Nineteen Assistant-Masters of Rugby have sent in a petition to
the House of Commons praying for an alteration in the constitu- tion of the new governing body. It appears that the Public School Commissioners had made five of the old trustees eligible to the new governing body ; but afterwards made a change, increas- ing the number so eligible to six, i.e., to one-half of the whole governing body,—a much larger proportion of old to new Governors than has been recommended in the case of any other public school. The nineteen Assistant-Masters consider that the election of so large a proportion of old trustees on to the new governing body will be detrimental to the interests of the school, and ask the House to address Her Majesty to assign to the trustees of the Rugby charity "such number less than six of seats in the new governing body as she in her wisdom may deem sufficient." Look- ing to the last exertion of power by the Rugby trustees, we should fear that the Queen, if she only assigned them so many seats less than six as she in her wisdom should think fit, would assign them exactly six less than six. But perhaps it might be really wiser to give them one or two. The Duke of Marlborough, for instance, would be really useful,—as a warning what to avoid.
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