23 APRIL 1892, Page 3

The Bishop of Chester (Dr. Jayne), speaking on Tuesday at

the annual prize-giving of the Chester Working Boys' Home, said that he had been accused of advocating corporal punish- ment only for the lower classes. On the contrary, be said that, as corporal punishment was already recognised as the "privilege" of rich men's children at all the public schools of the country, what he advocated was the extension to the poor in elementary schools of the privilege of the rich. That is a bold way of putting it, but it is a true way too. There is much more outcry now against caning in elementary schools than there is at Eton or Winchester. Probably it is a punishment too frequently used in the public schools and too seldom in the elementary schools. It should be reserved for boys whose natures are not moved by nobler penalt:es.