Mr. Bright made a fine speech at Llandudno on Thursday,
after laying the foundation-stone of the first Board School. He dilated on the vast waste of the national money on foreign wars, concerning, for instance, such matters as the succession in Spain ; on the evil of the National Debt, in its effect on the condition of the people ; on the great amount of pauper- ism it had caused, and the impulse it had given to crime ; and then he dwelt on the power of education to undo all this evil, both by altering the political desires of the people and by weaning them from drunkenness and intoxicating passions. But Mr_ Bright did not want the highest education for all ; he only wished-to see the whole people inspired with a genuine public spirit, and master of so much education as would enable them to judge between different public ends, and cultivate self- restraint and reverence for others. He made very light of his own education, and no doubt he meant to suggest that the education which had been enough for hiss would he enough for average citizens. We certainly have our doubts whether Mr. Bright, if he had been sent to a University, would have done for us as much, as Mr. Bright, with little Latin and less Greek, has actually achieved.
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