The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-03 00:00:00

MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION FOR THE CITY OF

LONDON.

The following is the report of the sub-committee
to be made to the committee at a meeting to be held
at the Mansion-house to-morrow :--The sub-com-
mittee beg to report the proceedings adopted by them
winos the meeting held at the Mansion-house on
the 12th day of January, 1866. It will be remembered that
at that meeting the sub-committee were directed to take

measures to make known to companies and firms the
loots ob-
of the 'emaciation, in order to obtain from them con-
tributions towards the sum required for the establishment
of the first and central school in London, and also
towards obtaining a charter and selecting • site for
the first schooL Much time and attention has
been given by the committee to these objects.
Circulars have addressed to all the leading firms and
individuals in the City assumed to be willing to co-operate
in the undertaking. The result of these operations has
been that a sum in the whole of 34,10:11. has been promised,
of which 46,2211. has been actually paid, and the sub-
committee do not doubt that further sums will be forth-
awning, as the advanced position of the undertaking is
known. The committee are happy also to be able to re-
port that a royal charter of incorporation has been ob-
tained. By the terms of this charter a corporation is
Greeted under the title of " The Corporation for Middle-
Class Education in the metropolis and the suburbs
thereof," and power is conferred by it " to erect one or
more school or schools in the metropolis and the suburbs
thereof, and to carry on therein • system of education of
a practical character, based on sound religions principles,
and such as shall be calculated to tit the scholars for the
industrial and commercial work of life, under the super-
intendence of • head master, who shall be appointed by
the council, and who shall be a member of one of the
'Universities of the United Kingdom." The Bishop of
London for the time being is also appointed the visitor of
the corporation. All subscribers of 1001. to the objects of
the association are constituted life governors, with power
of electing a council to consist of twenty-one members,
in addition to the Bishop of London for the time being,
and the Lord Mayor for the time being of the City of Lon-
don, who are constitueil ex officio members of the council.
A meeting of the life governors is directed to be convened
within three calendar months for the purpose of appoint.
ing the council, and the council is to have full power from
time to time to make bye-laws and regulations touching
the government of the corporation. The committee have
also given much time and consideration to the question of
the selection of a site for the establishment of the first
school. Reports being current that the ground on
which the Charter-house school stands was to be disposed
of, your committee entered into communications with the
governors, stating their readiness to treat for the purchase
of the whole or a portion of the ground. To these over-
tures the committee received no official reply, and they are '
still in ignorance how the matter stands, but they have
been informed that the offer of the ground has been made '
by the governors of the Charter-house to the Merchant
Taylors' Company. Your committee have inspected other
sites in various places, and after mature consideration, '
being much impressed with the expediency of commencing'
operations at ea early a period as possible, they have
selected the French Protestant hospital, in Bath-street,
City-road. which appeared to them to offer many Rama-
taps. principally because there are already buildings
erected upon it which can be converted at very small cost
into good school-rooms. The site also has the advantage
of being in a locality inhabited by people of the class
whose children it is proposed to educate, and it possesses
also the benefit of a good play-ground. The committee
having had the offer of taking this site for a period of
three years, with the option of acquiring a long lease, have
decided on taking it for three years, and laying out
upon the building • sum not exceeding 2,040 f. in the
first instance, which will suffice to enable the
corporation to carry on the school, which they hope to be
able to open at Michaelmas next. By these arrangements
a very large amount of the subscriptions will be retained
until, under the provisions of the charter, they can be ap-
plied to the erection of schools in other localities as may
be deemed desirable. The committee would now only
urge upon the friends of the undertaking, the policy of
making known its objects in every direction, with a view
to the increase of the subscribed funds. When the enor-
mous demand for education is considered, it will be seen
that, while the fund contributed is on the whole
large, considering the shortness of the time since the object
was first made known, and the incompleteness of the
arrangements up to the present time, the work before them
is great, and the funds necessary for carrying it on, on an
adequate scale, ought to be of commensurate amount.
Appalls are being made, and will be continued, to corpo-
rations, trustees and other administering charitable funds ;
and in those respects also, the assistance of individuals
well disposed to the object will be of great advantage.—
W. S. HALE, charman.

ots.l. COMMISSIONS ON ELECTORAL CORRUPTION.
—A return was issued yesterday of the number of royal
commissions appointed to inquire into alleged corrupt
practices at elections for members of parliament in the
United Kingdom since the year 1852, with the names of
the gentlemen who acted as commissioners, the dates of
their call to the bar, and the expense of each commission,
including printing ; also of the number of prosecutions
consequent on the reports of the commissioners, the knit,
ment in each ease, and the costa, and the eases in which
such judgments have been acted on. The number of com-
missions issued is ten, the places to which they referred
being Canterbury, Kingston-on-Hull, Cambridge, Maldon,
Barnstaple, Tynemouth, Galway, Gloucester, Wakefield,
and Berwick-upon-Tweed. The commissional have been
Mr. F. W. Slade, Mr. Chisholm Anstey, Mr. T. B.
Burnham, 14r. Solly Flood, Mr. Deedes, Ilr. William
Baliol Brett, Mr: Graham Willmore, Mr. G. Baden,
Mr. T. Tower, Mr. C. S. Whitmore, Mr. F. G. B.
Poneonby, Mr. J. C. Heath, Mr. Michael Prendergast, Sir
John F.ardley Eardley Wilmot, Bad, Mr. Leofric Temple,
Mr. Henry Davison, Mr. James Vaughan, Mr. John Bur-
rell, Mr. J. T. Ball, Mr. John Leahy, Mr. P. F. White,
Mr. L. H. Fitzgerald, Mr. R. G. Watford, Mr. Gillory
Pigott, Mr. W. H. Wiles, Mr. Wyndham Slade, Mr.
Thomas Irwin Barstow, and Mr. Franklin Lushington.
Mr. Vaughan has served three times—namely, for Tyne-
mouth, Gloucester, and Berwick-upon-Tweed. The ex-
penses have been as follows :—Canterbury, 1,6751. 18s. 5c1.;
Kingston-upon-Hull, 5,3351. 141. 10d. ; Malden, 1,0181.
19s. 10d. ; Cambridge, 2,159 i. sa. 11d. ; Barnstaple, 1,9891.
17s. 7(1. ; Tynemouth, 1,7351. 18s. sd. ; Galway, 1,114/.
Bs. 11d. ; Berwick-upon-Tweed, 2,302!. 15e. 7d. ; Glou-
cester, 2,275/. 12s. Id. ; Wakefield, 1,797/. 14s. 10d. Total,
21,466/. 6s. sd. In eight eases there were prosecutions,
and in each a 'toile proaequi was entered. The costa of
these proceedings were 4,9521.:t,. 4d.
REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.
—We have authority for statingthat Mr. H. E. Chatterton,
q.c., will present himself to the electors of the Univer-
sity of Dublin, in the event of a vacancy occurring. There
are now four candidates in the field—Mr. J. E. Walehe,
Q.C. ; Sir Edward Grogan, Mr. Chatterton, and Mr. R.
Loaggeld.—Ds64is SveriWag Mail.