The Earl of Derby presided on Wednesday at the opening
of it new building added to the Manchester Grammar School, and made a most able speech on the relation of education to " getting on " in the world. He believed that the amount of aid given to clever lads, through exhibitions, bursaries, and so on, to perfect their Mu- cation, would soon be so great that educated ability would become a cheap article in the market. The young men must face that, and not despise all but intellectual labour, or think that the world must because they are educated find them congenial employment. They must learn, as some foreign countries have learned, to make high culture compatible with very moderate means, and re- finement exist without luxury. All this precisely corresponds with Mr. Forster's and Dr. Temple's idea, on which we have pre- viously dwelt, that the great effort should be to raise a whole. class, not merely individuals out of their class. Only three in a thousand of them profit by their elevation, and the severe competition for bursaries, &c., which winnows their num- bers, is directly beneficial both to them and to the country. No education is too high for all ploughmen. The danger is an educa- tion for a few ploughmen so high that they can no longer consent to plough amidst a less educated class.
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