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the useless, with £boo a year and a house ; Mr. George 

 Bullen, who has been longer at the Museum than Mr. Rye, 

 and is the best bibliographer living, who receives ^450 

 and no house, and has besides to superintend the Reading 

 Room ; "and assistant keepers, Messrs. Porter and Roy, 

 with their ^450 each and no work in the Reading Room, 

 and no great ability to work anywhere. 



There are a couple of other cases worth a word or two. 

 Mr. Taylor is private Secretary to Mr. Jones. He does 

 not represent Mr. Jones's first experiment in Secretaries, 

 but he is more successful than his predecessor, Mr. 

 Thomas Butler, the assistant Secretary. Poor Mr. Butler, 

 with whom Mr. Jones could not agree, has now to be kept 

 below in the basement, and is entirely eclipsed by Mr. 

 Taylor. This freak cost the country Mr. Taylor's £480 

 a year ; but then, at last, Mr. Jones has a man after his 

 own heart, and that must be consoling to the nation. 

 There you have a man hated by all the officials, hard, 

 strong, always trying to " find out," all for repression, and, 

 if courteous, and if possessed of the necessary knowledge, 

 he would make an excellent anti kicking magistrate for 

 Liverpool. 



No little is to be said about the Secretary's office. The * 

 Commissioners of 1850 reported very strongly against the 

 very large staff in this office ; and, in consequence of this 

 report the staff was reduced, at the instigation of Signor 

 Panizzi. As soon, however, as Signor Panizzi was ap- 

 pointed Chief Librarian, the staff, thus reduced, was 

 restored to its former dimensions, and was even consider- 

 ably enlarged. A gradual increase has been going on 

 ever since. As to the work of the office it appears to con- 

 sist mainly in the multiplication of useless labour. The 

 staff are occupied chiefly in exchanging reports upon 



