We owe Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens an apology for a somewhat
absurd misprint which occurred in the extracts which we made-last week from his address to the Finsbury elector& He did not say, -" Fear of taxation is an exotic on our soil, like the dread of the evil eye," but "fear of reaction" is -such an exotic. Anything more indigenous and flourishing on our soil than "fear of taxa- tion" can hardly be imagined. In Saturday's and in Tuesday's Times Mr. Torrens's correspondence with Mr. Roby (the Secretary of the Endowed Schools' Commission) as to the draft scheme pro- posed by the Endowed Schools' Commission, for the reform of Dulwich College, and rejected by the help of Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens in the House of Commons, was continued, with dis- astrous results to Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens, who evidently is -not master of his case. Mr. Torrens does not even appear to have known that Alleyn's original deed of gift has been swept away, and replaced by an Act of Parliament passed after protracted inquiry in 1857.
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