The Municipal Ballot at Birmingham was for the election of
a. Town Councillor, and the issue taken was on the Education ques- tion,—for religious or secular education. The number of votes polled was less than a third of the total number of electors (5,700), and the Secularists won by a small majority of 336. The result is re- garded as significant of the triumph of the secularist principle_ But considering that the place was Birmingham, the very head- quarters of secularism, that the whole vote was so light, and that. the majority was small, we should say the significance was. rather in the other direction. The Secularists even at the very centre of Secularism have not enthusiasm enough to make the- contest interesting, or to gain at all an impressive triumph. The indifference to secrecy is said to have been ostentatiously displayed..
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