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that age. He remarked that as boys were
not to be received till they were eleven,
it was obvious that their parents must
trust to the elementary day-schools OF the
district for their earlier education, and he
regarded this as a very great guarantee
for the excellence of the elementary day
schools thus used by the sons Of farmers.
It was but following the example of other
countries, to send their sons to learn in
the same classes with the sous OF their
W labourers. Mr., Adams, the nearest
thing to an hereditary aristocrat in the
United States,-had told him that all his
sons but one had been educated in the
ordinary State schools of Massachusetts,
and that the one who was sent to q pri-
yate school had probably the least elfec-
tive education of the number. Mr.. Fors-
ter remarked hat the generous aid, in the
way of building subscriptions, and so
forth, which had made it possible to ask
so little as Cpl a year for q boarding
school with good technical teaching in it,
was no more of a charity to the class OF
persons who used it than that of which the
richest class avail themselves when they
make use of the old exhibitions and toun-
dation scholarships Of the great public
schools which are almost all assisted IN
like manner. 1t was in such schools as
this North Tawton one, Mr.. Forster said,
that the farmers would earn to be as in
dependent OF their landlords as their w
labourers were already learning to be IN
dependent OF them. The speech was an
admirable homily on the moral and social
and religious equality in which learners OF
different classes should associate, and on
the advantages which they would gain by
learning that great lesson.
The pcrpetrator of a very horrible MUIR
der, committed on the 28th of last month,
at Blackburn, was discovered on Monday
evening by the help of a bloodhound. A
little girl named Emily Holland had been,
on the 26th March, sent for half an-ounce
of tobacco by a man named Fish, n bar
Der, of Blackburn, and on her return, as he
now coniesSes, he got her into his house,
outraged her, and then cut her throat,
and concealed the chief part of her body
in a field outside the town, while burning
other parts, aud hiding her skull in the
chimney. Fish was suspected, but not so
much as another man, till the bloodhound,
on being taken to his premises, showed
every sign Of being on the scent, and ulti-
mately scented up the chimney, from
which the child's skull was at once taken
down. 1t would appear that Fish, who
was a w%orkhouse boy, and who had been
imprisoned for theft in later life, must
have in him a vein of morbid lust amount
ing to something like cerebral disease.
He is said to have hung up four kittens by
the tails till they died, as we supposed,
out of mere cruel curiosity. His wife pro-
badly anticipated the language of the
Judge who will condemn him, when she
was judicial enough to remark that 'he
had better prepare for another world, as
he could hope for no mercy
The Times published on Wednesday an
interesting account of the feeling in the
Carlist provinces of Spain. The writer,
who has been travelling for weeks in the
inner penetralia of the Carlist region, says
the people of Biscay will submit quietly,
if only they are lett in possession of their
faeros,-that is, their exemptions from the
CONSUMPTION and the national taxes. They
are, however, proud of these, declaring
that they are older than Spain. and they