"  Such  is  the  System  which  the  Members  of  the  Establi/^hed
Church  are  solicited  to  support,  and  it  is  confidently  hoped
that  the  appeal  will  not  be  made  in  vain,  at  all  events  that
■o  encpurageioeut  will  be  given  to  any  School  for  the  £dac«»


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tion  of  the  infant  Poor  of  the  Established  Church,  from  whirfi
prayer  an  1  reli:^ious  instruction  are  excluded.  It  would  behove
us  seriously  to  consider  whether,  in  all  such  cases,  more  Tt-
spect  be  not  paid  to  the  prejudices  of  men  than  to  the  Co»-
maudments  of  GoD/*


EWELL  DEANERY  SOCIETY.
Thk  Committee  report,  that  they  have  continued  to  make
knowr  their  desire  to  assist  in  establishing  National  Schoob
in  all  parts  of  the  Deanery,  where  there  were  to  be  found  any
number  of  the  infaut  Poor  without  the  means  of  education ;  and
a  suital)le  dispositif^n  appeared  on  the  part  of  the  more  opulent
inhabitants  to  provide  the  requisite  resources;  but  that  the
Schools  at  Mitch  AM  and  Epsom  (the  establishment  of  which
was  notified  in  their  last  Statement)  arc  the  only  ones  at  pre-
sent formed.
That  no  advances  have  been  made  by  the  Committee  ap-
pointed to  promote  the  institution  of  a  School  for  the  three
Parishes  of  Thames  Ditton,  Long  Ditton,  and  East
MouLSBY ;  the  local  Subscription  being  in  no  degree  adequate
either  to  the  first  formation  or  the  support  of  an  Establish*
ment  for  between  400  and  500  poor  Children:  that  in  the
mean  time  the  necessity  continues,  and  great  advantages
tv^ould  result  fioni  the  accomplishment  of  this  project.
