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    getting , oil very well . " We cad . only answer that they are nob makitfg any progress to be coi&pared with , the progress made 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 ] dnd 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 , we have Sir John Faeinqtoit , who would have helped Lord John to a certain extent ^ and who has a scheme of" his own : can we expect him to succeed where IJord John has failed ? The question answers itself . "We have Mr . Miltsteb G-ibson , with a plan of secular education entirely excluding

    religious instruction—a very good plan , but far more 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 in shutting us out from Lord John ' s plan—that is , they have assisted in preventing education . Has Mr . Heiniey ,- —who stopped Lord John on the threshold , — -any scheme ? That question also answers itself . Mr . Henxet is an

    antitemper of tliemeii whom the people send up to the fifcraSe of Commons , they are less disposed to support any men who propose a scheme of public education than any man like Mr . Hbniet who will put his veto upon 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 here again , even in this question of teaching children , we are thrown bad upon the severance of views , of sympathies , and of interests between the people ' s House and the people itself .

    educationist in the popular sense of the word , and those who voted for him were conspirators against providing the young of our day w-ith religious , education . " What is the practical , consequence ? " What is the hard net result of all these conflicts of men and parties ? It is , that we fall back upon the existing system of education under the Privy Council , with so much of

    improvement as ^ we can get out of Lord GuAirviiiLE and the future "Vice-President of Education . That'is , the Committee is to go on amassing its minutes uneonsolidated , niggling away at local schools where they can be coaxed into existence , but leaving immense interstices in districts unprovided , and hundreds of thousands- of the young without a chance of having a schoolmaster .

    As to the two nights' debate , last week , it was a mere drama for the majority of those who spoke , especially for the most distinguished actor , Sir James Q-baham , the new leader of the Voluntaries . This is his latest metamorphosis . It really is not worth while to anatomise the past history of Sir Jamiss G-haham . We only ask the people of this country whether they recognise him—the jealous guardian of Post Oifice letters !—as the representative of the Voluntary principle for the democracy of this country ? Sir himself

    James- would have neither weight nor power' in the House of Commons , if he had notbeen usedby other parties as a means of obstructing education for the people . It is a great thing to get an er-First Lord of the Admiralty to talk Voluntaryism , especially when he if * so " powerful" man as the GJ-kaiiam : of JNFetherby , who always professes to tell us " the reason why . " It * people wished to retort , they might ask Sir James the reason why ho entered into a war , and then deserted tho Ministry that began it ? hhesent

    Vy y ' hisj fW < md and correspondent , Sir OnAXti ^ s JNTapier , to tho Baltic P And now , the reason why he joius tho Voluntary party ? It would bo an interesting expo $ < $ o the tact with whioh a practised hand plays at party billiards . He ; was the great speaker in the debate , and his position illustrates the position of parties . For tho rest tho debate and its clo « o woro really of littlo value . Lord John cut off soveral oiMiia resolutions , so far abridging his plan ; but wo understand ns much of bis plan at the end as at the beginning , with the one conclusion that wo ascertained . It is this : —That in tho present

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    of its mpraL energy and devotion , looking round the ? religious horizon can see no cloud more menacing than Mr . Jowett ' s dubious expressions on . the theory of Vicarious Suffering . That appears to them the great peril of the day ,, and the ) one against which ,-it is most necessary to gjiard the innocent flock entrusted to their care . They do not know-, or they choose desperately to forget , that tne ground is all hollow beneath-their-feet ; that a vast body of criticism , which they would themselves admit to fre ' sdund ih kind if it were directed against profanes documents , stands against them not only urtconfuted but

    PTJLPIT-WAU AT OXFOBD . BIb . Jowett 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 . Rather 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 , anxious to read the divine who has so fluttered the Volscians of Orthodoxy ; We will venture to say that Mr . Jowett ' s publisher , unlike GtOBTschakoff , wishes the feu d * enfer may continue for ever . The Viee Chancellor has made a grand mistake in bringing so many small guns , instead of one 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 unsettlement as these exhibitions of theological fury 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 5 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 Denisons , Philpotiis and Gtokhams , and unroll ( to use the metaphor of the terrible Archdeacon" ) the banner oi 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 the hour is propitious for infusing into

    them certain ideas , and lessons less important in Byzantium , but more important to humanity . Surely there are some points on which even divines of the Church of England are agreed . Theue 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 tl \ e theological policemen of tho Vice-Chancellor dilate in the heap of sermons before us .

