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ARCHDEACON DENISON ON EDUCATION. At the ...
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The Bishop of Oxford performed the cerem...
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REOPENING OF THE HIGHGATE LITERARY INSTI...
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LETTER FROM LADY FRANKLIN. The following...
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Archdeacon Denison On Education. At The ...
ARCHDEACON DENISON ON EDUCATION . At the annual general meeting of the members of the Bath and Wells Diocesan Societies , held at Wells , on Thursday , Archdeacon Brymer presiding in the absence of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese , Archdeacon Denison moved the following . resolution : — " That this meeting deeply regrets the little assistance which the Diocesan Board of Education has been able to render during the past year ; but , while it is fully alive to the difficulty of" providing for the education of the poorer classes , it deprecates most earnestly any attempt to conciliate support by omitting to teach the doctrines and principles of the Established Church . "
The resolution , of course , was carried . In a speech of great force and eloquence , Archdeacon Denison made a statement of the argument employed by Churchmen against secular education , or state education , which is so close and succinct , and , coming from him , may be said to be almost by authority , that we reprint it : — " What was the theory of a rate ? The theory of a rate was that citizens should be assessed , locally or generally , as the case might be , for purposes which were of confessed public benefit , or such as , if men differed about the manner of carrying them out , the minority might be expected to give way to the majority , without putting any strain upon their conscience . For example ,
it was a confessed public benefit to pave and light the streets of a town , and those of the inhabitants who preferred to walk in the mud , or to grope their way in the dark , need not be considered . And if the ratepayers differed about the manner of lighting and paving , the minority might very fairly be expected to yieldto the majority , without putting any strain upon their conscience . But education was not a thing , as logicians spoke , 'in pari materia . ' We might assume , indeed , that it was a confessed public benefit to educate a people . No one would dispute that proposition . But when we came to what was meant by education , to the matter and manner of education , the differences were so great , and ran up so completely into first
principles , that the minority could not be expected to give way to the majority , because it would be a direct strain upon the conscience . It was right and good , then , to make a rate for paving and lighting a town , or for any analagous purpose ; but as for making a rate to educate people , that was neither right nor good , nor , strictly speaking , was it possible without reducing education to the level of vague general instruction . That it should never be reduced to this level was just what the Churchman had to contend for at all costs and risks . { Hear , hear . ) The majority of men took a loose and low view of what was meant by education . They confined it principally to the wants _ of this life , rr-jecting the idea that it must be based upon definite revealed truthsupon the one faith committed by God to the keeping of
his Church ; and as the minority would no more—and , indeed , could no more—concede these points than the majority would adopt them , the difference between the two was one which must , always subsist . Now , a rate , and the manner of spending a rate , was the expression of the will of a majority—an expression certainly not , under the present circumstances of the world , in accordance with the mind of the Church ; but in reality , however it might be disguised , setting aside her mission and her office , and weakening her hands for the discharge of her trust . He concluded , therefore , a priori , that an education rate was a thing neither right nor good under any conceivable circumstances of our present state , and he had such confidence in the soundness of the argument whereby he had arrived at this conclusion , that he would only add , ' Quoderat demonstrandum . ' {( 'hears . )"
Mr . Denison had stigmatized the Council of Education , as a power making insiduous advances towards assuming the entire control of the education of the country ; and he had asserted that the Manchester and Sallord scheme would be used sis a precedent , if established , for a general education rate . 1 U ; wound up with a fervid appeal to the Church , not without its value to us even .
" Ihe battle of the Church of England in in her parishes , in her churches , and in her schools . What ia her watchword ? The Catholic Faith whole and undcfiled . ' ( Cheers . ) What is her reliance and her strength ? Not reason , but faith ; not pride of knowledge , but humbleness of heart ; not State enactments , but the word of ( iod ; not State endowments , but daily selfdenial for the love of Christ , in the B |) irit of Christ , and after the pattern of Christ ; not the princes of this world , but ' Christ crucified . ' ( Cheers . ) And what are the adversaries of the Church of Knglimd ? On one side in I tome- —Koine , which lias added to , and taken away from , the Catholic faith — Koine , which denies that there ? is any Church in Kngland nave in subjection to herself . On the other hide are ninny uncertain shapes , fading nway into darkness as they withdraw farther anil farther from the lifrht of the Catholic faith—all of them
lacking somewhat of the complete armour of the soldier of the Cross—all of them with the claim written in their foreheads to be ' wise above what is written '—the maik of the pride of life , the sign of the corning of the man of Bin , the undoubted Antichrist , ( llcur , hear . ) In the midst stands the Church of Knglnnd . Around her is the bright light of the Catholic faith . She trembles , indeed , and her eyes are cast upon tho ground , ' » » ' » "cr . Lord ' s presence , and because she known and feels that she has failed , mid is failing still—alas ! in bow many thinKM—to do her Lord ' s will . But still does tshe grasp her standard with undoubting hand . Upon it- are the awful words , ' This is the Catholic faith , which , except a man believe faithfully , lie cannot be saved . ' And shall it ever be that Koine shall have power to trample her in the du » t , or thut the pride of life eh . aH " » w « er
cede or compromise one particle of that good thing which has been committed to her to keep until that day when her Lord , who gave it , shall demand an account of it at her hands . It is part of every Churchman ' s trial whether he will do , each one according to his measure and his gift , what has been said of the duty of the Church militant . May it be our wisdom , brethren beloved in Christ—may it be our wisdom to know this , our happiness to feel it , our confidence to do it . { Loud applause . )" ,
away from the light to walk among those uncertain shapes , and , it may be , to wander into outer darkness ? May God forbid ! { Hear , hear . ) But what is her confidence ? — what is her hope that God s mercy will interpose to save her , if she allow any considerations of worldly advantage—any undue craving after what , in man's common language , is called ' success '—anv preference of State policy—any love of ease and comfortany admiration of external order and mere worldly peace —to weigh with her in such sort as does not become a Church of Godand to persuade her that she may con-
The Bishop Of Oxford Performed The Cerem...
