Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-06-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ENDOWED SCHOOLS.  The Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the working of the Endowed Schools Acts, met again on Thursday, Sir Lyon Playfair, Vice-President of the Council, occupying the chair.—Mr. tongley, Chief Charity Coro• missioner, re-called, promised to hand in a return when completed of schemes in which special provision, either compulsory or permissive, had been made for technical or scientific instruction, as distinguished from schemes in which the ordinary provision had been made for teaching natural science and drawing and other schemes where the endowment was made applicable directly for the establishment or main. tenancy of lower grade schools. The Commissioners on Technical Education were not in a position to give any authoritative opinion upon the schemes passed by the Charity Commissioners, as no official communications had passed between the two bodies. It was the habit of the Commissioners very frequently and very largely to alter their schemes after they were framed in deference to local opinion. In the course f,f the long negotiations which took place, extending sometimes over two or three years, with the representatives of local opinion, the schemes were continually modified, and as eventually submitted to the Etucation Department, very often were not, in the opinion of the Commissioners, so good educationally as they were when first started. Lord Sherbrooke.wno was probably better acquainted with the work of the Charity Commissioners than anybody else outside the Commission, had some years ago stated in evidence that he thought the Commissioners had gone too far in considering local evidence.  Information has reached the Naas police authorities of a brutal murder at a village called Mainham, in County Kildare. It appears that a boy was sent to the house of Mrs. Ennis, who kept a shop, and on entering he discovered the woman lying on the ground dead, in a pool of blood. The fatal blows had been inflicted on the head with a stool. A son of the deceased was working in a garden at the back of the house, and says he heard no noise in the house. No cause s assigned for the dastardly deed except robbery. Suspicion attaches to two tramps who wen, seen in the vicinity of the honae.  COSSACKS IN iIBYSSINIA. A fetter received from .Aschimoff, the leader-el the Cossacks in Abyssinia, is published in a Moscow paper. He says : The condition of Abyssinia, of the Soudan, and of Nubia is wretchedly had, so that our Cossacks could easily take possession of the countries if such were the will of our little father the Czar; but we are his Majesty's humble servants, and bring him only the different presents which God has here given to us. (Here follows a long enumeration of these presents, living ostriches, lions, &c.) The Abyssinian, have on our account driven from our paths the Protestant and Catholic missionaries, who are consequently enraged against us. It served them right. They are a set of heathen., who would compel the people to accept their faith. They build cloisters, schools, and hospitals to entrap the natives, saying, only accept the faith we teach, and we will do everything for you. The Abyssinians have rejected the Italian mission. The English also are compelled to hold themselves aloof. We ought hero to build an orthodox church, which would prove ii blessing to the Abyssinians, for ours is the only true faith, proceeding, as it does, direct from Christ and His holy Apostles. If we cannot do this, these iseathen Protestants and Catholic missionaries will :intent a firm footing here.