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the Governors, six by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, six by the London School Board,
and the rest by the Universities and by certain high officials. There are to be three
boarding-schools "within a convenient distance of the City of London" —one for boys,
with 700 places; one for girls, with 350 places; and a preparatory school, with 120
places. One-third of the places are to be absolutely free; and as regards the other twothirds,
the parents will contribute from £10 to £20 a year for each child. Christ's
Hospital presentations will still be to a large extent a matter of favour, but one hundred
and seventy-nine places on the Foundation will be open to the competition of children
who for three years previously have been in attendance at a public elementary school.
A day school for boys, and another for girls, are to be established within three miles of
the Royal Exchange, the former to accommodate 600 and the latter 400 scholars, the
fees payable being from £5 to £10 per annunl. There are, however, to be 300 free
places in the former school and 200 in the latter, open to the competition of children
attending public elementary schools. A small sum is set aside to assist very poor
parents in the maintenance of such children, and £1,500 a year is to be applied in
maintaining exhibitions of the value of £40 each, tenable at any place of advanced
education.
Many of these provisions will tend to the increased usefulness of Christ's Hospital
as an educational institution; but the claims of Shoreditch to a larger recognition
under the bequest of Thomas Webb, which now brings in £1,300 a year, and is sufficient
to maintain 20 more children than are at present received under the bequest, have been
ignored.
PLANTING TREES.
The Metropolitan Public Gardens Association having offered to hand over to the
Vestry £100 to be expended in the planting of young plane trees in suitable parts of the
Parish, the Vestry very gladly accepted this kind offer, and the Association provided
the trees, which have been planted in the following positions :—
In Old Street (by the Obelisk) 5
,, St. John's Road 4
,, Hackney Road 5
,, Brunswick Street 5
,, Kingsland Road (opposite Workhouse) 4
,, ,, ,, (opposite St. Columba Church) 4
,, Hoxton Street (opposite Infirmary 3
,, Queen's Road (West and North sides of Clarence Terrace) 11
,, Kingsland Road 20
,, Hows Street (by St. Mary's School) 3
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The Association also supplied the soil, and the Vestry bears the cost of the guards,
grating and lixing, and the cost of watering. The Association's gardener lately inspected
tlie trees, and reports that they are in good condition, and it is hoped that in a few
years they will afford an agreeable feature in some of the thoroughfares of the
Parish.