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    THE EDUCATION MOVEMENT. Mr. Gladstone on...

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    does not mind displeasing Napoleon the Third—will Hot drive out the foreigners on demand , and leaves the whole responsibility . . of the position to the Federal Council . Extreme measures might be taken to , < mforce the orders of the Supreme Government of tbe United States of Switzerland , now set at defiance ; the national militia might be marched ' against the intractable city , but at the hazard of a disturbance that might spread until it became extremely inconvenient to the first mover of the quarrel .

    France , which boasts of furnishing all the rest of Europe with ideas , is certainly not at present furnishing us with agreeable or useful ones . To introduce the French military mode of dealing with editors of newspapers who are so unhappy as to give offence to French consuls , having French drayons-iwc sons , is not an idea for which we can make France any sort of pleasant acknowlegmcnt . The editor of the Northern , Express may have been wrong in his mode of fighting tbe battle of his party in the late Municipal Ward elections of Newcastle-on-Tyne , but the dragon Vicomte de Maricourt committed—as even his counsel admitted—an enormous mistake in

    supposing that an English editor was to be brought to account in the same way as a French one , by E lacing a pistol to his head and threatening to blow is brains out . It is an idea that will never be adopted on this side of the Channel . W hat intelligence the Calcutta mail and the telegrams of last week failed to supply as to recent events in India , has been supplied this week by the arrival of the Bombay mail . We have now the complete account of the attempt made by the disarmed 62 nd and 69 th Regiments to regain their

    arms at Mooltan , on the 2 nd of September . The telegraphic account was correct in stating that almost all of the mutineers , something over 1200 in number , were destroyed , In Oude the forces of the enemy are said to- number 70 , 000 men and 56 guns . Lord Clyde is at Luckno- \ y , busily organising the next campaign and disposing his forces so as to give a complete " account" of the enemy when he recommences action . Several smart actions have been fought , in all of which the rebels have suffered severely , while our own loss has been trifling in the extreme .

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    Wbedon Inquiry.—On Thursday The Commissi...

    Wbedon Inquiry . —On Thursday the commissioners resumed their inquiry . Mr . John Calvert , army contractor , -was examined , -with the view of refuting a statement made by Mr . Ramsey , relative to the old regimental clothing system , when colonels . were allowed to contract for equipping their own men . Mr . Ramsey bad said the colonels received the benefit of the surplus clothing in the event of their regiment being reduced after its issue ; thus , if on the 1 st of April the regiment was 2000 strong , the colonel was allowed to charge for that extent of clothing , but it might happen that before

    the clothing was required , the regiment was reduced to 1000 , and in that case it was a practice with the tailoring colonels to apply the surplus to the next year ' s clothing , but to charge all the same for a year ' s clothing of 1000 men . Mr . Calvert positively stated that such an instance had never occurred in his experience , and he had acted for colonels in such matters for a period extending over thirty years . Colonel Hoare then put ip . a long statement detailing the various delays , mistakes , and vexations proceedings that had attended his applications to tho War-office respecting the clothing and equipment of the battalion under his own command .

    African Missions , — -The Bishop of Cape Town , at a public meeting at Exeter , stated that tho Kaffir difficulty had now passed away , and he thought they might trace its disappearance distinctly and logically to tbe fact that the Government had placed at tho service of Sir George Grey 40 , 000 * . a year for three years for the purpose of civilising the people . The governor was devoting the whole of his official income to the work of civilising and christianising tho natives of Africa , and had recently brought down to bis ( tho right rev . prelate ' s ) house , from the frontier , forty sons of African chiefs to be educated , and one of the objects -which his

    lordship had in view in visiting England was to found a olloge in which the sons of chiefs from all parts of the country might be trained for missionary work . In this great object his lordship said ho believed ho might count on the cordial co-operation of Dr . Livingstone , Ho had received 1500 ? . from Miss Burdett Coutta , and money from othor sources—making a total of 3000 & - —but ho wanted 1000 ? . more for tho erection of tho college , and then ho should require funds for feeding and clothing the Inmatest , The right rov . prolate has met with groat success in Exeter . After two sermons preached on Sunday 100 / . was collected , and a largo amount has since boon obtained ;

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    . Hotel Accommodation In London. The Oko...

    . HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN LONDON . THE OKOSVENOR HOTEL . PROJECT . A reference to our advertising columns will readily suggest to the reader that we are at present immediately interested in the above Grosvenor and West-End Railway Terminus Hotel scheme ; and this will account , therefore , for our editorially noticing it , if , indeed , the general subject of hotel accommodation is not admitted , as we think it should be , to be of very general interest , and even importance . about hotel

    The complaints of travellers overcharges and short-comings—loud and deep enough though they usej to be in all conscience—never took a popular form till Mr . Albert Smith ran his celebrated tilt against the British caravanserai interest . He went , as all radical reformers will do , a little too far perhaps ; but it -was a very little . Those who came after of course stood upon no ceremony . He and his movement in favour of the Great-British traveller certainly effected a good deal for that helpless being , and he deserves the thanks of thousands . But though wax-lights are rarely changed in extenso in any but Jermyn-street , or Bond-street , or , perchance , St . James ' s-street hotels ; though the

    " stick on" for service is not so barefacedly ad libitum as in the dear , good , old days , it is surprising how few hotels for travellers , really worthy of the name , exist in London . A country squire and suite from ; shire may , of tiourse , put up ere route for the Continent , as the Tost informs us they do , at some fairly furnished , bat generally ehintzified , dingy , and awfully dear private hotel , and , making a few allowances , obtain , as they say , " all the comforts of a home ; " but these elegant homes for families—so at least , we often think as we pass them—are utterly unsuited to the requirements of the manufacturing man , the military man , the engineer , the lawyer—in fact , of the thousand and one

    bachelor professionals , of every sort and kind , who want large , light , airy coffee-rooms , clean , small , quiet bedrooms ; cheerful , well-ventilated smokingrooms ; an ordinary , with marvels of plain cooking provided by our friend Simpson ; a good bottle of port ( thank Heaven and the comet we may hope _ some more of that before we die ); a nice-looking damede comptoir to give out their letters ; and a night porter to sit up for them and fight it out with their cabby if needful . These sort of men don't want the chintz and the fine carpet , and the rug with the big dog on it , the fusty fussiness , and the crawling flunkeyism of the " genteel hotel for families , " and they mortally hate to pay for what they despise . They

    hate again the " very cheap and comfortable hotels " for single gentlemen , described in advertisements to BradaJiaid ' a Guide as being within ten minutes of every part of town and romantically cheap ; for they have a horror of the nice small sole , the . nice runvp-Steak , the cheap hotel stock-pot and its universal flavour that pervades such establishments from kitchen to garret . These travellers form the class with whose comforts and discomforts we most sympathise , and for their advantage , whether as permanent tenants of chanibres garnies in a kind of hotel barrack , or as birds of passage , we are glad enough to hear of projected hotels on suclx a scale as " The Grosvenor . "

    It is alleged tliat the Great Western Hotel has paid 25 per cent , per annum in dividends . Wo hope so . We wish equal success to all , and equal comfort to their visitors . If such a profit can be established to have been made upon the Paddington speculation —and not otherwise—we hope soon to hear of full share lists for the Grosvenor project and half-adozen more . The old proverb eays " Good wine needs no bush , " and we never saw lack of customers at n shop that sold good things , to eat or drink . We will warrant these hotel companies public patronage if they can only onco get their shareholders .

    The Education Movement. Mr. Gladstone On...

    THE EDUCATION MOVEMENT . Mr . Gladstone on tub Univjbrsitib 8 . t-A crowded meeting was hold on Saturday at the St . George ' s Hull , Liverpool , for tlio award , of prizes to the successful candidates at the recent Oxford middle-class examinations . The Earl of Carlisle presided , and in an eloquent speech expressed the pleasuro which ho felt at the liberal spirit which was being manifested by the University of Oxford , that anolont and- famous seat of learning , which was coeval with the whole stream of British history . The Right Hon . . W . 33 ; Gladstone , who was also present , moved a resolution of thanks to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge for having organised a systom of local . examinations . a Mr . Gludotono intimated that " the universities had not dune their duty by the groat marts of commerce , and coutondod that a town might at one and the samo time bo groat in its literary achievements and successful In trade . He suid ho saw in the examinations " the resumption by the ancient

