EDUCATIONAL PEACE.
[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SrEeveroR.-] Sia,—In view of the solution of the religions question pro- posed by the Education Settlement Committee," may I venture to suggest that the terms offered to the majority of parents in country districts can hardly be entitled generous, or even equitable P In the county of Dorset there are twenty- six Provided schools, two hundred and forty-one non-Provided schools ; yet after two years' notice no public) money is to be paid to any school which has not by that date become a Provided school,—that is to say, the status of two hundred and forty-one schools is to be forcibly altered for the sake of " educational peace." That such an arrangement would not be popular, any more than it would be just, I think I can show. In a typical rural deanery, that of Wimborne (East Dorset), there are twenty-nine non-Provided schools. In twenty-eight of these two thousand four hundred and sixty- four children are educated, and of these only sixty-five are Withdrawn from religions instruction, eleven of these being Roman Catholics. Of the twenty-ninth school, as it does not welcome diocesan inspection, I have no returni.—I am,
Diocesan Inspector (Sarum).
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