THE ENGLISH EDUCATION BILL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 132, 7 June 1906, Page 2

THE ENGLISH EDUCATION BILL.

Mr Bin-ell's Bill is apparently in danger. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, who has been one of the bitterest opponents of the measure, informed the visitors to a garden party yesterday that the Bill was certain to be defeated :and, when all things are considered, perhaps such a result was to be expected. The Minister for Education, who hdpeJ to conciliate all parties, has, in point of fact, been obliged to iiglri them all. There has been arraigned against him all the political forces cl the Roman Catholic Church, the High, Low, and Broad sections of the Anglican Church, the Nonconformists, and the. Secularists; each in its turn contending against the admission of any amendment that seemed likely to benefit the others, while the sacerdotal element has been all through vehemently opposed to the main principle. Befoiv. these attacks the Bill may succumb, but the matter will not end at tliat. There is grave significance in the statement of Mr Herbert Samuel, the Liberal Member for Cleveland, orkshire, contained in a cable message in yesterday's issue. Mr Samuel declared that it: the present attempt at educational sottl.Miint failed, the next Bill would bo a measure for secular education pure mid .simple, and that way—there is no disguising it points the spirit of the age.