8 NOVEMBER 1873, Page 15

THE DULWICH SCHEME AND THE ENDOWED SCHOOLS' COMMISSION.

ere THE EDITOR OF THS "SPECTATOR.")

you allow me to correct a mistake in your notice last week of a recent correspondence concerning Dulwich College?

It is not the fact that the scheme was." rejected by the help of Mr. lld'Cullagh Torrens in the House of Commons." The scheme has not yet been laid before Parliament at all. First proposals, in the form of a draft scheme, have been circulated in the manner provided by the Act, and these were the subject of criticism in -the House of Commons. by Mr. Torrens. But the case is only in its initial stages.

No scheme of this Commission has ever yet been rejected by the House of Commons, It is, perhaps, just worth while to add that you are not correct in describing Mr. Roby as " Secretary ; " ha is now a Commissioner, and as such, specially charged with the