The Head Masters of Public and Endowed Schools feel so
strongly about the grievous wrong of the Felsted Head Master, who was dismissed without a hearing, in the fashion which we laid before our readers last week, that they have signed a memo- rial to the Charity Commissioners suggesting that in all future schemes for such schools, it shall be provided that " before a Head Master be dismissed, he shall have full notice and opportunity of defence." This is so much a matter of common justice, that but for the action of the Felsted Trustees, and afterwards of the Bishop of Rochester, in not asking Mr. Grignou for his defence, we should hardly have thought it needful to insert a formal pro- 'vision to that effect in any Public-School trust-deed. Clearly, however, Trustees and Visitors cannot be trusted to do what they are required to do, and the Head Masters of the Public Schools are ,right. A very temperate and able letter from Mr. Grignon in reference to our recent article, which we print in another column, though it does not alter our judgment of the matter, does make us more anxious than ever for a proper investigation of the action of the Trustees, and of the still more unintelligible action of Bishop Claughton. This injustice has apparently been done in a corner, but the reparation should be public and ample.
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