MR, BRENNER (Cheshire, Northwich)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been called to an advertisement in the Schoolmaster of the 26th ultimo, issued by the Thwing School Board, for a certificated master, stipulating that candidates must be able to play the harmonium, and will be expected to do so in the parish church; and whether this requirement, that the instrumental music in church shall be provided at the cost of the rates, is in accord with the law of the land; and, if not, whether ho will take the matter up with this School Board?
* THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordThe Department have no power to prescribe to School Boards the terms of their advertisements: but if it 572 should appear that any part of the master's salary is paid in respect of services tendered as organist in the pariah church, it would, no doubt, be for the auditor to disallow the amount, and it would not be taken into consideration by the Department in estimating the grant due under Article 114.