The Felsted Governing Body, whose action was so unfair, so
feeble, and so vacillating during the dispute with the late head master, has been reconstituted by the Charity Commission,—the present Governors, however, retaining their places in it. The new Governing Body is to consist of fourteen persons, eight of whom, as
it is stated, will be elected by the Members for the county, the Bishop of the diocese, the Lord-Lieutenant and the Magistrates of Quarter-Sessions, while the remaining six are to be elected by co-optation. There does not seem to be much provision for any representation of the public feeling or wishes in this constituency, —a constituency completely under the influence of county pro- prietors and official personages, if ever there were one. We do not see how either the Suffolk farmers or the Suffolk townspeople can obtain any very powerful voice in that Governing Body, and certainly the opinions and convictions of experienced teachers are not represented in it at all. If the constitution of the new body has been rightly represented, and this be a fair specimen of the work of the Charity Commission under its new chief, we cannot congratulate the public on Sir Seymour Fitzgerald's appointment.
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