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Lobd John's -Frattjtr-Tc . In The Midst ...
igetiing -on very . welL ¥ e > uati only answer fthat'tlieyarerttot in ^ knigriany progress iJO be compared with the progress Triikde in other countries , ¦ Whether regal , republican , or constitutional—whether in Prussia , the United States- or in Ireland ; In all those countries there is public education , and in the United 'States the public education is of so high , a Tkind that many leading public men have been educated at the public schools , and boys
there , are as intelligent as men here , comparatively speaking . The Voluntaries can show nothing to compare with those results . Well , then , to have Sir John" Pasgiiwton , who would have helped Iiord Jomfr to a certain extent , and who has a scheme of his own : can we expect him to succeed where Lord John has failed ? The question answers itself . We have Mr . Mulneb . GriBsosr , vrith a plan of sfecular education entirely excluding
religious instruction—a very good plan , but far moi ? e unlikely to be accepted than Lord John ' s and so far , according to our test , " worse than Lord John ' s . The supporters of secular education have assisted an shutting us out from Ijord John ' s plan—that is , they have assisted in preventing education . Has .-Mir ... HENirETy-r-who stopped Lord-John on the threshold , — any scheme ? That question -also answers itself . Mr . Henley is an
antieducationist in the popular sense of the word , and those who , voted for him were conspirators against providing the young of our . with religious education . ' "What is the practical consequence ? "What is the hard net result of all these conflicts of men and parties ? It 4 s , that we fall back upon the existing system of education under thS £ rivy Council , with so niueh of
improvement iis we can get out of Lord GrpAjrvHiLiJ and the future Yice-President of IMucation . i ? hafc is , the Committee is to go on amassing its minutes unconsolidated , niggling away tit local schools where they ean be coaxed into existence , but leaving imiflense interstices in districts unprovided / and hundreds of thou-Bands of the young without a chance df having a schoolmaster .
As to the two nights' debate , last week , it < vtfas a mere drama for the majority of those who spoke , especially for the most distinguished actor , Sir Jamiss G-rateam , the new leader of the Voluntaries . This is his latest metamorphosis . It reall y is not worth while to anatomise the past history of Sir Jambs G-baham . " We only ask the peqple of this country whether they recognise him—the jealous guardian of tost Office letters!—as the representative of the Voluntary principle fothe
r democracy of this country ? Sir James himself would have neither weight nor power in the 'House of Commons , if he had ndt been used by other parties as a means of obstructing education for the people . It is-a-great-thing > to get an ex-Mrst ? Lord of the Admiralty to talk Voluntaryism , especially when he is so > " powerful" a man as 1 the G-aAHAM of Netherby , who always professes ; to tell ub " the reason why . " If people wished to retort , they might ask Sir Jamjso the reason why he entered into a war , and thcMi deserted the Ministry that began it ? Whhe sent
y his friend and correspondent , Sip Qka ^ us Rapier , to the Baltic P And now , the reason why he joins the Voluntary party ? It would he an interesting expostot the tact with whiolna practised hand plays at party ibdluwds . He waa the great speaker in the debate , and hie position illustrates the position of parties . For the rest the debate and its close Avere really of little value Lord John cut off several of his resolutions , so far abridging his . plan ; but wq understand as much of his plan at the end-as at the beginning , with 'the one conclusion that we ascertained . It is this : —That in the present
tenlper of the mefc tvihom the people send up to ' the H < buse > of 00 m ! mons , they are less disposed to support aiiSy men -who propose a scheme .-of public education than any man like Mr . Hbispxet Who will put his veto lipotf all progress . It is clear that the people are , not to get public education Out of the House ' of Commons as it is at present constituted ; and kere again , even in this question of teaching children , tre are thrown back upon the severance of views , of sympathies , and of interests between the people ' s House and the people itself . '
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PULPIT-WAE AT OXEOKD . Mb . Jowet 3 ? and his doctrine of the Atonement seem to have been the mark for all the preachers in the Oxford Pulpit last term . It has been said that in that pulpit the preacher of the afternoon confutes the preacher of the morning , so that the mental result obtained by staying away altogether ; , is the same as that obtained by constant attendance—a zero of conviction in either case . In the present instance , there seems to have been more
unanimity . Sermon upon sermon , the theological projectiles lie rolled together before the heretical theory like cannon balls before an earthwork at Sebastopol : and they have had about as little effect . leather they must have had an effect damaging to those who fired them , which the cannon balls had not . They must have made the dullest and laziest undergraduate who slumbers on those
venerable benches , aniibus to read the divine who has so fluttered the Volscians of Orthodoxy ; "We will venture to Say that Mr . J " oWiia ? T * s publisher , unlikeGf-o ^ ETSoirAEdFF , wishes the feu d ' enfer may continue for ever . The Vice Chancellor haa made a grand mistake in bringing " so many small guns , instead of < me great piece , into the field : their noise attracts attention and their bullets do no harm ; .
But what must be the effect of this process on the mind of an undergraduate ? We are not concerned to be prudish in protesting against any disturbance of the security of youthful orthodoxy ; but we cannot think that such a thorough unsettleinent as these exhibitions of theological fuiy and panic are calculated to produce can be good for any man at the age of twenty . Something of the feeling so tenderly expressed by Dr . Watts should , animate the mind ^ of the preacher
who addresses that youthful and excitable audience ; their little hands-ought not to be taught as yet to tear each other ' s eyes . In time they will become theological disputants , Ditchers and DEirisoisrs , Phii » potts and Gorhams , and unroll ( to use the metaphor of the terrible Archdeacon ) the banner of the Catholic Church , on which it is written that no one who differs from them on a point of Byzantine metaphysics can be saved . At present thehour ispropitious for infusing into them certain ideas , and lessons less important
in Byzantium , but more important to kmat nity . Surely there are some poiuts on which even divines of the Church of England are agreed , Thexe are lessons of Christian Ethics for which , unless theology is quite distinct from religion and morality , even future controversialists will be none the worse . And if there are , they may form fitter topics for the pulpit of a place of education than that on which the theological policemon of the Vice-Ohawcellor dilate in the heap of sermons before us .
