We have commented elsewhere on the case of the late
Head Master of Felsted School, the Rev. W. S. Grignon, as stated by himself in a pamphlet just published at Chelmsford, but may add here that not only was he supported by the warm sympathy of eight out of his nine assistant-masters, but that the very in- fluentially signed letter addressed to Tuesday's Times by his friends outside the school shows that Mr. Grignon's case is judged even more favourably than it is judged by us, by the eminent schoolmasters and University men who have signed that letter. Dr. Holden, the head master of Ipswich School, and a late Fellow of Trinity, Cambridge ; Mr. _Luard, a Fellow of Trinity and Rector of Great St. Mary's, Cambridge ; Canon Grant, a late Fellow of Trinity and Rector of Hitcham ; Mr. Latham, a Fellow and tutor of Trinity Hall ; Mr. Thring, the head master of Uppingham, and seven other distinguished men of high academical reputation, have all agreed that the wrong done to Mr. Grignon has been "grievous," and that what gave offence to the Trustees was an act which, "in our opinion, was a simple duty." We have given our reasons for differing from the last opinion, but unless Mr. Grignon's state- ment of the case has been grossly ex pane, there can be no doubt that the Trustees who dismissed him were much more urgently in need of dismissal than the able and laborious Head Master whom they first ill-treated and then sent away unheard. The Bishop of Rochester, to whom the appeal lay, but who confirmed the dis- znissal without hearing the appeal, has, apparently at least, been guilty of a still less explicable neglect of duty than either Mr. Grignon or the Trustees.
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