ance "on account of the poverty of their parents." The present income
of the school is upwards of 5000 pounds a-year, leaving a considerable income
over its expenditure, notwithstanding that the operations of the school have
been extended by a decree of the Court of Chancery. In the year 1833 the
Court authorised the erection of a new building to include a residence for
the master. There are two schools, called the Higher and Lower. The
instructions given embrace the Greek and Latin, and the French, German, and
other modern languages; English literature, mathematics, the modern arts and
sciences, etc. A library is attached to the school for the use of the
pupils. There are twelve exhibitions, of the annual value of 60 pounds each,
for four years, in the gift of the Warden and High Master, who, however,
respect the recommendations of the Examiners. These gentlemen are three in
number, being Masters of Arts and Bachelors of Law of two years' standing,
two of them appointed by the Professor, and one by the High Master. They
each receive 20 pounds for their services. In addition to the twelve
exhibitions mentioned above, there are fifteen others connected with the
school, the bequest of a merchant named Hulme. These are appropriated to
under-graduates of Brasenose College, Oxford. Their value is to be fixed by
the patrons, but cannot exceed the sum of 220 pounds a year. They are to be
held for four years from the thirteenth term after matriculation. There are
sixteen scholarships to the same College; and sixteen to St. John's,
Cambridge, varying in value from l8 to 26 pounds, stand in rotation with the
pupils of Marlborough and Hereford Schools, and six scholarships of 24 pounds
to Magdalen College, Oxford, Manchester pupils having the preference. The
Examiners have also the power of making awards of books or mathematical
instruments, to the value of 25 pounds, in any cases of great merit.

The High Master's salary is fixed not to exceed 600 pounds, with house-rent
and taxes free. He is also allowed to take twenty boarders. He has the
assistance of an Usher (salary 300 pounds, with house and fifteen boarders);
an Assistant (salary 200 pounds, with house and twelve boarders); an Usher's
Assistant (salary 150 pounds, with house and ten boarders). There are, in
addition, a Master of the Lower School, a Writing, and a Mathematical Master,
a teacher of English literature, and another of foreign languages; all, with