In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Balfour intro-
duced the new Education Bill in a speech which professed to deal with the general principles rather than with the details of the measure. These principles—which, however,do not apply to London, for the capital is left out of the Bill altogether and reserved for special treatment next year—are: (1) to establish a new local education authority for technical, secondary, and primary education ; (2) to assure to the voluntary schools their necessary and inevitable place in the scheme of national education; (3) to eliminate as far as possible denominational squabbles from local and municipal affairs ; (4) to give the local education authority the disposal of all the educational skill to be found within its area. We think that any fair. minded person will agree that the provisions of the Bill very fairly carry out the principles here laid down. It provides, that is, the machinery required to make these principles operative.
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