NASEBY SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 34, 24 September 1869, Page 3

NASEBY SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

C'To the Editor of the Moujs t t Ida Okroxicle.^ Sir, —" Impartiality's " note of 10th ins t. appears to have had the desired effert of drawing forth an expression of public; opinion on the matter therein commented upon. You? Hamiltonian friend seems to have liit- the right nail upon the head. His graphic description of what a section of the School Committee requires is, in my opinion, true ro the life. With reference to your other correspondents, " E. 8." and " i J etcr M. Morony," I need scarcely say I iow elated I feel at having been the humble-"means of producing such brilliant and learned effusions. One thing, however, strikes me, as doubtless it has both yourself and others, viz., that no attempt at argument has been adduced to justify the action recently taken by the School Committee with regard to Mr. Pete-hell's dismissal. The letter signed "P. M. Morony," abounds in attempted invectives, the force of which, if any, recoils upon that misguided individual rather than upon the devoted "head of your obedient servant. I feel sure that you yourself. Mr. Editor, must have felt edified by the grammatical critique of Peter's, as well as pleased with the elegant taste and choice style displayed bv him in his composition but at the same time sorry that such gross egotism should have crept in, and marred the effect of so rare a production. Unfortunately I

;iiii no. =4?-. ; uiiii.i;io:and cannot, therefore, criticise tho aforesaid compound t vvhat —well, let me use a mild terin, am: say of absurdities:; but it lias been whispered in mine ear that Mr. P. M. Morony evidently 'nv • hrd the advantage of learning a more receipt method of writing the English language t'inn you or I have had. ilowever. suffice it to say, that if his system be correct, and he be a man of finished e ducal ion, lam glad lam not so. Itis somewhat of an enigma to me, as yet, where the development and finish of such a cultured mind should have found birth —probably in some verdant institution surrounded by the works of nature, whore the sight of the blackthorn predominated, whose ready branches served to arm the irritated pedagogue with the wherewithal to awe his refractory pupils, as well as to shade and shelter tliem during their hours of study. But, aside from banter, I noticed, in your last week's issue, an intimation relative to the communication of bona fide names of correspondents. 1 think it may perhaps hold good with the letter signed *" P. M. Morony," for I can scarcely believe that a onee aspirant to the responsible position of a school?naster could have pcnnedlhe effusion in question. Should |my conjecture be erroneous, and the said production authentic, then let the | remainder of the- School Committee ; congratulate themselves that they are j not as he is, a sound grammarian, j a highly intellectual individual, and & i man of letters. ! And now, with regard to the com- | munir-ation sinned "E. 8. ,? it smells ; somewhat fishy, and not being pisea- , to rial in my ideas, I will only say, in i Colonial parlance, :£ let ifc slide.'' ! Bowing my adieus, and with your ! permission retaining my noni deplwne. | I amf&c., j IMPARTIALITY.