1865.] The Science and Art Department. 7 



ciency, some of them having taken high honours in live or six branches 

 of Science. 



What does the reader suppose was the amount paid " in aid " to its 

 four lecturers ? About 40Z. or 50Z. in all, with the prospect of that sum 

 being still further reduced, provided the committee should comply 

 with the difficult conditions of the State, and nothing at all if they 

 failed to do so ! * 



What would our ministers of State and heads of Departments say, 

 if we, the tax-payers of the country, treated them after such a fashion ? 



It is true that they can point to the figures in their Blue Books and 

 show that they have raised up a vast and useful system of scientific 

 education, without any material increase in the national expenditure ; 

 but even those figures will not bear a close investigation, 



We find entered in the Keport of the Department for 1859 the 

 following items of expenditure : 



In aid of teachers of all lands (Art as well as £ 



Science) about ... ... 15,400 



For general management . . . . 8,600 



Under the head of South Kensington Museum 2,350 



In the Blue Book of the year 1864, with its 

 addition of about 330 teachers and 3,500 

 students, we find the following payments in 

 aid, to all teachers as before, about . . 16,500 

 (or an increase of about 1,000Z. in six years.) 

 " General management " 5,000 



(or an increase of about 1,300Z. in the same time.) 

 " South Kensington Museum " . . . 4,200 

 (or an increase of 1,900Z.) 



Thus, the salaries of the South Kensington officials had been 

 raised by a sum rather more than the total amount of increase " in 

 aid " of the 300 additional teachers. And besides this, we have the 

 modest little sum of 11,473/. 18s. 9d. (ecpual to about two-thirds of the 

 total grant " in aid ") put down to " Objects purchased for National 

 Art Museum," which we presume to mean, Mr. Cole's hobby at South 

 Kensington ! 



Again we would ask whether this is fair to the large body of 

 Science teachers ? 



Why should the salaries of the secretary, and all other officials, 

 increase at the rate of from 40/. down to 10Z. per annum,"]" and at the 

 same time the stipends of the teachers, who are doing the real ivork 

 of the Department, be materially diminished year by year, and at 

 last entirely confiscated ? 



We say nothing of the binding nature of the engagement under 

 which teachers were first enlisted, but as taxpayers and men of busi- 



* Thi3 session — 1864-5 — the school has with difficulty heea started, owing to 

 the mode in which the State has treated the lecturers. The necessarily increased 

 lees of students, have materially diminished their number. 



t See '(jivil Service Estimates (Education, Science, and Art).' 1S63. 



