Lord George Hamilton, in explaining to the London School Board
on Thursday that he must resign his chairmanship in consequence of his appointment as Secretary for India, made a very conciliatory, as well as a very interesting, speech, in which he counselled the reduction of the number of members serving on the various Committees, the exclusion of a great deal of small detail from their agenda-papers, and the con- signment of the theological controversy to oblivion. He believed that the parents of the children really wish to have the Christian creed taught in its true dogmatic outlines in the schools, and he thought that in general this is actually taught, and taught with great success, by the majority of the masters and mistresses. Against taking the religious teaching out of the hands of the teachers of secular knowledge, he advised very strongly.
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