1 FEBRUARY 1873, Page 3

The London School Board have carried a vote for the

religious inspection of the religious teaching in their schools by a large majority, for which Miss Emily Davies is entitled to some credit. She made on Wednesday a very neat and effective speech, com- paring the careful inspection of -needlework, which is also an extra subject in much the same position as religion, with the disposition to pooh-pooh all inspection of religious teaching, and really demonstrated to the intelligence of the Board that the course proposed by the Secularists was not oven justified by analogy with the humblest of all the other subjects taught in the metropolitan schools. Our women of business are setting us an example of neat execution, even,in matters of oratory.