But are these aids to rational recreation really brought within the reach of the industrial population? Can the apprentices and shopmen of Kensington afford to join the Institute? Is not the cost of membership too expensive for their purse? Such can hardly be the case. Admission to the reading-room, library, and lectures is accorded to subscribers of half-a-crown a quarter; while a yearly payment of one guinea gives its donor a voice in the government of the society. The analysis of these sums shows a result of less than a half-penny a day for the former, and of under sixpence a week to the latter class of contribution. Frugality itself cannot object to such a scale. Taken individually, the advantages are worth their price;—collectively, they are emphatically a bargain. Subsidiary to the main channels of intellectual culture, are the Elementary Evening Classes, held at the Church-court school, under the superintendence of two masters from Battersea College. They were instituted for the sake of the young persons who are unable to attend the day schools, and include a due proportion of adults. The class for young men and boys meets upon Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; that for young women and girls on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The attendances to the close of 1852 were very satisfactory; 120 girls and 40 boys having enrolled themselves upon the books. An interesting peculiarity connected with the female class is its use by servants whose education has been neglected. Several who could neither read nor write on their first entrance, have attained a tolerable proficiency in these subjects; and of those who have grown up to age for service, and taken situations, some have been wise enough to return during their intervals of employment, to pursue the studies with which the duties of their place had necessarily for the season interfered. The subjects now taught are limited to reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography. But it is proposed to add music; and should the Society of Arts carry out its principles in this parish, linear drawing, languages, geometry, and mathematics would also be encouraged, were a sufficient number of names inscribed to constitute a remunerating class. The payment for the present course is two-pence weekly, in advance; but proportionably higher fees would be required to ensure the services of masters capable of conducting the higher branches of education.