22 FEBRUARY 1868, Page 3

The President of a Literary Institute in Egham, Surrey, Mr.

H. Worms, made a good suggestion in the course of an address on Wednesday last,—that no adult who, having been educated at a primary school, should afterwards applyfor a place in any Govern- ment dockyard or other establishment, should be accepted without producing his certificates of school attendance. This would only be enforcing on the Government, as one of the largest employers of labour, the condition which it is proposed to enforce on all other employers of labour. That is clearly just and even necessary.