from necessity , if not from choice , without the ordinances of religion ; and it was further calculated that not fewer than 5000 children were growing up without education , and who , unless brought under Christian
instruction and influence , would be the future bane and burden of society . ( Hear , hear . ) The population : of the district , which , at the commencement of this centurv was extremely small , had now swelled to the amount of 120 , 000 persons , -whereas the increase of church accommodationhad , comparatively speaking , been very slight . " Several other speakers addressed the meeting , and resolutions were carried in accordance with the object proposed . The list of subscriptions read in ttie room amounted to 5294 £ , and included a donation from the Bishop of London of 60 OL
THE EAST rjTDIA COLl ^ OE AT HAILEYBURY . The custoniary examination , for the term emling this December , of the students now being educated at Haileybury and destined for the Indian Civil Service , was held at the College there on Monday , in presence of Colonel Sykes , the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company , who presided on the occasion , and of several gentlemen connected with our East Indian possessions . The prizes having been distributed , the Chairman addressed the students , and , in the course of his remarks , observed : — - " It is physically impossible that a solitary European officer , located in a district comprising scores , nay , hundreds , of square miles' ,
should be cognizant of every abuse of authority by his native subordinates , the apathy of the people depriving him of aid , and even the sufferers themselves tacitly submitting because they consider that they arc only the victims of immemorial custom . Torture , " no doubt , does exist in India , and must be put down ( cheers ) , and I warn you , gentlemen , that in any day of your official life , to your astonishment and indignation , you ma . y have it attributed to you by the press of England that you are particens criminis in on act of torture inflicted
secretly by ono of your subordinates . Hero is one cf the drawbacks of your official life ; but it suggests the necessity for the most unremitting vigilance to prevent its occurrence . Another drawback in Indian official life ia tho danger to which functionaries are exposed by the facilities afforded for obtaining loans from nntrve money-lenders , -who are often only too ready to entangle the incautious European in their nets . Such loans from subordinates in tho district in which the European official is exercising his authority are absolutely prohibited , and may entail the loss of the service to him . "
KErRESENTA-TION OF GUEEXWlCir . A public meeting of tho electors of the boroug h ot Greenwich was held on Monday evening at the Lccturchnll , Greenwich , to adopt measures for the return of n liberal member and a supporter of vote by ballot , in tlie room of Mr . ltolfc , who has signiGed his intention of retiring from Parliament . A Mr . Bristow took the chair , and was supported by Mr . Chambers , M . I ' ., Mr > ^ " jeant Parry , and Mr . Whiteburst , as a deputation from tho Ballot Society ; Aklennnn Wire , Mr . JS'icholny , Mr-John Tliwaitcs , chairman of tho Metropolitan Board oi " Works , & c . Itosolutfo-na in favour of the ballot having been carried , after sorao opposition , tlio meeting separated .
MIX . -WILLIAMS AND HIS CONSTITUENTS . At the invitation of Mr . Williams , M . P . for Lnmhctli , n number of his constituents met him on Wcdncsclay evening at tho Lecture-hall of tho Literary Institut ion , Carter-street , Walworth , in order to hoar from t '' ^ gentleman an account of hia Pftrliuiucntury ccnulua
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121856/page/2/
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