1868. ] as fostered by the State. 145 
schools, and one a navigation school. None of these appear in the 
‘Directory’ for 1867, two seem without doubt to have been closed ; 
but what has become of the navigation school, which in 1863-4 
had 139, and in 1864-5, 165 pupils ? 
That there is something here which needs explanation, our 
readers will not doubt, and whatever else Parliament may think fit 
to do, or to leave undone, we trust it will make a searching inquiry 
into the condition of our navigation schools; that there are good 
grounds for such an inquiry will be seen presently. And now, 
having expressed our own disapproval of the system upon which 
the State dispenses the public funds in aid of Science, it becomes 
necessary that we should support this view by the opinions of 
others better able, perhaps, than we are to judge in the matter; 
although we may be permitted to add that our conclusions have 
not been formed without long-continued personal observation of 
the proceedings of the department and of their effect upon the 
country. 
The Science teachers and committees have now so little to expect 
from the State, and so little to thank it for, that it has needed no 
persuasion to induce them to lay bare their grievances and expose 
the condition of the institutions over which they preside, and from 
the numerous special reports which we have received, we will now 
select a few and print them verbatim. 
Great Yarmouth School of Navigation—The school was es- 
tablished in 1857. The year preceding the system of payments 
on results there were two teachers whose remuneration was as 
follows :— 
ee SAL £ Ge Gh 
From the State... .. 180 0 0 { pe era ; Fi ee : 
» Students .. 5312 5 { Ree he ea 
£233 12 5 
The school then had 138 pupils; since that time there were at one 
period 168. Now it has one master and 85 pupils. ‘The remune- 
ration of the former is 1002. in all, namely, 40/. 4s. 10d., “pay- 
ments on results,” and the remainder school-fees. “ For the past 
three years this school has been kept in action with difficulty, and a 
question arose in the autumn of last year whether it should be 
entirely closed. We decided to try another year, trusting to some 
amelioration either in the attendance or Government aid. A com- 
parison of the figures under the two systems shows the hardship 
upon the teacher.” 
The following is from Mr. Shore, the “Organising Master of 
the East Lancashire Union of Mechanics and other Institutes ” :— 
Burnley, established in 1858, had (the year preceding the 
