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Hastings Street, which received aid from the London com- 

 panies. The difficulty in forming trade schools in rural dis- 

 tricts has been successfully overcome in the case of the Fishery 

 Institute, at Baltimore, County Cork, where a school has been 

 established for teaching boys "every art connected with fishing, 

 from the making of lines and nets to the building of boats, 

 curing of fish," &c. This has been established under the 

 Industrial Schools Act, which will ensure an annual capitation 

 grant from the State and a smaller sum from the county for 

 each boy under instruction, and for the same purpose Grand 

 Juries, or the Town Councils of Dublin, Limerick, or Cork, 

 can obtain loans from the Crown at three and a half per cent, 

 for altering, enlarging, building, or rebuilding industrial schools. 

 There seems to be no reason why this Industrial Schools Act 

 should not be extended to all properly constituted trade schools. 

 Probably it would be if the zeal manifested in the case of 

 Baltimore Fishery School was more general throughout the 

 country. In Belfast, favoured by the existence of the Queen's 

 College, which is sufficient to meet all the possible demands 

 for high scientific education, what seems most required is a 

 connecting link between the Science and Art Schools and the 

 workshop and factory, so that the pupil or apprentice having 

 entered the latter may be able to obtain that practical instruction 

 by skilled workmen which there is no time to impart in the fac- 

 tory and no proper means of demonstrating in the lecture-room. 

 For this purpose suitable workshops and apparatus will be 

 required for all trades, and the teaching staff may be selected 

 from the qualified teachers under the Guilds of London 

 Institute, as at the school in Hastings Street, or they may be 

 nominated by the respective trade societies interested in the 

 welfare of their trade apprentices. 



The Technical Schools of Huddersfi eld, Bradford, Nottingham, 

 and Leeds, embrace the teaching of science and art as in our 

 Government School and Working Men's Institute, and the 

 teaching of technology as under the Guilds of London Institute, 

 and in many cases aim at a still higher standard by endeavour- 

 ing to accomplish in arts and medicine what is effectively done 



