§ MR. A. M'ARTHURasked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Why the recommendation of the late Endowed Schools Commissioners for the remodelling of the Kibworth 294 Grammar School has not been adopted; what is the cause of the delay which has occurred since the period of the said recommendation; and, whether it is the intention of the Privy Council to adopt the scheme proposed or any other?
§ VISCOUNT SANDONThe scheme of the late Endowed Schools Commissioners for Kibworth Grammar School has not yet been adopted, because serious local objections have been, and are being raised to it, which the Committee of Council on Education is bound to consider. In all such cases it is the duty of the Committee to endeavour to effect such an arrangement between the various parties locally interested in the endowment as may give the best hopes of getting the scheme, when it is passed, satisfactorily and harmoniously worked; but to effect this desirable object it is, of course, obvious that much time is often needed. Such has been the case as respects the Kibworth scheme, which it is the intention of the Privy Council to adopt, with such modifications as possibly they may consider desirable, as soon as they think there is a good prospect of the above-mentioned object being secured.