11 JULY 1885, Page 3

The London School Board on Thursday passed by a vote

of nineteen to eighteen a momentous resolution. They re- solved, on the motion of Mr. Hoare, to "petition Parliament to make it a condition of the annual grants that all public elementary schools should be open free to children of school age." The majority is, of course, small ; but London will have a heavy vote at the next election, and it is ominous that it should already be ready to relieve parents of their responsibility. The labourers are only too likely to be on the same side, and it will take all the influence of moderate men to convince the country that it might as well undertake to feed all children as to educate all children out of public taxes.