But tho melancholy part of it is the ignorance of the real facts of tho age among the clergy which these scenes ire veal . In auch a state of opinion ad that nt which we have arrived , the spiritual guides of the notion , the occupa-uta of its fourteen thousand pulpits , the representatives in no small degree
** f j « a 2 > a ^ je ?? rgy anxi devotion , looking round the religftms horizon can see no cloud more menacing than Mr . JowetVs dubious expressions om the theory vf Wy ^ anotLS Suffering . That appears to them the great peril of the day , and the one against which it is most necessary jto guard the innocent flock entrusted to their care . 3 ? hey do not -know , or they chobsiB desperately to forget , thattiie ground is all fcdlltfW'iBelieath their feet ; that ; a vast body of ckltici ^ m , which they would themselves admit tcr Tte " ' iind ii . knid if it
were directed' against pr ^ faiie db ' cuments , stands against them tot only un ^ dniuted But alniost unassaiied ; afr & tMt 8 tn eV ^ Twidening gulf separates them aiid -their sy ^ steni not only from the keenetet intellect , bat % oni the most serious morality © f 'the agei At -ffarentjrthree , fresh perhaps ¦ fr ' oni a life' of 'fadt imdergraduatism , ^ hey go into ot & GiB , * -ddclare their implicit belief in a '' va ' sfr faody of theology which they have never examined , become teachers of the people , and from that time think no more . If a brother clergyman is lax on a point of religious philosoph y * they confute him out of the Fathers , and ate satisfied . Otherwise , they conlpose the weekly niodieutn of conventional rhetoric in peace . Where wiil it end ?
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A PbacJe HoA 3 G .-=-kA hoax , -worthy of Theodore Hook himself , was perpetrated on Monday . Ansppafetiily official [ proclamation Had : been ; posted tip , announcing that " a mountedheraldi , > accompanied by a-pursuivaaV would , on the 21 st inatjj "iprefaeed by a flourish of trumpets , " announce -the conclusion of peace at $ he'following localities : Elephant and ; SasHe , * Aldgate , R & yal Exchange , St . Blartit f s-le-Grand , Holbora-bars , ^^ Oxfordstreet Circus , Tybum ^ gate , Hydd Park-corner , Kccadilly Circus , Charing-cross . At « J 1 these spots , large crowds collected ; but it is needless to ^ say tha 5 t they no lho * e saw the herald and the putsuivaii * var heard the flotirisli of trutupetSj than the persons whom Gharle 3 Lamb senfe
to Primrose-hill tosee tae Persian ambaBeador pay'his derbtions , as a fire-rworshipper ,. to the rising' sun , beheld that interesting religious ceremonial . —A young man , named Gaspar Collard , was on Monday examined at Marlboroagh-street on a charge arising out of the trick . He was theatricaljy " made up' ?; -with alotig curling wig , false moustaches , a herald ' s tabard profusely adorned ¦ with tinsel lions and . unicorns , anft a blue Velvet hat and feathers . The charge was , one of assault in Hyde Park . Before the magistrate , Collard said : £ — " I was employed by Mr . Grevill Potter ; of Oxford-street , to read a proclamation at variousplaces to-day , announcing
to the public that it is his intention togive away portraits of the lieroes 6 f the Crimea of many hundred pounds' value . About £ 000 bills have been posted ) in different parts , and because'I TVas bebtnd the stated time , and the people were kept waiting , : they became infuriated , and when I made my appearance in Hyde Park , the cries were «' Pull him off hia horse '! ' and this "Would have been done if a pollce-constaUle had not interfered . I struck in self-defence , without assaulting any otve in particular . I anvonly a eerviint acting under the instructions of andther . " The young man was released , after a lecture .
jLooAt . Chakgics oh Sheppinq . —The Select Committee of tho House of Commons appointed to consider these dues met for the first time on Friday week ; Mr . Lowe in the chair . Mr . Heron , town clork of Manchester , and Mr . Bramley Moore , wore the only two witnesses examined . / The former , after giving a historical sketch of the Liverpool town dues , called attention to tho foot that tliey are not levied in accordance with any fixecj scale , but at tho discretion of the Conimon Council , and that there is no official tariff for the collection of the dues . The greatest uncertainty provftild
even among the authorities themselves as . to tho amount to be claimed in each particular case ; and tho matter is often left to be settled arbitrarily by the derka , who exact aamuoh aa they can get . Pilfering-is ra frequent result of this . system . Mr . Moore gave some particulars with respect to the ordinary receipts , and tho Committee adjourned till Monday / when Mr . Heron was again ei & - aminocl , and furnished additional details as to the nature , history , and appropriation of tb , « Liverpool duos . On Thursday , several -witnesses were oxa « ilned , rwk © All condemned the Liverpool duea on the , ground , of the injury they inflict on commerce .
Turn RojoicmGa vow . Peace . — . Xarge temporary wooden buildings , for the preparation of > the fl * eworkf to be displayed on the occasion * of thenpoace rojoicings arc being erected In Itydd Park , * he < lreen Park , Victoria Park , nr » a on tho aummit of Primrose-hill . Th « oxhibltion , it is statea , will bo of tho utmost magnl ( Icenco .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1856, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26041856/page/15/
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