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large necessity , obvious duty , and constant dilatory vacillation . This -week the Board of Works has rescinded its old "B , " motion and placed itself in the better position of " B , " and there it stands . That is lite < aiH | r * & § 4 Wnount of progress ¦ which has been made on tfa $ subject tsrithlp the ¦ week , and it is more progr §| fi than we hay © witnessed for some time . In the lueanwb ^ Jfc tlios ^ , pfco are learned « i 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 savin ™ it for agr icultural purposes . This has
been practised in . Leicester with great advantage to the health of the town—a decrease from an average of 443 per quarter to £ 839 in the mortality , and an increase of 4000 in the population , during the last four years . Q'here are objections to the plan , which is as yet imperfect in its application to agricultural purposes ; but as to the healthiness and convenience , it appears to excel others ; and although the 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 furnishing them with the requisite amount of information to get through the ¦ world , is as clear as the necessity for cleansing pur 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 NewcAsxii'E being the honorary mason—the Bishop of Lincoln consecrating the occasion by his presence . Both spoke of the necessity of establisliinjy
Church schools . Tlie 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 niany men of eminence and of sound religious doctrine conscientiously believe thAtjn . our sect : divided country the large want fc > - 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 . Jackson .
A counterblast comes from Dr . Ctjlljbn , with , a furious attack on tlie " 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 Roman 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 , 'i t teaches a reverence to Czesab as a kind 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 Rome ; they arc not prepared to assist men of the Cuixen stamp . On the contrary , the number of children sent to the National
mouth , qpd other places , continue to join in thQ nioveniejrt . Birmingham has put forward a remedy —a pTqp » rty-tax ? calculating that on a very fail 1 and bjrjio means oppressive assessment of property , a tax of one halfpenny in the |» iind would realise fifteen miHioof pev annum |© th « ^ Exchequer , without the laguiirltion , the Ajnecjagl pressure , tha Vexatious * fstrafe . ts , and the ^^ nftftatioa to fraud which necq&ifmly attend upon tbopreseut 3 and
I »( jrne 4 ftsc , wWob ineflease every yovr . At fhe Soutliwjurk meeting one member wai conspicuously absent . It was Sir Charles Napier , whose chief business in life appears just now to be the procuring of testimonials from the Grand Duke Constantino 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 own countrymen , Chahxey has won the affection of the Grand Duke
Constantino ; . Imagine Nelson writing a letter to the French Admiral , asking for testimonials to prove that he had only exercised a wise discretion in riot 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 nbt have scrupled to address him , " affectionately ¦;" and according to the present documentary evidence , proudly published by Sir Ciiarljss this
week , the British Premier would not have scrupled to add liis 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 , Nulson 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 tons , is the explosion of the Times on the subject of John Arrowsmitu . Mr . Cuyleh , the president of the railway , and the British consul , Mr . E . Molyneux , have both certified to the total fictitiousness of John Arrowsmith ' s report of " Railways and Revolvers in Georgia ; " and they firmly state that womeLi—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 . Arrow-smith , 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 an answer . It is , who was that eminent person , competent to speak on
American affairs , that gave the voucher for Joim Arrowsmith ' 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 .
schools is constantly increasing , and now amounts to considerably more than half a million . The " godless" Colleges subsist ; and the Roman Catholic college , which Dr . Cullen 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 oyrn 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 not ? much uso in building churches unless they provide an open space in the building for the poor- ^ for those very people whom they wish to bring within tlwa ministration of the national cliurch . Iho \ rords were simple , the style plain , but the precept has gono homo straight to the hearts of many in the onco national church . The rising against the Incomo-ta . x swells and extends . Southwark , Aylesbnry , Beading , Ply-
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an * that there was a vast mass of the population who T ? rere wifortunfttely estranged not only from the ChS Of Engfcad , -but from the Gospel itself . He riicS t say » the Gospel of Christ was openly S jj throughout the length and breadth of the land W v was vain to conceal that both in our crowded citie , IVi in pur remote country districts there was a Terv rn merows body , principally composed of the poor ¦ J « could not , and another numerous body -who would n « f mtf thesfcurches . " > Iis Lordship nevertheless thoiX that new fiharches r ^ y were wanted in Islington and he had received the . most satisfactory assurances ' iPt * the services , &c , in connesion with the proposed iihcZ ?^ S !? 1 " ?*!?? & ***** P resent < * « ion
.., . •> . * - inodation made available to its fullest extent but < Tr was the desire of the people for additional churched th , f « cattle-shed had been actually used as a ¦ place of srspm My , and the walls of a garden in the locality Imd w Taised and covered in for the same purpose ' ( Tleur hsar . } This had been effected by the i nstrumentality of the Home Mission , of whose exertions and object Bislion Blomfield entirely approved . He ( the Bishop of W don ) rejoiced also to hear that Sunday gatherings 1 vere held in an omnibus-yard in the district , and had been attended , according to the report of the Eev Mr Thomas , with the happiest effects . Then , with respect to the necessity of increased church accommodation it could not be fcetter proved than by a reference to the of the Mission
report Home , which stated that the mighty empire of France had but four cities , including its capital , of which the population was larger than this district of London 5 Belgium , Holland , Bohemia , Hungary , Denmark , Poland , and Turkey , but one ; even the iirst-elass 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 . ( Z / e « r , hear ?) The population of the district , which at the commencement of thiscenturv
was extremely small , had now swelled to the amount of 120 , 000 persons , whereas the increase of church accommodation had , comparatively speaking , been very slight . " Several other speakers addressed the meeting , and resolutions -ivere carried in . accordance with the object proposed . The list of subscriptions read in . the room amounted to 5294 ? ., and included a donation from the Bishop of London of COOJ .
