We have before expressed our hope that the Rev. Llewellyn
Davies may be elected to the Metropolitan School Board for the district of Marylebone, in the place of Professor Huxley, who has resigned. A meeting was held to promote his election on Wed- nesday last at the St. Pancras Vestry Hall, Mr. W. D. Christie in the chair, at which Mr. Llewellyn Davies supported gener- ally the educational policy of the London School Board, though professing himself unwilling to remit the school fees of the children even of the poorest parents, and therefore unwilling to use the disputed twenty-fifth clause of the Act. His opponent is Mr. Cremer, who asks for election as a working-man's candidate, and apparently also as advocating a free-school policy,—a policy which Mr. Mundella (M.P. for Sheffield) and all Mr. Davies's supporters heartily condemn. Mrs. Anderson and Mr. MacGregor (of the Rob Roy Canoe), both of them most valuable and active members of the London School Board, supported Mr. Davies's candidature, and we think there is every hope of his success. The heavy personal losses of the School Board,—Mr. Rogers, Professor Huxley, too probably Lord Lawrence, though we trust his absence may only be temporary,—make it most desirable that a man of really high calibre should be chosen, and no one could easily be found of higher calibre in every way,—earnestness, intellect, and judicial calmness of mind,—than Mr. Llewellyn Davies.
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