"In addition to the Albert Model Farm at Glasnevin, near Dublin, there are in connection with the Board thirty-six agricultural schools; nineteen of these are under the exclusive management of the Board--seventeen partly under local control. "The sums expended on this agricultural department amount in the year to more than L10,000. It will complete this statement to add that in the same year, 1864, the training institution of Dublin was maintained at a cost, in its several branches, of L4,500. "The cost of the inspection department of the institution amounts to no less a sum than L23,000. "The cost of the official establishment in Marlborough Street is L15,457. "In addition to this, a very considerable sum, amounting, probably, to nearly L10,000, appears to be annually distributed, at the discretion of the Board and its inspectors, in the shape of gratuities of one kind or other to the persons engaged in the teaching of the national schools. "It appears from this report (excluding the item last mentioned), that upon the official staff of this great educational institute there is annually expended a sum of L49,000; and upon model and agricultural schools, wholly foreign from the original objects, a further sum of L33,000, making an expenditure of L82,000, one shilling of which does not reach one of the schools, to support which the grant for Irish education was originally made. "The whole of this immense sum, amounting to nearly one-third of the grant, is really spent upon a machinery for bringing the education of the people under the entire and absolute control of the Board.