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portunity of at once removing such a stigma upon 

 the government. The salaries, moreover, thus voted 

 to the professors, at one at least, if not at both, of 

 our universities are, with two exceptions, so small, 

 as to be quite paltry.* It is probable, however, that 

 there may be local or unexplained reasons for this 

 inequality with which I am unacquainted. 



(266.) It will be seen from a letter by the Rev. 

 T. Newcome, M.A., printed in the Appendix, that 

 the average amount of this tax upon learning may 

 be fairly estimated at 5000/. annually: while the 

 sum allowed by the nation to the professors is only 

 2000/., leaving a profit to the government of 3000/. 

 a year, drawn from the purse of parents, gene- 

 rally not rich, and mostly possessed only of life 

 incomes, and of those whose industry and talent 

 alone support the reputation of our universities. 

 Now, all that is required from the government is 

 the transfer of the proceeds of this tax into the 

 university chest, for the purpose of paying their own 

 professors, and managing their own concerns. The 



* According to the Cambridge Calendar they are as fol- 

 lows ; — 



£ 

 Regius Professor of Divinity - - 40 



Civil Law '- - - 40 



Physic - - 40 



Hebrew - - 40 



, — . Greek - - - 40 



Professor of Chemistry - - - 100 



,— Modern History - - 400 



Botany - - 200 



Mineralogy - - - 100 