    But the melancholy part of it is tho ignoranco of the real fuels of the age among the clergy which theae scenes reveal . In such a state of opinion as that at which we have arrived , tho spiritual guides of the nation , tho oocupanta of its fourteen thousand pulpits , the representatives in no small degree

    almost unassailed ; and that an ever widening gulf separates' them and their system not only from the keenest intellect ; but from the most serious morality of i ; he age . At twentythree , fresh perhaps from a life of fesfc undergraduatism , they go into orders ^ declare their implicit belief in a vast tody 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 xeligious ? philosophy , they confute him out of the leathers , and are satisfied . Otherwise , they compose the weekly inodicxim of conventional rhetoric in peace . "Where will it end ?

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    Aero , 26 i 1856 . ] IHIjB IT A B B B ) . -gfe

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    A Peace HoA 3 £ .- ~ A hoax , worthy of Theodore Hook himself * was perpetrated on . Monday . An apparently official proclamation had been posted , tip , announcing that " a mountedheraldyaccompanied Tby a pursuivant , " would , op the 21 st inert ., " prefaced by a flourish' of trumpets , ' announce the ; conclusion of peace at the ^ following localities : Elephant and Gastle , Aldgate , Royal Exchange , St . Martui ' s < -Ie < -Grand v Holbornrbars ,-Oxfordstreet Circus , Tyburn-gate , Hyde Park-corner , iPiccadilly Circus , Ciaring-cross ; At all these / spots ^ large crowds collected ; but it is needless to say that they no more , saw the herald and thepursuivant , nor heard tlie flourish of trumpets , than the-persons whom- Charles Lamb sent

    to Primrose-hill to see the Persian ; ambassador : pay his devotions , as a fixe ^ wor&hipper , to the rising sun , beheld that interesting religiou s' ceremonial . —> Jk . yoting man , named Gaspar Collard , was on- Monday examined" Marlborough-street on a charge arising out of the trick . He was theatrically " made up" ' with a long curling wig , false moustaches , a herald ' s tabard profusely adorned ¦ with tinsel lions and unicorns , and a blue -velvet hat and feathers . The charge-was one of assault in Hyde Park . Before the magistrate ^ C ollard said : — . "I was employed by Mr . Grevillr Potter , of Oxford-street , to read a proclamation at various places to-day , announcing

    to the public that it is his intention to give away portraits of the heroes of the Crimea of many hundred pounds' value ; About 5000 tills ha ^ e beeni posted in different parts , and' because I was behind 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 his horse ! ' and this would have been done if a police-constable had not interfered . I struck in self-defence , without assaulting any one in particular . I am only a servant acting under the instructions of another . " Tho young man was released , after a lecture .

    Local Chakgbs < wr Shipping , —Tho Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider these dues met for tho first time on Friday week ; Mr-Lowe in tho chair . Sir . Heron ,, town clerk of Manchester , and Mr . Bramley Moore , were the only two witnessea examined . The former , after giving a historical sketch of tho Liverpool town dues , called attention to the fact that they are not levied in accordance with any fixed soale , but at tho discretion of tho Common Council , and that there is no official tariff for tho collection of the duos . Tho greatest uncertainty prevails

    even among the authorities themselves as to the amount to bo claimed in each particular case ; and tho matter ia often left to b « ' settled arbitrarily by tho clerks , who . exact as much a 8 they can got . Piltforing ia » frequent result of this system . Mr . Mooro . gave some particulars with respect to tho ordiniuy receipts , And the Committee adjourned till Monday , when Mr . Heron was again examined , and furnished additional < lotnila as to tho nature , history , and appropriation of tho Liverpool dues . On Thursday , several ^ ituessos wore oxnmincd ,, who ' all condemned tho Liverpool duos on the ground of the injury they inflict on commerce . Turn RrcjoicraoB je-on Pjsacki . — . Largo temporary wooden buildings , for the preparation 1 of the Aveworke to bo displayed on tho occasion of tlvo peace rejoicings , aro being erected i n Hydo Park , tho Green Park , Victoria Park , nnd on tho summit of Primroao-hUl . The exhibition , it is stated , will bo of tnq utmost mnguificonoo .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1856, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2138/page/15/