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GOVERNMENT GRANTS TO WINCE
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A deputation-trom Birmingham representing& science
and art institutions of the town, lately waited Artion OW-
Duke of Marlborough, to request a grant in aid of both
departments.
The Dula said some statements had been made charg-
ing a monopoly of the Government subsidy upon London,
and he had requested Mr. Cole to be present. He would
call upon him to reply to the remarks which had been
made.
Mr. COLE observed that there was no foundation for
the remark that London monopolised the subsidy which
Government granted. They had a School of Mines in
Jermyn-street, to which the most eminent scholars,
evolved by competition, from all parts of the country, were
admitted. Admission to the school was by payment,
which was high ; and a branch of the school was chemistry,
which was nearly self-supporting, rerhaps more. The
ppyments amounted to £3O for the two scsaions. The
School of Mines cost a good deal of public money, and
there was not a sufficient number of students to pay the
requisite salaries for the different professors. With re-
spect to science generally, examinations were, it was
true, conducted in London, but simply because all
the professors lived there. The principle which had
been adopted was to pay for results. Mr. Mathews sa:d
the students at the Midland Institute did not earn more
than £3O. That was entirely the fault of the Institute,
because in the same town were two schools—one of 59
pupils, at St. Matthias', where they earned £54, and one
of 45 pupils, at St. Barnabas', where £7O was earned.
Ile knew no reason why the Institute students should not
earn as much. There was no monopoly in London as
regarded payment for results. With respect to Art, there
was an institution which trained teachers. They were
trained in two grades in provincial schcols, they came
to London, and received a weekly allowance to sup-
port them while they were studying. The private pupils
paid a sufficient sum to allow of a surplus being handed
over to the Exchequer. Statistics were taken five or six
years ago, and it was found that one-half of the whole of
the students lived in the provinces, and of the other half
only one-third lived within two miles of the Museum.
Then they seemed to have forgotten that every town could
bOrrow some of the treasures out of the Museum for local
exhibition,
The Dula said the subject which had been brougnt
oefore him was one of the utmost importance. It must be
evident to the gentlemen who formed the deputation that
the mode in which Government assistance could properly
and most wisely be distributed for the promotion of techni-
cal education, the improvement of design, and generally
in forwarding the manufacturing progress of the country,
must be a matter of very grave consideration. He re-
gretted that manufacturers were not so ready to acknow-
ledge the importance of science and art teaching as they
should. The Government had laid down the principle of
aiding, but not superseding, local effort. They followed
rather than led. There was no doubt that the position of
English manufacturers was threatened very seriously by
continental firms ; and it would be a matter which ought
to be very thoughtfully considered in every town. Mr.
Samuelson had moved for a committee of inquiry which
would help the Government to decide upon what altera-
tions to make, if any were found to be necessary, in the
regulations which existed. After referring to the
example set manufacturers by Mr. Whitworth, his Grace
said that the decision arrived at on the whole question
was one which he hoped would give satisfaction to the
country.

Professor Looms, of Yale College, says that this
winter has been the coldest in New Haven, in America,
for ninety years, with the exception of the winter 1835-6,
which was one degree colder.

The Lord Bishop of Chester has conferred
honorary canonries in Chester Cathedral upon the Rev.
John Barclay, M.A., vicar of Runcorn, and the Rev.
Andrew Knox, 8.A., incumbent of St. Mary's Church,
Birkenhead.

WEIGHTY MATTERS.—The Post Office department
having now to carry official correspondence without
charging the postage to the several Government offices,
have given an estimate of the quantity for the year. It is
calculated at 14,121,300 ounces.

Professor Agazziz has recently been lecturing in
America, advocating artificial fish culture. He declared
his conviction that of all animal substance fish was the
best adapted for food for those engaged in great mental
labour, as it was the most nutritious in repairing the wear
and tear of the human brain.

