The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-21 00:00:00

'TIE EDUCATION ACT,

Among the meetings held on Friday night in connee' .
tion with the Metropolitan School Board election was one
at Greenwich in support of the candidature of MissEmilY
Davies. Mr. Mill, in a letter which was read, wrote=
consider the election of ladies to seats on the Schooll3eard
essential to the satisfactory working of the Edacti.
tion Act. Without it the education of girls
gill
certainly be neglected ; yet, if the education of either i 5
to be neglected, the neglect of that of boys would have
less serisus consequences in the future ; this is so Plain
that I think we are bound to make all other considers'
tions, even differences in religious opinion, give way
to
this one ; especially as the short-sighted egotism of mes
has caused them to thrust themselves forward i 9
such numbers as candidates in most places'
as to make the candidature of ladies almost
hopeless." Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., addressed the
meeting, and said it would be a perfect farce to elect 3
board to carry out the Elementary Education Act unless
they could succeed in putting some women upon it. Di
Philadelphia there were no lees than 1,500 persons e. 111:
gaged in education, of whom Only fifty were of the raa
sex. As an evidence that Miss Davies was
liarly qualified for a seat on the Board, "2::
Hughes stated that she was principally ins
mental in opening the Oxford and Cambridge lect
examination to girls, and in the establishment of tue,‘
college for girls at Hitchin. Dr. Elizabeth Garrett,
short speech, added her testimony to Miss Emily DavVs;
peculiar qualifications for a seat at the board. All
Davies spoke briefly, and said she should be in favour ee
using the compulsory powers of the Act, but so as to cans
h
the smallest possible amount of interference 1,7,141
the habits of the people. As to religious education,
Davies said she had had a great deal to do with practic"
schoolmistresses, and they told her that they found it
e
Pos-
sible to give the religious education which was want ,
without hurting the feelins of anybody. A resC,.
lution in support of Miss '
Davies's candidature y'lf.
carried unanimously. At St. James's
meeting, stated to have been " almost entirely °la;
posed of the upper and middle classes," was held, iladet
the presidency of Dr. Brewer, M.P., to hear a statemeo
of the opinions of Mr. George Potter, one of the callal.
dates for the Westminster district, and a resolution in 111,1
favour was unanimously adopted. Many of the return!li.
officers have already issued notices appointing the place'
at which the polling is to take place on the 29th.
At Birmingham a large meeting of Nonconformists
held in the Town-hall, in support' of the fifteen candidate
-
recommended by the Liberal Association for the 130.
mingham School Board. On the motion of the Rev. IL
W. Holland, seconded by Mr. R. W. Dale,
resolution was passed declaring it to be contrary
the spirit of Christianity and the principles of religiau
freedom to provide for the propagadon of religieto
truth by forced contributions levied on the whole 0113;
munity, and protesting against applying a rate mad°
e'"
the purpose of education to the maintenance of a syst
of sectarian religious teaching. There are in all thirty'
one candidates for the fifteen seats.—At Nottingh°,
sixty-three candidates have been nominated, and
contest is expected to be a severe one. Among these
nominated are several Church clergymen, Dissenting
ministers, ministers, and working men. Active steps are being
at Leicester towards the formation of a School'Boartu
To-day (Monday) a conference is to be held of the rep's'
sentatives of the principal trades in the town, for the Put-
pose of considering the best means of securing the regre;
sentation of their order on the Board. On Tuesday
morning a special meeting of the Town Council will '—
held, to consider a memorial presented by the local com-
mittee of the Education League, praying for powers
establish a School Board for that town.

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE sTAGV.
Another London halfpenny daily paper will probabli
be published next week.—Court Journal.
A new drama, entitled " Jezabel," by Mr. Dion Bouci"
cault, will be the next novelty at the Holborn Theatre.
Miss Neilson, who plays Amy Robsart at Drury-10e,
it is said is paid .£5O a week.
A new comedy, written by Lord Newry, is in preps:iv
tion at the Globe Theatre.
The Athenceum says :--The Introductory Lectures (I°'
livered by the Professors of Glasgow University, on ne:
casion of the opening of the buildings of the new line
versity last week, are to be published in a small volulne
by Messrs. W. Blackwood and Sons.—Mr. Tom Arnold'4
edition of some of Wycliffe's Homilies and Prose Worn
in three volumes, is nearly completed.—lt is proposed, II
a small sum of money can be raised, to erect a memori
window to Moore in Bromham Church, under the shaßli
of whose walls his remains, with those of his wife, no
rest.—ln the American newspapers Dicken's " Life of
Our Saviour" was announced as in the press. Expect'
tion has, however, been cut short short by a communiery
tion from England that " it was the author's most positivB,
and absolute injunction that the manuscript shoal
n
never be published ; and therefore it will 10°
be seen by any one outside his home circle."--;
Mdlle. Sessi is announced to appear next week at COOP
Garden Theatre, the attraction of the now French singer'
Mdlle. Mon-Duval, not shaving been found sufficient."'
Mdlle. Tietjens, Madame Patsy, M. Nordblom and gent
Stockhausen will sing the four chief characters in Mr. t;
H. Cowen's forthcoming cantanta, "The Rose-Maiden.
—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews have terminated their
engagement at Sydney, which throughout has been 01
cessful. For the benefit of Mrs. Mathews, portions
" London Assurance," and "The School for Scandal
'
were given, with " The Golden Fleece," and "Who 10117 A
Cock Robin ?"—The private view of the Winter PL`;it'''
bition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours svw
take place on Saturday, the 26th inst. The Gallery of the
Society will be opened to the public on the following Bien.
day.

