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The London School Board Elections, which come off next Monday,

will be of very great importance. Undoubtedly, the true course is to vote for candidates who, on the whole, support the traditional policy of the Board,—while preferring those who have nevertheless expressed their hearty wish to economise expenditure for the future. The first years of so great an effort as that involved in the education of the London poor, could not but be expensive years, if they were to be, as they have been, effectual for their object. Still, the time has come when the progress of expenditure ought to be arrested, or its increase at least very greatly diminished in proportion to the new ground gained.

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