214 



REPORT — 1859. 



13. Fuel, Coals, &c 27,121 



14. Deterioration on 10,694 Horses employed in "I x .. r. -v, , n n 



Agriculture, at 30s. each J *"M«l u « 



Loss on Live Stock by death 1 per cent 20,282 2 



36,323 2 



£2,688,289 7 1 



15. Allowance for oversight, Farmers' wives and ] 



themselves, nothing being charged for them, L £'122,045 17 6 



5s. per acre J 



122,045 17 6 



Total Expenditure £2,810,335 4 7 



16. Interest on Capital, £4,340,342 17s. Id., at 5 per cent, per annum 217,017 2 10 



£3,027,352 7 5 

 Balance to provide for Extras and Accumulation 162,496 15 5 



£3,189,849 2 10 



Gross Produce, per Acre £6 10 8 



Expenses, per Acre 5 15 1£ 



Nett — Eeturn, per Acre £0 15 6£ 



Note. — Straw not charged, because returned in manure, £286,045 19s. M. 



On some Results of the Society of Arts' Examinations, 

 By J. Pope Hennessy, M.P., F.G.S. 



The author divided the subject into scholastic examinations and institutional 

 examinations. The former include such examinations as those so successfully 

 undertaken by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, for the middle classes, 

 and the latter were those conducted by the Society of Arts for the artisan or working 

 class. There was no competition whatever between these two systems. They 

 formed, in fact, one comprehensive scheme, each system supplying the wants of its 

 own particular class. The advantages of the examination of the Society of Arts 

 had already been experienced in — 



Liverpool. Selby. 



Lockwood. Sheerness. 



London. Sheffield. 



Longton. Skipton. 



Louth. Slough. 



Lymington. Wakefield. 



Lynn (King's). Warminster. 



Macclesfield. Waterford. 



Manchester, M.I. Wigan. 



Middlesborough. Windsor. 



Neath. Wirksworth. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne. York. 



Northowram. 



Paisley. 



Pembroke Dock. 



Portsmouth. 



Richmond (Surrey). 



Salford. 



Salisbury. 



Such a large and widely-distributed list of local Boards was an evidence of un- 

 equivocal success. On looking to the results of the final examination which had 

 taken place some months ago, and comparing these results with the operations of 

 the preceding year, it will be seen that the number of candidates has very much 



