The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-02-02 00:00:00

TEI DOROHRESTIOR GRAMMAR
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141r,—Will you allow inn to make few remulti
lip in thin quention, end mnimally with referent. to
ed its tin recent phew., which is marked by Mr.
Plymouth letter,
di not think it with while to go hank 'mon the
"artier ndligon further thou liwitgratillate Sir. litarce•
relgteitithet and the I loverning Body mho, upon the
puitni•ed new uleinu tam It ticir, however, I. with
while to point 'nit, iii mower to Mr. Moyer, that the
Downing Katy hare lamentably eiwomaited the
tendency, wltiels I wind.' deprecate an Mitch AA lII', to
unlike the 'holdout "1 great ti turn upon
small local matter.. If it be true, an he euggeata and
ex Mr. Menne' asserts, that this controversy had an
appreciable influence upon the Mouth I swset Klection,
it is, no &mid, absuril that the fate .4 lodate! Kitypts
Itelgaria, the Church .1 Known', and the limier of
Loofa sh..mmhl lwar moan the allemilietration .4 £lOO •
year of local charity money. Hut, unfortunately,
experience in this,. no in many CODWA, elem. that it is
only tinder these circumstances that won° antlioritien
will liatim to reason. I hare tuynelf, in public and in
private remonstrated in the stiliksit at tlie time .4
and sine. the above examination .4 11413, and
especially at it polilic ineeting held at Ibircheater in
the early part .4 last year lorforo., SA I believe, there
was a "14.,..th I lint.' Nothing came .4 it ; hut no
member .1 the Dovernieir Italy is entitled hi complain
that the grievance VIVI sprung upon them at the

Ilut there are two ()nude in Mr. Symoiebe letter on
whit!' I wish to make comment...
Find, he say. that the existing whom.% is SP result
ef an enquiry of the Charity Coiniiiiiinion, "alter
careful revinion and amendment (i) by a largely
attended public meeting of inhabitants on the 3rd
October, Iftßt." He dope not add (.1) that at that
meeting a claiime (3,4 A waft added to the draft echo's..
by which the I ioverning Body and Head's enter were
empowenel to provide for the higher education of the
poorer boy. in the town who an, forced to go into
shops or workslioim it 11111 l ftliately after leaving the
elementary nelends ; nor (6) that thin wax supported
11/1 the ground of the appropriation of the Free School
and other endowments ; tow (r) that Mr. SYIIIOIIII/1
was the 84kt:try speaker who I eppineoi that elates.; nor
(.1) that this claim did not appear in the 11Ch1.1111, all
611AHY adopted by the Commiesioneo.. Whet became
of it I .10 nut know. In mate .11 the elapis.rt of a
large majority ..1 the " :.ttend.+l public 11,0.1.
ing," it disappeared. Whether the diamepearance
, 11110 1.1 1319 111111/111411/11 ef Mr Symmitl4, er to the
I " careful revi.om ley the feoffeee of the
old foundation," or to the Charity Comminsien
the moult is the name. I am quite willing to join
Mr. Flop.r in any amount of eigorona critici.in of the
! Charity Commisaints or any other body (whether
initiated by Liberals or Conservative.) whirl/ &V,
injustice, but not in supporting • freed. act of injustice
by the Goventing Body added to that of the Gun,-
ini.i.m. In any cane, the existing scheme does not
eont.iin the provision inserted by that meeting by way
compeneatioe to the poor for the appropriation of
their endowment,. nor any substitute for it.
Secondly, Sir. Symonds italicises and empty...lnes
annertion (dinputed, I observe, by Mr. Pearce.
Edgclinibe) that the flee acholarships are to be given
a. "the reward of merit, and only to rich qualified
candidate. sit shall on examination lie judged worthy
to hold them." Let Mr. Spliceda have it hie own
way; let it, for the Bake of &mamma, he oriented.
What then D use it follow that merit and
tion are to b 0 tented by exaniination in nubjecte which
have never been learned ? N.. competent master or
exaniiner would venture to maintain that merit and
intelligence cannot be much better tented in elementary
subjecta well and thoroughly taiight than in more
advanced subject+ crammed for an examination.
Would Mr. Hymned.o him+ell be ft better clerk to the
Governing Hedy if he were compelled to qualify by an
examination in the dialects of the Mongolian
language+ ? This is the crucial point. Are the
Governing Body still intending to keep the word of
promise to dinner, and break it to the hope, by netting
up a sham examination in a »ham ntandard, as they
del in DOM I think not. Th.. renponnibility rests
now inure with the He.vlmanter than with any other
person. It is his duty to advise them in
the matter. In my opinion he cannot so
advise thee, without invelving hiinnelf in this
dilemma. Either he mint declersi liiinnelf to In,
incapable for the dincearge of some id hie (loth., or
deniomaid shirking ~there. I trust end believe that
he in neither the one nor the 'thee; but it in well that
he should realm.. hi. reeponnibility. He will be tiiiirli
better occupied in thin than toy 'sitting his name to
quibbling attempt to justify and excl.., • quite itiox•
cumble and unjontilialde position,
will only add that I think there is no moon why
the Ooverning Body min thP If ewlinapter should nit
now act upon the recommendation of the town'.
meeting, although it was eliminated from the official
scheme. The clause to which I refer provided for
evening claw. for 11.1, boys who hail left the Ai,.
!military *Aced' and rine Into hitsinises c work in
the town, It may lw in fell in the exeellent,
though neoewierily condenned, report of the meeting
1,, the IMpart Comte Ohn.niele ..1 the 11th (Metier,
1111.4. If the Iloverning Body deeirn to show that
they are the frien.is ef the people end of education
I'. a greeter extent than the Minty Csitninlssion, lid
them do thin olie little het of omm...watery justieo
withoid 0.1111/,11.11,./1 411.1 Wllil.lllt 11111(1i1/1.41 1/1.1911.111.11,
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
rOIOIIIT

