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To this Mr. Forster replied that, in spite of these

figures, seven- eighths ef the town population had placed themselves under School Boards, while ninety-eight per cent of this population had accepted compulsion as the rule of their School Boards. As regarded the country, the very irregularity prevented people from adopting compulsion, as it does not suit a village to make staying away from aches] a crime on one side of a hedge, when it is no crime on the other. The whole tone of the debate was languid, and Mr. DixetiAt Bill was defeated by a majority of 91 (255 against 164).