For fifty-four seats on the London School Board, there are
now ninety-six candidates, not so many as two for each seat. The polls will take place on Thursday, November 22nd. If we may judge by the recent Tottenham election, the interest felt by the parents in the disputes between the majority and the minority of the School Board, is very languid. It is said that not one-third of those qualified to vote went to the poll, but this may be partly explained by the imminence of the General Election which is so soon to take place. We are inclined to expect however that even at the November election the battle will not at all resemble a party fight in a political constituency, the ratepayers not being organised into opposite camps in this struggle as they are between the political parties of Government supporters and Opposi- tion. Probably, however, the majority of the ratepayers are friendly to the majority on the Board, and have no wish at all to see religious education put into the hands of religious indifferentists.
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