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Mr. W. H. Smith, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury,

also spoke on Education last week, at Watford, and expressed, what Mr. Fawcett also expressed, his very strong disinclination to appraise the value of it by the tendency it is supposed to have to make those who get it either richer or higher in the social scale. The greatest of all the benefits of education are those, we suppose, which it would produce, even though it

altered the relative position of no two men in the wholeState,— namely , as Mr. Smith put it, the benefit of understanding better their true duty to their neighbours and their country. That is language which the working-men especially will understand, for social ambition oftener ranks with them as a vice than as a virtue, —and usually, no doubt, they are right.