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purchase met with the Charity Commissioners' approval. This site being
in the centre of Islington is easily accessible from all parts of the parish,
as well as from Highgate and Hornsey. A declaration of trust has been
executed permanently securing the property for the purposes designed.
The Central Scheme for the administration of the City of London
Parochial Charities' Act, 1883, obtained the sanction of Parliament in
February last.
Under the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, a sum
of £743,200, arising from the Beer and Spirit duties was granted by
Parliament to the County Councils and Boroughs of England and
Wales upon the understanding that it should be used by them for the
purposes of Technical education. Of this sum the London County
Council received last year £163,000. How this handsome grant will
be employed is yet conjectural, but it is understood that in the
provinces the interests of education are considered as paramount.
The erection of the Northern Technical and Recreative Institute
will, it is evident, require much larger funds than are likely to be raised
by voluntary effort in the district, and it is to be hoped that the
Council may see its way to apportion some part of the grant in
question to this object.
University Extension Lectures.
Under the circumstances referred to in the report for last year
the Committee which had the local control of these lectures has
found it necessary, though with much regret, to abandon them.
The origin of the movement in Islington, including the Vestry's
association with it, will be found in the report for 1888-89. The
peculiar conditions of the parish with its numerous churches and
chapels—each the nucleus to some extent of an intellectual centre—have
no doubt certain advantages, but these conditions do not favor outside
and independent efforts of a class which are necessarily dependent
for success upon united action over a large area.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Morley v. Gable.
This was an action of trespass brought at the Clerkenwell County
Court by the plaintiff, a ratepayer, against the defendant, who is a