The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-01 00:00:00

THE EDUCATION BILL.

The Lord President's bill has been printed. It does not
copy the Code article by article, but puts the regulations
under which the grant is administered into a new and, we
think, simpler form, and omits various matters of detail,
leaving them to be the subject of rules to be issued by the
Secretary of State. Before stating the conditions on
which grants are to be made, the bill declares that the
Parliamentary vote is to be expended by the new Secre-
tary of State in making, in his discretion, building grants
and annual grants, and in paying the salaries and expenses
of inspectors and of the office, and other expenses of the
administration of the grant. The bill deals first with
building grants, and stipulates that the deed must contain
one of the management clauses set out in the schedule,
which contains forms for Church of England schools,
Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, British, Jewish, and secu-
lar schools. The proviso requiring a conscience clause
comes in this part of the bill, and the bill requires a con-
science clause in the cases only where building grants are
made; the clause was fully described in the latter part of
the Duke of Marlborough's speech on the 24th of March.
Clauses as to teachers follow. In the Code this subject
occupies some pages, but the ►bill disposes of it more
briefly, and provides that the Secretary of State may make
regulations from time to time as to admission, probation,
and the grant of certificates. Proceeding then to annual
grants to elementary schools, the bill again omits some
matters of detail, and, instead of giving the standards,
provides that scholars shall be examined according to stan-
dards and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of
State. A certificated teacher is not to be required in schools
held in the evening only, nor in schools having an annual,
average attendance of less than sixty-five day scholars; the
maximum grant in these small day schools without certi-
ficatedteachers to be 2s. Bd. for each of the three elementary
subjects. Where grants are diminished for faults or de-
fects or continued insufficient provision of apparatus, the
Secretary of State may require that either the amount of
the deduction or the amount granted be applied towards
remedying the deficiencies. If the school income from an
endowment and the annual grant together exceeds 15s. per
scholar of the average number in attendance throughout
the year, the amount of such excess is to be deducted from
the grant. The clauses relating to normal schools follow,
and then the clauses authorising an educational census to
be taken by house-to-house schedules (in houses under a
certain rateable value) in districts where there is reason to
believe the means of elementary education of the children
of the poor to be inadequate. The bill is to come into
operation on the Ist of October.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS,
HOLBORN.— Enthusiastic and Tremendous Reception of
Millie. AZELLA, whose unrivalled performance on the Flying
Trapeze, including a Flight across the Arena of 100 feet, termi-
nating in a Somersault at an elevation of 30 feet from the plat-
form, has created a complete furore.

'The flying trapeze act is the speciality of A zella, a
lady of faultless contour and prepossessing mien. The per-
formances of the fair artiste excited the genuine enthu-
siasm of the house at their various stages, and terminated
amid deafening applause. She was honoured with a
quadruple recall, and even compelled to appear a fifth
time to receive the homage of her admirers."—Standard,
March 11.