[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—As a regular reader of your paper, and I hope a frequent learner from it, I should like to thank you for your leader on the Kenyon-Slaney amendment and your kind words about the clergy. As a country parson, I confess the amendment was not a special terror to me, knowing the effect of five unpaid Parish Councillors on the affairs of the village ! Unless the six unpaid managers take more interest, I fear the amend- ment will be more or less useless in the villages. In your article you say : " The managers, in short, will form a small Committee of educated English laymen." I am afraid in many villages these would be bard to find; I need hardly say I desire to cast no slur in saying this. I should like to see the two managers chosen by the local authority appointed to act for small districts; they would then learn more about different schools, and be able to give very useful advice, and I believe be welcome in our village schools ; but if all six managers are chosen from each village, in a year or two we shall re vert to the " one-man power."—I am, Sir, &c.,
PRESBYTER.
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