The Bishop of Oxford performed the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the chapel attached to the Oxford Diocesan Training School , now in course of erection at Culham , between the Abingdon-road station and Abingdon . The bishop ' s address turned , of course , on education and educators , or trainers as he called them , whose office was , he said , only second to the sacred ministry of the Church . As to education itself the bishop was very emphatic . " If any of you , my brethren , doubt whether it is good to extend education , believe me it is a settled question .
It is a settled question whether there shall be education . You cannot stop it . Education , of one sort or other , there will be in this land . You might as well tell the tide when it rises to stop , as say you will keep the people of this country without education . All you can settle now is the quality of the education you will give themwhether it shall be the training of Christ ' s Church , to make them meet instruments for doing his will , or whether it shall be an irreligious , a puffing up , a vain , an empty , and miserable earthly training , which , shall make them unfit for serving God , and unfit for doing their duty in that condition of life to which God calls them . That is the only question left to be settled . "
Reopening Of The Highgate Literary Insti...
REOPENING OF THE HIGHGATE LITERARY INSTITUTION . The Earl of Shaftesbury , Dr . Southwood Smith , other gentlemen assembled , to do honour to the reopening of this'institution , on Monday evening . Mr . ' Harry Chester presided , and a goodly company occupied the benches of the theatre . The subject of the evening ' s conversation was " The Uses of Scientific Institutions in improving the Condition of the People . " Amongst other things , Mr . Chester said one which we register . " Take another subject upon which great ignorance prevailed—he meant political economy . He was aware that all questions of party politics had been , by a most wise regulation , excluded from their society ; but there were questions connected with social law which might with safety be made the objects of their study . The question of strikes , the mutual relations of the employer and the employed , the law of partnership , the questions of unlimited liability , and that of partnerships en commanditc , were all matters in which they had a deep interest , and concerning which it was most desirable that sound and accurate information should be widely circulated . If by a full discussion the public mind could be enlightened concerning them , how much would the passing of good laws be facilitated ?" Lord Shaftesbury , who traced the strength and security of society to the efforts made of late years to improve the condition of the people , aaid : —¦ " There were many things relating to the condition of the poor to which they might most profitably direct their attention . In the first place , there was the truck system—an abomination so great , and of so subtle a character , that it could not be put down , except by a general expression of public opinion . { Hear , hear . ) lie knew nothing which more tended to repress the poor man ' s energies than this system . It kept him down at the lowest point of birbarism . { Cheers . ) A case had lately occurred in which an agricultural labourer had not
for years received any money at all from his master ; and it need not be added , that he could not supply niueteen-twenticthsof the wants of his family . Of course , he could not send his children to school , for he had nothing wherewith to pay tins schoolmaster , all his wages consisting of a certain quantity of meal , which his wile received every week . Another abomination to bo put down by public opinion was the payment of wages on a Saturday night at publicliouscs , than which nothing had bevn more pioiluctive of irretrievable ruin to the working man . ( C / nwrs . ) Another most important step wa . s tin ; improvement of the dwellings of the poor , without which education and the labours of the clergy were useless , and nhnoht . au insult . ( Loud cheers . )"
After alluding to the Shoe ' Illack Brigade , he < le-Hcribed the Ragged . Dormitory at Westminster , an institution where Uneven who have HUflered their term of imprisonment and de . sins to reform aro located : — No one was admitted until he had undergone a most HeTeri ! ordeal , lie was placed in an upper room and told that \\ v . must remain there fourteen days without seeing any one besiilea the maHter , and with no better fare than bread and water . The door was , however , left open , ho that he might leave if he ; chose ; but he was told that if he went out , even for an mutant , he must never return . If u lud or u inun underwent thut ordcul , it watt
considered that he was really sincere , but of the 500 iT " had been admitted , scarcely any had failed , andI tK were obliged to refuse seventy to eighty applications « er week . There were in the house forty-six persons w P h 0 had been as great vagabonds as any in London , and vet they were all kept in order by one man , Mr . Nash Even he had been obliged to be absent for a fortnight on account of his health , and yet they had behaved in the most exemplary manner , though thus left by them selves . { Cheers . )" The company were subsequently addressed by Dr Southwood Smith and others ; after which they broke up well pleased .
