The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT.

The report of the Science and Art Departmen
for the past year states that 2,543 persons have
been under instruction in science -classes taught by
certificated masters, and, besides, about 870 stu-
dents at Glasgow and Manchester, taught by un-
certificated masters, have been examined by the de-
partment. At the examination, held at 55 local
centres, 1,239 persons were examined, 1,943 papers
were worked, and 1,480 passed. The students of
seven Irish schools, numbering only 374, were
successful in obtaining 149 prizes and 12 medals
out of a total of 689 prizes and 35 medals.
There are now 127 certificated science teach-
ers, all educated without any expenditure
of public money by the department, except five
or six who were trained before the minute was
passed. A minute has been issued assimilating the
aid granted to navigation classes to that afforded to
general science classes, with due regard to the pecu-
liar nature of navigation schools, and encouraging
a sounder system of instruction. As respects art,
the department consider that the time has arrived
when the local schools have become sufficiently ad-
vanced in their studies to enable them to train
students for masterships up to a certain grade of
competency, and a minute has, therefore, been
passed by which no further payments in London
will be made to assist students to take the first cer-
tificate for a mastership. On the other hand, it is
proposed to revert to the system of scholarships in
the central school, which had been somewhat pre-
maturely established in the schools of design. These
scholarships will be open to competition to the ad-
vanced students of all local schools,and the holders
of them will have the opportunity of making prac-
tical use of the collections of the Art Museum. In
1862 8,896 children of poor schools in London were
taught through the agency of the central school.
The total number of schools of art now open in the
United Kingdom is 9t). In the central schools
16,908 persons received instruction in the year, in
the public schools 71,423. 4,672 payments were
made to schools of art in respect of results of exami-
nations. Payments on results have for the last ten
years formed part of the system by which art mas-
ters have been remunerated, and the working of the
system has been such as to justify its complete
adoption; minutes have accordingly been prepared
extending the application of this principle to all the
instruction given in or through the means of art
schools. These minutes will also tend to restrict
the aid of the State to those classes that are unable
to provide such education for themselves. In the last
year 87,389 persons were taught drawing through
the agency of the department, the fees paid by them
amounting to £18,017. Of this sum £5,038 was paid
by evening students, who are almost wholly arti-
sans paying not more than 6d. a week for three
lessons. Several foreign Governments, from a sense
of the great influence of the science and art depart-
ment on the industrial progress of this country,
have made application for detailed information of
the working of the department—a proof that the
enlightened views of the Prince Consort in found-
ing the South Kensington Museum
have been
b other
preciatb,d, not only in this
kingdom, but y
nations.
ap-

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FATAL GUN ACCIDF;:iT NEAn N'oTTINGuA3I.—At
the Shirehall, Nottinghant, on Wed.needay, the 6th
inst., a young man about 20 years of age, gamed Bennett
Carrell, was brought before Lord Belper and the sitting
magistrates, charged with shooting a child named Elizabeth
Oldham, three years old. It appeared from the evidence
evening at half-past six o'clock the
that on the previous
prisoner was shooting birds with an air gun from the win-
dow of his mothers house at Beesfon (four miles from
NeLtinghain), and the deceased Was playing with other
children behind a hedge about 20 yards from him. He
con-
tinued shooting for some time, when a bullet fr. om hi
struck the deceased on the head, and bespattered her brains
all all around. An alarm was made, and the police
en com-
municated
w ed.
expin
of
with, the prisoner being shortly afterwards ap.
prehended by Sergeant Dolby and conveyed to Nottinglma.
The poor child lingered a few minutes and h
The case was remanded until Saturday, hell
the
the coroner's inquest will be known., resuiV.