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    SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1855.

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    qt'O GOBBBSBONSBNUS . During the Session p £ EwlianiBBt it ia often impossible to find , room fer correspondence , even the briefest . ^ ¦ No notice can be taken of anonymous communications Whatever is intended for insertion must foe authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily forpublication ; but as a guarantee of hi&gopdfaith . Communications should alyrays be legiMy written , and . on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . ¦ ' . We cannot undertake toreturnrejeotedcommunications . i !' ¦ - ¦¦ '¦ „ — ¦ ¦ ¦ - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO . " ffifrr 3 Ua& * r . " Tor a Half-Year .... „„ ..-,. ,.., £ 0 13 0 To be remitted in advance . 63 ° Money Orders should be drawn upon the 8 tbam » Branch Office , and be made payable to Mr . AJ . B&BP E . Gaiiowax , at No . 7 , Wellington Street , Strand .

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    system prevailed in Switzerland , Erance , and other countries , and argued that such a plan alone seemed to him to suffice to solve the difficulties of this question . He was aware that Chnreumen would say he had conceded too much , and THssenters that he had not conceded enough , birt he had honestly endeavoured to make a contribution to a cause in which he believed the wetfareof the <» untry was bound up . After some observations from Mr . HiDFiBtD , Xord STANtET , while supporting the bill generally , and urging the strong necessity of some great effort being made in the promotion of education , laid it down broadly that no success could attend any system of schools unless religious teaching were made purely optional .

    Sir G . Gre y , on the part of the Government , gave a most cordial assent to the introduction of the measure , and praised the diligence and liberality with which Sir J . Pakington had dealt with it , and he only wished that he could hope that it would meet the admitted deficiencies of education , which , he believed , could only be effected by something like a compulsory system of education . Much as the TiOrluntary system had done , it was not a sufficient basis for an educational system which would be commensurate to the increase of population . He agreed that a system of rating was advisable to obtain the means of establishing schools . He urged that it was possible by mutual conciliation to reconcile the differences between the advocates of religious , and secular

    education . Lord R . Ceciu objected that the deficiencies of education were exaggerated , and was opposed to the religious principle inculcated in the bill . Mr . W . J . Eox eulogised the liberality of the bill , and thought it one which persons of all opinions might concur in bringing into operation ; and urged the absolute necessity of using every means to increase education , and especially in the branch of elementary instruction . Mr . M . Gibson also said that Sir J . Pakington had

    displayed great liberality , and shown great respect for liberty of conscience in the measure he had proposed . It seemed to him to go far to reconcile the contending parties on the subject of education . At the same time he thought that the great difficulty would be found in the principle laid down that , in . all schools paid for by rates , some form of religious teaching should be imperative . He gave notice that he should bring in a bill for-the promotion of education on the secular plan . Mr . A » deblbx spoke in favour of the bill .

    Lord PAiiMKRSTON rejoiced in the hopes that the important subject of education might at last be effectually provided for . Recognising all the difficulties of the religious part of the question , he expressed his trust that a solution might be found for them by means of a general relaxation in those extreme prejudices which had hitherto occasioned so much perplexity . . Leave was then given to bring in the bill . Sir -B . -HAM ,- brought forward Ms-bill for the better local management of the metropolis . Defining the metropolis , as viewed in his measure , to consist of the district comprised within the jurisdiction of the Registrar-General , Sir B . Hall indicated the principles on which his measure was based . These

    involved a uniformity of the system , the consolidation of the local boards , and the election of the members of these boards by the ratepayers . Besides these local boards , he proposes to constitute , under the name of the Metropolitan Board of "Works , a body who should watch over the execution of all improvements and public works extending over several districts on the whole area of the metropolis . This board was to consist of a chairman and forty-two members—two of the latter being elected by the City Corporation , and the remainder by the ratepayers of the different districts . The bill would in no way affect the City of London , which he intimated would form the subject of a distinct measure to be introduced after Easter . His

    bill , he contended , promised to give to all the metropolitan parishes the advantages of municipal institutions , without any of their cumbrous paraphernalia , and would , besides , secure highly beneficial results in the way of sanitary arrangements , the water supply , and other works calculated to promote the health and comfort of the dwellers in the metropolis . After more discussion , the bill was brought in . The other orders were disposed of , and the House adjourned .

    HOUSE OF LORDS . In the House of Lords , the Earl of Albemakle , in moving fox some returns , raised a discussion respecting the transport of horses by steamers . Lord Panmu-BK , the Earl of Luoan , nnd the Duke of Cambridge entered into some technical details on the subject . The roturns were then ordered . Some bills wore advanced respectively through a step of progress , and their Lordships adjourned at a quarter to seven o'clock .

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    The girl -who was charged with the murder of Mrs . Bacon , at Rochester , was acquitted yesterday .

