The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-14 00:00:00

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART.

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Timportant minute has just been issued
to ?re syubLiouridttsetdaktoe Pinatclicaomnesnidtefraortiaffonortdhieng
schools of art during the year ending the 31st of March,
1854. e satiidmtoa t
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"At the establishment of the schools it was understood
that a Government grant was promised for a limited period
of three years, upon the condition that a sum equivalent to
it was raised in the locality, and in the expectation that
'after three years the schools would be so established and
supported as not to require any further assistance froni Go-
vernment. These expectations have not been fulfilled ;
but, on the contrary, the tendency of the system, until
very lately, has been to encourage =creased reliance on
Government aid, rather than upon the value of the instruc-
tion or local exertions, and has been found adverse to eco-
nomy. My Lords are of opinion, that by more judicious
arrangement it may be possible greatly to increase the ad-
vantages which now result from the outlay of so large a
sum of public money; and while they do not propose to
withdraw grants from the places which now receive them,
they are desirous to introduce a system of greater efficiency
and economy, by which the independence of the local
bodies may be increased, and the objects of the Parlia-
mentary vote more adequately attained. My Lords
desire to relieve the localities altogether from the obli-
gation to raise a sum equivalent to the Parliamentary
vote, and instead to leave the whole general manage-
ment, and the control of the cost of it, entirely to the
local committees. In future, the local committees
will not be required to return to this board any ac-
count of their local expenditure, or of any receipts from
subscriptions or donation ; each local committee will,
therefore, determine for itself what premises shall be used
—subject, of course, to their being considered by my
Lords as suitable for the pus-poses of instruction—what
rent shall be paid, what furniture provided, what managing
officers, servants, &c., shall be engaged, and what shall be
the cost of general management.
" My Lords, on their part, propose to confine the Par-
liamentary grants wholly to the promotion of instruction,
and even in this point to exercise control only so long as
the local committee elects to receive the Parliamentary aid.
Their Lordships would view it as the highest mark of the
progress and success of art education, in any locality to
find that the committee preferred independence of the
communication
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ihsceteane grantttrfiseoen;B altogether.
" My Lords will require that the Parliamentary.grant
for the year ending the 31st of March, 1854, should be paid
to the following objects :—the present masters' salaries ; an
increase of masters where necessary, especially for affording
ts ehry apportion
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students
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be considered as
,
and partly of the funds raised in
towards instruction ;anldBs3,
.o the
will require as a conditio
aid that an equitableray
Lords
portionf receivingofiie any Parliamentary
fees shall be applied
the letter of the 30th of Junin,ea,cleBors(2lanwceht.Nevhithhatshbeieremnminute
of the 28th of January,
Treasury,
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tionedreasu r
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proposeL or ds
thatseeh Commissionersporti 0
no f 0
fher
the
fees
and for the reasons given in
Majesty's
shall
be paid to the master or masters of the school as part of
their income.

` IiENRY COLE, Secretary,.