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 were in December last apprenticed, at the Hall of the Company, to master Cutlers in London. The following are the general terms upon which the apprenticeships are based:—

"1. Forty pounds to be paid each master in two instalments, viz., Twenty Pounds at the time of apprenticeship, and Twenty Pounds at the expiration of the third year of the term.

2. Ten Pounds to be paid to each apprentice, either during or at the expiration of the apprenticeship, at the discretion of the Company.

3. The Freedom of the Company to be presented to each apprentice on satisfactory proof being given of his efficiency in the craft and of good behaviour during his apprenticeship.

4. The wages to be paid to the apprentice to be determined at the time of apprenticing between the master, the apprentice, his father or guardian, and the Company."

The Company being desirous to render further assistance in the development of Technical Education, and a scientific knowledge of the materials used in the cutlery trade, have arranged for a series of papers to be read at Cutlers' Hall upon subjects intimately connected therewith.

On the 1st of December last, Sir Henry Bessemer, C.E., F.R.S., read a Paper "On the ManufactnreManufacture [sic] and Uses of Steel, with special reference to its employment for Edge Tools."

On the 1st of February last, A. K. Huntington, Esq. (Professor of Metallurgy, King's College, London), read a Paper on "Steel, its Composition and Properties."