THE EDUCATION BILL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"]
SIR,—The point you make in your note to the letter of " A Nonconformist" in the Spectator of October 18th is of the highest importance. With a Committee of six, clerical in- tolerance would virtually be impossible. It is commonly assumed that four of the six would all be of one mind. This would be highly improbable. The clergyman would find the Church three as independent as, say, the Chapel two, and it is certain he would not carry them with him in anything like petty tyranny. I recentlyattended a meeting of managers of a mining village National school where all were virtually nominees of the vicar. The meeting was for the election of a new school- master, and about this appointment the vicar felt very strongly. He favoured one of the candidates, whom I believe to have been distinctly the best man. Two of the meeting, however, including one of the churchwardens, voted against him in favour of a candidate who had a local athletic reputation; and the situation was saved in a meeting of five by my own vote, I representing certain subscribers. " If these things are done in the green tree, what will be done in the dry? "—I am,
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