11 JANUARY 1868, Page 2

Stansfeld has also declared himself for compulsory educa- tion in

a speech at Halifax, and this in a way that shows him to have made up his mind anxiously but definitively upon it. lie justly observed that "conscientious conviction" usually means in England a conviction which no one can prove not to be conscien- tious, but that in this case of education his conviction was con- scientious in a very different sense, gradually formed, formed on a careful review of all the history of our education movement, and formed after most anxious consideration of all the arguments urged on the other side.