The Trustees of Felsted School have hardened their hearts against
their late Head Master to the very last. Even the Bishop of Rochester,—perhaps partially induced thereto by the near -prospect of getting cross-questioned on his strange conduct in the House of Lords,—has been so far converted as to loin with other memorialists of the highest eminence in requesting a pension for Mr. Grignon, in consideration of his eminent service to the school during twenty years of successful administration. But the name of Mr. Grignon is not of sweet savour in the nostrils of the Trustees. They have used him too ill, and have suffered too much from the public exposure of their ill-use of him. They could not endure to recognise his services by a pension ; that would be to con- demn themselves. So even the request of the Bishop of Rochester has been refused. Let us give them at least the credit of perfect moral consistency. Intellectually, they have not been very con- sistent with themselves. Their chairman has hastily made and hastily withdrawn one statement of great importance for the judgment of the question. Their clerk's account of the charges held in reserve against Mr. Grignon, led every one to suppose that they had con- doned very grave moral accusations, which they were, however, ready to reproduce, if they did not otherwise succeed in getting rid of Mr. Grignon ; but on public attention being drawn to this remarkable insinuation, its apparent meaning was at once dis- claimed. In fact, trustees probably never did bungle a delicate duty more flagrantly than the Felsted Trustees. But they have not been weak. They have been to the last consistent in wrong-
, doing. In this they have surpassed their Bishop.
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