The London School Board is going to inquire whether it
cannot help to teach the children of Belgravia. It is about to take an educational census of London, but Canon Cromwell on Wednesday moved that the inquiry should not extend to children not likely to attend the elementary schools. Miss Davies supported the motion, arguing that as the children of the rich were taught by governesses, the inquiry could show nothing, unless, perhaps, that they were badly taught ; but it was resisted by Mr. Smithies, on the silly ground that there was "more ignorance, immorality, and abase- ment of mind at the West End than the East," and the motion was rejected. Canon Cromwell was surely wrong. If we are to go to the expense of such an inquiry, which is wise as a basis for action, it may as well be made complete.
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