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the protection of the guardians, and is frequently
visited by the inspector. The utmost care is taken in
the selection of the nurses, and as there are
always a multitude of applicants, there ought to
be no difficulty in obtaining proper persons.
The payment is generally liberal, ranging from 2s. 6d.
to 3s. 6d. a week, and the supervision by the Poor-
law officers is satisfactory. We do not say that
there are no drawbacks; but they are just such as
the children would have been exposed to, if they had
been brought up in their own homes. For instance,
they are not always cleanly; they are too often
crowded into a room without a proper separation of
the sexes. Yet these are not the faults of the board-
ing out system specially, but of the class to which
these children belong. On the other hand, there is a
vast mass of testimony in favour of the system.
Mr. Henley, Poor-law Inspector, was commissioned
by the Board to inquire into the working of the
system in Scotland, and in a volume of nearly 200
pages, just presented to Parliament, he has described
the operation of the plan, and quoted the evidence
in favour of it. It is particularly gratifying to find
repeated testimony that the children look upon their
foster-parents as their own, dreading only to be
separated from them and sent back to the work-
house, and often returning in after years of
adolescence and manhood, to take counsel with them
in any difficulties.
One objection to the system will occur to most
persons. So long as the children are in the work-
house or the district school they are certain to be
educated. It is by no means so certain that they
will be when they are sent to the cottage of the
farm-labourer. He will be keen enough to appreciate
the value of the few pence which his
adopted child may earn in shouting to the
sparrows, or following the plough. It should
therefore be made a condition of boarding out.
that the child shall be sent to a Government in-
spected school for a certain number of hours every
week. If it be said that the pauper child will thus
be put on a better footing than the labourer's own
child, we reply so much the better. What is wanted
is some means of bringing home visibly to the
labouring classes the benefits of education. Even
the dullest hedger and ditcher will discern them if
in his household his own son grows up a
dunce, while the pauper boy becomes a scholar. In
those few English unions where the boarding out
system has been adopted the education of the boarders
has generally been attended to by the guardians, and
it is satisfactory to know that guardians south of the
Tweed are as much pleased with the plan, which to
them is a new experiment, as are their Scotch con-
freres, with whom it has been in operation for more
than a hundred years.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS
CHRISTIAN.

FROGMORE, May 4, 1870•

Her Royal Highness Princess Christian of
Schleswig-Holstein has passed a quiet night and is
doing perfectly well. The infant Princess is very
well.

" THOMAS FAIRBAN,K, M.D."

THE MASSACRES IN GREECE.

it will be very gratifying to the public to learn
that his Majesty the King of the Hellenes, feeling
most acutely the position in which Mrs. Lloyd has
been placed, presented that lady with £l,OOO out of
his own private purse previous to her departure from
Athens.

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PIER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, May 4.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty went out this morning.