The Metropolitan School Board, after a week's hard debating, —in
the course of which Professor Huxley, apparently bout on undermining, even before he had read, our high opinion of his political abilities, indulged in a violent, unwise, and very irrelevant tirade against the Ultramontane Catholics as teachers of children,—Imas at last virtually agreed, as a sort of compromise, to pay the fees for destitute children in schools chosen by the parents for a year without regard in their denominational character. The resolution ultimately carried was as follows:—" That Byelaw 8 [in relation to fees to denominational schools] be withdrawn, and
that the Board resolves that for twelve months from the present date the remission or payment of fees in public elementary schools shall be made exceptionally on proof of urgent temporary need, each case being dealt with on its own merits, without pre- judice to the principles involved on either side, it being under- stood that such remission or payment of fees is not to be con- sidered as made in respect of any instruction in religious subjects."
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