Southampton Water is now swarming with young
whiting. Scares of boys and men are line-fishing there
daily, and catch the fish almost as fast as they can throw
in their lines and pull them up again. Worms are the
usual bait, but whiting themselves are cut into pieces and
form bait to catch others. The fish are remarkably
voracious. They run, as regards size, generally about the
length and thickness of a man's finger.
THE LONDON NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S
SUFFRAGE.-At the committee meeting held April 2, at
Aubrey House, three new members were elected for the
executive committee, Mrs. Brewer, Mrs. Russell Martineau,
and Miss Eliza Leary. Miss Caroline Biggs was also
elected joint secretary with Mrs. P. A.Taylor. During the
month several members have been added to the committee,
amongst whom may be mentioned Miss Nightingale,
Viscount Amberley, M.P., Sir J. Bowring, Sir R. Anstru-
ther, Bart., M.P., Mr. G. Hadfield, M.P., Prof. Robertson,
Mr. Beales, Mr. W. H. Ashurst, and Professor Kennedy.

Lord Robert Montagu has already stated in the
House of Commons that Mr. Whitworth intends to found
thirty scholarships, having an annual value of £lOO each,
for the instruction of young men in mechanics, &c. The
minute which his lordship proposed to lay upon the table
is now published. From this it appears that Mr. Whit-
worth wishes these scholarships to be held on conditions
defined by a deed of trust during his life, and after his
death he proposes that the management should rest with
the educational authorities for the time being. The
voluntary State system, as it may be called, upheld by
the Privy Council led them to accept the grant ; and they
hold up Mr. Whitworth as an example to the country,
and call upon the country to follow in the way he has led
Teen PORTSMOUTH REviEw.—Strang RS it ma,
appear, it is actually not yet decided whether there shall
be a field day and review at Portsmouth on Easter Mon-
day, or merely a march past on Southsea Common. The
military authorities and the volunteers naturally prefer
the substantial practice of a sham fight to the vain
glories of a mere march past, and time, it is very certain,
will not permit of both. The programme, as origi,
nally laid out, included a march pass at- Southsea
about noon, and the attack and defence of Hilsea lines
in the afternoon. But it has been represented to
the War Office by the railway authorities that it
will be impossible to have all the men on the ground in
time for a march past before noon : and as the march past
would occupy about two hours, it would not be possible
for the men to go through all the evolutions of a field day,
and be at the various stations in time for return to London
the same night. It comes, therefore, to this, that either
the march past, for which the inhabitants of Portsmouth
are stickling, or the field-day, which seems to be the
raison d'etre of the whole affair, will have to be given up.—
Hered.

CONFLICT WITH BURGLARS.—At Bolton a despe-
rate encounter took place between a policeman, a civilian,
and two burglars. It seems that the latter were attempt.
ing to break into the shop of Mr. John Lomax, pawn-
broker, Deans,ga,te, when P.C. Bailey had his attention
attracted to it by hearing a noise, and on going into a
place called " Stapleyard " he saw two men in a yard
behind the shop removing earth, in order to cffeot an en-
trance into the premises. One of them, known to be a
prizefighter named Griffiths, attacked the officer, and the
other burglar assailed another person who had come up to
the assistance of Bailey. The second burglar having dealt
his antagonist some severe blows, took to his heels, and
the policeman had beaten Griffiths so much with his staff
that it actually broke into two parts ; Griffiths seized one-
half whilst Bailey retained the other, and the two con-
tinued to strike each other. The prizefighter got the
officer down and kicked him several times ; but the latter
being assisted by the man from whom the other burglar had
succeeded in escaping, was enabled, aster much trouble, to
convey Griffiths to the police-station. The officer is dis-
abled for the present, and the pugilist bears marks of se vero
punishment.
THE ENTAIL ON THE DUKE OF ITAMILTON'S ESTATES.—
In the Edinburgh Court of Session an actioni, haisber
tried of great importance respecting the Duke of ia m.l-
ton's estates. It was an action of declaration brought
by his Grace the ed
DLouk ofCharles Hamilton George and
Archibald
Brandon
against his brother, r
and others,
found for the purpose of having it
leclared that the various deeds of entail of
Hamilton,
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the Hamilton estates are invalid and ineffectual in so
far as regards tie prohibitions and irritant and resolu-
tive clauses therein contained and referred to, and that
he (the pursuer) is entitled to hold the said estate in fee
simple, and dispose of the same at pleasure. Lord
Barcaple gave judgment, finding that the entails under
which the Luke of Hamilton holds his ancestral estates
are invalid in the terms of the Rutherford Act (11th and
12th Vict., c. 3G), and that he-is entitled to hold his estates
in fee simple, and dispose of them at pleasure. The
case goes, of course, to the Inner House, but no doubt is
entertained among lawyers that the Lord Ordinary's judg-
must be affirmed.

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