There is something like a stampede of London School Board
representatives. Following Mr. Rogers, Professor Huxley, and too probably Lord Lawrence, Lord Sandon has resigned, and now Canon Miller (of Greenwich), all on the plea of too much to do ; and it is reported, we hope erroneously, that four or five more resignations are in contemplation. We see it is proposed to give a salary of £1,200 a year to the chairman who shall succeed Lord Lawrence,—Lord Lawrence himself having abso- lutely refused to take any,—but this is hardly enough to secure the kind of services the Metropolitan School Board want. Lord Lawrence himself—though on him this kind of inducement is thrown away—is the true type to aim at, and no man of his calibre and standing, however poor, would be induced to serve for £1,200 a year ; he could make a great deal more of his time than that as chairman to a public company. It is very false economy indeed to offer a lower salary than £2,000 a year.
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