26 NOVEMBER 1870, Page 2

The Manchester School Board has been elected, and will consist,.

it is said, of two Roman Catholics, one Wesleyan, six Unsectarians,. and one lady (Miss Becker), who is classed separately in the only account published, as if her sex were a distinct kind of belief, ex- cluding Roman Catholicism, Wesleyanism, and Unsectariarism. The- largest number of votes polled was for the Roman Catholic nomi- nees,—the result, of course, of the cumulative vote. Canon Poole, one of the Roman Catholic nominees, obtained 54,000 votes, while- Miss Becker, of the feminine persuasion, obtained only 15,249,_ and was ninth on the list of fifteen. Rather less than one-third of the constituency polled—a result which may, we hope, be outdone- in London, though metropolitan voters are usually more languid+ than provincial voters.