The really great expense of the London Board schools is
in the higher salaries of the teachers in London—salaries higher than any obtained by the teachers in Liverpool, Bir- mingham, and Leeds. For instance, where the rates in Man- chester pay £1 lls. 11Fd. per child for the salaries of teachers, and in Birmingham £1 13s. 5d., and in Liverpool £1 15s. 5:1d., and in Leeds £1 15s. 61d., the rates in London pay £2 7s. 8:td. per child, and that without apparently securing a better class of teachers than the great provincial towns. Indeed, the great provincial towns often seem to beat London in the quality of their teaching. We suspect with Mr. Diggle that the plan of governing through departmental committees is by no means a successful one, and that we might get a better -education at a less cost by substituting another and more efficient plan. But we hope men will be elected whose first aim is the efficiency of the schools, and whose second aim only is economical management.
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