The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-10 00:00:00

THE EDUCATION BILL.

I The Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on
Education, at the Council Chamber, Whitehall, on Fri-
, day read and approved the following order, fixing the
boundaries of
,the Divisions of the metropolis, with the
numb of members to be elected by each Division, and
appointing the returning officer for the first elaction of the
School Board for London and his deputies
" Whereas it is provided by the 37th section of the
' Elementary Education Act, 1870,' that the School Board
in the metropolis as in the said Act defined shall consist of
such number of members elected by the divisions specified
in the fifth schedule to the said Act as the Education De-
partment may by order fix, and that the Education
Department, as soon as may be after the passing of the
said Act, shall by order determine the boundaries of the
said Divisions for the purposes of the said Act, and the
number of members to be elected by each such Division ;
and whereas it is also provided that the Education De-
partment may in the.order fixing the boundaries of all such
divisions name some person who shall be the returning
officer for the purpose of the first election of the School
Board, and the person who is to be the deputy returning
officer in each such Division : now, therefore, the Lords
of the Committee of Council on Education, by virtue and
in exercise of the powers in them vested under the said
Act, and of every other power enabling them in this be-
half, do order, and it is hereby ordered as follows :
"1. Each of the following Divisions—viz., Tower
Hamlets, Hackney, Southwark, Westminster, Chelsea—
shall have the same boundaries as the Parliamentary
borough of the same name, excluding such parts as are
outside the said metropolis.
" 2. The Division of Finsbury shall include such parts
of the Parliamentary borough of Finsbury as are within
the said metropolis, and the parts of Furnival's-inn and
Staple-inn respectively which are outside the said borough
of Finsbury.
" 3. The City Division shall include the area comprised
within the Parliamentary borough of London, except
those parts of Furnival's-inn and Staple-inn which are
within such borough.
" 4. The Division of Marylebone shall include the Par-
liamentary borough of Marylebone and the parish of St.
John, Hampstead.
"5. The Division of Lambeth shall include the Parlia-
mentary borough of Lambeth, all those parts of the
parishes of Lambeth and Camberwell outside the boun-
dary of the said borough, and the Wandsworth districts
as described in Schedule B, Part 1., of the Metropolis
Local Management Act, 1855.
"6. The Division of Greenwich shall include the
Parliamentary borough of Greenwich, and all those parts
of the parishes of Greenwich and Woolwich and of the
districts of Plumstead and and Lewisham as described
in Schedule B, Part 11., of the Metropolis Local Manage-
ment Act, 1855, which are outside the said borough of

Greenwich.
" 7. The returning officer for the first election of the.
School Board for London shall be the Right Hon. Russell
Gurney, one of her Majesty's Counsel, Recorder of
London.

" 8. The School Board for London shall consist of 49
members selected as aforesaid; and the number of such
members to be elected, and the deputy-returning officer in
each division shall be the numbers and the persons respec-
tively mentioned in the second and third columns of the
schedule annexed.

" 9. ' Parliamentary Borough' in this order shall mean
a borough as defined by the Boundary Act, 1868.

" F. R. SANDFORD, Secretary.
" SCHEDULE.

" Chelsea.—Number of members to be elected, four.
Mr. C. Lahee, vestry clerk of the parish of Chelsea,
deputy-returning officer.

" City.—Number of members to be elected, four. Mr.
G. W. K. Petter, Secondary of the City of London,
deputy-returning officer.
"Finsbury.—Number of members to be elected, six.
Mr. J. Layton, vestry clerk of the parish of St. Mary's,
Islington, deputy-returning officer.
" Greenwich.—Number of members to be elected, four.
Mr. W. Bristow, vestry clerk of Greenwich, deputy
returning officer.
" Hackney.—Number of members to be elected, five.
Mr. R. Ellis, vestry clerk of the parish of St. John, at

Hackney, deputy-returning officer.
" Lambeth.—Number of members to be elected, five.
Mr. Roffey, vestry clerk of the parish of St. Mary, Lam
both, deputy-returning officer.
" Marylebone.—Number of members to be elected, seven.
Mr. W. E. Greenwell, vestry clerk of the parish of St.
Marylebone, deputy-returning officer.
" Southwark.—Number of members to be elected, four.
Mr. D. Birt, vestry clerk of the parish of St. George-the-

Martyr, Southwark, deputy-returning officer.
"Tower Hamlets.—Number of members to be elected,
five. Mr. T. G. Harrison, vestry clerk of the parish of St.
George-in-the East, deputy-returning officer.
" Westminster.—Number of members to be elected, five.
Mr. J. Rogers, vestry-clerk of the parishes of St. Mar-
garet's and St. John's, Westminster, deputy-returning
officer."

THE BALLINASLOE HORSE FAIR.—In the • horse

fair at Ballinasloe on Thursday there was a large collec-
tion of indifferent animals. The best had been bought up
in the stables. There were numerous purchases for
cavalry regiments at from £25 to £45. Yowl.- colts
were numerous, and sold freely. Buyers from England
and other foreign countries, as a Nationalist would say,
were diligent in the pursuit of good horses for military
purposes. Some were bought for the Italian Govern-
ment. Weight-carrying hunters brought high figures.—
Times.

A MEDICAL PLEA FOR THE CONDEMNED BABY
FARMER.—The following appears in some of the
papers .
• " We, the undersigned, registered medical practi-
tioners, believe that the verdict against Margaret Waters,
of wilful murder of the infant Cowen, ought not be fol-
lowed by the. execution of the convict. We believe-1.
That the evidence falls short of proving murderous intent
or murdering action on the part of the convict. 2. That
the death of Cowen's child was precisely the result which
very commonly accrues to newly-born infants deprived of
their mother's milk and fed by hand, even with the best
intentions, inasmuch as diarrhoea, emaciation, exhaustion,
coma, and death are constant occurrences among children
so placed. 3. That in the presence of diarrhoea and colic,
doses,laudanum, in proper is a medicine constantly pre-
scribed by medical practitioners to check the diarrhoea and
relieve the pain ; and if laudanum really was administered
to the child, such laudanum could have not been the cause
of the death ; which occurred thirteen days afterwards ;
while such laudanum might have been administered with
an innocent intention.—CHAßLES H. DRYSDALE, M.D.,
M.R.C.P., 99, Southampton-row; J. THomPsox DICK-
SON, M.A., M. 8., 33, Harley-street, W. ; JAMES
EDMUNDS, M.D., 4, Fitzroy-square, W. "i