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AGRICULTURE AND THE CORN TRADE.
Although the recent rains which have visited nearly
all parts of the country have assisted in improving the
aspect of agricultnral affairs, prospects, as yet, are by
no means encouraging. The hay crop threatens to turn
out a failure, unless a plentiful supply of moisture is
almost immediately vouchsafed, and all spring-sown
corn is still very backward for the time of year. The
wheat plant appears to have escaped with the least in-
jury, and, with the exception of being very stunted in
growth, the prospect of affairs is less discouraging. The
complaints respecting the backwardness of the crops
through the continued drought is not confined to this
country. In France, although it is admitted that the
late rains have tended to mitigate the injury sustained
by the long-prevailing drought, the accounts are still
far from favourable. Wheat appears to have suffered
least, but it is stated that the rye in many places has
been almost entirely lost ; owing to the continued dry
weather at the period of its coming into ear, there will
be short straw and very small ears. The colza crop,
too, has failed. Maize, beet, and potatoes are still safe,
but their growth is very slow from lack of moisture.
With respect to the hay harvest even half a crop would
exceed the expectations now entertained from the parched
condition of the meadows. Lean cattle will, it is expected,
be cheap ; but fat stock, on the other hand, will be exces-
sively dear. The vines are reported to have suffered
greatly from hailstorms, but at present appearances are
favourable. The fruit trees in the cider districts promise
heavy crops, but unless copious rains should fall within
the next week or two agricultural prospects will be very
discouraging. From the United States also, the reports
are unsatisfactory. The growth is unanimously repre-
sented as very backward, owing, not so much to the
severe weather experienced during the earlier part
of the year as to the subsequent unexceptional
dryness. Under even the most favourable circumstances
the harvest cannot fail to be very late ; but it
must also be borne in mind that the plants gene-
rally are vigorous and of good colour, and doubtless a suc-
cession of heavy showers would promote a luxuriant and
rapid growth, and entirely change the appearance of affairs.
There has been a continuance of steadiness in the grain
trade during the week. The prospects of a late harvest
and the diminishing supplies have strengthened the
value of wheat, and notwithstanding that the busi-
ness has not been brisk an advance of is per quarter has
been generally obtained. At present there is every indi-
cation of the value of wheat being well supported, and
unless the prevalent dry weather gives place to a more
moist atmosphere it is very evident that a further ad-
vance will take place. All kinds of flour have tended
upwards in value.—Magnet.
The appearance of the crops throughout the Fylde, and
in the rich agricultupl districts lying to the north and
south-west of Preston, has been greatly improved by the
refreshing rains of the past few days. Wheat has suffered
much from grub and wirewornj, and though in some places
an average crop is expected, in others that is not at all
likely, and the quality must be inferior. Pastures are
doing well in most parts, and there is at present plenty of
top grass. Potatoes are strong and healthy everywhere,
and promise more than an average yield. There has been
a magnificent show of bloom for fruit, and a good in-
gathering of most kinds is expected. In fact, this part of
the country never presented a more hopeful appearance
for a good harvest than it does now, wheat in some places
excepted. —Times.

The drought has now become severe throughout the
country, the pastures and the green crops generally being
much in want of rain. The young wheats have made some
progresS under the influence of hot forcing weather, but
rain is much wanted to stimulate vegetation. The growing
crop is now undoubtedly backward, notwithstanding the
progress recently made, and every delay will add to the
difficulties with which, in our variable climate, the pkant
has- to contend. We do not mean to convey the idea that
the crop is in danger of failure, or that the defects now
apparent could not be remedied by a fair spell of favour-
able weather. But the complaints of back4wardiriess and
sickly appearance among the new wheats are not confined
to the United Kingdom, the position of affairs in many
parts of the Continent being apparently more serious.
The pastures are in many parts bare of grass, more especi-
ally in thinly-wooded districts, where sufficient protec-
tion from radiation is not possible on account of the
absence of trees, and great difficulty is experienced
in obtaining sustenance for the cattle. As a natural
consequence heavy inroads have been made upon the
stock of feeding stuffs on hand, and prices have tended
upwards for all descriptions. It will be invariably found,
however, that such a state of things materially adds to the
value of all cereal produce, and imparts a proportionately
firm tone to the wheat market. All things considered
there was, therefore, ample room for the improvement is
values which has taken place, and the question now arises
whether the advance will be maintained, or whether
supplies'froM abroad' are likely to be more than equ'al to
the requirements of consumption on this side,—Bell's
Weekly Zegsenger.

MR. FORSTER ON THE EDUCATION BILL.
