§ MR. CHANNING (Northamptonshire, E.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the memorandum on the new Code drawn up by the Association of School Boards, and to the request made by the 708 association that the drastic changes so hastily put before the country should be postponed for twelve months, on the ground that the new Board of Education is coming into immediate existence, with special powers for dealing with the whole problem of National Education; and whether, having regard to this appeal and to the representations of many of the school boards of the large towns that the education given in their schools will be injured by the grave diminution of the grants hitherto earned by many of their schools, Her Majesty's Government will consent to withdraw the changes complained of in the new Code, and allow the whole subject to be more fully considered.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURAs the arrangement which had been come to with regard to to-night has fallen through, perhaps I may be permitted to state to-morrow what Parliamentary arrangements I will make in substitution for those we have abandoned.