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London, England, 1870-11-25 00:00:00

LONDON SCIIbOL BOARD.

CITY ELECTION.

Samuel Morley, Esq., M.P., and G. W. Hastings, Esq., will
address the Electors as follows
This (Priday) Evening, at Eight, in the Weigh House
Chapel, Fish-street-hill. The 11ev. Thomas Binucy will take the
chair.
On Monday Evening, at Seven, in the Friends' Meeting House,
Bishopsgatc. J. Gurney Barclay, Esq., will take the chair.
Committee Room, Loudon Tavern. •

SCHOOL. BOARD FOR LONDON.

A Public meeting of the Ratepayers of the City Division will
be held at the Cannon-street Hotel THIS DAY (Friday),
November 25.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor will take the Chair at-Two
o'clock.
G. W. Hastings, Esq., Rev. Charles Mackenzie, Samnel
Morley, Esq., M.P., and Rev. William Rogers, will Address the
Meeting.

LONDON SCHOOL BOARD

CITY ELECTION.

To THE RATEPAYERS OF THE CITY OP LONDON.

GENTLEMEN,—
I yield to the wishes of many whose friend-
ship and judgment I highly value in presenting myself as a
Candidate fora seat at the Metropolitan School Board. The
Elementary Education Act of last session appears to me to be a
measure which will affect, fox generations to come, the condi-
tion and character of the English people.
I have faith in the wisdom and efficiency of its provisions to
secure an adequate education for every child in the kingdom,
and it will be my aim, if elected, to administer the Act in the
same spirit of impartiality in which it has been framed.
The object it has in view I conceive to be, so to inform the
minds of all the children of the State, that they may exercise
their own faculties, and become free, intelligent, and vigorous
members of the community.

I sincerely hope that this education will be given by religious
teachers, and be animated throughout by a religious spirit.
The contents of the Bible, its facts and principles, must not be
excluded as materials of instruction; but the formularies of
religious bodies, and the efforts of proselytism and partizan-
ship, are strictly prohibited, and must be carefully guarded
against.
I have felt a pleasure for many years in doing what has been
in my power for the improvement and elevation of those of my
fellow-citizens with whom I have been brought into contact ;
and I believe I know the wants, and possess to some extent the
confidence, of the working classes.
It is thought that I ought not to shrink from this new respon-
sibility, and I therefore place myself at the disposal of the
Electors of the City of London.
I am, Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
S. MORLEY.
No. 18, Wood-street, November 14, 1870.

LONDON SCHOOL-BOARD.

CITY ELECTION.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

GENTLEMEN,— •
I have been asked, and have consented, to
become a candidate for the honour of representing the City of
London on the School Board of the Metropolis. As a freeman
and liveryman of the City, and as a member of the Honourable
Society of the Middle Temple, I•trust that I am not out of place
in so doing.
It is felt by many who are interested in the successful work-
ing of the Elementary Education Act that among the Members
of the Metropolitan School Board there should be found men
well acquainted with the educational wants of the people, and
with the educational systems existing in our own and other
countries. It is believed that I possess these qualifications,
and on this ground my candidature was suggested. My opinions
on the subject of National Elementary Education were not
formed yesterday, and are, I believe, not unknown. I view it
wholly apart from either sect or party. It is a question nct of
Churchman or Dissenter, not of Liberal or Conservative, but of
the best, readiest, meet effective means of educating the people.
While advocating the least necessary disturbance of existing
agencies, i. am keenly alive to the educational destitution
around us—the hotbed of vice and crime—a nuisance which can
be abated in its entirety only by vigorous, and, as respects a
certain class, stringently compulsory measures. gi.:, ElNiAti ezi
In applying the Act to the Metropolis, much will depend on
the due orgapisation of schools. That is a subject to. which I
have paid considerable attention, and on which I could pro-
bably render some service.
The existing system, with some defects, has done great good.
Religious instruction has been its sheet anchor, and few who
are dispassionate can wish to see that distinctive feature swept
away. It is, in my opinion, as erroneous to ignore this vital
element in education as it is to thrust dogmatic teaching on
hostile parents and reluctant children.
It is in this spirit that I desire to see the Act applied, and
that I place my services at your disposal.
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I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
G. W. HASTINGS.
No. 4, raper-buildings, Temple, E.C., October 31st, 1870.