l'HE NEWMARKET SCHOOL BOA.RD.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIE,—With reference to the ease of the Time-table of St. Mary's School, Newmarket, to which attention was drawn in your last number, I beg to inform you that the inspector of the district, when be visited the school last March, had not been informed of the transfer of the school to the School Board, which had only recently been carried into effect ; and that a new time-table, to meet the altered circumstances of the case, was not submitted to him for approval. The instruction has, therefore, been carried on according to the time-table approved in 1872, when the school was a Church school.
It appears that the school is now carried on during the first hour of the day by the former Managers, and during the other four hours by the School Board ; but as the Education Depart- ment has no jurisdiction over the school, except during the hours In which it is under the management of the School Board, the School Board have been informed to that effect, and have now been called upon to submit a revised time-table, confined to the hours during which the School, under the terms of the transfer, Is " deemed to be a school provided by the School Board." In auch table it is needless to say that no time can be set apart for
inatruction in any "religious catechism, or religious formulary, which is distinctive of any Particular denomination" (Education
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