    unlvorslties of the country of their true relation to all classes of the community , as institutions which have been the guide and glory of Christendom , and which ought to dispense their benefits to all ranks of our fellow citizens " Mr . Gaythokne Hardy , M . P ., and Mr . K . King M . P .- ^ At the Leominster Agricultural Meeting , Mr * Hardy said no man was more ready to do his best for promoting education than he was , but he must protest against the energies of the poor being wasted on topics of extreme nicety , and their minds being diverted from the use of the material machines which they required to use—viz . to read , and write , and to understand the doctrines of their faith . He approved the present system of education—that the State should aid those who aided

    themselves—but the duty of the State was not to give aid to attaining that degree of refinement that would make them competent to compete with those who educated themselves from their own resources ; the duty of the State appeared to him to be to put into the hands of the mass of the people the simple machinery which was , as it were , the lever by which to remove any impediments in the way of instruction . They should limit the desires of those very funtastie schoolmasters who wished to teach so much . He could not help agreeing with Lord Shaftesbury that nothing opposed education so much , and especially religious education , as the miserable and crowded dwellings in which many of the

    poor resided ; . If they forced a family of adults to live together in one crowded room they must take the consequences , but they were sowing the seeds of immorality broadcast . In conclusion , Mr . Hardy expressed himself favourable to a cheap , plain , systematic method of instruction in a moral and religious education , and he would add to that , such appliances as would improve tha social health of the people and their physical development , so that they might have at the base of society a great , orderly , united , loyal , arid religious population . Mr . King King said he did not find that an educated man made a better servant than one who had only been taught the principles laid down by Mr . Hardy .

    Lord Carlisle at' Manchester . —The members of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution assembled on Monday evening , to listen to an address from the Earl of Carlisle , K . G ., who had undertaken to distribute the certificates of merit awarded by the Society of Arts ia connexion with the classes in the institution . His lordship congratulated the successful candidates on the success which they had achieved , and earnestly exhorted , them to persevere . He would earnestly endeavour to impress upon them- all , wherever their future destinies might lead them , to remember this , that the work of education , properly so considered , did not terminate with the class-room , or professor ' s lecture , or the mechanics ' institute . Each succeeding day of their lives might add to their knowledge ; and every passing moment of that time might promote their personal improvement , which was more important still . Let them strive by every

    means , in their power to attain the highest degrees of usefulness to the generation in which they lived . It was not every one who could hope to become a Watt or a Dal ton , any more than it was given to any set of men to become Shakspeares Or Miltons , * but , because they could not attain the very brightest and most immortal chaplcts of literature , it was no reason why the common , smooth , current parts of literature and knowledge should be neglected . All could not be at the very summit of the mountain , all could not be at the very top of the tree . The aristocracy of genius was still more limited than the other aristocracies of birth , of wealth , of personal strength , or beauty . But the aristocracy of virtue had this peculiarity in it , distinguishing it from all other aristocracies—that it might be co-extensive with mankind—and it was every man ' s own fault if he did not make one of that peerless aristocracy .

    The Archbishop of Canterbury . —At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Diocesan Education Socioty , the Archbishop of Canterbury said that If was to be regretted that the children Joft school so early ; but still they must consider that with that disadvantage much good must be done , for the object of a great deal of all education was intended to lay the foundation in youtn for improvement and advancement in , after life . * " > understood the object of all education to bo that of preparing or disciplining the mind for the situation in wmen the parties might afterwards bo placed rather than in a complete storing of the mind with knowledge . Evening schools , he thought , would bo very advantageous , especially to those who had left their schools at an oariy ago , and having noglocted their reading , & c , might imthemselves there

    prove , .. ... Lokd Belpkk on Schools oit Drsign . — At wo annual meeting of the Nottingham Government & cuooi . Lord Bolpor said that it occurrod to him , in considering tho oporatlon of institutions of this kind boing established throughout tho country , that one objection was made against them by those who wore not well acquainted with thorn , which required some notice it was said , « Why should Government interfere In tX 5 , , " * ' " tore ? W . hy introduce anything Uko artiflciul Interforonoo or encouragement to supply this peculiar fcina 01 demand ? " This argument , ho thought , would not do very difficult to . answer . For many years it was founa , superior oa our manufacturers wore In many wapoow , still In this ono , In tho power of art , and in the tiibto hot doslgn , they wore inferior to those of most other coun

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23101858/page/4/