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 sum comprises both the net annual value of school endowment, and that of exhibitions, tenable as school property, at the Universities. In the case of Westminster these two items amount respectively to 2,250l. and 685l. With the additional income of 912l. recommended by the Public Schools Commissioners, the whole annual income of Westminster which it would be competent for either the existing or proposed new governing body to deal with, would even then be less than 4000l. as compared with 8000l. for Charterhouse. But it is in her connection with Christ Church that the main wealth of Westminster lies, through the junior studentships and exhibitions restricted to the competition of Westminsters, and amounting to the annual value of nearly 3000l. These emoluments are tenable, of course, not as school, but as college property : it follows then that any scheme for a satisfactory removal of the school must depend, in the absence of other funds, on the willingness of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church to capitalise a portion of this fund, and to submit to the corresponding sacrifice. Such a suggestion was indeed thrown out in some of the evidence given before the Public Schools Commission. But inasmuch as the recommendation of the Commissioners to include the Dean of Christ Church and the Master of Trinity in the new governing body does not extend to their respective societies, fresh legislation, such as the clauses of the present Public Schools