The Daily Chronicle of Thursday publishes a rumour that the
Government has been informed that the advocates of the voluntary schools are prepared to agree to an arrangement which alters nothing in the settlement of 1870, "on condition that the Education Department will make them an extra grant of 5s. per head per annum. An equal grant would, of course, be also made in Board-schools." This policy, as the Chronicle goes on to point out, would have the double effect of relieving the pressure on voluntary school subscribers, and of acting as a relief to the ratepayers. We think it exceedingly likely that the Government will propose this scheme, and that it will be adopted. No Government could wish to plunge into all the difficulties of the Education controversy, when there is so easy, or so comparatively easy, a way of escape open as that suggested above.
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