AN EXPRESS TRAIN IN COLLISION.
The Great Northern express train which left Lond°°
on Thursday night at ten minutes past nine, 'wile!
between Ardsley and Wakefield, about two o'clock
Friday morning, ran into a number of luggage Itit,lit;
which had become detached from a train in advance. 3va
first van of the express train was smashed to pieces, 5111.
some persons in an adjoining carriage, who were traveof
ling to Leeds and Bradford, were much shaken. Four.
the luggage vans were smashed, and the express 041°
was greatly damaged.

THE MARQUIS or LoaNE.—An admirable 03
life-like portrait of the young husband that is to be of 0°
Princess Louise has just been produced in the form off
really charming carte de visite, by Mr. John Watkins, t).,
Parliament-street, Westminster. So far as photograPll/
can do justice to the handsome young Marquis, it 111°0
certainly done so in this instance ; added to which, tliso
particular " carte " we are here referring to is, among 3
those that have yet been published of Lord Lorne, far °
away, the most of a resemblance.
BIRICBeCK LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
TION.—The annual distribution of prizes and certificoto
to the successful students will take place on Wednesday
evening next, at eight o'clock, when the Right Hon. 1,0
E. Forster, M.P., will preside. The Right Hon. or
Lord Mayor, several members of Parliament, and otll°
friends of education will take part in the proceedings.
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MAIL STEADIERS TO AMERICA.—A. company
proposed to be formed to purchase steamships to earl
out a fortnightly service between New York 0:
Antwerp, calling at one port in the Channel, and Darla
mouth has been selected as the port of call. A valufw-s
subsidy from the Belgian Government is secured ; but
this early stage of the proceedings it would be impel:Pi-
to give details. An influential meeting will probably
held in the neighbourhood in the course of a feb'
days, with the view of promoting a scheme of so Mlle;
importance, not only to Dartmouth, but the neighb°''
hood.—Dartmouth Chronicle.
THE REV. JAMES DAVIS.—In a letter from PIO:
dolphin the writer says :—" The Rev. James Davis, 00'
of the secretaries of the English branch of the 1%v!...11'
gelical Alliance, who has been for some time in Amoril
whither he came as a delegate to the proposed meeting
the Alliance in New York, sailed for Liverpool Octob'
29. The evening before his departure he 'I,
given a farewell reception in New York, at vAucni
a large number of the friends of the Alliance, both -
Europe and of America, attended. The Hon. Willi%/r,
E. Dodge expressed to Mr. Davis and his associates t,,,
kindly and Christian sentiments of the Americans t"3
wards the English, and in the name of the Alliance willbe
him a prosperous voyage. On the previous Sunalci
October 23rd, farewell services with Mr. Davis were lieo
in the presence of a large congregation at St. Mil
Church, Brooklyn."
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AMERICAN NOTES.—A correspondent at Pulia-
phia writes :—The yacht Cambria sailed from New Vpt
for the West Indies on the 28th of October.
American visit, while not a successful ono in winni
races, has procured for her owner a succession of ovatioo°;
and has done a great deal to cultivate a good fe°llllo.
between England and America and to
late American yachting enterprise. The scab
Periere, from New York on the 29th of Oct°b(e:io
for Havre. carried out for the French 85, of
stand of arms, 6,500,000 cartridges, and a quantitl_r4
other military stores, the cargo being valued at $800,1)%
The steamer Ontario, chartered by the Germans, iNorthW
ing a similar cargo ; while every week one or two t
German steamers sail with military stores for Borneo c't
Hamburg. Two or three meetings were held in differe:f
parts of the country last week to express sympathy
the French Republic.