The modern inhabitants of Kensington, especially those residing in its not least-favoured spot, Kensington Court, will have a difficulty in believing what is nevertheless the fact, that the above was a truthful description of the state in A.D. 1853 of the spot now occupied by the mansions and gardens of Kensington Court. Jenning’s Buildings School was the outcome of the earnest efforts of a few Kensingtonians of those days, headed by that great and good man, Archdeacon Sinclair, to deal with this sad condition of things. By voluntary contributions the school was established and carried on, and there, from 1847 to 1874, devoted men and women laboured amongst the poor Irish for their improvement, physical, mental, moral, and religious, with success. In 1874 Baron Grant obtained the site of this rookery, and thereon erected the palace, destined to be so shortly afterwards demolished and replaced by Kensington Court, and the former inhabitants of the rookery dispersed, many of them to take refuge in the potteries in the northern part of the parish. The Jenning’s Buildings Schools were pulled down. Accommodation for those of the children remaining was found in the Parish National Schools, and out of the money received from Baron Grant on the purchase of the site, which was received by the Charity Commissioners, £1,600 was paid to the manager of the Parish National Schools by the Charity Commissioners, on the twofold condition that those schools should be worked in accordance with the 7th section of the Education Act of 1870, and should provide accommodation for the children of the Jenning’s Buildings class. The balance of the money received by the Charity Commissioners from Baron Grant for the site of the Jenning’s Buildings Schools, remained unappropriated in the hands of the Charity Commissioners until last year, when the attention of the manager of the Parish Schools was called to the fact by one of the officials in the office of the Charity Commission, who is a member of the congregation of S. Mary Abbots. A scheme was thereupon prepared, and an order of the Charity Commissioners, dated the 21st November, 1890, was made on the application of the Vicar and Churchwardens (the trustees of the charity), reciting that the property of the charity is the sum of £343 3_s._ 2_d._ two and threequarter per cent. consols, standing in the names of the official trustees of charitable funds. And the order provided that the income of the charity is to be applied in payments of not more than £8 a year each to the advancement of the education of children attending public elementary schools, and in payments to encourage continuance at school. The money may be applied towards paying the tuition fees of the child, or it may be deposited in a savings bank for the benefit of the child, or otherwise applied for his or her benefit. III.—THE NATIONAL SCHOOL.