The ultras on both sides of the House are growing
furious over the Education Bill. A powerful deputation of Radicals, Parlia- mentary and Provincial, waited on Lord Hartington on Wed- nesday, to urge him to reject the Education Bill on the third reading. Lord Hartington, however, advised that the Bill, which contains the principle of compulsion, should not be rejected, but that he should make a motion condemning the alterations in the Bill, as tending "to disturb the basis on which Elementary Education now rests, to impede the formation of new schools, to introduce discord and confusion into the election of School Boards, and to place the management of schools in the hands" of irresponsible persons,—surely a sufficient condemnation. Ac- cordingly, on Thursday, in a speech for him unusually lengthy, he declared that the compromise of 1870 had been violated by the Government. Lord Sandon made an equally lengthy reply, in which he explained that he liked School Boards in large towns, and even in medium towns, but disliked them in small places, and on a division, the motion was negatived by 182 to 160.