Whit filt• are the friends of the labourers? The
plain practitel issue his been placed before the Home
of Commons—dress the condition of the rural
clams. need amelinratios, or doom it not? and on it
the and the Shorts have divided, with the
result that again as ever the Liberals proved them.
MI% oft the lalseirere' trite friends? Hr. Sturgis is at
his pod, and his oupporters in Mouth !target nnte
with pleasure his name strong the 2.1.`i Liberals who
entered the "Aye " lobby. The labourers will
naturally enquire where hie gallant npisinent would
have been led, and their own emninon.sentie will
dictate the nuswor. Anyone who reads the &bete
which preceded the division, will scarcely fail to
111.erve the pivot no which the whole question
turned, vit.—the Land I and therefore we are glad
that it was on this burning question that
Arch, the labourere' own representative,
made his demi as a Parliamentary orator 'Had the
, (government any remedy for the distress ?" Arch
asked. "If not, the country must look to another
phriicien, who h•• • practical remedy at hand." It
I „me like going back into the heated atmosphere of
November last to " point the moral," but we cannot
refrain frem saying to the labourer, of the Ssiuthern
Division if whose ear we happily pomeas,
that they must not look to the Tory party fer any
remedial in...sures ; while Mr. Gladstone, on the
other hand, p, profoundly convinced that legislation
in this matter is urgently necessary, and in see step.
1 he may take he will, we are sure, lie loyal' y son.
ported by Mr. Sturgis and hie brother members i
the L;beral si.l*. so that, in the words of Arch's
eloquent peroration, "when the hon. members go
I" the country attain they would he able to show
' boneetly and fairly ti the labourers who had sent them
there that at least they did their hest ti redress their
irrievances, bi dry up their team, to wipe away their
' sorrows, and to place them in the position they ought
to be in.''

wAsmixa Wb. you affili foe Rscurrs sun ...that
you lee it. The Msoulseturers be, IS reties the public
mama leateUee elute Mee, of very Worker qualltr. Toe
Pang moo la aquaree le sold IS ',Topper. Marla, their we
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