The Education agitation is going on very briskly. The Pall
Mall published on Thursday a complete list of the metropolitan candidates, with brief summaries of their opinions, which ant pretty nearly all to the same effect, and almost all nominally in favour of "religions" education, though some of the candidates, like Professor Huxley of Marylebone, and Mrs. Gray of Chelsea, define religious education in a fashion so peculiar as to make it quite identical with the inculcation of an amiable morality. Besides Miss Garrett, who made an excellent speech yesterday week at St. George's Hall, and Mrs. Gray, Miss Emily Davies has come forward as a candidate for the Greenwich district with a very sound address. No one could be better fitted for the School Board work than Miss Davies, who has given many of the best years of her life to education. We are glad to see Lord Howard, of Glossop (a Roman Catholic) offering himself for Westminster, which we only hope may have liberality enough to return him ; and also to notice that several clergymen and Dissenting ministers are candidates in dif- ferent districts,—Rev. Septimus Hansard, Rev. John Oakley, Rev. J. A. Picton (all candidates in Hackney) would all make admir- able representatives ; and in the City the Rev. William Rogers is about the man on the whole list best fitted to become Chairman of the Metropolitan School Board, if he would think of accepting such a duty. The only danger of the election is that, as there are so many candidates and a new system of voting, the voting is sure to be somewhat "wild," and the results anomalous.
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