§ MR. HALLEY STEWART (Lincolnshire, Spalding)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he has received from Mr. William Curtis, of New Somerby, Grantham, Lincolnshire, a; complaint to the following effect: that Miss Earl, the mistress of St. Anne's Denominational School, severely caned his daughter Mabel Curtis, a scholar in the Fourth Standard, aged 10 years, so as to leave the child's hand in a bruised and swollen state, because she failed to do certain sums; that the child, in consequence of the beating, returned homer and was denied re-admittance without an apology from the father, who was then summoned before the School Attendance Committee of the Town Council for the non-attendance of his daughter at school; that the School Attendance Committee ordered Mr. Curtis to send his daughter to school; that she presented herself at the school again and again, with her school fees in hand, and was refused and is still refused admission; and whether he will take any action in the matter?
§ *THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordI have received the complaint in question, and the managers have been requested to re-admit the child unconditionally, or the grant may be seriously imperilled.