Letter From Lady Franklin. The Following...
LETTER FROM LADY FRANKLIN . The following is a copy of a letter from Lady Franklin to Mr . Grinnell , who interested himself so much in sending out the American expedition under Captain de Haven . " 21 , Bedford-place , London , September 12 , 1851 . " My dear Mr . Grinnei / l , —I write to you in much agitation and confusionof mind , which you will not wonder at when you hear that Captain Penny , with his two ships , has returned , and announces the approaching return of Captain Austin ' s squadron , after being out for only
half the period for which they were equipped . * * * Captain Penny ' s letter is to-day before the Board of Admiralty , urging them in the strongest terms to despatch instantly a powerful steamer to Wellington Channel , in which quarter , to the north-west , he has discovered the passage which there can be scarcely a doubt the ships have taken , since it is the only opening they have found anywhere , and hundreds of miles of coast have been explored in the lower western direction to Cape Walker , Banks ' Land , and Melville Island , without a trace of them . Drift wood in considerable
quantities has come out of this north-west channel , and also a small bit of rather fresh English elm , which Penny pronounces must have belonged to our ships , and was probably thrown overboard . " Thus the right track of the north-west passage and the course of the missing ships are identical ; and I can only regret that our squadron was not told they might attempt the making of the passage if they could ; for in that case we should have had no abandoning of the search till many more struggles had been made to get into Behring ' s Straits . The barrier of ice in Wellington Channel did not break up last year , nor had done so this when Penny . left ; but his explorations , which extended to 180 miles from the entrance , were made beyond it in boat sledges ; 60 miles beyond this he saw water , with land standing to the north-west . I can hardly
conceive how he could resist following the open water which he saw beyond him , and which he is convinced leads into the so-much-talked-of Polar basin . He is also convinced , with Dr . Kane , that there is a better climate in these more northern latitudes , with more natural resources of food and fuel ; some proofs of which he brings forward . We have every reason , then , to hope that some of our lost friends and countrymen may yet be able to support life in this region , though unable to return by the way which they came ; and the absence of any traces of them north of Cape Innes , on the east side of Wellington Channel , proves nothing at all against it , since they were not likely to linger on their way to examine shores and islands , but would push on as fast as possible while the opportunity favoured them ; and the next trace to be found would probably be their second winter quarters .
"In confirmation of this view , Penny tells me that tliere are signs of their first winter encampment at Beechy Island , and of their having left it suddenly ; and that the summer of 1816 , though extremely unfavourable to the whalers , who , on account of the prevailing winds , could not cross over to the west side of Baffin ' s Hay , must have been quite the reverse to our navigators . You may imagine what a state of anxiety and agitation we are in , till we learn the decision of the Admiralty on the appeal now made to them . I have written a strong letter also , and I know that Sir 1 <\ Beaufort , Captain Hamilton , and Mr . Barrow , who are all at their posts , will allege the necessity of prompt measures with all their powers . Should lo
we fail , we must look to America alone as our resource , you will belong all the virtue and credit of continuing the search when our countrymen fail ; and to you will belong the honour and glory of succouring the distressed , and of settling for ever that vexed question which fur centuries it has been the ambition of Europe , and of Knuland in particular , to solve . I cannot abandon my husband and my countrymen both to their fate , just at the moment when the pathway to them has been found : and if need be , and my coming to the United States would help in engaging the active and energetic sympatliiee of your countrymen , painful , in many respects , us this trial would be , 1 would brace up my courage to tJio
proof . . " But my head is growing weak , and my health is Kinking ; and then 1 have , a beloved sister ( not-to mention uu aged father , who is not now in a state to bo coiihckiu » of my absence ) whom it would almost break my heart , i leave . I am sure you will tell , with all your iiccuatoineu truth , and candour , and kindness , what is your view this point , in case the Admiralty fail me . * * * * * * * , » - * ... * # i / iti TO 41 Austin iiitfiition
It appears that it was Captain ' s look into Wellington Channel himself , and also , » Jones ' s Sound before he returned home ; but as u » former , Penny says he will fi . nl the ice impact Me , J thut he will bo sure not to be able , us an « y « witu « us , i seethe opening . Nothing , perhaps , could I" ' *' '' ' d iu its present state but tin . 100 hoise power Hti > uini . r , a that cannot be done this year ; though Penny Hays , ^ - Hteumer could be ready to saU in three week- « a n from hence , h « thinks he could Htill g « t her u ¦ t > ca « ter Hound this season , or at any rate » to sc "" J "' 0 ucnicut locttlity , which , would enable him to comment
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01111851/page/8/
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