The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-12-08 00:00:00

To Me Irdi&or..

Sir, —My name having been tnentioned in that part
of Mr. l'earcs•Kligesionlei's speech which r.dates to the
Derchester :rat ttttt ar School, and misread by you in
your i.e.. a Teeflay last, I ask your permission in
maks a few remarks 1111/111 it.
Ilefere doing to, I wool, to acknowledge most fully
Mr. Felgcumbe'e colartroy in reference to nayself. At
the name time, I 111,14 •spress a ,110111 It whether it Mai
gilik) fair to make the act in of the Commissioners
(for whose doing* the Liberal party arc mere
realynneible time the Conservatives) a means of
prejudicing Colonel Hambra's candidature at the
close if the severest struggle that we have had in
Doreetalaire for more than 5o years.
The point to which I wish to refer is thl amalyama•
, tinn .1 the l'itt, Straingways, and Floyer Charity
with that .1 the Grammar School.
7.0 r many yews. previous to this step being
taken. the Irsminar School had become comparatively
auspices—there was no power •of removing the master,
awl there were no fowl, at all adequate available to
pension him off, or, on that being done, to put the
school premises in such a oondition as to ensure the
terraces of a thoroughly good master, and to afford
jaenjosr accommodation fee the bey*.
The Charity School was not in an eScient state.
There never had been any aehool•branee, the master
residing in * house belonging to the Corporation, end
the icy. 1.1 the charity losing taught in a room in that
h.ease. 'The has. itself WWI ill a ruinoua state. There
was no setioraeuory mo Jo ii selecting the town boys
for the benefit. of the sell i, and from the time that
the new Klementszy School MILI in working order,
applicetion• for oidantesion fell off materially— in fact,
it aptaean.d that in the matter of colucation the
Kleinentary School wool.l supersede altogether the
need of the Charity 5..h.001.
. In the me eaten • great complaints had become nits
in Dorchester oil aconant of the decayed state af the
r, Grammar S•aluool. The need was much urge.' upon
; me of provision bein.; made for the education of the
children of parent. who dewed a woonewhat higher
I standard than that given at the I:temente ry Schonl. The
I requirements of the general losly, awl especially of
the humbler claes crest...omen, and of the niiinerons
el ssa ef clerks in the otfi ves of professienal nun, and
others, we 5 inech I,rei.e.l 111303 me, awl it appeared to
ine that these classes were soak...rein; es any, of that
of ;o...jet:incu which endowed sch.ols rOll
afford. I c mei.lered that the Itlementary
afforded all the ellicatiou that could be desired for
the children of the working elll3MM. end I .li.l not
think that thown M 3/ any .olojection to the powwow if
molar ii'' "elm" 'I fees, awl this. ler netoems mom which
hr... hut whirl. rat up in the principle
maw so generally aelan erle 'gel, that it is letter to
ausiel tip. tle.ir .eade.V.olllrA t / mflaint iii their
f.iini:ies th, to to rolisive tie... .4 11...ir dotty by alo. deb,
gilt. That losing 43. tie. ellahlren of the w. irking
classes beim.; then fully preivi led for, I tlueolit it nay
.Inty a. '-at ilf 111./ (Thlrity Feed
for th • val. th Irani:at ar S•ah•rol ; eial it los
iteet Inv 1•11.11. t llP4ir iii etelear.ilir to psi ak, tisfl
ti!...1 a relatable ill ..? floe all
alas...a of reaidlenta iii the t IWO roopairiii.; a A•1111',101st
!setter wletsation th ea that ef tie. Itleineutary School.
:tech sy•re Deo gesuiels whiele 1 actsol. I ha,..
no intentien ml,.' fierther. Other I...inta
have solre.fly I •n sitlfieienc y tet its'l by the Ifewl
master,
.1 would ...Iv ill thu I ant gload toi sea 5.•
I. evil it if tle• ..f
founders of ela imitable il,olitlitl,lllA. an I I hip' that
the seal • merit may I.• Sti.e.rll ill 11,11iI1Z, shii3l-1
oswasion require, with th.• greats/ air! newt la•nefi....nt
ef all charitable inititlatimas for I'a...tea-mit I-legation,
the Itstalalislied Methanol Chitrels of Enagl.snal. —I sin,
sir, yoor oliedient survaist,
J011:I FIAT KR.
Stafford, liecentlser 4th, 1541,