• Lord Salisbury's most novel declaration at Nottingham was understood
to be in favour of remitting the school-fees of the very poor, and substituting a central grant, so soon at least as the Chancellor of the Exchequer could afford such an addition to the Budget of Education. Lord Salisbury did not say how far he wbuld go, but considering how far this policy has already gone in Scotland, it is considered that his language almost amounted to accepting the principle of remitting the school-pence altogether. We should be very sorry if this is to be the result. There are a good. many of the working classes who can afford their 2d. a week as well at least as the middle classes can afford their £20 or £30 a year for a day-school, and we should be sorry to think that the middle classes also are to be declared free from the obligation of educating their own children.
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