The School-Board Elections throughout the country appear, on the whole,
to have resulted in a certain amount of gain to the Unsectarians, but how far the distinction between the Unsectarians and the Secularists is clearly marked we do not know. Even at Salford, where the poll seems to have shown a not smaller, per- haps a somewhat larger, vote proportionally to the constituency than even that at Birmingham,—in other words, about a two- thirds vote, —the Unsectarians have gained five seats on the Board (which consists of 15), and will have a steady influence upon it, if they use it wisely. At Leeds again, if we are not mistaken as to the Wesleyan, Methodist, and Quaker candi- dates' line, and at Nottingham certainly, the Unsectarians have a majority ; but we hardly know wh ether that portends a wise compromise like that of the last London School Board, or a League policy such as will be pursued at Birmingham.. The result of the London School-Board elections was not known when we went to press, though it seemed certain that Mrs.. Cowell, Mrs. Garrett-Anderson's sister, would be seated in her place for Marylebone by a large majority. We hope for another thoroughly moderate London School Board, with perhaps Mr C. Reed, M.P., as chairman, and with the influence of genuine• administrators,—laborious committeemen who give no end of edu- cated judgment to the work, like Mr. Macgregor, of the Green- wich district, and Mr. Tabrum of Finsbury,—in the ascendant set-- regards all the real difficulties of the work.
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