The Iriebrmediate Educatfot Bil iteelf palmed through Commit- tee on
Monday, and was reaa a third time. Mir. Lewis moved various amendments, the object of 'which wits 10ther to destroy or greatly limit the effect of the payments for results to the Managers of Intermediate Schools,—to our mind, the best part of the Bill, and the only one which will promote the education of average boys, as distinguished from clever boys. But these amendments were defeated, and also one by Mr. Courtney, the intention Of which was to put girls on an equality with boys in relation to the measure. On this amendment Mr. Lowther pleaded that the in- clusion of girls in exactly the same form as that in which they were included in the English Endowed Schools Ad, was already provided for ; and Mr. Butt made an &mod fierce attack on the proposal to devote any considerable proporton of the funds to girls, declaring that "the educa- tion of young men was of infinitely greater importance," and that "there was no desire in Ireland to give the same class of education to girls as to boys." But Mr. Courtney had said nothing about the "same class of education." He had only in- sisted that the good education of girls is quite as important as the good education of boys, and there certainly he was right. Probably, even more of the refinement of a home depends on the culture of the mother than on the culture of the father. Mr. Butt's zeal against the education of women is neither intelligent in itself, nor likely to please his Roman Catholic constituents.
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