15 JANUARY 1876, Page 3

Mr. E. Carleton Tufnell, Inspector of Schools, objects alto- gether

to the replacing of the ' Goliath ' and Warspite.' He says ships for training-schools are a mistake altogether. They have not room enough, are badly adapted for sanitary pur- poses, and are likely to take fire. A school on shore, with a model ship of full size in the school-yard, is far better, and the boys not only learn all they can learn on board, but display the same readiness to go to sea. The plan has been tried at Mettray, and in the Central London District School at Norwood, and with 'complete success. Moreover, the boytdisplayed during a fire the same courage, readiness, and presence of mind. Mr. Tufnell is an authority, but is he clear that discipline can be enforced as strictly -on shore as in a ship ? It is in engraining the boys with the spirit -of discipline, and with the obedience and mutual reliance which it induces, that the training-ships succeed. That Billy Bolton, aged 13, should order a bargeful of children tAY "hold on "to a blazing vessel because more boys might escape is admirable, but that the boys should obey him as the 'Goliath 'boys did is the result we want to secure. Billy was brave ; discipline in them beat fright.