The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-08-06 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

ITBLI(S(' 100I,S.  The public schools of England (the Daily :Verr: remarks) were probably, in their roughest slays, places whose worst fault was the too unflinching application of the law of the survival of the fittest. Strung aof brave boys came out of them robust scholars, and fitted for the battle of life at its hardest. The'schools of today are pleasanter to live in, and probably there is no happiness in the world like the happiness of a popular and successful member of the Eleven or the Eight. He will never again, never elsewhere, find people to say of hint that "hi' is not proud, and does not mind speaking to any fellow." In the same way, a clever boy will be lucky indeed if his cleverness ever, In later life. gains hint such honour and glory as when he has just won the Balliol or the Corpus scholarship. The chief danger that besets modern schools is the risk of overdoing this harmless sort ol enthusiasm and earnestness. A lad who is worked up •to a tremendous pitch of moral thoughtfulness as a prepositor or monitor—a lad who " associates with other boys for their good," as one of their own poets has put it, is not unlikelv to end as a prig or a cynic. If he carries tag his pntgrannue of associating with people for their good its after life, he becomes a prig ; if he yields to a natural disillusi,m, he becomes is cynic. Again, how often does one see in real life the fulfilment of that sad sentence whieh is frequent in Mr. Lillywhite's " Cricketer's Guide "—" So and so dues not come up to his schoolboy prondoe.Ilia mental or physical strength has been too early and too severely tried and just as an ancient authority Says that few athletes who won the boys' race succeeded. later in the sports of men, so lads waste in premature and forced study mental powers whieh never noise to their maturity. To love and make much of an "infant phenomenon," to urge a willing horse, is the besetting temptation of heed-tuasters. The pressure of modern' life is trying to take possession of our schools, where, uowever, an excessive industry is never likely tube very infectious. The ebarm and interest of youthful life has been recognised, and there is a danger of laying too much stress on school life, and of overdoing the public interest in sports and studies,  A bronze statue is about to be erected at Hurford, Connecticut, in memory of Dr. Horace Wells, the "discover of antestlu.ia."  ea. riataurter is pressing torwara tile for M. Menaces "Jeanne dArc," which will be ready for the beginning of neat year. The Liverpool coopers are about to strike in consequence of the masters refusing an increase of wages, anti larger payments for overtime. Mr. Alfred Belleville telegrAphs from Zanzibar to the Atheikeibn that Stanley is reported to have lost one hundred men in a fight with the nativee.  Rose Brown, whose execution was fixed for the nrd ~;:t at Derby, for the murder of her husband, an old m:.O ninety years of age, was reprieved on Saturday.  Two youths, named Peter Murray and John Walsh, have been seAtenced to six months* imprisonment for us gross a:sault on a police-constable at. Ginoley.  The Keighley guardians ref ti..so to kua vacrina return, or to order a prosecution for non-iaceina: A. legal process has been served to compel them.  Mr. Thomas Frans Dallin, M.A., law Fellow Queen's Colleges. Oxford, has been elected to the I'l fessurship of Rhetoric, founded by Sir Thomas (1'ham.  _ The bust of 13.,•thoven. by M de Saint i;idal. that A witch. being at the stake to be burned, saw her sue ; was exhibited in 11, last Sl1" has bee, bon,i by there, and de.,:iral hint to give her aviate driuk. I Mmiristraiku at Fie A.n.4 fur the now Uit-r3 ii mother,- said he, " it would do you wrong, for the &jot j in Parte, you are the better you will bunt."