MR. FLETCHER AND THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
SiR—I shall feel obliged by the insertion of the inclosed notice of motion in the next edition of The Morning Chronicle.—Faithfully yours,
W. D. WILLIS.
Elsted Rectory, Petersfield, June 3, 1852.
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Resolution to be moved by the Rev. W. Downes Willis at the next general meeting of the National Society, June 10 :—
That Mr. Fletcher, Government Inspector of Dissenting Schools, having, in his ‟General Report for the year 1850” [contained in the ‟Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education for 1850-51, page 719”], asserted as follows :—
‟Indeed, if I am rightly informed, the practice of at least half of the national schools is to respect the feelings of Dissenters in this particular”—meaning thereby to receive children into their schools who are not taught the Liturgy and Catechism of the Church, according to the express conditions and engagements made by the managers of such schools with this society upon receiving grants of money, or, on being admitted into union;
Resolved—That the committee of this society do apply to the Committee of Council on Education, respectfully requesting that Mr. Fletcher. may be required to prove the truth of his assertion, which he, as an inspector of Dissenting schools, going beyond the limits of his prescribed duty, has ventured to make concerning at least half the Church schools connected with this society.
May 14, 1852.