Lord Granville has had a pleasing little correspondence with the
Duke of Marlborough. The Duke,—who evidently had never read the Conscience Clause,—said that the chief objection of the clergy to it was, that it did not only protect the children of Dis- senters from Church teaching, but tended to destroy wholly the denominational character of the school. Lord Granville writes to the Duke, quoting the Conscience Clause, and asking how it could be possible to protect more carefully the denominational character of the school. The Duke of Marlborough replies that he is very glad Lord Granville thinks that the Conscience Clause does protect the denominational character of the school, but care- fully abstains from expressing an opinion of his own upon it, if even now he has one. The Duke, we fear, is about the least instructed man in his own department.
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