THE EAST INDIA . COLLEGE A . T JLATLEYBUKY . The customary examination , for the term ending 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 pTAsenr > e of f ' olonol 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 , tlie Chairman addressed the students , and , in the course of his remarks , observed : — " It is _ bysically 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 , arid even the sufferers themselves tacitly submitting because they consider that they arc only the
TTJBLIC MEETINGS . THE BISHOP OF LONDON ON CHURCH EXTENSION . In consequence of the want of additional church accommodation in Islington , a society has recently been formed under the title of the Church Extension Society . This association , which proposes to build ten new churches in the district , was inaugurated at 11 public meeting , held in the 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 suftbeation . The Bishop , in his opening address , said that , when first requested to preside , he felt aomo anxiety , because the erection of ten now churches , at a cost of 50 , 000 / ., in 0110 parish , seemed to him too great a task for any hopo of success ;
besides which , ho thought—though he was far from denying the good which had been effected , in the metropolis and clsewhero , by church extension—that it was impossible to read tlio public papora without perceiving that there is a great deal of hciiso in the suggestion that the further building of churches had better bo postponed for awhile . New churches might bo erected , and yet the people might not go to them * , ho that it would bo wrong to take the erection of i > luccs of worship as an evidence of the spread of the < . < osp <; l . u They should bo very careful to iiro every menus to bring the poor especially into the house of God , for no one who had paid the slightest attention to tho uuhject could doubt for a moment that it was the upper and middle classes chiefly who formed tho church-goers throughout tho country
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 may have it attributed to you by the press of England that you are particeps criminis in an act of torture inflicted secretly by 0110 of your subordinates . Here is one of the drawbacks of your oflicial life ; but it suggests the necessity for the most unremitting vigilance to prevent its occurrence . Another drawback in Indian official life is the danger to which functionaries are exposed by the facilities afforded for obtaining loans from native money-lenders , who are often only too ready to entang le the incautious European in their nets . Such loans from subordinates in the district in which the European oflicinl is exercising his authority are absolutely prohibited , and may entail tho loss of tho service to him . "
UEPKESENTATION OF GttEEXWCH . A public meeting of the electors of the boroug h of Greenwich was held on Monday evening nt tlie Lccturchnll , Greenwich , to adopt measures for the return of a Liberal member and a supporter of vote by ballot , intlio room of Mr . Kolt , who has signified hid intention of retiring from Parliament . A Mr . Uristow took tlic chiur , and was supported by Mr . Chambers , M . P ., Mr . &er " jeant Parry , and Mr . Whitohurst , as a deputation from tho Ballot ' Society ; Alderman " Wire , Mr . Nidiolny , »»• John Th-waitea , chairman of tho Metropolitan lJoarl ! ° " Works , &c . Resolutions in favour of the ballot having been carried , after some opposition , the meeting
Bopftratud . MB . WIIXIAMS ANI > HIS CONSTITUT-NTS . . At tho invitation of Mr . Williams , M , P . for Lm «» ct "' a numbor of his constituents met him on Weilncstiay evening at tho Lecture-hall of tho Literary Iiwlitu 1101 Cartcr-Htrcet , Walwortb , in order to hear from tho I ' " * gentleman an account of his Parliamentary conuuu
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 1178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2171/page/2/
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