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Lord Stanley has declared in favour of the revised Education

Code, and we note many signs of reaction upon the subject. The educated class seem determined that reading and writing shall be made indis- pensable to aid from the State, and the decision of Parliament may, we think, be predicted. Faith will be kept with pupil teachers now studying, but for the future the new rules will be alone regarded. The examination for capitation grants will he continued, but Christian knowledge will be added to reading, writing, and arithmetic as a fourth and equal subject. The clergy and the tutors thus conciliated, Parliament will affirm the reform.

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