The proceedings at Bradford on Saturday, touching
the Education Bill, were interesting and important. Mr.
Forster, Vice-President of the Committee pf Cow Lcil
was waited upon by a deputation from two public meetings
—both representing the views of the National Education
League. Several-gentleman enforced the views of the
League in speeches. Mr. Forster replied to the various
strictures offered. After observing that lie was in great
measure hampered by the reticence due to his superiors,
the right hon. gentleman went on to say :—The Rev. Mr.
Pilchard made a remark with regard to the delay which
he thought existed in the bill, and there, I think, there
was some misconception. He has " stated that
he thought there would not be immediate action on the
part of the bill. But there will be immediate action,
and I -am sure I look forward almost with fear and
trembling to the extent of that action which will
be required from the department with which I have to
do ; because the first thing is to ascertain exactly the
deficiency of education throughout the country, in order
that measures may be immediately taken for the pur-
pose of supplying that deficiency, and not only will it be
immediate action, but immediate action of the most strin-
fient and' of the most onerous character. Then Mr.
Whitehead spoke with regard to the mode of electing the
boards. In that he was aware that a good deal of the
objection had been met by the amendment put on the
table of the House. In the debate on the second readine.
the objection made to the persons elected and to the
mode of election was almost entirely with reference
to the rural districts, and having been misled by
what occurred in my own neighbourhood, I discovered
that I had given a plurality of votes where I
never intended to do so. The amendment prevents that,
and it establishes the ballot. It therefore meets Mr.
Whitehead's objection so far as the rural districts are
concerned, where I think the objection was most felt.
But there I think Mr. Whitehead had not carefully read
the Bill, because his argument against the mode of
election was mainly on account of the additional
labour which it would give a town council which has
already got as much in hand as it can do. We do not
contemplate the town council itself being the school
board ; all its labour would be to elect the school board,
which, I suppose would be done at one sitting, and
the reason why we have taken the town council as the
electing body is that on the whole it seemed to us—but
that is not a matter of vital importance—that the town
council of a borough, chosen as it is by household
suffrage, would make the best body for electing the school
board. We have not limited their power of
election ; town councils are not boards to elect
their own members—they may elect those that they
consider best fitted for the school board. It is,
as I say, a question that is eminently open to argu-
ment in committee, but hitherto I must confess that I
have not heard any argument which does not leave me
with the conviction that in taking hold of the town
council as the body fitted to elect the school board, we are
taking hold of the best body. Mr. Forster then proceeded
to deal with the question of compulsion :—This matter of
compulsion is the only matter upon which anybody
has a right to say that I have changed my opinion.
Anybody who has studied my previous speeches
with regard to education, either here or elsewhere, and
fairly judges them by the bill which I now have brought
forward, will find in that bill I have carried out every
principle that I have previously advocated, with this ex-
ception, that I have changed my views with regard to
compulsion, and I confess I am now convinced that we
must rely for the future very much on the principle of
direct compulsion. But although I have changed in this
matter, although you are of the same' opinion, I do no;
believe that it is yet the opinion of the majority of the
country by any means, and 1 think it is doubtful whether
the proposal will meet with the acceptance of the House or
the general acceptance of the country when carried, but I
am convinced that this is eminently a matter in which
those who advocate compulsion must take care not to go
before the feeling of the country. If yon have a bill at
once which will establish compulsion all over Englthnd,
you will have such an opposition to that attempt as
would probably make it impossible to work it. I have
very little doubt, if the bill passes as it stands, Man-
chester would put the compulsory principle in force,
and I believe that, if Manchester would take it in
hand, it would work so well as to tempt other places to
follow the example, and also give the Government power,
by the support of public opinion, to apply it over the
whole country. But that, again, is a question on which
we should be very glad to see the feeling of the House whets
we go into committee. lam not in the slightest degree
saying anything disrespectful of the advocates of
direct compulsion, when I say that no Government
can at once pass such a measure simply
because of their declaration in its favour.
