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Act, and appeal to the Education Department to 

 settle that dispute ? And if so, do they suppose 

 that any Minister of Education, who wants to keop 

 his place, will tighten boundaries which the Legis- 

 lature has left loose ; and will give a " final decision " 

 which shall be offensive to every Unitarian and to 

 every Jew in the House of Commons, besides 

 creating a precedent which will afterwards be used 

 to the injury of every Nonconformist ? The editor 

 of the Guardian tells his friends sternly to resist 

 every attempt to throw the burden of making the 

 teaching undenominational on the managers, and 

 thanks me for the warning I have given him. I 

 return the thanks, with interest, for his warning, 

 as to the course the party he represents intends to 

 pursue, and for enabling me thus to draw public 

 attention to a perfectly constitutional and effectual 

 mode of checkmating them. 



And, in truth, it is wonderful to note the sur- 

 prising entanglement into which our able editor 

 gets himself in the struggle between his native 

 honesty and judgment and the necessities of his 

 party. " We could not see," says he, " in the face 

 of this clause how a distinct denominational tone 

 could be honestly given to schools nominally gen- 

 eral/' There speaks the honest and clear-headed 

 man. "Any attempt to throw the burden of 

 making the teaching undenominational must be 

 sternly resisted/' There speaks the advocate 

 holding a brief for his party. " Verily," as Trinculo 



