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 girls. The youngest is just turned six; the eldest about twelve. One of the pupils, just turned nine, was detected in a moral offence. My wife took her into a private room alone and chastised her with a rod. The mother called the following day, was indignant, and removed the child. I claimed a quarter's payment, in lieu of notice. This was peremptorily refused. It was agreed that the question should be referred to a neighbouring magistrate, a retired barrister with a family of daughters. He heard the child's statement and that of the mother as to the marks on the child's person. When they had finished he asked my wife whether she had been in the habit of so punishing her scholars; to which she answered in the affirmative. He then said he did not wish to hear anything more from her, that his own children were so corrected, and that the quarter's payment in lieu of notice must be paid.'

A Rector writes: 'It would be a difficult task to enumerate the numberless authorities in favour of corporal punishmeut for children from Solomon to our own day. Some of the greatest names would be con