GOING TO MARKETS

AND

GRAMMAR SCHOOLS,

BEING A SERIES OF

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RECORDS AND SKETCHES

OF FORTY YEARS

SPENT IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES,

FROM

1830 TO 1870.

EMBELLISHED WITH THIRTY-FOUR WOOD ENGRAVINGS,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BY

GEORGE GRIFFITH.

LONDON:

WILLIAM FREEMAN, 102, FLEET STREET, E.C.

1870.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME II.

PAGE.

CHAPTER I.-The Birth of the Penny Postage.—The Penny Age.-The

School-boy's Appeal.-Town Council Election.-Worcester Contest of

Corn Markets.-The Kidderminster Petition.-Epistle to John Bull

Junior.

. 403

CHAPTER II.-The Chancery Commissioner.-The Vice-Chancellor's

Court. Digestion and Indigestion.-The Trial.-Public Opinion.-

The School Committee's Vindication.-Epistle to a Friend in London. 426

CHAPTER III.-The Head Master of Bromsgrove School.-The Two

Ways. Mr. F. Mowatt, M.P.-Verax, and Reply, on Bromsgrove School. 448

CHAPTER IV.—History of Worcestershire Endowed Schools.-Dedi-

cation.—Original Propositions of Reform of Endowed Schools.—

Reviews.-Worcester College, Oxford.-A Remonstrance.—Address

to Christmas.

CHAPTER V.-Life and Adventures of George Wilson.-Dedication.—

Thomas Thrift, the Droitwich Dealer.-The Song of the Tradesman.—

Kidderminster Town Council.-Address to a Russian Gun.-Quatford

Church.-Adieu Plaisier, Adieu Folie.-Centenary of Burns.-Miss Isa

Craig.

479

. 507

CHAPTER VI.-History of the Endowed Schools of Staffordshire.—

Waterfall Schoolmaster.-The Bilston Trustee.-Louis Napoleon's

Dream.-Lord Brougham's Permission.-The Editor of the Spirit of

the Times.

CHAPTER VII.-The Three Candidates.-The Birmingham Journal
Review.-Opening of the Severn Valley Railway.-Arley Castle.-

542

Inspection at Chaddesley-Corbett.-Presentation to Mr. Beresford.—

Robin Wren.

. 568

CHAPTER VIII.-Careswell's Exhibitions at Bridgenorth School.-

Dean Peel.-Strengthening Plasters.

. 604

CHAPTER IX.-Application as Assistant Commissioner.-National

Social Science Association at York.-Endowed Schools of England

and Ireland.

. 638

CHAPTER X.-The Years 1864 and 1865.-Dr. Watts, of Manchester.

-A Noble Enemy to the Education of the Poor.-Inquiry at Etwall

and Repton, Derbyshire.

CHAPTER XI.-The Bazaar.-Calne Election.-Leominster, Oxford,

and Lancashire.-Jemima Rood's Epistle.-The Severn Valley Farmer's

Club. The Tragedy of the Two Houses. Dedication to Mr. Spode.

CHAPTER XII.-The Queen's Visit to Wolverhampton to unveil the

Statue of the Prince Consort.-Inauguration Ode.-Letter from Her

Majesty's Secretary.-Pat O'Brien's Description of the Inauguration.—

Punch and his Malignity.-The Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture.—

Bridgenorth Agricultural Hall.-Public Dinner at Etwall.

CHAPTER XIII.—Mr. Hasell of Kidderminster, and the School.-

Drama of Charles II.-Dedication to Mr. Henry Whitgreave.-The

Wedding Ring.-A Donkey in a Pound.-Westminster Dean and Chapter.

-Mr. Arthur Hobhouse, Q.C., the New Charity Commissioner.—

Kidderminster Election.-Death of Lord Brougham.-The Severn

Valley Farmers' Club.-The Statue and the Cannon.

CHAPTER XIV.-Letter to the Rock Newspaper.-The three Birming-

ham Schoolmasters in 1824.-Memorial as to Wolverhampton School.

-The Dean and Chapter, and the Freemason's of Worcester.-The

Post Obit satisfied.-The Rev. Mr. Wall of Brewood.-The National

Education League. Conclusion.

Separate Indexes of Schools, of Markets, of Public Meetings, and
Engravings will be found at the end of the second volume.

664

725

751

803

834

ERRORS.

Page 861 I say, "the same good Archbishop said," it should have been,

Archdeacon Paley in his Apology for the Spirit of his Controversial Writings

said.