§ MR. DIXONasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether there is any foundation for the rumour that the examiners of the Science and Art Department, after having made their reports, had the papers returned to them, with an instruction to reduce the number of successful candidates, as an intimation had been given that the amount of the grant due upon those papers must be reduced by £20,000; and, whether, if this rumour be correct, the grants to which the teachers are entitled, according to the understanding upon which they worked, will not be reduced to one-half?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERsaid, that no such rumour had reached the Science and Art Department, and, upon inquiry, 1573 he could not discover what had given rise to it. He could only, therefore, suppose that it was absolutely without foundation.