The next question—that of free schools—was brought for-
ward by Alderman Cole, who gave a very ingenious and
apposite illustration of the case of the rich man and the
poor man. I don't think that the rich parent or his
child would be able to despise the poor man or the poor
child because the latter had his pence paid for him. You
must remember tbat in all these schools only one-
'third of the entire cost is paid for even by
the rich parent ; so that there would be a great
absurdity in the child of the rich man throwing it in
the teeth of the poor child that the State provided the whole
of his education, when, at the same time, he himself
would be receiving two-thirds of it from the same
source. Mr. King says that, after paying the rate, it
would be a very unreasonable thing for the working man
to be obliged to pay the pence for his own children. I
say that is not an unreasonable thing at all. I venture to
say that what he would pay in the way of rates would be
nothing to the value he receives. Take the case of a man
who occupies a house of £lO a year rent, and who has
three children ready for school. He pays a rate of
three-pence in the pound—the maximum rate contem-
plated under the bill—which would amount to
2s. 6d. a year. I say that man has no right to come
forward and say—" I perform my duty to my children
for half-a-crown a year." I say that above that, if lie
is able he ought to pay twopence a week for his three
children. There may be cases when theparents are unable
to pay the pence, and then our bill provides that they
shall be assisted. On the religious question I really can-
not do more than just explain the principles upon which
the bill was brought forward. The first of these principles
was that the State, meaning by the State the Imperial Go-
vernment, should not in any way interfere in religious
education. That is carried out in this bill as it was in those
bills that Mr. Bruce and I brought forward in 1867 and
1868, and if anything it is more carried out in this bill,
because here we have at once done what we only contem-
plated carrying out in the previous bills—we have
abolished the religious inspection of Church schools,
and consequently no money of the State can be paid
for finding out whether any religious teaching be
given or not. But while we think it right to carry
out this principle we would not prevent any parents
who wished it to have religious teaching given to
their children by the same schoolmaster and in
the same school as the other teaching is given. These
are the two principles which have been carried out in the
bill ; and when the time comes I shall be prepared to vin-
dicate either before you, or before the House of Com-
mons, my belief that in carrying them out we have in
no way transgressed the principle of religious equality.
Remember this, that although you may say you dislike
religious teaching, there are very many parents who may
like it, and if we were to say by Act of Parliament that they
should not be allowed to do this, they would feel there was a
great injustice forced upon them. I merely say this in ex-
planation of my views in bringing forward this measure.
The objections stated to it here and in the country, with
regard to the difficulty of leaving this matter to school
boards, deserve the best attention, and the Government
are prepared most closely to consider them- in committee.
It is, however, becoming more and more -the conclusion
of all those who have studied the question, that it would
—as I ventured to state in bringing the bill forward—be
a monstrous thing if in a Christian country the
Bible, and not merely. Bible reading, but Bible teaching,
was excluded from the day schools You
will not be surprised at my saying that, although it has
always been a great pleasure to me to find myself agreeing
upon important questions with my constituents, and
although it has always been very painful to me to find
myself 'differing from them—and few things have given
me greater pain than to find that, upon this matter, I am
supposed to disagree with some of my warmest friends-
yet this is a question of infinitely too much importance to
the country for me to do anything except what I feel
to be right. I should regret if you continue to differ
from me; but I still believe that when you have weighed
all the arguments on both sides and have endeavoured
to put yourselves in my position, and in the position of
the Government, you will not strongly differ from me, if
at all. But if you were to do so, whatever be the conse-
quences, I should not be fit to be your representative an
hour longer if I allowed this to weigh with me on such a
matter for one moment. The question is one of the most
important. Its importance I endeavour to realise. It is
my duty to come to the best conclusion possible, and I can
only state that I shall be guided to the conclusion simply
by what I consider to be my conscientious duty.

Our Taunton correspondent states that the recent
paragraph describing a trapeze accident at Cook's Circus
Taunton is incorrect. No such accident has occurred.
THE MORDAUNT CASE.—The statement is re-
peated that Sir Charles Mordaunt intends to appeal from
the decision of the Court of Divorce to the-House of
Lords at the earliest opportunity, and thus to endeavour
to obtain a hearing of his suit against Lady Mordaunt.
THE FACTORY ACTS AND THE PRINTING TRADES.
—We understand that the Secretary of State (Mr. Bruce)
has resolved to collect statistics relating to the letter-
press printing and other trades embraced by the Factory
Acts Extension Act. The information will be collected
by the Factory Department, and will be published only
in the gross, returns from individual employers being re-
garded as strictly confidential.—Printers' _Register.
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• - •
MISS MORGAN, M.D.—Miss Frances Elizabeth
Morgan, M.D., who lately took her degree at Zurich,
and now holds an appointment as under-assistant in the
General Hospital of Vienna, is mentioned as having been
present on the 30th ult. at the distribution of prizes in
the great hall of the University. This is the first instance
of the admission of a woman to the annual meetings, of
the Academy of Vienna. The Neue Freie Presse, in
a eporting this incident, describes Miss' -Morgan as an
American lady. It appears that she is an Engli h-
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