The Council of the Working-Men's Club and Institute Union have
made arrangements to hold a series of meetings at their -office for the discussion of questions of social and political in- terest, with the special object of enabling men of different classes to become better acquainted with each other's aims and opinions. It is not desired that in these discussions there should be any- thing in the nature of "speechifying," or a display of mere oontroversialism, but that persons who have no opportunity of knowing at first hand the ideas and aspirations of classes out- side their own should have that opportunity, with a view to a better common understanding on the great topics of the day, -and therefore to a more satisfactory solution of them. The Council believe that those who so meet may confer together on such subjects to their mutual advantage, and with the important result of enabling classes, too much alienated in feeling to appreciate each other more justly, and to take a less sectional view of public questions. The first of these meetings was held last Thursday evening, when a thoroughly practical discussion took place on 4' The Religious and the Financial Difficulties of the Education Question, from the Working-Man's Point of View." It was opened by the Rev. T. W. Fowle, who has so successfully worked the Conscience Clause at Trinity Schools, in Hoxton.
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