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    THE PRESENT AND THE COMING . We are sadly in want of a great Commoner to take the lead in public affairs . Let him come forward and the nation is ready to accept , to cheer , to follow , and to reward him * There never was a better opportunity _ Hereditary wisdom has clearly exhausted litself . The aristocratic intellect , like the Nile , diminishes as it flows away from its source . It is losing itself in by-channels and marshes . Fogs and miasma hang over it as it dwindles away .

    It would be a great mistake to suppose that this phenomenon is the result of mere accident . The statesmen who were begotten last century have not begotten idiots to succeed them—not in all cases , we mean . There are Dukes and Marquises and Yiscounts now at tire ^ KeM " orn ^ aT ~ the"lie ' a'd : " -of ~ pxt'blic ~ affairsquite equal in aptitude for administration of a particular kind to most of the men who did our business for us of yore . The individuals have not so much diminished as appearance tells us . The claims upon them have

    increased . They are required to study more , to work more , to understand more , to consult history more attentively , to look further into the future , to divide more carefully in the prism of their intelligence into its primitive colours every ray of public opinion . They fail in their mission , because their education , their position , their hereditary prejudices , and , more than all , their immediate interests continue to make them fail . We might as well expect to hear a good Catholic preach the doctrines of the [ Reformation , as a true aristocrat become the exponent of the wants and theories of this age .

    The time is not long past when a young nobleman or gentleman , fresh from Oxford or Cambridge ,, with his scrip full of elegant extracts , could set out to study men and manners , laws and institutions , in a six months' tour through Europe , and return quite qualified to be a legislator or a minister . If he added to ordinary physical

    qualifications a loose knowledge of English history , some faint notions of the law of natiqns , a reasonable acquaintance with Adam Smith and Paley , there was nothing to prevent him from becoming a great orator ftad an influential statesman . He set out lightly loaded , and increased his burden by experience as ho went on . In those times this was all

    well enough—in these very different acquirements are demanded . The same men cannot expect any longer to hold the same position . The best education , it is true , is that of the world . The school for a politician is the company of the men and classes whose interests he has to watch over . "When England was governed solely for the benefit of a particular order , the members of that order very properly kept the Government in their hands . They knew precisely what was wanted But times have changed . New classes and

    new interests have arisen . We have alreadypassed through a transitive state . Capital , manufacture , and trade , as soon as they became great facts , obtained a share in the Government ; but being essentially parasitical , and divorced from large considerations of policy , necessarily left imperial questions to men who seemed to . k » ow and care more about them . Of late years , for the first time , the nation has really made' its appearance on the political scene . It is destined to

    produce a deep change in . the aspect of affairs . With a keen appreciation of material interests , equal to that of the commercial classes , it unites the patriotism , the large views , the indomitable courage , and the disposition to sacrifice all for honour , formerly claimed as an especial privilege by the order that made government a trade . The conduct of the British people throughout this war certainly proves that influence must henceforth come from them . But they must choose their agents from amongst

    themselves . The young gentlemen , with their Latin quotations ^ , their flimsy knowledge , their experience of Continental hotels , even if they ask ± 0 be the spokesmen , of this new and mighty power , must not be accepted . We decline their assistance . We want men of tougher sinews , harder hands , longer heads ^ to do our work . The braided hero from Pall Mall may

    lead a gallant -charge at Inkerman ; but he will not work in the trenches ,, nor trudge about camp knee-deep in the mire during a Crimean winter . We no longer want leaders who will create feverish applause in the House at two in the morning , and wander next day from square to square , and crescent to crescent ,- in search of approval .. &onx the fair and the fashionable . We have to lay

    siege to the great stronghold of abuseto throw up batteries , to stir a great deal of dirt , to make hideous breaches and sink awful mines . When the storming day conies let volunteers join , if they will , and we will give them a moderate share in the spoil . There is no fear , however , that we shall be encumbered with auxiliaries . Those among the governing classes , who would willingly desert to us in hope of a good command , object only to some of our theories , but do think

    not like our manners at all . They us rather too absolute , and very much too rough . We say disagreeable things , and do not put on gloves to touch abuses . Wo are not polished enough to conceal the truth that " a lord may be an owl ; " we apply at all times to tyrants and usurpers their proper names , not waiting until England has been foiled in a negotiation , cheated and laughed at , awd shocked in her prejudices or principles , enough to fly into a passion which to

    even courtiers must respect and pretend share . We continue to be " ribald , " even when our enemies or false friends are sneaking in order to draw us into delusive negotiations ; we do not call that mnn " august" to-day whom \ re ore ready to designate as a " brigand" to-morrow . Ihoso noble arts we leave to those who claim tlio monopoly of gentlemanly conduct . How , then , can they act with us ? How can wo act with them ? Let them preserve their prejudices , if they -will . For our parts , wo

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    There is nothing so revolutionary , because thereis nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the verylaw of its creationin , eternal progress . —Dr . Arkoxd .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 17, 1855, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2082/page/10/