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The Government has definitively made up its mind to con-

cede Free Education this Session. Mr. W. Long, Secretary to the Local Government Board, made this statement at Devizes on Thursday, making only the reserves that there must be a surplus, and that the introduction of the Bill must not be prevented by obstruction. There is little doubt of the first condition, and as to the second, even obstructionists, we suppose, wish their malignity to bring them profit. They will therefore hesitate to obstruct a scheme which will relieve every poor man's family in the country, which has been sufficiently discussed, and which, in the absence of obstruction, could be passed in three nights.

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